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So I'm re-doing some of my Do Not Press The Button (Or You'll Delete The Multiverse) character models and I have this duck that is kind of inspired by the Companion Cube in Portal. I want to make it as appealing as possible so the players will attach to it and carry it around with them. Which looks better! I'm more partial to the neck tie (because I like wearing them) but what do you guys think?

My wifi was still out until this evening, so i decided to finally pick up Max Payne 2 since i had it installed, if only so i can finally clear it off my list. I made it about halfway through the entire thing today before stopping when my Wi-Fi came back on.

Robocraft was near and dear to me. It's also the reason I don't bother with live service games anymore. In 2017-2018-ish, Robocraft was one of my favorite games, ever. Then they were able to take that game away from me and replace it with something I liked far less. This is inevitable for any live service game; if not replacing the game you liked with something else, then its removal altogether so that no one can play it anymore in any form. It sucks.

My Wi-Fi was out today, so that knocked all multiplayer things out and for whatever reason Sackboy wouldn't load with the Wi-Fi out. So instead i booted up Breath of The Wild on Cemu and played that. After i got the Camera upgrade i went crazy taking photos of everything i could (instead of, yknow, stopping the giant evil presence that wanted to destroy the world). I didn't realize how badly the System compressed the images though so a *lot* of these came out crunchy.

Because why the hell not!

From Jason Schreier. "The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'," but this is some analysis from Schreier seemingly rooted in many anecdotes. The long and short of it is that development on AAA games tend to routinely hit bottlenecks where entire portions of a team are waiting for some other team to unblock them so that they can continue to get work done.

I got this thing recently and wanted to share my thoughts on it :)

Registration for the network test should start in a few hours. Console-only unfortunately, but get in there if you have a console.

It's also open source.

I decided to give Sackboy: A Big Adventure a try today. I bought it last year and never started it (though, the same could be said for 70% of my library). I decided to just drop Black Flag because i couldn't get the DLC to show up. So i this is what i picked to play next.

Hey today I wanted to show something amazing from the Stanley Parable-inspired game I'm developing. Might be a long read so bare with me: at the end of my demo The Narrator is annoyed that the player presses The Button (in a game called Do Not Press The Button)! So he demands the player to send a 500 word essay on why they shouldn't press it. I put this line in as a joke and didn't expect to get anything, but funnily enough I've gotten so much essays which you can see here in the video and I decided as an Easter Egg to put a secret room in the FULL GAME where people can actually read all of essays that was sent and I'm sure there are a lot of Lemmy people that have sent one. In the video you can see small example of what people have written! It's just awesome and makes me smile!

If you like, I woud really appreciate if you can wishlist it on steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3403660/The_18th_Attic__Paranormal_Anomaly_Hunting_Game/

It was previously releasing Feb 14. Does not look good for Ubisoft.

Today's game is Red Dead Online. I was going to take a screenshot of Black Flag but i was so caught up in getting all the collectibles (I'm somehow *still* not done too) that i forgot to take one. In better news i did 100% the story (and got a bunch more achievements with it).

I don't know if this is a good community to post to, but it's a cool game and i want to share it somewhere.

Brilliant full rewrite of the classic Ambermoon that will run at least on Windows, Linux and Mac.

Today's game is Assassin's Creed Black Flag. I went with a Out of Animus Screenshot to mix things up from the Usual Pirate Decor. i've gotten all the way to Sequence 12. I spent most of today doing Story Missions, so i'm going to be keeping the Screenshots a bit light so as to keep from spoiling it for anybody who might be considering playing it.

Seemingly confirming the theory that "Xbox" will just be Windows going forward, at least on handhelds.

Pretty nice but unfortunately no shipment to EU :(

Not a serious game by any means. It's free, so have fun! This project was made in my persuit for a simple game that can be played anywhere. And learning Three.js was also a factor i think. https://vitorga.itch.io/keep-it-up-right-web-version

I don't know why Schreier hyphenates "video-game".

Absolutely insane.

Today's game is Red Dead Online. While picking the screenshot i had the genius idea to crop the picture to help hide the UI it for people who like to guess (only took me 174 days to figure it out). Though for read dead i guess the idea is kind of null due to how recognizable the graphics are.

There are a lot of reasons that this makes sense for them. But also, given the other things they've been promising, I think this is going to be an expensive piece of hardware that basically just hides Windows under the hood.

Bit of a shame they're moving away from being able to run FSR on any GPU, but it makes sense since it'll be using their AI cores similar to how DLSS does it for better quality and performance.

Valve software engineer Pierre-Loup Griffais has chimed in on Bluesky to state that the information presented in AMD's slides, as reported by Videocardz, may not be true.

I knocked out a good chunk of Black Flag today. I'm aiming to 100% it, so i've been cleaning out locations before finishing the main story. I *did* do sequence 8. The ending mission for this is one of the ones that is most memorable to me along with The Blackbeard one and the Final Mission.

A friend brought by a copy of Rogue Regiment, a game for up to four players to play in as members of the SAS during WW2. Scenarios start with the players sneaking across a map populated by NPC German soldiers and vehicles to achieve objectives. The players must remain sneaky to prolong the stealth section of the game for as long as possible. Firearms going off, explosions, the sight of dead guards or SAS to the Germans will put them on alert to varying degrees. Once the overall German alertness level is fully tripped, reinforcements will come streaming in to gun down the players.

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Today's game is Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag. This is one of my favorite games of all time. I first played through it on PS3 when i was younger and have fond memories of it, especially the story. Though Unity will always have my favorite game play, Black Flags story will always be one of my favorites.

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Have you ever read Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott?

Today's game is The Forest. A friend gifted it to me to play a few weeks ago and i finally got around to trying it.

The more than two decades since Half-Life 2's release have been filled with plenty of rumors and hints about Half-Life 3, ranging from the official-ish to the thin to the downright misleading. As we head into 2025, though, we're approaching something close to a critical mass of rumors and leaks suggesting that Half-Life 3 is really in the works this time, and could be officially announced in the coming months.

AGDQ is an annual speedrunning marathon streamed live on Twitch over the course of 1 week to raise money for charity. Donations for this year's event will go to the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

I *had* plans to play Left 4 Dead 2 with friends today, but those fell through, so instead i booted up Half Life Blue Shift, having realized i have never played it after reading all the rumors. I don't know what it is but i feel like it's easier than the base game. Barney also feels way more slippery than Gordan but that may just be me.

Link to game: https://lumpytouch.itch.io/gar-type

With this many leaks, it *should* be announced this month. Any day now...

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Today's game is Super Mario 64. I've done the First and got too the second bowser level. I took this screenshot while climbing up the stairs to the first battle. There's something i love about these stairs and the bowser levels at large.

Please tell me this means they can work on Evil Within 3 now

Happy New Years everyone! Yearly, it's a tradition for me to play Wii Sports on New years, so i got some screenshots for that tonight. I nearly wasn't able too as I lost my Wii U power cable and couldn't find it, but i didn't let that stop me and i hooked up my PS5 controller to Dolphin and played with it's Gyroscope.

In an interview with gamesindustry.biz, the acclaimed developer also discusses his next game, ‘Judas’, generative AI and why it "wasn't easy to step away from BioShock"

Thank you for all your support in 2024. It was a year full of many things: DS2 development, the release of our second trailer, ADR for the actors, music production and recording, Japanese voice recording. In the summer, we started to play and build up the game. We were also able to hold a TGS stage event for the first time in 5 years. For OD, we developed the game and had actor and environment scanning. In the second half of the year, scanning and filming were suspended due to the SAG strike. Casting was also suspended for Physint due to the strike. We hope to resume next year. Personally, I have an ongoing series of essays published in anan and Nikkei newspaper, radio programs "Hide Radio ♾️" and "KOJI10,” a special episode of "HideoTube,” and also "Hidemys 2024" book fair, which I almost gave up on. I continued to comment on movies and novels, though fewer than usual. Preparations and planning for the live-action DS film with A24 as well as other adaptations are underway. I signed with WME. We also held a "Death Stranding Exhibition" at Shibuya PARCO (Nagoya and Osaka to be held next year). It was a year that went by in a flash.

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