warm & wet game theory
Managing a game dev community with GitHub Actions
A Little Game Called Mario is an open source, collectively developed hell project. Anyone and everyone is welcome to contribute their unique talents to make both the player and developer experience more enjoyable. Find out how the collective leverages GitHub Actions to manage this wonderful little community. ⌘ Read more
Top games + source code from Gamedev.js Jam 2022
The recently-ended Gamedev.js Jam 2022 encouraged game developers to create web games and share their sources on GitHub. GitHub Star ⭐️ @end3r shares the best 13 entries and sees what experts and other participants think of them. ⌘ Read more
20 of our favorite games + source code from Ludum Dare 50
20 of our favorite games plus source code from the latest Ludum Dare competition. ⌘ Read more
is every normal-form game representable by a tree a potential game?
party game idea: MNIST debate
in conways game of life, does chaos always spread strictly faster than order?
submissive strategies in normal-form games
** Chess Rules **
I love when folks say stuff like“there are only a finite number of states a chessboard can occupy, therefore a computer can play chess.”
To the folks who say such things — I wish you to play chess with my 6 year old.
Be not confined by rules! The only things governing chess in this house here are the laws of physics!
…and even then, not all need apply.
For instance, during a recent game the opposing kings left the board in order to go out on an adventure. They returned later with a large, plastic dragon. The dra … ⌘ Read more
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For the Wordle players around here (@lyse, @xuu, @movq), and for those moments in which you rather cheat, than lose: https://github.com/KevinXuxuxu/wordle_machine. 😂
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I mean you don’t even have to do the game to make a fake emoji result. But its a fun little challenge for brain food.
Top-rated entries from Game Off 2021
Here are the top games created in our annual game jam as rated and reviewed by the developers that made them. Game On! 🤘🏻 ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: Lisp in Life - Conway’s Game of Life ⌘ Read more
GPT-3 is No Longer the Only Game in Town - GPT-3 was by far the largest AI model of its kind last year. Now? Not so much. ⌘ Read more
beat Tales of the Abyss - great game. wrote a blog post containing retrospective and final boss fight video
The best part of Pokémon Go is hatching eggs. I just wish I could queue up eggs for the incubators so I didn’t have to check my phone every now and again. Actually, I wish there was a game where you just hatched eggs.
Game Off 2021 theme announcement
The theme for this year’s Game Off is… …BUG! Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a game between now and December 1 incorporating the theme somehow, and submit it to ⌘ Read more
13 short and scary games plus source to play (or hack) this Halloween 🎃
It’s that time of year again where I like to share seasonally spooktacular games plus source code—a goldmine of material for (a) those looking for coffee-break entertainment, (b) those interested in learning more about game ⌘ Read more
A peek inside some of the top games from Ludum Dare 49
The 49th Ludum Dare game jam just wrapped up with almost 3000 entries. Here’s a peek at some of the highest-rated entries that you can play, plus their source code that you can poke around ⌘ Read more
💾 Save the date for GitHub Game Off 2021
Game Off is an annual game jam (or “hackathon for building games”) that’s a little different from most—it lasts for the entire month of November—not just a weekend or a few days. It’s the perfect ⌘ Read more
What to watch tonight? “Squid Game” completed. “Seinfeld” just made it in a couple of days ago, maybe I will reminisce old memories and watch it. I first watched it in 1995-ish.
In reply to: Sable: Kotaku Review, My Top Game of 2021
Sable’s world is not a broken machine, it’s doing fine. You’re not on some grand quest to save it, or return the planet to its former glory. You’re just a girl growing up in this place, and growing up means choosing a new mask.
Closing,
Sable imagines identity and growth as playful, joyous, and nearly impossible to fail. It promises you that chang … ⌘ Read more
Q1K3 – Making Of
This was my third time participating in the js13kGames contest. I won in 2018 with Underrun and utterly failed to deliver any compelling gameplay with my 2019 entry Voidcall.
This year’s theme was “Space” – I chose to completely ignore it and instead decided to pay tribute to one of my all time favorite games on its 25th birthday:
The original Quake from 1996.
30 free and open source Linux games – part 3
With Linux celebrating it’s 30 year anniversary, I thought I’d use that as an excuse to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. If you’ve haven’t ⌘ Read more
30 free and open source Linux games – part 2
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. I shared the first 10 yesterday. ⌘ Read more
In reply to: Wildermyth tells incredible stories that hit surprisingly hard
These stories mean that playing Wildermyth is not just about doing tactical battles from one end of a scripted narrative to another. It means tracking a small crew of changing people through their careers as adventurers. Sometimes their personali … ⌘ Read more
reading: starting forth. possible practice, puzzle, game, eventually dance? | https://compudanzas.net/forth.html
Will the UEFA be responsible for nobody wearing a mask at the Eurocup games when the infection rates sky-rocket - allover again?
@niplav@niplav.github.io I like it, but you probably shouldn’t take only my word for it. I suspect it’s piggybacking a lot off of how much I liked its SNES predecessor and know/like the vibe of * Mana games. Also, the last three JRPGs I’ve played were Dragon’s Dogma, NieR:Automata, and…Chrono Trigger. I don’t know what’s good and new in JRPGs ever since Square left Nintendo. I’m just glad they’re back.
Hedonism, Asceticism and the Hermetic Answer
The modern world more or less gives you the philosophical choice of either Hedonism or Asceticism.You never really hear it in those terms, but that’s how it is.
Hedonism living for pleasure. Your default lifestyle is eating whatever, watching Netflix and playing video games irrespective of how late it is.You watch porn, masturbate, have sex as much as you can and any consequences of any of this are just facts of life which you view a … ⌘ Read more
The Parable of Alien Chess
A parable on the Logical Postivist “interpretation” of scientific models.
Suppose an alien race comes to Earth and wants to observe our games.They are very interested in chess, despite the fact that they have eyes with properties that make it impossible to make out what actually happens on a chess board.(The whites and blacks and squares all blur together.)
They can still learn about … ⌘ Read more
Play strange games, win strange prizes.
StarTalk Podcast: Game-Changing Physics ⌘ Read more…
Highlights from Game Off 2020 ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-12-23-highlights-from-game-off-2020/
Spent some time at work talking about accessibility in games and loved the positive attitude and desire to keep improving
On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Gamesters of Triskelion https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/11/26/games.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
I tend to withdraw from everything and just watch youtube and play whatever games i can get going on my old windows box after having to deal with shitty work being shitty. Maybe i can put the last week and a half behind me, finally
on small games: [[https://lorenzo.itch.io/on-small-games]] #links
GitHub Game Off 2020 theme announcement ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-11-01-github-game-off-2020-theme-announcement/
13 ghoulish games to play, hack and slash this weekend 👻 ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-30-13-ghoulish-games-to-play-hack-and-slash-this-weekend/
Build a game this November with GitHub Game Off ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-27-github-game-off-2020/
Top 10 games from the JS13K 2020 competition 🕹 ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-10-11-top-ten-games-from-the-js13k-2020-competition/
GMTK Game Jam 2020 – staff picks ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-08-06-gmtk-game-jam-2020-staff-picks-open-source-games/
Great, I just listended so solosaurus #59 and now i want to buy all the board games listed
Great, I just listended so solosaurus #59 and now i want to buy all the board games listed
Who needs games when you can have fun with contributing to open-source!
Of all the updates in today’s brew update && brew upgrade, the last one I expected was an update to a game originally implemented in the late ’70s. And yet, GOFAI/dungeon is now at 4.1.
embedded scripting languages are all fun and games until you break their garbage collector
Voidcall – Making Of
Like last year with Underrun, I participated in this year’s js13kGames – a JavaScript game development competition with a file size limit of 13kb, including code, assets and everything else. My entry was Voidcall, a Real-time Strategy game.
Play Voidcall – A WebGL Real-time Strategy game in 13kb of JavaScript
Recently, I played the origin … ⌘ Read more
MPEG1 Single file C library
If you want to play videos in a native app or game you basically have three options:
@mdosch@mdosch.de I’ve tried to play games on my phone and iPad but none of the games I’ve ever played on them seem to stick. I’ve had fun — briefly — with Threes and FTL and Really Bad Chess and so forth, but I don’t seem to stick with any one game on my iOS gizmos like I have with, say, FTL-on-Steam, much less TF2 or Dota 2.
@adiabetic@www.frogorbits.com I am strongly refusing to use Apple products but for different reasons. But I wouldn’t consider anything except a computer or a console appropriate for gaming. Pads and phones might be for casual games but not for gaming.
Anyone who says that iPads are bad for gaming is an ignoramus and/or a liar. I beat Picross S’s P060 and I wouldn’t have been able to finish it if I hadn’t been able to take pictures of the TV with my iPad to be able to easily back out of hypohetical block arrangements that turned out to be wrong.
all my friends are in agony over the Game of Thrones series end and all I can do to try and understand is remember how utterly confused I was by the nondeominational church at the end of LOST
Itchio outshines Steam by staying small and weird - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18118217/itchio-steam-leaf-corcoran-pc-games-indie
GitHub - historicalsource/checkpoint: Checkpoint (Unreleased Game) by Stu Galley (Infocom) https://github.com/historicalsource/checkpoint
GitHub - historicalsource/infocom-sampler: Infocom Sampler (A 1984 Compilation of Example Infocom Games) https://github.com/historicalsource/infocom-sampler
How to Write Games for the Internet without Embarrassing Yourself - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov78c0Kek84
Random link from the archives: http://www.pcgamer.com/its-time-for-cyberpunk-games-to-remember-how-to-be-punk/ originally archived Sat Dec 30 08:48:49 EST 2017
Are Video Games and Gamers Trapped inside Capitalism? - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueHiAfeksd0
Band name of the day: a game called history
The thing about FMV is that it’s a lot tougher to make a full FMV game all by yourself than it is to make a VN that way. To make a VN on your own, you just need to be a programmer, musician, author, and visual artist.
Baba Is You review: one of the best puzzle games in years - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/reviews/2019/3/13/18263824/baba-is-you-review-nintendo-switch-pc
I’m only making business card sized games now | Killed By A Pixel http://frankforce.com/?p=5826
Game Boys “ Real Life https://reallifemag.com/well-played-game-boys/
The only outright negative review my game has gotten thus far starts with the reviewer saying making a VN should be a crime against humanity. Like, thanks for leading with the admission that you’re not part of the target audience & your opinion doesn’t matter.
Wikidata Card Game Generator https://cardgame.morr.cc
What It’s Like To Write About Race And Video Games https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-write-about-race-and-video-games-1832886047
Saved Game History: Battery Backups, Memory Cards, and the Cloud https://tedium.co/2019/02/21/video-game-save-state-history/
The impossible architecture of video games • Eurogamer.net https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-02-12-the-impossible-architecture-of-video-games
Bad idea of the day: One of those franchise-themed fighting games, except it’s a rap battle. You get dealt a hand of possible lines, with points for internal rhyme and novelty, & multipliers for referencing previous lines & opponent backstory. External rhymes are combo attacks
Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real https://gizmodo.com/ongs-hat-the-early-internet-conspiracy-game-that-got-t-1832229488
I have sold zero copies of my game since the launch sale ended. I’m not sure if I need to cut the original price in half or if people literally just only buy games when they are on sale.
Somebody’s streaming my game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ugVRvbdY4
Inside the larps that let human players experience AI life - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18185945/live-action-roleplaying-larp-game-design-artificial-intelligence-ethics-issues
Hey! You! Buy my game. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013580/Manna_for_our_Malices/
I’d like to play a horror game that’s lit like Suspiria is during its most extreme moments: backgrounds & characters in bright monochrome washes, a cypher of harsh shadows, as though lit by single-point neon.
Retro-Tinged Game Controllers: BX Foundry’s Handmade Joysticks https://tedium.co/2019/02/07/bx-foundry-video-game-controllers/
Are there sports video games that, RPG-like, allow a user-created character to progress by getting access to better personal trainers & medical support by winning games while in constant fear of breaking their legs?
Mall Rats, Vidiots and Addicts: Anti Video Game Propaganda From The 80s – Retro Bitch https://retrobitch.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/mall-rats-vidiots-and-addicts-anti-video-game-propaganda-from-the-80s/
Designing the game console of the future (in 1997) - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/1/28/18146043/the-game-console-of-the-future-1997-nintendo-power
In case anybody wants to implement their own homebrew NeoGeo games: http://www.hardmvs.fr/manuals/NeoGeoProgrammersGuide.pdf
Nearly half of game developers want to unionize https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/24/nearly-half-of-game-developers-want-to-unionize/
Yahoo! Games Failure: How To Checkmate Yourself https://tedium.co/2017/07/27/yahoo-games-failure-classicgames/
A thing I’ve learned: if you’re submitting a game to steam & you’re not sure if it should count as ‘mature content’, err on the side of ‘no’, because if you describe the content & they don’t think it’s mature enough they’ll assume there’s unmentioned/hidden nudity & won’t let you release it
I’m currently streaming the last push on developing Manna for our Malices, the game I’ve been working on for 1.5 years: https://www.twitch.tv/enkiv2
Band name of the day: the wonderful game of vomit
I guess it was only a matter of time until Netflix got into the red-hot FMV Game market.
How BioWare’s ‘Baldur’s Gate’ Saved the Computer RPG - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/12/21/18150363/baldurs-gate-bioware-1998-video-games
Video games are political. Here’s how they can be progressive | Games | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/games/2018/aug/13/video-games-are-political-heres-how-they-can-be-progressive
It’s Time For Games To Own Their Politics https://kotaku.com/it-s-time-for-games-to-own-their-politics-1827320727
Cragne Manor, an 84-room horror “exquisite corpse” text adventure that’s a tribute to the classic game Anchorhead / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/09/massively-multi-developer.html
GitHub - CardsAgainstCryptography/CAC: A party game for nerdy cryptographers. Shamelessly based on Cards Against Humanity. https://github.com/CardsAgainstCryptography/CAC
Video Games In East Germany: The Stasi Played Along | ZEIT ONLINE https://www.zeit.de/digital/games/2018-11/computer-games-gdr-stasi-surveillance-gamer-crowd
The Credit Card Daredevils Who Risk It All for the Points Game - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-credit-daredevils-who-risk-it-all-for-the-points-game
Too Many Requests https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2lvjgt/in_games_and_books_there_are_always_adventurers/
Simulating a Xerox Alto with the ContrAlto simulator: games and Smalltalk http://www.righto.com/2016/10/simulating-xerox-alto-with-contralto.html