I get 1 month to find a new job, let the game begin!

@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

Specification gaming examples in AI - master list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRPiprOaC3HsCf5Tuum8bRfzYUiKLRqJmbOoC-32JorNdfyTiRRsR7Ea5eWtvsWzuxo8bjOxCG84dAg/pubhtml

Police Training Simulator History: A Parallel Path With Gaming https://tedium.co/2018/10/23/police-training-simulator-history/

INTERFACE LOVE. – Researching UI in Games, Cinema and anything else thats interesting. https://ilikeinterfaces.com/

twitch plays the glass bead game

Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/

Bad idea of the day: A video game adaptation of Lethem’s Gun With Occasional Music in the style of the Monkey Island series, with a mechanic involving mixing custom blends of forgetol/regretol/etc & replacing people’s stashes with them.

Preliminary Poetics of Procedural Generation in Games by @ikarth http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DIGRA_2018_paper_166.pdf

The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders”I like to say we’re archivists” | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/the-internets-keepers-some-call-us-hoarders-i-like-to-say-were-archivists/

Hot take: only buy video games made by personal friends.

Underrun – Making Of
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 Underrun, a twin stick shooter using WebGL.

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For this competition I set out to produce something with a dense atmosphere – which is inherently difficult to do with so little … ⌘ Read more

VCR Board Games: Only One Way This Will End https://tedium.co/2018/09/13/vcr-board-games-history/

Sergei Skripal and the Russian disinformation game - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45454142

Well that was disappointing. Was all set to run my Savage World game on Roll20 and 3 of the 5 players had to cancel.

Valve: ‘It Really Does Seem Bad Games Are Made by Bad People’ - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kmej7/valve-it-really-does-seem-bad-games-are-made-by-bad-people

The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that EA canceled - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/24/17770668/jack-the-ripper-visceral-games-electronic-arts-canceled

Bad idea of the day: A video game called ‘infodump’ where the primary mechanic is literally using a wiki/world bible to research lore.

Hot take: cybernetics is an extremely powerful model if you understand the feedback mechanisms in place & game theory is an extremely powerful model if you understand the incentives, but you don’t, so be careful & check your work

Game Studio With No Bosses Pays Everyone The Same https://kotaku.com/game-studio-with-no-bosses-pays-everyone-the-same-1827872972

How People Used to Download Games From the Radio | Kotaku UK http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio

reality is a shitty game because you can’t win. reality is a shitty movie because everything happens for no reason. reality is a shitty book because when it does happen it’s repetitive and uninteresting.

Designing apps for the E Ink Kindle https://kevinlynagh.com/kindle-games/

Finance has its own term for ‘skin in the game’: ‘insider trading’. It’s also a legal term, because people very occasionally go to jail for being too obvious when they do it.

70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Have Been Discovered in a 67GB Folder of ROMs on a Private Forum - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3anja/labyrinthe-japanese-game-discovered-on-private-forum

https://medium.com/@thegrugq/meme-game-on-fleek-yeah-nah-4ce777ba059a (related to https://medium.com/p/how-to-fail-at-culture-jamming-7b409abf5db5 )

Audacious Fox: The UX of Hidden Game Mechanics https://audaciousfox.net/linked/2018/hidden-game-mechanics

The CIA made a Magic: The Gathering-style card game for training agents, and we played it - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/21/17374054/cia-collect-it-all-declassified-training-tabletop-card-game

Nintendo Music Scene: Chiptune and Game-Rock Heavyweights https://tedium.co/2018/05/17/nintendo-nes-chiptune-music-scene/

all my favorite movies are beautiful clusterfucks because a dysfunctional game of telephone with people who don’t share a common language is the most reliable way to generate creativity

Impact Is Now Free & Open Source
My HTML5 Game Engine Impact launched almost 8 years ago. The last update was published in 2014. While Impact still works nicely in modern browsers, it lacks support for better graphic and sound APIs that are now available. I felt increasingly bad for selling a product that is hardly maintained or improved.

So as of today Impact will be available completely for free, published under the permissive MIT License.

Impact’s source is available on [gith … ⌘ Read more

Bad idea of the day: creepypasta in the form of a walkthrough for a nonexistent game from an alternate universe where a game like that described is normal

The rise of the ambient video game | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/4181/ambient-video-game-legend-of-zelda

These People Are Selling the CIA’s Internal Board Game to the Public - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbxkd8/cia-board-game-techdirt-kickstarter

Wolfenstein vs Call of Duty - The Need for “B” Games - Extra Credits - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42OkO9gQoQA

403 You are banned from this site. Please contact via a different client configuration if you believe that this is a mistake. http://freakonomics.com/2013/02/20/how-to-game-a-grading-curve/

Don’t submit yourself to a game machine! | Countercomplex http://viznut.fi/texts-en/dont_submit_yourself_to_game_machine.html

A Taxonomy of Tech Debt | Riot Games Engineering https://engineering.riotgames.com/news/taxonomy-tech-debt

Good Game Well Played: The Story of the Staying Power of ‘StarCraft’ - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/2018/3/30/17179036/1998-video-games-starcraft-turns-20

My Cow Game Extracted Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/03/my-cow-game-extracted-your-facebook-data/556214/

Game of missuggestions: semantic analysis of search autocomplete manipulation | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/14/game-of-missuggestions-semantic-analysis-of-search-autocomplete-manipulation/

Bad idea of the day: a game show with fantastic cash prizes, where contestants distinguish between real and fake headlines from the past week.

The Internet Archive put your favorite LCD handheld games online - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17138752/internet-archive-handheld-history-collection-game-emulator-mame

Four AI composition tools … https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/03/robots-composed-the-soundtrack-for-my-home-movie-they-can-help-you-too/

Fake news ‘vaccine’: Online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propagand… https://phys.org/news/2018-02-fake-news-vaccine-online-game.html

The Story of ‘Hyperch… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bjyav3/the-story-of-hyperchess-a-3d-chess-game-inspired-by-star-trek

Doki Doki Literature Club - A Metamodern Horror Game - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgTTDdzxqdo

The Problem With Card Game Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ6YeGCM1wo

A video game that doesn’t click until you let go of t… https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/9/16851376/everything-best-games-2017-year-in-review

Conway‘s Game Of Life in APL - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9xAKttWgP4

It’s time for cyberpunk games to remember how to be punk … http://www.pcgamer.com/its-time-for-cyberpunk-games-to-remember-how-to-be-punk/

This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Compu… https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a3jkya/quantum-game-physics-computer-puzzle

AI Is Dreaming Up New Kinds of Video Games - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609482/ai-is-dreaming-up-new-kinds-of-video-games/

Weird Kids‘ Videos and Gaming the Algorithm - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKp2gikIkD8