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Bennett

@bfod

6 years

My latest game, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy is now available! See you at the summit… maybe :) Steam: iOS:

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@bfod

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@bfod

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lots of folks joking about this today. Here’s what isn’t a joke: if you are a big Hollywood producer and you can get The Rock on board, I’ll license Getting Over It to you for free. You can get Uwe Boll to direct it, cast Mark Wahlberg as the pot, whatever you like

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Bennett

@bfod

3 years

AAA games: thankyou for saving the world. Take this, our most sacred treasure, a magical amulet. The player: great, thanks! what does it do? AAA games: it increases the power of your attack by 3% when your health is under 20%, but only if you are in the air

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Bennett

@bfod

1 year

everyone post your most salient line of code

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Bennett

@bfod

5 years

I hope the goose game makes literally a billion dollars, causing all the big studios to rapidly pivot their 2020 projects into harmless practical joke simulators.

Cabel

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5 years

I can’t believe we’ve done this. As of today, Goose is #1 the in USA.

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Bennett

@bfod

3 years

Well, this works shockingly well considering I didn’t have to do anything at all to make it work

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Bennett

@bfod

7 months

Had a little level design fail today

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

This person has done nearly 42km of QWOP so far and is one of the best QWOP players I’ve ever seen

【耐久】ラスト QWOPならフルマラソン余裕だって……!?【スポーツゲーム実況】八重沢なとり VTuber

地獄も終わりがやってくる。この配信は、操作が難しいとされているブラウザゲーム「QWOP」でフルマラソンをしようという耐久配信です。八重沢大学選手紹介往路一区　八重沢なとり二区　八重沢なとり三区　八重沢なとり四区　八重沢なとり五区　八重沢なとり復路六区　八重沢なとり・・・皆の気持ちを背負って走るから、応援しててね....

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Bennett

@bfod

5 years

@fullbright In Getting Over It the main scene is called ‘Mian’

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Bennett

@bfod

7 years

has anyone ever succeeded in distracting people from a scandal by saying ‘the REAL scandal here is that…’

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

A bit late to the party on this, but BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint is really incredible - basically one modest Windows download and you can play 38,000 flash games, completely searchable, automatic and free. So much culture saved from the jaws of death

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Bennett

@bfod

6 years

we’re on a weird trajectory. in the end the most popular meme format will be a 12000-word peer-reviewed paper with in-text citations and endnotes (saved as a GIF, of course)

Paul Cooper

@PaulMMCooper

6 years

live from my supervisor meeting

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Bennett

@bfod

5 years

A lot of people have been asking me to give my opinion on the ‘difficulty in games’ debate this past week. Well, I can’t put it any better than this quote from @jon_bois :

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Bennett

@bfod

6 years

My new game, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, is out on Steam and iOS TOMORROW at 8pm GMT / 3pm EST / 12pm PST.

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Bennett

@bfod

6 years

This never gets old for me (this one’s from PAX)

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Bennett

@bfod

5 years

Star Wars ranking: 1: VIII 2: VII 3: XII 4: X 5: Tactics 6: Tactics Advance 7: XV ... ... 31: Crystal Chronicles 32: IX 33: VI

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Bennett

@bfod

4 months

Looks fun!

Pontypants

@Pontypants

4 months

Trailer for my new game! ⚠ "A Difficult Game About Climbing", is of course inspired by Getting Over it with Bennett Foddy (one of my all time favorites!). Wishlist the game on Steam to get notified at release! 👉

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Bennett

@bfod

3 years

Wanted to share this genius piece of good-bad design I encountered the other day: in the Zero magazine demo for Cadaver (1991) there are several pits with no way out, so you are soft-locked if you fall in. Design solution: each pit contains a bottle of deadly poison you can drink

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

The conventional wisdom is that you can figure out roughly how many copies a game has sold on Steam by taking the number of user reviews and multiplying it by 50 (on the pessimistic end) or 100 (on the optimistic end). A thread! (again, sorry - threads are the worst!)

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Bennett

@bfod

1 year

Trackmania track inspired by Getting Over It, looks cool

Buckley

@BuckleysPants

1 year

Bennett Foddy ate my CPs 2 comes out November 17th Good Luck, you'll need it.

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

I know it cost $40m to make but having now finished it, I think you can make a case that Death Stranding is an indie game. It has those hallmark features: the use of repetition and procedurality to save money; experimental mechanics; dogged commitment to incoherent weed ideas

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Bennett

@bfod

7 years

This is my new thing: for Humble Subscribers October 6th, everyone else two months later.

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Bennett

@bfod

6 years

Got into the top 3!

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Bennett

@bfod

4 months

thought this would have gone without saying but: do not try it at home

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oh my god this is the whitest shit I’ve ever seen

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Bennett

@bfod

11 months

👀

Devolver Digital

@devolverdigital

11 months

Put one foot in front of the other with Baby Steps from the creators of Ape Out and Getting Over It! Take your first steps on PlayStation 5 and PC in 2024.

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Bennett

@bfod

3 years

One of these days a 500-person AAAA studio is going to go all-in on a game with PSX-grade graphics, spending all the additional dev time on ridiculously excessive scale and running-length instead of detail or fidelity, and it’ll be a huge hit

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

Takeaways: - There are a lot of hit games that do not get written up in the press at all. - Reviews are no longer a prerequisite for driving sales. - You can't stay up to date any more just by reading reviews. - Lots of invisible market niches to develop for!

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@bfod

4 years

found one of the first Getting Over It prototypes lying around, showing the basic physics rig implementation. Very grateful to friends who convinced me to abandon this art style

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Bennett

@bfod

2 years

Imagine you worked on Mario Sunshine, basically the best game Nintendo ever made, and the consensus among critics and fans turned out to be that this was ‘the bad one’

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Bennett

@bfod

3 years

I miss the stilted mixed-reality art style of late-90s CD-ROM games

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Bennett

@bfod

6 years

I’m gonna narrowly give it to Samsung. Samsung has the most terrifying clown emoji.

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Bennett

@bfod

6 years

For people who love videogames, we’re living in a golden era. This sliver of time when all these nice people are making so much weird stuff for us, before most of them give up and go get jobs in a year or two. It’s glorious, but ephemeral, and I don’t want to miss a second of it.

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

GIRP fans (I know there’s a couple of you) - Adobe and Google have nearly completed their slow murder of Flash games, and there’s still no viable way of emulating them or compiling them to HTML5. So, I put a free Windows binary of GIRP on my website - link’s on the original page.

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Bennett

@bfod

3 years

For me Death Stranding was pretty easily the best, most interesting big-budget game of the last console generation

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Bennett

@bfod

3 years

便器男 (“Toilet Man”) - I haven’t played it yet (DL link on video) but that plunger on face image is 😘

【幕末志士】便器男　シングルプレイ

二度と作ってこないで。↓で公開してます自由に遊んでください。[ブラウザ用]※軽量動作版です。http://bakuon.xsrv.jp/bakumatsu_work/benkiotoko_webgl_v3/[Windows用Zip]※高画質版です。http://bakuon.xsrv.jp/bakumatsu_w...

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

Seems like Apple is going to needlessly kill a bunch of iOS games in June by introducing new tech reqs. QWOP for iPhone can’t be updated and will be erased (like some of my other games beforehand). 10 years is an ok run for a phone game, I guess, but I wish there was an emulator!

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Bennett

@bfod

5 years

PSA for folks making first-person games in Unity: if your fixed timestep is 50Hz (default) and your framerate is 60Hz, your Character Controller will judder horribly if the player moves and rotates the view at the same time. It causes motion sickness due to 'vection'.

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Bennett

@bfod

2 years

@john_axon closest accent is probably guy pearce

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

alright, now that it’s actually the end of the year, here’s my favorite games from 2019 (a thread format so I can link the games, apologies). In no particular order:

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Bennett

@bfod

6 years

this one was a rollercoaster ride

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Bennett

@bfod

3 years

Feeling nostalgic as I pack up my office after 8 years of teaching at the @NYUGameCenter . I'm leaving to focus my energies on making the new (unannounced) game for a while. Please tolerate this sentimental thread (1/7)

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@bfod

4 years

an xbox one x would be an xbo

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

A lot of folks seem to assume that Ape Out’s soundtrack is dynamically fading between pre-composed music ‘stems’, but it’s actually live-composing the music as you play and syncing it to the impacts and intensity of the gameplay.

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

Since our classes are remote right now, I kicked off this year’s game-a-week prototyping class by hiding the first assignment in a multiplayer puzzle game…

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Bennett

@bfod

7 years

@courierjournal you should delete this. What a craven, shitty thing to publish.

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Bennett

@bfod

2 years

Thanks to the folks at @Poki a bunch of my old Flash games have been brought back to life on my website as HTML5! GIRP, Pole Riders, Get On Top, Little Master Cricket and Too Many Ninjas all working again. (QWOP has been HTML for years)

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Bennett

@bfod

2 years

Last week I had to work out how long I’d been making games, and found this old tigs thread where I posted the 1st thing I ever made. Can’t express how huge it was to get thoughtful critique from @mossmouth right at the jump. 5 minutes for him, but a big turning point in my life🙏

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

Made a list of under-appreciated games from the '10s 2010: Playpen 2011: Justin Smith’s Realistic Summer Sports Simulator 2012: McPixel 2013: Hiversaires 2014: Helix 2015: Else heart.break() 2016: Soft Body 2017: Tormentor x Punisher 2018: Infernium 2019: Ten beautiful postcards

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Bennett

@bfod

2 years

Wordle arguably gets a bit easy and boring after a while, but I’m enjoying trying to craft poems out of my guesses. This was the first one I tried, didn’t quite stick the landing:

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Bennett

@bfod

3 months

well, I've got some wild price hike emails before, but going from $0 to $35,000 per year in one jump has got to be some kind of record

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Bennett

@bfod

2 months

turns out it is fun!

Pontypants

@Pontypants

2 months

My new game A Difficult Game About Climbing is out now! Have.. fun....

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Bennett

@bfod

5 years

Also don’t skip the best talk from this year’s GDC, “1500 slot machines walk into a bar” by @popcannibal and @gtjuggler

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@bfod

3 years

Most realistic portrayal of NYC ever in a game?

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Bennett

@bfod

6 years

my favorite thing about Getting Over It in China is that when a streamer falls back to the start of the game their fans all say ‘welcome home’

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@bfod

4 years

why on earth isn't there a chef's kiss emoji?

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@WarpDoor

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>Handulum+ ( @wombatstuff ) >Free - Browser:

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

Super Hexagon still completely holds up, eight years later. Maybe it's even gotten better, since screens have gotten approximately ten (eleven?) larger

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Bennett

@bfod

2 years

Lol what a great company 🤡

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

That’s a pretty big deal. Get ready for a huge wave of free indie games set in realistic forests

CG Channel

@theCGchannel

4 years

#EpicGames has bought #Quixel . All 10,000-plus scan assets from Quixel's #Megascans library will be free to #UnrealEngine users, and #QuixelBridge and #QuixelMixer , the firm's material authoring software, will become free for everyone

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@bfod

4 years

at some point you can imagine it even becoming educational or political, e.g.

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Bennett

@bfod

3 years

I’ve never convinced anyone to play a videogame, but I’m going to try again anyway: Yogurt Commercial 3: - it’s groundhog day but you’re just trying to make an ok yogurt commercial - 6 year passion project by an astrophysicist who has been making yogurt games since 1998 - $8.50

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Bennett

@bfod

8 months

@unity It’s still not too late to get a new CEO

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

@jasonschreier @wombatstuff If the commercial titles are going to get shorter, they will need to also get proportionally cheaper.

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Bennett

@bfod

6 years

Chrome’s new autoplay policy is a disaster for games and audio art on the web, since anything that’s no longer in active development just wont play sound now. Nearly every Phaser/Unity/Pico8 game will be silenced. Their dev team invites feedback on the new policy at @ChromiumDev

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Bennett

@bfod

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A thread of my favorite games that were iOS exclusive, now no longer available on any platform (for various reasons, not usually Apple's fault). I miss them a lot, and I wish there was a way to emulate them! Many of these are from 2009-10's golden era of experimentation (1/x)

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@bfod

4 years

it’s overly reductive and glib to just say ‘all the Potterverse houses are bad’, so I made this helpful shitp… uh, Hanlon’s Razor-themed alignment chart.

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Bennett

@bfod

3 years

At 5 I couldn’t even get past the first screen of Rastan Saga

GrogSmash

@papahex87

3 years

@bfod My son has been a huge fan of Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy since he was like 3. He beat the game at age 5 and this year he wanted to be Diogenes.

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Bennett

@bfod

4 years

this game nicely captures the feeling of trying to make choices that unsatisfyingly reconcile multiple competing interests or ideals - to succeed you have to give up on perfection in all areas. It could just as easily be titled ‘dilemmageraet’

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Bennett

@bfod

5 years

before you jump to criticize this tweet, it might be good to just remember that his last project had more prominent team credits than any other AAA game, probably ever. The big-budget games industry is almost universally terrible on this issue, and MGSV was a welcome exception

HIDEO_KOJIMA

@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN

5 years

A HIDEO KOJIMA GAME means the declaration of me doing concept, produce, original story, script, setting, game design, casting, dealing, directing, difficulty adjustments, promoting, visual design, editing, supervising the merch.

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Bennett

@bfod

3 years

I love this account. For me though it’s not just about how old games ought to look. Realizing everyone has a high density screen and basically infinite shader power for 2D, you can make your lo-res pixels look however you want now. I want to see all kinds of pixels!

CRT Pixels 📺

@CRTpixels

3 years

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (1997, Konami) - PS1 Sharp Pixels vs. PS1 Composite via Sony KV-13M51 This could be my new favorite. Notice the way composite color bleed turns a single pixel into red eyes, or the way the scanlines give definition to Dracula's lips and teeth.

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Bennett

@bfod

2 years

Anyone else ever think about how incredible Rain World was?

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Bennett

@bfod

5 years

every year I tell my students that watching the entirety of this playlist is one of the best things they can do to improve as game designers (and of course one of the most excruciating! so far I don’t think a single student has taken my advice)

grapefrukt

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Here's my yearly IGF YouTube playlist, 512 videos clocking in at just under 15 hours of fun!

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@bfod

5 years

The main reason to get to the end of a videogame is so you can solve the mystery of who the hell worked on it

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@bfod

6 years

machine translation is getting pretty good

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@bfod

4 years

I’m a bit worried if I actually play Kentucky Route Zero (which I bought when ep 1 came out but still haven’t played) I’m gonna realize I’ve been doing everything wrong this whole time, like when the guitarist from Limp Bizkit listened to Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’

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@bfod

4 years

This is neat, but don’t ignore the other interesting side of this: the concept of copyright just changed forever. This isn’t a copy of Pac-Man - it’s a playable memory of Pac-Man.

Nvidia’s AI recreates Pac-Man from scratch just by watching it being played

‘It learns all of these things just by watching’

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7 years

It occurred to me that it’s weird that nobody ever tried using video feedback to make a sprite-scaler racing game

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3 months

These people know what they’re doing, honestly. In Baby Steps we have dozens of rocks but I only ever want to use one

RejectedShotgun

@RejectedShotgun

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I can't keep this knowledge to myself anymore. EVERY SINGLE ROCK on The Covenant is the same rock. EVERY ONE. ALL OF THEM. THERE IS ONE SINGLE ROCK ON THE COVENANT. NOT TWO, NOT THREE, JUST ONE. IT'S JUST ONE ROCK ROTATED, SCALED, AND MOVED AROUND.

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it’s a nice moment when you find yourself preferring to keep playing your new game instead of working on it

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@bfod

3 years

I think as a general rule, if someone puts out a ton of great games every year for free, and once in a while decides that one of them is worth money… those ones tend to be really transformative experiences.

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Thinking about 2008, when the received wisdom among game designers was that ads wouldn’t make money for browser games, so we all agreed to license our games to websites which were paying the bills using... ads.

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@bfod

6 years

Thanks to everyone telling me about the Android game ‘Hammerman’. You can’t copyright ideas (thankfully), and they didn’t copy my code, art or title. I appreciate you all caring about originality in games, and it’s lame that they copied the pot, but it’s not that big of a deal.

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3 years

Just learned about Anjo2’s mod for Getting Over It, which enables this hilarious mode where you tilt the map to the left to make it harder

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@bfod

4 years

@Moose_ZL @JeffGrubb Let those of us who have not spent $80k on a statue of Norman Reedus cast the first stone

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@bfod

5 years

It’s amazing how often I press the ‘credits’ button on an indie game and either nothing happens or the game crashes or it opens a browser window with a blank page... and then I realize, wow, maybe I was the first person who ever pressed that button?

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4 years

Noita was great when it launched into early access, and it's even better now. One of the best games in years, and a huge hit with players but not really discussed much by indie game developers... I think many are waiting for a 1.0 release. My recommendation is: don't wait.

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@bfod

4 years

The terms ‘novelist’ and ‘musician’ and even ‘filmmaker’ are a lot cooler and more apt than the term ‘game developer’. But ‘game designer’ is too narrow, Japan’s ‘planner’ or 1970s’ ‘implementor’ way too focused on software. All 4 carry weird baggage. I wish we had a better term.

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6 years

This video has amazing feel

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@bfod

4 years

I was bored but all Zoomed out after 20 or so meetings in a row, so I wrote a list of game recs, one per year

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@bfod

5 years

10 games that are among my all-time favorites, yet which I was unable to complete despite weeks of trying: 1. Rain World 2. Damocles 3. It Came from The Desert 4. Vangers 5. Sexy Hiking 6. Fire Emblem (any) 7. Flashback 8. Super Mario (1,2,3,World) 9. Spelunky 10. Tower of Doom

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@bfod

2 years

can’t stop looking at this. It’s real but it looks so sublimely fake, like it was glued together from cutout magazine photos.

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LOOK AT MARS. LOOK AT IT. ()

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3 years

when the Souls games are at their best, the level is hard, the checkpoints are far from the boss, and the boss is no harder than the level - just more punishing of overcautious play. That way, you're guaranteed to just-barely get to the boss, and you die because you're scared.

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7 years

i get so torn between anxiety, guilt and hilarity watching twitch streamers struggle at my game.

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@bfod

4 years

Just got a sample of this guy from the folks at @MakeshipTeam

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@bfod

5 years

Having now looked at basically every arcade, console and computer puzzle game of the 80s and 90s, I can no longer honestly say I know what a ’puzzle’ is

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Don't really know where to post game recs anymore, due to social media decay and fragmentation. It sucks.

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