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17:05 "We need to concentrate on actual product, rather than technology, architecture, or initiatives. I didn't write game engines when I was working at id software, I wrote games, and some of the technology that was in those games turned out to be reusable enough to be used for other things, but it was always driven by the product itself, and the technology was what enabled the product." Even Carmack thinks that Metaverse is bullshit lol

 

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I'm usually not a big fan of these "HD remasters", there's always a misstep or ten. Here everything looks like it's smeared with vaseline and waiting for Baratus to fist it violently. While such reflections would be fine on wet surfaces in a thunderstorm the interiors should be more grimy. Now it just obnoxiously screams "look at my fucking PBR textures in þis ye olde game".
 
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https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/...-turtle-chapulin-colorado-arrives-in-fortnite

AS FAST AS A TURTLE, CHAPULÍN COLORADO ARRIVES IN FORTNITE!
10.29.2021
By The Fortnite Team
Hold on to your seat! As you suspected from the beginning, on November 1 Chapulín Colorado arrives in Fortnite to defend us all!

The world’s greatest comedic superhero on international TV is celebrating his 51st anniversary by joining the battle in Fortnite. First created by Roberto Gómez Bolaños, Chapulín Colorado carries himself as a superhero with a heart of gold. With his power to teleport, ability to detect danger with his antennae, and his super gadgets, he’s always ready to save us all. Chapulín's clumsiness but with good intentions is what made him so loved in every household in Latin America and beyond.


¡SÍGANME LOS BUENOS!

Chapulín represents the everyday hero in all of us, and soon you can be that hero too with his unique item Set. So be ready to save the day!

I will now play your game.
 
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https://flexiblehead.blog/2014/02/16/st-brides-school/

A sojourn into games journalism, this piece, The Mystery of St Bride’s, was for the Retro section of GamesTM magazine, and was published in issue #142. It was reprinted in slightly revised form in the November 2020 issue of Retro Gamer.

The feature is an investigation into St Bride’s School, a fetishistic institution offering Victorian schoolgirl-style holidays for women in the early 1980s, which somehow had a sideline in publishing text adventure computer games. Researching this was real down-the-rabbit-hole stuff: the more I found out, the stranger it got. There was a bit of back-and-forth in the edit between my interest in what happened to the women operating the school after it closed, and the magazine’s (not unreasonable) desire to stay as focused on the games as possible. What follows is my own preferred draft. Scans of the feature as it appeared in the magazine are at the end of the page.

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Broke: Having a UI because it's a game.
Woke: Have your UI on your back, guns and projected in front of you because it makes sense for lore reasons (aka the Dead Space approach).
Bespoke: Tiddy health bar.
 

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Bespoke: Tiddy health bar.

Fun fact: you don't have legs in Trespasser. You're tits, an arm and a couple of items glued on an invisible rolling ball - causing interesting problems in locomotion. Bunny hopping is sadly optimal in Trespasser.

Second fun fact: if I remember right - but I'm maybe misremembering, been years since I've read that - even the tiddy health bar was an emergency solution because they could not find a proper diegetic way to represent health. When they were forced to throw out the game - Trespasser development was an amusing mess - they went "fuck it" and got the giant tiddies with heart tattoo, much like "we can make only one arm work properly, fuck it".
 

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I wish someone would take a crack at making another Trespasser, there's a disturbing lack of games with scary dinosaurs. Capcom is unwilling to bring back Dino Crisis and all the recent Jurassic Park games are just theme park simulators.
 

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