Alright! It’s finally reno day for the downstairs. What used to be a just kitchen is becoming an entirely self-contained studio apartment. Having a playable separate home space wasn’t possible when this series first started a year and a half ago. But now, The Sims 4 For Rent pack has finally released and you can section off different parts of a build to be separate households. You just have to ignore the $40 price tag, and the fact that it’s deeply and broken and almost unplayable. The bugs include but are not limited to: Tanking frame rate on lots with rentals on them, landlord sims receiving little to no payments if someone moved out or in within a in-game weeks time (several playing hours) and every renting sim inexplicably baking several cakes a day, slowly filling your residence with cake.
But, you know, other than that, it’s great.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: Reno Day”
This week I’m emulating and playing Ocarina of Time I don’t really have much to say about the game, it was the first Zelda game I had and I’m glad I have save states.
What are you guys playing?
I knew late last Sunday I wasn’t going to get my weekly post done by midnight. I had the structure in place and most of the rough draft in hand, but the words weren’t flowing. I intended to get it banged in shape Monday morning rather than miss a week. But other things happened. I’ve been eating unhealthily and hadn’t been in a great place mentally, and ended up having trouble sleeping. I finally got up around 4:oo AM and went back to my office. At 4:30 my elderly dog woke up the entire house yelping. He sleeps every night in the second bedroom with one of my children and their spouse. He was let out of the room and spent the next forty minutes trotting through the house, yelping and otherwise vocalizing. He would stop only briefly for some petting, and slowly calmed down. He finally found a comfortable space to lay down and went back to sleep.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Saying Goodbye/Lif Goes On”
This post is a little less story and a little more cleanup. The area we’re editing was created via strong-arming, due to the fact the breezeway they have isn’t actually possible in the Sims 4 via ordinary means. To install it in the first place you have to convince the game that the breezeway and the house aren’t ‘actually’ connected, which takes knowing some tricks. Once done, it will then make your game more difficult by throwing a tantrum every time you remind it that area of the build is there. To make this new apartment space, we’re going to have to draw attention to the area, so it’s going to be upset.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Sims 4 Overthinking: Housekeeping”
This week I’ve finished Lies of P. It’s a good game, I didn’t think I would ever beat a Souls-like, but I thoroughly enjoyed the game with it’s perfect blocks, dodge rolls, weapons, bosses, and even the enemies placed around a corner just to stab you in the back for thinking there’s free loot. I also like the Pinocchio theme.
What are you guys playing?
I wanted to take the file format of a late 90s shooter and read it in modern-day Unity. This is the result.
I'm not surprised a fighting game has an absurd story. I just can't figure out why they bothered with the story at all.
A screencap comic that poked fun at videogames and the industry. The comic has ended, but there's plenty of archives for you to binge on.
It seems like a simple question, but it turns out everyone has a different idea of right and wrong in the digital world.
Bethesda felt the need to jam a morality system into Fallout 3, and they blew it. Good and evil make no sense and the moral compass points sideways.
Crunch-mode game development isn't good, but sometimes it happens for good reasons.
Raytracing is coming. Slowly. Eventually. What is it and what will it mean for game development?
A game about the ghost of an underwater football player who travels through time to save the world from a tick that controls kaiju satan. Really.
What is a skinner box, how does it interact with neurotransmitters, and what does it have to do with shooting people in the face for rare loot?
Here is how I'd conquer the game-publishing business. (Hint: NOT by copying EA, 2K, Activision, Take-Two, or Ubisoft.)
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