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As Josh announces on the stream, the next season of Spoiler Warning will be the Dishonored 1 DLC. We’re doing this in preparation for the eventual Dishonored 2 season. We’ll cover another game between these two so 2017 doesn’t end up being non-stop Dishonored coverage.
I took the night off for Valentine’s DayActually, I’ve worked on something for Patreon backers, but the point is I took it more off than usual., but since by its nature my little tango through XCOM could snag a rug and eat floorboard any second, I figure it’s prudent to start priming the next project. I’m not going to ask for game suggestions exactly–I think I’ve got a pretty tight list–but I do have a more abstract question I’d like you all to weigh in on.
You may have noticed that I’ve got two speeds:
I’ve had little success merging the two, and think at this point I’m most comfortable with one or the other. But I don’t know which you prefer.
Does one of my house styles work better for you? Do you like or dislike both? Chime in below and I’ll bear that in mind picking the next game.
There’s an old saying that programmers use to explain why you can’t use programming to solve particular problems: “You can’t write a program to do anything you don’t know how to do yourself.” The saying is used less these days now that most adults get what sorts of things computers can and can’t do, but back in the day you needed this for the not-yet-middle-aged baby boomers who thought of these new computer gadgets as magical thinking boxesTo be fair to the boomers: People in popular culture were REALLY bad at explaining them, and the movies of the day were full of nonsense dressed up to sound like computer science.. You needed a way to explain why you couldn’t just write a program to solve a crime, cure cancer, predict the stock market, or whatever it is they wanted a computer to figure out for them.
Writing a program to do something you don’t know how to do is impossible for the same reason that it’s impossible to give someone driving directions to a location you can’t personally find.
But the really goofy problems to solve are the ones where you only think you know how to do something, but really don’t. Or you do know how to do it, but not how to explain it.
Playing Sudoku turned out to be one of the latter types of problems.
Let’s jump back in time to January of 2016 when I was working on Pseudoku… Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Pseudoku: Understanding the Game”
Hosts: Josh, Glitch, Campster, and Baychel.
The Diecast is now four years old. In celebration of this, Josh takes us back to our roots and makes the conversation a freeform ramble. Thanks to Glitch for joining in while we were short-handed.
13:45: For Honor DLC
Josh streamed the game last week. The archive will go up on YouTube later this week.
28:00: Bay’s Book, and everyone’s creative projects.
Bay’s Deviant Art page is here, although she’s barely uploaded any content. I know she’s done hundreds of drawings over the years, and she hasn’t uploaded any of my favorites.
43:00: Steam Greenlight
It’s a shame I couldn’t make it this week. I’m putting the finishing touches on a game right now. I don’t have a lot of money to risk on putting it up on the store. I have no idea how many sales I might get, so I can’t count on making my money back. The new system supposedly rolls out in April, but they have no indication on what the new pricing structure will be. Should I rush to get my game out under the old system, or take time and wait for the new? I don’t know what I’m going to do.
Maybe we’ll talk more about this next week.
I’ve tried embarrassing the spammers by criticizing their work. I’ve tried offering constructive criticism. And yet they just keep sending the same broken pointless messages. It’s so strange. It’s almost as if they don’t actually read my site.
Well, let’s try again:
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Messages From Spammers Pt 3”
So we decided to do a stream! And it’s Ubisoft’s man-slashing For Honor beta! Complete with peer-to-peer server problems! Check it out!
Thanks for everyone who tuned in, it was lots of fun. Especially after the game crashed.
Last week we attempted to locate the “original sin” of the season five Winterfell storyline – the place where it all started to go wrong. My conclusion is that the whole thing never should’ve happened to begin with. From a character motivation standpoint, it was hopelessly broken from the word go. And yet as you’ll recall, the critical backlash centered not on the fact that none of it made any sense but that Sansa’s rape was some mixture of excessive and exploitative. My personal explanation for this centers around something I call the “gitchy feeling.”
The phrase itself comes from an oldBy “old,” I mean nineties-era. You know, old. comic book called Bone. I briefly attempted to be a comic book nerd in the fifth grade – it never really took, but I did enjoy Bone, which had an art style and sensibility something like Walt Kelly’s Pogo, another favorite of mine. One of the characters in it is Gran’ma Ben, a salt-of-the-earth homesteader type who sometimes gets the “gitchy feeling,” an omen of bad things to come.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Game of Thrones Griping 3: The Gitchy Feeling”
WAY back in 2005, I wrote about a D&D campaign I was running. The campaign is still there, in the bottom-most strata of the archives.
My first REAL published book, about a guy who comes back from the dead due to a misunderstanding.
I called 2019 "The Year of corporate Dystopia". Here is a list of the games I thought were interesting or worth talking about that year.
Here are four games that could have been much better with just a little more work.
You know how videogames sometimes do that thing where it's preposterously hard to go through a simple door? This one is really bad.
A stream-of-gameplay review of Dead Island. This game is a cavalcade of bugs and bad design choices.
Yeah, this game is a classic. But the story is idiotic, incoherent, thematically confused, and patronizing.
How did this niche racing game make a gameworld so massive, and why is that a big deal?
This Korean title would be the greatest MMO ever made if not for the horrendous monetization system. And the embarrassing translation. And the terrible progression. And the developer's general apathy towards its western audience.
A video Let's Play series I collaborated on from 2009 to 2017.
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