{"id":52025,"date":"2021-03-15T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=52025"},"modified":"2021-04-12T23:07:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T03:07:50","slug":"diecast-336-creepers-butts-and-sonic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=52025","title":{"rendered":"Diecast #336: Creepers, Butts, and Sonic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re late. You were supposed to be reading this an hour ago. Did you sleep in? No? Is this actually MY fault because I turned my clocks ahead on Sunday? Well, what was I supposed to do? Leave my clocks alone and use them to tell time like a sane person?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if this episode is a little short it&#8217;s probably because of time dilation due to changing the clocks, or something.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I think people aren&#8217;t taking this daylight savings business far enough.\u00a0 If moving the clocks is a good idea, then let&#8217;s really make the most of it. I say we abolish March and replace it with an extra August later in the year. That will give us one less month of winter, and instead we&#8217;ll get an extra month of summer! Sure, that will really screw with everyone&#8217;s existing calendars, and things might get a little messy for people with birthdays in March \/ August, but <em>think of the possibilities, Shepard!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br clear='all'><audio controls><source src='\/diecast\/diecast336.ogg' type='audio\/ogg'><source src='\/diecast\/diecast336.mp3' type='audio\/mpeg'>Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio><div><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast336.mp3' download='diecast336.mp3'>Direct download<\/a> (MP3)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='\/diecast\/diecast336.ogg' download='diecast336.ogg'>Direct download<\/a> (ogg Vorbis)<\/small><br\/><small><a href='?cat=287&feed=rss2'>Podcast RSS feed.<\/a><\/small><\/div><br \/>\nHosts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peripheralarbor.com\/\">Paul<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/\">Shamus<\/a>. Episode edited by <a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/profiles\/76561198087035658\/\">Issac<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/diecast\/diecast336.mp3\">Diecast336<\/a><\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K8xOJq7pQQM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=K8xOJq7pQQM'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Show notes:<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>00:00 Satisfactory Update 4<\/strong><br \/>\n<table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1WUB7XdTS6Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1WUB7XdTS6Y'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>05:06 Creeper World 4<\/strong><br \/>\n<table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gHN8Hoc_zgU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gHN8Hoc_zgU'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>09:38 The Animation of Sonic Games<\/strong><br \/>\nDaniel Floyd really outdid himself this time. I&#8217;ve never played a Sonic game, and I still found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GxCcHOvSVJQ\">this thing<\/a> fascinating.<br \/>\n<table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GxCcHOvSVJQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GxCcHOvSVJQ'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>17:25 100% Mindustry<\/strong><br \/>\n<table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fl5qflPD1ng\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fl5qflPD1ng'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p><strong>22:04 Mailbag: Miranda&#8217;s ASS<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How do you feel about Miranda&#8217;s ass getting downgraded in the upcoming remastered Mass Effect trilogy collection? It was such an important aspect of the games and it&#8217;s lore, the camera shots of her ass being an example of the series&#8217; superb cinematic presentation. I remember your analysis of the series had a long detailed post about how Miranda&#8217;s ass was one of the few things you liked about Mass Effect 2 and how her ass should have been it&#8217;s own game because it being in ME2 felt like wasted potential.<br \/>\nBest regards,<br \/>\nA fellow gamer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><div class='imagefull'><img src='https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/images\/me2_miranda1.jpg' width=100% alt='Sorry to butt in Shepard, but I&apos;m really falling behind the rear admiral and it&apos;s bumming me out. I need to ass you for help before I get canned. Butts.' title='Sorry to butt in Shepard, but I&apos;m really falling behind the rear admiral and it&apos;s bumming me out. I need to ass you for help before I get canned. Butts.'\/><\/div><div class='mouseover-alt'>Sorry to butt in Shepard, but I&apos;m really falling behind the rear admiral and it&apos;s bumming me out. I need to ass you for help before I get canned. Butts.<\/div><\/p>\n<p><strong>32:36 Mailbag: Procgen Dungeon<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Esteemed* talis est iacula**:<\/p>\n<p>Currently on Kickstarter there&#8217;s a project for a dungeon (and building) generator that places room decorations randomly but in what seem to be believable places. I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve heard this mentioned on The Diecast, but it would seem to be in Shamus&#8217;s wheelhouse, so I thought I would send this message. (The project doesn&#8217;t end until Thursday, Mar. 11, so this might actually still be timely when you get to it.)<\/p>\n<p>Dungeon Alchemist:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1024146278\/dungeon-alchemisttm\/description<\/p>\n<p>I have no idea how (or whether) this thing might actually work when\/if it&#8217;s released, but the pitch video sure looks interesting. Of course, one of the corollaries of Clarke&#8217;s Third Law is, &#8220;Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo&#8221; so evaluation of risk\/reward is left as an exercise for the potential backer.<\/p>\n<p>Doug Sundseth<\/p>\n<p>* Sorry, but while I value your work, I can&#8217;t plump for &#8220;Dear&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>** That&#8217;s what Google Translate says is the Latin translation of &#8220;Throwers of dice&#8221;. Which means it&#8217;s probably about as correct as the assembly instructions for cheap Chinese-made furniture. But there you go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>37:10 Mailbag: Narrative and Replayability<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Diecast,<br \/>\nDo you think it&#8217;s possible for a game to be narrative-driven and at the same time offer enough mechanical complexity or depth to be highly replayable? (And, if so, can you suggest a few possibilities?) When I&#8217;m playing, for example, an RPG I tend to run out of patience with the game&#8217;s story long before I run out of new character or party builds that I want to try. Even if I liked the story a lot on my first playthrough&#8211;or my first few playthroughs, for that matter&#8211;I end up resenting it in the end as unwelcome obstacle between myself and the parts of the game that still interest me. What&#8217;s a designer supposed to do for or about a player like me?<br \/>\nThanks,<br \/>\nJohn<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re late. You were supposed to be reading this an hour ago. Did you sleep in? No? Is this actually MY fault because I turned my clocks ahead on Sunday? Well, what was I supposed to do? Leave my clocks alone and use them to tell time like a sane person? 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