Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work

Comments

• HollowNaught@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  invidious.reallyaweso.me/watch?v=o_PBfLbd3zw

  source

  • zzx@lemmy.world ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Hello brother of the merchant’s guild

    source
• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wooo. Really glad it won and mad props to Bucklew (who is a great bsky follow)

  And ignoring the long chain from someone who never even looked at the grpahics of this or old windows games:

  Honestly? Qud might be one of the best Steam Deck experiences out there. No, I don’t know how that happened either. But the UI and graphics scale perfectly (after a lot of work) and the game is shockingly gamepad friendly. And with it being one of the weirdest AND most approachable roguelikes out there (come at me Berlin), it maps perfectly towards quick sessions.

  source
• Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well deserved!

  It’s one of the few games where I truly felt I was in a different (sci-fi) world.

  source
• Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Well deserved. Live and drink, friend.

  source
• SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  :D

  Live and Drink

  source
• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hey hey people, COQ here

  source

  • belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Seth’s Comment section on this vid specifically is an absolute cesspool

    source

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What video are you referring to? All I could find searching on YouTube was a stream with comments disabled and tons of videos by right-wing shitbags complaining about how “woke” the awards are.

      source
    • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      As was his video itself

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The graphics are too primitive for me, which is a shame. I don’t consider myself a graphics snob, but this looks like something that came out 35 years ago.

  source

  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    okay i hadn’t played it yet. you had me worried it was
    Image
    kinda lookin bullshit. i’m not a graphics snob but i can’t go back to that. here’s caves of qud
    Image
    Image
    it’s fucking gorgeous if you ask me, but i’ve just seen screenshots and art is subjective

    source

    • brunoqc@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It also have great effects for explosions and, iirc, mind attacks thingy.

      source
    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I also think it’s a nice-looking game. The graphics help convey the setting really well, IMO. I really enjoyed it.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • Zorcron@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well Rogue did come out 45 years ago. 35 years ago was around the end of the NES/start of SNES generation.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • homoludens@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For me, “primitive” is not the main problem (though I’m getting a bit sick of pixel art), it’s more blue-green hue is off-putting. It might match the theme of an alien planet, but it lokks like it would give me headache or something.

      source
    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      First screen is much more readable at a glance.

      source

      • -> View More Comments
  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The game was in development from 2007 to December 2024 so not that far off…

    It’s surprising how quick you can get used to the graphics with the amazing world building. Obviously not for everyone though.

    source
  • False@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s a traditional roguelike with tiles…

    Honestly yeah, graphics snob. I agree that if you played it for a few hours you’d get used to it.

    source
  • Typhoon@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    this looks like something that came out 35 years ago.

    Super Mario World came out 35 years ago. There’s no excuse for a game to look this primitive in 2025.

    source

    • RDAM_Whiskers@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      In my opinion Story and experience has a greater impact than graphics.

      source
    • brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not all games are about graphics, and this looks completely serviceable to me. I understand struggling with ASCII roguelike interfaces (never really got the hang of it myself), but everything here looks easily identifiable.

      source
  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same, I could play it if it was like nes pixel art even. But this looks like it was developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available.

    And the constant text updating you on what is around you bcz the graphics are so primitive.

    Based on the description I thought it would be really interesting. But after watching a YouTube video, I was like, eehhhhh, not for me.

    source

    • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available

      There was never such a time…

      source

      • -> View More Comments
    • BenevolentOne@infosec.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You know the Hugo is usually given to authors of books?

      source

      • -> View More Comments
• jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like the game but I never finished it. I got pretty far when setting it to checkpoint mode, but lost interest near the end.

  I don’t really understand the game in detail so I don’t know all the good builds. Extra legs and guns seemed strong.

  source