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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gail the snail?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect if you were the equivalent of crumbs in the bed, you would not stop and consider if you were the crumbs in the bed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is immersion to you?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Immersion for me is when you can interact with the world in a realistic or internally consistent way.

  This sounds dumb, but if you can walk into a bar and order a drink, that’s a level of immersion. If you can steal the beer off the shelf so ths bartender can’t serve you, that’s even more immersive because even the NPCs are bound to world logic.

  That’s great immersion to me.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC game recommendation for my partner and I⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Playing Factorio co-op was one of the games that got my wife into gaming. She couldn’t do quick reaction time shooters, but Factorio at its most basic is essentially a ‘puzzle’ game.

  … But yeah we lost a few weekends or weeks or months to it. The factory must grow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC game recommendation for my partner and I⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Semi-casual games that run well on older PCs and linux? Plus no launchers? Let’s see. I got a few but there may be splitscreen ones in this list too. (If that’s ok)

  Battleblock Theater Biped (maybe?) Cassette Beasts Castle Crashers Children of Morta Don’t Starve Together Dinkum (If Australian Animal Crossing sounds interesting) Factorio A hat in time Guacamelee Human Fall Flat Hyper Light Drifter ibb & obb KeyWe Kingdom Two Crowns Knights and Bikes Like, all of the lego games (They’re all similar mechanically, so pick one of the newer ones that look good) Lovers in a dangerous spacetime Magicka (I like the first one but the second one isn’t bad) Monaco Moon Hunters Necesse Peak Resident Evil 5/6 (Yes, really, its a great time in co-op) Satisfactory Secrets of Grindea Split Fiction (This one may be graphically harder to run?) Stardew Valley Spiritfarer Terraria Trine games Valheim (At least until mistlands)

  I’m kind of going off of semi-casual meaning not high intensity shooters or things that require crazy skills. Most of these are pretty easy to pick up and are generally forgiving. They shouldn’t have launchers but if they added one in a later update, then dang.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With what's happening to Grok AI, from a socialist perspective (Marxist or not), how do you think AI would be taken care of?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be a poison pill prompt meant to lure out bot responses that wouldn’t realize its bogus?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Excitement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there anything like a Beholder monster before 1975?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought they were based on gorgons, specifically gorgoneion which is the image of just the head of a gorgon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Such a dreamy guy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Joklahoma?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen the argument that if you’re generating an image and making some edits, you’re robbing yourself of original concepts. Even if human hands do the editing you’ve already outsourced one of the most important parts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to deal with agression?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Like being aggressive towards others irl, find yourself rage spiraling, or something else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dying Light⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Against the Storm. Its a roguelike colony builder where you’re trying to establish colonies and ship resources back to the queen before she loses patience with you.

  Its not so roguelike that bad rolls ruin a run but also you have to deal with a bunch of fantasy races who each have their own needs.

  Its pretty good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it all a dream?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking about this the other day when I would cut down a dozen trees in Valheim, and then had to chop firewood in real life.

  Funky. At least I’m not hungry every 15 minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Eye Water Bottle...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang I need one of those spinner things…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  An unfortunate ‘secret’ for most indie titles is that the vast majority of their sales are on discount, usually during launch or one of the big week long sales. Not a lot of people buy indie games at full sticker price unless its a pretty high quality title.

  So your $200K net revenue would be at absolute max, but is realistically ~50-80% of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As I recall, its around 5%-20% of players leave a review, usually closer to 5% unless something about the game makes people want to talk about it, for both good and bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ideas for deadspace behind fridge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could build some shelving and use it as a baking tray holder, with the trays facing vertical. They would be easy to slide in/out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Change my Mind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not so sure - I’m in the world of indie game dev and silently publishing a game without any advertising is usually a death sentence for a game. Especially in a busy market where finding anything decent is a chore.

  Granted, the more effective advertising is usually getting streamers or reviewers to check a game out. Traditional ads, in my experience, have not been valuable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It most definitely takes a toll. Most devs don’t even talk about the weird sadness you get after finally getting something out the door either.

  I don’t mean to make it all sound bad though, there is some genuine joy in making something and seeing it come together. Anyways good luck on your game dev projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who shops at small businesses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I shop at small businesses if its an option. I prefer my money supporting the community than someone’s fourth yacht.

  That being said there is a particular type of small business whose customers are largely old retired people. They’re usually open 8-5, have higher than normal prices, and are in no rush as they usually like to chat - Which their customer base likes.

  There are other types of course but sometimes you got to do hunting because they likely don’t have big advertising bucks.

  Its very very difficult for small businesses to compete with big box stores. They can’t out price Walmart or outship Amazon. So they usually try to find a niche to focus on… Or wither on the vine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how does it happen every time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re referring to these kind of dogs:

  https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/small-white-dogs-with-crusty-eyes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am unfortunately aware about how predatory microtransactions are - This is a ragebait thread so the broad (and mostly incorrect) blaming was the intent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Creator of Hit Game Shovel Knight Is at a ‘Make or Break’ Moment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I understand it, the vast majority of ‘successful’ indie studios are in the same boat. You need to continual decent hits to keep afloat in an ever turbulent and flooding market. Even if the next title is successful, they already mentioned the other looming problem, burnout. You might be able to push yourself through one game, two is a struggle, and very few make it to three.

  To me, and maybe I’m being a bit cynical, but this feels like a very foreboding article.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, every elephant I’ve ever met doesn’t use Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They complain about it all the time, but gamers deserve the microtransaction and slop hell the AAA industry has created, as those same gamers pump billions into these soulless corporate behemoths and keep the system rolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh that’s true, I did forget about that one.

• A cool feature/mechanic you want to see in games again
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A screenshot that is the old evidence of my first ever attempt at a game.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks glorious.

  That’s pretty good for a first attempt, most people’s first games are barely functional, if at all, so I’d consider this a win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean ‘ram’ it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crosslinking posts from Mastodon -> PieFed or Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My aim was to take an existing Mastodon post and basically repost it somewhere else here on Lemmy, but then have the discussion attached.

  For example, John Mastodon makes a post about XYZ, then I crosspost it to the Open Source community, and if you open that post you can see the Mastodon comments and such, and commenting here on Lemmy would add to that conversation.