The Monkey Island games were my introduction to point-and-click adventures and will always have a special place in my heart. From the start, 'Return to Monkey Island' gives the exact same vibe. It feels both like playing another chapter in the Monkey Island series, and at the same time the new aspects make it feel better tailored for modern point-and-click gaming. Personally, I find the art style just beautiful too. Hits right in the nostalgia.
:playstation: Interesting - Sony has been using Flickr to host (and "hotlink") images on the official Playstation Blog since 2007. Which seems like a unusual hosting choice for a multinational media conglomerate 🤔
The good news: If you ever need some Playstation game backgrounds, promo images etc. - here are the 54.835 images used on the PS blog since 2007 neatly sorted into albums. There is some cool stuff!
I've been kinda simmering over an interaction I had like 4-5 years ago. I said I'd like to see a mainline Legend Of Zelda game where you play as Zelda. I got jumped (figuratively) by a few guys who didn't see the point, it's always been Link, and they didn't want it.
So, me, significantly more insecure, trying to be friendly, discussed it with them and we got to a point where it'd be ok if there was at least a choice between Link and Zelda.
No.
These fucking babyass shriveldicks can cope for one damn game where they're not catered to. I don't want a choice. I want a game that Link is fucking dead. D-E-D, Dead. It's all up to Zelda. We've had to put up with lifetimes of male as default, taking in media that centers around men. I'm tired of the consolation prize of "Well, we'll add a gender selection for you". Why is it always (hyperbole for effect) male character, or a choice?
You can deal with one game that's not all about serving you.
What jobs are we preparing students for by boosting their writing productivity with AI? After shedding 40% of its workforce, the gaming site Gamurs posted an ad last June for an editor to write 250 articles per week. That’s a new article every 10 minutes, at $4.25 per article.
As @novomancy has noted, AI is only the accomplice here. This clickbait nightmare is the logical conclusion of the ad-supported web.
Hey, can anyone tell me some games where you start off in a trashed base, or even just ruins, and you've gotta fix it up?
Bonus points for sci-fi, NPCs who'll move in, and town management.
Prefer not first person perspective, but will still look at #gaming#recommendation#openToAll
Looking for a paid writing assignment? Do you like #pinball or retro arcade #gaming? Would you like to write for a publication that's DRM-free and uses only #freesoftware?
Quarter Up is a free online newsletter published by Nantucket E-Books. I tend to look for articles in one of three areas:
Articles on the history of a particular game or company.
Interviews with someone in the business.
Commentary on the places where life and pinball/arcades intersect.
I've just learned that Romhacking.net is planning on removing their HomeBrew section entirely, probably during the next major update to the site. Sad, sad news.
Liberation is a retro space adventure inspired by the original BBC Micro Elite and classic UK sci-fi such as Blake's 7, Space:1999, Quatermass, Metal Mickey-- ah too many to list! (I post about them a lot-- follow and we can talk #TheTripods)
It's my first "mastodon era" game, developed entirely since I've been on gamedev.place (thanks!). Made on Linux with Godot. I'd love to make more!
Last night, I received a task to investigate a massive #performance regression in certain parts of the game.
So today I began investigating and ran the latest build on my 4 testing machines. And indeed, the machines that had an #Intel#GPU only achieved ~10% of the FPS they usually had. "Oh no!" I thought, and spent all day profiling and disabling various engine features, but no matter what I did, the performance didn't improve much.
And then I found it. Those Intel machines still had #Mesa DLLs in their build directories from the last time I was investigating a graphics driver issue. Which means they have been using a #software implementation of #OpenGL all this time! :drgn_stare:
I removed the DLLs and the performance returned to normal.
And now I'm back to square one, unable to reproduce the performance issue. :drgn_weary_sob:
A few years ago, you would have been considered crazy for wanting to buy a #Linux#Gaming laptop. Nowadays? It’s actually a very interesting proposition!
So, today, I take a look at the @slimbook Hero, a nicely priced, powerful gaming laptop: