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gmr_leon, 1 month ago to games

What kinds of games might you recommend with deep worldbuilding and interaction that aren't RPGs?

I like worldbuilding and stories, and I like when they're mixed with the interactivity of games, so RPGs seem like they should be a natural fit. Problem is, I dislike the stat-heavy, grindy progression of many RPGs.

I enjoy point & click adventures and visual novels but they're often more limited in their interactions. What kinds of game might I be missing combining the two?

@games

Coelacanth, 1 month ago

I know it technically claims to be an RPG, but Disco Elysium plays more like a visual novel really. It has none of the grindy, stat-heavy progression that seems to turn you off of traditional RPGs.

It uses the interactivity of the video game medium as an important part of its storytelling and presentation, however, and has an incredibly deep lore and very interesting world building.

Coelacanth, 1 month ago

Perhaps audiobook is a better description? Ever since the Final Cut came out almost every line in the game is voice acted.

pbloem, 10 months ago to fediverse

I'm starting to find some of the cooler aspects of the wider fediverse.

For instance, Lemmy is a Reddit clone that is picking up some migration after the recent hooha or at Reddit.

The cool thing is that it's federated (same as mastodon, different instances and everything).

This means that you can subscribe to any community on Lemmy, for instance

https://lemmy.world/c/showerthoughts

through its fediverse address, right here on your mastodon instance:

@showerthoughts

#fediverse

Coelacanth, 10 months ago

It’s tricky because Lemmy doesn’t support following people directly.

I think you can @ people on Mastodon/Misskey/Firefish by @user@instance.tld and they will see it, and I assume if you reply to a post or comment made by them (since they can post/comment here) they can interact with it normally.

No idea if using hashtags on Lemmy will populate people’s Mastodon feed with those posts, but I assume… not?

Coelacanth, 10 months ago

If you want a combination of following people and communities, that’s basically the premise of Kbin, if I understand right. Not sure they support hashtags, though.

renwillis, 10 months ago to fediverse

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Coelacanth, 10 months ago

Niue is trying to wrangle control of .nu form Sweden, so I’m a little worried. It’s been ongoing for years though.

euphoria, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to newcommunities

Hi from Kbin. I made a magazine recently that does the same thing this community does, but for Kbin. Perhaps we could 'partner' and put each others links in our bios? @MagHub

edit: all i wanted to do was give a place to kbin users to promote their KBIN magazines. this is a community for promoting lemmy communities which we from kbin obviously cannot create from here. thanks :D

Coelacanth, 10 months ago

The terminology of Kbin is one of my biggest gripes with it so you have at least one ally.

Magazines are just communities, I don’t think there is any different behaviour under the hood to justify the name change. On the flip side I just find it makes things more confusing because now you have to start calling single picture meme posts and open questions on an AskLemmy type place “Articles”.

linuxFan, 10 months ago to fediverse

@fediverse Vlemmy refugees logging in from elsewhere, how's it working?

Coelacanth, 10 months ago

If you want to drive some more traffic your way, putting out that you’re in favor of preemptively defederating Meta might be an idea, seeing as lemmy.world so far has seemed to be very reluctant to take a stance.

Coelacanth, 10 months ago

If the community is run by a proven squatter who is inactive I believe the admins can be contacted to transfer control.