mogwai_poet

mogwai_poet, 24 days ago to random

It's human to want to simplify a complicated situation. It's human to want to believe that people who are more ethical, or more attractive, must be more talented. From where I'm sitting, these are completely disconnected variables. (If there are studies correlating them, I'm unaware of them.) But when an artist people like turns out to be a bad person, it seems like it's easier to decide their art was bad all along than to accept the broader idea that terrible people can make excellent art.

mogwai_poet, 6 months ago to random

So insert's still a thing, huh? A whole-ass key on the keyboard that just exists to confuse and frustrate people, we're still doing that?

mogwai_poet, 7 months ago to random

Okay, now that you've all had the chance to play Gordy and the Monster Moon, here's my ulterior motive for making it: I want to play more games like it. Can you help me find some?

I've described Gordy as "Zelda-like" but here are some specific things I was trying for, even if I didn't succeed at all of them:

• New or underutilized setting/theme. Steam didn't even have a "Halloween" tag!
• I don't want to kill things. Preferably no combat, but at the very least not swords/guns again.

mogwai_poet, 1 month ago to random

You may have seen the Balatro Discourse, which consists of people looking at a screenshot of code that it straightforward and getting angry that it's not more complicated.

I'd just like to posit here that a straightforward solution is an excellent default and you should have a really solid argument for the advantages of a complicated solution before you choose it.

mogwai_poet, 26 days ago to random

I've been playing Infinity Island, by Luca Redwood, the You Must Build A Boat guy. It's themed as one of those collect-the-animals F2P games, but it's structured more like a clicker, with a half dozen different currencies that interact via a half dozen different upgrade interfaces. I've been playing for several days but some of the most basic stuff is still mysterious to me, to the point that I feel like it must be on purpose? Like it feels overcomplicated past the point of satire.

mogwai_poet, 3 days ago to random

New game jam idea!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_Buddha_would_not_play

mogwai_poet, 4 months ago to random

I heard a complaint recently that kids today don't want to get a driver's license. Good for them. Nobody should want to get a driver's license. Driving a car is something to mourn, not something to celebrate or look forward to. The ecological and human safety ramifications are disastrous.

Of course, pushing the moral cost of driving onto your parents or onto the Amazon delivery driver isn't actually improving things. But at least they're starting from the right place.

mogwai_poet, 1 year ago to random

I found it! I found the other LP in my record collection. It was under Castle Ravenloft 😅

mogwai_poet, 10 months ago to random

Techtonica, the game I've been working on at Fire Hose, is out in Early Access today. I like it a lot and I think we did a great job! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1457320/Techtonica/

mogwai_poet, 7 months ago to random

It's the work week, which means it's time to procrastinate with Gordy and the Monster Moon! It's a bite-sized Zelda-like about a pumpkin astronaut exploring a Halloween moon.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/642020/Gordy_and_the_Monster_Moon/

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mogwai_poet, 7 months ago to random

I did the thing. 25 games to understand me as a human

mogwai_poet, 1 year ago to random

In Breath of the Wild, about half the time you opened a chest, you'd the sword in there, realize your inventory was full, put the item back in the chest, open up your inventory, drop your worst weapon, close your inventory, reopen the chest, and finally get the item. In Tears of the Kingdom that process has thankfully been streamlined to one screen.

BotW was in development for 7 years and TotK for 6, so it took 13 years for someone to think of this screen.

mogwai_poet, 3 months ago to random

This parking garage has a sign posted next to the elevator explaining what you can find on "Level 1," which is to say, here is a list of things that are in Berkeley

mogwai_poet, 3 months ago to random

When Brits want to address a woman respectfully they say "mom." When they want to address a mother they say "mum." When they want to refer to staying quiet they say "moom." It's turtles all the way down the vowel chart

mogwai_poet, 1 month ago to random

They told me things might look weird during the eclipse

mogwai_poet, 11 months ago to random

When I first played Half-Life 2 the puzzle where you stacked bricks to turn a seesaw into a ramp was exciting shit. They built a bunch of puzzles around the physics because it was cool. (Later on there was one where you had to put buoyant barrels under an aquatic seesaw to make a ramp. I guess that was the only kind of physics puzzle they could think of.)

mogwai_poet, 10 months ago to random

You've seen the study going around saying that only 13% of games released before 2010 are still commercially available. The Video Game History Foundation intends to cite this data to try to change copyright law to favor preservation over corporate interests, and I wish them well.

While we're waiting for hell to freeze over, there is a moral imperative to teach our children to pirate.

mogwai_poet, 6 months ago to random

Current mood: arguing with my five year old son about how needing to pee works

mogwai_poet, 9 months ago to random

For years, Charles Martinet performed as CG puppet Mario at trade shows. Here he is doing his thing in the CD-ROM version of Mario Teaches Typing, in 1994:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tQWLg4E90M

Charles Martinet is an old man and deserves his retirement but also but if this means we have to listen to Chris Pratt voice video game Mario, heads are going to roll.

mogwai_poet, 8 months ago to random

Here's the trailer for my upcoming game, Gordy and the Monster Moon. It's a bite-sized, Halloween-themed Zelda-like in which you play a pumpkin astronaut going on spooky adventures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed_fGfMwiyg

mogwai_poet, 5 months ago to random

Waiting the followups to all these "why is Mastodon so hard" think pieces, complaining about how hard it is for the average person to get into my bathroom and when they finally did I made them feel unwelcome

mogwai_poet, 7 months ago to random

Gordy launch week, by the numbers:

• About 2300 (free) downloads of the Pico-8 cartridge from my web site.
• About 350 downloads of the source code.
• About a dozen messages from people saying how much they enjoyed it -- one from someone who told me how much better the dad in the game is than their own dad 😭

mogwai_poet, 4 months ago to random

@zep Hey, I finally got around to uploading all my (free) Pico-8 games to the BBS but at first I put them all in one post so as not to spam the forum, and that seem to have confused the system that makes the cartridges available. Is there any way I can fix this?

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?uid=88479&mode=carts

mogwai_poet, 7 months ago to random

Gordy and the Monster Moon is out! It's $3 on Steam with the launch discount: https://store.steampowered.com/app/642020/Gordy_and_the_Monster_Moon/

On itch, also $3: https://twinbeard.itch.io/gordy-and-the-monster-moon

mogwai_poet, 7 months ago to random

I got a notification that someone logged into my "Microsoft account" from the Dominican Republic. I tried resetting my password so I could log in and have a look. It said my account was locked due to suspicious activity and asked for my phone number. I still have no idea what account this is; it could be any of a dozen Microsoft services. While I was clicking around trying to figure that out, it asked me to rate my satisfaction on a scale from 1 to 5.