mogwai_poet

mogwai_poet, 2 months ago to random

Too wide or too narrow? Those are the only options

mogwai_poet, 2 months ago to random

I think this kind of game looks really neat as an interactive storytelling medium with a really low barrier to entry. If you've ever wanted to make an FMV game but don't have the time/energy, the downpour.games editor/engine hits a lot of the same notes

https://downpour.games/~terry/do-you-want-to-play-a-boardgame-with-me

mogwai_poet, 2 months ago to random

Are boomerangs a thing? I've never gotten one to work. I trust that other people have, but I have no way to tell if the magic is in the object itself or if it's all in the user. Maybe the folks who can throw a boomerang in a circle could throw any object in a circle. Maybe that's just a skill you can learn.

mogwai_poet, 2 months ago to random

This shit is like if I loaded up an S3M and there was an omega in the effects column and I asked around and people were like "oh you didn't know about the Greek effects?"

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, 3 months ago to random

@jeffgerstmann I count 15 RPGs, 45 sports games and 11 turn based strategy games on the list of remaining NES games at 8bitninendo.science. (Caveat: I was just eyeballing it and I didn't count wrestling, boxing or racing games as sports games.)

If you have 500 games to go and rate 6 games per episode, that gives you 83 episodes left which means you should be doing 0.18 RPGs per episode, 0.54 sports games per episode, and 0.13 turn based strategy games per episode.

mogwai_poet, 3 months ago to random

Yesterday I picked up medication for my wife at the pharmacy. They asked for her name and medical record number. They didn't ask for my ID or any other proof that I maybe actually know this person.

It makes me want to come back with random numbers to find out what other meds they unlock. Maybe start a wiki. Like how I used to enter random Game Genie codes just to see what would happen.

mogwai_poet, 3 months ago to random

My theory: articles like this are astroturfed by Apple's PR team, because they don't want to take the blame for making it extremely inconvenient to use headphones.

mogwai_poet, 3 months ago to random

I used to know people who'd been old for my whole life. Now I only know people who started out young and then got old. Nobody's genuinely old anymore, it's nothing but posers these days.

mogwai_poet, 3 months ago to random

Recording Mario Wonder for Twinbeard Plays, and the second playthrough falls down much further than I'm accustomed to. My hypothesis is that the design relies so heavily on the novelty of the various seed effects to drive player interest that without that novelty it falls flat

mogwai_poet, 4 months ago to random

Wearing glasses is associated with a 15% reduction in COVID infections. (Unless the glasses interfere with masking.)

If you've got perfect eyesight, I bet chemistry goggles do even better -- and so stylish too!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971223007592

#covid

mogwai_poet, 4 months ago to random

I am currently between gigs. If you are or know someone who ought to hire the Frog Fractions Guy, let me know. If you are or know someone who wants to fund a game made with my design sensibilities, let me know.

mogwai_poet, 4 months ago to random

Talking to a couple, learning that neither one of them works in tech: "So which one of you is the programmer and which is the rubber duck?"

mogwai_poet, 4 months ago to random

And that's another game in the can for the Twinbeard plays Mario series

mogwai_poet, 4 months ago to random

I've been making games in Pico-8 for a while and putting them various places but I've finally gotten around to putting all of them on itch:

https://twinbeard.itch.io/

The free games are also on the Pico-8 BBS. Splore 'em if you got 'em!

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

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

grumpygamer, 4 months ago to random

It's very important that we go out and bury really odd things in the ground to mess with future archeologists.

mogwai_poet, 4 months ago to random

Nintendo contracted the development of Donkey Kong to an outside team, because they didn't have in-house game programmers yet. Donkey Kong was that team's first game. This essay is a first-person account by one of the devs on the team, written in the mid-90s and only translated into English recently.

(The team's second game was Zaxxon.)

https://shmuplations.com/donkeykong/

mogwai_poet, 4 months ago to random

It's the countdown to full price! If you're excited to give me money for the Frog Fractions Cinematic Universe but want to wait until it's even more expensive so that you can give me even more money, the Steam Winter Sale has less than 24 hours left!

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/15726/Frog_Fractions_Cinematic_Universe/

mcc, 1 year ago to random

For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7