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gmr_leon

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i ramble about video games. i like sharing & weird stuff. @ me with weird games.

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gmr_leon, to random
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Despite having, or maybe because I have, made mods for games in the past, I find it a little hard to understand why someone would continue to. On one hand you put yourself at the mercy of another entity's whims. They could shut you out or change things breaking your work and make you redo it.

On the other, they handle a lot that you might not want or be able to do alone, enabling you to focus on what you want and get into it.

Buuut...

gmr_leon,
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...Ideally a game engine would handle heavy lifting and not try to shut you out and provide ways to reduce redoing work following any breaking changes. So at a point it makes more sense to make games than mods for games, as the latter may be far more precarious.

gmr_leon,
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Also if you're making mods for fun, then making games for fun makes sense as the next step.

There's more "from scratch" involved, but these days there's an abundance of creative commons and otherwise flexibly licensed assets and FOSS tools to help you along. In a similar way as you might have kitbashed things with making mods, you can do similar with small hobbyist games, and better, since you're not as constrained by building on someone else's game.

gmr_leon, to random
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I started to make a folder/list of RSS feeds of people with interesting video game posts from other social media(ish) and quickly realized that it...Really wouldn't be worth it aside from maybe a few people.

The way people post on sortakinda social media (or traditional kind) doesn't really make a ton of sense to follow via RSS imo. It'd be better than being on Every Site, but that's about the only way it'd be of much use.

Pseudo-social media discourages consistency and quality of posting.

haifisch, to random
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trying to find the latest/last BIOS firmware files for my Intel NUC8i7HNK...

Intel seems to have like obliterated everything related to that from their support site.

thankfully a reddit post mentioned that ASUS has a support page which has everything needed.

wtf Intel?

gmr_leon,
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@haifisch any chance it was archived over on the internet archive?

gmr_leon, to gaming
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Huh. A Konami Code was uncovered for Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness (expanded version of Castlevania 64) after 25 years.

The code is: C-Up x4, C-Down x4, C-Left x2, C-Right x2, then C-Left x2 and C-Right x2 again, and finally: L, R, Z (together, presumably?).

https://nintendowire.com/news/2024/04/16/castlevania-legacy-of-darkness-konami-code-discovered-after-25-years/

#Gaming #VideoGames #Castlevania #RetroGaming

gmr_leon, to random
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I thought I had written a post about getting ahead of myself already, and sure enough, I had. Slightly different situation this time but similar enough pattern.

I really can't seem to help myself. I want to sprint before I've even learned to walk just about all the time, which is funny given that it only applies to my intellectual pursuits.

https://mstdn.social/

gmr_leon, to gaming
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A trend I'm hoping may gradually fade out in gaming communities is brand loyalty and reverence. I've had good gaming experiences on consoles and to an extent had moments being a sort of fan of some, so I get why the sentiment arises.

However, the qualities one enjoys in many games are typically independent of the hardware. One doesn't need to indirectly advertise those abounding in success when making/playing different games.

joel, to worms
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I've played a couple of rounds of #Worms on my #NintendoSwitch with another 5 friends and it's some of the best fun I've had in a while I gotta say.

Also a shout-out for #KarmaZoo although the main game mode is not playable locally. The party mode is quite fun still

#Gaming #CouchGaming

gmr_leon,
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@joel Which Worms game? (Sorry if there's only one on Switch, making this a silly question!)

gmr_leon,
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@joel Ah cool! I've enjoyed both 2D and 3D versions tbh

mcc, to random
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Created a test account on bsky and there appears to be literally no way to opt out of algorithmic feeds. If it decides you aren't following enough people, rather than allowing the Content Spigot to end it starts showing you its fucking algorithmic recommendations after that. God. Fuck Twitter and everything that spawned from it

gmr_leon,
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@mcc have you spotted the part yet where you can't directly block or mute accounts from a post's options?

'cause that sure was a decision someone made

gmr_leon, to VideoGames
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What's a game called, or what is the genre of a game, with detailed interactivity and interesting worldbuilding without RPG progression systems or mechanics? 🤔

You might say "immersive sim" but these often also have that, for me at least, RPG baggage attached. Although not always, as Dishonored arguably sheds much of that in its design.

Still, unsure how to search for these sorts of games.

gmr_leon, to gaming
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I know I'm late to this news, and not many care about this game anyway, but unsurprisingly Meet Your Maker's basically done after only a year.

I hope they make adjustments so the community can keep it going independently of them, because the basic framework is pretty fun. Part of the problem was they piled on a bunch of live service garbage progression hooks with low reward gains, poorly explained them, and made it seem more complicated than it was.

https://meetyourmakergame.com/news/whats-next-for-meet-your-maker/

gmr_leon, to gaming
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Any time Minetest comes up, there's the usual, "It's not a game it's an engine" explainer, but I think that whiffs on its potential a bit.

Minetest, in my reading up on it and toying with its demo game (Minetest Game), strikes me as faintly akin to Roblox. An open source Roblox with the rough edges that tends to entail, but all the same.

I think if the Minetest community ran with that mindset a little more, they might tap into something interesting.

gmr_leon,
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There's already a decent start for Minetest in this direction. To start, you can download games built with it right from within the base engine/launcher.

Plus, they've a whole book on making mods/games with it and other documentation: https://dev.minetest.net/Modding_Intro

Putting some more focus toward the latter, including pointing to more open source tools, and guides to use them, to help in the creative process, I think would be another step in the right direction. Might see about that myself

gmr_leon, to gaming
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I haven't played Minecraft: Java Edition in a few years now, and um...Has its performance tanked over time or something?

Playing it windowed with its default resolution (which is low! some odd resolution below 1024x768), and its performance is rough. Drawing consistently over 50% CPU, feasting on over a gig of RAM as I recall, and struggling to maintain a decent framerate on the surface.

Underground's a little better, but not by much.

#Gaming #Minecraft #VideoGames

gmr_leon,
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I got an itch to hop into Minecraft: Java Edition after wondering how it might compare to the basic Minetest Game template, and like...Minetest Game has framerate drops as I pan the camera and move around generating/rendering the world, as to be expected, but nothing compared to present day Minecraft.

Minecraft: JE drops framerate in similar situations, again no surprises, but it drops them much harder. Given its corporate support, that part's surprising.

gmr_leon,
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Okay, so I think I got ahead of myself somewhat here. It's been a few years since I last played Minecraft: JE after all.

I think the initial roughness I was seeing was part of dropping into a new world having to generate on the fly. Been such awhile I just didn't remember it.

However, the resource usage is undeniably still much higher. I'm looking at it sitting at 2.45 GB of RAM right now. CPU use in the already generated parts is lower than at first, but fluctuates a bunch.

gmr_leon,
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@the10thwiz Yeah, looking at default render/simulation settings it's set at 12 chunks, and if a chunk is still 16x16 blocks, so 256 per chunk...That's trying to load a lot for sure, like 3,072 blocks if I'm calculating right

gmr_leon, to random
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My favorite part of free software is this disclaimer: "There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE."

It exists to exist, no assurance it's suited to anything, have fun with it!

gmr_leon, to gaming
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I think some of my favorite video game cultural stories are those that occurred outside the industry, either before they were integrated by it or hobbyist projects that people made and shared with no aim to enter the industry or have their ideas integrated by it.

Somehow I never got way into the boom of flash games awhile back, but I think some of them served as an example of what I mean of extraindustrial gaming culture.

Have any you're fond of?

cadeybunny, to random
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Weird question: Would you call Lara Croft iconic?

I would call her an icon-- in that, she's famous. If you're in gaming, you almost certainly know who she is and can picture her....
But, I don't think she has an iconic design, if that makes sense. She's no Mario, or Pac-Man, or Klonoa, or Croc, for instance...

gmr_leon,
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@cadeybunny I sorta think this way about Master Chief tbh. I feel like if you didn't know about Halo, you could reasonably think they were part of some random sci-fi action figure line.

To your question though, I kinda agree about Lara Croft not having a particularly iconic design. Maybe an iconic outfit though?

gmr_leon, to VideoGames
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Working with a game engine a little has made me want to search up videos on how horribly wrong or surprisingly well importing models made for other game engines can go.

gmr_leon, to random
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Removed character model specific code from Kenney's 3D platformer template, and combined with the camera code I found and adjusted, I now have a working base for simple third-person navigation.

From here I can fool around making 3D places to run and jump around in. Gives me more incentive to better learn my way around 3D modeling, as now I could really run around whatever I might make.

gmr_leon, to gaming
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Interesting game design video regarding how progression in games may be viewed/experienced.

I'm still very mixed in my opinions about progression in games after multiple occasions of finding it more bothersome than satisfying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9hoPTOSByU

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