Street Wars: Constructor Underworld (1993) by Studio 3.

What about you? What is the older game you can't seem to move away for too long before playing it again from start to finish?

#videogame #videogames

When dematerialized #videogames became a thing thanks to Valve's Steam platform around 2010, I started wondering whether I missed on earlier games because I simply didn't know they existed.

The answer was mostly "no", but every now and them I rediscover a forgotten gem like Perimeter (2004) by K-D Lab. Featuring innovative features like deformable terrain and flexible squad, this real-time strategy game is unlike most games I've ever played, and the single player campaign kept me interested until it became a little bit too tedious as all RTS tend to end up for me.

However, at a modest US$3.99 on Steam, there are way worse ways to spend one's time and money.

Perimeter on Steam

Perimeter is an innovative Real-Time-Strategy game that pits players against each other or AI opponents in a life and death struggle to seize territory and establish crucial protective “perimeters.

^{store.steampowered.com}

This thread about first-hand experience of Hawaii’s ongoing occupation by US settlers is depressing but there is a clear and simple call to action.

Buy Neofeud.

#videogames

SilverSpookGames

2021-04-01 18:09:16

Neofeud is anti-capitalist, anti-racist & anti-imperialist cyberpunk. I'm a Native Hawaiian who made this game while working 40+ hrs in social services / teaching in ghettos, while homeless. Neofeud is my life, in art. Thread 1/?
https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud

So I've been looking into building a #StarCraft I Terran Battlecruiser out of #LEGO parts, but so far the existing models are either too big (5800 pieces! https://www.brickvault.toys/products/battlecruiser-star-craft) or too small (350 pieces https://www.bricklink.com/v3/studio/design.page?idModel=136668).

I may start designing one from the ground up at a scale in between these, and for that endeavor I'd like to have the highest quality reference material. I already have the low-res StarCraft I sprites from 1998, but so far I haven't been able to find the high-res StarCraft Remastered sprites.

Does anyone know where I could find them?

#videogames

For anyone interested in #videogames, Venn is a new gaming lifestyle channel launched today with big names like Jimmy Wong, Chrissy Costanza and Sasha Grey. Pop culture news, guests, talk shows, it has it all.

I'm not much into TV but you might.

#MiniReview #videogames I just finished DreamBreak by Aist Studio in just above 90 minutes and I must admit I'm conflicted. Pixel art and music are top notch, but controls are clunky, mini-games repetitive, just a tad too long and the story is shallow. And yet I leave the game with a faint smile, which is more than I can say about most games I've played.

I'd say it's worth the couple dollars you can buy it for during Steam sales with the soundtrack.

• Developer/studio website (credit card fees, 3-5%)
  
• Itch.io (set by the author, default 10%)
  
• Kickstarter (5% + credit card fees 3-5%)
  
• Steam and Apple App Store (30%)

No suggestions yet, I'm assuming it is because some of you didn't see this post yet. #videogames #help

Hypolite Petovan

2020-06-29 22:50:17

I noticed a trend in the #videogames I enjoy: whether the floor can get dirty, and optionally be cleaned. This ranges from cosmetic trampled grass in The Settlers III (1998), tank tracks in Supreme Commander (2007) and muddy footprints in Graveyard Keeper (2018) to being a mood factor in Theme Hospital (1998), Rimworld (2013) and Project Hospital (2018) to the whole point of the game in Viscera Cleanup Detail (2015). I'm starting to believe this denotes a particular attention to detail I'm apparently sensitive to.

Do you know any others games making use of that niche feature?

#help

While I was on the subject of the Deus Ex (2000) original soundtrack, I found out that on June 23rd 2020, Alexander Brandon and Michiel van den Bos, two of the original composers, released an album inspired by the same soundtrack with known themes and new tunes.

What a delightful and timely coincidence!

#videogames #soundtrack #music

I'm fond of optimizing management #videogames, and this had led to the production of several spreadsheets for various games I played where I record game data and perform ratios and averages calculations and sorting to find out the critical path.

So it was a bittersweet discovery that Kabam produced an official data spreadsheet for their game Shop Titans I'm playing. On one hand, this is beautifully done, and close to players' interests. On the other hand, they strip people like me from the joy adding new data as game advances and discovering patterns and combinations.

I'll still salute the effort, it shows how much thought and confidence the game designers have put into this game's numbers and the attention they're giving to their target audience.

Shop Titans is available on iOS, Android and Steam and I wasn't paid to promote it.