Where the hell are all the Fabuland fan games
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night in the woods is a fabuland fangame
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I’m currently watching through all of The Wire and this is VERY funny to me
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New Metal Slug Tactics looking good.
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i have to be honest… after watching so many of those E3 streams, any of these sort of videos now is so absolutely draining on me.
i watched like 5-10 minutes of this before being like “maybe i just don’t like indie games anymore” and turning it off.
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Axiom Verge 2 is out today?? whoa
This is an absolutely appropriate response. I have a hunger for this stuff I can’t explain.
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i’ve gotta ask is red grass / cyan sky ripped from some old moebius comic or something or is it just a kind of weird mind meld that happens after you put a specific number of points into art direction
the new game from the hyper light drifter devs
was this “patient zero”??
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2016 was full of this with No Man’s Sky, Furi, and Hyperlight Drifter. The year we saw the world in cyan and red.
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Destiny 2 (2017) has this on a planetoid - I wonder if there’s a common ancestor for it and No Man’s Sky in some old sci-fi art.
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ACE Team’s forthcoming game The Eternal Cylinder also has some of this
although it’s ACE Team so it’s a bit weirder than a lot of that
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Oh, duh, the kudzu from War of the Worlds is red. I’m guessing cyan/green is just in the right relative color position for contrast.
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I assume a different mix of gases in the atmosphere would cause a different color sky and maybe Hello Games built that into their proc gen?
No Man’s Sky was designed to produce images that evoked the covers of 1970s paperback science fiction.
I’m not sure what everyone else’s excuse is.
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Destiny as well! It is unabashed vintage sci-fi pastiche once you leave human settlements
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Oh, or cross-processing 35mm in C41
Source: Cross Processing Explained | Cross Processing: what, how and examples
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the colour balance thing makes sense to me but i guess what i’m interested in is why it’s felt so prevalent over the last few years specifically?
i feel like the “blue skies green hills” thing was so common in games for a while because it was a shorthand for a vibe of optimistic new frontiers, maybe the same sense of optimistic new frontiers in the indie games of the time, and now that’s curdled a bit or maybe even the imagery feels more bittersweet in the context of climate change and so these things gravitate more towards being about the beauty of a scorched and alien earth
it really could just be the NMS influence alone though although somehow that’s even more depressing for me to think about hahah
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i have always been too embarrassed to ask this, but what is bionicle supposed to be a portmanteau of? bionic barnacle? bionic uncle? bionic chronicle?
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I think red foliage is shorthand for alien because it runs counter to our intuition and reads as dead/dying.
In Destiny’s case there was originally a thematic sentimentality about exploring fantastical worlds brought about by a literal deus ex machina that’s now - like you said - curdled into a bitter view of anthropocentric hubris.
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