going to be boring and say “just make Bubsy, but good this time”
I’m still recovering from the psychic damage caused by people arguing that Bubsy 1 accomplishes what Sonic wanted to do and seeing people agree with this argument
I don’t even care about the umpteenth reprisal of the “Sonic was never good” argument, I’m too busy racking my mind on a violent misreading of Sonic’s design and somehow Bubsy taking that version of Sonic and making it good
Great news!
Neopets is doing an event right now where this dark faerie has dug up dirt on a coal mine CEO and is threatening eco terrorism
Etoille Princess is one of the best games for the 68000 folks.
“Required a CDRom Drive” lol.
IT’S CALLED THE FAERIE FESTIVAL
i just looked it up, and “y15” is 2013. this is decade-old lore they’re digging up!
so is geograph seal! and i’ve heard good things about aquales, too.
Moonring’s designer, Dene Carter, was also a designer for Fable and Dungeon Keeper.
He was also a voice actor for Dungeon Keeper and Populous: The Beginning. He seems like something of a character.
i’ve met Dene before! pretty affable guy. he used to hang out at like indie dev meetups in Berkeley. he’s def of the quirky D&D nerd school of video game guy. i have a shirt he gave me from one of his earlier games he made also.
Nice! From the sound of replies on his itch he’s keeping busy in the Moonring discord channel and continuing to update the game.
we’re so back
instead of recognizing their union, Songturder… i mean, Songtradr decided to lay off half the staff at Bandcamp:
https://twitter.com/modernistwitch/status/1713962311579234428
in addition to this being terrible for the culture and honestly, the entire continued existence of independent music… it also extremely sucks that this happens when i’m planning to make a big deal for the first time about releasing an album on there in the next six months. but yes, it’s all about me.
anyway, this is terrible. probably means an end to Bandcamp Fridays as well? which was the whole basis of me trying to announce my album. anyway… cool, glad the universe wants independent artists to not exist.
what a fucking nightmare. looking forward to Bandcamp, practically the only way i acquire music, falling apart over the next year.
Thriving business that allowed artists to also thrive bought by a large tech company for no clear reason which was then immediately dumped on a buyer when an unrelated part of the business under-performed and the lead company clearly overspent, which is now being systematically gutted for spare parts. I will never understand the motivation for these things or what drives business people to make these kinds of decisions
it’s founder syndrome. the people at the top invariably don’t care about the culture they created and just are doing what you’re “supposed to” do to appease VC people or shareholders or whatever, i.e. grow your company at an unsustainable rate or cash out. none of these companies are accountable to their userbases at all though.
It’d be great if somehow there could be collectively user/artist-owned commercial platforms, like a United Artists that somehow was owned by 10,000+ people, and they’d appoint an executive leadership and sustainably employ a professional staff whose sole goal was the continued thriving of the platform rather than growth to the point of being an attractive acquisition target. I have no idea how that would work. It probably wouldn’t. I don’t really understand what I’m talking about. Everything is hell.
If Leaf ever buckles and sells itch I swear to god
EDIT: I think we’re pretty safe with Leaf
i’ve thought about moving my stuff over to itch.io just to avoid whatever weird bandcamp stuff is happening, not sure how serious i am about it but it’s an option in my head somehow
