can’t wait to stay up until 2am to play bubblegum Tarkov with butts
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silent hill ascension seems amazingly wild
it’s apparently trying to get in on the until dawn craze except you vote on the FMVs(?) live and you you can purchase more votes to get your choice in.
it is full of microtransactions including a bizarre character creator.
everyone has to cooperate to do quick time events and that basically failed every time.
“hideo kojima” and “scam” were banned words in the live chat but literally no other words were so it was just full of slurs and also you could pay to have your comment the top like twitch.
now they’ve turned off the chat completely.
they say they are going to keep releasing dozens of more episodes (five minutes long?)
some puzzles are behind a paywall?
the creators showed up on the app to do damage control this thing is wild
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I mean the game is obviously a tarkov clone, so it stands to reason there’s overlap there. That’s the audience they want
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today in news only i care about:
the guy who started OCReMix (David Lloyd aka djpretzel) has just stepped down from running it after like 24 years.
seems like the site was already sort of run by a few people who have been around since the beginning, so i dunno if it will affect the community that much. i also haven’t paid attention to anything happening there in over a decade (and haven’t been a “ReMixer” since 2006). i definitely outgrew being part of that community many many years ago. it feels like it’s been a bit of a zombie community in some ways - i’m not really sure who engages with it now, but clearly it has its people who are still around and engage with it. those Games Done Quick streams are constantly playing oc remix songs all the time as bumpers. a lot of people from there used to meet up at Magfest all of the time, which is where i met many people in that community back a decade+ ago, but it seems like a lot of people stopped going after the event really blew up and became a different thing.
but yeah i’ve talked about this a bit here before and all of that - but being on that website back in the day did do a lot for me. i also talked about it somewhat on @spacetown’s chiptune podcast on an upcoming episode and also an episode of my old podcast for anyone who is curious.
anyway, just weird to reflect on. i started following that community when i was 14 and my first mix got posted when was 15 - both over two decades ago. so it’s been a long time.
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This is probably something only I will care about, but it appears there is a new Steam scam going on but I can’t figure out the hows and whys of it. Here is a pair of links to two new devs/publishers that each released a dozen or so games over the past few days, all looking fairly “cheap” yet having ridiculous $65 asking prices:
Each has a few reviews mostly in Russian, but the few in English make zero mention of the price which is impossible in an actual review given how steep they are (the accounts posting these also appear to be Russian). I would not be surprised if the games are all stolen from other legit devs but they are all so generic that I don’t recognize any of them from anywhere else.
I’m sure there were occasional games like this before but there has not been this many littering the Steam new release list in all the time I’ve been following it. Again I have no clue exactly what the scam is beyond wanting some hand-wavingly vague “money laundering perhaps?” murmurs, but it is something whatever it is.
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A post was merged into an existing topic: Massively MariO RPG (Scrutable Geno Edition)
Well damn, that sure does bring back all kinds of memories.
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I saw something about this recently, it’s basically a scam involving steam key bundle selling sites.
Basically, these devs (probably operating under various different names) churn out a large number of trash games, get a bunch of bots to purchase, run the game for 1.3 hours and leave an AI generated review until the game has an ‘overwhelmingly positive’ rating.
Then they jack up the price to something prohibitive so that nobody will be able to leave negative reviews.
Then, because Steam gives devs a whole bunch (like 5000 I think?) of steam keys for their games, they can then upload these to some dodgy steam key reselling sites (which they likely operate under a different name) where they can be more or less ‘truthfully’ advertise the bundles as containing games with an average value above a certain amount and with an overall highly positive user rating.
And because these bundles are basically a lucky dip, unsuspecting customers will come along and have no way of knowing what is actually awaiting them.
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the developments that stem from the functions of and culture around steam are dizzyingly fuckin’ weird
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I still find it baffling that I can make a few cents here and there selling the trading cards tbh
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you say it doesn’t make sense to you, and yet you make cents from it. curious… 
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Making anything complex poses challenges along the way. Games take a while to make and usually require a good team working together. We’ve been lucky to have one such good team. Unfortunately, recent serious health issues have necessitated two key members stepping away from the project indefinitely. We are a small team and we each wear multiple hats. This is a loss of several hard to replace hats in an environment where all hats are needed. Given the realities of schedules, budgets, and the fraught task of reworking the whole project within those parameters, the team has amicably decided to suspend operations. For all intents and purposes, this is the end of the development of Revenant Hill.
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bandcamp died so these dinguses could keep failing 
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will zelda finally excuse link
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This feels… Significant
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1989: Wow! This movie has a Power Glove!
2024:
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can’t wait for The Legend of Zelda: The Hyrule Fantasy: The Movie: The Game: Remastered to dual-release on the Playstation 6 and Nintendo Switch
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Link’s techno gadget from breath of the wild will be redesigned to look like a PlayStation portal.
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