haha cute 1.0 reference there
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Menacing Mike and Treacherous Tara
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I remember a few Elephantasy mentions on the board before (possibly just me and @ellaguro ) but it got a sequel(?) released today, albeit one where it changes format to an isometric exploratory puzzle platformer.
Anyways Linker seems to generally make neat stuff so hopefully this is neat as well.
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Out next thursday, DK Summit, Waluigi Stadium and Mario Circuit are good picks, even like the riverside park redesign
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you all could of been helping me extract weapons cases in call of duty’s dmz mode all this time if you wanted to gain insight into the God Genious Thought Process
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I like how they have the rights to use the art through moma but not the rights to mention the games themselves
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Homie what is this zone layout
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I made cities like this when I was 6 because I thought it looked cool.
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On releasing his Epistle 3 back in 2016
It would have been best, he thinks, to have kept to himself and dealt with his isolation in ways that didn’t reflect on his former employer. “Eventually my mind would have calmed and I’d have come out the other side a lot less embarrassed,” he says. “I think it caused trouble for my friends, and made their lives harder. It also created the impression that if there had been an Episode 3, it would have been anything like my outline, whereas in fact all the real story development can only happen in the crucible of developing the game. So what people got wasn’t Episode 3 at all.” Instead, it was just a snapshot of where Laidlaw was at that time. “Deranged,” he repeats. “There’s really no other explanation.”
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Laidlaw had a fantasy that, having retired from games, he’d return to his original calling and publish novels again. In 2018, living through a post-flood lockdown on Kauai, he wrote Underneath The Oversea - the culmination of the lessons he’d learned in writing dialogue and plotting adventures at Valve. “I was pretty happy with it, and blithely sent it out for my agent to shop around,” he says. “And it was roundly rejected everywhere it went.” Ultimately, Laidlaw self-published on Kindle, to “zero notice”.
“What I hadn’t realised is that if you stop writing books for 20 years, everyone forgets who you are,” he says. “If you’re, say, around 60 years old, you’re going to be dead soon, so there’s not much reason for publishers to start trying to build an audience.” Today, he mostly makes music instead: “I can’t seem to stop chasing ever smaller audiences.”
Oh, man. People really do live through their social group. So does most creative work.
A lot of my planning and dreaming is focused towards recreating moments of the most creative relationships of my life. Trying to surface the unspoken intimacy of a real creative bond that I’ve had a few times. And every team is a partial fulfilment, every relationship is frustrating and limiting and so much work.
When I’ve been farthest from it and distanced by culture and production, it’s hard not to wonder if I can get it again.
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Those short stories he did with Rudy Rucker about surfing are pretty dope no lie
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Resi 4 demo & friends (deep down)
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Friends do not include SF6 
Legends 3 
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Ohhh damn. I feel so bad about this. I was the one who ran the Epistle 3 game jam… hope I didn’t inflame anything here!!
At the time he reached out to me at least positively/neutral-positively about this though, so who knows
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i dont think so, also i really enjoyed playing games from that jam
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yeah that jam was maybe the most useful thing I have ever done in my life, people clearly loved doing it, and I met a bunch of friends through it including people I hang out with IRL sometimes. I should throw another jam… that was maybe the happiest I ever was doing dumb game shit haha
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megaman legends but as a live service loot shooter!!! Ahhh!!!
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