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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 14h

"That's not honey, Pooh! That's unrefined sarcasm!"

Oh bother.

Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 14h

Anyway just make whatever and ignore the YouTube devs.

Except me if I ever make another video, obviously I'm correct and everyone else is wrong. Obviously. I know they all say that but I'm the one. Really.

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 14h

How to make a successful game:

- have a game you really want to make? WRONG, LOOK AT THE MARKET FIRST AND WHAT'S SELLING
- passion project? WRONG, MONEY MAKER
- love-letter to videogames from your youth? WRONG, WHY DO YOU FUCKING HATE MONEY

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 15h

On the other hand. Maybe I was born angry. There are dubious reports of me exiting the womb and immediately calling one of the nurses a 'shit twat'.

Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 15h

I think I just get angry at a lot of "how to make a successful game" advice because a lot of it feels like tearing out my own soul and taking a big poop on it.

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 15h

My design pillars are basically "what's fun to both make and play?" and that's about as much thought as I'm putting into anything.

No, I'm not wildly successful. I'm not telling you to emulate what I do. Please don't. I'm already doing it. Thanks.

Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 15h

Pillars. Design pillars. What marketing type thought THAT one up, huh

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 16h

I can be pretty opinionated about videogames and things, but know this; if your opinion differs from mine, it's okay!

GREAT IN FACT.

As long as you ain't tryna 'convert' me to liking what you like, I adore your passion for stuff I don't understand. Excellent stuff.

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 17h

In any case, no videogame released since Yoshi's Island (SNES) in 1995 has had better graphics than that so we can all rest easy. We're not topping such perfection.

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 17h

Anyway yeah, that's the primary point of a game's visuals; to communicate to the player what's going on. What their goals are, the feedback to their input, how the mechanics work.

If a game "looks good but you can't see what's happening" then, in fact, the game looks like shit.

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 17h

I was once asked, somewhat facetiously, by a friend "okay, I'll bite, what makes Asteroids so good graphically then?"

To which, my response is "think of anything the games graphics communicate that could've been done better". Won 'em over with that, as it happens.

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 17h

I say this as a person who believes without irony that the arcade game Asteroids (1979) has some of the best videogame graphics ever.

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 17h

Okay. But. ONCE MORE, technically-demanding graphics shouldn't be equated to "better". Simpler graphics shouldn't be conflated with "worse".

Make shorter games with *stylised* graphics and fewer shareholders.

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 1d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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Isa・イサ 🥥🌴 @redcoconutstudio.com · 1d

Personally sick of hyper-realism in games myself, if I have to be honest.

Good art direction needs no AAA, billionaire budgets. See also: Hades I/II, Silksong, etc… The list goes on. Stylized art is timeless!

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 17h

DOA4 kicked ass, but alas I only got to it (and DOA3 on OG XBox) when revisiting the series in the hype for DOA5, which I loved.

Some may deride it as 'Titty Tekken', but IMO it's always been more 'Flirtua Fighter'.

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 18h

Don't worry, you're not making Absolum (the game I had in mind when I posted). ;)

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 1d

Good-looking new indie that peeps are talking about...

...is a Roguelike. Snooze.

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 1d

I've clicked off so many Ghouls 'n' Ghosts videos lately (it's October, I get hungry for spooky) because of language like that.

And it's like, these people DO know the buy-in for arcade games was optional, right? They didn't "force" players to pay the money.

Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 1d

(and by shadows, I really do mean you're secretly playing as the black ovals on the ground -- ssshhhh, don't tell anyone! :P )

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 1d

I'd collision-check the shadows, personally. Using an instance variable check for heights.

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · May 15

Oh my Blob! Amazing news!

🎸 @devolverdigital.com are publishing our game!
🔮 Shroom and Gloom Wishlists are now open!
🍄 Free demo up on Steam!
✨ We're so stoked!

Grab the demo! Roast some shrooms! Leave us a review!💖
store.steampowered.com/app/3271280/...

#indiegames #gamedev #shroomandgloom

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 1d

Oh yeah, I've toyed around with doing that before. Always put off by the workload though, it's gotta be an immense amount of animation.

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 1d

All the complaining I've been doing about the online age-verification is for a reason.

And I've been met with "bro just do it so u can access stuff", but no. Absofuckinglutely not.

(sorry if you've DMed me recently, I can't get it)

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Really hammer your reps about how catastrophic this is and how bad these laws are for peoples online safety

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Jhonen Trashquez - buy NEKONECRO now! @jayextee.bsky.social · 1d

Yo I think I need this. Important game development research, y'see... ;)

Jeremy Parish, imperial aerosol kid @jparish.bsky.social · 1d

Remember how I kept talking about the Metroidvania book I had in the works, and then it kinda dropped off the radar? I didn't lose interest. I was just working with a Legit Major Publisher (Dark Horse!) on turning it into the pilot release for a Press Run team-up: www.gamespot.com/articles/exp...

Explore The Origins Of Metroidvania In This New Retro Gaming Book

This new book will explore the history of the enduring metroidvania genre in video games.

www.gamespot.com

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