Game&Burger
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Zinester, Ink cartoonist, game maker. Commissions open, DM if interested. I draw and write: https://griminpink.substack.com/p/a-shattered-visage-of-a-turtle Business: [email protected]
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I am finally proud to present the THIRD GOBLIN BUNKER ZINE JAM:
UnSanctioned ReCollection: a collective of emulation, piracy, loss, and the things we try to save.
A FREE magazine you can read in your browser! Articles, Art, Comics, and more! PLEASE SHARE!!!!!!!!
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UnSanctioned ReCollection: Goblin Bunker Zine Jam 03 by Game&Burger, jigglypurin
Salvation by Emulation. Revolution thru ISOlation. Runs in browser!
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Maybe the rain never stops. I hope it never does. Maybe we don’t get to see the sun anymore and the wind will lie to me about the time
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Legit almost lost my mind lol
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"Autodesk acquires Blender Foundation"
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In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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Idk. The way we also treat game design analysis like product design is a whole OTHER thing that I know you touch on here and that is deeply unpleasant to think about for too long…
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Particularly when it comes to like the amount they utilize powerups to gate new areas of the world: they don’t really! Just in the first 30 minutes while you get your bearings. It’s a tutorial, not the game structure!! And yet Super is itself a combo and response to problems in the first 2!!
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Like those games while having wildly different progression criteria and progression narratives (I is unlocked all at once after bombs until you kill 2 bosses, II requires spiderball to unlock all of lvl 1 and then the remaining levels are unlocked by killing Metroids) they have more in common
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In many ways I feel similarly to you re: canonizing games and “good” design, although for me I feel like the absurd loop on the shoe is that it’s often a canonization of a summary of a lense of a part of a game- the difference how people describe Metroid 1 and Metroid II tells this for me
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Going to get ahead of this and clarify I’m talking as someone putting out writing and deep study on these kinds of games and teaching how to do analysis yourself. I swear I’m not a rubbernecker
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I’ll sound like old person yelling at cloud but truly re:metroidvanias: one of the biggest reasons I just call them what they are - exploration games- is that I can talk about what I do to my Mom without having to explain it in words that just use “exploration driven games” in it anyways
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And I feel like a lot of attempts to narrow that definition down are just built to exclude certain games incidentally or purposefully. It’s just the hotdog is a Sandwhich type of boredom discussion, except we DID start calling them BrautDogWhiches
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My real point is that I think a more straightforward and broader term is helpful. You get a wider net to see what actual connections and meaningful different directions you can take with an exploration given game, as well as it’s influenced!
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I know bigger brains doing the work with study know that. But I just know if you ask a lot of people they have weird impressions of how the world unlocks in Metroid I and II becuase they are squeezing it thru a sieve of Super Metroid, and really only the first half of Super Metroid!
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Like forget about castlevania. You’re talking about 3 games that have wildly different philosophies on how the world is structured on a macro level or what the objectives or “dungeon order” feels like. And that’s okay! We don’t have to make Metroid II fit into Super Metroids Shape, or visa versa
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Not to mention those learning to study design or games end up putting the cart before the horse. So many people define metroidvanias by progression that many would disclude games arbitrarily that have different progression schemes- despite all 3 original Metroids being wildly different in that way
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I’ll sound like old person yelling at cloud but truly re:metroidvanias: one of the biggest reasons I just call them what they are - exploration games- is that I can talk about what I do to my Mom without having to explain it in words that just use “exploration driven games” in it anyways
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Oh, I get it. It's called Castlevania because it's a metroidvania set in a castle!
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it sucks that people mostly want to buy non-zine stuff at zine conventions (like stickers and prints). but i can't tell people what to like and sometimes i also want stickers
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we're all going to the worm's fair
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It dodges the esoteric version of “game about games” in that it somehow isn’t even a game in dialogue with what Hollow Knight was. It’s just uniquely tuned to be its own feeling, its own sense of trial. It does a lot with the goodwill the last game earned from well millions of people
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The thing about silksong is that like hollow knight, it’s far more interested in having an adventure feel personal and sprawling in potential with a lot of variations rather than upholding or paying tribute to structure. It has its structure of course, but it’s a lot more about seizing control
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I’m feeling a lot better :) I do mean that I appreciate it. Even when I’m down it’s nice to know that at the end of day someone thinks of me and smiles. I am forever fortunate to have found that in my life.
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INTRODUCING FUNLAND NO. 3 // ARRESTING DEVELOPMENTS

What's eating @qdork.bsky.social & @apthomson.bsky.social? What's stopping @maggiemaefish.bsky.social?? What planet is @theuniverse.bsky.social from???

These answers & more!!!!

Cover by @princessaggy.bsky.social

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being remembered for bits is good and i do appreciate it. but i deeply fear i am sinking into a living inside funhouse clown exhibit in minds of those i cherish. It can't be helped. maybe this is all that's inside me anymore. Business , or clown. Suitcase full of seltzer
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Some stay dry and others feel the pain