Animal Well and Rain World are both do a lot of this well, except are still fairly compact.

Maybe moving progression away from finding items/powerups and towards getting the information to understand systems, have a lot of parallel ways of gaining that information. And instead of opening up new spaces open up new systems in the existing space.

I find in this kind of game players have learned that they need to focus on finding everything, in a way that being to big and branching feels stressful rather than freeing. I am not sure how you build systems to retrain them to enjoy being lost, and not exploring every little corner.

That was kind of what I was hoping for when I first saw Void Crew. It does a good job of the actually inhabiting a spaceship as a crew, but in the context of a quick action roguelike, something like that modded onto Elite’s travel and exploration would be great.

There is a generation of people who have grown up with online being the primary place where they exist socially. If your most important social circle is your internet friends your reputation there becomes pretty important in a way that those of us who remember before the internet cannot quite grok.

That is actually a pretty good analogy, as they are both people who are disliked for some valid reasons, but now have stories told about them that have very little to do with reality, that make them out to just be cartoonishly bad people, which will be uncriticaly reapeted on the internet forever.

You are recalling incorrectly.
There was a separate incident where he was sued by the Artist Alphonso Dunn for similarities in their instructional drawing books.

I have no idea how valid the acustions were, but the lawsuit was not successfull.

I do not think this is true.
The guy who started inktober trademarked the logo and did not want other people selling merch using it, and because he had existing internet drama, a lot of people tweeted things like this, and now everyone believes it.

I think they just scrape job listings from elsewhere, if you search the text of the listing you can probably find the original.

They have a lot more listings because they do not take them down when they are filled. I looked at the first 3 in my field, and 2 were like 6 month old linkedin posts.

My memory of those Batmans was that he would just throw in some zeitgeisty political signifiers and than go way out of his way to not have any kind of position on them.

That dithering + chromatic aberration looks great!

What is the game!

Radical Fish was such a perfect little game, I think it was probably the first game I played that felt property designed around the mobile platform instead of limited by it.

Loving the crunchy sound design!

I start every jam I do saying “this time I am just going to use skills I already have to just make a thing, and 24 hours in I am deep into whatever documentation for whatever cool new idea that I have decided must be in the game.

A Discord server where I will drop new builds, or just message me here if you would rather not do Discord.

discord.gg/6TSfQBD6

Did you ever read Lev Grossman’s The Magicians? It was a pretty direct response to the Narnia series in a way that felt pretty meaningful to me as someone who grew up with the books when I first read it, but not sure how well it held up.