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It was a good year for them. Growing, but not yet oversaturated
January 3, 2026 at 1:34 AM
It was a good year for them. Growing, but not yet oversaturated
I think the devs have said on bsky that the mermaid mask is releasing in 2026, assuming it doesn't get delayed again. store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...
The Mermaid Mask on Steam
Magnus Mortuga has been killed. The captain of the world's strangest submarine, he was found in a locked room with an ancient stone cauldron - unsealed and opened for the first time. How did he die? W...
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January 2, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I think the devs have said on bsky that the mermaid mask is releasing in 2026, assuming it doesn't get delayed again. store.steampowered.com/app/1696770/...
Nice.
My very belated quibble is that agile in software was never a specific methodology, but rather a loose set of principles. Agile is in the eye of the beholder.
That said, many uses of agile in gamedev are not even that.
My very belated quibble is that agile in software was never a specific methodology, but rather a loose set of principles. Agile is in the eye of the beholder.
That said, many uses of agile in gamedev are not even that.
January 2, 2026 at 12:54 PM
Nice.
My very belated quibble is that agile in software was never a specific methodology, but rather a loose set of principles. Agile is in the eye of the beholder.
That said, many uses of agile in gamedev are not even that.
My very belated quibble is that agile in software was never a specific methodology, but rather a loose set of principles. Agile is in the eye of the beholder.
That said, many uses of agile in gamedev are not even that.
I have found that the re-hinging is the tricky part.
December 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I have found that the re-hinging is the tricky part.
I am very grateful for abandonware keeping many of these around during my formative years. Pirates! was "in print" a lot of the time, but the praise of HotU helped me find "Sword of the Samurai", etc.
December 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I am very grateful for abandonware keeping many of these around during my formative years. Pirates! was "in print" a lot of the time, but the praise of HotU helped me find "Sword of the Samurai", etc.
After the intro, it ended up being far more generous with time than I expected, and ended up having to burn time at the end. But I also was also playing stingy with my actions in anticipation of being limited.
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
After the intro, it ended up being far more generous with time than I expected, and ended up having to burn time at the end. But I also was also playing stingy with my actions in anticipation of being limited.
It is a good shirt, and what if they stopped making it? I would have to find a new shirt. Just sensible normal precautions.
December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
It is a good shirt, and what if they stopped making it? I would have to find a new shirt. Just sensible normal precautions.
Neat. I'll have to check it out sometime. Onto the list that I pretend to keep.
I don't think I have seen a pre-heathers slater. But I also haven't seen heathers. 80s/90s movies are a comparative blind spot for me (relative to before+after)
I don't think I have seen a pre-heathers slater. But I also haven't seen heathers. 80s/90s movies are a comparative blind spot for me (relative to before+after)
November 30, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Neat. I'll have to check it out sometime. Onto the list that I pretend to keep.
I don't think I have seen a pre-heathers slater. But I also haven't seen heathers. 80s/90s movies are a comparative blind spot for me (relative to before+after)
I don't think I have seen a pre-heathers slater. But I also haven't seen heathers. 80s/90s movies are a comparative blind spot for me (relative to before+after)
Is the the "name of the rose" movie any good? It is hard to imagine without long sections on heretics and antipopes, stuffed to the gills with allusions. But a monk murder could still stand on its own.
November 30, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Is the the "name of the rose" movie any good? It is hard to imagine without long sections on heretics and antipopes, stuffed to the gills with allusions. But a monk murder could still stand on its own.
The more we establish this not-taxonomy, the more I can talk to people about database and deduction games without a five minute preamble defining terms.
November 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The more we establish this not-taxonomy, the more I can talk to people about database and deduction games without a five minute preamble defining terms.
I am enjoying it, but have been derailed from deduction, and am just looking up fictional film reviews for its own sake. So many lovely allusions.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I am enjoying it, but have been derailed from deduction, and am just looking up fictional film reviews for its own sake. So many lovely allusions.
It has been interesting to guess who probably has the criterion channel based on what movies they mention in a given month.
October 10, 2025 at 2:17 AM
It has been interesting to guess who probably has the criterion channel based on what movies they mention in a given month.
Gotcha. I haven't played around with them much, but briefly toyed with the idea of changing all my foliage use to a single material with a big udim, so that nanite would batch all the WPO.
October 3, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Gotcha. I haven't played around with them much, but briefly toyed with the idea of changing all my foliage use to a single material with a big udim, so that nanite would batch all the WPO.
That's all one UDIM?
October 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
That's all one UDIM?
They haven't meaningfully screwed it up in the first x seasons at least.
September 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
They haven't meaningfully screwed it up in the first x seasons at least.
It isn't hard to get in the US. It is over the counter, and readily available
September 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
It isn't hard to get in the US. It is over the counter, and readily available
"Without solving this challenge, we risk a future where the sheer catastrophic scale of misaligned reports on AI alignment imperils all human life on this planet or, worse, exposes the majority of AI alignment research as a big waste of time."
September 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"Without solving this challenge, we risk a future where the sheer catastrophic scale of misaligned reports on AI alignment imperils all human life on this planet or, worse, exposes the majority of AI alignment research as a big waste of time."
I played several deduction game demos a few next fests back that turned out to use llms. Never terribly successfully, since it just muddied the salience of any response.
The odd thing was that they almost never marketed as using ai.
The odd thing was that they almost never marketed as using ai.
August 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I played several deduction game demos a few next fests back that turned out to use llms. Never terribly successfully, since it just muddied the salience of any response.
The odd thing was that they almost never marketed as using ai.
The odd thing was that they almost never marketed as using ai.
I feel you. There were a couple days last week where I told work "I am here, but bear with me as I approximate a zombie." (On 1-3h)
July 25, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I feel you. There were a couple days last week where I told work "I am here, but bear with me as I approximate a zombie." (On 1-3h)
Only 12. They keep in touch in private chat, but mostly talk about soup recipes these days.
July 19, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Only 12. They keep in touch in private chat, but mostly talk about soup recipes these days.
Congrats. Never got that far myself (though I pick)
July 19, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Congrats. Never got that far myself (though I pick)
Just finished it myself. Left with lump-in-throat. It was very good. (Aside: amazed to see it was still AGS)
April 26, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Just finished it myself. Left with lump-in-throat. It was very good. (Aside: amazed to see it was still AGS)
It simultaneously describes a concept I keep having to explain in several sentences, and annoys me.
April 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
It simultaneously describes a concept I keep having to explain in several sentences, and annoys me.
The tricky thing with metroidbrainia is that it concisely describes a quality of several overlapping subgenres that don't have stable names (deduction games, database games, outer wilds likes). But I also don't like it.
April 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The tricky thing with metroidbrainia is that it concisely describes a quality of several overlapping subgenres that don't have stable names (deduction games, database games, outer wilds likes). But I also don't like it.