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Luke Beeman

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Software engineer, ace/aro, any/all pronouns. I'm into all kinds of media (especially indie games and anime), media criticism/analysis, and politics.

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · Jan 13

I finally finished my GOTY 2024 writeup! If you enjoyed it, please let me know or share it, it would mean the world to me.

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My Favorite Video Games of 2024

Over the past couple months, much digital ink has been spilled on whether 2024 was a good or bad year for video games, although as far as I…

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 1d

Finished one of the big Fallen London grinds I’ve been working on and got myself knighted. Only the 215th player so far to ever do it!

You have a new Accomplishment... A Knight of the Order of the Golden Carapace!
You are the two-hundred-and-fifteenth Knight of the Golden Carapace. Burgundy sings your name.
You've lost 1,000,000 x Stuiver (new total 288).

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 5d

it’s basically a more extreme case of roguelikes like Balatro or Vampire Survivors where the moment-to-moment action/strategic gameplay is very stripped down and the focus is instead on putting together a winning build/engine so that you can more or less let the game play itself

Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 5d

from what I played of the demo, there’s those button-activated abilities to give you a little influence over spins but the main thrust of the gameplay is the shopping.

Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 6d

lol

what’s your playtime looking like so far? if I recall I finished Act 2 around 35 hours in and finished the game with 100% completion at just shy of 52 hours, but at least one person I follow took well over twice as long (due to getting stuck on bosses for hours at a time)

Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 6d

Glad that that particular racial dynamic was not my experience in a gifted class: my twin brother and I were 2 of the only 3 white boys there, and the class was majority Asian-American

Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 7d

I mean, I genuinely don’t think that meaning was intended. I’d feel differently if it was just the Earth-X Nazi characters doing that move, but in addition to Chris a bunch of the other main universe characters do it too, and it doesn’t make sense to me that they’d all be doing a Nazi dogwhistle

Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 8d

Really interesting seeing what different people struggle with; I found Karmelita and Lost Lace to be on the tougher end but Coral Tower was definitely nowhere near top 3 for me, I beat it first try

Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 8d

counterpoint: it’s really funny

Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 8d

Slave of God was the one game on here I couldn’t quite place, so I looked it up and I have absolutely played it, just haven’t thought about it in years, so thanks for the reminder. Space Funeral I have not played yet but it’s been on my backlog since playing Anthology of the Killer

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milk+ visual @milkplus.moe · 9d

soundless - A MODERN SALEM IN REMOTE AREA -, our #yuri denpa visual novel, is now available on Steam!

A young girl made pariah in a cult finds solace in an unexpected person: one of the revered Holy Maidens.

✝️ Download here and pick up the artbook, too!
store.steampowered.com/app/3978150/...

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 11d

Mostly I just found the pain points people have been talking about (runbacks, etc.) kind of a nonissue because nothing ever killed me more than a few times. I go back and forth on whether to fault the game that lots of people feel otherwise or if it’s Fine, Actually

Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 13d

also wow is this a useless metric if I qualify as having “a big following”

Audience: Luke Beeman has a big following, bigger than 92% of people on Bluesky.

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 13d

didn’t really get any fun results from metacritic that far down, but I do share a backloggd rating with Surgeon Simulator, Depression Quest, and the High School Musical 2 DS game

My “CloudRank” score on bluefacts.app: 2.6

grid of games with a 2.6 rating on backloggd

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 13d

love that I immediately knew from the YouTube thumbnail that you were responsible lol

Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 13d

LET’S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

The previous act was incredible so I’m beyond excited to see what 7th Beat’s been cooking for this final one

Hafiz Azman @fizzd.bsky.social · 13d

It's announced! See you again on 6th December for the final act of Rhythm Doctor @rd.7thbe.at !!
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Rhythm Doctor - Official Release Date Trailer

YouTube video by 7th Beat Games

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 15d

I’m never running out of shards, but I kind of have the opposite problem where I keep skipping straight from “no point in using tools, I’m still learning this boss” to “oh nice, I won” without hitting the middle stage of “okay now I should start using tools”.

Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 16d

Really hard to think of examples at all, most things coming to mind either used original songs or were nondiegetic. Closest I’ve come up with is Kentucky Route Zero’s use of (original renditions of) old folk/gospel songs.

Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 16d

Such a fantastic episode, I teared up a little watching it

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Dana Terrace @danaterrace.bsky.social · 19d

Knights of Guinevere PILOT

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KNIGHTS OF GUINEVERE: PILOT

YouTube video by GLITCH

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 19d

All That Jazz (Bob Fosse’s thinly veiled depiction of his own self-destruction; equal parts unflinchingly brutal and utterly electric) and Michael Clayton (George Clooney as a legal firm’s fixer forced to reckon with his own moral compromise; between this and Andor I’m ride or die for Tony Gilroy)

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https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 20d

No Escape’s got a patreon and we use that patreon support to a) live, b) keep the site running and c) pay contributors*. Consider throwing a penny in the hat for continued good games criticism

*not ordered by importance

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 20d

hell yeah, first sinner is hands down my favorite fight so far (I’ve just barely started act 3)

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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social · 21d

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker
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Though the man’s killing had been filmed, a fact checker is obliged to seek comment from any party alleged to have committed a crime. I called the soldier’s lawyer. He picked up from a café, where I could hear trance music blasting in the background. The lawyer told me that while, yes, his client did shoot the man picking olives, and yes, the man did die, the Israeli military court found his client not guilty of murder because the man picking olives was a terrorist who was throwing stones. Even though the video did not show the Palestinian man throwing stones, the court said that he was, so he was. QED, his client did not murder anyone, and it would be slanderous for us to say so.

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 21d

My friend was telling me about how much money he was spending on equipment to go mountain climbing and I was like “Couldn’t be me (for multiple reasons), have fun with that, I’m gonna get back to playing this video game that cost me exactly zero dollars” (vivid/stasis)

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Luke Beeman @lukebee.bsky.social · 21d

Oikospiel!

A fever dream Unity Asset Store collage that’s at once an anticapitalist fable about climate change, the Koch brothers, and unionizing game dev dogs, and a cross between Tristram Shandy and the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. Occasionally jank or confusing, but always wildly creative.

Oikospiel Book I by DK

A dog opera in five acts

dkoikos.itch.io

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