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Armello removes advertising Linux and macOS support due to their party system
14 July 2022 at 1:08 pm UTC Likes: 11

Well, in this case it seems like it was not their choice but their middleware's, and they phrased it right as "not advertising an inferior version as if the platform was supported" instead of "removing platform support due to it being too much work". So I'll keep the pitchfork in the barn for now.

See PR departments, not that hard. Don't insult people, don't imply a platform is less deserving than others, explain the external factors, and show you care about your customers (existing and potential).

Build cities on the back of a giant animal in The Wandering Village — coming to Linux
16 June 2022 at 2:19 am UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Anza
Quoting: KROMI've played the demo during one of Steams Indie Demo Days and really enjoyed it. It had some fresh gameplay elements, which is kind of rare to see when you've played hundreds of games. Really nice to hear that there will be a native version. Looking forward to it.

Building and caring about your "vehicle" make it feel quite different. Also usually you can't fail in building games, but Wandering Village is not that easy.

Oh, but you can. There are two kinds of building games: those where you are all "oh joy, I got a pumpkin!" and those that are all "the flash freeze killed all our crops and then the werebadgers killed the only villager that could plant more".

Monster collecting game Cassette Beasts shows off the powerful fusion system
14 June 2022 at 5:56 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Pengling
Quoting: eldakingApparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.
Monster Rancher sort of did this when CDs were the norm, too - in the game you generated creatures by having the game read physical music CDs, and the later television adaptation therefore depicted them as being retrieved from stone artifacts that resembled optical-discs. Sadly but understandably, the modern reissues of these games replace the scanning of physical discs with a searchable online music-CD database, instead.

This was one of the earliest iterations of the "summoning beasts from physical media" idea (which always felt like it had its roots in that time when the general public's mindset about computers was that they were almost "magical"), though I don't know if it was the first.

Oh yeah, I remember that - I never played the games but I knew about it, and watched the series.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyHuh. Where does Digimon fit into this history?

First tamagotchis, and then early cellphones - they designed a new gadget for each season, following contemporaneous trends. Apparently they even tried smartwatches and smartphones with later entries, though I wasn't really following digimon by then.

Monster collecting game Cassette Beasts shows off the powerful fusion system
14 June 2022 at 1:55 pm UTC Likes: 3

I was excited for this game since the first trailer, mostly because of the retro aesthetics being way on point. I can't tell if the gameplay, the battle system and all is going to be good, but it has neat concepts.

Apparently "retro physical media + monsters" is an entire sub-genre of pokelikes, with Cassette Beasts, Floppy Knights, and Disc Creatures.

Valve reveals the top 10 most played Steam Deck titles and they're all fully Verified
2 June 2022 at 11:29 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: eldakingEveryone is like "it needs to be really powerful so you can run the latest AAA games on it", and then what are people playing on it? Stardew Valley, Slay the Spire, Binding of Isaac, Hades, Vampire Survivors...

Hold it! Just because Stardew Valley is a pixel art game doesn't mean it's not AAA! 🤣

I call it a "triple I", to acknowledge it's current status while honoring it's humble origins. Still, it is not one of the latest.

Valve reveals the top 10 most played Steam Deck titles and they're all fully Verified
2 June 2022 at 10:04 pm UTC Likes: 9

Everyone is like "it needs to be really powerful so you can run the latest AAA games on it", and then what are people playing on it? Stardew Valley, Slay the Spire, Binding of Isaac, Hades, Vampire Survivors...

Valve delay the Steam Deck Docking Station
2 June 2022 at 12:12 am UTC Likes: 14

Looking forward to throwing one of those at my friend Richard and shouting "Dick, duck the deck dock!"

The official iFixit launch for Steam Deck parts and repair guides is live
23 May 2022 at 9:46 pm UTC Likes: 3

Waiting for the rest of the components to add up and see how expensive it is to assemble one from scratch.

(Not that I would do it, of course, just as a curiosity)

Deck Builders Round Up
14 May 2022 at 11:25 am UTC Likes: 2

Good write-up, though there are of course many more - with Slay the Spire and its exceptional success, "Roguelite deckbuilder" truly became a new genre. I am partial to Monster Train and Griftlands, but there are others I want to check - though I usually just play Slay the Spire until I burn out, wait and repeat. :P

An interesting thing I'd like to point out is that "deckbuilders" take their base mechanic from boardgames, in which it is both a big genre and one of the (relatively few) big "fundamental" mechanics (things as basic as "area control", "push your luck", "worker placement", "hand management", "variable player order", "engine building", etc). The mechanic was first introduced with the boardgame Dominion, still a very popular game though a bit "basic" considering all the things that were done thing. Dominion recently got a digital adaptation (in early access): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1131620/Dominion/

Other digital boardgames include "Ascension: Deckbuilding Game", "Aeon's End", and "Star Realms" and "Cthulhu Realms" (similar but differently themed games, the base version is free). Those boardgames, of course, lack the roguelite mechanics introduced by Slay the Spire, they are "just" deckbuilders.

I should also point that "deckbuilder" as a genre has nothing to do with CCGs, card battlers and other games where you build your deck before the game - it is a genre of game where you build your deck during the match, where selecting what cards to add to the deck (or remove from it) is the basic gameplay (and not a "meta-game" separate from the "game").

Wolfire versus Valve antitrust lawsuit to continue
11 May 2022 at 5:08 pm UTC

Quoting: CatKiller
Quoting: TermyI'm just confused that the judge didn't ask for any sort of evidence (which wolfire wouldn't be able to provide of course) - guess he wants to keep enough work for the court going? ^^
Quite the opposite. This is a motion to dismiss, which is to get cases sorted out quickly (and cheaply for the parties). In a ruling on dismissal, the judge assumes that everything the plaintiff says is true, and then sees if there's a reasonable likelihood that they could win: if not, the case gets thrown out. Which is how it got thrown out before. That time, the judge let Wolfire amend their complaint and try again, which is how we're at this point where the case has mostly been thrown out.

Seeing if what the plaintiff has said is actually true comes later.

So it was pretty much a case so stupid that even if Wolfire could prove absolutely everything they would lose, so the court wasn't even bothering, and now it is a case of "if they can get proof then maybe, so I guess we have to do it".