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Game Devs Explain The Tricks Involved With Letting You Pause Developers provide some insight into how they all make games stop and start when you press a button

Slowing down time, tricking players with screenshots, and more!

Here's how devs let you pause (and unpause) video games.

Game devs, plz tell me how "pausing the game" works in your game? Is it weird? Is it simple? Is it janky?

I'm curious how such a common feature--the ability to pause and check your settings, etc--actually works & what happens when players hit pause!

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Who’s to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

I have nothing to say that matches the gravity of the situation. I just want peace and safety for everyone targeted by the insane whims of a madman.

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The Drama's mishandling of Zendaya feels like it's One Battle After Another The twisty provocation of The Drama has similarly thorny racial politics as this year's big Oscar winner, One Battle After Another.

The Drama and One Battle After Another want to be edgy with how they deploy their Black female characters, but the lack of real-world context leaves them hollow.

www.avclub.com/the-drama-tw...

".On April 7th, 2026, people stopped being born. On the same day, people stopped dying, and people stopped aging."

never used it once and still don’t understand why anybody would ever need to. write your own damn emails, you dorks.

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i think i would be a great candidate because i’ve never played a pokémon game in my life

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i've seen lots of people post this with "this also applies to x!"

it applies to everything. literally everything a human can learn how to do. you have to do the work to learn it, there are no shortcuts.

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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie As Reviewed By A Four-Year-Old "So many guys from Mario Odyssey" makes this film a must-see, according to my four-year-old son.

My four-year-old son just made his GameSpot debut. You call it nepotism, I call it hard-hitting journalism.

www.gamespot.com/articles/the...

breathtaking

a bird scare balloon floats over tea fields. a modernist house sits in the background and tunnels are in the foreground under the leaves

Quettel, The Grand Tea Field - a Moon Illustration drawn for Realis (www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...)

Super Mario Galaxy's Charlie Day Lists Luigi Mangione As 2nd Favorite Luigi Number one was of course himself, the voice of Mario's brother in the movies

Super Mario Galaxy Movie's Charlie Day says alleged UnitedHealth CEO Killer Luigi Mangione is his 2nd favorite Luigi

NOT THE X'S OVER THE EYES

I've had some players give feedback about not being able to fight back against the aliens in MUTAGEN, so I've added the ability to parry their attacks in order to empower the player and create skill expression. Hope this helps! #gamedev #indiegame

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Realis A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter!

55 Player Classes
150+ NPC Classes
29 Factions
20 Example Moons of Realis
GMing and Prep Guidance
Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

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