What we will have to see is if local businesses are getting the extra economic activity offset by free fares. Especially with school holidays at the moment!

Also what does it look when things aren't so *gestures around*.

I'm confident people have/are investigating this. I am just simply posting.

Maybe collecting fees from these short inner-city trips is doing a lot to subsidise the system, but there's a conflation of "inner city = affluent" that I don't think is necessarily true. Living in the outer suburbs sounds pretty fucking expensive!

There's also been this frustrating problem with ticketing where the "short-medium trips" were the most expensive. A PT trip might be relatively short, but the flat fee ends up being more expensive than alternatives. Too expensive & complicated to fix this problem via ticketing, apparently.

When PT is wholly supported by taxes (fares still only cover 19%), becomes "cheaper" to run (no ticketing), does that do anything to promote improving serviceability? Underserved patrons might have a bit more weight - they are paying taxes for the thing!

Reports of overcrowding on VLine/Regional services just demonstrates that regional attitudes to using PT are more "would if I could".

PT congestion > road congestion, arguably, but it can be pretty dire when there are huge delays or service faults.

Probably a bit early to tell, keen to get more data, but I reckon public transport in Victoria should stay free.

If ya'll could boost my game I'd very much appreciate it!

Trying to get to 50 reviews for the Steam algorithm. I already have glowing reviews from the likes of Raigan Burns (N++) and Daniel Linssen (Leap Year) and just need a handful more.

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...

proudly presenting PRINT GALLERY OF AN ARTIST, a short platformer exploring recursive spaces, inspired by a video on M. C. Escher's Print Gallery

managore.itch.io/print-galler... (web)

finished! now everything else on my screen is moving. 😵‍💫

i can hear this logo

FORM poster with a monochromatic and dithered design. Strange monolithic shapes jut out to create the word FORM. Friday 17th April 7-11PM. FORM: An exploration of alternative process and experimental forms. Arts & Culture Exchange (ACE), 8 Victoria Rd, Parramatta NSW 2150

Announcing FORM 👀

👉 fannaan.events/events/2090

Kick off the weekend with us on Friday April 17th with an exhibit of experimental games and artist talks, exploring the rich undercurrent of alternative process and experimentation developing outside the commerical sphere of games✨

Supported by ACE

Screenshot of itch.io homepage in the style of Amiga Workbench OS

Introducing Amiga Mode ➡️ itch.io

lol mario party 8 is older than a lot of the students

simply

busy boy hole...

As promised, here's a writeup of how this system works :)

torcado.com/blog/simple-platformer

There's a playable demo and download for the p8 cart on that page. It's CC0, do whatever you want with it ❤️

Tomodachi Life has no filter in it btw

Created this tiny game w/ @chadtoprak.bsky.social over the weekend:
🏁 DIGIT RACERS 🏁
Race players across the city searching for 'digits' in their natural habitats - streets, galleries, libraries, public transit stops, supermarkets - score the most points to win! 🏃🏻‍♀️🎲🏆
heyitshelen.itch.io/digit-racers

nintendo hire this man

this elevator would have taken you all the way to the end of the level if only they added a door at the top

👀👀👀👀

great proposal - allows for way more options when running the game and clarifies a lot of the confusing/rarely used buttons.

unfortunately people are happy to chuck this all out for the *one* button they actually figured out how to use on this menu.

dudes are literally making a point out of confirming what this tweet says

please do it

massage chairs at an airport

player engagement monetisation lounge

did you know you can see the playground from the apartment chase sequence

from the **** to the **** (QLD version)

from the river to the sea

it's one of the few tools (like bitsy) that really help constrain scope whereas other tools/engines are chasing more professional dev pipelines. small tools are probably seen as desirable now to get into as almost every game these days has a long-ass dev time, which is hard to reasonably cut back.

damn they brought back K-Zone