@midwestgames.bsky.social launched Tombwater from Moth Atlas last week and we are loving the critical response.
Great review from Newsweek here👇
"Overall, by the end of "Tombwater," I knew that I had just played one of my favorite soulslikes of all time."
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They are trying
My latest @official-aias.bsky.social Game Maker’s Notebook episode is live.
Had a great time speaking with Virgil Watkins of @embark-studios.com about his game dev career and the unexpected journey of the amazing Arc Raiders. Enjoy!
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This week on the #GameMakersNotebook podcast, @adamorth.bsky.social chats with ARC Raiders Design Director, Virgil Watkins about his journey from modding to Embark Studios, how internal testing shaped the PVPVE game experience, ways they're seeking to improve the game post-launch, and more!
My latest @official-aias.bsky.social Game Maker’s Notebook episode is live.
Had a great time speaking with Virgil Watkins of @embark-studios.com about his game dev career and the unexpected journey of the amazing Arc Raiders. Enjoy!
gamemakersnotebook.libsyn.com/arc-raiders-...
True statement!
Blast from the past! Sometimes I read the quotes from those times and it feels so insane that all that happened.
Truth.
Marathon: 2 hours in
- Tough UI/UX experience that is sacrificing usability for aesthetics
- Floaty camera/locomotion
- Everything in the world looks important enough to feel like you need to investigate.
- Player inventory actions/controls are very confusing.
- Many fonts
Still playing…
Run 10 miles
23 hour bender
On the #GameMakersNotebook, @adamorth.bsky.social chats w/ Cory Davis (Spec Ops: the Line) and Robin Finck (Nine Inch Nails) about their distinct career paths and how they found each other, the audio-first approach they took with SLEEP AWAKE, the game's psychedelic dreamlike horror themes, and more!
I haven’t had more fun with buddies in a very long time than I’ve had with Arc Raiders. It’s obvs not co-op co-op but it feels like it.
Absolutely beautiful, Mike ❤️
THE PRICE YOU PAY
To the Raider that came out of the shadows, whispered “Gotcha” and executed me a split-second before the elevator doors closed while I was crawling on the ground dying with an absolute motherlode of rare and unbelievable loot I scavenged in my backpack:
RESPECT.
Holy sh*t Cairn looks incredible. Instant buy!
My latest @official-aias.bsky.social Game Makers Notebook episode with @obsidianent.bsky.social on the excellent Outer Worlds 2 is live…just in time for that long holiday drive or an escape from fixing your parents computers 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Really tired of apocalypse entertainment (in all mediums). There’s only 5% new things left to mine in these stories. They are all the same.
It’s worse than the actual slop.
The disease is strong. There is no cure.
100%
It’s…just a videogame…
The answer if you are an Apple user is their native Reminder + Notes apps. They play perfectly together. There’s literally a whole Trello/Jira/Notion thing n there and it’s free.
I’ve actually stopped using all non-native apps in favor of Apple native ecosystem apps now. They are so good now.
Pretty wild how all-in on hating this game you are and you’ve never even played it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
PS5
Arc Raiders is fantastic. PvP is great. The moment with players where you get help or get killed is thrilling and the small amount of times that I’ve been killed by a player and looted has always felt fair because it’s an established outcome of the design.
It has replaced Destiny for me.
