Hyper Bun Buster: Rocket Hammer Action's demo is out now!

A top-down arcade bump action game about a bunny girl who uses her hammer to hit enemies into other enemies, now playable in your browser (and as a download!)

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Magenta Horizon: Behind the Game Design YouTube video by Maddison Baek

youtu.be/UI_EPWkA_y8 it’s been almost two years since I posted this autistic-ass devlog video. Can you believe that?

The appeal is that you get to be a cuhrayzee demon hunter trying to complete 50 sidequest before joining the dark brotherhood.

the narrative that arcade games were "designed to eat your quarters" is dumb and needs to end

most people don't know, most export versions of arcade PCBs were tweaked to be much harder than their original counterparts, konami was especially guilty for this, the opposite happened way less often

When game mechanics and combos try to compete with a pen and paper in the “expression/creativity” game, the pen will always be mightier than the SWORDTRICKSWORDTRICKSWORDTRICK.

Stylish CAG players can only reach true expression the moment they drop the controller and pick up Gamemaker.

Why develop carpal tunnel when you could develop games.

Everyone understands why it'd be a supremely stupid idea to force puzzle games to adapt to widescreen monitors, yet few ever stop & think that maybe this applies to other 2D genres where players interact with the edges in some meaningful way

FINAL FIGHT HARDEST 1CC - CODY YouTube video by YoStrayCat

I GUESS I’M ON A ROLL TODAY.

Here it is, Final Fight 1cc on Hardest dips with Cody. God bless that jab.

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THE NINJA WARRIORS AGAIN - HARD 1CC - KAMAITACHI YouTube video by YoStrayCat

That was fast. Took me a good handful of runs to get used to Kunoichi again, but got Kamaitachi my first try. He’s just so damn powerful. Crazy speed and range on top of being able to throw clusters of enemies. The Cody of this game.

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THE NINJA WARRIORS AGAIN - HARD 1CC - KUNOICHI YouTube video by YoStrayCat

Went back to do a Hard 1cc of The Ninja Warriors Again but with Kunoichi. Expect one of Kamaitachi soon.

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why does this blog have 268 shmup reviews and nearly all of them are on euroshmups with zero mention of anything even vaguely related to the bullet hell subgenre

All "games should make the players suffer" posers kneel before her

A sketch of Misato Katsuragi from Evangelion, wearing a black latex leotard, with latex thigh highs and long gloves.

Latex Misato 🙏

I love streaming Final Fight because sometimes things like this happen and while I know exactly why it happened, I don't know how to explain how screwed up it is.

medal drop YouTube video by Nzadnilbad

Ibara stage 1 is so good. Bomba everything and max out your medals before the warehouses, then enjoy your 16 max value medals. youtu.be/OtXxiGA5-Nw

Finally, a good list

youtu.be/BdeHqesLx4s?... I like Godard's point in this (weirdly tense) interview about art being inseparable for economics. People pretend the stuff they like is free from economy (or more broadly. power) but Pollock was funded by the CIA, Michelangelo by the Pope.

really hoping that the outcome of the "positioning is better than discrete defensive maneuvers" wave is an eventual distillation to "think variables, not mechanics." because that's the fundamental concept you can extend to all kinds of game analysis

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the overabundance of "touhou players can dodge rain" jokes makes ppl forget that most shmuppers either use an umbrella (bomb) or try to map a route that let's them dodge the parts where they're meant to be dodging rain

I will now talk about Cave's varying port quality, from 2009 to 2013, within the 300 word limits of bsky so apologies in advance, this will go on for a while, but you have to understand this shit is very important to me and i want people to have full context🧵

ASTAROOOOOOOOOTH!!!

Narrative and puzzles, rounded up and oppressed by the OMNIPRESENT Arcade games lol

CAVE Interactive has revealed "DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite," an enhanced version of the bullet hell shooter with new stages, a new character, new music, and additional features hinting at a new battlefield.

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do you like the glasses?

You know that a lot of arcade design elements (lives + permadeath, scoring, strict timers, loops, etc.) are valuable because younger roguelite devs who barely played arcade games still recreate them semi-independently. Just because they fill a lot of very unique gameplay niches

-anyway even if there’s no icons or hints. Someone would either datamine or just work out what the abilities do and post it to the internet. I guess having it in English and removing guesswork wouldn’t ruin the game in the long run even tho it removes an extra layer of learning at the beginning.

Yeah I do agree that it can be superfluous. It is a bit strange why it’s only in Portuguese/German. If it is intended to confuse you, then the people who spoke those languages will miss out on the experience of working out what the icons mean. Also, I feel like a guide would have been inevitable-