The same cassowary dad sculpture as the original post but now complete with a shiny layer of varnish.
The cassowary chick on its own in the palm of my hand, about the size of or an olive.
Different angle of cassowary dad.
Cassowary dad now glazed and glamorous.
kitty and boo from pragmata i mean monsters inc
lemmintrolls
really beautiful !!
ugh yes, CFA is probably like top 5 action level designs ever maybe ?
GOOD NEWS
THERE'S A THIRD CLIMB
ok mapped out purple climb #2 in derelict star
now to Actually Complete It
this game
it juts up against the sorcerer ruins i think yea... internet says the area is called "road of sacrifices" ?
hey guys - i'm in a pretty dire housing situation right now. i have to move at the end of the month (lease expires) but prior plans w/ people completely fell apart & i'm back to square one. i'm looking for a room in Brooklyn, trans friendly, 1100 a month max, not a temporary sublet. plz let me know.
Another day, another bundle! ⌛ Stories you'll want to try again and again!
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is now in a bundle with In Stars and Time! Time loops, choices, and trying again and again and again!
💫 store.steampowered.com/bundle/71253/Stories_You...
Big Naturals 3:16
there's a fallen leaves swamp in dark souls 3 that is like my favorite fromsoft area ever, its suuuuch a good vibe
i'll spare you the 75 post thread about how fuckin beautiful this movie is, just go have your skull melted all the way off in real
participating theaters!! www.flashbackcinema.net/participatin... click your nearest one to see show times
speed racer in theaters 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀
yea i think they are fundamentally *enabled* by their approach, as opposed to being unnecessarily restricted by it
but i do think it Embeds Big QUirks !!
one thing i learned from corgispace is that when you are semi strict about adopting constraints like these, even when they seem arbitrary, they can end up strongly informing the design, suggesting cool or funny things, etc etc
its not totally clear to me how quirky lock on does that tbf tho lol
yea i think they have some super strong internal ethos *and* practices that involve reusability across games, assets, disciplines etc etc
i think they also have some sense of like... where do they want to spend their time... what features are good enough that they can spend extra on level design...
We're not gonna tell you anything about the games in this bundle. These are experiences best entered knowing as little as possible.
store.steampowered.com/bundle/70688/Hidden_Dept...
An illustrated banner for the Hidden Depths Steam bundle featuring characters from TUNIC, Fez, Animal Well, Outer Wilds, and Blue Prince
Introducing the Hidden Depths Steam bundle! 🔎 TUNIC + 4 other award-winning games that are best played knowing as little as possible.
Secrets, discovery, [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted] await!
🤫 store.steampowered.com/bundle/70688...
its really special !! the simplicity of the ruleset combined with the DEEP humor encoded in said simple rules is really exceptional in both meanings of the word !!
e.g. maybe a pillar can be used independently as a pillar, OR it can be used to cap a wall segment- as a pillar, you would want the camera + aiming to treat it as porous, but as an endcap you would want it to be treated as opaque...
this isnt the SOURCE of the lock-on problem but it does exacerbate
the other (more obvious) thing about fromsoft engineering is it is deeply profoundly oriented around kitbash, recycling, remixing - i.e. modularity, and the somewhat more ornate environments / combat spaces in soulsy games esp i THINK have some markup complexity that comes in with that
yea its an inconsistent scenario right - you're allowed to use it like a sonar / radar utility in those areas, however enemies can go entirely off radar if they're too close to some stairs lol
short range weapons can be more likely to prefer an enemy behind you if its quite close to you
long range can weight CAMERA DIRECTION more, short range can weight PLAYER DIRECTION more, etc etc
*ignoring ambushes* your prescription is fundamentally correct, its not that hard to weight by distance, enemy state, and screen center and it helps a ton
the best trick most games DONT do imo is also weighting by player equipment - longer range weapons can have a narrower cone of preference
there's still space for gains, and they definitely make slapstick-informed choices / compromises that i both respect and am frustrated by still lol
BUT i think ambushes are far and away the hardest game state thing from a "divine player intent and preserve gameplay" POV
"skeleton pops out around corner" is probably the hardest single problem they have to deal with and its PURELY a design problem, not a technical problem
do you let lock on scan the skeleton early?
do you let lock on pick up on an enemy that has aggro'd you?
how do you KNOW the player has spotted?
