Ostranauts should be on more people's radars. It exists at the intersection of Dwarf Fortress, The Sims and Barotrauma - a gritty, incredibly detailed simulation of life (and death) in deep space.
Simulates everything from ship combat to patching holes in your spacesuit to awkward crew small-talk.
me on the weekend
so are there no actually evil ladies in Star Wars or what
sure does look like he's trying to argue with the ref in some way, or at least get his attention
google. stop changing my search results. I am looking for JUSTINIAN and as far as I know that is not relevant to JUSTIN BIEBER.
not yet, anyway. he could use a few more years to learn governance, at least.
incredibly sickos mode reading this documentation viv.sifty.studio
(to be more specific: it's a runtime & editor by James Ryan for doing complicated causality and knowledge modelling for NPCs in videogames. if you've heard of the term "story sifting" you will be excited)
holy shit
look, you don't ACTUALLY want me firing on all cylinders, I've got too many cylinders, blame my mom if you want, but it's chaotic enough even at 80%, trust me
fwiw I only contributed about 15% of the game I'd estimate, but very flattering indeed, especially as a non-Ultima-expert myself 😅
I know this is post isn't about Ultima 7 but I'm really getting desperate for help. So just some info: I've never played any Ultima game. Playing "Fit For A King" piqued my interest in Ultima, so I googled the best Ultima game and it led me to 7. (had I known, I should've focused more on an Ultima game with similar UI to "FFAK" ... suggestions?) I also haven't played CRPGs, I briefly tried "Avernum 6" but it intimidated me. Basically, this is a whole new world for me.
Holy shit @tanyaxshort.bsky.social you are about to be so proud old.reddit.com/r/Ultima/com...
(Fit For A King so good it's getting kids into Ultima)
ipads should only be available with a prescription
yeah I think a park hang would help. I personally find buckets beyond "indie or AAA" useful because I do a lot of marketing thinking and product design strategy -- which games are comparable to players, which ones change their expectations of my games, etc. a different kind of dumbassery. :D
hahaha regardless of the fudginess of the elements in the calculation, I perceive actual buckets that came out the other side. there do tend to be four clusters of 'size' of game and team! open to alternative names for the clusters tho. indie/iii/AA/AAA wasn't really doing the job imo.
god damnit Sean!!! nooooo
I believe in you
fwiw, this actually does explain my mild discomfort with the production of Streets of Fortuna, in that it is clearly Kitfox's first attempt to make a 'midi' game. all our previous (and probably future) games are pretty solidly kei.
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna start calling game teams "kei" and "midi" and not "iii" or "indie" and you're gonna hate it but I'm right to do it, until we have better terms, sorry bro, this is not discourse, this is praxis
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So, a reminder: If you like a game on Steam, please leave a user review, because it remains half-buried (intentionally so) until it breaks that 50 review threshold.
And it requires 500 reviews to be eligible for the Overwhelmingly Positive rating, as well as other algorithm-stacking perks.
Hauntological is my next game name, tyvm
aha, no, my older brother loved that one, but the monetization was too aggressive for me. mostly Aetolia and Achaea here, plus a scattering of a few Wheel of Times✌️
as their publisher who saw the post before it was deleted, I can confirm it to you. I cannot provide evidence with which you can confirm it for yourself.
I urged PC Gamer to issue an urgent correction/clarification to this lapse in journalistic results but strangely they didn't think it was important enough to qualify as important news. smh.
since my interview with PC Gamer some people expressed disdain that Civ 5 was my most-played game at "only" 120 hours.
BRAND CORRECTION:
1 silly to use that stat to gatekeep
but also
2 the question was Steam library
and
3 bitch I played 3000 hours of at least 2 diff MUDs! get out of my comments
can confirm there was a post which has since been deleted. he didn't invent anything.
The conversation among three sentient space probes from Jon Bois’s work “17776”: Ten: On April 7th, 2026, people stopped being born. On the same day, people stopped dying, and people stopped aging. Juice: ham cheese. ham cracker. cheese cracker. ham and cheese cracker. ham and cheese Nine: Why? Ten: We don't know. Nobody knows.
Happy 17776 Day, from @jonbois.bsky.social’s epic story that you all should go read right now. www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...
frankly offensive that you would call an authentic sharing of how my brain works "shitposting" smh
A big stage in what looks like an old monastery, with a big red lit organ in the back
I am at the Everything Procedural Conference in Breda for the next 2 days!
It’s held in a beautiful space, an old monastery.
There’s a giant red lit organ in the back as well, so I hope it’s used for one of the talks. Do you think it accepts midi?
not a gardening expert, but it seems from my peace lily (also just sending up a white flower now after months of quiet) that they can be more sensitive to seasonal light than we realize -- just the angle of the sun in the mornings might have an effect.
I mean, tbh, I don't really!!! but when the kid was ~5 he overheard and fixated on it as a funny name (maybe bc his grandfather is named Bruce also???) and has used it in various amusing fictions since then. kid knows how to play to his audience I guess.
