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Posts by Ryan Zhao
Speed Racer in IMAX. let's go!!!
New podcast: Shadows of Doubt (early access)
There's been a murder in the neo-city of Rinsetropolis, and it's up to Ryan, Jesse and Rich to learn the systems that underpin the highly-emergent detective sim Shadows of Doubt before it's too late.
Available now at our Patreon.
Dead Men Don't Wear Spandex
DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS🟩
The first Dynasty Warriors I've completed, despite exhausting Hyrule Warriors (1) on every system onto which it was released. Exciting battles; it would be a good action game even without the strategy elements. Naming my character "Wanker" kept paying off in dialogue.
Dad Space
PRAGMATA has elements of Binary Domain, Vanquish, and Dead Space rolled together into as charming a package as possible. I will also cite Donkey Kong Bananza, just for the "little girl piggybacking big guy".
I'm *really* liking PRAGMATA so far. Novel gameplay, great character performances, funny when it needs to be, nice to look at, combat is a lot of fun -- a lot going for it!
The Voice of Hind Rajab, Exit 8, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem, The Man with Two Brains
#LastFourWatched
(Mr. Bean choking)
(Audience laughing)
#Subtitles
As I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I take a look at my life and realize there's nothing left
"Dr. Doom is the scariest threat I have ever seen"
What else could they possibly say?
When it comes to singing potatoes in the dirt, it's hard to top this
Kratos will be fighting Mac Tonight.
And @hatimb00.itch.io and @hanwenxumame.bsky.social's game (~53:00). They give an exemplary introduction to a very unconventional game. They do a great job of giving the audience vocabulary for engaging with their procedural metaphors without narrowing interpretive meaning in a deterministic way
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This whole thing is worth watching, but if I may draw your attention to a couple of sections in particular:
@cabbibo.bsky.social's presentation (~18:00) excited me, since he very eloquently describes and demonstrates expressive embodiment of the virtual avatar, one of my areas of research 💕
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Live shows in London and Shanghai confirmed.
Proportionally, how many rap choruses do we feel actually improve the song? So often, I find the chorus to just feel like a sudden energy/momentum plummet, and some of the most exciting rap song eschew them entirely (Battle Cry, Rabbit Run...). What's the argument for their necessity?
“It's angry. It's beautiful. It's a eulogy for the very concept of goodness, given by the tiniest remaining spark of hope and human decency. It's definitely worth your time...”
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“Nothing else looks like this or is written like this. Post-human, post-glitch, post-no-more.”
😭🥹🙏💕
It is not a PS5 exclusive.
LocoRoco 2🟩
Just what I wanted from LocoRoco. A greater variety of gameplay tasks and greater individual identity / gimmicks in each level. The new mechanics are (mostly) welcome additions, but I don't love the increased focus on combat, which has always been the series' weak point.
did you know that we do classes?
this summer find out whether GAMES CAN CHANGE THE WORLD in this 8-week seminar & speculative game design workshop class taught by @hatimb00.itch.io
more info & apply here: hatim.tips/can-games-ch...
Two+ years of work by a wonderful dev team and lot of support to get to launch!
Sony so invested in not patching Bloodborne that they're actively adapting it to mediums with even lower frame rates.
If you have The Criterion Channel and eight minutes to spare, Mynarski Death Plummet is really quite something.
wait -- they made *another* movie about Lorne Michaels?
Chicken Hill🟩
Short and strange hidden object game with exclusively Chinese text, so I don't *really* know what's going on here, but we seem to be searching out objects that have cartoon chicken faces on behalf of a truly odd cast of characters. Culminates in a Matrix-stylized shooting gallery.
Turns out audiences like when mustached men go to space.
Diamond Hand day! As bizarre and wonderful as you'd expect from Cosmo D. Make this a priority.