If you allow or focus on any indie game including the big ones this does end up feeling too close to a general indie community for me, and then the only reason I’d be inclined to stay here instead of running to the biggest active indie game community is because I’ve already started here (inertia and switching costs) and because you seem to put more effort in by writing those big magazine posts and that’s worth rewarding. But then I’d think “why not just post those big posts to a general indie sub and get more interaction from people?”

Of course, in the end it’s your community and your life. But I do think if you do not have too many points of differentiation besides just allowing NSFW games it might be smarter to close up shop and go to a bigger, active community.

No, I mean a single game that is intended to be run while cycling, not the game + a separate cycling app. Think Pokémon GO but with this game and cycling instead of walking.

Clicked hoping for train game, instead found horror biking game.

Pedal through the fog, but never look back.Trapped in a constantly shifting horror, you must ride, conserve your phone’s battery, and decode cryptic messages to escape. Explore, survive, uncover the truth.

—Steam description, link here.

I remember there being some game on iPhone with a title like “Zombies, run!” where they somehow locked progress behind real-life running—that was the whole point of the game, to get you to work out in real life. I think it’d be cool if: if this game succeeds, if a spinoff or adaptation where your progress is locked behind real-world biking was released.

I love when game developers think of unintended things players might do and implement responses accordingly. Warning for TVTropes link.

then explode a series of bombs across them

Have not played The Sims in a hot minute, is this a mod? I don’t remember being able to do this.

I get the tone is jokey but I wasn’t sure if that was a hypothetical alternate universe proposition with a different Will Wright, or something that happened in real life, so I looked up the wildfire thing.

Wright’s house was caught in the Oakland Hills firestorm.

Rebuilding his life, and having to reacquire so many of his basic possessions, fed into the idea for The Sims.

—https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/will-wright-says-the-original-sims-ai-was-actually-too-good-almost-anything-the-player-did-was-worse-than-the-sims-running-on-autopilot/ar-AA1yqxwx

Yep, real life and not just hypothetical, ouch.

As someone whose favorite Pokémon are usually unevolved forms (or just flat out a Pokémon that doesn’t evolve), I agree with you anyways. Eevee’s whole thing is being able to evolve, so that especially stings.

Although if their game design decision was always going to prioritize Pikachu and Eevee and not let them evolve, I do still find this much funnier and more charming than a simple “can’t do that.” I am at least happy Eevee got to share “the Pokémon the game arbitrarily chooses for you as most important” status since I’m used to that always always being Pikachu.

Windows 11 -> Linux just for gaming and I am satisfied!

However, I also do not play things with big graphics requirements, kernel-level anticheat, and I do not have any fancy GPUs like Nvidia that make things incompatible. I transitioned on a laptop. So YMMV.

Played this on iPhone awhile back before I learned automation was a genre, seems to have received lots of substantial updates since then. I should pick it back up again. Now available for both mobile and Steam, curious to see how they are different and once I find out I’ll probably edit the post body with that information.

+1 for nice graphics.

were the big yellow skips (don’t know what Americans call them)

American here! I was reading your first comment, and I was mildly curious what a “skip” is. I guessed “school bus” and oh wow was I wrong. But hey, still a (probably?) public-funded vehicle that’s bigger than a normal car and thus something my 5-year old self thought would be fun to drive.

Differences in uses of the English language in primarily English-speaking countries are always fun, I 100% agree with your point about clarifying. Thanks for explaining nicely to the person above :) I’ve seen a glut of people just being nasty on Lemmy recently so I’m especially happy to see people interacting civilly when some would have gone on an insult spree.

Thanks!

And I’m sorry about that, the people downvoting an on-topic game. I feel it’s pretty obvious when someone is posting because “well I like tycoon games and this matches” and when someone is trying to stir shit and be political. But I figure drive-by voters from New or whatever would not know either of us only have the motive of “post tycoon games to Lemmy” and not “we like unrestricted gun access and want you to share our views”.

This is like the second post I have made in short succession where I have mass downvotes for something completely on-topic to a community without having misinformation or tearing people down and I do not know why, is it because guns are a hot-button issue in the United States of America? ;-;

It’s really frustrating for me because I don’t care about internet points but I do care that I’ve done something to invite mass disapproval without understanding why people are disapproving in the first place. Especially when they just downvote and say absolutely nothing as to why they disapprove. The knowledge gap, knowing you have done something either actually wrong or just unpopular but not what it is so you can decide whether you want to change your behavior to avoid disapproval (like if I did something that is hurtful, so I am getting disapproved of, I need to change; if I just posted an unpopular but civil and non-hateful opinion and people downvote simply to express disagreement I will probably be made even more stubborn in my opinion and refuse to change but I might think twice about being public about it because social disapproval, even from strangers on the internet, feels bad), is very very frustrating.

Then again maybe it is better nobody explained because I see “lol fucking [insult]” here way more often than an actual explanation of why someone disagrees or why a certain non-hateful take that was expressed in a non-inflammatory way without insults is bad, and one thing that really upsets me, even when not targeted at me, is unnecessary hostility.

Some thing that definitely helps with willingness to click on game links is a picture. It can give me an idea of the gameplay, or at least of graphical style. I usually heavily prefer text-based mediums video but given video games have images, aside from interactive fiction it’s really helpful to see pictures.

Thanks for all your effort in writing the writeup, especially with dyslexia. We need cool original content on the Fediverse too!

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I admit I clicked hoping for an automation game. There’s definitely a factory portion where you place down machines to make the guns, an indoor factory, which is something I was looking for awhile back. Not sure how much of the game is the factory portion, so I’ll wait and see before I post it to !automationgames@lemmy.zip.

The first thing that stands out to me with the graphics is that the text somehow doesn’t feel very good visually. The rest passes well enough. It’s an Early Access release that came out April 4, no demo, so I’ll be watching closely.

Some 2D artwork on our game is based on AI generation.

Oooof. Really do not appreciate that, so this probably will not be such a high priority for me to check out then. I’ve dismissed games that appeal more to me for using AI, so I wonder why I’m not immediately mentally binning this one.

Time Management tag

I haven’t seen that phrase to describe a game’s genre in awhile! I loved time management games growing up, should probably poke around in that tag on Steam for a bit.

Graphics… do not really look all that cohesive, which is a shame because I like the premise of running a bookshop, and because the NPC image is in a style I like.

Some games have more replayability value than others or a bigger modding community for sure, but you also have to consider personal preferences. For the person who loves action RPGs, open worlds, and doesn’t really like farming simulations, Skyrim is the better investment. For the person who likes cozy games and pixel graphics but is not too big on medievalish fantasy, Stardew is the better investment. For what it is worth I like both, but currently have far more hours logged in Stardew.

Also, the meme might technically imply that Stardew > Skyrim given the kid is buying Stardew and not Skyrim, but it never explicitly compares Stardew to any other game, let alone puts a different game down.

Honestly did not realize this post was popular enough to hit front page so thanks for letting us know!

I am not sure where the user above asserts their importance. I think they made the same assumption as me that this post just wasn’t popular enough to hit the front page and thus that you must have purposely sought out the community, until you told us otherwise.

There’s a wonderful contrarian-but-is-it-really-considering-it’s-making-the-lawful-choice delight in trying to follow the rules in a game about breaking rules.

No-commentary video of someone just driving in GTA trying to follow the rules of the road. I’m usually really not a video person, but just watching this feels nice somehow.

Since it is displaying neatly for you I went and took screenshots.

The paragraph below the selected one also clearly has bullet points that are not formatted correctly.