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A Hat in Time has great gameplay and a very charming world and cast of characters and has firmly lodged the word “peck” into my memory.

Wow that’s a really solid acid line and pairing it with a breakbeat like you did in the early part of the song gives it so much more energy. Very good!

Distance is genuinely my favorite racing(?) game ever. There are so many incredible levels on the steam workshop too. Nitronic Rush, the game that Distance is a not-really-sequel to is still free to download too if you play all that and still want more.

Prey (2006) had a mixed reputation as far as I remember, I picked up a copy in 2013. That game is wild. The shooting is fine but there are so many sections where they get creative with portals, or gravity, or changing your size, or all of the above at the same time. I mean even the fact that one of my complaints “I think the part where you fly a spaceship went on a bit long” sounds completely absurd.

There’s this old game called Shootmania Storm that died off super fast because it had some serious problems. The main game mode was basically a small scale battle royale with an instant-kill field that closed in on a capture point when one of the players captured it. The developers clearly intended the game to be a no-randomness purely skill-based game. The kill field’s speed was carefully set to be just slow enough that if you bee-lined straight for the center it wouldn’t catch you.

So anyway I modded the server I hosted so that the instant-kill field’s speed was set randomly anywhere between “immediately kills anyone not on the point” and “doesn’t move at all”.

I guess I’ll take the hit for this one. Dark Souls.

The combat can be really fun and I had a great time fighting the bosses but the slow, careful crawl between boss fights is just so dull to me that it’s not worth it.

Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles’ soundtrack holds a special place in my heart. Lots of really interesting instruments you don’t hear in many other fantasy games.

Might not be exactly what you’re looking for but Soul Deep Recordings has been my go-to label for drum & bass lately. mSdoS - Funky Basement being probably my favorite individual song from there right now.

The Golf It! race is fantastic! Very funny commentary the whole way through and an unexpected twist ending.

Shouting it out here because it’s been incredibly useful for a number of years. The format it saves to has libraries for pretty much anything you could want, and if any of those don’t do it for you the tmx files are really easy to parse. I was able to write an importer for Unity that generated the mesh and colliders without too much trouble!

(side-note I’m new to Lemmy so I’m not sure if I’m doing this thread structure right)

Tiled is a tilemap or tile-based level editor. It’s free and open source software licensed under the GPL-2.

For me it’s Tribes 2. I can spend hours bouncing around with bots on some old favorite maps, and there’s something weirdly serene about being able to just leave the map on a grav cycle and keep going because the terrain repeats.