yeah gigantic has been stuck in some kind of development hell
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The Botanist is an optimistic game about growing plants, where every word in the world is a seed that grows a unique plant. It aims to bring people together through gardening.
You are let go from your job, with very little compensation and even less in the bank. You choose to see this as an opportunity. To finally take the time to try and reach your dream of becoming a botanist. Work hard and believe in yourself, and you can achieve your goals.
Complete customer requests and build your reputation, to try to become a professional Botanist.
Curate a seed catalogue all of your own, where every word will grow a unique plant.
Choose words that mean something to you. Your loved ones, pets, or favourite places.
Collect varied pots and vases to create displays that suit you and your clients.
Commemorate your favourite arrangements with your camera, and cherish the memories forever.
Any of you folks trying out the Gigantic game preview?
Played one round of it so far, totally stomped the enemy team but not sure if I get the flow of the game at all yet.
I played a little bit of Gigantic in its previous era of beta and I ALSO never got the flow of the game at all. It seems to be a persistant problem. It was always incredibly unclear to me what most of the various "towers" were actually contributing and how important investing in them was supposed to be.
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The cash grabs will die, the smart ones that innovated on the formula in fun ways will probably do okay
there is still the possibility that windjammers comes back and turns out to be a crappy cash in on enthusiasm and not a good game
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You are Narita Boy, a legendary digital hero in an epic quest through simultaneous dimensions.
The aesthetic of the game is inspired by retro pixel adventures (Castlevania, Another World, Double Dragon) with a modern touch (Superbrothers, Sword and Sorcery) and an 80s plot homage (Ready Player One, He-Man, The Last Starfighter), accompanied by the retro synth touch of the old glory days.
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
Has anyone tried Epic Manager? I completely missed that it came out in the game/sale flood in December and got a notification this week when it went on sale and I realised I had heard nothing about it.
Naruto, the Japanese animation television show, is a global phenomenon that has touched the hearts of a generation of teens, and now you can find out exactly which character you would be if you were in the Naruto Universe™! Are you Naruto, the adventurous goofball, Sasuke, the angsty lone wolf, or even maybe a different character that there is? Only one way to find out!
This quiz runs on the latest version of COMPUTOR™ and is optimized for Worldweb Investigator.
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You are Narita Boy, a legendary digital hero in an epic quest through simultaneous dimensions.
The aesthetic of the game is inspired by retro pixel adventures (Castlevania, Another World, Double Dragon) with a modern touch (Superbrothers, Sword and Sorcery) and an 80s plot homage (Ready Player One, He-Man, The Last Starfighter), accompanied by the retro synth touch of the old glory days.
You are Narita Boy, a legendary digital hero in an epic quest through simultaneous dimensions.
The aesthetic of the game is inspired by retro pixel adventures (Castlevania, Another World, Double Dragon) with a modern touch (Superbrothers, Sword and Sorcery) and an 80s plot homage (Ready Player One, He-Man, The Last Starfighter), accompanied by the retro synth touch of the old glory days.
You are Narita Boy, a legendary digital hero in an epic quest through simultaneous dimensions.
The aesthetic of the game is inspired by retro pixel adventures (Castlevania, Another World, Double Dragon) with a modern touch (Superbrothers, Sword and Sorcery) and an 80s plot homage (Ready Player One, He-Man, The Last Starfighter), accompanied by the retro synth touch of the old glory days.
this is really cool, but the bolded part makes me negative excited
they are probably going to handle it way better, tho, I guess
Just wait for the sequence inspired by the 1980's classic WarGames
Also where you have to watch a 20 minute cutscene of the character acting out the climactic scene from Die Hard
Also something about John Hughes
and two straight pages of of just listing books and films that came out
and you can tell that the main character is passionate about 80s stuff because one person says that a movie sucks and is for babies and the main character responds that no, that person sucks and is for babies and the movie is great because is has [actor name] in and that's the fucking deepest that this person can go when describing media and the book plays it off as an "epic argument that draws in crowds"
or when the main character is like "i can't skip even one day of cyber school or they will expel me so it's going to be difficult for me to do this thing" and then two pages later after doing the thing goes "well i had good enough marks to skip the rest of the school year so i'm just going to forget about it as an important presence in this story"
Apparently I read Ready Player One close to this date years ago
thanks, Timehop
But yeah, it's not a great book. I liked it fine at the time I read it but in retrospect it is real real bad
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
I got caught in a conversation with an Agile software consultant who is supposed to be building up knowledge leadership at my work who cornered me into talking about how loves Ready Player One and what did I think of it?
That conversation was about as enjoyable as you can imagine.
I got caught in a conversation with an Agile software consultant who is supposed to be building up knowledge leadership at my work who cornered me into talking about how loves Ready Player One and what did I think of it?
That conversation was about as enjoyable as you can imagine.
it was a test and you failed, you were supposed to do a Creative Sprint away from him
The movie won’t have any of my films in it. I’m not putting myself in this movie…They reference so many ’80s movies. I’m doing the whole pop culture thing. I’m just going to leave myself out of it. I can’t do that. Too self-referential.
That includes stuff he worked on but didn't direct, like BTTF etc. Maybe a little too far in the other direction? But I can understand why he'd do it.
I got caught in a conversation with an Agile software consultant who is supposed to be building up knowledge leadership at my work who cornered me into talking about how loves Ready Player One and what did I think of it?
That conversation was about as enjoyable as you can imagine.
I had one of the attorneys at my work tell me he was reading it and it's really good and have I heard of it?
I wonder if Spielberg will be able to make Ready Player One good
i do think that the idea itself isn't irredeemable
like, there are some ideas that are raised by the setting, in that in a horrible future young people become obsessed with a nostalgia for a past they never even experienced. This in turn stifles newer creativity, and culture becomes more focused on dogmatically reconstructing older media without even an understanding of what made that media resonate in the first place. And thus the setting's "nerd culture" is solely based around liking a set list of approved media.
And if you took this setting as a criticism of nerd culture, and maybe had the characters realise something about the value of creativity or something it might work.
Or even just thought about why people might like nerdy things and why these books and movies and shows might resonate these people.
Instead the entire book just felt like one giant "oh, so you say you like star wars? i bet you can't even say how many parsecs it took han solo to do the kessle run"
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Never not be fighting giant women
How dare u
http://www.audioentropy.com/
really like the look of this
Shardbound is now on Kickstarter
Played one round of it so far, totally stomped the enemy team but not sure if I get the flow of the game at all yet.
I remember playing a couple games at PAX way back in the goddamn mists of time
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=862999947
I enjoy this game, but like
man i don't wanna be the person to break it to them that Actual Windjammers is coming to PS4 this year
I saw that on twitter but skimmed past it, that Windjammers of 2017 line is real rough.
Steam
Nobody wants a new Windjammers, they just wanted a close enough substitute
But now the real thing is coming back to eat all their lunches
Any bets on someone breaking out the PS4 release of Neo Turf Masters on UPF today?
there is still the possibility that windjammers comes back and turns out to be a crappy cash in on enthusiasm and not a good game
You are Narita Boy, a legendary digital hero in an epic quest through simultaneous dimensions.
The aesthetic of the game is inspired by retro pixel adventures (Castlevania, Another World, Double Dragon) with a modern touch (Superbrothers, Sword and Sorcery) and an 80s plot homage (Ready Player One, He-Man, The Last Starfighter), accompanied by the retro synth touch of the old glory days.
http://www.studiokoba.com/
If it is, it seems like an effect that could be made toggleable if people don't like it. So I hope they do that.
My Steam
i love Narita characters
this is really cool, but the bolded part makes me negative excited
they are probably going to handle it way better, tho, I guess
Steam // Secret Satan
Just wait for the sequence inspired by the 1980's classic WarGames
Also where you have to watch a 20 minute cutscene of the character acting out the climactic scene from Die Hard
Also something about John Hughes
and two straight pages of of just listing books and films that came out
and you can tell that the main character is passionate about 80s stuff because one person says that a movie sucks and is for babies and the main character responds that no, that person sucks and is for babies and the movie is great because is has [actor name] in and that's the fucking deepest that this person can go when describing media and the book plays it off as an "epic argument that draws in crowds"
or when the main character is like "i can't skip even one day of cyber school or they will expel me so it's going to be difficult for me to do this thing" and then two pages later after doing the thing goes "well i had good enough marks to skip the rest of the school year so i'm just going to forget about it as an important presence in this story"
Steam // Secret Satan
ready player one was the worst fucking book i've ever read
it was just so incompetent and the author couldn't write and interesting sequence to save his life
Steam // Secret Satan
thanks, Timehop
But yeah, it's not a great book. I liked it fine at the time I read it but in retrospect it is real real bad
That conversation was about as enjoyable as you can imagine.
His second one, Armada, is worse
it was a test and you failed, you were supposed to do a Creative Sprint away from him
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I had one of the attorneys at my work tell me he was reading it and it's really good and have I heard of it?
I was like uhh yeah I hear that's pretty good
i do think that the idea itself isn't irredeemable
like, there are some ideas that are raised by the setting, in that in a horrible future young people become obsessed with a nostalgia for a past they never even experienced. This in turn stifles newer creativity, and culture becomes more focused on dogmatically reconstructing older media without even an understanding of what made that media resonate in the first place. And thus the setting's "nerd culture" is solely based around liking a set list of approved media.
And if you took this setting as a criticism of nerd culture, and maybe had the characters realise something about the value of creativity or something it might work.
Or even just thought about why people might like nerdy things and why these books and movies and shows might resonate these people.
Instead the entire book just felt like one giant "oh, so you say you like star wars? i bet you can't even say how many parsecs it took han solo to do the kessle run"
Steam // Secret Satan