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8 votes
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The Last of Us Part II (dunkview)
15 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
16 votes -
A Dark Room
20 votes -
Cards Against Humanity statement
12 votes -
Hades - The Blood Price update - Final major update before the game leaves Early Access later this year
7 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
19 votes -
A wave of sexual harassment accusations is sweeping the games industry
11 votes -
What are some noteworthy games that aren't available through traditional/common means?
I'm interested in hearing about games that exist off the main map of gaming: games that I can't buy from any of the common storefronts and games that aren't easily playable through an emulator....
I'm interested in hearing about games that exist off the main map of gaming: games that I can't buy from any of the common storefronts and games that aren't easily playable through an emulator.
Examples of things I'm interested in hearing about:
- Long-forgotten abandonware
- Homebrew games for consoles
- Romhacks
- Legally dubious fan-games
- Total conversion mods
- ARGs
- Web games (not ones on sites like Kongregate/GameJolt though)
- Independently distributed games (that you can't get through, say, itch.io)
- Games for systems that aren't currently emulatable
- Games that have been removed from distribution
- Games with servers or content that are no longer operational
- Anything else you think fits the question, really
Tell me about the game(s) you know of and what makes them noteworthy.
22 votes -
Unity Learn Premium is now available to everyone at no cost
6 votes -
itch.io's Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality
31 votes -
Microsoft is shutting down their Mixer livestreaming service on July 22 and encouraging users to switch to Facebook Gaming
36 votes -
What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been playing lately? Discussion about video games and board games are both welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts about the game(s) as well.
18 votes -
Deus Ex at twenty: The oral history of a pivotal PC game
11 votes -
Ready at Dawn (developer of VR games Lone Echo, Echo Arena, Echo Combat) has been aquired by Facebook's Oculus Studios
3 votes -
The Last of Us Part II tries to be profound. It fails.
14 votes -
Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time - Announcement trailer
8 votes -
The Games Journal - A fantastic older game review/design analysis online publication that ran from 2000 - 2005
4 votes -
How do you feel board games have changed in the last twenty-five years?
Everyone always refers to the coming of Eurogames a long time back, but I'm wondering about modern games. Where have they come? Where will they go? I'd say the art has gotten better, more...
Everyone always refers to the coming of Eurogames a long time back, but I'm wondering about modern games. Where have they come? Where will they go? I'd say the art has gotten better, more eye-catching, but I'm more ambivalent about very recent (last five years) game mechanics.
11 votes -
OpenMW 0.46.0 released (FOSS engine for TES:III Morrowind)
8 votes -
The Grandmaster who got Twitch hooked on chess: Hikaru Nakamura is the top-ranked blitz chess player in the world—and his channel has seen a meteoric rise as he coaches streamers in the ancient game
14 votes -
MSI, Intel, and PCMR are giving away a MSI Z490 Godlike and a 2080 super X Gaming Trio
3 votes -
Guinness reinstates Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong, Pac-Man records
12 votes -
Playing full PC games on a Raspberry Pi 4
6 votes -
The ancient history of board games
7 votes -
Star Wars: Squadrons | Reveal trailer
10 votes -
Diversity & D&D: Making Orcs and others more complex
8 votes -
Cyberpunk 2077 release date delayed to November 19, 2020 (from Sept. 17)
21 votes -
EA Play Live showcase - June 2020
4 votes -
Blizzard has suspended or closed over 74,000 accounts in the last month, as bots have upended the game's economy
9 votes -
Steam Game Festival: Summer Edition - Exclusive limited-time demos available for many upcoming games, along with interviews and livestreams with devs
9 votes -
Large overview of game design/development information, tools and other things
https://twitter.com/TychoBolt/status/1182541355337289728?s=20 Found this on twitter, user TychoBolt compiled this list. There's a lot of information on many topics, as well as a ton of links to...
https://twitter.com/TychoBolt/status/1182541355337289728?s=20
Found this on twitter, user TychoBolt compiled this list. There's a lot of information on many topics, as well as a ton of links to tools that aid in level design, narrative and more.
He also compiled this 122-paged guide on level design; full of tips and tricks for designing levels. I've looked through it for a bit and found quite a lot of interesting information, so I'd reckon this is a valuable asset to anyone developing/designing games.
https://twitter.com/TychoBolt/status/1272578494543904771?s=20PDF available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fAlf2MwEFTwePwzbP3try1H0aYa9kpVBHPBkyIq-caY/preview?pru=AAABcufoPRw*FOD948Ah7NzrIiGTixO_PQ
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Pokémon Snap is coming to the Nintendo Switch
7 votes -
Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a surprisingly polished game that's as immersive and exciting as it is relaxing
7 votes -
Humble Fight for Racial Justice Bundle
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Let's do a deep dive into the itch.io Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality together!
The Bundle itch.io's Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is a collection of indie media content offered up as a fundraiser for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail...
The Bundle
itch.io's Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality is a collection of indie media content offered up as a fundraiser for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Community Bail Fund. The minimum purchase is $5 which gains you access to 1637 items from 1304 different creators. The bundle has raised over $5 million dollars so far and is a genuinely incredible show of support and solidarity from the gaming community for the Black Lives Matter movement.
Here is the previous Tildes topic about it, here is a subreddit for it, and here is a community spreadsheet cataloging its contents.
The Content
The bundle is primarily video games, but it also has tabletop games, game assets, books, music, and tools. It is an intimidatingly large amount of content, and much attention has been called to some of the collection's highlights and standout titles: 1 2 3 4 (if you find other lists, let me know and I'll link them here).
I'm thinking it would be neat for us on Tildes to explore and highlight some of its less well-known content. The people who have made their creations available in this bundle have done so generously and in support of a great cause, so this is a way that we can show some appreciation for them by bringing some attention to their work. It is also possible to re-purchase games that you already own on itch.io and add tips to that purchase, so you can also monetarily support any devs you choose should you feel inclined to do so.
The Event
Using whatever selection methods or criteria you like, dive into an item/multiple items from the bundle and then report back here about it. There is a handy website that lets you filter the whole set of items, and it also has a very useful "pick a game" button that selects a game at random from the batch.
However you choose something, let us know what you've chosen, what it was, what your experience was like with it, and whether or not you recommend it. Format your entries however you like but please Bold the Titles of Items so people can scan the thread more easily!
Feel free to submit multiple entries to the topic as you explore the bundle. I'm thinking that with a few of us doing this over a couple of days, we can cover a lot of ground and surface some interesting and easily overlooked content.
Our Selections
I'll keep a table of the highly recommended things we surface here. To select something to be included here, mention in your writeup that it qualifies for "Tildes' Choice" status, and I'll add it to the list!
Title Creator Type Recommender Us Lovely Corpses d Marie Visual novel kfwyre Cardinal Chains Daniel Nora Pure puzzle game kfwyre 25 votes -
Star Wars: Squadrons is a $40 dogfighting game with cross-play, single-player, no microtransactions
9 votes -
Dwarf Fortress Steam version - First look gameplay and dev commentary
20 votes -
Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge game from The Simpsons is now playable in browser
8 votes -
Slay the Spire is coming to iOS this month, with an Android version in the works
14 votes -
The mysterious origins of an uncrackable video game - Atari 2600 game Entombed
17 votes -
The PC Gaming Show 2020
7 votes -
A closer look at Paper Mario: The Origami King
6 votes -
PC Engine Coregrafx mini (Turbografx 16) review
3 votes -
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 – Partnership Series: Meteoblue
5 votes -
Riot Games investigating exec who blamed George Floyd’s murder on his "lifestyle"
12 votes -
PlayStation 5 - Reveal event
20 votes -
A heartbreaking and earnest discussion by Rooster Teeth/Achievement Hunter staff addressing the hate and toxicity in their community
10 votes -
Depictions of racism in Magic: The Gathering
9 votes -
Metal: Hellsinger | Announcement trailer
5 votes