Similar experience. The building doesn’t feel as nice as you’d expect, and it’s often more satisfying in traditional Lego games. Still, the overall gameplay is a unique divergence from their usual game design.

Good to have the facts straight. It’s creepy enough on its own without inventing details.

• Castle Crashers is a classic multiplayer beat-em-up. Plays great on Proton (if that’s important).
• Lost Castle is in a similar vein, though more roguelike.
• River City Girls (and sequels) is either great arcade brawler.
• Neurovoider

Great indie co-op games:

• Deep Rock Galactic. No split screen, but endlessly repayable with goals and targets in each mission. Also fun in solo.
• Caveblazers
• Guacamelee
• Tunche

Upcoming games to consider:

• Wizard of Legend 2

Agreed. Depending on the business sector, the PR damage could be worse than the cost of litigation.

My company has a very expensive software product they sell to other businesses (to the tune of millions of dollars a year per customer), and the cost is a hurdle the salespeople have to overcome. If there was litigation against them over trampling another business, that doesn’t exactly instill confidence in a trustworthy business relationship. So they pay their licensing costs.

I’ve read that some people are going back to simpler tech stacks, and it feels like they’re just leaving money on the table if that demographic continues to grow.

Who knows, though? Maybe somebody new will fill in that niche.

Or it could be as simple as forgetting to renew the domain registration. Maybe they’ll make a statement

funkwhale.agapimou.top is a Funkwhale instance, and it seems to be running, so it must just be that one instance.

I wonder if it got hit with some kind of dmca shenanigans.

Funkwhale is part of the Fediverse. The site they mention is a single instance.

ETA: It’s a single instance, but also the main landing page for feeding people to various docs and instances.

I’m all for it. Glider Pro for MacOS 9 and below released its code in a sort of “as is” state a few years ago, and thankfully, some skilled devs took it up and ported it to modern systems.

It’s a game I would have sorely missed, having long since left the Apple ecosystem (and that game was also PPC-only). We’ll still lose even open source games, but at least people would then have the option to preserve them.

I enjoy it, too. Because of the granular data (e.g. what’s this road made of?), it’s got me thinking a lot more about my community, instead of just taking everything for granted.

Yeah, I don’t see the point. It’s a browser with bossware enabled; it’s supposed to be for businesses to easily lock down and monitor their employees’ browsers.

Steam Deck on lunch breaks, travel, and shorter sessions at home. PC when I want max settings gameplay. I tend to play games that can wrap up a loop in ≈30min on the Deck and more graphically intense/immersive/grindy games on the PC.

I’ve heard it’s fun, but I don’t want to give any business to the insane, conspiracy-peddling, anti-trans bigot lady.

I’m convinced now that there is no story so earth-shattering, so horrifying, so diligently researched and expertly told that we could Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle our way to a better games industry.

I disagree, but I also recognize the fundamental lede buried in this lengthy gripe piece: the law is not just. The industry isn’t going to change from the top down, because the fundamental core of the games industry is the same rot that plagues every industry. There’s a club of rich good ol’ boys at the top whose rampant sexism and ultra-capitalism still pervades many economies, and they’re able to successfully lobby the politicians that should regulate them.

But I disagree that it’s ultimately fruitless. There may be no singular story that fixes things, but continued effort to bring that stuff to light has influenced people’s decisions to buy into certain games or publishers. It’s resulted in lawsuits that at least give some justice to the victims. It’s resulted in new indie studios with good work cultures who make amazing games.

So I agree the problem still exists, but the “sunlight” they talk about isn’t a panacea—it’s one of many collective steps towards building a better industry.

“Arms” for the Switch might be something to look into. I haven’t played it, but it’s kind of a cartoonish boxing game.

Merry Birthmas, Krita! Here’s to 25 more.

Generally, arcades have not done terribly well. There used to be a lot of video arcades all over out there in the 1980s. Video game hardware has gotten a lot cheaper, and a lot of people just have it at home now.

Why bother with going to an arcade when you could go to a cozy place with a Steam Deck? Why pay to play old games on an arcade cabinet when there’s countless handheld emulators out there?

It worked when people had to go to a mall or arcade to play things, but nostalgia can only attract so many people, anymore. The market is no longer captive, and the people who played in arcades have grown up, gotten jobs, families, Steam Decks, and beefy gaming PCs of their own.

The only demo left is the hobbyists, and even they can now build their own arcade cabinets to get some of the experience.

With a dictator at each branch, since the branch owner has final say in every decision.

TIL a new thing in computer science.