TheOnlyGuyEver

Can't deny, it fits.
 

Today, Valorsminion peers into Pony Island and learns more about its creation by interviewing the developer!
 
Great article, especially for your first. Nice job and welcome

Ya’ll are years behind people programming things by entering 40,000 frame perfect inputs in Super Mario World and then wrongwarping into the resulting program

Face angle tests

I like jungles and rainforests.

But...
 
Why?

This week’s SPUF of Legend is a lecture I gave at school about the development, gameplay, and legacy of Team Fortress Classic!

Highest tier of monster girl is ex-wife.

I feel the same way.
 
Well, after you change one letter in that sentence.

Highest tier of monster girl is ex-wife.

Endless War 3 was one of the games I made my team play to teach them how top-down shooters work. I played so much of that game in high school. 
 
Ready to have your mind blown TOGE? Watch this GIF of Endless War 3 and then highlight the spoiler text one chunk at a time:
 
After they watched it, I closed the GIF and asked my team how many animations the player character demonstrated in the GIF. Try to answer the question yourself, how many animations did you just see?
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My team ultimately guessed four: shooting, idle, moving up/down, moving left/right. The correct answer? Zero.
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Now watch the GIF again. The player's walk cycle is created by making two little black ovals jiggle underneath the sprite. The gunfire is just muzzle flash. That game managed to completely avoid having to make animation cycles, which is part of why they had so many different sprites for the various factions and levels. Genius animation trick that somehow works perfectly without the player noticing. 

I will take all four of their chocolates and then eat them at home alone.

Yesterday Medicinal Warlock covered Experimental Games, and today Medic talks about the troubles with Trials and why Warframe doesn't currently give veterans enough to do. I totally agree that mobility puzzles sound really fun, Warframe's very detailed movement systems were one of the funnest parts of the game. 
 
Regarding Aspie Life and its assertion that every gameplay decision was intentional, that's a dangerous game to play for the reasons Warlock describe. One thing I'm realizing as I make more games is just how important user control fluidity is; you really, really want to make it so the player can perform whatever action they desire with as little conscious thought as possible. I get that some games will break that rule, especially a game with Aspie Life's stated goal, but there are ways to do it while also subtly cluing the player in that the mechanic is supposed to be difficult. Camera angles are a good way to indicate that something shouldn't currently be your focus, as is poor lighting or designing the level to draw attention away from the sprite. If the game makes a big deal out of something (or even worse, locks progress until you figure the thing out) to the point the player is wondering whether a bug is preventing some sort of desired action, there's a very good chance they're going to stop playing and never start back up. 
 
In other news, somebody Let's Played a game I voice-acted in and I'm super excited because that's never happened before :D

don't worry bro twin galaxies has your back

Medicinal Warlock brushes up on his entomology once more with a second look at EDF: Insect Armageddon and the EDF franchise as a whole!

They keep nerfing, and nerfing, and nerfing because they refuse to admit that a resurrect ability has no place in an FPS.

Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln.

I wrote that article because I'm hoping to convince my professor to add Half-Life to the syllabus for the Critical Genre Analysis class' section on first-person shooters. I needed to show that everyone in the class could play it for free, hence why I'm covering really basic stuff y'all already know, like installing Steam accounts. You never know with grad students. 

A decade old today 

pwease no derail my thread!
 
I personally don't feel defined by my sexuality but it's okay to be proud of yours! And though I wasn't asking, it's good to hear you're comfortable enough with it!

Inspired by the rare event of below-freezing temperatures today, here is a new character: Siberian Patrol
 

 

 
^^^REALLY proud of this. Feel like I raised the bar for myself here! It's the first detailed drawing of a character I've done beyond doodles and concepts in a while, and FUCK it just looks SWEET! The posing and dimension is spot-on, I feel like! And look at the detail lines to show the curve of the puffy jacket parts! That shit makes it! Man I'm fuckin PSYCHED!