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Lads just woke up from a dream where I walked into an apartment and Jon Jafari asked me to housesit for a month and then broke my gameboy before leaving 

Went there 2 weeks ago. Know a dude who lives there. Say hi to him for me.
 
Nice job handling there. Weirdest human interaction I've ever had was maybe 6-7 years ago in a park, some dude my age who I'd never seen came up to me and greeted me by name like we were old friends. Forgot his name, but he said we were friends in elementary. He even knew the school name. He recalled things that he and I had allegedly done back in school that I had no fuckin recollection of. But I swear I'd never seen this guy in my fuckin life before. Creepy shit.

Had a really harrowing dream last night where I got some kind of cleaning job for a "cemetary" except for some reason people were buried in these kinds of pipes that went deeper and deeper into the ground. I cleaned one little altar with a picture of the deceased person on it and then had to crawl down deeper into the pipes for the next altar. I could barely fit through the pipes and they constantly made S-bends demanding me to turn around mid descend and not only was I petrified I could get stuck at any moment it was also very clear that it was not physically possible to climb up again due to how the pipes bent

I just had such a cool dream!
 
A friend and I were playing hide and seek in the neighborhood. I had to hide. There was this big, tall house at the end of the neighborhood, that'd never been there before. I sprinted down the street while she wasn't looking and knocked on the door. A 50-something looking lady greeted me and asked me who I might be. I told her my name was Paris, and she let me in with no question of my parents or who I was related to, as if I was already a known face.
 
The interior of the house was magnificent, it looked like something out of the Gilded Age. Mahogany floors, brass railings, a grand chandelier and staircase splitting in two directions in the center of this seemingly impossible lobby! There were many people there, and I quickly caught word of why that was the case. Everyone there was all family, holding a banquet in honor of one of the oldest family members, who was on her deathbed. I was still playing a game of hide and seek, so I looked around the house for a good spot.
 
The house had 7 floors, and several elevators (2 large ones and ~5 single-person ones), but I opted not to use the elevators; someone might ask who I was exactly. I explored several rooms of the labyrinth: an orchestra room, a chorus room, a dining hall, someone's bedroom (seemingly a kid, he had Breath of the Wild on PS4???), a bathroom, and eventually I reached the top floor, where the old lady was on her deathbed.
 
Quite an awkward situation I was put in, I decided to comfort her as she died. If anything, it would lower suspicion concerning my identity. Someone pulled me aside, and questioned whom I was related to. There were many people at this house, and I quickly pulled a name from my head, saying I was "Aunt Jill's cousin". The man could not deny nor confirm my assertion, and dismissed me.
 
I sensed tensions were getting high at this point- I've been wandering around this house rapidly and aimlessly with little mingling, and I had a feeling that man went off to express his concerns to others down below. I decided it was time for me to leave. I excused myself, saying I needed water, and hurriedly looked for an elevator. I found a single-person elevator in a bathroom, and quickly took it.
 
The elevator's front was glass, allowing me to see all the other floors of the house as I passed down them. As I descended, the singers in the chorus room were practicing, the orchestra members were playing, and everyone else was gathered at a giant rectangular table, feasting in the dining hall. Everyone at the table, dozens of people, instantly turned to look at me descending in the elevator; they knew I was a fraud now.
 
I finally reached the bottom floor, where the elevator let off on the other side of the lobby. The door was all the way opposite me, and I could hear footsteps coming down the stairs. I bolted for the front door, not wanting to get arrested today. I sprinted outside, but so did the man chasing me. I was faster however, and he gave up chase. Out of breath, I returned home down the street, and saw my friend as I did. I told her what had happened and she didn't even bother tagging me.

I just had such a cool dream!
 
A friend and I were playing hide and seek in the neighborhood. I had to hide. There was this big, tall house at the end of the neighborhood, that'd never been there before. I sprinted down the street while she wasn't looking and knocked on the door. A 50-something looking lady greeted me and asked me who I might be. I told her my name was Paris, and she let me in with no question of my parents or who I was related to, as if I was already a known face.
 
The interior of the house was magnificent, it looked like something out of the Gilded Age. Mahogany floors, brass railings, a grand chandelier and staircase splitting in two directions in the center of this seemingly impossible lobby! There were many people there, and I quickly caught word of why that was the case. Everyone there was all family, holding a banquet in honor of one of the oldest family members, who was on her deathbed. I was still playing a game of hide and seek, so I looked around the house for a good spot.
 
The house had 7 floors, and several elevators (2 large ones and ~5 single-person ones), but I opted not to use the elevators; someone might ask who I was exactly. I explored several rooms of the labyrinth: an orchestra room, a chorus room, a dining hall, someone's bedroom (seemingly a kid, he had Breath of the Wild on PS4???), a bathroom, and eventually I reached the top floor, where the old lady was on her deathbed.
 
Quite an awkward situation I was put in, I decided to comfort her as she died. If anything, it would lower suspicion concerning my identity. Someone pulled me aside, and questioned whom I was related to. There were many people at this house, and I quickly pulled a name from my head, saying I was "Aunt Jill's cousin". The man could not deny nor confirm my assertion, and dismissed me.
 
I sensed tensions were getting high at this point- I've been wandering around this house rapidly and aimlessly with little mingling, and I had a feeling that man went off to express his concerns to others down below. I decided it was time for me to leave. I excused myself, saying I needed water, and hurriedly looked for an elevator. I found a single-person elevator in a bathroom, and quickly took it.
 
The elevator's front was glass, allowing me to see all the other floors of the house as I passed down them. As I descended, the singers in the chorus room were practicing, the orchestra members were playing, and everyone else was gathered at a giant rectangular table, feasting in the dining hall. Everyone at the table, dozens of people, instantly turned to look at me descending in the elevator; they knew I was a fraud now.
 
I finally reached the bottom floor, where the elevator let off on the other side of the lobby. The door was all the way opposite me, and I could hear footsteps coming down the stairs. I bolted for the front door, not wanting to get arrested today. I sprinted outside, but so did the man chasing me. I was faster however, and he gave up chase. Out of breath, I returned home down the street, and saw my friend as I did. I told her what had happened and she didn't even bother tagging me.

yeah fuck sigs

Could be worse.
Yesterday, Medic talked on the fear of death and the methods she uses to avoid it! Number 23 will shock you!

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.