#GAMING

[prokopetz]

It's fascinating how a lot of Evangelical Christian anxiety about Satanism seems to be rooted in the unspoken idea that if the Devil gathers enough worship he'll depose God and become the new God, because that's not the party line in any major religion, but it is how it works in Dungeons & Dragons.

[daily-spooky]

[blumineck]

Size isn’t everything- unless you’re a fantasy character!

Here is some of the logic behind it, and some of the reasons why real weapons tend to be smaller than fictional ones.

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[alpha-beta-gamer]

Look Outside is a twisted pixel art Eldritch body horror adventure where you'll die if you look outside!

Read More & Play The Beta, Free (Windows)

Gameplay Video:

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[caveinevitable]

•the swan

[bioware]

Just because you're at work doesn't mean you have to leave Thedas ✨ Here are a few backgrounds for your next video call!

[batfluffs]

six from little nightmares!

[starscreamsleftwing]

RAWRRRR CHILDHOOD

Nintendo DS

[prokopetz]

Fantasy RPG setting where the Eternal Empire Which Has Stood Unchanged for Ten Thousand Years puts forth a revised history of the last ten millennia of peace and stability every time there's a new dynasty on the throne (i.e., approximately every eighteen months), and heaven help you if you're not up to date.

[retrogamingblog2]

Gilded Eeveelution Drawings made by Virize

[prokopetz]

While Metroid (1986) and Castlevania II: Simon's Quest (1987) are usually cited as the founding texts of the metroidvania genre, not without reason, they were actually part of a much larger wave of 2D side-scrolling platformers featuring nonlinear, inventory-gated open worlds that were all released in the same three or four year span.

Some are fairly well known, like Blaster Master (1988) and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link (1987). Others are more obscure these days, like Faxanadu (1987) or The Maze of Galious (1987). There doesn't seem to be any one game that started it – it was an idea whose time had come, and suddenly it was everywhere at all at once.

Of course, given that the genre was just beginning to take shape, there are also a lot of weird edge cases that might or might not be first-generation metroidvanias, depending on how you define your terms. Ultimately, checklists of tropes are perhaps a less relevant metric than which games participated in the creative dialogue that produced what would eventually be labelled the metroidvania.

Which finally brings me to the question I actually want to throw out:

Is DuckTales (1989) a first-generation metroidvania?

[bobothetalkingclown]

My friend bought Vampire Therapist, and they said they loved it. I saw a bit of it, and I highly recommend it!

Hey everyone! This is my lovely friend Cyrus Nemati, who many of you may know as Theseus, Dionysus and Ares from the first Hades game.

He has spent the last couple years developing his very first indie game, Vampire Therapist, which plays with the many vampire character archetypes from across media.

It's been reviewing VERY well but it's not getting very many wishlists, so if you're interested in vampires, fantastic art and clever, funny, and thoughtful writing about vampire mental health, go wishlist it on Steam!

And listen, Cyrus may be too humble to leverage his colorful career as your favourite Hades hotboys, so I'm gonna do it for him 😌 GO SUPPORT FANTASTIC INDIE DEVS LIKE THIS ONE!

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