#Immersive Sim

[commanderdianashepard]

No Gods or Kings

Only Big Macs

Andrew Ryan could make Rapture but only Frank Fontaine could make Bioshock McDonald’s

[sigilmint]

Announcing The Light at the End, a Fan Zine dedicated to Arkane Austin, in celebration of their amazing works over the years!

A farewell zine for Arkane Austin, celebrating Dishonored (2012), Prey (2017), and Redfall (2023) and their respective DLCs. The Austin team has been making incredible games for so long, and they deserve to be honored. This zine will be digital only, and completely free.

Application form is here, along with the timeline for the project. Check it out, and please pass along to your friends 🐀🐋🛰️🌕🦇🩸

[the-cosmic-arcade]

Been thinking about Dishonored 2 lately.

[katiknitt]

The Dwarf Fortress logo looks like it has a single tooth and I find it endearing, so I made some fanart.

[dronaroid]

Went to the mall to get more estradiol, lipstick, boots and a pack of Pokémon cards. Also, hello, maestra! As HEARTRENDER just transitioned over to Unreal Engine 5, development morale is FLYING! Just look at this new detailing pass on Ground Minus!!

[homebrewstims]

Fear & Hunger Guide: Moonless Explained

Though this isn't my footage, I took the time to make the gifs. See my terms of use BEFORE you reupload!

[lodgeofthecat]

Found this on an old Hard Drive. Good Night Friends!

[pencilbrony]

Lethal Company is some of the best Immersive Sim content out there rn

[yulotomorrow]

Prey and Mooncrash won the greatest Immersive Sim of All Time award held on Twitter by Sinnoware and voted by the community! Congratulations!!!

[rottenshotgungames]

The Footfall Free Playtest is Live

Bombastic, tense, dramatic stealth-action in the shadow of industrialization. This 90 page beast of a playtest document combines my favorite games (Dishonored) with my favorite books (Mistborn) in a physics based, tactical joy of an experience. If you love environment based stealth and movement based combat, you should read Footfall.

This game is everything I’ve wanted to play for so long, and it finally exists. Please give it a try and tell me what you think!

[miku-x-baki-yaoi-mpreg]

"...Sad pathetic mess. You feel pity and disgust but in a way only a being of pure grace can. In your violent mercy you terminate the worldlife" -cruelty squad third ending cutscene minor spoilers Today I've finally finished cruelty squad first of all what a good fucking game, the gunplay, the mechanics, the depth within the mechanics Top 5 game of all time nothing comes close to the art direction and the like genuine anxiety inducing,,,,,, everything about the game is anxiety inducing this game has successfully molded me into a dirty CEO millionaire and I'm proud of it if I go on any longer I will ramble for 2 more hours ill just point out the notable things and review and call it a day trauma loop is a perfect sendoff to the game best final level in any game I've played yet the writing and the dialogue are really good fuck especially the ending poems "Onion layer one. Onion layer two. Onion layer three. Onion layer n^n" his bars are so fire what???? fuck the golems 10/10 wouldn't recommend I look forward to Psycho Patrol R very excitedly Ville Kallio you have my upmost respect

[thewinter22]

Anyone wanna chat about immersive sims? I think they are fun and nobody actually really knows what they are

[crazcartridge]

this is waht the world looks like to me

[devileaterjaek]

[bryce-bucher]

J(a)SON Post #3

Stealing Money For Fun & Profit:

Most of my week was spent playing dark souls 2 again, but aside from that I spent most of my time working on the ATM's functionality. The ATM is heavily inspired by the ATMs in Deus Ex, and just like in that game you can input an account's information and then drain it. In the gif above you can see an example of me sneaking into the nefarious Doctor Spider's evil bank account and stealing 200 bucks. You can also blow up the ATM to get 75 bucks worth of wads of money to come out of it, or you can try to hack the ATM and get it to lock up like a dummy. Pretty simple stuff, but it always feels amazing to sneak into someone's bank account and steal all their money, and in the game as well! For those interested, I used jwildfire for the background fractal textures on the ATM UI. That program is amazing and I'd highly recommended checking it out (especially if you have an affinity for y2k visuals).

Building a Gas Station:

After a while spent purely implementing devices and mechanics, I was really itchin' to make an environment. I decided to start putting together a gas station since it's the smallest environment segment I have planned for the main map. In the images above you can probably get a good feel for my process on an environment like this. I haven't ever really done whiteboxing before this project, but I've found it to be very helpful when having to make more detailed environments. I actually hate having to litter an environment with smaller details and objects, which is the main reason why most of the environments in my previous games feel pretty sparse. I can't just get away with broad strokes this time around though, so I started to employ "words" that dictate where a planned object should go. Texturing all of the products in the gas station is easily the most tedious part, and it burns me out pretty quickly. So far, I've only textured 4 chip bag variants and 4 cereal box variants, and most of the products are yet untextured. These environments always look pretty terrible before I get them in engine and all lit up, so I have to trust that it's gonna look and feel a lot better once that is done.

Conclusion:

It's new years eve the day I'm posting this, so I hope ya'll have a good 2023, and I hope that I can actually maybe release something next year lol. There is a big collaboration project that I have a game in that is supposed to come out early next year, so I'll be posting about that when it's out. Next week I'll be back on Basidia, but until then I'm gonna keep playing Dark Souls 2. See ya.

[dronaroid]

Life persists, even when surrounded by a mysterious and corrosive red ocean. In the Null, people get together to make small island towns to survive their circumstances. Carving small pieces of paradise, they all have unique stories and appearances.

The sandswept, windy town of Lámpara, neighboring the massive Bretish Library, is one such example. Formerly a place famed for its work with clay and expeditions into the mysterious nearby library, an evacuation notice due to a certain maestra has reduced it to a hastily-emptied ghost town.

It is a place with its humble share of advanced technology, mainly being elevators, announcement speakers and hologram billboards given out by the BSR. Anything that makes life in the Null either easier or more pleasant is very welcome.

Towns in HEARTRENDER are a major recurring component of exploration. They're where you find a fair share of resources and information for the harder parts of your heists. If you can survive any resistance likely to be found in them, that is.