#game technologies

[chongoblog]

WAIT

I JUST REMEMBERED HEARING AN ELON MUSK QUOTE WHERE HE TALKS ABOUT HOW HE BELIEVES CHESS IS "TOO SIMPLE" OR WHATEVER AND HE SAID HIS FAVORITE GAME WAS A GAME CALLED "POLYTOPIA"

I JUST REMEMBERED THAT IVE PLAYED POLYTOPIA

It being Elon's favorite game (or at least one so important to him that his biographer dedicates a lot of time to it) is.....really really funny.

Basically, imagine Civilization, but as a mobile game. So like if Civilization Revolution was even more dumbed down (that's a Civilization insult. That's devastating. It's devastated right now). For what it's worth, it's not a bad game. On the contrary, from what I could tell in the little bit of time I played it, it's a perfectly competent game with good design. But it's not a deep game by any means. I played through it once, won easily on my first go, then saw that the other playable characters had barely any differences between them.

Like, not to imply you can judge a book by its cover, but here's what it looks like

I came across an article by Dave Karpf discussing this exact thing, and I think it describes it wonderfully

[thisisrealy2kok]

[boogieromance]

What not to do with your floppy disks, from the Madou Monogatari 1-2-3 PC-98 Manual

[prokopetz]

Today's aesthetic: that specific era of video games right after doing 3D physics in real time became feasible but before game developers had learned when not to use it where sometimes you'd gently brush against the terrain slightly over some arbitrary velocity threshold and your character would immediately ragdoll like they'd been hit on the head.

[natsumipocket]

Game Boy Color - Atomic Purple, 1998

[coastbox]

Here's my indie cover for Destiel's Fighting Techniques game (fake, no such game)The game consists of choosing either Dean or Castiel for a 1V1 fight. Choose your hero and fight!

[iloveabortions]

SONY: PlayStation Portable in Atomic Purple (2005)

[eternvlsound]

[emptyhead57]

[cupids-stimboards]

🍒 🥀 🍒 / 🥀 🍒 🥀/ 🍒 🥀 🍒

[nerd-artist]

Things I’d love to experience in Horizon 3:

Riding big machines and using their weapons while doing so (with friends) ⚡🦖

Even if it’s just once this would be AMAZING. Which machine would you ride? What would the Thunderjaw pet name be?

This is part of a series of my wishlist for H3 and the idea has been going around my head for a year or so. I finally had the guts to draw the big guy (it took me way more hours than I expected).

[thisisrealy2kok]

[prokopetz]

Fifteen years ago it was common knowledge that if you wanted to buy a gaming PC, the first thing you did with it should always be to replace the fans, heat sinks and power supply with hardware that doesn't suck, because they always cut corners on those components to increase their profit margins, and it turns out a midrange tower will often outperform a top-of-the-line model that's suffering from constant voltage drops and running thirty degrees over the recommended operating temperature. I've been idly looking into the possibility of upgrading lately, and I cannot believe the situation has gotten even worse in that span. I just saw a pre-built box from a major brand sporting a GeForce 40 series running on a 400 watt PSU. Dude, what the fuck.

[kitchipon]

Hello kitty dreamcast controller