Notices by Craig P (craigp@mastodon.social)

In the past few days I've seen so many games with bad event systems cutting off their own dialog that I'm starting to wonder if it's my machine.

I just got the final version of SpaceVenture, and while I'm fine with it being put together with gum and tape, it seems odd that nearly every conversation gets cut off halfway through the final line - including the FIRST ONE.

Like... you'd notice, right? You'd notice the first minute of your game doesn't work.

What's up...

Anyway, if people come back to Mastodon because BlueSky degrades, just say how nice it is to see them.

Don't punish them for having left, don't say they came 'crawling back'. Follow this rule: don't punish behavior you like to see.

@silverwizard I think we used to talk that way about the creek near town.

@reidrac meanwhile, here in Boston...

@alienmelon Wow, 15,000 reviews, hm. I can see why he only plays games for a few minutes each and then just makes shit up.

I bet the majority of his life is oriented around spitting out "reviews" as fast and as loudly as possible...

@fuzzybinary Yeah, although even if Twitter hadn't devolved, they would have replaced those folks with AI by now anyway.

@sinbad The original was great if you like puzzle boxes that work entirely based on unintended glitches.

Going off the emails, this one looks like it's mostly a tech demo with chat GPT NPCs.

Wow! Space Engineers 2 is in early access! Someone go play it for me, I know I'll hate it if I play it.

@sinbad On that note, I hope your multiplayer game doesn't involve anyone standing on anything that moves.

@sinbad Oh! I noticed that but had to give up due to a much larger misfeature before I got around to tending to that one. XD

@runevision It's so straightforward, I don't know how the Obra Dinn devs didn't think of it. 😅

@sinbad Corn is very much an Americas thing. Even before we arrived and murdered everyone and turned it into syrup, it was the magic staple of this hemisphere.

Yeah I'd prefer if we didn't have such a shitty, strange food thing happening, but corn was always gonna be the focus on this hemisphere.

I guess wheat and rice aren't too bad. They store a lot better, for starters.

Every few years a new 'superfood' trends, but the only two superfoods are corn and potato.

Everything we eat is rooted in either corn or potato. You think our economy is rooted in oil? It's rooted in high fructose corn syrup and potato starch.

The best way to store potatoes is to bury them. In a few months you'll somehow have even more potatoes.

Another holier-than-thou post about how we shouldn't 'squabble' and 'infight' and act holier-than-thou on social media. Instead we should unite and take action!

The reason we squabble here is because we are discussing how to take action. This is where we live, so this is where we discuss things.

And yes sometimes that means we discuss whether to take action against someone we can reach that is theoretically on 'our' side, rather than someone far away we can't reach.

@sinbad Damn, I wish I'd known you were doing it, I learned it the same way and could have tipped you off.

@sinbad Really? Shows you how much I know about structural engineering.

I can just say space robot armor can't be welded.

From a functional modeling standpoint, filling space with heavy braces is also more appealing than leaving the space ungreebled.