Notices by Nifflas (nifflas@mastodon.gamedev.place), page 3

TV and game devs! Here's an important cultural rule you need to take into account! In countries like Sweden, we don't have a specific preference for "spoken language".

We watch everything in its original spoken language, no matter which language that is, and subtitle it to Swedish or English to understand it.

For cultures like Sweden, let us pre-select "original/intended" voice language for consoles & streaming services.

@pettter dialog is fine, it's mainly the frustrating combat. only way I can get anywhere is reading a guide for every fight. Also my companions walk into every trap, don't jump over chasms with me, and now a quest ended itself because I took too long, which I had to spend that time preparing for because the fight impossibly hard

@pettter after I fought arcane turrets that are impossible to damage and refill their health over and over because of a bug.

I just want anything to happen I actually enjoy

@pettter it's all save scumming now because the game hates me and wants to fuck me over constantly

I thought D&D was supposed to be about fun and accepting outcomes :(

@pettter maybe I don't like this sorta game tho? Maybe I just have to face I should never try this sort of thing ever again.

@pettter everything! It's frustrating cryptic impenetrable buggy "guess what the game developers were thinking" junk.

It's like D&D with a dungeon master who hates the participants.

I'm so miserable playing Baldur's Gate 3. Got like 25 hours in it and I hate everything and suffer every moment, but I keep playing because I paid AAA money and I don't want to it to be wasted.

But it only means it's even more wasted.

Best superpower? In the distant future, aliens discover a time capsule left by a human. It's the only thing about humanity they'll ever learn. It contains 1 game, 1 book, 1 song, and 1 movie. They'll eventually be able to decode and play all of them.

You decide which game, book, song and movie they find!

I really do like the haptic feedback of the PS5 controller. I didn't anticipate what a cool feature it'd be and how much games can actually do with it.

Random idea, but it'd be fun with a heart rate monitor next, so that someone can make an online horror game where the goal isn't to defeat the other players, but scare them as much as possible (detected by heart rate).

Okay, it's mostly a joke, maybe don't build in a heart rate monitor, but that'd be such a cool game tho!

I'm never getting a mac again. It's only a few years old, but doesn't support the latest macOS version. Multiple software DEMANDS updates that only run on newer macOS, so I can suddenly not use them anymore. Boooooooo.

Windows just doesn't have this problem.

I like to complain about Forbidden West because it's a bit of a mess. But it does one amazing thing other games should learn from.

When fighting enemies, they often get weaker over time as you damage their components. This means, unlike almost all other games, the optional play isn't always to focus on enemies one by one so fewer enemies are attacking you overall. Getting big gun off scary enemy may have priority over finishing another one off.

I think that's very neat!

@evn @mcc Haha! I'm on Plastic SCM now. I love it, since I could pick it up right away and it all made sense from the very start. Handles large files and empty folders.

Drawback is it's not open source and that it's hosted by Unity, but it's cheap. And it's not like an engagement, I can always jump ship instantly to another if it goes bad :)

@AngryAnt I'm just not smart enough to use it. I've actually used it a lot, but everything always goes wrong.

Like, writing a sampler and phase modulation synth in C++? Figured it out pretty quickly. git tho? I mean, I know the core concepts in it, but somehow I still mess up everything I do.

@mcc Oh actually, I'm always happy when someone dislikes git. Makes me feel way less alone hating it in a world where people generally thinks it's the one to use in every scenario, despite that it's terrible at everything.

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I'm gonna be stuck on an island 6 hours. It has a cafe and a forest. Give me quests! I'll complete as many as I can!

When an app asks for permissions, the OS should not only let you answer yes or no. Every category should have a "yes, but feed the app fake data" option.

Want my contacts for no reason? Have these generated fake ones! Wanna listen to my microphone? Here's random ambiance sounds! Location? I'm on a tiny 5x5m island!

Hell yeah! Put it all in your databases mfers!

Actively punishing services wins over boycotts any day. Didn't want that junk in the database? Don't ask for it!

Did you know that in the Japanese version of A Link to the Past only allows four letters in the character naming screen, making it the only known game where you cannot name the protagonist after their canonical name?

This was fixed in the EU/US releases, allowing for six characters.

Reminder, I made thingies like games! Check Ynglet out, it has adaptive music that completely adapts to the gameplay. It's on PC (steam & itch) and XBox.

Here's a clip from it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5jseSHFoTw

#gamedev #gameaudio

Here she is again! The cutest doggo! Hotdog!