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I invented a game called Horse Toss on Minecraft. I don’t know if you can still play it, but it used to be the fishing rod pulled exponentially based on the distance, so at like 60 blocks above the mob you hook, the mob would fly about 90 blocks into the air. From there, knock back would throw mobs at an angle depending on where you were when you hit them. If you’re below them, they fly in an arch.
You go up on a tall platform with a fishing rod enchanted with knockback 5, pay a diamond and it would dispense 8 horses in a pool below you. You hook the horse, yank it into the sky and try to wack it as it comes down. The pool catches it if you miss so you always have 8 tries. If you hit the horse, it lands in an area in the distance with pressure plates that dispense valuables for for score. The horse dies on impact 99% of the time but of it doesn’t it can wonder around and get you a bigger score. At the end, you trade the rod in to get your loot and you can keep the horses if any survive.
Honestly, they could sell at a loss and still profit. Steam has the biggest selection of games bar none, they’ve built a culture of buying games too collect them with no intention of playing them, and they get a decent cut of every sale. If they thought of it as a 10 year plan they could sell this thing for $400, and undercut the entire rest of the condole scene, land this in the living room of every kid who wants to game world wide, and literally crush the big 3 in sales.
So you can buy a handful of the parts at any of the stations for big numbers, but I managed to make my ship by hunting down the golden buried tech. You get o one part for each module you have to break to mine them so you get a minimum of 3 and the loot it normally has which you can then flip for more parts.
Just to specify, that’s the yellow wifi signal when you’re using your visor. The ordinary and silver ones just give you the usual.
I’ve been playing No Man’s Sky lately. They just put out an update that let’s you build a spaceship that also functions as a base. I’m only just now getting into the game and it came at a perfect time for me because I’m just now getting the point that I need a house to store stuff and I haven’t found a planet that I love. Now I don’t have to because I can live in a ship built just for me!
Just me and my antlered ewok exploring the black.
Picked No Man Sky back up, this game is so very beautiful and incredibly fun. I’m pretty sure I’m not even done with the tutorial and I’ve already been to several planets and I’m slowly learning the languages.
When I don’t have time to dig in, Castle Crashers just got an update. Yeah, that game from Newgrounds that’s nearly 20 years old. You can make your own character now.
And this is where the it comes full circle. To have a team I need to pay the team. To not have a team, I need to do every position provided by a team. Which means if you can’t do it or pay for it, you don’t deserve it and no matter how well thought out the idea may be it will never happen.
Tell me where the line falls.
So I’ve got a few points on this. The smallest is that welding is very much an art. Any dingus can stick two pieces of metal together. A consistent bead, a steady hand, it’s all on par with painting but no one considers that because it’s used practically instead of aesthetically.
That segways to my next point, art isn’t just the pictures. I don’t have 4 years to learn how to make the art because I’m not passionate about that. I love the mechanics of the game, my creativity is in balancing and abilities, loot tables and incremental growth rates. You wouldn’t say the people who decide the spray pattern of digital guns or the appropriate damage for level 12 don’t deserve to be in video games because they didn’t paint the skyboxes.
I love a story about a single guy making a game from scratch over twenty years as much as the next guy, but it’s unreasonable to say that everyone has to do it that way or it doesn’t count. Just as unreasonable as saying someone’s idea for a game doesn’t deserve to exist because they can’t pay a team to make it.
To be clear, I’m not defending the slop. There’s probably plenty of games on steam that are AI garbage to grab a quick buck. That’s fine to hate. But all the people out there that put their hear into the work and wrapped it in the wallpaper of AI, they deserve to be seen. We can’t all be good at everything and that doesn’t make what we do any less valid.
I’d like to give them the benefit of the doubt. I have a lot of leaned skills but programming and digital art aren’t on the list. Since I don’t have the money to pay someone to make a game for me or 4 years to learn the whole of the skills from scratch, generative AI is my only option. Plenty of people will look down on me for that but if they had a robot that would do all their welding and woodworking for them they’d tell me to get fucked for asking them to pay.
That’s actually a bit of a mislead. Most AI software has hand correction built into models now so they get it right more than they don’t. We’ve all just associated bad hands with AI so the easiest way to get the wanted response is to make bad hands. If those images are AI generated, I’d bet “bad hands, too many fingers” were in the prompt.
There’s a discord community for building your own DIY azeron controller best of both worlds, joystick movements with mouse camera controls.
It’s also worth pointing out that borderlands on it’s own has contributed to the cultural zeitgeist. “Looks like we got a badass” is still a regular quote when bosses appear in games. Every single character has a quotable callout and you can normally spot a BL player and their main by the one they use. Cellshade and rotoscope both has a renaissance after BL2 and cosplay contests regularly have a Moxy or Maya. The best way for Borderlands to keep it’s steam is to just be Borderlands, that alone will make the memes.
The other day I started a she called Where the Water Tastes Like Wine. You lose a hand of cards to a Wolfman and he turns you into a hobo skeleton tasked with traveling the US to spread folktales. The wolf is voiced by Sting, the whole game pays homage to an idealized peak of Americana, and I’ve never had to decide what button to map “hitchhike” to before.
Creativity is alive and well, flourishing even. This guy is just blaming others for the problems he brings to the table.
I’ve already installed it and it runs so great! They’ve only got most of ts1 and I was a future perfect boy so I’m still waiting for my nostalgia, but the gameplay is exactly what I remember and it feels so damn nice.