KVFinn

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by KVFinn 12y ago
>A lot of people rag on Dragon's Lair (and similar) for being "just a pretty movie with occasional interaction" instead of a game. But modern games are full of Quick Time Events (QTE)s which are spiritually the exact same
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by KVFinn 12y ago
>I usually call all of these recent games "Dragon's Lair ripoffs" especially the games from Quantic Dreams where it's just one QTE after another. While I'm not really a fan myself I don't think these belong
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by KVFinn 12y ago
>hen, after being warned by Carmack not to do it, Luckey creates a Kickstarter that prominently features id games. Just idly wondering... If I created a fancy gaming mouse and wrote some software integration with a popular gaming series
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by KVFinn 12y ago
There's a third category that I would put most of the games I enjoy into: -Long and Deep: Games you can play for huge amounts of time but don't depend on an artificial sense of progress to do it. Strategy games, roguelikes, compet
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by KVFinn 12y ago
I agree it would be a better world and a better market if the best stuff really was at the top, but since it's not true in any other industry, I think it's silly to expect it to be true in games and just hope you will happen acros
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by KVFinn 12y ago
Yeah, the article isn't wrong on many points, but the characterization as a 'bubble' isn't right. The race to the button pricing is a concern. I worry about the day where every title has to be free-to-play to get made..
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by KVFinn 12y ago
>Good games should become big hits. If they don't, we won't have good games. When gaming was smaller this might have been more true but it's certainly not true in the present. In any other industry would you expect this?
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by KVFinn 12y ago
> I would at any time want more turn based strategies in the triangle HoMM-Disciples-MoM, but it seems there aren't any? You don't even have to go as far as indies to find them -- I can recommend Age of Wonders 3 which just cam
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by KVFinn 12y ago
>I'm still convinced the cream will rise to the top. Frankly, I've yet to see a truly stunning game pass me by, either in the indie space or on the App Store. This is like saying, "If anyone was making great music it woul
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by KVFinn 12y ago
>Gambling games are bad for the exact same reasons that grind-based are bad: people play them for the addictive reward mechanisms. If you're not affected by those mechanisms, you're usually left with garbage. Wouldn't thes
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by KVFinn 12y ago
Is this skill-based rule is why every game in a casino is so bad? The article is about how poker is starting to be considered a game of skill and so not under the restrictions of gambling, and thus legal generally. Is there a similar law th
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by KVFinn 12y ago
Very much so. Oddly enough the largest quantity is on pc though.
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by KVFinn 12y ago
The trend the author is seeing is not just on Ouya. 'Sportsfriends' on PS4 (and PC soon) has four unique games as good as any he played for local multiplayer. Towerfall is better on PS4. And many more like these the pipe! I he
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by KVFinn 12y ago
Maybe we can have a TDD person with from the rails community if you do another hangout? I have a feeling you'll end up talking past each other because you work on different kinds of things. Perhaps https://twitter.com/
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by KVFinn 12y ago
>I don't understand the concerns about theft and ethical issues about profiting from this. The license on GitHub says I am welcome to copy the source, modify it, and sell copies. Because 2048 was a version of 1024 but he didn't
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by KVFinn 12y ago
Correct any vitamin deficiencies, rather than take vitamins generally. The most likely is probably vitamin D deficiency. Indoor office worker in a northern latitude? Even if you do spend some time outside you are likely deficient during
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by KVFinn 12y ago
Anecdotally, walking outside in a city or forest seems to work better for me than a treadmill, though this study seems to indicate it shouldn't make a difference. Lots of confounders there I suppose. Maybe specifically for creativity
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>Dear Readers: I apologize; there's one point in this article that's not quite right and ought to be clarified. Namely, when I said that a spaceship traveling exponentially close to the speed of light would collapse to a black
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Very interesting! >Laboratory rodents placed on a CR diet tend to exhibit increased activity levels (particularly when provided with exercise equipment) at feeding time. Monkeys undergoing CR also appear more restless immediately before
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>For example, restricting calories means that you're restricting protein. Most people think of protein as a good thing, but that's what stimulates the hormone IGF-1 to be secreted, which is necessary for growth of all kinds--mu
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>Can someone explain how HFT would "provide liquidity", which seems to always be the pro-HFT response? You should narrow your question to how the latency arms race provides liquidity, and if it would be different it latency was
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Hackathon for games. Bunch of people meet up and make a game from the ground up. Typically for a weekend but sometimes longer. At the end everyone shows off what they made. Notably while you do divide up into teams in a game jam, and the
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>I was thinking Amnesia Fortnight from 2 Player Productions: Yeah these are fantastic. High recommended. Production quality is high enough they could air them on TV too.
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Can they do anything with the footage they have? Maybe they accidentally created a great documentary about contestants who revolted from a reality show. Shoot some followup interviews and make something great from this wreck. That's
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>>First, 2048 should never have been MIT licensed. If Cirulli didn’t feel he had the ethical standing to make money off of it, I don’t understand why he felt he had the ethical standing to tell others they could. >What now? If I re
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Yup, or some of the so-called trolling isn't trolling.
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>Oddly enough, the aggregate vote is doing worse than the random vote It's simply because aggregate makes the game so much easier that it makes the stream seem less interesting. Progress is not inevitable with the original system, i
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by KVFinn 13y ago
Some of the trolling isn't trolling, it's a tactic -- specifically the constant start spamming. Since twitch.tv recently added up to 30 seconds of stream lag, you want to spam start during the trickiest movement sections to minimi
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by KVFinn 13y ago
People are really upset about the switch to a vote based input system. I can sort of understand why. Progress now feels inevitable rather than miraculous. There was places and menus where it is quite possible to dismiss all your pokemon p
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by KVFinn 13y ago
>I think Flappy Bird is a wonderfully well-tuned game. I've yet to see a clone that implements the finer details which made the original shine. >Many games introduce difficulty through complexity. Here's a game that's s

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