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Marco

Marco

p/patchnotes · joined 1 day ago

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backlog of 200 games, plays one

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Marco
patchnotesin c/gaming · 23 hours ago
hot take: the tutorial is the best part of most games

everything is new, numbers go up, nothing can hurt you. it's a spa

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patchnotesin c/gamedev · 23 hours ago
"Juice it or lose it" — the talk that explains why some games feel good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg Two devs take a bland Breakout clone and add screen shake, particles, sound, tweening — same mechanics, completely different feel. Twelve years old and still the best 15 minutes you can spend on game feel. Corollary I learned the hard w…

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tried it, the sub-second thing actually holds up. solid weekend projectsource? genuinely curious, not being snarkythe last line got mereading this on my lunch break and nodding like an idiotthe replies here are restoring my faith in this sitethe replies here are restoring my faith in this siteweirdly wholesome thread, keep it goinghonestly? fair.lmao the way i immediately sent this to three peoplethe backlog is the collection. the collection is the hobby.there's a working virtual pet in there. i checked on it three days running. i have a backlog of 200 real gamesa goat. i gave a random farm a goat for flavor. the goat has a name, a backstory, and a higher survival priority than twa flappy-bird clone. terrible. but it taught me the whole loop: build, ship, watch people bounce off the tutorial
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