Even if it doesn’t work, I’d at least want to let people try and get practice doing something about a problem (even if that’s just leaving a comment on social media to direct others to sign a petition that will eventually get lawmakers’ attention with enough signatures based on that country’s laws, because that still has more chance for good than yet another comment about X Thing Bad. Even though I agree with a lot of Lemmy’s X Thing Bad takes), makes them more likely to do something in the future. At least they can walk away saying “I tried”. Some people might see no guarantee of results for their time and think of it as time wasted, and that is their choice, but I don’t really see a reason to say “that’ll never work” without any offer of alternative. Most charitably, you are trying to save them time and disappointment, trying to prevent a “it didn’t work, activism does not work, I’ll never do anything like that again” attitude if it fails, but I think a lot of people are just seeing the comment as pointless negativity.

I heard about this on Reddit, glad to see it has made its way to the Fediverse. I am curious what you are using to develop this, since I’ve also been interested in making my own personal walking app (not going to be competition, only ever intended to release to myself and maybe a few friends).

Curious to hear what the criteria for “masterpiece” is, otherwise I think it is just peoples’ subjective opinion of what makes a great game that they also think others might agree about being a great game. Genuinely curious, interested in discussion, not saying this to shut down any of the answers here.

I like TTRPGs. I also have no creativity, so I’m usually really quiet until combat, in which case I kind of have to speak to take my turn. My actions are usually just “let us help the party”. Not good at playing my own individual character. I like CRPGs based off of TTRPG because I have dialogue choices and prompts. I do not have to generate a personality and actions all by myself.

Yeah, I know there are tables to help with this, but it is one thing to write that personality trait on my sheet and another to actually know how to play it out in different situations. I like the predefined options CRPGs give me. I’m so bad at embodying a character not myself otherwise, and this lets me do so.

!crpg@lemmy.world would like this too. Glad to see more Fediverse devs! Might check this game out.

Rubber-stamped by themanequest.com. Not affiliated with the site at all and not a horse girl myself but I think it’s a pretty cool site for equestrian gamers, especially those wanting to see how accurate their games are to real horses (of course, with some liberties allowed for you know, the fun of gaming and not owning a real life horse).

Post linked on my list of many requests for gaming suggestions that got answers at !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip

you might like !shmups@lemmus.org if you are not already subbed to it

I feel like the association of Portal with that era and that type of person, even though I think most of them probably became different people with age, even though I was practically one of them, makes the song a little harder to enjoy. I am aware of Ellen McLain’s (GLaDOS voice actress) opera creds and think that’s super cool though.

Sorry to the composer, it is not your fault. Similarly, I think maybe the same thing happened with Undertale. I think I played before the fandom got a bad reputation, so it and its songs are not quite tainted in my mind, in fact I’m a big fan of the game’s use of leitmotifs (am I using the word right?) and really enjoy its music, but if I came in after I saw the fandom, I might like the work less through no fault of the composer.

!baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

I also see posts about it often on !games@lemmy.world, although admittedly I don’t pay attention to the usernames of the people who make those posts, or the usernames of the people commenting. But I’d doubt the comments are all just @Cethin talking to themselves ;)

Eh, I wouldn’t say even mindless fun is easy, from what I hear game dev is hard and a lot of effort and hard work can still end up in something unfun. Probably not your intention but I don’t want to devalue the efforts of people who probably want to make something to help other people enjoy a bit, that I probably don’t have the skill to make myself.

I think you posted this twice in !citybuilders, and not just reposting after a few months, but like, accidentally posting twice within seconds/minutes of each other. Might want to delete this copy since it has no discussion besides me telling you you posted twice.

At one point I posted a rat city-builder called Ratopia and mentioned in the comments I ought to post the other two rat/mouse city-builders I knew someday, so here’s one of them! It’s probably not that big of a coincidence but I do find it funny both Ratopia and Ratropolis call the city’s occupants “ratizens”.

Configure your musical setlist during combat by buying songs with situational auto-procing and potency levels. Songs can proc at the start of a battle, after an enemy is fallen, when companions are low on health, and a myriad of options between! You can memorize a limited amount of songs at once with different power levels, so choose which songs are heaviest and when they’ll occur to compliment your playstyle and party composition.

This sounds like such a cool feature, although I wonder if people will be happy with it being limited like this or will mod the restrictions away and think of it as a cosmetic mod (because unless music changes the gameplay, the only mechanical advantage you would get is not spending on songs).

Has customizable spells… my catnip.

I am lucky I was able to give you what I did. Not a big video watcher. Sorry I couldn’t be more help. Have been meaning to get into RTS more but I have not actually played that many and have seen 0 videos about them, so I’m doubly unqualified to help you with that.

The YouTube algorithm is helpful to me because it knows I only click on gaming videos amongst a few other things. I just never ever clicked the annoying Person SLAMS Person outrage bait type stuff, and I also never clicked Not Interested on them (not sure if YouTube would actually listen, or if it would know by me bothering with “Not Interested” that topic pisses me off to see in recommends and thus it would conclude it ought to show it to me more), so it was forced to only show me the only stuff I engaged with at all: stuff I liked. So sometimes it feeds me nice niche gaming videos. I don’t watch frequently enough to exhaust its recommendations into being repeats of stuff I’ve already seen. It might (not sure) help that I also stuff gaming videos into my Watch Later playlist. This is what I did and I am not entirely sure it will work for you, but hey, it’s how I found literally all of these videos. Eventually sometimes it shows me cool stuff by the same person.

I like to be aware of cool games that I might like in Early Access. I also pass up on them until they finish.

It’s possible to be dismayed at price raises that don’t affect you, because it will affect others. I was never in the market for a console and do not anticipate buying new electronics anytime soon, but I am sure that this will sadden others who find themselves priced out. Besides, I don’t know what the future holds. Maybe an existing electronic of mine breaks and I find I need a replacement, so the price hikes will touch me.

!crpg@lemmy.world might also be interested in this.

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You are right it looks nothing like the game art. I have seen similar confirmed human-drawn art in similar styles to the title/thumbnail picture which is probably part of why I can’t tell. I am really easily fooled by AI unfortunately. I was expecting a cute 2D game and got 3D that frankly feels, to me, like a lot of other 3D tycoon games that I personally feel have bad aesthetics/graphics and may or may not (would not know because I do not know what the individual assets on stores look like, as a person who never tried developing 3D games) be asset flips. Much disappointment. And for someone who does like that style, still has a misleading thumbnail.