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 @user-1218 
 
 I read Natrium as Notrium, an OG shareware survival game. It was the first one
 I played so it feels like it defined a genre for me.
 
 https://www.instantkingdom.com/notrium/
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=== SIMILARITY RANKED ===

--- #1 fediverse/25 ---
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 @user-30 Me too. I've never found a game that scratches my itch for a better
 Majesty -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majesty%3A_The_Fantasy_Kingdom_Sim
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--- #2 fediverse/3916 ---
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 life isn't JUST a game, but it is a game.
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--- #3 fediverse/178 ---
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 @user-95 you aren't the first person to tell me that so I think you might be
 right : )
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--- #4 fediverse/3210 ---
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 @user-1209 
 
 well, every boomer shooter is about moving as fast as possible and shooting
 with pinpoint accuracy, so... that's-the-game.jpg : )
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--- #5 messages/740 ---
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 had a dream that we gamified all work and then put them into one single
 mega-game so whenever you wanted you could work on an arbitrary project and it
 would spin up a new game and take your inputs and use them to accomplish
 whatever was happening
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--- #6 fediverse/330 ---
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 if you want to understand me, play Majesty the Fantasy Kingdom Sim (when you
 have time and are bored (very important combination)) - start on beginner
 difficulty and click the right buttons.
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--- #7 fediverse/26 ---
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 @user-30 weird suggestion but I had a dream about this game last night and I
 thought you might like it. It's old and on the Gamecube but if you're into
 retro stuff you might dig it.
 
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Kingdoms
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--- #8 fediverse/1162 ---
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 There are some games that I play where I am struck by the thought that "wow,
 this game was made by programmers" and often, they are among my favorite games
 to play.
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--- #9 fediverse/1210 ---
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 @user-883 
 
 omggggg I wanna play a fast paced shooter as a cute anime girl, which game did
 you have in mind? ? ?
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--- #10 fediverse/1931 ---
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 these two things took me all evening. I played some video games too. I put
 them in one so you don't have to see so many of them.
a picture of a page from the bicycle notebook.  first part is a collection of brainstorming and diagrams drawn in pursuit of Raleigh, my stab at artificial intelligence.  It's not done yet, in fact it's hardly even a design. It's more like, a thought in the mind that is slowly evolving to adapt to challenges that it might face when being implemented.  and sometimes it's like, beautiful architectures that I'm like "what could I do with these?"  anyway then it starts to devolve into kooky-dookerie about halfway through, and the rest of the notes are written in slant-form -> like, instead of reading one-after-another they sorta change tone and intonation rapidly in a cycle - it's super disorienting. Except visually it's like, tilted text, like a picture-frame that's nudged to one side and hanging from it's frame instead of it's wire holding-point.  do blind people often touch paintings? I doubt it, because it damages the painting. Alas, that materials are finite and flawed and degrade and become stone again. Good news though, sometimes pictures can carry meanings that are impossible to describe visually, but not impossible auditorily.  like, the sound of the voice in your head as you read the plaquards at a museum that displays ancient artifacts or bones of massive beasts or gemstones or science experiments or art or culture or mechanical motion displayed like clockwork and hope.  history is one of my favorite. you can find them by the side of the road. they're lovely homes 4 us many fediverse posts placed into a single image to be passed around as a bundle for people that the viewer decides might want to see them - y'know, like an artwork.
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 @user-696 
 
 to me, the most technically and gameplay impressive video games tend to be the
 ones that develop their own engine specifically for the project.
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--- #12 fediverse/4975 ---
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 Hearts are full. We await commands. I played games yesterday.
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--- #13 fediverse/4608 ---
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 every time a game developer makes a game where the world is in peril and the
 main character must save it, for every successful playthrough where the good
 guy wins there are thousands of doomed worlds where the player got distracted
 or bored and left the people to rot.
 
 how tragic.
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--- #14 fediverse/3046 ---
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 @user-569
 
 it's impossible for a genre to die. they just go stagnant, as other styles of
 art rise around them, waiting for the day when the other styles give insight
 into the stagnant style's design.
 
 they say that there are no unique ideas, and that you should combine 2-3 ideas
 from different genres to create a decent gameplay loop. I personally disagree,
 but when seeking to revive a "dead" genre you just need to pull in mechanics
 from other games. Games which didn't exist when the genre "died".
 
 For example, deckbuilders did not exist by the time RTS games "died". And yet
 new strategy games are being made all the time, some incorporating
 deckbuilding elements.
 
 Really, a genre only "dies" when the market is saturated by a bunch of
 corporations piling in on a specific formula that "works" (like how every RTS
 made between 2000 and 2010 was either a C&C clone or a Warcraft III clone)
 - this saturation causes people to stop buying strategy games.
But there's so much room for innovation. They strangle the market and say it's "dead" like... duh
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 @user-1722 
 
 Magic Survival
 
 it has gameplay similar to Vampire Survivors, but it came first, is way
 better, and is stylish as fuck
 
 single-stick shooter with roguelike progression
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 If you want to get to know me, play my games
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 if you're looking for some fun, silly, distracting entertainment, check out
 Nova Drift! It's a great game on Steam! It just left Early Access! It's like
 Asteroids and a roguelike, it's super fun!
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--- #18 fediverse_boost/3591 ---
◀─[BOOST]
  
  making some cool progress on the #itchio #GodotEngine console project 👀✨    
                                                                              
  got the minimal project running, now i just have to port the dynamic libraries and give it a shot!  
                                                                              
  #GameDev #IndieDev #RetroGaming                                             
  
                                                            
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--- #19 fediverse/5072 ---
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 I like to play with the camera zoomed in all the way and by only using my
 mouse. no keyboard. just clicking noise.
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--- #20 fediverse/5488 ---
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 okay ttyl I gotta go play video games I guess >.>
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