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i make games and music and other things! buy my game! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/Derelict_Star/ https://gate.itch.io/

A YouTube thumbnail featuring a render of a gray muscular bald man. It is labeled "Right ear: The Bible (Chinese). Left ear: Mozart (2x speed)." The video is 3 hours, 2 minutes, and 8 seconds long.
23:22 mismatch between what they're shown and what they know to be true. Aesthetic deception is not often purely negative, but it is always a trade-off because 22:30 there's one inherent truth behind every game, and it's something which players are always attempting to perceive.
“I seriously cannot recommend this game enough” Raigan Burns “I love Derelict Star” Bennett Foddy “The intro level made me rage quit” Jonathan Blow
Post on Reddit with the following text: I literally have my jump set to "vault only" and its fine. People who "need" this mechanic are simply bad and need a crutch.
Oh my GOD this is everything I ever want in a platformer and so much more!! The movement is so deep & weighty. Every single jump feels momentous and rewarding. The level design is so rich that no single jump ever feels like filler. Every single corner of this world wants to teach you something, or just show you how cool you have become. The gameplay is paced immaculately; shorter gimmicky segments are interweaved with longer segments so you never get too complacent or too exhausted. The level design drastically reinvents itself with each area, it's always such a delight to find somewhere new and be forced to devise a new intuition for navigation, and as a result, gain new movement intuition as well. This game proves that optional collectibles might be the best video game mechanic of all time. You are always offered an opportunity to challenge yourself or explore in a new direction, or you can just leave em for later when you've got a better grasp of your movement quirks. I have a bit of a one-track mind, so when playing a new game, I usually gun it straight for the any% ending or feel the need to go for Everything. However, in Derelict Star, I always had my eye on a cool new platforming challenge. It didn't matter if the main path skipped a few simple qbits for now or if I was spending 30 minutes on something completely optional right next to a main objective, every jump this game has to offer is just so elegant and enticing. Also side note I love how the level design actively explores your hitbox so intimately, now I know what it's like to be tall and skinny and it's kinda awesome The pixel art is so lovingly rendered; each new environmental gimmick stands out as a gameplay element & blends effortlessly into the sprawling atmosphere. All the colors are so lush and punchy, and the environments evoke classic metroidvania nostalgia while introducing some pretty unnerving abstract environments. The setpieces in some scripted segments are so so hype, and the music kic…
A review of 868-BACK by Bennett Foddy: Michael Brough makes deceptively simple-looking games that have an enormous amount of depth - his last game Cinco Paus is the only game I am still playing on my phone, nine years after it came out. I’m just a couple of hours into this new one and it already seems much deeper, bigger and more ambitious than the last one. You’ll probably be a little stumped at first! Getting to know his games, going from ‘totally lost’ to ‘lost in thought’ is a huge part of what’s enjoyable about them. /edit 2 days later: good lord I am totally addicted to this game, in the best way possible
a screenshot of a terminal from Derelict Star reading: try as you might you can't find any sign of an anxiety dial or like a "check to hide this message in the future" option - some way to tell your body that you got the message now please shut the hell up
an excerpt from a Steam review for Derelict Star that reads: "With all that said, the game is a step above the mediocrity that is all video games these days, therefore me getting all the power cells and over half of the collectables. Why then the negative review? Because of the writing. What do you mean I should only do optional stuff for "the love of the game"? You think I'm going through this for the story? The story about a lone, depressed astronaut with self-esteem issues? That stumbles upon an abandoned space station that has an AI with a gleeful voice, that sometimes breaks down and is very mean? Lemme guess, the struggle the player goes through playing the game is an allegory for the character fighting their depression. Such BlueSky-coded narrative is copy pasted across much of modern media and it must not be tolerated."
A screenshot of a terminal interface in Derelict Star displaying the following text: "and complies with all local laws for any sectors the ship is assigned to operate in as confirmed by an accredited committee with expertise in all known galactic regulations | accreditation ref. 3083992 |
A picture of a book titled "Overcoming Anticipatory Anxiety" by Sally M. Winston, PsyD and Martin N Seif, PhD
STEAM DECK COMPATIBILITY ✅ Verified
Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow The intro level made me rage quit, unfortunately. “Haha here are a bunch of jumps that are hard in an uninteresting way like every other game, but we are going to give you controls that are clunkier than any other game, and we won’t polish them…” No time for that… If there is [...] gate @GateEightyEight honestly this could be an example of the tutorial gating you correctly. i'm sorry it frustrated you but it's fundamentally a game about the movement system. i'm not hiding a different type of game play further in. all the mechanics and puzzles revolve around the movement.
Reviews "I seriously cannot recommend this game enough" Raigan Burns "It is absolutely lovely" Daniel Linssen "The intro level made me rage quit" Jonathan Blow
To say this is one of the greatest platformers I've played would be a major understatement, and I have been into the weeds of precision platformers for somewhere in the ballpark of fifteen to twenty years. The controls are very unique in a way that doesn't feel novel "for the sake of being novel." It's one of those games that's hard to understand how it plays without being the ones with fingers pressing the buttons. Right out of the gate it feels very smooth and satisfying, but the more you play, the more the depth and nuance of your controls unfolds. It is nothing short of magical to discover a new trick, or some strange interaction you weren't expecting. This happens a *lot* of times throughout the course of the game. It is quite rewarding to learn, and it's even more rewarding to apply what you've learned. There were several points in my playthrough where I learned something new and immediately had an idea of somewhere else I'd previously been where the new knowledge may be relevant. It is a very large game just in terms of raw number of rooms, and the scope expands greatly and breathes new life into a large chunk of already-experienced rooms when a revelation presents itself. The beautiful visuals informed by PICO-8 and very spacey/open sound design only enhances the feeling of being lost in this vast abstract world. Particularly, the jetpack, falling, and landing sound design makes you feel very heavy in a small but important way. The soundtrack is also filled with love, though sparse in some locations. The introspective text provided in exchange for progression is also very thoughtful and personally hit painfully close to my heart. I am not even close to 50% of the way done collecting All the things, and I've sunk a day into the game. Derelict Star is a masterpiece, and if you like precision platforms it's required reading. If you don't like precision platformers, this one is VERY different from others and it's still worth your time. [...recommended...]
Derelict Star Steam page with 45 reviews, 100% positive.
a picture of my reviews on steam. sitting a 95% positive; 24 reviews.
a comparison of derelict star and mario maker 2 spike hitbox size. mario maker 2 is comically (but accurately!) much larger than the spike image itself.
a code block with the following code: func _get_delta_y_value(x: float, disable_splash := false) -> float: var out = 0.0 if wave_height > 0: if standing_wave: out = ( sin(2*PI*(x/period_in_pixels-signf(motion_direction)*time/frequency_seconds)) + sin(2*PI*(x/period_in_pixels+signf(motion_direction)*time/frequency_seconds)) )/2.0 * wave_height else: out = sin(2*PI*(x/period_in_pixels-signf(motion_direction)*time/frequency_seconds))*wave_height if not disable_splash: for splash in splashes: out += splash.get_contribution(x) if current_percentage != 1.0: out = depth_in_pixels - (depth_in_pixels - out)*current_percentage return out
image of a save file interface that lists the following: file 2 (current) time played: 6:28 qbits: 646; batteries: 13
screenshot of the following code: const center_to_feet_distance := 4 const slow_vax := 15.0 const vax := 30.0 const run_vax := 40.0 const slow_ax := 27.0 const ax := 54.0 const run_ax := 63.0 const in_water_ax_mult := .5 const in_water_gravity_mult := .3 const in_water_friction_mult := .3 const ice_ax_mult := .5 const friction := 72.0 const knocked_out_friction := 25.2 const ice_friction_mult := 0.0 const ice_animation_speed_mult := 1.5 const water_animation_speed_mult := .75 const respawn_seconds := 1.0 const respawn_seconds_on_longer_death := 2.0 const light_grow_seconds := .5 const respawn_shrink_ratio := 1.3 const light_shrink_seconds := respawn_seconds/respawn_shrink_ratio const no_light_seconds := respawn_seconds - light_shrink_seconds const h_bounce := .5 const on_ice_bounce := .7 const knocked_out_h_bounce := .8 const v_bounce_knocked_out := .8 const v_bounce_knocked_out_min_speed := 20.0 const air_bounce_min_speed = 15.0 const floor_bounce_min_speed = 30.0 const ice_bounce_min_speed = 5.0 const min_jump := -19.2 const low_jump := -19.2 const lightning_hop := -25.0 const jump := -30.6 const high_jump := -39.0 const jump_off_ladder_up := -14.0 const jump_off_ladder_down := 12.0 const short_ball_jump := -22.0 const high_ball_jump := -39.0 const small_short_ball_jump := -21.0 const small_high_ball_jump := -27.0 const walking_air_jump := -25.7 const running_air_jump := -25.7 const horizontal_ladder_snap := 2 const ladder_plat_corner_margin_above := 4 const ladder_plat_corner_margin_below := 6 const knock_out_speed := 30.6 const horizontal_head_knock_out_speed := 30 const horizontal_always_knock_out_speed := 45.0 const slow_walk := 15.0 const walk_speed := 30.0 const run_speed := 45.0 const max_speed := 90.0 const in_water_speed_mult := .80 const in_water_max_fall_speed_mult := .35 const stop_walk_animation_speed := 2.0 const max_fall_speed := 90.0 const gravity := 90.0 [...] (truncated bc of bsky alt text character limits)
An email to myself with the subject "Evil computer output?" and the body "Evil part of computer output. Anything I can do when I'm not sleepy or is this literally made up?"
top review: 1/5 stars - "There is no help" bottom review: 5/5 stars - "this entire experience was excruciating pain. thank you"
legit award that says "good job gate you made a good game"