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ඞ ↗x 24 VR enthusiast, 3D TV defender, multidisciplinary artist polyam! DMs open, talk to me! https://sanctumsys.neocities.org https://seaboundsanctuary.bandcamp.com/ https://vgen.co/sanctumsys

sequence from the command and conquer remaster showing an aircraft carrier floating on water. the water is shifting around unnaturally, clearly an ai upscale artefact

screenshot of the 1988 konami arcade game Gang Busters with a tall and short cop standing next to each other. they have spiky hair that makes them look a little like rick and morty

Starblade gameplay with very accurate shooting thanks to gyro controls. low-poly graphics. the player ship flies in first person on a fixed path down toward a planet before turning toward the horizon and firing upon approaching enemy ships

Starblade arcade high score screen. the camera flies between the top ten scores, rendered in 3D, while doing cool flight moves like flipping over

screenshot from the games link game developer conference poster highlighting an obviously ai-generated keyboard with keycaps labeled with weird scribbles that don't make sense but vaguely resemble a real keyboard. some letters are real. obviously AI

a pixel art spaceship with sharp protrusions from the front and winglike sides

two floating islands connected by two sharp bridges spin in space. there are trapezoid-shaped blocky buildings on top of the islands

the same industrial ship from the previous post, shown from eight different evenly-rotated perspectives in a spritesheet

a rotating spaceship that periodically fires lasers. it has a semi-industrial design and the lasers are very short-range, implying that it might be used for construction (or demolishment)

a weird little mashup of airplane and spaceship shown rotating. it's small and has broad wings. the video also briefly shows another small rotating ship, which is firing guns upward

a rotating view of a small, low-poly battlefield mostly made of cubes, with a 3D tank

an animated button depicting a pixel art adventurer stabbing a cartoonish bush creature with a sword. there is text reading sanctumsys to the right

instagram post from titancasket. text reads
The World’s Most Radical Caskets.
With colors for every character.

Delivered nationwide in as little as 2 business days.

(Character artwork not available)

a where in the world is carmen sandiego 80s style remix but instead of the actual lyrics i'm singing sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band reprise

the theme to where in the world is carmen sandiego but with 80s synth VSTs

recording of Reaper DAW. music is a fast piano piece with a choir (my own voice overlaid on itself) singing "in the shadows" followed by a bunch of erratically-spaced "heart"s.

valve index VR headset. the strap's external casing is broken, revealing springs inside. the internal connection between the strap and the display is fine

screenshot of windows explorer showing the three server rack renders from the above post. when wearing red and blue 3D glasses, the third one appears to be recessed into the window itself.

picture of stylized server racks bathed in light and shadow, standing in front of a corner. a large arrow on the wall points around the corner with a "2" label below it. the servers have small pixelated details on them that look like buttons and numbers

video from Evil Genius Entertainment titled "Happy ALIENS day! Why ALIENS is the ultimate B movie"

demonstration of swiping from the middle of the screen on an image carousel (with art by castpixel) opening the menu on the left for some reason

marble blast ultra, the ball rockets past the finish line after a particularly cool bounce

marble blast ultra. the marble travels extremely fast down a surreal, angular landscape, and then just barely misses the goal

burnout paradise clip, a car runs up a ramp and then smashes into a bridge above it and goes flying, spinning multiple times before hitting the ground again. everything gets smashed up

lumines live gameplay. a grid of squares in two distinct shades is onscreen. creating a larger square out of smaller, same-colored squares causes it to disappear and score points

xkcd comic depicting two people arguing over the internet before a third person shows up and carries one over to the other's physical room. they stand face to face for a moment before the original arguer is lifted back to their own room. both arguers then stare silently at their computer screens

i am forbidden from accessing my notifications tab

"about me: video games" grid. favorite game phoenotopia awakening. best story metroid ii, terranigma, thirty flights of loving, gravity bone. favorite art style the catacombs of solaris, atari star wars, jet set radio future, scavenger sv-4, wing commander, elite, tempest. biggest personal impact the hundred line last defense academy. best combat beyond citadel, karateka, thumper, mechwarrior 3, boneworks. overhated bad dudes, mario the lost levels, sonic lost world. underrated virtual boy galactic pinball. overrated zelda a link to the past and breath of the wild. needs a remake none. criminally overlooked million depth, chaos seed, quadrilateral cowboy, laserlife. favorite protagonist psychopomp. favorite antagonists star control ii, saya no uta, moonlight duelists. best soundtrack no man's sky, ys iv, jeff wayne's the war of the worlds, galaxian3 project dragoon. best multiplayer wizard of wor. not usually my thing, but... bangai-o spirits. turn my brain off (positive) fulcrum defender, tetris effect. best with friends earth defense force 4.1, vintage story, warlords, helldivers ii, deep rock galactic, space beast terror fright. best retro game fez, tunic, outer wilds. nostalgic childhood game mechwarrior 4: mercenaries. game everyone should play the guardian legend, zanac, naissancee.

outrun 2006 coast 2 coast in the music selection menu with Daytona USA music modded in

Audacity screenshot listing audio effects, several of which are marketed as "AI tools" or "AI powered instruments and effects"

a 3D model of three cassettes piled up with a fourth leaning on the pile. the top of the cassettes have text reading "INSERT THIS SIDE", TCEI, Terran Colonial Expansion Industries and Recording Index followed by a blank space. the bottom side of the tapes has a flat texture which looks like a slideable window to a roll of tape inside.

a stylized advertisement for the fictional "TCEI Metabox", a software product sold by Terran Colonial Expansion Industries.

song playing in Reaper with a small pixel art anime character dancing over it

video of xevious except there's a bunch of asinine dialogue overexplaining everything that's happening to the player

poster with stars in the background and a claw-like spaceship flying toward the top right corner. text is laid out aligned to the left side. text reads: "from the studio that brought you TANQ and SEGMENTER comes an unprecedented galactic odyssey... from a world of science fiction to a world of science adventure. answer the call. defend humanity in GALACTIC FRONTLINE. a starrestruck studios production. coming to an arcade near you, sooner than you expect. eight simultaneous players. one ship. your entire species' last line of defense is in your capable hands."

typing a / into a number field in aseprite to divide 320 by 2

drawing of four angles of a sharp, blocky-looking spacecraft with claw-like structures coming out of the front. the claws are shaped a bit like the contour between your pointer finger and thumb

a javascript snippet from quitgpt.org's source labeled "headline test" with four different headlines listed, mentioning chatgpt's donations to trump and chatgpt's collaboration with ice in different wordings and combinations. not pictured but in the code above this section is labeled "A/B testing framework"

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow screenshot reading "You just earned some experience! Increase your experience level and unlock new skills by killing enemies."

bomberman jetters episode 44 screenshot. onscreen english subs read "six-seven bees have appeared! six-seven-buzz, eight-buzz-buzz! note: the monster's name is a pun on 6-7-8, with "hachi" being a homonym for "eight" and "bee"."

Midair 2 liking my post "it's still so fucking tragic what happened to tribes 3 rivals"

Million Depth screenshot showing a grid-based weapon customization system. the current weapon has three swords attached to a central hilt with a defensive block above them

picture of a CRT TV with a JRPG menu screen (the game is star ocean). the selected item is "book of hentai (item)" and the description reads "A manga featuring Lum from UY in all kinds of compromising positions!" there is a small image above the description that appears to be the character Lum from Urusei Yatsura, which is an anime that actually exists in real life

Monokuma (a little plush bear gremlin with half a normal face and half an evil smile and winking eye) saying "The police? You're putting your faith in the police?!" incredulously

post from the developer of Ultrakill replying to an image of someone copying Ultrakill illegally with the text "i heart pirating indie games". Hakita's post reads "As creator of said game: You should support indies if you can, but culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it. ULTRAKILL wouldn't exist if I hadn't had easy access to movies, music and games growing up.

If you don't have money, you can support via word of mouth."

short demonstration of varying the start point in samples. in this, i move where the sample starts around in a rhythmic manner

screenshot from mighty bomb jack reading "YOU ARE GREEDY
GO TO THE TORTURE ROOM"

MAME screenshot showing the "configure folders" UI, which is presented as one column that extends too long to fit on the screen so there's an arrow at the bottom to scroll it. all the menu options could easily fit on the screen if there was a second column

astro bot rescue mission clip of whacking astro bot with the dualshock 4

Lumines Arise clip with various silhouetted figures including someone appearing to be walking toward the puzzle matrix, chameleons, spiders, railroad signs and women with cool hats. a really punchy emotional music track is playing

The missability philosophy comes from wanting to steer the adventure experience away from fulfilling linear questlines, which necessarily require more guidance and hints. While Angeline Era does feature a ultimately linear story, it's not the main focus for much of the game so we only need a light touch with guidance. I'm not sure what inspired the initial desire to have the game track minimal main-quest-related state, but it could have been a response to the very linear Sephonie, but, also, we tend to design games where you see everything, so there's always been an itch to make a game where most stuff is optional.

And this game was too late to be a core influence, but I have enjoyed Romancing Saga SNES's approach to missing stuff and every player having a wildly different experience, yet not being as loose as a roguelike, which of course relates to the wide history of TTRPGs/CRPGs and nonlinearity.

The imagery in the thinking behind the mixed up/loose historical structure of Kenzaburo Oe's "The Game of Contemporaneity" also comes to mind - he was inspired by a temporally nonlinear mural by Diego Rivera. The Oe is a much earlier influence so it's possible that guided my thinking. I have always loved the idea of creating a world that feels more like a 'book of myths' where we aren't seeing all that's there, but are forced to accept an incomplete depiction of the world (e.g. the collected Tono Monogatari, or something like Miyazawa's Ihatovo, Naohisa Inoue's Iblard, or even Hiroshi Masamura's Atagoul... or Sakura Momoko's Coji-coji), so to be able to lean into that approach with making the levels has been fun. I want Angeline Era's world to imply there's more we aren't showing, but also signal that to an extent it's up to the imagination to figure out what that is.

paramount+ poster for star trek lower decks. the characters all have disturbingly boxy heads and just generally feel like the product of someone who used to work with justin roiland, i don't know how to explain how it looks in text but the point is i do not find it appealing

Steam "recommendations for you" section recommending i buy a replacement left valve index vr controller

playthrough of a Ninja Gaiden level that goes great except for a bit at the end where i get air-juggled by a bird and a guy with a sword

quote from doc burford's article on wholesome games.
Look, you can never consider yourself special or discerning for enjoying a product that employed a literal army of marketers in a skyscraper somewhere with the express goal of getting you, personally to spend money on the product. You’re a consumer. You bought the most marketed thing in the world. It’s like basing your personality on liking Coca Cola, the most popular soda on the planet. Congratulations on being the laziest motherfucker alive, incapable of discovering anything for yourself because you’re an incurious fuck.

Why would you ever demand respect for doing something easy? Why would you demand respect for liking something popular? It’s popular, which means a lot of people like it. By definition, you cannot be special for liking the big and popular thing!

But along comes the person who buys the game with the ads in Times Square and the commercials on the television and the standee in gamestop and the neverending press coverage (because it gets the clicks, and who’s doing the clicking? a lot of other people just like you!) and they go “I’m special! I’m special for consuming the commercial product!”

I wouldn’t consider you a discerning consumer for buying a McDonald’s McChicken sandwich every day, so why would I consider you a discerning consumer for buying the most commercial shit in the world?

Congratulations on being boring.

Now, hey, this isn’t to say you can’t enjoy popular media! I enjoy a McChicken. The Last of Us 2 had a pretty good shotgun and some nice graphics! But to suggest that you are special for consumption? That’s what is ludicrous. It’s not even serious. It’s pathetic and boring.

Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters (basically a car with a bunch of flashing lights and a loud annoying horn) driving away from the Ghostbusters headquarters

sitelen pona symbols reading "jan Osu pi wawa nasa", which translates roughly to "person Osu (Oz) of strange powers". this is the title of the third official toki pona book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: toki pona edition. (font used for this image is Nishiki-teki)

Passage from the fellowship of the ring, chapter 3, by J.R.R. Tolkien/ Reads "‘And it is also said,’ answered Frodo: ‘Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes.’"