I just tried playing Prodeus recently and it made me realize that something I really value in a shooter is visual clarity. in Doom (1993) you can see like 3 pixels and know just based on the color palette that you’re looking at an imp. or you could see an item out of the corner of your eye and know immediately that it’s a red keycard. everything has not just a distinctive silhouette, but a distinctive color palette that pops from the background

a lot of modern shooters can’t do that (Prodeus included), because their priority is to look visually impressive instead of visually clear. they have all kinds of fancy shader effects, reflections, colored lighting, etc. and that adds way too much visual noise for the game to be able to clearly communicate what’s going on to the player

it reminds me of the difference between Halo 1 and Halo 1 Remastered, where the remastered version has more polygons and lighting effects but at the expense of a lot of visual clarity. another example that comes to mind is DoTA 2 vs. League of Legends

I learned two new terms today! these things (first image) are called “slider buckles”, and they’re the plastic things that let you loosen or tighten the straps on E.G. a backpack

and these things (second image) are called “side squeeze buckles”

also, the way that side squeeze buckles lock together is called “indexing”. one half of the buckle “indexes” the other half - locking it in place

source: https://redd.it/1k0jyp5

#transhumanism #transhuman #transtrans

three demos left to try! one of these isn’t a #NextFest demo but just something I’ve been meaning to try for a while anyway

also I wanted to say that Jitter looks really really fun if you’re an autistic scifi nerd like me. definitely recommend giving the demo a try

it’s Steam #NextFest!

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfest

I may have gotten a little carried away installing demos

if I like any of them, I’ll hopefully remember to post about that here! I’m especially excited to try Fellowship and White Knuckle

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some PR guy for Doom: The Dark Ages: “and if you’re a long-time fan, then you’ll be proud to see [that] in a lot of ways, the feel of the game is really a return to form […] just like in the classic Doom games”