my extremely accurate and not-at-all wishful thinking predictions for gaming news in 2025:

Bethesda announces that they will stop using the GameBryo/Creation engine and are going to work with the modding community to create a robust set of modding/development tools for Unreal instead, while also porting all useful functionality from Creation to their new engine. the project is expected to take several years, but is going to happen alongside a remake of Oblivion that is going to use Morrowind’s dialog system and emphasize player freedom even more than the original. also they’re going to be releasing the source code for all of their previous games so that the modding community can just go fucking crazy

the indie world becomes obsessed with scifi tactical shooters inspired by Hideous Destructor and GZDoom modding. it becomes yet another massive indie trend until AAA studios try to capitalize on it

id reveals that they’re officially renaming DOOM (2016) to Doom: The Newer One (2016) to avoid any further confusion. also they’re giving up on Doom: The Dark Ages because “we still can’t figure out what makes the original Doom fun, even after three games.” instead, their next project is going to be teaming up with the creators of Hideous Destructor to create a spiritual successor set in the Doom universe - jumping on the AAA bandwagon

Ubisoft announces that the next Watch Dogs game is going to be a remake of Watch Dogs 2 and this time there will be no crunching or deadlines at any time during development, adding “we don’t know what we were thinking last time. for the remake we’re going to give our workers the time and space needed to make something that’s actually well-written and high-effort”

EA publicly apologizes for using the name “Star Wars: Battlefront” for their low-effort microtransaction trash. then they reveal that they’re going to remake and expand the original Battlefront games in the Frostbite engine while keeping as true to the original gameplay as possible

Shigeru Miyamoto reveals that Pikmin 5 is going to have RTS controls that will work using the Switch 2’s mouse mode, and it will also be available on PC

Skyrim made so much money that all AAA studios and publishers become Skyrim-lusted. they all collectively give up on launching live service matchmaking hero-shooters and start releasing immersive first-person open world roleplaying games with a heavy emphasis on emergent systems, atmosphere, and player freedom. also they’re going to make these games as moddable as possible

all JRPG studios start focusing on the Skyrim formula too and their games are full of adorable anime characters that you can make friends with and date. also they completely give up on overcomplicated RPG mechanics and focus that energy into food and cool clothes/armor like in Monster Hunter

Nintendo announces that their next Zelda project will have a tone and art style similar to the child Link parts of Ocarina of Time with gameplay heavily inspired by Wind Waker, but they’re going to de-emphasize cutscene- and dialog-based storytelling and you can disable scrolling text in the main menu

i think the idea of a wrapper class should have more first class support in languages

inheritance: hey, i-

no

some tips for people like me who get sensory issues from wearing sunscreen:

• try a spray-on sunscreen that is not water-resistant. on your skin, those feel a lot more like bug spray than sunscreen and might be tolerable for an hour or two at a time. after that you can just take a shower/bath to wash them off
• always apply/spray it outdoors because you do not want sunscreen residue anywhere in your home
• don’t under any circumstances get a water-resistant sunscreen. they are an actual nightmare to remove, even in the bath/shower

it’s amazing how much better my health can become when I’m within walking distance of literally anything other than suburbs

the entire sun can fuck off and die (I got a sunburn yesterday)

it’s really weird to me that the import path influences the identity of a type in javascript (at least in firefox, anyway)

import { AType } from './type.js'
import { AType as AType2 } from './/type.js'
import { AType as AType3 } from './type.js'

console.log(AType === AType2) // false
console.log(AType === AType3) // true

I’ve been playing #Pikmin4 and I think it’s overall a really interesting evolution of the series with some extremely welcome QoL improvements. it’s clear that a lot of work went into making this game very featureful for powerusers like me and I love that. also Oachi is the greatest video game character of all time and I would die for them /ex

I wish the game had been designed with more of a focus on multitasking, though. like Pikmin 2 - where breaking down a gate took like half a day and you’d want to switch between characters in order to do something else in the meantime

I feel like #Pikmin and Creeper World are the two closest things to RTSes that I’ll be able to enjoy lol - although I’ve been wanting to make an “RTS” of my own (it would have an RTS control scheme and RTS units but the gameplay would be very very different)

but I think that for me to enjoy a game, I need there to be a safe state* that is essentially the default state, and that I need to actively choose to leave. and RTSes aren’t really designed this way - you’re always in danger in some way or other because the enemies are proactively coming after you and becoming more dangerous over time as they ramp up their economies

* in Doom, this is when there are no aggroed enemies left. in Minecraft this is when I’m inside of my base, where no enemies can get to me. in Creeper World this is once I have enough defensive structures to sustainably repel the creep

did you know?

you can pet the rown

Depending by your taste in music, this will make "a thousand miles" either better or worse.

writing a 3d renderer is funny because it’s like oops, i put a 0 where the 1 should be and now the cube is doing backflips and also noneuclidean and i think time is turned inside out

If you haven't already, sub to my new youtube account for the reading portion of me being a bard
https://www.youtube.com/@SuccubardsLibrary

(though Twitch has better audio quality... https://www.twitch.tv/octaviaconamore)

#Vtuber #ENVtuber #Bard #Bookstodon

I think I really like when games (especially in a familiar/approachable genre) are hard to wrap your head around at first, where you have to build a whole new intuition around how to play them

that was what drew me to Portal initially (I wanted to be able to intuitively grasp portalling around) and then to Receiver, Duskers, Hideous Destructor, Receiver 2, 4D Miner, 4D Golf, and Beyond Citadel in roughly that order

and I think that’s what keeps drawing me to #RTS games, despite the fact that I dislike other RTS genre conventions like the fast-paced constant-pressure nature of the gameplay

I think what makes me want to play them is because they look really weird and counterintuitive and difficult to wrap your head around at first, since you’re supposed to be controlling a whole map’s worth of units at once. and I think I’d really enjoy learning how to do that, if the gameplay were much more chill and at-your-own-pace

I have a rough game idea for an “RTS” that’s very chill and more focused on slow exploration and expansion (very similar to the Creeper World games) but I hope that we’ll see more chill RTSes in the future too. I have some hope for Wartorn being that way, despite the demo having 200+ ms of input lag for me T_T

holding the website down with my foot & pointing my sword at them as I check this box:

TCG level 0: my card has an effect

TCG level 1: my card negates your effect

TCG level 2: my card’s effect cannot be negated (statistically, your game is probably here right now)

TCG level 3: my card negates your effect that cannot normally be negated

TCG level 4: my card cannot be negated, even by effects that negate effects that cannot normally be negated

TCG level 5: singularity

aaa made a silly config manager for myself

https://git.kitsu.cafe/rowan/configctl