Comment on Anon misses flash
Muffi@programming.dev 6 days ago
The amateur game dev community is thriving like never before. Itch.io has become Newgrounds on steroids, full of incredibly creative, fun and free games.
People like to complain about what has been lost on the modern internet, without spending any time actually looking and trying out the new niches.
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
How are you finding decent free games on itch? Every time I go it’s a flood of visual novels, shit “horror” games, or whatever the latest streamer bait is but poorly copied 1000 times. And the filtering tools are just limited enough that I can’t seem to get a good “feed” going.
Newgrounds was far from a neverending fointain of pure quality, but I feel like finding quality stuff on it is an order of magnitude harder than it used to be in the days of flash. Used to be curated lists and sites with new quality stuff like every week.
Muffi@programming.dev 5 days ago
I engage in the community - just like the good old newgrounds days. There was also tons of unplayable, eyecatchy stuff back then, we just dont remember it as much.
The most effektive way is to participate in game jams, get to know people and find out who makes the quality stuff. Pretty much exactly like finding good new podcasts or youtubers. It takes some effort but it is totally worth it.
nobody158@r.nf 5 days ago
Add to the end of the url ?exclude=tg.visual-novels
That should get rid of the ones that are properly labeled. Sadly only works with one tag but definitely helps.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Browse by genre and you won’t see any visual novels unless you want to