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- Comment on Gotta make sure your watching its back 1 week ago:
No, it’s one of those “don’t believe the targeted harassment campaign” arguments
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
Try reading the article
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
What about that? If they bought it, but haven’t played it, yet, should they not have to pay for for it?
Or does that somehow make people buying an indie game and bragging about having fun completing the game, then refunding it afterwards, look better?
Developer Mateo Covic, who went viral for complaining that thousands of people had refunded his game after finishing it in less than two hours, says he’s not actually unhappy about the number of refunds or money he lost, or even Steam’s policy in general—he was merely expressing frustration with players who “bragged about having a fun time with the game and refunding it after completion.”
- Comment on Oblivion 3 weeks ago:
I had one prof here in Germany that did this as well. It was his own book. He was adamant that everyone taking his class had to get the latest version, upgrading it every semester.
- Comment on Need some help with Brütal Legend's combat 3 weeks ago:
I’m at the very start. I have had my first RTS battle, but this is just a quest fight with a limited amount of units. If they are dead I fail the mission. It’s just hard to keep them alive. And I feel like I don’t really know what I’m doing
- Comment on Need some help with Brütal Legend's combat 3 weeks ago:
I’m at the very start. I have had my first RTS battle, but this is just a quest fight with a limited amount of units. If they are dead I fail the mission. It’s just hard to keep them alive.
- Comment on Need some help with Brütal Legend's combat 3 weeks ago:
Haha, no that was pure coincidence
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on If There Was an Adverting Blitz to Get Young Girls to Get HPV Tests, Would That Be Known as a Smear Campaign? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Half a Million Nameless Heroes: Gothic 1 Remake Sells 500,000 Copies in First Week 1 month ago:
That sounds great! Excited to try it eventually.
- Comment on Half a Million Nameless Heroes: Gothic 1 Remake Sells 500,000 Copies in First Week 1 month ago:
I think the weird combat controls are one of the things that made it so special. You really had to learn it and got better and better, mirroring the protagonists profession and making you way more invested in the game.
- Comment on Guys, I am in need of niche media to larp, any suggestions? 2 months ago:
I bet The Owl House would work great. Fun, weird, inclusive, magical, fantasy world that is parallel to ours. In a similar direction: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power.
- Comment on Guys, I am in need of niche media to larp, any suggestions? 2 months ago:
To larp? How do you larp niche media?
- Comment on This Minecraft map that recreates, [Kowloon Walled City], one of history's most notorious slums made me reconsider what's important in 3D level design 7 months ago:
That was a good read, thanks!
- Comment on Smart kid 8 months ago:
Didn’t know there is a dedicated Mickey7 community!
- Comment on Bet tankies are starting to regret their aggressive propaganda. 8 months ago:
I don’t get it either. Is this some American thing?
- Comment on Apple and Google won’t like this... [Free Software Foundation just gave humanity a final shot at salvation by announcing the Librephone] | Fireship [4:10] 9 months ago:
Yes, sure. An open source mobile phone is the only thing that can save humanity from… too much time on mobile phones? “Silicon valley algorithms”? Here a a couple of random facts, now go check out my sponsor.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 9 months ago:
Image Mae from Night in the Woods
- Comment on Do boycotts work? 9 months ago:
I don’t think you can effectively boycott whole countries if you aren’t doing so on a country level.
Consumer level boycotts against companies on the other hand seem to work very well.
- Comment on Remember the past 9 months ago:
Kids these days don’t even know what memes are. For them webcomics and social media screenshots, even plain political ones without a shred of humor, are just memes. Everything is a meme now…
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 9 months ago:
Maybe smaller titles should enable players to actively communicate times to meet.
- Comment on How Do I Validate My Game Idea? (Please Help) 10 months ago:
I’ve come to the conclusion that you need to actually put something playable in front of a bunch of people who don’t know you, to properly gauge how compelling your game is. Ideally a vertical slice where with the necessary polish to convey the feel of the end product.
Let them play and watch. Listen to their feedback, but don’t put too much weight on it. Players usually can’t account for the limits of a prototype, even if it is a vertical slice. Also they usually can’t quite pinpoint what made them like or dislike something, but they will want to give you feedback. Just note what they say and try to figure out later what the underlying issues might have been. More importantly, you need to watch them play. Ideally you want a setup where there are a bunch of games, like at a gamedev gathering, or at least something else to do, where people can freely decide to play your game or not and don’t feel forced to do so. Seeing how they interact with the game on their own terms, seeing how long they play, whether they get their friends to play it as well, is the true litmus test.
To have a successful indie game, I believe, it needs to capture people on its own, just by it’s presentation and gameplay. And it needs to deliver such a memorable experience that people will recommend it to their friends and talk to each other about it.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 11 months ago:
Game developers hate players. They keep breaking our beautiful games and optimizing the fun out of them!
- Submitted 11 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on How do you reconcile staying sane while keeping yourself up-to-date with the news? 11 months ago:
I listen to one weekly news podcast (Lage der Nation), that focuses on the most important topics for where I live, which includes big international events.
Getting an update on the relevant happenings once a week, feels way healthier than reading what’s going horribly wrong somewhere multiple times a day.
I had to unfollow and unsubscribe a bit on mastodon and Lemmy to reduce the amount of news I see there, but now it’s tolerable.
However, I still have to take breaks, when I feel my mental health isn’t up for it.
- Submitted 1 year ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism (Benn Jordan) 1 year ago:
Absolutely! I feel like they actually have the opposite effect here in Lemmy. People seem to read the click bait title and just down vote without engaging at all. I might need to start tweaking the titles when I post them here.
- Submitted 1 year ago to videos@lemmy.world | 5 comments
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