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OG dies a lot in Reality Break (Demo)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6sQFHTm1Jk

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#DHBsummershowcase #RealityBreak #roguelite #topdown #lootershooter #IndieGameTrends #IndieWatch #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #Gameplay #letsplay #gaming

Zoals deze, combinatie van de Minstroom, het oude spoor van Maliebaan en een hoekje Abstede.

#Utrecht #Photography #Drone #TopDown #CaptionWillFollow

@iinavpov

D'accord à condition que le "politiquement viable" ne soit pas une resucée des vieux "principes de réalité" de papa #crise #lamaisonbrule #ellefaitpassemblant ... #radicalité sans #extremisme quand même, logiques #bottomup et désobéissances de toutes sortes *en même temps* que négo #topdown : inclusivité kwa non ?

@gallegre

Just discovered these guys #YellowLabGames on #ddc2023 who are working on an amazing #brawler #roguelite #topdown #RPG #pixelart 2D game about a drummer #Metavoidal Prepare your drumsticks! I am really excited about it.

OG plays Kill The Crows!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uXcbcpo6fc

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#Blaugust #Blaugust2023 #KillTheCrows #topdown #shooter #fastpaced #pixelart #IndieGameTrends #IndieWatch #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #Gameplay #letsplay #gaming

Some more progress on my fanmade terraria top-down mockup.

#terraria #topdown #pixelart

August 12, 2023 - Day 224 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 244

Game: Hot Brass

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Feb 17, 2021
Library Date: Aug 4, 2023
Unplayed: 8d
Playtime: 16m

Hot Brass is the final game in this month's Humble Choice bundle, and answers the question, "What if Rainbow Six Siege was a top-down game about SWAT cops?"

I'll start out with saying I'm wary about reviewing this, purely on the basis of it being by a local Melbourne developer, and if I rip it to shreds, I feel like there's a chance that I probably know someone who knows someone.

However, I need to get this out of the way. I cognitively understand why "ACAB" is a thing, yet I still struggle to reconcile it personally with some people I know who are very much C, but very much not B.

However, one cannot get away from the fact that SWAT teams are militarised police, and Hot Brass is a SWAT team simulator, so TCAB.

On a purely gameplay front, I wasn't quite sure how to make sense of the game, but a couple of minutes of the tutorial and I was ready to jump ahead and into the game.

It's much the same as most first or third-person shooters: WASD movement, CTRL to crouch, point weapons with mouse. Space to sprint is an odd choice, though. 1 & 2 to switch between primary & secondary, 3 & 4 for flashbang & door breach charge.

Right-click to yell at a non-compliant suspect... F to tase a suspect into compliance, E to handcuff a compliant suspect...

...it got ugly quickly.

I tried to just play without thinking about it too much, but I couldn't compartmentalise.

I've lived with depression and anxiety for most of my adult life, and my late Dx for autism explained a lot of that. I'm trans.

I'm now painfully aware in a way that I wasn't when I was younger that there are several different aspects of my identity in which an encounter with police could end badly for me, and I still have the privilege that comes from being white and educated.

I'm not Breonna Taylor, or Elijah McClain, or Eric Parsa, or Maddie Hoffman, or Clare Nowland. These names and more are burned into my brain, countering the lifelong messaging that the police are there to protect me.

As I breach the door in the first mission, then start yelling at someone expressing thanks that the police have arrived, followed by handcuffing them, it's all a bit too visceral, even as a top-down game with my character represented by a circle with a MP5 icon. I'm not having fun.

The mechanics of the game are well executed, and on a purely technical level, it seems like a good game. Some of the illustrations in the loading screens are... I can see a lot of effort and love went into them, and I'll leave it there.

Unfortunately, I can't enjoy playing as a cop; Hot Brass is:

2: Meh

#HotBrass #TopDown #Shooter #HumbleChoice #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

OG plays Barely Racing (Beta)!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY-9y1XelU8

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#Blaugust #Blaugust2023 #combat #racing #topdown #multiplayer #IndieGameTrends #IndieWatch #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #Gameplay #letsplay #gaming

I published a pixel art asset on itch.io featuring 17 home video game consoles. Handheld consoles and Joysticks/Gamepads are on roadmap. It's my first commercial item on itch.io.

https://stephann.itch.io/gaming-room

#pixelart #aseprite #2D #topdown

Current #Vibes #topdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pReEUxHxJM

#SystemsInnovation - #Causality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_ykeBfd5ds&ab_channel=SystemsInnovation

#Philosophy #Science #Systems #SystemsThinking #CauseAndEffect #Cause #Effect #Physics #Induction #Hume #DavidHume #ConstantConjunction #LinearCausality #NonLinearCausality #Feedback #Holism #HolisticSynthetic #TopDown #BottomUp #Emergence #Emergentism #Reduction #Reductivism

More recent #pixelart done in authentic #NES graphics. In this #topdown scene #mockup I have used all the 4 palettes with a lot of shared colors to render fewer materials (stone and grass) but at many different angled bevels, trying to wrap the texture seamlessly around all the ramps and flat surfaces. Could be done with less colors to allow more materials, but the shading and shadows would be less natural and interesting.

Bidenomics Is Working: The President’s Plan Grows the Economy from the Middle Out and Bottom Up—Not the Top Down

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/06/28/bidenomics-is-working-the-presidents-plan-grows-the-economy-from-the-middle-out-and-bottom-up-not-the-top-down/

#Bidenomics #Economy #MiddleOut #BottomUp #TopDown #WhiteHouse #Politics #News

Having good aim🔫 is essential to surviving as part of the Cleanup Crew

Reminder: Hire a better aiming gif recording intern☠️

Wishlist on Steam 🚀🚀
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2401090/

#roguelite #bullethell #topdown #IndieGameDev #indiedev #wishlistwednesday

#godotengine 2D reflection tests. Two techniques in play here, the altar and the purple framed mirror are 'faking' reflections by making copies of the player (and anything else with a 'reflection component).

The big pane is using a #shader, that would be a great solution if this was a side scrolling #indiegame, but can't really work in a #topdown game in most cases, as it can't render anything that is 'in front' of it in render order.

Gotta love the smell of millions of creatures being squashed in the morning. ☕

Wishlist Cleanup Crew and prepare to sweep hordes of enemies untill you get blisters on your fingers!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2401090/Cleanup_Crew/

#roguelite #bullethell #topdown #IndieGameDev #indiedev #followfriday #screenshotsaturday

June 29, 2023 - Day 180 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 199

Game: Tower of Time

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Apr 12, 2018
Library Date: Dec 21, 2022
Unplayed: 191d (6m9d)
Playtime: 43m

Tower of Time is a... I guess top-down tactical RPG? It's a squad-based dungeon crawler that has some very nice, polished aspects, and some "we used interns for this" design decisions that feel a little jarring.

And so much text to wade through.

I'm not sure how much actual *playtime* was in that 43 minutes, because this is a game in love with telling its own narrative, in grandiose text screen after text screen that you need to get through to actually play the damn thing.

The actual dungeon-crawling aspect isn't too bad. The squad-based strategy is this odd mix of tactical & real-time strategy.

You can pause the action and go semi-tactical, or you can slow down time by clicking on one of the squad members action keys which is almost like bullet-time.

Live switching between the different squad members in play and trying to synergise their skills feels a little bit like the aspects of character synergy in Honkai Starrail.

The first level dungeons are quite pretty, but I'm not sure if the slowdowns during the game were due to the graphics settings, or that it was running off spinning rust.

Tower of Time is:

3: OK

#TowerOfTime #TopDown #RPG #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

Auch auf Mastodon ist es, wie sonstwo: Der Großteil der Unternehmen, die von Kommunikation leben, betreibt auf Social Media kaum welche. Seien es Tageszeitungen oder Rundfunkanstalten (Ausnahme: Arte) - sie alle betreiben ihre Accounts als reine Topdown-Sendekanäle.

#communitybuilding #sendeempfänger #topdown #socialmedia #publisher #journalism

June 17, 2023 - Day 168 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 186

Game: Weird West: Definitive Edition

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Apr 1, 2022
Library Date: Jun 5, 2023
Unplayed: 12d (12d)
Playtime: 1h45m

Oops.

Weird West is a top-down twin-stick immersive sim set in an alternative wild west full of monsters bad juju.

The whole point of this endeavour was to reduce the number of unplayed games in my pile of shame, not add to the pile, and yet here we are with Weird West.

I assume part of it is my ADHD, and the "ooh, shiny" dopamine hit when something grabs my interest. A couple of weeks ago I saw the demo for Weird West and grabbed it. I also (and I have no recollection of doing so) wishlisted it.

Running on 2.5 hours sleep this morning, and I get an email saying "Weird West is on special!"

Fired up the demo, bought the game. Between Weird West, and Evil West, I guess the old west crossed with the supernatural is a thing now.

The cross between top-down and immersive sim makes for some interesting gameplay, however there were times when I felt like I wanted to zoom right in to a third-person perspective when in fights, but the fixed camera position made it a little bit frustrating.

Given that if you ask me to choose between western and sci-fi, I'm going to choose sci-fi, I was a little surprised at the way Weird West hooked me.

Weird West is:

4: Good

#WeirdWest #TopDown #ImmersiveSim #TwinStick #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay