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But if we're talking about having more dynamism, indefinite structure and secondary objectives to the genre then 100%.

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Which either boil down to speed or completion as the performance metric, I feel like adding lives/score to that would either be redundant or serve to make this type of game more reset heavy than they are.

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some blend of endurance/consistency challenge (source surfing, geometry dash, defrag slick maps) and resource management/routing challenge (defrag combo maps, tf2 jump).

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David Piskorowski @pd-cgt.bsky.social · 14h

I agree but (assuming the stages are static and finite) the problem moreso just seems to be overly generous checkpointing when it comes to making the challenges seem more disposable. When there's less checkpoints the transition from each individual challenge starts to matter more and creates-

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FLERITZ preview is live on Itch. (length is est. 10-15 minutes) This demo will reveal what the next Impact Project title is. Please take a look. pd-cgt.itch.io/fleritz-prev...

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Shroomius @shroomius.itch.io · 16h

good tv right there

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Shroomius @shroomius.itch.io · 16h

Lanterns finale very good 👍

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Shroomius @shroomius.itch.io · 17h

all these sites got it out for me bro and i dont even know why

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Shroomius @shroomius.itch.io · 17h

my Everything App account has been suspended idk why though bcus all i do is retweet things and upload my media thread on there

Shroomius @shroomius.itch.io · 17h

We're arguing like Gary and Gladys Galumph!

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oh cool he actually did it www.youtube.com/live/fV9rheI...

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GRIEF VERIFIED

YouTube video by Doggie

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this and all of those Epic Aesthetic "Internet Checkpoint" dogshit videos where they have no title, don't link any of the songs, and have a random picture of some bullshit are on the same level

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aesthetic equivalent of cartoon radioactive sludge

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the clip at 0:52 is a crazy shot btw

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BROKE RECORDS || XONADO COMBAT ARMS

combat arms, just by being f2p was able to be something that was still getting players during the cod series' top years and still has it's fragmovie freaks caring about it youtu.be/gCISblLJ5Zw

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YouTube video by xonado CA BR

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and i guess i did because even though combat arms was a z-tier shooter it just reminds me that there was genuinely a time where, if an online game just had a mild advertising budget and could keep it's servers up regularly, it would just passively accumulate players

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Pro Pizza With M4 Super 90 + xk-8

apparently youtube thought i needed to see some combat arms gameplay today youtu.be/5hfS_Pz8GoE

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YouTube video by CuDaiCa12

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judge for yourself but i dont think this using ai is the worst thing ever, just very lame, not cj-shadowstep tier imo

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in their history (they're a 3d artist oustide of this), looking at the scripts there's very weird comments that are kinda hard to write off in the way that weird code comments usually are (and also they use 3 slashes for comments when rust only needs 2 iirc) github.com/deltarooo/er...

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the mod's repo is public, sm64 itself has existed for a while before this recent stuff, it doesn't have the usual tells of ai stuff like having claude as a contributor, but the author's github account was made the day the mod was posted and they seem to have nothing modding/programming related-

splendidland🌱 @splendid.land · 04/10/2026

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when i first made this i thought "this isn't funny or good at all, why should i post this anywhere?". i am not at all a self depreciating artist or anything, i just didn't like it in the moment. i think that was the most wrong feeling i've ever had

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Berry 🍇 @nyamukoneko.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the bunny can now KICK

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id say my only gripes with it is that the early game is always kinda boring and that the crt shader gets to be a bit much and i wish i could just turn it off

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Head Half Empty by Anamnesia

cool game made by someone in the hyper demon discord server anamnesia.itch.io/head-half-em...

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Some thoughts, but not that many.

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0 game dev experience 0 productive discussions about games 7 more inflammatory tweets about random games to incite arguments

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excluding mechanics in order to have more fun should be an extra thing on top of a good game. lvl 1 rpg full game runs, action game challenges where you don't use certain moves, restricting elements in an emergent sandbox game. stuff like that shouldn't be the prerequisite for the game being fun

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and for some communities it becomes a dumb debate over whether or not you should do it, where the alternative is just, the game being designed in a way where you don't have to pretend parts of it don't exist in order to have fun

the optimal strategy existing carries itself over any time it's applicable, especially if pivoting to it isn't difficult, and if there's more than one of them, it creates this very goofy situation in some of these games where people are adding their own rules so the game doesn't fall apart

and "dont do the optimal strategy so you can have fun" is usually such a weak argument because it only really works when the optimal strategy is so far out of the way and isn't just something you can do with some mild critical thinking, fancy execution and overuse of a declared game mechanic

or less ludo-narratively, "the developers want interacting with more of the game to be less fun the more you do of it."

but it can (sometimes) still be up to interpretation, but i doubt many developers want a substantial amount of their player's reading of their game to be "the hero now encounters no challenges ever because they decided to help some townspeople out a couple times."-

and adding to that, when caring about these textual elements in these other works, noticing a detail that negatively affects the whole work is a pretty notable thing, "this character's motivation in this scene makes no sense, and the story just keeps treating it like it does" type of shit

its caring about the art, on a base level. people critique novels on how their prose is written, a film's shot composition, a song's instrumentation, i find it very odd that people are weirdly adverse to critiquing how a game's design affect how the game plays.

people usually equate this to how art can have different interpretations and in this type of situation the Optimizing Player just has a weird interpretation, but its like, in most mediums, caring about the literal textual elements that the work displays isn't a "weird interpretation",-

that shouldn't be "oh they optimized the fun out of the game dont pay attention to them" it's, "they played the game, actively caring about it's own logic and their reward for caring is that the game is completely uninteresting now."

and then you back up WHY this makes the game less enjoyable in XYZ way to tie the whole critical point together. e.g "this rpg has a bunch of sidequests with high exp payouts, and as a consequence of me just doing all of them, the majority of the combat encounters end in a single turn."

does it just invalidate one enemy's existence? one level? does the optimal strategy cause a cascading effect wherein, just by doing it everything is easier? is [central mechanic] just a worse version of the optimal strategy, and therefore redundant?

and when this situation happens, the points to critique are how the design breaks down. is the optimal strategy too simple? too easy to execute? extremely boring? unintuitive? counter to everything else the game is designed around? And to what extent does it break the game?-

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the whole point of "players will optimize the fun out of a game" advice is that you should design a game wherein optimal play is still fun. if players are trying to play with all the fun toys you put in and by playing with them how they're designed breaks the game, then the game isn't designed well.

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getting slightly discoursian again, this time about how people are responding to this bog post, and with some of the responses it genuinely seems like some people have never played games where getting better at them is the entire thing the game is about

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