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I forget that people will often dismiss this subgenre as "not video games" albeit by definition it is interactive media, and like you said video games can be whatever a creator wants. Sorry if the way I described it touched a pain spot.

I mean in all fairness the guy was asking an earnest question, I gave an earnest answer. If it came off as blunt dismissive I apologize as that wasn't my intent (social interaction over text lacks tone please forgive me haha).

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I mean this respectfully, there are all kinds of people who enjoy all kinds of games. Some enjoy games where there is a feeling of risk, some enjoy games for a story and experiencing the visuals. Call it a red flag if you want, but this medium is vast and people are here for different reasons.

It is more of a movie that asks you to press buttons from time to time similar to a David Cage or Telltale game than something like Mario. I have seen people say you can put the controller down in most cases and the game will play itself or not let you have a fail state. Great if you enjoy that.

I think it's a step in the right direction but my adrenaline pumps much higher because its a long time investment into a single life. Never been the biggest fan of the genre, and this helps, but it makes it easier to go in with friends who play more than me. Multi-life modes are way less stressful

From a designer and gamer standpoint, if they gave me meaningful PVE content, or introduced a lower stress arena shooter style mode (death match, modes from classic Marathon), I would play a lot more often. The core game is so high stress I can do maybe 2 or 3 runs before I'm actually exhausted lol

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I'm thankful it seems like Sony sees some promise in Marathon enough to keep the lights on at Bungie for now and try to turn around some parts of the game. It would be horrible to see 1000 more people lose their jobs over this

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Jasozz @jasozzgames.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Thinking about how there really isn't a lot of representation of red headed folks like myself in games. Hair colors are much brighter and too orange. If there is a red head, they have overly pale skin and a ton of freckles, and blue eyes, unlike myself. Maybe I should change that in my own work :)

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how to turn a 3D scan into a game-ready mesh, i guess? spent a bit this afternoon tinkering with how to decimate a 3D scan without nuking the texture, kinda cursed but worked decently! #gamedev

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𝙑𝙀𝙀𝙏𝙍𝙄 : Blast Processed 🥑 @parametricavocado.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

"It wasn't me, Sergei, I was in Electrical doing tasks"

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Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

This would fix me. Many people are saying this

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Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

My king, that's some incredible stuff ❤️

Ultra64 @superultra64.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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"What's a BXR?" Halo 2 Battle Rifle Sprite Repaint This one's for you @treversmith.bsky.social

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Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Been getting recommended BF4 vs BF1 vs BF6 shorts in YouTube. Insane how a game that released this last year with 4x the budget can barely keep up with a game released more than 10 years ago. I don't think the manpower and money cost is justifying the means in terms of fidelity of this point

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Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

There is a very striking amount of folks that actually dont care or think they can just fit a higher position or some mystical option they think that they have. I am always baffled by it. I'm thankful a lot of game mechanics are complex enough that most AI code tools mess up too much to be useful.

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Ultra64 @superultra64.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

for a brick he flew pretty good

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Jasozz @jasozzgames.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I've been tinkering with a "spoopy ghost" shader for Bonerooms and stumbled on a neat effect just using some noise to burn down the screen space color, which gives you a neat "ghosting" effect You can also invert the burn to get an additive "fog" look too #gamedev

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Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Incredible, every company that raised prices should have this type of lawsuit brought against them lol. Walmart, Target, major clothing companies, hardware stores, ALL of them. They did not pay that tariff money, the customers did.

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Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Early congratulations to all the new parents that will pop up in 9 months due to Pragmata lmao

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Does everyone keep making extraction shooters because they don't know what else to do or what. Like, sure, there have been a couple hits. But the genre is far too niche to have THIS many games.

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Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

What front end are you using there? That looks SWEET

Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Something like underground, alternative, those may work too but also may be co-opted. Pauperized, Unbacked, and Unfunded/self-funded come to mind as well, but none really grasp at what we have that Indie game means. Maybe an entirely new word would work haha

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Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I remember seeing a post from a fellow dev saying to call indie "incel" games not because of who its made by but because the industry won't take that word so readily. Homemade may work for a time but it will eventually be co-opted

Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

They're using the word Indie these days to mean "AA" (Expedition 33 for example has an ample enough budget, and publisher to be called AA) It is driving me nuts. Mid budget and AA have always been a thing but people keep trying to declare a binary. You need a descriptor that they cannot take.

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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 07/04/2026

These Big AAA studios never cared about being called indie till they found out they could steal the marketing from small team / small budget games We need to rebrand "indie" to "Micro game studios/teams" or something like that to represent what "indie" always really meant when it came to games.

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Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I am aware there are engines that work well on Linux, I'd love to try them *someday* but for now I'm entrenched in Tim Sweeney land. Definitely have my eye on S&box for the future with their deal with valve 👀

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Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Dreaming of a world where I can use Unreal on Linux and not have terrible conflicts/be able to build for windows working with team members who are on windows. Honestly one of the only things holding me back from swapping these days 💔

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

One version of the Mario Bros. arcade has an oversight where reaching 980,000 points gets a Game Over. This happens because the game starts giving Mario extra lives on every frame, overflowing the life counter. As such, he is literally killed by being showered with extra lives.

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Game Garage ⚙️ @gamegarage.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Star Garden lets you enter flow state as you trick off the various obstacles found throughout the Green Glade. Play the FREE demo today! 💫

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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Dare we hope? "... OpenAI... set out plans to spend $1.4 trillion on... data centres... But the company... is now reining in investment under pressure from investors and as rivals... The scaling back... has raised hopes that RAM prices will fall..."

finance.yahoo.com

OpenAI funding fears hit memory chip prices

Spending cuts at OpenAI have hit memory chip prices as fears grow about the tech company’s ability to fund its expansion.

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Andy Kelly @ultrabrilliant.xyz · 30/03/2026

In January 2001, in the OPM2 letters page, Kenneth from Denmark saw the future.

HARD DISK WORRIES

My only fear about PlayStation 2 is concerning the forthcoming Hard Disk Drive. How can gamers be sure that this won't tempt some developers to send out 'unfinished' games as they did with the PC? I hope that you can somehow convince me that this won't be the case.

Kenneth, Denmark

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Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

You're looking to fight for no good reason and do not understand what you're talking about to begin with. Hope you get yourself sorted out :)

Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Again, "inventing cool shit" means you can patent it and copyright it. You create your own software license. Not everything is MIT or GNU licensed or open source.

Trev @treversmith.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

If you are like me, and you work in video games or commercial software that uses github as a service *at all* it is in-fact IP theft. Taking bespoke and unique game mechanics for example that have been and can be patented *is* IP theft.