/arcade/ - vidya gaems

>>365
On freenode?

>>368
Yeah!! It's open

>>369
I can't find it.

>>370
It might appear as if you can't find it, but I think it's rather that there is only you and I trying to join, and we are in different timezones….

>>371
I'll keep it open then. If any of you join the channel you can say something there or message _dks on #sushigirl.

Dug around a bit from what I remembered being things:
Singleplayer:
- Shenzhen IO (ASM)
- TIS-100 (ASM)

Multiplayer:
- Hackmud
- Screeps (Multiplayer focused, but can be played alone)

Beware, MP ones are VERY not comfy according to user reviews. People who played both of these games fell victim to the fun vacuum of "script cartels" and people who had way too much industry experience caring way too much about the game. I'm still thinking about getting into Screeps just for the SP side and pseudo-JS.

The singleplayer ones are available DRM-free via GOG but the latter two are on Steam.

https://microcorruption.com/
This is really more about reverse engineering than actual programming.
http://www.corewars.org/
I really like this one, well, from a viewer's perspective lol. I haven't really invested enough to write a decent warrior, but I really like the whole idea behind this game.
http://skullcode.com/
This is for the real hardcore hex jockeys. I don't know what's going on here, hardly anyone does.
http://telehack.com/
Some script kiddie fun! Also available through telnet

>>322
Oh, I didn't see this thread and I made one just for the game I found.

This is the game
http://realtimebattle.sourceforge.net/

The objective is program a robot and let it fight in an arena.

The interaction with the program it's relatively easy, the real difficulty is on the strategy you use to defeat your opponents!

We are thinking, with a sushi on the irc, to make a tournament or something and maybe streaming it if we get some ppl to join and made their own robots.

Here is the other thread (https://sushigirl.us/arcade/res/363.html)

>>324
>I really like this one, well, from a viewer's perspective lol
CW is so awesome but just as you I haven't invested myself in writing a warrior. The idea is great though, and the theory is very interesting

There's an unofficial DVD coverlet thread on the GOG forums. The quality varies; some of them are really nice, but others look like Chinese bootlegs.
https://www.gog.com/forum/general/unofficial_dvd_covers_for_gog_com_games/page109

But yeah, theoretically you can burn installers from your GOG files and store them on a disk like the old days. I do miss going to Circuit City and browsing the PC game aisle. Even Wal-Mart had a really cool PC games section back in the day, which funny enough introduced a lot of people to Valve retail releases, which forced them to install Steam(or WON in the early days).

And something I neglected to mention in the OP is why publishers don't use DRM free services.. well it's obviously fear of piracy. And they would be correct I'm afraid, piratebay is full of GOG installers. Nothin' wrong with that if you're in the 3rd world or you just wanna try a game before buying it, but it does effect the supply and demand. There's a lot of indie devs on GOG nowadays for instance, since maybe they feel like they've got nothing to lose and just want their game in front of as many people as possible. But I don't really want to get in a piracy debate, since those tend to be most uncomfy.

The steam community is kind of awful, I dont know about the more niche groups but the majority seems pretty terrible

CDs/DVDs with art have always been really cool, if I have to opportunity to buy an album or game in physical form, I normally will instead of pirating it or buying online.

I haven't bought a boxed game in years, though that's more because I don't play on consoles anymore. Last game I bought was Smash Bros. almost 3 years ago, and even then I haven't spent that much time playing the games I've got, preferring to emulate old arcade games or just older PC games on my toaster. I used to be sceptical about downloading games but now I just don't care. Hell, I've even bought a couple of games on Steam already (admitedly only because they weren't on GOG). I've been thinking of collecting older consoles, but then I see a good deal of the games are getting ported to Steam anyway and if they aren't I can emulate a good deal of them already, so I really don't know if it's the box or actually playing the games that I want. And most of the current gen games I'd want to play are getting Steam releases anyways, so I feel less incentive to get back to consoles and physical copies.

I already have over a thousand dollars worth of games on Steam, so I'm inclined to stay with it. But I don't like that I don't really own my games, Steam could potentially ban me for whatever reason and remove access to my games at any point. Or maybe they suddenly go down and I can't download the games I paid for.

You realize that's a SA thing right? Like they pretty much invented it and are responsible for ~90% of the screenshot LPs.

>>311
I guess the forumfags did something right.

A game which makes for very interesting written reports and for which written reports are relatively common is the Dominions series. There are many written accounts of Dominions 3 and 4 multiplayer games from each player's perspective, as >>311 points out most are from SA. I also love the format and would like to read anything anyone had to link

I haven't seen any recently. You could make one. Just go nuts on that screenshot button and write it as you play so that you don't lose track of what happened in the past in the game.
Or at least write it one section at a time, so that it has some sense of narrative and you can be surprised when surprising things happen.

>>312
When you look into it there's actually a lot of interesting stuff that's happened on there. Sadly most of it is gone now.

>>162
Played Creeper World 3. Has some interesting flow to it. Highly recommend.

If it counts, I used to play a ton of Tremulous. Hard to choose a favorite faction, they were both so different.

>What are you playing/have been playing?
Oh man, it's been ages since I've played any RTS games. I used to play tons of StarCraft (the original, not SC2) back during middle and high school. I also played some Age of Empires II and Age of Mythology.

>Favorite game?
StarCraft, hands down.

>Favorite Faction?
Protoss, though I was pretty decent with Zerg as well.


>>167
Yay, fellow StarCraft players~
I tried playing Supreme Commander a couple of times, but I couldn't really get into it. In all fairness, however, that might be because of the lousy people who introduced me to the game.

>Favorite game?
World in Conlifct.

>Favorite Faction?
Allies in RA 2 and 3.

Empires: Dawn of the Modern World just got re released on GOG. Don't know how many people played this one, but it hit me with a ton of nostalgia. It was like an AoE game with WW2 units and 3D graphics.

old source games have skill based movement that actually requires skill and rewards players who take the time to learn the nuances of the movement engine (bunny-hopping, long jumping etc). This raises the skill ceiling and adds another layer of depth. Modern games have simplistic movement mechanics that remove all that skill.

>>258
>brought the ghost back to their base
their cap point is supposed to be in YOUR spawn, or at least most of the time(what map were u on?). I do tend to enjoy bigger maps, but 3v3 pugs are pretty fun on the smaller ones like redlight. I do agree that the rounds are really fast, but I'm not bothered by it I guess.

>>261
>their cap point is supposed to be in YOUR spawn
oh, that explains why my teammates always got mad at me when I carried the ghost back to our spawn

>>196
Forget the games, the *mods* are what was up.
Brainbread, The Specialists, Action HL/Quake, Firearms, Zombie Panic, Jaykin' Bacon, I could go on for hours. Where would we be right now without Carmack?

Does anyone play Day of Defeat?

>>305
And that would matter because …?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7ZVjOHqIDI

"We didn't get the turn out that we thought we'd get so instead of a top 10 we have a top 6"

STORYTIME:
>start making a dreamcast/ouya rpg over 14 years ago
>somehow manage to raise over 300,000 dollars through kickstarter and ouya funding
>game is already passed a year late, almost everyone quit the project
>nobody cares about it anymore, CEO is openly ridiculed (see: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbQaM-5TjqTjbkbmHhrI9mA)
>can't even get 10 fan submissions

Is this the most pathetic indie game project of all time?

>>314
Why are they even trying anymore?

>>314
yes, you don't get funded unless you have something to show already.
I'd be ashamed to ask for money with such shit standards for my own work

>>296
Oh, well anyways onto your post.

As far as Apple's marketing, I don't think it's so much they claim to make it easy, using iOS for like three years now has proven to me that it's got its fair share of weird quirks like any OS does.

But Apple does a lot to create a personal attachment through their products, I've noticed. Which would explain why Apple fanboys are so annoyingly loud when Apple is called out. It's kinda amazing really how even as Apple gets more ridiculous people still defend the company's choices.

>>294
"It just works" makes me feel, not angry. Just, intense contempt.

>>295
well uni is the only time I've ever really been able to observe normies in their natural habitat.
Might be a bad sample but like 75% minimum were mac and console people.

That said, I did say that consoles and macs are for people who would rather pay more for the benefit of not having to learn anything. Somewhat ironic that they're popular at uni but whatever. Can't really test that without people that have the money to choose between the options.

>>297
I had a macbook for a while and man finder is just so bad. I couldn't figure out how that tool was meant to be used at all.

I think most apple people just want to buy a computer then not have to worry about it until they get a new one.
Then when you've been on them for long enough you'd probably be a bit intimidated in changing since the other options are a lot more confusing with different manufacturers and such. Apple takes away the burden of choice and just says "buy x and you can do whatever you need to do".

Plus fashion I guess.

>>298
Yea, see, college is nothing like real life. I work with computers quite a lot, and a lot of the computers I work on are never Macs. They tend to be old Compaqs/HPs or Toshibas aka the shit you get from Walmart. And in this group, these people get Windows because it isn't that much harder to use and it comes with the computers. Plus a lot of their software is often Windows only anyhow. Again, people don't buy Macs just like these people aren't getting Alienware or the Surface Book. Too expensive.

The use of consoles especially among older people is likely from the massive PC vs Console difference in terms of games of the past. When people bring up great 90s games, a lot of people mention Quake or Serious Sam along with all those cartoony adventure games OR they mention games like Mario Bros or Final Fantasy. I mean, how many people were playing Quake on their tv back in the 90s like people play CoD on a tv now? Kids nowadays are playing Minecraft which while on consoles, I think the rise of Let's Players has resulted in younger generations of kids getting into PC gaming, kids are also playing more games on a smartphone or tablet. The next generation of gamers seem to favor more multi-function devices like smartphones and PCs over consoles.

Also;
>Apple
>fashionable

Good one, but my iPad is the least fashionable piece of tech I own. No crazy colors, overly minimalistic, the newer iPad Pro looks tacky as shit when you charge that overpriced "Apple Pencil" in the lighting port. Apple is the grandma of tech if you want to talk about nice looking devices. Now something like Asus looks pretty nice despite going for the minimal look.

>>300
>and a lot of the computers I work on are never Macs.
Don't apple have their own "genius" pseudo monopoly on maintenance?

With pc gaming having the better controls, hardware and options it's easily taking the more dedicated gamers, and mobile shit is eating up the casual players. Consoles are being ripped in half, their only real future is probably portable consoles. I dare say there's not going to be enough room in the marketplace for sony, microsoft and nintendo soon.

Apple is still fashionable in the same way a corpse sits up by it's own rigor mortis. But it is still sitting.
I'm pretty certain the apple vogue will be replaced within the next half decade. Not sure what will replace it though since there's no dominant force of such magnitude in computing, it's pretty fractured.

>>301
True, and a lot of there stuff is soldered and being based on BSD, macOS doesn't have the same issues that Windows often does. But again, the bulk of people I help often cannot afford a Mac in the first place, my main point is that Macs are pretty uncommon, only people who are students, got plenty of money or really scraped and saved have a Mac, everyone else just buys a computer with Windows or builds it and then puts Windows on it.

I agree with your second point but I feel that it's more that people want more functionality from their devices more than "casual vs dedicated". A popular casual game, Just Dance is on the PC and emulators as well as companies trying to push mobile gaming to more hardcore heights with special hardware like controllers and more serious titles makes me feel that devices that only serve one purpose, much like the MP3 Player or iPod before it are getting further pushed out.

I hope that we get tech in awesome/cute colors again. When I had a Lumia it was a pretty nice cyan color, otherwise I'm going to have to spraypaint my next phone or something. Everything is just grey/black/gold and sometimes white.

i think trying to adhere yourself to some sort of rigorous backlog finishing schedule defeats the very purpose of video games. if you're enjoying yourself, then you're doing it right, whether your playing something new or the same game you've been playing for the past 5 years

I only own 5 games, and I only play 2 regularly, skyrim and csgo. the other games are vallhala, osu, and portal. That solves the problem right?

it's hard for me to like a game, it should have good aesthetics and a decent gameplay, as well as an immersive story, somewhat open-world and also be challenging.
JRPGs often fill most of these, except for the gameplay, where it is always turn-based and it kind of puts me off, even if it can be challenging, it's usually just a matter of selecting Attack over and over and over and over and over and over at each battle.
I remember Final Fantasy 1, great game, but I was tired of walking around and running into weak monsters all the time and having to go through the motions.
So far my favorite two games ever have been The World Ends With You and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
Currently playing Legend of Mana, and it's filling most of these requirements.

I'm the type of person that usually has a few select games that I play religiously(reflex, cs). Usually when I do play a game from my backlog, it's completely impulsive. I have 150 games combined on my steam accs.

>>176
This is a very good perspective to have. I find when I force myself to play a game that everybody else has been talking about for years, I rarely enjoy it. But naturally getting into one while I am in the mood makes the experience a lot more enjoyable.