Month: December 2024

PC

TIL: Doom plays differently when pi isn't 3.1415926535

I love when maths does cool stuff in games. At MCH2022, Luke Gotszling showed how Doom can play very differently if you change the value of pi to a different number. In this talk I will begin by exploring what happens to the game when we make the value of pi even more wrong. What …

Max Krieger posted a really good pastebin on Bluesky, in response to Ari Velazquez’s comments about The Game Awards and the growing disconnect between gamers and what the industry keeps pushing: […] i think one of the big problems in video games right now is that they haven’t yet identified that the “games industry” as a monolith no longer functionally exists. Screw all this expensive AAAA crap!

This Cool Link was published 1 year ago. (#)

Daily Black Video Game Characters is a Bluesky account that posts one Black video game character every day. It has definitely highlighted how many games I haven’t played and how many Black characters have been present but otherwise ignored or in the background.

This Cool Link was published 1 year ago. (#)
Gaming

planet clue on the extensive world of Tamagotchi

It’s a very deep rabbit hole.

Nintendo / Pokémon

Another BigRig Creates project featuring a Porygon Wii (aka the ‘PorWiigon’)

Virtual Wiiality?

Pokémon

BigRig Creates and the best Pokémon 3D printed projects

Gotta print ’em all!

Emulation / Gaming

Retro Crisis on ARES, an open source multi-system emulator

Now you’re emulating with power!

Cut Scenes / Gaming

CDKeys's new promo campaign is playful but misaligned

You don’t win friends with zombies!

Nintendo / PC / PlayStation / Video Game Music / Xbox

Chris Person on Disney Speedstorm and its remarkably good OST

For Aftermath, Chris Person wrote about Disney Speedstorm and its remarkably good soundtrack: What is more important than the game itself, however, is the soundtrack, which is one of the strangest things I have ever heard in my life.