Komma @KommaChameleon@awoo.space

Hmmm. I was thinking about game history in terms of market trends and learned there's just zero sales data I can use to test hypotheses, haha.

Did Final Fantasy 15 sell more than Final Fantasy 8? Whoooo knows?

Komma is your only friend with a normalx4 scaler applied to him.

I only go ONE PLACE for my movie reviews

@ShugoWah@snouts.online Somebody please combine stretched-out genres and make a Battle Rogueal

also J. Paul Getty is a horrible monster; I'm not sure I needed a movie to tell me billionaires are bad but WOW this one

I sure do love graphic illustrations of ear removal in my golden globe nominated films

@ShugoWah@snouts.online Nintendo Directs and E3 press conferences are similarly incomprehensible from the outside imo

HPJSIDOFJ: WOW ENDING

Ooof, E3M9 is a doozy

Time to finish Dusk

https://www.twitch.tv/commachameleon I want YOU to help me figure out this 16-bit flying machine!

@tom Godspeed y'all black emperor

You've probably heard me moralizing about gacha games and loot boxes before. I think a lot of the most successful mobile games skip back and forth over the boundary of what's ethical (like lots of tech companies!) by collecting massive player data and manipulating psychological tricks to get about 1 in 50 people to spend a truckload of cash on their clans or whatever. I don't think that's great!

Some stats say there are over 300,000 games currently available to download on the App Store. That's more than all home game consoles put together. Curiously this isn't the peak; that was around 500,000 in Q3 2016. It's a different sea.

I would try to learn more about mobile games but it's tough--the quality standard is low, old games vanish alarmingly fast (Puzzle Fighter existed for less than a single year) and multiple literal slot machine apps stayed in the top 50 grossing for over 4 years.

The home video game console with the most games is, surprisingly, the PlayStation 1 at 2700. It's interesting to think about why that's the case despite digital distribution, game engines, etc. (it's mobile games probably)

Dusk is *really* good

@ShugoWah@snouts.online @jdlwerewolf@snouts.online Hopefully they're collecting the kind of campaign mode metrics they need to issue a difficulty patch. I know some people have this "only one solution works" complaint with the Advance Wars games but this is one of the few times the corresponding developer has the tech to observe and correct it

you have a camera and these game&watch style mini-games are expressed as QR codes in the fiction of the world...

but you do not use your phone to photograph qr codes to get the games