Thew

yes im still making the videogame

Gamedev, originally a hat-juggling indie dork but now increasingly specialized in graphics programming. Day job working on surgical simulators, night job crafting artisinal Posts

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Cool game I've been ostensibly making for like ten years:
aerobat.thew.nu/
Artwork and graphics programming
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Videogame longplay/analysis threads
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twitter (dormant)
twitter.com/AmazingThew
mastodon (unused, might become used one day)
mastodon.gamedev.place/@amazingthew

I deleted a post complaining about the riven remake because it was Nerd Shit but I will say: if you haven't played either version of riven you should probably play the original. The remake is aesthetically really cool, but it's considerably more Jank

lots of goofy technical issues (important scenes usually preceded by 15 seconds of geometry flickering and broken animations as everything streams in too late), and the reworked puzzles are missing a lot of the internal consistency that made the original so compelling

the environment art is fantastic, and an incredibly cool tribute to the source material, but a lot of other aspects feel pretty unpolished


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Oh! If you deleted the original post, that means I get to explain the solution to the original puzzle again! (threat)

On a more serious note, I haven't played the remake, what I remembered of the original, except the five disk, is how real is looked, and from what I have seen of the trailer, they seem to have captured that. But the original actor for Gehn was so good, I'm worried the replacement won't be up to the task.