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kuraine
@kuraine

it's so cool that the games industry is consolidating & closing studios & laying off everyone & all of games media is consolidating & laying off everyone who does the most important work & actual reporting

BUT WATCH OUT GEOFF KEIGHLEY IS STILL RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER TO BANG OUT THE TRAILERS

IT'S GAMING'S BIGGEST NIGHT

LIVE

SomeEgrets
@SomeEgrets

i know i say this like every other month, but..

i taught myself to program because i wanted to make shitty little games on my 486. they weren't good but i learned a lot

it's been a long time and the way modern engines work is so much different from those old systems that i wouldn't even know where to begin making something like that now

but also, i don't think i want to anymore?

indistry's poisoned. there wouldn't be a place for me here, and the perpetual instability built into every single job would be too much to take. i'd hate not knowing if i could feed myself a month from now - regardless of whether it's because being an indie is financially precarious or because one of the three colossal behemoth companies that bought up everything else might decide to axe my entire team or studio to make 🙂 happy shareholder number 🙂 go up for a week before everyone else forgets about it and then it happens again next quarter to the new studio i'm trying to move to

idk it sucks a lot to see this happening to like, the formative experience i had with computers and programming, jobs that i could have easily been woking, in a slightly different world, a medium i enjoy a lot

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slimerybear666
@slimerybear666

" I took everybodys feedback on board about this not feeling like a gaming showcase or celerbation so now it is a 2 hour long run time of just mobile game ads and the like!"

Thank god for all the indie game showcases, the indie game articles from online sites and the indie game content creators that all do help out with coverage on games some on popular but also on niche or lesser known indie games.

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AnneCrow
@AnneCrow

Ngl I think this best summed up why i feel like I vibe much less with video games these days than I used to.
It's telling that it took Helldivers 2 for me to play (a) game on PC again and i'm feeling like i'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop with that one. Paper Mario's probably gonna be my last purchase for a while too I suspect.

Honestly a lot of the previous year saw me instead return to tabletop rpgs*.
Like playing them but also preparing for games during where i'd have once played video games. As GM, planning scenes, reviewing modules(as work didn't leave much time to plan anything custom), setting up the campaign in the VTT we use but also doing art for NPCs both in and out of battles scenes.

And I feel the whole videogame industry BS honestly contributed to this... me just drifting from video games and back to tabletop stuff/etc even if I use a virtual tabletop to play with long distance friends.

Honestly that could explain why I feel the different campaigns I run having ruined aground a SNAFU of scheduling costing me that outlet for a while has felt so hard this year when on the video games front shit has just gone worst.

*(and even then exclusively indie ttrpgs so far because I just got disgusted from the corporate bullshit from WOTC and even Paizo is something I hear there's apparently shitty stories on how artists have been treated in the past?).

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