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the swift programming language is my fault to some degree. mostly here to see dogs, shitpost, fix old computers, and/or talk about math and weird computer programming things. for effortposts check the #longpost pinned tag. asks are open.


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D3 Publisher (Simple Series) and Monkeycraft (Namco's Katamari/Klonoa/Mojipittan remasters, Wonder Boy: Asha in Monster World, etc) have just released YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM! ("THOSE GAMES" for short), a minigame collection consisting of riffs on fake mobile not-game ads that are often more compelling than the thing they're actually advertising.

There's not a ton to it—there's only five game types with 250 stages split between them, with online leaderboards, a mission system with dailies and a deliberately-anaemic gacha system for assembling custom titles—but the gag wouldn't really work if they put too much effort into it, I suppose. The game types are specifically skewed towards stick-figure games, which the Japanese title makes more explicit, and the JP price of ¥1111 is a nod to all the stick-people.

The rise of the digital market and the more globalized, indie-friendly market have forced D3P to be far more conservative about what they publish than in years past: the Simple Series has been explicitly relegated to great-value mass-appeal variety software, and their lower-priced digital output is primarily focused on formulaic escape room/VNs or ports of existing games in between the more mid-tier EDFs and what have you, so it's always nice to see signs that they still have an eye and appetite for the kinds of games that might've hit the Simple line back in the day.

It's out now on Steam, and there's a Switch version out in Japan as well; it'll be out globally on Switch any minute, and I'll throw the link in here when it's up: it's out everywhere, get at it:


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in reply to @gosokkyu's post:

My fiancée is gonna fucking love this on switch, before talking to me about “those games” they went through the experience alone of downloading stuff advertised thinking it would be as advertised only to find The Problem, I just told them about this and they’re very excited