Hi folks, my name is Kevin Veale. I'm a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies and fiction author.

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"He/Him." Tangata Tiriti. Pakeha.

I'm into a wide variety of popular culture stuff in lots of different media forms, some of which I write about academically. I reshare stuff that amuses me, post random thoughts or resources, and generally hang out.


Thew
@Thew

Suika Game, that japanese web game about stacking fruit that everyone was reposting last week, is not actually a web game. The web version is a clone that isn't made by the original devs

The actual game is on the switch, currently only available through the JP nintendo store

The web version is missing a bunch of game-design stuff, most notably a tetris-style "next piece" indicator, and physics code that actually works correctly, which shifts it from a mostly-RNG affair to something you could conceivably Get Good at. Plus also ad-driven web clones of real games are ontologically evil, so there's that

Maybe the rest of you already knew this, but hey I didn't


froggyblink
@froggyblink
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in reply to @Thew's post:

Yeah in hindsight I think the web version doesn't weight the fruits accurately. I think the actual game does something funky like, make all fruits weigh the same? And they just take up different amounts of space? The little fruits are definitely denser but I don't know the specifics. It's a real part of the strategy though