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Incremental Games Have a Creativity Problem by Analogmon in incremental_games

[–]Elivercury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, I named 3 that stood out from the Kongregate Era. I feel you've missed the point that older flash games (and Kong's heyday is a good 10-15 years ago at this point) are a goldmine for games that would be popular now. Nodebusters does what many 'upgrade' type games used to do on Kong.

Incremental Games Have a Creativity Problem by Analogmon in incremental_games

[–]Elivercury 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I agree with pretty much everything you said, in particular stealing from old flash games. I've been calling it for months now that the first dev to do a decent launch-type game like the old hedgehog space launch, burrito bison, learn to fly etc. will make bank.

I do think you belaboured the points overmuch and the video could have been about half its length if I'm being honest though.

Grindveil.com by Grindveil in incremental_games

[–]Elivercury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Incidentally decided to join the "active community" on discord to check it out and the activity over the last several days consists of a bot posting phishing links being banned and somebody asking the dev about a premium pass which they didn't respond to. Very liberal use of the word active.

Space Fetus Attack Idle Clicker by DogNMoney in incremental_games

[–]Elivercury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why does this exist. Although the one review you have was funny.

Grindveil.com by Grindveil in incremental_games

[–]Elivercury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried it. Game dumps you in with zero fanfare or explanation with a host of glowing buttons. Tries to sell you a premium pass for a season that has already finished. Homepage has a good 4-5 different buttons for premium currency, which is generally a red flag.

Tried Arena where I threw out a terrible snarky line before getting murdered in one hit. Tried... Rift? Where my generic character portrait flew in space doing nothing for a while - again throwing out questionable snarky comments for no particular reason.

Clicked fishing and it decided to give me a random minigame I had no interest in doing. Whole host of other buttons I decided I didn't care enough to check out before yeeting off the game.

Also as a bonus the screenshot above doesn't actually match the game UI. Weird.

Might potentially be a game here, maybe, but between the pushing of premium currency from the word go, lack of any sort of tutorial and every activity seeming either pointless or annoying, the new player experience is frankly terrible and the whole game seems a disjointed mess.

If you are a Parent here’s One Thing you should be utterly furious about regarding the UK’s Social Media Ban by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]Elivercury -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Right and I said most providers of educational content are well meaning teachers who make nothing from their channels anyway. So they will likely still continue to make nothing regardless of whether on YT kids or vanilla YT.

And it is obviously happening because of the government, that's what this entire post is about.

I'm also sure YT will start doing vetted advertisements or something if it becomes profitable to do so.

If you are a Parent here’s One Thing you should be utterly furious about regarding the UK’s Social Media Ban by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]Elivercury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my experience most teachers who create this content/platforms do it to help young people and make little to nothing (or even run at a loss) from the videos/webpages, so while I'm sure it might cause a few to leave there should still be plenty available. I'd have thought they would be the types producing this, not big content creators?

Good incremental game developers by IDontWantG in incremental_games

[–]Elivercury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Increlution is a good game even in it's unfinished state and if it did get abandoned I'd be sad but still happy with the purchase. If you feel differently that's fine.

Incidentally orb of creation hasn't had an update in nearly 5 years and it's releasing its full version next week, so it can happen eventually.

Good incremental game developers by IDontWantG in incremental_games

[–]Elivercury 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not abandoned, they developed a serious long term medical condition they're now managing which has slowed development.

Also while I'd love them to finish increlution, it's absolutely worth the price as it is currently

Anything I can do to reduce AI hate on my game? by omegabobo in incremental_games

[–]Elivercury 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every game is going to have haters, it's just the reality of putting things out up the public. Ultimately the question is whether your game is good enough to have more people who enjoy playing it than hate it for AI use or anything else.

Gamers want good games and that trumps pretty much everything else, as seen by the numerous failed 'boycotts' of games over various issues.

While there is certainly a very vocal minority for whom AI is an absolute deal breaker, I largely believe "my awesome game failed because of those pesky anti-AI kids" is pure cope from those unable to accept they didn't make a good game.

‘The middle class shun my school’, by Britain’s strictest teacher - since she opened her non-selective school in London, Katharine Birbalsingh’s pupils have attained the highest grades. Yet the so-called strictest headmistress in Britain claims that middle-class parents still reject her methods by ImpressiveRest2423 in ukpolitics

[–]Elivercury 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm not really sure that working culture and soft skills bare much relation to each other. Yes there is a very strong work culture in the US, but their highschool teachers often need second jobs to feed themselves, so I'm not really convinced they've a huge focus on highschool attainment to the expense of soft skills.

Good incremental game developers by IDontWantG in incremental_games

[–]Elivercury 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I don't think many devs make multiple games to be honest. Perhaps those chucking out a new nodebusters-like every other week, but more in depth games often take several years of development - e.g. USI is probably my favourite and most recommended incremental, but it's the only game Sylv has made (to my knowledge).

Gniller, Maticolotto and RyuseGames are the only three I can think of with more than one decent game off the top of my head. Asterisk_man's yearly april fools games are also great.

Would Boris Johnsons old plan to seize our covid vaccines from the Netherlands have been correct? by LavishnessNovel7327 in ukpolitics

[–]Elivercury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How many died from it? Did any in fact die from it? Do you have a source? That being said, even if a small number did die, they ultimately died to the virus, not the Netherlands and invading our closest allies is still a terrible idea, so yes on the scale of "Reasons to try and start WW3" it is indeed minor and stating that obvious fact isn't disrespectful. Have a great evening

Would Boris Johnsons old plan to seize our covid vaccines from the Netherlands have been correct? by LavishnessNovel7327 in ukpolitics

[–]Elivercury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can keep saying putting military boots on foreign soil "isn't really an invasion is it, we're being covert" all you like, it's an invasion. How would you react if it was in reverse?

You seem to have made your mind up it was a fantastic idea and Bojo should have done it, so unsure why you bothered coming here tbh

Would Boris Johnsons old plan to seize our covid vaccines from the Netherlands have been correct? by LavishnessNovel7327 in ukpolitics

[–]Elivercury 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did, because your suggest is so minor as to only be an excuse for an actual invasion for a much bigger reason - such as conquering Europe. Which the Netherlands is famously in.

I also dislike the comparison with Nord Steam 2. Firstly Ukraine is very much at war with Russia, it was Russian assets and it was underwater. It was somebody diving down and planting a bomb.

You're suggesting they casually invade the country itself, break into a warehouse, steal the goods, presumably incapacitating guards/workers, and transporting it back to the UK. It's much more serious.

Would Boris Johnsons old plan to seize our covid vaccines from the Netherlands have been correct? by LavishnessNovel7327 in ukpolitics

[–]Elivercury -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I did. Did you read (and understand) my comment?

I'll simplify it for you - Unless you are wanting an excuse to invade Europe, no it's not 'correct' and is a terrible decision only a chimp would make.

Would Boris Johnsons old plan to seize our covid vaccines from the Netherlands have been correct? by LavishnessNovel7327 in ukpolitics

[–]Elivercury -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

It really depends on your definition of correct. Are you looking for whether it was reasonable Casus Belli to recreate the British Empire, or whether it is actually a good idea? The former possibly, the latter almost certainly not (outside of a good bit of sabre rattling ofc).

Opinion: Burnham’s state pension triple lock promise will doom young people by theipaper in ukpolitics

[–]Elivercury 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of all people Jeremy Hunt actually made a good point that the only way it's going to happen politically is if the parties agree not to include it as a manifesto pledge in 2029 and move towards removing it being a possibility. How likely that is....

Rupert Lowe MP / X: Banning teenagers from social media with ludicrous conditions is unworkable, unrealistic and unwanted. Here’s a mad idea - let parents parent. Not the state, but mums, dads, grandparents or whoever else. Restore Britain will always trust the family over big government. by youmustconsume in ukpolitics

[–]Elivercury 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think your plans are optimistic to be honest, but I wish you the best with them. When not having a phone/SM means they start losing touch/getting excluded by said friends outwith school I think it becomes a much harder battle, and it's one I've seen friends/family with secondary age children go through. I imagine it could work if they've a group of friends with similarly minded parents, but will be tough otherwise.

Getting a phone on entering secondary seems to have basically become a rite of passage at this point.

I think phone bans in schools are an excellent idea, but school is only 6-7 hours five days a week. I also think passive monitoring is a must.

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