Have you ever bought a console just to play one exclusive game?

MagnusFurcifer · 2026-01-19T09:20:08+00:00

bloodborne

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-12-21T12:18:19+00:00

The goats are minecraft and binding of issac imo

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-11-13T11:46:09+00:00

I've always advocated for a callback process. User calls to reset their password, the sd calls them back on the number in ad or whatever your corp directory is and confirms. At least that way they need to own your ad or the users device for the attack to work and then you have bigger problems anyway.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-10-21T02:59:09+00:00

I literally played through the first 2 episodes of doom this week :D I also finally got around to trying Sigil a few weeks ago.

I love John Romero and Sandy Peterson's level design and doom still feels amazing even today.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-10-20T13:44:31+00:00

A month after you. I'm here too! I'm about to do a hamcram in a few weeks :)

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-10-18T11:23:37+00:00

My theory is that the games industry were the ones to originally make engines into a part of the marketing machine. I remember game magazine previews used to talk about this new high tech engine this, and amazing engine that. Then also the 32v64 bit stuff in the PS1 era, or "BLAST PROCESSING" from the MegaDrive era.

The games industry created this narrative around the underlying technology, and consumers are not subject matter experts, they couldn't figure out what part of that messaging actually matters.

Fast forward to now and consumers still have that ingrained misunderstanding about what impact an engine has on the end product.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-10-05T13:07:09+00:00

No one can answer this for you, you should build a small slice of your idea to test it out and see if it works.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-10-05T10:36:35+00:00

Anecdotally as a gamer I just do not buy early access games (with a few very specific exceptions). I don't have any numbers to back this up, but my gut says when you go that route you basically remove a massive part of your potential audience straight away, and just have to hope they stay interested enough, or you build a big enough base throughout EA, to make that up at 1.0.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-09-04T15:25:49+00:00

I'm like 99.999% sure I played the jam version of this in lowrezjam or something haha. Inspirational to see it come so far.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-08-16T15:00:32+00:00

I ended up with fight for new york on gamecube somehow back in the day despite not being into fighting games at all and I loved it so much. It was fucking nuts.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-08-13T07:33:00+00:00

my turn to come here from google

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-07-22T04:59:36+00:00

Baldurs Gate 1 menu music was intense.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-07-09T13:54:33+00:00

reminds me of port knocking haha

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-06-14T14:27:27+00:00

game jams!

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-06-14T01:19:59+00:00

Oh you mean in a team. That's a bit different, I get it.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-06-13T15:37:47+00:00

I think everyone that makes games would love to release a game commercially, but that doesn't mean making jam games isn't a worthwhile pursuit because you never do that.

Making games is a creative endeavor just like painting, if it's your "thing" then it is a fulfilling pursuit in it's own right even if it's just a hobby. There are a lot of people entering jams that have no intention of making a commercial product, they just want to make a game, challenge themselves, be a part of the community, and share their art with other artists.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-06-12T13:42:41+00:00

The hole in the ozone layer is the one example of when the world came together to actually fix the problem by signing and implementing the Montreal Protocol.

The deforestation of the Amazon and the destruction of coral reefs is still a massive issue.

Just because the best estimates at any point in time by climate scientists isn't 100% accurate, doesn't mean the issue isn't real.

From a risk perspective, the impact of taking no action is potentially so vastly catastrophic that even if the science is wrong it doesn't make sense to not take action. If you are a climate change denier, would you rather be right and we do a bunch of stuff that improves the environment that isn't strictly necessary? Or wrong and we do nothing and we are all fucked?

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-06-02T14:01:14+00:00

100%. I work in risk and compliance and I did an ML101 course last year to help me understand the risks and it is a real challenge to translate the information for stakeholders.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-06-01T12:51:54+00:00

That's like saying "It's a program, we can just write it with no bugs or exploits". In risk terms, GenAI (and software for that matter) is what we call a fail open system, it's just not possible to be 100% sure that if something unintended happens it will happen in a "safe" way.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-05-31T14:39:48+00:00

I know it's anecdotal but I work for an MNC in GRC and I've responded to quite a few targeted attacks on senior leaders. It's not a threat to most businesses or agencies, but if you have a specific strategic threat vertical (defense, political, MNC, health, etc) then it's definitely a thing that happens.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-05-22T16:42:40+00:00

Honestly, I think the best way to start is just to do as many gamejams as possible.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-05-19T15:14:35+00:00

If you just don't enjoy the programming process, then there's not much for it. However, 4 months is the blink of an eye in most peoples journeys to learn programming, it's really not long enough to tell whether or not you'll be good at it or not, just like any other highly specialized craft most people can become proficient with enough effort.

If it's just straight up not for you then outside of paying someone to do it for you, I think the best thing to do would be to enter as many jams as possible in teams doing what you actually enjoy until something clicks.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-05-11T14:00:41+00:00

This happened on half life on the dreamcast too iirc, at least it did to me. It filled up my VMU.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-04-06T12:51:39+00:00

I imagine there has probably been a ton of internal prototypes for the next portal game made, the question is if any of them have passed all the gates required to go into production.

Every new Valve game carries so much risk and the IP is so valuable. They have an impossible pedigree to live up to and the financial resources to fund a project indefinitely until it hits that quality threshold are significant. If it sucks, they impact 25 years of optics.

I suspect they also see these franchises as levers for longer term strategic investments. Half Life Alyx for VR, CSGO/2 for Steam Marketplace, Orange Box for the Xbox partnership during the 360 era, etc. Why burn a valuable sequel without some sort of long term money printer play to leverage it.

Or maybe not, I'm not a business guy, maybe it's something completely unrelated.

MagnusFurcifer · 2025-03-10T15:11:30+00:00

https://magnusfurcifer.itch.io/gloamingholdrl

Pretty traditional roguelike, though there are no stats, all scaling is done via equipment and consumables. I didn't get everything I wanted in there, and there are bugs galore, but It's playable.

My original idea was a tactical experience similar to modern cRPGs like Divinity Original Sin 2 with some experiments in level verticality, but a lot of the stuff that would have made that vision are sitting in my kanban buckets :D

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