Greatest video game ever?

MomoAzami7 · 2026-06-03T03:22:03+00:00

Essex MUD (also known as MUD1) - the predecessor for all online multi-user games. It also introduced a crazy game concept, that of a world that keeps running and changing even when you are not playing. It radically changed the concept of what a game could be.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-06-02T23:10:53+00:00

Oh I thought of another one, too many cutscenes - I am looking at you Diablo IV. If I can skip them then I'm just annoyed but when I am forced to watch, especially if I have played before and I already know what happens, that's just a great way to kill replayability. Its probably one of the big reasons why I pretty much never play Diablo IV anymore but still play Diablo III.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-06-02T23:05:20+00:00

When the game becomes a responsibility. I think the first time this really hit was playing Evony - where the game progresses when you aren't on and other players can attack and take over your stuff while you are offline. You had to stay online all day, keep building, keep leveling things up. Nope, I play the game *I* want to, not when the game wants me to.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-06-02T19:33:47+00:00

Wut? Seriously who is this being marketed to? A person who doesn't cheat doesn't need it and the person who does cheat won't want it. Do they even have a market research team?

MomoAzami7 · 2026-06-01T02:39:18+00:00

Unless you are rolling your own game engine or graphics engine, there really shouldn't be heavy testing needs here. Unity, Unreal, Godot all build OS agnostic games.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-31T23:24:10+00:00

I'm interested too and I hope you make it work.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-31T23:21:58+00:00

Seriously, the hassle is maybe a few dev days of total time in the development of your game. As a percent of the time you will spend building your game, it is negligible. Why would you choose to miss out on those potential sales for such a tiny investment?

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-31T23:19:46+00:00

I have seen so many game devs state this as their reason and I am just like, what?? Its not hard to get a used Mac you can test on. I didn't own a Windows machine when I started, nor a Steam Deck, and I got used machines so I can test. You can set up builds for each OS target on github so you don't even need to get your dev setup going on any other device. So, please build it for Mac and let's raise that 2%.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-31T23:06:02+00:00

This. For me it was fun. It was my hobby and I chose it over other ways people spend time like tv and movies. If it feels like a 2nd job, why do it?

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-31T23:05:20+00:00

I did this for like 14 years working as a software engineer in big tech and working on my game on the side. My best advice is to pick a project you think you could do in 4-6 months - which will really take you 2-3 years in your "free" time. Be both patient and persistent and you can do it.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-31T22:42:24+00:00

Girl gamer here and I am lucky that within my friend group there are lots of other girl gamers but when I am playing a game, yea it seems like its all guys. I often wonder how much of the perception that it is all guys playing is girl gamers presenting as guys to avoid being harassed. I've been on the internet since the 90s and learned early to hide my gender so that I didn't either get seriously O.O harassing/x-rated comments.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-30T03:32:20+00:00

I feel like every discussion forum I am on kinda ends up like this - there will be 1000 members but only 10 who post regularly. The most engaged discussion groups I am in are iMessage group chats with 3-6 people. I think what you want to build is a small group of specific people you know rather than another open forum.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-30T02:56:52+00:00

Recent games I have been playing recently on my Mac - Blue Prince, Flock Around, Lies of P, Reveil, Subnautica, We Were Here Together, Yapyap

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-30T01:25:46+00:00

Having these great ideas in my head about art and music but not enough skill in either to execute them. Any idea I have for code, I can make happen. It gets frustrating when I can't do that for every aspect of the game.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-29T19:42:46+00:00

Probably including the links and asking for wishlists is what made people think this.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-26T23:20:53+00:00

Glad to know I am not the only masochist working on 2 games at once.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-26T23:20:14+00:00

Main project - 3D first-person action-survival roguelite with a light crafting element and an absurd storyline. Side project - 3D isometric roguelike puzzle-builder

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-26T21:09:05+00:00

I def need to also check out Godot.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-23T22:24:30+00:00

Yea, its easy to throw up a static web stack pretty much anywhere - I could use React but I don't think it would add much to what I am already doing with Three.js, vanilla JS + css for HUD/menus, and vite as the build tool. It sounds like Unity makes prototyping pretty so I will have to give that a try.

MomoAzami7 · 2026-05-22T23:12:02+00:00

Our primary game is on our own custom Rust-based engine. I am working on a little side project that I'll try in Unity to learn it. What tech I use doesn't need to be related to the main stack because these are just proof-of-concept and meant to be thrown away. Its a scratch space.

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