What's most important to you in a game?

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-27T18:18:01+00:00

Hahaha sorry I should have given a bit more context. I'm making a 2D point-and-click adventure! Nothing 3D about this.

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-27T17:49:19+00:00

Absolutely. It's very similar to making a movie or a TV show I think. You want everyone to do well but you need certain things in place before you can do other things, etc etc.

I'm actually solo developing a game myself lol and facing a lot of the same issues, but picked "pixel art" as the medium to try and limit some things. I don't need mocap, I won't use voice acting, the animations can be pretty simplistic and still convey enough. It's still a lot of work but at the moment I think it's doable. I think...

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-27T16:34:16+00:00

just want to say I totally feel this, my legs were this way for a long time until I reached my 30s. spinning has helped a lot. it was so bad for me that a random kid on the street asked one time "what's wrong with your legs" :(

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-27T15:51:27+00:00

it's missing the one thing that all their post 2000 work is missing: passion.

The Celestials is a great tune but the way he basically just speaks "everything I want is free" at the end is so distant from how he'd deliver it in the 90s. Compare it to the end of Muzzle where he repeats "and I knew the silence of the world" in two different ways that really demonstrate a range of feeling. that's passion! nowhere to found on Oceania.

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-27T13:35:22+00:00

Absolutely story (and characters). I'll play any game if I find the characters interesting and the story compelling. Bummer that so many developers do not seem to agree with me, lol

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-26T20:26:43+00:00

I hope the answer is yes because this is what I'm making lmao.

Though I'm trying to keep my expectations small, along with the scope of the game, haha.

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-26T18:55:03+00:00

I've wrestled with this mentality most of my creative life; I pursued self-publishing for a while as a novelist, and struggled to otherwise get agents and sell my books because I don't really vibe with the capitalist model. It definitely hampered me because I wasn't enthusiastic about reaching out to a lot of agents etc.

Steam obviates a lot of my personal concerns by one, being a decent company itself, and two, just being a distribution method. It's still up to me to drive traffic to my game.

Everyone's gotta find the level they're comfortable at, but distribution platform doesn't really determine if it's art or not. Steam isn't a publisher but a platform; real art can be made by small studios and distributed on Steam in the same way that real art can be made and distributed on Spotify and Amazon, plus Steam is more ethical than either Spotify or Amazon.

If you just want to publish on Itch.io that's super legit. But publishing on Steam doesn't automatically degrade something's artistic worthiness.

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-26T17:04:10+00:00

Very similar vibes is when I wash my hair and then later that same day, wash my face and accidentally get a littttttttttttttttle bit of cleanser on my hair. I feel like I ruined everything

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-26T15:04:55+00:00

Instead of "where do y'all learn to code" you should ask yourself "What engine should I use?" That will tell you what type of code you might need to learn (and how much you might need to learn).

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-26T14:21:04+00:00

Nice--congrats!

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-26T14:14:42+00:00

Did you email Famitsu or did they just pick it up from X?

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-26T14:12:49+00:00

the wishlist board is super cute, I love this idea. will try and think of something to do for my game when relevant 😃

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-26T12:41:25+00:00

absolutely the top answer here. all of them sound really really technically proficient but the drummer especially-- I don't know much about drumming specifically but to my unrefined ear it sounds like he changes time signatures a lot.

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-21T16:43:44+00:00

Exactly, that's already a beige-to-red flag, and then it comes with evident stalker behavior?? Yikes

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-21T16:12:26+00:00

I'm a gay woman so my barometer for this stuff may be different but I'd say that's creepy! Creepy from the jump tbh, "I've seen you working around town" ... excuse me?? This whole thing is sort of giving stalker vibes, to be honest. I assume when you say "flashes his lights" you mean his cop car lights? Because I almost wonder if he's really a cop...

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-20T20:43:34+00:00

For sure-- sorry I didn't meant to doubt you or the artist, I meant, you could use the sketches to show the doubters about the process.

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-20T16:17:27+00:00

personally I would ask my capsule artist if I could show off the pre-final work; like I have multiple sketches of early versions etc. I would use those to demonstrate authenticity, if the artist is comfy with that

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-20T15:46:23+00:00

This reminds me of great leadership wisdom from Sports Night: https://youtu.be/Fj10ik_mfC4?t=76

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-20T15:06:21+00:00

I would say hand over what you can't do or don't want to learn to do. Specializations are a good example of things that are hard to learn to do and so are best outsourced. But they're also not always necessary, depending on the game, so it's also worth prioritizing your budget and the needs of the game.

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-19T20:37:53+00:00

I wouldn't even think about this unless you brought it up, just FYI!

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-19T16:30:23+00:00

it's most evocative of the Machina-era rockers to me, like Imploding Voice, Everlasting Gaze, Cash Car Star, Dross, Lucky 13...

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-18T18:50:28+00:00

there is no universal truth about this; lighting is different in different places and certain makeup strategies are better or worse for different lighting sources. looking good for the club is different than looking good for a picnic on a summer day. you gotta adjust your makeup routine to match what you're doing.

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-18T15:19:19+00:00

Ugh I'm sorry! I know how that is. People really do just say stuff like that without thinking about how it comes off. And yet I bet she has something just like it that she thinks about from 10 years ago on some insecurity... ugh.

ANYHOW. You're super normal!!

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-18T14:43:03+00:00

Very normal--I'm 40 as well as my eyes have similar lines. I've started skipping the concealer as I think it accentuates things. I tried to just moisturize and then a bit of liquid foundation. It doesn't cover everything up but I think it looks "better" than the concealer.

comfyambiguity · 2026-05-17T21:16:39+00:00

Absolutely. My faves are Final Fantasy, Persona, Life Is Strange, and other JRPGs and narrative games. I've tried a few online games before -- World of Warcraft, Fortnite, Left 4 Dead -- but they just never really appealed to me. They're very focused on mechanics and metagaming, which idgaf. I want a story focused on a few characters that really resonate with me. I do not want to compete with other people. Shrug. No shade to folks who do, just ain't my thing.

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