Gaming

I've been designing custom crosshairs for TF2 to concisely convey more information. (They're in VTF format so you'll need a VTF viewer, like VTFEdit.)

However, I still struggle with finding good practices for designing weapon-specific crosshairs; I can only find good practices for designing real life reticules.

The cute, portable, and banana yellow $179 Playdate console is now shipping to its first batch of preorder customers, so we're now free to review the quirkiest gaming system in years.

In all genres, I keep hearing about how the current level we (the lobby of players) are on is bad/good; but I don't understand how the map is bad/good.

People usually dismiss game piracy as being an inherently bad thing. What are your thoughts on the morality of piracy and its impact on the industry, and how that may vary between different games and developers.

Looks wonderful. Which house are you going to join?

In 2017, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild released and is generally considered one of the greatest games of all time. The game had a surprisingly big impact on the industry by introducing a new genre: true open world games.

In short, a true open world game is where you're dropped into a world and can go in any direction you want. The game is more minimalist than most, there are no quest markers or level scaling and you're not forced to go in a specific direction. You're free to explore the world without having a sense of direction, tackling its challenges and discovering new things at your own pace and in any order.

And now a new challenger comes in: Elden Ring. This game takes BotW as its inspiration and (imo) really excels where the other one lacks. There are so many unique events and interesting places in the world, with interesting rewards and an awesome sense of scale. I looooove finding caves and catacombs and having no idea what rewards are inside, whether it's a cool set of armor, new spells, spirits, or maybe some talismans. Not all the rewards are useful obviously, but they usually find a way to be interesting (like a talisman that makes you stronger around poison). It just genuinely feels like you're exploring a world for the first time, something I never felt in other open world games.

Dark souls is also my favorite series of all time so I might be a bit biased lmao

What do you think of this new genre/trend? Are you a fan of these new types of open world games or do you prefer the older ones like Far Cry 3? Do you prefer more linear games? I wonder which company is going to try this next.

In no particular order. Feel free to post yours. :)

A 3rd part minecraft client, not just launcher. The leafish client is what actually loads the game itself and it uses an entirely new rendering engine.

Depending on whom you ask, PC Building Simulator is either utterly ridiculous or incredibly satisfying. You can decide for yourself by downloading this niche simulator for free from the Epic Games Store before October 17th.

Like the majority of sim games, PCBS speaks to a very specific type of fantasy. If your idea of a good time is overclocking your computer while managing a small business, this is a game that does exactly that.

See https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/8/22715201/pc-building-simulator-free-epic-games-store

#technology #gaming #epicgames #PCBuildingSimulator #simulator

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/1420

Nintendo GameCube was released in Japan 20 years ago today.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/78974

A team of 4 people from the Fediverse and I are working on a "federated" Minecraft server if I dare say.

The goal would be to have a proxy with a central lobby that would redirect to dozens of servers maintained independently by instances or users of the Fediverse, all scattered around the world!

The project is already underway: minefra.me. What do you think about it? Join us!