I worked with the RetroDeck and underlying EmulationStation devs on a bug and they were incredibly cool and welcoming. I didn’t really have time to start taking on other tickets, but their documentation and availability made it easy to find the problem, get a workaround, and submit a fix.
About the GoG store’s second class treatment: it’s always worth it to email the publisher and ask them if they plan on updating their game on GoG!
I did exactly that a few months ago when I wanted to buy I was a teenage exocolonist - emailed Finji and let them know that their game was not up to date on the platform I wanted to buy the game on. They replied rather quickly and the game was updated a few days later. It was very nice because the game was on sale and, thanks to their quick reply, I was able to not miss the sale.
Don't get me wrong, I love steam and would probably keep buying it the platform given the chance.
However (it's very unlikely) valve could go and do a Google and start locking down their store and there is realistically nothing I can do about it (other than yo ho). Gog doesn't have that problem with drm free games. But they really don't support open source like valve has gone.
Saving this post to read in the evening! (Working atm). Do you do this every week/ month?
I wonder whether it’s worth to get the Steam Deck (PC games + Emulation). However also debating about the Switch 1 (or 2). Just don’t know how to do the mod-chip (and if it will be available on the 2).
Since getting my Steam Deck, I sold my Switch collection, since (for the most part), emulating Switch games are a breeze. Theres obviously ones which perform poorly, but the vast, vast majority run so well!
You can always get the original launch model of Switch - you can jailbreak it with a little ‘jig’ and its the easiest thing in the world. No mod chip required. There’s even tablet-only ones, even OLEDs on aliexp if you want to have someone do they hard work for you, too!
The Steam Deck is incredibly hard to beat - Steam games, GOG, Epic and Amazon games. Emulation. Its a lot of gaming :)
(And as to frequency posting these? Lately, every 3 or 4 days!!!)
You are right that the Steam Deck is hard to beat due to availability of games, platform and emulation (though considering the instance I’m in, I’ll acquire games a different way).
I’m uncertain due to the fact there’s a lot of uncertainty about the emulation of the Switch 2 games.
Tried getting the original switch but, I’m a sucker for OLED screen (if I can afford it, I want it hah).
Great to see another update. One of my buddies is practically a game industry savant so I always feel a bit out of my depth with him. Reading this is my cheat sheet for talking points with him.
Who do you know of that talks about games as art? That’s more my focus, and the only one that really seems to tick that box for me is Noah Gervais - and he’s great, but I would love more variety if you know anyone doing pieces like that.
Cara Ellison. She’s touched on it before, that I’ve noticed when writing for The Guardian - how strong videogames are for the medium of telling stories, and also for expressing art.
Matthewmatosis on YouTube, does some great work on at least the artistic choices teams make when creating the games
Critical Distance is a good site, critiquing games as a serious art form
I mean…this is in my eyes, and in my experience reading them. The thing about art is though…it’s so damned subjective, so what I found related to that point, you might find is totally, totally off-the-mark!
I like how the artist used the negative space to suggest a lone man in a hollow, virtual world, surrounded by nothing but cartoonish enemies and money/coins. It’s truly an homage to the surreal experience of the post-modern man in conflict with nature.
It’s a corporate problem. Fucking Balatro was a smash hit for design, art, etc. These ‘next gen’ games are pushed because bigger numbers are absolute, and quantifiable. A CEO likes number go up, but real artists don’t push polygons.
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