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smeg, do games w Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard

Did we really need an article saying “I think this other bit of text might be written by a robot”? Of all the things you criticise Microsoft for, that’s the one to go for? Or perhaps it’s the other side of the coin, Microsoft unusually did something quite nice so the author had to find something about it to criticise?

False, do games w Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard

The press release isn’t really the important part here.

lambda, do games w Classic text adventure Zork is going open source, but I'm side-eyeing Microsoft's announcement about it hard
@lambda@programming.dev avatar

Pretty cool. They are probably hoping someone can figure out how to compile it. The readme states that it can’t be compiled…

tonytins,
@tonytins@pawb.social avatar

The repository had been lying dormant for roughly six years.

SlurpingPus,

Well, the game uses portable bytecode for the ‘Z-machine’ interpreter, and there are dozens of third-party interpreters for it. You can run these games on your phone, no need to compile them.

patruelis, do games w Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died

A sad day 😢

GerardsGuitar, do games w Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
@GerardsGuitar@retrolemmy.com avatar

Never knew much about her before today but she seems to have made a positive impact on a lot of people from what I’ve read. Rest in Peace!

fishsayhelo, do games w 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them

genuinely devastating. one of the finest creatives around :(

Kissaki, do gaming w 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them

I like weird. Of course they mean something different when they say weird.

ParadoxSeahorse, do games w 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them

I still miss Nier: Reincarnation.

  • Gacha with a non-screaming interface
  • Great plot as per
  • Beautiful character design
  • Strangely not boring
  • Ephemeral is a Yoko theme (it gone)
  • Never paid anything and completed it
  • Maybe why gone
altkey, (edited ) do games w 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them

I think it’s better not to release something than to release something weird

He wrote that wearing Emil’s head.

RightHandOfIkaros,

Everything Yoko Taro makes is totally not weird and completely normal. Its all of us that are weird, clearly.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

Emil is wearing his head

pyria, do games w Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died

Had a sad feeling that when she was trying to get a gofundme going, that she was on her last legs.

RIP.

Aielman15, do games w Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

About the LGBTQ part: she was working at EA when she transitioned, and she recounted acceptance and support for trans people was codified in her workplace, in a time when transitioning often meant discrimination, rejection and even job loss.

People don’t always remember that EA were the “good guys” before they made bank with Sims and CoD.

lordnikon,

Good sentiment but i think you mean BF not CoD as Activision owns CoD

Aielman15,
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

Whopsie, yes, my bad. The two always get mixed in my mind.

jaselle,

The Sims was a great game. And it had same-sex marriage from the sims 2 on (which is the first game that actually has a proper notion of marriage).

ragebutt, do games w 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them

I want to play 900 more yoko taro games

LainTrain, do games w Legendary game designer, programmer, Space Invaders champion, and LGBTQ trailblazer Rebecca Heineman has died

Co-founded Interplay. Came out as trans in the mid-2000s. Jesus what a legend gone too soon. Bless.

lordnikon,

Yeah i wonder if Tim Cain worked with her

rafoix, do games w 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them

Billionaires should be funding whatever Yoko Taro is cooking instead of trying to destroy earth and democracy.

SnotFlickerman, (edited )

One of the few game developers trying to write for the medium of gaming instead of trying to write a book/movie and slap it into a game. One of the few who eschews the three-act arc so prevalent in plays and films.

He really understands that as a different medium you should play to the mediums strengths and how the medium functions for storytelling like his attempts synthesize meaning between gameplay and story. Writing for games shouldn’t be like writing for books or films because while analogous they are nowhere near the same kind of mediums.

The medium is the message.

-Marshall McLuhan

Doc_Crankenstein,

Yoko Taro (and other creatives) shouldn’t need to rely on the grace of billionaires in order to perform their craft.

rafoix,

They don’t.

I’m just saying that it would be 100% better than all the shit the billionaires are doing.

desmosthenes,
@desmosthenes@lemmy.world avatar

easier to destroy than create :(

brown567,

Counterpoint: These bastards

I’ve been trying to destroy one for 3 years and it’s the happiest plant I’ve ever raised

pogodem0n, do games w 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them

I really loved Nier games. Hope he makes something similarly weird someday.

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