Why not have a GPS with an intended speed indicator on a separate device? Waze will if you’re over the speed limit on a given road.

Just take a standard tablet, setup geofences to change the displayed estimated speed, and blink the whole thing rapidly if the actual speed is above the intended speed. It wouldn’t take…

You could always replace the rotating drum with an LCD shutter, like the old shutter glasses. The blinker could be “on” when the fluid is injected into the light, and blink off temporarily due to the LCD shutter closing it off.

Of course, my personal suggestion would be to re-route a gasoline-like fluid to a separate…

I barely used horses in my initial playthrough. But now that I’m exploring and looking for all of the shrines, I find myself parachuting into an area, intentionally landing near a horse, breaking it, riding it to my destination, and leaving it behind. I know you’re supposed to form a long-term loving relationship with…

This is kind of a non-response. I’ve worked on quite a few games that offer the “pick whatever” form of gameplay. Early on (I think my 4th game in the industry), we had a game with 7 or 8 modes, playable 3 different ways, with 50 or 60 pieces of content, and 1-4 player options. Our players, who were pretty dedicated…

“modern” visuals? As much as this is a day-1 purchase for me, these are clearly PS Vita level visuals. The original Secret of Mana had shockingly rich, ridiculously detailed pixel art that was basically the best of the time. This looks like a texture up-rez of a minimalist Playstation 1 game.

I’ve always thought it was a shame that Street Fighter’s 20-hour play level is “I can do all of the moves, and have some idea of how they’re done.” Competition level players have no problem pulling off basically anything. But why make that a barrier to on-ramping? If it’s not supposed to be the meat of the…

Honestly, the part that seems surprising is the scale of the price differences. Normally I’d expect a $1 - $10 difference in A/B testing. A $30 difference says to me that they really had no idea what the ballpark value of this movie tie-in was.

SNK made a few of the best baseball games of all time. Super Baseball 2020 was one of the best if not the best arcade baseball games. And Baseball Stars was definitely the best deep baseball training sim on the NES (it was years ahead of its time). I’m glad to see SNK baseball games get the love they deserve.

I’d tend to agree. I find a NES AV signal to be chunky enough with large enough pixels that an HDMI version is pointless. “oh look, those giant square things that aren’t supposed to be squares have an *ever* so slight blur on the edges.” SNES... gets into territory where sharper is nicer. But the pixels on the NES…

I think a lot of people forget just how low-budget Capcom games are these days. I don’t think it’s just that they’re looking for low-risk prospects. I think they are taking 10 million dollar titles, and trying to get 15 million dollars out of them. At the absolute upper end their flagship SF5 couldn’t have been more…

There is a lot more Nintendo and a lot more portable on that chart than I was expecting.
Nintendo: 17 entries
Sony: 13 entries
Microsoft: 0 entries

Portable: 21 entries
Non-portable: 9 entries

I suspect it’s being color-corrected to be similar to Marvel movies, which feature lower overall contrasts and black levels.

Most game music is created by individual hardworking synth masters working alone with their preferred instruments and sound libraries. Additional people will be brought in when new vocals or specific tricky instrumentation are required. But most soundtracks are generated by a single person using synthetic instruments…

This might be the lowest possible definition of “botting,” as the word itself implies some sort of AI system.

Look, I’m a game dev myself, and I know that your audience will come up with all sorts of creative ways to break your game. But if your game can be grinded successfully by holding down a button and standing in…

I love my M705 for work. It really does get about 3 years between battery changes.

However, there are some tradeoffs for that. The mouse misses the first 50 - 100 ms of movement. I’d guess there is a motion sensor inside that turns the laser off when not moving, and turns it back on when movement is detected. The lag…

I love my M705 for work. It really does get about 3 years between battery changes.

However, there are some tradeoffs…

Sonic World: A city-filled character growth game ala Sonic 3D, but with teams and online racing.

You mean, design their own goggles and source them out to manufacture in a Chinese firm like everyone else?

The Dark Knight was a good DC film that was dark and brooding, but full of hope. There was always a light at the bottom of the pit.

Superman can be gritty, but he has to be better than us. Honestly, the best Superman film would probably look a lot like SpiderMan 2. He can’t date or hold down a job, because he’s always…

A Streetfighter 3/4/5 simultaneous tournament could be a lot of fun. Players switching focus on which game they’re playing, to try to balance winning across 3 game simultaneously, could be chaotic fun to watch.

It definitely makes it hard to justify the expense of creating or porting content to the app store, when Apple might just reject your million dollar port on a whim.