Playable Art

Thoughts and images about the art form known as Game Design

[icewatergames]

📯 announcing 📯 🍎 PATTERN 🍂

📝 (wishlist it)

[girlsguidetopowertools]

just discovered this adorable new game that’s coming out– it’s a sim game where you farm, craft, sell, and quest, among other things! it’s going to be released in december, with planned updates for the next year. it has online multiplayer, plus really neat twitch integration (people in the chat show up around the island!). i’m so excited for it, and already backed it for early access in october! i also downloaded the demo and want to stream it maybe next weekend? you can find the kickstarter here and download the demo here.

[heartindiegames]

Note: this kickstarter ends Sunday, September 9, 2018.

[memescomedy]

[spiletta42]

This is not an exaggeration.  Your download speed would slow down to the point where Windows would make this kind of absurd estimate, and you’d sigh and leave the room for a while (because you couldn’t use the computer while it was doing this for fear it would crash and lose all your progress) and then you’d come back in 40 minutes and maybe it would now say 52 years or maybe it would say 3 minutes, who knew, not Windows.

[playableart]

It was also really common for the 'time remaining' to start counting UP after it got about half way or so. I'd forgotten about the fear of crashing thing. We take our modern systems' stability for granted...

[prokopetz]

Game: whenever you’re playing one of those artsy “no dialogue, let the visuals tell the story!” video games, assume that your character is here to fix the wi-fi. Interpret all events in light of this assumption.

[icewatergames]

Eidolon || Steam Greenlight || Pre-Order

[icewatergames]

Dug up an ancient tumbl to retumbl and say that Eidolon is currently 90% off on the Steam summer sale! 🌞

[playableart]

One of my favorites! (once one or two cheat codes are applied, anyway... I'm a busy person, I need to condense my entertainment sometimes!)

[playableart]

I came across this gorgeous thing today. This has been brilliantly described as a "cinematic 2.5D platformer", which uses the power of modern graphics processing to spice up what would otherwise be rather traditional gameplay. We saw something very similar with Inside, where the background told the story and the foreground dictated gameplay. It's a perfect use of a part of games that used to be deligated only to setting the mood and theme of a level. I love a good mood and setting as well (Donkey Kong Country 2 will always have a place in my heart), but I also like seeing boundaries pushed in new and exciting ways.

[playableart]

One Hour One Life appears to be a multiplayer society building game, where each hour-long play through represents one generation. the world is static, the players come and go (get born and die). The implied goal is to discover new technology to pass on to the next generations (other players) and to build a civilization. I think it's a very interesting idea for a game, encouraging cooperation in a way that's rarely seen in today's gameplay world (Especially massively multiplayer games). And there also seems to be a rare chance for examining the meaning behind life on a cosmic scale... The game was built by Jason Roher, creator of the equally imaginitive two-player storytelling platform Sleep Is Death, and the mind-bending procedurally generated shoot-em-up Inside a Star-Filled Sky

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

the finished dice! they have curled up embroidery thread in them, hence the hint of yellow/gold. they arent perfect, some more flawed than others, but im thrilled with how they came out for a first attempt

Very cool! I love the embroidery thread idea, and that’s really good for a first try! Keep at it, they’ll only get better :D

[playableart]

those look like so much fun! I’d probably want to back up those latex molds with two shells made of plaster strips, to give a hard backing. Plaster for integrity, latex for detail. Then you can be sure the final result didn’t get warped by gravity.

[jessicaopposites-deactivated202]

yeah i definitely need to reinforce the molds next time, the d20 and d6 in particular came out real wonky. my only concern is that using plaster strips might make it difficult to get some of the bigger dice out of their small openings

[playableart]

If you can make the plaster parts in two pieces, with a seam down the middle, this should solve that problem. To release the dice, you'd pull the two plaster supports off each side, and remove the latex like normal. I'd build one half first, with a flange around the edge, and then once that dries, line the flange with something thin with a hole for the latex (Maybe tinfoil would work?) so the second part can be built up against it without sticking.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

the finished dice! they have curled up embroidery thread in them, hence the hint of yellow/gold. they arent perfect, some more flawed than others, but im thrilled with how they came out for a first attempt

Very cool! I love the embroidery thread idea, and that’s really good for a first try! Keep at it, they’ll only get better :D

[playableart]

those look like so much fun! I'd probably want to back up those latex molds with two shells made of plaster strips, to give a hard backing. Plaster for integrity, latex for detail. Then you can be sure the final result didn't get warped by gravity.

[thinmatrix]

Getting Close to Releasing my First Game

Adding some final touches to Equilinox and announcing the release date in this week's devlog video!

[obviousplant]

I left this important business accessory in a Staples.

[waytothewoods]

audhfghghhhh i finally got a trailer out for my game Way To The Woods! please watch it! thank you ;__;

[playableart]

Game Summaries for Everyday Things

My new favorite hobby: Describing real-world activities as if I was sumarizing a new game. European Football: A realistic remake of Rocket League, except with human bodies instead of rocket cars. Designed with spectators in mind, it contains larger teams, no walls, and an unusual added challenge... Don't let the ball touch your hands! Learning to walk: Procedurally generated QWOP-like about taking one's first steps. Coordinate various limbs, maintain balance, and by all means, avoid the stairs. Life: An open-world, massively multiplayer blend of Sims and Grand Theft Auto, life manages to create a world with infinite freedom and possibility. Form relationships, build a carreer, or throw away the rules and embark on a life of crime. The world is yours in this often touching, surprisingly challenging new game.

[exploregif-blog]

[gifsboom]

Perfect magnets

[hoiplatapolloi]

Fun story: One of the first things I was taught as an astronomy student is that, if you want to be a dick to someone giving a presentation, ask them “and how do the magnetic fields play into this?” and they will invariably say “fuck you I don’t know” because no one understands magnetic fields they are black magic.

[edwardspoonhands]

Originally posted by fencehopping

[kasaron]

Magnets are pure bullshit.

Pure utter bullshit. Electromagnetic forces somehow outstrip gravitic forces in strength by an obscene factor, for no reason I can comprehend and it bothers me.

I love magnets

[supernova2395]

One, that gif showing the Curie temperature is really cool. 

Two, you don’t understand, magnetic fields are the bane of my existance and I have a masters dissertation about them. I studied how magnetic fields develop in low mass stars and every single meeting with my supervisor ended in some conversation about how stupid magnetism is.

“Oh yeah and this is effected by the magnetic field strength…”

“But why?”

“God knows, I don’t have a clue.”

Was literally said to me by a professor who has spent 20 years of his life looking at magnetism in stars.

ALSO:

“Don’t ask why, we don’t know. Maybe magnetism? Who knows anything about magnetism.” - My Stellar Physics professor when asked about certain processes in stellar formation, something he has been studying for 10 years.

Like we know so little about that it’s actually funny.

[playableart]

I think I may have been too hard on Insane Clown Posse back in 2009.

[jeffmumm]

[playableart]

This is everything I've ever wanted in a platformer game.

[platformerpower]

Kaze and the Wild Masks | Q3/2018 (PC, PS4, XB1)

[playableart]

I don't usually like nostalgic platformers, but this one seems perfectly put together... I see so many aspects of all the games I used to enjoy.

[alisea]

“Abzû” (Giant Squid, 2016)