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Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This might be a slightly unusual attempt at a prompt, but might draw some appealing unusual options.

The way it goes: Suggest games, ideally the kind that you believe would have relatively broad appeal. Don't feel bad about downvotes, but do downvote any game that's suggested if you have heard of it before (Perhaps, give some special treatment if it was literally your game of the year). This rule is meant to encourage people to post the indie darlings that took some unusual attention and discovery to be aware of and appreciate.

If possible, link to the Steam pages for the games in question, so that anyone interested can quickly take a look at screenshots and reviews. And, as a general tip, anything with over 1000 steam reviews probably doesn't belong here. While I'd recommend that you only suggest one game per post, at the very most limit it to three.

If I am incorrect about downvotes being inconsequential account-wide, say so and it might be possible to work out a different system.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

PhobosLabs

This site has a few high quality browser games. The one I come back to is X Type, a bullet hell shoot-em up that has ever expanding enemy ship sizes, and never ends. It gets hard fast.

I also like Xibalba, which is a Doom/Wolfenstein style game playable in the browser.

The creator also did a rewrite of quake in 13 kb of javascript

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

That guy’s seriously talented!
Among the things he’s made, he’s also made some really nice, easy to understand, high-speed compression formats (QOI/QOA), as well as a public domain mpeg decoder.

I’ve used all three for various projects and I’d highly recommend that most software developers check them out. If only for the learning experience.