Today’s game is Stardew Valley. We completed the Community Center today with some crazy good luck from the Night Market sales man. He had the last few things we needed. It was really fortunate because otherwise we’d have needed to wait.

I would just like to add that the community center during the night is super pretty in winter. Definitely a pretty sight to me. It almost makes it feel like a beacon of warmth in the cold winter night.

We’ve also spent the last few days just messing around. Since winter is kind of barren me and a friend have been playing this game where we try to make it to bed without letting the other guy get in bed with us. Highly risky? yes because you can lose a bunch of your money. It makes for a hell of a fun game though when you’re chilling in winter.

Going on from here it’s all new territory, and partly why today is short, amongst also just not getting free time today to do it. I’ve never made it too the post game outside the initial launch, so I’m excited to get too it and see other people’s reactions and opinions.

It just kinda makes no sense to me. How can you improve the framerate by predicting how the next frame should be rendered while reducing the overhead and not increasing it more than what it already takes to render the scene normally? Like even the simplistic concept of it sounds like pure magic. And yet... It's real.

"Step into a cinematic adventure as Darwin, a brilliant octopus trapped in a mysterious industrial world. Use his unique abilities - swimming, wall-climbing, shooting ink, camouflage, and more - to overcome traps and escape."

What other games are there like this that you can finish in a few hours?

Sovereign Tower on Steam (August 2026 Planned Release Date)

Today's game is some more Ghost of Tsushima. I haven't been neglecting this in the background, unlike some other games i've picked up (cough cough Final Fantasy 14 cough). I have though been wandering around doing side stuff. I namely did the quest that gets you the blow darts. While doing the quest i saw this dock with a sign that showed a guy bowing. I did that but nothing happened so i'm not sure what i missed.

On the subject of this quest, what's with every Stealth Action game having a Poison and a Berserk "dart" option? Like every assassins creed game has one. This game has one, i wouldn't be surprised too find out Hitman has one. I guess it must be a staple of the genre, and i guess i'm not complaining either. It really makes stealth interesting with some more offensive actions.

I also stumbled on one of these duels which was really fucking gorgeous. The duel was a bit of a challenge and i struggled to keep up with the guy's strikes (and i had a migraine so that was working against me), but after i finally beat it i wandered around and just took in the sights of the arena. It was really pretty. Marshlands with fog honestly i feel are a little underrated.

Afterwards i went and freed another settlement and found this little waterfall before getting off, it's a cozy little place so i think Jin would appreciate getting a rest here. It almost reminds me a little of uncharted with it's Jungle's and everything. Honestly i sometimes see bits of other games in this and i think thats really cool.

turtle wow was a fan-made private server that was running for many many years

This came up as a suggested video when I watched the video posted here. Looks intense.

Today's game is some more Minecraft (Attack of the B-Team). I've started moving into a larger house from my small little shack. It was chill building it. I didnt have any grand fancy plans or anything. I just spaced out and built whatever i wanted. It was nice. I think that's the chill of older minecraft. Not too put newer minecraft down but it has a lot more going on i feel like so it's easier to get distracted and get pulled out of a sort of "zen" moment you get going while building. Or maybe i'm thinking too much on a block game. That's a possibility too.

I built my home over a ravine so it can just take those stairs down whenever i need too mine. I need too extend the walls down i think to prevent anything from coming up stairs but after that i think i'm very pleased with this house. It's got a nice feel too it that i can't put my finger on. Maybe i'll put the tinker's construct forge and the Altar down in the basement too. I'm not sure yet whether that's definitely what i want to do, but i do need somewhere too put them.

One of the last things i did before getting off was move everything out. Moving out of shacks like this always makes me nostalgic because i build them like this because of the old tutorial world on console edition. It feels like something of another goodbye until i see a shack like that next time. I moved my bed out and placed it down in the new home.

Masanori Miyamoto, who used to compose music for many Compile games (Guardic, Aleste, Zanac, etc.), has uploaded something very interesting to YouTube -- the original source sketches he composed on a synthesizer, before they were converted to chiptunes!

Hearing the Guardian Legend music in midi is freaking amazing.

The game has just been nominated for two Gayming Magazine Awards due to its (optional) gay romance.

"TRIGGER WARNING," the post begins. "Among all the various awards and nominations we’ve received, we’ve also just been nominated for the @gaymingmag GAYMING AWARDS! I’m really proud of that, because I absolutely stand by the fact that the way we did it is exactly how something like this should be done. Non-coercively, naturally, and educationally (because we show how things really were in the Middle Ages without idealizing them)--and without shoving it down anyone’s throat or trying to re-educate them like so many titles that are rightfully called 'woke' these days. We made the gay community happy and gave them the CHOICE to be themselves, just like we did for others in other choices and quests, and anyone who isn’t interested probably didn’t even notice. Except, of course, for [a] very small and very loud minority."

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45728513