Alex Pine

age unknown. origin unknown. power unknown. game designer. kill count unknown

designed Stories from the Outbreak, opinions are my own

i make essays on youtube

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

after working on Stories from the Outbreak for exactly one million years, we have finally released it! the whole team did a fantastic job on the game, and i'm heckin proud of our little baby.

i did game design and writing!

[Coldwild Games @ColdwildGames]

🧟‍♀️Attention all survivors! 🧟‍♀️

The Full Release of Stories from the Outbreak is finally here!

Get it here : https://t.co/qa1Arny4dB

 #theoutbreak #indiegames #earlyaccess #pixelart #release #gamerelease

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

@chlorophyllidae un protams, būtu arī jāpiemin, ka Izraēlai LGBT tiesības nemaz nav tik spīdošas, bet ir lielākoties izmantotas kā ierocis viņu pinkwashing propagandā, un ka Palestīna nav tikai Hamās, un ka Izraēla spēlēja aktīvu lomu Hamās izveidē un sponsorēšanā

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

@chlorophyllidae tik daudz dumju atbilžu par to, ka "Izraēlā praids būtu atļauts; Palestīnā neļautu" - droši vien boti. Cilvēktiesību attīstība noris lēnāk valstī, ja to simt gadus apspiež koloniāls režīms, bet nē, šiem gudriniekiem vēsture sākās 2023. gadā

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

@pawsume Children should deduce the world from first principles as an exercise

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

a clear sign that I need to find something better to do with my free time: I made an hour-and-a-half long critique of the Binding of Isaac franchise
https://t.co/Q0bX1ZTJwo

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

Patreon-exclusive little blog post from me: "Balatro, and the game that has me losing faith in roguelikes"
https://t.co/l96Alxxkpl

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

i made an essay about the politics of idle games!
https://t.co/E8P3Ddxdro

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

@chlorophyllidae good luck on survivor underhang

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

this place is run by an embarrassing crypto-fascist manchild & it's only getting more frustrating every day. so i'm giving the other place a go

[chlorophyll @chlorophyllidae]

me: yeah its just been really hard since she took the kids, you know?

Jonathan Higgs: Yeah I'm a monkey with enterocolitis, twist my neck and show me what delight is

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

fuck game design. chutes and ladders but instead of chutes or ladders you play it on the set of real numbers & each turn follows a cauchy distribution. the universe is a cold place

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

https://t.co/p9oZ6gj7LQ made a little design analysis of Stardew Valley!

Thumbnail art by @chlorophyllidae

[chlorophyll @chlorophyllidae]

finished this monster.
In tribute to our dnd campaign - my paladin and the (mother-figure) sorceress
#DnD

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

this is why i got into game design

[chlorophyll @chlorophyllidae]

What can I say, I like my men old and violent
@ColdwildGames @ElenaNazaire @Alex_Pinetree thanks for giving me many hours of enjoyment with SFTO <3
nsfw in thread :)

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

special shoutout to jordan b peterson who is perpetually confused about everything but also has the funniest interpretation of godel i've seen

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

my least favourite genre of literature is authors without a mathematics background misunderstanding and misusing godel's incompleteness theorems

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

It's a difficult topic because there is value in extrinsic rewards & getting a pleasant dopamine buzz (and not just deep artistic values) from games. But god I wish we held design to higher standards.

So many games fail a simple "Does this have ANY intrinsic value?" test.

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

Guilty of this myself, but recently I'm getting more disturbed by how frequently the word "addictive" gets used as a positive quality for a game to have.

[Alex Pine @Alex_Pinetree]

Worse yet, gamers themselves absolutely LOVE those same design patterns. It's only seen as an issue if monetisation is attached.

Vampire Survivors gets a BAFTA for being barely anything more than casino design with lots of moving pictures - the standards are ridiculously low.