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[Landfall @LandfallGames]

Happy PEAKversary! 🏔️

We cannot believe it’s been a full year since we launched PEAK, and what a year it has been 😭❤️

[Devolver Digital @devolverdigital]

Shroom and Gloom has a fresh new demo ahead of its summer release on Steam! 🍄

Get a taste of the moody first-person, roguelike deck-builder bursting with fungal foes and mountains of mega-combos! 👅

[Indie Game Joe @IndieGameJoe]

This indie dev is making a Papers Please-inspired cryptography thriller set aboard a secret submarine in 1942

- Decode & encode transmissions
- Classify messages as true or false for regime
- Smallest mistake means a huge death toll

Would you play this? It's called False Echo

[AGGRO CRAB 💥 @AggroCrabGames]

we realized a lot of people know us for PEAK but haven't tried our other games yet wtf

so us and @LandfallGames worked with @digiphile_co to make a LANDFALL x AGGRO CRAB games bundle‼️

it's 12 bucks for 8 steam games - AND you'll be donating to @MakeAWish along the way 🫡

[flowermoon ☭ @lefoudupuyy]

« Inquiétant » pourtant c’est pas la Chine qu’on voit bombarder un nouveau pays tous les quatre matins

[AGGRO CRAB 💥 @AggroCrabGames]

⚠️ CRASHOUT CREW ARRIVES MAY 28 💥

drift into our chaotic co-op forklift game of up to 4 players, all while managing your own stress levels.

complete 20+ contracts riddled with safety violations from crashing meteors to faulty wiring.

shipping to STEAM and XBOX GAME PASS‼️

[ActuGaming @ActuG]

Le studio derrière Peak réagit face à la demande trop insistante de la communauté, notamment lorsqu’un internaute a traité l'équipe de fainéants :

« Peak a eu droit à tellement de mises à jour pourtant ! Ni nous, ni Aggro Crab ne sommes des studios de jeux service, n’importe quelle mise à jour est un bonus, pas un droit »

[Lockit QA @LockitQA]

Go! Go! Mister Chickums releases today on Steam and you should Go! Go! Check it out! 🐔

Explore this classic 80's Retro-Arcade style Platformer, alone or with a friend in 2 players couch-coop, and just let loose! 🥚

Thank you for trusting us once more!

[Lockit QA @LockitQA]

Modulus is now available and is waiting for you to show off your automation skills! 🤖

At Lockit QA, we are proud to be part of this project and to help sharing the automation spirit to many people in the world! ⚙️

Go check it out!

[The Bustling World @FireWoGames]

🏠It's not Dinkum.
🗡 It's not GTA.
🐎It's not Mount and Blade.

But if our indie game reminds you of them…
We're probably doing something right!

[The Bustling World @FireWoGames]

You would love my indie game if you enjoy working from scratch.

From a courtyard to a Palace
From a city to the Bustling World.

[Adam Benko @benko_adam]

After 7 years of development with a friend, our space fleet strategy game Space Reign is finally out on Steam.
🚀🪐

Inspired by Homeworld and The Expanse.

Command fleets or take direct control of individual ships in massive 3D space battles.

#indiegame #gamedev

[ConcernedApe @ConcernedApe]

10 years of Stardew Valley

thanks, everyone

[The Bustling World @FireWoGames]

This post has no hashtags…if it reaches you you’re a true Open World Game fan!

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is actually a fascinating topic that I researched a bit, because I was immensely frustrated to be unable to use Chinese maps (specifically Amap, my favorite) outside China.

First of all, people are unaware of just how superior Chinese maps are: some of the features are so insane that you really feel it's magic.

For instance:
- they show you when you change lane on the highway
- they have a live countdown of all the red lights in China
- to OP's point below, as a pedestrian you can choose you route based on % of shade (as in, whether you won't be walking directly under the sun)
- they have real-time live tracking of all the public buses in China. Like, they show you precisely where your bus is at this very moment and when it'll reach you
- they have exact toll fee calculations so you can choose your route based on this
- they have such insane comprehensive mapping coverage that they can make you take a shortcut through the internal parking garage of a shopping mall, using a different exit to bypass the most congested stretch of road (true story: https://t.co/sP1KIXsNco).

Plus, the navigation UI/UX is so well done that I've legit never made a mistake during years of driving in China. The same VERY MUCH cannot be said of Google Maps or Waze: driving with it in Malaysia, I can hardly do a single trip without making a mistake, which drives me completely nuts (hence my frustration!). Like you have 3 possible roads to take on the right and it just says "turn right": "I fuck*ng know, but which right???!!!"

The reason why it's not really available outside China, turns out, is mostly the availability of data.

It's just not realistically feasible for them to build their own map data globally. Apple took that path and, despite having every conceivable advantage, it took them 4 years of preparation before even launching in a single metro area, and to this day they only cover 35 countries.

Map data is extremely concentrated. Google is the big player (they own Waze too) and they certainly won't sell data to Chinese competitors.

HERE - owned by a consortium of German automakers, Mitsubishi and Intel - is pretty much the only supplier Chinese companies can use. Which is what both Baidu Maps and Amap have done for their (very limited) overseas services.

But HERE is the mapping that's natively embedded in car navigation systems and everyone knows how much it sucks: it's even worse than Google...

The reason why Chinese maps are so good in China is because of 3 factors:
- the base data they have at their disposal is excellent: there is a fiercely competitive domestic ecosystem with 19 companies surveying and maintaining their own datasets. Compare this with basically just HERE for the rest of the world (and smaller players like Tom-Tom and Open Street Maps which are not even worth mentioning)...
- they have a massive user base which enables them to get excellent real-time data, which they don't have outside China (a chicken and egg problem)
- lastly, they rely on the Beidou positioning system which is significantly more precise than the West's GPS (https://t.co/si7HmCJcTU). That's how you can get things like the "see when you change lane" feature.

So unfortunately the answer is that, unless you go inside China and test it for yourself, you're unlikely to ever understand what a truly great map app can be.

And this is generally something applicable to so much of what China has built: great tech is often all about the ecosystem and ecosystems, by definition, can't really be exported.

[AlternativeTo @AlternativeTo]

Open-source real-time strategy title of ancient warfare 0 A.D. 28 “Boiorix” introduces the Germans as a playable faction, revamped civilian units with gender variants, engine upgrades, direct font rendering, and much more.
https://t.co/IH10F1dewz

[Vampire Survivors | Vampire Crawlers 🧛 @poncle_vampire]

Vampire Crawlers demo is OUT NOW on Steam & Xbox!! 📢

we hope you have fun crawling through dungeons and deckbuilding 😈

p.s. pls tag us if you stream it, or use #VampireCrawlers for any posts!

[AGGRO CRAB 💥 @AggroCrabGames]

WAKE UP NEW PEAK PATCH

💥 YOU CAN FINALLY KICK PEOPLE (from the game)
⚡️ connection/reconnection fixes
🦂 scorpions are less evil again
⛄️ we brought back the big snowballs

[Lepus @Leepus__]

@lonelillness @Wario64 @CaradecTeo @RaFizzTV Ah naan, rip