ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber

🧙🏻 Smut writer & (good) dog wizard vtuber
✍🏻Worldbuilding, escapism, & waifusmithing
🎮Old, variety, & classic/gems
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[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

Free from twatter jail, we start three new games this week. We also have
-RPGs and spreadsheets
-KOJIMAAAA
-Drawing and sheathing anims
-Possibly hitting and getting hit anims / Unhinged horny genie
Weird story game
-Who knows / Hot girl bending gravity

[🌘ʀᴇᴠᴇɴᴀɴᴛ⚡ @revenant_MMXX]

Sprint discourse in Halo reveals something; most people cannot consider how small details affect the holistic view of something.

People liked classic Halo because it WASN'T Battlefield, COD, Gears, or any other shooter with sprint in it. Not solely because it didn't have sprint, but because when viewed holistically, it was a substantially different game from the alternatives.

Making even one singular change to make it more similar to those games completely ruins that because the entire concept of the game (again, viewed holistically) has to be redesigned to accommodate that change. 343i very explicitly said that one of their goals was to make Halo "more like COD," and nu-Halo and its fanbase is the result. You will even see people make that argument themselves, saying "every other shooter has it."

This what anti-creativity and homogenization of a medium looks like. This is "you control the buttons you press" in action. It's a pass-fail test where you either understand why this is bad or you just concede (voluntarily or not) that you don't actually like or understand video games.

[Necksplitter, Dark Knight @TW0HEADEDBEAST]

"Yes, I'd rather my favorite series die than turn into slop"

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

@geoffkeighley They fucking

[Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer]

Out of spells but not out of options

[Cool Guy™ 🌈✞🌛 @ChurchOfMoons]

Call of Duty fans used to call Halo "gaylo" and Halo fans used to make fun of COD for getting worse every year and Star Wars fans used to call Star Trek lame while Trekkies called Star Wars slop and now both sides of both just mourn the Century of Humiliation for all four

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

FREEDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
For some reason twatter thought I was a bot and suspended my account
Maybe I doom scrolled too hard and liked too much lewd stuff
But RNGesus of their AI appeals smiled upon me, and now I'm back 🙏

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

A weekly schedule is only late when the week is over!
And this little wizard has been stuck in the Coding Dark Zone
There's nothing in this brain but code
I dream of gamedev even while awake
My inventory system haunts my dreams
But one day I'll vanquish the spaghetti

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

@Pirat_Nation Sweeney is such a fucking little bitch holy shit

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

The problem with Star Wars is that it has the shallowest black & white morality system, and yet it still fails at being consistent
It all stems from nobody putting a dog collar on George Lucas and whipping his ass whenever he deviated from it

[kat @kyber_kat]

look I know what ezra does in this scene is very bad and morally fraught but unfortunately it is also super fucking cool

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

@frankyakamatsu Their gameplay is a bit dry but they still got it when it's about making something stylized

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

"Could" not "should"

[Wario64 @Wario64]

'Remedy’s new CEO says Alan Wake and Control ‘should have sold more’ – and movie/TV deal will ‘help us do that’' https://t.co/0Lc3JQjpNe

https://t.co/N6xZVDViV7

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

I added friction
"Yippee!"
#gamedev

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

@iwantoleaveok "Girls wearing bikinis is freaky"

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

I'm a Tech Wizard with a passive aura
When my parents call me for a tech issue, just by stopping by them, the issues start to solve themselves

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

The puppy stares you with big eyes, and you instinctively know he wants you to watch this week streams':
-NPC abuse
-Wildlife banquet
-More NPC abuse
-Maybe not NPC abuse / Shantae dancing on my screen
-Finishing exploration
-Hopefully not NPC abuse / Big ass & gravity puzzles

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

@Dimememem Extremely based teacher

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

@GDGoldSon I said "interactions", and if the only one is basically "getting rid of an annoying pest," then you have a really, really bad design problem

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

This is a lesson on feedback
Leviathans get boring after you get over your fear; they just annoy you, and that's *bad*. Your only interaction with them is: you get bullied then shoo them away
Rather than teach the player why they shouldn't kill, the devs just preach at you

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Subnautica 2 devs say "go play Sons of the Forest" if you don't like its lack of violence.
The game focuses on underwater exploration, and you cannot kill most creatures.

On the official Discord, one player asked why killing is impossible in SN2 as it makes no sense. Level designer Artyom O’Rielly replied,

“This is not a killing game, so go play Sons of the Forest if you want to kill.” Another developer said, “The team discusses this a lot inside the studio and may let players catch small fish for food, but large creatures will stay safe so the game feels right.”

This idea comes from the first Subnautica, as the team wants players to discover things, feel wonder, and live with ocean life instead of fighting it.

A fan-made mod already lets players kill creatures, and the studio is reading all feedback. It plans to add better ways to scare off creatures but will not add weapons.

Early access is expected to last up to 3 years.

[ManasongWriting 🌠 Smol Wizard Vtuber @ManasongWriting]

@Shark_Dude There are many examples in real life of predators acting curious instead of aggressive towards humans
You could also have friendship mechanics
In Dishonored, if you kill too many, you get the bad ending because it spreads the plague
But nooo, they gotta preach