Eat your greens.
>>738057825good grief, good grief
It's too late for you.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-TDGW-zXs
I'M THE NAPPING KNIGHT.DON'T *FUCK* WITH ME, LITTLE MAN!!!
>>738058504
you feel better, but not by much
Your mother and I think you should leave.
>>738057825To think this game was developed by the same person who made Anthology of a Killer...
>>738059024Yeah?What's surprising about that.
I kinda miss the dreary, hopeless but still somewhat comfortable atmosphere of these 2000s to early 2010s rpgmaker games.Purgatories and decaying worlds drifting through ether and dreams.I miss it.
>>738059157I know its cliche to say the beginning of the end for everything was 2012, but it really is an amazing cut off point for so much.So few genuinely unique experiences, freeware or not, have been made since then.Maybe its the monetization of the internet, people making things for money, drowning out the creative minds that are genuinely wanting to make something for the sake of it.
>>738059532It was just the shift from the internet still being seen as this new wonderful experience of strangers being able to connect to rapid commodification.It became regular and boring, everyone has a phone wtih a camera and can hop on a videochat with someone else across the world in a second.It turned from an unknown space with limitless potential to tired old toy no one wants anymore.
Tranny Bubsy has forever tainted the Space Funeral brand
>>738060712you're the only one who cares
>>738059703I agree with your sentiment, but I don't think its the answer to why creatives making unique videogames have gone endangered (or pushed into such obscurity they might as well not exist).To elaborate on my idea, I think at its most basic there are two major factors that cause this. Firstly is as I said before the monetization of the internet has made the number of people just in it for the cash balloon a thousandfold, drowning out creatives that don't prioritize it. And because people aren't trying to make exactly what they want, it leads into very formulaic "money maker" games that exist purely to do well on steam, sacrificing the creators intentSecondly, its the algorithmic state of the internet. People that try to make money play this system via marketing, emailing streamers, Shilling on reddit and /v/, all while creatives that just want to make their game... Dont. This leads to a simple outcome, people that play the algo game are seen, people that don't are not, leading to the heightened appearance of the above problem.Honestly I wouldn't doubt there are actual bonafide hidden gems out there, amazing and interesting stories/worlds just sitting at 5 total downloads on itch.io never to be experienced by me because how the internet has drowned them out. And its one of the most upsetting things in the world to me.(There's other aspects I could get into too about why this is happening, such as the centralization of the internet, average attention spans, internet cultures unwillingness to gives something "rough" a chance without a youtuber telling them its good first, etc etc.)
>>738061014As someone who regularly dumpster dives on both steam and itch into most obscure or new releases sitting at 0 to 5 downloadsehhhh not really, I've been doing this for about 8 years now and I have not once found anything that was on the level of creativity or uniqueness of any of these classic releasesThat being said they still happen from time to time and also get popular and shilled, like void stranger for examplebut yeah no i don't think anything truly great is being buried, it's just simply not being made or there's 1 in 100000 maybe that's like truly impossible to find but I also doubt thati feel like if something quality does come out then word of mouth will spread and then the youtube parasites will drool hungrily and make a video on "HIDDEN NEW INDIE GEM I FOUND MOST CRUEL GAME THAT BROKE ME" and then from there it will gain traction
>>738059081Personally I rarely ever bother looking up devs so seeing something new made by that one guy responsible for one of the classics was quite unexpected.On a slightly related note, not long ago I discovered that the creator of cement mixer simulator, a lesser known weird exploration game that was on lips here at one point, made a new game recently. Fairly short and cute https://wraxall.itch.io/nice-frog-villageAnd while we're at it, another short oddity I liked https://nategallardo.itch.io/icefishing-v
>>738063453>newhe's been making a new game like every year
>>738061239Perhaps the world has just lost its way then, something so foundational has shifted that many of the people that had the spark and passion to make such experiences have been snuffed out. Seemingly only the people of Finland have resistant genes to this mental plague.There's still good things coming at least, and I know the doomer opinions I've expressed are at least partially clouded by nostalgia.
>>738059532While this is true, I've also become biased against "hidden gems" pushed by influencers. Even if a genuine masterpiece of artistic expression came along it'd be immediately made into engagement farming tool. Basically what >>738061239 described. It would immediately make me think there's an ulterior motive behind making such a game popular. So I think it's not just a problem of people not making these kind of games, it's also a problem of discovery and adoption.
>>738063563As I said, I rarely look up devs, and from his games only Space Funeral was decently popular, with Goblet Grotto and Murder Dog getting occasional mentions.That being said, after AotK I tried some of his older games and many of them have an unique strange charm to them and are surprisingly memorable even despite 5-10 min total lenght and sometimes eyebleeding visuals.
>>738058504this song is such a perfect encapsulation for the idea of this game i feelbecause despite being the most warped, unclear, incomprehensible version of the recording, it's still my favorite version of it
>>738057825blood
>>738067956We all love Dracula.
Play Magic Wand
>>738070459i have
>>738069907dratula
Goblets...
>>738074404never really got into this one
i'm leghorse
>>738074404>You finally saved enough to buy the Blue Robe of Lightning Resistance. You empty a satchel of plucked, wriggling bird carcasses onto the shop counter. The shopkeep restrains your skull and guides a hand-cranked corkscrew drill into your eye socket. You claw a horrific gash in the shopkeep's throat with your sharpened fingernails. The shopkeep piles cinderblocks atop your chest until it becomes impossible to breathe. You strike the shopkeep's skull with a hammer, damaging the brain. The shopkeep cuts the Robe into blue strips and forces them into your mouth and down your throat, yard by yard.
>>738074938I think that's the point?
>>738075994hm
>>738057825I'm either high as fuck or is that supposed to be Donald Trump?I swear to god I'm not trying to start shit, It just really looks like a tiny mini Trumpy.https://youtube.com/shorts/4y3F3sjsGWE?si=aijwH3fKtN7Kb4t3
>>738076490no
>>738076523What is it then?
>>738076639what is what?
>>738076668the op image. I honestly just jumped in because I thought it was mini trump.
>>738076728space funeral
>>738076779Oh. A weird Earthbound looking game. Funny how the brain works sometimes, lol. Thanks friend.
>>738057825time for the yearly replay
>>738074938I started it several times but dropped off every time when it started feeling like I'm running in circles. Psychodelic spaces are painful to navigate in 3D.
