#Mechanics

Trapped Under Dice

HeyGMKenny

1/6: So, thinking of the #CastleFalkenstein game last night and I realized one of my favorite things to ever happen in an RPG happened. Kind of a story element, but

Deven Morgan

devenmorgan

I think in order to get the most out of the athletic tools you bring to the task you've gotta work with, not against yourself.Because of this I generally hate

Cassandra, Irredeemable Pudgy Nobody

ChrisWarcraft

It is impossible to adequately describe how shitty FFVII remake’s battle system is, and what a disservice it does to an otherwise enjoyable experience.I don’t see myself playing future entries

Rabbit Cohen

BathysphereHat

Ok, real talk: I think the real reason people go from jokey discourse about Tom Nook to VERY SERIOUS DISCOURSE has is less abut the actual game mechanics than it

Age of Dissent

Age_of_Dissent

Probably the single biggest factor that keeps me coming back to the Xeno series is how ambitious the games are. Xenogears and Xenosaga never got to finish their stories, but

Max Kreminski

maxkreminski

calling it now: the next successful social media site will be a MUD with gardening instead of combat mechanicspeople want to be in a place that they personally (alongside their

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In 2012, Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly passed (87%!) an automotive #RightToRepair ballot initiative, but in the years since, car-makers have brutally sabotaged it, prompting another ballot initiative that'll be before voters

Oliver Darkshire 🌈

deathbybadger

D&D is a game which insists by default that species of sentient creatures can be inherently evil by nature, which no doubt links back to its central design as a

Sunflower King Synxiec 🌻💛👑

synxiecbeta

So I'm here watching @DichotomusPrime talking about game design things → https://www.twitch.tv/dichotomusprime I heard him say "crunch" and there's a part of me that used to think that when people said

Dhruv Bansal

dhruvbansal

1 Physicists have a word "crank": a person who doesn't know physics but persists in promulgating their personal theory. Cranks pop in all fields of physics but especially in certain

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Carla Nappi

CarlaNappi

Ok! Here we go from a freaky-empty EWR airport on self-grading & #covidcampus. So, the principle of the whole self-grading system & vibe (for me, at least) is that everyone

Kate Sheridan ⚔️

killswitchkatie

remember when sci-fi had like...colors in it. remember. rememb i have historically not loved sci-fi as a genre bc so much of it either looks drab as hell or gets

ojohierro

ojohierro

I've been thinking a bit recently about mechanics in RPGs on a spectrum from integral to inconsequentially ignorable, and in particular how much a game signals how important a given

Cliff Burgess

CburgesCliff

1/N. Why antiparticles exist (a thread) 2/N The starting point is that quantum mechanics and special relativity are almost inconsistent with one another. 3/N. The problem starts with a problem

Scottie J

Scottie_J_

Modern Paper Mario Is a 3D Mario game where platforming challenges are swapped out for puzzle solving, and battles are turn based.A thread. Exploration focused gameplay where the end goal