Might I suggest game shows for indie games? Usually those don’t have the budget to hide contents behind cinematic trailers, and usually they seem of a better quality than AAA games.

Been a while since I used it, but in retrospect, it felt basic but functional for what it does. The “better” ones, I’d defend they are because they are tinkered to the uses the user wants/needs.

Ah, another game that comes to mind: Persona 3 FES

Dunno how not liked it is, but I always see people getting scared away because of the difficulty, and that trying to convince people to play that version for the good part of a decade now.

But just saying, learning the ins and outs of the game makes it far more manageable, and even gets mechanics of P4G and Persona 5 to make sense.

Also, pinning a god-like being to the ground for ~50 turns thanks to Thunder Reign and making another god-like being slap itself to death thanks to Marakarn and Tetrakarn, both due to exploiting mechanics to my benefit, were certainly high points of the game. =D

Even Mitsuru was useful for a single battle in my whole 170h save because of having to exploit the game’s mechanics

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(“burn by bread” reference)

Arcane Labyrinth is fantastic. Adds much to the game, both in lore (which the base game barely has so it needed) and in challenge. 👌

NES FFII.

Final Fantasy II, though from what I talked with people, it suffers more from bad reputation than people actively playing it and not liking.

I think you can find assets in both Itchio and DLsite. Just be mindful of their licenses, and that DLsite is primarily NSFW.

Alternatively, there are gamedev forums (or adjacent) that allow recruiting people to your projects, so maybe you could ask in those if anyone would want to do music commissions for a game. Two forums with recruitment threads/boards I know are Fuwanovel and RPG Maker’s. Plus you can probably find communities that allow recruitment, game assets commissions, and/or music commissions around here in the fediverse.

Even commercial, service-based LLMs demand a great effort of quality control, with their hallucinations and all. With local ones being mid in comparison from my experience, my suggestion would be that if your company does try implementing any, they should make sure to at least pay a nice extra to the QA folks.

@[email protected] a tool with no documentation and no users that know it and are also abstraction-capable, is asking for something to break massively down the line.

Since LLMs are in use, I’d at least suggest asking for them to generate a documentation for it, and trying to make a documentation based on it.

…Or the intention is extinctionism by making an actual Skynet, which then hope it is unsuccessful - I’d imagine most people like being alive.

I’ve seen some days ago a tool for BeamNG (vehicle/racing simulation game) that allows you to create maps with the general overlay of any region mapped by I think it was Google Earth. Apparently the tool was made in a month by a single guy, so if the technology is there already with such a constraint and for a game not made as a building game (even if mod-capable), the state and military (?) apparatus being used to create a generation tool for a well-documented building game sounds more than feasible imo.

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Commitment is different from actually doing it, so not holding my breath.

Academy is great at draining energy, so maybe try leaving it last? Also potassium sources like bananas are good, since afaik exercising drains the mineral, making you drowsy.

Also, for hobbies, maybe wake up some hours earlier to do them, since at the opposite point of the day you don’t have energy anymore?

That’s the one I tapked about that apparently changes stuff.

The idea would be to run the build Microsoft/Mojang provides, not this.

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Would it be a publicly available page, or accessible only for you?

If it’s a public page, you could possibly host shareware games or with other licenses with a similar effect.

And there’s plenty of games you can legally buy as ROMs (e.g. homebrews on Itchio), games that include ROMs in their files (e.g. River City Girls 0 on Steam, most Neo Geo releases on PC platforms and pretty much any MS-DOS game rerelease), and if you’re from a region with laws not as draconian as the DMCA, there are games with ROMs embedded in their files and that can be extracted. So if it’s a private page, you could go for those too.

PS3. Coming from the PS2, the library was bland in comparison. And later on, when I got interested in console modding, the PS3 was the slowest and most cumbersome to do anything and with barely any variety of homebrew stuff. And also, I’m dreading having to replace the controller (due to the 3rd party PS button situation) and replacing the HD (due to how entangled pieces apparently are).

Later on, it’d become an overpowered PS2 console for me.

Iirc, FFX is a ~200h game if you go for optionals, ~80h if you focus mostly on the main story. So if the start takes maybe 3h (at least how long I go about without rushing and without challenges), the start doesn’t seem too long.

About looking weird, could be, yeah. Apparently from the SNES to the N64 and PS1 was a major leap too, which gave all those experimental 3D games;

P2P Multiplayer

Feels like we’re returning to 2007. 🫂