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I love when game developers think of unintended things players might do and implement responses accordingly. Warning for TVTropes link.

then explode a series of bombs across them

Have not played The Sims in a hot minute, is this a mod? I don't remember being able to do this.

I get the tone is jokey but I wasn't sure if that was a hypothetical alternate universe proposition with a different Will Wright, or something that happened in real life, so I looked up the wildfire thing.

Wright's house was caught in the Oakland Hills firestorm.

Rebuilding his life, and having to reacquire so many of his basic possessions, fed into the idea for The Sims.

—https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/gaming/will-wright-says-the-original-sims-ai-was-actually-too-good-almost-anything-the-player-did-was-worse-than-the-sims-running-on-autopilot/ar-AA1yqxwx

Yep, real life and not just hypothetical, ouch.

As someone whose favorite Pokémon are usually unevolved forms (or just flat out a Pokémon that doesn't evolve), I agree with you anyways. Eevee's whole thing is being able to evolve, so that especially stings.

Although if their game design decision was always going to prioritize Pikachu and Eevee and not let them evolve, I do still find this much funnier and more charming than a simple "can't do that." I am at least happy Eevee got to share "the Pokémon the game arbitrarily chooses for you as most important" status since I'm used to that always always being Pikachu.

Windows 11 -> Linux just for gaming and I am satisfied!

However, I also do not play things with big graphics requirements, kernel-level anticheat, and I do not have any fancy GPUs like Nvidia that make things incompatible. I transitioned on a laptop. So YMMV.

Played this on iPhone awhile back before I learned automation was a genre, seems to have received lots of substantial updates since then. I should pick it back up again. Now available for both mobile and Steam, curious to see how they are different and once I find out I'll probably edit the post body with that information.

+1 for nice graphics.

were the big yellow skips (don’t know what Americans call them)

American here! I was reading your first comment, and I was mildly curious what a "skip" is. I guessed "school bus" and oh wow was I wrong. But hey, still a (probably?) public-funded vehicle that's bigger than a normal car and thus something my 5-year old self thought would be fun to drive.

Differences in uses of the English language in primarily English-speaking countries are always fun, I 100% agree with your point about clarifying. Thanks for explaining nicely to the person above :) I've seen a glut of people just being nasty on Lemmy recently so I'm especially happy to see people interacting civilly when some would have gone on an insult spree.

Thanks!

And I'm sorry about that, the people downvoting an on-topic game. I feel it's pretty obvious when someone is posting because "well I like tycoon games and this matches" and when someone is trying to stir shit and be political. But I figure drive-by voters from New or whatever would not know either of us only have the motive of "post tycoon games to Lemmy" and not "we like unrestricted gun access and want you to share our views".

This is like the second post I have made in short succession where I have mass downvotes for something completely on-topic to a community without having misinformation or tearing people down and I do not know why, is it because guns are a hot-button issue in the United States of America? ;-;

It's really frustrating for me because I don't care about internet points but I do care that I've done something to invite mass disapproval without understanding why people are disapproving in the first place. Especially when they just downvote and say absolutely nothing as to why they disapprove. The knowledge gap, knowing you have done something either actually wrong or just unpopular but not what it is so you can decide whether you want to change your behavior to avoid disapproval (like if I did something that is hurtful, so I am getting disapproved of, I need to change; if I just posted an unpopular but civil and non-hateful opinion and people downvote simply to express disagreement I will probably be made even more stubborn in my opinion and refuse to change but I might think twice about being public about it because social disapproval, even from strangers on the internet, feels bad), is very very frustrating.

Then again maybe it is better nobody explained because I see "lol fucking [insult]" here way more often than an actual explanation of why someone disagrees or why a certain non-hateful take that was expressed in a non-inflammatory way without insults is bad, and one thing that really upsets me, even when not targeted at me, is unnecessary hostility.

Some thing that definitely helps with willingness to click on game links is a picture. It can give me an idea of the gameplay, or at least of graphical style. I usually heavily prefer text-based mediums video but given video games have images, aside from interactive fiction it's really helpful to see pictures.

Thanks for all your effort in writing the writeup, especially with dyslexia. We need cool original content on the Fediverse too!

I admit I clicked hoping for an automation game. There's definitely a factory portion where you place down machines to make the guns, an indoor factory, which is something I was looking for awhile back. Not sure how much of the game is the factory portion, so I'll wait and see before I post it to !automationgames@lemmy.zip.

The first thing that stands out to me with the graphics is that the text somehow doesn't feel very good visually. The rest passes well enough. It's an Early Access release that came out April 4, no demo, so I'll be watching closely.

Some 2D artwork on our game is based on AI generation.

Oooof. Really do not appreciate that, so this probably will not be such a high priority for me to check out then. I've dismissed games that appeal more to me for using AI, so I wonder why I'm not immediately mentally binning this one.