For no reason at all? No, no, no. For all of the right reasons? Oh, for sure.

I see you have class.

The term rollback is often used in the software industry, as a way to undo an update. Since the update was pushed to the client side from the development side, and was realized to not be ready. Apple’s team manager(s) would have discussed whether to patch it or roll it back to the previous software version. Patching such a thing would have taken “some time” to do so. So it was better to roll it back and really hammer on it, to work out the kinks and such.

should run on older hardware

How old are we talking?

Better yet, what minimum system requirements should the game be able to run on?

Steam collects hardware info (that people opt-in for) over the years. Here is the searchable database.

Here are 10 songs I’ve been listening to for the past week or so.

ATTLAS - Ryat

The Hives - Hate To Say I Told You So

The Faint - Evil Voices

DJ-Mar-T - Gentleman (Club Mix)

AFI - Fall Children

Machine Girl - Athoth A Go!! Go!!

Rudimental, 1991, PNAU, AR/CO - The Feeling

Venjent - Belong

Kasablanca - Higher Resolution

Pendulum - Propane Nightmares [Celldweller remix]

This is what it looks like for me. We are just on the waiting list now. They will send out access when they are ready to test.

CRETE alpha access can be obtained by registering for access via their Steam page.

Whoops. Sorry about that. Fixed it.

Perhaps you’re right. But have you considered what those who play those games get out of it for themselves?

I’m curious to learn more as I believe people hit the downvote too soon, before knowing why.

How would you define an indie game, and what indie games have you played before? What kinds of video games do you enjoy to play?

That isn’t what I was making a point of. I was doing my best to convey that it’s a more complex analysis than, ‘The new games I see, seem so soulless or bland. So that must mean they didn’t have a creative vision when creating their video game(s).’

I have an interest and in a way, a hobby of learning about the video game industry, with a strong emphasis on what developer teams and individuals do to make these games. The short answer as to why these games don’t hit their creative mark(s) is often the following:

• Because there wasn’t a strong understanding as to what the game was going to be about or function like, from the beginning or continually.

• Management didn’t do a good job or weren’t able to maintain development in the right direction or for the right things needed for the project. (The number of times I’ve read or heard about people or teams working on a character, level, game feature, etc, and then leaders/management decides to put something else in or cut it entirely… is staggering. We’re talking days, weeks, or months spent, then it’s removed or changed.)

• Misjugement(s) of what and how much each ‘resource’ (time, people, expertise, money) would be needed to complete each milestone, stage, and final polish of the video game.

• Game feature creep - The more you have on your list of things you want in the game, the more ‘resources’ you will need to complete it. When you don’t have enough of any or all of the ‘resources,’ you have to start cutting things from the final video game form.

That being said, there are more reasons why video games come out janky, half baked or lacking creative vision. Just remember, there is always two sides to a story.

I saw this post a day after it was posted and checked out the documentary. I’ve been watching through it in chunks. It’s been enjoyable. The practical effects are quite interesting to me. I remember having a realization that it was someone/team’s job to do work like it for movies and TV shows when I was 9 or 10, after watching Jurassic Park for the first time. It’s just amazing the kinds of techniques, materials used, and expertise that came about as more and more movies and TV shows.

I don’t want to go into detail or ask questions until I’ve seen it all the way through. I will say though, that the editing style of the documentary has been enjoyable.

This is just false. There are many games that have good/great creative vision that come out. It’s just that like ‘never before,’ there is a tsunami of video games that come out every month. Finding these video games with good/great creative vision is tremendously hard unless you have a filter system in place. (And even then…) Are they all video games that we would likely pay for, no. There are a lot of half baked games that come out. I’m talking about video games from a single first time video game developer, 10 person dev team companies, 100 person dev team companies, all the way to 1000+ person video game projects made by AAA publishers/developers. And of course everything in between. Making a video game is easier to do nowadays, for sure. But to make a video game that captures all of the “creative vision” you speak of… very difficult to do so.

Some of the best video games to come out this decade have come from video game developers who were solo or small teams.

Untitled Goose Game

Inscryption

Vampire Survivors

DAVE THE DIVER

Factorio

This was obviously made to be car-centric propagandists. /j

Fun info: The US has an estimated 10,000 roundabouts.

Here’s a roundabout database interactive map.

The fact that this video was uploaded to Youtube on 10th of February 2006… and Youtube was founded on the 14th of February 2005… is NUTS!

Also, this is a meme by definition. “A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme.”

it’s just in video/clip format.

And finally, this is not an antique meme. This is a freaking artifact of a bygone ‘era,’ and I love it!

I haven’t torrented in many years. But I wanted to give a shoutout to all of the seeders that come back online, so I we could finish. There were many movies I had qued. Most were fine and finished up in three days or less, some started then stopped before they even reached the 15% mark, and several would make it to 98% then stop. Thankfully, there were some people out there who finally came back online and seeded enough for me to finish the dls. I made sure to seed enough peers to where there would be 10 seeders before I would consider removing it.

And a huge fucking thank you to whoever the hell came back online to let me get some obscure TV show called The Legend Of Mick Dodge. I started to dl when there were only 2 seeders. Then it soon became 0 seeders. I held out because I wasn’t able to find a trusted torrent for the show. So I ended up sitting on that for a bit over a month. Then one morning, I checked my list and found to my surprise that both season 1 and season 2 were complete. I was shocked when I found out that there were now 7 seeders including me. And because of the annoying wait I had to endure, I made sure to seed the MFer for 2+ months before transferring it.

((Turns out, the TV show is on archive.org https://archive.org/details/the-legend-of-mick-dodge/))

I started in on the documentary called Aliens Expanded It goes in depth about all the things that happened and didn’t happen while making the movie Aliens. It’s nearly 4 hours long, so I’ve been watching it in large chunks. I’m an hour and a half in and I’m enjoying it.

It is true that this happens to everyone. But I wanted to post it to a content lacking community. (And as a side hope, I was hoping that someone on here might be willing to share how they mitigate these moments from happening.)

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