Jayenkai

Nintendo have been working on 3D games for decades. The 3DS was the tip of the iceberg. As the writer of a whopping 128 games on Switch, my analysis of the situation is that projected holograms will be part of the next Nintendo console, codenamed Folio.

What a lovely art style.

"It can't be for a Nintendo console, 'cos only the Xbox achievements have been leaked."
Makes total sense.
If it were due for Nintendo, too, we'd definitely have seen all of the Nintendo Online Achievements.

@MaddestViking If I wanted to make stuff with bland "pixel-blocks", I'd do something silly like drawing a pixelart every day for over 2,500 days.

@MasterJay good to know. I might give it a second chance, then.
I think I only gave it about 5 minutes!!

"No Build"?
...!?!!
What about a "Relax, chill and build, without getting shot in the head" mode?

@Clyde_Radcliffe I'm afraid I really didn't give Fuze enough time to find out. I think Fuze has a "nicer" catalogue of ready made assets, but otherwise a language is a language. It is what people make of it.

If nothing else, at least Platdude pops up on SmileBASIC from time to time

SmileBASIC is currently half price. (£9.99)
Even if you're not into making your own games, there are now over 1,800 fun little retro indie games, made by developers all over the world, to play in it.
They're all completely free to download and play, once you've bought the thing.

Scrabble, Monopoly, Boggle.
Board games.. Family.. Xmas!!

Merry Christmas to you all.
I hope you get good gifts.
From shiny games as good as new,
To retro finds and thrifts.

Gooooorgeous!!

If I had an ounce of that talent... .. Platdude would at least have a face.

Hurray! I earned 13 points with my purchase!!

Hopefully I can get further into this one than "The Third", where I got stuck in the tutorial, spinning round and round and round as a weapon atop a tower, and kicking my Motion Sickness into high gear.

It's never too late to learn. SmileBASIC, Fuze and Nintendo's own Garage Builder thing make it all the more easy to give it a go as a hobby, right on the Switch!

@BloodNinja depends entirely on how it's been written, what language was used, what devkit, etc.
In this case, if you zoom into the pic on Twitter, you can quite clearly read "Unity" at the top of the screen.
Unity makes it as easy as pi.

@AugustusOxy See also : My second reply to this thread.
Additionally .. "Would HAVE" It's "Would HAVE"

@Clyde_Radcliffe Neither do games in the Apple Arcade. I've been sucked into that, head line and sinker. No ads allowed. No IAP's allowed. It's brilliant!!!
And most Apple Arcade games work with gamepads, though it's a pain to have to keep syncing my PS4 gamepad to the iPad and back..
Would be great if Apple released a proper gamepad, and bundled it with an Apple TV device.
Why are they so reluctant!?! I dunno..

"Mobile games". .. some people.
That's a standard game dev environment. If he hit a slightly different button and released the compiled version on Switch, you'd be chomping at the bits to play it.
It's the same smegging thing.

It's also available on Netflix (in the UK, at least. Mileage may vary!)
If you haven't seen it, do. It's honestly LOL funny in places.

As long as it's got the Dreamcast Ring Game's OST, we're sorted!!

Is there/will there be a Japanese one?
My alt-account is my most used one!

Yeah, between this, Zookeeper World, and Galaga Wars, Apple Arcade finally feels like it has a nice set of games that I can really enjoy.
Still reckon they should do an Apple TV bundle with a controller. That'd work really well.
..
Also, good that the game's coming to Switch, I guess

A whole 11-12 months before it comes out..
That's plenty of time for Sonic Team to do what they usually do, and turn a fun gaming element into a moronic gimmick that ruins the entire experience.

I'll buy it like I buy every Sonic game.
I'm an idiot..

That's not how the logo portrays it.
It quite clearly says..
Warsh Mall Ows

@Bermanator Perhaps it's just an accent thing. If I try to say it out loud, it becomes "WashMallows", which loses all meaning. You end up with a game about washing.
"WarsMallows" still looks close enough, but you keep the R in the pronunciation, and the "wars" bit has a stronger impact.

It's not, though, is it?
I mean, it wasn't in active development the whole time like Duke was.

Excited Jay says : Mmmm, action Worms. Anyone remember Leiro?
Grumpy Jay says : Not a fan of the name. Might've worked better without the h..?

Arcade Archive, consistently reminding you how great and imaginative these companies USED to be.

Am I out of touch?..

.. no, it's the children's taste in music that's wrong.

We've seen other Monkey Ball games, and there's a reason everyone rushed to get Mania, even though Mania is essentially a 20 year old version.
It's the same deal with Sonic games. Sega have this obscure thirst for adding new mechanics to things which definitely don't need any new mechanics.
"Old game, new levels" isn't all that bad, Sega. We don't mind.. Heck, make them add ons for Mania, and fix up Mania's issues whilst you're at it.

"Last Free" = DLC. And/or, future add-ons being part of the "Expansion" pack.

So, then....
Maybe let us hear it?

They gave away that new Star Wars Squadrons game on PSPlus a few months ago.
I blasted off, rushed towards a good close up view of the nitty gritty of the main ship, and ...
... was severely disappointed, thinking to myself "boy, I'm sure that looked better in that GameCube Launch Title...

Because I couldn't remember if it was called Rogue Leader, or Rogue Squadron.
What I did remember, was that it looked better than the tripe I was playing on a PS4 Pro.
I closed the game, deleted it, and pugged in the GameCube, where I spent the next hour or so having infinitely more fun.

Even One OK Rock weren't safe from being Ed'ed.
Gotta Sing 'em All!

I bought an Oculus Quest 2 the other week, AND I've made over 120 games on Switch.
I tweet random stuff all the time.

And I have a cat.

This is blatant favouritism!!

I Love Horses,
Best of all the animals.
I Love Horses,
They're my friends!

(You're welcome!)

I picked up Saints Row 3 expecting to have a nice "Wander-em-up" game, where I could admire the scenery and views, without my motion sickness getting in the way..
How much did I play?
You know in the tutorial when you're on a giant pylon, looking down at tanks, and having to blow them up by swinging around and around and around and around and around and around..
Vomit-city!
Didn't get past that.

I was hoping to get this and have a fun wander without throwing up.. It's not looking good, folks!

..shows to 62y/o Mum..
...
...... "It's Doogie Howser!"

I'm holding out for the Quest VR edition of GTA:SA.

"But I'm old, now, and I know this is a scam. It's evil! RAWR!!!"
But kids are still kids. And if you were still a kid, playing Pokemon in the playground, and you had Diamond and your friend had Pearl, it'd still be awesome, right?

If they added a little more randomisation into the game, it'd be even better. Imagine a completely randomised landscape with random evolutions and more..
I mean, we ALL have exactly the same copy of Animal Crossing.. But with SO many differences between each player, it's fun to play and find the differences, meet up to trade fruit and furniture. Things like that.

Perhaps Pokemon oughta do that, rather than sticking to the simple A vs B approach.

I definitely consider myself to be a lazy dev, this year.
Last year I managed to write 113 games. This year (so far) I'm only up to 59.
There's no excuse for such tardiness, Jay. You're just being lazy.
Don't give me that "oh, but I've been writing my own programming language in the background" excuse.
For shame.
Lazy Jay.

I was halfway through killing roaches, yesterday, when Angry Brows unceremoniously invited himself around.
Cheeky Angry Brows.
Get it done, ASAP!

Cool. Reminds me of the foley sounds I have at ShoeboxOfGames.com , for lifting, placing and shuffling the cards, moving playing pieces, dropping tokens, rolling dice and more.

Except mine's only a small library of about 40 or so sounds. I tend to rely on adding pitch and volume changes to those, to give the illusion of more variety and more precise range of taps/clicks/etc, rather than actually storing hundreds of such sounds.

I can't imagine how long that must've taken to record/capture/cut/slice all of those effects.
Most of my audio was recorded in the one single session, making use of a single box of Monopoly Gamer (Mario Kart edition, no less!) which happened to be by my side the morning I started writing the collection!!

@Magrane Yeah, after setting it, I wandered around my island gathering mushrooms and thought...
... hmm.. hang on a minute..

Or you could use the ordinance...?

No T-Spins here, either. I'm always happy enough to get a simple Tetris.
Tetris Effect and Puyo Puyo Tetris are the two main ones played in our household. Tetris DX on the GBC was my favourite for a long time, but I think one of those two is now my new favourite..
.. But which!?!

"They're against innovation"
.. no, they're against you stealing their artwork, which if I'm not entirely mistaken, is the EXACT thing that NFT artworks kinda rely upon people not doing.

sighs, shakes head, and goes back to playing Manic Miner

... I'd SO much prefer a classic-LEGO style Luigi's Mansion.. And a Peach's Castle, too, while we're at it.

@Beermonkey Take it easy. Your friend's fine.

@GrailUK ... wont admit to almost posting the same thing