ParsnipHero

I’ve been playing Hades 1 on the switch 2. I have to say despite the quality of the game I’m probably in an unrecoverable state with roguelites. It’s been this way since my time with Dead Cells. I can’t get over the rinse and repeat gameplay with often little progression.

@N00BiSH let’s hope so! That game has an incredible soundtrack.

Now I'm wondering if they added bike gameplay so they could come up with a new amiibo. 😂

It was such a weird trailer. I kept thinking this a Samus tie-in in another game. I couldn't make sense of it until regular gameplay appeared and then the (Metroid) dread set in.

@Kazman2007 there was one. It wasn’t a separate poll article it was included in the post direct article/guide.

https://www.nintendolife.com/guides/nintendo-direct-september-2025-every-announcement-game-reveal-trailer#poll-how-would-you-rate-this-direct

No games again just game dev.

This week I pivoted away from my PvZ like game to make a top-down adventure game. I’m currently working on occlusion and chunking techniques for level rendering.

I have it a 8. I felt Nintendo played it safe Abe swing for the fences with this one. I felt like there was something for everyone here except for maybe fans of western sports games.

So you're saying there's a chance of Pilotwings or Wave Race news?

I voted Europe as that’s the box I had growing up. Nostalgia!

@JumpingJackson it's all shouting into the void for me hoping to be heard.

That said maybe younger folks can handle that much information at once?

@John_Deacon looks like that's a Shi-yes-bi!

@Enigk now F-Zero and Silksong are off the table I'm moving on to Wave Race or Pilotwings.

@Liam_Doolan great to see behind the scenes on this stuff. This sounds like it would make a fun "easter egg" or FAQ entry in an about page somewhere. Which colors mean what etc.

I loved the idea of Silksong when it was first revealed but I don't get this descent into madness that has happened since. It's almost like the Hollow Knight community went "full Arkham".

No games again. Hardly any game dev either tbh - life!

I’ve added refined my animation system, and added in a simple background to the game. Now I’m just working out how I’m gonna add the UI on top.

The first part of that video really dragged (pun intended!)

Well to the fold, Taiwan!

Just game dev again. Engine rewrite #4!

I decided to refine my Plants vs. Zombies game from tower defense to “support defense”. Instead of killing enemies coming in you help cure them instead. I really like the idea of not killing things.

I’m not actually at a point where I have any gameplay. Part of my rewriting is focusing on making the game responsive. I dabbled in world space position in the last iteration for gameplay elements now I’m applying a relative approach to UI scaling so the game’s UI scales when the screen size changes.

I’ve started working on animations now. That’s a really interesting area. I’m building up my sprite sheets but the concept of making an animation in data will involve 3 objects in code. Firstly the Asset/Image then the Spritesheet which uses the Asset as a property then finally an Animation which uses the Spritesheet to say I want to use these frames at this speed. This way I can reuse spritesheets for multiple animations. It also decouples spritesheet and animation data from an asset.

Once I have animations working I’ll reimplement the world space rendering system and dynamically scale up non-UI elements.

Lots to do. Still loving working on this thing.

Okay this is amazing. The team should be very proud of what they've created here.

Good good. Now we can all move on with our lives.

Still no games. Game dev of my JS Plants vs. Zombies like game is going great though.

I’ve some great strides. Levels and unit types can be configured in JSON files now then deserialized into granted objects. This makes testing so much easier as I don’t have to go through lengthy object setup. I’ve also included shorthand in the Covid edict translate to configuration so less magic numbers.

In other news I have level progression in the UI to thangs to configuration I can set a next level and on victory the user can go to the next level.

I introduced unit behavior this week. Units can have melee behavior or ranged where they fire projectiles which damage their foes. I even have a unit type that generates energy for the player so they can create units faster. So I have variations on the peashooter, sunflower and wall-nut then a zombie (and speedy zombie) on the other side.

We’re not done yet. I converted my absolute value positioning system to world coordinates so I can scale them easier based on screen size.

It’s been a lot of fun seeing this all come together I put together some simple level then real pushed what could be done by adding in lots of enemy waves. It makes me realize that you can build a system but play testing and balancing are critical too.

Technically we’re a functional game now we have victory, defeat and gameplay features but I have along way to go yet.

This next week I want to add in unit removal (shovel mechanism) and possibly introduce a level select based on configured levels. Finally possibly animation but that’s a big one.

@Ellie-Moo the limited time Mario 3D Allstars game was the quest thing Nintendo had done in recent memory. That just felt super greedy.

Edit: I think that was a watershed moment for me with Nintendo.

Still not playing anything though I said I’d take a look at UFO 50.

Right now I’m still working on my game. Since last week I reworked the update logic to use a single immutable state and removed all the bonkers event driven code. That was becoming a massive headache.

Anyways feature wise my pause menu UI is much better and so is player unit spawning. The gameplay doesn’t spawn enemies yet or track win/lose conditions but I have a really solid foundation so I already have a way forward there.

I’m looking forward to where I go next with this.

@Picola-Wicola attachments affect your weapon. Like a magazine will increase ammo capacity or a stock will improve handling. They’re all graded is typical RPG style colors with gold being the typical best.

Some are called “hop ups” which change how the gun performs like select fire allows you to switch from single to auto shot when the gun couldn’t do that out of the box.

If you’ve got to this point I highly recommend going to the firing range and testing this stuff out. It’s got everything I mentioned above.

Keep safe out there, legend!

@Picola-Wicola it’s not as trial by fire as it used to be as they have Bot Royale now but eventually you’re going to play against people and games can vary from setting No one to “how are there this many people here?”

Overall it’s like any other battle royale but the biggest things are weapon attachments they can subtly change your guns. It can be annoying not finding the loot you need but the scavenger hunt can make a game too.

Training area is per good for trying things out and messing with bots too.

If you’re fine with dying in a battle royale you could give it some time and see what you think.

@Oldstalk people thought Welcome Tour was expensive! This required add-on is literally life changing.

Oh no. I’m glad this is the case because playing the switch 1 version on the switch 2 was awful. That said if I were to download this and I’m still bad at it I can’t blame game performance anymore, eh?

While we’re here. Who does everyone main? I’m a Mirage man, myself. Boozles for the foozles!

Heck yea! I’ve been off games at the moment while I build my own but this might tempt me back in.

I’m actually taking a break from playing games at the moment. Instead I’m making a game like Plants vs Zombies from scratch in JavaScript in browser.

It’s coming along nicely. I’ve got unit selection and placement, pause menu, energy regen and last night I was able to spawn zombie waves. It all works with a gamepad too. Next step is unit detection so they fight each other. That’s what of the “brain” logic I’m giving each unit.

@jojobar hopefully any laziness in a port won't affect performance. More levels would have been a great addition. I really didn't want anything more from PvZ1 other than to play it on a modern console.

Much needed. I played the switch version on Switch 2 at launch and it was rough! Dock was wired and playing with a switch 2 pro controller but it played like bilge.

I doubt this will bring me back though.

I'd love UFO 50. Sea of Thieves might be nice if we get private servers any time soon.

It's no surprise this partner showcases is for both Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. Nintendo Switch has too large an install base to ignore it just yet. Add on top of that a lot of developers supposedly don't have Nintendo Switch 2 dev kits.

Honestly one of the best Nintendo YouTube channel videos in a good while. Great humor!

I loved the first game after that it was just F2P slop or an entirely different genre. I’d welcome a remaster of the first game.

These games look beautiful but I'm honestly terrible at rhythm games.

Yes but how does the cartridge taste?

@Porky yea, it's always been that format. It's just the non-mainline Pokémon games offerings are far more broad now not just Pokémon Go.

Really all I want is for them to announce a way I can buy the old games digitally. Buying the classic games on retro hardware is such a minefield and not a cheap endeavor either.

I’ve only got to level 200 but overall a great game mechanically. The story is really jarring to me. It’s just way too silly in a way I think I’ve not seen from other Nintendo games. I’m glad the team did what they felt was right for the game though. Really loving it overall.

RELEASE THE ROGEN CUT!!!

@ShieldHero I appreciate how coordinated this rally of yours is.

Glad this film has a bit of humour. The first one was drier than a digestive biscuit after an hour in the tumble.

I wish they made this game a spinoff of ARMS. I think the game had an interesting concept but the presentation is so drab. Having ARMS colours would have helped so much in selling it.

I’d love the classic games to be on NSO but this won’t be that.

He-he here we go.

@Bower227 and Donkey Kong Land, Donkey Kong Land 2, and Donkey Kong Land 3!

@StewdaMegaManNerd totally not interested in playing games which we’ve had for years on an extremely popular console.

Of course I can choose not buy them but I really hoped companies would bring something new for launch.

@Sambuc right? I have mine coming in today but it wasn’t easy finding one.

I think they should be more apologetic for the sheer amount of switch 2 editions honestly. It’s not like the switch launch where folks hadn’t bothered with the Wii U.

That said the free upgrades to many Switch games for free was a nice touch.

I hope we’re eventually getting another way to unlock those creature driver unlocks. The current system is ridiculous.