I mentioned it in a comment in the last post.

Really cool gimmick. Especially that you can use the gravity gun not only on the can, but all the website elements.

Huge update, with a lot of changes, and workshop support. Valve does it again. Quality update for a very “old” title.

Half-Life 2 is currently free on Steam

From now through the weekend (until November 18th at 10am Pacific) Half-Life 2 is free to own , so if you’ve never played before, grab it now and keep it forever.

Haha, go to the bottom an grab the gravity gun - really cool gimmick

IsThereAnyDeal link - if you want to check prices or against your owned, wishlisted or ignored games

I forgot there was a sequel. At least I think I’ve seen it before.

Grow Up is currently 75% off on Steam. Very positive ratings, and watching this ign review, seems like a decent iteration with enough fresh content. I think I will buy it 🤔 and go climbing again :D

They’ve already been doing that, right? I assume this is marketing more than new or a change?

Have kernel-level anti-cheat systems ever stopped processes? Unrelated to the anti-cheat and the game itself?

I would imagine they would kick and ban you, not control other processes.

I had so much trouble

You could say it was… max pain

Is it good?

Wayfinder on Steam

I’m currently playing mainly the free hexceed, which to my surprise has a lot of free content. I found it mentioned elsewhere on Lemmy, and have been playing it since. hexceed is a hexagon puzzle game.

Being controllable mouse-only is nice. Needing focus it’s not always fitting to play though. :)

I also bought some pick-bundles and tried out Cash Cow DX, but it wasn’t for me.

And I tried playing The Ascend last weekend, but the Steam Controller track pad feels awful for full-degree aiming.

I’ve also been playing Koa and the Five Pirates of Mara, but am somehow on a break there currently. If I go back to a platformer on my PC, it’ll probably be that though, to continue playing through it.

playformers

You mean platformers, right? Or is playformers a term?

What do you think about full-degree aiming in platformers?

I like being able to play platformers with gamepads, but the Steam Controller has no right stick, and the track pad doesn’t feel appropriate/consistent enough for aiming.

Not that I have not played platformers with keyboard and mouse and enjoyed them. A good title will still win over a worse title, but in general, I think nowadays I prefer platformers without aiming anything.

Thinking of Webbed, I think I may have tried that with gamepad first, but had to switch to keyboard and mouse. Which worked well, and was a very enjoyable game. But I can’t chill on the couch with that control scheme.

I have not, but it’s in my library! :D

For me, great platformers have fluid and responsive controls, and either implement a forgiving persisting experience (climbing the environment) or quick and not too far-off resets (level screens).

Platforming can be great in pure platformers, action platformers, 2d or 3d. They may shift but do not limit how stories can be told and how worlds or progression can be designed.

I imagine it can be difficult to balance forgiving platforming with challenges between novice and experienced players. Often, we see alternative or stretch-goal paths for collectibles or challenges, which is a good approach to serve both kinds of players - even if maybe not total novices.

Introducing game mechanics step by step can give good introductions and learning controls, preferably in-game without dialogue, popups, or text-only introductions. They can guide into a natural level and mechanics design progression, giving a natural progression across longer gameplay.

I love platformers. For 2d, I usually prefer action platformers over pure platforming. So, let’s see what comes to mind.

You gamers HAVE to play Sheepy: A Short Adventure. It’s free and has an exceptional atmosphere.

I started with what I had fond memories of and came to mind, but of course, I went to my steam library, and looked through games tagged platformer. And now I’m wondering if I should also link my reviews of the titles, specifically the most interesting ones. Either way, the list of fond memories / very positives became too long for one list, so it’s split by category now.

3d ego platformers

• A Story About My Uncle, left a lasting impact on me back then as a very good if not exceptional title
• Portal
• Hot Lava, great, pure 3d platformer, a lot of of quality content
• Supraland, 3d puzzle and action platformer

3d 3rd-person platformers

• New Super Lucky’s Tale, a great 3d platformer
• A Hat in Time, a great 3d platformer, with cute characters, good humor
• RiME, I remember I wrote a very positive review about RiME
• A Short Hike, great
• Yooka-Laylee

2d platformers

• Sheepy: A Short Adventure, free, exceptional atmosphere
• Ori, with its great atmosphere and visuals
• Webbed, very cute, great theming, playing as a spider
• Yoku’s Island Express, great mixing of pinball and platformer, in a great setting
• Spiritfarer, great atmosphere
• Battleblock Theater, great absurd humor
• Super Meat Boy, ok, this has been a long time ago, but it was incredibly fluid and fast, with a ton of content
• Dustforce DX
• Jubilee, I played this on my Steam Deck quite a bit (unfortunately no save sync)
• Trine, for its great physics approach and narrated humorous storytelling
• Wunderling DX, an “auto-runner platformer”, quite interesting, well polished, so try to for something different
• Braid, I don’t actually know if it holds up today, it’s been so long ago

I’d love to hear your opinions on

• A Highland Song, deep lore, great atmosphere - I felt a bit lost though, or wasn’t captivated beyond that, and beyond one run
• Treasures of Aegean, another “roguelite” platformer, with interesting progression and discovery - still, I found it well made, but ultimately not personally captivating, maybe because of the disorganized nature [of re-runs and timeloop-crossing story]
• Sable, only partially platformer, and not the best quality overall, but great atmosphere, exploration, and platforming discovery
• Verlet Swing
• Viking Hiking
• Grow Home

I like watching Jauwn’s NFT game reviews. They almost feel like satire, with sarcasm, jokes, and criticism. They’re an interesting insight into the NFT game fad and its products.

In other videos it’s also sad to see they work as scams, leaving [naive] people lose a lot of money.

so the issue is not digital, but DRM

any non-video source?

But it’s still digital when pirated…