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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 17h

The funny thing is that Serious Sam 2 (besides it updating in the middle of my playthrough) is that it’s actually a fine horde shooter once it ramps up and you get past the kind of spotty first planet. I’m not a fan of long elevator/lift sequences though. Also the game is still psychotic (neutral?).

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 1d

Serious Credit Score

Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 4d

It’s been a few days since finishing Anthology of the Killer and I’ve already done a full second playthrough and feel like actually doing a full breakdown/write up. Every 5 minutes it feels like the gif of the guy opening the book and getting blasted with fire because the writing is so fire.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 4d

They’re installing harder alternate routes with boost pads and guaranteed double item boxes on my way to work, for drivers who want to take the risk.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 8d

Finished playing Anthology of the Killer last night. It's a collection of short adventure games about death and murder. In fact it might be the most about death and murder than anything else about death and murder. It goes hard and goofy and incredibly heavy when it wants to and I kind of love it.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 9d

One of my favorite things I did in a game this year was to open up tc_hydro and run around listening to the developer commentary. It has so many unusual spaces you don’t really see on any other map.

It’s funny how some of early TF2’s prettiest and most artistically coherent maps kinda suck to play.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 10d

Assuming I ever manage to make a game, it will naturally have to be about ridiculously violent catgirls…

Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 10d

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 11d

Yeah that’s one of ‘em!!!

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 11d

It’s been however many years of video games having been invented and I still can only think of like 2 where you can do a piledriver in first-person.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 11d

Yet another awfully slow day at the Squidward crushing factory.

Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 12d

Art is something I wish I gave more serious consideration to while I was still developing skills. Instead of learning fundamentals or any important principles I mostly learned how to copy or approximate where the lines should go to look like the other thing. Do people ever overcome this?

Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 12d

Had a dream that Seth McFarlane produced and directed a legally distinct Helluva Boss spoof that was somehow better in every way. It appeared next to the original show when you searched it and had 58% on Rotten Tomatoes

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 12d

Sometimes a joke is worth examining just to see what it can tell you about jokes.

Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 13d

There’s a shelf of AD&D adventure modules on the shelf at my parents’ house, and at some point I’d like to go through them and evaluate them as a resource for general level design. I think if you can make dungeons drawn on graph paper engaging to walk players through you are already ready for a lot.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 13d

I feel like Aperture being a competitor to Black Mesa makes more sense in the context of this first game. Maybe it's just because it's more clearly a modded HL2, but Aperture behind the scenes feel more industrial and less techno-magical like 2. Or maybe it's just the giant pistons that do nothing.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 13d

Very fun game. It's a much drier and more compact experience than the sequel but in a lot of ways this is a good thing. Being able to blow through it in half an afternoon helps the pacing a lot and the puzzle complexity ramps up at about the right rate for that.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 13d

Playing Portal for the first time and I have a headache so I feel like I'm taking in less than I should, but at least one thing I noticed is the mood of the soundtrack. Around the chamber you get the dual portal gun it gets very distinct from what the 2nd game's would be and I kinda dig it more.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 14d

Zeno Clash fascinates me for a number of reasons. One is just how someone mangled the Source engine into a first-person beat-'em-up, another because of the weird moment in time and place that it occupies, and lastly because it's just so... weird and cool absorbing whatever the hell this world is.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 14d

Don’t worry, folks. He’ll get the help he needs.

Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 15d

I am at the point where I feel like I got to go to the library and check out a book teaching you how to draw cars or dragons if I ever want to learn a dam thing in my life.

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 15d

Doodles of war and violence (funny) at work

(Tagged for some blood and guts)

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 16d

Scribbles at work of hundreds of moles maybe #antonblast

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 16d

Nobody knows who they were, or what they were doing, but their legacy remains…

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Fred Fuchs @fredfuchster.bsky.social · 16d

In my mind the ideal player character for any Dark Souls game should look like they walked off the set of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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