No Time To Play @notimetoplay@elekk.xyz

So, I joined Ko-fi. Here goes nothing, but I don't know what else to try anymore: https://ko-fi.com/notimetoplay

Wait, Google Stadia was still around?

These days everyone's talking about AI art, but remember when very smart people tried using AI to replace game writers? How did that work out? https://notimetoplay.org/cgi-bin/wiki/More_about_stories_in_games

After a brief attempt to switch from Creole to Markdown on the wiki, I went back. Obsolete and baroque is better than incomplete and broken.

Lots of people: "Why is the horror genre so popular these days, and staying popular?"

Me: "Have you seen the world these days?"

There's a new kind of dubious account around the fediverse, that only posts capybara pictures. Not sure what their deal is, but this ain't good. If one of those follows you, background-check the domain right away.

A trick bad people seem to use lately is to show an error message (probably fake) in the browser if you look directly, while the server actually works. If that happens, use a search engine; most likely you'll find them already on another instance's blocklist.

People now find my stuff on itch.io through Duck Duck Go and Brave #Search, while Google appears to have stopped working entirely.

But that's just the problem with it: we can perfectly emulate obscure game consoles, yet somehow we still can't emulate Flash properly, after decades of efforts. Just how badly was it made? http://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/momas-never-alone-video-games-and-other-interactive-design-exhibit-the-hopeful-future-of-video-game-preservation

Great news, everyone! Thanks to a new app I developed for just this sort of thing, the old articles that went into Book One of No Time to Play now have their own section on the site, complete with illustrations. Links have been updated, and the formatting cleaned up, but little else. Space on the wiki will be freed in the near future. https://notimetoplay.org/archive/book1/

Added a new link round-up, with links about representation, gamebooks, the influence of classic movies, and game culture in general: https://notimetoplay.org/cgi-bin/wiki/2022-09-07_Assorted

I fired up OutNoted and was waiting for it to start. It had already started. That's what bloated software does to our minds.

@exquisitecorp Good work on that write-up about Image Magick recipes!

Wrote a few words on what's been going on lately, in the way of code and wiki work: https://notimetoplay.org/cgi-bin/wiki/2022-08-28_Updates

Time and again people need reminding that "cheating" in a single-player game is a nonsensical notion, that DRM doesn't work and it's a bad idea anyway: https://intfiction.org/t/how-to-prevent-people-from-downloading-the-game/57203

Quick hint: they're the loud ones who don't read, don't wait, insist and return.