In a tweet from the studio account, they also said:

Alt-Frequencies might (it’s a maybe) return at a later date.

If I had to guess, maybe they don’t fully own the rights to their own games?

You’re right - heaven forbid anyone would read the article before dropping a four-paragraph rant based on their incorrect understanding of the title.

You misread the title.

Absolutely - a dialogue choice that leads straight to a game over state is a failure of narrative design.

Unless you’re aiming for a specific path (when replaying, for example), I do find it’s much more satisfying when an RPG allows you to fail and then follow through with the consequences, without just hitting a hard stop or making you feel like you got a lesser experience as a result.

But it does rely on trust - I need to trust that a game is designed to do that before I commit to playing in a way where I don’t immediately reload a save when I fail a skill check.

Because that’s not true?

Latest steam hardware survey has 52.58% of people using 1920x1080 as their primary display resolution. The next most common res is indeed 2560x1440 but only at 20.59%, so it’s significantly less common.

Even better, STK started after SuperTux and still released a v1.0 first - 6 years ago.

It’s apples to oranges really, but still a funny comparison.

It is wild to me that SuperTux has been going for 22 years and still hasn’t hit 1.0.

They started this project the same year Double Dash, Vice City, and Call of Duty came out.

I don’t really mean that as an insult, by the way - it’s just kinda crazy that this 2D platformer project is still going and, apparently, still not done.

You missed out the very next bit, which seems equally as important:

Normally, I’d write a game off under such circumstances, no matter how much or little it cost to make or buy. However, Diffusion’s developer, who goes by Aynekko, has stated that the voices are “currently being rerecorded” with human voice actors. These will be added into Diffusion “for the next or after the next update”.

No excuses for slop voiceover - especially when it’s apparently shit quality too - but at least it sounds like they’re replacing it. Just wish they’d not bothered with the AI to begin with, and it does call into question their creative vision overall.

Bullet Hell is used for games where you need to avoid complex patterns of screen-filling bullets.

Bullet Heaven was coined more recently to describe games like Vampire Survivors where the opposite is true: the screen is still full of bullets, but you’re the one shooting them.

Remember when DirectX 10 was exclusive to Windows Vista?

Title makes it sound like the game got renominated for the same award against the creator’s will, which is not the case.

It was originally nominated for best debut indie, but the creator pulled out because it’s not actually their first game.

The fan-voted award is completely separate and the creator even promoted the voting link to the community.

Careful now, that opinion isn’t allowed round these parts.

Yes, but it had only previously been released on the Wii U, so for most people it was brand new.

Wow, I’ve not thought about Soldner for a very long time

It’s a matter for the courts, not the government of the day - I would think employment law on unlawful dismissal is pretty clear cut.

Meanwhile inzoi is busy shoving AI into as many holes as they can find

ME3 might’ve shit the bed but Dragon Age: Inquisition was still great and sold over 12 million copies

I’m sure there will be huge pressure to continue with what has proven to be a money-making IP. Chasing that success over and over again is exactly how you end up running a creative studio into the ground.

There was more footage shown in the PS State of Play presentation and it looks… dire. Genuinely worse than the original game IMO.

Just look at this updated UNATCO notice board:

STRATIGIES

The whole thing smacks of exec-fuelled ‘just slap some new textures on it and ship it’ attitude.