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[-] toothpaste_sandwich@feddit.nl 92 points 1 year ago

Oof... Man, to live in the US. I don't envy you guys, though things aren't really going the right direction here in the Netherlands, either.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 63 points 1 year ago

I can't wait to see speed runners cheese it and completely miss its point :/

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 66 points 1 year ago

TBF, generally speedrunners start speedrunning games because they love it to death (ie. have played it through several times already) and want to start challenging themselves in new ways.

[-] alessandro@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

...or the videogame is known to make views on youtube.

Anyway, this don't undermine the intention of the developer.

[-] GreyCat@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Speedrunning isn't THAT popular. If you want to chase trends there are much easier ways other than spending thousands of hours on a single game to have low chances of make a record.

[-] Sas@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

A videogame making views on YouTube is only incentive for first playthroughs as views on YouTube are usually for people's reactions to stuff. Speedrunning really usually is a passion project.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I get that, but on the more aggressively short cut games, you could argue its not the same game anymore if all the story is now skipped. Still entertaining to watch, and I do occasionally, but it can get a bit silly.

I'm still looking forward to the first:

"Hi guys, today I'm going to show you how the locker skip works, you just run at this locker while tapping crouch, annddddd we are clipped through the ground, and can now run to the exit. Easy game"

:D

[-] Malix@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 year ago

any% with glitches is pretty much always a wild ride to watch.

on that note; man I need to get back on the IGN's playlist of "devs react to speedruns", most devs are such good sport when it comes to breaking their game :D

[-] Djehngo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

? Why come up with a hypothetical outcome just to make yourself mad? Is there some trend of speedrunners ruining educational games I am missing?

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Its a joke, relax. Almost all games get speed run, no reason to expect this to be different. And any% speed runs often skip huge portions of the story, no reason to expect this to be any different either. There is nothing to be mad at, it'll likely happen, it'll likely be silly/funny to watch.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

The :/ face doesn't help it seem like a joke. It reads like you're genuinely upset about people misunderstanding art.

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Text is a bad medium for conveying emotion.

To me, :/ has always been a fairly neutral expression, like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ or 😐, I would have used :( to convey upset, but its certainly reasonable that others would read it differently.

I kinda hoped my other comments would have made it clearer, but again, text is a bad medium :( oh well

[-] Volume@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

It sound like most didn't read the article. You aren't playing as the shooter, it is a horror game where you are the victim trying to escape and/or hide from the shooter.

[-] Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago

I haven't read the article, probably won't, doesn't really interest me. But I thought the title pretty clearly implies you don't play as the shooter. I'm surprised others didn't interpret the same way.

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago

No parent should go through what they have gone through. And they want to express that through a game. It is an incredible idea, especially because of interactivity of the medium. I always believe that art can help hold a mirror to the society and this game proves that.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Uhm, Columbine RPG anyone?

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

This... Is special kind of stupid lol

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 55 points 1 year ago

You play as a victim running from the shooter though.

[-] BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It's a 10 minute game, that at the end of it tries to convince the player to vote on new gun laws. Who is this targeting? Gamers that are into horror/terror games have played plethora of great games in that genre, have a hard time believing they'd even care to download the game for those 10 minutes.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 22 points 1 year ago

Well at least they tried giving people an experience of a school shooter, not just sitting on their arse commenting on the Internet.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

I know a lot of gamers who would be interested in a 10 minute game. Obviously not for $60.

[-] barsquid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They can do a new map DLC for every major shooting, that'd start to get the point across when there are hours of content.

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Why? It sounds like haunting experience from what I've read

uh no, i think the point would be that it's a scary game. This isn't a fucking beavis bacon teaches you typing simulator game.

[-] Fox@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

Beavis teaches typing would probably be a riot

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that would most certainly make for an interesting experience.

nice instance btw

[-] ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

From the trailer and article this looks and sounds well done. It reminds me of Amnesia, at least in that type of psychological horror.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

This game makes me SMILE because it SHOWS me that TRANS KIDS EXISTING are WORSE then LITERALLY BEING GUNNED DOWN!

-Pro Life Republicans trying to Protect The Children!

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