#PlayStation gamedev

[portrait-of-cromulence]

One of my favorite “kitbashed game dev” stories is that in Days Gone (the biker vs zombies freakers game from 2019), the devs didn’t realize until being well into development on Unreal Engine 4 that UE4 *can’t do 2-wheeled vehicles*.

Making a game about bikers cranking their fat steel hogs all over the PNW to escape hordes of zombies weird fuckos might be sorta hard if your engine can’t support bikes. So what’s the solution? Every motorcycle in Days Gone is actually a car that’s been crushed and folded in on itself.

You’re sitting on what would be the driver’s side door and inside an invisible canopy of twisted steel and spare tires—that absolutely still spin ever time you hit the throttle—that has been made invisible and had collision detection turned off.

I know Bethesda has the (well deserved) reputation of creating their games out of hacked together duct-tape-laden spaghetti code on an ancient quirky engine but I feel like FromSoft deserves their fair mention too. Bonfires aren't objects, they're a visual mesh with an invisible NPC standing on top of it that you "talk to" when you want to sit. Tons of enemies are just two NPCs glued on top of one another because they didn't know how to make an enemy have more than one attack that can fire off at a time. Winter lanterns' frenzy buildup attack comes from an invisible guy sitting on their heads shooting you with an invisible gun. Djura doesn't shoot you with his gatling gun, he just sits there doing nothing (with his cape sitting right around his ears due to how the game renders cloth physics from far away) because the actual NPC shooting you is the gun itself. Lothric and Lorian aren't two separate NPCs holding onto each other, they're one NPC with a second, invisible NPC glued to its back that takes damage on behalf of Lothric. Why? Because they couldn't figure out how to make one NPC ride on another one. They straight up went "We couldn't figure out how to make one NPC ride another, so we combined two NPCs into one and then glued another one to its back, simple." Really it's amazing how much of FromSoft's game design is just "we put an invisible guy here to do things because we couldn't figure out how to make the visible guy do it"

Even Elden Ring for all its advancements in mounts and whatnot has hilarious behind the scenes quirks. When Radahn does his meteor attack he doesn't track you, he teleports his horse underneath you and then aims at the horse

[natsumipocket]

Frozen beach with glowing coconuts. Yum! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝🌴❄️

[molegato]

Frogun Encore is releasing this June 25th on PC + all consoles! 🗓️

So happy to announce this new froggy adventure is coming out soon! 🐸🩵

[darren-douglas]

Little Astro Bot looked a whole lot different in the beginning!

I just added more early Astro concept art to my website https://darrendouglasart.com/

[gamesbylum]

officially announcing LUM'S GAME

a horror life-sim adventure game about growing a garden with your family, and taking care of their strange pet named LUM.

WISHLIST ON STEAM

[talism4niac]

Giving Voltiac's model a little tlc starting with their textures. Switching to Substance Painter (left) from Blender's built-in texturing tools (right) and an additional year of practice sure does make a difference cause damn!

[sodaraptor]

An updated demo of Covert Critter is now live for the Steam Stealthfest!

Partial controller support!

Updated ranking system!

8 full demo levels to stealth through!

You can play a new demo of it right now 🦎 ▼▼▼

[cebcode]

Fun fact the white picket fences are in the game because, I have a white picket fence! https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10013844 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2563030?utm_source=Tumblr

[kodynoko]

Today's your lucky day: Sunshower is 60% off for the Steam Spring Sale! And the game launches today on PlayStation 5!!

Thanks to everyone who's been playing it now on Nintendo Switch too!

The first part of our ART-PG, GNOMONIC, will be coming to all platforms this year 🔥📐🎨🔥

[spacetreasured]

A round up of some of my favorite reviews I’ve seen for Goodbye Volcano High. Still reeling and forever will be reeling from the reception to the game we put ourselves into 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[vxmpire-vxlle]

[nekkromat]

Что-то новенькое #2

Вот такое чудо (справа) приехало ко мне вчера. Не то чтобы я ярый фанат портативок, но PlayStation Portable для меня особенная консоль во многих планах. Когда был совсем ребенком, друг отца подарил мне свою прошитую и измученную жизнью черную PSP Slim (2008). Благодаря этому девайсу в свои 7-8 лет я познакомился с такими прелестями жизни как видеоигровое пиратство, перепрошивки и эмуляторы :D

К сожалению не так давно время взяло свое, у моей первой 2008 перестал корректно работать стик, и как выяснилось вызвано это было коротким замыканием в одном из чипов, по этому консоль как донор была продана на авито :_

О PSP Go (N1008) мечтал я довольно давно и все хотел приобрести ее, но вышло что дорогой мне человек решил сделать подарок, господи, ещё и в белом цвете, какая прелесть >_< Безумно люблю белые устройства, нахожу в них какую-то особую эстетику…

[natsumipocket]

Happy Halloween! 🎃🌕 Natsumi is on a spooky adventure~ 👻

[octopuscityblues]

Sure, $700 is a lot of money for the PS5 Pro, but consider all the graphics modes we'll be able to support:

[goblinteque]

Acquired a ton of old 90's gaming magazines im going to go through on here, along with showing off my collection and just talking shit about games.

[matata-exe]

Psx indie games in CRT

I turned this broken PS1 into a retro mini PC for fun some time ago. It worked perfectly for playing the Twin Peaks demo by blueroseteamtp on a CRT. I really recommend it; the demo is excellent and is free in itchiogames . If you want the code or the 3D pieces, let me know. The ghostly Laura Palmer figurine from season 3 was made by kuato_toys