whatchu playing now

Eck, that didn't work out like I'd hoped. Clicking through sorta-kinda gets you there. Here's the titles, minus his descriptions:
A Short Hike, Vignettes, Quadrilateral Cowboy, Astrologaster, Art Sqool, Loot Rascals, Minit, Fortune 499, Beglitched, Interstellaria, Glittermitten Grove (often talked about as Frog Fractions 2),
Celeste, PICO-8, KIDS, Dujanah, Cinco Paus, Lenna's Inception, Metamorphabet, Nuclear Throne,

holy shit Celeste is now on there

Pico-8, if you don't know, is a great little virtual console that uses an inbuilt lua editor, sprite and map creater, to create programs. It's real easy to learn and itself connects to lists of free games that people have made (some corkers too). If you can handle it's low-res quality.

Oh I missed the fact Cinco Paus was in there too!

But yeah Celeste, A Short Hike and Minit were the three that stood out to me initially as games I'd planned to play anyway but hadn't picked up yet. Sure there are dozens more I've not spotted yet.

can I play these on mac

looks like there are mac games

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holy moly

yes lots on mac, and noticed some on linux

Maybe I should buy this even though my laptop can't run a lot of them?

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dang, they're at 4 mill now.

bunch tabletop RPG fun in there too, like this one: https://tabletop.itch.io/for-the-dungeon

forgot how utterly pish gaming on pc is

a short hike - can't recognise controller
celeste - loads to titles but can't get past that screen
nuclear throne - not compatible w/catalina?
overland - frame rate grinds
minit - file corrupted move to bin

0/5 here lads

Something I didn't know - itch.io has its own desktop client you can download from the homepage. Worth it to make all that installation stuff easier.

that might help w some of the controller issues maybe? if there's a controller mapper in the client. will check it out

afaik no games exist that are compatible w/ catalina (slight exaggeration there but yeah if you plan to use yr macbook for gaming do not upgrade)

yeah, i still haven't upgraded to 10.15 largely because of games. shame it means i'm missing out on Apple Arcade, but shrug

rip me

you're ok if the the Mac binary is 64-bit - some developers have been on the top of it, but most aren't

it's hard enough for developers to get around to porting to mac (even ones who promised to do it like 11 bit w/ frostpunk) let alone catalina

Catalina also breaks a very important library if you're a developer. #mojave4life

The move away from Intel chips also doesn't look good for future support.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/9/21284960/apple-arm-based-macs-wwdc-2020-report-intel-laptops-desktops-power-efficiency
We're probably gonna start seeing Universal Binaries again...

lol i just got a new mini and it’s catalina :( :( :(

tried to install that client but seems a problem with their link.

i read this thing recently that argued that technological pace of advancement has made playability of old video games impossible and forced gamers into a preservationist role that reified conservative political tendencies. i don't know about that last part but i do think it's lamentable that apple is trying to make decades of games unplayable.

if you scroll to the bottom of this page the big red download button seems to work:

https://itch.io/app

ah n/m - running the installer craps out

wait - it didn't crap out the second time!

stay tuned for more exciting posts like this one

:)

I'll try it again tomorrow

Townscaper is out this month. Hoping it's worth getting, looks beautiful but could ultimately be a short lived experience.

well managed to install that client but it won't let me log in. and the most annoying thing about that system is it puts you through the looooooongest I'M NOT A ROBOT verification checks until it finally tells you that you've entered the wrong password. Which I haven't. so it can f off.

I finally got in. It's a bit flakey (I think it's in experimental stages) but yeah makes installing the games a lot easier. At first I couldn't find my games though, you have to go into your account/My Library/My purchases to see them. For some reason the Library tab doesn't show the games you've purchased - only the ones you've installed or already downloaded.

(unfortunately you still have to download one at a time)

I think they did that so as to not be overwhelming. I got a couple of errors but I did get Minit to install.

lads this is why consoles

if you're buying apple products you can probably go the extra half mile and buy a dedicated box for games rather than try to squarepeg roundhole

i've never played alien isolation but lately i'm catching up on the alien movies i haven't seen (and reading thru the omnibuses) and i'm thinking like i should play it so my question is: a) should i play it? and b) is it good on the switch? bc it's my preference to play it there.

it was fun for a bit but I never finished it (no idea about Switch quality)

allegedly the switch version looks better than the PS4 version for that game, the porting studio made a bunch of improvements

if you like games that are tense and scary to the point of irritation then yes you should play it.

Hey check out Micro Mages from the bundle if anyone is still making their way through that. Insane that it's up to 1,637 games...

ooh Micro Mages? scratch that off my wishlist as well then

https://youtu.be/ZWQ0591PAxM

As an aside, really neat background on the making of Micro Mages. It’s playable on an NES!

finally got the bundle, stoked to dig into it over the next 20 years

the reasons behind how it came into creation will likely still be sadly relevant then

Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, I see has been added. I've been playing that on Steam. Very weird but interesting and pretty cool. and the music is great.

Mini Ghost, another decent one

haha you have to try Bonbon

(sorry, I know these are not really helpful 'reviews') I'm just quick browsing at the minute, I'll have a proper dig and hopefully some more insight

obviously the first thing I installed was Frog Fractions 2 Glittermitten Grove