video game development
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Steam Changes Refund Policy to Stop Freeloaders
Some gamers thought they were slick, but they ruined things for everyone.
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My Summer Car, The World’s Most Realistic Finnish Car Life Simulator, Is Getting A Sequel
There’s a game on Steam called My Summer Car. It’s been out for a number of years now, and it’s glorious. The developer describes it as “the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator,” crucially leaving out that the entire game takes place in Finland in the 1990s.
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Wow, This Quake Clone Is Smaller Than A Word Doc
Games today are massive, taking up dozens of gigabytes. Some recent bigger games, like Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War, cracked 250GB in total. That’s too big. But a new free mini-shooter out today, Q1K3, is a blast and only needs 13KB of JavaScript. It’s also part of a contest dedicated to devs making…
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The Roblox Boom Is About to Meet Reality
Today, the online children’s gaming platform Roblox is dumping 199 million shares of mammon onto the market through its direct listing, which likely means a Black Friday-level mob and hours of free content for CNBC’s Squawk Box on a yet-unprofitable company. Nothing new there, but it’s also an almost psychedelic amalgam of 2021 intergenerational imaginations:…