It's such a rare occasion when media and gamers agreed on something: Samson is 50% positive game that looks and feels like DLSS5!

- The performance is horrible
- MindsEye 2.0 (slightly better)

At least it's cheap, IDK

They left Avalanche (Just Cause, Mad Max, RAGE 2) in 2020, made a new studio in 2021, but had to shrink down in 2023 due to industry changes. They've had a bigger game in mind but lost too much to make it. So, we are playing in what's left of it.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3634520/Samson/#app_reviews_hash

For some reason I have never played Torchlight II long enough, but since some other diabloids clicked, I gave it another chance and oh boi — good stuff. A 2012 game that feels perfect even now.

Yes, there are two newer games but they are both mediocre at best and made by completely different teams, so.

Get Torchlight II on sale (or maybe you have it for ages the same as I did) and give it a go.

Someone made Dust 2 in World of Warcraft (replies from WoW and CS2 in the comments)

#CounterStrike@GameDEV
#LevelDesign@GameDEV
#Blizzard@GameDEV

First they are like: The cube, Save us! The cube then like: nope, ain't gonna save ya!

The game has been released just a few weeks ago in March. And it will be down by May 8 including Discord server. For example, the discord of Highguard is still up and running.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/3810880/announcements/detail/508484486901530657

#Fail@GameDEV
#Multiplayer@GameDEV

No excuses, bro

#meme@GameDEV

Hard times, folks: apparently Free Public Domain music project is down now...

You can get what's left of it from Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20251208013136/https://freepd.com/downloads/

#SoundDesign@GameDEV
#Music@GameDEV
#Free@GameDEV

And in a day Road to Vostok paid off for "years of development". The creator is extremely thankful for the community and promises to make the game even better.

At current rate of reviews it can be up to $500K of post tax revenue for mostly a solo developed game.

If anyone asks you about successful Godot Engine games: Buckshot Roulette, Slay the Spire 2, and Road to Vostok all made it to commercial success recently.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1963610/Road_to_Vostok/
#IndieGames@GameDEV
#FPS@GameDEV
#GodotEngine@GameDEV

Wait, what? Apparently, Borderlands Mobile is being silently tested!

#Borderlands@GameDEV
#MobileGames@GameDEV

What time is it? It's graveyard time!
(The game is free to keep)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/599140/Graveyard_Keeper/
#Free@GameDEV
#Steam@GameDEV
#PixelArt@GameDEV

What a shit
I totally love it 🤩

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zva2PQ-ud5Y
#Movies@GameDEV
#Fighting@GameDEV

I'm also planning to post good offers in my Steam Group, so hop-in:

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/gameuniontv/announcements/detail/524247085597329670

Yes, good and short video + absolutely applicable to games!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRNcVw-bjXk
#ArtDirection@GameDEV

Just found one of my first 3D renders from probably 2006 when I was a huge fan of Last Exile and wanted something similar in a more grounded approach.

And since my PC was ready to explode if I tried 3D smoke, the smoke you see is actually a 2D edit made on top of 3D image.

It was originally rendered in fairly good quality but only this preview remained over the years.

#3DArt@GameDEV