I strongly agree with you on the ending. It's critical to the point of the game: trying to make the world a better place fails most of the time and can even backfire, but accepting a grim status quo is even worse.

it becomes a weird feminine vs. masculine argument in the eyes of a lot of people, as if it's only primarily women making cute and colorful games and only primarily men making and playing violent gritty games. i think accepting and forwarding these binaries sucks ass and is a reactionary framing

the way a lot of indie games people i know are so inherently reactive against anything with gun violence due to surface assumptions they make is the same way i feel about normie gamers who assume games with cutesy colorful aesthetics are cheap and insubstantial. we don't need to look at art this way

is your job to be servicing the market or is it to be making some kind of art that resonates with or challenges people? a lot of people don't want to answer what they really believe because they know it looks soulless if they openly state that it's the former and they don't take the latter seriously

i know "artist" is an abstract/multifaceted term but games are indeed art and they're a very complicated art. you don't need to pretend your main reason to exist is to be like some kind of playful interface designer - you can aim higher than that. you honestly should aim higher than that tbh.

In the later books, one of their most popular products is the chairdog, a living chair that :
1. is the most comfortable chair you'll ever sit on.
2. can follow you around.
3. enjoys being seated on.
Some people find it unnerving. It is still very popular among the rich and powerful.

If you want a serious answer, there is this subspecies of human called Bene Tleilax whose culture and technological achievements center around biological manipulation. They believe that dna is the langage of god and that they are the chosen people (but hide that belief behind a veil of obscenity).

Voilà. C'est tout pour les De D'Or 2024.

Bravo à toutes celles et ceux qui ont continué à faire des jeux en 2024. C'est pas si facile. Bon courage pour 2025.

Mon Top des jeux auxquels j'ai rejoué en 2024 et ça m'a fait quelque chose :
5. Crusader Kings III
4. Seedship (philome.la/johnayliff/s...)
3. Signs of the Sojourner
2. Slipways
1. Roadwarden

Mon Top des jeux de UFO 50 (je l'ai pas mis dans les jeux payants de l'année parce que, est ce que c'est 1 jeu ? Est ce que c'est 50 jeux ? Bref, il a sa propre catégorie comme ça) :
5. Barbuta
4. Party House
3. Mini and Max
2. Campanella
1. Waldorf's Journey

Mon Top des jeux gratuits (ou prix libre) :
5. The Ritual (silkworm-sweatshop.itch.io/theritual)
4. Social Democracy (red-autumn.itch.io/social-democ...)
3. Perfect Vermin (itsthetalia.itch.io/perfect-vermin)
2. War of Omens (Steam)
1. Hot Wax (www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=141...)

Mon Top des jeux payants auxquels j'ai joué pour la première fois en 2024 :
5. Stange Horticulture
4. Citizen Sleeper
3. Hades
2. Terra Nil
1. Tactical Breach Wizards

does the sandwich still exist, if there are no americans to watch it?

To enforce dignified working conditions and so that workers' confidence in the future, the STJV is calling workers and trade unions to take part in a general strike of the video game industry on 13 February.

We will publish a detailed call for strike action tomorrow.