Djinn tells the story of a young woman looking into her long lost grandmother’s past as a concubine in a harem in the 19th century. The series is beautifully illustrated by Ana Miralles and written by Jean Defaux. This video shows her working her magic, creating the beautiful watercolor art for the comic in her studio. Enjoy ;)
Yeah, exactly. Well said.
The only kind of means I can countenance when it comes to such media, games, etc are those in which the art of the medium heavily mocks all that nonsense and false-cheeriness about modern capitalism.
Kinda inconvenient sometimes, in that I love phone and webgames for when I’m stuck in bed; unfortunately a lot of them totally buy in to the ‘capitalism = happiness’ model, rendering otherwise good games pretty much… “shite” in my book, lol. :/
Absolutely.
I try to avoid commercial games, or at least big studio produced ones, as much as I can. I play mostly indie games from itch.io or from GOG (not a fan of the Steam monopoly). I also play (via roms through emulators) a lot of retro games from the late 80s/early 90s. I find that older games eschew the more predatory and exploitive practices that many modern games use (microtransactions, DLC, loot-boxes, always online etc). Basically I try to stay as anti-capitalist as I can in my choice of games. And if that means I miss out on some games, so be it, there is always something to play. Hell, there’s more good games out there that I could play in several lifetimes, no point in supporting the games that feed the capitalistic beast.
Sorry, Wolfie, for this absurdly-late reply. The last few weeks for me have been… hooh boy.
Haha, I love those sites, along with the fun little projects at Lexaloffle’s Pico08 project, which deliberately imposes a bunch of restrictions on modern carts in order to get with the spirit of early 8-bit consoles. Such a glorious project IMO:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?cat=7&carts_tab=1#sub=2&mode=carts&orderby=featured
Anyways, I agree with pretty-much all you just said in that last reply. And I like these discussions (and not just because you and I seemingly happen to agree 'pon a range of stuff), but I think it’s nice to branch out a bit in talk & interests from simply ‘BD.’ For example, maybe a lounge-area, and even a list of fun webgames is also on my radar O’Reilly.
No worries! I’m right there with you. I’ve been juggling a lot lately.
Pico-8 is fantastic! One of my favorite projects on itch. I just beat the Pico-8 version of Celeste, and Celeste 2 as well. There’s so many great hidden gems on Pico. My favs are Celeste (of course) Pinballvania, Stabbycrabby, Driplogic and Puzzles of the Paladin. I’m always finding interesting stuff through the random section with splore. I’m thinking about learning lua and fiddling around with making a game on Pico someday.
Definitely! It’s always nice to meet like-minded folks, especially across a range of interests. I’m also into tabletop roleplaying (actually created a new community for one shot rpgs here: https://lemmy.ml/c/Every_Post_Is_An_RPG) and love reading (literary stuff, but also genre stuff at times, reading a Discoworld novel by Pratchett currently called The Truth).
Maybe you can sticky a general discussion thread, even if it’s seldom used, at least it can facilitate some discussion, especially if there is bandes dessinees chat that isn’t thread worthy.
Ugh, another goof-up on my end which evidently prevented me from seeing this comment when it was made.
Great to hear you’re indeed in to Pico-8, as you are! That gives me some steam to perhaps go ahead with the ‘arcade’ section of the sub. Btw, if you like Celeste (and it has many variants, right?), what do you think about Spelunky? (one of the picks on my list)
Yeah, I was kind of dreading having yet another pinned thread that didn’t get much use, but this is a good argument, above. Hroomy-hroom hroom…
My man, Spelunky was a whole era for me. I actually used to hang around the Independent Game Forums (TIGS) in 2008-2010ish and played the original version before Derek made the commercial version. To this day I prefer the old version, but the commercial one is a great game too (it has good bones lol). My then girlfriend and I would spend hours on that game. Side note too: Notch of Minecraft fame was also a forum member then and released the first initial alpha builds of Minecraft, so I played Minecraft before it’s meteoric rise when it was just a hobbyist project based off of an old digging game we played on the forums called Infinimer. There were a lot of early indie ‘stars’ on the forums, Phil Fish that created Fez and Edward Mullen of Super Meat Boy and Binding of Issac fame. It was an interesting and exciting time. It’s still crazy to me to see Minecraft blow up like it did from this little project on the forums to this video game giant.
Sweet. I still play it too (web version) and am *still* kind of refining my game in certain ways. Still learning to avoid making dumb errors, still trying to learn how to best kill shopkeepers, etc.
I do have the first remake, but frankly with my aging reflexes and health issues, it’s just too much for me, nevermind Spelunky 2.
Yeah, love it! It’s great when that works out, and in Derek’s case in particular, I really admire how much titanic effort he put in to continuing on with the project via the three released games, plus source version (allowing all those crazy mods), plus a book IIRC.
They have a browser version? Or do you just mean free download version? I run Linux and when I tried the old version it didn’t play well with WINE sadly.
Derek is a workhorse for sure. Have you seen his new project: UFO50? I’ve played a few of the 50(!) different games, all good stuff so far. A nice little homage to old retro computer games all ZX Spectrum late 80s era stuff.
There’s several browser versions, but this is far and away the best, I find: https://yancharkin.github.io/SpelunkyClassicHDhtml5/
Oh wow, it’s finally out?! Been lookin’ at that for years… didn’t realise it finally came out late last year, cool!