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StellarVixen

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Or...how one small studio made of 3 people just embarrassed almost entire AAA gaming industry.


Are you playing? I haven’t enjoyed a game so much in a while, to be honest.
 
I have not played this game and I'm too old to appreciate Twitch.

Yet I have watched people play this on Twitch and it looks like fun with the right group of people with the right attitude. I also remember reading a comment that said "Among Us ruins more friendships than UNO".

My reflexes are too slow and I haven't built up the hand-eye coordination for many other online gaming situations so Among Us might actually be feasible for an old fart like me.

That said, this game is all drama.

Count me out. However, I might actually pick up Fall Guys the next time it goes on sale.
 
Completely agree, just shows that you don't need awesome graphics to create a compelling and original game. This was a slow burner, it has been out for a couple of years before it was picked up by various 'YouTubers' more recently and now very popular.
 
It’s fun. It’s kind of like the new flappy bird in terms of popularity.
 
Or...how one small studio made of 3 people just embarrassed almost entire AAA gaming industry.


Are you playing? I haven’t enjoyed a game so much in a while, to be honest.
You should include graphics for this kind of a post. I looked at it and was initially turned off by crude retro graphics, although until I play it (multi-player, yes?) I’m not prepared to say it’s not fun. :)


A while back there was another game similiar to this, with better graphics, which was like the The Thing (Who Goes There?) which seemed compelling, but it too was multiplayer and I did not play that one and can’t remember it’s name.
 
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You should include graphics for this kind of a post. I looked at it and was initially turned off by crude retro graphics, although until I play it (multi-player, yes?) I’m not prepared to say it’s not fun. :)


Trust me, I don’t mind the graphics. And most people don’t. Because they are too occupied with gameplay.
 
Completely agree, just shows that you don't need awesome graphics to create a compelling and original game. This was a slow burner, it has been out for a couple of years before it was picked up by various 'YouTubers' more recently and now very popular.

I'll get it if it ever is released for MacOS.

It does not look like a resource dependent game so it should run on most Macs if they ever decide port it over.
 
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I'll get it if it ever is released for MacOS.

It does not look like a resource dependent game so it should run on most Macs if they ever decide port it over.

I mean, with Catalyst it shouldn’t be that difficult.

I play it via VMware Fusion, so that I don’t have to dual boot every time I want to play.
 
From what I read, it's a coop game with one of the other players secretly an enemy.

@StellarVixen Is there an online match maker?

Does anyone remember the game in the last 10 years where you play on a team of players in a spaceship, where one of the players is a monster hiding like in “The Thing”? When it’s advantageous, they attack other players. I never played it, just remember it in development and thought it could be outstanding, but then lost track of it. :confused:
 
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@StellarVixen Is there an online match maker?

Does anyone remember the game in the last 10 years where you play on a team of players in a spaceship, where one of the players is a monster hiding like in “The Thing”? When it’s advantageous, they attack other players. I never played it, just remember it in development and thought it could be outstanding, but then lost track of it. :confused:

Sorry for not responding earlier I somehow missed your previous post.


You can either join the rooms or host your own.


You start on a spaceship (though there are other maps, but Skeld is most played one) together with usually 10 players. Depending on game mode, either 1 or 2 or 3 of you are impostor, but you don’t know that because all of you look identical.


The only way to discover the impostor is either witnessing a murder or suspicious behavior. But the thing is, you have to convince people and sometimes they might not believe you. If you are not an imposter, you have a set of tasks that you need to do among other things. If you and your crews complete the task, you win even if you haven’t discovered the impostor.


Now as for impostor, your objective is to kill the crew or sabotage the ship without being discovered.


It requires thinking and planning if you don’t want to be discovered easily.


As with any games, some players are just bad at this game. Finding the room with the group of good players is best experience.


And also, there is chat. :) It’s a whole another story, sometimes it’s just hilarious. When someone report the body or calls an emergency meeting, players discuss via chat. It is wonderful place. :)
 
Sorry for not responding earlier I somehow missed your previous post.


You can either join the rooms or host your own.


You start on a spaceship (though there are other maps, but Skeld is most played one) together with usually 10 players. Depending on game mode, either 1 or 2 or 3 of you are impostor, but you don’t know that because all of you look identical.


The only way to discover the impostor is either witnessing a murder or suspicious behavior. But the thing is, you have to convince people and sometimes they might not believe you. If you are not an imposter, you have a set of tasks that you need to do among other things. If you and your crews complete the task, you win even if you haven’t discovered the impostor.


Now as for impostor, your objective is to kill the crew or sabotage the ship without being discovered.


It requires thinking and planning if you don’t want to be discovered easily.


As with any games, some players are just bad at this game. Finding the room with the group of good players is best experience.


And also, there is chat. :) It’s a whole another story, sometimes it’s just hilarious. When someone report the body or calls an emergency meeting, players discuss via chat. It is wonderful place. :)
I think Discord would be great for this type of game. It reminds me of the MR Werewolf games in theory.
 
I mean, with Catalyst it shouldn’t be that difficult.

I play it via VMware Fusion, so that I don’t have to dual boot every time I want to play.

I agree that there are ways to play but I'm not interested enough in this game to use them.

When they come out with a MacOS version, I'll get the game.
 
You should include graphics for this kind of a post. I looked at it and was initially turned off by crude retro graphics, although until I play it (multi-player, yes?) I’m not prepared to say it’s not fun. :)
Still graphics (screenshots) are useless to properly describe the appeal of this game.

The gameplay and inter-player interaction is the compelling part not the raster graphics.

In the same way, a photograph of 4-5 people at a table playing Texas No Hold 'Em poker doesn't begin to describe what that game is.

Like I said earlier, go watch some people play this on Twitch.

There's a lot more to videogames than rendered polygons, bitmapped sprites, FPS, global reflections, ray tracing, whatever.
 
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