Lowpoly Broth #5 – Leon’s Seed

Watched RE4R walkthrough. Cute and proper yet completely pointless. Just shows how timeless and relevant the original game is. The remake improves upon and iterates on RE4's original ideas while completely ignoring RE2R's achievements and all changes in the horror genre over the past 15+ years. They introduce a lot of mechanics all at once. …

How to read books, magazines, newspapers – CH6 & Outro

IN THE SILENCE OF LIBRARIES Pages rustle in the silence of libraries, this is the most wonderful sound I have ever heard. L. A. Kassil What can help you work in a public library, what should you bring with you to its hall? Take pencils (for temporary notes in your notes), cards, copy paper, tables …

How to read books, magazines, newspapers – CH5

BE PROUD OF BOTH LIBRARIES AND CARD FILES! It's a good thing to collect good books, but it's more useful to turn to them more often and read them. F. Petrarch In the apartment of the People's Artist of the USSR Sergei Gerasimov, the walls are not visible: books, books are everywhere... "A good library, …

How to read books, magazines, newspapers – CH4

TIE A KNOT FOR MEMORY Capture it in cursory words Everything that the memory cannot hold. V. Shakespeare While reading books, notes are made, of course, not only in books. A range of different recordings can be used to help. The outstanding Pushkin scholar S. M. Bondi noted that Pushkin put on paper everything that …

How to read books, magazines, newspapers – CH3

WHERE "THE FUTURE MEETS THE PAST" A newspaper is not reading out of boredom You're scraping dirt with a newspaper from the republic; Newspaper — our eyes and hands, Daily help in daily work. V. Mayakovsky According to the apt remark of the writer V. G. Korolenko, in magazines and newspapers "the future meets the …

How to read books, magazines, newspapers – CH2

RULES OF FIRST MEETINGS The smallest part is what we'd personally seen and experienced, and all the rest — the bulk — we owe to books, what we read, perceived, studied. Stefan Zweig "Reading and writing open up a new world to a person, especially in our time, with the current successes of the mind." …

How to read books, magazines, newspapers – Intro and CH1

GETSOV Georgy Gerasimovich is a journalist, author of three books on rational reading techniques. How to make the most rational summary, make extracts from newspapers, magazines, books, to organize order in a personal library - the reader will find answers to these and many other questions in the book. Dozens of techniques are offered to …

Mudaphil

Punish inaction - not failure Mixed Signals by Uri Gneezy As time passes, I become more sure that I won't be a game-designer in any shape or form. I'm too old and cynical now, and some dreams are destined to stay nothing but dreams. Still, if John Clerk of Eldin managed to write a piece …

Mudakon

It all started with me watching a HL2 walkthrough and counting all the steps (figuratively and literally) it takes to get to the Kleiner's Lab. Now I wanna become the next Buffet. Our life is all about building unique connections. In the beginning of 2023 I implemented Luybischev's System into my daily routine and then …

Anti-Feudal Budget Trucker

Google Sheet budget tracker blueprints (usually) cost money so I created my own. If you want to learn something you have to answer a really simple question "how is it going to improve my life?" If you know the answer to this question, no amount of obstacles will stop your desire to learn. Learn the …

Super Muda 64

Intensification is a process in the production development through the use of more efficient means of production and its organization, as opposed to extensive economic growth due to the expansion of production with a continuing level of technology and quality of resources. Intensification. “…everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last …

TRIZ 101 For Game Designers

К сожалению, пока никто не обобщил теорию Альтшуллера на противоречия экономические, организационные, политические… Приходится каждое решение искать чуть ли не с нуля. Или просто отбрасывать часть несовместимых целей - в духе анекдота, уже перекочевавшего на рекламные плакаты: «Делаем быстро, хорошо, дешево - любые две опции на выборы. Анатолий Вассерман Or the Algorithm of Solving Game-Design …

40 Basic Techniques for Eliminating Technical Contradictions

It may not be inapt to liken the attainment of the North Pole to the winning of a game of chess, in which all the various moves leading to a favorable conclusion had been planned in advance, long before the actual game began. It was an old game for me—a game which I had been …

Plateau of Platforms

In which I analyzed games like Celeste, Rayman, Donkey Kong, a bit of Mario, and Shovel Knight in order to create the most comprehensive list of things you can jump on and the consequences it might entail (I could've been sucha great Buzzfeed ideaman). It's going to be useful for every platformer developer who doesn't …

Druckmanization 2024

...of the video game industry. Druckmanization - a crucial point in time where everyone realizes that everything is broken and unsustainable; just how bad things really are and followed by uprisings and revolutions.EXAMPLE: The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 was a total druckmanization of the Czarist Russia and its Navy. Here is where I'm going to …

Midweek Update: Me Artist Boss Now!

When did I start this blog? Why? What? Where? Pre-2021 - I watched The Last Jedi and became Disney's sworn enemy. Then I watched TLoUII and became Neil's sworn enemy. Then Kojima's. Then CDPR's. Then Hollywood's. Then Big Vydia's, Sam Lake etc. I knew I had absolutely zero chance at defeating them or making any …

Totalitarian Tunnels

About how to make sewers fun and Joseph Goebbels happy for (at least) three games straight. 1965. Political Theorist Carl Joachim Friedrich and (future) national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski released a book called Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy where they defined totalitarian dictatorship as "an autocracy based upon modern technology at mass legitimation... ... What is …

Marketing for Indie Devs – A Meta-Analysis (PART 4)

New videos keep popping up. It's an endless process of learning something new and adjusting to the ever changing reality. Accept it or perish. 36. 30 Minute Steam Page Makeovers Create your page as soon as possible and figure out the kinks later Screenshots should all look unique and exciting Variety of environments Visuals Menus …

Muda of Che

https://www.cheguevara.org/Guerrilla-Warfare.pdf We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, thathe takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that hefights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy andmisery. He launches himself against the …

…and ACTION!

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed. As …