Once upon a time I made a blog about video games. And this is what's left of it (mostly tweets).

13 October

Inmost is very good (except for the end, where they gave up on making a game) but it’s really fucking dark, making it an odd choice for Apple Arcade, a service many parents will consider as a cheap baby-sitter and on which they’ll give their children free rein.

# 2019/10/13 - 22:44 — published on @commandergaroo

Inmost (iOS) — 8/10

# 2019/10/13 - 22:34

I remember when I discovered Fusion 360 and fell in love with its promise. Two years later, they haven’t improved on any of the UI’s pain points and I hate it. But I need it, because it’s the only 3D modeling workflow I can wrap my head around, and I can’t afford Rhino.

# 2019/10/13 - 15:14 — published on @commandergaroo

12 October

Art Plunge is worth it just for Mona Lisa

Seeing her up-close in VR — and very well recreated — might be the first time I’ve understood the fascination with her eyes and smile. (I’m incapable of “entering” a painting by my own means.)

# 2019/10/12 - 23:20 — published on @commandergaroo

Astrologaster (iOS) — 9/10

# 2019/10/12 - 20:46

It took me a bit too long to understand what I was doing, but I loved everything else about Astrologaster

The writing, sharp, funny, acerbic and sometimes delightfully vulgar; the visuals; the voice acting; the songs; the songs! the songs are incredible.

# 2019/10/12 - 20:44 — published on @commandergaroo

Nope not in a mood for a giant spider fuck this.

# 2019/10/12 - 19:26 — published on @commandergaroo

I’m enjoying Inmost, but of course I hate playing it on a touchscreen

I could pair a gamepad to my iPad, but then the 11” screen would be much farther away from me than I like. Yet it’d be weird buying on Steam a game I got ‘for free’ with Apple Arcade.

# 2019/10/12 - 16:39 — published on @commandergaroo

10 October

@jasonimms:

Ummmm Untitled Goose Game model on Thingiverse, with a magnet in the beak HELLO

[thingiverse.com]

# 2019/10/10 - 19:57 — original tweet by @jasonimms

The Great C (PC) — 6/10

The random jump cuts in Comfort mode are really distracting — but even the beautiful slow pans in Cinematic mode are a really bad use of VR. If you want to make a movie, make a movie.

# 2019/10/10 - 17:39

@SanbornVR:

Woooo #VR

# 2019/10/10 - 02:19 — original tweet by @SanbornVR

9 October

There hasn’t been much buzz about the single-player campaign of Red Dead Redemption 2. Should I just wait until it’s finally half-price in a 2022 Steam sale if I don’t intend to spend much time in the online mode?

# 2019/10/09 - 21:04 — published on @commandergaroo

@ff00aa:

I just happened upon a Half-Life 2 screenshot and suddenly realized why playing with an iPhone 11’s ultra-wide camera in the store felt so trippy: with the fisheye distortion magicked away in post-processing, the phone turns reality into a first-person game.

# 2019/10/09 - 11:18 — original tweet by @ff00aa

8 October

The haptic controllers definitely sound cool

But how on earth do you decide to make a worldwide announcement for a release next year with just “it has an SSD and new controllers”?

# 2019/10/08 - 14:34 — published on @commandergaroo

“Be excited for Playstation 5! It has haptic controllers!” is an… interesting way to go about it 🤨

# 2019/10/08 - 14:29 — published on @commandergaroo

6 October

Thought I’d be rusty after a summer away from Beat Saber but I posted high scores on most of the songs I played tonight. Never had so few tracking errors—did something change? Game logic? The Oculus framework? Or did my controllers just need a break?

# 2019/10/06 - 22:04 — published on @commandergaroo