Sisko's Pimphand Productions

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions

@Pongtris

Small time guy working on Pongtris, a celebration of classic games with some fun twists!

USA Katılım Kasım 2025

16 Takip Edilen3 Takipçiler

Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·13h

@alphafox I had a few neighbors that would blast music in the apartment complex. Little did they know, I had a triple woofer 7 channel surround setup with double amps. Put them against the wall, turned the volume to about 70% of max, suddenly their music was at a reasonable volume.

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AlphaFox@alphafox·15h

This could come in handy: 😈

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·14h

@plu_plus This is 100% true. Most of the highly successful games I can think of do a few things exceedingly well. Features that get added tend to enhance those things, or use them in novel ways, rather than trying to make a game that does everything.

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zero＠個人ゲームクリエイター@plu_plus·1d

ゲーム開発者がやりがちな勘違い。「機能が多いほど、ゲームは面白くなる」でもプレイヤーは、機能一覧を見て遊ぶわけじゃない。結局強いのは、要素もりもりのゲームより、一つの操作が気持ちいいゲームだったりする。

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·14h

@aerial_knight Part of the issue is that novel experiences get buried under copycat slop. It can be really difficult to sift through games when there are 10-20k dropping on Steam each year. You're correct though, playing games that aren't great can still make for enjoyable experiences.

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Aerial_Knight@aerial_knight·1d

You would enjoy video games more if you played something different. When you were a kid everything was new but you stopped trying new things because you thought you might not like it, or you heard it wasnt a 10/10. Go play something you think you might not like see how it goes

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·15h

@WomanDefiner This is actually one of Gunpei Yokoi's greatest legacies with the company, I think. Rather than jumping on the latest tech, Nintendo (largely) learned that making the most out of limited hardware by concentrating on making fun and/or novel experiences, you can print money.

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Paul@WomanDefiner·1d

Not falling down the trap of pushing graphics over gameplay. They make fun games before pushing graphical boundaries which is why they aren't in financial ruin like playstation and microsoft gaming.

F.K.B. Trance@Masterkaag8

Forget biggest mistakes, what are the best decisions Nintendo has ever made?

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·15h

@hopeslicergd I took a month off of working on my game. Spent the month playing games in my spare time instead of working on projects. I've been hammering away at it for 2 months since then, with results I'm rather happy with. Sometimes you really do just need to take a break to continue.

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hopeslicer@hopeslicergd·21h

Solo game dev reality: You don’t need to work on your dream project 24/7. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is walk away for a bit before burnout eats your brain alive. I had to learn it the hard way for the past few weeks 🙃

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·15h

@Kou_Italian No, it's because a large portion of the country regularly experiences 10-15F hotter than the weather you're complaining about, with humidity in the 80-90% range. The town I lived in down in Florida is expecting 89F with 97% humidity today. I walked 6-10 miles daily in that.

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Kou@Kou_Italian·1d

Because they do not know the feeling of European summers

♡ mari/cohe ♡@noinconsistency

why do americans get so pissed when europeans complain about the heat

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·15h

@SleepySatella @reddit_lies I've worked outside in 115F with 80% humidity. I have walked 5+ miles to and from work in 104F with over 90% humidity. This is the reality for a lot of Americans. Europeans talk a lot of shit from their postage stamp sized countries with populations the size of a large US city.

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Sleepy@SleepySatella·1d

@reddit_lies You're joking, right? AC only helps when you're indoors. Are you admitting that you never go outside and have no real life responsibilities? Lmao. 104F is very close to the peak of Californian desert heat, in case anyone doesn't have a point of reference for how hot that is.

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Reddit Lies@reddit_lies·1d

>daily highs at 104F in France >"This is a literal furnace, I hate Americans" European heatwaves are entirely self-inflicted. Even the poorest redneck in Mississippi can afford AC.

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·16h

@revenant_MMXX We got an external drive for my father in law's PC and I rigged it to auto copy audio CDs with tags into flac format. It stays connected so he can just pop a disc in whenever he gets a new one. Works a charm for his needs, it's quiet, and even reads discs audio players won't.

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🌘ʀᴇᴠᴇɴᴀɴᴛ⚡@revenant_MMXX·21h

Just use an external one, you will use it so infrequently that it won't even be a big deal to just keep it in a drawer. I can't remember the last time I needed one

d41m📀n and 358 others@PSI_yaa

The fact that modern pcs dont got disk drives anymore is lame

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·17h

@Cato328 I've worked outdoors in 115F with 80% humidity. I've walked 5 miles to and from work in 104F with over 90% humidity. I've also worked outside and walked 5+ miles in a shot in -4F in knee-high snow. Keep talking shit though, good bait, you pasty Europoor bastard.

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Cato@Cato328·1d

The problem is that it's hot OUTSIDE nigga. It's hot OUTSIDE where there's no AC or fans. That's the problem. I know you dysgenic obese FREAKS don't go out there but some of us actually like to walk around

rain@222rainclouds

europeans complain about the heat every year but refuse to get so much as a fan for their window let alone an ac system

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·17h

@ipnotjcaa In the US, a budget window unit runs about $130-150. One nasty summer about 12 years back, I went to Wal-Mart at 2am when the direct deposit for my check hit. By 2:30am I had AC installed. By 3am I was sleeping like a baby in a nice, cool room. Not exactly a luxury item here.

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aiko ᥫ᭡@ipnotjcaa·1d

these tweets scream classism and privilege because do you have any fucking idea how much an air conditioner costs and the fact that you also have to pay to have it installed? it makes sense that many people can't have one

rain@222rainclouds

europeans complain about the heat every year but refuse to get so much as a fan for their window let alone an ac system

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·1d

@SandyofCthulhu More players need a "you know you suck at the game when you have to turn the difficulty UP to retarded" moment. Nothing wrong with playing on lower difficulties. Nothing wrong with the devs poking fun at you for doing it.

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Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu·1d

Are games insulting you? The Entertainment Software Association says that a "requirement" of games is to avoid naming difficulty levels in a way that "demeans players". For Wolfenstein, id Software literally gave the hero a baby bonnet and pacifier if he choose the wimpy difficulty. I guess the Entertainment Software Association's dictat is why Doom: Dark Ages replaced "I'm Too Young to Die" with "Aspiring Slayer." (Pussies) I am perfectly happy to be demeaned by a game that says I'm picking the baby level. You?

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·1d

@kinsie The vetting process for custom engines is a lot more strict, from my understanding. That makes the process more difficult for small/new developers to get through. Mewgenics sold like hotcakes, it's in the console makers best interest to get a version. Boomer shooter #76 though..

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The Kinsie@kinsie·1d

@Pongtris Custom engines ain't the issue. A bunch of big-ticket indies roll their own tech (Mewgenics being a big example that's coming to consoles soon) because they can spare the sheer effort needed to get shit running on all the platforms without exploding.

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The Kinsie@kinsie·1d

Great for PC/Steam, but console ports are where this falls apart - most visible old engines like Quake, Doom etc. are GPL which is incompatible with console SDKs, and I think only Switch 1 is compatible with oldschool OpenGL.

Ian JCV@jnvcia

Everyone's too busy forcing UE5 to look like a 1998 engine. What they could do instead is just make 1998 engines, which were routinely created by teams of 1-2 people. Use OpenGL 1.2, people, it's still available, and your games will run at 5 trillion FPS while looking authentic.

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·1d

@dandorf22 I think open world can work incredibly well for some games, but the recent trend of everything being open world got tiring quite some time ago. I'd like to see more curated experiences, whether they are open world or linear. It feels like a lot of modern games are bloated.

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dandorf@dandorf22·1d

El mundo abierto es el cáncer del diseño moderno. Mapas gigantes llenos de recados repetitivos solo para justificar 100 horas de juego. Prefiero 8 horas de una experiencia lineal perfecta que 100 horas de caminar por el desierto. ¿Team Lineal o Team Open World? 🧐🧐🧐

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·1d

@Doomfest That's fair, I suppose. I think Western devs have been more subject to publisher constraints than Japanese devs overall. Crunch time and holiday deadlines were definitely a thing back in the day. Probably wasn't easy to keep the original scope of the game, much less experiment.

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softmode | customizable vtuber model out now@Doomfest·1d

@Pongtris yeah I'm mostly talking about the older devs. I don't think it's a budget thing though since I mentioned final fantasy

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softmode | customizable vtuber model out now@Doomfest·1d

western gamedev mentality has this obsession with adhering to the core experience that I think is harming creativity. Whenever I see jp indie dev make games there's a lot more of "Oh i just put this in here because I like it" but the same things would get shot down in the west

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·1d

@TheMadToker777 I'll play older games more often than playing newer ones. Newer games take a lot more time, and often treat the player like an idiot, which makes them less "pick up and play." On the whole, it's a measure of "Is this worth the limited time I dedicate to gaming these days?"

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The Cowboy Bebop@TheMadToker777·2d

Do people actually like retro video games, or is it just nostalgia for the good old days?

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·1d

@funnyToasty Very impressive. I remember back in the RPG Maker 2000 days, one of the people on our forums was meticulously designing a psuedo-3D battle engine with pre-rendered graphics and some clever events to simulate camera movement. Never underestimate the will of people to break stuff.

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ToastyTime@funnyToasty·2d

Nah what the fuck do you mean this is RPG Maker!?

Lie of Caelum: Spirit - Wishlist Us!@lieofcaelum

Steam removed the RPG Maker tag. Welp, time to actually finish my game.

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·1d

@mis0b_ Strictly speaking, much of Dragon Ball is retcons. Toriyama readily admitted that he didn't have any particular plan moving ahead and frequently forgot old details. That's why there are at least 3 logical "endings"; Freeza, Cell and Buu. It's also why Gero comes outta nowhere.

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misob@mis0b_·2d

Why are people acting like this isn't a retcon. It's continuity added retroactively that wasn't originally there. This doesn't mean it's bad but it is a retcon lol

Phantom || 🇵🇸@PhantoMz202

What a beautiful RETCON 💙

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Sisko's Pimphand Productions@Pongtris·1d

@ZeldaCycle Despite there being an official "timeline" that connects all the games, I've always taken them to largely be independent of one another. They are tangentially related to one another at most, aside from games that are directly connected (OOT/MM, BOTW/TOTK, Z1/Z2, Oracles).

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Zelda Cycle@ZeldaCycle·2d

It’s amazing how Zelda fans woke up one day and decided that the Wild games were reboots, and now a good chunk of the community accepts it as fact. Crazy stuff. Only in the Zelda community.

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