Re: Someone will make a game about ANYTHING!

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote at 16:34 this Monday (GMT):

On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:20:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Rin Stowleigh <rstowleigh@x-nospam-x.com> wrote at 00:15 this Sunday (GMT):

On Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:50:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
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Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote at 17:32 this Saturday (GMT):

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3244220/A_Game_About_Digging_A_Hole/
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"A minimalist game about digging a hole in the garden of a newly
purchased house. Collect resources, sell them, upgrade your equipment
and discover a mysterious secret. Costs you only one coffee!"

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I mean, I can't be surprised anymore. Power washing sim is considered
one of those really good indie games fron what I've heard, and there's a
calculator rougelike out.

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I tried the power washing sim thing.  How fun or "good" that is will
be highly subjective I'm sure, but to me I found it sort of like a
mundane chore sim.  I hate mundane chores so I quickly refunded it.
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To each his own though.

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Sometimes the "repetetive chore" game can be comforting or something. I
mean, I have 170 hours in progressbar95

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I don't know nothin' 'bout that.
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     [Discretely throws a blanket over my "Steam playtime" stat
      for "EuroTruck Simulator 2"... and then another one over
      "American Truck Simulator"]
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But, honestly, I've no problem with the hole-playing game
conceptually. The description probably does it no justice, anymore
than saying that Pong is about moving a bar up and down the screen.

True.

(Although... breaking down descriptions of games to the most
minimalist and ridiculous level actually sounds sort of fun.
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     Pac-Man: A game about picking up dots.
     Mario: just move right.
     Dark Souls: a game about dying repeatedly.
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;-)

Any game sounds boring with the right (wrong?) description. I mean, a
game about driving? Who'd want that?
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