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Tim Rogers released a game called ZiGGURAT for Apple iOS devices in the year two thousand and twelve. It was well received critically, and if you ask me it was a pretty fun and stylish game. Unfortunately I never got to see the “nine hours of scripted events” he promised in his cross-promotional “review” of Angry Birds, because soon: * an update to the game would remove all the (also much-vaunted in the pitch) leaderboards and achievements * the launch of iOS 11 would break the game completely on up-to-date devices, requiring a 64-bit patch that never came * Tim would let the Apple developer account lapse, removing ZiGGURAT from the App Store completely (even for people who had already purchased and wanted to redownload it on a pre-iOS 11 device) Most likely he abandoned ZiGGURAT to turn his attention to VIDEOBALL, a game he hyped for so many years that everybody lost interest by the time it released with completely broken online multiplayer (as in, it just didn’t work). Tim delivered a post-mortem on the reasons this game didn’t take off, but for some reason “launching it broken” wasn’t one of them. This is all to say that I look forward to his upcoming game TRUCKHECK even though it could be rendered non-functional at any point before or after launch, and I’ll watch the Cyberpunk video at 1080p on my lovely iPad mini when it comes out, but it’s nothing new for ol’ Timmy to catastrophically whiff the technical fundamentals because his great big brain was just too laser-focused on some other inconsequential minutiae. I hope he works up the courage to say a swear one day emgeejay fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Oct 25, 2021 |
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his main camera appears to have been out of focus the whole time. gotta watch it in 4K though
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Oct 27, 2021 00:14
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tracecomplete posted:The writing is fantastic as always, but even for Tim Rogers's Tim Rogersing by Tim Rogers, I don't see why he had to hold his breath for the 4K version. His monologue footage is either 1080p or badly out of focus--when you see him cut to his own old footage of the FF7R review, it looks right. It's kinda distracting.
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Oct 27, 2021 03:38
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If anyone’s curious about Tim’s unpublished novels (one of which apparently gets alluded to at the end of the Cyberpunk review), he goes into exacting detail about his exacting formula for what he considers to be “a novel” here.quote:Chapter two tends to be three times as long as chapter one. I often think of chapter two as “the Wikipedia chapter”:
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Oct 27, 2021 21:47
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General Dog posted:I like Tim’s videos, but I bet his books that he insists he’ll never release are really bad. https://www.destructoid.com/libble-rabble-hamster-arcade-archives-ps4-nintendo-switch-version/
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Nov 14, 2021 06:15
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Framboise posted:I'm more amused that Tim was dropping any words that could be considered vulgar at all, considering how much he insists that he has not used any profanity ever after promising his mom that he wouldn't or something like that? He had said it in some video at some point. I guess even he had a time where he had to clean up his language.
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