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Today you can win one of 5 $20 Amazon gift cards! In keeping with Lumi Games’ charity business model, we’ll be matching those gift cards in a $100 gift to their current charity, The Super Selma Project (Superselma-Projektet). For the non-Norwegian speakers, it’s like Make-A-Wish Foundation!
How to enter: (THIS PORTION OF THE GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED. ALL WINNERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED BY N4G TICKET)
Comment on any and all of the stories we have running today from our IndieMonth account on Lumi Games and ParticleBOOM!:
Today’s Stories:
At A Glance: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
Interview Part One: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
Interview Part Two: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
Developer Blog: A Boy's Quest: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
Developer Blog: Alex's Story: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
Developer Blog: Programming Workflow When Developing a New Game: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
Developer Blog: A Game Designer’s Approach: http://n4g.com/user/blogpos...
Each of those comments is not only an entry for today and an Amazon gift card, it's an entry in the INDIE MONTH MEGA BUNDLE! That will include:
- codes and copies for ALL released games we cover during the month of July
- $100 Steam or Amazon gift card (winner’s choice!)
- A PlayStation 4 console
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Some fine print:
- Only one comment per blog post is necessary to enter. Subsequent comments do not count as additional entries, but do count toward your personal awesomeness.
- DQ if you pick up a restriction during the contest period. One word comments and comments with negative labels (Trolling, Off Topic, etc.) don't count.
- “Contest period”: Code Giveaway Contest begins on July 13, 2014 at 12:00 AM EST and closes on July 13, 2014 at 11:59 PM EST. MEGA BUNDLE “Contest Period” begins on July 1, 2014 at 12:00 AM EST and closes on July 31, 2014 at 11:59 PM EST
- Winners will be drawn at random from eligible entries and notified via N4G Ticket.
Day 13 | Lumi Games
Sons of Valhalla is an exceptional 2D side-scroller action game that challenges players' strategic approach and skills management.
The armadillo returns.
I personally do remember Infogrames in the years prior to merger. They really did have a portfolio that stuck out and I enjoyed. I wonder what value they see in reviving it now though?
Sony is apparently experimenting with an AI tool that will play the game for you when you are grinding away. A PlayStation patent for “auto-play” mode would simulate your gameplay style in certain environments and apply them to skip that section completely. This technology would likely be built directly into the cloud-based PlayStation Network and be a new feature that subscribers would have access to.
Hah! Either will never happen or publishers will charge you to use this AI. This concept would only exacerbate the problem we already have with GaaS.
doesnt that concept already exist tho?
buy dlc to get a ahead in games? money, weapon and exp dlc come to mind but yeh. one more thing for them.to potentially charge for.
Usually, for GaaS/Seasonal games, you'll have to perform actions to earn specific in-game currency to buy things for events. Then they sell the currency with real cash or a third-currency to then buy the in-game currency items (it's honestly truly bloated to hide that they're cheating you out of money). With this, they'll just give you items if you do something 50 times or the like and then charge you to have the game play it for you. It's better, right? No currency shenanigans, just play the game and we reward you! But, the truth is they'll inflate the amount of times you have to play through content just to get the same thing.
Why?
Why not just remove the Grindy part?
I hope it's not an excuse to make them worse, but optional if you pay
This IGN blogger mode will allow 'reviewers' to play games like rest of us.
I will never forget watching GamingBolts spoiler video for Horizon FW and realizing they never played it. Made me wonder if they play games at all.
Reminds me of those 24 hours races in gran Turismo 4 having your PlayStation play for you.
But realistically if you have to use any of these for Grundy games there's a bigger underlying problem of the game not respecting your time in the first place.
Grind for game length is a real problem in my view
I'm so busy watching EVO late at night that I can comment early!
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