This is awesome!
Finally camped by the health and was rewarded with...one health.
Kept hoping the +spread would shoot closer to down.
DOOMscrolling: The Game
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#12Would love an option to adjust the "mouse sensitivity", and flicking(is that the right term? I mean that the momentum from scrolling continues even if you lift your finger from the screen). Right now movement feels a mite heavy, I'm scrolling like three times as much as I'd find comfortable.
Aside from that, this might become my new favorite time waster of the week.
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#13Cool, but I came across a headline for some reason about Charlie Kirk and wondered what the hell that was about, I left the game shortly after.
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#14> I had ChatGPT build labs with sliders that I could adjust to decide how I want things to appear, instead of getting frustrated with the chatbot. Your very own Steve Jobs Roll Your Own Calculator Construction Set[1]. (It is of course very common to do all sorts of game art using ad hoc parametric stuff like this, I just find the similarity amusing.) [1] https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html
This 100% occurred to me as I did it. I may not be a coder but I did read the Steve Jobs biography.
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#15Cool, but I came across a headline for some reason about Charlie Kirk and wondered what the hell that was about, I left the game shortly after.
This is mentioned in the piece, it's a further play on the idea of 'Doomscrolling'
"I was pretty happy with the game and ready to share it. But then at the last minute I got another nagging idea in the back of my mind: What if it was somehow more like actual doomscrolling?
It would be easy to get an RSS Feed of headlines from a news site. Could I make them appear in the game as you scroll, in a way that felt integrated with the game?"
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#16Am I the only one who finds in bad taste to use "Epstein victims demand release ..." in the game?
Is rape and pedophilia already normalized and I didn't notice?
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#17Am I the only one who finds in bad taste to use "Epstein victims demand release ..." in the game? Is rape and pedophilia already normalized and I didn't notice?
The game is just pulling news headlines - specific text isn't being intentionally included.
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#18Am I the only one who finds in bad taste to use "Epstein victims demand release ..." in the game? Is rape and pedophilia already normalized and I didn't notice?
It’s a live RSS feed of New York Times articles.
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#19Cool, but I came across a headline for some reason about Charlie Kirk and wondered what the hell that was about, I left the game shortly after.
Because he was shot today, it was in the news, and the game pulls a live feed of news articles via RSS to simulate doom scrolling.
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#20Am I the only one who finds in bad taste to use "Epstein victims demand release ..." in the game? Is rape and pedophilia already normalized and I didn't notice?
It pulls news headlines via RSS feed, so the developer didn't intentionally put that headline in the game.