m. tarah henry @Lobst@scalie.club

#introductions

Hi, everyone; I'm tarah, otherwise known as lobst. I've drawn a few comics that people have seemed to enjoy, and programmed a game demo that won 10th-place in a 140+ entry game jam despite having no sound. My ability to finish any individual project has been stymied by mental health problems for over a year, but I've been seeking treatment and making progress. I've also been streaming videogames on weekends. Watch this space!

https://lobstworks.com/
https://lobst.itch.io/

Also! There's going to be at least one more one-shot stream; I'm thinking of starting October with the beginning of my next full playthrough (you'll probably be able to guess which game it is in advance) 🔸

(Added an exit clause because while I'm interested in the mystery/setting for myself, I've seen screencaps of some bad/awful jokes; given its director's writing history I wouldn't put it past the game to be firmly lodged in insular anime messageboard culture 🔸)

Tomorrow night at 6PM Pacific, I'll be taking a look at AI: The Somnium Files (and possibly also something else, depending on how I end up feeling about AI's script an hour in) over at https://mixer.com/lobst 🔸

Spent way too long tonight prone on my stomach/underneath my bed in numerous attempts to get my Elgato and its assorted cables out of sight and tied to my bed frame in the corner adjacent to the wall. I was ultimately successful, but the process could've done with some additional planning, perhaps

I suppose another way of saying it -- most Kinect games were designed more around minigames you controlled with your body than actual exercise; games that weren't specifically targeted to aerobics or dance were either about assuming static poses based on onscreen situations or about moving your hand to control a cursor. Aside from Your Shape 2012 I can't think of any that had you jog in place to make a player avatar run

(By "active motions" I mean motions that could be reasonably described as exercise; The Gunstringer, Fable: The Journey, Rise of Nightmares, and Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor didn't exactly get your heart rate up. The only one that comes close is Sonic Free Riders, which in my experience is awful to actually play.)

I think the only thing I actively dislike about this is that it's coming out in October, in the middle of one of the busiest release years the industry has ever had

This looks like the exact sort of thing the Kinect promised but was never able to fully deliver on, due to either dodgy accuracy or poor implementation. I can't think of many games that have you actually going through a linear campaign by doing active motions; most Kinect games with campaigns were decidedly low-impact.

(I agree with the Internet consensus that this commercial is directed unnaturally, also)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1orju1NsN8

Starting in ~15 minutes, a fresh playthrough of Anodyne: https://mixer.com/lobst 🔸

("adjusted" instead of "fixed" because there's still a tangle off to the side/surrounding the surge protector; the cables are now feeding into the consoles from the back instead of looping around from the front, at least)

Had a very "area [person] knows [they] must ride sudden urge to clean as far as it will take [them]" moment when I adjusted my TV stand's cable management earlier today

Tomorrow at 6:00PM PDT, I'll be continuing my one-shot streams with a fresh replay of the original Anodyne over at https://mixer.com/lobst 🔸

The Digital Foundry comparison between the original and upscaled versions of Final Fantasy 8 makes the new version look unequivocally worse to me in just about every respect. But I love pixel art, chunky textures, and dithering effects, so it's entirely possible it's just me🔸