@Terxbor sometimes a little grind is nice. Ever play warframe?

@nyanuri
In another topic, do anything cool today?

@Terxbor I've just been playing Terranigma ^^ I really like snes games

@nyanuri
I was basically raised on the 2D Nintendo era of video games. I think I mentioned I was born the same day Super Mario Bros. was released in Japan.
One game in particular, R.C. Pro-Am for the NES, triggered my eternal love of video games.

@Terxbor a racing game?

@nyanuri
Yeah. My memory claims it was the first NES game I didn't instinctually know how to play, that I HAD to read the instruction manual for. And once I figured out how, that part of my life was set.

@Terxbor i used to love reading game manuals. the more complicated the better!

@nyanuri
I love a good manual as well. I read them for all my games... but not anymore because modern manuals SUCK.

@Terxbor most physical games don't even come with manuals anymore. Probably because developers just assume their players have internet access. But board games on the other hand...

@nyanuri
Battletech's manual sucks as well... mostly because there's a bunch of them.

@nyanuri
Which reminds me... I really should design some cards for the TCGs I was designing a while back. Enough to make two decks each.

@Terxbor designing a tcg huh? are you thinking of selling it to a game company?

@nyanuri
If I did sell one, I'd know which one I'd want to sell it to... assuming they'd be willing to do it as a LCG like Netrunner. (The company, Victory Point Games, doesn't do TCGs.) The other would have to go to a video game company; the mechanics pretty much demand computerized rules enforcement.

@Terxbor netrunner is so good! And that's really cool. Do you design games for a living?

@nyanuri
I'd like to. I've wanted to since about 1990. That and game programming. I do have something kinda released on https://formedras.itch.io ... it requires an Xbox controller per player, and it needs a lot of work.

(Oh, by the way, here's a link for my favorite game from VPG: https://www.victorypointgames.com/darkest-night-second-edition.html )

@nyanuri
I don't own a copy of Darkest Night myself, and certainly not 2E which is new from last year. I played it only twice, but I LOVE it. (Both plays were at VPG's former headquarters in Costa Mesa, CA.)

@nyanuri
Related question: have you heard of a game journalist/designer/developer named Alan Emrich?

@Terxbor maybe? the name sounds really familiar. Who is he?

@nyanuri
He's best known as the guy that coined the term 4X in a preview for Master of Orion, which he subsequently assisted in late development for. He also was the early design lead for MoO3, I think, before something happened and he got kicked.
For me personally, he was a teacher at The Art Institute of California — Orange County (used to have great teachers; all other staff SUCKED ASS and prevented the teachers from doing their jobs right).

@Terxbor darkest night sounds really cool. ^^ I wonder if there's a way to play games like that on the web 🤔

@nyanuri
Unfortunately, I think there aren't any games from VPG playable on a computer. They tried to do their deck-building Chess game, For The Crown, but it never got released.