Why are what would typically be described as game features being built directly into the OS for display? Is art... required??? Because I'd just as happily write a text adventure that's... text. The online store doesn't launch until 2026 on their roadmap - Cartridge only until then? - ThreadSky

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mascott.pizza • 9 days ago

Why are what would typically be described as game features being built directly into the OS for display?

Is art... required??? Because I'd just as happily write a text adventure that's... text.

The online store doesn't launch until 2026 on their roadmap - Cartridge only until then?

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mascott.pizza•9 days ago

Realize I didn't complete this thought earlier - there IS a plan for an online store, and "we are working to include an option in the SDK that will allow users to import formats from other engines and adjust them to fit the Ink [...] format, making it easier to bring those games into the platform."

mascott.pizza•9 days ago

The more I think about it, the more I think having an open source device like this is really cool, and that it'll live far beyond the company that makes it, but putting that on the community is a tough sell

mascott.pizza•9 days ago

And every cartridge is going to cost we don't even know how much - 80 Days, my literal GOTY, launched at ~ $5 ~ over a decade ago - It feels like this is a fantasy console for a universe in which Zork was still on top of the world

mascott.pizza•9 days ago

I'm gonna buy it

I'm gonna get whatever backer tier includes two games

I'm gonna support the store and IF creators I love when it launches (s/o to Emily Short)

And I'm gonna install new software to the device when it needs it

I want it to work

But I also feel like it is working against itself

samuelhowitt.bsky.social•9 days ago

It seems a bit dodgy

https://bsky.app/profile/decoster.bsky.social/post/3lifds5edwk27

mascott.pizza•9 days ago

I'm being generous because I like to approach projects like that with this, but yeah, at best it seems... really weird. To me it smacks of someone who has delivered product solo enough times to want to branch out and not having someone else to tell them what is and isn't a good idea.

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