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Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work (bsky.app)

submitted 1 year ago by simple@piefed.social to c/games@lemmy.world

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[+] Typhoon@lemmy.ca -28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

this looks like something that came out 35 years ago.

Super Mario World came out 35 years ago. There's no excuse for a game to look this primitive in 2025.

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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 23 points 1 year ago

Not all games are about graphics, and this looks completely serviceable to me. I understand struggling with ASCII roguelike interfaces (never really got the hang of it myself), but everything here looks easily identifiable.

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[–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 4 points 1 year ago

The "excuse" is it is appealing to some and not you, which is fine. I personality love the art style (it's what got me interested in Qud in the first place).

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[–] BenevolentOne@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

How about a game developed by two people on their own winning an award which was won last year by a game with a budget somewhere north 100 million dollars?

Is that a good excuse?

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