Happy new years folks!!

Thanks to everyone who has been participating in giveaways on the community in the last couple of months. Your participation is greatly appreciated, and as the sole mod of the community, it warms my heart to see so many people giving away great games.

Now for the matter at hand, I have a key for Superliminal, an excellent mind melting puzzle game up for grabs today. This game blew me away back when I played it in late 2020, and I recently snagged a spare key in a Humble Bundle, so I thought someone on our Lemmy community here might enjoy getting the chance to experience this gem as well.

Steam Store Page: Superliminal

Here's all you have to do to enter:

• Comment on this post, and tell us what game you are the most excited to play in 2025. It could be one releasing, or one in your backlog that you plan to check out in that year.

I will randomly select a winner of this giveaway on January 7th, 2025 at 10am CST, so if you want a chance to win make sure you comment by then. Thanks again for participating in this little community and sharing the gift of games with everyone here on Lemmy. More giveaways from me coming soon!

~Hyrulian

Congrats to @[email protected] for winning the copy of the game! Thanks to everyone else who participated as well!

Hello folks! Due to some of the serious AI pushes Notion has been doing recently, I have been trying to seriously migrate my video game tracker database over to work on Obsidian. I have most of the features from my Notion one ported over, but I can't for the life of my figure out how to use the Meta Binds plugin to replicate this particular button from my Notion database entries.

I know Meta Bind can be pretty technical, but I'm curious if anyone has any idea how I can replicate this functionality within Obsidian. My goal is essentially to:

1. Be able to press the button, adding the current date to a property of the document I have labeled "last".
2. Add a bullet point with today's date below the button, creating a list of dates that I pressed the button as I press it.

Thanks for reading my post! Any help is appreciated! I've been pouring over the Meta Bind docs to try and figure this out but so far I've had no luck.

Hello folks! Time for another giveaway! This time I've got a leftover from the August Humble Choice. I already had this one, so now here's a chance for one of you fine folks to get it for free!

The game up for grabs today is: HIGH ON LIFE!!

All you have to do to win is comment and I'm gonna pick a winner on September 4th around 10:00 am CST! (Assuming everything goes smoothly this time.)

If you win, I'll reply to your comment and shoot you a DM with the key. Please note, if you don't respond within 24hrs I'll check the key hasn't been redeemed and then give it to someone else. Make sure you respond to my DM to let me know you've redeemed it. Also the secret bonus key for Gotham Knights was claimed! Thanks for reading the post all the way through!!

Thanks for entering! Good luck!

Hello all! My buddy and I finally finished up Baldur's Gate 3 this week and we are not left with a giant co-op game shaped whole in our hearts. It was such an incredible experience and it was truly even more fun running through it together. We are excited to hop into another game, but we have no idea what to play. We've played a lot, and some games we've finished or tried recently included:

• Borderlands 1, 2, and 3
• Minecraft, Terraria, Vintage Story
• Raft, 7 Days to Die
• A Way Out, It Takes Two

I'm posting here today to ask if any of you have some suggestions for co-op games we could check out! I've Googled for suggestions to no end and 90% of what's there is games we've already played. If anyone has any recommendations for us they would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

~ Hyrulian

Thanks for all the great suggestions everyone!! I'm going to compile a list and check them all out one by one!

Hey folks, it's been a while! I'm here today with a giveaway for a key to one of my favorite games ever made, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut. I am so excited to share this amazing game with whoever wins this giveaway! Be warned however, there are a few things you might want to consider before entering:

• This game features some very intense content that some people might find disturbing or at the very least depressing. It also has some humor and imagery that some may find offensive.

• There is some serious controversy surrounding the creation of this game and things that happened afterwards that lead to multiple followup projects being canceled and a very messy split with the original concept's creator and the company behind the game. Read more about this here if this is something that may concern you and sway if you want to play the game.

With that stuff out of the way, what is Disco Elysium? According to the Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/632470/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/

A groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.

Honestly in my opinion though, this doesn't even begin to describe the chaotic intrigue that this game is. I highly recommend this one if you played Baldur's Gate 3 and want to play something similar, albeit a lot different in themes and gameplay. This is also quite a bit shorter.

Anyway, so how do you enter? All you have to do is:

• Comment telling me what games you've been playing recently or what other
• Wait till Friday, June 28th at 10am CST to see if you won! A random comment selector tool will decide if you win. If you do I'll comment on your reply to this post telling you to check your DMs where you will find the key to the game!
• (Optional) Share this post with a friend or fellow lemming to let them get a change to try and win this gem.

Thanks for reading the post and thanks for entering the giveaway! Good luck folks! If you have any spare Steam keys lying around you want to get rid of, this is a great place to do so. DM me if you have any questions!

~ Hyrulian

Unfortunately the first two people I tried to send the key to did not respond to my message. I'll be trying some other folks in the coming days! Thanks!

Thanks to GitHub user zoeyjodon for dropping this incredible 3ds fork for the Moonlight PC game streaming client. You can run this software on any hacked 3ds (though a new 3ds is recommended) to stream PC games from any PC to your 3ds. Although it's not super useful for most games since the 3ds has such a pitiful screen, this is still a really cool piece of homebrew and I imagine running retro games from later than the n64 era could be really sweet. Attached is a picture of me running Super Mario Sunshine through Dolphin on my PC being streamed. There is shockingly a very low level of latency at play here. Just wanted to shout out this cool project. Head to the GitHub page if you want to check it out!

Hello everyone! Things have slowed down quite a bit over on Gift of Gaming, so I thought I would post about it on here to get some more eyes on it. We are a community dedicated to hosting Video Game giveaways! You can come join for a chance to win some games, or if you're feeling generous you could always host a giveaway too!

Right now I am personally doing a giveaway for Doom Eternal, and I hope that by giving away a bit more of a substantial release I can bring in some new people to the community. A lot of our previous giveaways had no one enter, so we had to close them and keep the unredeemed keys.

If hosting or winning giveaways for video games sounds interesting to you, we'd love to have you join in. Many more giveaways are planed for the future. I have 300 keys that I have been holding onto from Humble Bundles over the years, so there just might be a game in there you might want. Thanks for listening!!

https://lemmy.world/c/giftofgaming

Hey folks, Hyrulian here. Back with another giveaway. Today up for grabs we have my personal Game of they Year for 2020, Doom Eternal. This excellent FPS will delight with it's superb visuals, excellent gameplay, and face melting soundtrack by Mick Gordon.

To enter, please do the following:

• Comment on this post with a game you've been playing recently.

• (Optional) Share this post with your friends so they can have a chance to rip and tear as well!

I'll pick a winner in a week, (8/23 10 am CST) and they'll be off to cleanse Earth from the demons of hell! Thanks for stopping by the community. Have a good day!!! :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2295545

Back in May of 2022, I was bored so I decided to boot up Brickadia and create some pixel art of the map of Pallet Town. It took me a few minutes to find the map of the town online, load it up in a pixel art software, and recreate the color pallet (pun intended) in Brickadia. Over the next hour I proceeded to place each of the blocks down to perfectly match the pixel art in the original games. After finishing that I was thinking about how it would be neat to make the pixel art 3D.

I spent the next four hours systematically making 3D voxel models in Brickadia of all of the objects in the town, filling out the town as I went. I had finished everything except the patch of tall grass and Professor Oak's Lab before having to close the game to go to work. I would then forget about the entire project until today, July 28th 2023, when I accidentally stumbled across the files on my PC.

I spent only another few hours making Oak's Lab and the tall grass models, placing them in the scene and finishing the town. I can't believe I forgot about the project!! It was a lot of fun and really not too bad for only taking about six hours or so. The hardest part was definitely the water area, because I had to decide how to make the 2D texture of the rock 3D while maintaining the pattern on all sides to keep it looking seamless. I think the finished version looks pretty acceptable, but there where some ugly versions in there at one point.

That's about it. Thanks for listening to my story about my fun little day project.

Back in May of 2022, I was bored so I decided to boot up Brickadia and create some pixel art of the map of Pallet Town. It took me a few minutes to find the map of the town online, load it up in a pixel art software, and recreate the color pallet (pun intended) in Brickadia. Over the next hour I proceeded to place each of the blocks down to perfectly match the pixel art in the original games. After finishing that I was thinking about how it would be neat to make the pixel art 3D.

I spent the next four hours systematically making 3D voxel models in Brickadia of all of the objects in the town, filling out the town as I went. I had finished everything except the patch of tall grass and Professor Oak's Lab before having to close the game to go to work. I would then forget about the entire project until today, July 28th 2023, when I accidentally stumbled across the files on my PC.

I spent only another few hours making Oak's Lab and the tall grass models, placing them in the scene and finishing the town. I can't believe I forgot about the project!! It was a lot of fun and really not too bad for only taking about six hours or so. The hardest part was definitely the water area, because I had to decide how to make the 2D texture of the rock 3D while maintaining the pattern on all sides to keep it looking seamless. I think the finished version looks pretty acceptable, but there where some ugly versions in there at one point.

That's about it. Thanks for listening to my story about my fun little day project.

Hey there Naruto fans!! Want a game about Naruto!? Here's the game I'm peddling today:

Naruto to Baruto: Shinobi Striker

I gotta be honest, I've never seen an episode of Naruto in my life. I assume someone out there on Lemmy has, (Seems pretty likely) so I'm here today to giveaway this game. Seems to be some kind of action fighting PVP game. It could be pretty neat!!

To enter, please do the following:

• In three words, please summarize Naruto for me. I want to know what it's all about.
• Make sure you're subscribed to our Community, so you don't miss future giveaways.
• (Optional) Tell any friends you might have that like Naruto that I'm giving this game away. If you don't have any friends, I'm sorry I asked.

The first person to successfully comment on this post will get the game since no one has entered past the deadline.

Steam Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/633230/NARUTO_TO_BORUTO_SHINOBI_STRIKER/

Hey folks! I'm a moderator over on /c/GiftofGaming here on Lemmy, a community that was created to host video game giveaways. I'm currently giving away Into the Radius, but a week has passed and no one has entered the giveaway. Someone over there commented suggesting I seek a place to share the post to bring it to more peoples attention. If you're interested, feel free to head on over to the post and enter. It's a key for Steam VR!

https://lemmy.world/post/1299827

Hopefully this is allowed. If not, feel free to nuke it mods. Thanks!

Hey there folks! Time for another giveaway!! This week I'm giving out a copy of:

Into the Radius VR

If you haven't played it before, Into the Radius is a virtual reality survival game HEAVILY inspired by the STALKER series. The general idea is, you enter the nuclear reaction zone and you have to complete quests and collect resources while surviving the horrific anomalies that live in the area. I personally find this game to be really spooky and stressful, so keep that in mind when entering. That being said, I love the style and the mechanics! There's even a whole system where you have to physically clean and maintain your weapons or they could jam in the moments you need them the most!

Here's the steps you have to follow to enter this giveaway:

• You MUST have a VR Headset compatible with Steam VR. I couldn't find a reliable resource online listing all compatible models so I highly recommend you verify that your headset works before entering.
• Reply to this post, sharing what your current favorite VR game is.
• Wait until Friday, July 14th at around 10am CST. I'm extending this giveaway out for the whole week to allow as many VR gamers to get the chance to enter as possible. Update: Extending the giveaway out for now. I'll try again next Friday instead! Share with your friends that have VR!!

Thanks for entering the giveaway! Remember to follow the steps to enter the giveaway so you don't end up with a key for a game you can't even enjoy. Shout out to everyone who has participated in the giveaways on this community so far!

Edit: Two weeks passed and nobody entered so I'm closing the giveaway. I'll try again later!!

We need to stop these heinous "g*mers" from spreading their satanic cult practices in our cities. I was just trying to buy great American frozen pizza for my family when I ran across this demonic figure in the frozen isle!! What are we doing about this??!!

I'm just curious what you folks think. The whole idea of the Fediverse seems to go against everything Meta has stops for with their existing platforms (Facebook and Instagram).

What are they after? Are they going to try and infiltrate it so they can get people's data and content? Are they trying to monetize it? It just doesn't add up. I feel like most people on the Fediverse already would agree that we don't want Meta's platforms to access our content.

Please excuse my ignorance if it doesn't work like I think it does. I'm relatively new to the Fediverse myself.