AI-assisted development is bringing old games to platforms we'd never have thought possible. That's exciting, but the growing flood of unfinished ports is beginning to raise an uncomfortable question: how many of these games are actually worth playing?
  • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Some of the ports we’re seeing in the retro handheld community lately have been great, and I love seeing developers push these little devices beyond what they were ever intended to do. But I’ve definitely noticed what feels like a growing amount of ‘port-slop’, with new projects appearing seemingly every few hours, many of them feeling more like quick experiments than anything particularly worthwhile.

    I’m not against the experimentation at all, but I do wonder if we’re reaching a point where quantity is starting to overshadow quality. Anyway, I put together a short opinion piece about it, just my own thoughts on something I’ve been noticing lately, especially here with my favorite old system: the PSP.

  • Kiernian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    I read “port slop” and said “yeah, it’s called UDP, but that’s not new, why is there an article about it? click…oh.”

    /facepalm

    I need to stop browsing before I’ve had caffeine.

    • PerfectDark@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I hope you still enjoyed the read, even if it ended up being completely different to what your pre-caffeine brain saw!!!