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Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
@JumpOvertheAge
Writer, game designer, artist | @CitizenSleeper 1+2 | @InOtherWaters | ed @HeterotopiasZn | they/them | posting at bsky.app/profile/jumpov…
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Jan 31, 2025
    CITIZEN SLEEPER 2 IS OUT... GO PLAY NOW!
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    CITIZEN SLEEPER 2 | OUT NOW!
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    Jan 31, 2025
    CITIZEN SLEEPER 2 is💫OUT NOW!💫 Get a ship, find a crew, and take on contracts while you navigate across the Starward Belt, in this Dice Driven RPG. “The perfect sequel, offering complexity, consequence, and quiet optimism in a world of strife.” - PCGamesN links below 👇
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Jan 19, 2023
    I have gotten used to seeing a lot of twitter bugs lately (hmm) but this one in particular is very entertaining for some reason
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
    The more I play Cyberpunk 2077 the more I realise CDPR have pulled the heist of the generation, and they’ve done so on the back of the idea of “bugs”. 👇
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    May 27, 2023
    I don’t see anyone tweeting about Silo here which is wild because it has gorgeous brutalist production design, a fantastic sense of place and the best “fix a massive machine” sequence I’ve seen. Recommended.
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
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    I don’t know if incompetence or greed is to blame here, but if you spend years telling everyone how revolutionary your open world game will be, amassing 8 million preorders, and then launch that game WITHOUT DRIVING AI something has gone horribly wrong.
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
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    Pedestrians:
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
    Pedestrians #PS5Share, #Cyberpunk2077
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
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    This is a feature. This is a specifically engineered solution to a massive gap in the game’s feature set. And it turns out pedestrians behave the same way. Fire a gun in a crowded street everyone ducks. Turn 360. The game will unload every cowering pedestrian. This is insane.
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    May 25, 2023
    Already some lovely concept art coming out of the Marathon reveal. As excited about the eventual artbook as I am the game 😅
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
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    Take the games traffic. No one apart from the player can drive a bike. Why? Well after a little testing it becomes obvious that drivers have no AI to speak of. They cannot navigate around an obstacle and often will freeze in the face of an obstacle. They are literally mindless.
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
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    Surely this leads to constant gridlock? Well no, because explicitly aware of this CDPR have made every stopped car disappear if you look away. Really. That way the card keep following their paths and any blockages are cleared up. This is NOT a bug.
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
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    I jumped into my game to make some examples for those who haven't played the game and it took me all of 2 minutes to grab these. Traffic:
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
    Traffic #PS5Share, #Cyberpunk2077
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
    Replying to @JumpOvertheAge
    Cyberpunk is buggy as hell, we all know that, but by expecting and acknowledging this reviewers seem to have turned a blind eye to the massive, often absurd, issues with the game’s open world.
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
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    These elements were seemingly passed off as “bugs” in reviews, as journalists rushed through to hit deadlines and, understandably, assumed such issues would be fixed. But the fix for these things is implementing an entirely new system.
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    Gareth Damian Martin | Jump Over the Age
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    Dec 15, 2020
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    And if you actively obsfucate these issues, if you keep up a pretence that they are just “bugs”, naturally occurring errors that will eventually be fixed, you are misleading people so you can make money. Tbh, I’ve never seen anything like it.