Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games

Reminds me of a 2011 reddit post (obviously in the format of a rage comic) that led to the formation of r/playdate, although that shifted to just looking for people to play games with over the years.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/j8hpz/idea_for_subr...

I love seeing the original concept brought back with a cool UI.

Love the old school steam inspired ui.

First game I noticed was deadlock which technically isn't even released yet. That's fine though. Deadlock is a game that is really good to play with a fixed group. So I'd say this site is good for even more than dead games.

Nice work!

that early steam UI aesthetic has sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole...

https://archive.org/details/steam_10-08-2004

a rabbit hole, at the end of which is an imgui theme, and me was^H^H^Hspending entirely too much time extracting actual fonts, color codes and other minuscule details.

what's better, i have absolutely no issue with that theme being my new default!

Would love to see Steel Sentinels by FubOrb on here.

This is a cool website, and it looks great too

But it definitely could use some better moderation

I hope this becomes popular

StarCraft 1 let you take your computer to anywhere and connect on the LAN with anyone, or even dial-up directly to your friend's phone number.

In StarCraft 2, Blizzard like every other corp wanted to see and control everything we do so you have to go all the way through the internet and lag even if you sit right next to each other. lol if the connection goes down!

Even on the PS5 when I hand a visiting guest the throwaway DualSense I have to bump through a clunky UI of choosing a user or "Quick Play" and wait while it spins up a whole new home screen and other crap for them, and then warnings about DLC or whatever in Mortal Kombat etc, just to have a short 2 minute beat-em-up session.

Sigh