Today is the 9th anniversary of the original release of “Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher.” Happy birthday, old man!
To celebrate, we’ve launched the Steam Page for the remake! AND we have an official release target: THIS WINTER!! 👀
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A video game series about debating old dead philosophers, yelling NONSENSE when they’re wrong, and sometimes causing them to freak out
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Look I know HD is like, ancient technology at this point, as old as Socrates himself, but let me have this.
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We found the source files for the old backgrounds and cutscene stills for Socrates Jones too 👀
MA, THE RERELEASE WILL ACTUALLY BE COMPLETELY HD! WE'RE A REAL GAME NOW MA!
#screenshotsaturday #visualnovel
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When you work on a project on the side, everything takes longer than you'd like— but I'm still fairly confident we'll have the Socrates Jones Rerelease out this winter. :)
We're getting close! UI clean up and controller bug fixes, and one last... experiment...
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Also, would have had to learn how to spell his name without googling it
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If Nietzsche had a actually been in Socrates Jones, I feel like I would have had to title all his arguments off of angsty songs
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Okay, so Billy demanded a stupid amount of money. Luckily, in Pro Philosopher, you can CHALLENGE people with the ideas introduced earlier (or just yell that their face is ugly)
Let's put this NONSENSE to bed, shall we? #visualnovel #screenshotsaturday #madewithunity #indiegames
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It's a pretty good game title. But newly christened game marketing expert Billy the Salesman says some big words like "REVELATIONS" or "REDEMPTION" would have really helped bring it home...
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Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher jayisgames.com/archives/2013/ great game title, or best game title? Discuss.
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It’s hard to top seeing “Oh, Deer” pop up alongside the end of the tutorial. I peaked too soon
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You can add ACHIEVEMENTS to the list of features in the "Socrates Jones" Steam release!
They technically work already; I just need to come up with sufficiently terrible puns for every chapter.
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We probably should have seen this coming. He is a salesman after all. He wants to sell things, not give them away.
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"Press for clarification" is the best move to make your opponent clear up any vagueness or oddities in their argument.
Like why is Billy talking about BUYING this game that's going to be FREE on Steam? What's up with that, huh? He can't possibly... Oh no.
#indie #visualnovel
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It's good to "Question Relevance" when a discussion goes a little off the rails.
Like, for example, getting obsessive over lore minutia in what is fundamentally an extended promotional gag.
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Putting together some last bits of UI for release of Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher, including updating the Challenge menu.
In the original, all the text options were actually images, making updating or tweaking them a pain. That was nonsense. We're not doing that this time.
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Hmmm, maybe. I’ve already got the first bit sorted out:
//Argument title: Maybe Don’t Enslave Humanity, Aliens
gordan: “…”
gordan: [serious] “…”
gordan: “…”
gordan: [crowbar] “!!!”
gordan: “. . . . .”
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Gordan Freeman DLC? :0
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"Elaborate for a flash game." I do wonder about praise like this. Now that we're going to be on Steam instead, what will the relative expectations be? Will we still be good?
Will people be like... "it has 13% less Gordan Freeman than I expect from a Steam Game."
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I'm playing Socrates Jones, a Flash game from 2013 based on the mechanics and aesthetic of Ace Attorney, but about philosophy instead of justice. It's kind of bizarrely elaborate for a Flash game newgrounds.com/portal/view/62
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"Press for Backing" is the move of choice when you want someone to provide stronger justifications for their statement.
As in: "Hey, Billy, list all the reasons this Socrates Jones remake will be good. BACK THOSE CLAIMS UP!"
#screenshotsaturday #indiegames
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Let’s be honest, also: Franziska Von Karma would likely believe morality was OBJECTIVE.
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This fan engine was mainly rough in that it didn’t have any functional presenting, if I recall.
Chunks of Franziska von Karma’s arguments were remixed for Protagoras.
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Oh yeah, forgot THIS was a thing. How Pro Philosopher all began! #ThrowbackThursday
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Found this yesterday - "Philosophical Wright," made in a terrible fan engine. Socrates Jones had to start somewhere
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While we're plotting the remake, I need to shout out this Commadore 64 demake concept by .
They sent it to us just a few days after the game originally came out in 2013. It was the first fanart I ever received!
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Um. You could have put forth a little more effort here, Billy. It's only the FUTURE OF PRO PHILOSOPHER AT STAKE.
#screenshotsaturday #indiegames
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Almost time to kick up those reminders again, David! :)
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Semi-regular reminder that if you've not played Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher you should fix that as it's excellent kongregate.com/games/chiefwak
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Okay, Billy the Salesman's doing decently so far. Hasn't even plugged his deer repellent once!
Don't tell him the game is digital, though. He seems so proud of that box he's flaunting about; I wouldn't want to disappoint him.
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Someone seems to have gone behind my back and hired Billy the Salesman to promote the upcoming Steam release!
Let’s see what he has to say… and what good follow up questions can reveal. 🤔
#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #indiedev
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The Arbiter in the flashback is wearing his outfit from the original build. Huzzah for references that only the devs would ever get... UNTIL NOW
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This is actually not the first time Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher has been remade!
The version you all know evolved from a VERY old Java version with different art! Here is an old poster for that. #gamedev
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Early Steam Deck tests are promising! :)
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This one maybe gives us too much credit for our influence ;)
The Good Place is good, though. Socrates Jones seal of approval! If NBC wants to do a crossover, we can talk.
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SOCRATES JONES PRO PHILOSOPHER PREDICTED THE GOOD PLACE
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Operation: Scour Twitter for Socrates Jones Mentions is going well. Nice reminders of the impact we made the first time. ♥️
Also reminders that we need to fix our old as butts website…
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I've learned more philosophy from playing Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher than any of my classes: socratesjones.com
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Oh, and tell everyone you know. Friends. Lovers. Enemies. Random people on the street.
I hear people knowing about things is an important part of marketing. I never understood it. #indiedev
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This remake is a labor of love, made in our freetime, for FREE.
It took JUST long enough to have NO IDEA if people will remember the original game or care, so if you do, please wishlish us so Steam’s algorithms can quantify your love ;)
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We’ll hit an important milestone tomorrow 👀
The process of converting all of Socrates Jones: Pro Philosopher's character art to a higher resolution is complete!
Now Euthyphro can be smug in full HD. #screenshotsaturday
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The temptation to tag Pro Philosopher as a "2D Fighter" on Steam is stronger than it should be
But I feel like that's the sort of joke that's only funny to me, and annoying to a lot of fighting game fans. I don't want them fighting me IRL
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Then again he’s kinda always upset so
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I mean, Thomas Hobbes is in the game, so... How could I NOT check this box? He'd be so upset.
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Look, I resisted making a "I Kant handle it" joke in the actual game, so it was way overdue
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