Mike Faraday

Owlcat Games - We create cRPGs We create cRPGs

Hey Game Devs - @owlcatgames.bsky.social has a "new game development learning resource, featuring over 350 resources including software recommendations, tutorials, and online courses… for FREE." owlcat.games/learning #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign

15.10.2025 19:13 — 👍 46    🔁 20    💬 2    📌 0

“AI will help with pointless interactions like item descriptions and NPC barks” if it’s pointless it shouldn’t be in the game. If there’s nothing interesting about something, cut it

20.07.2025 14:32 — 👍 1521    🔁 327    💬 34    📌 44

Cream/white background with pink and blue sparkles and text across the centre which reads: What is Limitbreak Mentorship.

We're kind of new here so a fresh introduction is probably a good idea, right?

We are Limit Break, the largest mentorship program aimed at underrepresented people working in the UK games industry! Our goal is to help marginalised people progress their careers

More info: www.limitbreak.co.uk

03.04.2025 09:43 — 👍 52    🔁 39    💬 1    📌 2

Blender 4.0 Beginner Donut Tutorial (NEW) - YouTube The forth donut series

If you're happy to try Blender, I did the v3.0 of this series and it was very good (I've forgotten most of it since then though...)
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14.01.2025 12:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Dev Diary #4: Emergent Narrative | Civilization VII Get developer insights and additional details about the narrative systems of Sid Meier's Civilization VII!

Dev diary day! I’m excited to finally share this look into Civ VII’s new emergent narrative system.

04.12.2024 18:41 — 👍 488    🔁 131    💬 31    📌 14

Yes, I love Scrivener and use it for all kinds of writing. But it’s not the right tool for branching narrative.

07.10.2023 10:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yes, I’m similar to that: outline the shape of it (I tend to use Onenote) and then work the rest out as I go. Depends on what it is though. If the project is very interactive, I plan a lot more.

05.10.2023 21:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

That's how you summon an angry Emily Short. 😉
I only know as I've done a lot of work in node graphs, but I barely understand Storylets - I'm hoping to get a chance to use them at some point. (Personally, I find node graphs far easier to grok than linear scripting, and can hit the flow state in them)

05.10.2023 16:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Good post, but you're conflating node graphs with Storylets - they're two very different things. You can do Storylets in a node graph, but you can also do them in other systems, and not all node graphs are Storylets.

05.10.2023 16:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0