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sometimes you just gotta let the spirits guide your hand and put a sleep(50) in there

What kind of info do you try to collect from folks for bugs like these, are core dumps and stuff possible/common when developing for switch?

Thats a good idea!! Keeps you in the realm of small integers too, which I generally find more appealing

Designing with board-game components in #gamedev is fun cos you can see how the tradition has evolved as it hops from tabletop to digital and back to tabletop.

For dice I can refer to Yahtzee and Dicey Dungeons and Ahoy which are all calling back to each other in interesting ways.

its kinda the hyperbolic time chamber of rice

That’s an insane accomplishment. Makes me very happy that there’s someone out there who sees all the cool stuff that gets made (:

Thank you for the kind words 🙏

Weird #gamedev thing found in playtesting: deciding between two non-choices (i.e. movement that provides no advantage/disadvantage) is more likely to lead to decision paralysis than two really juicy options.

Empty decisions are obviously a no-no, just way more detrimental than I'd expected.

I was really surprised at how (to a certain point) staying under the token limit helped keep the code tidy. Made me think really critically about factoring out duplication in areas that weren’t obvious!

It was definitely daunting hitting chapter 4 of 4 and seeing like 350 pages left to go lol

Feeling energised for the rest of it now though, thank you again for the great thread!!

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I made two pico-8 games for itch recently, I’d love to hear what you think when you get there :)

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Its such a sick community. Everyone I’ve bumped into has been so creative and welcoming!

Have you really seen over 1M games on itch? 😳

If there was a moment that made it click for you when it did click, I’d love to hear it!

also some of the poopy sex is hard to swallow, so to speak lol

It’s been a slow read so I’ve been struggling with a sense of place. Each time I pick it up it’s a bit like a vivid dream - I’m not certain where I am or who’s talking but the scenes are so immediate and tactile that I’m sucked in anyway.

Makes me pretty confident that I’ll be back for a second go!

After posting this last night I finished the section with Pökler and Ilse which I could not put down. So gripping and harrowing. I love that recurring magic trick where a conversation is about physics and personal life and society all in the same words.

yay! I have to pop out now but I’ll shoot you a DM soon (:

Particulitix demo looks sick btw, very excited to try it this week

After blowing past the last two NextFest’s I’m aiming for the next one in June!

Winding up for a season of playtesting though, you’d be more than welcome to get involved if you’d like!

If I had it my way the whole screen would look like a counterstrike flashbang

Oh Saadex looks cool!! Looks like we share an abiding love for bloom

Have revisited this thread many times as I hold on for dear life and try to make it through Gravity’s Rainbow

It mostly feels like I’m paying the dues for future me who reads it again and falls head over heels.

damn it feels good to dream

or getting mentioned in a Jacob Geller video, or getting a bad review for being too woke, or hearing a player mutter “hm… HM!”, or seeing your game remade in roblox

Hahaha now that you mention all that stuff it might actually be pretty low on the list of dream

I’m feeling a potential for a Piranesi-style infinite mansion within a bag of holding here

its cool how it contrasts the cars by slowing down and getting off the grid, splits the brain a little bit

it is the dream of every game dev for an absolute machine to find and decimate your game, congratulations

Just played TAD and its so charming. Very impressive achievement to have squeezed this out of pico8!

Like in Cinco Paus it took me a day to beat a jogo. I'm on jogo 9 now and my priorities have completely changed (in desperate need of artifacts). One day I might finish a campaign and my priorities will change again (treasure skyrockets up the priority list).

Pitting streak and score against each other to create a tension that seeps into every decision over tens of games!?!? It builds these emotional arcs that feel like they could last months.