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YouTube video by Path of Exile Zaccie (Game Designer) on Volatiles, Monsters Balance and K-Pop!

I love this cozy interview @pathofexile did with Zaccie and Eben (and background badger heh). Hope they do more content like this!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZqa...

Awesome! Making anything in particular or just learning for now?

I'll be streaming the journey every so often, gamedev streams have been very fun and good for learning!

And ill upload a new protoype from the godot version when it's playable! Feel free to follow on itchio.

And i'll try and share things I learn here as I go - please share your tips too!

Exiled Guild Manager by ZIGGYD Send aspiring ARPG protagonists to their deaths for loot and for fun. A very early alpha prototype.

This is about a month so far of my game dev journey from 0 gamedev or coding experience - it's been very rewarding!

Here's the old javascript prototype I made (left in this state since the move to godot).
ziggyd.itch.io/exiled-guild...
See if you can beat uber crab!

Another huge thing: after realizing how time wasting it was to have to look up variables and names of stats etc - made a tool to generate updated quick reference.

I just run script to make a new .md file for obsidian whenever I need. I'll be looking for more "tools" and such I can make for myself.

A HUGE improvement has doing tests each step and for each new feature and it's been a huge help for understanding everything, finding bugs and making the whole game a lot more robust!

This is for the morale system implementation. Much fancier and all working nicely! Doing tests is AMAZING! DO it!

It's taking a long time to get back to a playable prototype but Im MUCH more confident now and the systems are working and building together nicely.

I'm so much more organized now and have a great idea of what all I have done, need to do and can do.

CUE: 3rd Do-over, from scratch remaking in GODOT, an actual game making engine. A week in and it's been a lot to learn but it was the right call: UI now "just works", kinda.

More importantly though the resource system has helped structure really good object-based work.

I even got some animated combat going, all with CSS and javascript + text and icons!

But I knew I had a lot of fundamental changes I wanted to make and battling with CSS to get the game UI to function properly across different monitors was being increasingly frustrating...

After a week or so I had a working prototype with some pretty bad UI/UX so I redid most everything (leaving a mess of redundant code scattered about that took a long time to somewhat clean up).

I started with straight up javascript, CSS and HTML as I wanted to make a browser friendly game and I had zero frame of reference. It wasn't a bad choice but was jumping in the deep end for sure.

Still, being able to make things from nothing without even engine support was great learning.

I've been making a game as I have fallen prey to the "Indie Game Streamer tries to make a game" pipeline.

ZERO experience, learning with a combo of tutorials and AI + chat.

It's been extremely fun and addictive.

I'm making "Exiled Guild Manager" - ARPG inspired guild management sim.

Journey ↧

It's Indie Tryouts Day today on stream!

End of every month I sample #IndieGames suggested by chat.

Starting Game is a Roguelite called Sephiria which looks great!

Twitch.tv/ZiggyDLive

YouTube video by ZiggyD Gaming LAST EPOCH: Idol Farming (& Filtering!) Guide - Class Idols + Weaver Idols Echo & Prophecy Strategy

Idol Farming in #LastEpoch:
- Block echo types on weaver tree
- Woven beacon to find Idol Echoes
- Sepulchre of the Lost to suck up rewards
- Reweaving to place them
- Imprints to generate wovens for free
- prophecy idol spam
- blue lizards
- Blessing
- FILTER!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hJz...

Last night I told #LastEpoch Devs about a bug in offline mode causing echo modifiers to not work at all.

They said they'd look into it.

This morning I woke up and they had deployed a fix! Amazing and a big deal fix to a bug that would've ruined my empowered monos experience.

YouTube video by ZiggyD Gaming LAST EPOCH: How Tombs, Cemeteries, Woven Echos & Memory Amber all Work - Woven Faction Endgame Guide

How the Woven Faction works, difference between tombs and cemeteries, what woven echoes are and how to use em, idol crafting and a bit more on the new #LastEpoch Endgame!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAME...

I havent tried controller but I hear the lead producer plays on controller and is big on pushing for it to be as good as possible so hopefully better than when you tried last!

YouTube video by ZiggyD Gaming LAST EPOCH Season 2 First Impressions: The Insane New Endgame Weaver Content, Leveling & MEGA QoL!

Day 1 first impressions of #LastEpoch season 2... wow.

- Campaign a bit tighter and more interesting with way better gearing (too easy and confusing still tho).
- Endgame is WILD from your first echos.
- Weaver content so far A+!
- New QoL (UI SLIDERS!?) is amazing

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr6W...

Early Access Announcements - Path of Exile 2 0.2.0f Patch Notes Preview - Forum - Path of Exile Path of Exile is a free online-only action RPG under development by Grinding Gear Games in New Zealand.

Notes Preview: www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-t...

Huge patch today for #pathofexile2!

- Stash and Shrine click QoL
- pinnacle boss infinite attempts to learn
- huge charm buffs
- monster stun nerfed
- 2h mace slammer mobs nerfed
- low tier rune spam gone
- totem buffs
- atlas bookmarking!

YouTube video by ZiggyD Gaming 5 BANGER Builds for LAST EPOCH's Season 2 Tried & Tested ⁨@Dr3adful⁩ for TOMBS of the ERASED S2!

The LOOOOONG awaited @LastEpoch Season 2 is just days away, brain came out of my ears by about the 18th crafting feature they showcased in the trailer.

Can't wait 😂

Appropriate then that I collab with the only person who's played EVERY build for this DR3AD!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA-y...

YouTube video by ZiggyD Gaming What Went Wrong with PATH of EXILE 2: Dawn of the Hunt - And Are They Fixing It? - 0.2.0 Recap

What's been happening with Path of Exile 2? What was the problems with Dawn of the Hunt and the game that sent review scores into mostly negative?

And, more importantly, ARE THEY FIXING IT?

Here's a detailed breakdown of 0.2.0 #PathOfExile2

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF8r...

visceral cringe :S

I have a note from yesterday's stream (possibly you!) to update this it seems it can drop in either but It may be a seed issue.

YouTube video by ZiggyD Gaming PoE 2: Bleed Stomp Huntress Leveling Has Been Great Fun - Day 1 Thoughts & Build Log - 0.2.0 DotH

Had a controversially great first day of Path of Exile 2: Dawn of the Hunt.

Bleed Stomp Amazon is cooking VERY nicely.

youtu.be/WvwvpmD9N1w?...

I'm not sure why they wanted to make Act 1 harder though when people already stuggle on reset.

I wrote a bloody ENCYLOPEDIC TOME, A TREATISE, A DISSERTATION on League Start Leveling in Path of Exile 2...

Over 12,000 words:
- Key levels for gear
- Efficient route guide
- all the tips and FAQs

I'm tired boss... Hope it helps!

maxroll.gg/poe2/getting...

#PathOfExile2 #PoE2

YouTube video by ZiggyD Gaming HUNTRESS & SPEARS SKILLS: PART 2 - Amazon & Skills Guide - PATH of EXILE 2 DAWN of the HUNT 0.2.0

PART 2 is here! My hands on look at two mechanics from the Amazon and the higher level Spear skills + Tame Beast!

#Pathofexile2 #DawnoftheHunt

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylwH...

YouTube video by ZiggyD Gaming HUNTRESS & SPEARS SKILLS: Hands On Gameplay Part 1 - PATH of EXILE 2 DAWN of the HUNT 0.2.0

Got something TASTY for you mates: HUNTRESS. HANDS-ON. SPEARS, BUCKLERS, SKILLS, SUPPORTS.

Part 1 of my first look at the new class with a dive into it's new skills.

I'm so freakin stoked about spears being done such justice in
#PATHOFEXILE2 - my fav weapon type.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkaC...

They cooked up a solution for map portals and trading/stashing vs dying!
Can now leave and return as much as you want, and the (previously portal) death restriction is only for deaths now, not leaving.
Combined with the scaling death count based on map mod totals. #PathofExile2

patch notes likely a day or two before hand like the good ol days :D