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Wrote up my somewhat nebulous thoughts for delve 0.6.0

#delve #roguelikedev

www.danarama.ca/posts/2026/p...

Published delve 0.5.3, which squashes a few bugs and adds a bit of polish here and there!

Now onward and upward to ver 0.6, which will hopefully only take a month or two.......

danarama.itch.io/delve

#delve #roguelikedev

Published delve 0.5.3, which squashes a few bugs and adds a bit of polish here and there!

Now onward and upward to ver 0.6, which will hopefully only take a month or two.......

danarama.itch.io/delve

#delve #roguelikedev

Slashing jobs at Stats Canada seems so boneheaded

So rad how we voted for Carney to avoid Poillievre but Carney is just doing Conservatism anyhow.

I guess Carney is at least personally way less irritating than Poillievre...

Git commit message which reads: "Prevent a tipsy character from falling down stairs immediately after they climb up them. For I am a merciful game dev."

Sometimes I do make changes to make things nicer for the player

> Probably from having a Pepsi Zero and a whole pizza

well at least you are acting very much in character!

"Delirious" is worrisome though

Saaaaaammmmmm! One worries about you!

Sam do you need someone to come shovel snow for you?

Screenshot of messages in a game. The lines displayed are: You hit the zombie! x2 The zombie missing you! You hit the zombie! The zombie missing you! You hit the zombie! Is this the end of Zombie Shakespeare?

I added this joke in like the first month of delve's development and it's the first time I've actually triggered it

I'm sorry if your suspension of disbelief was ruined 😭😭

Today in fixing delve things that probably only I care about, but this as been annoying me for a while

git commit -am "Player shouldn't see clouds when they're above a building player occupies"

Caves of Qud mutates onto the Nintendo Switch, February 16th!

Journalism is a great industry to go into if you want to become speedrun becoming a Marxist.

Persona 5 is a crpg exploring two main themes:

1) how peoples' hidden desires and shames create psychological prisons that entrap their minds

2) what a nightmare it is trying to balance a busy social life and school or a part time job

Some dumb programming thing :(

And I think it’s actually worth engaging more, and more deeply, with art that moved you, after you find out the artist did something awful.

It’s worth understanding *why* you loved it. It’s easy to treat it as radioactive, to flatten it and flatten the artist.

You don’t have to hate art that moves you because the artist did something awful.

I think you have a responsibility not to provide them with further profits, while they live, but buying more art is not the same as being moved by art, gaining value from it.

The world isn’t divided into sinners and saints, and our brains seem to have as much trouble actually processing that as they do with very large numbers.

We say people are complex but we can’t actually deal with their complexity up close.

This is the same impulse that leads a lot of men to say they hate rapists and would kill any rapist they encountered, while being friends with rapists, or true crime podcast hosts to talk about murderers as monsters. (Brief thread)

The world needs more zines, so spread the word to the teens.

Free poetry zine-making workshop in #Winnipeg for ages 15-18!

Directory Dungeon - File Explorer Dungeon Crawler on Steam A tiny dungeon crawler played right in the windows file explorer. Explore a loot-filled dungeon by dragging and dropping your player folder into new rooms, equip powerful files, defeat terrible monste...

For more technical innovations, see:
store.steampowered.com/app/3333010/

Screenshot of an excerpt from the article in the previous post. Text reads: "[Disclosure: Prior to his election, the author was Councilor Green's DM in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.]"

But also, this may be one of the best conflict-of-interest statements ever?

After this year's rewatch, my new theory is that Phil didn't need to become a better person and arrange a perfect day with Rita, he just needed to buy a whole bunch of insurance from Needlenose Ned.

He could have got out of the loop on day one.

This is not a drill, we have a launch date!!!

Screen shot of a story and link from Hacker News that reads "Bunny Database"

The rage and disappointment I experienced when this wasn't a link to a database of cute rabbits...

I'm going to spend the next few days squashing any other bugs I find and probably do another small release on the weekend!

woah that pic was much bigger than I was expecting...

Delve 0.5.2 is up! I fixed a couple of bugs but the main reason for this release is the ability to remap keybindings for players without the refined taste to appreciate vi-style movement keys...

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