Bill Dusch

Actions in my game are small things you can do like scanning moments in time to discover them, suppressing a lead so you don't have to worry about it expiring, etc.

I added an action queue visualizing where and what actions you did and allowed the user to undo the action.

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Some updated screens from my game after work with my artist (there's still placeholders granted, but we got the UI renovated)

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"Player making decisions", Chapter 23: Behaviourism

This chapter was surprisingly good!
(spoiler alert: book gets better from here)

This chapter explains how different reward pattern affect player engagement, on a example we all love: coin pusher

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Folklands, Dec '23

Folklands, Dec '25

Sometimes you have to take a step back and just realize how much your game can improve if you just keep working on it.

These shots are two years apart.

Keep at it.

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Calling all #indiedev folks out there to drop your games for another #showcasethursday! Let's boost visibility, repost, and most importantly, wishlist each other's games!

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Really excited to be working with an artist to figure out the art direction of my time travel turn based strategy game!

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Lavos is coming! 😱

- Chrono Trigger (SNES)

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Day 44 of my RPG quest to get 1000 subscribers Watch this in your inventory.

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I'm honoured to be officially hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday! 🥳

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I gotcha. I just thought it was good experience for me to learn a new skill (marketing)

I tried it out. Really fun!

Totally reasonable. It's as competitive as e-commerce of course!

The master course cost $400 but highly recommend it (it's a one time purchase) - earlier is better to know all the phases of marketing.

Check out howtomarketagame.com (I am taking the master wishlist course). It's the number to get on upcoming. You would need about 30k or so to appear on "real steam" to reach the recent thresholds to stop being filtered out of the recommendation engines.

Right now it'd be getting up to 7000 wishlists based on steam threshold metrics

Sweet

Also the code inside is C++ but obviously isn't limited to that

First two patterns are general patterns from the gang of 4 but they can be used a lot. Command pattern in strategy games with undo (and I realized I am using it for my quick action system in my game) and Observer pattern is just signals in GDScript or events in C#

I mean when it comes to multimodal, automatic alt text capabilities which I realized isn't built into this app yet

Game Programming Patterns by Robert Nystrom

Another book I am reading in the more technical space. I already have a pretty solid programming background but this is nice to know how software patterns can be specific to in terms of gaming.

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Yup, absolutely!

That looks fun. I'll get it.

I think this book covers the emotional aspects first, actually. Mechanics is only one element.

Godot - my python background from my ML Engineer background meshed with GDScript really well, and I deliberately chose it to be 2D for simplicity (although it's very UI heavy but Godot makes that simple with its WYSWYG editor and signals).

Right now I am making a time travel turn-based strategy game. I've made RPGs when I was younger with RPG Maker, but I've just gotten so far with this and been really enjoying building the systems in it.

I like it too! (I mean I come from a physics background and all) - this is just a nice change in pace.

End of the chapter had the final definition of a game being "A game is a problem solving activity, approached with a playful attitude."

Honestly the way the book is written itself seems... playful in the sense that it is written? It's different from a technical book for sure.

It's tickling a different part of my brain. Just got to the definition of play which gives a number of approaches but settles on "Play is manipulation that indulges curiosity" which explains my approach to game development in the first place (new experiences for me)