New Succession dev blog, discussing recent changes to Adventurer Attributes & Equipment lostarcana.net/games/succes...

Gotta love how Facebook's all "I'm going to only show you the Most Relevant™ comments!" then it shows you every comment which is just someone you don't know tagging their friend you also don't know and hides every comment which contains actual text content a real person wrote.

So when Blizz inevitably comes out with Hardcore WotLK Classic, will rolling a DK just make you immediately fail as soon as you log in for the first time? After all, your character died.

Succession dev blog update: lostarcana.net/games/succes...

New Succession dev blog - just a short update regarding what I'm currently working on: Boss encounter design/generation! lostarcana.net/games/succes...

Weird af that when Americans couldn't find Wally they gifted him half of Cluedo as if a longer name would make him easier to see.

In the last 12 hours my Twitter feed seems to have decided it's now an "indie game devs I've never seen before posting about their WIP" feed. I wish there was a way to make it stay like this (or at least 80-90% like this) forever, because I love it.

Succession is an in-development strategy game drawing inspiration from XCOM, World of Warcraft, and Rolemaster. First dev blog is up now. lostarcana.net/games/succes...

New coat of paint for the ol' digs

The problem with any Avatar sequel series is always going to be that, by definition, many of our favourite characters aren't in it... so even in a best-case scenario it's bittersweet because of missing the gaang.

Me at home: "I couldn't possibly take the clean laundry out of the laundry basket and put it away, then where would the neighbour's cat sleep?"

It is Sunday, and for me that means two things: 1: Visiting open homes. 2:

Good software QA is so important. So, so important. I wish like crazy my company would hire people with brains to do it, instead of complete incompetents with no capacity for curiosity or critical thinking; it would save so much time and make us look much better in UAT.

Felt this Mage: The Awakening character concept deserved to be seen here as well.

If the witch was Hansel and Gretel's secret birth mother, would that make her house an oedible complex?

I don't really understand why so many people are flipping out over an Oblivion remake. I mean, yes, it's very pretty... but it's still Oblivion, isn't it? That RPG where the entire world gets stronger at you because you improved your lock picking?

Now just to be clear... this is, in fact, the official White House Twitter account saying the quiet part out very loud. Well, quacking it anyway.

(Replaying Duke Nukem 3D) They just don't make 'em like this any more. ...which is really kind of a mixed bag.

@clareblackwood.bsky.social This checks out tbh

I really am very grateful to the people I follow who work in game dev for being so open about the state of the industry. It's always been my dream (and still is) to make a living by making games, but working in that nightmare would have destroyed me by now. You guys saved me from that. Thank you.

Guess I'm not on Twitter any more because it force-logged me out and now won't recognise my username. Broken-ass garbage website.

This. LLMs just give you something that has the form of a statistically plausible response to your input. They work on resemblance, not content. That's why they hallucinate. If you ask for an address, they won't (can't) look it up; they'll just give you output that looks like a plausible address.

Haven't played a lot of @civgame.bsky.social yet, but imo people are being unreasonably harsh on it. Every Civ has been a bit rocky at launch, but the ideas in 7 are SPECTACULAR. The ages, civs, crises, city layout, diplomacy, independent powers... Design wise it rates the same as this good boi

Actually the real Gulf of America is what's inside the skulls of Trump supporters.

So many mobile game ads are "look how easy our game is! A drunk monkey could beat this game! But the monkey's standards are too high so the inputs you see here were generated by a brain-damaged goldfish headbutting its tank." I've never figured out how they think that shit's going to make me play.

True story, yesterday I showed this to my partner who has a PhD in Chemistry and I can confirm that it did in fact annoy her.

If I was responsible for coming up with a Devil May Cry spinoff, I can't decide whether I'd call it "Cry, Devil May", "Devil May Laugh", "Devil June Cry", or "Devil McCryingFace"

Americans will literally make up an imaginary guy you're doing better than to get out of feeding or housing the homeless.

- Open D4 for the first time in months - Leave town to kill some shit - Can't cast anything, all spells are greyed out for no apparent reason - "Maybe I have to do this purple quest it's forced me onto before I can play?" - Go to quest - It changes all my skills - Super expensive to spec back WTF

Weird seeing all the people who have been dumping on everything the MCU does for the last 5 years absolutely losing their shit at a fucking Superman trailer, of all things. SUPERMAN. As if he wasn't the single most boring superhero in existence.

Apropos of nothing, just thinking about the French Revolution, where famously they stopped using the guillotine after the first time because once was enough to get their point across and convince the rich assholes oppressing them to see reason and stop screwing everyone over.

I think my problem rn is that I have an idea of what I want to make, but not where to start. This makes it overwhelming, because I'm not starting on _a task_, I'm starting on _the entire project_. I need to break it down into manageable milestones. But I don't know where to start with that either.

DAMMIT

Downloaded @godotengine.org just so I can sit here staring at this screen

There's something tangibly scummy about leaving a game console-exclusive for a decade or more before FINALLY porting it to PC, then pricing the PC version as if it was a brand new AAA game.

I mourn the death of the Whackjob Conspiracy Theory industry. We used to get "here's who really killed JFK" - now we get "here's why Blizzard really nerfed my class"

WF Raiders: *have to run a super degen comp to kill a mythic boss week 1 while heavily undergeared* People on Twitter: ffs blizz, can't believe this comp is REQUIRED to kill the boss, such bad design I get that 99% of Twitter is brainless, but it is sad to see this from people I wanted to respect.

The only thing worse than a meeting which could have been an email is a meeting which already WAS an email, but nobody read it.

Sylvanas: "I WILL NEVER SERVE" Restaurant Owner: "...Let her cook."

I have been playing the remaster of Riven for not quite 15 minutes... and I am stuck. This is just like old times <3

I am but a little kitty. In a big city.

The Google Play Store really needs a button on app listings for "I did not intend to click this ad, it either opened automatically or had a fake 'x'." Then app owners should be automatically notified if a disproportionate amount of their click-throughs are flagged as fake.

Anyone whose Steam review for an _early access_ game boils down to "This is a good idea and a cool game and has things I really like but is buggy and unfinished so DO NOT RECOMMEND" should have their internet privileges revoked.

Where did 1am come from I don't understand all I did was open Stellaris

Hot take: Gamers who think AAA games should still cost the same as they did in the '90s don't deserve new games. Even if inflation was the only factor (it's not, the actual resources going into AAA have increased massively as well) they should still cost twice as much just like everything else does

Far as I can tell, the whole "x job isn't dev" argument is about 40/80 between legitimate confusion caused by the fact that the term is used differently in different industries and people just being assholes. Yes, 40+80 > 100. This is because people can be both confused AND assholes.

Oof, those are much better than mine.

The weirdest thing to me about social media is when someone posts something very clever & insightful so I follow them, only to find that half their posts are brilliant and the other half make me want to slap them. I keep thinking "should I just unfollow?" but then they swing back the other way.