ok think im gonna leave off Demon King Chronicle for now. It's been really great, almost no complaints, but the difficulty curve feels like it's steepening (in an already pretty tough or grindy game) and I looked at the rest of the final dungeon and felt good about calling it lol.

new fable asking questions that've never been asked in video games before, like "what does being a hero mean to you" and "what if people in the world responded to your reputation"

i am really pleased with how the little battle system experiment turned out in this one :3

part of my issue is i want to make an rpg but i dont actually have any ideas more specific than that

I think one of the things that usually puts me off rpg maker dev is that the movement always feeks weird and glidy to me vs the snes games its ostensibly based on? Am i hallucinating this or is it true?

of the moral conundrums you will be presented with, as an adult, "stop buying these specific children's toys" is like. the easiest possible

there is no purer enjoyment than reading two chapters of some 100 year old fantasy book written in a semi poetic form

very interesting... i could be playing rpg maker games on my anbernic...

demon king chronicle's encounter system is really fucking coooooooooooooool glad im playing it!

Bruce Springsteen: “ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”

Los Angeles if the Metro had full signal priority

ff9 kinda feels like the dragon quest we have at home

nothing else is hitting, maybe i just need to steer into the saga train until i completely burn out of it lol

WARNING TO THE #FALLOUT COMMUNITY Allout Monte, writer on the Fallout Ashfall mod, is a literal nazi and should be avoided at all cost. @themodusfiles.bsky.social and @truevaultescapades.bsky.social if you could help spread the word that would be much appreciated.

i've contracted the hi-chew corporation to have my casket filled by one of these at the end of my funeral

I’ve been trying not to argue with people but you should see the things they say

Here's the thing, see. There are two types of narrative game. There's RPG and there's adventure game. That's it. Only the names are all wrong. RPG isn't RPG. It's second-person. You do this? Great. Now you do that. Adventure is the other kind. Third-person. You there! Do this! Now, do that! End of.

Announcement: STEAM DEMO OUT NOW! The early dungeons of Forbidden Solitaire are now open to those bold - or foolish - enough to explore them. How badly do you wish to live forever? 👁️🩸 👇👇👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... Please wishlist and share - thank you! #indiedev

Also just learnt that there's DLC coming soonish for Lunacid. It's 70%+ complete. My mind boggles at how MASSIVELY influential Fromsoft are now after decades of them being dismissed, to the point of Sony America having a grudge against them and considering them a shovelware studio.

Maybe ill play snes romsaga2 in japanese and just struggle through it this year

Ok what i was thinking about with this: youtu.be/0FNBH9P3Aes?...

I think the only thing that gets me to reliably enjoy a piece of media is if it feels like an artifact of some kind, like it’s somewhat forgotten, or it fits into some kind of meta narrative about the people who made it, or its somehow inscrutable

second game of the new year: nun with a sword takes on the undead horde in a poison grave...yord you can play it in your browser. i made in 1 hour. it is possible to beat it tunditur-unda.itch.io/rpg2

Yeah, this game's too clever by half. Just as it's occurring to me that - unlike Pathologic 1/2 and their contiguous open world, this one is broken up into small regions - it drops this on me:

the bibles so funny like the original source of the old testament is clearly like some scholarly collection of a couple disparate texts for comparative analaysis and everyones like All True Word of God like lmao

hello, goblin path is now publicly available! tayl1r.itch.io/goblin-path bloggy post thing here: www.patreon.com/posts/147526...

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'

having a fun evening digging around this hellsite lmfao www.familyfriendlygaming.com/Reviews/2014...

frustrated by marty supreme, and surprised it seems to be getting the same response as uncut gems. where uncut gems was whittled down to a needlepoint, all parts working toward one thing, marty felt like a bunch of (admittedly well done) plotlines mushed together without much thought

if weed was legal in the US in 2002 the release of unlimited saga would have been the defining game of the last 30 years

fake-ass monday

need a love de lic legacy graph but in reverse for ffxii

Maybe i should start reading an hour in the mornings on days i dont bike

maybe next year i'll go back through and replay the whole saga series, see how that changes my perspectives. i'd probably try to do a different version or main character or something to keep it new feeling. like i'd do the romsaga 2 remaster instead of the remake, i'd do romsaga 1 snes and

unlimtied saga, like everythings else, is just wizardry again

aint nobody want to landscape game on their phone

Yay, Angeline Era is Overwhelmingly Positive (& 88 meta!)! It'd be a great subject for a design video essay. 3 possible topics (details in alt) 1. How beating levels changes the overworld 2. Combat Room shape & the secrets of Eye Gates 3. Positioning-focused bosses store.steampowered.com/app/2393920

wat da fuck kawazu was the brains behind the crystal chronicles series too? very strange

Pathologic 3 is out tomorrow - I'm very confident that this one is going to be a gem, given that the two (very different) demos were both equally excellent. Also a perfectly fine place for people to start. It's one third of a three-parallel-part remake of the original Pathologic.

ok i should make an unlimited saga thread i guess, not starting yet just can't stop thinking about it

🔗 ko-fi.com/post/Adrift-... Little track I made a couple of months ago for my friend @sterliewrites.bsky.social and his world of Vagrants, of which I'm very fond of. This is a totally harmless piece and it involves no evil sea women. #originalmusic #fantasy #dtm

My next project is shaping up nicely! Unlike Scarmonde, it has a MUCH higher focus on its characters and their interactions. Creating, testing, and editing a dialogue-heavy game definitely has its own set of challenges! But there IS progress happening! 👏

FFXII menu UI appreciation post

roguelike movement question: some games let you move freely along diagonals, and others restrict it when going in or out of corridors. what are your feelings about these options? (i'd also love to hear any out of the box opinions- nonsquare grid fetishists, you are welcome here.)

metroid prime making me remember i don't really like hard/chaotic action games

first game of the new year: a short dungeon crawler about knives, stabbing, etc. you can play it in your browser. i made in 1 hour. it is possible to beat it https://tunditur-unda.itch.io/bbkf

oh shit is comboing manual in unlimited saga? interestignggnggngnggnggngngngngngnngngngnngngngngnng

The studio announced it had formed a union, joining CWA Canada, mere weeks ago.