Give me your best advice on re-factoring code. #GameDev #Refactor #Programming

All things considered, this was the best think to come out of having had a Google+ account...

I am working on some building interiors and such for Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands. Still in love with this CGA palette ... #CRPG #CGA #RETROGAMING

A lot of the time I end up doing a very poor sketch, scanning it, and then using the smudge tool to just push colors around until I start to like it. I think I just like the smudge tool and that gets me motivated to work on things... #PixelArt #Drawing

Hey, check out my game Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. It is in the top 100 games at IndieDB, and has a shot at Indie of the Year! #CRPG #Lovecraft #Indie #GameDev #TurnBasedThursday You can still vote for it here (2 days left) www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...

I am working on changing some of the small ways in which Cyclopean II works, as compared with the original. Now enemy portraits will appear on screen, even in the overworld, where enemy icons are tiny otherwise. #CRPG #Gamedev #Lovecraft #Dreamlands store.steampowered.com/news/app/399...

What's this? Gushing about my game? Sign me up!

Introducing the Voonith, a large and terrible amphibian that inhabits some of the lakes and rivers of the Dreamlands. Cyclopean II will have a bunch of new creatures and this the first new one I am adding... #Lovecraft #Dreamlands #CRPG

Can you do better than my ten year old daughter? Play Cyclopean: The Great Abyss today and find out! #Lovecraft #RPG #Gamedev youtu.be/z9vyg4hpJ2c

I regret to inform you that Cyclopean: The Great Abyss, has made the top 100 in Indie of the Year. As such, I'm now obligated to continuously request votes for the next 8 days. I wish it were not the case, but these are the rules... #IndieoftheYear #CRPG #Lovecraft www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...

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Amazing news! "Cyclopean: The Great Abyss" has made it into the top 100 Indie games on IndieDB! You can vote again to make sure it beats all these other games :) #Top100 #IndieoftheYear #GameDev www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...

The problem (as I see it) with LLMs and such, is that it works both ways. Yes, you can prompt it to write (theoretically) an amazing paper. But the reader can also use it to break your amazing paper down into a summary. So, if we follow this path, no one is writing, and no one is reading anymore.

There is still some work to do on the overworld, but I have started making some of the cities for Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands. I am hoping to have 2 cities and one dungeon ready for the Next Fest Demo in February... Here is a ruined brick village for your viewing pleasure. #GameDev #Demo #CRPG

It's working! Cyclopean: The Great Abyss has reached the #5 spot on IndieDB :) #IndieoftheYear #Indie #GameDev www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...

IndieDB is one of the few places where relatively small games like mine actually stand a chance of rising to the top. I am here, once again, to formally ask you to vote "Cyclopean: The Great Abyss" for Indie of the Year. #Indie #IndieGames #Vote #SoloDev #GameDev www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...

I cannot express how much I love the CGA palette...

I wrote this short article about Lovecraft’s work and it’s unique relationship with video games. Something I have always been interested in over the years… #lovecraft #videogames #article www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...

I wrote this short article about Lovecraft’s work and it’s unique relation ship with video games. Something I have always been interested in over the years… #lovecraft #videogames #article www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...

Just three days left to vote for Indie of the Year at IndieDB! If you like, you could consider voting for my game, Cyclopean: The Great Abyss! #IndieDB #IndieoftheYear #CRPG #Lovecraft #Cats #Ghouls #Ghasts #Gugs #Dreamlands www.indiedb.com/games/cyclop...

My six year old son just encountered the existence of the spork, and all that it implies...

I am starting to fill in some of the content in the northern part of the Dreamlands. I will do another pass after all the cities and dungeons are done, but this is roughly what the game will look like. #CRPG #TurnBasedThursday #Lovecraft store.steampowered.com/app/3998510/...

Cyclopean: The Great Abyss reaches 100 reviews! I actually missed the event itself, as a few came in over the last day or so. #GameDev #CRPG #Lovecraft #Steam #Reviews

All the main land masses are in place, so I'm adding some more details to the map now, this part is fun. #GameDev #LevelDesign #CRPG #Lovecraft

Someone's been playing my games! These are two older projects, I hope they stand the test of time...

I managed to reproduce and fix a big bug that would erase people's games! What a nightmare, it's like the capital offence of game development. Luckily it only effected a small group of people. I also nerfed Nets a bit... #Gamedev #TurnBasedThursday #CRPG store.steampowered.com/news/app/295...

Just uploaded an update with a ton of bug fixes for Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. #GameDev #CRPG #Lovecraft store.steampowered.com/news/app/295...

Re-sharing for #ScreenshotSaturday

I inherently distrust any talk of “retention” “engagement” and “monetization” when it comes to games. This does not mean I think games should be free or boring, its just the business jargon that bothers me.

For #TurnBasedThursday I am sharing a first attempt at a cloudy edge for my Dreamlands map. #GameDev #CRPG #Dreamlands store.steampowered.com/app/3998510/...

Critiques of Bethesda's Fallout 4 update seem entirely legitimate. Why force an update on a 10 year old game, breaking mods that people have been using in the process, when you could just make Elder Scrolls 6? twistedvoxel.com/fallout-4-an...

I am excited to announce that Islands of the Caliph is now bundled with Heroes of the Seven Islands, in the "Island RPG Bundle!" If you already have one game, you can get the discount on the other. #Discount #Bundle #Sale store.steampowered.com/bundle/61087...

Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands is the much anticipated follow up to Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. An old school CRPG in the vein of Ultima, Questron and Legacy of the Ancients, based on H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle. #PitchYaGame #CRPG #Lovecraft store.steampowered.com/app/3998510/...

Wishlist Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands! Maybe I will produce some more finished looking screenshots in the near future. The level design process is filled with weird little artifacts, that I am too tired to explain. #TurnBasedThursday #GameDev #CRPG store.steampowered.com/app/3998510/...

Updated Aberration Analyst. The game's Rolodex system did not have any on-screen indication of how to scroll through team members. I've added a couple buttons, but you can still use the mouse scroll wheel to do it. #GameDesign #UIdesign #UXDesign store.steampowered.com/news/app/172...

This is starting to feel like a world ready to explore. It's a tedious process to build, but the pay off is nice. Still it's just very basic areas, with very few details... #GameDev #CRPG #Lovecraft #Dreamlands

This is what I would call a "first pass" at a new area. I plan to come back and add details, maybe move things around a bit. But all the main elements are there... #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev #CRPG #Lovecraft #Dreamlands

Very cool art-style on this one... #PixelArt #GameDev #RetroGaming youtu.be/2p0pE9RHFKg?...

I have had a productive few days. I re-designed my whole map to be much more contained. So now when I think about adding all the details, I don't get totally overwhelmed. Speaking of which, here is an area I've been working on... #GameDev #CRPG #Lovecraftian

This may not look like much, but to me it represents a breakthrough. I've been busting my head against making this overworld map for days, and I kept getting stuck. A game design stumbling block thread 🧵 #GameDev #GameDesign #LevelDesign

Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is fortunate to have been included in Roguelike Fest on Steam! It is categorized, appropriately, under "Weird Stuff" just where I like to be :) #Roguelike #RPG #Lovecraftian

Starting to smooth out and add detail to the world map. It's still super rough, but you can see some progress between the different areas, some still being in the blocked out phase... #GameDev

@duskdev.bsky.social Congrats on getting mentioned here! bsky.app/profile/pcga...

Ah, none of my games are on here ... maybe next year! Right?

Testing one of the new areas in-game. Making sure things like collisions work. It's important to do this early before adding a ton of detail, as that can require a lot of re-doing if it is not prepared properly. #GameDev #LevelDesign #CRPG

Making a lot more progress on Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands today. I think I should add some more variation to the height of these cliffs ... it's a little too uniform. #GameDev #LevelDesign #CRPG

At long last I am once again able to focus on Cyclopean II: The Dreamlands. Very little progress today, as I spent most of my time trying to figure out WHAT to work on. But now I am getting back into the rhythm... #GameDev #CRPG #Progress

I took down my request for Photoshop alternatives because I realized I have a lot of caveats and requirements I forgot to mention. I do appreciate all the good input I was getting! I will do my research and see what I can figure out. Thanks anyway :)

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I hear some very different opinions about how difficult my game is, and I think I am beginning to understand why. This is from a Steam discussion. I might be over simplifying it, but I think this may be at the heart of the problem. #GameHard #Difficulty #GameDesign