beasts were a fun entry point but now I want to do the expected plant stuff

added them in as one of the "act paths" available to anyone, which I'm thinking can function as ways to establish the atmospheric texture of the world as well -- the Beasts are about hordes of tough units, gaining food, enhancing allied armies, and destroying your own cities

thinking about "beasts" as ancient illustrations, in anti-taxonomy, inchoate form or as the fervent aspect of Life

when your life is vitalized by the invati 248 times

Rightsizing my team of monkeys due to rising typewriter costs and sunsetting Hamlet at Act I Scene II

some poison vibes

more UI work, clicking to move along a path

A new dev I’ve been following just put this out in early access, it’s got really cool science-fantasy sensibilities and is a fully traditional roguelike for anyone interested. The speed at which they work is also very inspirational

some writing about the king

another struggler build, fighting the nightbeasts

I recently saw someone try to make the "if a game is good, it'll find an audience" argument the other day and I've been mad about it since. Success is never guaranteed. You can do everything you can to improve your chances, but I wish more people recognized that quality work ≠ guaranteed audience.

Wasteland Sea #wasteland #ocean #illustration #pencils #crayola #TheLongNight #DwarfFortress

color work is so fun. if color theory works for you, good- but i personally think it's boring + dogmatic. just grab the hue slider + try things. sample colors from old degraded movies. study the palettes in your favorite art.

"Viryonic strugglers I met among their sword-shrines, in the windy hills, whose tasseled greatblades raised together form the partial rainbow — warriors to the last, they strive closest to my forgetful heart, hunting that which hunts everything."

@ulfsire.bsky.social Much appreciated, though i took a couple breaks from the grind. Most completed on cycle 32, but inevitably ran into walls on some that didn't scale well (or that I couldn't understand). Pugilism, Crystalform (and what it was before that, i forget), and ___ Secutor of Yu 1/2

added the option to place units, so you can make your own formations. I was resistant to adding this for a while because it felt like potential micromanagement but as I play it over and over it feels like unignorably what the game wants

a somewhat on-flavor readout of the enemy factions that still need to be bested (and, sometimes importantly, their general location)

kind of a cool output here

some more description

thinking about the Irga again, who began as truly just a random sprite for the early levels

collecting the feathers

perhaps more important than victory

he's back

trying to align mechanics with flavor. This tugar-riding horde can beckon dozens of vassal-hordes that become independent players if I die. The combined sect is baghatar which is upgrades my units whenever I take empty land and provides some turkic unity

almost a game now

taking more notes this time so I can actually remember what went into it

Is it me or is this name staring back?

the special name generator for these guys got messed up

raising the baghatic wind

taking photos of asphalt to make gem like texture

hoping to honor him with a new poem...

this rat's claim to fame is unfortunately killing his own allies

I felt it spinning, I smelled the flowing iron of blood dancing over the battlefield. It wasn’t the nothingness of a dream. I don’t know how it changed. There was a wheel of rainbow light. There was a final mountain. There was a smoke-ridden sea from which giant voices called out

A Gawr'ain with Lughra followers battling the Valr, in a mountain

spawning in with the neutrals now and can act as something for the active forces to pursue, will be random of course with sometimes deadly combinations like this

immediate design work now is spewing out tons of items, recolors and whatnot, so that varied pools can be connected to the neutral enemies

working on neutral forces and their minions

We dont care about the GDC "Festival of Gaming" or its new focus on "B2B investment opportunities". We serve the punks, the indies, the artists, and all the marginalized ppl working in games. Slug World runs outside GDC again this year.

excited to do more of the icons as it's viscerally rewarding (for me) when they show up here haha

this is still the cleanest fucking character model I’ve ever made. I was cooking with this fox

contemplating the red wind

Very excited for this: @unormal.bsky.social and I will be on a panel at Coding Medieval Worlds 6, a workshop bringing historians and game devs together all virtual, Feb 21st and 22nd

the long frame-poems I've been posting can now get chopped up and associated with unit flavor text which is very soothing to do

more of the narrative hover

A shoddy demo of Cyclopean II is up on Steam as I prepare for Next Fest. #NextFest #CRPG #Retrogaming store.steampowered.com/news/app/399...

when your attack is attuned by the jul'kelen of a chelnaq 5 times

overtaking a ruined city

he goes in front