combining 3 of the morloch offshoots

importantly these can vivify the unlock messages

injured my back badly so getting caught up on the countless flavor-briefs

developing sects around random achra enemies; the taggla-worms are envisioned as fearful "psychic dandruff" of a greater being, now bestowed with followers and walking-forms

doing the final stretches of content design for what is needed at minimum for something played (by other people) --- here are some mystic salamanders of agara and a hobgoblin offshoot devoted to the bladed stone of bergzra, a mountain-dwelling child of dorok

Getting through it

need to make the game look at the most upgraded city so the end screen can have a line like presided over the ruby throne of matchless melnibone

Had a fervent dream about a card game and spent the weekend making it. Sent it off to be printed so it shall not be a distraction haha (this has happened before)

my current victory-causer, bearing a Skol-stone

Unfortunate urge to paper doll the equipment and fantasize how a game could use this

I hate AI. I hate how it's exasperated every creative industry's already tenuous path to stability. Artists have to grovel to prove their worth, while the machine that swallowed their creations insists on the artists' uselessness. How human dialogue and connection has been reduced to output.

found another older one, I like the idea that in Achra there are many Utnapishtims

been getting interested in the frame of translated aphorisms as a poem style

falciform...

just need to fill this out for sky/mind/cosmic as well

was alerted to the word "falciform" and got excited, in a way this is the totality of my output

want to have a number of these ages so the demo feels like it can be progressed through

When the abyss discarded the blind beasts of its depth in the drawing-back of itself, the folk were saved by Bagha and the caravan of heroes

This review may be better than the game itself. I will keep reading it to myself... #GameReview #CRPG #RETROGAMING

for an age of tyrant-priests

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

added some initial terrain variation for the ages, potential here for flavor-building

- the effort of simulating provides specious rhetorical cover for reproducing the ideology of past simulations TRUE

I’ve been striving to do this as well, one salient thing I’ve arrived at particularly with gen ai art / music / writing is the loss of specific authorship, how this removes it from the chain of being and erases discussion around the piece and thereby any possible emergent culture

more of these Ahric tablets (a record of the path of achra antagonist)

finally got a win, the first age is definitely too difficult. Had to mine Earthquake gems and combine it with death damage / kills raising the max life of my Frenzied One via the vimisic stones and later the teeth of eresh

performing the ritual weekend test

the old demons showing up again

arduously got in-progress game saves working, the ui lily must be gilded here of course

reanimation abilities require a suite of new sprites to generally represent the different bodies, notably "bodiless" which in this case is a kind of sphere of matter

Whereas path of achra had cycles of difficulty that were just stat increases, I’d like to do something more narrative with Lands, “ages” with dates attached and various mechanical enemy bonuses, each unlocking the other, hopefully to be a more flavorful thing to advance through

getting the final systems in place, save/load etc, want to set up some feats/achievements (in game) as well

I stole this from my discord. Thanks DiamondDestructe, never change.

good term. learned on shelved by genre: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_ri...

one more piece of the puzzle folks, it's all coming together...

giants and worms

just lost to these guys smdh

getting more "narrative" detail in here and able to hover over the units and stuff ------ this was a servant faction of hoplites spawned by the garnet city faction, that then became independent upon that faction's defeat and went on to worship Mehtar

more from this Ahra narrator

🙏

title screen randomly displays from those drawings I did a while ago, these ones made me happy lol

deep in the UI mines trying to make a passable end-game summary screen. I think it's the last real screen to make for the time being though

another tablet for the long weekend

Cover for Esca - Thalassophobia Out now, go check it out 👉: escaband.bandcamp.com/album/thalas...

once the starting options are squared up and well-fleshed it will be a good sign the demo is ready I think

from the tablet of ahra, throwing some color on the "gate of death"

not playable until these tabs are filled out a bit

I do this