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Some kind of disaster man. He/Him/They/Them https://nitter.cf/t.co/68v1J454SB https://nitter.cf/t.co/t8l3gT2egj https://nitter.cf/t.co/I1gcVdZXO6

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I've been really liking Lies of P but this is a truly egregious piece of level design. The platform the red arrow is pointing to has a kill volume attached, causing instant death. This is made worse by the lit spot circled in green suggesting I should be trying to get there.
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As with humans it's mostly cops
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The nauseating vertigo of having to consider spending months porting years of work into a completely different context
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How can it possibly be legal for a company to retroactively add a "you owe us money for each time this server gets pinged. No you can't see how the server gets pinged" to a license??
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With advances in evolutionary algorithms butterfly technology will soon be so advanced that they can perfectly reproduce an owl. Owls will be completely obsolete.
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The Great Unknown problemmachine.wordpress.com…
The Great Unknown

The Great Unknown

I find randomness a fascinating topic. Core to many game designs, a hint of randomization can cause the possibility space to explode in many directions, create a sense of mystery and possibility, a…

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Wildfrost problemmachine.wordpress.com…
Wildfrost

Wildfrost

After Slay the Spire released into Early Access in 2017 and was one of the best-designed games ever made, a wave of roguelike deckbuilders inevitably followed. Most of these were, I would say, pret…

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Bound City DevBlog, April 2023 - Versions and Diversions problemmachine.wordpress.com…
Bound City DevBlog, April 2023 – Versions and Diversions

Bound City DevBlog, April 2023 – Versions and Diversions

Well, my assumption was that after finishing the demo, I’d be mostly taking the month away from Bound City to focus on other things. That didn’t happen so much for two reasons: First, the feedback …

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These “juicy” techniques are a channel for communication — beyond just conveying bombast and impact, they can convey whatever the designer wishes problemmachine.wordpress.com…
Juice, Crunch, and Clarity

Juice, Crunch, and Clarity

I recently saw this video explaining easy ways to make your game feel “juicy”. I don’t know if I’d heard this specific term used before, but it meant exactly what I would have assumed it to mean: A…

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