@maize @renkotsuban depends on a lot of factors but ideally yes!

@sinvega fair!!

new game announcement: Tryhard is our upcoming sports RPG about managing an underdog rugby club in New Zealand! "wishlist now on steam" etc: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/

+ website: https://tryhardgame.com

+ idle in our discord: https://discord.gg/qRUZQQX5Tz

+ read our manifesto calling for new approaches to sports game design: https://grapefruitgames.com/sportslike/

+ blog post with our inspirations: https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/02/new-game-announcement-tryhard.html

(sorry for reposting, accidentally deleted the first one lol)

update: I downloaded and installed Cheat Engine and hacked my own save file to clean up the cursed items

and now I've been enjoying Dark Souls 2 again, I even beat this weird headless guy boss?

then I picked up the reward... and it was a stack of 500 greatsword+14s and now I'm cursed again fuck

since november ive been putting together a memorial to the martyrs of gaza. it is complete enough that i am sharing it with the world this afternoon. boosts welcome.

https://gaza.memorial/

it is a simple list of the names of the dead read aloud, bearing witness to their loss, acknowledging each one of them as a complete human being, a story cut short by ethnonationalist projects and empire, someone who deserved more.

Wrote about convergent evolution in game design, between Balatro 🃏 and Auto Chess ♟️ http://gangles.ca/2024/07/07/balatro-auto-chess/

honored to participate in “what’s on your bookshelf” series for RPS https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/whats-on-your-bookshelf-art-game-maker-and-level-design-expert-robert-yang

We have a sneak peek of our second studio game (being made in our own luxe engine) that was teased during the Summer Game Fest, announced as part of the Outersloth fund from the Among Us devs! The game takes place in the same universe and continues our story 👀

- View the teaser page for screenshots and some bonus detail http://mossfieldarchives.com
- See the live announcement from SGF here https://x.com/summergamefest/status/1799203342713033021
- Read more about Outersloth here http://outersloth.com

do any non-fromsoft soulslikes do my favorite trick where a random thing suddenly teleports you into the middle of a much more dangerous dungeon

I've quietly made my LayerProcGen framework public:
https://github.com/runevision/LayerProcGen

It's a framework (C#) that can be used to implement layer-based procedural generation that's infinite, deterministic and contextual.

Nobody else have tried/tested it yet - if you're up for taking it for a spin, let me know how it looks; what's clear or confusing, if you think there's low hanging fruit improvements I could make, etc.
#ProcGen

details for non-ds2 players:
- you can’t upgrade an item past +10
- invader hacker can generate and teleport a +14 item onto you
- the cursed number crashes the inventory menu, you can’t drop the item
- most devs would fix this… but DS2 codebase is a cursed abandoned ruin last updated in 2015

I’m tempted to keep going and try to finish it without opening the inventory ever again, which is possible… but it’s maybe more poetic to succumb to the curse and let this body decay into infinite ruin

was playing Dark Souls 2 and got invaded with hacked items

so now the inventory menu crashes the game, my account is shadow banned, and I have to delete the character

and it’s like a real curse, more interesting and powerful than any game lore or mechanic

thank you griefer for turning me to stone

Level Design Book update: comprehensive rewrite of "Cover" (for combat / stealth games) https://book.leveldesignbook.com/process/combat/cover

new blog post: On "Sudden Death" by Cecile Richard, nat_pussy, and isyourguy - a compelling queer sports romance story game https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2024/04/on-sudden-death-by-cecile-richard.html

level design book update: on the enemy design page (https://book.leveldesignbook.com/process/combat/enemy) I've added some nice doom enemy design diagrams from Matthias Worch's GDC 2014 talk "Meaningful Choice in Game and Level Design" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEF4GVNzkUw)

new blog post: design review of Botany Manor https://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2024/04/design-review-botany-manor-as-quiet.html

new little web game made on my phone: “let’s look at javier bardem” https://downpour.games/~radiatoryang/let-s-look-at-javier-bardem

it’s been fun trying to figure out how to do basic image edits on my phone… I feel like a teenager

made a little web game on my phone with Downpour: “where’s the beef 2!!” https://downpour.games/~radiatoryang/where-s-the-beef-2