#Cogmind Beta 15 "0bPrime" is released!

The epic conclusion to the UFD expansion is here, bringing with it a major new map, 100 new items, and Cogmind's 10th unique ending!

Full release notes and demo images: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/722730/view/520838311548289252
#roguelike #roguelikedev

Tomorrow the Plexion and MTF are hosting a "Botcube Brawl" tournament for #Cogmind players, pitting player-created builds against one another in fights to the death through a 32-player bracket. Gonna be fun! Stream time and competition details here: https://www.gridsagegames.com/forums/index.php?topic=1772.0

Nachdem ich mich in #CaveOfQud verliebt habe, wurde mir mal wieder klar, dass mich Indiespiele dieser Art mehr fesseln als diese AAA-Blockbuster, die zwar funkeln wie eine Discokugel, aber weniger Tiefgang haben als eine Debatte im Bundestag. Nachdem ich #Cogmind jetzt bei einem Kumpel gesehen habe, musste ich das natürlich auch direkt noch haben. Obwohl beide Spiele so unterschiedlich sind wie Tag und Nacht, ist jedes von ihnen ein Meisterwerk – ob nun in der ASCII-Ästhetik oder der liebevollen #PixelArt. Sie erinnern mich an die Nächte, die ich in NetHack verbracht habe. Schade, dass ich meist nur im Urlaub dazu komme, solche Perlen für mich zu entdecken. Gibt’s hier noch jemanden, der sich in MUDs wie Aardwolf verirrt? #gaming #roguelike

#Cogmind Beta 14 "United Federation of Derelicts" is released!

Huge expansion adds new faction with more robots, map areas and tons of new content including a 50% lore increase and more than 80 new items to build with.

Full release notes and demo images: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/722730/view/4353376861562155423
#roguelike #roguelikedev

#Cogmind and the Future of #Roguelikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b11EA6XW3w

#games

Great and thorough video on my personal favorite traditional roguelike: Cogmind (developed by @Kyzrati)

Dosh's video underlines the amazing design detail and accessibility put into Cogmind that you just don't find in older roguelikes from the 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b11EA6XW3w

#roguelike #cogmind #gaming #steam #indiedev #indiegame #solodev

#Cogmind Vision 2025: A look into the future at free expansions of this year and the next, featuring more maps, factions, and mechanics.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/722730/view/4213753858522073701
https://www.gridsagegames.com/forums/index.php?topic=1724.0

Pampered myself today and got #cogmind. Started a run, taking it slowly to understand how it works (there's plenty of things to master, but it's easy to play) and thought I would die sooner than later. But after an hour I'm three or fours level up and still going! Will hibernate until tomorrow. Wonderful and very straightforward traditional #roguelike

A preliminary look at usage stats from Cogmind's new interface features (map zooming and upscaled UI layouts): https://www.patreon.com/posts/100285693
#accessibility #cogmind

Now that Beta 13 is out, finally had time to go back and do some stats analysis on player-submitted runs from Beta 12: https://www.gridsagegames.com/forums/index.php?topic=205.msg10578#msg10578
#Cogmind

#Cogmind expansion, price increase coming soon!
https://www.gridsagegames.com/forums/index.php?topic=1712.0
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/722730/view/4109043267632264430

@Kyzrati The whole aesthetic of #Cogmind is beautiful.

Decided to finish my latest #Cogmind run on stream today. It got interesting, as usual :D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9armPEkp5I

#Cogmind Beta 13 "Zoom All The Things" is released!

Now with map zooming and multiple UI layout options for larger text/tiles! (Also a new map, new items, and new robots, but BIG TEXT!)

Full release notes and demo images: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/722730/view/4158581595047422071
#roguelike #roguelikedev

#Cogmind SITREP Saturday #55: "Upscaled Modal Interface" - Introducing our second new modal UI layout option: upscaled text/tiles while retaining a large map view. (Releasing next week!)

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/722730/view/4158581595050603129

#Cogmind SITREP Saturday #54: "Map Zoom QoL" - A summary of map zooming features, on top of the fully-upscaled UI layout introduced last week.
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/722730/view/6356337676018782780

In about 11.5 hours (Feb 12, 7:30 PM EST) I'll be streaming some #Cogmind playtesting with one of the new upscaled UI layouts that was recently completed: https://www.twitch.tv/kyzrati/

Design talk, new interface features, doing more with less...

#Cogmind SITREP Saturday #53: "Full UI Upscaling" - Last time I added map zooming, but what if you didn't need to zoom in because *EVERYTHING* is larger?!
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/722730/view/4015590568643280491

"Full UI Upscaling, Part 3: Dynamic Terminal Swapping" - Figuring out how to get #Cogmind's many 60-row ending animations to play nice with a 45-row terminal layout.
https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2024/01/full-ui-upscaling-part-3-dynamic-terminal-swapping/

Full UI Upscaling, Part 2: Holy Mockups! - Revisiting many of #Cogmind's windows to make adjustments enabling everything to fit into fewer rows for the semi-modal UI layout: https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2024/01/full-ui-upscaling-part-2-holy-mockups/