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The Affinity system was created as a way to solve an issue found with early GODBOX playtests. After spending some time optimizing their unit's code, players would often sit and watch the simulation run at five-time speed. There was not enough moment-to-moment gameplay, and player
HOW MANY FOLK DOES IT TAKE TO BREAK THE GODBOX MOVEMENT SYSTEM? This week I took some time to fix the previously very buggy movement system! Check out this short showing me stress testing the new and improved system. (Apologies. Steam doesn't let me insert youtube shorts. Grrr) D
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If you've kept up with these Dev Logs, you'll know the Tartarus build revealed some issues with moment to moment gameplay. Players would simply spend a good while optimizing their code, and then sitting back watching the simulation run in five time speed for the rest of the playt
In the previous couple of weeks, I have been reworking the way players have access to blocks. Now, players will need to purchase blocks, giving them some smaller goals to work towards, as well as a different level of strategy to interact with (like which block to buy, and when).
This week I completed a significant milestone: build Tartarus (named by Discord community member Lord Void). This build was a long time coming. Its main purpose is to test out the feasibility of the "rival deities" concept as a core game mechanic. Both the idea of competing with
As a developer, I have seen conventional wisdom swing back and forth between "make small games", and "make big games". This framing of scope as size has never been useful to me. What has helped me in the past as an artist is to think about scope in terms of ambition. The useful q