#with the new systems and developments in the game

[mimiyanna]

Stealing this image from twitter and bringing it over here, because holy shit, some of the clowns I have been seeing talk about the game lately.

[ruvviks]

PLEASE DO NOT TAG AS YOUR OWN OC OR PAIRING.

Nathan and Ruben share a bond more powerful than most; mutual understanding through past experiences no one should ever have to go through, and through past actions so horrible they cannot be spoken of. Their grief and the blood on their hands binds them to the STEM technology they created, which has alienated them from the rest of the world— but they give each other the comfort they have both longed for so desperately for years, and that is all they need. They are each other's counterpart; you cannot imagine one without the other, like two sides of the same coin. Through their pain, their grief, their desire, and their regret, they have become one.

anna akhmatova, the guest // bones; equinox // 'i won't become' by kim jakobsson // agustín gómez-arcos, the carnivorous lamb // by oxy // achilles come down; gang of youths // czeslaw milosz, from 'new and collected poems: 1931-2001' // 'extended ambience portrait from a resonant biostructure' and 'migraine tenfold times ten' by daniel vega // a little death; the neighbourhood // marina tsvetaeva, from 'poem of the end' // by drummnist // katie maria, winter // 'nocturne in black and gold the falling rocket' by james abbott mcneill whistler // micah nemerever, these violent delights // body language; we are fury // 'the penitent' by emil melmoth // chelsea dingman, from 'of those who can't afford to be gentle'

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@shellibisshe, @florbelles, @ncytiri, @hibernationsuit, @stars-of-the-heart;

@lestatlioncunt, @katsigian, @radioactiveshitstorm, @estevnys, @adelaidedrubman;

@celticwoman, @rindemption, @carlosoliveiraa, @noirapocalypto, @dickytwister;

@killerspinal, @euryalex, @ri-a-rose, @velocitic, @thedeadthree

[silver-horse]

as much as I am enjoying Kingdom Come Deliverance, I am losing my patience with it a lil bit because of the save system. The game doesn't allow me to save whenever i want to like most RPGs, I need to gather these "saving schnapps" and there aren't many/enough so i don't want to waste them. But this means whenever I get attacked on the road and die, I lose entire hours of progress. This is bullshit tbh. Since I started this game, most quests I had to do 2-3 times... just redoing every dialogue etc. If this continues , completing this game will take a million hours. Maybe I will have to regularly quit the game and restart, just because at least it saves when we quit the game.

[chibishortdev]

Mapping is pretty tedious… I’ve made a little floor plan to make it a bit easier, but it’s far from final. Likely will have some downsizing done to it.

Having this in the program itself is fun because I can set the starting point in this at any time and test how nicely each of these rooms flow together. It’s also pretty surreal since it’s all placeholder tiles, smaller scale, and no separation between rooms.

Hmm I already see a couple things I want to change about it—

[zincbot]

spoke too soon abt the ttrpg dog in me being smaller these days because if i don't play a game in the next 1 second i'm going to eat probability

[ellraiser]

Hey! I am absolutely IN LOVE with Mudborne. I played the first demo but I think I'm gonna reinstall it to see the new demo. I LOVED Apico, and I think I'm really gonna enjoy Mudborne. I can't wait till it comes out!

Thank you so much! Lots have changed since that first gamejam version, the new demo is much closer to what the game will be like - albeit a little bit information overload in some parts just so I can show off all the main mechanics in one go The starting region of the full game is what the demo is loosely based off but it'll be a bit more slower paced and handholdy before it then kicks you on your slimy butt and tells you to go work out the rest!

[bigboobshaunt]

Finished RER2! I'm happy I finally got to the end, after stopping late into it the first time I played it.

I find it and its predecessor to be really underrated, especially in the story department. It doesn't help that they never developed the massive bombshell that they dropped in the stinger to the true ending, and seeing how 7+8 turned out... I don't think they ever will, and that bums me out.

[mystybelle]

shameful shilling mystybelle here to feign shilling sans shame so salicuously she succeeds in selling her sauce to the supreme sight of the masses -

HI Do you Roleplay? Do you RP with mixed company sometimes, and get worried about fairness?

You should try World Seed! It's a set of rules, or SRD, that'll make it a lot faster to start playing! I made it myself, so it can actually fit any setting, and get up and running really quickly.

If you're insane, you can even use it as a starting outline for a full pen and paper game of your own, or as the basis of a template for a video game design document! It uses the GNU GPLv3 (a better version of D&D's OGL if you know what that is), so as long you share a raw copy of World Seed SRD alongside your work, you can share/edit/sell it or anything you make with it freely!

World Seed, at its core, is built as an immersive sim system, so all of it's rules are simple, and function best when the only thing you need it for is deciding how an interaction resolves when everyone is unclear. So it can handle anything you add to it!

[chronurgy]

I know I know clown nose clown shoes honk honk but da4 getting a name change and confirmation of another villain just days after I posted about how the name made me worried about the game being overly Solas focused is just.... Damn I cannot stop winning

[the-maladjustedjester]

The inherent eroticism between a condemned and their executioner

[fanfictionwritterwannabe]

my dude you said can of worms.

The thresher Maw is a big ass worm with anger issues.

yeah

[boundless-ut]

For this week's smaller update, a look at how the dev environment has changed! I figured out a method for making skyboxes I like and made the environment look a bit more unified, just to have something nicer to look at while I work. A few new objects have also appeared to test and develop several systems. It's unfortunately a lot of code based work and not a lot of visual based updates to show off.

[darkstarcore]

“I’m the greatest programmer ever” to “stupidest coding bug known to man” pipeline

[ellraiser]

i was wondering if you have any input on how you put together the item display hud in apico (gamemaker)? i'm also using gamemaker and i'm having trouble figuring it out... i'm trying to make the the hud background draw behind the data it displays... the only way i can think to do it, i would have to get the sizes of every data entry before drawing them to the screen, which seems really crude! i hope that makes sense

Hello! So for menus in APICO, they're made up of two different objects - there's the main menu object, which stores a position in the world, and any menu data (like say progress for machines) Then there's a slot object that stores the actual item+count in the slot. For each menu I have a definition file with a layout for the slots. So for example, the sawbench, which takes in logs and you 'chop' them into planks or sticks, has a definition like this:

Each slot has a position in the "layout" section - which is the offset x/y from the top-left of the menu. When I create a menu object, I read the definition and for each slot in the layout I make a slot object, stored in a list on the 'parent' menu. Whenever the menu gets moved in the world (either by opening it or the player dragging it around), I update the slot positions in the world too, i.e. menu.x + slot.ox - that way they always stay in the right position. I do the same stuff for any UI too, buttons or mechanicsm, each just has a relative x/y pos and I update them when the menu x/y changes.

For drawing, the slots have no draw event at all - instead the menu draw event first draws the menu, then draws each of the slots in it's slot list, this way you get the bg first then the foreground 'slots'. Each of the menus in APICO is a seperate sprite - it didn't use 9 slices (at the time when APICO was made GM didnt have this)

However in later games where I did use 9 slices, I just store the height/width of the menu in the definition too, and read that to use for drawing. For collision, using a specific sprite makes it 'easier' as gamemaker then has the right boundary box, if you use 9slices you have to mess with a couple of the standard properties to make the boundary box match the drawn height/width.

Because the menu + the slots are both objects/instances, it makes it easy for checking whats highlighted/clicked, so I literally just have like mouse left/right events on the slot object itself. When the menu is closed I can also deactivate any related slots, and reactivate them when the menu is opened. After APICO I stopped using GameMaker for a bunch of reasons, but in the new framework (LÖVE) I basically do the same thing - a menu class and a slot class, each menu having a definition with it's height/width + a layout of all of it's 'child' slots, all created as instances.

[awkward-teabag]

You know what, I'm going to add to this after all. Ray tracing is a gimmick and infamous for how intensive it is on hardware where it updates in real time, such as in video games. Before it was considered at all feasible outside rendering CGI, there were other methods of simulating light that were far easier for hardware to handle and, honestly, the difference between them (I can't remember what the name of the algorithm is) and ray tracing is minimal.

Adding to the problem is video card manufacturers pushing it while not increasing the VRAM on cards that are now expected to handle ray tracing, NPC scripts/AI, all other graphics, and stream encoding at the same time. GPUs have not seen a meaningful increase in VRAM in years despite the push of 4k graphics and ray tracing.

Oh and handling generating in-between frames to increase FPS/hide poor optimisation and up-scaling from 1080p to 4k or 8k. Sometimes both at the same time (in addition to the rest).

Further compounding it is consoles using stripped down versions of GPUs but not allowing users to upgrade them or other hardware. At least not in an easy way that doesn't void the warranty.

There's only so much that can be off-loaded to other components and it is a Choice™ to decide not to include an option to disable features that minimally improve the graphics (I specify graphics since more than one game has been released where turning off ray tracing wasn't the first thing recommended to turn off if you wanted to hit 30+ FPS) but can and do overwhelm GPUs.

Mandatory Ray Tracing should be banned in games. Genuinely absurd to think the majority of consumers are running high performing RTX graphics cards.

[antonyshelton]

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