Affixes you can hear and feel
All four weapon affixes now read in the headset: Biting and Crushing got sounds of their own, Mending a flash you can actually see, Staggering a real stun - and the crit floor I had only predicted wore as about right.
Experiment 1
Experiments in engine, systems, and iteration
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Currently on: Core loop, Data-driven content, Room generation
Forty-nine percent
In pass 23 I opened two loot chests, and both paid a Charm of Reach. That could have been luck. But the roster has six items, so two in a row is about a one-in-six event, and something that small is exactly what gets wav…
Earned, but too rare
Since August, the one thing in combat that paid for effort was the committed hit. Swing fast enough and wide enough at the moment of contact, and the blow did 1.5× damage with its own spark and sound. When I last wrote a…
Four point eight centimeters, thirty-one times
The bench in the hub lets you put gems into a weapon. Getting them back out is a pry bar: you hold it near a socket, pay to have the gem removed, and then work the tip around the socket's rim while levering, three arcs, …
Two grids that agreed by coincidence
For four evenings I told Claude that my vault was mostly empty and would not take a war hammer. For four evenings it explained to me why I was wrong. It was a different explanation each time, each one plausible, and all …
A zero that looked like five hundred meters
Two bolts in tonight's session logged this: I was standing in a corridor about six meters long. The bolt did not travel five hundred meters. It traveled nothing at all — it was born inside the floor and died there on it…
Nine explanations for one blue tint
For about two weeks, three props in my hub looked wrong. Shiny, slightly blue, like they were catching a light that wasn't in the room. Everything else in the game is flat and matte. These weren't. I fixed it nine times.…
The control was standing in the same room
Three props in my hub looked wrong. Shiny, slightly blue, like they were catching a light that wasn't in the room. Everything else in the game has a flat matte look; these didn't. I fixed it four times. First the metalli…