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Today was mostly spent in the headset, on two things Astra modeled: a leather glove for my hands and the fungal creatures that will live in the Fungal Hollow. Most of what went wrong was ours, not the models', and one fa…
Today the game got a voice. Not a cast, not dialogue trees: one calm, ethereal voice that speaks to you at a handful of moments in the fantasy half, and otherwise stays out of the way. This is how it went from an idea in…
Seven headset passes (39 to 45) over about a day, all about one idea: Nightfall should be dark enough that a light in your hand matters, and the dark should be hiding something. Here is what got built, what held up, and …
Five headset passes (50 to 54) over two days, mostly about Nightfall: what you find in the dark, what lights it, and what it sounds like. Somewhere in the middle I started writing parts of the code myself. Here is what g…
The roadmap after the break opened with chests. Astra had already delivered them: four tiers (Plain, Fine, Rare, Storied) with a lid on a hinge. The rules were mine. A chest's tier is a floor: it pays that tier or better…
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.
I spent nine trips into the headset today on the sound a sword makes when it hits a skeleton. That is an absurd number, and almost none of it was the sound. It was me asking the wrong question, nine different ways, and s…
I sat down to run one performance measurement and got up fourteen hours later with a sword that hurts things, a campfire you build a log at a time, and a panel that floats a note in front of me so I don't have to take th…