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Five more passes (65 to 69): rings and an amulet with stats worth wearing, health you can read on your wrist, and Astra's mannequins standing in the armory with poses you buy and gear you can put on them. Rings and an am…
Four passes (70 to 73) to make rings and an amulet you can see, on the mannequins and on my own gauntlets, plus two revisions of Astra's mannequins. The tests kept passing on things that were wrong, and the headset kept …
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 …
The camera has been in the game for a while as a toy: point it at a creature, press the trigger, and it files a score. Over four headset passes (46 to 49) it turned into a system. Pictures teach you about what you photog…
A mission's attributes now change the run: Warband swaps skeletons for orcs, Nightfall puts the arena under a moon, and the long and short roads change how many rooms there are. They are meant as trade-offs, not as danger. Pass 36 wore all four.
Dropped loot now tells you what it is before you walk over: the beam means quality, a gem glints in its own color, and a soft glow and a trace up a sharpened edge mark the rest. By the last pass I called it perfect.
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.…
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…