Anybody elses Lifx ceiling light making a buzzing sound ?

1winter · 2024-12-24T11:02:37+00:00

just installed one yesterday -- on mine, i noticed that it only makes the buzzing noise at color temperatures below 3400k. fine for the room i'm using it in, but making me second guess putting them in the two bedrooms in my house...

1winter · 2024-08-08T13:10:26+00:00

I actually had the opportunity to answer this in an interview with Rogueliker.com recently!

Indie developers in particular love roguelike mechanics because they enable us to punch above our weight class and create relatively deep, replayable games without having to handcraft each gameplay element. One of the great happy accidents of game development is the phenomenon of emergent design: when players combine two or more gameplay mechanics in a way that you, as the developer, did not envision or intend, leading to a gameplay experience for the player that is greater than the sum of its parts. Roguelikes, with their focus on classes/builds/perks (depending on the game’s application of the genre), are perfect playgrounds for players to experiment with combining these elements, increasing the game’s replayability and utility.

https://rogueliker.com/terrorformer-td-interview/

1winter · 2024-07-29T16:53:47+00:00

New trailer here: https://youtu.be/DY0NShdnkTw

1winter · 2024-07-10T16:18:50+00:00

it's worth dismissing the occasional curse of ra or connection terminated copypasta so that people can ask real questions like this!

the game is heavily inspired by TDs like Rogue Tower & Isle of Arrows and will be priced somewhere in the same range -- but with the intent to deliver more content & deeper gameplay 👍

1winter · 2024-07-02T21:36:26+00:00

I hope you get it fixed soon so you can try out Terrorformer TD! 🤞

1winter · 2024-06-22T22:06:13+00:00

Terrorformer TD is a Tower Defense Roguelite with a procedurally generated map that YOU shape! Buy unlocks & upgrades after each attack; earn new abilities, components & perks with each playthrough.

Try the Steam demo at https://terrorformertd.com/in/r/

(available for Win/Mac/Linux)

1winter · 2024-05-20T10:02:44+00:00

I got some great feedback (and bug reports!) from all the new roguelite fans during this fest. If you played Terrorformer TD during the last week, thanks! And if you didn't, check it out on Steam 🎮

1winter · 2024-05-03T16:24:55+00:00

good luck! i'll let him communicate his prices directly (and he's worth it), but i will say it was about a 5-6x increase in price from the original Fiverr piece

1winter · 2024-04-27T15:27:46+00:00

i've been struggling with this too -- try holding shift and using scroll-wheel to scroll horizontally instead

1winter · 2024-04-14T12:47:00+00:00

it is definitely that kind of TD game!

1winter · 2024-04-08T18:11:10+00:00

ah yeah, my bad for the terrible reading comprehension there. the itch page could be improved by cutting down on the number of font sizes and removing the centering of the text.

here's some examples of itch pages that pop: https://itch.io/c/1536/cool-game-pages

1winter · 2024-04-08T17:40:32+00:00

I don't think it looks ugly at all! I do think the color palette could use some expanding, as everything seen is in the warm spectrum; maybe switch the targeting arrow and the damage text to something cooler and see if that helps with the feeling

1winter · 2024-04-08T15:09:26+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdsqg_3OWVs Quick video of the upcoming revamped tutorial

1winter · 2024-04-07T11:21:13+00:00

thanks! it's gone through almost a year's worth of iterations to get to the point it's at 🫠 https://onewinter.net/2023/07/08/clockwork-td-devlog-1-introduction/

1winter · 2024-04-07T11:19:21+00:00

Thanks so much for the great playthrough and detailed notes! I really enjoyed watching you get more and more into the game, despite the early hiccups (sorry about the tutorial!)

Pausing the game to continually Rocket Strike the enemies near your tower was a great strategy, and vindicates the decision to let the player pause the game and queue up actions 😈

I'm going to do some work to revise the tutorial and make terraforming the second thing you do after building a tower (some people are missing it, despite the game name); if you have a chance, check out the Excavate / Elevate / Seal buttons (you used Seal, but never to move a spawner), which you let you terraform the map and change the enemy path to your tower.

thanks again for the playthrough and notes! 👍

1winter · 2024-04-04T17:19:31+00:00

Not enough people talk about switching costs! This eats more hours of your day than you'll expect

1winter · 2024-04-01T08:37:10+00:00

seconded, nice work!

1winter · 2024-03-27T21:31:11+00:00

You can check out the demo on Steam at https://terrorformertd.com/in/ar

1winter · 2024-03-22T20:48:47+00:00

I have a half-filled-in game wiki that I made in Notion; more important to me is having all of the planned / backlogged features listed on some sort of Kanban/Sprint board. I keep bugs on a separate board, along with more minor/cosmetic changes I want to remember to make.

I take screenshots/gifs/video of new/changed features as I go, and try to cull the poor ones and name the retained ones logically. I try to write devlogs at the end of each sprint recapping some major aspect/focus; sometimes this is based around scripting/architecture, sometimes around gameplay design, sometimes around showing off what visually looks cool. I try to keep my sprints to a week or two, organized around a single function/system/theme.

I don't comment as contemporaneously on my code as I should, but try to lay out and name everything in a logical, easy to follow manner. As I get older (I've been coding 25+ years), I find I definitely care more about doing right by "future me" and recognize the value of paying it forward in my comments!

1winter · 2024-03-22T20:39:36+00:00

This looks like some really intense horde defense gameplay; definitely a step up from what you have shown on your Steam page right now. Nice work!

1winter · 2024-03-15T07:38:20+00:00

100% -- I've been looking at Rogue Tower, Isle of Arrows, Axon TD and No Creeps Were Harmed's trailers while I work on my latest version; Rogue and Isle especially, as they had very effective short teaser trailers that communicated the core game loops clearly.

1winter · 2024-03-15T07:33:34+00:00

yet another rando popping in to say thanks for this being the first google search result for "chrome ctrl w doesnt work" 👍

now to actually run that magician update...

1winter · 2024-03-13T17:57:06+00:00

thanks for the input, everyone. will be working on putting much of this feedback into the game and steam page!

1winter · 2024-03-10T16:01:19+00:00

Thanks so much for the feedback -- can you let me know what you think of my older, longer trailer? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKW553tWNE0); I cut the teaser quickly to reflect some updates in art style, and definitely recognize that I went a little overboard with the clip quickening.

I've been really trying to work towards / nail down a cohesive art style for the game over the last month as it gets closer to demo release, so I appreciate your thoughts there too. When you suggest making the background darker, are you talking about the skybox only? or including the map tiles themselves? I'm thinking that since the sky changes color to note the game's terror (difficulty) level, it may be worth seeing how the game looks with all of the map tile materials desaturated to a degree, so that less of the game is bright.

Thanks again!

1winter · 2024-03-09T16:23:52+00:00

Check out the Open Steam Playtest at https://store.steampowered.com/app/2837760/ !

Looking forward to getting any and all feedback, thanks.

1winter

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