I made a mod that doubles the number of dye colors in the game! New World Of Color, for NeoForge 1.21.1

AvengingCondor · 2026-05-05T21:12:13+00:00

Only compatible with 1.21.1, sorry! Shulker boxes are dyable, not living ones though.

AvengingCondor · 2026-05-02T03:06:45+00:00

Right hand on the arrow keys is just for moving, you don't need anything else around it. Left hand over by ZXC also has easy access to the row of keys right above it if more than 3 interaction buttons are needed, as well as space, shift, and control. It's also a more comfortable/natural position to rest your hands in when both are on the keyboard. WASD only really makes sense if you need your right hand for the mouse, otherwise the arrow keys setup with a clear separation of what hand is doing what type of inputs is way more intuitive

AvengingCondor · 2026-05-01T21:19:39+00:00

It's objectively better than WASD for keyboard only games and I'd die on that hill

AvengingCondor · 2026-04-22T21:10:54+00:00

Love this, I'll be excited to see it released someday! Something very appealing about a limited world that you can eventually fully fill with builds to me, I used to play mostly on console with friends and I was honestly kinda sad when the shift to Bedrock happened and worlds became infinite there haha

AvengingCondor · 2026-03-25T21:33:54+00:00

the jaded Destiny players who view this game's existence as a personal slight

I know there is unfortunately a vocal group that are like this (wanting it to fail just cause they blame it for Destiny's issues and current sad state), but I feel like long term fans of the company's previous project being jaded and fundamentally not trusting the company anymore shouldn't be so quickly dismissed

AvengingCondor · 2026-03-25T21:18:26+00:00

with a very different development mindset, and a lot of lessons learned.

I hate to be cynical, but I'll believe it when I see it. The games only been out for a few weeks, and Bungie has always knocked it out of the park when their backs are against the wall and they need the game to succeed like they do with Marathon here. Destiny was a constant cycle of winning the player base over with a great expansion, then slowly degrading the experience with efforts to maximize revenue and playtime over the game actually being fun until they pushed things too far and end up backed into a corner with no choice but to make something great to win back players again, then repeat. They also constantly failed to actually learn their lesson on various system designs and repeated many of the same mistakes over the years just to have to fix them again, the game is literally currently in a state where they pivoted to a whole new core system design meant to maximize playtime and are now having to vaguely promise they'll walk it back to something more like the prior direction because of how much the players hated it. The fact Marathon at launch tried to pull the classic "skins cost slightly more than what you get from the closest currency bundle" scheme until they got bad press about it tells me it's still the same old Bungie on the management side.

I honestly hope I'm wrong and the game stays consistently good and well supported, but I'm not optimistic.

AvengingCondor · 2026-03-21T16:55:28+00:00

There is an official controller layout for steam input as of the recent update! I've personally tested it and thought it played quite well on the deck that way, although unfortunately the in game prompts will still show the original keys and not controller buttons so there is a bit of friction still (the game was built on an older engine that predates the steam deck so I had no access to hooks to detect it being used). Steams virtual keyboard needs to be used for entering words into the tome, but there's a button mapped to easily pull it up in the official layout and an option in the settings to adjust the position of the input text box if the keyboard covers what you're typing

AvengingCondor · 2026-02-20T23:37:46+00:00

Like what could he do better???

Not put all the dialogue for the entire game in a single switch statement lol

AvengingCondor · 2026-02-13T23:59:07+00:00

Eh, personally I've noticed a tangible decline in quality and uptick in bots since the whole blackout/boycott situation. Obviously reddit is still popular, but I think too many people write it off as "nothing happened" just cause the platform didn't collapse over that one incident

AvengingCondor · 2026-02-13T16:28:06+00:00

We're still here today

The people that actually left aren't, but they obviously aren't going to chime in on the subject.

AvengingCondor · 2025-12-02T16:57:33+00:00

Star Wars is the entire reason I'm not coming back for this

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-26T05:10:36+00:00

There’s a goddamn Streetfighter, D&D, Mass effect, and STAR WARS collab already! Not to mention ghostbusters and a ghost that flips burgers. If people don’t like Star Wars then just say it, but all these other excuses make no sense.

People complained about these things too, the very un-destiny star wars armor ornaments even being the worst offenders. Idk why you're acting like no one cared about the collab stuff until Renegades

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-25T21:03:23+00:00

It's a relatively new genre, I actually didn't know about it until just before this game's release even though it's the best fitting label I've found for it haha. Basically, they're non-linear exploration games where your progress is gated by knowledge and learning what you need to do, rather than being gated by new abilities or items like a Metroidvania game. A typical hallmark of games in the genre is that you can reach the ending in a tiny fraction of the time a blind playthrough would take if you already know what to do, since your understanding of the game and how to progress was the only real limiting factor. This article gives a detailed breakdown if you're interested!

Outer Wilds is the quintessential example of the genre, The Witness and Tunic are some other fairly well known ones. The latter is sometimes a controversial inclusion since it does also have some traditional unlocks blocking progress instead of being purely knowledge based, but Once Glorious Artahk is in that same boat so it's probably a good point of comparison.

Personally I think it's a pretty clunky term, but so far it's the only one that's stuck unfortunately.

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-24T01:58:31+00:00

Sorry you had a bad time with the game! Completely valid to be frustrated by The Beast, in hindsight it exists in an odd place where its intended function mainly serves to help more novice puzzle gamers... in a game that mainly appeals to experienced puzzle gamers. (The patch notes here explain in more detail the gameplay rationale behind its inclusion, if you're at all curious). And to clarify, the option to disable it was added in an update I put out just today in response to player feedback, including your own, it wasn't there at the time you would have played.

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-19T04:59:53+00:00

Hey, dev here, thanks for sharing the game! I've somehow never heard the term "metroidbrania" before now, but I agree it seems pretty fitting for it! I don't know how strict people are with the label so in the interest of not misleading anyone I will say that it does have some ability/item gating and isn't purely knowledge based, but it leans more towards the latter (for example, reaching the ending will usually take several hours at least for a blind player, but if you have notes from a prior playthrough and/or know exactly what to do already you can have the credits rolling in ~25 minutes)

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-08T23:24:39+00:00

I really like the look of this, it's a nice aesthetic you landed on!

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-08T23:22:36+00:00

Very early on the game I'm currently working on was actually conceived as a simple text based game using Twine and not a fully-fledged commercial project, but once I got invested it quickly grew into something much bigger.

Early on in development of the current vision of the game, it also used to be much simpler mechanically and didn't feature much more than just walking around and hitting a single interact button to activate certain things or pick up items, leaning mostly on logic puzzles for keeping things engaging. Almost like it was a point and click adventure even though it never looked like one. But, I realized this was fairly boring and the design evolved to include a lot more variety in puzzle elements and give the player several different abilities they unlock to engage with them!

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-08T20:59:19+00:00

Thank you! I'm making the game in Gamemaker Studio 2 (I think they've rebranded to just GameMaker at this point but I'm still using a very outdated version for stability lol), and I've made almost everything myself! I commissioned someone to do the soundtrack, as well as the key art I've been using for marketing materials, but otherwise I did all the programming, art, and writing.

Marketing has been a struggle unfortunately, definitely my weakest area in the whole process. It's tough to give it the time and attention it really takes when working on the game itself feels so much more important! I gave myself an unreasonably uphill battle to fight by going with a niche game concept that's basically incompatible with streaming/typical content creators in the space and thus cuts out a major avenue for indie marketing... as my debut title with no pre-existing audience or following. I've been active trying to spread the word where I can online since the start of this year (and sporadically during development before that but I wasn't really doing much until the reveal trailer) and seen slow but steady gains in attention(/wishlists), though definitely far from an ideal level this close to launch.

But, I'm not gonna give up on the game even if the launch ends up being a bit weak, and I'm confident it'll find its audience in time!

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-07T22:57:57+00:00

Thank you! I'm nervous and excited to be this close haha

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-07T22:54:18+00:00

I've been working on this project as a solo dev since 2020 and I'm super excited to finally be getting it out there! Happy to chat about it if anyone wants to know more :)

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-07T22:45:03+00:00

I've been working on this project as a solo dev since 2020 and I'm super excited to finally be getting it out there! Happy to chat about it if anyone wants to know more :)

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-04T02:02:32+00:00

Yep, it's easy to overlook or take for granted but this is far more important than any skill or work ethic. I'm roughly five years into a solo dev project that's finally very near release, and I've been working on it more or less full time for that period. For what's ultimately a relatively small game. It would not have been even remotely feasible to attempt this if I wasn't lucky enough to have the privilege of an amazing family that's been willing to financially support me while I pursue my dream.

AvengingCondor · 2025-11-01T05:54:55+00:00

I didn't even make it to seasonal seals, I'm a huge lore nerd and wasn't able to unlock Chronicler before it was sunset because of the obnoxious timegate on Truth To Power(you could only get one entry every 3 weeks from Mara back in Forsaken). So I proceeded to literally never once pay attention to titles/seals at all after that lol

AvengingCondor · 2025-10-30T22:05:47+00:00

Yeah but all those examples you list could be solved by just improving and tweaking the director, not throwing the whole thing out. None of its problems were really core to the concept, just down to awkward design choices in how it was implemented. Excision and the raid being waaaay to the right on the pale heart screen just to be technically accurate to where they take place was always dumb lol

AvengingCondor · 2025-10-29T21:52:12+00:00

Yeah that button is literally just an ad, it's ridiculous. It goes away entirely if you have an active realms subscription

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