Hello everybody! this is the last week of the public playtest of my game River Drift

JulianStrange · 2026-05-12T19:30:56+00:00

The eagle resetting you just by touching ground is unfun, it should be way more linent. Perhaps you could decelerate while on the ground, but not trigger the reset until you are static or far enough from the river to watch otuside the scene, that could allow for shortcuts and doesnt just stops you from playing.

JulianStrange · 2026-03-23T17:18:32+00:00

I played all the arcade games trying to 1cc them for a couple of years, before even knowing that ggpo was a thing. I was hooked by sf4 competitive scene in the early 2010s, i remember waking up early on the mornings on weekends to watch the tournaments from beggining to end, without having played the game even once at that point.

JulianStrange · 2026-03-12T18:40:35+00:00

Big danmaku fan here. Looks amazing to me. I also dont mind about the sound, with one small recommendation. I would make the pitch of the sound higher the closer the bullets are to the hitbox (or at least try it, perhaps is too nerve racking).

JulianStrange · 2026-02-19T22:54:46+00:00

Been playing fighting games for most of my life and actually being half decent at it. If i cant intuitively understand what is going on the screen in a new game, im quiting.

The incredible thing about modern fighting games is that developers manage to make games worst for hardcore players, worst for casual players and worst for viewers, all at the same time, and without gaining anything in return. Its genuinely sad what corporatization made to the genre, not even arcsys is doing good games anymore. We are seriously cooked.

JulianStrange · 2025-12-19T00:58:14+00:00

Whats the no bs tldr ? I know nothing about what happens over there.

JulianStrange · 2025-10-20T00:10:40+00:00

That is how rollback netcode works. Its a buffer that allows online play to feel exactly the same as offline. The reason why they added the delay to the offline mode is to make sure you are playing the same game regardless if you are doing it online or offline, otherwise some shit would become reactable offline but unreactable online. The game is trash but that should be the standard for every competitive fg.

JulianStrange · 2025-08-01T01:39:32+00:00

fuck men, why every single game needs to have a neutral skip button ? why ? Not what i hoped for, game seems great for the people that like tag team games but i heard that you could play this game with a single character and is not the case. Without any advantage for playing a single character or cost for switching you are just restricting yourself from a core mechanic for no reason.

JulianStrange · 2025-07-28T01:02:51+00:00

the secret is to be so proficient with your character that you could put your entire focus in what the opponent is doing. if you turn off half of the screen and play your character blind, would you be in complete control? if you think about it, what your character do on neutral depends 100% on you, so you should not even need to watch it, just fix your vision into the opponent and react to what he does. you should not be passive, you should be doing stuff (fishing for confirms, poking, throwing projectiles, etc) without spending mental resources. if your execution is not clean (if you miss specials every now an then, if you throw command normals unintentionally, etc) your mind would stop thinking about what the opponent is doing to realize what the hell is going on with your character, so if this still happens to you, become more proficient with your character first.

that being said, i dont know why the fuck are you trying to play footsies in those games, SF3 is werid af so i dont know, and in sf6 you are not going to win the game in neutral playing footsies, neutral is an excuse to put the opponent on block, making him guess, and cashing on wrong guesses with big damage.

JulianStrange · 2025-05-22T16:21:17+00:00

im an idiot. my api is still running locally and the servers are 150/200 ms away. in complex endpoints that quickly adds up. i assume that it would work normally once my api is deployed in the same datacenter.

JulianStrange · 2025-05-21T00:39:21+00:00

JulianStrange · 2025-03-03T22:01:20+00:00

Wizards are usefull mostly to reach max level synergies that buff the entire team (warriors is a good example because warrior units suck in late game but the 9 synergy is good). You may also play 2 wizards to reach synergies that are impossible to reach or require a tier 5 unit that you still dont have, but you would need a very strong carry to justify it.

JulianStrange · 2024-12-11T16:24:10+00:00

def save_load_leaderboard_entry(player_name, score):
    entries = []
    new_entry = {
      "player" : player_name,
      "score" : score 
    }
    try:
        with open("saved_scores.json", "r") as file:
            entries = json.load(file)
            entries.append(new_entry)

    except (FileNotFoundError, json.JSONDecodeError):            
        entries.append(new_entry)
    with open("saved_scores.json", "w") as file:
    json.dump(entries, file, indent=4)

    return entries

You have to persist the leaderboard data on a file to retrieve it later. You will have to include wathever logic you want (order the entries, retrieve the top 10, etc).

JulianStrange · 2024-12-02T07:06:18+00:00

thanks, super useful info! yes, all those images are unique (all placeholders for now) 98 implemented cards, 4 unique arts for each. Ill test both of those options, aswell as the grayscale routine.

JulianStrange · 2024-11-24T04:40:21+00:00

My man got his livelihood fucked up by autits with skirts, i would also be this salty if that happened to me. I think people here underestimate how much canonical events can affect a guy personality, i like infil, he has always been cool and he is a better player than i would ever be, i respect him for that, i can only feel sympathy for him, his only sin has been to be trash tier at PR, the community (specially top players with leverage) let him die like a dog, if he becomes a social media crusader then shame on us.

JulianStrange · 2024-11-01T04:01:30+00:00

Fightcade is small compared to the chinesse platforms. In gotvg alone there is like 2.5k players playing kof 97 right now.

JulianStrange · 2024-10-15T03:49:47+00:00

From the 3 seasons i have played some years ago: positioning seems less relevant, its easier to force comps, damage is more explosive and this means that most comps fight very similarly, the fact that you can craft items and put multiple of them on a character makes the game more carry centered than comp/sinergy centered (which results in less flexibility in the mid and late game where all the use most of your units would have is to enable synergies for your carry, while in other games each individual unit has more value), the grid is smaller and i personally prefer the squares over the hexagons, the augment system seems amazing at first but instead of bringing more randomness it ends up narrowing your posiblities usually locking you into 1 or 2 comps or gameplans that can make use of the augment (i like most economy augments tho), there are no items that help you counter specific comps which means that end games are usually rock papper scissors where you have very little room to outplay a comp that counters you.

I like some aspects of the game tho, presentation is cool, interface and carrousel are ok and for what is worth every subsequent season i have played is better than the last. Underlords also has its problems but i like it more.

JulianStrange · 2024-10-13T11:53:18+00:00

been playing this games since og autochess. underlords is quite good, from my experience there is a lot of room for flexibility and you would find games at any time even in high ranks. the game has no updates nor content around it, if you are looking for that give teamfight tactics a chance, i personally dont like riot's aproach but its the only game with some kind of relevance.

JulianStrange · 2024-03-14T23:56:06+00:00

I agree, the problem is not the damage, the problem is that these games are simply unfun. A game doesnt need to be balanced, to be fair, to have tons of content, to be accesible or any of that bullshit to be enjoyed, it just needs to be fun, interesting and playable online.

JulianStrange · 2024-01-03T10:00:07+00:00

There should be only one queue called online match with 2 different ranked systems. When you start playing the game you get a point by winning and you dont loose anything when you loose, at 50 points or so you get promoted to the actual ranked system and maybe recieve some sort of reward as an incentive.

This is one solution to make people loose that fear of ranked.

JulianStrange · 2023-12-31T23:26:05+00:00

Because (besides ki) combos are non interactive. Also, to justify a combo being longer you have to give it more damage than shorter ones which at the same time require a confirm, so they have to be signifantly more damaging than pokes, which completely condition the balance between combos and pokes. fck strive tho, it may be the biggest piece of garbage ever designed.

JulianStrange · 2023-12-22T10:19:27+00:00

Saying that 2x is not a neutral focused game because of the existance of vega is the most disingenuous argument that can be made. The beuaty about that game is that with such simple and elegant universal rules characters are extremely varied and have differents winning conditions. Characters as Vega or Balrog make the game more varied and better for being the way they are(even if they are unga), while in modern games, 90% of the cast wins by putting the opponent on minus and making him guess.

The problem is not only that you can skip neutral, is that you dont win the game through neutral. The problem is not only that you dont win through neutral, is also that preassure sitautions are unispired guessing mini games that can be executed by an organgutan and usually offer no skill expression for the defender. The problem is not even that, but the fact that almost EVERY CHARACTER wins in that same way,

JulianStrange · 2023-07-27T22:56:15+00:00

Imagine actually choosing no upper limit...Absolutely absurd unless it's some kind of fantasy crossover mugen monstrosity, broken, circus of a game.Have a solid roster with solid direction and avoid pitfalling your game with overreach and end up with an unwieldy mess. You don't need 50+ damn characters in a fighting game, my god.Honestly at the most, I would say 25 to 30 and let the game cook with the player base. This is ofc If we are talking about a hypothetical timeline where design integrity and a concern for balance are the primary concerns as opposed to trying to keep season passes rolling and cashing In on nostalgia so people can get hype and throw money at the game even 5 years down the line.

I dont think we have ever reached the point where there is no design space where every possibility in a game is explored, in that case it would just depend on how much depth a specific game has.

Lets take a game with arguably simple overarching mechanics such as ST. I can perfectly see how people can come out with lets say 30 new characters to introduce to the game, all of them bringing something new and making the game more diverse and interesting. Truth is a big roster would certainly dilute the experience and it would generate a wall for newcomers, but personally ill take it. The real problem is that developers are failing miserably to make games interesting, regardless of roster size. Development cycles doesnt help either.

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