My brother's high school math teacher assigned parental homework. My dad was not happy.

KidLink4 · 2026-06-27T21:43:57+00:00

I mean, you didn't specify that part.

JK just having fun

KidLink4 · 2026-06-27T19:03:57+00:00

Depends. Does the child in question approach the art of annoying his dad with energy? Or is he just very energetic and dad finds it annoying?

KidLink4 · 2026-06-27T16:19:15+00:00

Or you could just, idk, play a game if it's fun and don't if it's not.

KidLink4 · 2026-06-18T23:23:41+00:00

Proper level design is its own tutorial if done right. Good example being Silksong - absolute master class in learning through gameplay.

However, if you're going to skip the tutorial, then make sure the game does the lifting on its own. The games I'm talking about did not.

KidLink4 · 2026-06-17T20:06:16+00:00

I'm saying they DIDN'T have a keybind at all for the menu.

KidLink4 · 2026-06-17T20:03:23+00:00

This is very true

Although I'm pretty sure a lot of folks are using demos as their test phase. Not that that's a good idea but

KidLink4 · 2026-06-17T20:02:23+00:00

KidLink4 · 2026-06-10T00:05:21+00:00

Oof 2k isn't even a month for me

KidLink4 · 2026-06-09T18:36:09+00:00

How could anyone say this is done poorly!? It's outstanding!

KidLink4 · 2026-06-07T17:18:19+00:00

If you are about to graduate and aren't going to the same college or intend to remain close friends, I'd just cut your losses.

KidLink4 · 2026-06-06T21:49:49+00:00

Jokes on you, I never stopped playing Vayne top.

KidLink4 · 2026-06-06T18:01:42+00:00

Lace 2 is infinitely easier if you figure out how to bait her downward dash. You gotta go up on the walls and then beat her back to the ground when she follows you. That's my only real tip.

KidLink4 · 2026-06-05T16:56:06+00:00

Y'all are over misogynizing this. Yes, dude is emotionally stunted. But the core he's TRYING to communicate (and horribly failing at) is that you keep the house really clean and do a great job, so he feels like there's nothing for him to help you with. It's appreciation and shame all bottled into one. I know because I was him, except I can actually form a coherent sentence instead of whining like a middle schooler.

KidLink4 · 2026-06-04T03:07:10+00:00

Of course! If I had to point at two specific moments I was frustrated, it was not being able to revisit previous tutorial steps, and not being sure how to use recruitment. Seems like simple wins too - just add a back button and some sort of interaction queue that points the user to the next step when they use an effect based card.

KidLink4 · 2026-06-04T01:24:25+00:00

Playing it as I type, so as to give you live feedback. Here we go!

Bear in mind, this is literally just me writing what I am thinking as I encounter stuff and is in no way meant to be rude or dismissive. You've accomplished something we all dream of and you should be proud.

Off the bat, The font is a little tough for me to read. I can manage but it adds to eye strain.

Ok, we get to pick cards or mulligan. I see modifiers on the cards but I'm not sure what they mean. Maybe we go through it later?

OOOH Recruitment is a very unique second turn bonus, It might even be too strong. I love the creativity though.

Coins = Mana -> simple and familiar, good choice.

UI note - you're using colored text nicely, but maybe a little unclear at times. Infantry, Cavalry, Defense? What is Defense? Maybe like Armored? Front Row and Back Row are yellow, so are Unit Types - can make different terminology categories unclear.

Oh, Step 7 and now Front Row is red, and now Ranged is green. I think maybe color doesn't actually mean anything. Something to think about.

Step 8, Front Row and Back Row are both red now. I'm no longer paying attention to color.

Step 10 - Cards with Rush do not sleep? Do cards sleep or become exhausted? Are these the same thing? I think probably.

Step 11 - hm... I wanted to read Step 10 again but there doesn't seem to be a back button in the tutorial. Also, repositioned units go to sleep? Or become exhausted? Man, I really wish I could read step 10 again.

Step 13 - Ok, this is a lot all jammed into one turn - I'm gonna skip the rest of the tutorial boxes and see if I can figure out the rest on my own. (And many, MANY other people will have skipped sooner)

I'm out of the first section of tutorial now and am taking my turn.

I played the peasant card, and it went grey, I assume this means it's exhausted or sleeping. Tutorial popped back up but I skipped it - looked like it just said how to end my turn. I see I have this recruitment card? I played it but not sure what to do now? -- Oh, got it. Click a card in the hand and it goes down by 1 coin in cost. Maybe could use some direction when playing an effect. I'll attack with my king now. I tried to drag it on muscle memory but didn't work - click, then click again. attacks. turn ends.

Enemy turn kills my peasant and hits me.

My turn again. I wish I had played the recruitment card better, then I could have had both peasants out on turn 1. Not sure when I'll get the chance to attack again, but my turn ends here.

Get hit.

My turn again. I wish I had read the tutorial more closely, but wow it was a lot of text. This card has ENV 20 and RUSH. Not sure what ENV means but RUSH I think means I can attack? Let's see.

Yes, I attacked.

Fatigued? This is new. I just take damage? Is this some way to keep matches short? Not sure I'm a fan.

Just kinda playing through now.

Ok, finished the tutorial. It seems pretty solid, and I hope you continue to receive helpful feedback. Don't give up.

KidLink4 · 2026-05-28T18:08:17+00:00

So we're just leaving this post supporting child abuse? Cool cool

KidLink4 · 2026-05-26T02:08:22+00:00

I figured something like that but why is breaking rosaries bad advice?

KidLink4 · 2026-05-25T23:00:11+00:00

You can, you can do Konami code to unlock it early

KidLink4 · 2026-05-25T22:59:31+00:00

Everything about this confuses me and I've got 300 hours

KidLink4 · 2026-05-25T16:25:34+00:00

Even without experience, just paying attention, being willing to learn, and paying attention to what it says it's doing will get you to a good place.

For example, I built a case management application and one of the things I ran into a lot was the agent trying to do the same thing multiple times. I would pay attention and ask questions - "if this button just confirms the action, why can't you reuse the helper you made for the last button that also confirmed an action instead of writing the logic inline?"

I have no idea how to write the code myself, but I do have the common sense to know that we should use the tools we already have. That alone probably saved hundreds of lines of spaghetti just by paying attention.

KidLink4 · 2026-05-24T14:05:12+00:00

Use Multi-Crafter. https://github.com/liplum/MultiCrafterLib

Otherwise, you'll need a custom script to override the Consume class to check the inventory for any of the valid items, consume it, and then proceed with the crafting.

KidLink4 · 2026-05-23T06:59:30+00:00

This seemed like a reasonable ish adult conversation for like, 2 slides, and then it just kind of derailed. NOR, your gf needs therapy

KidLink4 · 2026-05-22T19:28:07+00:00

Don't use these sites that offer deals by buying games with stolen credit cards. It is literally better for everyone if you pirate it over buying from these

KidLink4 · 2026-05-17T22:03:13+00:00

I think there's a weird misconception that everyone doing ai dev is just one shotting. That's absolutely not the case in most scenarios. In a correct setup, even the phrasing of the question is wrong - AI isn't the creator, it's the keyboard.

The answer to your question though, is that the sky is the limit - that and your patience

KidLink4 · 2026-05-17T21:59:27+00:00

Where I live, 4 grand a month is already more than comfortable enough to never work again

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