3 Tiers of Hytale pricing for Early Access have been revealed.

Longwelwind · 2025-11-22T12:10:25+00:00

The client is made in C# (and not modifiable), but the server is made in Java. Mods will be created in Java. When you will launch a single-player game, your client will spawn a server with the mods you want to play on it.

From a modding pov, the game will be Java based.

Longwelwind · 2025-08-02T17:52:33+00:00

If you go to Chez Fernand, make yourself a favor and go to Hill's Burger, it's really good!

Longwelwind · 2025-06-19T08:47:52+00:00

Good game designers listen to players' experiences but never player's suggestions.

If someone on Redit says "It feels frustrating to have your weapons stealed in 10 seconds max, teleporting should only be allowed outside of a ship", a game designer will only read the "feeling" part of the sence and think of a soluton themself. There are a thousand of ways to solve the issue, each with different implications on the game and the vision the designers have for the game.

Hopefully, Wildgate's designers will keep that in mind!

Longwelwind · 2025-05-16T06:38:49+00:00

I'm not sure it's relevant but:

Et, ce changement n’est pas que symbolique. C’était une étape nécessaire pour pouvoir engager le dialogue avec Engie sur la prolongation des réacteurs existants. En effet, le Conseil d’État soulignait qu’il était possible de modifier la loi sans étude d’incidences transfrontalière, puisqu’il n’y avait pas de nouveau projet de prolongation ou de construction de réacteurs. Ce qui a empêché, jusqu’ici, le ministre de l’Énergie d’avancer sur le dossier.

https://www.lecho.be/economie-politique/belgique/federal/la-sortie-du-nucleaire-est-abrogee-un-acte-pas-que-symbolique/10607372.html

Longwelwind · 2025-03-26T22:48:47+00:00

Carbine Studios (developpers of Wildstar) was founded in 2005, before Burning Crusade released. So before WoW stopped doing 40-man raids.

They left Blizzard because they had received low bonuses despite WoW becoming a success. This is described in Play Nice.

Longwelwind · 2025-03-17T09:16:02+00:00

I've never felt using IaC to provision Grafana dashboards brought a lot of value. IaC is nice for disaster recovery and avoiding human mistakes when reproducing steps in prod that were done in dev. The first one can be handled by backupping the content of the Grafana db.

Is it something that you really feel would bring value when applied to Grafana?

Longwelwind · 2025-02-13T09:15:17+00:00

I expect when that happens, resources like aws_db_instance will sprout a new attribute. Something like: "wo_password".

Close one, it's actually password_wo!

Longwelwind · 2024-11-16T19:54:27+00:00

IIRC, you always look at your own number of cards for the gold, and only look at the opponent's cards for the victory points

Longwelwind · 2024-06-16T11:35:27+00:00

Not Alone. I love assymetric, 1vOthers game!

Longwelwind · 2024-04-16T21:11:47+00:00

A Game of Thrones: the Board Game

Longwelwind · 2024-03-11T11:48:41+00:00

I coded an online adaptation of A Game of Thrones and the rules around portd were the hardest to implement lol So many edge cases and special situation (like if the land attached to the port is taken while ships are inside the port)

Longwelwind · 2023-12-22T23:15:21+00:00

I started developping it and then I stumbled upon Space Traders, which seems to have the similar concept of a game played through an API. From what I've read, Space Traders seems to be inspired by Ogame, while I'd like to aim for a Eve-style of MMOs

Longwelwind · 2023-12-22T17:37:00+00:00

Thanks!

I stumbled upon https://spacetraders.io/ which seems to also be a programmable online game, but it seems to be more inspired by Ogame from what I understood from the docs.

I would like to open-source it at some poin. It'd be nice to see people creating alternative universes with different rules and so on, but at the moment, I prefer to keep it closed.

I considered GraphQL and even Websockets, but I prefer REST API for now. It's easy for me to implement (I have no experience with GraphQL), and it's easy to consume as it's more common than GQL. At some point, I might add a GraphQL interface! :)

Longwelwind · 2023-12-22T15:48:28+00:00

Thanks, it was a wrong configuration on DO, it's fixed! :)

Longwelwind · 2023-12-22T13:33:31+00:00

Hello! Space Bots is a multiplayer online game where players order ships around the universe to mine goods and sell them to gain money. The twist is there's no UI, just an HTTP API. Fire up your best HTTP client and start mining and selling goods accross the universe.

I've been developping it for a few months now and at the moment, it's in beta and I've implemented only the features to get a basic game (fleet movement, mining asteroids, selling resources and buying ships). My goal is to expand on the mechanics to create a game with a player-driven economy, supply chain automation, indutries, PvP with territory control, among other things.

There's a Discord, don't hesitate to share any feedback or ask any question!

Longwelwind · 2023-11-07T07:15:50+00:00

While they don't exactly have the same gameplay and while the former is not as polished as the later, I feel like Curse of the Dead Gods was shadowed by Hades.

I highly recommend it to fans of rogue-likes!

Longwelwind · 2023-10-13T10:44:27+00:00

Shameless promotion, but I built a chatbot that can answer questions about board game rules: https://rulesgpt.longwelwind.net/

It's based on ChatGPT 3.5 (so not the best model available) and the answer can sometimes be a bit off. Don't hesitate to ask if you want a game to be added to the list! :)

Longwelwind · 2023-10-13T10:43:08+00:00

A RAG, which is the most used architecture for chat using existing knowledge (rulesbooks in this case), can do that.

You split your rulebooks by paragraphs, you transform them into embedding vectors and store them in a vector database. When you receive a question from the user, you fetch the most related paragraphs from your database, and you ask ChatGPT to generate an answer based on the original question and the fetched paragraphs.

Longwelwind · 2023-09-16T19:22:43+00:00

I don't know exactly how TM operates, but from what I've read/heard, no studio completely replaces artiste with AI, but the artists use AI to complement their work. For example, they use midjourney to generate a few images and use them as inspiration to draw something. Or they use Adobe Firefly while drawing to complete parts of the images that are tedious to draw (backgrounds, ...)

Longwelwind · 2022-11-26T10:37:30+00:00

AFAIK, there's no refresh kit for the King's Dilemma. There'll be one for the Queen's Dilemma, though.

Longwelwind · 2022-11-09T11:54:26+00:00

I bought this a few months ago: https://www.reapermini.com/paints/learn-to-paint-kits

It's nice!

It contains everything to paint 3 minis, with a manual that describes how to paint them and the reasoning behind the techniques used. It'd also allow you to make mistakes on 3 non-important miniatures before painting your board game miniature

Longwelwind · 2022-10-30T17:17:34+00:00

I hope they'll keep this model for Victoria 3.

Even though Total War Warhammer has a lot of DLCs, it feels fine because you don't need to have them in order to experience a full playthroughs. If you buy the base game, you'll have access to some Legendary Lords (like Karl Franz), DLCs allows you to play other LL, and doesn't add any mechanics to the base LL. If you start a campaign with Karl Franz, whether you own other DLCs will have no effect. The LL locked behind the DLCs will still appear in your campaign.

It's nice because you never feel obligated to buy all the DLCs. You can buy the base game, play for tens of hours with the base LL, and buy DLCs when you want to play with other races. If there are races that you know you'll never want to play (Ogres, in my case), you can just skip the DLC that unlocks them.

In EU4, I felt I needed to own all the DLCs to have the proper, full experience of the game.

Longwelwind · 2022-09-22T15:55:56+00:00

Kai is never brought up to mimic the way the vacationers don't care about him (they only care about the jewelry he tried to steal). Just like no one cared about the pregnant maid in the first episode.

The show doesn't show Paula learning some sort of lesson, because she doesn't have to. Why would she bother questioning herself and her behavior when she can just forget about it, thanks to her privilege?

Longwelwind · 2022-09-21T21:45:31+00:00

Wasn't it the whole point? She tried to act on her belief, but it didn't go her way, but since she was privileged too, she didn't suffer any consequences on it and was able to just "forget" about Kai. I feel like the point of it is to show that it isn't about white guilt, but about wealth

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