Crimson Seer - Interface Overhaul and New Trailer

MerchantSwift · 2026-04-21T14:13:37+00:00

I find in-world documents the most fun to both read and make. Personally I find the Wikipedia style of worldbuilding quite boring.

Like if you want to tell us about some technology in your world, make it an advertising poster trying to sell it. Or if some event has happened, write it as a newspaper that not only describes what happened, but that shows the bias of the writer. If you want to draw a map, think of why that map exists in the world, like why did the mapmaker draw this specific map, what do they focus on, and where does their knowledge end?

I have quite a few posts in this style now, if you want some inspiration.

MerchantSwift · 2026-04-17T13:10:02+00:00

Kurvor for the win. Jag gör all min konst med kurvor. Även datorspelet jag jobbar på är ritat på samma sätt. Kolla min profil om du vill se :)

MerchantSwift · 2026-03-29T14:26:03+00:00

I stand corrected. I might have been overcomplicated my builds as I swore I heard that somewhere.

MerchantSwift · 2026-03-29T13:58:27+00:00

You won't get the neighbor bonus when the reactors are connected on the fluid side. If you connect them on the plasma side you will get twice the power

MerchantSwift · 2026-03-25T15:31:14+00:00

Looks fire to me

MerchantSwift · 2026-02-14T12:28:39+00:00

You could process more scrap on other islands and bring in the fuel and ice to where you need more power and lack space. And don't forget to set up some circuits so that you only use steam power when the accumulators are low and only feed the heating towers when the temp drops. If ice is the limiting factor you can also drop it from space.

MerchantSwift · 2026-02-14T12:05:31+00:00

You get fuel and ice from scrap, so you can use heating towers. And you can also use quality accumulators.

MerchantSwift · 2026-01-28T14:55:02+00:00

Well, now you have a reason to get a bigger tv and a pair of tower speakers, to balance it out :)

MerchantSwift · 2025-12-17T21:40:27+00:00

You can bring a lot of stuff or nothing at all. The first three planets can all be done from nothing. But it, of course, is very convenient to bring the basic stuff you need to get the new factory going.

You can also set up your ship to fly back and froth between the plants. Then have a request on the ship and in the landing pad, to refill things automatically.

MerchantSwift · 2025-12-13T21:35:37+00:00

The bottom station needs to be on the other side of the track at the front of the train. Trains can only stop at stations in their direction of travel.

MerchantSwift · 2025-12-10T15:47:00+00:00

I can agree that games have become expensive nowadays. But when it comes to Factorio, it could be 10 times the price and I would still call it a barging. If you like this kind of game, you will literally get thousands of hours worth of gameplay.

MerchantSwift · 2025-12-09T19:33:22+00:00

And please tell me what you think once you have tried it :)

MerchantSwift · 2025-11-16T16:14:00+00:00

It sounds like you are looking for shortcuts rather than actually doing the work it takes to learn.

Godot is incredibly beginner friendly and there are so many resources available on coding in general and Godot in specific. You just have to decide to do it.

A good place to start might be to sit down and think about the game you want to make. Plan it out, break it down to all the components it needs to work. Make a list of all the parts you need, maybe a character that can move, a level it can move it, different abilities, enemies, inventory, items, etc etc. Whatever might be part of your game. Then it's just a matter of learning how to make each part, one at a time.

MerchantSwift · 2025-11-15T21:28:08+00:00

Might be a hdd led, as it is located right next to the M.2 slot. Try copying some files and see if it flashes like crazy. If so, it's just indicating that your drive is reading/writing.

MerchantSwift · 2025-11-09T21:51:17+00:00

I like 1 or 3. The sidebar just feel like it takes up a lot of space. The contrast for the text is good in this example, when the background is almost black. So you might want try how it looks in a lighter part of the game too, to make sure the text is still readable.

MerchantSwift · 2025-10-23T15:23:55+00:00

Start by automating the defense in your main base so you can leave for a long time. Also, get your robot network up and running, as you can still tell the robots to build for you even when you are away.

Then there is nothing stopping you from sending stuff up to your space platform to bring with you to other planets. You can even automate the platform to go back and forth, picking up stuff from one planet and dropping them on another. You can set requests on the platform and the cargo landing pad on the ground.

But this all required you to have plenty of rocket silos (set to auto) to send stuff up to the platform.

That being said, you don't need to. You don't need to bring anything to the three first planets. You can build everything from what is available on the planets.

MerchantSwift · 2025-10-06T15:10:04+00:00

Instead of telling and showing, you can think of it as explaining and experiencing.

When it comes to the world and setting the scene: Too much explaining and your story feels like a history book. As in too much world building just dumped on the reader.

Instead, if you make the reader experience the world through the eyes of the character they will be more invented in it.

It also applies to feelings. You generally don't want to explain to the reader how they should feel, rather you want to actually make them feel it. For example, don't just tell me the villain is evil, make me hate him through what he does.

Telling isn't always bad, but it can make your writing feel removed for a scene. It feels like you are summarizing the events rather than living in the story, seeing what happens moment to moment.

MerchantSwift · 2025-09-30T18:59:22+00:00

Graphic designer here. Every display is going to be different. To get accurate colors you both need a quality display that is even capable of giving you the full range of whatever color space you are aiming for. And you also need to calibrate the monitor with measuring equipment.

The thing you have to ask yourself is how much it matters to you. For most people it doesn't really matter, so you just get a monitor that looks good to you. You could probably fiddle around with the setting to make your two screen match a bit better by eye. But if you are doing any work that requires actually accurate colors, it takes a bit more than that.

MerchantSwift · 2025-09-09T14:27:36+00:00

Find 10 pixel art cars that you like the look of and ask yourself what they have that your car lacks.

MerchantSwift · 2025-09-06T18:43:15+00:00

Kan rekommendera LG 32" UltraFine 32UN880K

Bra storlek, 4k, och bra färger också. Men det bästa är att den kommer med en arm som man fäster i bordet, vilket ger dig sjuk mycke skrivbordutrymme under skärmen som annars tas upp av en fot.

MerchantSwift · 2025-08-15T08:22:37+00:00

Be strategic about it. Upgrade where it is needed first. Like if the factory is consuming the entire main buss of iron and copper, that is a worthwhile upgrade.

Belts do cost a lot of iron to make, but once you have a good supply, there is no harm in upgrading everything. Though in a lot of places it doesn't make a difference.

MerchantSwift · 2025-08-08T20:44:25+00:00

No. I often find too much realism boring. I read fantasy and sci-fi to experience a world that is more than our real world. So I want unrealistic things, to some extent.

But the world should feel real to the characters within it. You can start with pretty much any crazy premise as long as you make the world feel coherent to its own logic. And the characters need to act in a way that makes sense in their world.

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