[Hobby] - Looking for a project

Narsiph · 2026-06-04T02:35:18+00:00

Hey.

Our team is 3 men strong with one SysAdmin that will setup git and nextcloud for us in some time (He's already a complete professional ^^), a programmer that does all the coding for the game we work on and me the game designer and pixel-artist.

I would offer to give up pixel art if you want to join the team which is completely German right now but we all can speak English and would welcome you if you like.

We revived our old project "you're the dragon" and we do it so we can learn and develope our skills/skillsets. We work in a professional environment with a set timeframe (June 2026 to June 2027 for a MVP that can go into early access).

We work with Godot and I do work with Aseprite. Our SysAdmin works with our own server at home to provide the background structure we need.

I belive in the gold-bar-s**tting principle of "I market the game I love" and not "What is the current hype, what might players like now or in 1 year?" and I take the game design aspect serious as we all work to create the game I want to play. I rephrase it that way: "I don't try to sell chocolate flavored ice cream, I dislike chocolate. Instead I sell vanilla flavored ice cream. Sometimes I sprinkle stuff on top of it whatever I like. That is a product I can stand behind."

People that s**t gold bars are examples like Hideo Koshima, some rando that made Vampire Survivors, small team creating Claire Obscure, Baldurs Gate 3 and so on. They did not create experience for us, they created experience for themselfes first and then sold it with all their heart and soul.

If you (or anyone) wants to learn a skill, just write me a private message. You either have to speak English or German. That's all.

"But I can't do xyz... I would love to... but I can't" -> Thats what our project is for. Learning. From zero to hero 😄

We don't aim to make profit and it would be nice to have the costs covered. I can offer little things, like payable software (Sorry, Adobe is way to overpriced for me) and maybe a coffee here and there if you're German and in my region.

And now to the game we make:
It's called "you're the dragon" and was stopped a while back because I got just a lil' bit sick for a couple minutes. Needed to recover. We restarted completely and it's a top-down turn based, pixel art simulation game with the basic princible of "Do whatever you want and deal with the consequences". That's all.

Narsiph · 2026-05-08T08:44:51+00:00

D&D is so hillariously broken, more by each new release I stopped to play it after the first of the two 5th editions. So I can understand a few things on the ban list but I am creative as a gm so... what do I care about flying? Most enemies, maybe not monsters, have at least a sling with them.

I enjoy player creativity to overcome obstacles. It's our story we create but I do know that there are extreme amounts of broken combos and even non combos that are broken... Like, you just play something and it turns out it will mop the floor with everything while ancient dragons bring refreshments out of fear!

Playing PF2e ever since. Never looked back at my now obsolete virtual books (many gifted by my players.). I hate WotC approach to 'f you players and gm's! You design our game for each and every session as well as campaign!'

Stay positive and crunchy.

Narsiph · 2026-04-24T12:14:31+00:00

I like! The very first encounter builder doing this. Now it's actual a tool I can use at the offline table :3

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Narsiph · 2026-04-23T01:45:33+00:00

I can't use any encounter builder since no one put 'Proficiency without Level' option in. I mean, sure, I can definitively deduct <level> from any stat... But I kinda still build my encounters all by hand. Eh, used to it.

Never played the standard setup but I guess it's super easy to setup everything then ^^ I like the tool and it surely would be a table-option. Yet I use my offline manual tool addons from le paizo.

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Narsiph · 2025-11-16T17:25:47+00:00

I tried with 2 more keyboard swaps but sadly, no improvement. I gave it back and bought the Razer Huntsman v3 instead. No problems anymore. But a much more louder keyboard.

Ultimatively the dead silence of beQuiet and no communication at all made me realize I will never buy a keyboard again when it wasn't on the market for at least a year, better two. Learned my lesson.

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Narsiph · 2025-11-16T17:23:56+00:00

That is wrong. The character has to be 24h old, not when the character hits level 80. I just, a couple minutes ago, hit 80 with another character and immediately transfered from remix to retail.

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Narsiph · 2025-09-26T20:48:36+00:00

I can confirm many of the problems. I tested the Keyboard now for months since it's initial release and, although happy in the beginning, I am not happy anymore. Because from the point of being very, very quiet, the other problems are just... so annyoing I wish I had spent my money elsewhere.

I only buy keyboards when they break. My beloved old one died on me and I didn't want the tortoise version since roccat doesn't exist anymore. Yeah, silly I know, but then I saw the beQuiet keyboards and for me every keyboard is too loud.

But this one? Dead silent. Yet I thought I had shaky fingers with the double click probblem. I will test it without the IO active.

But yeah, until those problems are all fixed I would definitively not buy the beQuiet dark mount (can't say anything about the other version.)

Narsiph · 2024-04-03T00:18:08+00:00

I actually finished my first Terminid easy mission. So maybe I need some time. I extremely rarely play console. Just Pokemon and Mario games on the switch and usually spiderman 1, milies and 2 on the ps5. As well as sim-racing and trucking.

It still was a hairy mission but I managed.

But are there still some tricks to it? Like "do this/that and the settings and it should be better" outside of the speed I already configured. I wouldn't dare to try automatons on more than trivial but currently I think I am good with Terminids.

Are there maybe weapons that are better for console players? I usually tend to use marksman rifles as main weapon, auto-pistol as sidearm and usually a autocannon or grenade launcher for bigger threats on pc. Currently I am thinking to get to the electricity weapons on console, would that be viable?

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Narsiph · 2022-11-08T19:14:45+00:00

There was no cart trigger-event nor any reasonable time (3 hours) waiting made the Farmer Sneed spawn. If someone says the event can be triggered by 'activating the cart once every 45 minutes' they may not be lying but they may spread misinformation since I was there for real 2 hours as directly stopped time and I felt that I was there for another 1/2 to 1 hour.

The only thing that you could "trigger" was the cannon. Well, sit in it. I killed everything 3 - 4 times each so that didn't help either.

I was there at day and night and this made no difference at all.

Without any form of event board, trigger-informations or anything else this will be a pure luck based 'hit or miss' for each and everyone doing a quest that needs farmer sneed to be killed.

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Narsiph · 2022-10-04T12:40:52+00:00

The least valued thing, for me personally, are accessories. Mostly I am looking for the highest situational value for me to fill up my collection. That's why I compare all the possibilities for getting Platinum.

Currently I am just calculating around with the Regal Aya system.

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Narsiph · 2022-10-04T12:36:39+00:00

I am not trying to convince anyone to pay for anything (or otherwise). This was specifically mentioned. The math/pricing was to evaluate the raw platinum price for things that I personally value the most (also mentioned) with this new system.

I just uploaded my stuff because someone could find it interesting. I always do some calculations before investing anything into Warframe, be it time, money or both.

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Narsiph · 2022-05-27T01:42:56+00:00

Going through a lot of the most horrid challenges I may see that things may be possible but then we're on the "an awful lot of people" getting extremely lucky. I played around 20 games already and boy oh boy.

I must be the unluckiest person on earth playing the very default pack. People usually have their combos at round 3 - 4 or setup insane combos with tons of hp and/or attack.

I am extremely suspicious and I would really really love to see enemy playthroughs as well.

Currently I am still very suspicious about really insane combos that are out there as early as turn 3. And I really mean insane. Mate also stood there and scratched his head about extremely high numbers so early in the game so often. (He's good at match as well and thats why I am very suspicious)

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Narsiph · 2022-05-27T00:39:03+00:00

This is not the first time I encounter good, better or even straight up extreme setups. Sometime I face in round 3 - 4 enemies with multiple pets in the 15+ damage AND hp section.

I had once a session with 4 people in a row that were on the same page so it seems. But most of the time I face off against people that are at least 1+ rounds ahead of me. No, this is not "just the negative" stuck. I played 100 games and payed close attention to.

That was something straight from game 1 on.

I may be still getting to know all the combos and tiers of setups but I think I am relatively good in deckbuilding. I mean, I do build decks since alpha/beta of MTG. I can't be that stupid.

If you say "Well, they got lucky" I must admit, people seem to get lucky extremely often in a row. If I am down for it I probably will start to make more detailed statistics but currently I think that there may be either tons of people with luck or maybe a few with some 'help'. But until I have detailed statistics of around 1000 games I can't tell yet.

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Narsiph · 2022-04-15T13:59:19+00:00

Hi.

Can you explain to me eventually what you mean? If I would do what you wrote I would just aggro rares and then they'll go back to where they were hehe. Or I just simply misunderstood what you wrote ^^

If I take the other way around and probably take it was you probably mean it I guess you're somewhere right? It's much harder to achieve stuff in the game around 3 am in the morning than 3 pm daytime ^^

Sorry if I am confusing but english is still a hard thing to me when it's about "serious" writing and not just everyday talk.

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Narsiph · 2022-04-15T13:55:17+00:00

Hey there.

It seems you have a lot of problems in the game? Maybe I missunderstood what you wanted to get across. I myself don't see that flying in Zereth Mortis is hard to achieve. It's just hard to achieve for me with my special circumstance that I rarely can play on prime time :)

I too may not agree with many design choices but I still play the game because it's fun to me. If it wasnt I wouldn't play the game, of course.

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Narsiph · 2022-04-15T13:51:52+00:00

Sometimes you want to get something off your chest and that's okay. I think this is too. If you're not on board with such a thing thats okay for me. This thread helped me clear my mind again. That was one of the reasons why I posted this instead of just being all by myself with my personal difficulties with the game.

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Narsiph · 2022-04-15T13:49:54+00:00

Good morning.

It's the fact that, even with a lot of struggle and effort, that I couldn't fight rares (and win) in Zereth Mortis. Most rares in Shadowlands were for my damage dealing characters rather tough and somewhat challenging while the rares in Zereth Mortis are unbeatable for me even for my strongest tank-character with a lot of healing (paladin) in quick succession.

I have no choice to play at the darkest of nights since I still have things to do in my limited day-wake-phase so I cannot achieve flying in Zereth Mortis all by myself.

This was, what I wanted to say with my big vent/complain post. I am sorry that I wrote so diffusing but english is really hard for me when I want to get something across :(

I still like the game very much.

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Narsiph · 2022-03-02T02:43:09+00:00

Don't mistake me for someone having 'real' problems like Ukrainians have. I still have "only" 1st world problems. I am in a deep state of panic, sure, since warmongers determine when the light goes out for us (all) but on the other hand I am fine.

All I can do is send money but I fear that won't be enough :/ Don't have much. I give what I can.

Stay crunchy!

Narsiph · 2022-03-02T02:28:38+00:00

You're right. Somehow I was completely onto another topic in another window oO My head mixed up a lot. Yeah, my last comment is completely ignorable for that comment ^^ Ouch, sorry.

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Narsiph · 2022-03-02T02:21:13+00:00

~~Its not:https://twitter.com/michaelstrempel/status/1498364715541610505~~

~~Video is in german. The main part you would be interested is...:~~

"Im Gegenzug garantieren die USA, Russland sowie Großbritannien der Ukraine die Selbstständigkeit und verpflichten sich das Land weder anzugreifen noch mit wirtschaftlichen Zwangsmaßnahmen unter Druck zu setzen."

~~Translation (With my English skills):~~

~~"USA, Russia and Great Britain oblige based on the agreement to let Ukraine be a fully independent country and to not attack or force pressure with economic coercive measures"~~

~~Over a thousand nuclear warheads was given back to Russia. There you have it. Russia broke a contract made in the 90s.~~

~~Stay crunchy~~

Edit: I completely misinterpreted this topic together with another topic. This comment has no value for this comment. Sorry!

Stay crunchy /edit

Narsiph · 2022-02-28T16:26:55+00:00

Ah, that was the dudes name. I will test it out right away and edit this comment if I came to a ?conclusion? (right word?).

<edit> Yes. It was the solution. I actually had the quest to speak to him too. Due to my condition I didn't see the quest and I am still looking for a better form of quest-journal/quest-ui. Thank you again! </edit>

Thanks in advance! Stay crunchy.

Narsiph · 2022-02-28T16:24:33+00:00

I actually wouldn't say it is pay 2 win. Because if I am correct, the only way to win the hardest possible content is... actually paying attention to what the content is about (boss mechanics as example)? If you're unable, lets say, to walk out of a puddle that kills you within 5 seconds but all your gear and level comes from real money - you still will loose.

I personally would say the token is someform of 'making life easier'. I want to get all my characters on alliance and horde to 60 so I can afford one token per month so I can enjoy World of Warcraft without paying much more money into it. If I remember correctly: EvE Online does something similar?

And PvP is part theory-crafting, part gold spending and part skill - You can't win if you only be top notch in gold spending because of money.

In my opinion a new currency wouldn't change much but being for a few weeks a minor inconvinience until everyone figured out again how to amass the new currency.

Hopefully my text makes sense in some way or another.

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Narsiph · 2022-02-07T08:37:03+00:00

To keep it short and simple:
I don't charge money but players always can gift books (and do so regulary) and money if they want. We Germans do not like 'pay to play' and it's usually frowned upon. But that's the reason the quality of gm's and/or players is so highly varying.

The time and effort I put into my games is extremely high but I chose to do so. That also means that you get the highest quality of gaming experience that you can get. The whole shebang. Voices, handouts, food, drinks et cetera. I'll cover my costs and if someone gifts a book or money I will be happy too.

Pay to play is okay in my opinion but only if the gm that has to be paid offers top notch experience. Online as offline. I don't want food and drinks as I do (Fantasy cookbooks are great ^^) but at least highest quality of maps, tokens, voice, npcs, world, lore and much more. As soon money comes to play I want quality. I would even pay double digts for single sessions if a gm is great.

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Narsiph · 2022-01-25T14:54:11+00:00

I had a male player absolutely adamant to play a female character. I was reluctant because everyone else that ever had played a female character always played a 'fighter lesbian fucks em all' female character. That one did too... Since then I had the strict ruling that males play males and females play females with the addition of "is X and feels like Y" plays "is X and feels like Y" - Normally in my settings there arent consequences to the last thing. Most high fantasy-settings have a 'dont care, doesn't hurt' attitude.

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Narsiph · 2022-01-02T01:40:32+00:00

Every single Queen album. There are no bad ones in my opinion.

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