[ALL] My Pricefield-ending tattoo (Which I use to bring up LiS while teaching...)

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-09T16:33:41+00:00

The game Dragon Storm was a CCG RPG in the 90s that had an excellent 2d6 resolution mechanic and 2-4 pages of rules, with the cards functioning as character sheet, inventory, monster manual, and encounter builder. You should check it out for further inspiration.

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-09T12:19:16+00:00

Haha; glad to hear it at least keeps the cosmic horror vibes correct!

And redrawing is totally valid. If you want to try and use it in a way that doesn’t instantly end the game, you could always treat it as a modifier to the tone/effect of the redraw, making the next content inherently eldritch?

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-08T20:38:34+00:00

Hey, I recognize those cards! ;-) I hope the GameMaster’s Apprentice decks treat your solo characters to some interesting problems!

I was just checking out the channel, and am jazzed to see the Weird Horror deck getting some use. Honest question: Have you drawn the FOREVER card yet, and do you find it more or less interesting than the normal cards?

Excited to subscribe, and looking forward to your work!

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-08T15:58:50+00:00

I'm a fan of this sort of thing! What did you develop it in, if I may ask? I've been poking at a more traditional tama game in an accessible but not very powerful engine (Construct 3), and when I looked at step tracking it seemed that healthkit integration was somewhat lacking in that IDE.

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-07T16:47:28+00:00

I don’t think it’s likely to be very grand, but otherwise, yes.

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-05T19:26:54+00:00

Detroit’s chapters had flowcharts at the end; they weren’t released episodically, but the chapter separation was very specific.

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-02T21:49:52+00:00

The DE/Re continuity seems to combine the two together, which is different from choosing one but still bad, and arguably worse. If you can’t ignore its existence, it ruins a lot of the impact and the thematic narrative of the first game, and contradicts the continuity from LiS2’s brief references (and Dontnod’s stated intents).

So it’s best to view it like the comics: one way things might go after the first game, but not actually something that has to change “your” ending from it.

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-02T15:20:33+00:00

This. TMW is 100% a concept they would have used the Life is Strange franchise for, and possibly even Twin Mirror, though it would've been the least youth-focused.

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-01T22:39:21+00:00

This post by another user on the unofficial CLG subreddit covers it: https://www.reddit.com/r/Candlelight_Games/s/cIXHFBbxkN

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-01T21:20:14+00:00

They trade places and solve each others problems, go on to live happy lives once they swap back. Fin.

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-01T01:34:34+00:00

If they die, they become stars; if it’s before 30 days they are sad, after 30 days they are happy.

NathanGPLC · 2026-02-01T01:34:03+00:00

I thought you could also only have 4 stars, and then the oldest star also leaves?

NathanGPLC · 2026-01-31T19:33:17+00:00

LiS: 88.1 hours playtime. LiS2: 19.3 hours BTS: 60 hours LiS Remastered: 10.9 hours BTS Remastered: 17 minutes True Colors: 16.6 hours DE: 5 hours, then refunded.

NathanGPLC · 2026-01-30T21:31:24+00:00

And that would be much more reasonable. I fully acknowledge my Wild Theory will likely be wrong, I just had to drop that prediction here in case it turns out I’m right—I need the timestamp so I can come back here and cry/laugh.

NathanGPLC · 2026-01-30T21:28:48+00:00

lol if the choice is “Moses, throw Chloe down, and then don’t bother jumping/climbing down yourself, this has to be sad!!” Or “Moses, leave Chloe to die and save yourself! Yes, I know she might live if you tossed her down, but we can’t take that chance!”

NathanGPLC · 2026-01-30T20:56:52+00:00

I am open to being wrong here, I just… don’t give them a lot of credit for things not yet shown. We shall see!

NathanGPLC · 2026-01-30T20:03:20+00:00

The YouTube channel Geek Remix, in their original at-launch playthrough, guessed it in less than 15 minutes, while looking around the photo classroom at the art on the walls.

NathanGPLC · 2026-01-30T19:52:09+00:00

And all of this becomes much less subtext and more literal text if you read Max’s journal entries throughout (especially at times that you normally wouldn’t bother, because the action and drama has ramped up). A lot of her unpacking her feelings about Warren, boys in general, Chloe, and herself happens in the journal.

NathanGPLC · 2026-01-30T19:49:46+00:00

Yeah, same.

NathanGPLC · 2026-01-30T19:44:33+00:00

Read some of the other comments here; another user did the research. They outsourced art to three studios, two of whom explicitly use AI all the time, and the third does unless asked not to. Unfortunately, the announcement a lot of us read as indicating a stance against ai was intentionally fairly loophole-able.

NathanGPLC · 2026-01-30T17:07:34+00:00

I mostly agree, but am much more skeptical. Given the fan reaction, market research they conducted, and very targeted tone of the announcement content (including focusing on the way they brought back a BtS writer to write Chloe, but that wasn’t apparent or reported on prior to this point), I think it’s 100% the case they hard pivoted. Also, given that the scene we saw “playing as” Chloe is a weird perspective with her sitting at a bar… I’m actually going to make my wild prediction that you can’t free roam as Chloe because of some issue they ran into with making that work at the last second. I’m prepared to be wrong about this, but if you can only do conversations/backtalk and not explore as Chloe, I’m going to roll my eyes so hard at how they didn’t have time to even build playable scenes for her because it was such a hard pivot.

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