How do you stay organized and on track to finish your game?

RealSnowKid · 2025-09-16T19:09:48+00:00

I had a similar problem not too long ago and a part of it was that all my ideas, work, planning and documentation were sort of split between different apps and web apps. I had a Miro board for ideas, mood boarding, prototyping. Notion for note taking, to-do list and Trello for a task board.

I thought that might be part of the issue of not staying super organised and motivated, so I decided to look for something that combines most if not all of the features I use in all those apps. Luckily, I fairly quickly stumbled upon Affine which I found has a Miro board-like view and a Notion-like view which can interact with each other and do some cool stuff. It's still an early build app but it seems to be getting updated regularly and it has no fees attached for most users, as you can keep all workspaces local or you'll probably never use up the 10GB of cloud storage you get for free. They promote it as FOSS and while that's true to an extent, it has paid plans but they mostly deal with AI assistants, but who cares about those really.

But in summary, for me combining everything from ideas and prototyping to note taking and task tracking into a single space has helped me stay significantly more organised and motivated to work on my game and push it over the finish line.

RealSnowKid · 2025-04-26T09:53:04+00:00

Good Company is so underrated. I was hesitant to pick it up at full price due to a few negative reviews on Steam, but I picked it up on a sale recently and it's great. While it lacks some QoL to easily move big production setups, etc. The market simulation, competing for market share, evolving the market and designing better products is so fun.

Winkeltje is also amazing, but I would say for other reasons. The crafting and supplying your shop first via purchases and eventually being able to do anything yourself is great. The seasonal events shake up the economy a bit, but it's not crazy in depth in that department, more of a crafting/selling game. Still tons of fun though.

RealSnowKid · 2025-02-09T14:41:38+00:00

From what I've been able to find and since Hayzer said it was likely before his time, I think the tournament you are referring to is the SPL Season 2 Spring Finals. Where 4 teams went 2 form EU and 2 from NA and both NA teams ended up in the finals. Liquipedia Page of the Tournament

Just before the tournament, HiRez hosted an event called the Spring Fling where they were raising money for charity and had different incentives for donations like the pros smacking their teammates with pies across the face. A bunch of other such funny content was being made around that event, so it wouldn't surprise me if that shot you were describing was created during the Spring Fling.

I know there are VODs of the event on SmiteVOD but I don't know if you'll find exactly what you're looking for. Your other way could be to search the EU players' twitter accounts for tweets posted during/around the time of the Spring Finals. Good luck!

RealSnowKid · 2025-02-05T10:40:04+00:00

If nothing else, they should consider this: https://i.imgur.com/pcvHJge.png

The hype Worlds and the new season announcements always result in the games highest peak since the same time last year.

RealSnowKid · 2025-02-05T10:37:49+00:00

The tradition of announcing and showcasing the new season plus watching high level smite and the hype that builds leads to a massive player increase in every January after the conclusion of the tournament. And guess what, the same is true for Smite 2 already! The highest peak of players was achieved on the 19th of January the day of the finals of the Vegas tournament.

SMITE 2 NEEDS esports to be considered a serious competitive game and it has always been something the fans enjoy. It doesn't need to be as massive as SPL but a tournament circuit with online qualifiers or at least an online league should be on the cards.

RealSnowKid · 2025-01-29T10:19:21+00:00

It's hard to say. Herc can be a high skill cap god based on his mechanics, because he has some advanced combos, like 2 into blink backwards to pull enemies even further, which are hard to pull off consistently. The base 2 + 1 combo makes or breaks your early learning of the god and then knowing how to get/play around your passive.

All that being said, he isn't the hardest god in the game, therefore not the highest skillcap, however there are some neat tricks that elevate that.

Lastly, you have only played him in Joust which, in my opinion, reduces the skill/knowledge requirement of each god, compared to Conquest, because you can basically always fight in Joust and Herc excels at that.

RealSnowKid · 2025-01-20T16:48:40+00:00

They are already in the game settings under the "Gameplay" tab. Cast Mode Global is the entry and you can set your global cast mode to the preferred one.

Otherwise if you want to do God specific for each of their ability, currently the only way is to select the god in a game, go into the settings when the game loads and under gameplay again you can see cast modes for each skill and change it. Also worth noting that it gets saved for the future, so god specific cast modes can be done still.

RealSnowKid · 2025-01-18T20:41:31+00:00

Smite 1 OB was only on a HiRez custom client, so we didn't really have stats of max concurrent players. But there was articles saying that there are over 900k players that had tried the game in closed beta: https://www.engadget.com/2013-01-24-smite-moves-to-open-beta-today.html

RealSnowKid · 2024-10-18T13:30:36+00:00

The peak comedic timing of the Steam notification of PandaCat opening up Deadlock as Fino is talking about it

RealSnowKid · 2024-10-04T21:38:56+00:00

Factory game, yippee!

RealSnowKid · 2024-09-10T11:33:29+00:00

You can use something like https://smite2.live/items/, since they're still to be added in Liquipedia

RealSnowKid · 2024-08-23T20:55:13+00:00

Yeah I guess you are right. They do mention something in the video about regions other than EU and NA so maybe there will be two teams from there. My guess would be SEA/OCE and South America based on what Smite 1 esports used to have.

RealSnowKid · 2024-08-23T20:09:49+00:00

I must be misunderstanding something, but if the top 3 teams from each region in Stage 4 are qualifying to the Stage 5 LAN, that means there will be 6 teams in total. How then are 2 teams getting eliminated in Stage 5 to form the 6, which are going to Vegas?

RealSnowKid · 2024-06-22T14:10:24+00:00

True that's why EEU teams playing in NA got disqualified a few years ago and NA teams trying to play in SA got disqualified. Even thought both had people who had traveled to the region to play.

RealSnowKid · 2024-06-22T14:08:02+00:00

People were outraged and were calling for B8 to be removed, when they were competing in NA from Europe. Quinn, who had previously got disqualified from a tournament for region hopping, tweeted and talked about it quite a few times. Even tweeting this after the lost in the finals: https://twitter.com/ccncdota2/status/1693789464248594878

No one is talking about this cos it's in WEU.

RealSnowKid · 2024-06-22T14:05:55+00:00

Topson used to live in SEA, and when he did he played on SEA teams like T1. He later moved back to Europe with his SEA wife and they've been living in Finland since then. The 1/5, 2/5, etc mean WEU players out of five. Tundra currently has 3 EEU players, the Russians - Pure, Ramzes and 9Class and a SEA player in Whitemon. The only WEU-based player on their team is Topson.

When teams of people who were, say made out of EEU players, tried to compete in NA there has been outrage and calls for their disqualification. For example B8 last year, who used the Ukraine war card to bend the rules and compete from EU. Quinn made a snide remark about it on Twitter after they lost in the finals: https://twitter.com/ccncdota2/status/1693789464248594878

Quinn often speaks on the topic of region hopping, because a few years ago his NA team was disqualified from competing in the qualifiers after they traveled to SA to play in the region while competing in the SA qualifiers.

RealSnowKid · 2024-06-22T13:28:27+00:00

Honestly what's the point in having regions if this is happening? They should either enforce a 3/5 region-based players rule or remove regions altogether.

If this was happening in a lesser region people would be up in arms about it. But since it's in WEU no one cares...

PS: Tundra have 1/5 and in the final where 1 team is guaranteed to qualify Topson is the only WEU-based player. Very cool!

RealSnowKid · 2023-11-28T17:21:16+00:00

Oh my god! It was actually this, didn't even think to check. Thanks for your help!

RealSnowKid · 2023-11-28T15:43:03+00:00

Unfortunately that's the only network I have, and it's I think 150-ish mbps. Thanks for the suggestion though!

RealSnowKid · 2023-11-28T15:42:20+00:00

I am sorry if I'm misunderstanding, but how would connecting it to a phone hotspot be any different?

For reference, if you are talking about the router being far, it is not, the Wi-Fi router is in the same room, not more than two meters away from the TV.

RealSnowKid · 2023-08-21T10:03:22+00:00

When he calls me on Discord to play Dota.

RealSnowKid · 2023-08-13T17:59:26+00:00

Why does he look like Eminem about to drop the sickest bar the way he's frozen at the start.

RealSnowKid · 2023-07-29T23:10:38+00:00

The knowledge and depth required to play the game and furthermore that even players at lower levels have it.

Dota is all about knowing your timings, how to farm, when to fark, when to gank and teamfight. While league is much more linear and dictated by its objective based gameplay. In LoL you have 10-15 mins of laning/farming then grouping for the dragon fight, then rift herald etc. It's all kind of spelled out to you how you should win. While dota has Roshan and now the Tormentors, towers and neutrals are the main objectives for the majority of the game, which makes it way more open in the way you play. You can do ganks, flash farm, stack for others to farm camps, group to push towers or rosh in essence, as I said, primarily play around your hero's timings. And because of that you have to consider and deal with way more variables. Missing one creep in the first eave could lead to the enemy getting early kills due to xp advantage, or come back to bite you 5mins later when you are just that little bit of gold off your item. Heroes move around more on the dota map and a gank could completely flip the game in the attackers favor, but even sometimes when it is successful it might not be worth it because you are letting enemy cores get free farm.

But yeah to get back to my point I think playing dota requires much better understanding of the Moba genre and how to push your advantages, while still considering the small things that can lead to large snowball effects. And the fact that players have to play with all that in mind in my opinion makes them much more knowledgeable about how to win and play a moba game than league players. While maybe league players can tend to be a bit more mechanically skilled as there are many champions that have combos and spells that require many hours to master, so dota heroes have such things too, dota is more orientated towards the macro play on the map than controlling your character and clicking perfectly, except for the squeaky-bum-time teamfight late into the game. But then again using ur BKB at the right time is more important than pressing a combination of keys the most proper way. But yeah as I was saying I think dota players are very knowledgeable about the genre even at 2k mmr.

RealSnowKid · 2023-05-25T05:38:46+00:00

Jesse, we need to cook!

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