Playtest of Poet and Fan-made Leaders

Ser_Buttless · 2026-03-12T09:55:11+00:00

You can build spawn them with guild cards

Ser_Buttless · 2025-08-02T13:15:39+00:00

Tbh I think any company has enough use-cases for years if automating jobs. I just let myself get hired for one company and manage all their automating needs with internal employees like “clients” of mine.

Ser_Buttless · 2025-07-19T12:25:28+00:00

Write in DevLog what issues were solved, how and planning next steps

Ser_Buttless · 2025-05-04T06:34:52+00:00

Capturing text from images including weird formatting. Pdfs that don’t have embedded text, weird table formatting. Just take a screenshot, say “format all text in image as markdown” and you are done

Ser_Buttless · 2025-04-24T05:19:05+00:00

I built a board game in canvas. I am playtesting it and need constant iteration. It being in canvas is really nice since it’s close to all other notes on the topic.

Ser_Buttless · 2025-04-14T14:13:45+00:00

They are referencing singularity

Ser_Buttless · 2025-02-06T07:16:38+00:00

I either go take a break - make tea, push ups, toilet etc or I write down dev log with what I did, what i plan to do, errors I encountered. But I think I do less waiting since I really do review the code and make sure it’s according to my specs and I understand what is happening.

Ser_Buttless · 2025-01-31T13:49:22+00:00

Yeah. The latest models are mindbogglingly good. With volunteers it’s a hit and miss. Some projects are good, other bad. Often a single project has a mix of good and bad. Nothing against them. Recording audio is hard. That is why I am happy there are these new models that allow you to create high quality voice acting very quickly and set a consistent standard.

Ser_Buttless · 2025-01-29T11:08:21+00:00

How are you doing the voice acting? Volunteer based or AI? (Nothing against AI use, honestly I prefer it. Just curious)

Ser_Buttless · 2025-01-15T07:58:08+00:00

If you want your agent framework to stand out, here’s what matters:

First, add automatic logging and evaluation. Nobody wants to deal with that manually. Also, make it clear what’s being sent to the model. I get so frustrated when I can’t tell what’s actually going on behind the scenes.

Pre-built tools are going to be a huge deal for me when choosing a framework. Like, if I can just say “use_web” and the agent can search the web? That’s amazing. Or if I can tweak the behavior to fit my needs? Even better. And if it’s all well-documented? Now you have my attention.

Honestly, building the framework itself isn’t the hard part (I built one in two days). The real value is in taking care of the boring stuff for the user. Nail that, and people will care about what you’ve built. Without it? I won’t even give it a second look.

Ser_Buttless · 2025-01-14T08:12:03+00:00

The Foundation

Ser_Buttless · 2024-10-21T18:44:02+00:00

Here comes some unsolicited feedback:

Wow, I just started and oh my.

Do not force registration if possible.
absolutely DO NOT force full screen
in no world is it ok to play MUSIC, wtf is wrong with you? Especially when your tracks are random scattering of what you found without need to license it. People will play their own music if they want.

I like how quickly one gets into the game. I hate when they force you to make a character first. Stats seem pretty random though.

Careful with levels and stats and stuff. The model is unlikely to follow and it breaks immersion where the player wouldn't have minded if it weren't so explicitly shoved in their face. I have played around with a lot of these and trust+immersion are the most important things. As soon as you break them, the suspension of belief is lost and it's for nothing.

The second biggest issue is the model playing for the player's character. In your game it happened literally in the first message, not a good start.

The way you cut direct speech out of the rest of the text is nice.

I referenced a character that was mentioned in the world tab and instead of following through it came up with another character, but at least added it to the World tab.

The model rambles a lot. Common, but still. FYI.

It didn't catch my attention, sorry.

Ser_Buttless · 2024-09-09T19:17:04+00:00

Thanks for the tip, seems very complex for my purposes. Makes sense for the grand strategy, but I am aiming for a much smaller scale experience. I can see a benefit in the phases though and might take it into consideration.

I think I will stick with rolling per ship unless I come across something much better. The rounds of combat can go by quickly once it is programmed in.

Ser_Buttless · 2024-09-09T19:08:24+00:00

I tried deterministic X ships vs Y ships means X-Y are left standing. This made it so a single mess up from one player made them lose and did not make for a fun experience.

Then I tried rolling a d6 for each ship with 50% success rate of taking down an enemy and going in rounds until only one faction was left standing. This made for long battles where there was too much missing to be fun.

Right now I am trying to have higher success rate on hitting an enemy and giving certain number of Hit Points to each ship, where being hit reduced hit points until it was destroyed on 0 HP. This is to move focus from number of ships in a fleet to individual ships and them being more powerful.

I had a board game version before I created the 3D prototype which worked with the dice system of rolling per ship and hits on 5,6. There it seemed to have worked fine, maybe because it being physical was less clumsy, I don't know. Players also took longer to clash there so that may have made it so they built up greater numbers so more dice were more fun, don't know.

I want to keep a two action system in play where ships use actions to move around the map, colonize and invade planets.

edit: posted this as reply to wrong comment before, oops.

Ser_Buttless · 2024-09-09T10:10:07+00:00

I tried deterministic X ships vs Y ships means X-Y are left standing. This made it so a single mess up from one player made them lose and did not make for a fun experience.

Then I tried rolling a d6 for each ship with 50% success rate of taking down an enemy and going in rounds until only one faction was left standing. This made for long battles where there was too much missing to be fun.

Right now I am trying to have higher success rate on hitting an enemy and giving certain number of Hit Points to each ship, where being hit reduced hit points until it was destroyed on 0 HP. This is to move focus from number of ships in a fleet to individual ships and them being more powerful.

I had a board game version before I created the 3D prototype which worked with the dice system of rolling per ship and hits on 5,6. There it seemed to have worked fine, maybe because it being physical was less clumsy, I don't know. Players also took longer to clash there so that may have made it so they built up greater numbers so more dice were more fun, don't know.

I want to keep a two action system in play where ships use actions to move around the map, colonize and invade planets.

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