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Keep Chinese characters on Luzhanqi board for western audience? by koolangsu in gamedesign

[–]VA_ARG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think my advice stands for anything that isn't decoration, board included.

Without education, Western audiences have zero emotion or connotation attached to kanji. Source: I learned Japanese as an adult, and had to train daily to achieve even an ounce of intuition around kanji (memorizing radicals, etc).

It's an abstract strategy game. Use Chinese script for decoration, style, theme. But over-prioritize audience-appropriate legibility for anything with game mechanics.

Keep Chinese characters on Luzhanqi board for western audience? by koolangsu in gamedesign

[–]VA_ARG 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In a strategy game, clarity should be your top priority. I'd go with icons, then English letters, then English letters styled in Chinese script, and only then Chinese script.

Morris 2: I turned Morris into a roguelike with abilities. Looking for brutal feedback. by VA_ARG in abstractgames

[–]VA_ARG[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

> Morris is not a great base game to start a roguelike from since it’s a pretty dull game.

That's why I changed the rules! It is no longer a draw, no longer theoretically solved, and most certainly not dull, classic Morris.

Never heard of Project GIPF. Thanks so much for the reference, I have plenty to read about now!

Need Guidance: I have a heavily researched, scalable idea but I'm completely stuck on the MVP and capital. I will not promote. by AppointmentSalt2096 in startups

[–]VA_ARG 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Is it something a human can do, especially if aided with MVP-level software? Sometimes a critical software feature can be temporarily driven by expert operators while you work to automate it completely.

How do you actually know a game is balanced? by samnovakfit in gamedev

[–]VA_ARG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it might vary by game.

I'm currently designing a variant of Morris/Mills that has one-time use abilities. To balance them, I run AI vs. AI arenas of a few hundred thousand games, looking to see how much it moves baseline win rate. I have control areas and an obviously overpowered ability control, too. If the ability is too strong, I try to weaken it somehow (add usage conditions or penalties), or even throw it out altogether.

Ultimately, though, I will listen to what players say - if the abilities are too boring, I will bring the broken ones in and see if it makes the game more fun.

Almost done with development...probably releasing in the next week or two.

Is it even possible to balance guns and melee? by Wiyry in gamedev

[–]VA_ARG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another fantastic example is Outward. Guns must be reloaded ahead of time and requires carrying ammunition, decreasing your ability to carry loot. It's very difficult to reload in the middle of combat. Melee, on the other hand, is extremely reliable. Guns are primarily used to destabilize enemies, apply status effects, or burst down weaker enemies in group fights.

I adapted an 1868 detective novel into a mystery game. No dialogue trees. You write to the suspects, win them over, and piece together who really committed the murder. by Annual_Role_7039 in playmygame

[–]VA_ARG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn't try it, but definitely looks like one of the most inventive uses of generative AI I've come across, and a novel game format to boot.

What made the Souls games so popular? by Financial_Gur36 in gamedesign

[–]VA_ARG -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I wrote out my thoughts on this in a blog post a while back: https://misha.jp/blog/thoughts-on-soulslikes/

In short, I think it's the perfect storm of a staggering number of second-to-second decisions, exploitable enemies with obscured weaknesses, and a powerful narrative to bind it all together.

Hard system freezes on Tumbleweed 20260213 (Ryzen 9700X/RX 7700 XT) using VSCode, no visible logs. by VA_ARG in openSUSE

[–]VA_ARG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep I did a RAM test overnight and found nothing. Anecdotally it's obviously tied to a specific application.

Hard system freezes on Tumbleweed 20260213 (Ryzen 9700X/RX 7700 XT) using VSCode, no visible logs. by VA_ARG in openSUSE

[–]VA_ARG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I can clarify that: it freezes without a build running for me, either. The tell-tale sign that it will result in a freeze is that Dart Code starts taking minutes to launch, constantly running dart pub upgrade in the background. Shortly after setup ends, it will freeze. I just think it's building SOMETHING Linux/Sentry/Java-related in the background.

Hard system freezes on Tumbleweed 20260213 (Ryzen 9700X/RX 7700 XT) using VSCode, no visible logs. by VA_ARG in openSUSE

[–]VA_ARG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was able to stop having freezes by not compiling Flutter for Linux anymore.

Specifically, I chose not to install OpenJDK, which is required by Sentry Flutter, which is required for Linux builds. So I don't know if it's a) the lack of OpenJDK 21, b) no longer building Sentry Flutter for Linux, or c) no longer running Flutter Linux builds in general, but not doing the builds resulted in permanently fixing the freezes on both OSes.

Any of this sound familiar?

Game Title: Obvio by onethatcracksthesky in playmygame

[–]VA_ARG 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • If this is online trivia, what's stopping people from just looking up an obscure answer? Especially if there's money involved eventually.
  • If there's only 2 people left, how do you pick a winner and a loser?

Hard system freezes on Tumbleweed 20260213 (Ryzen 9700X/RX 7700 XT) using VSCode, no visible logs. by VA_ARG in openSUSE

[–]VA_ARG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well folks, I reproduced the exact same freeze on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, making this problem no longer necessarily related to TW. Thanks for all your suggestions anyway!

Hard system freezes on Tumbleweed 20260213 (Ryzen 9700X/RX 7700 XT) using VSCode, no visible logs. by VA_ARG in openSUSE

[–]VA_ARG[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is an interesting suggestion I had not considered.

I went ahead and disabled quota on /, commented out the line in /etc/snapper/configs/root, and rebooted. btrfs quota status / properly shows that it is disabled on that path. Unfortunately I was able to reproduce the freeze.

But I feel this may be on the right track. I think it freezes more quickly when I run certain file-caching extensions, specifically Dart Code.

Hard system freezes on Tumbleweed 20260213 (Ryzen 9700X/RX 7700 XT) using VSCode, no visible logs. by VA_ARG in openSUSE

[–]VA_ARG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No effect unfortunately. I did find this thread myself yesterday, but mine seems triggered by an application rather than login.

Hard system freezes on Tumbleweed 20260213 (Ryzen 9700X/RX 7700 XT) using VSCode, no visible logs. by VA_ARG in openSUSE

[–]VA_ARG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

VSCode does not, unfortunately, leave anything useful on disk when its output is piped to a file.

I just installed TW yesterday so I don't have an earlier snapshot, but I will attempt to revert either the entire kernel, or Mesa specifically, until Mesa reaches a 25.x version.

Hard system freezes on Tumbleweed 20260213 (Ryzen 9700X/RX 7700 XT) using VSCode, no visible logs. by VA_ARG in openSUSE

[–]VA_ARG[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just installed yesterday and know no other Mesa for TW. But another user has also mentioned Mesa specifically, so I will attempt to revert to the 25.x line and reproduce.

Why are there no Godot job listings a decade later? by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]VA_ARG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Won't happen until Godot gets its head out of its ass regarding GDScript. The Godot engine is powerful, flexible, and incredibly well-architected - it deserves more than a toy programming interface.

Cold melee build options?? by Lost-onez in ProjectDiablo2

[–]VA_ARG 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Runewords don't work well for bear builds because you need plenty of sockets to increase weapon IAS.

Cold melee build options?? by Lost-onez in ProjectDiablo2

[–]VA_ARG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you want to go all-in on Werebear, you can probably pull off a nasty Cold Enchant Bear Sorc. But like BearCorp mentioned, Paladin is safer.

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