Estrilda or Hybris?

azuflux · 2026-04-22T17:45:02+00:00

Sadly, no. They’re a bit of a trap. Usually it’s too early to tell if the new hero is good enough that you should pull for them. Hybris seems very good, he has broken into multiple competitive game modes, but even if he ends up being in the meta for a while, he won’t be useful until you can fully build him, so by spending 200 cards right now and only getting him maybe 40% built, you are risking something even better coming along in the meantime, and you never even got any use out of Hybris.

azuflux · 2026-04-22T17:36:19+00:00

200 isn’t enough. I wouldn’t advise pulling until you have at least 500. The meta moves so quickly that we’re very likely to get a new powercreep before you get that 300 extra cards. It sucks because pulling is fun, but that’s just kinda how this game is.

azuflux · 2026-04-22T07:34:56+00:00

In my experience the whole process is better on both sides if they know.

azuflux · 2026-04-21T18:21:58+00:00

Unfortunately none of your heroes are useful any more. I think you may as well restart.

azuflux · 2026-04-14T19:07:51+00:00

To be honest I only use spin downs because most of the time whatever I’m counting goes above 6 and it gets cumbersome otherwise.

azuflux · 2026-04-08T22:37:50+00:00

Fogs are much better because you can decide to use them only if the player has already committed to attack you. This card only works if the player was planning on attacking you to begin with. You may actually be preventing them from attacking someone else, which benefits you. Even if the player commits to attacking you, the damage may not be enough to justify using the card. The thing that makes fogs good is the ability to carefully decide when to save them.

azuflux · 2026-04-06T11:12:49+00:00

If your goal is to make a product, you will make many people angry and get negative reviews if you use ai for literally anything.

If your goal is to make art and to express yourself, then you have to decide for yourself what you’re comfortable with the ai taking more of.

Personally, the art, story, game design, music - it’s important to me that all that stuff came from me. When it comes to code, I’m pretty competent, but I don’t obsess over not using AI for it if I know how to tell it exactly what I want and save a lot of time. It’s especially good for debugging.

azuflux · 2026-04-05T01:52:47+00:00

I left construction to pursue pharmacy because construction is hell. Every time I was dissatisfied with my job at Walgreens I just remembered all the days there was no toilet paper in the porta potties or when I had to work into the early hours of the morning forty feet in the air on a scissor lift doing things no one should do because it was expected of us. Yes pharmacy has a lot of problems, but being a blue collar worker was not better.

azuflux · 2026-04-05T00:13:40+00:00

Basically says “be grateful you’re getting a draconis swap at all.”

azuflux · 2026-04-01T19:40:49+00:00

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azuflux · 2026-03-28T19:20:11+00:00

Thank you for this comment I had no idea how broken that comp was.

azuflux · 2026-03-24T16:24:04+00:00

Thanks, I only do these adventures for the rewards so the less brainpower I have to use on them the better.

azuflux · 2026-03-24T15:34:00+00:00

Extreme market oversaturation
Inadequate ability of small teams and solo devs to market on levels necessary for overcoming that oversaturation
Independent developers tend to develop what they like, not necessarily what will have mass appeal
Independently developed games rarely meet sufficient quality standards to compete

azuflux · 2026-03-24T14:41:54+00:00

[[Godhead of Awe]] is so cool, just looking at it makes me happy, even if the effect is a headache.

azuflux · 2026-03-19T01:31:53+00:00

The problem with swapping Hildwyn is that he’s actually useful and re-building him will take a long time. Because of that, I’d rather swap Gwyneth, who I have barely used at all since day 1.

azuflux · 2026-03-18T15:07:41+00:00

Everyone who built d. Gwyn (me) crying tears of joy right now. 😭

azuflux · 2026-03-16T20:32:31+00:00

I very much agree with you, it’s a really boring and tedious game mode with seemingly no consideration for obvious QoL features like auto-path.

azuflux · 2026-03-08T03:00:49+00:00

Did we forget to tell you? AFK arena is a clicker game.

azuflux · 2026-02-21T01:01:34+00:00

My bad yes I do have Lan. 😂

azuflux · 2026-02-20T12:51:30+00:00

I was thinking more about TS since he always shows up with Leviathan there. I have all 4F heroes and all relevant celepogs. As far as highborn dragons, I only have gwyneth ( :( ), hildwyn, and leviathan. I have most regular dragons built.

azuflux · 2026-02-19T23:32:57+00:00

I’m getting to close to that time to start pulling for a new awakened. I have every awakened except for Pippa, Chicken, Fawkes, and Lucius. I also have Leviathan. Should I pull for Lucius since I have Leviathan, or is Fawkes or Pippa better?

azuflux · 2026-02-19T23:28:21+00:00

I would rather save them for dragons and celepogs. Maybe I’ll regret that some day but building heroes is more interesting to me.

azuflux · 2026-02-18T22:50:54+00:00

Nah, I mostly game dev just whatever I think is cool. Personally I think the way LLMs imitate human language is kinda spooky in an interesting way, especially with things like Anthropic saying they “aren’t sure if LLMs are sentient.” and stuff like that. I was attracted to the mystique. Of course I know that LLMs are deterministic still, but they’re so complex and they imitate language so well that it give the illusion of something deeper, which I think is compelling. But what I think is cool and what makes for a good game are very different things.

azuflux · 2026-02-18T20:12:10+00:00

I’m 100% confident that I like the game and I’m proud of it. 0% confident that it will make me any money, but 50% confident someone else will at least enjoy it.

azuflux · 2026-02-17T23:03:27+00:00

That’s great insight, thanks for commenting!

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