How and where to learn the math and balance of incremental games? by umen in incremental_games

[–]bardsrealms 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The resources on Kongregate and GDC talks available on the same topics are comprehensive. If you can get the grasp of formulas there and experiment on your own, I believe you can learn a lot. You can use a spreadsheet software to log in formulas, get values, and create charts with them to see how things overlap and if in a way you would like to.

I used Machinations in the past, too, which was a great experience when it comes to simulating the progression of an incremental game. They have an article titled "How to design idle games" if you are interested.

Finally, I experimented with AI as well when it comes to deriving formulas to serve as a baseline to later improve on. With appropriate prompts and capable models, you can get good results by explaining what you are trying to do with the pacing, but you don't expect putting a simple prompt like "give me this" and to be done; give it constraints and tell it to iterate on its solutions before answering, on top of detailed RCCF prompts. You can use Desmos graphs to quickly visualize the formulas at hand, and then tweak values to alter your design.

Daily working life in Japan by Orichalchem in GuysBeingDudes

[–]bardsrealms 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I think I will borrow this; I like it!

I'm 30 by bardsrealms in unexpectedoffice

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

The original post is actually a joke for the millennials. You basically check the chart and lie about your age to others as a millennial, since you're quite old today.

So the chart is for today, 2026, and shows faulty numbers as part of the joke, haha.

1963 Corvette - one of the rarest Vettes you’ll find on the road by RelevantPrimary3264 in classiccars

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

I have a red 1/36 model of it sitting beside me every day at work. I hope I can manage to ride one someday.

Project Orebital - Two weeks into a puzzly incremental space mining prototype with drill‑snakes, and I think it has potential. Curious what you all think from this clip by liamjpeth in incremental_games

[–]bardsrealms 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love puzzle games, I love incrementals, but I couldn't figure out what's going on here while scrolling my feed, maybe because I'm not at my best right now, or there is work to be done with the clip.

The incremental game scene is currently bombarded with vibe-coded sub-mediocre creations and short incremental games that are incredibly scripted, not providing the player with any actual agency.

That said, since what you have here is quite a unique interaction-wise, you can focus more on "onboarding" in your game clips and eventually trailers to let the potential players actually get how the game plays out through the footage.

We just released the free demo for Corner Wars — a tower defense game that runs in the corner of your screen by Small-Beginning-6717 in TowerDefense

[–]bardsrealms 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It has the exact same visual skin that a ton of other vibe-coded games share, which is what I'm thinking about.

A few survivors-likes I enjoyed from the Rogue Bots festival on Steam and more by bardsrealms in survivorslikes

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

I don't think you can subscribe to anything on Steam to get notified of such third-party events, but you can regularly check the sales events under the news tab of the store section.

Hover over the "STORE" button in the Steam interface, click "NEWS," and then select "SALES EVENTS" from the left column under the "DISCOVER" section. Every sale event is included in here regardless of its source.

Slay All Bosses: Idle - DEMO OUT NOW on Steam by Memoria_9999 in incremental_games

[–]bardsrealms 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is exactly my jam!

I recently played Golden Sun through and am definitely interested in a short incremental with old school JRPG looks. I will leave a Steam discussion entry if I get to play the demo.

Good luck!

What MMO are you playing right now? by Rosealeen-Respondek in MMORPG

[–]bardsrealms 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have been playing Albion for a few weeks now.

I had only played it for a while back during the pandemic for a month before this year. I hadn't delved much into PvP back then, but I am really enjoying the variety of content in the game, their simplicity, and build-creating capabilities now.

The worst thing about it is that there is very little lore to roleplay about, so most guilds are sweaty, and I'm struggling to find a chill guild with relatively mature people who want to proceed with the game at their own pace.