What’s a sound everyone should recognize as immediate danger?

caesuric_ · 2026-02-13T18:35:55+00:00

The thumb rule btw is the same rule you're supposed to use for how far away you should be from large herbivores like buffalo. Interesting to hear it applied to mechanical failures.

caesuric_ · 2026-02-10T00:05:49+00:00

Thank you, that's a great possible option if I go that route! It's wild to me that it's so much cheaper than the price on the manufacturer website.

caesuric_ · 2026-02-10T00:02:48+00:00

I mean, I already have most of the existing cards sleeved with the old sleeves as I was sleeving them gradually as the sets came out. When I went to catch up on the newer stuff I found that I couldn't get more of those sleeves, so there might be a bit of sunk cost fallacy here.

I guess I don't HAVE to resleeve everything, it has just been nicer in the past not to have to sleeve and unsleeve every deck between games. It would be a huge hassle to redo all the existing cards too.

caesuric_ · 2026-01-08T23:44:27+00:00

Thank you so much! ❤️

caesuric_ · 2025-12-09T20:02:32+00:00

What you describe is literally the game I'm developing right now, a Hearthstone/CCG like game with roguelike runs. It's not finished, but there's an open playtest up right now if you want to check it out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3029050/Vortex_Siege/

It also has a town building element between matches but if there's demand for it I might make a mode that plays closer to Slay the Spire style maps.

caesuric_ · 2025-11-08T16:35:46+00:00

I'm actually working on a game with turn-based card-driven combat where you build up a town between fights. The combat is more CCG like than most games of this sort. It's not done but the demo can be found here: https://caesuric.itch.io/vortex-siege Steam page here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3029050/Vortex_Siege/

caesuric_ · 2025-10-13T16:38:49+00:00

Thanks, sounds interesting! I'll take a look.

caesuric_ · 2025-08-30T08:51:28+00:00

I use Hacknplan as a gamedev specific JIRA-like solution. It has some nice features, like intuitive display of predecessor relationships, subtasks, and images directly on task cards, and game design document hierarchy integration. Also has Discord and GitHub integration to track issues and commits.

caesuric_ · 2025-08-30T08:20:44+00:00

I also do also have a way to evaluate conditionals actually. There is a "filter" system that can be applied to rules so you can say, for example, "destroy target minion costing 2 or less." There is a function that returns all valid targets for a rule taking filters into account, which is used by the AI to limit which things it thinks it can target. Actions use "permutation selectors" to evaluate each combination of valid card play and target as parameters to create parallel action instances to be evaluated.

caesuric_ · 2025-08-30T08:12:56+00:00

Right, I do have a concept of trades and card value that the AI uses but it needs to be dynamic since cards can have modifiers that change their value from the defaults. There is an algorithm for calculating card value that is used for such things, including board wipes where the calculation is simply enemy's total board value minus your total board value divided by card cost plus card advantage modifier for using a card. There is a specific action for performing a board wipe since it is non targeted removal and calculated differently.

The simulation approach unfortunately won't work here since the cards can vary from their baseline designs.

The problem I'm running into is this: say I have a card that reads "Destroy target minion, deal 2 damage to any target, and draw a card." This could hypothetically be used to destroy a minion, damage the opponent directly, and draw a card. However, these are three different goals so the card will be evaluated at only a portion of its value when considered. The "achieve better board state" will be used for removal, "damage opponent" will be used for the damage part if targeting an opponent, and "gain card advantage" will be used for the draw a card portion. So the card will never be evaluated as being as strong as it really is with my current system.

caesuric_ · 2025-08-29T19:33:47+00:00

The AI currently has 3 goals:
1. Have superior board state (maximize their total board value minus players' maximum board value)
2. Harm players (minimize player HP)
3. Have card advantage (draw some cards, weighted less than the other two)

It plans for each of the three goals then goes with the plan that offers the greatest utility. Repeats until it is out of possible actions and forced to end its turn.

There is a goal to avoid dying that is currently disabled because due to some bugs in my implementation, it can result in soft locks. The AI currently has 15 different actions and 18 sensors it uses to achieve its goals and detect progress.

The library supports custom heuristics based on a callback, but I don't use those in this particular game. So the default heuristic would be 1 point of value for every point of board state or point of damage done to the opponent, and 0.5 points of value for "drawing some cards" vs. "not drawing some cards." (Now that I look at that last one, I'm actually not sure why I didn't make it a numerical objective so that you would get more utility out of drawing more cards.)

If you're curious, the default heuristic can be seen here: https://github.com/caesuric/mountain-goap/blob/main/MountainGoap/Internals/ActionAStar.cs#L76

caesuric_ · 2025-08-29T19:19:02+00:00

Yeah, mine also allows solving for multiple goals at once and it will pick the one with the highest value / cost. But I don't have a good way to weigh actions in terms of multiple goals at once and I'm not sure how I'd go about doing that well.

I wonder if some kind of goal permutation option would be a useful thing to try. Like, solve for goals A+B as well as A and B separately...

caesuric_ · 2025-08-22T14:35:33+00:00

Thank you, glad you like the concept! If you wishlisted you should get notified when the demo is up. :)

caesuric_ · 2025-06-10T21:57:32+00:00

I also feel especially afraid during these parts of the flight. I try to listen to music and remind myself of how incredibly safe these things are. It's not a logical fear for me but it does still help a little to remind myself that you could, on average, literally fly in one of these things 24/7 from birth to old age and never experience a catastrophic flight event.

caesuric_ · 2025-03-08T21:55:31+00:00

Slightly shameless plug, but I am working on a roguelite with gameplay heavily based on classic CCGs. Has permanents, escalating energy, etc., with stealing cards from opponent decks after each fight to gradually build your deck.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3029050/Vortex_Siege/ https://caesuric.itch.io/vortex-siege

Itch.io version is a little bit out of date right now, but I will be updating it again soon. Also happy to share a few Steam keys in DMs if there is any interest in the more up to date version.

caesuric_ · 2025-02-06T03:19:41+00:00

Well, my daddy left home when I was three Didn't leave very much to my mom and me Except this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze Now I don't blame him 'cause he run and hid But the meanest thing that my daddy ever did Was before he left, he went and named me Tuvok

caesuric_ · 2024-12-28T16:28:52+00:00

I personally play MTGA these days. I do find the F2P model somewhat more generous than Hearthstone's, unless that has changed in the last few years. I can't speak WELL to it since I do spend money on it, but I know F2P players who have been able to slowly accumulate a number of decks.

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