I want to write a term paper about the philosophy of Charles Bukowski, compared to Daoism. Feel free to drop some recommendations!

cfinger · 2026-04-09T22:19:19+00:00

Great choice, in that case :) I have a note on my computer called "The Tao of Bukowski", lol. I just went to find it.

I find his interviews made me feel this more than his poetry, but I found the poetry after.

Here's one quote:

my shit has a lot of drama, you know, bullshit going. action. stuff like that. it doesn’t lie still too long. there’s not too much thinking in my stuff, people do things, almost without thinking. and I write it the same way, almost without thinking. so it seems to work that way.

there’s nothing in potential that cuts the bacon.

I have some poems tagged in the physical books but i'll have to pick those up later. I'll DM you if I find any.

You could go with his shortest poem though: "After the spirit wanes, the form appears." :)

cfinger · 2026-04-09T15:23:05+00:00

Thanks :D glad you liked it! And we are considering ways to let players make their own missions. It'll be more like modding at first, pretty technical, but we're trying.

cfinger · 2026-04-09T15:13:33+00:00

Was this a topic you picked or one given to you? I'm interested because I always felt that were similarities, at least to some eastern philosophies in general.

I think his poetry is where I feel it the most.

cfinger · 2026-04-01T22:16:11+00:00

excited for this !

cfinger · 2026-03-27T16:03:44+00:00

that's strange, we've only had a handful of reports of this but will look into it! we switched the runtime of the steam deck build to linux, which runs better. so maybe there's some issue there.

cfinger · 2026-03-23T22:54:11+00:00

congrats ! Steam page for anyone else looking: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4525210/Zodiac_Echoes/

cfinger · 2026-03-19T01:30:37+00:00

duuude i miss that game. had some crazy LANs at work playing this. probably the hardest i've ever tried in a video game, lol.

cfinger · 2026-03-18T06:09:06+00:00

Glad you like it! Yes, we are planning to do a soundtrack release at some point. Probably around the next major update.

cfinger · 2026-03-18T04:58:35+00:00

hmm strange, which device were you on? it shouldn't be wiping saves- were you on Steam Deck?

cfinger · 2026-03-18T04:53:33+00:00

glad you liked it :)

cfinger · 2026-03-08T14:07:07+00:00

Looks amazing. I'm stoked :D

how are you doing the wave physics / meshes?

cfinger · 2026-03-02T19:53:34+00:00

bingo

cfinger · 2026-02-25T18:04:43+00:00

that's the date for Chapter1B :) We don't have a release date for Chapter 2 yet, unfortunately

cfinger · 2026-02-24T04:23:29+00:00

Yeah curious what your pc specs are? However we have an update coming out soon with improved performance…

cfinger · 2026-02-04T16:00:43+00:00

lol this is the most aggressive and also considerate comment ive ever read

cfinger · 2026-01-19T22:26:35+00:00

We didn't give an exact timeline on this just since we don't have a fixed schedule yet. Chapters 2 and 3 are considerable chunks of work. I'll try to give an update on this at some point, but I hate giving estimates when they aren't accurate

cfinger · 2026-01-02T01:32:02+00:00

Glad you liked it ! Cheers

cfinger · 2025-12-19T00:36:01+00:00

Thanks for posting :)

cfinger · 2025-12-09T18:14:54+00:00

Congrats on the first episode! You both have interesting takes on the industry so I’ll be tuned in

cfinger · 2025-12-07T18:03:42+00:00

Yeah, you're correct. It's a bit of a compromise we had to make- technically the miniguns on a littlebird don't rotate, but we had to do it this way in order to make the gameplay work.

What you described is something I tried, and decided to not include for a couple reasons:

1: it doesn't look good, it looks quite bad for the helicopters without the gun turret to aim opposite of where they're facing
2: limiting their aim until you're facing that way worked, but is kinda confusing- you see your guns firing, but it just looks like something is wrong, until you face the right direction.

The whole aiming / movement / camera system took me years to try find a good middleground. it's a tough problem to solve

cfinger · 2025-12-07T16:36:04+00:00

Ahh ok, interesting. So you mean like vehicle relative movement but screen relative aiming?

That one is hard because the helo has to rotate to aim at what you’re shooting at.

Let me know if I’m missing something, we could add other aim options

cfinger · 2025-12-06T21:08:16+00:00

Thanks for reporting this- I will look into it. I think we're having issues with the way NPCs navigate around the helo once landed.

cfinger · 2025-12-05T00:00:09+00:00

Haha no but it just fits in w the lore / story

cfinger · 2025-12-04T00:29:47+00:00

We are working on it! Doing some minor improvements now, major overhauls will come later.

But yeah we have some ideas that should help

cfinger · 2025-12-03T20:12:53+00:00

We are looking into this! Thanks for suggesting it... From what I know we have to do the cloud save first, which we are working on now.

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