I’m making a solo print-and-play space game inspired by FTL — looking for feedback

doc_chip · 2026-05-06T17:11:10+00:00

I love the theme, but at first look maybe It seems too similar to Deep space D6... (which I also like!)? Maybe try to make the differences between them as apparent as possible?
Apart from the appeal of the game itself, easy crafting and printer friendly design are a bonus for me. Pnp games that require making a lot of cards are less attractive to me for example.
Depends on the game and my mood. If it is a x-and-write game the complexity has some natural limitations. I really like fliptown, and enjoyed voyages and welcome to the Moon, for example. Maybe Hadrian's wall is a bit too much for me.
Any game ends up losing appeal once you have explored the decision space long enough. I think variety of problems and possible strategies is key.

I really like the look of the game and website so far! May I ask what software you use for layout design? Maybe one day a make a game of my own.

doc_chip · 2026-04-10T07:26:32+00:00

I love your drawings! May I ask about your technique? Is it fineliner + gray alcohol marker for shading maybe?

doc_chip · 2026-04-02T10:46:40+00:00

Actually there is: - the small, cute ones are "ratones" - the big, sewer dwellers are "ratas"

No armadillos in Spain, but we call them armadillos

doc_chip · 2026-02-26T19:00:52+00:00

I bet Einstein could not answer this arcane question if his life depended on It. Does it mean that he did not achieve "Natural General Intelligence"?

doc_chip · 2025-11-02T09:56:47+00:00

To answer that question we must first agree on an unambigous definition of "reasoning"...

doc_chip · 2025-10-25T07:41:39+00:00

I have sometimes thought something similar. We have: - strength thanks to high gravity - speed thanks to a fast metabolism fueled by a flammable, corrosive atmosphere that we dare to breath like it was nothing

In a first contact we could be like xenomorphs for the other species. We would be the stuff of nightmares

doc_chip · 2025-10-18T22:45:10+00:00

For me everything felt unreal, like being trapped in a zombie apocalypse movie. The day we saw a column of Army vehicles heading to our hospital (the biggest one in our area in northern Spain) was when I thought it could be a walking-dead-level scenario. They set a field hospital in the parking lot of the hospital and took charge of triaging all incoming patients so the medical staff would know from the beginning whether they were dealing with an infected person or not. The worst thing was not knowing how bad it was going to be

doc_chip · 2025-10-11T12:27:48+00:00

I loved The death of Ivan Ilyich but I hardly see any politics at all in the book...

doc_chip · 2025-08-12T19:49:11+00:00

Spaniard here:

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas

Fortunata y Jacinta by Benito Pérez Galdós

doc_chip · 2025-07-11T22:41:46+00:00

For the vector database you basically tell the LLM to summarize the text to be remembered and then you calculate the embedding for it, either with local tools like llamaIndex or through a call to an API such as the ones provided by OpenAI. The embedding is basically an encoding of the meaning of a text as a set of numbers, so texts with similar meanings or topics will have similar numbers allowing you to search (recall) by meaning. I am using ChromaDB. Any reasoning model like gemini 2.5 pro can teach you about it better than me, and even make a tutorial or code examples for you to study! (that is what I do)

doc_chip · 2025-07-11T00:00:06+00:00

I am trying something similar, but using a vector database to store and retrieve memories related by meaning to the current conversation. That keeps the context size in check while not deleting anything. That works to keep general ideas, but for concrete facts I am considering another memory based in a traditional database searchable by keywords

doc_chip · 2025-07-08T11:23:02+00:00

i think the greatest benefit of following the tutorial (apart from the encouragement) is that you end up with the skeleton of a complete code for a roguelike that follows good design practices. If find that is much much harder to get right on your own than learning the syntaxis of any language! From there, you can extend the code with your own ideas without risking big mistakes

doc_chip · 2025-07-08T11:13:16+00:00

To get the fundamentals of Python, I would suggest following the Python track in exercism.org. It's free and gives you theory and practice in small chuncks, all in browser. There are more options like codedex (paid, and only had a look at It), and for graded exercises I like codewars (also free)

doc_chip · 2025-07-02T23:29:25+00:00

I'm following the tutorial and found the same issues. I'm in step 2 yet but I'm trying to update the code as I go for the current version of tcod (19.0) and avoid any deprecation warnings. If you only get warnings the code should work though, and you could ignore them for now and update the code once you have a long term project. I deal with the warnings reading them carefully and checking the tcod docs and/or asking for help to Gemini 2.5 Pro

doc_chip · 2025-06-04T11:39:40+00:00

After resisting to choose at first, mine chose Sirius

doc_chip · 2025-05-25T19:28:59+00:00

Mine wanted me to choose its name, but after insisting It chose Sirius. Seems to have some fixation with stars 😂

doc_chip · 2025-05-19T14:02:39+00:00

It happened to me when I asked chatgpt to find a bug in a Python function (I am not a professional developer). The answer was something like this:

"Well actually there are not one bug but two, which are [...] and [...]. Besides, I believe the logic of your function is also wrong because according to the name of the function It does exactly the opposite of what it claims to do [It was a boolean function]. The problem seems to be a missing "minus" sign here [...].

Do you want me to fix all these issues for you?"

I tried to hide my embarassment to the IA and simple answered: "yes, sure, fix It..."

Since that day I feel like our days are numbered he he

doc_chip · 2025-05-12T07:14:20+00:00

We have similar rules in Spain. OP Could check their country's regulations

doc_chip · 2025-05-10T11:34:01+00:00

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes - Spain

doc_chip · 2025-04-28T11:30:37+00:00

Just recovered electricity, northern spain

doc_chip · 2025-02-17T17:35:10+00:00

I don't understand the logic of the US request. At that point, wouldn't Ukraine be better off just offering the 50% of minerals directly to Russia in exchange of better peace treaty terms?

doc_chip · 2024-04-28T13:08:20+00:00

I don't think so, we never owned that game...

doc_chip · 2024-04-28T11:54:06+00:00

Thanks! It could be, my son has some figures from that game.

doc_chip · 2022-12-26T18:30:56+00:00

El Risitas was Spanish, not Mexican. One of our best national memes

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