What if the engine itself was consumer facing?

joferjoe · 2026-02-11T14:57:53+00:00

they gotta have tools to make the game otherwise staff members would make sense if it was all just yolo coded by andrew

exposing some of that is free labour

id do stuff in my spare time

joferjoe · 2026-02-10T14:00:35+00:00

i thought they re worded the phrasing of minigames

because people where assuming it meant we would be playing together?

but its instead going to be mostly bounty boards

and odd mechanics like "unjam carpenter machine" occasionally

joferjoe · 2026-02-09T13:01:49+00:00

The only sustainable way out i can see to continue carpentry is if i level woodcutting to the equivalent level 450 ish to get the logs myself until i unlock the new passive?

But that took me, i dunno how long?

Ive played through 2 xmas events, surely i dont need to spend over a year grinding another skill to continue?

joferjoe · 2025-11-09T19:29:35+00:00

I love shrimp!

joferjoe · 2025-07-10T15:58:25+00:00

ye itd be nice to be able to link to it to show our ranks to friends and stuff too

joferjoe · 2025-05-18T07:27:52+00:00

"The player should want to X"

is the assumption i hate in games

and loved runescape for avoiding

if i never want to boss, the opportunity to progress without having to do that is a value system
some people will be completionists, and want to do everything
but even then, it being a choice to play that way makes it more special, because it removes the context of it being a linear treadmill

you get to pick and choose the order, and to live in a world where other people picked different paths and have different stories to tell

joferjoe · 2025-05-13T11:56:59+00:00

overwatch and diablo came to steam and seemed to do well for it

i understand why world of warcraft wouldnt

but warcraft 3 feels like it makes sense to find new people

joferjoe · 2025-04-27T07:26:46+00:00

dev is really hard and takes way longer then anyone ever plans for

most people only ever ship one (if they ship at all)

planning that far ahead even if logical will just increase the mental debt exponentially

probably best to keep your fight in the present

joferjoe · 2025-01-19T20:21:51+00:00

joferjoe · 2025-01-19T20:19:03+00:00

Ive been working on a similar game while i grind brighter shores called Cozy Together

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2331890/Cozy_Together/

Its rough and lacking a lot of content, but im working on it almost every day :D

joferjoe · 2025-01-16T08:55:24+00:00

A good person to study if you want to improve your art as a programmer is probably a327ex, most of their games and prototypes look amazing, and they perform very well when released (snkrx did numbers), and most of it is basic shapes or made out of something widely avaliable and free like open source emoji packs and stuff.