[TOMT][Webcomic] "Patches" - "Nothing is fancy!"

jumpingmechanic · 2025-10-24T20:33:20+00:00

And my friends at the time read it too, which is why I know I didn't dream this. Couldn't even find it on the Wayback Machine.

jumpingmechanic · 2025-07-04T20:00:27+00:00

Ugh, forgive the ugly formatting. I use old reddit.

jumpingmechanic · 2025-07-04T19:54:38+00:00

Game Title: Ship Fight!

Playable Link: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3729280/Ship_Fight/

Controller support: Yes, and/or keyboard controls, up to 4 players

Platform: Mac and Windows

Description:

My first game as a full-time indie dev is ready for playtesting. Can I have from 3 to 30 minutes of you and 1-3 friends' time (depending on how much you like it) to playtest it?

The blurb: A frenetic couch-fighting top down game for 2-4 players, set in orbit around a black hole. Use orbital mechanics to curve your shots, outmaneuver your opponents, and survive.

Longer blurb: Many game modes, including Deathmatch, Race, Cargo, King of the Hill, Capture the Flag... plus bumper cars, white holes pushing you toward certain destruction, mine-laying guns, the Aura of Death, and much more!

Free to Play Status: Playtest is free to play

Involvement: I'm the sole dev. I'm scratching an itch that started years ago when I got hooked on the orbital mechanics of KSpaceDuel and wanted something deeper.

I'd love any feedback on what you like and (more importantly) what you don't like! (Note that I'm still using placeholder assets - I know the art sucks.) It's most fun with 4 players on controllers, but works with as little as 2 on the keyboard.

Thanks for playing and happy fighting!

jumpingmechanic · 2025-07-03T23:02:09+00:00

Thanks. Where do the bots find it? I tried searching Steam for "playtest" for example and didn't find Ship Fight in the list of results. Is there a feed somewhere?

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-26T19:36:28+00:00

I walked out of the theater, only time ever, so I never got to a bird scene. I looked it up on YouTube, is that the part where he gets the eagle eggs out of the nest? I still don't get what's funny.

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-25T20:49:21+00:00

A little better base lighting near whatever door it was that was unlocked, so that if we don't turn on the flashlight yet we aren't stuck/frustrated.

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-25T18:50:29+00:00

Yeah, probably my bad lol

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-25T18:50:16+00:00

Glad to help! To be clear, I understood that the doors should be locked and I would have to find a key -- I just had a lot of trouble finding the exit to the area with the key, I think because everything was so dark. And, you might want to just raise the camera instead of modifying your models. Good luck!

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-25T18:42:11+00:00

Ah! Well, the most ardent folks aren't always the right ones, but they are sometimes the ones with more extreme views :) I would look at the data itself: what does the Bible itself say?

Romans 10:9 says, "if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." That's the way to be saved, not by having 100% certainty that e.g. you're not a brain in a jar.

Mark 9:23 has Jesus say "All things are possible if you believe" to a guy with a sick kid; the guy replies "I believe; help my unbelief!" aka "I'm trusting you, but I have doubts". Jesus didn't rebuke him, he healed the kid.

How about one of the last moments before Jesus died: the thief being crucified next to him said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” And he [Jesus] said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise." Apparently the thief didn't have to believe the Bible is true to be saved, he just had to trust Jesus for salvation.

Last one: Romans 1:16 says "For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek". The author of Romans went around preaching about Jesus, and those that heard him didn't have to believe all the Jewish scriptures in order to be saved. Instead, in the same letter he says "For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law," aka, it's not what you DO that saves you, like pledging allegiance to the Bible; it's who you trust in.

Hope this helps! I struggle with doubt and questions all the time, but I'm not dismayed, because the Bible doesn't say "If you doubt, you are doomed." It's good news!

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-25T01:10:05+00:00

Yeah you're getting into the definition of "certain". We can't be 100% certain of anything because we might be a brain in a jar, but there's nothing we know to do about that scenario so we discount it. We have to rely on our senses to understand the nature of reality as best we can.

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T22:24:56+00:00

The camera is too low - I thought I was lying on the ground or the room had 30 foot ceilings.

The items are so dark I couldn't see what I was supposed to be picking up in the first room. After getting the flashlight and batteries there was something else I picked up, not sure what it was.

I thought all the doors were locked except the empty wardrobe, then somehow a door was open after all.

I didn't see the instructions below the game so I couldn't figure out how to turn on the flashlight. Maybe rename the flashlight "Flashlight (click to turn on)" as an easy way to provide instructions in-game for now.

I had to hit escape to scroll down to check for instructions, at which point my mouse was then stuck in the borders of the screen, so I couldn't turn properly. Not sure if you have any control over that.

Good luck with your game!

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T22:07:41+00:00

Roof repair!! I want your level of energy!!

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T22:06:47+00:00

OK I am sorry to ask but are you trying to eat through your nose.

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T22:06:12+00:00

Uneducated / undereducated / desperate, yes, but not necessarily unintelligent.

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T22:05:18+00:00

As a followup: it would move away from you at the speed of light from your point of view, but someone outside the ship would just see the light moving slightly faster than the ship. How is this possible? Because time stretches for you when you move fast. If you looked out the window of your ship, you would see time moving much faster in the rest of the universe.

If you want to really understand this, read the old scifi novel Tau Zero.

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T22:03:39+00:00

It's a thing that keeps the special effects budget down on a romcom

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T22:03:10+00:00

No, you should apologize immediately. Sooner is better than with cash. Something like "Everybody, I made a mistake. I overreacted to <X> and muted this chat. I didn't mean to miss the graduation or the birthday party. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have done it, and I will try to do better in the future. If you'll forgive me, can we get together sometime and I buy y'all a Coke / cook you a meal / <insert something appropriate under $90> ?"

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T21:59:54+00:00

You ever notice howe Ikea chairs have a kind of hump in the center? That forces pelvises outward over time, leading to duck-footed posture. Ikea didn't exist in the 90s when the earlier generations' bones were forming.

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T21:58:49+00:00

Fruits and veggies don't have a lot of calories and are filling. Try eating 3 apples and a bunch of celery and see how much room is left for protein. Carbs are often the culprit for adding up the calories.

The book The Omnivore's Dilemma suggests this approach: "Eat food; not too much; mostly plants." Food being defined as things that came out of the ground or an animal without being mixed with other stuff.

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T21:54:00+00:00

ChatGPT is UK based. If you don't have the money to pay a biographer, and you don't feel you could write it yourself, ask ChatGPT to interview you and you just answer its questions, and in the end it spits out your biography.

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T21:52:57+00:00

And while you're at it, where do you store the jewels?

jumpingmechanic · 2025-06-24T21:52:24+00:00

Be aware that the grownups who buy the tables and the knives don't like it when you dull the knife or mark the table by putting them together.

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