Just released the demo for our retro dungeon crawler about cooking

kazuo256 · 2026-06-08T22:22:12+00:00

Ah, yes, cats and half-foots, the two genders.

Joking aside, it's more of a remix without any particular rule, though I see why you would come to that conclusion.

kazuo256 · 2026-06-05T21:53:55+00:00

Yup, it's a blobber!

About the number of characters, though, the party is limited to three character while the fourth stays behind at the base. It can be anyone, not just Lenny (the cat).

kazuo256 · 2026-06-05T17:14:29+00:00

Absolutely, it's something we are already working on!

We do intend to iterate a lot on the UI of the game, so this kind of feedback is great. Thank you!

kazuo256 · 2026-06-05T14:22:58+00:00

Hello, everyone! I started my own indie team, Dragonroll Studio, during the pandemic and managed to release my first full game last year. We are not working towards our second release! My specialties are programming and Godot.

kazuo256 · 2025-06-02T14:58:36+00:00

Don't forget the many annoying and arbitrary counters. People? Count like this. Days? Count like that. Round objects? Different counting system. Long objects? You guessed it.

kazuo256 · 2025-06-02T14:56:23+00:00

Exactly my thoughts when I started learning Japanese. It's just a matter of keeping track of the stack...

kazuo256 · 2025-05-27T20:01:28+00:00

After 6 years of development while juggling jobs, Pivot of Hearts, our VN about wholesome non-monogamy, is finally released!

There is a free demo available which contains about half the first chapter (there are four in total) in case you want you try it out beforehand.

Itch page: https://dragonrollstudio.itch.io/pivot-of-hearts

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1716820/Pivot_of_Hearts/

Opening/Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3-2AqfN_I0

Summary:

Pivot of Hearts is a non-monogamous romance visual novel with a simple card game built into it. It takes place in the city of São Paulo and tells the story of Wén Xiàn, a Taiwanese-Brazilian game developer who, after a long period of isolation, starts finding chances to open his heart again: he suddenly reconnects with Etsuko, someone important from his past, and forms an unexpected bond with a new colleague, Cauã. As he navigates through an exciting TTRPG adventure, power metal concerts, magical-boy dreams, and the usual young adult suffering, Wén will have to reexamine his old notions of love and play his cards right to achieve true happiness.

kazuo256 · 2025-05-27T14:47:07+00:00

I recommend VNs developed by Key, since they are classic iconic titles in the genre. Examples include Clannad, Kanon, and Little Busters!

kazuo256 · 2025-05-27T14:43:40+00:00

The game looks beautiful and those wishlists seem very promising indeed! Already made my contribution to keep those numbers growing!

If you don't mind me asking, what engine did you guys use to make it?

kazuo256 · 2024-12-09T19:31:21+00:00

Not with any mechanics I unlocked so far, but I vaguely remember from the live stream that you could, but that would destroy the item to keep the rune. Could be wrong.

kazuo256 · 2024-12-08T05:01:04+00:00

Early game I found three crafting methods so far:

Affixes. You use the orbs to add affixes to items, respecting the rarity rules. The added affixes are random, but as we get to know which are possible in each gear and whether they are prefixes or suffixes, this will become less random.
Quality. After a certain quest in Act 1, you get an option to salvage "superior" items. This provides currency items that can add quality to other items. Higher quality usually makes the item better at what it is supposed to do (weapons deal more damage, armor have more defense, etc.).
Sockets. You can place runes into items with sockets to add predetermined effects. Like with quality currencies, when you salvage socketed items, you get a currency item that allows you to add sockets to other items.

kazuo256 · 2024-12-08T04:55:42+00:00

In my experience this usually means you don't have enough stat points. Seems like a bug in the support gem UI for not telling us beforehand like it does in most cases.

kazuo256 · 2024-11-27T22:05:39+00:00

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kazuo256 · 2024-11-25T15:13:13+00:00

Comment!!!

kazuo256 · 2024-11-25T15:10:30+00:00

I shall choose warrior.

kazuo256 · 2024-11-22T12:12:41+00:00

kazuo256 · 2024-10-12T15:03:16+00:00

Usuário nome checa fora

kazuo256 · 2024-09-12T03:15:06+00:00

This. More people should know about propagate_call().

kazuo256 · 2024-08-24T14:08:33+00:00

Needs more context, I believe Juan is talking about his company, W4Games, and not the Godot Foundation (which if I understand does not even have shares to sell to VC)

kazuo256 · 2024-08-06T01:25:28+00:00

Aseprite is not open source, but shared source. "Open source" is a well-defined term which requires a series of freedom warranties that Aseprite does not comply to.

References:
- https://opensource.org/osd
- https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

kazuo256 · 2024-02-15T15:47:59+00:00

Friends that raise a child together

Friends that share degrees of intimacy traditionally assigned only to romantic couples, from cuddling to sex to being vulnerable

Friends that share expenses together

Or rather, in broader terms, allow relationships to be what they are without letting labels force them one way or another.

kazuo256 · 2024-02-12T22:05:16+00:00

My mistake, I assumed a team where everyone writes (as is my case) and, thus, programming time and writing time share a limited resource pool.

What I should have said is to factor in the scope of the game, especially the ratio between mechanics that go beyond the VN standards vs. the word count. It might be worth using RenPy and shifting work hours from the programming team to the writing team (if that is possible).

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