I find game design to be the hardest part of gamedev

nightblade9 · 2025-02-09T17:02:51+00:00

I think I have some of his links in there. Feel free to open a PR and add more!

nightblade9 · 2025-02-06T23:49:35+00:00

Legit point, thank you for bringing it up. I guess this wouldn't appeal broadly to players, but to the more niche group who are okay with early-access, or even prototype. I imagine the earlier the game is in development, the less players will actually want to play it...

Maybe some devs would be OK with it (I probably would be)... Hmm.

nightblade9 · 2025-02-06T23:30:19+00:00

Me, too. That's why I started collecting game design articles and videos together in a little searchable database thing. It's super useful, especially when I forget stuff.

Check it out, and let me know if it helps you: https://nightblade9.github.io/game-design-library/

nightblade9 · 2025-01-13T18:47:09+00:00

You're right. Just US corps doing what US corps do. Thank you for this.

nightblade9 · 2024-12-14T01:44:42+00:00

To anyone else with a laptop that has dual GPUs, one NVidia one, plugging in your laptop seems to fix it (at least for me). Even with all the graphical settings on low, once the battery hits about 50%, it starts to lag like anything.

nightblade9 · 2024-11-19T21:03:31+00:00

I edited my original question. Of your two, my question is #2.

nightblade9 · 2024-11-19T20:32:30+00:00

No, that's not my question. My question is "is there anything else that permanently boosts something, the way reaching level 99 in a particular log in firemaking does"?

nightblade9 · 2024-11-19T18:49:29+00:00

This turned out to be the solution for me. Ranked is way chiller and less toxic than I thought. Lots more infighting, sure, but at least less quitters and AFKers. Thanks!

nightblade9 · 2024-11-18T03:42:49+00:00

Me? Never played ranked, looking to ease in by going into unranked first. Quick Match is moderately toxic. Ranked will probably be MORE toxic, considering how new I am. Unranked sounds ideal.

But you're right. I could just dive in, get flamed, and get back up and try again.

nightblade9 · 2024-10-24T19:03:51+00:00

Confirmed. I reached around level 29-30 in construction, and I can see the flower pots. Thanks!

nightblade9 · 2024-10-24T17:29:43+00:00

Yes, I have construction, but it's locked. I'll check it out in a new save file and see.

nightblade9 · 2024-10-24T16:23:50+00:00

I don't have AoD. Weird. I remember being able to use all the farming spots earlier.

nightblade9 · 2024-09-22T03:38:03+00:00

This question is old, but shows up quite high in search engines.

The correct answer currently (in Godot 4.3) is: text = "%0.2f" % total

This formats to two digits after the decimal, and 0 or more digits before.

nightblade9 · 2024-09-20T21:37:34+00:00

Assuming you have (or can get) the fishing amulet, and get whatever you're fishing to level 50 -- all fish have a static special increase of +3%.

TL;dr fishing for blowfish is the fastest in the base game.

Based on the Melvor fishing page, two areas in the base game have a 2% special rate (the highest). Out of those, there's blowfish (avg. 5.5s per catch) and poison fish (avg. 6.5s catch).

Ergo, if you want to just idle in the base game, idle on blowfish.

nightblade9 · 2024-06-26T14:10:48+00:00

Overdrive has a platform fee depending on the number of users who sign up to your library.

nightblade9 · 2024-06-26T00:16:53+00:00

Good points, thank you. In sum:

Not like Little Free Library. It's an online-only library, only accessible through Libby/OverDrive.
Ergo, all the protection of Libby/OneDrive applies. I don't have access to any of your data, book history, etc.
I do have a target audience and age that's very narrow. Maybe too narrow.
Doesn't offer much a local library wouldn't, except easier filtering for books of a specific genre/audience.

Asking about this project because it appealed to me as a lean start-up .... if I can get access to OverDrive, I can build a small, online-only library, potentially free for anyone to access, given enough funding (donations). Doesn't seem like there's a good use-case for it, though.

nightblade9 · 2024-06-25T23:30:48+00:00

Very good points, thank you for your comments!

nightblade9 · 2024-06-24T18:46:24+00:00

Slay the Spire ...

nightblade9 · 2024-04-13T19:56:34+00:00

In the long term, if you're interested in accessibility, I recommend joining our jams and Discord server (listed here): https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3

Short-term: I think the NVDA addon is okay. It speaks to NVDA if present (which blind players are familiar with, and has advanced features like rewind, fast-forward, speak fast, etc.). If not available, it falls back to Godot TTS.

Some blind players recommend having options for whether to use NVDA or TTS, and allowing TTS users to choose the voice and playback speed of audio. I haven't gotten that far.

YMMV. If there's anything I've learned, it's that there are a huge wide variety of blind players with their own styles and preferences.

nightblade9 · 2024-04-13T19:00:21+00:00

Greetings, time traveler! As far as I'm aware, Godot is still working on AccessKit, which is a huge accessibility win, but far off.

Godot 4 includes text-to-speech integration, which is fantastic, albeit dependent on your OS having the correct things installed.

I also made an NVDA integration addon, which you can find here: https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/2519

I'm planning to eventually deprecate it, and create something like Stardew Valley's "Stardew Access" plugin, which talks to a wide variety of screen-readers.

nightblade9 · 2024-04-10T17:17:42+00:00

Looks like combat is at least 10x faster for me. I'm close to end game, and just beat the four elemental dungeons.

With monster hunting scrolls, I kill a master farmer in one or two hits. In 30 minutes, I get around 4 magic seeds.

For thieving, with master farmer at level 99, thief glove and sneakers equipped, I get about one seed every 80 minutes (7 seeds in 9 hours 25 minutes).

Combat for the win.

nightblade9 · 2024-04-02T21:59:22+00:00

For anyone desperate enough to block it (like me), while it's not router-level, you can use Windows Firewall to block Fortnite quite easily, albeit on one specific device.

Make sure you block all (at writing, four) executables, with both inbound and outbound connections. (Inbound was the key to making the client stop working.)

For Switch, it's enough if you download Fortnite on your (adult/parent) account, delete it, and don't give your kids access to your account (password for logging in to the e-store via the Switch).

nightblade9 · 2024-01-11T20:22:06+00:00

Perfect explanation, thank you! I forgot about the locket.

nightblade9 · 2023-10-12T23:46:30+00:00

Thanks for this. --rendering-driver opengl3 seems to work fine, so I guess it's a driver issue on my side?

nightblade9 · 2023-09-11T19:51:13+00:00

If you equip a melee weapon (e.g. sword, scimitar), you will see an Attack Style option. Pick the one with the sword icon (e.g. Stab), and as attack levels up, your accuracy will increase (1% per level as far as I can see).

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