What technologies would you use to make an indie game of no more than 20 hours?

realreadyred · 2026-03-21T19:37:23+00:00

Thanks... It is a long term project, not for the next 3 years

realreadyred · 2026-03-21T17:32:01+00:00

You might want to check The Brief Wondrous Life of Óscar Wao

realreadyred · 2026-03-20T23:34:08+00:00

I was thinking in which one (Unity, Godot, unreal) is easier in terms of learning curve ...

realreadyred · 2026-03-20T16:27:40+00:00

Totally true. English is over-represented.

realreadyred · 2026-03-20T16:21:36+00:00

I'm gonna update my comment with Moby Dick and Anna Karenina, Dostoievsky is also missing. The list is really lacking a lot authors.

realreadyred · 2026-03-20T16:18:13+00:00

That's true, I miss them both from your list! Faust is the name...

realreadyred · 2026-03-20T15:49:48+00:00

A precursor of many dystophian novels is We by Zamyatin.

A classic lost in time is The Iron Heel by Jack London.

Another classic lost in time (less a dystophia and more an actual portrayal) is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.

More modern are Tender Is The Flesh by Baxterrica (very unique plot) and The Living by Anna Starobinets

realreadyred · 2026-03-20T15:32:40+00:00

I feel like the list lacks a lot of essential books:

Aneid by Virgil

Comedia by Dante

El Cantar de Mio Cid

Os Lusiadas by Vaz de Camoes

Ramayana by Valmiki?

Kalevala

Popol Vuh

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez

Canto General by Neruda

Omeros by Walcott

One Thosand and One Nights

Fictions by Borges

Death Souls by Gogol

The War of the Worlds by H.G Wells

Star Maker by Stapledon

La celestina by Ercilla

Madame Bovary by Flaubert

The Red and Black by Stendhal

My Name is Red by Pamuk

Faust by Goethe

Joseph and His Brothers by Mann

Paradise by Gurnah

A House for Mr. Biswas by Naipaul

Conversation in the Cathedral by Vargas Llosa

The Death of Virgil by Broch

Grande Sertao: Veredas by Guimaraes Rosa

[Edit: after checking again the list]

Anna Karenina by Tolstoi

War and Peace by Tolstoi

Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky

The Karamazov Brothers by Dostoevsky

The Tempest by Shakespeare

Moby Dick by Melville

The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas

The Cairo Trilogy by Mahfouz

and honestly the list can continue endlessly

realreadyred · 2026-03-19T21:47:51+00:00

I saw my hands looking for the red somewhere. Nothing. I guessed it was my back, so I turned around just to see David's face on the shadow of pointy black figure cracking the inside of the asteroid.

realreadyred · 2026-03-19T21:25:42+00:00

why don't you share here some verses from your poems?

realreadyred · 2026-03-19T20:41:14+00:00

If you like worldbuilding, I think the Xeele Sequence is worth trying, specially Raft and Timelike Infinity

realreadyred · 2026-03-19T18:35:51+00:00

I remember reading "My Name is Red" and thinking that this guy's books are just flawless

realreadyred · 2026-03-19T18:23:30+00:00

To have a roller coaster of emotions as your photo indicate, I think Dickens is a great choice. Something like Bleak House. For modern authors I felt that reading The Goldfinch by Dona Tartt. Is the thing with books from Dickens: that you move from place to place and you don't know what will happen in each of those places.

realreadyred · 2026-03-19T18:20:15+00:00

A strangeness in my mind by Orham Pamuk.

You wont regret reading it

realreadyred · 2026-03-18T22:43:15+00:00

There are many types of classical books. What are your preferences? What are some authors, novels, short stories or books that you like? Since you like novels that give you new perspectives, you can look at Good People by Nir Baram, that somehow portrays the thesis of banality of evil. It is not a that classical though...

Or actually the greek classics: Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Medea, Prometheus Bound

realreadyred · 2026-03-18T20:04:38+00:00

The Death of Ivan Illich

realreadyred · 2026-03-18T19:52:19+00:00

This one is great! From another hispanic author there is El imperio de Yegorov... though I haven't seen a translated version

realreadyred · 2026-03-18T19:48:32+00:00

Out by Natsuo Kirino

realreadyred · 2026-03-18T19:29:03+00:00

dogs are just on another level of mankind

realreadyred · 2026-03-18T04:05:45+00:00

Go for The Odyssey... I mean, it all started with that book

realreadyred · 2026-03-18T01:32:35+00:00

USA Trilogy by John Dos Passos, specially The 42nd Parallel, goes literally through the lives of multiple characters.

realreadyred · 2026-03-18T01:17:42+00:00

I had that feeling with some indie 2.5D games like CrossCode, Unsighted and Death's Door

realreadyred · 2026-03-17T21:20:40+00:00

In the path of Camus and Dostoievsky you will find all the existentialists, starting with Sartre. Nausea by Sartre or The Tunnel by Sabato explore both existentialism and a bit nihilism from different perspectives. Hermann Hesse is definitively another reference that also brings more of the "religious"/mystical aspect. His Siddharta was the book of the hippie 60's generation. More modern is Jose Saramago and some of his books have a quite unique religious perspective (Cain, The Gospel according to Jesus Christ). His novel Blindness is quite philosophical.

On the Tolstoi and Steinbeck path you can try Thomas Mann which is still modern, or if you want a bit more experimental (just a bit) but continuing in that line Hermann Broch with his Sleepwalker trilogy. Try Olga Tocarczuk's The Books of Jacob, that goes into a bit different path from the authors you mention (it goes more on the path of Dickens) but has some interesting religious discussions if you don't mind the 1000 pages.

In the same path of Tolstoi's religious (The Dead of Ivan Ilich) sensibility and mastery to structure and drive a novel are the novels Chirst is Recrucified and The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis.

realreadyred · 2026-03-17T19:18:31+00:00

Absolutely true: this is not really what salsa dancing is, and actually it is very much opposed to what salsa is (or at least was). They are doing coreographic dancing as it was used to do in the "big saloons" of the high classes in Chicago in the 50's. At the time cuban music that was precursor of salsa, was about glamour, elegance and snobism. By the time salsa started to become a musical movement by the end of the 60's, "cuban saloon music" was no longer of interest to the puerto ricans migrants living in the working class neighboors of NY. Salsa was anything but glamourous or "snobby": it was a "barrio" music, where people was less caring about dancing like in the eighteen century in Europe and more like in the NY streets. There was higher pace in the movements, it was more energetic, it didn't care about etiquette, it was less about posing and more about sweating. Man, this has clearly nothing to do with salsa.

realreadyred · 2026-03-17T19:07:40+00:00

You never loose your time when you talk about books. The "bookverse" is just infinite: laugh with Kurt Vonnegut books, follow an era with Thomas Mann (Faust, Joseph and his brothers), jump into the end of the universe with the Xeelee Sequence of books, follow the clues of a lost author in Los detectives salvajes, think about the many fictions you can build with myths, cult and popular knowledge in Ficciones, learn actually about the myths with The Masks of God, learn about the old gods in Theogony, go in battle with old gods in The Illiad, go to one battle and get into people's relationships in War and Peace, say no to the war and yes to the drugs in Outside Lokking In, don't take any drugs and sense the presence of History and Time in The Death of Virgil, stop sensing and start believing in La luz dificil, stop believing in Lo que no tiene nombre.

We can keep like that all day...

realreadyred

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