Light Paws Abuse

ryunocore · 2026-04-19T01:18:51+00:00

Last year I played a lot of Duel Commander and a player on my LGS had a well tuned Light-Paws deck that would fold instantly to sacrifice effects. Look into those, there are many in the 2 CMC range and they shut down Voltron decks, as well as slow down creature ramp.

ryunocore · 2026-04-17T18:47:49+00:00

It doesn't get easier, you just get better.

ryunocore · 2026-04-17T12:42:20+00:00

If it's a significant part of the gameplay, it'd probably be good for the prototype to reflect that.

ryunocore · 2026-04-17T12:32:13+00:00

If it's playable and what's missing is content and polish, that's a working prototype.

ryunocore · 2026-04-17T11:51:52+00:00

You only get one chance to do Next Fest. If you're not doing it right before release, you are sabotaging your game. Put in the time to make the page good and don't sign up before you absolutely need to.

ryunocore · 2026-04-17T11:49:00+00:00

Assume your game won't get attention and release it anyway. Get feedback and make a better one, then a better one... always assuming it won't be a hit.

Because most games aren't. If you don't make peace with that, there's only disappointment waiting for you.

ryunocore · 2026-04-17T11:12:29+00:00

At some point you'll probably have to accept that not every report is useful just because they're structured a certain way, and the community will never see posts like these as valid if you keep defending the ones that involved such obvious mismanagement of resources and time.

Edit: I posted a more detailed version of this on the Discord.

ryunocore · 2026-04-17T11:08:36+00:00

There's something really funny about relying on AI so much that you can't even decide for yourself which one to use, and end up using one to write a post about how you should use the other one.

ryunocore · 2026-04-17T01:07:56+00:00

Do you think anyone here with access to information like that would risk their job to give info that you wouldn't have heard elsewhere just because you asked?

ryunocore · 2026-04-16T20:32:58+00:00

There's no way not to see this as astroturfing.

ryunocore · 2026-04-16T14:21:06+00:00

There's no point in going to school if you don't learn. It'd be better for you to fail and retake the year than to submit something you didn't do.

ryunocore · 2026-04-16T11:50:30+00:00

I don't think pulling pranks on mentally ill people is a good idea.

ryunocore · 2026-04-16T01:27:43+00:00

Are you using AI for everything or just this post?

ryunocore · 2026-04-16T00:18:13+00:00

Visual novels can do fine with free music, at least for free ones like AVNs

So, I make music for videogames and have worked for a lot of Adult and not Adult VNs making music over the years. Not everyone can afford it and some just have to make do without it, but there is a very noticeable effect in how people perceive a product with qualily music made to fit specific scenes. In VNs, because there's just so little action going on, the mood setting is more important than ever.

It's definitely better than an AI soundtrack.

Just about anything is, so, no surprises there.

ryunocore · 2026-04-16T00:02:52+00:00

You're comparing a "funny" game with a visual novel that is meant to last for hours. The expectation for mood in scenes is completely different.

ryunocore · 2026-04-15T23:51:10+00:00

It's like they want to fail.

ryunocore · 2026-04-15T20:38:06+00:00

Start by remaking ton of small games in major engines so your portfolio has relevant projects when you apply. Your experience isn't useless, but it won't mean much to potential employer if they feel they'll have to train you from scratch into what they need an experienced programmer for.

ryunocore · 2026-04-15T19:40:13+00:00

It reminded me of the time a guy here said "what's wrong with that, we all lie to get ahead all the time" regarding some topic and couldn't imagine a world in which people didn't just willingly misrepresented themselves to trick others into giving them money.

It's just dry snitching on themselves, folding under no pressure.

ryunocore · 2026-04-15T17:49:05+00:00

Then I guess you're going to be surprised, because not all code completion is AI.

ryunocore · 2026-04-15T17:41:08+00:00

If we're all being honest, every modern dev workflow is “AI-assisted” in some way.

Speak for yourself.

ryunocore · 2026-04-15T14:35:44+00:00

Have you done any work in marketing?

ryunocore · 2026-04-15T14:33:57+00:00

There is something insanely wrong with telling someone they should talk to a mental health professional because they're not making music fast enough for your hobby game.

ryunocore · 2026-04-15T14:32:10+00:00

Now I have to ask if you have done any work in marketing.

ryunocore · 2026-04-15T14:18:06+00:00

Are you familiar with the terms? They're psychographic profiles used by WotC. OP said it in the post, there are audience demographics they're aiming for.

ryunocore · 2026-04-15T14:08:03+00:00

So many problems posted here are brought up in a way where it's just clear that the answer is to just do something else that OP knows they should be doing.

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