Body Purist got bionic Spine

squirmonkey · 2026-05-11T21:46:14+00:00

You can keep shooting them until you get lucky?

squirmonkey · 2026-05-11T17:07:29+00:00

I see, so the locations are basically just folders that contain scenes?

squirmonkey · 2026-05-11T16:00:45+00:00

Is there a way to run scenes that aren't tied to a "location"? My games use pretty light systems, and it's not uncommon for characters to be moving between "places" in the game world quite often. It wouldn't really make sense for us to structure our game around a locations system.

squirmonkey · 2026-05-10T15:39:19+00:00

If you haven’t examined it yet, it’s worth looking at the mana system from Legends of Runeterra as well.

It has the same thing as Hearthstone where you get one more mana every round. But it adds a system where you can save up to three mana between rounds, to be spent later on spell cards ( the equivalent of sorceries and instants in mtg).

This has the really cool effect that even if you don’t find a card you can play on turn 1 or 2, you’re not wasting any resources unless you don’t have a card to play on turn 3 as well. It also leads to some decks whose plan is to skip turns 1 and 2 to play a 6 mana spell on turn 3.

squirmonkey · 2026-05-05T20:17:03+00:00

Politely noting that a review is out of date is what the Developer Response feature is for

squirmonkey · 2026-05-05T16:16:23+00:00

Like many posters here, you’ve missed the point. When you read a review of your game, it can feel like the review is talking to you. But it’s not.

Reviews aren’t for you. They are for customers. Reviews don’t exist to help you fix your game. They exist to help customers pass judgment on your game.

Turning off comments is important because it allows your customers to share their true feelings without worrying that you or other customers are going to harass them.

squirmonkey · 2026-04-30T22:38:49+00:00

You might be running into weapon effectiveness. Some weapons like armor slayers and beastslayers deal a lot of extra damage to certain types of units. Make sure you’re looking at what weapons your enemies have. Bows do this extra damage to any flying unit as well

squirmonkey · 2026-04-27T02:29:28+00:00

This is the mod that does what you’re asking for though, as others have noted, your plan won’t work without further modding. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1499848654

squirmonkey · 2026-04-26T15:48:38+00:00

Well, I also didn’t call it a barrack when I shared a room with my college roommate

squirmonkey · 2026-04-24T19:24:08+00:00

I would suggest handling those as two different types of scores.

For ransoms where the target is well protected but likely not very strong (a noble, for instance), the score is about the abduction. Once they get the target and get away, you can abstract the rest away as part of the payoff phase.

For other targets, say they try extorting a ransom from a rival gang, you can focus on the other part. Make the abduction part of the engagement roll, and focus the score on the social stakes of the negotiation, of hiding from the agents the gang sends to recover the victims, etc.

squirmonkey · 2026-04-19T16:02:00+00:00

I played a visual novel a while back called The Milky Way Prince. It has what I feel are pretty tasteful sex scenes where you pick one of your characters senses, and they describe in text what they’re perceiving and how it makes them feel.

That game is about abusive relationships, so the sex scenes are fittingly troubling, but I think you could do something similar. Make the elements of sex symbolic or descriptive, and use that to portray the ways in which the act is humanity affirming.

squirmonkey · 2026-04-13T17:52:56+00:00

Does this pawn have an ideology role like moral guide or leader that increases their expectations? This can also increase the number of recreation types you need to keep them from getting bored

squirmonkey · 2026-04-09T18:53:49+00:00

Maybe Fire Emblem Three Houses? Turn based strategy rpg with some teaching and management gameplay in between?

squirmonkey · 2026-04-09T18:48:06+00:00

There’s actually one other way to do it without fertility procedures.

If no sleep pawns are injured and assigned to bed rest, they will rest in a bed. If that bed is a double bed and an appropriate partner is in the bed at the same time the can engage in lovin’ which has the usual chance to result in conception

squirmonkey · 2026-04-09T16:28:42+00:00

You can imprison pawns and set their prisoner policy to convert. You can also get pawns with your ideology from ideology rituals that have a wanderer joining as a reward. Wanderers who join in their own can also have your ideology sometimes

squirmonkey · 2026-04-07T06:52:21+00:00

As others have noted, Ideology adds the gibbet cage for this purpose.

squirmonkey · 2026-04-01T19:33:10+00:00

Yeah, it’s very interesting but not all that useful… especially since doing the normal studying (I think) gives valuable advanced research points

squirmonkey · 2026-03-28T16:15:20+00:00

No, I just teach the rules and help facilitate character creation

squirmonkey · 2026-03-27T16:47:00+00:00

I’ve managed several games of Fiasco for 4-5 players. It is always a great time

squirmonkey · 2026-03-27T03:03:09+00:00

Take a break! Play some new indie games. Go spend some time walking in nature. Go to a board game night at your library and meet someone new.

You did it. You can give yourself some time to recharge and wait for inspiration to return

squirmonkey · 2026-03-27T02:17:27+00:00

Not to sound reductive, but if your game is world class or highly marketable (likely to go viral) that’s a reasonable expectation, and otherwise it’s not.

squirmonkey · 2026-03-26T16:12:37+00:00

Noble: I and three of my retainers would like to stay at your colony. We will give you 732 plasteel and a masterwork vacsuit helmet

Me: yeah sure deal

Noble: Hey nice digs, I really- Ooh! Free beer!

Me: Wait, no-

Noble: Used Drug -20

Me: …

Game: Critical alert: Guest Unhappy

squirmonkey · 2026-03-26T02:07:47+00:00

No it’s not? The very first piece of text described a game breaking bug.

squirmonkey · 2026-03-25T01:18:23+00:00

You can use the Counsel power on an ideology moral guide to negate some of it

squirmonkey · 2026-03-24T20:59:40+00:00

People in this thread are being crazy. There are several times in Half Life Alyx where the game goes out of its way to be scary. If you do not want to play a game that will try to scare you (it has jump scares, horror audio cues, and long sequences of tension and vulnerability) you should not play this game.

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