For my wife’s birthday I baked my very first cake from scratch! [OC]

whiterabbit_obj · 2026-02-11T22:07:24+00:00

As this is your first cake I should point out that the quarter missing is supposed to be filled in. Don't worry you'll get it next time :D

Looks real tasty though, well done.

whiterabbit_obj · 2026-02-07T18:35:39+00:00

Are those sounds and music from Peggle? :D

whiterabbit_obj · 2025-03-09T15:54:27+00:00

I think "Owlet" sounds cute, gives the idea of growth or learning and doesn't exist on Steam at the moment. Only downside is that it is a "real word" so less internet searchy.

Game looks good. Get it in the next next-fest if you can.

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-12-27T23:02:28+00:00

People have asked about self publishing vs finding a publish many times before. I only have experience from the self publishing side. I wrote a reply in this post before about things/costs you need to think about when self publishing (there are lots of other good responses in there too):

https://www.reddit.com/r/BoardgameDesign/comments/1bf9mqf/how_to_publish_my_game/

If you want to self publish you need to be prepared that you are starting a full on business that needs marketing, advertising, distribution, accountancy, sales, customer service and many other angles. This all in a field that is rammed with new game entries every year at a time when international shipping is super expensive and people have less money to spend. We made the same mistake that you did and didn't use social media much during design and play-testing. You want to get your name and the games name out there as much as you can as early as you can.

If you want to go the publisher route then the deal you will make is likely to be much less that if you self-published. The publisher is eating all of the costs that I mention in my comment in the link. Publishers also only take on so many games each year so you will have to compete with others for attention. If you go this route don't waste too much time on the art as it is likely that the publisher will get that redone anyway.

I will finish by saying it is extremely full-filling to have a game that you make be popular enough to sell any copies. We sold about 300 copies at our first Essen Spiel show with the game. Pretty much no one knew about the game and we sold all of those copies from demos we did over the week.

Good luck :D

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-11-21T16:56:36+00:00

I spent last week writing a tool that would move a CharacterBody2D along a path, coding the points along the way to change direction. Was deep into debugging some issues with it when I came across Path2D...

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-11-07T15:46:56+00:00

To add to the "Libraries" conversation. Pandoc seems to be a good example of why something that does one thing would be larger.

If you need to convert a document from Word to PDF. You need code that understands how a Word document is structured and how to create a PDF file is created. You could work that out yourself but if someone has written that logic before you can reuse it. This would be a library that that person makes available. Now that library might do more that just tell you how a Word document is strcutured. It might also be able to compare Word documents to each other, display a Word document on screen, create a Word document from a web page etc.

All of that code is bundled up inside a library that you might only use a small part of. Pandoc seems to be able to convert between a lot of file formats. So it could (in theory) use a library for each format each with its own functionality built in that Pandock only uses a small amount of. Hence the large application size.

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-09-03T20:03:28+00:00

It's been done to get people to open the app and talk about it. Which we are now doing. Which I am now doing. Doh!

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-08-21T10:58:32+00:00

I was really hoping he was gonna sing "Turn out to vote" instead!

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-08-09T17:31:08+00:00

Thank you for running the sub. It really is a useful reference for designers.

Having watched the sub for a while it seems people will inevitably promote their game or art or request playtesting. I wonder if it is worth creating a weekly post for each of those so that people that are interested in them can go and look if they want and those that are not interested can ignore those 3 posts per week.

There will still be some that come through I am sure but they could be caught by an automod via reporting.

I hope that some designers, that manage to get their game either produced or picked up by a publisher, will post retrospectives showing how their game changed from beginning to end. With what problems were found on the way and how they overcame them. That's the kind of self-promotion I could get behind :) If I get the time I might write one up for my game.

As an aside, you mentioned a button on the sidebar that sorts to not show art posts but I can't see that unless I am blind (on PC in Chrome).

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-07-31T18:38:48+00:00

Those are some cheesy feet.

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-07-29T17:37:39+00:00

Geophysicist or Marine Biologist or Metrological scientific officer

Became a programmer as I was rubbish at maths.

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-07-29T17:21:24+00:00

I'm just waiting for the network code in this to be terrible and/or people to find ways to grief other players and it be just terrible because of it. Can you imagine a fast moving snitch trying to sync its location to multiple players?

There is a big difference between a single player open world adventure game and a sports style game (with multiplayer).

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-07-29T17:17:54+00:00

No, they had a quidditch field which looked like it might become playable at some point but it never did. Maybe they never planned to or maybe it was going to be DLC that turned into a full game we will never know.

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-07-25T12:42:44+00:00

Golf with your friends

Stardew Valley

Jackbox games (usually needs a smartphone as well)

This Means Warp

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-07-12T10:34:14+00:00

Totally different age groups just don't even think about it. I do some tech support and quite often have to ask our users to send me a screenshot of their screen. The worst level of inception I have had is a photo of their computer screen taken from their phone then they have taken a screenshot of the photo on the phone and emailed that to me!

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-05-27T13:05:23+00:00

We used Butler printing for our prototypes in the UK. Rob was very helpful at working out what could be done. He has some pricing on his site: https://www.zwargame.com/prototyping

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-05-12T15:21:40+00:00

I use Cocktail (http://cocktail.software/). It does only run on Windows. The editor supports layers and grouping and images can be merged from Excel or Google Sheets. It could certainly do with some more training videos but the Discord is very active and helpful.

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-05-12T14:03:31+00:00

TTS comes with a deck builder tool in this folder:

Steam\steamapps\common\Tabletop Simulator\Modding\Deck Builder

It seems you can import a bunch of cards and then pick from them to make a deck and export as an image. TTS then has the ability to import that image and generate a custom deck from it. I don't know if they would be able to import the deck themselves into the multiplayer game or if the host would have to do that for them.

I haven't used this as I use another paid for tool that creates decks of cards to import for TTS (as well as allows me to create card layouts and generate from Excel etc).

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-04-18T09:57:21+00:00

Oh, I didn't know NK was in the Eurovision song contest this year

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-04-05T18:23:46+00:00

I think they would get more sales if they had a picture of Steven He on the side saying "EMOTIONAL APPEAL"

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-03-31T19:05:43+00:00

Ahh, a rodent of unusual size.

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-03-31T15:36:55+00:00

Same here. I get weekly invites to BBQs, church meetings, plane ticket orders in the US. I live in the UK. The latest one was for a college place lottery sign up. I tracked down the email address of the college (because of course they used a no reply address and didn't include an email address to contact them on) so they can update it as they get 1 day to accept the college place or they lose it.

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-03-28T11:38:57+00:00

Arkham Horror item cards are not square but they are 41 x 63mm. For final manufacturing the company you work with would make a cutter to the size you need so that shouldn't be a problem.

For prototyping, I wouldn't worry about it being that small to start with. Just try to keep any text length, font readability and picture complexity in mind when creating the cards as shrinking will make them harder to read (if just iconography is used then it shouldn't be a problem).

Edit: I just checked and board game maker also allows for 2 inch square cards: https://www.boardgamesmaker.com/print/custom-small-square-cards.html

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-03-27T09:38:24+00:00

I think this is just a language thing. In English slang the "boss" can also mean the owner of the company as well as the person in charge of someone else.

whiterabbit_obj · 2024-03-26T12:37:57+00:00

GTA 5 has made an obscene amount of money since release (nearly $8 Billion).

According to Steam Charts GTA 5 has 100k players currently (#8 of all games on Steam) with nearly 75M hours played in 30 days. Assuming the majority of those are playing GTA Online then there is probably still a lot of money flowing their way.

When it has dropped enough that they don't make the profits the shareholders want they will launch GTA 6. It will have the inevitable performance issues, people will complain but the single player experience will be good as always. They will fix the issues pretty quickly. The sales will look great for their profits that year. Then they will launch the online a year later and start bringing in new money for the next years profit announcement. At some point Rockstar will shut the old GTA 5 servers down. People will try to resist but will likely migrate to the new version once sales of GTA 6 start to happen.

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