toffee the cat 💕 @toffy@raru.re
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i make game engines professionally & very small games indiely & i draw!
Joined Aug 2020
im getting into my phase of being obsessed w jon blow again .. he's such an asshole & his view on sw engineering is so limited so its hard to take him srsly but also.... he's just like a huge cutie
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@toffy i would let her stab me
made a hitbox editor for this quick & dirty rollback fighty game, its so much fun to use
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@mezzodrinker the roguelike combo of procgen + permadeath gives a game a high replayability factor but you lose a lot of control over the player's experience due to all the randomness, which makes the format ill-suited for telling heartfelt personal stories etc. Meanwhile making a game full of bespoke areas, characters, cutscenes etc. with the same longevity as a roguelike is a _lot_ more work.
So I guess what @toffy is saying is like, it'd be nice if more people would circumvent that whole conflict by just not caring about longevity, just make some really sweet 5-10 minute games that deliver a perfect hand-crafted experience without expecting the player to keep coming back.
That's not to say the games have to stick to older genres and established mechanics, if anything they have more freedom to explore design possibilities because there's less need to build up a whole content pipeline or framework like you'd have to do with a longer game or a procgen-based game.
not jam games, theyre more like technical challenges, but serious heart-and-soul-poured-into-this-thing 5 mins.
indie is kinda focused on systems-as-content like roguelike or procgen to generate play, because hand-crafting content is HARD
there's exceptions but theres not enough!!! i need more little stories or playable poems that u have to experience
i'd love a wave, genre or community of "games that are 5-10 mins long"
it piggybacks off of my old robust-ified Chess netcode lib, and this rollback library is now totally plug-and-play with whatever i wanna make, as long as it's deterministic..!! fun
implemented GGPO-style rollback netcode in Love2D!! it doesnt look like much but it FEELS great, even at 200ms+ ping!! with only a few small tweaks, im really happy with how self-balancing it is, even with fluctuating connections the clients stay in sync
ohj my god that feels so good lol. first try baby. the soldering job looks TERRIBLE. all im saying is. i made SURE those babies had Contact . tofe's fat glob emporium . the back of the controller looks like a wedding cake
IM OFFICIALLY AN XBOX CONTROLLER DOCTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
IT WORKS
ordered a soldering iron & replacement tactile switches to fix the bumpers on my old Xbox controller, im really excited for it.. teeny little project
wahoo
just here to have a good time
💌💕🌺🌹🍁🍂🍊🍎 🌹🥀🌷
i make game engines professionally & very small games indiely & i draw!
Joined Aug 2020
