Hi I'm Dana, I mostly just tool around with friends, play RPGs, and listen to podcasts, but I've also been known to make podcasts at SuperIdols! RPG and I've written a couple of short rpgs at my itch page and on twitter.
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(article: https://www.eurogamer.net/civilization-7-pairs-seismic-changes-with-a-lovably-familiar-formula)
like. I like simulation for simulation's sake! I do. But if none of it's exposed to the player, a LOT of times you end up with a black box that is indistinguishable from a random number generator. This is especially common with people trying to make social simulations. If you're doing something neat, you have to surface it, or consider whether it's worth doing at all.
luxe is an indie friendly engine being made in a game studio, where it's used to make games. did you know!?
Weāre making it, so Iām happy to talk about it or answer questions if you have em!
see more here createwith.luxe
(p.s you can join the community forum (not luxe specific)) https://community.luxeengine.com
this is truly the kind of stuff I'd love to see more of, both from devs and journalists
Something I saw quite a bunch not only with this current playtest of Virtueās Heaven, but also when I saw people play through that very old demo version of the game, was players who almost exclusively used the Dash-punch move to get through the game. I canāt blame them to be honest. Itās very powerful, gives you a lot of invincibility and you usually hit enemies multiple times with it. Itās a very strong move and I like it alot myself. If I wouldnāt find it fun and cool to fling my character into every evil robot that I encounter, it wouldnāt be in the game.
However, thereās a real risk of players potentially optimising the excitement out of a game with a move thatās just this potent. After all, why use anything else, when this one attack works, is easy to execute and relatively safe?
