Chaff / Christopher
(writer, creator of incomprehensible sword chess game)


Patreon / Bluesky
Lichess / ch*ss.com



🪨 [recent writings]♟️


Over the past 24 hours I scrunched down a much shorter version of my gigantic website about Veney, hopefully slightly more approachable—about 8,500 words instead of the original 22,000.

It's here: short.veney.xyz

One of the main reactions I got from the initial release of the game was "wow, that's a lot." So, I'm hoping this one has less capacity to shock and dismay. Still planning on attending the tabletop game designers meet up at MFF tomorrow! I wonder if anyone there likes swords.

My promise to you: I will not attempt to swindle anyone out of their various tabletop trinkets and baubles, even though that is a core component my game.


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in reply to @swordbroken's post:

Thank you for the tip. I didn't know that was an option. And trust me, I was very reluctant to switch from PNG to the Google-tainted WEBP format, but a friend ended up convincing me while I was working on direly needed performance optimizations for the old mile-long web page.

I'll keep image fallbacks in mind for the future, but to be totally honest, I will not be doing that any time soon. It would be a solid day of uninterrupted work for me, and my focus to do this kind of thing comes pretty randomly. I'm not a professional. Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but WEBP looks to be very broadly supported: https://caniuse.com/webp ...can I ask what browser you use? The site also displays well on mobile devices, if that helps.