u/GameDesignerMan
Someone the other day posted about words that seem like they should be etymologically related but aren't, so here's a good one.
"ravenous", comes from being obsessed with plundering, extremely greedy, descending from an Old French root. Seems like a good fit for the bird that likes shiny things.
But "raven," has a proto-germanic root. AFAIK, they're completely unrelated.
Just a fun little coincidence to brighten your day.
This is probably my last post here, and I should preface this with an understanding that this is kind of a space to vent. And to the credit of a lot of the great women around here I see many people responding with "my man doesn't do that," to a lot of these posts...
But what am I getting at? There seems to be a level of casual misandry in a lot of the questions that are being asked. Why are all men slobs? Why are all men cheaters? And to try and phrase it delicately, if a *good* man is picking up on this kind of energy, I don't think he's going to engage with a woman who thinks this way. In the same way a woman won't engage with a man who hates women (E.g. An incel). *Bad* men will \
I'm curious to know how you feel your dating experience has changed, as you've gotten older, pre-vs-post COVID, how the role of dating apps has changed the landscape etc?
Anecdotally I see people online saying that it's harder to get into a relationship, and that people are perhaps more content to stay alone or more unwilling to put themselves out there, do you think that is true?
Oh and bonus question, can you tell me something really nice that has happened on one of your dates?
I haven't really heard much discussion about this part of S3 yet, but one of my big disappointments of S2 was how detached the main story felt from everything that had come before it.
S3 feels like a breath of fresh air in comparison. We get to hang out with the Cunning Hares again, we're entangled with OG void hunters, and possibly my favourite moment: we actually got to go inside a Shiyu Pillar.
It's just so nice to have known about these things since the very beginning, and actually be able to get up close to one. Some of the coolest vistas in S1 were the ones overlooking the Shiyu pillars, and the whole lore purpose of the Shiyu defense game mode is to protect these bad boys. It's sm
We all love words like these. Obviously disinterest is an antonym, but distress sounds like it should mean "without stress" if we look at it naively.
Turns out "distress" shares the same root as the word "district", the meaning has changed over time but apparently used to mean "to constrain or compel," so you can kind of see where the similarity comes from.
It kind of reminds me of the way "aesthetic" and "anesthetic" are related for some reason.
I have a craving. You can get Dr P from the supermarket, it's around $2.50 a can and they don't really sell them in bulk. I've tried 'Reduced to Clear,' and couldn't find any there. Any suggestions?
I'm looking for something kind of specific. I really enjoy the Battle Frontier in Pokemon, it's my favourite part of those games and represents the hardest PvE challenge you can attempt. All your game knowledge and strategy is tested, from how well you know the creatures themselves to whether you understand the game's AI.
I'm looking for creature collectors with similarly deep challenges and interesting twists on the default battle formula. Any good recommendations?
Hello. I've been on the fringe of wargaming for years but never started a physical army before. With everything I've seen about Turnip I think it might be a good opportunity to get into the Hobby, but everything is very expensive when converted into my local currency (NZD) so I want to keep it cheap. I'm going to go thrifting and see if there's anything that looks like it could be modified into a Turnipy battalion, but are there any other good places that people like to source their tools, paints and models from?
The genre in question is "Magic Tower" games. WTF is that? The best way to explain it is to imagine if we'd never developed the game "Rogue." Rogue birthed it's own genre of games, and without Rogue there would be no roguelike games. Perhaps there would still be dungeon crawlers and RPGs, but there would be no Nethack, no Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup and quite possibly no Dwarf Fortress. No games like Rogue.
Magic Tower games are a similar beast, except they were birthed from the game Tower of the Sorcerer. TotS didn't really take off in the west, but over in Asia the game spawned it's ow
If you're looking for art design or code resources you're almost spoiled for choice, but it's really hard to find people who focus on sound design. There are lots of music theory channels and the occasional short video explaining a single effect, but are there any creators dedicated to sound design in games?
I've gotten this feeling lately that modern mythological creatures have been reduced to an entry in a monster manual. E.g. The Roc is a big bird. No it's not. It's an ENORMOUS bird, so big that it was thought to prey on elephants. Do you know how big you have to be to pick up an elephant, let alone fly away with it? The Roc is going to eat you, but it's not even going to realize it ate you because you're so insignificant compared to the elephant it ate for breakfast.
But I digress.
On the flipside, I think there are pieces of modern media that focus on a single mythological entity (or a select few) and do a really good job of showing why that thing became a myth in the first place.
I don't know much about cryptography, but my gut is that there are a number of things you shouldn't do, such as:
But what should you do? Is it okay to leave a SHA hash of a puzzle answer in your code or can people reverse-engineer that? Is Godot's built-in decryption/encryption good enough as a library to stop people from being able to easily brute-force-decrypt your stuff? If I leave scenes/assets related to a puzzle in the resources of my game, is there a way to obfuscate those in such a way that peop
I was just browsing the speedrun categories for oni and I thought Carnivore would be a perfect addition if someone knows how to add it.
For those that have never heard of Carnivore, it's an achievement that you can earn and one of three that are actually FAILABLE. The other two being Locavore and Super Sustainable. The goal is to eat 400,000 calories of meat before the end of cycle 100, so it's already kind of a speedrun on its own.
I think it would make an incredible category to run. There's a lot of maths involved, a lot of strategy, and even a little bit of RNG. You have to rush
Just curious, I want to create a VERY simple Sokoban game just to see if I can, and I was wondering if there are any existing resources that can get me started?
I'm also aware that there are pushable boulders in the sample project, would they be the best place to start?