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Ron Gilbert (100% AI free)
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Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island. All ideas are my own, but you'd be crazy not to agree.
Hanging out in the airport reading Mastodon. It’s time like this that I like the federated feed. Non-stop stuff to read.
I am heading to Germany for devcom to meet up with some of the Return to Monkey Island team and talk about the aforementioned so there will be no todo lists for the next week. #devcom
I got a new book to read on my flight to DevCom. Things you didn't know about me: I love the Mary Tyler Moore Show. I watch it every night and have for the past 8 years. I get to the last episode and start over. I was too young to really remember it but my parents always watched the show. I do remember I had a 7-years old crush on Rhoda. image
Another day another dollar*. Spent the weekend doing a deep dive into how Diablo II does weapons and loot. Fascinating but it seems overly complex. It feels good to play so maybe it needs to be. I'm doing a much simpler version but there are some neat things I learned. * Except for the dollar part. #indiedev #gamedev #pixeltodo image
I didn't get much (anything?) done from my todo list yesterday. I was wrapping up some code around an intro quest and I realized my loot table structure was woefully inadequate so I spent the day rewriting the whole thing. #gamedev image
Because Mastodon doesn't allow quoted posts, I see is a lot of Mastodon users posting screenshots of the post they want to quote. It's interesting how people will find a way to get around any obstacle. It's a daily battle in game design. If you don't let players do something they really want to do, they find away and often break your game to do it. Not sure where this post is going, it's early and I haven't had coffee yet.