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sounds like the game is too easy but has spikes of high difficulty that one player is having a harder time avoiding. what I would do is get rid of both playtesters, replace them with my own guy that always agrees with me.

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

yeah, once you've got a bunch of interlocking mechanics it gets a lot trickier. that's why I mostly make games about jumping and punching.

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I'm a huge proponent of finding the fun of a game very early on, and keeping it at the center of the project always. losing sight of that can cause an identity crisis, which can lead to scope creep, etc. if your game was fun early on, you can always strip it back to that point, which is a lot safer!

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I feel that. someone will tell me their game takes players through waves of self-discovery with novel mechanics based on some emotional experience they had abroad and I'll reply with "my game is about this fun jump"

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

beebz can finally prove flat earth theory!! what a dream come true

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

if you made something you know is niche, the paradigm flips. thousands of people can say they hate it, but when one person tells me it scratched an itch for them I think to myself "see? huge success" and cry myself to sleep

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

menu flow is a nightmare. first place I worked at had a small room painted wall to wall with whiteboard paint and I filled the whole room with a menu flow diagram. after my presentation they wheeled me away in a straight jacket.

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

please like comment and subscribe for more great tweets

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

how do I adjust my bsky feed so all I see are psychotic game design takes

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

mario really needed a vacation in this game and he didn't get it 😔

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I hate when there's also another guy on the podium next to you and they televise the whole date. so awkward.

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

you're really not taking advantage of an open world unless you have a gigantic hat you can see from miles away.

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

this is a cutscene debugger if I've ever seen one! you got your bone scale transforms, camera switching, and it's silly looking because programmer's lives are bleak otherwise.

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

wario is always doing this shit man

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

this rocks. you guys are a well oiled machine at this point

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

love how the course culls in. overlapping depth in a top down racer is pretty novel!

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

it's almost that time of year again to buy whiskey stones for all of your friends and relatives and coworkers and pets.

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

hell yeah! bluesky is having a moment right now. seems like all the cool people are finally here. now I just need to get all my bot followers over here to inflate my follow count.

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

huge fan of debug lines. my math is terrible, so when the lines line up perfectly and aren't pointing in a million different directions I feel like a genius.

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

next time I mention yacht club and someone asks if we were the ones that made hollow knight, I'm just going to say yes.

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Argle Bargle @arglebargle.bsky.social · 28/08/2023

I'm just going to crosspost everything I post on twitter here until twitter dies (there will be no posts)

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