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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 3h

far and away the most complicated ability effect is also somehow the one that's gone absolutely gloriously perfect, I have no more notes for Chaotic Will

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I'm on bluesky on chrome on a PC and this is what I see

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

every time an Awakened party recruits, there's a 5% chance one of the characters is a CAMEO, which shows a flashy little cutaway; cameos are like 5% stronger than normal, but the main thing is they have the name and look of a canon Persona character. everyone else is randomized townspeople.

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

back in the character creator......

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this is a Bug-Eater player, ie, riffing on Nocturne's rules; they find magatama and ingest them, granting 4 permanent skills and 4 skills they can learn on level into their open slots Nocturne-style. bit of a hybrid with Metaphor, which I think is a happy place to be.

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

first SMTV area incorporated...it's...........not quite there yet

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

FTL-inspired web map with the Reaper after you...

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

overworld looking very surreal at the moment

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

what if, instead of 8 SMT games, there were one SMT game that aggregated all of their content and features--freely, based on which ones you happen to have installed--inside which people could freely build any kind of game of their own? and it looked like this?

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

getting my Prey Eyes affinity tracker going in here too

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

very pleased with the final result--nothing overlaps, gaps are even, the columns became a grid. this needs release heheh

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm fixing Digital Devil Saga's appalling skill assignment menu--3 columns and 3 sort modes should do it

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

hmmm working some weathering into it...I dunnooo

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is a little nicer! why verdigris on marble you ask because uhhh salt does that

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

hmmm well it's less flat now but a little more...nicotine-stained? not sure this is what we're going for

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the Six-Day Stilt now matches its achievement icon...this is still not hand-placed, just built from some hiiighly specific rules lol not all that satisfied with how it looks tho, maybe different strips of weathering across its face to give it some texture? even...other tiles?

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

guns are working but combat wasn't in Joppa, so I ran toward Red Rock and took a shot at a baboon not expecting anything, and he vanished. no damage indicators or combat rolls in Qud, just cessation

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

parallax is possible, but needs someone smarter than me to implement it! I'm gonna try the BLINK HORIZON, where when you parasang-transition you get a quarter-second fade-through-black and the horizon updates. here I'm walking between the corners of 3 parasangs repeatedly.

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

just sprinting across Qud, trying to test the horizon out

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

experimenting with a veeery slightly 3D Spindle

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

my psychiatrist told me Big Spindle's not real and can't hurt me

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

take one of the horizon parallax tech...............promising actually

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Parasang has no combat in yet, but I had Doom AND Parasang BOTH up visualizing Qud, and in Doom combat happens, routing through Qud, so I died in Parasang. computers are interesting

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

continuous parasangs are amazing but they're not always loading in the most logical order yet

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Caves of Qud...2 or 3 parasangs loaded at once, from the sky

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

many things that were solved in Doom are unsolved in PARASANG lol but should be easy to bring stuff forward

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I...I made it...the new engine can walk from Joppa to the Stilt with no load screens* (the loading algorithm still lags behind a direct sprint northwest but I'm working on it) poor Stilt has been demoted in the new engine, it will rise high again

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Joppa's back to basics, but the load time was instant

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the new engine's working! Caves of Qud!

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

new engine so far: the dreadroot are swaying...and the stars are...That

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I basically have two options: either I make pixel-perfect but *not really very good looking* recreations of the rustwells in my own engine, or I *figure out a hand-authored situation in Doom that fakes it.* or I can make my own engine, then fake it too--maximum gains, but most work.

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

deploying horizons to Dwarf Fortress in Doom the same way as in Qud, exact same mechanism of "looking ahead" to surrounding map tiles--results interesting but not as nice as Qud's, for now this is fortress exploration mode btw

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

left things in a bad state last time. the rust wells are destroying me

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

fortress exploration mode in Dwarves in Doom........a haunting sight. the ceiling is too low to walk into this chamber of horrors

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm gonna try procedurally pre-authoring standalone Doom WADs to serve as the rustwells' layout. Qud still needs to expatriate all of the units from the parasangs below to make it playable, but this might solve my layout problems.

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