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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 2h

adding ten thousand rewards to Chime 13: new Navigators for Persona-users, Press Turn rule change rewards for summoners, double-room-rewards tokens. I realized I can make game features room rewards, like Persona-users swapping party in combat or Baton Pass--I also added Travel Deal from Hades lol

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 5h

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

I need to do some more work on Qud3D, the visualizer portion animated me a lot more than the "let's make Qud finishable inside this tool" part is turning out to hahahah

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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

yeah the first game built on top of this engine is going to be a roguelike!

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

that's my new project! it's going really well so far! I'm not using the console games yet unfortunately because I don't have access to legally-dumped roms but I WILL borrow mechanics from them!!! first thing you decide is: are you a summoner or a persona guy; and do you use Press Turn or One More?

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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 · 02/10/2026

sorry. hope she'd have been proud.

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

literally interesting times. but they were right that that's not always great

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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

sheehs that's a big oeuvre hahahah I once considered doing this for Annie Lennox/the Eurythmics

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

how many radio hits did he have? 2? there must be so much more Seal than most of us know

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

look at the game sort! it is simply not sorted! beggars belief

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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 · 27/09/2026

the game is so scheming at the table that the starter decks alone without any tailoring make for a great and replayable game--in fact both players knowing each other's decks perfectly only improves the devious bluffingness of it all

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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Joyce Carol (p)Oa(s)tes 😱 @basicchunnel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I compare Remedy’s whole vibe post-CONTROL to stomp-clap-hey indie music of the 2000s: the latter is folk music for ppl who react poorly to folk, the former is weird fiction for ppl who react poorly to strangeness. HOUSE OF LEAVES played on a uke

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

this is such a precise and searing indictment of CONTROL hahahah

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it should definitely have a campaign layer--I like the idea of the 6 sultans being yanked forward in time to the modern day, each one drawing its cult and factions to their banner and granted powers based on their generated histories and Resheph has to be around in some form heheheh

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Gyre-Born Blood on the Salt Seven Sultans Blood Weep

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

if I had any sense I'd just fix up world map travel and release it as a visualizer but I still wanna make it basically playable from the 3D interface...lots of stuff to handle is all

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

ohhhh I forgot how much cheaper Quests are than Valve hardware--do you know how it compares? I'm sure there are a million articles that could tell me how heheheh I think mine's a Vive Pro from 2021, would a $450 Quest today be as agood?

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

should Qud3D (Parasang) be a realtime FPS but not very well-balanced, or realtime-but-actually-just-Qud-turn-based-underneath with 1:1 parity with Qud's balance? both modes will exist but they require very different kinds of support...I THINK? I wonder if I could fully use Qud AI in FPS mode

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countless bats @countlessbats.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

hmmmm it's not immediately working heheheh can you drop me a DM? I'll send it to you when a connection actually works

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

this is why humans hire Artists instead of shaping buildings out of raw rules

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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

maybe I can put in a "fray" effect around the edges where the texture's eaten up by pixels of wear...

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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 · 16/09/2026

ohhh I'm actually terrible at Qud and have never finished it without quicksaves hahahah but I've been trying physical mutants lately...many, many limbs and axes and regeneration...

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

it's very fun to me imagining the player totally used to load screens suddenly coming upon a gaping hole in the earth opening down on a writhing cave, with another hole visible below should Golgotha be simul-tier?

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

I'm going to leave no-loads Qud in as an option, but have decided everything looks and works better if parasangs and z-levels are generally discrete--just too much cost to having them continuous, aesthetic and technical. areas that NEED multiple z-levels however like the tree and rustwells get em

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

bleeding for example though can't be Qud-side because units don't genuinely move location Qud-side (for the time being)...hmmm

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

nooo I don't even *really* remember how weird fluids are allowed to be in Qud, it could be a problem lol ideally I'll lean heavily on Qud to enforce the rules and just represent what it does faithfully? that's my hope right now

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

I could mirror the layout above and below ground but put all the loot and enemies only above...

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

what if ruins tiles under buildings populated their z-levels upward instead of down? would that even make sense. are buildings in the ruins large enough for this to work. I want tall shit

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