Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 15/10/2026Okay, I've been patient and reasonable with some of the custom weapons in this Fallout New Vegas mod list (The Best of Times & Wasteland Survival Guide), but what the ACTUAL hell 110 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 10/09/2026It *must* have been difficult to resist the urge to annoy the lawyers and just name this achievement "That's XCOM, Baby" 020 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Making extremely good use of the (admittedly limited) post-completion unlocks for future playthroughs of Star Wars Zero Company 010 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 04/09/2026My fandoms are like my little terrariums - I keep myself separated from them by a thick pane of glass so I can watch their little sometimes cannibalistic cycles of nature with a detached sense of peace 120 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Finally! 5 sidequests, 5 opportunities, 5 random events... #ThreeForAll is now officially at... bare minimum playable status for Day 1! Devlog to come later this week, and then I am taking a break! #Griftlands #modding 130 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Another event quest in the bag, getting tantalizingly closer to the milestone! Will you investigate the weird sounds behind the locked door? #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 030 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Back at it after Deltarune Week! Random event number 2 is in, getting me closer to the milestone I'm calling "First Playable," which is when there's the bare minimum verticle-slice amount of content in Day 1 that is all real and not placeholder! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 030 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Opportunity quest number five is in, which means there's just enough in the pool to enable them in the story campaign! First-playable status is right around the corner! Time to shift to random events! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 010 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Considering I got randomly bumped up to the major leagues, I'll take 6th place happily and humbly, thank you #SonicRacingCrossworlds 020 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Two more opportunity quests done to round out the week! Admittedly two variations on a similar theme: Play some carnival games to improve your battle deck, or visit your local library to improve your negotiation deck. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 030 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 17/06/2026It took 10 months, but I finally finished my first playthrough of #Silksong. I didn't so much savor this like a fine wine as I did drag this out and avoid it like a one-year gym membership with a hefty early quitting penalty in the fine print. What was I talking about? Oh yeah, good game. 030 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 16/06/2026The hot weekend and some appointments threw off my pace, but we're getting back on the wagon with the second opportunity quest done! Just the ones that restore your health or resolve so far, but now with new custom contexts! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 010 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Now that I have a crop of sidequests, it's on to opportunities, the first of which is now finished! You can restore your health with a number of options from food carts, though someone may interrupt you before you can enjoy your delicious meal. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 020 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Sidequest 5 has gotten its second pass, and I even fixed some really, REALLY STUPID bugs today! Milestone's getting closer! For now, though, I'm probably taking the rest of the week off, since that FiD anniversary stream took a lot of my battery. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 020 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 02/06/2026At long last, sidequest 5 is first-draft complete! Just need to make another pass with tone indicators and I can call it good. Then it's on to opportunities and random events to get to my first-playable milestone! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 010 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 29/05/2026As I declare Down Tools for the week, I'm still brimming with excitement because I'm quite close to completion on sidequest 5, a negotiation-focused quest that involves some custom mechanics. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 010 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 26/05/2026I'm still so very, very glad that Arint's Last Day is getting the occasional positive comment here and there. Really lifts my spirits in hard times. #Griftlands #modding 030 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Been quietly plugging away all week, and I'm happy to report that sidequest 4 is first-draft complete! The pass for tone indicators and emotes will happen on Monday, and then it's on to sidequest 5 to reach my first-playable milestone. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 111 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Post a meme made by you My genuine reaction to learning about the Bass Pro Shop Pyramid (before it became the Memphis Pyramid) 021 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Rounding out the week's #modding progress, sidequest 4's logical skeleton is there, now just all the dialogue needs to be written for all the options. "Just." I'm keeping a very good pace all things considered, but turns out writing branching visual novels is a lot of work! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll 010 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Rounding out this week's worth of #modding work, sidequest number 3 has its emotes and tone indicators for dialogue, and I've hunted down an issue that was making every quest give out too-strong rewards right off the bat. You've already got two party members, after all. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll 020 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Sidequest 3 is now first-draft written and playable! Sweet Moreef's jobs to make up for the damages to his bar might be relatively low-stakes in the grand scheme of things, but the general craziness of Pearl-on-the-Foam infuses them with unhinged twists and turns! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 030 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Put in some extra effort today, taking a second pass over all the dialogue for the new quest so that I don't have to touch it again for a long time, as well as hunting down and solving a nasty quest-activation bug. Sweet, sweet, measurable progress! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 030 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Finally, finally, finally! Sweet Moreef has a second sidequest! (In rough first-draft form!) Still got some bugs to sort out and some tone and stage indicators to put in, but still! This past month wasn't a total waste! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 010 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Proof that I've at least been *trying* to work this month, despite all the devastatingly bad news that won't stop stressing me out 010 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 09/04/2026Despite everything, I successfully managed to get back on the horse this week and chip out some more mod sidequest progress. The pace is very much "slow and steady wins the race," but I'm basically writing an anthology of short CYOA stories here. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 031 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I was having a lot of trouble with this one, because I like a LOT of boss fights in general, they're my favorite part of just about anything. And then I realized there was one that permanently changed my brain chemistry, one that spawned many imitators and structurally impacted indie games forever: 020 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 20/03/2026(Content Warning: misophonia / gross mouth noises) (Audio by GreatDinn, video by me) For your consideration: 023 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Rounding out this week's effort: The first sidequest (of 25) for Sweet Moreef is now in the game, with all first-draft non-placeholder dialogue! I forgot how time-consuming sidequests are to build. It's like theater. Casting, staging, blocking, murder... #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 051 5
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 18/03/2026After much painstaking effort, I'm now all caught-up (as far as mastery and arsenals are concerned, minus a couple of seasonal items) in both 'Frame games - @soulframe.com and @warframe.com! And a founder in both! 010 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Even after dealing with Everything, I still finished the work I wanted to get done this week. Specifically, tweaking the opening encounter to be more lore-friendly and less punishing! That trailer really put me in a corner, showing lots of Admiralty with guns! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 021 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 03/03/2026If I can do one, I can do four*, right? Spent my work time today writing and capturing and converting the animated slides for each character's introduction. * Four, not just three, because there's also the modded OC route, which now has a default intro! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 053 5
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 03/03/2026Sometimes this whole stress induced insomnia situation works out a little bit #lunareclipse 040 4
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 02/03/2026What if I took the early access trailer this campaign is based on and used it as video for the introductory slideshows? A surprisingly difficult idea that took up four whole hours of my day today. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 021 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Rounding out the week, my work was on... not the big story mod, but rather the supporting mod of the NPC grifters' mechanics! They all needed a bit of tweaking, especially their negotiation support arguments. Party's gotta feel balanced and helpful, after all! Changes are live! #Griftlands #modding 132 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 25/02/2026You know me, I like to obsess over the fine details. So I spent most of this week finding just the right symbol for the overlay counter and a means to display an image in a dialogue bubble that's relatively easy on the eyes. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 011 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 24/02/2026Being unbelievably stressed out hasn't stopped me from picking away at #Griftlands #modding. For quest flow reasons, I decided that there ought to be a special consultant NPC who'd love to tell you all about the campaign's MacGuffins! ...Even though you kinda robbed them. #ThreeForAll 032 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 19/02/2026This week was another adventure in "Spud keeps wanting new UI stuff oh geez why do we keep doing this to ourselves". Not just putting images in-line with dialogue, but having a brand-new overlay counter to track important campaign progress! (Icon is not final.) #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 111 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Sometimes this #modding malarkey means figuring out how to teach the existing engine to perform the dance moves I want. Like, say, displaying an image in the middle of a dialogue. This was both shockingly tricky and bafflingly simple. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll 012 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 13/02/2026This week's progress: Polishing up the bar chats (that are Day One relevant) and filling out dialogues for the Mettle Shop! Still not at a first-playable state yet due to working on all this side stuff, but it's still important! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 022 2
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Me: Yeah, I did it! I exercised (semi) regularly for an entire year and actually completed a New Year's Resolution! Body: Okay, now do it for the rest of your life without any external motivation other than wanting to be alive Me: Wha- 041 4
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Tools down for the week! The Day-One-relevant bar chats with the party are all first-draft written! These went way faster than the shop dialogues, since they're entirely optional and I got to be a bit more freeform and indulgent. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 031 3
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 04/02/2026Now that the shop dialogues are done, I'm moving on to injecting serious Mass Effect energy with optional dialogues discussing a variety of topics with your party members / fellow grifters at the bar / home base. #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 011 1
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 02/02/2026It's way too early to be doing patch notes, but if I had to sum up my #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding progress today, it'd go something like: - Added tone indicators to all vendors' dialogue - Optimized Steven's emotes so that he looks less sad (he wasn't sad, just struggling to stay upright) 041 4
Newbieblook @newbiespud.bsky.social · 29/01/2026It took all month, but the first draft of all dialogue and functionality for all campaign shop vendors is now complete! It's set up so that even modded characters that use coins, blasters, or cannons can benefit! #Griftlands #ThreeForAll #modding 041 4