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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 29/09/2026

v1.4.4 is live: wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti... Another small bundle of bugfixes, but ft. a new batch of sprites from @gentrigger.com for drones & mines!

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 17/09/2026

Lancer stream night! We're playing session 2 of Valkyrion's Technophobia module, starting at ~7:30 PST: www.twitch.tv/storyreckless

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 09/09/2026

Hm, the code doesn't seem to be working for me?

Checkout step at Barnes & Noble for Seacritters with PREORDER25 entered and an error message.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 01/09/2026

Lancer Tactics is looking for a multiplayer programmer! lancertactics.com/hiring-multi... If you've been through the rodeo of pressing the "enable multiplayer" checkbox for a Godot game, we'd love to hear from you!

A fake screenshot with the Godot engine with a checkbox that says "Enable multiplayer".

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 23/08/2026

My godette arrived! I love her!! She's definitely got less of that baseball affordance compared to the original but she's much more stylish. #godot

Godette and Godot plushies sitting side by side.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 06/08/2026

hotfix hotfix getcher hotfixes here wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti... *Not* addressed here is the somewhat concerning report that on certain graphics cards the game does this. I'm so tired. Godot I know it's not your fault but I hate having to think about nvidia's latest graphics driver updates

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 04/08/2026

Thanks for the rec, I love this

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 22/07/2026

We need some help doing technical writing/editing for Lancer Tactics' rules text! Inline glossary tagging, styling, & adapting wording when it doesn't make sense in a video game context. ~40 hours of contract work staring at google sheets; job posting is here: lancertactics.com/hiring-techn...

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 19/07/2026

coming to sportsposting late but

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 10/07/2026

Worldkiller, Enkidu, Tagetes, and Kutuzov alt frames are now available in Lancer Tactics by way of a mod by the always-amazing GavstarB! Get them via the in-game mod browser or manually here: mod.io/g/lancer-tac...

Lancer Tactics screenshot with the Worldkiller, Enkidu, Tagetes, and Kutuzov alt frames displayed.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 06/07/2026

We just had our first malicious upload to Lancer Tactics' mod.io directory! Somebody AI-vibe-coded a mockup of a companion editor app & provided an evil installer URL file. It's been removed, but stay on your toes. This shit looks plausible at first glance (but hilariously wrong in the details)

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 30/06/2026

Lancer Tactics now officially supports mods! The newest build includes community implementations of the Caliban, Sagarmatha, NPC Rebake grunts, and more: wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti...

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 20/06/2026

you should! this new little panel & properties makes it so easy to do now. Here's all code for that list on the right to do that wave-slide-in.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 20/06/2026

ahahaha I'm unstoppable

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 20/06/2026

Godot 4.7 added visual control offsets which makes animating UI 1000x easier, so I spent the evening sprinkling it in on various screens.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 21/05/2026

Yeah, .wav files... unfortunately this also doesn't work & all my wav files still end up in the export, inexplicably. I confirmed it's them by unpacking the pck and saw them all listed.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 21/05/2026

Any #godot brained folks able to help me with this? We have audio assets in the project that get compiled to FMOD banks, so don't need to be exported. However, I've tried every method of excluding them to no avail (gdignore, export modes) and nothing works besides deleting the folder before export.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 16/05/2026

by talos this can't be happening

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 15/04/2026

It's been three years since the three-years-of-funding Kickstarter campaign for Lancer Tactics completed. Time for a report card! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wic... Additionally, the Module Editor is live. Lancer Tactics is now equipped with essentially a miniature visual novel editor.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 11/04/2026

Oop, didn't manage this week. Writing a report card for a 3-year project was more emotionally taxing than we were expecting & need a bit more time. However, we'll also be doing a livestream celebration/Kickstarter phase wrapup for Lancer Tactics! April 15, 3-5 PST :: www.youtube.com/live/30huanm...

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 31/03/2026

Today is trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ but more immediately for me it's also the 3-year anniversary of Lancer Tactics' Kickstarter campaign. Writing up a larger retrospective for the next backer post, but it's cool to see how far we've come since then.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 27/03/2026

found this on my desktop while changing laptops and realized I never posted it. am I too late to chase the trend (aoe2 is the grungler; included for how big an impression the map editor made on me)

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 05/03/2026

imo it's wild that this basic layout for hasn't changed since godot 2.0; mode buttons up top, scene tabs right below it, and a vertical list of scripts "within" all that. I really think it could use a fundamental experienced UX rethink

godot 2 screenshot taken from https://godotengine.org/article/mir-godot-habla-dein-language-desormais/

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 05/03/2026

here's what I mean; the script "mode" at the top is actually the top-level organization while editing scripts, so it's strange that there's such a strong organizational visual element of the scene tab between that and what you're working with.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 05/03/2026

I understand why it exists, but getting this notification from Kickstarter always makes me *so* mad. I'm literally already writing the update and you're out there obnoxiously tapping on the glass of my aquarium.

Large red banner at the top of Kickstarter that says "a backer requested an update for Lancer tactics". It also sends an email.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 27/02/2026

I'm improving editor performance by only redrawing the area around the changed tiles instead of the entire map every time, and accidentally invented Lancer Minesweeper

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 20/02/2026

marko is generating some v cursed savefiles in the course of QA & bughunting work. improbably dense bucket of ronins.

Screenshot from Lancer Tactics. 24 ronin mechs standing at the bottom of a pit with one at the top which somehow escaped.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 30/01/2026

New build for LT is live! v0.6.0 adds the last of the player talents and is coming up on halfway done for the rest of the NPC optionals. Plus some cool new FX and icons: wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti...

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 30/01/2026

i have such a love/hate with #godot. I'm so glad it exists and I know other engines have problems too but I stg there's always some cursed problem that crops up right as I'm trying to release. This morning I found that our portraits are broken post-4.6 upgrade but only for the exported build.

lots of portraits with the skin color being used for all clothing options

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 28/01/2026

I've adored this illustration by @badbucket.bsky.social ever since I first saw it in the lancer core book and was delighted to learn they have it available as a print 😍 :: www.inprnt.com/gallery/badb...

Framed print of a mech walking across a field of golden grass with some scifi troopers.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 11/01/2026

Scott McCloud's closure/big triangle are the concepts I reach for when thinking along these lines. More detailed = less to the imagination = can feel less real.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 24/12/2025

Happy holidays, new lancer tactics build: wick.works/devlog/pixel... The post also includes a dive in how we generate palettes and recolor our pixel art.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 23/12/2025

😼 cat ears for the portrait maker 😼

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 07/12/2025

Thinking about the input flow for Lancer Tactics; would be interested in hearing thoughts about this from anyone who's played the early access builds:

Polling the room:
I have the player phase in pieces right now from the click-around-to-inspect change and am thinking about input flow. The current system is:
- click action button, then click target to confirm // right click to cancel.
I'm considering the model:
- click action button, then right click target to confirm. Left clicking opens up an inspect window (matching what happens when you left click before picking an action). To cancel, you'll have to hit escape or click the cancel button.

Are people using the right click to cancel frequently? Would replacing that with hitting Esc be worth easier inspection?

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 04/12/2025

Just posted a very rare update for Crescent Loom; thanks to support from a grant, I added support for ears & creatures chirping! There's also now a T-maze in the game where one direction is the finish line and the other gets you eaten. wick.itch.io/crescent-loo...

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 29/11/2025

automatic palette generation

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 27/11/2025

The paracausal drill delved deep into everyone's psyches, as well as the rock. Korolyova hasn't altered her goals, though, and combat begins: www.twitch.tv/storyreckless

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 26/11/2025

Dev anecdote: I've got this prototype of a new color picker in a side-branch, and pilots saved with it are put into a slightly new incompatible format. When we switched back to the main branch, the test pilot we used could no longer be loaded by the game.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 23/11/2025

LT-to-tabletop pipeline & learning curve

Re: using LT as a jump-off point to join tabletop: yes, it's really important to me that people will be able to go through this pipeline! The diversity of what people are doing table-to-table is truly wild so there's always going to be an adjustment/learning period for folks.

The best we can do is identify and limit specific common tripping points. This is why I'm much more conservative about making PC-side changes (you want to have your builds work no matter where you go) and why we're not using the rebake grunts.

NPC stats and specific abilities are already more variable from the player POV so I don't expect will be outside the normal learning curve for any table switch, but we'll of course will keep an eye on it.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 21/11/2025

New Lancer Tactics build! wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti... Highlights: - First pass of *all* NPCs classes, sans optionals - Upload and download other player's maps via an in-game mod.io modal - Got mac & linux builds working again

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 20/11/2025

Kicking off the final battle in LANCER: PIERCE THE HEAVENS, live in five: www.twitch.tv/storyreckless

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 15/11/2025

Got outlines for the unit xray shaders working today! As well as the much less sexy but very important xray shaders for zone boundaries that let you see through the grass covering them up.

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olive 🌺 @wick.works · 13/11/2025

Three rounds left for this holdout, live in ten: www.twitch.tv/storyreckless

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