Pinned post

IT'S FINALLY OUT!!!

My first commercial game and my first game under the Ioncom brand. It's an action, roguelite, dungeon-crawler with limited lives and permadeath.

It's currently Linux exclusive, but the source code is available and you should be able to compile it for anything that SFML runs on.

ioncominteractive.itch.io/refr

Pinned post

I have a lot of ideas when it comes to worldbuilding. I have always been a fan of science fantasy (combining both tropes from sci-fi and fantasy), but I feel like most works haven't embraced both genres to their fullest potential. The original Phantasy Star series is probably the closest because they weren't afraid to actually call magic "magic" instead of "the force" like in Star Wars.

I plan on using these ideas for my dream game (or series), but I'm posting these worldbuilding concepts anyway just in case I never get to creating the game, and I just don't care if other people use these ideas. They most likely have already been done before (in fact I know some of these ideas have been done before). I'm using AI to generate these concepts because I suck at drawing.

Anyway let's begin. First off, I think alien worlds should combine both ancient technology, futuristic technology, and everything in between. Technological progress isn't a linear path, so you shouldn't assume that aliens go through the same technological progression as we do. They might be flying interstellar ships, but they might also still be wielding swords and bows. So you can have spaceships flying over medieval style villages or even mudhuts. Star Wars has basically already popularized this, so this should be a no-brainer, but you can always take it a step further. For example, replace lightsabers with steel swords while still having space travel.

Pinned post
Pinned post

In case you want to follow me on Nostr, here is my public key:

npub1p254warljd049k4j67aftzzpj6keshfa649uk3uhxea33h2g679snnl0qt

I plan of mostly talking about gamedev stuff on it though. I want a more laid-back experience.

Pinned post

Fun fact: even I don't know how to pronounce my own username, so feel free to pronounce it anyway you want.

xianc78 boosted
xianc78 boosted

Very interesting concept. Uses IPFS.

Fellow techies (and everyone else too of course):

What are your thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkVhdstQvmE

xianc78 boosted

4chan did more for disability acceptance than any woke circles shooting demands like they're holding someone hostage, because when I read Katawa Shoujo I thought "nice girls" and the stories weren't even about disabilities, but rather about people who have various disabilities for whatever reason
but whenever I see yet another dumbfuck "ackchyually, being Deaf means coming from an endangered culture :meru_ackchyually: and whenever you say 'curing deafness' you mean genociding people from this rich Culture" I want to reply with a link to rip and tear music except these retards won't even be able to hear it and my opinion of people with disabilities degrades to the point of "genocide is not optional"

xianc78 boosted
What if I told you that alt text could be used to train AI to replicate your uploads
xianc78 boosted
xianc78 boosted
xianc78 boosted
Whitney Webb has been warning us for some years now that the game is pushing Palantir on us and she explicitly said they'll sell it to leftists for their "muh right wing extreemists" and to right wingers saying it'll be the way to deport immigrants

End game is we're all fucked. She's even said that the clique deciding and setting up this shit ain't even that big, maybe a couple of hundred people.

RT: https://poa.st/objects/08008b38-7aa3-4404-88fa-7011c2682b04
xianc78 boosted
xianc78 boosted
xianc78 boosted
xianc78 boosted
@apropos my only conclusion is that, the energy shortage was actually the goal, nothing else makes sense
xianc78 boosted

Closeup of my tiny TVs: Sony Watchman (CRT, 1984), Radio Shack Portavision (5" color CRT, 1997), Radio Shack Portavision 28 (3.3" color LCD, 1994), and 1990s earbud.

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

Show thread
xianc78 boosted

VERY urgent that you guys backup and archive AngelFire sites, we probably have like 2 weeks.

xianc78 boosted

Everything is a disorder if human beings are supposed to be quiet and compliant no matter the circumstances.

xianc78 boosted
xianc78 boosted
@hazlin @apropos yeah this is in line with the great reset thing they wanted to do
make gas and jet fuel expensive as hell so it kills global travel, then force you into a 15 minute city with glorified golf carts
xianc78 boosted
Insurance is a total scam, and I'm required by law to pay for it :AngeryCat:
xianc78 boosted
I don't vote but I went to a big orange rally in Kenosha in 2020 for the hell of it ... I remember looking around at all these people, a lot from Chicago or Milwaukee, and they gave of a vibe of, "well ... I guess this is the guy..." .. but now that I look back at the whole 10 years, I feel like a lot of the political narrative was directed in such a manner to turn people against each other.

Most people aren't hard left or right, but the people in the middle; the independents, anarchos, libertarians, volunteerists .. and right now even if they're all against going to war for Israel, none of them are going to stand with each other. It's amazingly constructed when you look at it.
xianc78 boosted
xianc78 boosted

@nanook My company actually pulled out of Europe. I want to say almost a decade ago when the GDPR and some other legislation predating that were passed. We decided to call it quits in Europe. It's an over regulated impoverished shit hole where any efficiency and improvements in operating their are dwarfed by the costs. It was roughly the same cost for us to ship goods into Europe via expedited shipping as it was to operate a warehouse in Europe and ship from within. The delivery time and cost ended up being about the same. The question became why bother when the amount of regulation we had to comply with kept on increasing. It eventually became not-worth-it. The consequences are Europeans are now at a disadvantage and can not obtain the hardware and accessories that work with GNU/Linux properly quite as easily. The one positive about operating from within Europe is users don't have to deal with customs. Now they do. They did this to themselves.

Show older
Game Liberty Mastodon

Mainly gaming/nerd instance for people who value free speech. Everyone is welcome.