xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

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.

https://ioncominteractive.itch.io/refractored-depths

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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.

My political views in a nutshell.

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

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

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

Coins now have their own sound when collected.

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Added an error sound to the menu options.

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So I just listened to part 2 of the podcast honoring the legacy of Fredrick Brennan (aka Hotwheels).

And of course they just had to talk about the fursona for the majority of it. They even had a section talking about how furries with disabilities use their fursonas to fantasize themselves being able to walk, talk, hear, etc. I cringed at the entire thing.

I was interested in the other episodes of this podcast because it was dedicated to Internet culture, especially the late Web 1.0 and early Web 2.0 days, which I also have an interest in, as I believe that was the golden age of Internet culture. I listened to their episode about Something Awful because I knew next to nothing about that site other than it being the place where 4chan spun off of and the origin of Let's Plays. It was quite interesting, but these hosts are a bunch of Bernie-bro leftists who don't waste any opportunity to shove their politics in their recordings. They even had Robert "fuck the police but the government needs to do a better job at moderating the Internet" Evens as a guest in some of their episodes.

Though there were some political episodes I found interesting, but because they were things I didn't even know about, not because I agreed with them. For example they covered a small controversy that happened back in 2008 when SimCity creator Will Wright was caught donating to John McCain's political campaign, and that may have been part of the reason why he quietly left Maxis.

Personally, I think that if you are going to document Internet history, you need to put your political biases aside otherwise you are just going to put your revisionism when it comes to controversial events on the Internet such as GamerGate or the history of 8chan. Not once did they bring up the existence of boards like /leftypol/, even if it was one of the most hated boards, it still existed, and was proof that it wasn't exclusively a "Nazi site".

They are really going all out on this digital ID crap.

https://reclaimthenet.org/colorado-operating-system-age-verification-minors-online-access