The wait is over! Lillia's long-awaited story is finally in the game—plus new scenes, art & characters!
We also continue the arcs of two fan-favorites

More info, here: https://patreon.com/posts/135355285

Check the changelog & get clicking!

I wrote a blog post on the economy in my video game: https://bluespruceinteractive.com/blog/4-video-game-economy/

It's long. There are a lot of moving parts, and I wanted to explain my interwoven reasoning for all of it. (Don’t we all.) But I think it’s now at least coherent. It explains a lot of decisions about specific gameplay mechanics, and the experiences I hope they produce.

The gist is that it’s an eco-socialist or communitarian economic system. Resources are shared by the town as a whole, via a community land trust. Housing is free, and there’s a universal basic income that’s really each person’s share of harvestable resources the local ecosystem can support.

Keeping resources for one’s own use long-term, above a comfortable base level, incurs a usage fee in maker credits, paid to the community. Maker credits reward not only farming and crafting, but also disassembling and composting. Demand is facilitated by social rewards.

I’d welcome any thoughts!

#Artists wanted!

I'm currently writing a little #retro game for the #mega65 computer (mainly to get my mind off a couple of things; but don't worry, I'll be back to producing music in no time ;-))

The game is 95% done… what I now need is original #artwork in the form of one or two 320x200 px pictures, one of which showing the main game and (optionally) the other one being the loading screen.

Please boost and/or read on for details.

#ttrpg #gameDesign idea:

A community-based #OSR / #NSR game where the main means of progress is unlocking the new character options for newly-rolled characters.

New tables?

A table where you start d4 -> d8 -> d12 -> d20?

Your old characters don't need to die, they stay "at the base" contributing to plot and mechanics with bonuses and "downtime events", which also scale with the community growth.

Would people care about them?

Has anyone done this before?

Would this be playable?

YAARRGH! Who Gave the Pirates Tools?!
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Level design on Friday. I don't want to fall from a height and spoil the view with a fence - the solution is holographic that are displayed over a distance. I once saw this in the game Observer. I created a material and a primitive object in Unreal Engine modeling mode

Hey #gamestudies and #digitalhumanities (maybe even at #dh2025?) and #arthistory and #gamedesign and #humanities and #gamedev and #whatever folks, we have extended the deadline for our planned anthology about #Blasphemous. We have exciting unconventional submissions already but still some space for another few.

Details here: https://zenodo.org/records/15516402
New deadline: **August 6**

If you have an exciting idea but don't know if you are qualified/researcher/dev enough: Don't think no further, submit!

Folks, my friend's got laid off. He's looking for referrals for #GameDesigner positions in Europe. If you have anything please let me know.

In his words:
Game designer with over 13 years of experience. Recent specializations are meta system design, economy design, content design. Been designing different kinds of games - shooters, moba, time-manager, hopa even mobile browser MMO. Made games and systems from scratch and worked on projects in theirs live-ops operation stage as well. At last project created and implemented all core metagame features and economy CoreLoop systems. I am now seeking to contribute my game design expertise and passion for games to another PC/console game.

Look at that SHOWOFF

The @SolarpunkPrompts interview with @adapalmer is FASCINATING.

https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episodes/special-interview-with-ada-palmer-history-of-ideas-and-our-climate-imaginations

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Question: if you were going to make a #solarpunk game about the future of farming and food prep at scale, what would it feature? How would it work?

If the standard capitalist game model is a tycoon-style game where you're earning money to build things, research things, expand, exploit... What's the antidote? But in mechanics that still appeal to those who like city/factory building-style games?

It feels like there is a profound tension between solarpunk ideas of community and sustainability, vs builder/simulation games that focus on control and growth. I'm stumped on how to resolve it, but I really want to, because there must be builder games in the future!

a "gamemode" is more like a playermode in case of minecraft

creative/spectate/survival/adventure don't modify how the entire game works, they rather modify how the player moves, sees and interacts with the world