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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 1m

Megastructure game except instead of the player or in-universe characters/factions/etc trying to escape, something's compelling or forcing them further inside.

Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 42m

A toss-up for me.

Prolly leaning more toward Kenshi since I enjoy it as an actual game, whereas Ravenfield has kinda transcended into more of a tool.

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 13h

For rearming the 30mms, the ammo drums are too big to carry, so I gotta have a sequence where you drive through enemy fire in a little forklift / ammo tug of some kind

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 13h

[Ravenfield - Official SteelFront Mod] Testing out a basic objective framework for a scripted mission.

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 18h

Difficult turnaround time when I got like a dozen other projects I gotta work on and this is something I gotta triage into any free time alongside like 8,000 WIPs from over the last few years

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 23h

okay maybe not "disposable", but more "one of the relatively quick-turn items we throw against the wall to see what sticks and not anybody's baby or dream-game or anything".

Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 23h

Some remaining roughness around the edges (see: Audio mixing, unit pathfinding, some of the camera controls), but despite this being a "disposable" project to help us get our footing, I think folks are gonna like it!

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 23h

[SteelFront] Ground battle

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 1d

[SteelFront] Tachi gunship squadron attacks an Accord mixed armored formation

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone yearning for "megastructure games" makes me wanna take a crack at one but chances are by the time I make anything playable everyone else will have done the same and we'll have too many megastructure games.

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 2d

More than anything, this project has been and continues to be a crucial learning experience, and has taught us many important lessons.

Lesson 1: Fuck DOTS/ECS, like good GOD...

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 3d

SteelFront is officially on for a Next Fest demo 13Oct - 20Oct

As a simple debut game for this team, it's not going to knock anyone's socks off, but we're excited about where we can take it in Early Access, the groundwork it could lay for future projects!

store.steampowered.com/app/3699990/...

SteelFront on Steam

A sandbox battle-sim with a strategic edge. Orchestrate tactical engagements, deploying your forces with keen attention to terrain and mutually-supporting assets, or throw mobs of troops, tanks, and m...

store.steampowered.com

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 3d

Flipping through old-ish sketchbook while sorting out navmesh woes

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 3d

One thing that I thought bugged me about Metal Garden was despite how the premise centered around civilizations carving themselves out of the megastructure, it was hard to tell where these civilizations ended and where the structure began. But in retrospect maybe that was the point.

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 3d

As much as I adore Ravenfield, and I still find infinite ways into tricking it into doing what I want while it remains so simple and accessible at its core, it has given me a lot of bad habits that I still am trying to unlearn.

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 4d

Trying to squeeze some texture and environment practice into whatever free time opens up but I fear it's rotting my brain. Was out for a walk yesterday and looked down at the curb and said "hmm, the edges could use more weathering, it looks too clean"

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 4d

Really wanna do another fun halloween mod now that it's October but we got so much video shit to catch up on while also juggling SF and I'm also trying to get back into the groove with portfolio work orz

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 4d

One I been doing for myself: Train oneself to frame shortcomings as ambitions. ie, Not "I've failed to meet these standards that I feel have been set for me", but "I aspire to live up to these standards that I have given myself".

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tonči zonjić @tozo.today · Jul 26

some more helpful reminders from 2016 me who knew more than i do now #reruns

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 6d

I pin so many of our current problems on the normalization of conspiratorial thinking. I tell myself "I Am Not Immune to Propaganda", and that I need to resist falling into the same trap. But the voice saying "and that's what They WANT you to do" is starting to sound convincing.

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 6d

Big publishers have always been sus or flat-out scum, that's par for the course. But a lot of other, seemingly unrelated shit is also starting to line up suspiciously well. I want to dismiss the alarm bells in my head as paranoia, but telling myself that only makes them louder.

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 6d

I try not to be a doomer, I get a lot of our information is given to us by parties who seek to exploit an emotional response. But as out-of-the-loop as I keep myself, the tinfoil flakes in my scalp must be acting up, cos I'm suddenly feeling the walls close in on my little niche.

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 7d

maybe for a thing, dunno yet

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 8d

[SteelFront - Official Ravenfield Mod] Looking at a standard weapons loadout for multirole fighters.
-20mm cannon
-6x AAMs (not much interesting stuff we can do with AAM guidance so just the one type)
-4x laser-guided ASMs
-External tanks (decorative)

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Sofa @sofamods.bsky.social · 9d

Messing around with postprocessing

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