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senior dream engineer, digital shaman, miracle farmer, game dev — https://bf.wtf • https://common.tools • https://twopm.studio 🧙 Making WizardChess, 1.2 out NOW! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1274210/ 🇦🇺 Meanjin / Brisbane

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · Dec 15

🧙‍♂️ It's official, WizardChess is out of Early Access!

Our humble aspiration to make a hnefatafl inspired #roguelike lead us on a 5 YEAR #gamedev journey to this release . Thanks to everyone who's supported us along the way.

Play it on Steam now: store.steampowered.com/app/1274210/...

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 2d

✅ proc gen
✅ parkour
✅ graffiti
✅ magic

first time I've implemented classic worldspace objective markers!
#gamedev #indiedev

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 2d

✅ proc gen
✅ parkour
✅ graffiti
✅ magic

first time I've implemented classic worldspace objective markers!
#gamedev #indiedev

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 3d

unfortunately, turns out there is precedent for this en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explodi...

Exploding animal - Wikipedia

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 3d

sometimes I like to watch the cows up close
for some reason I don't think they notice me
#gamedev #screenshotsaturday #bevy

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 3d

sometimes I like to watch the cows up close
for some reason I don't think they notice me
#gamedev #screenshotsaturday #bevy

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 4d

PSA: if you have a hole in your soul where deckbuilding chess would fit, you can save 40% on WizardChess right now
#gamedev #indiedev

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Save 40% on WizardChess on Steam

What if chess was invented by silly cosmic wizards? WizardChess is a turnbased roguelite where all the pieces have insane abilities that came to us in a shamanic vision. Fight chaotic-yet-tactical enc...

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 4d

PSA: if you have a hole in your soul where deckbuilding chess would fit, you can save 40% on WizardChess right now
#gamedev #indiedev

store.steampowered.com/app/1274210/...

Save 40% on WizardChess on Steam

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 4d

Tried my hardest not to overcook this one, I can't stop yapping about interfaces 😅

shimmeringvoid.substack.com/p/interfaces...

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 4d

Tried my hardest not to overcook this one, I can't stop yapping about interfaces 😅

shimmeringvoid.substack.com/p/interfaces...

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 4d

What, if anything, do LLMs change about interface design?

Interfaces are languages

Is there a universal translation?

shimmeringvoid.leaflet.pub

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 5d

ink bleed + half-tone + grain + pixels 💖

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 5d

I’m also new to bevy but I find myself looking for something more than just plugins, doing a data driven game like WC made me wary of any global abstractions… which meant a lot of deviation from Unity “best practice”

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ben ✶ @bf.wtf · 5d

your game concept is eerily similar to one I have been thinking about for a long time (www.cubething.dev/qproj/genera...) AND you've landed on a very similar preferred architecture for game development (www.cubething.dev/qproj/archit...)

my game WizardChess implements this pattern in Unity