Saturday, March 15, 2025

Snows melt March 2025

 

Working on GUI (design), game balance, meta, HUD design.  Best way not to overload information but have it accessible if needed.  Quality of life stuff like snap-to buttons, allowing players to shuffle units in groups, so on.  Programming isn't hard, I stand on the shoulders of giants and their white papers.  Designing a balanced strategy game that is large scale, with tactical, operational and strategic layers (from casualty collection to air warfare) with factions that have unique base paradigms and economic models is the REAL challenge.  I can't say I don't enjoy it.

August 2025 Evening Moon

Watching Charlie Jade, just started, focusing on making a pool for ambient audio players to pass to map tokens in the viewer. The moon is sh...