Quick Recap (Mar 14 2025)

This week’s post will be shorter compared to some of the previous posts, as not much has really been going on.

I updated Antiquitus, Mutating Forest, and Slow and Steady to be playable on itch.io now. It wasn’t too hard to do. The main thing is that it’s so much more convenient if you can play the game on the web page instead of having to download it to your computer (and if you’re on Mac you have to run the application through the itch app instead to get it to work). Updating Chromatacombs may be trickier, as it’s a larger game. Another issue is that it’s an action game, which means I’d have to make sure it’s not too laggy on webgl, as that would be really bad. Any other games (tier 3 and below) I’m not going to feel the need to update.

I’ve added a new page to the website called Writings. This will contain any game design topics that I’ve written about in some polished manner. Currently it has a link to the slideshow I made about math in Temporum. I don’t know if I’ll ever write any more like that, but it seems good to put that one somewhere easily accessible. If I did do another one, the most obvious candidate to polish up would be the war between simultaneous games and consecutive turn games, which I’ve written about in a previous post.

As for the game I’m working on, I think it will be able to come out by the end of the month. I was going to go for 50 cards but now I think it’ll just be 40. I’m at 34 cards right now and I don’t think I’ll need to go to 50, as you’re not building a deck from scratch anyways. As for naming the game, I think I’ll commit to the idea of 2 fortresses attacking each other, which means the name should suggest that somehow.

Finally here’s a dream I remember. For some reason a class I was in had students deliver a presentation on a zombie from Plants vs Zombies. I was assigned to do a presentation on the Flag Zombie, and I had not much idea what I could even talk about there. But also for some reason another student was also assigned that same zombie and was presenting before me, which meant I now had to talk about something that they didn’t talk about. I don’t remember what I actually ended up talking about though.