👉1st post ever about #ProjectShamus, my current side/personal project. 🕵‍♀️A noir detective VN, with certain cool twists *stay tuned* (I *hope* they're cool). 📝This is how Days 1+2 look design-wise so far. Rough 1st draft, deciding how much complexity I want to deal with. #gamedev #indiegame - ThreadSky

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victorojuel.org • 99 days ago

👉1st post ever about #ProjectShamus, my current side/personal project.

🕵‍♀️A noir detective VN, with certain cool twists *stay tuned* (I *hope* they're cool).

📝This is how Days 1+2 look design-wise so far. Rough 1st draft, deciding how much complexity I want to deal with.

#gamedev #indiegame

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victorojuel.org•99 days ago

By "complexity", I mostly mean *branching* and *statefulness* here:

A) don't go too crazy with "how many detours, and how *wide* are they", and

B)"how many states should I track so the player feels their actions matter, without getting bogged down in combinatory hell".

Guess what,

potatocubed.bsky.social•99 days ago

My 'beware of combinatorial explosion' shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by one of my other hundred and three shirts.

victorojuel.org•99 days ago

Panel 1:"No fear" t-shirt
Panel 2: Renpy script
Panel 3: "2^n fears" t-shirt

victorojuel.org•99 days ago

And not least, Renpy and Ink are still fighting it out in my head. But!, not today, Satan. That's how I ended up not fridging Mistress. Today we just dev.