johnayliff.bsky.social
Solo indie text game developer, best known for the text-based game Seedship and its successor, Beyond the Chiron Gate. He/him.
Games: https://johnayliff.itch.io/
Blog: https://write.as/johnayliff/
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But I've already been thinking that for my future games I'll invent a "game studio name" for myself rather than release under my actual name. It might look more professional and also I'll feel better not putting "by John Ayliff" on a game that uses other people's work.
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Beyond the Chiron Gate is mostly my work, but I commissioned cover art, I bought asset packs of music, and I used free assets for the icons. And of course other people made Twine and Sugarcube. Naturally I credited everyone on the credits page.
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I always thought "solo dev" was a business structure thing.
Like if you're self-employed you're a solo dev even if you're contracting out a lot of work.
Whereas if you're part of a company you're not a solo dev even if you're an auteur with full creative control.
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(I can't actually be bothered to read either article, I'm dodging rather than parrying.)
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Vorak the Master Brain can't grow a mustache but otherwise that is exactly the tone I'm going for.
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One bit I did think was effective was the dissonance of having Dugga Doo play during a moment of emotional crisis. (Also, I like to believe that Dugga Doo is a serious, deeply moving ballad in that alien's own language.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdzT...
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Thoughts about how I would have done Space Eurovision: Maybe have a story that gets the audience invested in one particular song winning, so the climax of the episode can be a dramatic Eurovision results sequence.
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Also also, this was a much-hyped episode that seemed designed to attract new viewers, so was this the best episode to spring elements from the classic series that non-fans might not have heard of?
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Also, the backstory involving alien genocide felt tone-deaf in the context of the real life drama around Israel's inclusion in the competition. If it was meant as a commentary on current events it failed at that.
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Height and widgth
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This looks exciting! Wishing you the best of luck with it.
One of my most vivid gaming memories is the one time I *nearly* beat ADOM.
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Obvious solution is to make the letters swappable so you can change it to the name of whatever city we're pretending to be this week.
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Actual footage from my brain when I make my morning coffee: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MS_...
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This post brought to you by me having Estonia's "Espresso Macchiato" song stuck in my head.
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Also we don't know to what extent Dedra actually likes Syril and to what extent she's using him, but the thing is I don't think Dedra knows that either.
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Important writing advice: make sure you have adequate power reserves before you try to lie.
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Could probably survive a zombie apocalypse, but would be sad about it.
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The Disco Droid must be the happiest character in Star Wars. It knows nothing of galactic politics or the personal dramas people are working through by dancing. All it knows is that it floats into a room and everyone cheers and dances.
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My only worry is that the trailer has *so much* stuff (the Fortress of Solitude with a Superman robot! A kaiju! Crypto the Super-Dog! Green Lantern! Hawkman!?) that I wonder how they'll get it all into a coherent movie.
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Also: the music! I love the way the Ghorman protest song sounds like it's going to to evolve into the Rebel Alliance leitmotif from the original trilogy. (Or maybe I'm reading too much into a similarity.)
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Season 2 episode 10 in particular is an hour of television I'll be thinking about for a long time.