Grid Sage Games

MARCH 10, 2022

Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Exiles Prototypes. ASCII art for Exiles prototypes.

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Balance Mechanics Beta Prototyping 52

Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain. This is essentially how my simple peep AIs move across the screen: when you drag your cursor (or drag your finger) you're also painting a "flow field" beneath the floor, and the peeps follow that invisible current. So should police exist in this garden?

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Simulation Art AI Internet 52

Radiator Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Back in 2019 I made an unfinished prototype for a Gay Western game jam to contemplate the anniversary of influential gay cowboy film Brokeback Mountain (2005). Balancing the weight of each system was difficult. Like many game prototypes, my initial sheepherding test began as something much grander and more complicated.

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Pixel Film Art NPC 52