STORMCROW'S PROFILE

Reading about different measurements for liquids because I am researching how much fuel this cyborg girl's integral flamethrower will consume and I need to decide on a unit for ammo in stores.

I found this image, obviously designed for small children, delightfully helpful:

This game is still mad interesting and I intend to check it out further but...for a roguelike, not giving people the ability to save/quit and load/delete is fucking weird and inconsiderate. And for any videogame, not taking into account the fact that people have jobs, familial obligations, bodies to feed, water and rest, and computers that might crash is just plain bad game design. I have gotten really furious at always-online games (I think the Souls series was guilty of this) that literally don't even let you pause in single player/offline mode. It's like fuck I need to go to the bathroom do I really need to get murdered by these abominations because I need to--

erm, anyway.

author=kumada
As-is, they currently function as kind of a beachhead. If you can get far enough in and drop a save, you can be a lot more risky with exploring the deeper parts of the dungeon because you can keep reloading that save when you get eaten by a giant lake newt.

I've really enjoyed this mechanic in other games, but it doesn't really address the basic need to save your progress for reasons totally unrelated to the game's difficulty.

Anyway, my next run through is definitely going to be as a Dark Priest. I don't want to make any effort to be a remotely good person in this fucked up world, now that I've read up on the game a bit more. That said, I do think I found a bug in my short time with the game:

My erotophobic knight (don't know if it's normal, but I got dealt a phobia right off the bat) was standing right in the middle of a giant bunny-mask orgy, trying to talk to the people involved, etcetera, without any appreciable loss of Mind. The Eyes-Wide-Shuttening bothered me more than it bothered my character, and it didn't particularly bother me (although don't get me wrong, it was weird...the time and effort that must have went into rendering all that pixel porn is mind boggling).

Edit: Nevermind, I misunderstood some wording, silly me.

@StormCrow The first two maps were the first two maps I had done ever. I am trying to do better, but apparently, it wasn't enough.

Well if you were trying to do better with the second two maps I saw than the first two, I all I can say is that you succeeded with Flying Colors! But I'm not in charge of the queue.

author=Corfaisus
mad skillz and how I got them

Of course, some of us sort of plateau at a level of mapping where we're at least definitely not harming the eyes of ourselves or others, and train our focus on endlessly growing and improving on the other apsects of game design. At least that was the case for me.

author=Magia's Latest

For the most part I'd say yeah, they're noticeably better. On this one, however, I still think you need to find a ceiling tile (a black rectangle with a border; there should be lots of them in the tileset, it doesn't REALLY matter that much which you use) and rectangle drag it over the two-or-three (I can't tell because what is MV am-i-rite?) top tiles of that map, all the way across. Provided your map is indoors. If that map is meant to be outdoors, on a ledge outside of a big stepped pyramid or a tower with lots of terraces or whatever, then the roof tile you have there is fine IMHO. I'm talking specifically about appropriate tile usage, not overall prettiness.

Excellent, the talent pool is growing! This is going to be dope.

(Based on a list of priorities I've made for myself, I need to finish a proof of concept on this side project, file it away, then release the first episode of my main project before I get started on my first half, but I have way too much free time so everything should be fine, I shouldn't need all of the first two weeks.)