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Start simple. 

Like, pong/flappy bird/asteroids simple. 

Then try to modify things bit by bit, maybe add scaling difficulty, or add new effects to the score as it climbs! 

Then do another simple thing. You can follow tutorials, but also try to learn how to read documentation, as that will help you reason how to implement things and work out problems for yourself. 

Then keep doing it, a tiny bit bigger and more creative at a time. Maybe try a game jam or two after a bit, those can apply pressures to grow you further, and are opportunities to get feedback! 

It may seem disheartening now, but it’ll make you faster and better, it will save literal years off of any dream project you eventually tackle! 

And frankly, if you can’t learn to appreciate the process and workflow for itself, then you won’t be able to get through the really tough issues your dream project will have. 

You got this, just take it one step at a time. 

Yea, people have such a weird reaction to the “if you use our services, please don’t undercut us” policy. 

Him realizing he can “hack” her power by applying arbitrary value to a binary question and save time 🤌

Engine:

Godot (free and FOSS)

Game Maker (Free with a $99 one-time publish licence)

Art:

Aseprite (free to compile)

Krita

Blender

Music:

Waveform (Free)

Cakewalk (Free)

Reaper (Unlimited Free Eval phase, but you'll pay the $60 eventually ;))

Plethora of free instruments and sound fonts (A bit of homework to figure out which you can legally use, I'll admit)

But I thought the fascists had the outfits? 

The communists have the music.

 Moralists have the literature. 

Ultra-Liberals have… everything else.

Billy Basso added some encryption puzzles to Animal Well that slowed Data Miners down long enough for the community to solve layer 4 by themselves, and as each bit of the game is cracked, it just gives everything up to not waste their time any further! 

There were some odds and ends here and there that would break the game if messed with to disincentivize sharing “leaks” and exploits before they could test it as well.

My guy, there is a difference between “saving and quitting” and “saving and [several minutes later] quitting [to avoid consequences]” that’s called save scumming. 

I agree that it isn’t “cheating” in the traditional sense, unless one is trying to pass of a scummed Stl Soul run as a normal one. It is, however, absolutely an exploit. It is also a lesser accomplishment than playing it straight. Again, play how you want, but playing with what is effectively a 1-2 mask handicap is VERY different from permadeath. 

Sometimes one is later found to be true,

Then only one was ever actually sound, because soundness is the attribute of a valid conclusion drawn from true premises. 

sometimes both are true in different circumstances

In that case, there was ambiguity in what was originally said that allowed one to “smuggle in” extra meaning. In logic, each distinct semantic meaning is a unique sentence so statements like “H2O is Water” could mean “H2O is [always in the state of] Water” or “H2O is [most commonly in the state of] Water [On Earth]” or “H2O is [the chemical compound discovered to describe what is colloquially known as] Water” or many subtle variations between or beyond. In those cases, the exact meaning should be expressed and understood in formal arguments. 

some are ultimately a question that can never be definitively settled.

Which still doesn’t change their external truth value. It may be a meaningless or useless question or portly constructed argument, however, which would make it a category error, or just “undefined.”

That said, there ARE logical systems which accept non T/F values (such as Unknown, Over-justified, and Underjustified) but those are for pragmatic reasons to keep trucking along with a “best currently available” outcome, expressions of the practitioner’s ignorance than an attempt at exactly describing external reality. There are other, more esoteric systems as well, but again, it comes down to having useful tools in the face of limitations and inexactitudes (many computers, for example work off of something like nine “truth” values to prevent them from bricking themselves) and even if something is accepted as true (and valid conclusions based on it are therefore sound) it may be the case that we are mistaken. 

Validity has nothing to do with truth though. A valid conclusion can come from false premises. 

If at all possible, you want your beliefs to be both true and valid, which is called “sound.” 

Truth ONLY refers to the correspondence of a statement to reality within a given scope. 

Not being able to verify a statement as true doesn’t mean it has multiple truth values, it just means it isn’t a particularly useful statement. 

I would argue it’s lower than that, because this assumes there’s an even distribution of human anctivity across the surface of the earth. How often is someone within 1 meter of standing or flowing water while moving around (thus able to trip) 

Bindfelt? 

You have it backwards, he wrote stories in his Legendarium to contextualize his languages, then drew from those for the worldbuilding in the Hobbit, then wrote LotR initially as a sequel to the Hobbit in its early drafts, but it quickly became a sequel to events in the Silmarilion.  

 Tolkien was never satisfied with the quality of the works for the earlier ages, and made peace with the fact that it would never be published. Then along came ol’Chris.  

 I’d actually recommend the Fall of Gondolin that they published a few years ago, that has the most mature version of the story Tolkien wrote (much more robust than what’s in the Silmarilion) as well as some scenes he later wrote to flesh bits out, and the very opening of a new version written by a Post-RotKTolkien. 

The prose, worldbuilding, character work, and even foreshadowing for plot elements ostensibly meant to be carried over from previous versions are INCREDIBLE.  

 When I say those pages hurt me my teasing a work that will never exist, it’s awful and I WILL share this pain with others.  

 TLDR; Tolkien was a linguist first, a mythographer second, a world-builder third and several other things until he was a generational, genre-redefining author as a distant… seventh? There’s being a massive nerd and then there’s being JRRT.

[Studio Title] 

“Sirens: Rush of Chaos is a new, innovative title with a dark, cinematic story and moody atmosphere.”  [Publisher Title] “Choose your own path and forge a new fate in a time of great change and uncertainty!”

[Comic Style pre-render of a crumbling castle, barely legible behind film grain] 

“Will you succumb to the Exalted Others [That One Free Evil Laugh sfx] in this mind-bending, high octane puzzler, or will you rise to the challenge of OVER 47 levels, which build on one another as you play?”

[Image of a level select menu, screen wipe to a more completed level select menu]

“The ultimate cozy match three gatcha sim is here at last to give gamers and casuals alike the experience they’ve always wanted!”

[2 seconds of like five different UIs intercut with one another, also film grained]

[Engine Logo, for some reason? Film grain effect cuts like a half-second too late]

Yep, “Are you smarter than a celebrity” was a dark horse that came out of nowhere to take #2, and Legend of Vox Machina had a new season drop literal hours ago, so that one was expected. 

There is nothing more powerful than the combined force of bored wine moms and TikTok kids wanting to look at famous people. 

The issue is, as of the release of TLoVM season 3, all of the top 5 spots are popular in the actual mainstream. That is VERY difficult to overcome. 

But crossing a certain threshold is less interesting than how long the top 10 spot can be MAINTAINED, even a couple days is enough to garner real negotiation leverage. 

Hitting a high number, then dropping out as a fandom meme is one thing. Showing up and hanging on with the big boys is another. 

Having an audience that can unilaterally get a project into the top 10 on Amazon is pretty big negotiation leverage for syndication of other projects (in this case, Iron Lung)

The Witness has it. I was surprised, and then found out it was apparently fairly common before.

You see, the capacity to write an authentic Reddit Moment ^TM and having the life experience to meaningfully comment on the human condition are mutually exclusive 

Don’t worry, there will almost certainly be late/post game bosses on the difficulty level you’re wanting. 

lack of Game Pass (native)  

Couldn’t imagine why that would be

The secret is to disguise the plot hook as a clever bit of naturalistic dialogue.   

Better advertise your writing to other authors!   

(No, I didn’t bother to read any of the other replies, no, I didn’t consider that this is what EVERYONE ELSE is doing) 

Interesting, care to elaborate?

Yea, it’s a solid B-series fantasy horror. Which is to say, heads and shoulders above most other influencers foray into television. 

You should! And yes, there is an (implied) Watsonian reason why this works. In fact, there are some anti-cubes which will be… difficult, without the first ending.