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Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: July 3rd, 2023
  • axby@lemmy.catoOpenSourceGames@lemmy.ml•AlexGames: simple Lua games in a browser with multiplayer support, self hosting friendly.
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    5 months ago

    Thanks for posting this (I’m the original author). It’s not clear to me where to share my projects like this, many places on the internet don’t seem to welcome any form of self promotion, even if it is open source / ad free / etc.

    My original post was directed towards the self hosting community, but it should still be completely useable with the github pages version (linked in the post). And stay tuned for an Android app (and maybe iOS some day), most games are great offline. I’d love to add multiplayer over bluetooth, the main time I play games like this on my phone is when I’m on a flight or when physically with someone else.

    I’d love to hear feedback, especially constructive criticism! There are some other features and new games that I’d like to add, but I’d love to hear what people actually want, instead of just what I enjoy working on.

  • axby@lemmy.catoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•RimWorld - Anomaly on Steam
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    6 months ago

    Thanks a lot! Usually I’m okay up until I reach near the end … spoiler-ish warning:

    spoilers for nearing the end of the game

    I was doing great up until psychic ships kept crashing. I’d arrange all my colonists in a circle around the ship, and usually they could kill the mechanoids pretty easily. But sometimes one or two of my colonists would die. I tried to keep going after that, but then another ship part crashed within what felt like a few days (maybe it was 7 days), then I lost a few more. I had barely recovered from the last one.

    I may have tried to start building the ship too soon. I think I had assault rifles for several colonists, and marine armour for a few.

    But anyway, for a psychic ship, are you supposed to attack it, run away, and kite them back to your well defended killbox-ish base? Maybe that was really my biggest mistake. I would have just left it way on the other side of the map, but the psychic drone was getting bad. And I think there was a fire or something too?

    (end spoilers)

    It’s also possible that I had tried to challenge myself and set the difficulty to the mid level, but forgot.

    Oh, also I often find myself running out of components, and just barely making it to component manufacturing before I run out. I always buy them all from traders, and try to conserve them. But even with component manufacturing, it feels like it takes forever to make one, even if I have like ~15 colonists, where a few are dedicated crafters. Maybe I just need to stay in this stage for longer, until I can get assault rifles for everyone?

    And I never really read much about strategies, I generally just like to figure it out myself, but I suck at trying new things.

    I guess the main thing is that I love the part where you try to survive against natural disasters and have enough food, but I’ve never gotten too into the combat. Plus it felt like it was always pretty easy up until I got to the kinds of enemies that you encounter regularly at the end of the game.

  • axby@lemmy.catoPC Gaming@lemmy.ca•RimWorld - Anomaly on Steam
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    6 months ago

    Rimworld is probably one of my favourite games. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested. This new expansion also seems really cool, I copied two points from the steam description that stood out to me (spoiler warning! Even the steam description has a spoiler warning before these. Hopefully most lemmy clients support spoiler tags):

    spoiler warning

    spoiler warning (I notice connect on Android doesn’t yet support spoiler tags)

    spoiler warning

    some spoilers from the steam description. Note the description says: Warning - Spoilers Below.

    A psychically-invisible hunter of human souls screeches outside your walls, returning every night to capture a new victim. The proximity alarm goes off, but you can’t see the beast. Study samples of the creature to learn to detect it. Then, become the hunters and kill it where it lives.

    A parasite has mind-controlled some of your colonists - but who? They pretend to be human as they work to infest others. Track evidence, imprison, interrogate, and medically test people to find out who is infested before it’s too late.

    (end spoilers)

    That being said, I’ve only played the base game so far, and I think I’ve always played on the difficulty that is just one above peaceful, and I found it really hard near the end. But I’ve never bothered with killboxes, and I keep my colony wealth high I guess, I like to hoard food, silver, and everything. I also build floors (some people skip them to keep their wealth low). Perhaps I should have added: raid strength depends on your colony wealth (I think).

    Does anyone have any tips for actually reaching the end game event? (Please use spoiler tags! I know a bit about it, but I think many people like to be surprised. Put :::spoiler some text that shows before users expand your spoiler before and ::: at the end.)