Ross Zevenhuizen III

Level Designer by trade, Indie Dev by recreation. He who watches the anime.

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@TheRealHorse1 @geoffkeene It's not about labour cost so much as dependencies - models and textures are self-contained, so modding consists of matching the formats and unpacking/repacking. Meanwhile, forget adding your own modded features - even fishing readable code out of a compiled game is HARD.

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@3fourpaca Best goat!

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@GamesbyMiLu Likewise! It's always awesome watching you work on new stuff - gives me motivation to keep up my darling indie projects even with an industry day job. Being there for the original idea and then watching you make Voidship a reality is incredible.

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@Rutskarn To be fair, I noticed immediately and it *bothered me for 14 years.*

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@GamesbyMiLu Hey Mikk, happy birthday! It's been a while - hope things are going well for you!

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@Rutskarn I'm with you there, Ruts. To me the most vivid memory was actually the big-shot games media company review we got, though: "A real accomplishment for the medium. I felt emotions I've never experienced before in a video game. 5/10"

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

What the... @Rutskarn ?!

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@Rutskarn Awesome, I'll definitely check these out. Especially the notion of "non-combat" solutions carrying equal weight is enticing - I love the notion that, say, a character could spend points on *being filthy rich*, and have that matter as much as being trained to *shoot bullets*.

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@Rutskarn Hey Ruts - considering an urban/modern supernatural thriller-themed campaign; lots of threat but minimal combat. I usually run crunchy systems like PF or 5E, but this requires a different tack, and it occurs to me I know a Rutskarn. Thoughts?

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@Rutskarn "supernatural" is pretty broad, so among the kinds of spookery: immortal alchemists, cursed objects, propagating curses, ghosts, necromancers, a shadow demon, aaand a gunslinger shot and buried in 1855, dug up in 2019, who still hasn't died.

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@Rutskarn As for resources, I'm split between asking my players to bring ordinary folk having a bad day (salarymen up to mob bosses) or allowing them to choose an advantage or two: insider knowledge of the occult, combat training, lesser magic, many cronies, etc.

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@Rutskarn There are a few small factions and connected groups, but no "underground society" or common culture shared by supernatural beings. Going for an eerie/mysterious tone with significant danger, but expecting players to get by with grit and quick thinking. Not SAN check territory.

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@Rutskarn Modern times in a fictional city on the east coast, but revised history; supernatural things exist rarely but aren't proven fact. They pop up here and there and put a few people's lives into chaos before getting covered up or left unsolved. Gothic horror in a city, basically.

[グランブルーファンタジー @granbluefantasy]

グラブルフェス2018特別生放送配信中！このツイートと明日の配信ツイートが合計30万RTを達成したら金剛晶プレゼント！ #グラブル生放送
ニコニコ生放送： https://t.co/WUfHEl0IzQ
YouTube： https://t.co/tBlTK0waQ0
Periscope： https://t.co/Z2oqQRvQ7g

[グランブルーファンタジー @granbluefantasy]

グラブルフェス2018特別生放送配信中！このツイートと昨日の配信ツイートが合計30万RTを達成したら金剛晶プレゼント！ #グラブル生放送
ニコニコ生放送：https://t.co/gBDCKBuOhI
YouTube：https://t.co/DwgWCp9dyq
Periscope： https://t.co/twXDtd3LF4

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@shamusyoung It can always get worse: you could be trying to figure out a single piece of easily shared information, but the only place it exists on the internet is embedded in a video tutorial the creator mistook for a video blog. 11 minutes long; 15 seconds of useful info.

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

I'm very excited about this thing I *for sure* know nothing about. https://t.co/PMLoeSqXuQ

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@shamusyoung mentioned Nier: Automata being full price on Steam whenever he wanted. I had the same problem! Well... it no longer is!

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@shamusyoung Canada: It's all the way down to -47C outside and my coat is irrelevant. So this is how it must feel to experience the localized heat death of the universe!

[Ross Zevenhuizen III @Ross_SevHouse]

@shamusyoung Inquisition uses Frostbite, too. Bioware's commitment to the "KOTOR head accessories" school of design principles is laudible.