Dire Lantern Games

Indie game studio making strategy roguelike games. First title launching beta soon: The Dungeon Slays You

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Curious to peoples responses to Slay the Spire 2

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@RinoTheBouncer The Last of Us.

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@CoffeeBeansDev You did not fail, you shipped a game. You learned some things. Nothing is over.

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@IronIntOfficial One of my biggest issues these days.

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Option C

5 kids
Absolute chaos at home
Pusuing the dream of launching an amazing Indie game The Dungeon Slays You
0 net worth
Amazing wife

[FinancialFreedom @FinFreedom414]

Imagine you had to choose your life at age 40:

Option A:
Single. No kids.
$10M net worth.
Travel anywhere. Total freedom.
Quiet house. Quiet holidays.

Option B:
Married. 3 kids.
$1M net worth.
Drive a Toyota. Chaos every morning.
Loud house. Full dinner table.

Be honest, which life are you choosing?

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For good or ill, everything is basically opensourced now.

Studios have IP, Brand and skills to rely on long term.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Slay the Spire 2 devs don't care about people pirating their game and say they are happy about other devs learning from their code:

"Honestly, we don’t really," Card wrote. "We figure people who want to pirate it will find ways to pirate it, so there’s no reason to waste dev resources on it."

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give it a year and this will change. Just need some indie hits that are amazing and done through best modern tools

consumers want better games, the rest follows

[PC Gamer @pcgamer]

Major investor is 'shocked and sad' that the games industry is 'demonizing' generative AI https://t.co/iSBYSHmSJd

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For certain.

[Jonah @JonahBlake]

Somewhere right now there is a person in their room vibecoding a game and that game will be top in the app store or on steam or on roblox or fortnite

and its going to upset a lot of people

and it will happen sometime between this year and early next

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@monsterfutball @pepsi Honestly when i get is Pepsi ok, my reply is either Dr. Pepper, or water.

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@Project_Orc One where i can be a sexy female with a cool dance.

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@beautyskillz Gaming was better before gaming companies forcused on monetization strategies and instead focused on experience.

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@pepsi P-oke

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Corruption is a much more interesting mechanic than death.

Which evil goddess of tempation and deceipt do you like better?

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I think the moment a prototype turns into a game is when testing stops feeling like work and starts feeling like a run you don’t want to end.

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Blizzard veteran Rob Pardo says 'love' is the most important development milestone https://t.co/Pm0U5W8FOn

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@Pownchao @TheNCSmaster I like this take. Games don’t replace other forms, they layer systems on top of them. The player’s decisions become part of the storytelling.

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The fascinating part is that in games the story often emerges from the systems.

Players aren’t just experiencing it. They’re shaping it.

[TheNCSmaster @TheNCSmaster]

Said it before but video games feel like the natural evolution of art/storytelling

Stories began with spoken word
Books let us read them
Radio let us hear them
Movies/TV let us see them
Video games let us be a part of them

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@benljbrooks Its kind of a trick question. AI tools make big box engines kinda unessissary. Going be even more extreame in a year when my 11 year old can make his own complex game with Claude.

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@readswithravi Every time

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Question for the game devs out there. How cute are these 10 day old sleeping kittens?

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@RinoTheBouncer Every game

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We asked the developers of co-op horror game Blight: Survival what players can expect from the visceral, medieval combat...

Make sure you’re in the official Discord for information on future playtests!

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