Nick Lawrence

Video Game Man without a Video Game Plan

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Japan is reopening on THE EXACT DAY that my plane tickets were for. I had already assumed I'd have to cancel the trip again, but now it seems like too much of a coincidence to not go! Guess I'm getting an omicron booster and hoping for the best!

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

My setup is almost exactly chaotic evil, just without the second vertical monitor

[The Accidental Lich™️ @n_quests]

One of my players sent me the most accurate alignment chart ever.

Where do you fall on screen alignment?

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Well, somehow I did that and I'm finally moving to Seattle on Saturday

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Think elden ring is hard? Try getting an apartment with very little provable income!

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

@Cyn_apse Only reason it was relatively easy for me was that I'm on hour 27 of wandering around and collecting items!

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Well I just beat Margit and y'all really overexaggerated how hard that was

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

@AnnoyingRandom2 Right?! I'm sure there's something I'm not thinking of too, but I haven't been able to come up with too many problems that aren't also a problem with the time-zone system

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Since everyone's debating daylight-savings time, I think it's time to submit my proposal: There should be no time zones, the whole world should be on the same time, all the time, and you just wake up and go to sleep whenever you want to. Business hours are set locally. No flaws.

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

When you answer a wrong number and still end the call with "see you later"

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

They really need to stop making dice look so delicious

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Finally rewrote my water flow stuff to work entirely on the GPU! Now the game shouldn't slow to a crawl whenever there's water on screen!

#gamedev #indiedev

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Messing around with a hex-tile system! I already know I'm going to accidentally make a whole civ clone

#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Happy day to Mr. Valentine

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

@Franrekk For my square-tile based game I just use a series of transparent overlays for this, which reduces the amount of work you have to do, but also makes the transitions potentially much less smooth. It's a trade-off!

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

I apologize for sharing a wordle, but I was very proud of this one 😂

Wordle 214 2/6

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[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Strongly considering writing an engine really similar to the one used in Questica in C# and Monogame. That way I could actually make some little games for consoles

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Playing around with using billboard sprites for walls and other objects in the world. I think there's a lot that can be done with these!

#gamedev #pixelart

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

My New Year's Resolution is unironically to play more video games

[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Wordle 196 4/6

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[Nick Lawrence @purenickery]

Realized I really should be sticking with the RPG basics and testing enemy mechanics with SLIMES!

Just using some creative commons sprites by @calciumtrice to test with.

#gamedev #indiedev