▲ 81 r/GameArt

My version of chess pieces

Made some chess pieces in Krita + Spine. Can you match each character to the corresponding chess piece?

u/Varzival — 11 days ago

Pying to promote on reddit worth it for small indie games?

*Paying

What's your experience with that? How much have you invested and was it worth it?

Thank you very much for your advice!

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u/Varzival — 30 days ago
▲ 6 r/webdev

I created a funny eye-catcher for my blog

Can't attach videos to this post unfortunately so please checkout the animation of myself that I've made here: https://mynerdyhobby.com/how-i-created-this-awesome-eye-catcher/

Interested in implementing something like this for your own blog? Drop a comment here or on my blog. I might make a tutorial series on that and want to find out what part interests you the most.

u/Varzival — 1 month ago

First YouTuber has played my game 😱

This means a lot to me - also lots of super helpful feedback!

Check out this guy's channel - he's set out on a mission to play and review games of small creators like us.

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u/Varzival — 2 months ago

Lessons learned on dialogue boxes

Might be obvious to everyone but it wasn't to me:
If the text in a box doesn't fit then scaling it down isn't the right solution. Looks weird af. Better to make it scrollable.

u/Varzival — 2 months ago

Murder on the Chessboard

I'm excited to share my little puzzle game

Murder on the Chessboard

Playable Link: varzival.itch.io/chessboard
Platform: Web (also mobile friendly)
Free to Play Status: Prototype
Involvement: Solo dev

Chess meets Murder Mystery: find out who murdered the King on the chessboard! I'm always grateful for any feedback.

It can be played right on your mobile phone without downloading anything.

So no excuses!! Even if you are scrolling on the toilet, just click the link and let's goooo!

u/Varzival — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/itchio

Affected by Shadowban?

Last month, I posted about being the only game in a very obscure category: https://www.reddit.com/r/itchio/comments/1ti39iy/im_the_only_one/

Today, I tried to find my game in the itch.io listings but can't find it anymore. I didn't receive any message about being deindexed, quarantined, or similar. Also I haven't changed the tags, it's still the same.

Anyone knows what might have happened here?

u/Varzival — 2 months ago

Underrepresented concepts in game economies

Been thinking lately about some economic concepts that don't appear often in games but that are crucial for our real life capitalist economy. There might me great potential in games to explore that and I don't know many that do.

Debt & money as an infinite resource

  • Money is a resource that can be infinitely replicated.
  • Nations typically hold debt that far exceeds national income.

Interest rate

  • Somewhat linked to debt: the Economy is driven by adjusting interest rate up/down. 
  • Low interest rates make debt cheaper and investments more profitable.

Inflation (we all feel this one)

  • Low interest rates may result in inflation if the production can't keep up.
  • Also, inflation can happen if production becomes more expensive.

Overproduction crises

  • If you produce to much in e.g. Anno, it will just happily sit in your warehouse, no issues whatsoever.
  • In the real world, companies face huge problems when they can't get their goods sold.
  • Example: overproduction was one of the contributing factors to the Great Depression.

Economic Cycles

  • Strategy games tend to snowball infinitely (think of 4x games like Civ)
  • However, our economy has boom and bust cycles. We have periods of expansion and contraction.

Degrowth

  • Number go up is nice but what if number go down is necessary?

All in all I think there is a huge design space where games can try more to explain our actual economy.

Any games you know of that include some of these concepts well? Any other concepts that I've forgotten to list?

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u/Varzival — 2 months ago

Air Land and Sea - Digital vs Computer?

Does anyone know if there is a way to play Air Land and Sea digitally against the computer somewhere? Has anyone already made an algorithm for that? And would anyone also be interested in a digital version?

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u/Varzival — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/itchio

I'm the only one!

The only game made with PixiJS tagged with chess!

...yes it's a freaking narrow category but I'm still proud of being a special snowflake.

u/Varzival — 3 months ago