Yeah I can imagine, tho I can picture these translating into sprites pretty good with the detail restrictions.

Don't want hand cramps either tho I'm sure haha.

Ooooh they're so tinyyyy, love these!

Man the jump from vertex colors in 7 to FF8's gorgeous textures are wild. I didn't realize until you posted them back to back how different their assets were.

Oooh this one is crazy good, love everything going on with the lighting

Alts showing palette, greyscale and crops

People at work have been using it (non coders) for scripts and I can't wait for them to find out the hard way that it'll break entire pipelines with minor updates, rather than just learning some basics of python or whatever.

I focused a lot this time on keeping the values of the color the same and it worked pretty well. Visible in b&w

Yo that's incredible! Love to see a great project like this get the support it deserves.

Obviously this is where LLMs went, and a lot of computing and problems in design in games and stuff are being solved by making "bigger content". Which just doesn't feel like the right direction to pursue. It's not elegant and doesn't scale well obviously. There have to be better options.

systems *that need

I forgot to ever finish this thought the other day. A reason why I started to get the ick from this little project was that I'm not trying to solve a statistics problem. More data points doesn't make the sentences better it makes them more like other sentences that exist.

The data limits in Pico8 are nice though to kinda prevent digging into that too far. Def got me thinking about designing less around systems than need lots of reference material though.

Using an ECS design framework provided here: github.com/jesstelford/...

Been pretty nice so far! My only gripe with pico8 is it's a little "stuffy" coding within a 128x128 window. Would maybe eventually work in picotron or externally for comfort.

Right? One little "who owns this" property can really go a long way to giving the impression of a whole system of crime and honor haha.

A bit yeah! I mostly see it as an accidental side effect of removing stolen item tags. But yeah it's definitely another interesting dimension to play with in crime systems!

Yeah discounts to remove stolen tags via fences, guilds etc and systems there could be real interesting.

Yeah! Kenshi simplifies it quite a bit, so I believe the odds are 100% with other factions. Meaning if there's a visiting faction B trader they'd accept stolen A goods no problem. But yeah it would be interesting to play with those odds depending on inter-faction relationships/distance.

I also like the systems that play with "laundering" stolen things to clear off the unwanted tags. Starfield etc might not have the most advanced systems, but it's neat to be incentivized to "clean" stolen stuff you want to actually keep. Otherwise loosing it if caught stealing future things.