I really do try to make games about other things but I always come back home eventually…

thinking about locking the sprite animation switching to the BPM of a couple different Random Factor songs

Not something to be proud of in this particular case!

looks absolutely lovely!!

it went up by like 5 🥹 y’all are real ones

birth of hotdog

Oh and the clacking noises are based on my keypresses haha, I just realized that won’t translate so well to video…

I think that’s also why some games with highly developed metas go for frequent ‘balance’ patches.They really serve the opposite purpose- unbalancing everything to restart the discovery process for its players. The wonkier the patch is the better- it keeps the meta in an immature state

I think the issue with istrolid was that the “research” process I just described was essentially just a really cool way of discovering the meta, which eventually stabilized as the game matured, and that discovery aspect of the gameplay disappeared for the top players.