There's really nothing better than sauerkraut on a nice greasy burger. I'm not sure why it's not a commonality

We tend to eat dinner before our date night plans just because of how short of travel our dollar goes these days, but we decided to get some really greasy burgers from a place around the corner of the micro theater. That place also sells hot dogs, so I asked if they could put sauerkraut on mine.

The amount of times I've lost progress in a game like Fallout (pick any instalment) because I didn't expect there to be a tough fight or a heavily trapped section of the map, as opposed to any JRPG where as soon as I see a save point I'm popping it. Ya know?

Game loop actions that could be forgotten much more often if the player has to menu dive. But by bundling those system as elements of the exploration game loop it becomes a lot more immediate.

Hey, sorry for the wait. It's been a busy couple of days for me.
I think what I was getting at was that those systems tend to abstract (as in shortcut) what would otherwise be a menu interaction; saving the game; using a health item; consulting the game map.

They're kind of mechanical/gui abstractions in my mind. I'm a little checked out at work atm, but I'd happy to explain what I'm thinking later today.

I think out of everything that I've touched so far in c# I probably learned the most with this assembly; indexes; variable classes; where to use internal instead of private classes; how to iterate on switch statements/expressions until they're super clean and incredibly readable. Very fun stuff.

Oh sick, do you remember where you got this godot theme? That's so much easier on the eyes than the default teal

Oof, yeah. I think that can be chalked down to the needs of various game genres and their markets, and the available ways in which any given UX designer might choose to design for convenience or accessibility. Whatever falls through, falls through though. But this site is a big help. glhf!

I want next week to commit to just finishing the mesh for the protagonist of the first act. Having that complete allows me to start animating and looping in AnimationTree to the state machine. Then it's back to rough level design until I have a sizable enough first zone that I can export to blender

experimented with CSG nodes to quickly mockup levels. I also wanted to code an extendable script for directional lighting so I can wrap light rotation and color to what time of the day it is and start looping in the sleep menu I designed months ago to finally do something

it's all orthogonal movements of the joystick at the end of the day, ya know? Is it realistic? fuck no. BUT is it a quick little challenge that you can prepare for and then tackle quicker than the typical lockpicking mg? yeah. I think that sounds fun

But think about this for a second: what stops a lockpicking mini-game from being realized as a shmup bullet hell?

The shear creativity that went into the shmup + bullet hell sections. This is hands down one of my favorite moments in boss fights, even though I've never played Undertale, just watched friends speedrun it

I always thought it was quaint that Bethesda kept a little bit of the way lockpicking worked in Morrowind with the little Auto Attempt button. Basically that text could have read "roll d20 + Dex + Open Lock", that's functionally how it worked behind the curtain

Like who thought that was a good idea? It really killed my immersion the first time I took to long with the dexterity game. Why couldn't another solution be found to create tension while you picked the lock? Having guard AI continue running while looking at your map was enough for the OG Hitman 2

First and last time I played Alpha Protocol I beat it in a few days. I had fun with it but it isn't really influential to me, nor am I particularly fond of it. But I always thought the lockpicking mini-game was a highlight. I just hated the fact that if the timer ran out it would alert the guards

btw, full disrespect to the blazing fast QuickTimeEvent that's telegraphed with only a visual of the fucking button you need to press. Do better. Play some modern hack-n-slash stylish fighters and take notes