Tomasz

Love what you are doing guys, keep it up

The last time I felt so good was when I was considered "hot" on hotornot.com ~20+ years ago

(yes, it also meant nothing)

#tinygenerals #dadjoke #vanitymetrics

March Update: February Recap and Plans for March | TinyGenerals A look back at what we shipped in February and what's coming next for TinyGenerals in March.

tinygenerals.com/blog/05-marc...

Finally wrote the summary of February and plans for March.

#indiedev #gamdev #tinygenerals

My fav screen for the past 12 hours

Recently I had a spike of new players in #tinygenerals. They started games but often dropped on the first turn without any movement. I thought they didn’t like it or didn’t know what to do. Today I tried the game on my old phone with slow internet and discovered the loading progress bar is broken 🤦‍♂️

Early version, no graphics yet and I don't know if I will manage to polish it but I made a simplified spinoff on one of the upcoming features for #tinygenerals and my hope is to make a version for the #commodoreamiga #amiga classic and AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS.

#gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming

Am I the only one getting confused by the choice of icons for the actions? #notion #uxui

And now I still don't have time to work on my ideas but at least I'm up to date.

I was missing a manager/updater for #godot @godotengine.org so I created a new one (and I totally neglected that there's likely 666 of them already).

Should work across all platforms, has a TUI interface and #commodoreamiga related easter egg in settings.

#gamedev

github.com/tomaszstania...

Capitalism is still developed, just in case... ;)

Civ1, Settlers 1 and 2, Colonization, Reunion, Utopia and K240, Millenium 2.2 (and Deuteros which is its continuation), Mega-Lo-Mania, Panzer General. Top of my mind

If the screen area was bigger, I would say Powermonger

I've been under the weather and progress on #tinygenerals and @postreads.co slowed down to a crawl. But new updates are coming for both. TG will get an update tonight/tomorrow, postreads "when it's ready". TG gets also an update of help portal with modding info.

#indiedev #solodev #gamdev

If you are product people and use #AI to help you in your daily work I added skills which can be used with Claude or agentskills.io compatible agents which cover topics like product discovery, strategy, customer interviews and more. Check it out: github.com/tomaszstania...

#productmanagement

Love it. Looks very Amiga-esque

My RTX4090 needs to be serviced so I decided to try out RTX5090. It showed me two things: my CPU (13700) is a bottleneck yet i get 300+ fps in 5k in Cyberpunk with RTX Overdrive but overall the increase is not "wow" enough to justify the price. Two: I don't need that power to run even local LLM/AI.

When Grammarly identifies text which might have been written with AI it proposes to rewrite it with... AI.

Love it.

#tinygenerals got a new landing page. The starting page for the game is no longer a list of rooms, and with that I think I migrated all the pages to shadcn and can start building a design system for the future. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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Well, at least we can now solve solved problems and generate Natalie Portman with big t...houghts. If it's not social progress I don't know what is

Not yet auto-tiling and no proper graphics, but finally worked on the new roads implementation. Previously roads were tiles like forest point. Now road is an overlay/modifier - it modifies the terrain values. Railroads and rivers likely coming soon

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I... I.... lost.

Yes, I gave AI the chance to exploit my position - didn't push early for resources, allowed it to gain economical upper hand and... it used it. Recently I spent time on #ai in the game. it's far from perfect but can be a challenge.

#tinygenerals #solodev #gamedev #indiedev

Love it. Much better than holding 666 items in magical pockets. But if we were picky - in reality player would not be able to take the guns from his back :)

Trying to be serious to write a better AI for the game. Wrote myself a debug overlay which shows the influence map and decisions by AI - transitioning to behavior tree for easier debugging and maintenance. (e.g. current AI is too passive - heals too often)

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[Amiga] Dune - Soundtrack YouTube video by Back to the Roots

I'm sorry Hans, but there is only one true Dune soundtrack

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvDd...

#amiga #dune

What is he thinking of...

#tinygenerals #indie #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

I think it starts to look decent visually. What do you think?

And now when I'm on the other side - trying to make games - I just figured that I was living under the rock. I did not get the memo that without onboarding, given our current attention span - unless your game is the next Minecraft, without onboarding, tutorials and help system - you will likely fail

Modern Games vs Old Games | Lost Technology Edition YouTube video by Swaggaccino

I never read instructions, I never touch tutorials. From my pov games stopped adding uniquely new mechanics around 2013. Since then they are same old, same old. Only graphics differ. But not always for the better. In fact I love this video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOQb...

There was no support, no Internet and likely I was the only guy playing this game among my friends. Who had computers - not many of us had. Years later I remember coming back to my fav The Settlers, at the time 3 or 4 - I was shocked that the game was handholding you through EVERYTHING.

Do you remember onboarding in Panzer General? In Civilization 1? I grew up in the 80s, my first games were pirated copies - no instructions, usually in a language I was not good with (English). If I were unlucky, I could get a game in German or French (hello Transarctica) #imold #gamer

New version is coming up soon.

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#indie #indiedev #gamedev #solodev