James Wragg

💻COMPUTER
🌎WORLDS!!!

I got to talk with Jank.cool about Jank being Cool!

Mentioned
🍄Morrowind (obviously) &
🟡Crypt Worlds by @townmap.bsky.social

Also LOVED all the takes from other devs; especially @radiatoryang.bsky.social's Brian Eno quote the weird & ugly stuff about a new medium will become its signature 🎨

oh also, the reason the greatsword in Dread Delusion has a flat tip (like an executioner's sword) is a reference to book of the new sun

basically Entropy is the result of the team saying, "hey have you read Gene Wolfe???" all at the same time...

Ahhh thanks very much! @io.brindlebrothers.com wrote the Clockwork Kingdom; absolutely phenomenal writing!

THAT WAS IT, I'm always forgetting

Oh, it's been on Steam Deck for ages! Yeah, I love testing game builds on the Deck, it's such a nifty device.

Keyboards have too many keys; they stare like spider-eyes, & it's just WIERD, man! Now CONSOLES? Consoles I can get behind! Analogue sticks baby!

Uhh yeah,
𝐃𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐔𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐒 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐎 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆

🍭PS4 & PS5
🍒SWITCH 2
🍏DON'T MAKE ME LOOK UP WHAT THE XBOX CONSOLES ARE CALLED BUT THEM TOO

Friendly reminder that FF8 was inspired by David Lynch's Twin Peaks and is Really Fucking Weird

Yeah I'm not saying that developing Dread Delusion felt like being welded into a tiny submarine slowly filling up with blood with only the distorted, obfuscated glimpse of colleagues to keep you sane, but

Just saw @duskdev.bsky.social & Mplier's IRON LUNG & had an absolute blast. Like a v intense 1-man play but with more blood. Loved how you only see other chracters through a tiny porthole - metaphor for remote-work devteams, perchance? Also, just super super cool to see an indie game in a CINEMA WTF

ahh that's lovely, thank you Sally 🙏
and I mean, such an incredible performance!

Ah thanks so much, that means a lot 🙏

I had absolutely no idea that what I'd been building up to all my life was to get Dread Delusion listed as one of the 'best games of the decade so far' by a website - jank.cool - that literally did not exist yesterday, but it turns out that's definitely been my life's work and OHSHIT we did it 🎉

Ahah I love this!

dread delusion art in square format, featuring the character of vela and orlaith, godlet creature and a shroomweave blue glowing sword

finally finished this Dread Delusion piece i had in mind ever since i finished this incredible game. vela, orlaith, little godlet and my favourite: shroomweave sword. what a fantastic gem of a game! @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social

#painting #digitalpainting #art

Hell yeah, got my Dread Delusion Vinyl from @lostincult.co.uk !!

Music by @damniels.bsky.social & artwork by @vor-bokor.bsky.social, ofc!

If you want one yourself, I think there are a few copies left at the LiC site (it's a limited release tho).
www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/dread...

The Rockstar Workers Fired Before They Could Finish GTA 6 YouTube video by People Make Games

absolutely essential journalism

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9nO...

Talk A Good Game logo on an artistic recreation of a Game Boy cartridge, next to a logo for Dread Delusion

Talk A Good Game - Season 2 Episode 2

James Wragg (aka @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social) talks Dread Delusion and Lovely Hellplace's upcoming JRPG-inspired game Entropy, plus we discuss good games in dark times: tagg.dekudeals.com/episodes/jam...

Glass Cannon.

Yes ahah, that is very much the vibe! The game does actually operate on dice rolls under the hood, we absolutely looked back at the genre's TTRPG roots for inspo.

Those supercool portraits were done by none other than @vor-bokor.bsky.social - I'm sure you'll recognise his work from Dread Delusion...

Overall I'm totally stoked about the merc system. It's really fun to hire new weird guys and then see them get butchered by a lowly bandit 🥲

Uhh, I guess I should start posting Entropy stuff, huh?

Entropy has permadeath - that means you'll hire from the 𝕸𝖊𝖗𝖈 𝕭𝖔𝖆𝖗𝖉 when your party gets murdered.

Mercs are generated with different:
⭐Stats & Perks
📜Bios & Personalities
👺Bodies & Clothes
🗡️Equipment

store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/...

After FIVE YEARS of waiting, SHARP EYE #1, our follow-up to FIRST KNIFE, just hit Kickstarter!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sha...
Check out our creepy full trailer, and then also all the info on the project following the link above, and please consider sharing and supporting our beautiful child!

I mean it's a theme, but dying earth is a genre that encompasses Jack Vance's work as well as other novels like Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun - but yeah, Jack Vance is an inspiration!

damn they've figured it out
quick, hide all the Hard To Be A God reference material

Yeah, so we've tried to walk a middle line between traditional JRPGs, and tactical games like FF: Tactics, Battle Brothers, Banner Saga etc...
So there are two rows; front defends the back, but only ranged can attack from the back. Grid based like you say. Reposition takes a turn... etc.

maybe one day, but for now we're all about ENTROPY, BABY

Unless we decide to say "actually Dread Delusion was all just a dream had by this one random Entropy side character," which... I wouldn't put it past us

It's not! New universe 🌌