Percy Ranson
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To me, the beating heart of any city-builder / simulation game is the poetic balance of aesthetic design and mechanical optimisation. It’s how successfully the game lets you create a visual paradise while scratching that itch, telling you that what you’ve made is pretty good, buuuuuuut… if you tweaked the...
Dune is a universe absolutely stuffed to the gills with quotes and sayings, enough that fans of the franchise can’t seem to resist bombarding you with them at any vaguely relevant opportunity. This would be more annoying if it weren’t for the fact that most of those quotes are genuinely...
Making a hybrid roguelike with twists on classic genres and mechanics is rather like hosting a party. There are going to be genres I’ve never met in attendance, gameplay mechanic strangers I only know through mutual genre friends, and if the party isn’t fun from the start, then I’m prone...
Some things simply just make sense together. A union of two things that, after they’ve come together once, you can’t help but expect to see again and again. Many such iconic pairings spring to mind, like the roguelike genre and deck-building mechanics, DeviantArt creators from the early 2000s and OCs...
Wake up Sleeper, your emancipation was more than just a pleasant dream. It happened while your eyes were closed, but they’re open now. It’s not too late to take that last step into the freedom of the Starward Belt. Just… don’t wait too long.