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AAA Games: We’ve created a massive open world 500x larger than our previous game with a grand total of two (2) sidequests that have been copy-pasted all over the map. That way, you have many different ways to climb a tower to find where to shoot stealth mechanics base building zombies buy the tarnished pass today!

Steam Indie Games: We had the great idea of taking Sekiro’s combat system and making into a rhythm game! We then decided to make it a roguelike deckbuilder so we wouldn’t have to design a progression system or level layouts and the player can just reset runs until the game becomes good via monkeys and typewriters.

Itch.io Games: I made a 2 hour long game about the trauma of growing up as a closeted trans girl presented via metaphor of being a stowaway on a 25th century cargo ship delivering goods between Hong Kong and The Greater Empire of Americana. It’s also a roguelike deckbuilder.

    • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      I hate games like that where how much fun you have is RNG. Last one I tried before I gave up on the genre was Ball X Pit. I had a build in mind, but none of the items I needed dropped even with spamming rerolls. I eventually got to the boss and died because my build is hodgepodge desperation garbage.

      If I wanted lose half the time, I’d play poker. Maybe it’s more fun if you have loads of time to spend on failed runs? But if you can only play one run per day and it just sucks, like, what are we doing here?

      • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        It’s more about making due with what you are given and finding fun strategies within that than trying to get specific decks. If the deck-builder roguelike isn’t able to do that then it isn’t a good deck-builder roguelike. Being able to influence what you get, and using that efficiently is also very important.