Auro is “pointed” game design. It is probably somewhere between 10 and 50 people’s favorite game of all time. This is because Auro does one thing, and one thing only, and it does it extremely well. If you like pure, turn based, low-randomness tactics, I do think you can’t do that much better than to … Continue reading "Rounded and Pointed Game Design"
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ESCAPE THE OMNOCHRONOM! Version 0.6 Patch Notes
A small, but significant patch. This patch has a few new items, some major balance tweaks, and one crucial bug fix. This patch should be available on Steam and itch.io tomorrow. GAME BALANCE Starting gold increased from 300 to 700. Monster spawn group size slightly reduced overall Monster spawn rate slightly reduced overall Tennor’s … Continue reading "ESCAPE THE OMNOCHRONOM! Version 0.6 Patch Notes"
Read MoreEscape the Omnochronom! Version 0.5 Patch Notes
Today there’s a significant patch for Escape the Omnochronom! that involves a new UI (first draft of it, anyway), an entirely new way of spawning monsters, new monster types, balance changes, and a lot more. For awhile we had been working on a lot of systemic stuff: animations, metagame stuff, bug fixing, things like that. … Continue reading "Escape the Omnochronom! Version 0.5 Patch Notes"
Read MoreThe future and present of Escape the Omnochronom!
I’ve got a new podcast episode! This one is, I think, more technical, systems-design oriented, with some bigger questions involved. I mostly wanted to share my thought process about where Escape the Omnochronom! is now, where I imagine it going, and how I feel about it. I’m often conflicted about how much I should keep … Continue reading "The future and present of Escape the Omnochronom!"
Read MoreEscape the Omnochronom! now available on itch.io!
You can purchase the Early Access version of Escape the Omnochronom! now on itch.io! Tell your friends! Technically speaking, I started working on the project that eventually became Escape the Omnochronom! back in 2015, although it has had at least four different names since that time. Someday I’ll have to run you all through the … Continue reading "Escape the Omnochronom! now available on itch.io!"
Read MoreIntroducing the Escape the Omnochronom Comics!
This is really exciting! Artist Amber Ross and I co-wrote this comic together (she did all the incredible art!) and I’m really happy with how it came out. I hope to be able to make a comic like this for all of the Escape the Omnochronom! characters, that delves a little bit into their backstory. … Continue reading "Introducing the Escape the Omnochronom Comics!"
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