Escape 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. …

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The 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 …

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Escape 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 …

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CGD Podcast Episode 46 – Against Management (and Decisions?)

Hey everyone! Welcome to Episode 46 of the podcast. This episode talks about what it means when a game uses “management” as its basic functionality. It also talks about “decisions” and whether those are really what we’re after in strategy game design. I also propose a new vision of what it could be like for …

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