Re:REXPaint: Powerful, User-Friendly ASCII Art Editor
by setr on Tuesday December 11, 2018 @10:48PM
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Oh damn, thats a lot of material
When I finish reading through, you’ve probably got a buy-in out of me; that much thinking has gotta produce something interesting, good or bad ;)
Re:REXPaint: Powerful, User-Friendly ASCII Art Editor
by Kyzrati on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @06:54PM
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Hahaha, thanks. It's funny when I sometimes get notices from new players who've said they got into it after having read all my blog and FAQs. I'm like "you just read... ALL of that?!"
(I'm happy to have started the FAQ series beyond the blog, because it's about so many other devs' RL projects as well, and we can share and learn so much more!)
The gameplay is unique, and much has been written about it, but it's not all in one centralized location like that page, which was easier to put together as simply images for demonstration.
For the other side of things there are many many articles on the blog detailing systems and mechanics and design considerations. Plus there are Steam reviews, which give a pretty clear picture of what people think. This one, and many others, are telling: https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198035898628/recomm...
Also hi :)
(Edit: Oh, and I stopped writing a lot of Cogmind-specific design the articles for the blog in recent years, and some of the writing you might be looking for has gone towards FAQs here: https://www.reddit.com/r/roguelikedev/wiki/faq_friday)