the endless iterative hamster wheel of gamedev

do you have an anniversary on a specific day to mark the occasion?

I ran a playtest for Folk Emerging, the "pre-Civ" stone age 4X, last weekend with folks from my newsletter & discord!

Here's a interesting start that a player shared ⛰️

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Cheers @kingdomsofthedump.bsky.social for hosting #TurnBasedThursday

oooh, these look cool!

ah. that's a surprisingly difficult train to stay off of, rarely have i managed to

it's possible it was just an issue with my Mac, but i remember reading about others facing similar performance issues: discussions.unity.com/t/unity-buil...

either way, will definitely try it again at some point, would be great to get it working

i'll try to make the Mac version happen, would love to hear your thoughts

very cool easter egg btw, had no idea it was a reference! makes a lot of sense actually

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hey that's a good point, especially if it were a classic 4X game focused on expansion & conquest. but here i'm trying to offer a wide variety of playstyles, including egalitarian/authoritarian and cooperative/competitive, showing the diversity of societies described in books like Dawn of Everything

thanks for the shout-out! big fan of Six Ages so this is great to hear :)

i'd love to support macOS, i just saw in my initial experiments that even a literally empty unity project ran at ~15 FPS on my mac and so that threw me off. but once i have a solid windows version i'll still revisit the idea