Given how much we overscoped on complexity of our tax collection game, these are surprisingly decent #ludumdare58 results.

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It's interesting to see how despite only 300 fewer entries in #ludumdare58 than in #ludumdare57, the homepage feed felt a lot more dead than what I'm used to from previous iterations of the jam.

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And it lives! After 3 days of questioning if we'll manage to make a somewhat manageable economy in time, I think we've succeeded! Our #ludumdare58 spreadsheet simul... ahem, *game*, Taxcellent is live over at […]

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#ludumdare58 day 3: We're really starting to believe this entire game should've been an excel macro. So many graphs and tables.

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Slowly but surely. It doesn't help everyone on the team hates working on UI...

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Day 1 of #ludumdare58 done, we have terrain generation working and a surprising amount of the economy simulation as well.

Tomorrow's plan is a ton of balancing and further simulation of environment changes based on the economy.

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Ooops, we did it again.

Almost every single #ludumdare we end up implementing a tile based terrain generator of some kind...

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Turns out, planar reflections are rather simple to implement once you know the concepts behind them.

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#ludumdare57 results are out and our diver management game did a lot better than expected. I expected somewhere in the 200-300th place range for most categories (minus graphics), but it turned out a lot better 🥳

If you haven't already, you can check […]

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