I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone here. Did anyone ever not dismiss this account as outright nonsensical trolling from the FIRST TIME it started making threads like a billion years ago? Hello?
This is like the eleventy billionth blatantly racist/sexist game thread this poster has made. Folks are JUST NOW noticing this? what? it's not quiet! It's not even a tiny bit subtle!
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK YOU GUYS
I'm really sorry for your loss, and that of your family. Thinking of you and yours today.
https://www.sweetfarm.org/goat-2-meeting
Legit doing a corporate donation one for my birthday in August for one of our team meetings. Boss is 100% on board. I am excited. Like REALLY excited.
documents should be proofed and edited BEFORE publication, not after
Me too, man. Pandemic. Trauma. Long-term. You're allowed to not be as OK. I'm glad to hear you recognize it for what it is, and that you have time off coming up.
One of the big things I've been slapped with in the last few days is the reminder that even though all of us are dealing with utter shit in our worlds right now, that does not mean that the people who care about you don't have the space to listen. It's OK to talk to them (or us, here) without feeling guilty. Your brain and the depression will tell you folks don't care / don't want to listen / that other people have it worse and you have no right, but that's not true.
You are NOT more of a pain in the ass than anyone else right now and what pain there might be your friends understand because of what the world looks like right now.
eta: I am literally midst meltdown right now (in a particularly lucid moment) and everybody is still talking to me and I promise you I am like 100 times more of a PITA.
it really, really, really, really sucks to not actually be able to trust my brain.
It's Robin Williams's birthday today. He's been gone 6 years in August. I think about him a lot.
Restricting access to a download for Patreons only is apparently not? I don't know.
ETA: someone would have to care enough to actually do something about it, also. I'm irritated and think it's really not classy at all, but I don't think it's malicious or something that ought to be reported to someone who's going to come after them or anything. They don't need the consequences that come from that, they just need to not be jerks and pull it from the people who were helping test it.
I use a Minecraft mod that just finished alpha testing for their release of the new version. As soon as they finished it (after all the bug reports and testing and things) they pulled all alphas for the version from curse and stuck the whole thing behind a paywall. I found out because the dependency was updated so I went to check to see if the release had been released, it had all vanished, and so I went to check out their discord where it was noted.
This misery does not want company. Get out.
That is to say, I hope you feel better soon. I hope I feel better soon, too. Somebody's got to be carrying a portable charger somewhere. If I find it I'll pass it along.
Oof. Is THAT why the mention of social dice mind control was made? Lol yeah, that’s so a nope out right there for me. I trust maybe two of you fuckers enough to play that sort of system with. Maybe.
I'm all spent. Ain't got nothing left. Resilience pools are empty. And I'm looking at at least another year. I don't know how this is going to happen.
Absolutely. I think that if the web presence bit is the primary priority, the choice being between those is spot on, and I really do think that all told Ares is going to be the solution here. BUT! If there are priorities that haven't been identified yet because that's not how the project has been approached, it's really hard to tell.
We don't see a lot of discussion about the other platforms either, so I wanted to make sure that people who haven't been making games for 30 years are aware that further tools exist than the ones we're mostly using now.
Or get clever/code with it.
Room designation: Medbay
Amenities level: Low
Staff level: High
Occupancy Limit: 16 people
Make all your descs like that instead of narrative descriptions, and now it's like coding instead of describing. And it supports your genre.
@Cobaltasaurus
Yes. Would you play somewhere like that? Yeah, we all pretty much would, I think. When was the last time you heard "man that game was so good, I wish I could've played there but those grid descs were full of holes". NEVER THAT'S RIGHT.
ETA: It's the room and what's in it that's important. Get the info across. The pretty of the desc is 100% irrelevant, it can be filled in after the fact by the first person that is so bothered by it that they have to fix it. That person WILL come along. They always showed up for my OTT games and those descs were even LESS important.
Also, while I suspect that you will ultimately find Ares is indeed the correct tool for your particular job at hand, remember that Evennia and Ares aren't the only good options -- there are other platforms to explore if neither of these do what you need, and some of them are still actively developed and assisted with (though many use their own proprietary languages that will serve no useful purpose outside of game running the specific game).
This is part of why it's doubly important that you have a firm understanding of what you need the platform to do, because you may have an unmet need that Evennia / Ares don't address, but Rhost does, or some mud platform, or whatever.
Never underestimate the power of using the right tool for the job. Using the correct technology can cut a job's time exponentially; using the wrong one can increase it in the same way.
Suggestion: Design document. List what features are necessary (for yourself, not us), including your own ability to learn it. Once you have in hand a definitive 'this is what I need the platform to do', picking it becomes easier.