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Why hello.
Good morning everyone.
It's time for the post-Christmas fat.
It's a good day.
It's a bad day.
Full of fat.
It's the most epic music to be fat.
You sound different. Probably just woke up. I just woke up. I'm not really surprised.
Almost makes you want to work out. Nah. Did you gain a thousand pounds? Nah, I just woke up.
And it slows.
This is the end.
Is that Jim the dandy? Hell yeah, dude.
We're at 25%. That's good. That's really good. We need more people running.
Today is in December. Harvesting Plains.
Eugh. Man.
We need a new anime to watch.
Dungeon Masher, dude.
Yeah, if you like cute magical girl anime, maybe Madoka Magica. That would be good.
It gets really good after Episode 3.
I'm really good.
25% the enemy is at 96 hello Thor hello made an abyss made an abyss is awesome it's a great
Yeah, good bug report all the the gathering commissions they are broken the ones that are not broken with the delivery commissions those ones work
You need to watch log horizon I know it's on my list
Who's there
Error wheels, thank you for the rating party of 16, I'm just waking up and...
All right, take in the morning screenshots.
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I don't know what to do with this.
I don't know what to do with this.
Number go up.
You're trying to get your game out of the way, aren't you?
You're trying to get your game out for people to check out.
You don't know how to start doing that.
Um, set up a demo through Steam.
Like, so get your game up on Steam, put up a demo.
It's there showing that to people, man.
Like, that's number one.
Until somebody has something in their hands, they probably don't care.
That's like a pretty normal thing, honestly.
So like, your game isn't bad.
You're not shitty at marketing.
You just gotta have something tangible for people to play, right?
That's the biggest thing of all.
No matter what.
And you got this dude, you can, you can do it.
Alright.
My brain is mush.
It's time to survey.
Nice, this is what I love to see.
Immediately begin the murder.
Your brain's always much good.
If you were playing Ashes of Creation, go to Brian Burrell on the Lyneth server.
join us we need every person to come out here we fill the new guilds cap we did
there's two more people and I know who they're going to be because the people
that we've been trying to get in for a little bit we gained an entire level in
the guild yesterday due to the shenanigans of the grand migration
the
I am not sure if you can hear me or not, but I am not sure if you can hear me or not, but I am not sure if you can hear me or not.
yeah everybody everybody I'm inviting everyone to the red everyone we're gonna
be like a gigantic locus swarm sending upon the island and harvesting
everything just whisper me in game doesn't matter who you are there's
matter if you're in the guild doesn't matter come join us in Brian barrel
everyone think of the five gifted subs it's very nice you man
The idea is to get literally everyone onto the island and harvest every material off the
island, all of it.
Kill every monster, harvest everything.
Remember, harvesting the plants gives you experience.
But if you need levels, this way actually works.
Are you good?
Everyone.
I don't care what level you are.
I don't care what guild you're in.
Join us.
This is going to be an all day, 12 hour long assault on the island,
dude.
Did we get a brine barrel note xp check?
We're at level 20, we're at the right level and we're at 25%
Yeah, 25% on the level we need to be
brine barrels at risk of becoming a vassal, that is correct
We've made some enemies and these enemies are trying to, well, cause us problems now
Harvest every node, all of it.
Loose it all.
There's your way to unvastal, not currently.
So like that's why I'm like, get off the mainland, your professions can wait, this
cannot.
Because as far as I know, sieges are not working yet.
So if we get vastalized, it's permanent.
get to the island. Get to the island lads. This is the only thing you can do. Oh, it's
violent manga. Come into Brandor, I'll just hand this to you. Like all of our professions,
we can do that in a couple of days. This we can't. This is like we have to do it
right now or never again.
What are all these plants?
The enemy.
These plants are the enemy.
Server's in the net, yeah.
And I'm just waking up, so my brain is a potato.
Good, this is exactly what we need to do.
Every single plant, every single tree. Locust swarm. See that? See that nice clear
field? Every one of these plants is worth 28 experience in a node. So the idea is
to harvest literally everything and it will pay for all of your repair bills too.
I just realized that inviting someone to raid cancels my... cancels my harvest.
Yeah, we gotta get the elephant ears, dude.
As you can see, these plants are called elephant ear.
There is still room in the red, we need more.
Yeah basically we're just gonna make a circle around our home and that's it it's one big
gas circle. We follow the plants all the way around and we do it again.
Yeah, deforestation of the max, like if you look behind us, all that is clear now.
That's what we want.
And if you do this right, you'll make about a gold and a half an hour.
That was your Christmas?
Really good actually.
I hung out with the community.
It was a lot of fun.
My brain is potato now.
It's good time.
Level 20, Herbalist.
The journeyman is...it's done.
It is done.
Dear god.
Oh.
How far along are we?
We're at 25%, and I've just formed the Locus Group for the day.
And basically what we're doing is we're harvesting every node, we're killing every monster,
just pushing through the island as quickly as possible.
Yeah, I gotta get the cert.
But I'm not doing that right now.
The only thing that matters right now is the island.
There's certs, no professions, none of it.
That comes later.
Right now, we chop everything.
Marking myself with a sun.
Make sure to go to me.
You don't wanna go to the wrong direction
and then get killed by a bunch of guys.
Yeah, that's the biggest idea is we shouldn't be doing professions right now.
We shouldn't be doing like anything outside of the island.
Like I know people want to go and run mules and everything like that, but this will make
you money and this is what we need to do right now.
We don't have you on the island.
We're missing out and then our island fails.
We only got one shot at this.
So we need to not screw it up.
the discord has the safe routes that should be in guild objectives and you
should follow what is in guild news each day
once we get this done by the way we're good we just do whatever the hell we want
so this is like this is the main primary objective yeah deforest all the
things like your sovereignty depends on it because it does
Our freedom relies on chopping trees.
Which is stupid because processing should give note-expuged doesn't it?
theCynicalWeeb We still got room in the raid too
Yeah, like each of these plants is worth... how much are we getting? Wait.
28 per plant. So every plant is worth 28. And that spider was worth 312. So it's going
Doing really well.
How are we getting 36?
Somebody's killing something out there.
Nice.
Yeah if you need an invite to the raid just whisper me.
The raiding puts hair on one's chest?
It could.
That is true.
I like it's empty over here.
We're going out to those.
This is good.
This is good.
What is this?
It's redworm, the actual plants.
Plants.
The sworn enemy.
Do not stack on the mushroom. It will kill you.
As it has killed one of you already. Do not stack the mushroom, guys.
Oh boy, I'm going to be faster to have raided Brig kill mobs.
No, the Brig is not as much XP with this many people.
The Brig only gives an amount of experience per kill.
Like each of these monsters, right?
It may show up for everybody and say, hey, you got this much experience, but that's
on a per kill basis.
So that was just 20 or 36 experience for that musher.
Each of these plants is 28.
So every person that harvests one of these is gaining 28 for the node.
So the idea is you want everybody doing a bunch of stuff.
That right there, all of that was worth like minutes at the brig.
So the idea is you get a team at the brig that's constantly milling, and then you get
people out here that are constantly milling.
You do everything.
Everything is available to us.
Ooh, huntable iguana.
Oh, killable gunner.
Don't die to the poison please. Like that. That's a bad idea. Yeah, that green cloud
you stood in? Death. Estrued? You're standing in death. Guys, get away from the
poison. It's your arranged character. Use it. Why are you like this? If you are
For a melee character, normally swap to your ranged weapon.
There you go.
There you go.
Yeah, too many melee rush in and die in poison clubs.
You get used to it, you learn it.
The poison's so yummy, a little bit.
It's a little delicious.
The ADHD Santa with 500 bits said New Year New TTS voice.
I vote for Batman or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
No.
No.
I have the oldie but a goodie. I think we're keeping it this way. Wait, what did Jake send me?
What?
What the hell?
It's blocking now?
Nope, it's online.
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my god reading at all
good
It means we have 24% left for the day.
all right we got pirate archers over here I'm gonna start taking them out
they're nasty too
there we go why you say whisper an invite but no invite on whisper I haven't
seen your whisper go through oh hey there it is cuz you message multiple
times. There we go. Hey, it's here.
to the south of you guys there's a whole lot of kind of southeast
of the general raid mass.
Y'all like Justin and Mobs now? I know we're getting a lot stronger. Like a lot stronger.
The island just made us powerful.
Also, if you're in the Ministry of Peace in any way, I need you to go look at your peace news.
I have an important goal for you now would be the time to handle this
careful pulling these they're quite nasty
If you're a lower level player, just focus the plants. If you're a higher level player, help me kill these mobs.
Whatever you do, do not be in melee with these.
Nice, that one was worth 367.
Take all the years.
Do you get EXP as a raid group?
You do if you're harvesting the plants.
If you're killing monsters, they don't really give anything, but we don't really care about
personally EXP on this.
We care about settlement EXP.
And settlement EXP happens based on the monster killed, regardless of its level or your level
or any of that.
And it also is gained by harvesting a plant.
You see this giant clear cut that we just did?
Every one of those was worth settlement EXP.
So the idea is that no matter what you're doing, as long as you're doing something
on the island, you're pushing the node. We're at 26% right now. We started at 25%. It was
great. The idea is to get to 50% today.
I'm basically going to be doing this all day dude.
Just all day.
Because that's our main goal.
Like we gotta hit 50%.
If we don't hit 50% we're gonna fall behind.
We want to blot out the sun, basically.
And most players that have been here are strong enough to be able to do this.
Another pirate captain.
These captains are worth 300 something.
So it's like, clear all the plants, kill all the guys.
And I'm level 25, so I can just clear these easy.
What are the red bushes?
Oh, those are just decoration.
There's nothing in them, unfortunately.
You can see we're just clearing the hell out of these.
What happens if you're vassalized?
Basically, we're at the whim of another city.
They become our lord, and there's nothing we can do about it.
So we need to not let that happen because we can't get rid of it.
The siege system, I guess, is not activated is what people are saying,
uh, which is not the best.
Like, I really don't want to be somebody else's peasant, you know, for the entire phase.
Why does that matter though?
Because it means that our city can't grow beyond a certain level.
Once you're vassalized, you're stuck.
You can't become a giant city.
You can become, like, an okay-sized city.
Yeah.
Like, we don't- we don't want that.
We- we- we didn't vote for that guy.
We don't want to be limited in our growth.
playing this is not good. So that's the general idea. So we have limited time. We need to
push the note and if we don't do that, we will lose and it will be permanent. There
will be no coming back from it this time. So we have to do this. We're at 26, there
at 97 but the tier before so we got to clear this tier before they finish before they catch
up basically you're gonna use the vessel system become the pirate empire no we just we just
don't want to be limited like we don't care about vassalizing others like if I didn't
have to I wouldn't do it but I don't want to become somebody else's vessel none of
because then our city can't grow will be will be limited in size limited in
services too and we fought for this place so like just gonna keep fighting
yeah that's true when they add in the capstone bonuses we would allow fast
Let's travel between the nodes that we vassalized, which is kind of cool.
Invite to raid.
Invite to raid.
Okay.
If you are not in a raid and you not received an invite, form a second raid.
Yeah, if you've not received an invite, we are full, go form a second ring.
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the windkeeper paste access to all of
Pirates of Branguerl. Yeah, hell yeah, dude. Yeah, this is like this is gonna be like a wild amount of push
But like look how many people are out here and we're just clearing everything, you know eat all the trees eat all the plants
Get it all
And I'm not gaining experience doing this anymore, but it doesn't matter cuz the nose
That is the whole idea man, get locust red.
If your bags are full don't worry about it, leave the plants on the ground.
We'll be going back to town to sell everything in a little bit.
Bedridden from the food coma from yesterday's exes there, dude, so am I.
I'm sitting here in a chair, but I'm a potato.
What are the flaming crab gorillas? That's my summon. It's like a weird pet.
Resurging the island.
It's true.
Yeah, it's a weird pet that basically it's a tanking pet, right? And it's really strong for that. You ate so much, dude. I understand.
How goes the corruption stuff by the way?
Jake.
Did you figure out your bug?
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Deviled eggs
Cheese
Deviled eggs
All I remember is a lot of deviled eggs
And then cheese
And noodles
And cheese
A lot of cheese
And then deviled eggs
I didn't make a pizza, no
They had people over and they brought a lot of food
And there's a lot of deviled eggs
I think I ate like 14 deviled eggs
I think I ate like 14 double eggs maybe 15
I had a lot of double eggs. I just kept eating them
You see they fit it's like one one bite per double eggs. You just and then it's gone and then you look down you're like
Why is the container half-empty?
You know half-empty container of double eggs, and you're like oh must have not been me
Could have been anyone eating all those double eggs, you know like
didn't it didn't have to be me could it anybody anybody at all even though all
those double-dags were in my hand no one else was in the room it not
necessarily me eating right no double-dag gets left behind because they
eat them all or somebody does that is secretly in my kitchen with me hidden
way.
Well you and the deviled eggs?
I love deviled eggs man, they're just good, they're just good.
Yes, the swarm.
Oh Dres, no I know about that.
I'm just doing the tanking one because I'm a level 25 and I can clear anything on the island with that.
Whole roasted pork.
Mmm, pork.
I love just seeing all of the plants just disappear around me.
Look at that wall, dude.
The coolest part about this is this level takes dramatically more experience than the
last level.
So the people on the other island, when they're cheering about how much percentage they
gained, because they gained 4% the other day when we gained 1, they don't know.
They don't realize it all.
They don't realize even a little bit.
of a swarm for the over map. Wait, the over map?
Hmm, hmm.
by God look at them all disgusting elephant ears on our island
Naomi 0216 has obtained the cursed quest. A pirate has begun for chat to decide their fate.
Your quest has begun. Good luck. Chat will not be kind. They never are.
A year!
Thank you very much, Shibster.
You're awesome, dude.
I'll be having a good day, dude.
You bought a better monitor.
Nice.
You're not getting Unreal Engine crashes while trying to open the game?
I wonder what was causing it?
It's got to be a graphics card thing, man.
That's super weird.
Chats has cursed NaomiO216 with interpretive dance.
Wow dude, you hit him with the interpretive dance a day after Christmas?
A day after Christmas, the fattest time of year, you hit him with interpretive dance?
You guys are monsters.
That's monstrous.
That is a monstrous thing to do.
Damn, dude.
Well Naomi, unfortunate.
You need to choose a song from the Harpano ST.
And you need to dance to it, on video.
But to protect your identity, you need to print out a copy of my face and wear it as a mask.
So at least you got that going for you.
Wait, where's the iguana?
Shoot!
The iguanas are worth 400, by the way.
They're a great resource.
More iguanas.
Alright, iguana down.
Yeah, we want to kill as many iguanas as possible, man.
To Guana Ranching, yeah we're Guana Ranching dude.
Got any Mainland focus folks?
No we are not on the Mainland.
Do not be on the Mainland if you're in the guild and you're not in Brian Barrill.
You're doing it wrong.
We need everybody on this island.
single person. You can go to the mainland later, you can love your professions later.
We need everybody on this island right now. We have to hit 100% of this bar or we're
going to get vassalized. This is the objective. That experience bar is the objective. Every
plant, every mining node, every tree chopped down, every monster killed counts. So we
need every single person on the island. Doesn't matter if you're in the guild
not every single person on this island. Everything you do here counts everything.
So if you're in the guild, if you're not in the guild, irrelevant. The more people here, the faster it goes.
Got a path to get to level five to six players to the island. I'll show you the route. See
this right here in the map? This is Jova. If you go from Jova, you go to the mountains.
You go across the mountains, right here, along this route, stop here, go to the river,
travel the river down, and then you scot free to stake the ocean.
When you do get here by the way, when you travel the ocean all the way across,
go to the harbor first. There's an ember spring there and there's no monsters on that island,
but it is PVP enabled. You get ambushed on the ocean, do it again, different route.
It happens.
We're in dangerous waters and they're trying to stop us.
Oh yeah, so geeky. There's not gonna be a monthly sub until they launch, which is gonna be over a year from now.
Also the raid is full form another raid.
How does non-gill people help their help?
Because we're not the guild pushing the island.
It's everyone.
Every plant you chop down pushes the node, whether you're in the guild or not.
This doesn't matter if you're in the guild.
It's not a guild objective.
It's an island objective.
This is everybody's home.
Whether you're in the guild, whether you're in another guild, whether you... like
doesn't matter.
here you're affecting it. That's the whole idea with this. Yeah, all experience goes
towards the island. Yeah. Mass Locust O'clock. I got one full raid. We need more people running
raids. And if you guys want to do some culture fun activity with this, instead of the Discord,
if you're in the guild, you should be able to go into one of the raid channels and hang
there. Looks like raid one is empty. Go pile in a raid one if you're in the red.
Is there enough to do in game? There's a shitload to do in the game.
Just woke up and we'll get on. Thank you, Phoebus. Phoebus, if you'd like to run a second raid,
that'd be very helpful. We need this like round the clock today. We gotta get to 50% today.
That's the goal
You don't celebrate Christmas cuz you're an atheist no, no, that's not it at all man
Now I just don't celebrate Christmas generally because I find it to be like consumerism and dog shit if you're religious for the holiday great
I think that's fantastic. You should be I
I just don't like the consumerist aspect of it.
I spend that time calling family, calling friends, saying hello to people, hanging out with people,
spending time with those that I care about, right?
I don't spend it buying bullshit in a store.
Does that make sense?
your server doesn't welcome people to ashes in the invite wait what are you
talking about dude what do you mean your server
did you remember to call your dad yesterday yeah I told you was doing
it right after the stream man I called him and I called my grandma
There's other games, no ashes.
Why do those unpin?
There.
Do not unpin, manual.
See that of the pin comment?
That right there is the other discord for ashes.
We do not have...
The primary discord does not have anything for ashes of creation.
We have a completely separate discord for it.
How's our dad doing?
My dad is doing great, dude.
Yeah, no totally separate one. We did that because it was just too many people
man.
Yeah you're good dude. Don't worry about it at all. My grandma she's good too. Yeah
she's 83 and she's doing really great. She got over her cold which it was happy
about because she was sick for a while. Death watch is running a second raid
perfect. Thank you. Thank you Death Watch for doing so. If you need in to
the raid, whisper Deathwatch.
I got a lot of plants up ahead.
She had COVID for nine months?
No, she just had a cold, man.
You gotta understand, like when you get older, colds last a long time.
Like she had bronchitis and it just lasted, it lasted like six, seven months, dude.
Maybe even eight months.
there it was bad I it was it was a lot I was worried about her pretty bad but she's
okay that's what happens you get old and it happens undead munchies said I do not
know who the enemy is but we will destroy them I do wipe back to front they
use bidets not to be clean but because they like the way it feels they put
pineapple on their pizza and chocolate pudding on their hot dogs damn we can not
let this slide this has been a certified in fact checked message from
Grockin balls I know who they are um do you remember do you remember when we
pushed Valgedon to make it so that they would vassalize Caltorum so then
Caltorum couldn't vassalize us yeah yeah the leader of Caltorum is very
mad about that apparently so that's who's pushing sure foot now and that's
That's why we have to get, you know, we gotta lock it because they're angry.
Which is very funny.
Yeah.
Yeah, whisper death watch in game for the second read.
Death watch in game for the second read.
So the idea is that today we need to get 50% total.
We're at 26 already.
We got to be running around the clock, locust swarming and bullshit, basically.
Saw a picture of a hot dog with mayo on it, insane.
Let's see who is not on.
Hakes hasn't been on in 11 days.
Most people are on, though.
We got quite a lot of people there on.
We got a lot of people affiliated in the guild, a lot of people that are out of the guild
that are there on as well.
Yeah, it's a locust pirate guild at the moment.
the
say which there was a way to gamify this were like as the leader I
of the
and
Oh, Walrus, your name actually came up yesterday for G Invite.
Yeah.
You were on the list and your name came up but you were offline.
I got you, Inbud.
You still wanting to set up leaderboards and discord to help gamify the location sync?
Yeah, so like, I really hope that you find a way to do that in some way.
I just wish there was in-game systems that would allow us to do it much easier, but yeah.
Gamifying it anyway would be great.
Cause like, think about it this way. The way that I think about it is how does a player
bullshit that gamifying, right?
You'd be like, oh, every 500 elephantier you turn in, you get a thing.
But like, you have them turned it in so then they don't sell it to the vendor and they don't get coin for it.
Like, there's gotta be a better way. You know what I mean?
And if they don't turn it in, then they...
What's stopping them from coming back 15 minutes later, be like,
I got another 500, right?
So there's all kinds of like weird shit like that.
Which is why I think a game system would be so much nicer.
By the way, we leveled the Guild Up 15 million experience yesterday alone.
Which was awesome.
And when we finish this island, I'm getting a boat and then we're going to keep doing that.
Yeah, it was nice.
It looks like we get about 1% an hour.
Generic Gamer said good morning Thor.
Hopefully we can get some percent on Brian Barrel.
Question, are you a Plex guy or a Jellyfin man?
Plex, Plex all the way. Sorry at first you said a Plex guy and I was like Eve online Plex.
I was super confused. Never use Jellyfin, don't know anything about it.
Plex servers I know about though.
That is if that is what you're talking about.
Is Jellyfin good?
typical CEO buying a yacht dude maybe it's an in-game there yeah jillifing's great hmm
hmm off to look into it I've never used it chunky magician 7 with 505 bits said did you
You know that all myths of a jack are the same person or so they whisper.
Is this a reference?
This has to be a reference.
All myths of a jack.
Is this a reference?
What the hell am I missing dude?
I'm not awake enough for this shit.
This is too esoteric for mourning me.
Get a kill squad south of town please, mushrooms?
Alright, I mean, we just killed all of those and then swept through. There's no plants there right now.
The idea is get a gigantic swarm of people and just kill everything in your path, right?
Like, if you're level 25, help the locust themes. Otherwise, kill in the brig.
Yeah, the guild got messed up again, but I added 15. No, I added 17 new people because
two people left the guild and they probably deleted their characters. And remember, we
will be doing kicks for an activity in January. So on January 7th, that's when go time is.
If somebody hasn't logged in seven days or more, then I will be kicking them out.
will be doing the purge, the cleaning.
All right guys, a lot of your bags are probably full
or close to full.
We're gonna be making our way towards the center
of the island, towards the home
then we're gonna go back out.
Think about the seventh? Is Hytale is released in six days? I know dude. I know. I'm really
excited for it. Hytale is going to be boss man. Like that is the thing that I'm most
interested in right now for the new year. It's just Hytale finally coming out.
I feel like we're like a catamari, the Massey Baldy.
Alright, towards the plateau in the middle.
Who?
China Guana.
Dead.
Do we have to tell you if we're going to be off for more than seven days?
I mean in January dude, like if it's January 7th, we've waited until after the holidays.
If a person hasn't signed in in 7 days at that point or more, they likely just don't
want to play the game.
You know, like, and that's really what it is.
We've got a lot of active people that want to get in the guild, and I'm just going
to purge people that have been out for more than 7 days.
And 7 days is a pretty long time.
It's a pretty big deal.
Alright everybody, sell your garbage, repair your crap, and get back out.
If it's not epic or legendary, throw it away.
Vendor it.
If it is epic or legendary, keep it your stash.
else's worthless.
You should be making quite a lot of money doing this, are they?
All righty, back out we go.
You'll be kicked for not having Wi-Fi for seven months. Yeah. Yeah, you're definitely gonna get kicked for that.
You know, like, yeah.
heroic is above epic no no no no no no I know it's stupid but it goes common
uncommon rare and then after that it goes heroic then epic then legendary yeah
it's dumb there's too many rarities there are too many rarities I know I know
I know it's dumb.
Epic and legendary purple and orange are the only two that matter.
You be kicked for being too soft?
No, we need soft pirates.
The softest.
That's right.
I want you to cry seeing a puppy from 500 yards.
Can a plant be heroic? I mean, technically, yeah.
I like how block-in does it.
Junk, common, uncommon, rare, epic, legendary, exotic.
Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, that's why I set up the rarity system that way.
And I set it so each item has a specific classification.
Like, there's no 50 types.
Like, imagine if Essence had six types.
Like, if there was common to legendary Essence,
for every Essence in block game.
Like, I'd lose my mind, dude.
It'd be so unfun.
We already have inventory bloat.
By the way, Jake, is it possible for us to make backpacks?
Like a craftable item?
Because I don't like satchels.
It'd be kind of cool to make like, you know, mine packs?
It'd be cool to make like mine pack backpacks.
But I feel like we'd have to store all that in a database.
I think that's probably the next upgrade I'd like to do after corruption then.
Oh, we lost some people in the raid.
If you need an invite, whisper.
We got three slots open.
Join us.
Satchels suck from a technological standpoint.
Horrible influence. Oh yeah, they're terrible. It makes no sense.
They're like such a weird item, man.
Goodnight, Zotex.
You sleep well, dude.
Good job.
We're sitting at 26%.
If we're matching them in terms of percentage we win and the reason why is because they're
on the level before us that's much easier to level than ours.
Every level gets harder so.
Like I remember, I remember when we first started out here and we had like eight people
and we were pushing a percentage every hour and now we have like 80 people and we're
We're pushing a percentage every hour.
So it's like, it's way harder than it was before, dude.
Yeah, we do Java for everything.
It sucks, Lexi.
Makes me upset my bonds.
If you need an invite to the raid, you are not in one.
Whisper Maldavius.
If this group is full, whisper Death Watch.
Those are the two.
that's like the that is the most criminal thing I've ever heard about C++ in my life. Yeah,
they're going to be doing Java and visual scripting for it, Jake. We don't, I mean, we don't know
what it looks like yet. Truly. But we know that visual scripting is going to be in it.
I'm really excited. I want to see how they married the two. I'm really excited. I
want to see how they married the two. I'm really excited to see how they married
I'm really excited.
I wanna see how they married the two.
What about C++++?
Plus?
Yeah.
Some call it C sharp, but it's just four pluses.
Yeah, bad kerning.
You know?
Yeah, we're trying to turn into a village is the idea, cause right now we're in encampment.
Next level up is village.
Hello Phoebus.
Leanderlon said probably a two-parter, I've been here a while, mostly lurker.
I followed the whole drama thing, and it irked me, but I'm gonna give an honest take from my own experiences.
Everyone's allowed a mess up, echo chambers are real, and the internet is a horrible place sometimes.
But I like to believe we're not the sum of our worst.
We're what we've become, daily.
We literally shed our entire skin every once in a while.
That's creepy.
The idea of shedding your whole skin freaks me out, dude.
But I know that's accurate and true.
A field of no play, it's good.
There've been pirates here.
Yeah, I don't know.
Uh, the way that I feel about it is just don't drink the poison, you know.
Spend your day doing something you enjoy.
Dust is just shed skin.
True.
But also gross.
gross thing.
Leand along with 500 bits said Sir I'm here, reserving my judgement for later, based on
what I see, based on progression.
Not based on what once was.
I think you're a person that ultimately is, for the best, and have been vilified to a
degree for potential bad decisions, but I really want to think that's not the sum of your
persona.
Okay.
Sir I am here, and I am a viewer, with my own eyes and opinions, un-echo-chambered,
unencumbered.
Fest of luck Thor.
Thanks, dude. But yeah, just hang out. And like the way that I feel about it is,
not everybody's gonna be for everybody. Not every game is gonna be for everybody.
If you like the stuff that I do, cool. Hang around.
If you don't, then don't. Like, either way, it's up to you, man.
So, I hope you have a good time here. And if you don't, I hope you have a good time somewhere else.
Either way is fine.
Goblin Underscore Scout Underscore 7777 with 500 bits said I found out my fridge has been
broken for some time and is probably a big reason I keep getting sick.
Now I have to live off shelf-stable food and fast food till I can get a new one delivered.
You keep getting sick because your fridge is broken? You getting food poisoning?
That's awful, dude.
Yeah.
Ah!
Mr. Deathwatch, where is your swarm?
I see Deathwatch here, but I don't see a swarm around Deathwatch.
I thought he was running raid 2.
Oh, okay.
That's a bad pile there.
That is a bad one.
There we go. The mushrooms are the scariest thing around, dude.
Nice. Cleared it. That was 147 for each small mushroom, and 331 for the big one.
Oh my god, it's in the tree.
get it
this tree is infecting
you've inherited a fridge from your grandma in the 1980s
it's an old fridge
you know what?
Now that's interesting. Putting hex on a target doesn't cause aggro. Because it doesn't do
damage. Fascinating.
Oop.
Ahhhh.
Would you say this is the Apex game at the moment?
No.
It is an early alpha.
And deeply scuffed.
But also very fun.
So it kinda comes down to that, man.
Like are you cool playing a scuffed video game?
The answer is yes, then.
Cool.
Look at that nice open field.
Look at that.
Filled with enemies.
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deleted all
sweep across it. There's plants growing over here.
No plants of this island.
We don't want a single thing growing here.
Trafrancis with 500 bits said yaa cheer 500 good morning Uncle Kitten Thor.
If you are chat's uncle, then that means that chat are the children of Loki.
Now you know why we are like this yaa dance.
Oh god damn it. It's true. The horror. The absolute horror. But you know, the game is full of scuffret out because it's an early alpha, you know.
Yeah, the fact that we must go.
Yeah, the one that I'm dealing with right now is randomly our pin comments just disappear.
Even when I set them to like remove manually like stamp indefinitely, I'll just look up
And it's just gone and I just have to add it again. I don't know why that's happening, but it just does I
Actually need that on ironical
I think we cleared this whole side of the island that feels insane good we're 26% twitches
to buggy man twitches got some weird problems here and there yeah I think the um the biggest
thing with twitch right now is I'm waiting to find out what their their financials
look like by the end of the year because Papa Bezos or at least at least Amazon
is always breathing down their neck you know and that's why we keep seeing
weird monetization additions like the thousand gifted sub which is like a
crazy ass thing to see to be honest with you but it's also like I can
understand why twitch is doing this and twitch is doing this because they're
like hey please Amazon we're doing it we're doing good Amazon please you
know. Or the Kappa change that sucked. I really didn't like that. Don't do that shit. Turning
turning Kappa into a product was like not the play. I'm a. Yeah. We have seen the thousand
gifted subs that's correct yes we saw the thousand gifts up yesterday I was it
was insane
you know it's funny though Papa basis isn't even the owner of Amazon anymore
it's somebody else now
basis is gone dude all up more plants I see them iguana iguana is the best 400
experience for Gwana. What is Jeff Bezos doing now? Probably trying to capture the moon before
Elon Musk, you know. If you stood in poison, I feel bad for you, son. F. F. Violent Mango.
Does that mean we need to change your basis ad screen? Oh, no, no, no, no.
This just hasn't been the man in charge for a while. Yeah, he hasn't been the guy in charge
for a long time. And I still have the basis because it's fine.
Privatizing space travel. You know, I'm going to be honest with you. Good. I know it's
I know it's stupid. I know the idea of privatizing space travel is insane, but
good because if the government ain't gonna do it we need somebody to take us
to space I don't give a shit who it is like spend that money great do it I
don't I don't care if you slap your logo on that bitch take us to space
anybody anyone
anyone at all
It's Andy Jassy, that's the new one?
Yeah I forgot about that.
Andy Jassy.
27% boss we are not only we're going faster than surefoot is and we're a level ahead which
means that we're doing it multitudes faster than they are this is the way we only have
23% left to do today we got to hit 50% of the minimum
In need of more Rams what's up what you got?
Wait, how did you get rams? I thought these weren't in the game
These fake trees are bullshit. I know I know there's fake trees
It's what happens when the trees start respawning their first form does that then they turn to adolescent
Those VRAMs yes, they are you see these right here
I can retire now. I have four ram.
Jealous?
We leveling the town today? Yes. Everybody should be. Every single person should be on the island.
Yeah, this started out for the Andal spawn, but I didn't think that it was possible to get them.
I thought Tix was talking about it yesterday.
oh yeah these are these are DDR6 actually and from the future
yeah he's downloaded five ram today nice dude
you explained that for some reason the Rams have no recipe oh okay so I just
have ram in my inventory
I just linked it global and I said behold the most expensive item, RAM.
This is the way.
It's over 25 the highest.
Yeah, I'm capped out.
Don't stand in the poison.
Don't do it.
Don't stand in the poison, don't do it!
Holy shit.
We did it, we cleared the island.
Now we do it again.
Oh, there's more.
More.
The poison smells like glue, probably treated.
Tuma underscore factory with 500 bits said people keep mentioning to keep the factory growing.
No.
I have come to say that mine is always growing YAR BONGOSYAR stumps.
why are you like this I swear to God you're the most positive outlook on that
I've ever seen. Might need to send a group to the smaller island? Not at all.
We got AoE. Run to the- run to this clearing here. Run to the big one, run to the big one.
Run to a tiny mushroom through the large mushroom.
There we go.
A-wing.
Do not be in melee.
They're made of death and poison and sadness.
Good.
Nice.
Oh god.
Shat, look at this item.
It's a...
horrifying, right?
By the way, even the adolescent trees are worth 28, chop it all.
That's why you've lost your skin, F, dude.
I beat the king.
Good morning. Good morning, goblins. It's a good day.
We're getting about 1% every 30-ish minutes it seems just about
So in 12 hours we should get 24% if we keep this pace
Yeah, rate summoners I think the pet is incredibly overpowered to be honest with you
I think it's really OP and I think the class does not feel like a summoner
I think it feels like an affliction warlock. I think the theme is wrong for the class
I think overall the character is very strong incredibly so probably the best
Probably the best solo class in the game currently and I've played basically everything
But it does not feel like a summoner it feels more like a
like a hex or
Affliction warlock something like that because your spells are like mortal blasts and
spirit shred like a
Summoner should be like I summon locusts or I throw a spirit wolf at you or something, right?
but like instead I'm attacking their soul directly, which is very necromanic, you know?
That's on Rogue for PvP. Rogue's a very good PvP, so arrangers. Both of those are fantastic.
In fact, if you're a PvP or out there and you want to have a good time,
there's an island out here called Runes of Shullfire, that a lot of, like,
more Care Bear players like to harvest on, and if you go there, you can fight them.
Because it's a lawless zone, and it's really easy to kill them.
It's a great place to be.
It's a great place to be.
It's a great place to be.
Good morning Thor, happy Christmas and soon happy new year.
Good morning, dude.
Thank you for all you do, the motivation, the streams, the companionship and OFC, the
chaos.
May you get everything you want for next year and remain ever healthy.
Also merry Christmas and happy new year goblins, also, seven.
Merry Christmas to you and a happy new year to you as well, but you're awesome.
Dargameen said, hello Thor, will you play Elden Ring again, and if so, will you attempt the DLC?
Maybe?
We got kind of a packed month coming up though. Like there's a lot going on, right? Oh my god, there's so many plants.
It's beautiful!
Aw, the adds.
Is anybody over at the brig running the brig?
say so in guild if you are.
to
the
the
if you want to hang in the discord where you're doing this going to read one
Shelfire is empty right now, good.
It's a good place for hunting in PvP man.
Like if you want to be in PvP and you want to hunt that place, it's real good.
You still, can you still run a party in Locus?
Yeah, yeah, you can go do that, Blemmo.
I'm just doing it in a rig because it's fun.
Yeah.
You wiped a bunch of them last night. It was good. Hell yeah.
That's a good way to be.
The more that you wiped them, the more fun it is out there, man.
That is the best PvP spot that I have found.
Super fun.
Do you get more EXP for hunting experience?
I don't know.
I think you just get 28 for anything on the island.
I think any profession then gives you 28, but processing gives you nothing.
Crafted gives you nothing.
That sucks.
So that's an unfortunate, that's how it feels.
We need fish out here is the biggest problem.
We don't have any ability to fish on our island, which is gross.
So we're on an island.
Don't you get corrupted though? No, it's lawless.
There's no corruption there.
So you could just go there in PVP and it doesn't matter.
Like there's no corruption. There's nothing.
You just kill anyone you see.
It's so good on that island, man.
Yeah, no laws, no corruption, nothing.
You got 36 for hunting in a guanam?
That kinda sucks.
Yeah, it's hilarious that we're on an island and can't fish, I know.
I've reached out to the dev team, I'm like, yo.
Let us, let us fish on an island, right? Like, like, come on, man.
It's really silly like if there's water you should be able to fish, you know.
You were sleep weird before and then you wake up and the inside of your cheek feels strange.
Like the skin inside of your cheek is wrong.
Watch my morning today.
Arrive, Tix.
Are you sure it's your skiddin'?
Moderately.
This man still believes in skiddin'?
Okay, buddy.
Yeah, I woke up with Ligma.
That's not, like, deadly, right?
Tix, when you get on, let me know.
Yeah, nobody should be on the mainland everybody should be out here
Everybody
we have limited time to do this and if we lose it we could never recover it's
today the day we push the village yeah it's what we're doing right now we've
already gained 2% today we're at 27% out of our goal of 50 for the day 40
people do a raid yeah there's 40 people to a raid we have two raids running we
We also have two groups of eight that are running the brig.
Basically at full on max capacity.
If you are not in the guild, you can still be on the island and help them.
Every person that's out here is helping the cause.
You can be anyone on the server, totally unguilded, totally unaffiliated.
Come have fun.
Let's build this place.
Can you start for a region?
What level are you, Mudster?
Oh wait, you're starting your character?
I would start in, I'd start down here.
The A-L-N gate is the better one.
The Northlands, like the Dwarven area,
it's just not super fleshed out for quests.
So it's your first time playing a character,
first time playing the game, that's it, yeah.
Us folk trying to support you are stranded.
Where are you that you're stranded?
I can help you get to the island easy.
up north you get a ram is amount for free true you also get you get horses down
south we can't voice with your people oh you're talking about a channel let me fix
that let me make a global comms give me a moment
There is now public grade one and I'm making another channel called public grade two.
There you guys go.
If you guys can move to those, that would be great.
There you go.
Is this a yay or nay so far? We love this game. I love this game at least, you know?
There's a lot of people in here that are really enjoying themselves and it comes down to
You have to understand what you're getting into, right? It's a social sandbox game
So it's not gonna be like World of Warcraft. It's gonna be more like Eve, right?
The combat is like Guild Wars 2
Combat is probably the most stellar aspect of this game right now
It is in alpha. So a lot of shit is broken or not fun. They need feedback. They need bug reports
And then from there your character is gonna get wiped at the end
Because it's an alpha if you're okay with all of that come play and if you're not okay with even one piece of that wait
just wait
Yeah, I
Don't want you to like
Feel FOMO to buy a video game, right?
That's the biggest thing a lot of people feel that they're like, oh, I'm gonna miss out if I don't play the game right now
We've been playing this for two years. It'll be around.
We'll be free to play. It's gonna be no cost to buy the game, so no box price, but then $15 a month, one five.
And they will localize the monthly fee.
At least that's what they've said in previous interviews, so. I need to go get water, I think.
I think I'm dehydrating slowly.
Maybe rapidly.
I'll be right back.
I have returned.
Oh, man.
I have returned.
I have returned.
I have returned
Do you know your stream can be watched on twitch through ps4
No, I didn't know that but that's also weird
Also, I just ate two more deviled eggs.
It's a good day.
Yeah, it's a good day.
You've watched on a PS4 before?
Nice.
and
the name is Texan you are a person yep
and the
First rule of tech support, least common denominator, yeah just turn the computer off and on again.
I'm going to make you the leader of the red.
Where's the DNS if you're such a heavy?
True.
Could be DNS.
I mean it's always DNS to be honest.
I'm barely waking up.
Today is like a slow start day for my brain dude.
Hyped kinetic with 500 bits said got the best Christmas present.
Oh?
After spending time with the biological family where they kept misgendering me and using my dead name,
my stepfather messaged during the night using my correct name and pronouns.
Hey!
He signed off saying,
To my daughter,
I will always be proud of my baby girl,
cried happy tears and felt properly loved as my true self.
Hey!
That's good.
Yeah, I mean like,
that's a good thing, to be real.
Um, I'm glad you had a good night.
Sorry if it was shitty outside of that.
Cool.
Yeah, that's a good thing. I think you were worried about that the other day.
That seems to get turned out all right.
Pretty sure that was you talking about it.
Am I none of them?
Launch!
Yeah, sounds like it was positive at the end, man.
Alright, Laxia, you have a good one.
Thank you for locusting. Go sell.
Make sure you get your Coid.
I have a lot of RAM in my inventory.
I
Yeah
Or is ram I do as you could see I have ram
It's DDR6 ram dude
Might even be DDR7 from the deep future.
Yeah.
There it is right in my inventory.
You can't have it.
Did you go bankrupt getting that?
No, I was handed it from a guy from the future.
Yeah.
Future ram.
My DVR 10 roxer is okay.
Hey, who plants on the road?
Disgusting.
John Futureman.
Do we have 4RAM?
I do.
Dude, we're getting there.
Oh, a guana.
I love seeing the swarm at the top of the screen, I love seeing the swarm at the top
of the screen. You can just see how far these players are going.
Don't die in the poison. Don't do it. If you die in that poison, I will make fun of
you. It's like hitting a parked car. Don't do it.
I still can't believe all the pirates lemmings off the cliff.
It was wild.
Hey this plant field over here is massive.
We got a really big one.
Jumping off isn't a bad thing. It's the hitting hitting the ground. That's the bad part. Yeah
Yeah
How many people hit park cars and we make fun of them, I mean yeah this
don't like don't save the poison you're hitting apart car in slow motion
would you download a car a hundred percent I would download a car right
now if I could do
hmm
That's another iguana, that's worth 400 each.
Missed mining node.
Missed mining node.
Incredible.
Nice.
Nice.
Alright I believe it's selling time.
There's one field here on the way to home.
Coroner Acorn said good morning Thor and Chat, hope everyone had a good Christmas.
I just wanted to show appreciation for what you, Shay and the team do for the ferrets and the streams.
Aw dude.
Been following you for almost 3 years now and still enjoy your streams.
Thank you very much man.
Back then, I was still recovering from a bad burnout and had no prospects for my future.
I am now going to be a mother of twins and I'm also studying computing and IT.
Thank you for the inspiration and for being you.
Everyone take care, you're all awesome.
Dude hell yeah, that's awesome.
That's really awesome.
Congratulations.
You've made two smaller goblins.
And computer science.
Good for you.
Yeah, good for you.
That's awesome as shit.
Did you just mount up on a manatee on land dress?
That's not good for the warranty, you know.
Bones.
You just...
Just give me a bunch of bones.
Okay.
Thanks, I guess.
Heh.
Heh heh heh.
I believe that means you've created nerdlings.
Well done.
Yeah, well done, dude.
Ah.
and
that we have
Very concerned as to whatever's going on. It's getting weird, dude.
Merry Christmas. Have you tried Arc Raiders? I have played Arc Raiders a shitload. I've already sent my character on.
And I will be starting again next season.
I love that game, dude. It's very, very fun. I played it a lot. Like a lot, a lot.
a lot. That's a super fun game. Really, really massive field crafting. Enjoyed it very much.
and
and I need to get rid of
the
secret
and
the
the bones
that
two hundred forty streamstrikes awesome
a perspective thank you very much men
I'm only able to do stuff that I do because of you guys so
Thank you very much.
Alright.
The sun is rising.
Percent, 27.
Our opponent's 97.
However, there's one tier behind us.
So we're 30% ahead.
Let's keep it that way.
More plants.
More logging.
You gonna have a palace cat as amount? Yes, indeed.
Yeah, there's actually, unironically, a palace cat.
There you see.
Palace cat.
It's 145% mount speed.
It's very, very good. Palace cat's rocked.
Good morning Thor, hope you're well. Hope you're well too, man.
Violet mango.
What's up?
Whoa.
Hey Tix.
I have been handed the dear god
No
It's beast of burden only it can't be a mount
Please.
Oh.
Are they not very good?
It's pretty decent, not great, but not bad.
Alright, but it's legendary.
It's probably going to be really good.
You know, eventually they're going to be making it so
Beast of Burden actually show on the model of your caravan.
I'm really excited for that.
Legitimately so.
Yeah.
Use for cooking anywhere? No. The idea behind a beast of burden is you tame a beast of burden or a mount.
And it's a 50-50 shot. It'll either become a mount or a beast of burden.
So if it's good enough to tame, you get your mount. If it's not good enough to tame, you get a beast of burden and you put it on a caravan.
And the caravan, its movement stats are based on the beast of burden.
And eventually, the mount itself or the caravan itself will have that model as its pulling animal. But they haven't done that yet.
Caravans are kind of shit right now, to be honest.
Everybody just runs meals.
There's no real reason to ride caravan.
At all.
Good morning, good morning to you.
of the
Wait, what?
Hosta.
I don't know what that is. Never heard of it.
Oh my god, why am I so sleepy, man?
Are mounts allowed to be used as beasts of burden?
No.
Now, you either get a mount or you get a beast of burden.
It's not both.
Nicospot now!
No!
I need to level up my um... lumberjack.
I'm at level 9 lumberjack right now.
I wonder if journeyman nodes give anything better.
There's journeyman plants on the island.
but no one's been able to harvest them yet I should be one of the first if not
the first in the guild to be able to get them you're level 26 lumber babies do you
know if if harvesting like higher level lumber on the island actually matters
does it give you more XP because I'm level 20 herbalism now I just gonna get
My cert it does more XP to the node not more XP to you is what I mean
Can you buy gold bars as a tax deduction deduction for this year for an escort that sounds like you need to talk to a lawyer
And a financial advisor, but
Wait what how was there a soul of an earring?
Let's go to the guild bank
Or it's going to one of you guys if you need it wear it, but how did that just drop?
Those drop out of the break. What's going on?
For many enjoy
I thought there was only drop in Brickman, that's wild.
We got a 37er, but was in the guild?
No shit.
Okay, that person's a mad lad.
of
You know, hey Ray Clark, are you there?
I have an idea.
I have an idea.
He was talking earlier about gamifying locusting the island, but I have a good idea.
I have a way we can do this.
Yeah, the fungal anemone is pretty rare.
That is the thing, though.
and
I have an idea
Uh, you guys need to whisper, uh, red, I am not the group leader inna.
I passed it off.
Where is it?
Is he not the group leader?
Who the hell is the lead?
Oh, there we go.
Code is red is the person you're gonna be whispering for, but the other one is Death
Watch.
Death Watch is running the other red.
I know, there's no fishing in this entire area, we don't know why we've reported it
the devs it sucks cuz like it would be so nice dude it would be so nice yeah
we're fishless and soggy you know
Okay, there's room on the brig for a second group, but Illusion Cleric can't convince
anyone to start one.
We could have a second group on the brig, which is really good farming a VHP for the
node, to be clear.
So if anyone wants to go start that second group, if you're level 20-ish and above,
you will have an easy time.
If you know the brig, go start your second group.
Rorup said hello Thor, I just finished the prototype for a game mechanic while unemployed.
I uploaded a brief video of it to YouTube.
Then immediately after, a short pop to the game featuring almost the same mechanic called
the mega circle.
On one hand it looks great reassuring me on the mechanic, but on the other, how do
I cope going from I accomplished this development time of fraud solving an already solved
problem.
Here is my take on the mechanic.
incoming. HTTPS colon slash slash u2 dot b's. One moment. Let me see you're taking the mechanic.
So I'm going to show you this. You're taking the mechanic is not unique. I'll show you why.
And it's okay that it's not unique, by the way.
Because it's a mechanic from one of my favorite games of all time.
The Mega Circle also.
Had this from another era.
Check this out.
You draw a symbol to cast a spell.
Lost magic did the same thing on DS.
And all of the art was done by Studio Ghibbity, or Ghibbity, rather, if I could pronounce
it right.
But yeah, that game was Draw Spells.
Your game is Draw Spells.
Their game is Draw Spells.
Just make your game.
Nothing new under the sun, man.
Yeah, Studio Giggity, exactly.
What's up, Tix?
Why you saying Thor help?
What's wrong?
Yeah.
Black and white had it too.
Yep.
Lost magic was awesome dude.
Yeah Lost magic was one of my favorite games of all time.
Phenomenal game.
And you drew all the magic and the better you drew the symbols it would actually do a
crit.
A bunch of you guys were dead because you were fighting a two star spider.
I don't know where you are.
The raid is split.
Because where I was there are new two star spiders.
So let's group the red back up.
Yeah, arcs fatalis did that too.
Well there's a big one-star spider.
Yeah, no, drawing small games are great dude.
I love them.
Caffeinated mines with 500 bits said will join Ash's likely when it releases.
Bear?
I feel this game would be great to just hop on a mountain and explore the world, like
a traveling huntsman or wizard.
It's super easy.
What classes, profession would work with that?
Is that a viable way to play Ash's you think?
Yeah, you could use any class for that to be honest with you.
And if you want to role play a character and like do that and be an explorer and
a traveler, you totally can.
Yeah.
Could you preview crafted armor and ashes before crafting it? No. Not visually, anyway.
I'm gonna be honest with you, I would love for them to add that feature, but I'd also love for them to add the feature of, I don't know, selling multiple items at once.
Well, that thing is nasty. Look at it go.
of
god damn
what a vicious horrible thing that is
Can you get those mounts? Yes. There are spider mounts. I have seen them. It may actually
be a skin. I've only seen one of them. Code is red. Unless he left the group. Ah, Beavis
This is lead now. Yeah.
Whisper Phoebus.
Looks like Kota's red left to go and run that other group.
28%.
28%.
We've gained 3%.
It grows.
It grows.
That means we only need 22%.
22% for the rest of the day, dude.
If we can gain 25% for 24 hours, we win.
Easy.
How did the great run go?
Great.
We gained 16 million experience for the guild and the guild gained an entire level.
Check it out.
We're at 31 million experience now.
And once we get this island done, I'm going to get a boat and we're going to be doing
that every day.
He's gonna be rich.
Rich.
A bunch of rich pirates, dude.
Why is 50% important?
We need to get to 100.
And if we keep pace at 25% a day,
we do this in three days.
And that's all we really need, really right now.
That's what we're after.
Yeah, attainable milestones, exactly.
100% is a meme.
25% a day is doable with great effort.
And we have great effort and great people, so we can attain it.
Yeah, Drass, that's what I'm doing.
Thank you.
69% is much better.
When we hit 69%, we're all going to say, brand barrel is nice and global.
Oh, that one just turned into an adult coconut tree right in front of me from an adolescent.
That's funny.
One sec.
One sec.
Alright, there we go.
Why do we need to level the settlement urgently?
Well, so these guys were going to vassalize us.
So instead, we leveled these dudes up, which caused them to vassalize them.
Now they're mad about it.
So now they're trying to push Shorefoot to vassalize us.
us this is the last threat on the entire map for us we have to beat them they're
one level behind but they're at 97 percent we're level ahead and we're at 28
we just have to win and that means nobody should be on the mainland nobody
should be doing anything else because the only thing that matters is this
island and then after we're done after we hit a hundred percent on our island
we win and we don't have to worry about it anymore we just do whatever we want
So, if you're doing professions, stop doing professions, and do this instead.
And then after we're done with this, go back to doing professions.
That's basically how it works, yeah.
Sandbox and Moe for the win, 100%.
Would it be worth trying to make it out there, one of your likes, level 6 or 7?
Yes.
Yeah.
We do these things for locus groups, that's what we're doing right now.
It will be a little bit rough, but every one of these trees you chop down, you get experience.
You know?
Is there no way out of Vassalage?
Normally you'd be able to do a siege war, but apparently those might be turned off right
now is what people are saying.
What is the best way to get out when getting started?
Give me just a moment, I'll show you.
I'm gonna kill this iguana.
Basically what you do, go down here to Jova, it's pretty easy to get there.
Go up to the mountains.
Go across the edge of the mountains along this road to here.
Go along the mountains again to the river, travel the river all the way down, in the river,
and then you're out.
And you just travel the water all the way out here to the ember spring by us.
That will let you respawn there.
And then from there, you go back and forth between there and the brig, and you harvest
all the plants and trees on the brig.
And the reason why you do that is because there's no monsters on the surface of the
break.
Is it possible to flip a vessel that belongs to somebody else, not currently?
My hope is that later the answer to that is yes, which would be cool.
We could do raids and PvP to take over areas and basically stop them or take their vassals
away from them is the idea.
That's the general conflict, you know, loop, but we're not there yet.
To be real with you, we don't actually want vessels.
Like at all.
Like if we didn't have one, we'd be fine.
We just want to be on our cool island and not be restricting.
You've almost made three levels harvesting the brig, my man.
That's awesome.
Thanks for being you, dude.
Thanks for being you.
You're out of sale.
What are vassal restrictions?
It stops the node like the city from growing any bigger.
We'll be stuck at a certain size.
We don't want that.
We want to keep growing.
We want to get large.
The biggest.
nation of Pirates, dude.
Nice, we got some of the allies that we met the other day and they're gonna be bringing more people and helping us
Yep
See this is the thing man like we're making as many friends as we can on the server
We got cool people that are out there people that are aligned with what we like to do and want to do cool
Shit and they were fun to play with so now they're gonna come out and help us and we'll go and help them any time
What we have today farming
Yeah, they're putting together a group of 30 extra people to come join us.
So they'll have a whole raid group doing it.
Yeah it's like a third raid group on the island.
At the moment they have 7 people, later today they're gonna have 30, up to 30.
Awesome.
Oh, this is bad.
That's true, they got you.
Stay away from it, it's blowing up.
Ah, cinders, you need to message Phoebus.
and
I love that we've just group-wise called this the horn.
everyone's like oh yeah put the horn there's a bunch of level 20 goblins up
there there's no like zone level like zone name for it we just call it that
because it looks like a dude's horn out of the front of his head we're already
getting like local slang for areas it's very funny dude
It's also called the chainsaw, true.
Yeah we have, we have the horn, we have the chin, got the neck, we got the mouth.
And then the loogie, known as the Brigg.
Yep.
Because our island is a big head.
It's the chainsaw manhead.
I hope they never change the shape of this island.
We should live here at launch, dude.
Like when the game launches, I want to live here as well.
Same deal.
i think we found our placement
will be be able to build a harbor there won't be a need
the harbors right below us
is one right there
Yeah, I think I think we found our place.
It's good music too.
Yeah, this is the place. Exactly. Hello from the south. My fellow. What's up, dude? As
it goes, malls. We were talking about the naming conventions for our island. So we have
the horn because our island looks like chainsaw man's head. We have the chin, the neck and
the mouth. We usually land in the mouth because it's easiest to get up to here
because there's a the road that kind of goes like right there so you land in the mouth you can take the road
It's good and if you go up here the goblins are like right in here
So if you're looking for like level 20 two-star elite goblins and like infinite farming for radiant gear there you go
It's a good spot there. Oh, and spitball island. That's got enough
This area has no monsters on it. There are monsters inside of the island
And we usually have two groups that sit right here at the entrance and we just farm those
Those guys are nasty
We need level 20 groups and above for that. Those are like those are hard to kill
And people still make mistakes there and die even at level 25, so
They're worth it
But most of what we're doing man is this
See this endless field of plants see that wall of people over there slowly consuming it
We just eat it all and every single one of them is 28 experience the Allen
Shield to keep you informed as well, sounds good dude.
Understand I am doing Indie December today, if you don't know what that is, I'm doing
an event this entire December, where I have 3 Indie devs come on, one after or the other,
so we play their game for an hour, and then I interview the devs for an hour, and they
don't pay anything.
That's the idea for it.
23 minutes, we will have the first IndieCyber game and I will be indisposed for two hours
How hard is the game to start up and get leveled it's very slow to be clear it is very slow the game is full of scuff
Yeah, look see how how clear it already is
So much stuff
But if you're um
If you're into it if you like a game like old-school runescape, you'll probably like the the gathering for sure
It's very old school runescape for that
But you can see we just locust everything dude. All of those are now gone
We're slowly encroaching in the next area and like we've killed everything in the way
And this is what we're doing all day every day also
If you look right here, you can see nothing
But I'm harvesting it anyway. That's Drasinia Drasinia or Drasinia Drasinia whatever the hell it's pronounced as
It's invisible. We bug reported this a million times
It's used for making high-end crafted cloth gear, but it has no model. It's great
No, oh
It's underground I know right
But, uh, Elephinear is kind of a worthless plant.
It's only used for mite potions and arcane potions.
The shitty, you know, 15 second, 50 extra power potions.
They're not great.
But you can level alchemy off of it.
And I'm level 17 alchemy because of them, so.
There is that.
can be useful.
Nope, got to turn this one.
Yeah, it's just 50 for 15 seconds.
It's really weak.
Like I've got them here.
Yeah, see 55 magic power for 15 seconds, two minute cooldown.
They're kind of shit.
But they raise alchemy experience and that's all it really matters.
We'll be there in an hour, so helping new players learn how crates work. Perfect. That's great
Yeah, my plan after this is to save as much gold as I can to get a boat. I'm already at five gold again
Irving and then selling all the herbs to the vendor here. Definitely worth it by the way
And if any of your group or more PvP inclines such as Rangers or rogues
You can always go down to shoal fire down here and kill to your heart's content because it's lawless
Great place for it.
How does the game feel overall?
Dramatically better than it was.
So like I quit for six months because I was really not happy with the in-game economy.
They kind of drew the economy back.
It's better feeling.
It's still got some serious problems.
But the overall world is massive now and it's a lot of fun to play.
So we've been having a blast with it.
If you look at this, it used to just be this about a year and a half ago, now it's like
all of the Sanctimal Desert, it's all the Jundark, it's all the Turquoise Sea, all the North Lens
are in now, like the game is enormous now.
And they do a really good job like fixing up the starter quests and like, new player
experiences way better than it used to be.
Yeah.
Can you play Ashes without being a gatherer?
Oh, absolutely.
But what we're doing right now is very efficient, so.
too much running not your kind of game then remember in a social sandbox
distance is defense what in the name of science wait what chunky magician dude
with the 50 gifted subs what are you doing that's so many you brought the
hype train to level 9 instantly dude dude I got exactly that's crazy dude thank
you very much. Seriously, that is incredibly awesome of you. What a boss, man.
Yeah, 50 is... what?
Wait, wait.
Monkey Magician with 50, Xena with 1, Sublime with 5, Gamer for you for life with 1, and
then Golomancer's Heart with another 50?
Dude what are you doing?
You broke the hype train.
It's broken.
You broke it.
You broke it.
That's what?
Fortescue with 500 bits said Hythor.
What are your thoughts on a billion dollar theme park called Dracula Land being made
in Romania, but their website looks like it's made by a kid with chat GPT.
Okay. Funny. Ridiculous. Not what I expected.
Dracula land. Dracula land is already very funny.
50 gives you some student what is happening yeah show me the link iguanas to iguanas
that were they 400 each so it's 800 over here I cannot believe you guys that sounds
Looks like it's fake.
A new icon of global entertainment.
Or cultural heritage technology and destination design.
This does look like a new chat you could be.
Romania launches Dracula land.
This has got to be fake.
There's no way.
Is this real?
This can't be real.
They're making a 1.1 billion euro aimpark called Dracula Land.
so real it sounds fake it's so fake that it we know it's real
what is happening to you
oh i got people dying all over the place uh this is bad
all right pull the pull the mushroom towards the lizard
Tank GPT is handling it.
Kill the mushroom first.
Try to get those people up.
As a nasty pole.
There was the mushrooms at the same time.
If you were running away from tank GPT, you're going to die.
tank gippity is so powerful dude.
We did it!
Press the dead.
i thought i snedered.
It's tank gippity dude.
The fact that they want to host esports there is amazing.
Look, alright, I know you guys and I have memed a lot about this, but I need to explain to you something.
Dracula land, with all of its esports and its actual theme park and everything like that.
This is unironically big suck.
This is...
This is who I was talking about.
They're actually big suck.
They're real.
It wasn't a meme.
This is corporate vampirism dude. This is actually Big Suck.
The horror. Are you moving to Romania? I mean, you know, maybe. We'll see what my corporate overlords think. We'll see. We'll find out.
Thank you the five gifted subs. That's incredibly nice of you. And dude, a level 12 hype train out nowhere is nuts.
nuts that is you guys are bonkers thank you seriously better fool to have a lot
of garlic in it dude I have some
and he spots open for a one talk to feed us I am not the red leader
he booze where were you in big suck started dude this is big suck finally
out the open man. The train has ended with exactly 1000 bits and 116 subs. Thank you
very, very much. You guys are wild. Yeah, actually wild.
Oh, William, at least buy me dinner first, you know?
Yeah.
How much gold do you have? Five.
Not very much.
I need more so I can get my boat.
So I'm saving up for a boat now.
Yeah, I only got five right now.
I should have more soon because I've been farming all this elephant here and I just
vendor it.
So every full inventory is like a gold and a half on average.
But now I have a legendary deer, a legendary deer in my inventory.
Can Thorland as a franchise have a franchise off of Dracula land?
the world's largest ferret sanctuary. I don't know if I would want a ferret sanctuary associated
with Dracula land, dude. Boats are expensive. I had a 25 gold.
and
the damage game
and there you
and
can you read in the ferret sanctuary for land,
although that is very funny
the trees
She would become enraged that's true
Big splatter I'm on it
Elephant ear, heroic elephant ear, yeah it's extra useless, enjoy.
Enjoy the sadness that is that elephant ear, unfortunately.
Best way to level up animal husbandry, talk to Tix, Tix knows that entire rut.
Oh more plants. Oh we found a whole field. Oh it's beautiful.
Shainsawland. Oh dear god. Alright I gotta go pull up my Indy Semper stuff. I'm gonna
start getting ready for that.
Oh we've got two they're cool today. One of them is cozy and one of them is
creepy. Excited. Excited. 10 minutes. Yep. I'm gonna get these last plants, this last
area, and then I'm gonna go up top. And then you guys keep locusting. Peebis, uh, start
trying to recruit more people to the to the raid
if you could
and takes if you could help them out, that'd be really great
was max raid size 40, we're missing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8 people
so we got 32 right now
we're down an entire group
Ow.
They hurt.
Alright.
I'm heading up top and setting stuff up for any time.
I will see you dudes.
Make sure to go, uh, stay with Phoebus,
get more people into that raid, and
Keep focusing. We're currently at 28%. My hope is that at the end of this game for
December will be at 31. 31 is the goal.
Based on timing that should be possible.
got this
sell all this off
money money money money money money money
I didn't get enough plants this time
normally I get like a whole gold but not this time that would be close
do do do to do do do do do do to do do to do do to do do do you
now
there we go
alright
swapping out
time for me to get these games mods i'm going to be sending them out to you guys as a message real quick on uh
The comms channel, give me a sec.
There we go.
Two of these have keys, so I'm grabbing those keys now.
It's going to be just a minute.
Is this the first indie game for the day?
It's gonna be the first indie game for the day. I'm gonna change the category to just chatting for a moment.
I think.
I'll turn some music on for you guys there.
There we go.
There we go.
We're gonna set that up for just chatting for a little while while I set all this stuff up.
It's gonna take me a few minutes.
because it took a little while for my brain to jumpstart this morning and I didn't set this up because I'm dumb
One of these games looks so cool dude. The next thing that we were playing looks wild.
And I've been very interested in like how weird and interesting like it just looks weird and it looks like something I want to play because it looks so weird.
And it kind of reminds me of older games too.
It's the part that kind of excited the hell out of me.
Grab that one.
is this one was dire die yesterday
that I was a lot of fun
to
the
the
the next one
on one of these games, we can't play
You'll see why it'll be fun
You'll see
You'll see that'll be the one today the third one his music cozy overload. It's all from our game harp on
She need update the next couple days
excited
Game to play but no playing you'll see you'll see all right first one. We'll grab this
Install it's installing
Soon.
Ah, do dingas.
I am not on gamer now talk to Phoebus spelled P-H-O-E-B-U-S.
Asus making Ram next year? No way.
That wasn't on my bingo card. It's kind of wild.
of
a guy I got almost everything ready
are you guys ready for the first in December game of the day
Will it work?
No, I'm all in.
Will it work?
No, one moment.
Ah, it works!
Alright.
The first game of the day for in December is called Virho, The Curse of Faces, which
is kind of freaking creepy.
Bricks me out, and I'm ready for that.
Let me turn on the music and game.
We're going to turn off that and I think everything's good to go.
You guys hear it?
You see it?
You love faces.
You have a collection.
I am.
Okay.
Sure.
You want to start a new game?
Yes.
I've never played 600 years ago.
The world is we knew it ended in a matter of hours.
I like that.
It's voice over.
People collapsed dead on the ground, unaware of what was happening.
Some noticed that death occurred when two people met, thus began the era of solitude.
And though the era of solitude lasted for nearly 300 years, humanity somehow survived.
So if you see someone's face, they explode.
would die instantly the maker shared this knowledge with the remnants of humanity
and crafting special masks which became the defining symbol of the new age the
era of masks that's a cool backstory
This act nearly saw him as a savior, some even as a deity, giving birth to the first
religion of the New World.
Though many reckons suggest that the maker himself never wanted this.
Over the years, people managed to determine one thing, whatever cost the curse of faces
originated in Yarev, a small nation surrounded by mountain ranges in the heart of the old
world. Since then, many have ventured into Yarev. Scholars, thieves, mercenaries. Yet one ever
returned and you as well have decided to cross the borders into the occurs in
Kingdom. The reason is known only to yourself. Before you knew it, an unnatural
You missed in vacuum, the missed second, and you felt your strings drain away until all
you saw was a black abyss.
Blind people are safe?
No.
And the reason why is they explain that.
If you see someone else's face, both of you die.
But if you're blind and someone sees your face, you also die.
Yeah.
Okay, I got a hand.
Yeah.
I can block.
I can crouch.
You who have entered Yarev.
You've lost everything.
From material possessions to memories and even your name.
proceed further. You must reclaim them. At least the essentials. I feel like I want my
name a little bit. I love the crunchy graphics dude. Crunchy graphics are great. Let me check
the settings. Can't change it the face. Head animation removed. Much better. I was getting
gross feeling. Remember. Remember your name. You must not forget. Recall it and carve
it into the stone so it is never forgotten. What is your name? Scrungus. I think it was
that one that seems that seems right right but love but love is also a pretty
good name that's a that's a good name what you don't wait no mind goblin yeah
that's what that's it that's the one I remember yeah there we go good I turn
around and don't look back only then will you reach yards
don't look back I'm looking at the back looking looking wait I can just you just
gonna let me fall off oh god wait no what have I done
They totally let me do it. I didn't think you would. I thought it was an invisible wall.
I love games that just let you, you know? They're like, all right, you want to walk up a cliff, like have fun.
In this world, everyone hides behind a mask, but beneath it, there is always something more.
Whatever your mask or identity may be, you must remember who you are.
It is I, the mind goblin.
I'm a brawler. I have come to Yarev from the distant north to find a worthy opponent who will give me what I desire most.
A death worthy of a true warrior in the north.
Is that really you?
Uh, I don't know.
These masks are sick actually. I love that this is like class selection.
You know, like that actually seems really cool.
What's this one?
I'm a scholar, I've spent years studying spells and the nature of magic itself.
However, neither I nor anyone else in history has managed to solve the mystery of the curse that has dictated our lives for 300 years.
To be the first to do so, I intend to investigate its source.
I wanna be that.
Yeah, it's me, dude.
That's probably me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wizard.
You remember good that's an important step now turn around and don't look back
only then will you reach your turn around and don't look back to survive you
must fight remember what you learned on the other side
hmm wizard sword okay we can we can actually charge attack I like that you
run faster when your weapon is she's yeah the sound effects are cool I like that
What?
The environments I love because they're so crunchy.
Subdue.
Oh, he's doing it.
Cool.
Oh, he's doing it.
Cool.
Good.
If you pass through these doors, there will be no return, though for you, there isn't
one anyway.
Alright, well, a little bit of nihilism.
I like the sound, yeah.
Enter Yorov, there was no turning back.
Okay, okay.
Alright.
What?
Alright.
The world exploded behind me.
Swordless and soggy, the Rotten Valley.
Hello, I see you also have a mask.
And one arm.
Hey you, stop.
Who are you?
And why'd you come here?
You're probably not very bright if you came here willingly.
Why'd you come here?
You're probably not very bright if you came here willingly.
Trust me.
Go back where you came from, while you still can.
What do you say?
The passage to the valley collapsed?
Looks like we have a problem.
Here's the plan.
Follow this path so you hit a big lake full of poison.
Nearby, you'll find someone named Loren.
Tell him what happened. He'll give you your next move. I see you're unarmed one of my swords broke at biter ridge
If you don't mind digging through corpses, it's yours
Now get going a
biter ridge
Haunted cool
So these are our save points
Weapons.
Interesting.
It's making gross noises.
Ew.
This is not a good weapon.
Energy blast.
What the hell is that?
Okay.
How does that work?
I have no idea.
There's a thing at the top, right?
Oh, okay.
right-click and it happens. I did nothing. I didn't do anything at all.
Oh, it looks like it must have resisted.
Okay.
So it resisted originally in some way.
Yarthleaf.
Okay, something I really like with this actually is the fact that they put an item in the
chest and you don't just open the chest again you open the chest and you
actually look in it and you pick up the item that's really a nice touch to be
honest with you like I like that a lot yeah men are a generation doesn't exist
it seems
but no I really like that I think it's quite good yeah
Level up!
Leveling up does not regenerate mana either.
So it's something I gotta use pretty sparingly.
That's what it looks like.
Hello?
Oh!
Bastard.
Something red over here.
I don't know what this is.
Nice.
Why hello.
Got it.
AHH!
That was like a third of my HP.
Holy shit.
Can I chop trees?
No.
There's a lot of damage, dude.
I am very weak.
I have a deep fear.
I see now. Magic just has a short range.
Now it makes sense completely.
Nice.
Cool poison light, dude.
Hmm, it's got to be where we're on the side.
and some of it
got away to the ads
uses
Really cool start and lore, I agree, I super agree, Thor mobile, I was reading.
Yeah, well, I'm the reason why you were set to restrict it is because you started posting like weird chat logs and chat
Like I don't know what you're doing. No one knows what you're doing, but it's weird. So then we put you on mute
It's like stop it stop being weird, dude. Yeah
Like I have no idea who you are or what those are and I don't care. Yeah
Yeah. Yeah. Where's the game? Yeah. The six. Honestly, I like the world building so far.
And I think, I think the gameplay is scary because I lost a third of my HP by taking
one hit. Can you fish in the poison? Like it would be an MMO if I could. So I think
no, currently, maybe later. I really like the cursive faces though. I think that's
It's a really interesting way to play a game, like, or to tell a story, rather.
I like that a lot.
Yeah.
Dredge is an MMO, so it seems.
So it seems.
All right.
The ads are over.
Welcome back.
Welcome back.
I think I have to block every attack.
And I don't know if block is a full reduction in damage.
We'll go up this way.
Oh.
I hate it.
So I can't open it from that side.
Ahhhh
You we cool you cool
Why does it sound like winky
Okay
I won't stop you from trying.
Besides, if you die in there, everything in your pockets belongs to me.
Wonderful tree ending.
Not that you'd be in any position to object, though.
Heh heh.
I wanted your stuff, but there's no stuff in your stuff.
Nice.
I have a lot of gold now, but I have no way of using it.
What? Wait, what? There we go.
Alright, we got back to the beginning. I think I can rest here.
saving the game okay resting gives me all my resources back but it also
resummons the enemies paradox 333 with 1000 bits said hello P soft I have
recently experienced a hypermanic and hyperdepressive episode I think I can
provide a lot of insight about what can be done better in the future okay I
mean if you're having a kind of a thing I think you should talk to a
professional for sure but I hope you're doing okay yeah thank you very much for
the bits I do hope you're doing all right that sounds like a stressful
situation then it looks like it recreated the vial of healing as well do
I get to keep that is that a consumable for me now it looks like it
is I can level up there as well I'm gonna go back and level up
I need to practice my guarding too.
Yeah, I hope you're all right, man.
Let's do level up.
Dixterity and Strength.
Strengths allow you to wield heavier weapons and use them more effectively.
Also increases your health.
Allows you to use weapons that require more finesse than strength and handle them better.
Also slightly increases your health.
Significantly increases your health.
Allows you to use more powerful runes.
Also slightly increases your mana supply.
Significantly increases your mana supply.
Also, you better cope with illnesses, poisons, and other negative effects. Also increases the impact of blocks and increases your health.
Let's just do more powerful runes.
That's probably fine.
Done.
Knee.
I'm sure this will be fine.
Yeah, resistance seemed really good, but you know what seems better?
Magic.
Subnerged.
If this is how much damage I do with one strength, I'm kind of blown away.
Oh, it doesn't open from this side.
There we go.
Wet paper cannon building?
I'm beautiful.
I'm beautiful and you were respected.
The flat grass pixels look so good. Yeah, they do.
They work really well.
Oh!
I didn't like that.
I think it was charging up some bullshit.
Ow!
Not what I wanted. Not what I wanted. Everything's bad.
I think a lot more damage than I expected.
Nope.
Hate it.
I have a deep fear.
That is not very much health.
Oh God.
It's whatever you do.
I'm going to use this ladder and I'll use it as a shortcut and I'll head back.
Because I can gain another level.
Is the ground breathing?
I hope so.
I hope so.
We can only hope.
Yeah, my current rune is not very good.
I got three more points.
I think resistance right now is a good idea.
Yeah.
Awful.
Awful things.
I hate it.
That is so hard. They do feel weird, yeah.
Little bit.
Yeah, hugged and I...
These are worth a lot of XP.
Okay, there's a...
I mean
You want that's kind of cool. I like that
All right, what do we got over here?
Caberns, Nameless Village, Morning Forest.
Nameless Village seems like a good idea, right?
That seems fine.
How do we equip it? Not enough strength. Lame! Wait, wait, wait. How far are we going
to jump? Okay, not very far. Wait! The poison is slowly going up and down. There's a way
to drain it. I think there might be a way to drain the poison. Let's do this first.
I'm gonna rest here first. Then we're gonna go check it.
Yeah. There's a note on the ground too.
I dropped my rune into this poison lake. Ironically, it is a poison rune.
I'm not crazy enough to try to fish it out. So if you do, it's yours.
I feel like I was pretty close, right?
less close that time. Definitely, definitely less.
Victory's mine. Alright.
It's mine now.
That's gonna runes.
Toxic blast, huh?
Not enough intelligence.
I need 25 in for that?
Oh, God.
Okay, well.
Now I have a goal, I guess.
Goal attained.
Goal attained.
Oh, I can one shot those now.
Ah!
Ghost of bat.
Jesus Christ.
Alright, the trees are covered in g-
Like ghosts.
It's a horrible place over here, man.
What is that?
Vile of Magica. What is that thing?
When consumed it restores a portion of the user's mana.
When consumed it restores a portion of the user's mana.
Cures poison. Cures slow.
Plies poison damage of weapons for a short time. Alright.
Cool.
Yeah, there's manopods basically
Oh, there's something over there. What is that?
Spork it's a rune I could use it
The damage is 90
I think there's a way to do this.
There we go.
So how do I switch rooms?
It looks like a hit three is what it's doing.
Okay.
One of them takes a little bit more
man on the other one for a quarter time.
For a quarter time.
Cavern key.
All right.
Now we, we have a key for that cavern,
but now I need like a torch.
Need some way to see down there.
Can we upgrade the sword to a sword?
I found an axe, but it takes 10 strength.
So not very good.
I'm gonna go regen.
Oh, I should probably pick up this note.
Yeah, well, let me pick it up, alright.
I'm going to go regen.
Oh, I should probably pick up this note.
Yeah, we'll let me pick it up, alright.
Okay, cool.
So this spell is dramatically more damage.
Basically what I need to do is just spend all of my mana.
Go back and save.
Farm a little bit.
Jesus, alright.
We'll head back.
Yeah, I'll talk to the NPC in a moment.
I wanted to get like a little bit more power, basically.
See if I can't pick up the, um, like use the magic spell.
Yeah, there's a dot on the enemy too.
And I let him on fire.
Because we can rest like this, get everything back.
Yeah.
And then be like, there we go.
Now we can talk to them. What do you want?
Hmm.
I haven't seen you before.
I'm Lorraine of Harrival.
You're the guy I'm looking for.
Are you new to YRF?
Yes.
He tried to climb the boulders blocking the exit, and he actually succeeded, but his triumph was short-lived.
As soon as he glimpsed the outside world, a mighty lightning bolt struck him down.
Yura was dragged back to Yarev, now nothing more than charred remains.
Okay.
He's likely felt weaker since crossing the pass.
And you don't know what happened to most of your equipment.
I'll tell you more.
You probably don't remember how you crossed the pass.
Don't worry. That's normal. It's likely another part of the curse that controls this land.
Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you. It's not that bad.
If you head through the door behind me, you'll reach the Nameless Village.
It's the only place here that offers any real safety.
You'd be wise to get there quickly, and beware of the Crystal Mites.
Crystal Mites?
Crystal Mites!
Small ancient rock.
What is that?
Small rock of an unusual and natural color from its appearance. It seems very old perhaps
It's worth taking it to someone knowledgeable about such things. All right
All right
What is that?
What is that?
It's got to be a way in there.
No.
This looks like a secret door.
It's got a symbol on it.
I don't know the symbol.
Yeah, no idea could be a key. What if we can actually use the key that I already have?
No, it's for the key for the this of the cavern. Yeah
I got the swap there we go
All right, what's this stalker's nest high danger do not enter if you wish to live
Laurent I like danger oh this is where the cavern key is used wait nope don't
like that. I need a torch. Daggers throwing knives. Interesting. Man.
There's a torch over there, I see it.
There's a torch.
Actually boss.
All right, weapons torch.
Hell yeah.
I actually think this is really cool, it got like a lot of little side things and like
different ways to sort of level up and gain power and there's a lot of little secrets
throughout this.
There's probably quite a lot of secrets that I missed as well as a result.
Now that I kind of understand the general design flow of the game, my guess is there was hidden
areas in the first area, the kind of other world that we started in, and it's one of
those things where you want to check like every area, like every little piece.
Double kill!
Like now that I know that I'm looking around everywhere, yeah.
You can confirm that?
Yeah, it makes sense.
Yeah, now that I have a torch, what I'll do is I'll go save here.
We'll rest there, and then I'll use the level up, and then we'll go up the ladder.
Because now we can use this.
There we go. We get toxin blast.
Nice.
Nah man, it's so dark in here even with the torch.
Oh, come on man.
It's so dark.
Oh crap.
It's so dark.
No, it's so dark in there. What the hell?
At least those are worth a ton of XP, you know?
Oh, this is terrifying.
It's so dark. It's so dark. Why is it so dark? They did say it was dangerous. Yeah, they
weren't screwing around. Ah, crap.
I can't see shit.
It's terrifying.
It is terrifying in here.
Why is it so dark?
Do we go downwards?
Down is good.
That seems- that seems good, right?
I should probably equip those, but I'm going to wait for now.
Oh.
We're back in a cave.
I got it.
I understand.
Get out of here.
I'm here alone.
I don't like whatever that is, dude.
I don't I don't know what that is
Well
Okay, man
Okay, man, that's a that seemed unnecessary, you know, whatever that is
Cool
Long sword
No, that was called a stalker. I don't know what that
It's not I don't know man
And he's ten strength and three decks the broken sword does 55 damage. This is 87
Hand axe hand axe does a hundred and thirty
of
the way this isn't
Nice.
Wait, I know where I am now.
The horror.
The deep horror.
Alright, that was scary.
Caves are bad, gentlemen.
gentlemen I've learned this yeah we're gonna get we're gonna get that
of
water favor elemental resistances it seems like they might
Yeah, it seems like they might have elemental resistance.
Because that poison spell did not kill it in one hit.
But the fire one is killing these. The poison spell should have more damage.
That's what it seemed like anyway.
Nice.
Alright.
A little bit of farming, a little bit of loot.
Game is real proof of concept vibes.
I think it feels quite good for what it's trying to do.
I'm just trying to make myself a little bit more powerful before I go into wherever
I'm about to go.
Right?
Because I'm about to go somewhere kind of terrifying.
Because we gotta go in here, right?
And now that I got the torch, it's definitely possible to be in here.
Oh, it's another one of those.
We got heads.
We're getting heads!
A whole block in the cave?
Okay, I will do so.
Honestly terrifying so far.
Loving it.
The caves are very dark.
Full of horrors.
I like that a lot, actually.
Yeah, very scary, very, very scary.
Grab the huge glass of cranberry juice myself, hell yeah.
Sound design is amazing, I really like the sound design, a lot, um, quite a bit.
No, this is not like Elden Ring. No. No. This is, this is like old school Dungeon Crawlers.
And I like that. I like the world setting. I think the gameplay feels like old school
Dungeon Crawlers. Like I feel like I'm playing kind of like an RPG, more RPG version of
like Hexen, like way back in the day. You ever play that game? You ever play Hexen?
an older one. Long time ago. Yeah, it's kind of like that. That's a throwback.
But.
Pretty sure you saw Hexen on Steam yesterday.
You might have.
It just reminds me of Hexen in terms of the gameplay.
But like slower and more methodical, I guess.
does that make sense? Yeah, we're back in the ad. So it kind of feels like, like, methodical
Thanks.
Jesus.
Alright.
Oh!
Oh!
Uh-oh!
Heh!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Slightly increased his experience gain!
Ayyy!
I mean it's not like great but it's okay, you know.
Are there two of them down there?
Oh Jesus.
What?
No, come on.
I don't know what he's doing, but I don't like it.
Welcome to the horror that is this dungeon.
Is AI decided to-
Alright, let's think about this.
Dude, I feel like you don't need to be there.
You know what I mean?
Okay.
Okay, so let it burn.
All right.
I think he doesn't like that.
I feel like he doesn't like that.
He's gonna burn to death.
Very nice.
Okay.
Okay.
Whatever that is...
I don't like it holding this Grants plus 30% to darkness spell damage.
A magical black orb found inside the predator containing mysterious magic and held you feel surrounded by dark energy.
We should do that in that hand.
Well, it does make it very hard to use in the dark.
So, as an offhand item, I kill the boss.
I need you to get the hell out of here.
I need to get the hell out of here before I die at reset.
What an awful place.
I found that fire spells are very good.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's what I've discovered.
Oh.
So you said behind him is the way in?
He's going here?
He has a lot of eyes, dude.
I wonder if Poison does darkness damage.
Let's find out, actually.
Let's go in here.
We're going to check out Runes.
Hmm, it doesn't say.
It just says damage.
What if we go into weapons and we pull the void shard?
Blah, blah, blah, okay we can't do anything with those?
Alright.
Bro.
Disgusting.
Nope.
Disgusting.
Nope.
Alright, normal spell won't kill it.
Fire spell might.
Very good.
Where's the mom, dude?
There's gonna be a mom in here somewhere.
You know there is.
Okay, that's the way out.
I want to go back. Yeah, I want to go back. Because there's...
Ah!
Bolshev.
There we go. Fire bombs.
I think he's definitely laying eggs somewhere, exactly.
Like somewhere in here there's a big one, you know?
Just robbing graves.
I just got an achievement called, Do You Have No Shame?
I mean he wasn't using it.
What's up, dude?
Oh, mask?
Ah, a little mask in your head.
But not all faces are strangers, are they?
There is no way back for you.
The room behind you was swallowed long ago.
Oh, I have a full-on storage in here.
Okay. Move all those over.
What is this?
Runesman!
The voice is a little low.
the gold symbol we saw.
Yeah, the music's too loud for the voice right now.
I'm gonna use my theory plane, and your turn, I shall share the legend with you.
But I have to seal and now...
Alright, so...
I must re-
This seal opens up golden symbols in the walls.
It's basically what it is.
Yeah.
Have you had a chance?
No.
I just want to steal your rooms, dude.
Let's...
Alright, fine!
of the
were you
the voices of the
all right buddy
to get a staff maybe
There of course 15 decks 28 strength
That's a rapier is int and dex that's interesting oh it scales with int the rapier does I
Think I'll get one of those actually and then I'll start leveling decks I guess
Maybe
Yeah decks 15 decks on that one
Yeah
In terms of my weapons, the broken sword is all I can have right now. There's no endscaling.
But getting endscaling on a weapon seems really good. It's only C, but I don't have
anything that does endscaling right now. I'm in the interface class, right?
Oh, that's cool-looking.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! The Forge Master is a giant
snake.
I'm excited, yes. Good. Good. Hammer Snake increases the level of this game immensely
I'm so glad. So glad.
The best part about this exactly, Pigs. The best part about this is that he's wrapped
around the forge. Because he's a snake. And he wants his heat rock, then. That's great.
Oh, we can reforge the broken sword.
We leave one material. We only want to do that, right?
We just make it an advanced broken sword?
Not a weird one.
A one-handed hammer. Replicate the hammer used by the great sir.
That's kind of sick.
Huh. Big strength weapon.
All right, I'm digging this yeah, I'm digging this so far this game looks cool. It's quite neat so far
Hammer snake is God deal
You made it
What do you think of our little refuge in the midst of all this madness?
There aren't many left here
Most wandered in the yard chasing some hope of breaking the curse or finding a way out
I'll be setting off soon as well
There's someone out there. I have to find
It might be a way to turn the music down
But keep the dialogue higher, I think the dialogue is very low
Yeah, why does this feel like a low-poly from soft game?
I think that's a good thing, personally.
I think it's a really good thing.
Yeah.
but positive I am a
the music is really relaxing I like the music a lot
Don't tell me like the trees are going to try to eat me or some shit, right?
What are you?
Oh, that's a nasty one.
Okay, these are very strong.
Nice, vials of healing.
Is that the only thing in here?
That may be the only thing in here. Maybe this is a...
Maybe there's a puzzle in here.
Or a secret of some kind.
What do they say on them?
Nothing.
Chonky trees, dude.
See, this is one of the things that I love.
I love games like this because you never know how that dev is hidden things.
You don't know how they feel about stuff, you don't know how they hide things.
You don't know what their aspirations are.
So any of the ideas that I may have about the game could just fall apart.
Like immediately.
You know?
You're probably immune to that, aren't you?
Oh, suck.
The red cavern.
Ow.
That was a mistake.
This place is horrifying.
I love it.
Do we have anything good?
Do we have anything good? Okay, I can just throw that on for now.
Kind of wasted a bit of magic.
Cool item.
It's a tiny rev stone.
Oh!
Shit, that means that one over there is alive too.
It's slowly dying to poison, maybe I just leave it alone.
Or not.
Got it.
Slowly running out of magic power.
Got him.
What is that?
I need that.
It's magic.
I need it.
Shit.
Got it?
I'm gonna call the devs after I pick up whatever that thing is.
Or die trying.
I gotta go to the other side, I think.
You live? Yeah, you are.
You alive?
All right.
Scary.
Ow.
I don't know.
I just took damage.
I don't care.
Alright, I got something weird.
I got a weird item.
What is it?
Are you consumable?
No.
Are you material?
No.
What are you?
Are you rune?
No.
Weapon?
What are you?
What is it?
Ring?
No.
Key item?
Obsidian Root.
It's Root emits dark magic.
skill mages could use it to enhance the power of their spells for a short time
it's a consumable key item of some kind all right I should probably get out of
here before I died a horrible fire mites and then I'll call the death I love
weird shit in dungeons it's a good time I'm also glad that there's a lava
cave in a graveyard also good
I don't know, I don't like it even.
with plus one hot yes yeah I want to talk to them all about the audio I think
the environment is cool I want to talk about the storyline and like what led
them to this because it's quite fun it's really well done more in in monoset
Alright, let's call the devs. I'm gonna bring them on.
Hello, hello. Nice to meet you too. One moment. I gotta get this working.
It looks like it does not pull it up. There we go. Can you try talking now?
Yeah, okay, thanks for having me. Yeah, no thank you. Thanks for being on if you'd like to introduce yourself
Don't chat who you are what it is you work on
Yeah, I'm
Sebastian Soltrak in internet. I'm known as psyching's and I'm lead dev of Virgo
I was programmer and also 3d artist for it and it's also story teller. You could say
And how big is your guys team?
It started as my solo project back in early 2024, with my friend who is a music composer.
Later down the line in around a year of development, a sound designer joined us, who later also
helped me with some writing, mostly correcting everything because I'm not a native English
speaker and he is so he was basically rewriting a lot of dialogues to just sound better in English
and in like last three months of development a friend of me joined us to work on some additional
3D arts mostly he was remaking the first model I made for the game to make them better.
That's awesome and like to be real with you I really like the kind of chunky graphical
style of this. It reminds me very much so of kind of older games but with the frame rate
being higher it's very strange almost where it's like I remember games looking like this as I grew
up but not where the camera could move this smooth you know what I mean? I mean you can lower the
frame rate you can even set in settings there is a special FPS limit called Kingsfield mode
and from what I know there are actually people that are playing with it and enjoy it
Because there was some exclusive glitches to this mod that I was fixing because people were reporting that something is not right
That's so funny. No, this is exactly like how I remember it now. I
Just changed the setting. That's crazy. Oh, that's so cool
So speaking of that you guys have King's show noted. Can you talk a little bit about the inspirations you had for this game?
I mean obviously, you know, now you have a reference right in it. That's cool, man
So my idea for this game was always to make basically like a king seal game
but if it would be made for like both the old fans that in want to have something
for and also for like modern players so they can like enjoy it and maybe check
these old games because I really think that they are really underappreciated
I agree no I really agree with you I think there's a lot of games now that
people go, oh, I don't know if that's for me because the graphics or something like that.
But then you play something like this and it's, it's really fun.
It's slow and methodical.
You care more about your character.
You care more about your progression that way.
Like, and it just, it feels good.
And I, I think it's the same reason I like pixel art, right?
Like there's, there's something that happens when there's not a lot of super
high definition, graphical detail and it's your brain fills in the gaps.
And it doesn't change your immersion in any way.
And I love that.
Like, I really love that.
So I think your guys is, you know, visual direction for this is fantastic.
I think it feels really good.
Okay.
And yeah, like, like I said, like one of my goals is just to bring this new
people to play these old games.
And I can say from like my experience, you mentioned Hexen during your
stream, uh, and I played Hexen for the first time this year.
Like, like half of the year ago, and I really fell in love with it.
I still didn't play the second game, but I finished the normal game
the DLC and also like the new DLC that they made for Remaster. It was amazing.
Because now we are planning to make something Hexen inspired as like a site
project. Oh, that's really cool. Yeah, Hexen's great. I'm really glad you played
it, even if it's recent things. It's just awesome game. And it's funny too,
because like this feels, it feels like right in the wheelhouse of something
that you would, you would use as inspiration for this. So if you
never played it, I'm glad you like it because it makes sense. So if you
I want to talk a little bit about the narrative.
I really like the world setting that you've set so far for this.
Tell me about what drove you to come up with this?
What made you think about the curse of faces?
Was there inspiration in your life?
Did you pull from personal experience?
How did this come to be?
Yeah, so basically how I usually write the stories,
I'm starting with some idea and kind of building new blocks
around it.
for example, when it comes to Verho story,
it's actually started that before I even was thinking
of making Verho, I was just starting to learn 3D art
just as a hobby, because I'm a programmer
for I think eight years now or nine, something like this,
but I never used Blender before
and I just wanted to learn it for fun.
Later I made like 60 different weapons
and my friends said that with that many weapons,
you can probably make the whole game.
And it was the time when I was discovering
Kingsfield series and Lunasid.
So I was like, you know what?
I could try.
I'm the programmer.
I have some free time and I will try to make it.
Then I started making a human model
and I had a lot of troubles making the human face
in this like low poly style that wouldn't be goofy.
So I decided to give the mask to the character,
the similar mask to the real life mask that my friends made
for me four years ago, I think.
And when I was making second NPC, I had the same problem.
And I thought, OK, so maybe I will
make the whole universe when everyone needs to make a mask.
And from then, I was, OK, so why people
needs to make a mask?
OK, maybe some kind of curse.
OK, but why there is a curse?
So I started to building this whole document with lore.
And after, I think, a few hours, I
had 10 pages of text with just the timeline of the universe.
And later, for example, when I think some of the people
in chat already get on it in the intro,
they are saying that for 300 years,
people never met each other, which
like how baby were born, how the humans are survived, yeah this is like a plot
hole and one of my friends mentioned that to me like because the first day I
I know I just didn't never like realize it when writing and then for example I
start to wrote another events like around this plot hole to don't make it plot
hole anymore and right now it's like big part of the lore there is the
the whole quest night in the game where you are helping the NPC who also know that
hey this is our history but this don't make sense so help me get find out how
it's how that happens and it's from what I heard from like the players reaction
and stuff this is one of the coolest reveals in the game see I love that
though is like you started off with you know I want to make characters and I
can't draw faces and now you have a whole world about how no one can show
face. That's like, that's peak game Dave man. I love that. I really do.
By the way, I just seen a chat someone who said that these games kind of reminds him of Blood West.
This is really funny because Blood West's lead artist and also director is a really close friend
of me and we are currently working on like a side project game together. If you don't mind I
can drop the title. Yeah, do it up. Yeah, no, absolutely. I think that's fantastic.
So the game we are making is Fogholt, which is like a combination of the binding of Isaac,
Diablo, and also like Hexen or Verho style of the game.
So that was when you were talking about that Hexen inspired you to make. That's awesome.
I dig that. Really dig that. I mean, this is one of two because we are kind of, I don't know,
like mad people, we like to make games really fast and we are also working pretty fast, so we are
wanting to make that like Roguelike game in like two months and in next two months we want to make
the Hexen game that will be kind of like a Metroidvania with like graphics similar to Blood West.
So Virgo is completely out, right? You're working on other projects,
are you still adding more content to this game?
Yes and no. I had like really big crunch period before release because the game is coming to
consoles and because of that I needed to basically finish working on the game before console port
theme can start porting the game. So I have basically prepared two really big content updates
that are already done. For example, testers of the game already played them so they are also
pretty good well-tested, but they are not yet released. First will be released in January,
which will be New Game Plus with new weapons, new spells, new mini bosses, and new stuff to
excellent, basically yes, new secrets, there's more things to do. And the second one will be
coming together with console releases probably around like April or May, something like this,
and it will contain the Hardcore mode, which is kind of similar to Honor Mode from Baldur's Gate 3,
and also Randomizer mode, which is, if you ever played any Randomizer, you know what to expect.
Oh yeah. The Randomizer is super fun. I think that's awesome. I think it's really cool.
Seems like you're supporting quite a lot of different game modes and like that's,
that just sounds like it'd be fun. Like super fun.
Yeah, I just want to make like cool shit for people. Like for example,
Randomizer was just like random idea that someone throw one day in the discord. I make a pool like, do you guys think randomizer is cool idea to have in the game?
There was like 95% votes for yes, so I was like, okay, I will make it.
We also planned to make like DLC later down the line, but I don't want to like milk the game.
I want to like finish working on it, have some time to just
collect my thoughts, collect the best ideas, and then make the DLC that would
be basically definitive varho experience. So I can just say that when it's
released, hopefully next, maybe in the next year or something, but can't
promise anything. Like I said, basically when I think it will be really good,
then it will be released. Yeah, that makes sense. I actually really like that.
You know like you know collect your thoughts work on some other stuff think about what you want to do and then kind of
It's like okay now. I think this would be a good enough DLC for this. That's cool
I really like that man, and it seems like you have quite a lot of content in this as well
Like what would you say is the general runtime of somebody going through this and kind of?
Around 20 25 hours. I think the longest I seen was 40 hours and the fastest was like 17
I think that's fantastic. That's that's actually a lot of content. That's a huge amount
That's great, dude.
Yeah, thank you.
Finding all this weird stuff out here.
I notice you've hidden a lot of secrets in here too, so I love that.
I was wondering also, voice actors.
Are these voiced by you?
Are they voiced by you and your friends?
Like, how did you source your voice actors to this?
Because I notice there's quite a lot of different characters,
a lot of different voice acting.
Yeah, so honestly, it's a bit of ninks box.
The story about voice acting is that the game wasn't supposed to have
voice acting at the start, but one day when I was showing my game on Kingsfield
Reddits there was a guy named Solus that basically hit me up and said like
hey I have like in the voice acting studio we are making some voice acting if
you want we can make it for free, if you like it you can use it if no you
cannot, so you know we are just started working together then we also had
like on Discord, some people that were asking if they can join the voice acting, so there
are also some freelancers who basically volunteer to work on games.
For example, one really cool is next to you with the bonfire.
A lot of people really love his voice.
There is also some streamers that like the game and like to voice act.
So it's honestly a mixback.
Some people saying that it's kind of bad
because the level of performance is not that consistent.
But for me, first of all, it's like with our budget,
which was close to zero, it's not really something
that we can have like a clear, obscure level of voice acting.
And I also think all of the voices
sounds really cool and charming.
So if you don't like them, you
can always just remove them and then problem solved.
Yeah, I think that's one of the things that's really interesting to me is like, I don't
think I would ever complain about something like that.
I think that's cool overall, personally.
I think that any voice acting in an indie game, a lot of people don't realize just
how expensive and difficult that is to implement because it's expensive, number one, but it's
also incredibly difficult to manage all of that and manage all the voice actors
and get everything online and put it into the game.
don't realize and then it also becomes a blockade for localization for the game
because now you have all these voices in a language and speaking of that like have
you have you localized this game or you in a bunch of different languages and if
so how have you handled voice for that yes so we have 10 languages I'm pretty
sure let me just check on the steam page nice so we have the game in
English Polish French Italy Germany Spain Chinese and Russian which is a
a mix back of, for example, I'm native Polish,
so I translate the game to Polish.
Our music composer is Italian,
so he translated the game to Italian.
Spanish and French was made by community members
from Discord.
From what I heard from the players,
they're really high quality,
especially like whatever someone playing in like French,
they are always saying like,
oh my God, this is one of the best French translation
ever seen who translate that and this is like one random guy who just hit me on
this card that's awesome it is yeah and we also have like Russian Chinese yeah
Russian and Chinese was created by the companies that are publisher hired and
yeah also the Japanese coming in the January that's awesome that's really
cool honestly it seems like you guys have done a really really good job with
this
well we tried
I'm trying to fight a horrible boss
yeah I know you are in not good situation because you can eat
yeah because you actually can't damage that boss
before you finish the questline of that area
I noticed yeah I was like his health isn't going down
and mine is gone
it's great
Technically, you can damage him but he has like 100,000 HP before you use a special item.
I totally win it.
Based on what I've seen already from players finishing the game with Fist only, level 1, or other challenges,
I'm pretty sure someone will do that eventually.
People who beat the game level 1 Fist only.
Maybe not like level one, but like because you know it's not like Dark Souls when you
like spending your souls, you are still leveling, but you can just never spend your points.
So have like all your stats on one.
That's completely wild.
That's absurd to me.
But I guess it makes sense, right?
Like there's always going to be people that do that kind of crazy stuff.
So yeah, even for me, when I was testing this game, I finished it like 10 times
if for release and my 10th run was like not the fist only but level one run and it was pretty cool
actually with like the rings some items that there is actually like fury crafting that makes it not
that hard also I see there was a question if that game run on low specs yep it should like from
what I know it runs on 20 years old not gaming laptop so I'm pretty sure it will run yeah and
And I'm looking at my resources right now.
It's taking literally 0% of my CPU.
That's an even register.
It doesn't even register the amount of CPU
and 0.1%, 0.2% now.
There we go.
And yeah, back down to zero.
And it's also using about,
it's less than one tab in Chrome of memory.
So yeah, no, it will run on a potato.
Yeah.
So, yeah, that's pretty good.
Yeah, maybe the calculator point is coming.
Maybe. I've got a spear now.
Now I have to leave before that guy tries to eat me alive.
So, what do you think was the hardest thing for you to build for this game?
I get that question a lot and always I'm a bit hard to answer because like,
Surprisingly, I don't think there was a really hard thing, like that, for example, I struggled
for a lot of time.
There was one thing I couldn't solve, but it was kind of because I thought it wouldn't
be that hard to make or how to fix, and I leave it for a really late stage and it
wasn't as easy.
So in the end, it's a bit of the junk, you could say,
with some flying enemies and pathfinding.
But yeah, but other than that,
most of things went pretty smooth actually.
That's good.
Yeah, no, I mean, the thing is,
is it seems like your personality
for how to accomplish your goals is very adaptive, right?
And I can tell that by the fact that you were like,
well, I can't make faces look good.
Let's make a whole story about how you can't see faces.
Right?
Like that's not something that everyone would do.
So I think with that kind of a personality,
it's really hard to get yourself back into a corner
where you're like, oh, this is very difficult.
I don't know what to do, right?
So I think that plays into it a lot, man.
Like that's a very good outlook
and not something that everybody has.
So props to you.
Honestly, I think it's something that I get
from taking part in the lot of games.
I think I take part in like 12 or 15.
And if you have like one week to create a game,
you kind of learn to just cut your corners
when it's needed to be cut.
And yeah, it's all about knowing what can be cutted
or what can be cutted, you know?
Yeah.
Now that makes sense entirely.
We actually run Game Jam so twice a year.
And I think that's one of the biggest things
that teams learn is they're like,
they'll try to make something massive their first Game Jam.
It just never works out.
And then after that, they're like,
okay, this time I'm not gonna make something really huge.
I'm gonna do something really quick and dirty.
and they get faster and faster at cutting corners
or cheating around corners as quickly as they possibly can.
So yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, I mean, I did that too.
I have a lot of, I think almost all my game gym games
were like twice smaller that I intended the first day,
but I also was able to make some pretty cool games.
For example, once I had like, I think like a third place
on Brachy's Game Jam, which I think was my best result ever.
I was also able to won some smaller Game Gems.
So I think like I kind of missed working on Game Jam games.
This is kind of what I'm making now
with the Blood West developer, because he's also
like the Game Jam maniac, I would say.
He participate in like 60, which is.
That's amazing.
Yeah, that's a lot.
This is crazy.
Okay, we have ads in just a moment here. I'm going to pause for about two minutes. Basically,
we just hang out. The community can still hear you. I can still hear you. But it's just
one of those things. I don't want people to miss stuff because they didn't pay money.
That sucks. So he's waiting. Yeah, no problem. But no, it's a good thing to do. What's
up? Yeah. No, no, by the way, it's funny because for some reason I didn't have
the ads during your ad break. I'm not sure if that's because of the ad block, but also
I had ads on different streams. Twitch doesn't always deliver ads, and most streamers don't
call out when the ad break is. So because of that, someone goes, well, where am I? It's
because not everybody gets them. They send them out based on how many times you've gotten
ads across the whole platform and where you are in the world and what your viewing
habits are, and if there's no ad delivery, they just don't, you know.
Interesting.
We just chill.
Yeah.
So you won't always get them, and sometimes you'll get like 10 seconds of ads, and sometimes
you'll get like two full minutes of ads.
So I just wait for the full 10 minutes, you know.
And pulling you have less ads, yeah, that makes sense.
Oh, they're there.
They finally arrived.
Nope.
Yeah, it's always a really interesting thing.
You never know what they're going to deliver.
It's also really funny too because we can kind of bait what category it's going to be.
Like if I talk about Subaru, the car, Subaru, like I just say that a couple times, people
will get Subaru, which is really funny.
I mean, I think everything would be better than Polish Nintendo ads because it's like
Nintendo ads, for example, for like Zelda or new Kirby game or something, it's like,
technically it's like voice acted in Polish, but it's in most awkward way.
when for example when they say like princess zelda they are saying like
we've in full in polish dubbing princess zelda and not like the polish word for
princess which is something really awkward that's really weird
you being super ads well just another channel good good
now that's really funny though it's like weird localization ads are always
very interesting to me because you never know what's going to be
I think I think my favorite ads actually they're kind of older but it's Japanese McDonald's ads
because they would have Ronald McDonald and he was just super animated and he would like dance
around and like make weird noises and like jump and all this kind of stuff and it was just
something about it is hilarious to me. He was just like very very animated.
I can see that I'm gonna see and find it Japanese McDonald's
bad these were like famous like 10 years ago old yeah he was wild Ronald McDonald is so intense
I have a horrifying image. He was almost haunting, to be honest with you.
You can see him on the screen between the ads screen, but Ronald McDonald in Japan is haunted.
We're back from the ads. We were talking about the ad break, but that's Japanese
Ronald McDonald. He's very scary looking. He reminds me of Jeff Tequila.
He's kind of creepy. Yeah, but like, I don't know. I always thought it was funny
His Japanese McDonald's ads are wild and as mostly because Ronald McDonald's just overly happy
He's like super jolly, but he looks scary
It's just around right, but oh, yeah
After that image, I can see why some people are scared of clowns. Clowns are scared
Yeah, Japanese Ronald McDonald made me afraid of clowns. I agree. That makes sense
Man
You know what you know what the graphics on this actually remind me of a lot of is major is mask
So like kind of like n64 era
Kind of games, but like it doesn't express in the same way
It's really honestly I was trying to have something similar to like
PlayStation one
But I also heard from a lot of people that it looks more like n64 so I can totally get it
You know what I think it will end up being?
Which console you grew up on?
I grew up on N64 instead of PlayStation 1.
I think if you played PlayStation 1 games, you'd probably be the same.
Maybe. For me, it's kind of weird, because when I was a kid, I never had a console.
I think my first console was like Xbox 360, but it was when I was like 14 or 15, something like that.
So, you didn't grow up in the consular, what made you want to make a game that is so reminiscent
of that era?
Because I really like this art style.
I played a lot of games like indie games that kind of tried to replicate this style and
I really enjoyed that.
I'm not the biggest fan of like realistic graphics because I think like every time
we have something that looks incredibly well realistic after a few years it doesn't
look that great and for example games like Darkest Danger on or even the Rhymon
free we can like look at them in like 50 years and they would be still looking
great because they were artistic and really cool. I love that. Oh I found a
ring. I love that you've hidden so many things in this. Yeah I think like for
For example, my philosophy for this game, because some people saying this game is kind of like a Souls-like,
but my philosophy with it was always to be more about the exploration than combat.
That's the first, like, filler of not being Souls-like and being Kingsfield-like,
so there's a lot of, like, secrets, a lot of things to find.
For example, before you were looking on, like, a giant hole in the ground,
I can tell you that it won't kill you if you jump in there, but there will be a surprise.
which I think it's like really cool things when people are trying this,
and I make it so it's next to the checkpoint,
so the people are more inclined to try,
and the reaction of people trying is always really cool to see.
This is cool!
I just jumped into it. Oh, that's awesome.
What a cool thing!
And a mask shard.
And now I'm stuck in the pit.
Yeah, that does the other half of puzzle.
You need to figure it out how to exit for some.
It's like five seconds for others.
I've seen one streamer being there for like 20 minutes and he refused to have the
hint.
No hints.
Of course.
See, the thing that this reminds me of is like old school, like dungeon crawlers
of like, you've got, you've got all kinds of stuff like that of like, um,
that was called like either beholder, like check out
walls, look through everything.
And I love a lot of games like, for example, when I was a kid, I
was playing Ultima Underworld, and I really loved that game.
Later in my life, I played Arx Fatalis, and it's also like
one of my favorite games. From like newer games, I really
enjoyed the Legend of Green Rock.
There.
Weirdly, probably the first one more than second, still
not sure why. I just remember when I played the first one,
was like crazy hooked and when I played second I was like this is cool but I'm not like crazy
hooked. I don't know. Not really? Not really your kind of thing. That makes sense. No, no.
I had a lot of fun with it. It's just like when I was like first, when I was playing first one I
was obsessed with it and when I was playing second one I had a lot of time, a lot of fun time
with it. I just wasn't obsessed with it. That's what I meant.
There has to be a trick I don't know for movement.
I'm stuck in the pit. I've tried every wall.
Tried to drown myself. Is there a way to respawn?
Let's look at the manual. Oh, I love that you did this as a book. That's awesome.
Is this something you'd ever be interested in printing, actually?
Yes, we actually had like a speedrun contest for the players and we send them like real-life masks
like you can see on the screen, also these printed and some other stuff. You can also look at the
Steam page and I'm not sure if you need to buy the game for it or not but there is like a
PDF file of this to download as a manual. You can see like view manual to the right,
next like the Discord and other stuff. Down in like that, yeah, here. And here you can
just download it and print it for yourself.
Waiting for it to load. It's doing its best. Oh, that's so cool, dude. That is really cool.
So, if you want to print that out yourself, you totally can, you can build a book.
That's awesome.
That's really, really awesome, actually.
Yeah, no, I love that.
Hell yeah.
Love all the models and the diversity.
The site is pretty laggy, honestly, because the file is pretty big and pretty, there
is a lot of small details.
It's actually like the second version of the manual.
The first one was made by me and the content is basically the same.
This one was made by Publisher and like I said, the text and most of things are the same,
but they basically hugely improved the graphics of it, which I think is really cool.
That's awesome.
Now I love this.
I think this is a really cool addition to the game.
It's fantastic.
i love that you get the pages to
knowing knowing that it was probably quite difficult to implement it first
it's not that there is a lot
yet that there is like a free plugin for unity uh... that's basically allow you
to make it really easily
uh... my friend who is a developer of the game dreamspired
uh... dreamspring sorry
uh... told me about it and i was like wait it will be probably hard to use
them
it was really easy
That's awesome. No, that's really cool. I didn't know Unity had something for that to make that super easy. That's rad.
I mean, that's created by someone in Unity Store, but it's free to download for everyone.
It's kind of like free license.
That's great. That's really great, actually.
Looking for your videos.
That's cool.
all right I see you are like like someone from the chat called it like sky
reming the inventory you can talk to us that portion to like your hotbar and use
them from it I know I should have been doing that I thought about it earlier and
it was like I'm just gonna scarring the inventory for right now because I don't
really want to do it it's just very funny I mean if you like it
It doesn't feel weird at all.
There we go.
Now I want to go back and actually open up that one secret area.
But no, this is really cool, and I love that it's got kind of like...
I wouldn't say Metroidvania, like fully, because it's not like full massive areas, at least not yet,
but there's a lot of like little areas and like little things you can go back for
as you learn more about the game systems.
And I like that. I like that a lot. Like, you've done a really good job with this.
What do you think? How do you feel about the reception so far from players, right?
Because the game is fully out. You've got sales going on.
Yeah, so I would say that first of all the game is like sales wise, we'll play like count-wise.
Much bigger success than I was expected. When the game released I was like,
training for like 100 players concurrent. The first day, we were able to reach 440, so over 4 times what I was expected.
When it comes to like reception, right now we have 640 reviews on Steam, and they are 94% positive, so yeah, like, I feel like that's really cool.
The only not cool thing is that we were like four times, I think, like 0.1% from being overwhelmingly positive
and the next day we were getting negatives from someone who sounds like they rage-beat the game.
That's always the thing that happens, you know, if people...
You'll get kind of waves of them, like people will really like it, people won't like it.
I think... Do you have a demo actually out for Verho?
That's a bit of sad story because for last year...
By the way, let me only answer one question.
The game is already released on the GOG.
So yeah, it's a bit of sad story because we had the demo for around the year.
Fun fact, you are still in the demo areas.
The demo was for hours long.
And suddenly we needed to remove it.
Sorry?
I said that's a hell of a demo, that's awesome.
Yeah, I wanted to give the players a real taste of the game,
especially because some players were really hungry for it.
But sadly we needed to temporarily remove the demo,
because it got review bombed, I think like one week ago.
After like a year of being around 93% positive, in like one day we got to like 56% positive
with like wave of the reviews that we're saying, this sucks, five minutes playtime.
We are still not sure like who was behind it, maybe it was just random troll on the
internet who was boring.
But because of that, we needed to remove demo for now.
Hopefully, it will be back in the January, but yeah.
That's something that happens suddenly.
I'm really sorry to hear that.
And that is something that happens on Steam.
And it is always stuff like that.
It's like a million different accounts.
And there's nothing that Steam really does about it.
You can reach out as a developer to Steam and say,
hey, these are off topic.
But if they're not off topic like that,
they're not really going to do much.
yeah we tried that but sadly uh... according to steam
when it comes to the mouth five minutes or ten minutes is enough of the play
time for someone to just route desks and this is the value three year
yeah it's something i wanted to just not protect it from on steam i'm sorry
to hear that though
especially like if you guys had it out for a great deal of time there was no
problem
so i think that's i mean that's surprising
yeah it was out from like october of
It was for around a year before release, so yeah.
Like I said, hopefully we will be able to bring it back when basically, at least like
the recent reviews will disappear from it, because basically when that happens, publishers
reach out to me and tell that, yeah, people will be looking at the reviews of the demos,
that recent ones are below 50 so that would probably make the people think like okay this
game must suck so they added something like microtronization or something like that I don't
know.
Yeah, that's a pretty normal thing, they'll see that first and then they'll judge it
on that.
So I do hope that stuff switches around for you guys and they stop bullshitting
in your game because that's that's never makes any sense you know but it's it
sounds personal you know at that point yeah but but also I'm like I'm happy
that it happens to demo not the full game because that would suck like yeah
hundred times more there no I mean I don't think there's anything wrong with
your guys's game this is quite cool I like the mechanics everything feels really
good I don't I don't think that makes sense and the demo the demo is
generally there to try and get rid of, like it kind of let people opt out of a game they
otherwise aren't going to enjoy. You know, like that's the point of it is they played
the demo and they go, this isn't for me, I'm not going to buy it. And then they don't
leave a negative review. Oh, mechanism. Yeah, so I'm surprised to hear that, but I guess
not that surprised because it's, you know, Steve,
I mean, the truth is with the indie games, when there is like for example for the demo
that was like 200 reviews, it's not that it's hard to create like 40 accounts to make it
much lower.
So indie games are way more vulnerable to that, yeah, very much so.
Actually speaking of which, if you guys like this game, you like the dev, you like
what they're doing, go wishlist the game.
Do it.
Because if you wishlist the game, you're telling Steam to show it to more people.
Yeah, 100% do that.
Yeah, thank you.
Yeah, especially because of dealing with that. That's not great. That's not fair to you.
Yeah, you should judge a game based on the actual content of the game.
If you're doing it just for, you know, trying to get rid of the dev or anything like that,
that's not helpful for anybody.
That's just part of the game, I guess.
Yeah, that's cool.
Yeah, I can't really do anything about it, and honestly, when it comes to the Steam and the Steam Algorithms,
it's much more help than the otherwise.
So, for example, we got a crazy amount of traction from new and trending.
I remember before release, we were like 30,000 wishlist team,
And after Nuance Trending, we go like,
let's see if I can talk about it, but like through,
no, I'm pretty sure we were talking about this publicly.
So like three times that in like two weeks or something.
Nuance Trending is crazy.
It was crazy.
Yeah.
That is huge.
That is absolutely enormous.
What a good opportunity for that.
So that's good.
That's really good, man.
Like, yeah.
And yeah, to be real, it gets better.
You'll be all right.
You know, especially because you have a game
that people do truly enjoy
And you've got a core community of people that really like it.
So as much as it sucks right now, you'll be fine.
Got to keep people doing that.
I think a lot of people don't realize, especially consumers, you
don't realize how much power you have as a, as a player.
And the thing is, is at the end of the day, like if you want
a game to succeed, good games, not going to sell itself.
You're going to sell it.
So tell everybody about it, man.
Tell everybody about the games that you love.
Show them the thing that you like.
Make videos about it.
Make posts about it.
spread the knowledge of it, you know, especially for Indies, they need that, that is how they survive.
Yeah, that's true, and honestly I think like marketing is really underrated in some cases with some indie developers
because I heard a lot from people that, yeah, I will make a cool game and it will sell itself because I will post it on Steam
and for all indie game developers that are here, that's not true.
That might be like less than 1% of that happening.
You really need to post your game on Reddit, TikTok, Twitter.
Even if you don't like that website, I never used TikTok or Reddit
before I micro-marketed Verho, but it was also like the two best sources
of people finding about that game.
And yeah, and you need to get these few thousand wishlist first before you do anything because
even things like the next fest are not really going to do a lot unless you already have a lot.
Yeah, no, it's true. It's a multiplier to what you already have. And you know,
posting out on social media, there's actually really good ways to get your game out there.
There's a lot of trends in the indie community where a lot of people in the
in the Indian community try to lift each other up.
You'll see that quite a lot.
So you'll have things like screenshot Saturday
is a really good example of that.
There was one recently where it was a people
kind of clowning on the game awards.
But they're like, I don't have a million dollars
for the game awards, but retweeting my game is free.
And this is put up their trailer for the game.
And there's got a lot of traction, like a huge amount.
So taking part in any type of like social movement stuff
for your game of like anything on Twitter
of like trending stuff like that
super fun and it's a very positive thing. Indie Together is strong exactly. It's a very good community.
I think one important thing in all of this is just getting to know people, talking to people.
For example, during the Berco development, I talk with, I want to say almost every
Kingsfield-like developers. We have a Discord where we are sharing our ideas,
just talking about our games and helping each other which I think it's really
cool side effect of me working on this. Yeah, I think it's fantastic. I think
it's really cool because you got to meet so many cool people that way, you know.
Yeah. Oh, this thing is horrifying. Nope. I mean I think like also like back to
your question about like game reception. I'm like really happy with just seeing that the game
have like genuine community. People are talking about this game on a daily basis, on like discord
reddies, even places that are not like Verho related. I'm pretty sure like on the release day even
for you you got like a donation from one of the discord members where they were saying yeah
check this game and I remember there was like a they sent me like a clip of you saying oh this
looks interesting and I was like oh holy shit you know I was I was like this actually looks really
cool and and I think that's how we found out about your game originally which is quite funny
because I was like I was like this is this is actually really rad like I love this art style
I love you know the narrative that you built with it and then even playing it now like it's
quite fun so I think you've done a really good job but that's that's the thing is you
you know, if you're out there telling people about your favorite game, you know, as a player,
then people are going to find out about it. And, you know, telling me about it, now we have them
on the show. And, you know, now they get to show off their game. So that wouldn't have happened. If
somebody didn't come into the community was like, Hey, I really like this game. So that's
pretty rad. I think you've done a really good job here. So we've talked a lot about
the stuff that you like about the game and like how well it is and all the development.
i'm gonna ask you the really tough question and this is this is a hard one
so you take your time out of your life
i want you to call your baby ugly
what do you think your game does the worst
i would say uh...
the last area especially
was a bit undercooked or
last three hours of the game uh... i'm not happy with all the level design i
think the enemies are pretty cool i'm really happy with all of the bosses
uh... but with some uh... late in areas i didn't have as much
time to work on them
so they are
some of them are maybe not like a simple but i have really cool ideas that i
couldn't bring uh...
to full extent
i would say
that's uh...
if that's the case of what would you want to do to solve that
is that something you're looking to solve is that something you want to you
you want to fix before you do the also or during?
I mean, I already kind of did that.
For example, in the last update of the game,
there was a huge rework that really changed
the layout of the last area.
That was from also the player feedback,
the biggest problem.
When it comes to the other areas, they will be...
They are not bad.
They are just, I would say, not as cool as I had ideas for.
and right now I think it's already too late to rework them,
especially because, like I said, they are not necessary bad.
I know, I heard from a lot of people that this is their favorite part of the game.
So, for example, if I would now rework it into what I was intended before,
someone might lose their favorite part of the game,
which is something I don't want to make.
So, I would rather get that ideas and maybe use them in DLC areas or in potential sequels,
something like that.
Because, yeah, I wouldn't like to destroy something that someone already liked, you know.
Yeah, that's always really difficult.
It really is difficult because, you know, changes that you make, you may really enjoy,
but it may upset that whole portion of the player base.
And that's hard to resolve.
So I can understand that completely.
Yeah, very difficult to do
This is horrifying I found a nice secret there by the way, I love the amount of secrets you've hidden in this
Absolutely. Yeah, thank you. I
Tried to have a lot of them because they're like secrets is something that I really enjoyed making and also I always tried to
I don't know kind of tried to
Mind-read potential players and kind of think okay if I'm the player what I'm thinking of here
So the secret is secret, but it's also not like, hey, you need to press every random walls.
I think every time there is a secret wall, there is some kind of hint that, hey, something
might be fishy there.
Yeah.
Which, I don't know, I just enjoy it.
No, I really like that.
I really do.
And I think it's added a lot to the world.
Like even just what I had experienced right there where I walked up, I found two torches
that weren't lit.
I was like, I wonder if the torch will light them.
Game didn't tell me that.
There was no secret involved.
It just, there was no like prompt involved or anything.
I just tried it and it worked and opened the door.
And like that's the kind of thing that I miss
from sort of older games.
It's weird because I think a lot of games today
sort of hand hold the player way too much.
You know, they're like, did you know
there's a secret in this room?
I'm like, God, dude, I would've loved to know that
myself, it'd be awesome.
You know, if you just didn't do that at all, you know.
But like, I'm gonna get that.
I remember I tried playing about earlier this year and I couldn't beat tutorial, not because it was too hard,
but because I was just annoyed on NPC that was like, hey, you see that ball?
It looks like it has a fire on it. See that vines? Hmm, you might be able to shoot that ball with the ball.
the ball! Let's try this! That was the moment that I uninstalled the game and I
already found it because, I don't know, I like when, like I said, when I can explore
something and when I don't feel like developer feels, like in moments like
this I feel like developer either thinks I'm an idiot or thinks like I'm
wasting time by playing their game and if developer thinks that I'm wasting
time for play when playing the game. Why would I do that?
Yep. Yeah, no, I do agree with you. I don't like doing that. I think what I like to do
when I try to solve that kind of a thing is just sort of hide stuff in tooltips, right?
Like when I was stuck in that pit earlier, you gave me all the tools I needed to get out of the
pit and I didn't look at the items that I picked up until I looked at them and I was like,
oh, that's the solution for it. There was no little fairy that came down and told me about
There was no prompt that popped up on screen. There was none of that and I
Personally appreciate that very very much, you know, and I miss games to do that because
When you tell the player through a prompt or you have a little character say hey look hey listen any of that stuff
You're robbing them of the aha moment and the aha moment is like that's
Such a good feeling
And also, what I want to, like,
empathize is that I don't think, like, hints to the players are bad inherently,
but I think that the best hints are where the players are not really realizing
that they got hinted. Like, you can have, like, quote-unquote hand-holding
and aha moment, like, in the same time if you do it properly.
For example, in this puzzle, you can see that all of the torches
are lit and two of them are not.
So this is like your hint that, oh,
there is something suspicious about it.
There is even like the shape of the moving wall in it
that you can also spot it.
And that's, for me, it's the way of saying to the player,
hey, look, this is suspicious.
Check it.
And that's like something that the player thinks,
like oh I spotted that aha and I think that's the way to make it and I know it's
not for everyone some players just won't I mean so it's not like they're like
better or worse players some players for example are just tired after work they
want to play something simple and maybe for them it's better to just be
handheld and there I don't think there is any shame with it for example even
And I sometimes want to just turn off my brain, play something that is not needed to me to
think a lot.
A lot of these, for example, lately I was playing a lot of Witcher 3, which I think
it's not the game that hand-holdings you, but it's also the game where you don't really
need to think about a lot of things.
So yeah.
Yeah.
I see we have another ad break.
Yeah.
I was going to let you finish your thought,
but the ad break just went through on its own.
They go off every 30 minutes.
And I was like, oh, no worries.
Oh, no.
It's just like, yeah, we'll just wait.
We'll wait two minutes.
Yeah, no worries.
W interview?
Yeah, no, I agree.
I think it's been great talking to you so far, man.
I think you have a really cool outlook.
Thank you.
And thank you for chat.
I've seen a lot of like positive things.
So yeah, thank you.
That means a lot to read that.
I may be not responding to a lot of what Chat is saying,
but I'm trying to read most of it.
See, I'm over here just looking over at my other monitor
and wondering why I haven't closed this window.
And now I'm gonna bring it over here
and I'm gonna slowly slide it up the screen
for people who are not in ads
so they can also see what I've been seeing.
It's just gonna leave it there.
It's like it's just right there, you know.
A little bit of teeth, you know.
Hug em all.
I'm happy to hear that.
You know, it's very funny.
So we keep charging.
I don't charge to the demo, you goblins.
It's free.
Demo's are free.
And I'm curious for now what do you think is like the worst part of the game something
you might be not enjoyed or things should be done differently.
Because it's always cool for me to hear constructive criticism rather than just praises and I think
like you are the really like I'm maybe I'm not like your usual viewer because I'm not
really a twitch viewer but I heard a lot of what you were saying from like the YouTube shorts
and some time and I think you are a pretty knowledgeable person in that so I wonder what
you are thinking for example what is like the worst part of Verhofer now? I think there would
only be one thing that I would change. We were talking about this during the ad break.
I'll tell ShadeLock to leave that portioning because that's a good question. Now you're
interviewing me. But no, I think it would only change one thing and it would be get your demo
back out then. I think that that is a very positive thing for your community to have and I think that
it is harder to showcase a game if the demo is not out there and I know you guys got hit
by somebody downvoting the hell out of it. But the way that I feel about it is this, if that
person is dedicated enough, they'll just do it again when you break it back out. So just
just leave it out for the people who are interested and your community carrying
that positivity about your work is going to drive people to try the demo
regardless of whatever the rating is on there because if they're dedicated enough
they'll just do it again and you'll be like oh I should bring it down again but
no I agree with you and this is also something I told publisher when they
were like when we were talking about it if that happens again yep that
download it if you want, like it will stay like right now we are hoping that it's like
you know some random show or someone not like crazy dedicated.
But yeah if that's will just happen again demo will be staying. Worst case scenario we I think
we can also like remove the ability for people to review the demo but I'm not sure if you
when you already like enable it if you can disable it again but yeah like after like the
The demo will be probably back with the next big update for the game in January and I don't think it will be going down again.
Good. Yeah, good.
And if people can clip this, can quote me on this, I will do my best.
I honestly believe that'd be the only thing that I changed. You know, everything feels really smooth, it feels really good.
I love the addition of the idea of being able to have like FPS limited to what Kingsfield 2 was where you can play it like an old style game like this.
like that's really cool and nostalgic to me and I know there are some people that want to play it
in that setting and I think that's fantastic. I think that from what I've seen from the reviews
that you have and from the interaction you have with your community you've got a very tight knit
community very much so loved the game. Everything feels correct to me and it also feels like if
I'm you know struggling against monsters I can always grind out levels and then just keep
going that way or I could do challenge modes like you were saying that's like
fist only level one, which is crazy to me. But the idea of being able to do that is very interesting.
And it means that there's a wide variety of ways to play the game. There's a, you know,
a good community behind it. Like, I think you're doing everything right outside of,
you know, that demo. And I think that's the only thing. That'd be it.
Yeah, thank you. Answering some questions. Yes, there is a CRT filter built in when it
When it comes to modding support, they are not like, I don't know, like I didn't create
any modding tools, but this is a Unity game, so it's pretty moddable, and I already know
that people on Discord were playing with some modding stuff.
I know they are modd, for example, make the mod that changed the scythe model to
banana.
So no Shrekits.
You can be the first person who created Shrekits, Chatter, remember.
There you go. That's classic. Banana. Yeah, WModders. That's super fun. I love that. I really do. That's quite funny.
And how do you feel about the modding community? Is that something you're like, great. Yeah, do it.
Yeah, honestly, I told it a lot. If anyone from, like, will go to me, I'm pretty active on Discord.
I'm trying to reply to every message saying for the same forums if you are a modder and you come to me with like
Hey, can you help me like decompile your game modding your game or can you tell me like how the script work?
Yeah, I will be down to it. I can answer all the question and I will be happy to help
Hell yeah, that is that is the way dude. No, that's a that's an awesome sense that put on you. Yeah, yeah
Well, honestly, I would dream to play like a new full-modded area of Virgo.
Like, that would be really cool because I can't experience like the combat of the game,
but I can't really experience the secret parts of the game, you know, because I create
all of them.
Fair.
Yeah.
It's really difficult to have that.
And it's always one of those things too, is like trying to find out if a player is
even going to find the secret you put in is always difficult.
I find that to be really tough.
I'm like, they're gonna find this.
And then I realized like,
cause I put an ARG with ours, right?
And I'm like, they're gonna find it.
Oh, I died.
Nice.
Yeah, there was also like an ARG in Virgo.
And people, that was like really cool event
when people on Discord bound in like this group of,
I think eight peoples that for like,
I think like four days were almost all the time
on the voice chat trying to figure it out.
And in the end, when they figured it out, it was really cool for them, really cool for me.
Some of them DMed me that it was really one of the coolest things that they were doing in this year.
I also added another area, not like A to J this time, more like a secret,
where I added super, super secret area, where you can actually see the graves of all of these 8 players.
and also in that area you can find the weapon that one of them is like begging me to create for like weeks
that's cool i think that's real that's a cool thing to do man like we've had our
a.r.g. running for quite a while and i i completely understand how you feel about that
there there are people that are completely dedicated it's funny too because some of the
people are really dedicated that they don't even care about the rest of the game they're like
i don't care about this like this is the only thing i want to do i don't like that's great
Man, like the idea of putting that in this is cool. Where was your trailhead for this?
Is there a place that people can start that and like go and follow along and try to solve?
Yes, actually you are in the correct area. There are a few like cyphered message that
player can find later in the game, but in this specific area, this area is pretty important
to the ARG. There is a chance that at some point in the fog you will be able to see the
something that will disappear when you get close to it and from then in other areas you
can find a reference to this and also to what you need to do to this thing to unlock some
special event and be transported to some different secret area that will allow you to find
new cool stuff.
At the end.
That's cool.
I don't want to spoil everything, but it's pretty well documented on the game Wiki,
if someone wants to check it.
No, I love that.
I think that's fantastic.
The addition of deep secrets and stuff always feels really good.
I really like Air G. I'm a big fan of that.
I've loved them my whole life and worked on a number of them, so this is, that's
cool, man.
That's really cool.
Not every dev puts ARG use and stuff, I think it should be more common, because it's fun.
I mean, I would say it was something I was planning for a lot of time.
It was literally like, around month before release I was doing the polishing of the game,
and I watched pretty cool ARG video on YouTube, and I was like,
it would be cool to have something like this in Virgo,
And then I prepare it in like, I don't know, like three days, something like that.
Then you put it in. That's cool.
Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome.
That's, that's, it's funny too, because when you make a puzzle for people like that,
an ARG1, it may take you three days, but it could take them weeks to solve it.
I mean, with my community, I'm pretty confident that they are like crazy,
like they are crazy good in that, like with the first ARG, the big one,
It took around one and a half weeks after the release of the game
that it was fully solved.
But for example, with the second one,
I told you with the Hidden Graveyard,
it took them literally five or six hours
after I made the patch, and it was in the middle of the night.
So they just decided, OK, we are not sleeping today.
everyone deploy, look for invisible torches and report when do you find them.
That's interesting. That's really interesting actually.
I love that. No, I super love that. That sounds cool as hell then. Well, we are almost at time.
We're getting there, but I'd like to know if you had any advice for somebody who's just
starting out making games, what would it be? We have a lot of people who are like aspiring
game devs here they've just you know begun their journey on that a lot of people
doing game jams and yeah what would you say to them I mean I guess the obvious
advice is don't try to make Witcher 3 as your first game or MMO but that's
pretty like common thing I would say if you really want to like work in the
industry or just create your one dream game start with basically grinding
game gems because you never learn as much in like that like quick succession as game gems
like not if you can get like six game gems a year or even more just go for it and I can
guarantee that you will see that you are getting much better and much faster and when
you are making the game solo or in like really small team making things fast it's really
important and like few games games can literally speed up you years of development. I think yeah
no I super agree with you on that that is that is very very good advice yeah you gotta level up by the
yeah
I think yeah and don't forget to make marketing but that's also like important like make youtube
content, Shorts, Twitter, Reddit. For a lot of times it will get like almost zero traction.
For example I made like 400 tweets overall in my life and literally before the not long
ago my Twitter was like 3 likes. It's still not amazing because it's like 30 but it's
getting something, but just all of these things add up and for different games, different
media works. So for example, for one game, the Reddit might be really good. For example,
for Verho. And I think for games like Verho, the Reddit is a really good place to market.
But for example, for other games, it can be TikTok, it can be YouTube, it can be Facebook.
Just try everything, basically throw everything to the wall and see what is sticking. And
If not everything is sticking, try to think why.
Because one thing that I learned, sometimes if the game is not sticking, think of why.
For example, is there a lot of games like this?
Maybe my game is not enough unique.
Think of your players.
That does, I think.
It's maybe even more important.
Think of your players.
I was making this game thinking I want to make something for kingship like players,
old ones and potentially new ones. And because of that, I knew that, okay, I can go to, like,
Kingshude players, like, Morrowind players, and show them this game, and they might like it.
Knowing who you are making this game for is really important. Even if you are making a game
for yourself, because, hey, this is my dream game, try to think, okay, what other game I like,
so I can kind of try to trace it back to what other people from, like, other game communities
I enjoy my dream game
There's actually a trend on Twitter specifically for that that lasted for quite a while in the indie space
That was you basically post my game is for Kingsfield enjoyers
Algorithm help me find them and then everyone to just post that like 15 times and then they'd retweet another indie
So there's again
There's there's like a ton of like community based stuff
That's like that and I found a bunch of games through that like a bunch of games through that and some of them are actually here in
In December
Yeah, it's it's one of those interesting things is you you should you're right
You should always be looking out for ways to show off what you're working on
I guess the best thing is a lot of people don't realize this your games not gonna sell itself and you're your biggest hype man
No matter what's going on you you gotta tell everyone about the thing you're working on you got to be proud and loud about it
And it's it's too often that like a good game dies because someone's like oh man
I can't tell anyone about it cuz it's not ready. No tell them show them show everybody
Show them everything, you know, and like then go from there and you know people if you find out that people like it
Then they're probably gonna follow it the whole whole time that you're building, you know
I can tell you if you want no
That ruins the fun I
Noticed that it closed so I'm like that's probably done
No, I love this. I actually love that you have these like weird intricate puzzles in here. It's quite cool
I already seen some people in fact figuring out
And I think you might laugh when you find out what is not working. No, don't say it and shit
Don't you do it. Don't don't Merry Christmas to you. Merry Christmas to you as well
Merry Christmas yesterday. It's a good day. I had a blast community
I intentionally did not have anyone on yesterday. So we had no IndieSemary yesterday because there were a bunch of Indies
They're like, this is my only chance to like show off my game. I'm like dude is Christmas. I'm like, no
That's true actually I can confirm that because I was supposed to be here on Christmas
Yeah, and they got like a message like a week ago. Hey, can we schedule maybe?
Yeah, yeah, I didn't want that to be a thing when I found out that they had scheduled people were Christmas
So I was like, no, like don't do that, dude.
Like you shouldn't have to choose.
That's not fun.
It's not good, you know?
Well, with that being said, we are now at time,
but is there anything else you'd like to say
to the community before we head out?
I don't know.
I want to thank everyone for liking this game,
for a lot of positive feedback.
I want to thank you for inviting me.
I want to thank my community member
who give you the nation that's basically made me be here.
Uh, well, that last one's actually, that sounded wrong.
That's sorry.
No, thank, like, honestly, thank you for telling me about this game.
I don't remember the exact person who did it, but in fact, I don't even think it was one.
I think it was like three or four people brought it up and I was like,
Yeah, enough people are talking about this.
I'm going to go check it out.
In fact, I have a way of finding out.
All of our TTS messages, every single one of them are stored in the Discord permanently.
Verho. Yeah, it's two of them actually. Vostel and Bobarino Jones both talked about the game.
Chris of Verho. Or Verho, Chris of Faces. Yeah, Chris of Verho, lol. But no, so thank you both
for bringing it up because yeah, that's great. That's awesome. And this is how we find out
out about more games doing that helps every indie that keep doing that yeah that's true and yeah
nothing does it well it's been lovely talking with you your game is really cool and i found a really
cool weapon that i want to be able to use now because it scales with my it and it's a spell
blade the spellblade sword i think is cool yeah with that in mind thanks man and uh your game
is really cool. And if you guys want to follow it, if you want to wishlist it, please do. That helps
any game ever. Wishlisting the video game is like uploading on YouTube. It's like sharing on Twitter.
This is how you help indie devs show their game to others and wishlist it because then
Steam wants to show it to more. That was so enjoyable. Wishlisting, yeah.
Would you mind me also like sending the link to Bonhoff, for example, because I think
other people might also enjoy that game. Yeah, yeah. Throw it in the chat. It might
might get caught by the bot and then I'll just repost it a bunch of times.
Okay.
Or maybe I'll just send it to your discord.
I guess that works.
That works.
I'm going to send out your an invite to the discord.
If you guys want to follow this game and like talk to the dev more directly,
here's their discord.
There you go.
Post it in chat.
Yeah.
Feel free to join.
And then I will grab that link from you.
Oh God, I'm in a different channel.
There's a billion channels in here.
You only see yours.
There's like a hundred for me.
Yeah, I get that. No worries.
And so this is your next game on this?
Or is this a game you're working on now? This is the next one?
Yeah, this is like the side game that I'm working on with the Lead Developer of Bloodlust.
We make it in like a month, and now we are like polishing it for December.
Like I said, it will be like a roguelike combination with kind of like King's Fielder or Dungeon Crawler.
And, yeah, I think it will be pretty cool, honestly.
Dude, that looks rad.
It's a lot of fun to test.
No, I love that. That looks actually awesome.
Oh, yeah.
Thank you.
this. It reminds me, it's funny because I've played a lot of like dungeon crawler games
going all the way back to like, I am a beholder, etrianodysse stuff like that. And it reminds
me of that, but with like Hexen style movement, I dig this. I really dig this.
I think it will be cool for like Hexen players to, I also think are what we will be doing
after that we'll be even cooler for Hexen players.
Yes.
I hope that at least carry the genre for those who haven't seen Hexen before. I
Do you think they have Hexen up on here now?
Do they have the original Hexen?
I don't know, they do.
They might have the original Hexen.
They have the remake, which is like the original.
It's pretty good. You can play it on like the big settings or remastering the game,
but you can also play the game as it was in the first release.
That's awesome.
It's like old school Doom, but like you're using swords and magic, which is red.
Instead of big gun, you have big mace, you know,
there's such a cool time in games back then.
Yeah, that's rad as hell.
But anyway, thank you very much for being on and I will, I will see you later.
Your game is red and you should feel really proud.
Honestly, it's a rock on.
Thank you for the interview.
I'll see you around.
See ya.
What a sick game dude. What an awesome game. Yeah, Verho is cool. I really liked that experience actually I
Um, I really like the narrative. I really liked. Oh man. Look at the some of the weapons you can get the hell
It has an eye
Yeah, no, this is really awesome. I really really like this man. I really like this
I think I think he's done a very good job. It fits in that genre really neatly the
you know
The gameplay feels really good. It feels very much so like like Hexen like that old-school dungeon crawler kind of a thing
But a little bit slower and more methodical the monsters are interesting
The secrets are very cool. I like that
It's a cursed blade good. Anything with eyeballs is cursed. I've learned this
But no, I dig that man. I really really do. I think you're making something amazing and
I
Want to play the rest of it. So hell yeah
Anyway, we're going to get switched out and we'll get back to ashes for a little bit.
It's giving me a lot of rad game.
Oh, actually, I also need to save as I didn't.
So give me just a minute.
I'm going to go pop this open, launch this, switch that, there we go.
Horizon reveals the elder truth. Yeah. More caravans. No. No, no, no, no, no, no.
Read the guild objective. We have a very specific guild objective.
We're at 30%. Good. That is exactly what I was hoping for.
30 to 31% was the goal right there during that.
So that's really good. Give me just a minute.
I'm going to get everything set up.
That should be set to issues. There we go.
And this should be set to
Ashes? There we go.
There we go. Is it gonna work?
Ashes, please? There we go.
All right, I'll be right back. I'll use the bathroom.
She is sleeping.
I stole more devil eggs and I'm eating them.
She'll never know.
She'll never know.
Oh my god my hubris.
My hubris.
There's so much hubris.
I don't want her!
That was worth it.
Worth.
Worth.
Cool.
We're eating deviled eggs a dozen is perfectly fine.
My friend, you're not thinking big enough.
Why stop it, it doesn't.
I know it's the right amount of deviled eggs, because after I eat them, I feel like I've
run.
It's like, ugh.
I was just whispered by someone that said do you have any skill injectors for sale get out of here
30%
30% and our opponents haven't even got up one. I'm there in the level before us
Good job lads
Hello Phoebus, Phoeblerino
Phoebleron
I arrive to the island to see that there are still elephants here alive.
Dear god, what has been happening in my stead?
Horrific.
I must fix this at once.
Truly unacceptable behavior.
10,000 years dungeon with enough fertilizer it's been a group quickly well
Well, you know, yeah, you got to consume the years before they consume you.
What's the note xp at 30% we're kicking ass.
We're almost a third of the way there.
Today, our goal is to get to one half.
That is the overall goal.
So by by midnight tonight, the goal is to get to one half.
So 50% of the node.
And we can do this as long as we're running enough raids to do it.
did that raid collapse earlier we still got people like raid running out
there is five scouting missions if you see nightmares about elephant ears and
need a little break hmm what do you mean scouting mission five of them you
mean a five-man scouting mission or do you mean five total scouting missions
Because we need people on the side.
Unless they're out there killing.
Killing is fine.
As long as they're killing at a specific location.
The location for killing.
Your split groups to get a bit of XP is well good.
The raid was quite fun though.
It was very, you know, very powerful.
Oh, they're doing...
They're doing, uh...
scouting missions to do commissions?
No, that's really slow.
It's really slow, even if you have a, even if you have amenity, my plan is eventually to get a boat and then do party crews where we do like 80 people on one boat and then take them around and do all the scouting and then bring them all back and everybody turns into the same time.
That would be really powerful.
Like that's, that's the good way.
You need it to be, you need it to be efficient. And the only way that's efficient is at scale.
You know.
There was a way as little as he stole Shea's eggs. No, no. I didn't steal Shea's eggs.
They were in the fridge and nobody's name was on them. As such, they're open season.
If you didn't want the deviled eggs eaten, then they shouldn't have been there without
a name on them. Obviously Meatball did this too. He was awake. I saw him.
Yeah, not stolen. Not stolen. Acquired.
Paradox333 with 500 bits said I have been a long time fan and you helped me significantly
to keep me positive and motivated. The thing is that I also went to the top. I was helped
my loving partner and family and was able to recover over a long time. I am now at
face-line with the help of psychiatrist and therapist.
I'm really glad you're doing okay, and I hope you continue to do so.
Understand that life is going to have ups and downs for all of that, man.
And like, you know, you figured out you had a problem, you went to go to a professional
for it, and now you're doing really well.
Good.
Good.
Even if you have times that are rougher beyond this, you're still a good valuable
person, right?
You're not lesser for it, and if you never have a problem again, you're also not lesser
for it, right?
Either way, you're moving forward, you're learning about yourself, and the weird biomechanical
mech that you pilot through life, it's a very strange thing to be doing.
Yeah, good on you for seeking help too.
I think there's too much stigma around that.
I think a lot of people have this stigma where it's like, oh, I don't need to get
help because if I get help, then it's real.
They have this idea that getting help shows that you're weak in some way or that you're
damaged or broken and that's just not the case.
Stigma, you mean Ligma?
Yes.
As in you have Ligma.
I'm so sorry.
Problems or puzzles that just haven't been solved, I like that.
And co-op is a fine option, I also like that.
You can say stigma balls.
Two kinds of community member.
Paradox333 with 600 bits said I also just got a new job that I love and has the best hours.
Nice!
I have gained many brain cells.
Well, you gonna share them with chat?
Please don't.
Please.
They have seven alone and if you give them more, I fear what could happen.
So please, if you have more brain cells, just keep them, and keep them.
Yes, you look they're saying seven.
Yeah, they know.
They know how many brain cells they have.
I'm glad you guys split into three groups, so lower levels get XP.
We should have at least five groups running.
That is a big thing for this.
About every half hour, by the way, in here, I was getting about 300 plants solo.
So like, you could make bank off of this as well.
Like really make bank.
Because you just vendor it all.
Vendor the whole thing.
Get the frog like you'd know.
Yes, Grigorvold?
Yield token.
Yield token.
Gathering interrupted player moved. I know it's super weird.
Did you give me salt? Did you sneak salt into that trade? God damn it.
Onto your bullshit. What if we get seven squared brain cells?
a lot of brain cells. That's too many. Yeah, no, we can't allow that.
They had that earlier, did I?
Where did I get so I safe? No idea where I got it.
I assume that you snuck it in.
Hmm.
I wish I could see the stats of my pet, you know, could be from a crate commission.
Yeah, Commissioner.
Me blue zero said hello Thor, I wanted to thank you for helping me this year, at the
end of last year I was in a bad place mentally, I didn't want to do anything, not even
things I enjoyed, but with your advice and help from my family I recovered a couple
months later.
Now I'm actually doing stuff.
While I was on my quest to better myself I found another thing that needs fixing.
Now as of today, I can finally say I broke out of my porn addiction for good.
Thankfully, I noticed it before it got really bad.
One half.
Dude.
Good.
Yeah, a lot of people don't believe that that can be an addiction.
That absolutely can't.
Good for you.
100%.
Yeah.
100%.
Good job.
Blue Zero said another thing I'm thankful for is inspiring me to make games.
Right now I'm bouncing between drawing and making games, whatever I feeling at the moment.
I found that best results come when I actually want to do the thing.
One thing I struggle with in drawing is when I look at references, my brain thinks those
are real people and gets scared.
I don't like looking into people's eyes in real life too, so that's probably why.
This was the best year of my life.
Thank you again and Merry Christmas.
You know what's funny for me?
My problem is the opposite.
If it's a humanoid figure and it has no face, no features to read, it scares the shit out
of me.
I get a fight or flight response immediately.
I'm scared of mannequins.
I mean, it's a phobia, like straight up.
I know it's not rational.
I know it makes no sense, but there is a deep lizard brain fear immediately when
I see a mannequin with no face.
Bricks me out.
Even like, uh, like Virho, cursive, cursive faces, that was fine because there's a
little bit of features in the eyes and the opening of the mask and it's totally fine for me. Yep,
just freaks me out. Yeah, super scares me. Like I immediately, I get like, I get like jumpy,
because it scares me, dude. And it's, I know it's just a phobia. I know it's something that's not
real. I know the mannequin's not coming to get me, but I can't read the facial expression.
And it freaks me out, dude. Play Silent Hill? Nope. You're like, I want to see you freak
out but no like I'm serious like it scares the shit out of me dude you definitely get that it's
such a weird one though cuz like I don't know man like it's it's it's extreme my reaction is quite
extreme to it even if I see an image if I see a picture all of that you know what this one of
the scariest scenes in a movie was for me it was Neo losing his mouth because of that
Cause they immediately got that, oh no no no, cause it wasn't even like, a lot of people were like, oh I would, I, they think about what would happen to their mouth getting sealed and it freaks them out.
That's not what freaked me out. The thing that freaked me out is like, I can't read his face anymore.
It says a totally different thing that scared me, but it was very scary for me. Yeah.
It freaked me out bad, dude.
No, the bit that followed didn't bother me at all.
No, no, no.
Neo, Neo with the weird squid robot, none of that shit bothered me.
The idea that I wasn't afraid of my own face being sealed, like it scared me because I couldn't
read his face anymore.
Freaked me out completely.
Rathberger Live said Game Changer had an incredible bit about deviled eggs.
If you haven't seen it, you need to see it.
Link incoming.
I will watch this because I love deviled eggs. I am so full of deviled eggs right now. I have eaten
I think I've eaten 20 deviled eggs like approximately 20 deviled eggs in the last 24 hours
Like I'm replacing portions of my physical body with deviled eggs at this point. Oh, that's not good. No, that's good
You don't understand. I am a machine that is powered by deviled eggs.
I am a deviled egg powered robot and I'm fine with that.
Like, you input deviled eggs and you get streaming.
The hubris wasn't even that great. I could still breathe in that clip.
The hubris is only bad when I can't breathe because of the amount of deviled eggs that I'm currently eating.
And I could breathe there so we know it's not bad enough it can be worse. I could be worse
You shouldn't eat that many deviled eggs look
I've taken your feedback into account
And I've decided to become worse and I will eat all of the deviled eggs as a result. Yeah
All of them not not a few of them not a lot of them all of them
She has to hide them from me
The fact that they are in the refrigerator and not in a location that is outside of my knowledge
means that Shay knows that I will eat those double eggs.
That means they're for me.
If I can see those, they're for me.
And I will keep eating them until it feels like my heart is chewing them.
That's when I know I've had enough.
Spoilers.
No, it's not.
I wouldn't stop that either.
More.
Always more.
Famous last words. You know, honestly dude, if I have an Elvis Presley-style death, but it's deviled eggs,
that's a great end to make. I'm okay with that.
That's an end I would celebrate.
How did he die on the toilet eating deviled eggs?
Glorious.
Put that on my tombstone.
Perfect.
I feel like that's a high score end to me.
He died doing what he loves.
Eating deviled eggs like a complete fat ass.
Yeah.
Praise to the devil eggs.
Dude, I love double eggs.
Like, it's an addiction.
Yeah.
Like, I love them.
And there are all kinds of ways to make them too.
You could put, like, gherkin relish in them,
or you could put, like, more paprika on them.
So many ways to make them.
Yeah.
And then, like,
That brico and the guy's so many ways to make devils.
One time, one time I found out
that you could put about 50 eggs
in an instant in a 12 quart instant pot.
And it makes 50 hard boiled eggs
in about a minute and a half because of the pressure.
And then you could take those out,
you can make deviled eggs with every one of them.
You can make 50 full eggs worth of deviled eggs
in about 15 minutes.
That's beautiful.
It's just a beautiful time, honestly.
Yeah, eggonomics.
See, I'm at that stage of deviled egg addiction, where I think about the most efficient way to
create and consume them.
Yeah.
Yeah, you get 100 deviled eggs.
Okay, here's a question to you.
And this is gonna change how you feel about my day.
Is the deviled egg the half of the egg filled with stuff?
Or is it a whole egg?
Need an egg sponsor? I have chickens, there's a reason for that.
It's half? Okay, I've had 40 double eggs today.
I was thinking that was the whole egg. I've had 40 then. Yeah, 40 in the last 24 hours.
That sounds a lot worse when I stay down. That doesn't sound as healthy or good for
me. But that's fine. That's fine. I said 20 because I thought the whole, the whole
egg, right? Yeah, this is fine. That sounds not healthy. You know, that's a
problem for future me. All right, current me is styling.
Heard me is enjoying his deviled existence with egg. Egg madness. Yeah, I'm
fine with this. At least you were honest. I mean, yeah. That's a lot of eggs.
That's a lot of fat. Yeah. Dude, stop. Why? Give me a reason, cronus. Lawyer me out of
eating deviled eggs.
You'll have to schedule shit yourself, and I don't want to. That's a problem for
future me. Put it on the calendar. I don't have to deal with it. Later, Thor
does. Currentthor gets to consume all of the deviled eggs. You haven't persuaded me.
Shit yourself is not my problem.
It's his problem. That guy's an asshole. He's in the future.
The summoner in the title? Your class? Yeah, it's my class.
And I'm on the server, Lyneth.
Oh, 739 on that?
Oh, it's blood-facing.
That's probably bad.
Can you set a bottom run somehow?
There is an auto run hotkey.
You can't auto run to a location, you can just auto run in a straight line if we're
the Warcraft.
Rude.
Noice.
Stop eating deviled eggs? No.
I see your concern. I look over at you in the chat and I whisper,
No, I will continue to consume deviled eggs.
They're the best. In fact, the only thing that's gonna stop me is that there's no eggs in a 50 foot radius in my position.
That's it.
That's the only reason I can stop and I'm gonna be honest with you.
There are two deviled eggs left in the fridge.
I left them there as a peace treaty because when Shay wakes up and finds out I ate all of the deviled eggs,
she's probably gonna be a little bit upset, but she'll be less upset because there are two left over.
I might be able to leave one.
I'll think about it might be the note hit 15. No, we're still working on where 31
Yeah, I'm aware of all see what you have to understand is once you ascend because you've eaten enough deviled eggs
You gain a power right and the power that I chose is I can I can sense all deviled eggs in a 50 foot radius of my current position
I know when they enter that zone of influence that I have
If I eat more deviled eggs, I may be able to expand that zone of influence mostly because I expand as well
Thus increasing it by several inches in that 50 foot radius
That expansion does come at a cost though because it counts me as encumbered a little bit difficult, but
Yeah, I don't want to be cucumbered while I'm trying to get my deviled eggs, dude.
Yeah, cucumbered, dude.
I love deviled eggs.
I can't stop thinking about it now.
Once you start, once I start talking about it, I can't stop thinking about it.
Love deviled eggs.
There was domain expansion?
Oh, dude.
Domain expansion, deviled eggs.
I would do that.
If I could domain expansion, deviled eggs and the like, it's just like an infinite dimension
of that?
I would never leave.
Like we wouldn't even fight.
I'd just do it and leave.
Yeah.
That'd be over.
How many demon hands do I have to eat to get domain expansion, deviled eggs?
How many?
Domain expansion.
Okay.
winner yes I need more demon demon fingers do can you pickle devil eggs a
pickled egg made into a devil egg would be really good damn good yeah I can do
that sweeter deal pickles depends depends on what I want to do I like
gherkins for him I like deal pickles for him sometimes I like other types of
pickles like it depends on what I like for the day carrot pickles for that
Really good.
That freak on it.
Maybe no pickling.
It's an egg.
It's an egg that is also a bowl.
Oh.
Japanese soy sauce eggs
and deviled eggs. I hate that.
Oh, this is so good.
Garlic deviled eggs.
Ah.
Noctis6502 said,
Greetings Uncle Thor,
of ferrets, king of goblin kind. I want to wish you and all the goblins happy holidays
and seasons dookings. Thank you very much for Indiasember and our awesome community. It's
inspiring me to get off my and do things. Fun fact, Yamaha is both a motorbike company
and a music company. They also made Vocaloid. That means Hatsune Miku technically is cousins
with the Yamaha R6 bike.
Do you want a really fun one?
Another weird combination?
Good Smile Corporation is a toy creator
that made toys for Disney for a long time.
Good Smile Corporation is also
a very large investor in 4chan,
which makes 4chan a Disney princess.
Enjoy!
Yeah, that's a weird one.
I love weird business combos.
Love it. Yeah. Do not want. Yeah. Enjoy that shit.
Have you ever tried vanilla ice cream with olive oil and salt? No.
I've never tried that. You ever tried garlic ice cream?
Roasted garlic ice cream is boss. Actually,
I tried it first at a place called the Stinking Rose,
which was a restaurant in Southern California. And it was amazing.
It was so good, dude. Like it's basically the whole,
Meal everything is garlic, and then by the end you have garlic ice cream. It's just amazing. It's just so good
Nurgle is also a Disney princess true now. Yeah, that is true
You can't sue Merry Christmas and have a happy new year
You have to try it yeah, no garlic ice cream is good, dude
I would try it out see if you like it right yeah garlic ice cream
It's it's a roasted garlic and then they mix it into the ice cream and then it'll have like whole cloves
That are like nice and kind of and that's it, you know good morning through a chat. I've now moved into apartment. Congratulations
You're adulting now
You've done it. I
Hope the apartment is not super expensive. I hope you live in an area where rent control makes it easy for you to stay there
Oh my god, Disney is screwed why is Nurgle and a sonic makes toilets
Here
Pay Lorzan, pay, pay, pay, pay Lorzan, pay Lorzan, pay Lorzan, I have many questions, how do I pronounce your name, number one, number two, thank you for the writing party of seven, which now that I've said that, chat's gonna love.
Today's your birthday. You had level 37. Nice. Another 7 in chat. There it goes. Chat loves
the number 7. You know not the power you have, sir.
I'm mostly just out here soloing, even though I'm in the group. Slapping it up. Oh, Jhinigwene.
I love a Gwena.
A Gwena.
There we go.
Not good.
Please get out of that poison, dude.
No, out of the poison.
Out of it.
Out of it.
Oh, you idiot, pet.
My pet's a dumbass.
It wouldn't get out of it.
Dodged it.
Dodged it.
I don't know the dodges this time. Wait, I do?
I kept hitting follow, and my pet was like,
No, I want to steer the poison. The poison's mine.
Great, dude.
Fantastic job.
job. It's very nice, very cheap. I was living with my mom for a month after the break up,
but now I got my own place. That's fantastic. I'm glad you got your own. It's tough, man.
And I think one of the scariest things for a lot of people is having to move back in
with their parents. But at a time of such economic upheaval, it's not abnormal, especially
if you get out of a break up, you know. I'm glad your family was able to be there
for you that's a good thing really good thing actually can't believe Thor wanted
all the poison for himself right what's your opinion on high guard I don't know
what that is what is high guard I've never been heard of that game in you
know the parents option anymore not everybody does I'm sorry to hear that
man yeah I don't know anything about that game you say Concord to is it
Just the art style that's turned you off.
Oh, the deviled eggs are mad.
A devil duck egg had it.
They're amazing.
Lady kitty.
Good name.
Hero shooter.
Same art style.
I think that was a problem is Concord.
If you actually go and watch the animations at Concord, it looks phenomenal.
Like the animations, the gunplay, all of it looked really good, but the art
style was such a turn off.
that a lot of people were just like, this sucks.
Immediately, they were like, this sucks.
And I think the reason why is they just,
a character needs to have like a primary color
and a couple of secondary colors.
And they need to kind of work together cohesively.
And Concord was like, what if we just did them all?
It was like, dude, everybody looks like
they're wearing clown makeup.
Stop it, like stop doing it.
It's not, the character isn't identifiable.
It doesn't feel, it doesn't feel like a character
You know sort of trait with their colors they just rainbow dip them and pastel colored a lot of them
It just was very strange and some of the color combinations actually looked really cool
But those weren't the ones that they showcased and I'm like dude
Is the game good I enjoy it I enjoyed a lot, but I'm also biased and I've been playing it for two years
So there's that oh
Big mushroom
I think I just discovered my win condition.
That's the one.
No, I've played this game for two years, dude.
Yeah, this game, Kuro.
Yeah, the color choices were not good in Concord.
I think it was a big problem for it.
No South American servers.
I'm going to be honest with you.
You don't need them.
Go and play US East.
People from Europe and US East are getting 60 to 80 ping and is the same or
better from people in South America.
It is phenomenal.
I don't know what they, what weird voodoo black magic they did for the
servers, but the ping is amazing.
It's like really, really good, dude.
Some somber somber rook for me it was and the reason why is I knew what I was
getting into I knew very clearly that this was an alpha it was something that
I thought was very cool it was not a financially stupid decision for me and I
wanted to become a part of it well being able to turn in bugs and you know be a
part of the alpha process and so I made that decision for me for other
people you got to make that decision for yourself man do you do you want
to be a part of that you want your character to be wiped you want to deal with scuff like
do you want to give feedback and if the answer to those things is no then don't buy it like
just wait dude like wait for it to launch but for you know the time that I've been in this
game I got to have a lot of experiences that I otherwise wouldn't have like we used to have
like Steven the game director would fly around and fight us in PVP while shooting fireballs
like some God to try and test server performance or you know like in the beginning of this
game there wasn't even like this area man didn't even exist there was no grass on
the ground in any environments like all we had was the riverlands we've got to
see it slowly evolve right and it was fun it's been fun the whole way even for
the community we did like crazy events like the other day we did these ship
events and we're stuck inside the ships when this game launches that won't
happen anymore so we got to see ridiculous stuff is it still total
wipes oh yeah yeah they'll total wipe it they've made so much progress yeah
Gullam answers has been here since the beginning just like me we've been
hear the whole time and it's crazy how much progress the game has made. It's phenomenal
action. And it's one of those things of, if you don't think it's good value for you, good.
Wait. Or maybe don't ever play it. Either way is fine.
Do you know from an experience that Shea will get mad if you eat all the eggs?
Yes. However, I don't know how many eggs I'm supposed to leave. I left two. If
If I leave one, is that too few?
I'm gonna leave two.
Yeah.
I'm expecting a problem.
But I'm creating the... I'm taking the exceptional sacrifice to not eat all of the deviled eggs.
Two is there.
Two is enough.
She knows my deviled eggs addiction, so the idea that I've left two should be exciting
in some way.
Or expiring.
of the two. Yeah. I think I've executed this quite well. Yeah, I'm extending an olive
branch. It's true. Exceptional times all for exceptional measures. Maybe I'll make eggs,
Devil eggs before she wakes up to replace them.
I just eat them. I know who I am.
Yeah, I could not replace somebody in a mutton.
You're right.
All right, we got the next game for in December.
You guys ready?
I love that we've moved all 31 31% was the goal for the first in December game we got
to get to 34 by the time I'm done with the next one.
So by 9am we should have 34% on the island to stay on track.
goals any goals all right I'm gonna head back to safe land and then we're gonna
go play the next in December game
you have keys to give for this game I'll be giving you an active chatters
across the first hour that's great that's really cool the next game is a
cozy game so if you'd like cozy video games that'll be the one for you and
it's one that I followed for quite a while myself I like their arts though
I find it to be unique and cute and we're gonna have fun with it. So, yeah
What percentage of deviled egg would you say that you are?
How much does the devil egg way?
Well half a devil egg the devil egg how much is that way generally?
50 grams 840 of them
And I weigh 185 pounds.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm probably 31%.
Yeah, we're looking for 1% an hour right now.
All right.
We're going to play the next game.
Let me get this set up.
me just a minute and then we'll get going. I love it. So you don't notice that.
DeKar said hello Mr. Thor Thorington Thorinches. I really want to play AOC and I don't mind
the alpha stuff, bugs and all that. Just wondering if it can be played without having
to invest plus 100 h weekly considering work and all that.
Yeah, you don't have to do that. Just play casually. There's nothing wrong with that
man. I think a lot of people get kind of up on this thing where they're like I have to be
super efficient. If I'm not super efficient, then I'm not, I'm not doing well. Just, just
play casually, play couple hours each day, or maybe even like every other day, right?
It doesn't even matter. As long as you're getting on and doing something and helping
the guild, like no one's going to be upset about that. Not at all.
There we go. Apply those changes. Apply these changes. Go to here. I don't know what
The sound options are all that's pretty one moment.
And do the video game.
That's nice.
I like that.
I like that, it's good, it's cute, I'm 3.04% doubled egg, we gotta up those numbers, that's
rookie numbers, I could get to 5% by the end of the day, 5% of my body mass being a doubled
leg I'm down I can fix this I think I'll ascend as a person if that happens I
think I will yeah game is cute all right the next game in December is called
Taleside it is a cozy cafe simulator yeah cozy video game cozy game I'm excited for
I've been following the dev on social media for a while. I had seen their stuff. We wanted to show it off ages ago and
Nothing ever kind of synced so now I was like hey
Do you want to show it off for any summer and I reached out to them and I was like cool
I rock on dude, and they've got some really good options in this. I like I like the menus
This looks nice, but this caught me. There's a little guy over here. Hold up
Do this little guy when you click him
It's just a little dude.
I love that.
It's just tiny stuff.
What is this?
What?
In game, go to settings, twitch, enter your twitch username and channel name and then
connect.
I mean, your twitch username is your channel.
Oh, Steam. Wait, no, Steam. So it's a connection from a Steam game to Twitch.
Okay. Successfully authenticated, Twitch account.
Type coffee in the chat to order. You guys will be able to do coffee once you're started.
That's cool. Yeah, you'll be able to order coffee, I guess. Yeah.
Let's do it. What are we naming our cafe, chat?
No, don't do coffee yet. We're not in yet.
What are we naming our cafe?
What are we naming it? What are we naming it?
Kitten Cafe? God damn it.
Deviled Eggs.
Thor's Addiction.
Cafe Egg.
It's gonna have a good name.
Beans, beans, beans.
We just call it beans.
I like beans.
He's a good ferret. Good ferret named beans.
Cafe? Okay hold up.
I ate so many double legs.
I ate so many. I ate so many double legs.
Yeah, I ate so many double legs. I can't eat the cafe too.
I'm gonna call it beans.
I'm just gonna call it beans. Beans.
Look at that animation. That's beautiful.
This version is not available for streaming as it may still contain bugs and finished features and potential saving loading issues.
As you may already know, this version is exclusive released for Talesend fundraisers and supporters.
The game now moving into its beta phase. We're entering the last stretch before launch.
They sent me this key. I'm supposed to play this version on stream.
Yes.
Uh.
Welcome to your new cafe. Take a look around. Walk and run.
we're moving it's got like Animal Crossing style like speaking I just
finished cleaning up around here and I can really use a coffee right now
speaking of that why don't we make ourselves some before we continue
gonna build it how do we do it interact I'm interested in a simple
coffee making set in here I'm sure you probably already know how to use it
guys you're all ordering coffee I don't think it's time yet I'm doing the
tutorial it's gonna be okay small cup beans right it nice
brew the coffee and then click pour I like that all wiggles yeah I've kept an
old coffee journal on the right for making different types of coffee that
You can use.
It's like a coffee-themed cheat sheet
for when your brand needs coffee, too.
All right.
All right.
I like that everything kind of like expands
to make it easier for you to play with
and they all turn wiggle.
Neat.
All right.
Prepare two of them.
I gotta make a second one.
Oh God, wait, this is gonna be a time trial thing,
Isn't it? Oh, we have three burners. It's gonna be a madhouse.
Much better. Sir, I forgot to introduce myself.
My name is Tuffy and I'll be helping you settle down here since others are a bit busy with their own work.
But don't worry, you'll meet them soon enough.
In the meantime, I'd love to get to know you better.
So tell me what brings you here out of all places?
I've always wanted to own my own cafe or I just wanted to find a peaceful place.
I'm gonna say I just wanted to find a peaceful place.
To eat devil bags.
No one must know my crippling addiction to deviled eggs. I get it. Sometimes life needs that little that extra bit of warmth and comfort
And a cup of coffee in the right place feels like a warm hug in a mug
That's a really good writing. This gives me a better idea of how to make your stay here more welcoming. Speaking of making things welcoming
Let's get back to the cafe. I was thinking we could spruce it up a bit
You know make it look a bit more like an actual cafe
Would you mind making another cup of coffee for me while I go grab a few things?
How many cups of coffee are they going to drink?
You think that's healthy at that point?
We've already done two Espresso's.
Wait.
There we go.
Wait, did I already do it?
Oh God, I have so many beans.
It's probably fine.
New build mode items.
Okay, we got table, chair, another chair, and another chair.
I want to build and make stuff up I grabbed a few things for my storage
It's nothing fancy, but good for a start. Why not place them around to see how it looks
How do we place with B?
Nice oh
You can just place it anywhere
What is up there there's a window there oh
But there's a path out there, so it means it's a door
I'm just gonna put it there
Sometimes such as chairs are rotatable
Just make sure the next two tables unless you're opening a chair museum. Maybe I am opening a chair museum, right?
Good sound for that
Oh, I only get one chair
Someone's got to get the weird chair good
Alright.
Place the table and all the chairs. Alright.
Now we can actually start feeling like we're in a cafe.
It does need more improvements, but we'll get to that later.
And don't worry, I'll give you coins for all this coffee making.
Since cafe isn't open yet, let's pretend I'm a regular customer coming back for more.
We're only pretending that, right? You're not...
You're not like actually drinking a fourth espresso in the morning, right? Not...
Wait, wrong order.
What is your- what's your order, man?
How do we- how do we do it?
What if I cook it again?
What if I cook it again?
You just got a call from the last application you had for a home.
We're approved.
It's smaller.
And it'll be rough, but it's vastly cheaper, and we won't be homeless.
My man!
Proud of you, dude.
Congratulations.
That's a big deal.
So that's not the right order.
Where is the right order?
My task is to reach level three.
What's this?
Yep, there's still under construction.
I had to go out to get some more wood to finish the job.
I drew my locks at level 10.
Can I just leave?
escaping
What did I do wrong what's this ah?
There we go, so at level three we get Machiado we have to reach level three somehow
But I actually don't know how
Streamers can't read can I not read did I do something wrong?
How do I reach level three I?
Everything built what am I?
It says wrong order when I build it. I may have done this wrong
But what happens if I
Yeah, look see
This is wrong order. I
Think it's cuz you didn't put the cups first. I don't think so
There is a great option really clipped in twight. Did I do something wrong?
wrong.
Cup first?
I already did that.
This is wrong order.
Top left?
This thing?
Or outside?
No?
I was reading.
Did I do it wrong?
Oh god, I'm gonna fail being a barista.
Add almond milk.
There's no almond milk.
We're so poor.
I was reading.
Did I do it wrong?
Oh god, I'm gonna fail being a barista.
Add almond milk, there's no almond milk.
We're so poor.
Deb said you may have found a bug.
Oh.
It's not streamer blindness, you can't blame that.
It's not streamer blindness.
Report a bug.
I can't reach level three.
But the dev knows.
Okay, I will restart it then.
And we'll try again.
I love that animation.
That animation is beautiful.
I'm going to start it over again.
This isn't Ash's, you're not supposed to be finding mugs.
Almost every game that we've played for December has bugs.
That is never anything that's wrong.
That is just a thing with video games, especially when it's an indie dev, right?
There's always going to be weirdness, always.
Yeah, the animation is beautiful.
It really is quite good.
Bug, I can't be a barista.
I'm bad at coffee
All right
I'm gonna skip introduction this time wait. What was that? Who were you?
That's a new person
Really been missing this place since the last owner left you should be here any moment now go in
Oh, got a bear person.
Seems like I'm not too late.
I just finished gathering the last wooden I needed to finish the upstairs.
You must be the new owner of this haunted...
What do you mean haunted cafe?
Haunted?
I'm just kidding.
Every old place needs a spooky story, right?
But really, the only haunting thing about this place is the way an empty cup feels
like a tragedy.
Not haunted.
Where are my manners?
The name's Maple.
Born under a big old maple tree, so the name just stuck.
I'm a carpenter and you probably don't know this yet, but all that furniture you're using, they're coming straight from my workshop.
Did the maple tree inspire your work?
Absolutely! Being born under that tree, I learned early on how beautiful and strong wood can be.
Every piece I make carries a bit of natural strength and beauty in its own way.
Now if you don't mind, let me take a moment to fix the last things upstairs.
Construction there.
Upstairs should be all ready for the
night now. Are you ready for tomorrow?
What do I need you tomorrow?
Lots of coffee making? I don't need for sarcasm.
Sorry, just making sure they didn't forget we're still around too.
Yes, your very first workday. It's exciting, isn't it?
I know I'm looking forward to seeing how it will go. Time's flying, but we'll
keep things short so you can get some rest. Almost my bedtime too.
Good thing you always seem to carry your journal. It's bound to come in handy.
We will pass by for coffee during our breaks.
Coffee's on me tomorrow.
Well, I mean you bought like four of them.
And your name is Toffee.
Your name is literally one letter away from coffee.
You're like 90% coffee at this point.
Wild.
Good never.
Open your journal J or through the icon in the bottom right corner.
And see if you're hearing some skill points.
Okay.
It's like a skill point.
Oh, it's got stuff.
Auto complete the latte art minigame? No.
Decrease coffee brewing time by 20%.
Milk heating time. Coffee grinder amount needed to two grinds.
Adds the honey latte recipe to your coffee menu.
Oh, we get more recipes. Oh dear god.
Adds the cappuccino recipe to your coffee menu.
Matcha. Matcha's delicious.
Yeah. Hot chocolate recipe in your cup. Hot chocolate. Done. I have more five more skill
points. Two. Two. Only one grind now. Singular grind. Wait. Obviously other dudes. Levels.
All right, I need to probably build this place. It's all cactus
I'm gonna put the cactus right there
So that way if anyone comes into my shop and they want to deal with me
They got to make sure that they don't hit the cactus while I'm back. I
Feel like that's a good way to be honestly
This is really this is really cute actually I love this
this
that this is good
so that table out
of the
week of more cafe counter or a different cafe counter, look at that
that's really nice actually
you spent a lot of time in making this feel
like you want to change the way that it feels for yourself I like that
And I like the crunching noises when you move objects the layering all feels nice and it feels good
Let a good job with this
I'm not sure I'm going to do that.
I'm going to go back to the map and look for the map.
I'm going to go back to the map.
What else can we put with this?
There's another chair here.
I think that's good for now.
Yeah.
Pastry display. Oh wait a minute.
Can we hide that in there?
There we go. Pastry display. Pastry display.
I want cakes.
Alright. Oh wait, it's got a grid snap too?
The grid snap is really nice.
Hey, the grid snap is actually quite good. I like that.
No, it feels really good. This looks weird, though. I'm gonna put it somewhere else.
Kinda like this.
Yeah, grid snap feels great.
Kinda feels like what the dev would want to intend for the look of things, for things to be stuck, you know?
So grid is quite good.
Can I put this on a different wall?
No, I think that works just fine.
Maybe up there?
Put it there.
That looks good.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Alright.
Interact.
Interact.
Interact.
Interact.
Interact.
Interact.
Interact.
Interact.
Interact.
Interact.
Interact.
Interact.
Interact.
I could probably lighten that up. Oh, it's nighttime.
Look at the lighting in that.
That's quite nice. It's just a radio light too, but it feels good. The sound is good for it as well.
Go-
Actually, look at that. I love this.
You just put a layer of the blanket without being like, I'm going to bed.
Me when I sleep, Chip. You just walk directly into the bed.
I actually love that. That's quite a flood.
Coffee made zero. Zero dollars. Amazing animation.
Butterflower and bold opinions. You can always tell when the pastry owner has been sent.
Or been by. The scent of sugar hangs in the air. The mood is noticeably lighter.
Her bakery is known for the croissants and debate on which filling is superior.
It's not just her baking. It's her presence. She doesn't make just pastries. She lifts the room.
All right.
What?
It's gonna, I'm just gonna sneak out of my bed.
It's not like the building on fire.
Let's fix that.
See, Toffee already helped you out with the ingredient management.
That means you're ready for the next important tradition right here.
We've got plushy reward machine.
Mayor said it up ages ago. Then asked me how it counts as official business
Mary came up with this mm-hmm. He insists it's good for the local economy, but between us
He just wanted one for himself. I just can't prove it
You can find it at the shop tucked in the other things you'll need
Plus you both need special plushy coins. They're not so easy to come by all we have a collectible then yeah, we have collectibles
Sure as way to work a full day without any sudden closures
There's also rumor I've heard.
Some creatures may carry coins, creatures.
You might want to leave the windows open when you're not working.
I should get back to the bakery now.
I don't want to use my own coin too.
Okay.
Are there cool crow bros that I get to be friends with?
Is that what's happening?
The terrace isn't quite ready yet.
Looks like I'll need a bit more time to finish things up properly.
Unlocks on day 20.
Alright.
How do we open our cafe?
With O!
Hello!
Welcome to the cafe!
You should come touch a cactus!
For good luck!
Cactiard, good luck! Give me that coin!
Wait, what are you doing?
What are you doing over there?
What's going on?
You want to give me that coin, dude?
Oh wait, they're already making orders!
Oh crap!
I have a problem!
One's an espresso, one's a macchiato, what do you mean wrong order?
What do you mean?
I don't make a macchiato, I made a huge mistake.
Select the coffee bean man's grind the beans,
bring the coffee with milk up, select the milk bag, steam the milk in the milk heater, alright.
Uh, but, wait is that the right cup?
Crap.
What kind of milk?
Small cup, alright.
Small cup, not a big cup, small cup.
Small cup
And then milk throw that in there
Do it do it
Do it
Perfect
Wait, did I forget to put the beans in the thing? I'm so dumb
I'm so dumb
Espresso there we go latte. How do I make a latte dude?
Big cup coffee beans milk
Latte art tool for art.
Okay, here we go.
Bean it?
Cook it?
Cook it?
Big cup?
Coffee?
Espresso and a big cup.
Unfinished.
Oh dear god, let's put a rabbit on it.
Victory's mine.
espresso and a hot chocolate next. I don't think I know how to make hot chocolate actually. I'm
also running out of beans. I don't make a hot chocolate. Big cup cocoa powder box. Cocoa
and cocoa heater milk bag. I don't have okay big cup cocoa powder box cocoa and cocoa
got it and then I got to do I guess just gonna be heated milk see milk in a
theater all right delicious
hot chocolate done
I'm learning I'm learning the way
Okay.
That light of the day, oh yeah, the dev did a really good job of this, honestly.
The little minigame here feels really quite good.
I'm a little bit worried I'm going to run out of resources, but I have no idea what that
means.
My cleanliness is quite low, so that's bad.
Wait, I'm out of beans?
What are we?
Okay, I've chosen all my beans.
What did I do?
I think I did it right.
I don't know yet.
I need to make it so that this goes faster.
My cleanliness is wrong.
Oh, I screwed it up.
I gave them a cup of nothing. Here you go.
Here's your coffee. Get out of my store.
Right?
I just handed them a cup of nothing.
Okay, I gotta clean this place. Oh my god, they're just throwing cups on the floor. Stop it.
No, don't do that. Dude. Dude, who does that? Who just throws cups on the floor, man?
Are you a donut? What is- What's happening here?
Is it a little donut person? Good.
Is that who I'm serving coffee to?
their animals that's a donut it's a donut creature oh wait we got ads are they
chat wait is that you guys I do back in the settings to make sure that we're
connected. We may not be connected. Might not be connected.
skipping the tutorial was a wrong idea. No, it broke before. So
it's just skipping it to not break it again. Looks like the
most stressful cozy game I've ever seen. It's not even
stressful. It's quite easy. It's very fun to be honest
I don't know what you're talking about.
Absolute coffee. Dude, your name is perfect for us.
Jeff Baristos. That is the one.
Yeah, it is an adorable game. It really is.
It's quite good
Nice play hell yeah, you guys doing great
All right.
Jeff barista Sting.
All Bezos.
Yeah.
All the Bezias are quite cursed.
They're wonderful, that one.
You need to tell me the coffees.
I mean...
Alright.
Mr. Bezos, please leave. We're making coffee.
Be gone, sir.
You getting your headphones though? Someone's always had them.
Alright. Ads are over.
the
the talents are coming in clutch only if the ground once is really useful
all crap
is that a big cup for the hot chocolate? I don't know. Big cup. Good. Should be a big
I got to be real.
Ooh, spirally.
Oh. Oh.
I love that you just kind of like draw it, it's fun, right?
There's nothing weird about it, I think it's really fun.
And it gives you, oh, wrong one.
It gives you like interesting little, like kind of like a happy thought when you do
it, when you click on it.
It's like very pretty, you know, things like that, a moon.
Yeah.
Yeah!
It's like pretty.
Pretty good job.
It's just like a lot of little nice touch things, you know?
Oh!
Beans!
Cost me money.
All those beans cost me money, man.
Gotta understand.
It's expensive.
We're in a coffee shop, it's expensive business, alright?
I'm gonna make this tiny swan.
Oh, there we go. I guess the longer you do it, correctly? Oh, I know!
Now!
My sadness.
Look at these animals, dude.
Who throws a cup on the floor? Look at this.
Ridiculous.
absurd, truly.
I can't believe it. I got 490 dollars though.
I got my coin arenas, dude.
Did I gain a level? I did not.
I got close to a level.
I think the next level is probably
autocomplete the Lotterra minigame
because it takes the longest, which means I get the most orders.
Which is sad because I like the Lotterra minigame.
You need to get more tables?
That's true.
That is true.
I'm going to enter the bed from the wrong side because I'm a rebel.
That's right.
That's right.
You can never leave, fair.
Oh, customer's report feeling watched, but by whom?
Oh, it is haunted.
An anonymous report has raised concerns. Some cafe customers feel washed. At first I suspect creatures from the forest
But after careful deduction, I've realized someone has been seen lurking sneaking peeks through windows and taking notes
Wait, that sounds like me. In unrelated news, I'll be reporting from a slightly farther distance from now on
Okay, that's funny actually
An old man
With a totally real mustache
hello don't mind me dude I'm minding who are you and why are you in my store
another
and
did I mind a real hard
as a guy doing
All right, I'm opening it.
We're beans-ing?
Oh my god, I was in the middle of this.
It tried to let me finish yesterday.
That's quite funny.
All right, espresso.
We don't want to serve it, nobody wants it, damn it.
Wait what?
Are you guys all coughing?
The deep horror.
New shop items unlocked, I gave it a level.
Blue.
What happens if somebody orders like a Machiavo?
Double shot espresso, ridiculous bullshit.
Like I imagine that, you know what I mean?
Like I really do imagine.
the like absurd the absurd request I feel like that's gonna happen eventually
I want a non-fat hot chocolate macchiato supreme with extra pickles it's
it's gonna happen dude
I'm ready
I like that as you do this one better it actually the image gets larger like the amount of space
that you clear? It's larger for that? It's quite good. Yeah. Spiral. So like if you go
Go into the dark area, it makes it so that the pore is slower.
I thought that was quite interesting.
Oh wait! God damn it!
Alright, I need to go clean the shop.
There's so many things.
Just throw cups on the floor.
What are these little guys doing, what are you little guys doing, what are you doing?
I'm mining that guy.
Alright we need a macchiato.
Oh god the beans.
Latte beans.
Go.
The moon.
It looks like the Lotties are the best when you can do it, but they actually take the most time, which is really interesting as well.
So they've done a really good job with creating these. I want to ask them kind of the plan for different types of drinks, or more expanding on this concept, because it feels really fun.
And I kind of wanted to know where their ideas are, you know what I mean?
Yeah, like food items. I want to understand the food items too, we haven't seen those quite yet.
Yeah.
Uh, latte.
Oh, god.
and
place
my customers wild animals to
look at his throne cops all over the floor man
and
and
you want this game
I think it's just nice because it's like one of those kind of like chill
You know coffee management and things and there's a bunch of things that just sort of make it faster as well because I have all the
The talent points and everything the talent points are quite good
So he's just adding that. Oh kind of the beans. I just sort my beans
Like the talent points will make that much faster, which I think is very interesting
It does make me wonder what is the day of the life of a barista anyway, right, like
what is that like?
New shop items.
I don't know.
I get plants.
Plants.
That's a good point.
And a- a bee!
My god, we have bees!
of
daily coffee go reached we get it
all barely
barely
just everywhere
animals do
let's see, can we build
it looks like I unlocked it but it doesn't look like it's out
maybe missing items
let's change this out, I like that one
Yeah, a little bit of pattern waddles. Yeah, they're quite good.
I can never leave.
Let me house them to the world.
Oh, developer, in this game, in this demo, can I leave the building or is that, that'll lock down?
You didn't leave them any place to clean it up for themselves? True.
Coffee barista Thor, thank you. You guys are the best.
That's that's great
Back to seal that's fine. If I become an old god of coffee. I'm okay with that
Yesterday morning the mayor stepped inside took a long look around and nodded then an official statement the mayor placed a stamp of approval declaring it a
quote a fine local coffee break spot after a full week of warm drinks the cafes earn its place around the forest
good
Is that the mayor? Oh, that's why he was wearing- that's why he was wearing the ridiculous face.
The fake mustache glasses.
The hidden secret mayor.
Oh, hi. Does someone request an official presence?
No. Well, too late. I have arrived.
Consider this your first face-to-face with the grand office of mayor, which is currently just me standing here.
Why the disguise?
Oh, you recognize me.
This guy's was flawless until I signed my name. I like to see things as they are before I start making declarations.
I was ready to prepare an entire speech, but I forgot what it was about. Anyway, great work here.
Is this a tradition though? Not exactly. Each new place has to get an official approval before it can truly join the heart of the town.
So congratulations again, and sorry to keep things short or polls.
They have my stamp approval and others have another place worth visiting and I'll let you get back to your world
And if you see someone with a mustache, that is not me. I only use disguises once. All right, buddy
Sunday the 7th. I want I want pastries. Do we add pastries?
We have no pastries there, right?
Harrison locks at day 20 and I gained a level they got three points
milk heating time coffee brewing time we could add matcha there's a bunch of other
recipes in here so we have honey latte mocha cappuccino and matcha and it looks
Looks like speed ups are in here too, so autocomplete the latte art minigame.
Decrease the milk heating time.
I'm gonna do brewing time on this one.
So 20% of brewing time is kinda huge.
I'll do the milk heating time in the next one.
Yeah, ice mocha is life.
I'm gonna be honest with you.
I don't drink coffee.
So I wouldn't now.
I'm ready.
good was brewed yesterday don't worry about it
i pre-brewed that one dude that's what makes it good right it's nice and fresh from yesterday
you singing matcha
I think I think we have an infinite espresso thing going on.
Somehow I have infinite espresso, I may have found another bar.
It's not ending.
Yeah, it's not ending.
Infinite espresso.
My god, they all just want espresso.
We're in a lot of coffee.
It's a lot of coffee.
Wait, did you guys do that?
Are you doing that?
Oh, no, Chad has gotten mad with power.
It's not advancing.
Oh, there we go.
advancing you guys ordered a lot of coffee is basically what happened oh no
you did it's all you it's chat oh no oh my god wait you're leaving you're leaving
cups of her a chat you gotta clean up after yourselves look at that the
cleanliness is all the way through the floor what have you done your monsters
oh my god they're everywhere what is that a is that a mustache on the floor
who leaves a mustache line around ridiculous
Oh, I'm done.
I wasted beans in the fall.
My cafe's name beans.
Moon.
Nope, nope.
The Latte's take forever.
Barista workers of chat.
Those who work at, say, Starbucks.
Is the latte hard to make?
I have no idea how this works.
Not at all.
Is pouring it into cool, cute animal shapes like a standard thing?
Is that like a thing that's normal?
Cause I know you always see like latte art online,
but I never know like how real that is
or if it's just for Instagram, right?
Sorting the beans.
You lit it and you sent it out.
All right, fair.
No shapes at Starbucks?
Yeah, I was wondering about that because like I see so many like, wow, look at that beautiful
latte art that we got and I'm like, that looks cool.
And then I don't know, I'm like, did they just make that for Instagram?
Is that real?
Is this real, you know?
I have no idea.
Oh my god, there's so many of them.
There's so many of them.
They all want hot chocolate.
What are you guys doing hot chocolate now, is that what you're doing?
Is this you?
Oh god, it's chat.
I can hear it playing up.
Oh no.
What have you done?
What have you done?
I do think there's a performance issue.
It appears to be teleporting me randomly.
Which is early days bug stuff.
Normal.
Not weird.
Put a cup thing down? I don't know where a cup thing is. I don't know what that means.
I think they just like this, right?
All they want is hot chocolate and they want to throw their stuff all over the floor.
is there a difference when you make coffee for a macchiato between pouring in the milk
first or not? Like if I pour the milk first and then I pour the coffee, does that matter?
Does it matter without being like a gig of coffee snot?
What is a milk first macchiato? What does that mean? It does not matter unless you're
get the coffee stuff okay.
Package.
What is that?
The stamp delirium may now officially brag about it.
And I am subdued into a dirt bug.
What do we get?
Approval stamp.
Sick.
Done.
Milk versus macchiato.
What is coffee first then?
What is that?
and
the mayor is incredibly self is true
to the mission of star for coffee it is look at it
and improve the staff
and people love the campus and keeps more in line to go to pay
so there's a difference between milk coffee and coffee milk is what you're done
I don't believe you move it a little bit.
I don't think that changes the damn thing.
If you heat the both up and then you pour them into the same cup, whether one goes first
or the other one goes first, they both go at the same time.
I don't see a difference.
It does.
It changes the flavor of it.
How could it possibly?
It's a liquid.
It mixes.
I don't believe you.
It changes it.
I'm going to try it.
coffee and I want to try that now all right I'm gonna get the dev on we're
gonna talk about coffee in the video game and I'm gonna ask them about it so
you find out it tastes more pretentious today decided to step inside the
cafe not just peeking through the window oh weirdo you're the one sneaking
around and looking at windows
Let's see.
Hello there.
I hope I'm not interrupting.
I suppose I should introduce myself.
I've known I've been leaving those little paper trails every morning.
Daily articles?
That is me.
Sooner or later, I'll be getting my coffee here as well.
Is that ink on your fingers?
Ah, just spilled my ink well.
A little creature ran into me on the way here.
I might as well use my fingers to write instead.
Details, details.
You'll piece me together soon enough.
Besides, half the fun is letting someone guess which parts are true and which are just good storytelling.
So, do you usually write about cafes?
Cafes are a wonderful lens, do you not think?
You can learn everything from the way someone stirs sugar.
Oh, from the way someone should stir sugar.
I've written about grand openings and closing nights, but never about something more quiet like this.
I'll not be hovering over your shoulder.
I'd much rather stay in a corner seat.
And if you see me scribbling away, do not mind me.
This is just the- that is just the ink doing its job.
All right. Uh, should I be worried?
Only if your secrets were finding. Oh, no, dude. They're a drama rag writer.
And if you do not, I might have to make some- uh, no. No!
No, I might have to make some up.
I thought it was time to step out from behind the curtain. Story reads differently when you're sitting in the middle.
I'll be around the cafe for a while today.
Something tells me this place will keep me busy.
They're Ethan.
They're Ethan.
All right.
I'm going to turn the music down.
No, no.
I don't want to do that.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Settings.
There we go.
And we'll go to audio.
There we go.
That looks good.
We'll do that.
And then we'll bring all the UICS down.
Bring everything about there.
bring all the UISAs down, bring everything about there.
Bring everything about there, plan is changes.
Now resume it and then we're gonna run ads
because they're going off in one second anyway
and I have no choice.
Let me get the debon.
All right.
Do do do.
We got about a minute and a half. I'm gonna use the bathroom real quick, and then I'll be right back, and then we're gonna interview the dev. Give me a moment.
And I'm back.
Sorry about that.
Alrighty.
Cool.
and
and we jump in the chat
below can you hear me
below
it appears you are muted
and
I don't know if they have the permission to speak in the channel.
I don't know.
I've got it set.
Let me know if you can't connect and talk for whatever reason.
It's the face of the deviled egg thief.
I'm not a deviled egg thief.
I just love deviled eggs. I have a very particular interest in deviled eggs.
Hello? Can you hear me? There we go. We were talking...
Oh, okay. My mic working out is fine.
It is. Don't worry about our conversation. It's not relevant.
Okay, okay.
Yeah, anyway.
Yeah, I joined this team also at some point, family. All I had was conversations about eggs.
Don't worry about it.
So, I was not sure what's going on.
It's fair. That's fair. So if you'd like to introduce yourself and talk about what you're working on and who you are
Okay, so I'm like right now known as coffee beans left
and I am making
Cozy sim cozy cafe sim game. It's basically like a mix between cozy management and kind of sandboxy game
It's my first game also so it's pretty, I don't know, you might see some bugs and things and yeah
No, that's normal like it. I don't think you should worry about that
I'm just having a little issues with the audio. Let me check something
No worries at all
Can you hear me?
Yeah, if I do like this do you hear yourself or it's fine? No, no, I don't hear myself at all
Okay, yeah, you're totally fine
Yeah, so I I'm not I've noticed that there are a couple of performance issues things like that
I really wouldn't worry about that honestly like that's all stuff that you can you can always fix
It takes time to get through those so yeah, I wouldn't worry too much. I'm I am interested. How long have you been working on this game?
Well, right now it's like the second year
I would say I also spent first half a year just trying to understand how to do things.
So I kind of didn't start the development until like one year and a half before.
And yeah, it's a difficult thing to do, definitely.
A lot of work still to fix.
It was also pretty funny to see that you managed to crash somehow the game in the intro part.
Sorry.
I need to investigate.
Well, the cool thing about that is at least you have a video, right?
So you can see every action that I performed and maybe that helps figure it out in some way.
Yeah, I think I already know where's the issue.
Perfect.
That's great.
So what would you say right now, it looks like you guys are really sexy.
Are you the only dev on this?
Are you the only one?
Mostly yes.
I did start to work with another developer around one year ago.
He's mostly working on like some side things or more like like saving loading systems rather
than the gameplay.
And he's also working usually when I don't have time to work or I need to do some other
things like drawing or marketing or, you know, all the other tasks, but mostly, mostly me
as.
Oh, that's good.
No, that's really cool.
Like it's pretty normal.
We've talked to a lot of devs that have like a contractor or anything like that.
And it's, it's always cool to see, like, mostly solo dev on
something that's very difficult to do. And it looks like you've
done a really good job. Did you, did you make the music for
this as well, then?
The music now I do have a music producer now that's doing it.
Because at some point I was like, I'm not sure I can also
learn how to do music. Maybe it's enough of things to do
already.
No, that makes sense. I'm terrible with music.
It was a long time ago where I tried that and I was like, nope.
It was like, this is not good.
Happened in school properly to everyone.
Yep. No, absolutely.
So it looks like your release date is in January.
What would you say that you were focusing on the most right now to get this ready for launch?
Interly access?
Well, right now, I think it's just mostly the bug fixing.
I think most of the things are kind of ready in the like the gameplay for early access at least a lot of things were also added that was not really planned because initially the game was supposed to be kind of just the brewing panel just making the coffee like kind of nostalgic good good pizza great pizza that type of game.
But then, I don't know, we just started expanding and then people started suggesting a lot of things and I mean, actually the whole game is basically just a bunch of suggestions from people put together.
And yeah, it's like, I see it's kind of like a community project, because we all like put together all these ideas and both things and stuff to like build this little game.
Honestly, that's really cool.
really cool. That's a really cool way to do development. Do you have like a
discord for this then where there's a lot of people talking about it? Yeah, you do.
Let me grab that. Yeah, I do have a discord. It's not like too active now
because it's kind of difficult to keep it up. But I do it through social medias,
also yes on discord. I do both things. I do like sometimes suggestion pools to just,
you know, or like for feedback and things. I do everything through social media mostly.
And to be clear, that's not very small, like you've done really, really well.
You have 2,000 people in your Discord and 650 of them are online, so you have quite a lot
of people that are in there.
That's fantastic.
That's a really good position to be, especially if you're first game.
Good job.
That's awesome.
Thank you.
Yeah.
That's quite an achievement for me also.
Yeah, that's fantastic.
I think that generally that's the hardest thing, is building community, especially for
first game where like nobody knows who you are they don't know what you're working on that means
that you know you've got a lot of people that think it's really cool and I think you like with
that story of you said you know you work on it with your community that's a fantastic way to do
development and it makes everybody feel included it's all positive so heck yeah I think it's awesome
and you've done a really good job with that with that in mind how many wish lists have you
gotten for the game so far so it's like since you have a community for this yeah right now I'm
almost reaching 50,000 which I assume is a pretty big number. That's incredibly big for a first
time dev. That is phenomenal for a first time dev. I didn't expect that. I thought you were going to
say 5,000. Okay, no, no, that's huge. That's that is enormous for a first time dev. That's enormous
for an indie game. You're in a great position. That's awesome. Well done. Yeah. No 100%
Well, the 50k is huge.
That's great.
I have no idea how this happened, but I do have quite a few people now that are supporting the game.
No, that's huge.
Some other variety streamers and just Instagram people that do art because I'm originally an artist.
Like I do digital art for the past 10 years maybe.
So I just have like a bit of connections around with other artists and most of the artists that do art like me,
They also play cozy games, so it's like an overlapping thing.
I think you've done this completely right. I think you've made something that like
suits your strengths, right? You've made something that's really cozy, you like this genre,
you've built a community around it, like this is fantastic. I think you've done a really good
job and like that's cool. That's great to see honestly because it's one of the things that
we hear about all the time where people are like, oh, it's the hardest part of making indie dev
isn't the game itself, it's the marketing. And you've done this amazing. Like you've done it all
the ways that I think that Indies shine in. A lot of the times people will try to approach it as like
a triple A and they're like, I gotta throw money at marketing and throw more money at getting a
publisher. And you're like, I just want to build a community and we're gonna make a game together.
Perfect. That's exactly how it should work. That's awesome. Great job.
Yeah. I could probably like thank this to all the developers sharing things on Reddit,
because I think one of the first things I did before even starting the game is just reading
stories of why people failed instead of like successful stories. So I really tried to focus
on things like, on the failure, failure points like failing points and how to, yeah, like cover
them and how to do better at those points. So that's great. Now you're doing this exactly
right. And it shows like the results of, you know, what you're pushing for there and
the work that you've done on that absolutely shows. So that's, that's fantastic. That's, that's,
you have a lot to be proud of in that legitimately so. So again, so with that in mind, as you're
leading up to your launch, I always ask this question, this could be the difficult one,
you ready for this? It's the hard one. Yeah, I mean, you do, you can say,
I don't want to say anything, but like, this is, this is pretty tough. What do you think
I think you're gonna sell the game for it. If you don't have an idea, you can always ask chat.
They can give you an idea of what they feel that they would buy your game for if you'd like to have that insight.
I mean, the price is not really revealed yet, but it's gonna be a very affordable game, let's say.
I don't plan to put the big price or anything because I feel like the game is pretty small.
It's pretty simple.
And I don't know, it's like, it's a prize that I would pay for this game also, so...
I don't know, it's gonna be a pretty small pre-affordable, let's say.
I think it's a good thing to do, and you know, if you say that it's kind of like a smaller kind of a game,
and you want it to be affordable price, I think it's good.
I think right now it's really tough for a lot of people to buy games,
and having an indie game out there that's an affordable price,
you just end up selling more copies and people are happier about it.
So that's good, good strategy, I think, chat is screaming numbers.
Yeah, I mean, it was one of the points that when I was making the game
to think about the affordability and like accessibility of the game.
So I'm trying to, like, consider a lot of these things for people
to be able to afford this, this like simple little game,
to make it pretty simple to play, to have like a variety of settings to.
Yeah, there's still some things to add, but for example, you can adjust the gameplay time.
You're not really rushed to do anything, you're kind of like free to roam around, maybe
decor, maybe do the coffee, maybe skip the days and just read the newspaper.
I don't know.
It's like that's why I said it's kind of also sandboxy.
Yeah, I did see that and it looks like you can change the day length.
So if you guys don't like how long you're serving coffee for, you can just change
that inside of the settings for yourself, which I thought was a nice touch. I think that's
quite cool. I think it's really positive and really good because some people may want to
not do that portion of it very fast clicking, you know, for that super long amount of time
per day. So I think it's a cool accessibility option. It's good. Love the coffee mugs on
this too. It's very cute. But yeah, with all of that in mind, like, I have another
difficult question. This is one we ask every dev and it's mostly to find out how you feel about
your game and like where you can improve upon it. So I'd like you to call your baby ugly.
What do you think your game does the worst?
Uh, that's a good question. Yeah.
Might need to think for a second.
Totally fair. Take all the time you need.
I mean, I feel, yeah, I feel like I would like to add maybe like some more challenging parts
of the game but not really like too much. Maybe some more variety between like making
coffees so you're not only like stuck in the brewing panel. Only doing the coffees maybe
there will be like some spontaneous like something happening in the cafe that like kind of disrupts
the rhythm of just doing the coffee like something like that. Like somebody spilled a coffee you
got to get it now. Yeah maybe somebody got into a fire I don't know like some drama is going on
like something to like threw you off a bit from the,
you know, just like being stuck in the coffee making.
No, that's fun.
I like that.
So that's stuff that you'd like to add.
Is that something you're thinking about after launch
or are you just waiting to see how the launch goes?
I would say now I'm waiting for the launch
to see how it goes,
because I still have a lot of ideas written down
and like planned out on what to add.
But I feel like right now I just need to focus
on like fixing up what's needed.
I think you are out of every game that we have shown at an December
I think that you have the second highest number of wishlist of any game to be clear
I think you are in terms of marketing probably at the best position for a lot of these games because many of the other ones have
These big massive teams if they have that kind of sizable numbers, so I think you've hit something that has worked
Very considerably and the only thing that matters now is the delivery
So I think you're out of the money, is focus on bugs and things like that and polishing up the game
because you've made something that people really resonate with and that is hard to do.
So, fantastic. And I liked it. It's quite fun and I like a lot of the building options too for this.
It's nice to be able to just swap them out to play around with them.
It's very cool with that.
Yeah, I was also like it was fun to see some reactions to the character dialogues
dialogues because it's my first time trying to write things also for characters and it's
pretty difficult as well.
It's not easy.
So it's just fun to see the reactions and things.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah, that's a difficult thing.
I have problems with the same stuff, to be honest with you.
Writing is not my forte.
It's tough to do.
Yeah, it's too many things to do for one person, let's say.
Yeah, that's fair.
That's fair.
Let's say dream scenario.
pops off gets really big. What would you work on first as an update?
Well right now I also have it planned out and it's also public but I would like to, I mean we didn't
reach the point yet of the like opening the terrace but I would like to expand like more
activities in the terrace. There's gonna be plans also greenhouse for like growing some plants
then you can kind of expand the cafe into somewhat like a plant shop.
Hmm. So kind of like, um, I guess the best game that I could think of with that would be like, uh,
Potioncraft, where you have like, you know, you're tying that into the shop in some ways,
having like a, like a garden in the background.
Yeah, it's just, it's just like, uh, yeah, because it's, it's a theme in cozy games that,
like people love plants and things, growing things. And I didn't really want to get into
the farming court, let's say. I thought that's already like it's it's there's a lot of farming
games already and I don't think I'm gonna do anything new or that interesting in general
on that point. So, but I still wanted to put some kind of a growing things
or something that kind of would be incorporated into the cafe.
That's fantastic though. I think it's really cool and I love the building system of like
being able to include plants or anything like that because you can really kind of make the
the space, liquid if you like. That's quite nice, honestly.
Yeah, the decor system was also quite of a challenge, but
also was an important part for the game, because of course,
cozy players love building and decorating things, including me.
So I kind of wanted to put quite a bit of focus on that also. And
I still want to expand with like, like adding decor to the
game is pretty much limitless, like you can make up so many
things that you can still add and do. And what would you yeah,
and have like a lot of inspiration from just like
simple doll houses of how you decorate like little things in
doll houses and wanted to have similar feeling or something
like that.
Yeah, what would you say is the biggest inspirations for you
in terms of games for building this?
Oh, there's quite a few. I would say there's like small
details from many different things. Of course, there was like animal crossing, we have the voices
and I had like animal characters. I was inspired by animal crossing. There were some details from
Stardewally, they're good pizza, great pizza was like the initial inspiration to start with.
And then yeah, we had, we had coffee talk inspired me for the like a bit of dialogues
interactions with the characters. Then I have, for example, the newspaper was
also inspired from Good Pizza, Great Pizza, because they have a television, like
every day there's like running television of showing some news. So I kind of got
inspired by that. You maybe do like a newspaper since I need to do more
retro theme. And yeah, there's many different like little things that just
put together or maybe people suggested like for example the I don't see I think
you didn't open the shop plushie pal for the plushie gacha I think but for
example that that was the future inspired by people that just suggested they
wanted like a reward at the end of the day something a collectible I did get
I don't know how to use it.
Yeah, it's because there was another bug that was kind of overlooked because there was some
after starting the first day of the cafe, only some days were skipped for some reason
also that I need to investigate.
So there was no mention of the plushies that was supposed to be there, so yeah.
But it is in the shop section.
I see this now.
Yeah, now I found that I found this and there's none of the machine for now.
That's quite cool. And I didn't realize I could buy all these too. I was like, why don't
we have all of these things? We're doing the same. But no, this is great. This is actually
really cool because now I can design it up exactly where I want it to be.
And then there was also, there's also in the recipe book, there's an upgrade section
where you can upgrade for pastries that you can start buying pastries and selling
them in the game, which I had that he wanted to ask about like maybe adding some
some things. Yeah, I mostly wanted to focus on coffee, but then people said of course need like
need some snacks or something with the coffee. That's with a real money. That's right, you know,
selling all the snacks. Yeah, I didn't want to like get into like a detailed making of the
pasties or anything. So I thought we have the character, which is the bunny one, she's a baker.
So maybe I add some kind of a collaboration between them.
If you are working on an upgrade, you can start buying like the pastries and selling in your
cafe. That's cool. No, I like that a lot.
I really do. I think you've done a really good job
with this and it fits very well into the cozy genre. The building of the
environment I think is an incredibly huge selling point for me.
What was the last game that you played in that genre before you were like,
I want to make one. What was the moment that you had?
That's a good question because I think that the making of the game kind of got inspired by some
other things. I would say it's like a different approach because as an artist I really wanted
to make my art interactable in some way. That's where it kind of started and then I was like
away I don't maybe try to make some kind of a game and I haven't made pixel art before also and I
always wanted to. So I just started messing around first yeah started messing around with some
concepts like pixel art also even started posting about these things and like maybe making a game
even before I even started the game and then people were like already like the character
designs are like the pixel art style and I was like okay let's let's try to do something
And yeah, I didn't really know how to do anything with the game.
First thing I did is just download Unity, which is the game engine that I'm using.
And just look up a tutorial on YouTube how to set up a pixel art, like pixel game scene,
and just start like doing from there and collecting feedback from people and just
starting building it like all together basically.
That's, yeah, that sounds like the greatest way to do it.
But I think one of the things that I always talk to people about is like get out there and like look at other stuff that's out there, you know, maybe do some game jams, try some things that feel, you know, to get you to learn that genre and just go for it, you know, and go from, go from there.
And it looks like you've done all of that, like, and it's worked out fantastically well.
So, hell yeah.
That's great.
That's really, really good to be honest with you.
more of these
Grabbing more chairs and tables
What do you think is
For you, what was the hardest feature in this game to implement? What is it like because you said you you know building the building
Mechanic and this was if it is that then what was the hardest portion of that?
I
Think all of it was it was just difficult like we started I started with another developer the build mode and
And I had no idea what I'm doing. He was also not like not pretty sure how to do things too.
So it was a mess. We had to redo it a few times and I know for some reason it was just really hard to make something
where you can just put things together, save it, make it make sense and yeah.
There was also one funny thing in the in the build mode is that we had a lot of difficulties of trying to figure out
how to put things on other things.
So like layering for all of us.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I was very confused about that.
The other developer was very confused.
And apparently like the issue I had for a few months was solvable very easily
because you just had it to add a simple component in unity for layering.
And that's it.
You didn't really need to.
It was mostly for the rendering point though, like if the character goes behind, like it
should show in front and stuff.
Yeah, a lot of people don't realize that that's like a big part of stuff like this,
it's like if I place this chair, I cut out here, right, and I move the character in
front of it, and then I move the character behind it.
You have to get that to re-layer properly on every one of those moments.
Yeah, that was a huge issue for me to do.
a simple thing but yeah it's it's funny because there's a lot of old games that
don't even do that like if you look at the original Pokemon games you can't go
behind stuff yeah it's just gone you know like you can't you can't do that I
always thought that was quite funny is like if you go farther and farther back
you'll find this more and more of games that just did block collision and
there was no layering for that because the idea of updating to have like an
overlay over the character is just insane at the time. And now we can do it. You know,
now you just do it really easily. And it's it's most engines will have the ability to
do that quite simply. Now this looks good. This looks really good. Well, let's see. Let
me grab your steam page. So I've got I've got your discord editor. If you have not
wishlisted this yet, please do. Yeah, 50,000 wishlist is nothing to scoff at.
That is wild. That is a huge amount. But you can always use more because the more
that you have, the more that seem is going to show it to other people. So if
If you are interested in this at all, definitely wish this is, and I,
I really like the different environments you have the ability to set up here.
It looks like you have local lighting and stuff in there as well with like
lamps and things would like, look how, look how cool that environment can end
up looking. Like, look at that. Yeah. It's a nice cozy game. Exactly.
And it's quite cool. Really, really nice overall.
I love that you built it with your community.
That's such a good way to do it, man. Like it really is.
And it's, it's something a lot of devs just don't realize it first.
So who knows?
Yeah.
I mean, speaking of that, I don't know, the people watching or even you after
playing, if you have any feedback or like any suggestions, you feel free to send me
everything because I love, I love hearing everything.
I love watching people play and like just understanding what's going on.
How are they playing?
How are they reacting to things?
It's very, very fun.
So.
And I'm, yeah, always hoping to improving things.
So that's fantastic.
Yeah.
That's really good.
What would you say is like the weirdest bug you've found so far that you fixed?
Oh, it happened. I think maybe two months ago is after starting the game for some reason,
there was a huge croissant spawning in the middle of the cafe.
And it was extremely confusing. I had like an Instagram video somewhere about that. And yeah,
it was just after unlocking the pastries, buying some pastries, putting them in the
displace, but for some reason the croissants just like spawned like huge in the it was taking the
whole space in the cafe. So yeah, that was an interesting funny little moment. Yeah, our French
moderator, little ham just said, huge croissant I'm sold. Yeah, people were asking to be like,
they were like, don't remove the huge croissant from the leave. It's always something absurd.
like there's always some weird stuff with game devs. So yeah, that's rad. It's quite funny.
So if you had any advice for someone who's just starting out today, you know, I know this is your
first game, but you've likely learned a ton over the last two years, what advice would you give
to someone who wants to maybe is on the fence about starting out just wants to begin making
something? I mean, I would say do like I mentioned, like what I did is basically I just downloaded
the game engine and just looked up some tutorials and just started doing something.
I think like, I'm personally, I'm horrible with theory. Like if I beat things, I don't really
understand what I'm doing, like what's gonna happen. I just need practice. So all I did is just
went like straight to it and I recommend for anyone just just pick an engine, like open it
and just look up some basic tutorials and start doing them. From there, you start learning things
on how to use the engine, how to do the coding parts, how to like a lot of little details,
and then you just start putting things together. And yeah, maybe read, like you can read a lot of
Reddit posts, read maybe things like why people fail like me that I did. And it was very like
useful information, especially if you want to make a game that you want to sell to people
that you actually want to make it like nice. And yeah, I don't know, these are like the
the main points I would say like just read the failing points of other games and just like do
something like just start yeah don't need to like don't overthink it just I teach something
yeah just we actually we run two game gems a year specifically so people can learn that kind of
stuff just realize it's okay you know make something anything whatever it is and I find
that when people realize hey I only got two weeks to make this they throw all that that fear
away. They're like, Oh, I don't have to make the best game ever. I don't have to make something
perfect. They just try and I don't have time to worry about it. Right. Exactly. And then, and they
continue on sometimes continue on to go and release the game. It's really cool. You know,
you end up getting really interesting games to put out there. But this, you I think you've
done an amazing job. I think you have. And then you've got a powerful community behind
you. You've got a lot of people that are very interested in the game. And I hope that you
find success in this. I hope that the game comes out as a banger because it seems that you've got
all the stars aligned and it just comes down to execution though, you know, and that's it.
Yeah, thank you. I'm trying my best. I really hope it goes well so I can continue expanding it.
Hopefully do more games in the future. So, yeah.
I think that's the biggest thing too is, you know, as a
grand majority of your work is solo dev. It can be overwhelming sometimes,
but you're making something that your community likes it, that's a hard thing to pull off.
You should be very proud of that, legitimately so. It's a difficult thing to pull off. So,
good job. And I hope that when you launch, you get a bunch of good reviews. People really like it.
Even a few bad ones don't hurt. I'm open to feedback, as I said. We're gonna fix it.
I'm not worried about that.
With that in mind, are you planning on putting out the demo at launch as well?
You're keeping the demo out and updating that for it?
I'm actually not sure if it's, yeah, I might put it down after the launch because I'm not
sure actually. I didn't think about that yet.
So you focus on the launching part.
I'd say keep it up. I'd say keep it up.
That's good.
One of the things that I found that's like really common with demos is it allows players
to exclude themselves if they don't end up liking your game before they buy it and leave
a negative review.
So if they have a demo to play and they go, oh, you know what, maybe this isn't for me.
And then that's totally fine.
Because there's always going to be some people that don't like the kind of game,
even though they saw the trailer and they might like it.
And if they buy it, they're way more likely to leave a negative review.
So I'd leave the demo up.
It also gets other people to be like, I'm on the fence about that, and then they try
it and they're like, no, I'm sold.
I'm going to buy this, right?
It's just never a bad thing.
I think the demo is one of the strongest things that any developer has in their toolkit
at the end of the day.
Because anyone can say anything, anything, anyone can make a video, but you put something
in their hands and it changes people's minds very quickly.
And Chad is saying big facts.
Good.
Yeah.
And I know, I know the other flip side of that, which a lot of players don't
realize is the developer then has to maintain that demo. And
that's a lot of work to do. It's not just like, I put the
demo, like, it's, it's a slice of the game, like you have to
make that. It's like a whole thing, you got to maintain it.
So I understand it's, it's quite difficult. If you can
swing it, I would, I would suggest it personally.
And yeah, for now, it's like, I think the demo is
pretty fine. Might need to update maybe a bit later, but
I think it's pre-OK to showcase the game, how it feels and everything, so...
Yeah. Well, rock on. Well, we are almost at time, but is there any advice you have or anything you want to say to the community before we head out?
Well, just thank you for having me. Thank you for showing the game.
I think you chat for a looking, I don't know what I mean, I'll fix that which integration
also definitely gonna order all those coffees and yeah, if you like the game, if it's something
you're interested in, just leave a wishlist really helps and I really hope to see some
of you on the launch, hope it goes well and yeah, I'm very excited about that.
Here's the link again for you guys to wishlist and by the way, don't think of our
community interaction as a case study for your tuition integration, I have not found a single one
for a game that survived it. Outside of Noik. I think Noik was the only one that survives it.
I used to use stream avatars on here. Have you ever seen stream avatars before?
Yeah. Yeah, I did also. Yeah, but I used to talk to the dev and like when my community size
exploded when you guys went from 400 people to 3000. I can't use it anymore. I actually,
if we pull up stream avatars on here, I have, you know, love this. I have 26,654 hours in
stream avatars. And, uh, yeah, I stopped being able to use it because it crashes every time
now because there's just so many people that try to interact with it and cannot handle the
three. So if you, if you're looking for, uh, if you're looking for an interaction limit,
it may not be here. Or maybe it is. Maybe you find a way to do it. Yeah.
Yeah, but anyway, it was it was lovely having you on and I wish you a lot of great luck with your game.
I think what you're making is fantastic. I think that it's it's a lot of fun.
It's got a lot of potential to it too.
And I'm excited to see you launch it. So when you do, please let us know and then I'll let the whole community know that your game is out.
And sure. Thank you.
And thank you very much.
I will talk to you later.
Okay, thank you and I have a nice rest of the stream. I'm gonna be looking forward to other games. I'm also gonna check the previous ones
Yeah, I will add this up to the list after the stream today
And there will be a video that comes out probably in the next 60 days
My editor is is overwhelmed with a billion videos
But thank you, I'll see you around. Yeah. Thank you. Bye
That's a good game. That's a really nice game. Yeah
How much is the demo? It's free. You got one. I swear to God. Oh, the croissant bug. Hold up. I get to see it
Look how big it is it's insane
Oh
Little hams like yes, my time has come that's fantastic
That is fantastic. I love that
That's hilarious. I
I love I love the idea of a developer working so closely with the community that features the game like that cosy games are quite cool
Building a cozy game seems really nice. Yeah, I like that. I like the idea of building around a coffee shop
It's already a cozy kind of environment. So
Kudos to devs men 50,000 wishlist is not a joke. That's a big deal. It's a very big deal. All right
We are gonna head out do the next video again
And this that
We have an hour and 20 minutes until the next game
Now you want a hot drink dude fair
Dude fair what a good what a good game and a really good story too because it shows you
The biggest thing that you can do for your game is see how other games failed. That's such a great way to do that
Really good way to do that. I should I'm gonna put a section for that on develop that games
I think I'm able to do that because I think that's a really really good point
Are you at 34% dude? How much like 34% total body masses, deviled eggs?
Because I think that's a bit low.
Did you see the character import option? No, that's cool. I did not see that skill.
Hot chocolate with a big whipped cream crown on top. Hell yeah.
You met the island? There's an island made out of deviled eggs.
Where is this magical place?
I want to go to Devil's Island, dude.
I'm ready.
I've always been ready.
I was born for that.
I was born.
I was born for double day egg island dude.
I'm ready.
Double day egg island charlie?
I'm ready.
Yeah it's twin decaying mountain.
I was good.
That was a really good game and it was really nice stuff.
It's funny, because I've been following the game for quite a while, on surface.
Also, before we go any further,
Colonel K, over on YouTube, thank you to the 20 gifted memberships.
I wasn't able to thank you during the interview.
That was incredibly nice of you, so thank you.
Thank you very much.
Good morning, I hope you all have a wonderful day today, I hope you have a wonderful day.
I hope you get two days in one, aging twice as fast, getting twice as much done, in the
blink of an eye, a hundred years of work complete.
Now you're old.
Now it's a curse, eh?
Yeah.
I say, have you seen any plans to release Aerosphere?
I don't know.
I wanna ask Stephen about that.
I'm ready.
I forgot to turn the filter on.
I'm filter.
Yo, the OSD's so damn bad, dude fair.
What's the kill level?
We are level 5. We got 15 million experience yesterday in a gigantic group activity, but today, we're pushing Brian Barrel, 33% right of the money.
Gotta keep it up.
Everybody needs to be on this island.
I will now go out onto the lands. And what do I see before me?
Half of the lands have been cleared. Good. Good!
Elephant here is disgusting. I hate seeing it on our- on our island.
Horrific. What a horrific plant to see.
Territor. Goes back like weeds.
Is that dude dying over there? Stop dying. Let me fix you. There it's dead.
Is that the illustrious, the rare, the one and only take seven dude?
Take seven.
God damn it.
He's still crab slapping every day all my life dude.
I am basically 90% crab and deviled eggs at all times.
You're the tank now pretty much.
I mean I keep, you know, I have a tank as a pet.
His name is Tank Gippity.
Spelled GPT.
He's an AI that took GM... yeah, Gullimansu's job.
Yeah.
Yep.
You know, I actually have one problem with the update to Old School RuneScape.
You know what it is.
They changed the log in music.
And it upsets me.
Because every time I got nerd logged before,
the log in music would be exactly the same,
and now it's different.
And as an old-school runescape enjoyer,
I hate different.
I hate it.
It's new, it's scary.
I don't like it.
As a guild proc, good. We're level 5.
We got 15 million experience yesterday,
but we are not leveling the guild today.
We were pushing the island we have to push the island because if we don't we're gonna get turned into peasants
And that'll be permanent
So we need to do this now
They've gained 1% to our tag
We started today at 25%
And we're on the level above them which is way harder to get so we're doing everything we need to do
My bones. My poison bones.
Your value in the recursive reinforcement of the one true memory has been eroded and
feed by new music. Yes.
My love of trains is in jeopardy. It's upsetting.
Did you actually need those bones?
I feel like they were load bearing bones.
I feel like I need them.
You know, what's the percent goal for today?
50.
We gotta get to 50.
They fixed the note XP issue?
They did.
And we're all working together to bring it up.
Look at this.
Look at them.
Locus.
Locus swarms.
As far as the eye can see.
See that over there?
All of that needs to die.
There's so much fun vassiling them.
I think the best part about it is that we won't just vassal them.
We'll have done it twice.
Think about how angry they're going to be.
They were already mad.
Like their butts are rustled entirely.
This will be a double butt wrestler.
That's rough.
Yeah, 50 and beyond!
Why are they mad?
I'll explain after the ad break.
I would be mad.
If I was them, I'd be mad.
I understand, but someone had to be mad for us to be glad, so.
Hello Walrus.
The Walrus party.
Hello, we're back from the end.
So somebody wanted to know why this group is deeply butt-rustled at us and understand
something.
I don't think they're wrong.
I'd be deeply but wrestled as well if I was them.
We did something meme worthy to save ourselves
because that's what we do, right?
We're pirates.
We're not gonna serve any foreign king.
Yeah, the Jimmy status is deeply wrestled.
So with that in mind,
Caltorum was going to gain a level
and when it did that,
it was going to turn us into a vassal.
It was like turning us into peasants.
We don't wanna be peasants.
So what I found out was that a node
can only grab other nodes to vassal them
within two steps from itself
if it reaches the town status, right?
They were going to reach town status
and they were going to get us.
I don't want that.
I don't want that at all.
So we looked up here and we found that these guys
were about the town status as well.
And since there's four nodes within two of them,
guess who they fassilized?
The people that were gonna fassilize us.
So we just went up there and helped them push it.
Which means these guys got turned into a vessel.
So now they're those guys' peasants
and they can't turn us into peasants.
Well, they got really mad about this.
Now they're pushing another node down here called Shorefoot.
Shorefoot, if it won, would turn us into vassals.
Problem is, we're faster than them.
Ha ha ha ha.
So now it's a mad dash to see who wins.
They're at 98%, but they're on the tier before us.
We're the tier ahead and we're at 33%.
They gotta catch up.
And there's a couple of things that they're doing down there
and they might be doing it in lawless zones
that we've been disrupting.
So there's that too.
Basically, we're creating lifelong enemies on the server.
We'll see how it turns out.
But it allows us to win.
Welcome to Social Sandboxes.
We've acylized them 100%.
We don't really have a choice.
That's kind of how the system works.
We didn't really want to have any peasants.
We're pirates.
We just want to have our island and make it ours.
But the system's going to force us to have peasants and that's about how it goes.
Yeah, it's a double butt wrestling is really what happened there and I don't think
they're wrong for being upset.
Someone's got to be upset and it's not going to be us, you know.
They should revamp how the Vassal Lord system works.
I disagree.
And the reason that I disagree is because it caused content, which means it's done
correctly.
Yeah.
The fact that I'm able to tell that story means that the system is working well.
Does that make sense?
Wait, is that where bustle comes from?
Conjunction to bot and rustle?
No.
I don't think that's where bustle comes from, but I'm going to use it as that from
now on.
That word is permanently bot rustle.
Bustle.
Those guys are bustle.
know real bad rubber banding so bad if you're having rubber banding issues you
may want to turn your graphical settings down you might be getting a network
issue as well I have not had any problems with that what what is your
ping to the server I guess is the big thing problem you foresee are those
players who have trouble one or another with separating role-playing from real
feelings sure that's always gonna happen though and I'm just gonna keep
playing a pirate video game, right?
I can't control the way that other people play the game.
I can't control their inability to separate video game from real life.
I am playing a character in a game, and I am playing a, a pirate leader
among many, many other pirates.
That's my role, you know?
And I will do everything that I can to ensure that our pirates
are always free.
Always.
Or at least half off, right?
I mean, if we can't sell for pre-s, 50% off seems fine.
Anybody want to buy a goldmancer?
I have one.
It could be yours.
Imagine a pocket tank.
Anytime.
The herbalism's about to tear up.
I've been sitting at level 20 for like a day and a half.
It's like a problem, dude.
Have I got my gathering?
I'm stuck.
I need to go get jam.
You buying for four deviled eggs?
Eight. Eight deviled eggs.
I know what I'm worth. I mean him.
I know what he's worth.
How? 16 deviled eggs.
How many can I go for? 32?
64. 128. 256 deviled eggs.
How many is too many? What can you afford?
Double, yeah, doubled eggs.
You're doubling, you're, yeah, double eggs, dude, yeah, we're doubling it each time.
You're sub-ditting eggs, yes.
Forty is too many.
No, it's not.
That's how many ate today.
Yeah, it's fun.
an ostrich-devil egg? Okay, I have to look that up.
I have to look up if you can devil an ostrich egg.
It's like moving crabs.
Can you devil an ostrich egg?
Yes.
Holy shit.
guys I need to show you something and you're gonna judge me but I need you to understand
where I'm coming from in life alright I'm at a point in my life where I only want one
thing and I know it's disgusting I know it is but I want an ostrich-devil-egg
You can judge me all you want, but I know what I want.
It's that.
It's a hundred percent.
That's insane.
Oh, I need it.
I need that immediately.
That's so much egg.
That's a double day.
It is.
Oh, wait.
Invisible.
Just saying, huh?
Mr. Tarmac, are you there? I may have a question for you, if you are there.
Is Airsea worth the moneys? I will never be able to answer that for you, and I think anyone
who does is lying to you. You have to decide that. It is a game that's in alpha. It's
It's a game that we find to be very fun, but fun is subjective.
Your character will be deleted at launch.
There's a lot of scuff, and it doesn't have all the systems that it needs for launch right
now.
A lot of shit's broken.
So with that in mind, do you want to be a part of that experience?
Is that a good one to you?
And if the answer is no, or I don't know, don't buy it.
Wait.
Legitimately, wait.
Launch date?
Over a year from now.
So it's like one of those things, like we've been playing this for like two years,
I've loved it a lot and I've hated it sometimes to be clear.
I actually quit for six months because I hated what they did
to the in-game economy.
It was so not fun that I left the game.
So like it's a mixed bag on stuff, man.
And that's coming from someone
who's like passionate about the game.
Yeah.
Oh, you're talking about worth the money
for the ostrich egg?
The answer to that is just yes.
Yeah, that's an objective reality.
There's no subjective opinion there that exists objectively speaking.
The ostrich deviled egg is always correct.
Yeah.
Yeah.
LaMount, no, no, no, get help.
I'm getting help through the form of an ostrich deviled egg.
Incredible, to be honest.
Just remember though that cannon should or two different things.
Oh, they're the same thing.
Ostrich-devil-egg.
Canned.
Should.
Same thing.
I can pull this off.
I can make this happen.
What am I gonna boil it?
How do I hard boil an ostrich egg?
I have a lot to learn.
Where's it going, man?
Iguana.
Burn it!
Fantastic.
I'm gonna leave the group, but I'm gonna keep doing the thing.
You guys get another guy in there.
You don't need me in it.
Suvi that egg?
I see that egg.
Is the ostrich egg the biggest egg we can think of?
Is that the largest shelled egg?
Is there a bigger shelled egg that I could...devil?
Do you think we could selectively breed ostriches to have larger and larger eggs?
Until the animal is just one big egg.
To make the ultimate devil dig, like the size of a car.
Read them with elephants.
Good.
Good.
Yes.
I think we're starting to go into like an impossible creatures direction that I'm quite excited
about.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hmm.
Brontosaurus egg?
Okay.
Here's what I need, Chet.
Brontosaurus egg? Okay, here's what I need, chat. I know this might be a tall order, but
I feel like we have the collective dumb power on the internet to pull it off. I need you
to come up with a time machine. Okay, this is the difficult part, but I think you could
do it. Make a time machine. We'll go all the way back. I'll steal a Brontosaurus egg.
Right? They're big. They're large. And I'll make a double-dig out of that. Right?
I think the most difficult part is finding a pot big enough for it, but we can do that.
We'll figure it out.
So get me a time machine, we'll do it.
I'm ready.
I can eat the whole thing.
You know what?
I'll eat it on streaming.
Yeah.
For sale in Washington, buy ostrich eggs.
Exotic meat markets.
How much are you?
Wait, wait, wait.
A food ostrich egg is $200?
How often do ostriches lay eggs?
How often is that?
That's an expensive ass egg.
That's a lot of money for the mima.
How much is an ostrich?
Once a year?
Okay, it's a once a year egg.
That makes sense.
How much is the ostrich itself?
and
why I needed no
way to stop the boy ostrich by wrong by that
stop the ostrich my brain broken
Is he?
He's something else.
No, he's an emu.
I'm dumb.
Don't look at me.
Yeah.
For some reason in my brain of brains I was like, that's a big bird, that's an ostrich.
And then I was like, no, that's wrong.
There's like another voice that's like, you're an idiot.
Stop it.
Yeah.
Don't mess with emos.
Do you think?
How big is an emu egg?
How large is an emu egg?
They're almost as big.
I didn't realize emus lives so long.
I'm reading the obvious sanctuary page.
Um, they live in the wild for 10 years and in a captivity, they live for 20,
which is pretty incredible.
They will kill you.
I know they're scary.
Emus are a scary animal.
I know that much.
Yeah, I do know that much.
Emo is probably about half the size
Half the size half the egg
I just
Look
Gentlemen
Ladies there comes a time in your life where you want to eat something the size of your head. I
I have found the object of my desire, and it is an ostrich egg turned into a deviled egg.
That is my end game, that is my victory condition.
I have discovered it, and one day I will attain it, even if today is not that day.
I will do this.
Give me a block, Jesus, the size of a car battery.
You know, fair.
Actually, you can get that. You can get that at the store.
Uh, Tillamook does it. They get these big- I get them all the time.
I get gigantic extra sharp cheddar cheese blocks.
And they last forever.
You just shave a piece off of it.
You want to know the best way to-
You want to know the best way to slice cheese that I found?
Like that?
You get one of those potato peelers that has like the metal string on it.
You do that.
Yeah.
What is this?
What is this? Oh, my calendar just popped up.
What is this?
Start being concerned about egg overdose from 8.30 a.m. to 9.00 a.m.
So in 30 minutes that'll start. That's a problem for future me. 30 minutes from now.
Thanks, Kronos. I should put that on my calendar. It's not an overdose of eggs.
It's a- if anything, it's underdosed. 40 is not enough. There are two more in the fridge.
But I left those for Shea.
There's two parts of me, right?
I could either not eat the last two, right?
And then Shea is like thankful that I left two there, which Shea will know how deeply
distressing it is for me to leave two.
I could eat all of them and hope that she forgot they were in there
Either of these things is a possible route each has its risks we will tell her don't shut up
I'm being nice. I'm letting shit. She's asleep. She wouldn't know
Chat will snitch dude. My chat wouldn't snitch you guys wouldn't do that to me
You guys would be great, right?
You wouldn't snitch on me.
You will know you're eating glue. What if- okay hold up. Wait, speaking of that.
What if I got you a nice big bottle of glue? Right? Because chat loves glue.
All right.
Huh? Oh, I see the eyebrows there.
Huh? Huh?
We will- what glue? Yeah, see? See? Chats.
Here.
Wait, wait, wait.
Jingle jangle jingle jangle the glue chat the glue the glue chat there was no
deviled eggs
we want what what would you do what do you do you want glue you do don't line
I mean, you're part of chat. That's how it works.
We only accept the finest Elmer's. What about gorilla glue?
I heard it's made of real gorillas.
How do you feel about that?
There's a whole gorilla in every bottle.
Why so strong?
What have you guys done?
You have two of these now? That's a problem.
I don't know. Heal the pet. Heal.
Tank jippity.
You gotta heal it.
He's hurting his bones to fall out
Think she pretty survive just got to kill one of them
Victory
All right, all right, we're good
Have you all leveled your settlement yet? Dude, we're at 33%. We're pushing very fast.
It wasn't zero yesterday. We're gaining 25% a day at current rates.
No one will stop us. We are a locust swarm. This entire island is covered in over a hundred
pirates. All of them pushing, harvesting every plant, killing every lizard, farming
every dungeon. Mining every node. Filling every cherry. See this? See how empty it is? It's
because we stole it all. Normally it looks like that. Mining cove blasts. Do it up. Yeah,
the whole idea behind this is settlements pushed based on your activity nearby. So
we're actually settling the land by doing this. Still recruiting. We are always
bringing people into the guild. If you go to the pinned comment there you can
see it but we are at 125 out of 125 right now that'll go all the way up to
200 so every time the guild levels we do that yesterday we got 15 million
experience with the guild due to a cool three-hour tour on boats but it was fun
alt guilds no I will not be doing that this time last time we did that I had
myself and Chronos had to run 200 guilds I will never do that again that
That was a god damn nightmare.
We have one guild, singular, and other people can run their own community guilds if they
want to and that's fine and there's no issue, but we're not doing 250 man guilds, again,
ever in my life.
Jesus Christ give me an alliance system.
Yeah, that was awful dude.
It was completely awful.
We had so many holding characters.
The level of drama and shit in that was awful.
Because the thing is, it's like a month after we started this, right?
maybe two months after they were like 20 of those guilds with like one guy that
would sign on and he's like hey man I can't get into groups I'm in actual
pirates 146 and I don't know what to do
imagine doing that all the time like have to deal with it's a nightmare no and
then also if you leave the guild you have to wait five full days before you
can join another guild so imagine that dude has to be tracked for five full
days to find out how we could get into another guild and then that guild also
at your fuse down to one guy and it's just him again. It's great. Yes, fantastic
experience. So anyway, well, non-guildies being near it, active, help improve the area.
Yes, every player lives here. So something to understand about ashes of
creation is every settlement is every person who lives there. Not the
biggest guild, not an alliance, none of that. You live here. Whether you're
You're in a guild or not, and everything you do here changes that node.
Your gains in experience, whether you're in a group or solo, all of that matters.
You being here is what matters, right?
And I think that's super important.
Donnie, are you like Australian or Mad?
It's one of the two.
Either way, I hope you're having a good day.
How do you become a citizen?
We have to wait until we get the next year up.
up we're allowed to become citizens and all of us will become citizens. How do
you live there? Just by being there. You become a citizen of the location. Once we
have the next tier up, you can assign citizenship there and you start getting
bonuses. And then you guys get to elect a mayor. Hopefully you elect me. And if
you do, I'm gonna set the taxes to the lowest they possibly can be because I
hate taxes in this video game. 9% is lowest to let me. And then we'll start
building buildings. And I'll set up objectives for everyone. The biggest
thing that a mayor has to do is they have to sign on every single day. They
You need to set up all of the buy orders for everybody, which I have a gigantic amount of Excel bullshit to deal with for that
And then also set up all of the quests and activities and everything kind of like I've already been doing was setting up the town
I was mayor of Halcyon before so I'm used to doing this. It's quite fun
No, Pat Miller
I don't know whether to play this or Pee Wee 2 play either play both Pat of Excel 2 is a phenomenal game dude. It's very fun
Yeah, Excel-Best Database, true.
We're gonna play this, but I worry about bad performance or temps.
Well, I'm gonna be honest with you, it's a Steam game, so if you get it and you find out that it's not for you or doesn't work with your machine, refund it, right?
And I know that sucks, but like, you know, there's no other way to test it for yourself and also understand the game is not hyper performing right now.
It is way more performing than it used to be about a year ago.
And now, now it's like, it's still not great, but it's not lighting my computer on fire.
You're 3070 couldn't handle it that I doubt that sounds like a driver issue, but 100%.
because there's people in the end to go they're running in a 2060 and they're
not having problems you might be running at too high graphics or too large
resolution etc yeah you're 3060 can't exactly you're 3080 can't again that
sounds like drivers or settings yeah
yeah that if they're running in a like that guys I'm on a 2060 super runs
find 2070 I'm okay that's drivers you're setting Steve if it's a if it's a
3000 series United doing it you're at 1070 are you able to run it except me
because I think it's men's back 1070s and men do you think 2070 super can run
60 FPS on low I would I would bet it yeah
could be a CPU problem could be yeah lower your frame rate if you're
having that as a see if you have a if you have a CPU like problem with that you'll
want to lower frame rate that's the way to do that it'll drop the amount I don't
even know what my frame rate set to actually new game options I don't have
a frame of it nice nice
Even at medium settings, the game still looks amazing, agreed.
At night it kind of looks shitty, but I think over time the lighting shaders are just going
to get better, you know.
Yeah, I don't have v-sync turned on.
I don't like having v-sync on a lot of time to be real with you.
What's the best gear for summoner?
Anything that increases your wisdom or intelligence.
So anything that increases your disable accuracy or disable power.
Disable power makes it so that your disables last longer.
So in this case, my, where is it, my silence lasts for 4.2 seconds instead of 3.9 or 3.8.
Really goddamn good to be honest with you.
Disable power is huge because we have a lot of disables as a summoner.
That's brine of a cool mare out? We have no idea what it is. No clue. Could be a moth flying.
Flying manatee would be hilarious. Good luck I hope you get a dragon. I will only get
that if you elect me mare and I hope you do. Because I'm going to be putting a lot
have ever been in this. Even after Hytale comes out, I will keep playing this every day.
My plan was to wait for this to come out on Steam or go into beta and then just play the
shit out of it. So.
Dude, if it's not a giant parrot, I think it's a miss. I'm hoping that it's a giant
Parrot legitimately if it's not that's I say miss it's a miss
Parrot with an eye patch hilarious
So blind in the dark.
Speaking of Hytel, where are you pre-order it?
Wait, what? Did I pre-order it or are you asking something else because I'm confused?
Night Mistress Margaret, yes.
Parrot software, hell yeah.
King Leo 739 with 1000 bits said just got Sholeskipper after saving up 3.5 grams.
I am a pirate now. Please join me to the guild whenever possible that I may yaw with you.
I am Murad and the Maker. Merry Christmas, 7.
3.5 gold is what it meant, but yes.
If you want to buy Hytale it's right there. You can buy it there and you can use code pirate.
it and it will it will give me monies if you do that which is a cool thing to do
yeah code pirate just pirate the word pirate
I'm gonna be playing this shit out of that game I'm so excited to port block
game dude incredibly so
Oh Mr. Poisonpaw.
One moment.
one moment
There we go.
Quick question in Summoner gameplay is pet swapping instant?
There's an opportunity cost.
Summoning a pet takes a long time.
And if your pet dies, it takes 60 seconds for you to be able to revive that specific kind
of pet.
There are also talents for specific pets as well, so do keep that in mind.
Being your pet alive is definitely worth it.
Will it be 4-man's once Brian Braille is up? Yes. I need to actually tap some more people's
officers as well. There's a lot of people doing very, very good and people like Ray Clarick,
for example, just doing phenomenal stuff. And every time I see somebody forming groups and
doing stuff, it is merit-based who I choose for those types of roles and it's stuff that
they're already doing that they already enjoy. So I need to get on that today.
That's going to be part of my workflow after the stream today.
You want to get into game dev but you don't know where to start any recommendations.
Yeah, I got some cool shit for you.
I made a website for you, bud.
Behold.
Develop.games is the domain.
Scroll here, mouse through this, read through this.
Best thing you can do to start to be real with you, go to skills required, read through
this, and understand you don't need to have any skills, none of those required.
And what kind of game should you make?
on the game design document and go read through this. Game design document is a very good and
easy example of what you want to make. Not what you're able to, what you want to make
in a game. And you make it very simple like this one. Now you have a blueprint for what
you need to learn. And then you go from there. You start learning stuff. There's
a lot of different tips and tricks and information in here and different tools that you can
go and look at in order to get better at this and make the game that you want
back even if it's something tiny so do it do it develop that games dude also join
our game jam in January there I do game jams twice a year I go sign up for that
even if you don't know what the hell you're doing that's the whole point you
can do it even if you've never made anything before the idea is that you
give two weeks to yourself to learn that's the whole point
of
Oh
No, no, no don't worry
I'm gonna be heading out in about 45 minutes
Get somebody else that needs it in the party. I'm already level 25. So it's just gonna nerf your XP games
That's how we're going to see I've seen a lot of bugs. What do you think of it?
So I think that the kind of takes that I haven't summoner is that they're overpowered
I feel overpowered in my class. I can tank pretty much anything
I can dps pretty much anything I can heal pretty much anything based on which pet I have up
I find it to be kind of a jack of all trades and master of all of them right now, which is a bit of a problem, right?
The other problem that I see with the class
Is thematically it doesn't make a whole lot of sense
We see other summoners in the game that do things like summoning a spirit wolf
The spirit wolf runs over if you don't kill it in time it explodes and does damage
And heals nearby allies, right? We've seen summoners
This class doesn't summon anything outside of the pet that's always there
You're mostly an affliction warlock you cover the enemy and dots the dot play on that is pretty good
Like it actually feels really nice
There's a lot of cool shit that you get to do with that damage over time
But it doesn't feel like a summoner the class fantasy is not really coming through if that makes sense
So I do have a bit of a problem of that. It does feel kind of weird to me
But I think overall the class is kind of over tuned and feels good, you know
Summoners should also be able to summon people. I disagree with that entirely
I think that destroys the game you do not want fast travel anywhere in the game
This is not world of warcraft. That is not that kind of game at all. Also. Thank you
That helps the guild a lot dude anytime you guys give me those tokens that helps
Ever try the summoner class in walk through another social sandbox. I love walk through
like a lot but I never played a summoner and I played a
bogger knot I think they're called the robot guys
you know what I'm talking about?
yeah
fast travel does not exist in the game
and it shouldn't you have to understand like this is a game like Eve online
distance is defense the reason why people aren't attacking us from the
other side of the map is because they don't want to travel to do it. You had fast travel
to the game, everything gets destroyed. You don't want that in a social sandbox, man.
You really don't. You really, really don't. It ruins those kinds of games. Yeah, I wouldn't
call Walkthrough a social sandbox. I wouldn't do that. It's a tactics game, really.
So you sit in one corner of the map forever? No, we fight our local neighbors, and they
fight us. That's important.
Exactly. Teleports for players are a crazy way for long distance force projection.
Huge issue. Yeah. Yes. See, you get it.
Escobar, did you ever play Eve? No Mage teleport spells. No.
None of that. None of that exists. Can you faster up when you die?
I technically, but then you die, right?
Yeah, distance dictates economy
because it distance dictates defense and offense.
And economy is part of the realm of war.
Economic warfare in a game like this is very common.
If you find out that an enemy fleet
needs a whole bunch of certain materials
in order to build weapons to be able to fight you
in a PvP match coming up in two weeks,
you're gonna buy all of it off of the market.
You can force them to farm it themselves.
You can't do that if they're on the other side of the map.
You can't get your funds out there to do so.
So like, this is the kind of shit
you have to think about, man.
Especially with region-specific materials, bingo.
Like you have to understand that these games
are about tactics at a great level
instead of tactics at your individual personal play only.
Grand tabletop kind of thing, you know?
trash it all I don't even know what those spider cocoons are for kind of weird
oh my god so much silver he's a good day I'm slowly but surely getting enough
gold to be able to buy my boat. I'm almost there, man. Every day, we get closer to boat.
Think they make thread? Yeah, but you want to know something about processing? It's expensive.
Not doing it. Not again.
You can't you steal a boat?
I don't know if you can steal a boat.
You blow it up.
Yeah.
There's flying knots, I've seen those, those are only for mares, and our 10 is not high
enough level to be a mare yet.
You're leveling every profession to 10?
Totally fair.
Yeah, you do that.
You wouldn't download a boat?
I would.
Yeah, I'd do that.
that. But no, I'm already at five gold and 88 silver. So I'm doing pretty good today.
You download a bear. I downloaded bear. Yeah, I think I do that. That's a fair thing to
download. Can't wait to be a shipbuilder. You're gonna do carpentry then a lot of
Carpentry. Nice. I got my gems and old school Rinscape off the crab slapping.
You a dead ass download a car? Good.
I don't know what to do with it.
Every one of these is worth exp, man.
Don't download the car.
You need to download the gas.
You know fair.
That makes sense.
that
up
and I have no idea who that is to be honest with
One or two is uploading a car? Definitely not me. I downloaded them. I downloaded a car immediately.
Yeah, you, you posted on two accounts. You posted on Byte banter and you posted on Mestin.
You just copy pasted it between the two. Why multitrack drifting?
It's weird, man.
Did they do fire and ash out there moving?
No, I've no idea what that is.
Hello from Washington where it's raining like God is taking a piss and it's barely above
freezing.
Yeah, I'm also here.
It sucks.
We live in the same state.
Thankfully, I'm not near any of the rivers that overflowed or near the levee that
broke so that was cool yes it's running like crazy
but the end bed of three foot food printers coming you wait what I'd be
down I'd print I would download a burger right now yeah I'd do that I would
download a hamburger. What printers? Arionos, be careful. Would you download a
deviled egg? Yes. I would download a deviled egg right now. I would print an
ostrich egg and devil it myself. Do you know like how in Star Trek they don't
have alcohol? They have simphahole? You know what I'm talking about? Because
It's not alcohol, it's like digitally reconstructed alcohol called simple.
I would have the deviled egg version of that.
Yeah, that's what I would do.
I would have the Lime Wire illegal download version of the deviled egg.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'd have a synth egg done, dude.
the
case like cardboard
, care
I know what it is
Give me this. Give me the Swiss Melt. Print it.
Star Trek had you excited for Holodex, so where are they?
Star Trek also had you excited for small devices that could do basically anything for you.
And search anything and look through large amounts of data.
And now you have these.
You know in the 70s they thought the future you were going to have like a weird robot that followed you around and acts as your butler?
They couldn't even imagine it being small like this. They thought we would still
have computers the size of rooms they'd just be smarter. Like it's wild dude. No
one expected the miniaturization of technology. So think about what's gonna
happen 20 years from now. You'll never be able to know because the ideas that
we have today is just the retrofuturism of tomorrow. Because technology
expands and jumps and starts in ways that we can't even imagine. That's the whole
point and I love it.
I want it now though. I know you want it now. You know what I want? Space. I want
space right now.
I want to go to space I want a game from space. Yeah
20 years from now everyone will be unemployed because I took her jobs
If no one is employed how will I buy deviled eggs?
Honestly, you know what I see a lot of which is kind of weird
And I'm wondering how the market's going to adapt to this.
I wonder how people are going to handle this, right?
But what I'm seeing a lot of right now is tech jobs are drying up.
People are not able to get into the technical positions
in the industry because these massive corporations are,
they're betting everything, dude.
They're betting it all.
They're putting it all on AI.
And if that doesn't work, it's going to be a shit show.
But if it does work, it makes me wonder
where the job market goes.
And I think the only thing that it goes towards
is away from technology and more towards the human experience
and how people interact with each other.
Things like creativity, song making art, things like that
because people are a lot of the times wholly rejecting AI
generated anything in those spaces.
And it's for good reason, which is interesting.
That doesn't pay.
I disagree.
I think that art and music today pay more than they ever
have in history.
And the reason why is because you can take your art,
put it up on Twitter, put it up on social media right now
and actually make a living off of it.
if you're able to do it effectively enough.
And the reason why that's important is because you couldn't do that 20 years ago.
You couldn't do that 50 years ago.
You could do that a hundred years ago.
That has never been a thing before.
A freelance artist did not exist in history until quite recently.
And I find that to be really, really interesting and fascinating.
And it's only possible because of social media that that is occurring.
So like,
I think that's a really interesting avenue to me, right?
It doesn't mean it's without it's it's horrors right like dealing with AI art all the time as an artist online is shit
Like it's it's horrible to deal with that and it's it's super obnoxious for every single artist that deals with that
The money artists got paid a hundred years ago adjusted for inflation is jaw-dropping except hurricane Chapman
If you were gonna be an artist a hundred years ago, you were likely a pet of some noble and he was like look at my
This is my oil painting
There they are
Aren't they beautiful? I keep them in my drawing room
It's a very different reality than I posted some things on Twitter and people are paying me to draw feet
All right, so like let's be honest for a moment
Like
Yeah, there were barely any full-time artists
legitimately and
Anyone can do that now even if it's not like a full-time gig like you can do this kind of stuff
which I think is very interesting and
and really refreshing to see that this is possible today.
And I was a freelance artist like for like five years.
Like that's what I did.
I did freelance work both in art and program.
And like that's that's the deal, man, like I've seen it.
But that was before AI was a thing.
So I know it's tough for people that are doing that.
But damn, is it a good time to do shit on the internet?
For a lot of people, even if it's harder for other weirder reasons.
Even Mozart struggled to make ends meet.
Exactly.
Yep, Vincent van Gogh died poor.
Exactly. You don't have to die to be a famous artist now.
That's really what it comes down to. You don't have to die
for your art to be worth something today. That's incredible.
Right? What's your take on vibe coders? I think they're robbing themselves of
something deep
and personal about art and creation. I think they're robbing themselves
of the investment that you put into yourself through creation.
And by doing that, they will never attain the feeling
or skill that a traditional artist can ever.
And I think that's a problem.
And it's a problem that they won't recognize.
Yeah, it sucks, man.
It sucks. And I think that's the thing that really bothers me a lot is a lot of
young people are being taught that if you want to make it in art or if you want to
make it in technology, you have to use AI to do it.
Cause if you don't, you're not going to be able to keep up. And I'm like,
that's not, that's not accurate. That's not how the shit works.
Because all you're going to get is a lot of people that know how to run
prompts and not anybody who knows how to fix it. If they run wrong,
it's terrible. And it sucks to watch.
In shitification for sure. That was never true. What was never true user words? I
Think you need to be knowledgeable in both
I think you should understand the tooling but you shouldn't use it to replace the creativity in yourself, right like
Using AI to teach yourself a new school phenomenal great fantastic
But using I to AI to do the thing without you understanding how it works or building any skills within yourself failure
entirely so. I can't replace creativity. A lot of people think it can. Use it as a
search engine. Use it as a way to teach yourself stuff. Don't use it as a way to
replace your own creativity. That's a fail state, man. Every time that's a fail state.
Yeah, the idea of don't use it for anything, it's evil, it's bad, like that
doesn't make any sense. Use it as a search. It's a calculator. Bingo.
One example is Dougung, almost all of his apps he makes now is using AI to code a majority
of the code.
He said, it has 10 times his ability as a coder.
Sure, it does.
But imagine if instead he built those things himself and then used it as a way to teach
himself and only did that.
Eventually he wouldn't need that anymore, he'd just be building them, right?
And to be real with you, I feel like there's a hidden thing in the background there
were likely, he has to deal with a lot of the shit that that thing does poorly.
And he had to learn to get around that, which means he had to learn programming to fix that,
right? And my guess is that he's learned a bunch of programming as an example, like as a way to
fix those problems, which is a good thing. I think that's positive. And it still means
he's investing in himself and learning new skills. If he was only doing it wholesale and
I'm being like, no, I only use the AI.
I don't do anything myself.
It'd be a lot shittier.
He wouldn't be able to have anything done.
Yeah, already has the experience of being a programmer.
But there you go.
I think overreliance on AI is more dangerous
than anything else, personally.
Yeah, methods of implementing mods, that's fun.
See, that's the thing.
Using it as not a wholesale replacement
for your creativity is the point, dude.
as long as you are investing in yourself
and learning new skills, you're doing it right.
Like I just, I don't understand two sides of this.
There's two parts of this that I don't get.
It's people that are wholesale,
everything AI is shit, that's crap, right?
I hate that, that doesn't make any sense
because it's too black and white.
And the other side is AI is the future,
you shouldn't learn anything.
Those people are also dumb to me.
And the reason why is because there's a point
in the middle that makes the most sense to me.
And that point in the middle is,
use AI to teach yourself skills
so that you get better.
You get the best of both worlds with that.
There's no losing that.
Yeah, it's two silly extremes,
and those extremes don't make any sense to me.
Wonder if someone can legally change your name to AI?
See if they've gotten to more job opportunities?
There is some funny bullshit with job opportunities in AI.
I heard a story recently, and I'd like to check up on it,
so I don't know if this is true.
We were talking about,
I think there's a person who left the TTS,
And they were saying basically every time you get like an AI interview or anything like that,
just respond to it by saying, I love teamwork and that's it.
No matter what question they ask you, say, I love teamwork.
And the reason why is because it seems like in that scenario,
the AI was grading an answer about teamwork as a positive because it's just looking for a win condition.
You're like, oh, plus one point.
They're like, what would you say is your worst experience in a job place?
I love teamwork plus one point.
He loves teamwork, which I just think is funny, right?
Like, this is why you always need a human in the mix.
This is why you always need someone to double check that shit, because it's not smart.
It's not smart.
And there are ways to trick it into doing dumb shit.
I mean, look at the LLM from, uh, where wins me?
When I turned into the, what was it?
The muffin man live, right?
So like, that's a good example of like, do not trust this shit.
give it oversight. And that's why I use it to teach myself stuff. If I want to
learn about a subject, I go, like, uh, I'll do this all the time. And I do with
Grock and ChatGPT. And I go, Hey, I want you to tell me everything about this
subject. And I want you to cite sources. And it'll tell me a bunch of
upload about a subject. And I go, Okay, here are all the sources. And then I
walk away from the AI. And I go, I'm going to read every one of these
sources now. So I can get the take of the conglomerate bullshit,
whether it's right or wrong, and then the take of all the different
sources, whether those are right or wrong. And then I ask it to tell me
the opposite side because it's a search engine. That's what it's best at. It finds things for
you and it will find things for you to agree with you more than anything else. So if you
take it to there and you go, hey, I want you to find me information about this subject,
I feel this way. It will give you information that reinforces your opinion. And if you
tell it the same thing, but in reverse, it will give you information that reinforces
your opinion. No matter which way you take it, it will. And I think all that's doing
for a lot of people is they go, well the AI said it, so it's true. And it creates silos
and tribalism. And that's the problem that I have. More than anything else. There's
that and there's replacing your creativity with AI. Those two things suck ass, dude.
We're short on thanks in the guild, I'm aware. And I'm super aware. You summoners.
whether they're you don't just need a tank I can actually take the brig with my
pet so just sent why are you giving me these instead of putting them in your
bank yeah just put them in your bank dude there's yours we need more clicks I
know what we made we need more people playing those classes there's a reason I
have a tankle. You want to use them? Sell them to the vendor then. If you're not going to
use them, sell them dude. Make money. Get paid. But anyway, with my rant over on that,
does that make sense? Am I wrong about this? Because that's really the way that
I feel about it. I feel like people are getting more tribalist because of AI answers
just reinforcing their direct opinion and they don't search outside of it.
And I think that I think that wholesale replacing your creativity with AI is a fail state.
No spot on your 100% right? I'm okay. Cool.
Beto is different. She's real. Well, did you just do the legend of Zelda thing, but with Vidal?
Vidal is different. She's real.
Do you think Link is Zelda?
What's going on over there?
I have questions for you.
If you want us to dress up, maybe this.
It's not Vidal.
It's Vidal's monster.
Wow.
Neuro is rapidly approaching your location right now.
I just thought you should know.
No, I think what Vidal is doing is actually incredible, because Vidal was doing this long
before AI was even a thing, like really pushed as a thing.
It was very niche, and I think what Vidal's done is awesome.
And I think the thing that's really cool about it is creating a character like that
that can interact with others, can do collaborations, and has a community around it, and people
have watched neuro and evil grow, which is an interesting thing.
something that's phenomenal to me is watching that AI grow from a little potato shitty program
to just the madhouse that it is now. And I think that's interesting. Yeah. Also, Vidal
is a small turtle that is fun to bully. So there's that too. I watch him, I watch him
get bullied all the time. Yeah. Can pray call a discord, you can do all kinds of shit.
Will AI become a god? Depends on if you worship it.
Wait, if you do, then yes.
If you realize it's just another tool, then no.
Right?
Beetle is still bigger than bow?
I mean, that's not really inaccurate.
I would say that everyone is though, to be honest.
That's a really low bar. So low that even bow...
would have trouble getting under it yeah yeah yeah how tall is bow I want you
to take take the smallest word you know like the the word to describe something
very tiny like I come up with what is the word for the smallest thing you can
think of chat. Give me the tiniest word. Lil, cuz it's three letters. Just take the L part
of that. That's about there you go.
Oh, very small dang, it's pretty funny, dude, that's been in my house.
I can make these jokes.
That came over.
We hunted mushrooms.
Once.
It's great.
She's a local nerd.
is so tiny. That was small.
With the mushrooms bigger than the bow, I mean yeah. We had to do a lot of
post-processing to make sure that bow would be visible
while carrying a mushroom. That mushroom actually, we had to build it, we had to
construct it. It took a lot of hours with the scanning
electron microscope but we managed to pull it off
So that it looks like, I know it might look a little weird around the edges, but it looks like Bao is standing there with us with a normal size mushroom.
It's very difficult to pull off.
Yeah.
A lot of technology in that. Many hours by the editors.
Play the last of us, the mushrooms can hunt you.
I hope they turn tables.
Horrifying, actually.
Plank length is the smallest measurement I know of.
Take one letter from that.
That's Bao sized.
Yeah, yes, bow is actually breaking our physics model as she is smaller than the plank length
Yeah, it's over bud
Is it true that you hired Peter Jackson to design a set to make bow pure human-sized I did I did and he almost pulled it off
and
what is bound
a streamer
Very small.
34.
Tell them Bandito sends his regards, you filthy, you filthy animal.
VTuber here on Twitch, the grub.
Yeah, that was great.
by great I mean like awesome not not great because she's very simple. Yeah, 160
centipedes are you bigger than bow? Yes. You could actually leave the whole first
part of that sentence as am I bigger than bow? The answer would just be yes. Yeah.
She's got like, she's got that real 4 foot 12 energy kind of a thing. Very
small.
Isn't Shiloh Lee shorter than bow?
I've met both of them, I don't think so, I feel like Shiloh is taller than bow.
I've never seen them stand next to each other but I will say that in my memories, no human
being is shorter than bow.
Yeah. What about Anifusia? Anifusia is small, but she's small in that way where if you took
like a blender tool and you just, at the corner, she's like that kind of small. Bower's small
in the like you need a scanning electron microscope. It's different. It's different. Yeah.
Iron mouse has to be shorter. I don't know. I have no idea
You're five foot five full of hatred nice
Limes is only four foot ten
Limes is tiny
Shortest woman in the world if that's not a picture about and I'm not clicking on it
dude. That's a Google share link. I click on that. What is
that? Who puts an image on Google share? What are you doing?
Yeah, there was a about those mushroom hunting the Thor
video. Yeah.
Limes is ferret sized. It's true. That is accurate.
It's Instagram on share. Google. That's weird.
I love how I started bow slender calling bow short is normal.
That's not slender.
That's just accurate science.
Also, you should watch bow and pull this up.
There we go.
Did you know that Bao embarrassed the living shit out of me twice?
Do you know that?
In my life, I have been embarrassed deeply, twice, by Bao.
And it wasn't even really her fault.
So Bao gave me a- like when I finally met Bao,
I figured we were at some convention.
and she gave me a really lewd body pillow of herself and she's like this is
for you and I was like what the hell is this I was like holy shit dude and so I
went back to my hotel room and I hid it in there and I just like put I like
cuz I was like what is this and I put it out I was like Jesus Christ and I just
left it in the room and I didn't put the the thing on the door that says
like don't clean my room so they cleaned my room and they found it
And when I got back to my room they had made the bed and they laid it out on the bed
Like it was a person
So that was upsetting and then the second one when I was going home and I was going through security
They had to check my bag and
The guy opened up the bag and he saw it in there and he looked at it
And he looked at me and he looked at it and he looked at me and I was like
And that was it. There was no conversation. It was just I think I probably turned into a tomato and that was my life
Yeah, so great
Yeah, that was that's it
Thank you, bell. Thank you for that. So I'm gonna call bow short forever is basically what's gonna happen
That's how that's gonna go. Yeah
Yeah, you know, I definitely did when I get when I get embarrassed, I turn bright red like my whole face turns like a tomato entirely.
So it's too low of a bloat.
That was very tiny.
She's short, small to get bad.
It's pretty goddamn funny, dude.
You got a fold phone and streams look so much better.
A fold phone.
What is a fold phone?
It's ridiculous.
I could never get behind foldable technology, I guess.
It's very funny.
Is this game good?
I really enjoy it actually.
Um, I've been playing this for about two years.
Uh, we've played all the way through alpha, like earlier phases.
It used to look like shit.
It used to run like shit.
It used to be smaller shit and there was no grass in the ground.
It was only this on the map.
And now we've got all of this.
And if you're wondering about size to move from there to there is about an hour and a half of of travel and it's beautiful
it's like
Like really a beautiful game now
There's certain times a day where it looks like shit to be clear
Night the shaders don't look quite right. The ocean can look really weird. Sometimes there's areas that just don't look good
but to be real a
Year ago it barely ran it. It really never looked good. So like I
I think it's phenomenal and it's in a really good spot and every year that I've played this it has gotten dramatically better overall
The systems that they need to work on now
I think are gonna be economic drivers and
Gameplay drivers over anything else they built the world first and now they're building those systems second which I
Can understand wanting to build the world first, but I do think that social systems economic systems
Crafting have taken it by the wayside a little bit, you know, are there any wipes?
Yeah, they're gonna wipe it before launch and they may wipe it along then we I think if this is my sixth character something like that
Yeah, this phase is permanent access until release. Yes
Did they implement DLSS? Yes, they did that is now in and I'm running it
This game's a baby looked like a potato and fresh yeah, we're kind of watching an ugly duckling turn into a swan, right?
I don't know the thing is is I'm kind of biased about this because I like the game
You know so I'm gonna be a little bit roasted and on it, but
To my credit I also didn't like the game
For six months I quit because the gameplay experience was so dog shit at one point
And like I didn't like the direction the devs were going that I was like I can't even get on and play this
It's not fun to watch. It's not fun to play and I quit
For six whole months and then this update brought me back because they fixed all the things that was upset about
And I was like, all right, let's rock. You did the thing. Good job.
Well, over you once max level 25 and the max is 25 right now.
I'm at the current max max level eventually is going to be 50,
but getting there is not going to be like World of Warcraft.
The idea is that it's not going to be like, oh,
I pop on and I make a new character and I get to max. It's like, no,
I've played this character for six months and I may be close to max.
Kind of the thing like even online status, like you're going to be
leveling the character effectively forever what were the things that you have
said about that they fix this update so they made a change to the economy and
they pulled it back for this but the the change the economy was you went from
about 10 minutes for your first craft to four and a half hours to make your
first weapon and everything in the game got worse from there we did some
math with our ministry of industry because we had a massive guild that was
running through this, we had 200 guilds of 50 men each for each one of those. And a massive thriving economic driver in that, which is the ministry of industry and then we have the ministry of peace and ministry of truth. Those are three were 1984 base is kind of fun. But with that in mind, they did the math on it. And what use what used to take 300 hours to craft, which was 50 people's worth of gear was now over 9000 hours just for processing and crafting.
It was horrific, dude, like it was incredibly awful and they just went, I'm out, I'm not
playing this.
And then they, they brought that down to about 4,500 hours, which was insane still.
And I was like, I'm not going to play this until you fix it.
And now when we get back in, they've brought that down dramatically.
I think it's about a thousand, 1,500 hours now to do that kind of a thing.
And that's man hours to be clear.
You could spread that out across lots of people, but that was what made me go away.
That was not fun.
Dude, like that was so bad feeling.
It was so bad.
Does that body blocking?
Yes, it does.
It does have body blocking.
You need to pay attention to that.
In fact, I'll say something kind of cool.
See that dude over there?
See his name plate disappears when I do this.
You can hide behind bushes and your name plate will disappear for other players.
So you can hide and ambush people.
So, collision in the game and visibility actually matter. Very much so.
It's like the isopod thing with all the quality match. Only netting you 1xp.
Yeah, there's a couple of scuffed things like this. We'll go look at this, right?
We'll go to crafting and we'll go to weapon smithing and I'll pull up a scalp hook.
A scalp hook takes 10 copper fragments of Assault Weapon mold and a Daffodil Thread.
We get these things that are basically they look like an isopod and they give you guild experience.
But they can only give you guild experience if you paired them with a scalp hook of the same quality right same rarity
Which that's a lot to form for one of those we get like 300 of them a day
Like they're very common. The problem is imagine farming all of this
Doing all of that to be able to get one of those in a lawless zone
Transporting it back to town building the thing and it gives you one guild experience singular
We need 60 million for the next level
see the problem now that shit makes no sense so there's still a lot of like
here and there like hey that that whole economic driver is stupid like please
fix that yeah it gives you one the gray ones give you one experience the green
ones give you 10 the blue give you a hundred so it's like it makes no sense
man I'm not shitting you that's so there is really weird shit in this that
makes no sense. And they've got to work on it. And the reason why the economy was
in such a bad state is because they didn't have what's called a principal
economy designer. That was the dev position that they hadn't filled. And it had been
two years of that. I've been trying to push people go apply for this, go apply
for this. And finally, they filled the role about two weeks or two months ago.
And because of that, a lot of stuff is already changing. They've done a really
good job. So we're processing is a big issue. Honestly, dude, that's because
of all the weird bullshit items that they added to crafting. I never would
I've done this stupid idea, honestly.
I don't understand the reasoning behind that.
I think it creates a lot of work.
I'll give you an example of this.
This is one of the things that I would change
and this is the feedback that I gave to them.
If you want to process something like a ruby, right?
You need to get gem cleanser and a rough ruby.
Rough ruby just comes out of mining nodes
and then you process it into a ruby, right?
Takes money when you process it in one of the stations
and the gem cleanser you buy off a vendor.
Now imagine you make 250 of these.
You need to buy 250 of that item off a vendor.
What does that item add in terms of gameplay?
It increases the cost of the craft, but you could just do that without adding the item.
They've added a shitload of these for every single craft in the game.
There's tons of them.
Everywhere.
If you want to do a money sink, just make the processing cost more.
Buying it off the vendor makes no sense.
It's not flavor, it's extra work.
Think about it this way.
This offers no gameplay to the player in any way.
whatsoever there's no gameplay to this they just buy it off the vendor that's
10 feet away and then use it right that's it that's all it is so with that
in mind what happens for the player friction without fun what happens for
the dev localization of about 3,000 new items why would you want to do that
you're not adding fun to the game you're adding friction without fun and
you're adding a shitload of localization work for your team there's no
It's a waste of time and I that's an example of a feature that I never would have added that I think they've gone in the wrong direction on
So that sucks, you know
What if you hate yourself? Yes tech that it's a hundred percent take that and like I see things like that I go
What are you doing man? Like what's the design intention? Like what's the goal there because that doesn't make any sense
Even Final Fantasy 14 does that it doesn't make any sense though. Where is the fun added for that?
Where is the fun added for that item?
Just because another MMO does it doesn't mean it's a good move.
You as a player don't experience a greater amount of fun by buying that piece of shit
off the vendor.
Nobody gets anything for that.
It's just work.
It's work for the sake of it.
And if the only solution is, well, everybody does it, then you're not making a better
game.
You're making the same game that has the same flaw.
do that. Right? Yeah. Final Fantasy 14 also has a full mini
game. Agreed. I like Final Fantasy 14's crafting. I really do.
Village yet? No, we're at 34% though. So right on target.
Also in 13 hours, we're getting a new season will be
spring. As you notice, you see how the ground is really dark green though. If you look back
at my streams, I think about a week and a half ago, I think this was more orange. Yeah,
current season is spring, so we'll start summer in 12 hours. Tomorrow's going to be
summer. Yeah. Since it's a role playing buying from a vendor is kind of thematic.
Do you think buying 200 of an item every time you want to do a craft is thematic?
Do you think that's fun?
Do you find enjoyment in filling your inventory with those items?
That don't do anything.
They're just a requirement.
Not a bonus.
Not a modifier.
Just a thing that you have to do.
There's the problem.
Right?
Seasons are working?
Oh yeah, no, that's been working for ages, man.
For years they've had seasons.
It might even snow here.
I don't know what the weather looks like in this island, to be real with you.
Yeah, I think there's, I think there's two major problems with their economic system.
One of them is that, that we just discussed, the other one is rarities.
I need to run back to town and we're going to start the next Indy Simberg game.
Yeah, rarity I think is the other big issue.
They shouldn't have as many rarities as they have for every item in the game.
I think it's foolish.
The game does look good. It is. The game is quite fun.
It's beautiful, too. Yeah.
Hope it isn't snow there. I don't know. I don't know what it would be looking like, you know?
Are the vendor items available everywhere? Yes. So there's not even an economic driver to transport them from one part of the world to the other.
They're just on every vendor in the game.
So like, yeah, it just makes no sense. Like, I'll give you an example just to be clear for those who haven't seen it. We'll go to this vendor right here.
This vendor literally sells every single one of those secondary materials in the game. All of them.
There's no meaning to these.
You could throw all of these away and roll their cost into the craft and the game would
be the exact same.
It is a waste of time for these right now.
I don't understand why they spent time on building these, but they did.
And I find that the practice of using them to be insufferable, yeah.
It's a massive amount.
Like they're starting with so much tech debt, dude.
Like they are.
All right.
We need to leave.
I need to start the next in December again.
What animal is your top left mount?
Oh, that is a, it's a mule that carries two crates.
It's like a reindeer.
Yeah.
Hopefully they'll move them to be more rare.
I, hopefully they get rid of them.
I don't see a benefit in that item to be honest with you.
The other thing that I don't see a benefit in it
is item rarity as it stands.
But I've been shouting about that for ages.
I think that it leads to negative outcomes long term,
and I'm waiting to see how they handle that, right?
Let me grab this next game.
That's a bit on, moment.
Ah, it's a demo.
Add that, fill that, make the library, let's play it.
Waiting on it.
Grabbing this, grabbing that, sorry it took me a minute to get it running.
Clark have a res skill? Yes. Is it a 30 second skill? Might be. Yeah. You don't get the appeal
behind where wins meet. I kind of fell off of it after I turned one of their AI into the
muffin man by jailbreaking it. That was kind of the end of that.
Setting everything up.
The window size thing is quite weird.
There we go.
Okay, that's good.
There we go.
You could probably hear some static.
That's good.
All right.
You guys ready?
Does it rain?
The next game is called an unplayable game.
Yeah, it's a little bit of white noise in the back back there.
They also have different settings for accessibility in this, which is quite cool.
I like that quite a lot, actually.
And they also have settings for muting the TV static, if you'd like to, which
I think there's actually really neat gamepad vibration turning on and off different windows sizes game volumes everything
So I think there's a good job on that already. I'm gonna play it probably with controller
And I'm gonna leave the TV static on to get the actual experience that they want. Oh, that's weird
As a reticle over that that's very interesting
What is that
It took you to a link tree for them. Oh, that's cool. Whoa, that's a neat menu.
Wait. Oh, God, no. Oh, no, God. Oh, dear God, this is going to be hell.
I can't oh no
Wait idea
Damn it it's gonna put it in the center screens time
Okay, wait, what if I put that one there?
I'll put this one here.
Got it!
I am gone!
Shit.
I dare it.
Got it!
No!
I'm gonna get a second mouse.
I feel like I've done this.
I feel like I've done this.
Yes!
The blue button is run.
How do you...
You can't run while you do it.
How do I...
I'm dying.
Your game is making me die.
Wait.
Wait.
It has to be a better way.
Oh, the buttons don't work.
This game is rage.
How do I-
Wait.
God damn it!
of
the
all the way to make
that's good
it's like a task speed run dude
,
she had a huge mistake
, got a huge mistake against a much
,
I
Victor is mine
oh shit no thank god I forget to turn on running great
I'm a golden god.
That's how you do it.
We got ads.
We're gonna wait for the ads.
Hi, I'm the dev. Hello.
I managed to get quite far before I found the accessibility options.
Your game is cool.
Your game is cool.
You're also a monster.
I thought you should know.
and
there's the game, though
It's fully free to play.
You're not buying it?
Well, thankfully you don't have to.
What's the catch?
The catch is...
you get to learn something.
All right.
The ads are over, but I wanted to call this out just to let you guys know.
This is a free game.
This is a free game, and has developer commentary in it, if you'd like to see that.
And I think that's fantastic.
It also says proudly made of the course of a hundred and forty hours of human effort.
The trailer was made at 120 hours, but had a lot more bug fixing and polish afterwards.
This game contains no generative AI output, and the AI was not used in any capacity during
the game's construction, so I've called that out specifically.
The game is free.
It is fully free to play.
And I think that this is cool because it's showcasing, and it says here even, the game
explores the impact of accessibility settings through a short playable experience forcing
players to confront exactly how it feels to play an unplayable game.
The reason why I found this game to be important, one of the reasons I wanted to have you on
as a dev, is that's something that I tell the community all the time, is to do things
like adding controller support and being able to add things like controller remapping, because
people with physical disabilities cannot play a game without that, in many cases.
This game kicks ass, you're awesome for making it.
Now let me struggle to play it some more.
Oh, I'm dead, aren't I? Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Oh!
Yee! All right.
I don't even need it cleared.
and
we can only press one button at time
shit
Naaah!
Naaah!
Ha ha ha ha!
Have you tried not dying?
Look man...
You don't- you don't understand.
You understand what it's like.
Okay.
And the game is free, so maybe you should understand what it's like.
Like, by playing it yourself.
Shit.
You know, maybe maybe you should just do that
Oh, it's just so close idea. I know what I need to do. I don't have to do
rescue for the biscuit
boss got it and you doubted me you doubted me you doubted me
off we go
he's insane it's true
oh
what's up dude
oh they brought me into their cult
they know oh god developer commentary i'm lost
while my college program did have a class on accessible design and video games
it was everyone's least favorite i think uh people complained about it all the time at least
And like, of course, building accessible games is a lot of work. It's hard. But for a lot of players,
that extra effort can turn an unplayable game, right, into an unforgettable experience that
they couldn't have had otherwise. And that's what it's all about, right, making and releasing
games and art, putting them out there and having people experience them. Accessibility
helps more people experience your art, experience what you've made. It's important.
Hi, I'm Ben, the developer of Unplayable Game. I'm currently going by Yamako on the net and making
games under the name .slashbadgames.zip. You've just turned on developer commentary mode, which
means that you've finished my game, so thank you for playing it all the way through. I really
hope you enjoyed it. Developer commentary mode has spawned a bunch of little speech bubbles,
or commentary nodes around the game. Each one will play a clip of me giving you some behind-the-scenes
commentary on the development process or the artistic vision that went into this project.
You can find these nodes scattered around the game if you give it a replay. None of the nodes
are actually hidden, so I'm sure you won't have trouble finding them all. Just don't forget to
check the menus as there are a few nodes in there. Again, thank you so much for playing
my game, and I hope you enjoy developer commentary mode. Full disclosure, I have been on a
CRT TV maybe like 10 to 20 times in my entire life. I'm so old. So I've not really seen them in
action. I'm so old. And I didn't know how the snow was actually created on them and how it worked,
and if it even abided to like the resolution of the CRTs. Do CRTs even have resolution in pixels
as we think of it now? I don't know. So I tried to emulate it as best I could with
like the curved screen and a lot of bloom and the scan lines and stuff. But for the static specifically,
I did something really interesting. I generated it off of like a white noise generator website.
The actual texture itself is what I generated off that website, just a random assortment of
white and black pixels. And then instead of having a couple like 800 by 600 images that I
cycle through, I instead got two images and changed the scale of them a bunch for every
different frame.
So you might be able to tell if you really look closely, but it's got the first image
and then it flips the X and then it flips the Y and then it flips only the Y and keeps
the X positive in terms of scale.
And what this allowed me to do is get those different frames of flipped images and just
order them in a way that you're not seeing the same image flip multiple times because
otherwise it would look like it's spinning and it's really weird, but instead I switched
out the flipping of the two images so that it goes back and forth between them.
So you've got two images that are being distorted a bunch, giving the impression
of continuous TV static, and that saved a lot of space.
A bunch of just like couple kilobyte images of TV snow would take up a lot of space.
So that's just a little bit of optimization
that I thought was creative.
Yeah, that's awesome.
That's really cool.
And I'm old now because you're like,
I've only been in a CRT for 10 to 20 times in my life.
That's it.
My bones fell out.
Thank you.
Okay, I know this font is overused everywhere.
Yes it is.
It's VCR OSD.
It's like free and it's royalty free.
You could just use it.
And it's used in so many analog horror things
just general modern horror things. And I'm going to be completely honest. I there's not
a great reason to use this. It's overused. It's not unique. But ever since I saw marble
hornets, when I was in school, I have always wanted to use this font for something. And
this game's vibes are like, close enough that I can use it as an excuse to use the
DCR font. So I realized that the letter spacing is weird. Um, it doesn't look that good. You
see this goddamn font everywhere. I just, I had to use it, man. I had to use it. I've
been wanting to use this font for so many years.
I'm glad you used it. That's hilarious, to be honest with you. And you're right.
It is used everywhere.
This is the only post launch commentary note in the entire game. And so I'll give
fair warning that you should probably listen to this one last it's also the
longest title is in all lowercase why is it in all lowercase well I've made
games that have had like an all uppercase title before and it's very eye
catching for sure but I didn't really make this game to be eye-catching or to
get sales or clicks or whatever I made it because I think the topic is really
important. And it's a really personal topic to me. And honestly, I just don't type with
capitals very often. Like the vast majority of the time, I'm just in all lowercase. So
it felt fitting to make the title of a game that's so personal to me in subject matter
have an all lowercase title. You know, it feels like I'm the one saying the title
if that makes sense.
That's interesting.
That's weird to me.
Now I don't know why.
I had a number of different titles that I was going to use for the game.
I originally went with accessibility is important and there was also the importance of accessibility
and musings on accessibility in games and a ton more like that, right, that just
tried so hard to get the point across within the title so that as soon as you
you see the name of the game, you understand what the point is, kind of like a YouTube
video.
But I've realized that, number one, naming it an unplayable game gets you intrigued.
It's a little bit more click-baity, but also it gets the point across.
I'm not trying to, you know, sit you down and be like, hey, we're talking about accessibility.
I want you to experience how unplayable an inaccessible game can be.
And so calling it an unplayable game is, I believe, a really good way of getting that
point across and getting a player in the headspace to think about playability in games and really
reckon with how bad an unplayable and inaccessible game feels.
I completely agree with you.
Entirely so.
This was my first time going through and actually making a settings menu with stuff
like changing window size and volume and all that.
It was really interesting because not only do I have to make this settings menu in the main menu, but I also have to make it in the on-screen game.
Which means there's different kinds of interactables in order to change stuff.
Obviously the main menu has these sliders that you can see, but the 2D game only has buttons because it needs to be completely navigatable with the on-screen controller.
So, I had to change up the logic for how all of these settings are actually modified, which
was really hard because I'd never made settings like this before.
So, I was learning how to change volume and how to make all of the different sounds be
under the same volume mixer thing and how to change the window size and stuff like
that.
And I had to learn multiple ways of displaying and interacting with those settings as I
I was doing it, which was hard, but I believe I've become a much better developer because
of it.
I'm now a person who can implement these settings in a variety of ways really, really easily
because it is simple, but I had to push through those difficulties and now I've got a really
flexible tool set when it comes to developing the settings button specifically.
So I don't know, sometimes when you make something and it really sucks to learn
and how to do it, you're growing as a person.
And that's pretty cool.
I remember the first time I had to build menus
and I made them, they were so easy to make
with mouse and keyboard.
And then I was like, I have to put controller support in
and I had never done it.
And it was really tough at first.
So I understand that completely.
I understand that story entirely.
And now I can do them very easy.
So same thing.
You gotta get through it once and then you know how
to do it.
Let's hit play and then.
the TV in this game was a hassle and a half. It's made in Unity, so I had to learn a lot
of Unity-specific shit on how to project a camera's output onto a texture on a mesh, and
that was really a no-ing. I don't feel like I really internalized a lot of that information
to use on future projects, and that kind of feels bad, but in reality I don't think
I'm going to be doing a TV within a game that's showing a game that you can play ever again
That's so specific that I think it's okay that I kind of barely made it to the finish line
It works and the systems are so isolated
They don't break everything else in the game by being horribly architected
It just it works and I'm done and that's what matters sometimes that is all that matters is that you got to the finish line
that
that
for this game. I tried to introduce concepts to the player, as if they'd never played a platform.
Because when I messed around with the timing assist setting and found that
time-holding moves, when you move the style of gameplay, it completely redefined how I played
platformers. Instead of this dexterity challenge, as it would be if you had access to the typical
expected controls. Instead, it's a spatial puzzle where you have to figure out what inputs to press
and when in order to navigate different kinds of jumps. And because that's so different to how you
would normally approach a platformer, I thought it would be a good idea to reteach all of the
different platforming elements, like a tiny hill that you can jump over that has no risk whatsoever
and like a longer jump you have to hold the right d-pad the whole time and you have to hold the a button
throughout the entire jump you get the maximum amount of height. That kind of basic stuff
is so different with the timing assist on that I thought it was a good idea to re-teach it.
That way you can sort of learn your baby steps once again now that you have entirely
different legs if that makes sense yeah that's smart
Now, on a lot of platformers, there's the concept of coyote tiling, wily coyote community
tunes, where you fall off a ledge and for a split second you're able to hit the jump
button and you'll still jump as if you were standing on solid ground.
That is so that you can sort of have a little leeway with your timing when you're making
a jump off a ledge.
With the timing assist in this game, you have all the time in the world to wind
that up.
the game speed down you can get right up to the edge of that ledge. So I found that if I included
priority time it would be so easily exploitable and break a lot of the delicate balance of the
jumps and level so yeah I just didn't include it and also that saved me a good bit of dev time.
Makes sense entirely. Try to wiggle.
Let's talk about Asset Packs for a second.
They've kind of got a stigma around them due to what they should call Asset Clips from
the past many, many years, but as you can probably tell, this pixel art on screen is
so good it's not mine because I suck at pixel art and animation.
It's actually a wonderful Asset Pack called Midnight Forest by Arkham Aspect on Itch.
And I used it because obviously developing the skill of being good at pixel art and being good at animation would be valuable,
but it would take a lot of time. And what I really like doing is coding and designing and putting everything together.
I just wanted to make a little guy run around on the screen, so I went and used this asset pack to let me get back to the parts of development that I like.
If you spend too much time bashing your head against an aspect that you're not having fun with,
then you burn out really fast, and I think it's really important to keep yourself motivated,
so I don't think there's anything wrong with using asset packs to skip some parts of development
that you're not enjoying that much, due to maybe a lack of skill or just a lack of interest.
I think it's fine. Now, that doesn't mean that you should just use AI because it saves you time.
No, people have put a lot of work into making assets online for free.
There's a ton of royalty-free and CC0 stuff on itch, cat's open game art, and a ton of other places.
It's very easy to find and search.
And the thing is, these asset creators made these bits of content to be used in video games.
And I can imagine that any kind of asset creator would get really excited to see their work in a full video game.
So, if there's a part of development that you're not really enjoying,
go find some free assets that's in ton of them and get back to that stuff that you like doing.
I completely agree with that. To the extent that, here, go check out Kenny's stuff.
If you've never seen Kenny online, what Kenny does is create free asset packs for you to go
make video games. And they're all creative comments. That's the whole point. Kenny does this
all the time with all kinds of shit and it's phenomenal to use. Phenomenal.
Yeah, they're great people. Kenny is awesome. Yeah, 100%. Kenny's stuff is super fantastic.
Great message from the Steph. This is the first jump in the level that requires you to use the run button.
There's a little bit of a dilemma in development because everything before this
can be completely trivialized if you use the run button. But I figured that if you're using the run
button on those parts of the level, you understand how platformers work. You've probably played Mario,
and you understand how the run button can kind of really trivialize some of those simpler jumps
and let you go a little bit faster. But not everyone has that kind of experience, and that's
sort of the point of the game is that not everyone is on the same level of playability,
and sometimes that is because of a lack of familiarity with platformers.
So if you're a new gamer, or maybe you're not very good with platformers,
or maybe the timing assist system is really throwing you off,
you're going to naturally use the controls that you understand the best,
and those are walking and jumping.
So using just the walk and jump buttons when you go through the start of this level,
it teaches you platforming fundamentals to route all these different jumps up to this point.
That way you can learn them in a comfortable space, and you're not forced to reckon with this final button on the controller and overcomplicate everything up until this point, and then it all opens up.
But before that, you're able to learn everything in a relatively safe space that's not asking too much of it.
A large reason behind including these commentary tracks is that I have ADD. I forget stuff fast and really often.
and I put so much work into this game, I made so many deliberate choices and put so much of myself into the work,
I don't want to forget any of that.
So while it may kind of seem that these are like a record to make sure that you, the player, appreciate my glorious design decisions,
it's actually mainly for me to help me remember the work I did, the experiences I had, and the choices I made.
This cave is not a natural formation.
I actually came to be not as a planned particle level, but because I noticed that a lot of the
like tighter jumps like head hitters and areas with really really specific tight spaces were
in one section of the level and I just thought, oh okay we could break up the variety of
the level by adding a cave here.
And that taught me to listen to the game design more and not keep this rigid idea
of oh it's just going to be in a forest the whole time.
Instead, I really just listened to the level design that I had created and found that it
naturally informed a cave to be here.
And I think the game had better for it.
I think there's a lot more variety in the gameplay and the presentation because I put
a cave here.
I thought I could cheese it.
That was a fool.
A fool.
You ever just, you know, you ever.
You ever.
I have no idea where this node is going to be, because it barely has to do with the game,
but I wanted to talk about my system for maintaining my posture and health as I work.
Obviously, I'm working like 10 hours a day on this game, I'm going to be sitting a lot.
So what I did is I set a timer every 20 minutes, and every 20 minutes I got up, I walked upstairs,
and I looked out the window for a full 30 seconds at a building across the street.
And it was probably creepy.
I hope no one saw me, but I did that every 20, every 20 minutes because there's the
2020, 2020 where every 20 minutes you should look at something 20, 20 feet away for
20 seconds.
So I tried to make sure I did that, and that prevented a lot of ice cream.
I forgot to do that immediate eye-strength and also it gave me excuse to get out of my chair and walk around
Because no matter how good your chair is how well tuned it is to your posture
You should still stand up and walk around
so if you haven't done that in 20 minutes go stand up walk around for like
20 to 30 seconds you will feel better. I promise man. I don't I don't know anyone like that
they would sit in a chair for 12 hours a day plus with the posture of an actual
shrimp no one no one would do do that
decorating the level of props like the bushes and signs in the background took a
surprising long amount of time but it was really fun just to figure out when I
when I can put it in a bush, when I can put it in some rocks and signs, that one kind of story I could tell with that.
And what emerged out of that was a multi-act level where you're kind of going into this abandoned forest,
and then you go into, you see little bits of infrastructure, and then you go into a cave,
and you see more recently maintained infrastructure that's not covered in moss.
And then once you get out of the cave, you start seeing that there's a cult nearby,
by and you're sort of reaching their territory, and then finally you get to their territory
at the end of the level, and you meet with one, and then you find out that, oh, this was
the point.
This is what you were trying to do, is get into this cult territory, maybe join them,
and then the final twist in the cutscene is that they are like trapping you, and
they're coming out of the tent to surround you, and all of that came from just putting
props in the environment.
I didn't actually plan any of it beforehand, but as I started placing the little bits of
bobs, a story formed out of that.
And obviously this isn't a game where the story on screen is very important, but it
was so fun to construct, you know, just a great time all around.
So at this point in recording, I realized I'd hit over 20 minutes of these developer
notes.
And that made me think about the original reason why this topic is so important to me.
Back when I used to stream and do YouTube videos, the next YouTube video that I was going to make
was going to be about accessibility in video games.
I was going to talk about control and celeste and a couple others
and also difficulty settings and how all of those can make a game more playable
for people of different skill levels and different ability.
right? However, editing videos is possibly the worst thing I've ever done in my life.
It feels like it's putting so much time into something for so little payoff, and I'm glad
some people enjoy it, but I hate it. And I realize that, oh, I put more time into this
game than I would have put into the video of the same topic, but I was having so much
more fun. And I really think that the way the idea is presented in the game as opposed
if it was just a passively consumed video, I think it hits harder that you have to see
how the playability increases by doing it yourself and actually playing it before and
after those settings are in play. I think that hits a lot harder and hopefully it makes the
point stick with people a bit more. I think any time you are teaching someone something,
gamifying it is the best way to do it. Put it in their hands, let them experience it,
Because if you can do that, it will hit home so much more.
And it's funny too, because like, I've learned a lot, number of things in my life because of that.
I'm a programmer.
I learned how to type because of Mario Teacher's typing.
I never would have known how to use a keyboard.
Like, it was Mario Teacher's typing that taught me that.
Gamify that.
Gamify learning concepts, even if it's concepts like this.
Do that.
Teach these people things. 100%.
So since this was my first solo-released game,
I feel like it's a good time to talk about why I developed and released it under the name Bad Games.
Obviously I'm not trying to make low quality games, I put a lot of work into the one you're playing right now.
Instead, the name is meant to just be very upfront that the quality of the game isn't really the point.
I think trying to objectively evaluate the quality of any piece of art is really reductive,
And it means that you're treating that art as a product instead of a reflection of the artist or a piece of art trying to make a point.
And I'm not trying to make products. I'm trying to make cool art. I make games to channel my passion into something that reflects me in some way, or has an interesting point, or is just fun for me to make.
I don't care if it's considered good, or will appeal to a lot of people.
So, the name kind of dissuades anyone who would look at a game that's not trying to be good and lose interest.
I don't think those people would like my games, so I say they're bad.
This small finale of the Cliffs region of the level is kind of like a victory lap.
The jumps aren't actually very confusing, they're just long jumps.
the jumps they're like the longest jumps that I found were possible and I made it
like one block shorter I believe so it wouldn't be too too too hard because I
wanted the finale to feel like a victory I think what comes directly prior to
this is actually the most interesting part of the level design and the
hardest kind of quiz of what the different jumps required and instead
this final bit is just long running jumps that are easy to read and easy
to identify what you've got to do to give you sort of thrilling finale.
I learned that from stuff like Portal 2 where the ending peaks in difficulty a little bit earlier
and then gives you a fairly easy finale so that you can feel the rush of progress and I hope I was able to capture that at the end of the level here.
How am I supposed to interview you?
Ha ha ha!
If you answer every question I would ask you in the developer commentary of your game.
As you get to the end of the level here, I feel like it's important to ask if the story
of the level actually added anything to the game as a whole?
Did it improve the product?
And you can probably guess my answer.
I don't care.
I just had fun making it.
It was really enjoyable to see the story emerge out of a couple of props that I placed
level and finding little avenues to give an increasing level of danger as the level goes
on with those different props and the skulls on hikes and stuff.
But at the end of the day, a lot of people don't notice environmental storytelling because
it's subtle.
I usually miss environmental storytelling.
And so most players, I assume, don't really notice that the actual forest is getting
more spooky and dangerous and filthy but I did it because I wanted to and that's
another lesson of just like have fun do fun stuff don't worry if like no person
is gonna notice because you're having fun making it you got damn right you could do
a developer commentary track where you specifically point out the hard work
you did you can do that that's a great I wonder who could have done that this
This ending cutscene is just like pure spaghetti code, but it was one of the last things I coded
for the game, one of the last big features left for me to do.
And I realized that no matter how much tech that I accumulate by making genuinely awful
code at this point, people never bite me in the ass because I'm basically done.
As long as it works, I'm not gonna-
Oh.
That's the best moment for that to cut.
It's really funny. Actually, that's the funniest moment that could possibly cut.
It's never going to bite me in the ass.
All right, we're going to get the Devon in just a moment.
Ads are going to play in about 10 seconds and then we'll have the Devon.
And hopefully I'll come up with some questions to ask that weren't already
answered during our playthrough. See you in a moment.
Ridiculous.
Well, that wasn't just a sec.
Perfectly cut, yeah.
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Okay. Sorry about that.
I want to first off, I want to thank you for the interview that we just had, and it's now over.
Yeah, man. I've got a lot to do today, so I'll just head out.
That's great. No. So this is fantastic. I think this is really, really cool thing.
I love the depth of commentary that you've added to this. I think it's phenomenal, honestly.
It did answer a lot of questions that I have about it, but um, yeah
That's totally no I love that. Um, if you'd like to introduce yourself to chat tell them who you are and what you do
Yeah
Hi, I'm Ben. I'm going by Yamako on on the internet right now and I developed games under the name dot slash bad games
Dot that dot zip. I said this in the commentary. I think like verbay
You did that was I was like, did you just read off your own commentary because it's the same
Well, I mean, yeah, that's it's has remained true over the past couple of months. I'm a
recent graduate from college going into like, you know, the worst market ever.
Congratulations. Yeah, there's a lot of a lot of people extremely fun. It's awful. Yeah.
I don't like I feel bad, honestly, because it's one of the worst markets I've ever
seen for anyone in games or it or in any type of tech position. It's terrifying.
So yeah, a lot of the people I graduated with are just, you know,
doing grocery or retail or something.
Yep.
It's rough.
Anything to make ends meet is really what it comes down to.
Like I've been telling people in the community about that quite a lot is like,
you don't need to have your dream job.
You just need to have a way to pay the bills right now.
And hopefully eventually you get an opportunity because it's, it's stupid.
Like it's, it's insane how little opportunity there is right now,
but it's, it's rather absurd.
So I'm hoping that it pans out slowly over time, but it's rough right now.
We even had people in the community like there was, um, what's the dude that had his job?
I mean, he's like a principal engineer, like he's big time engineer.
He'd been doing it for 20 years, lost his job, hasn't found new work for four years.
And it's like, dude, if you got a guy that scale like that's, that's bonkers to me.
You know, somebody really in the wheelhouse.
So it is tough.
It really is.
I hope to find stuff.
kind of stuff.
So what I've been doing since I graduated,
because I graduated last December in 2024.
And I've just been doing, I kind of like,
just have been doing freelance game development for people.
And a lot of that has been just building prototypes,
building out little small game projects for people,
fixing up vibe-coded messes.
So that's been the bills, but on the side,
I've been trying to really start making real full indie games
because I went to college for computer science
and game design and game design and development.
But yeah, just kind of doing what I can when I can.
So I am really interested in that subject
because one of the things that I talk to the community
about a lot is don't replace your critical thinking
with AI, don't replace your creativity with AI.
Learn from it if you want to, like learn new subjects from it.
But don't, don't wholesale replace yourself with that.
You said that you do vibe coding cleanups,
so being a vibe coding repairman.
Is that a common thing that you have to do?
And can you talk about that a little bit?
I can talk about it a little bit.
Maybe I love teamwork.
I was here for that earlier.
I love teamwork.
I love teamwork, guys.
I love teamwork.
I like teamwork, right?
Yeah.
It just, it's, it, I don't often find it myself,
like specifically coming online for that kind of stuff
or coming on board for that kind of stuff,
it just kind of happens where like,
oh, this new system needs to be integrated, right?
And then I'm looking at it and I'm like, oh my God,
what is happening?
And then, you know, you fix it up,
integrate the things, add the new system, do my job.
So, and then sometimes, you know,
I've had different gigs where I've had to like
specifically fix up vibe coded stuff.
Um, so I don't know what specifically do you want to sort of know about that?
I'm kind of interested because we, we had a situation pretty recently where we
had a company that we're going to be doing some cool stuff with,
and they sent me some art that they were going to use for it.
And they said that the art was made by someone in house.
They didn't realize that person in house was actually using AI to generate
all the art. They had no idea because they weren't artists, right?
So I'm trying to get, basically get a litmus test on how
often do you see that? And is it like super common? Is it kind of an uncommon thing to
see vibe coated garbage out there? And do the companies even know when they hire like
a programmer that that programmer is using these types of tools to just build messes
effectively?
Hmm. I, well, I guess my experience for it is sort of filtered through like the gigs
that I get.
Yeah.
And all that right?
This is the only mirror I have for this for now.
Yeah.
I don't know how it is in industry. I know in my last year or so of college, I went into
a lot of team things where the other people in the team were putting out clearly chat
GPT code. They didn't even remove the comments. I just had to deal with that. Again, not
very reflective of industry. I was also when AI generated code was just starting. I'm
typically working with like, you know, like the idea guys or people with like a design document and a little prototype that they put together.
And a lot of the time like that prototype or the systems that they have at that point are like vibe coded because you know they've got the concept and they're trying to like put together something to show to publishers and they're not like a coder.
Um, and that's sort of when I run into it, right?
It's just people that, you know, wouldn't be able to make this without the AI sort of
boxing themselves into a corner because of how the AI decided to code their stuff.
Yeah.
I think, I think that's the biggest concern that I always have.
And where I tell people, I was like, use it to learn, but it, like you said,
you box yourself into a corner and then you're like, I can't fix this.
I don't know what to do.
And they don't have enough knowledge that they've learned through that
process to do anything about it.
you know, and that's rough. I think it's a really rough position to be in. Yeah, overall,
from a Dev and current PM, I see a lot of vibe coded messes, maybe one in five apps from your
clients. That's wild. That's, that's a lot higher than I anticipated. I assume, I assumed it'd be
like one in 20 kind of a thing, but I didn't realize it was that common. It does make it more,
more easy, I guess, for people to go and build messes like that. But yeah, it's magic
eight ball coding. You never know what's going to happen. I feel like, like a lot of the time,
you know, some of these apps that are like vibe coded just wouldn't exist without the AI doing it
because the person doesn't know how to do it. So I feel like that's also sort of skewing the
percentages of how much of this stuff we're seeing now. I agree with that entirely. And I think,
I think the biggest thing is, as long as you're learning something, it's probably fun. You
know, like that's just learn from it. But if you if you're like, I'm just gonna make the AI
I do it and walk away like now you got to hire a cleanup crew.
You know, like, no idea how it works.
Yeah.
So, but that's really interesting.
Thanks for letting me know about that.
Cause like, that's, that's been a,
I haven't been able to ask anyone about that so far.
You know, like that's, that's really fascinating.
In terms of-
No, it's not like, all right, sorry.
Go for it, go for it.
I know it's not like a full, you know,
rounded in a picture of how the industry
is doing all this stuff.
but yeah, I'm glad to share what I can.
Cause I do run into it a lot more often.
I mean, the thing is at the end of the day is like,
you can't get all of that from one person.
There's no way to.
So I try to find out as much information as I can
about anything I'm fascinating from like,
as many sources as possible.
So it's good to find out man.
Like it's super is.
I am, I'm also really interested where did,
so you talked in the developer commentary quite a lot
about everything, right?
But where did your love of, you know,
Accessibility setting start guys. I'm very interested in how that began.
Oh yeah, this is super. I have a very, very clear answer for this.
When a Elden Ring came out, um, I used to stream, right?
I used to be like a Vtuber and stuff.
Um, right? Uh, and, you know,
I ended up quitting just because like the responsibility of playing games,
uh, made it less fun to play games, but, um,
Back when Elden Ring came out, you know, there were a lot of discussions about like, what is an easy mode?
How do easy modes affect all that stuff, right?
And, you know, at the time I was very in my own head, I did inflated ego from being a streamer and having any amount of a platform.
And I would talk a lot about how the easy modes aren't making it easier, it's bringing it up to baseline or accessibility options that are often talked about as easy modes.
It brings the requirement, the skill floor to play the game down to wherever you need it to be in order to play the game.
And that made me think about, oh, I'm going to make a video talking about Celeste and control and risk of rain too as well, comparing difficulty and accessibility settings and just how it's not about making the game easier.
It's about making it playable.
But you heard the Dev commentary video editing sucks.
Yep.
So I never did it.
it and just like the idea never left and I realized oh you know the idea of
accessibility settings not being difficulty modulators but instead a way
to make the game baseline playable that can be a game. So I did that. I feel the
same way about video editing by the way. I tried to do that originally and I
I found that I hated every possible aspect of it.
And now, yeah, everything takes so long.
Cause like I'm used to like when I'm working on indie games
stuff, right? Like I compile it and it's done, you know,
it's maybe 30 seconds a minute cause tiny games, right?
And it doesn't take very long, especially with modern
engines. So when you do that, it doesn't take very long
to test something, but when you're doing video editing,
I guess you could take forever, like forever in some cases.
And then like uploading and downloading like video files
from live streams and it was like, oh my God.
So now Shade Lock does that for me.
I don't have to deal with it because it's horrible.
And then I go, Shade Lock, I'm like,
this is the thing I want, please.
And then I, and then Shade Lock does some wizard magic
and it's done it very rapidly.
So I understand completely, very, very much.
Yeah.
And like making games, you know,
coding, doing the design and stuff,
I enjoy the process of that.
And doing that made me realize like,
oh, putting the clips together, doing the audio,
These sound like very basic things.
But like, oh, just piece by piece,
putting the video together was not fun to do
as much as I was like, oh, I'm proud to have made a video.
The process of doing it wasn't very fun.
I just thought that was how it was
until I started doing Game Dev and I enjoyed the process
and I realized, oh, yeah, I should be doing this.
Do you have kind of like a pinnacle moment
that that happened for you?
Were you realized that?
that Game Dev was better, that video editing sucks.
Yes.
I think, well, video editing, I realized
that I shouldn't be doing it.
I didn't know that it wasn't supposed to feel really boring
and soul sucking.
When I was making a video about how near-automata
and Outer Wilds shaped my life choices
in a really, really profound way,
important video to me. And I totally scrapped it because I was just like, I can't do another
40 minute video. I don't have it in me. And I think when it comes to Game Dev, it was
probably the settings menu, just something that would seem so nothing, you know, so boring,
busy work, you'd assume. Like, I would think a gamer would assume that it's, you know,
know, not a very involved process, it was so technical, making all the things work, and,
you know, audio converting it from logarithmic to linear. So, you know, the sliders make
sense. I was talking to someone about that in chat. That seemingly boring task being
super fun, super engaging, super interesting really hit me like, Oh, it's fun. It came
have rocks. Oh yeah. No, that's awesome. And that's the thing is I, I love that because
it's, there's always a moment where you're like, I don't know if I want to do this or
I'm going to do this forever. And I think that a lot of people don't get that kind of
feeling right away. And then they kind of bail out of something like, oh, I don't know.
I didn't feel anything when I did that. It's like, no, stick with it for a minute
until you feel something, whether it's like, I don't like this or I want to do this
like play around with that until you get something out of it.
I think, and it's, it's rare.
It's rare that you just like really, you know, sync up with something.
Cause that's cool to hear, man.
That really is cool.
Yeah.
Cause yeah, I've made little game projects for college on, I've done
game jams before, but even through doing that for like a couple of years
and going to college for it, um, it took until like September for me
to really hit that point and be like, Oh, it's, you know, I'm enjoying
doing the the boring, you know, very not interesting work.
Yeah, that's how I know that I'm in the right spot.
So it took a long time.
That's fair.
That's good.
Okay.
I got it.
I got an interesting question for you.
There wasn't covered in the developer commentary.
Thankfully.
Um, I want you to call your baby ugly.
What is your game do the worst?
Oh, um, there's a lot.
There's a lot of things for sure that I'm, I'm not super happy about,
but the number one is the controller clicks
when you hover over the buttons and press them.
If you turn up the volume really high,
you can tell that there's like,
you can hear the background noise
and it like cuts off abruptly.
It's very bad.
That's so specific.
Yeah, because I was making a trailer
for like an awards thing, right?
Like yesterday.
And I realized that the controller buttons, you can hear it, and it's very quiet during the game, but it's just like, oh, oh, man, it's so basic.
And I'm still horrible at like audio work, right?
It's it's easily like the worst thing about the game, in my opinion, is like that is it's it's everywhere.
You're hearing it constantly, and it's so bad.
You talking about this?
I don't know. Hold on. Let me check this stream.
It's specifically like the controller hovers.
Yeah.
The ones that I'm hovering over the buttons, yeah.
Yeah. If you turn up the sound effects volume and the game volume really high, you can hear it pretty clearly. It's pretty bad.
Oh, there's like white noise. There's like air behind it.
Yep, it's because I was hitting buttons on an Xbox controller and recording it with my phone.
That's really funny. That's really funny. I actually did, um, uh,
for one of our first games, we actually did fully sounds for everything.
And there's a ton of stuff like that. We tried to cut it out using Audacity.
And we had to do it visually and be like, oh no, oh no.
it's like the odd air and it's still in there
and a bunch of sound files.
So I understand completely what you're doing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, I don't know what I'm doing.
I don't, like, I'm so bad at it.
That's the whole point though.
It doesn't matter if you're bad at it.
You made a thing and the thing is cool
and it taught some people some stuff
and they have a memory because of it now.
So you did the good.
I think that's fantastic.
I don't get better at it.
You know, I'll figure out how to make my sounds
not awful, I'll get there.
No, I mean, it's actually not even bad
the funny thing is I had it turned down to the extent I couldn't hear that. That's why I think
it's so funny to me. It's so hyper specific of like if you turn everything up to maximum volume
and then do this specific action. Oh yeah it is it is definitely like a creator looking too
closely at their stuff. And also you know the audio bugged out when you finish the game with
the audio commentary going. That audio cut was so comedic though. Like at that really funny.
Yeah, it's really funny, dude. Like at first I was like, did that do that on purpose? I was like, no, this is just too funny this way. I think it's hilarious.
I wonder how many other people like that happened to because it is right there.
It's the perfect timing.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, but so what do you work on next? Like, this is out. This has been out. But like, what do you, do you have, like, project plans for anything else?
Yeah, so I'm trying to sync up my releases with NextFest just because Steam NextFest is just, you know, free promotion.
Yeah.
And it's like, you know, I didn't realize it would be that much, but it was nuts.
Yeah.
Almost in almost all of the attention that the game got was from Steam NextFest where, you know, the demo was just the game without the developer commentary, you know, and there's one node and it was like, just give me a full game.
And I don't know, I guess that was the right move.
But yeah, I'm trying to get a game out in late February and March for Next Fest, where it's just like a little daily challenge shape puzzle game.
It's not like an important game or very large scale or anything.
just me trying to do really well in practicing game feel and like polish with visual effects
and particles and things, putting a little replay value in there. So it's, you know, more
or less a little bit of a practice run. I've got a bunch of ideas queued up that I want
to work on, but I'm just taking them one at a time. And coincidentally, the next
one is a very small scale, not very interesting little puzzle game. But I'm having fun
with it and I'm learning a lot and it's already like way more polished than an
unplayable game was it's got like real controller support not the weird mouse
cursor thing um so yeah I honestly have to say though that's that's fantastic you
know making a game to learn to make better games is that's the whole point
so like that's great great you know like that's that's the same stuff that I
preach to people all the time and I think that's cool as hell do you is
your next game is it shown up on steam in any way is there a way we can
see it. Yeah. Yeah, you can, uh, you can click the, the bad games, um, developer name and it
pulls up the page, but it's also piecewise. Yeah. Love the name. That's cool.
Um, yeah, I think the name's pretty, pretty nice. It's, uh, very derivative, um, for
sure. But, uh, it is really just like a little, little practice game.
You know, I actually love this. And I think the reason why I love it is
because it's very much like, do you remember those like brain age games?
Yeah, yeah.
It reminds me of that where it's just like, do this daily challenge.
Your brain age is this, right?
That kind of a thing, which I always find those to be fascinating and good.
Like there's no, there's no negative to that sort of a thing, you know?
And I like that you can rotate them.
That's, that's novel.
I think that's quite cool.
Right.
I, there've been a bunch of weird control schemes that I've been messing with.
The rotation mechanic has killed a couple of them just because there's not enough
room on the keyboard, uh, for all the different buttons you got to hit.
Yeah, I find that to be quite cool. I think that's really well done. And like,
it's, it's a pattern match game, but you have unique controls on it. And it's, it's, you know,
a daily challenge thing. I dig that. Yeah. We need more brain teaser games. I agree. I
super agree with that. So I think, I think you're making cool stuff. I think overall, man,
like I think, I think it's hard to do that. I think it's hard to like make stuff, especially
when people are very harsh on video games and the internet of today, you know,
And when you make something that's not like AAA giga-chad video game, people kind of will
ignore it or they'll shit on it some way.
But I think you're making stuff that's unique and I think it feels good.
And I think that you're with your first game, you were stating something that I feel needs
to be stated about, you know, accessibility in games.
I think that's an art piece.
It's a good art piece, actually.
And I think with this one, you're, you're learning of something and you're making
a, you know, a daily fun, silly puzzle challenge, right?
I think that's great. I think it's really cool overall. It's showing, I guess, a freedom
of game dev that you rarely see right now. There's a lot of people that just don't feel
like they're free to make just a puzzle matcher or feel like they're free to use games as
an art form or to tell a story about game accessibility. I think the fact that you're
doing that is fantastic.
Yeah, thank you. It's also really weird to be going to something very small scale and casual after like a game as a statement.
Yeah.
And it's a little scary, but at the end of the day, you know, I'm not making it to be like a financial success or anything. I'm making it to learn a bunch of stuff and then, you know, all of my games past that are going to be way better for it.
for it. But it's, it's, I was also really, if you know what I mean, I was very nervous
about this stream, because on Steam, right, when people play the game, there's a lot of
that self selection where people don't get it, they'll just kind of bail. If they don't
think the topic is interesting, they just won't play it. And that's resulted in the
game getting very few like negative reviews, but it was it was probably a
little bit too like nerve-wracking for me to see someone play the game and you
know there's a little bit of like an obligation to play through the whole
thing or whatever right for you to just get through all of it, whereas for
other people it's just like the self-selection of immediately being
like oh this sucks and leaving saves me from a lot of criticism I think.
That makes sense. I could see that. I think it's one of the reasons I tell people I put a demo out,
you know, for a lot of games is because they self-select out.
But you're right. There is a value in having them stick around and not self-select out too.
You know, like, get that kind of feedback is really, you know, powerful and good sometimes.
I will tell you, the best way that I feel about that is I think all feedback is valuable,
even if all feedback isn't correct, if that makes sense.
Yeah. Yeah. Cause like I've seen some, I've gotten some wild feedback in my time making
stuff and like some of it is just, okay man. That's cool. Like there's a story I told the
community a lot, which is, um, I had this guy contact me and he goes, your game doesn't
have any story in it. And I was like, that's a weird thing to say. We sit there, cause
it's a narrative RPG. It's all story. Right. So I sit down and I talked to him. I
was like, I was like, did you just not like the story? Did you not vibe with
you like what's going on here and we sat down and talked for a while and
eventually he revealed, I don't like reading so I skipped it.
I think I've seen this clip. I've seen this clip.
Yeah, you've probably seen it short, but like that, that, that is like the most
mind blowing feedback I've ever had in my life. Cause it was like, what am I,
like my response to that point is like, okay.
It's like, what do you do with it? Right? So there is, there is really weird
feedback that does happen, but I think getting that kind of opened my eyes to how
players will play your game in a way that you could just never fathom, right?
Like someone who's playing a narrative RPG and doesn't want to read, I'm like,
that's not the game for you then. Like, you know, I can't fix that one, you know?
But I did think that opened my eyes. So I do think that getting feedback,
even when it's weird, even when it makes no sense, can be valuable and can lead to,
you know, interesting revelations on that. So yeah, no, I dig that.
Yeah, and on that topic there's definitely like a lot of the times people give you feedback that's very, like, you don't get, what you get out of it is not what they're trying to tell you.
It's like the feelings that they have.
And, you know, just having someone tell you, oh, this feels bad is great because then you can figure out how to fix it.
but someone giving you this whole spiel of like what they didn't like and what you should change,
you have to parse out of that. Oh, this is the feelings that made them not enjoy it.
Okay. And then this is what I can do to sort of fix that.
I've gotten reviews that are just like, man, this is weird. I don't think disabled people
should be able to play video games. And I'm just like, oh, I am unable to help you there.
Yeah, that's, I've seen wild takes like that as well. You know, and
And there's also like a lot of people, and I've seen this,
I've seen this a lot.
They are concerned that their accomplishments in a game
are diminished because of the inclusion
of accessibility options.
And I'm like, that is not the case, dude.
Like, it's very online.
It is very online.
It's very, I don't know.
I find that a lot of online discourse many times
is like a PVP-enabled place
that usually has no basis in reality.
Like that's, it gets really weird sometimes,
like with stuff like that, because dude,
if you're adding accessibility options,
you're letting more people play your game.
You're not diminishing the accomplishments of others.
And if you feel that it's diminishing your accomplishments,
then I guess I'd like to understand why.
Cause I've never heard like a good reasoning to that.
They're like, well, it makes certain aspects of the game
easier and it's like, yeah, but you're not doing that.
Yeah.
So you're like, you're playing the game differently
than them, so it's not a problem, right?
Yeah.
Some people just like finding that fulfillment in yourself
instead of like external sources and stuff.
I do think that external sources for fulfillment are fine.
When you have things like leaderboards, speedruns,
stuff like that.
And I do think that there is a case for this in like,
hey, a task speedrun is different from say
a normal like player driven speedrun.
You know, tool assisted is different
from a normal player speedrun.
But I think that comparison does fall apart
when we're talking about accessibility options.
like especially the grand majority of accessibility options,
like controller support or, you know,
like colorblind options, things like that.
I think the funniest one that I've seen
is localization options being an advantage.
Because if you change a narrative game to Japanese,
it's usually quite shorter by about 20 to 30%
because Japanese is much more concise.
And so speed runners a lot of times
will use Japanese language when they can because you win.
Yeah, I just thought that to be fascinating.
I find that to be really fascinating.
So there is competition in the weirdest ways
you may not have seen before.
Silk sewing speedrun uses Chinese for that reason.
Bear, okay, that makes sense.
I saw that with Hollow Knight.
I do think a lot of people looking to external sources
for validation in games that don't have leaderboards
or multiplayer or anything, it strikes me a lot.
Like art, where the best way to do it
is just kind of to do it for yourself
for your enjoyment, play the game in the way you like
because you like it.
Don't worry about comparing yourself
to all the other people online,
unless that's what you want to do,
unless that's where you find your fun.
But I feel like a lot of people getting mad
about accessibility settings are not, you know,
they're a little in their own head with it.
And I don't know if that's gonna change.
The conversation sort of pops up every couple of years,
no matter what.
Yeah, I think it becomes a popular topic once in a while.
And I don't think it becomes a productive topic
despite it being popular, if that makes sense.
because it usually wraps back around to people saying
that they don't want some of the disabilities
playing their game.
And then that wraps into some people go,
well, I don't care about that.
I just don't want the game, my game experience
to be diminished because it feels like my accomplishments
are less.
It's funny.
It's not, nothing's happening.
There's actually a comparison you can draw for that.
I remember when looking for RAID was included
in World of Warcraft, which is the story mode version
of RAIDs effectively.
They're very simple. It doesn't, there's very low stakes.
People still get gear in that.
There was a lot of complaints from people saying that it diminished the
prestige of the rating experience, because you could get this lower quality
version of raid sets in that, that version, you could get a set version of it.
And it was smaller and that was, that was pretty common in the beginning.
And that died out real quick. It's not even, not even a thing now.
So maybe it just needs time, you know, at the end of the day.
Yeah.
It might just need time before people go, this doesn't matter.
like just put the accessibility options in the game.
In fact, I've seen a more rising tide of people saying,
do you have accessibility options in this game?
You should.
This is an important thing.
And for our community, it's a very important thing.
We've got a lot of people that can't play games
without that, you know, like that's huge.
So maybe it just needs time.
Maybe it just needs more of those weird conversations
that don't really seem like they go anywhere
because it pushes the needle for people
we may not even realize.
Yeah. I also think gamers really think they know how stuff works.
Yes.
And they'll make big declarative statements
about things that you've heard, I've heard.
And it's like, dude, that's not,
that's not how it works, man.
Some of those are really helpful though.
Like I've gotten some weird ones in the past.
Like there's another story that you may have seen
another short for this, it might have been.
But I had a person come to me and they go,
you're game lags.
And I was like, what are you talking about?
Like what do you mean?
I was like, it runs on a potato.
Dude, like let's sit down and talk about this.
But it was a mini game where you have to poke these like pods
on the screen with a finger.
But the finger was animated and kind of doing this,
like pulling back and going forward.
And what was happening was the reticle to poke
was like this, and that's where the mouse cursor was.
So when the finger pulled back like this,
they'd click on the pod and it would click off the pod
off this, like the actual model.
And then they'd have to click again.
And they interpreted this as the game is lagging.
Cause it's not noticing my inputs.
All I did was I stopped animating the finger.
And because it wasn't animated anymore,
they could always click perfectly.
And they're like, the lag was fixed.
Okay.
You bet, buddy.
And I was like, yeah.
Totally fixed, man, but it just made me laugh.
Cause I'm like, okay.
A lot of times players won't understand
the technical details behind what you were doing
or what is causing the problem.
They can only express it as, I think it's this.
And then you have to figure out the spaghetti
of the conversation to like determine like,
what is it that I do actually need to fix here?
Is there even a problem?
So I get it, I super get that.
In fact, what is the weirdest feedback
you've received as a game developer?
Um, oh man.
I mean, this is like my first solo game,
although the concept of like a solo game
is all nebulous with Asset Packs and things.
But I have not gotten a ton of actionable feedback.
back. It has been very nice with people being like, Oh, this has really resonated with me.
This means a lot to me. I love this. I'm not going to complain about getting feedback like that.
But I haven't gotten the whole bunch of just like, Oh, this feels bad. You know, there's an issue
here. I guess probably one of the one of the biggest ones was I was talking to someone
that's in accessibility in like the games industry. And she told me that the TV static
was really bad for mesophonia.
I believe is what it's called,
just like a sound sensitivity thing.
And she was like, it's not a big deal.
I had to like rip off my headphones though
when I loaded up the game
and the TV static sound was going.
And I'm like, oh, hold on, I'll fix that.
And you added the on-phone.
Yeah, and then also that like,
that screen at the start,
which didn't show up on stream
because you were setting stuff up.
But there's a little screen at the start of the game
that is like, hey,
do you wanna turn this off
before you go to the menu.
And it's like as a dev, you have that perspective.
You want people to play your game.
You want people to enjoy your game.
And that involves making accessibility settings,
fixing those little issues that hurt playability.
Because the most important thing is
that people are able to play it and enjoy it if they want.
Yeah.
We're going to go into ads for about two minutes here.
They just started.
And we'll just chill out basically, just chill for two minutes.
How, so I used to stream on Twitch and stuff.
How is the like reliable income from ads?
So ads, uh, if you run them three minutes an hour, which is the minimum for this,
they change it from a 30% cut to the streamer to a 55% cut, uh, which is
massive.
They also get rid of pre-rolls on your channel, which increases the amount of
viewership that you have dramatically cause pre-rolls.
Yeah.
If you jump in to a channel and you get eight ads and you've never seen
streamer, you're just going to leave, it changes channel. I do it all, you know,
I did it all the time. So that's, that's a big one.
The other thing they did was they actually split off and show how much you're
making from turbo now. So Twitch turbo because you get no ads, they show it now.
They, they were giving you ad rev from that before they just didn't show it.
And it was one of the things that I brought up to Mike Minton,
who is the chief monetization officer there at the time.
And they were like, we're going to work on that. Like six months later,
I was like, oh shit, I can see how much I make of turbo. So that's like,
I think turbo is like 20% of the ad revenue now. And then the ad revenue
overall is like, I'll give you an example of how ridiculous it can get. We run a ferret rescue
here in Washington state. It's one of the largest in the world and it's run completely off of ad
revenue on Twitch. All the staff, all the animals, yeah from the ferret channel. That's awesome.
We're building a 2400 square foot structure off of ad revenue. So like it does pay quite well
And if you use it correctly and you have content that is advertiser friendly in categories that
make sense for advertisers, not like mature games and things like that, you will find that you make
dramatically more ad revenue. And if you are doing political content, you'll find that you make zero
dollars. Like they just, they, advertisers don't want to be associated with it. So we, yeah,
we run that. And it's, it's like a whole deal. But like, because it's in the animals
and aquariums category, and it's very advertiser friendly, and it's a very good cause kind
kind of a thing. And people love watching the ads there because it supports the rescue.
It makes absolute bank and then it allows us to do all of this stuff.
You know, and that's also like framing it as, as like, oh, this,
this supports the rescue and that just it reframes people's thoughts on advertising
as well. Yeah.
It's the biggest thing that I talk about with it is like,
you don't have to throw money at this. We don't need donations.
Just watch. And it's, it's so positive overall. But yeah, no,
But in terms of ad revenue on Twitch, it's very high if you understand what you're doing
with it and try to do it in a way that makes sense for the people.
Don't they also have like a program where they just give you money at the end of the
month if you run X amount of ads per hour or something, right, like a guaranteed, really?
No, that used to be deals between individual Twitch streamers.
Like there's a called a guaranteed minimum, was it called?
But you had to sign up for that and they were all backroom deals.
like there was no public deal for that.
There was a individual streamers could have that deal
with Twitch and it was different for every one of them.
And it was like a hush-hush thing.
And one of the things we did recently was like,
these are off, we're not doing this anymore.
And they made it all very public,
all the systems are very public now,
which I think is a better move
because I think that was weird, you know?
That's pretty cool.
I don't know, I was thinking of like Twitch
giving you X amount of money,
if you like ran enough ads
and it was like through Twitch specifically,
I don't, I may just be totally off base and be misremembering something.
Damn.
Yeah.
No, they don't do that.
I know, I know kick gives like a monthly minimum thing for that, but I don't want to
stream there.
I was definitely not thinking about that.
Yeah.
I may just be super misremembering.
No, you're good.
No, it makes sense.
Like this, they've changed monetization styles so heavily over so many years.
You know, when were you a streamer?
By the way, how long ago was that?
If you, I started in 2019, uh, cause you know, COVID was very lonely.
Just because, you know, that was also when I was starting college, so everything was remote and like the teachers didn't give a shit.
So I streamed a little bit and then got a little bit of traction, made some YouTube videos. They did pretty well.
I think just hit a million recently. It's not good.
That's great though. Yeah.
But I stopped about when they changed the tag system away from like predefined tags.
I think I stopped a couple weeks before that.
Oh, I remember that. Yeah. And in fact, this is one of the stats that we talk about quite a lot is you started doing this.
This is when COVID happened. And that's the total viewership on Twitch on my stream there.
And it shows like how much this platform exploded during COVID.
Like, and they just, most of the things, you know,
so most people were like, I'm just going to go watch Twitch.
I guess they're just trapped at home, you know,
and it, it turned into like a regular kind of entertainment thing for a lot of
people. Mom, and it's changed, it's changed quite a bit recently, um,
because there's so many like streaming platforms now,
like people are doing other stuff, like TikTok lives and people in our
streaming on Twitter, which is wild. And then take and take it.
So it's changed. It's changed quite a bit. Yeah, quite a bit and and like
YouTube or YouTube is a real competitor now in the stream space.
I think their tooling is very behind personally.
I think that they could do a lot better in that regard.
They do some weird stuff with that with YouTube streaming.
I think raids don't really exist.
They have this thing called a live redirect,
which is like you're trying to say raid, but in like a clean room
with gloves on, it's very strange, you know, it's a lot of odd shit.
But then like other stuff, too, that they're just behind on.
like you upload a GIF as an emo and it says that it supports GIFs and it shows
the GIF animated in that menu, but you use it in chat and it turns into a static
PNG. Just weird stuff like that. And it's been like that for like two years, so
it's not, you know, changed. You know, it's just broken and there's a lot of
stuff like that on YouTube. I think YouTube's amazing for static content,
but I think Twitch is where it's at for live content, at least currently.
Interesting. Good to know. Yeah. So have you ever thought about getting back into
streaming now that you've started making stuff and maybe streaming like game
development or your thoughts on that because you're quite eloquent at the
stuff that you say for your developer commentary.
And I'd be interested to see if you'd do that.
Thank you.
Yeah.
I think a lot of like just me being able to talk well, talk good is, uh,
because of the streaming and being able to just sort of run my mouth for,
for a really long time, although, you know, I haven't done it for,
for years at this point.
I don't know how to do about running my mouth.
No.
Right.
But I have been thinking about it for like maybe my next game doing stream stuff, but I worry about like the distraction of it.
Because, you know, I've considered it in the past, but I am really just sitting there thinking myself scribbling in a notebook.
book, and just having to entertain people, even if I'm not actively like, oh, I'm going
to entertain and there's that pressure in the back of your mind, which I feel would mess
with my workflow. But I am thinking of trying it maybe as like a one-off thing at some point.
But no formal plans because I also think that streaming, even if I go super low effort
on it, it is another thing on the plate that would take a little bit of time and energy
away from game dev and game dev is what I want to be doing.
So you know, I've given it some thought and I do want to give it one shot at some point.
To let you know, because I think this may have happened after you dipped out, we fought
as a community for about eight months to get a suffering game development category
made and Twitch said yes.
So if you look on here, we have a software and game development category here on Twitch
now, and it's been around for a couple of years.
But this is where I primarily stream, when I'm not playing video games, I stream and
software and game development.
We make stuff, usually work on our MMO Minecraft project called Blockgame.
But this is kind of where I got my start back when it was creative and then it became
science and tech.
And then we had GameDev for a little while and they got rid of it in two weeks
and then we campaigned for this and then they finally said yes to it after
about eight months of like user voice and showing up all over the internet and
screaming and crying and shitting, you know, as you do.
But they, uh, yeah, but it's a place now and like that's for people that
want to do programming or art or writing or music or what if you're making a game
in any way.
So there are places for that.
And there's a lot of people that like to just watch co-working.
Like you may not even be trying to entertain just working on a thing.
While other people are also working on their thing.
And some people really enjoy that.
So there might be a space for that.
Yeah.
Yeah, I never would have thought that that was a thing that people did and also like looking at the category right now
You only need like mid 30s to break into the top two rows. So
Yes, that's not bad. It's not bad. Also my game is a category. What the hell what?
Yeah, your game will have a category automatically
Know that yeah, so this is something that I tell a lot of devs is is do this here. Let me
IGD be
So IGDb is owned by Amazon, it's you can log into it with Twitch, but we can go look up an unplayable game
And grab this an unplayable game
Question mark. This is your your game on IGDb and it pulls from steam
It pulls information from steam and you can even you know add it yourself and anything like that
This is how it a category in twitch is made
So the moment it's up here. It's a category in twitch
Interesting.
Yep.
And that means if you didn't upload this, somebody did.
Yeah, I did not do this.
Yeah.
Because they have the, yeah, they have the like the, the icon or the image that you have to
have for the category.
And it's this image here, but like every, every game on steam will get pulled up and
here in someone will format like an image for it.
I think it's editors that are on there, but this is very well maintained.
Incredibly so.
And if you have an account, you have to, you can claim your own game and all kinds
and stuff like that.
Very cool, look into that, thank you.
Yeah, it's quite cool.
And I didn't put mine up there originally either.
It used to be through giantbomb.com
and then they switched over to IGDB a couple of years back
but it's mostly automated.
Like it's mostly just like done on its own kind of a thing
or done by wizard editors that just like descend
from the sky and somehow take everything from Steam
and put it in there.
Yeah, but no, it's quite cool.
I had no idea.
That's very interesting.
I'll definitely look into that.
Yeah, it's really neat.
But anyway, I think your game is cool,
and I think you're making cool stuff, man.
Thank you.
Do you have any advice for someone
who's just starting out that wants to make something?
Maybe has never made anything before?
I honestly, I don't think anything
that you haven't already said just kind of, you know,
I mean, for games, everyone always says, like, start small.
Don't make your dream game.
They are right.
Because I've known, you know, there's one side of it
where people are like, oh, you shouldn't discourage, you know, ambition and creativity.
But on the other hand, I have seen so many people start with their dream games and finish
it and it's not what they wanted or not finish it and then give up because, you know, they
shot for the stars and missed.
And you know, this game took like 120, 140 hours and over the course of like three
months, which is short, but also I went to college for this so that you shouldn't
judge yourself based on that, like those metrics and that momentum.
But making something really small is great.
It's a great place to start off with.
And the most important thing is just that you enjoy it.
You know, if you're not enjoying the process, you keep with it for a little bit,
but don't force yourself to do something that you hate,
like me with video editing.
It's just you got to like doing it.
I guess this is not very good advice.
No, it's good. It is good. I think I think it's good because it's honest, right? Yeah, that's all it needs to be. It's how you feel about it. Doesn't mean it needs to be a universal truth. It's just yours. Yeah. Yeah, I have as long as you're having fun and learning something, it is more than worth it. I think the funniest responsive I've had to that question so far was someone said, don't.
Yeah, and they said that the reasoning behind that was they wanted people to do it anyway
out of spite, which I thought was hilarious. It's like a great, like really ridiculous.
It's like you're tricking them into doing it, right? So maybe laugh. It's very funny.
And someone said in chat, like if I if I start with my dream game or people gonna copy
it. Probably not, man. Like the games that get copied are big. And if you're making something
really small by yourself, no one's going to see that and be like, I'm going to snipe them.
On one hand, they're probably not going to do that. On the other hand, if they do, it's
the two cakes situation. So like, you know, there's going to be two games with a similar
or premise and cool stuff going on, and yours is going to have your touch, your unique human
artistry in it. And that's going to make it worthwhile. But aside from that, just if
you're having fun, you want to have fun, do it.
Yeah, I hear the same kind of things where people get worried. They're like, I don't
know if I want to stream the development. I get my game, someone will steal it. And
I'm like, yeah, but now you have all this video evidence of you making it. And they
go, Oh,
It makes me laugh, but like, no, if, if, if somebody does copy your game, 99% of the game is execution. It is like, I think, I think an unplayable game is infinitely better because of your developer commentary.
I think it was just that on its own without the developer commentary. I think, I think it would be missing something, honestly.
So that's your unique touch added to that. Anyone can make that game, but you made that game for a reason with words that back it up. And I think that that's important.
With AI, just like making games now, right, you know, quality debatable, that, you know, talking about the work that went into it is really important and cool.
It's not just important as like an artist to really talk about your thoughts that went into it, because that's interesting, you know, just on a baseline level.
Well, it's really interesting to think about how,
or to hear about how stuff was made,
but that human creativity is really important to people now.
So I really tried to lean into that.
I was just like, yeah, AI is putting out stuff,
but I made this one.
Yeah, no heck yeah.
I think there are a lot of people
that lean towards that too.
There's kind of two trends that I'm seeing
in social media right now around AI usage,
which is accused developers of using AI
or artists of using AI when they didn't,
which activates a mob of people
or get mad about AI being used in any capacity whatsoever.
And then that creates mob of people.
But if you're making something,
you're like, I made all this myself.
It's only positive.
I don't see any real negatives from that.
There is a lot of polarizing kind of feelings in that field.
And it is kind of a minefield with it.
But I don't see anyone really mad when you're like,
I made this, I'm an artist, right?
Like it's just not...
It's hard to be mad at that right you're like, okay cool sick
Maybe a couple people will call it like pretentious, but you know people get upset with with AI usage
And they don't that you know no one's gonna be getting upset at AI usage if you don't use AI so
you know
And it's it's funny too because no matter what you make someone's gonna call it pretentious. That's how art works
Absolutely. Yeah, you just gotta not worry about it.
All right, cool. That's it, man.
In any case, we're almost at time, but it's been great talking with you.
Like, your game is cool, you're cool, and I can't wait to see what you make next.
I love the puzzle game, but not even though it's a simple thing for you to learn from.
I love the reasoning behind that.
Of making something just for the fact that you learn a thing by doing it.
And that's great, honestly.
And I'm going to do commentary on that as well,
because even though it's a small scale thing,
it doesn't have as much to say.
There's still a lot to be said about the creative process.
So I want to make sure to talk about that
and do it as a universal thing, because it's not just
only these really thought-piece games
deserve the commentary.
It's like, no, everything requires so many hours
and so much work, and that's interesting.
I love that you transitioned from being a video editor
to an interactive devlog creator.
Yeah.
Oh, and then I try to do devlogs and it's just like, I, no editing, I'm going to record a
clip in OBS and just dump it out.
That's the game, dude.
Your game is an interactive devlog and that's hilarious.
I love it.
I think it's a really cool, cool model and I think anything you ever make, I think
that you have a style here that's, that's unique to you and I think it's really
positive and helpful and teachable to people.
like just keep doing that because it's me like I thought that was great it added a lot to the game
thank you and i'm glad you said that because it's also like uh as a holdover for me doing
streaming and content creation you know there's that variety thing where you don't want people
to come just for the game you want them to stick around for you yeah um so just hearing that there
like is a distinct style that's not just like oh it's an interesting game um that means a lot
and i'm gonna keep trying to lean into that yeah there was there was a lot of people in chat that
the receipt like W based WW like so like the moment we were like going through the
devlog it was very apparent that your character came through you know so like
yeah that's good I think it's really sure I guess on that note before you fully
wrap up the segment there are a couple more logs in there in the settings
menus that you know I don't know if you're gonna go to see them and then
there's also that big final one on the main menu by the font toggle but yeah
There's some in the settings menus.
There's some in the settings in game as well.
So if anyone wants more of me talking, it's in there.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm gonna click this one and then we're gonna watch it.
We'll listen to one of those.
The last one, the big one, that I skipped before.
Oh, hell yeah.
This is the only poster.
Oh, wait, no, God, I suck.
I know it in the entire game.
And so I'll give you fair warning
that you should probably listen to this one last.
It's also the longest, so.
In the month or two since I finished an unplayable game, people actually played it.
I was hoping to eventually hit 10 reviews on Steam, but now 50 reviews is in sight, and
that's so many more than I'd ever imagined I'd get.
But more importantly, I've gotten feedback regarding, ironically, accessibility.
Now the topic of the game is really, really important to me, and so I wanted it to
be playable by as many people as possible, but as much as I tried to cover all my bases
by launch, there were some accessibility issues that I just wasn't aware of, and I'm only
aware of them now because of amazing player feedback.
Thank you, Harp, Kerry, and Active for that.
And I think the font toggle here is the narrative culmination of all that support,
every single person that played the game, shared the game, or talked about it.
Because to tell you the truth, I cut this feature.
Yeah, I had an alternate font planned for a long time during development, but I ended
up cutting it because I thought it was beyond my skill level.
I didn't even know where to start with a feature as large as that, not to mention that the
game uses three different fonts already that I'd have to keep track of.
So the game released without it.
And I always knew that the game was worse for that, that my pixel fonts might end up
being too hard to read for some people.
And it kind of goes against the whole point of the game that a little consideration of
accessibility can make a world of difference to some people.
And those people matter a lot.
And I failed them.
I don't necessarily blame myself for the lack of a gamepad vibration toggle or the TV static
sound causing sensory issues.
I honestly didn't know that those would cause problems, but I'm really glad to
know now, and I'll be accounting for that in my future games.
But an alternate font is bigger than both of those.
And it scared me.
I didn't think I could do it.
But it's not just a feature.
Accessibility is never just a feature or a checkbox.
It's people.
Accessibility is people.
And seeing those people play my game, resonate with my game, really made that clear to
me.
And you know what?
It wasn't that hard.
It just took a little bit of effort and a little bit of consideration, and I hope it
made a world of difference to someone.
Thank you to everyone who took a chance and played, shared, talked about, or reviewed
an unplayable game.
It really makes me sad to know that not everything I make will be as accessible as this.
Not every game concept can be made perfectly playable to every person, how I couldn't
even imagine someone playing this game without sight, but the most anyone can do
is their best and so I'll keep doing my best to make games that are accessible and playable
for as many people as possible. I hope you enjoyed an unplayable game and I hope to talk
to you again in the next one. One last time, thank you for playing my game.
That is incredibly sweet. That is fantastic. Yeah, that really is. Accessibility has
been a really big thing for me in games for quite a long time. One of the first
people who reviewed one of my games was actually physically disabled and her
feedback was, I can barely play this because it was only a massive keyboard.
And I ended up putting in controller support specifically because of that.
That's how I learned that people with physical disabilities need controller
support.
So I've been through that same process and that is why I added to everything
we work on now.
You know, and it's, it's something that I guess you learn because of the
people who can't play your games and you're right, they are people and not
just a checkbox. It's not just a thing you have to go down the list for. It's fantastic
sentiment, honestly.
Thank you.
Yeah. So with that in mind, do you have anything left you want to tell Chat before we head out?
I don't know. Make cool stuff, even if it's bad. It doesn't matter. Have fun. And I guess
also the game is, it's nominated for an award at the GA conference, which is like a gaming
accessibility industry thing.
Can we vote on that?
The voting ended in December.
I had such like super bad imposter syndrome with it.
I didn't even tell my friends until all of them collectively got upset at me at D&D for
not telling them.
So you won.
That's, I don't know, I'm, peak is in the same category.
So I do think that because there's like any community voting component, that it's going
come down to popularity, but it is a huge honor to even be nominated. I guess there will be a stream
regarding that. I've been very busy, so I haven't been able to keep up with it, but I guess there's
going to be a stream in January about it, and I'll know if I won then. I hope that even if you
didn't win, right? I hope that they showcase your work, because I think it is important. Yeah.
Yeah, I got offered an ad spot for it for free during the live stream. So I made a whole
with new trailer as of yesterday.
And all the trailers on the Steam page are kind of funny
because they just like have fake gameplay.
There's a debug thing where you can just play it
with like WASD and it's not in the full game.
You can't do it.
But I used it for trailers, just to trick people.
That's really funny.
That's really funny.
Don't tell Steam.
I think it's like very explicitly against their rules.
Yeah, they're definitely not gonna find out now
that you've put this on video, the thousands of people.
No, yeah, absolutely, it's fine.
Technically, it could be possible to do what's on screen steam.
It's definitely not misleading.
It's possible, technically.
I think you can do it with a draw pad with a pen.
Yeah, I've heard people try to do that.
I was using controller and mouse at the same time
and I got over a couple of them.
I saw that.
I never even considered doing that.
It's so reassuring that you had the exact experience
that I wanted you to have where just like,
you bash your head against it,
you're like, oh, I can do it.
And you're like, what is happening right now?
And then you just come into the accessibility settings.
Yeah.
I think it's funny because what it showcased to me was
it became an incredibly frustrating
and impossible experience that slowly evolved
into something that was kind of fun
and may not have been the original intended,
but I got to go through the game
and I got to see progression,
and I got to enjoy myself, right?
And that's exactly what happens to somebody
who needs an accessibility option to play your game.
And that was very clear, it's good.
And I made this one specifically
so that it was interesting.
The jumps are hard enough
that you have to do really specific button inputs
for them, right?
And there's a little bit of interesting gameplay there.
And that's like best case scenario,
the game is sort of designed around those accessibility
options.
Not every game is going to do that.
So it is like a little bit of a misrepresentation
because the gameplay could feel more or less worse
if it's designed for the expected control scheme
and the accessibility options aren't really considered there.
There wasn't really a second half of that.
Rambling on.
That's fair.
That's fair.
I designed it to be fun with them,
but not all games are designed to be fun
with those accessibility settings.
They're just like, oh, this makes it playable.
Go nuts.
But people find their own fun with things.
I trust people to do that.
So I think just putting those settings in there,
even if you feel like it compromises your idea
of what the game should be and how it should be played,
it's still worth doing because, you know,
it's going from nothing to playable
and that's worth everything.
Yeah, and you're right. You're right. And I think it's a good message to have.
Well, with that in mind, it has been lovely having you on. You've been awesome.
Your game is awesome. And thank you very much.
Thank you so much for having me on here. It has been an absolute pleasure.
Well, rock on. I will talk to you later and I can't wait to see you.
Definitely win that award, right? Definitely.
Number one beat everyone.
I think peak peak deserves something. They kind of didn't win best.
So gracious, so gracious, you know, I like peak that's, it was, it's so good.
It's a good game.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Um, well, thank you so much again.
Absolutely.
And I will talk to you later.
All right.
Take care.
Good dev, good game.
Fantastic.
Honestly.
Yeah.
That's, that's quite good.
I, um, this, this matters a lot to me.
Um, a lot of people may not realize this if you haven't been in the
community of super long period of time.
Today, our artists is red, green, colorblind.
Everything in our game, heartbound is built in that context.
It has to look good to Shea and it also has to look good to me.
We don't have accessibility options for different color blindness
because they're built directly into the game.
And that was something that kind of opened my eyes to that quite a bit,
you know, and it, I think all of my feelings about accessibility have
changed over the course of being a dev and interacting with you guys and
getting feedback from players over the last eight years,
something like that.
Wish the students, you know,
forget about it in your library of 600 games, good.
Yeah, do it, do it up.
There you go.
And this subject is very important to me
as a result of that.
So thank all of you for giving me feedback on that
over the years and thank this dev
for making games like this,
art pieces like this that push a narrative
of inclusivity in video games for people with,
you know, different disabilities is huge.
Accessibility is a massive subject to me.
Cool def, definitely.
And it does not diminish your experience
if you're not using the accessibility options for sure.
As much as some people think it does, definitely does not.
All right, we're gonna swap back out.
Cool video game.
Very cool video game.
Yeah.
How did you meet Shay?
Internet.
I did this maneuver, this may be very advanced maneuver.
I had a day job and I took what little piece of money
the boss man allowed me to have,
you know, while he bought 50 yachts.
And then I took that, I raised it into the sky on the internet
and I went, I need art.
And then Shay was like,
Shay like scrungled out of the internet and like made noises
like that. And then, um, and then it took the money out of my hand and created art.
That was basically it. That's, that's the whole thing. It was like that.
Yeah. Like a hissing enraged raccoon rabid in a gutter kind of a thing. Yeah.
Yeah. Exactly. You got it.
Scrungle mode. Full month. Yeah.
Rattling trash cans and everything, dude. And now we run a ferret rescue.
Yeah, that's it.
Uh...
That rages.
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Horrifying, isn't it?
Scrungles, you knew favorite? I love Scrungle, dude.
You scrungle them today, dude?
Dude, I'm scrungle.
You tell ya.
Scrunglin' to the maximum.
Got a raccoon, yeah.
The Summoner authority?
I'm over on the side summoning a Bezos, then.
What you're saying is that the Scrungle is real, yes.
Okay.
Which on preview says pirate software playing an unplayable game?
Oh yeah, we just finished that up.
Yeah, we just finished that up.
That's the name of the game.
We have the developer on and everything is for in December.
You were scrungled so hard you can't work tomorrow? Man, every day.
Yeah, I'm scrungling right now, dude.
You just don't notice.
That's how good I am at it, right? I've been scrungling so long
that it's like beneath your ability to like observe me scrungling, you know?
It's a true master of scrungles.
Lord Scrongler himself, oh shit.
how did you know my secret identity this is what happens when I don't take a day
off for a month by the way I just devolve as a human yellow I like yellow
and
thanks man
and
it's like rungle stand right
the scrunkle stand
and
who geared it away
to see if it is any good for
me
and
no
of death
of the sea foam hood to 30
of
Ugh, I need two pieces of force gear right now, but mine give power and magic power.
Mine give so much goddamn power, it's ridiculous.
Scrungle.
It's me, Scrungle Stan, dude.
It's like Grungle Stan.
All right lads, 36%, my god, you're doing it, proud of you.
Thanks for the stream, have a great day, you have a great day, or else.
and
the year and
I need to go get more plants more bullshit
more delicious foods
and
the materials man
that is a heroic token that's an interest of
seven to fix it. You're great. Oh, it's very funny. Everyone in local is yelling seven to
fix my chat. That's very funny. You guys are amazing. It's what happens when I'm scrumpled
out
shit
and
I'm thinking about what I need to do for a daffodil powder or for a grind powder.
I have fought them.
You do not want to do this.
It is not worth doing.
I will promise you this.
The level 30 elites have a spell that does near instant cast AoE, stuns everyone, silences
them, and does a shitload of damage.
Upwards of 1400 damage to everybody in your party.
On top of this, if you silence it in any way, they immediately cast it when the silence
is done.
You don't want to do this.
You're going to waste your time and resources.
Promising you this.
Deep, deep promises.
Like, it is not worth it to do.
Now you have a monster that's level 30, where you're gonna be missing most of your attacks
on top of this, and you have to fight it for multiple minutes under those conditions.
It is not worth.
Ah, the two deviled eggs.
God damn it.
It's not a worthy challenge.
We need to be pushing the island.
We gotta be focused.
In that amount of time, you could be picking a bunch of plants on the mainland here
and getting actual experience for the guild to the node.
One of the 5 star giants might be worth it?
That may be worth it.
That I don't know much about.
I know those things hit like 50 trucks and that's probably going to be a 40 man raid
to be clear.
So, you have to resolve is that worth more than a 40 man raid locust thing?
And I'm going to tell you right now it's likely not.
When we fought 5 star monsters in the past they've taken multiple attempts with everybody
at level 25 with very well crafted gear and even then there were wipes, so.
all down. Shorefoot has leveled up and is at 0%. We're at 37. We can't stop till the
work is done. But yeah, I really wouldn't divert resources right now on. I really would
not. I would save the course because we're moving faster than them. And if you start
diverting people away you're gonna split our interest we're gonna lose and I
hope that makes sense as much as your idea is interesting I really would not
engage on that yeah yeah it's a race dude it's a race and if we split our
focus we're going to lose it so let's not lose it and win it instead
What level should you be to do stuff on the island? Eight.
Yeah, it's good on you for checking in though and like trying to come up with
ideas and strategies at Dresd. I don't want to discourage you from doing that at
all. I think what you're doing is a good thing. It's just I've done a little bit
of science in that area and I have got those concerns. So don't feel discouraged.
I hope that you keep coming up with interesting ideas.
Let's not boil any oceans.
Let's restructure and focus on something that's actionable.
God damn, dude.
Yeah, if you could come out of this island at level eight and above, just pick any flowers,
herb any plants, kill any monster, fell any tree, everything you do matters.
Circle back.
It's the size of the elephant airfield.
It's the entire island.
It is thousands.
You cannot...
We've tried a hundred players doing this and we still can't harvest at all.
It is infinite.
Yeah.
It is infinite.
It is the whole of the island.
Everything is this.
You've been on 11 hours of farming?
rock. That's that's gonna be every day for the next like three days. We should be
getting about 25% per day is the goal.
What are nodes looking like? The only one we care about is that one. We have to
beat Shorefoot.
Yeah we're getting more people that are like going to move here. If you want
move to our island. Come move in with us. It's your island too, man. His pirate
smell like elephant ears. True. Why are we doing that? Because if we don't, they
will turn us into vassals and we become peasants and we can't do anything about
that. We don't want to be peasants. Looking forward to other MMOs or just
ashes. Right now it's really just ashes. You know, I think that's that's the
big thing for me is like ashes is the big one right now for me and I want
see I'd like to see more MMOs come out that are social sandboxes but this is the only one that
looks promising to me currently and it has for a number of years you know can't become a citizen
till we're a settlement that is correct until the next level up we become I think a village is
the name let me check yeah I think it's village next yeah village and then a village allows us to
to be, uh, like citizens and everything.
You're watching ashes and grinding dune.
We're looking forward to the next update rock on.
Yeah, dune looks really good.
How long do you think it'll take to get the village?
Uh, that's what we're working on right now.
Like today we've gone from 21% to 37% so far.
And like, I'm not stopping.
It's going to keep going, right?
And the more of you that do this, the faster I'm going to go.
I know that the day will come when I may not be here as part of the community for one reason or another, but please continue the good work with others to uplift and encourage.
Oh, shit.
It has been a wild ride with you, bro.
I'm glad you're still around, man. And yeah, New World was a hell of a place.
Waitlist, uh, Guild Invite, friend of Beaker, put me on now. Give me just a moment.
I'm gonna pull it up.
Gildenbite, friend of beaker, put me on now. Give me just a moment.
We'll pull it up.
But yeah, the goal right now is to do that, right?
That is the whole point is to do this.
And Seth, I hope you're doing all right now. I really do.
Like we shouldn't be doing anything else. We're not doing professions.
We're not doing any of that because we don't have the time to.
We'll have all the time in the world when this is done.
But right now we have no time.
psycho or you are on the list
Yeah, you cannot gain citizenship yet at all
Yeah, we're gonna have an official map of the forums soon. Um, let's just right now
Only farming is what i'm focusing on
Yeah, we need to go pull all the weeds and if we don't pull the weeds then we don't get to have a house
That's the point here
of
and
Yeah, Thor wants you for deforestation.
Level up and join the guild.
No, but everybody is going to list because we're full up.
We're full up every day.
And I'm not kicking anyone off for an activity until January because people are away at the
holidays, you know.
Yeah.
What's the predominant race in the group looking at right now?
I have no idea.
We don't really keep track of that for like, because there's no racial bonuses, you know,
and it doesn't influence architecture yet.
It will eventually, but right now, not so much.
beard you are now on great name by the way kind of cool very dwarven and meltalar you're on too
there you go man added yeah every time the goat levels up we had 15 more people so and that's it
do you play any mmo's before well uh i mean i played mods there's a couple of mods that i
that I played really early on.
I've also played like a lot of weird MMOs, I guess.
Like Kingdom of Loathing is technically an MMO.
It's kind of a weird one, but yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, we gotta chop every plant down, every tree,
everything, and it seems like people are out here.
Like if you're killing monsters,
if you're farming plants, like you're doing it right.
If you can solo the frogs here, you're doing great,
you know?
To play Ultimate, I never did, no.
Wow is my first like traditional MMO, I think.
If that makes sense.
Then I got an Eve online.
I play that for ages.
Ziv.
Weird name, Saved, you're down the list.
Craveni, you're down the list.
There you go, Saved.
Oh, Team Maximus, that's fair.
Yeah, I might actually get out of the beach and farm goblins, because I can solo those
goblins, and that helps us dramatically more.
So I'm probably going to start optimizing away from helping with plants.
You guys should form a raid and get together and get people going, and get maybe one high-level
player with you.
It's your way to harvest faster.
is but you need better tools. That's about it. Or hopefully if you can go into your gear you can
get herbalist shirt and herbalist breeches that give 15 herbalism speed though.
Is there a secret cow level? Always. See there's one right now. Mad bovine.
Secret cow level dude.
Good timing.
You have gifts for me. What kind of gifts? Are they horrifying?
My man
That is incredibly nice of you you're awesome I will put these to good use
Once I have the gold to build which is what I'm working on now
Boat
You are fantastic. Thank you, man. I
Have so many boat parts and my idea is to use them soon
Y'all become a captain once I have enough gold
and
of
We're doing great. We've got to keep up the same same amount of pressure
Sylvanessa I believe I already have you on the list
From earlier yes, I do okay, you're good to go had to search
We do they pee both previous phases awesome
I will get you on. Yeah, you're on the list. Um, when you come up, I will let you know.
Cool grave. You're on the list. Yeah, I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get as many people
in as possible. I don't want to run a million guilds like last time. It was horrible.
Whoa. Why do you have so many essences? What have you been farming? I'll turn this
into potions. This game looks buns. I think right now you're right. Like to
To be honest with you, Shagawa, this currently on screen looks like shit.
The middle of the night in this game, the shaders just don't look right.
So give it a bit, it's going to be an hour and six minutes till daytime.
And when that happens, you'll see how great it looks.
Yeah.
It's also early alpha, so they'll fix all this shit by launch.
Bridget Grave, they do the five gifted subs.
It's pretty nice of you, man.
Madison said there's a sandwich filler that I buy sometimes called seafood cocktail that I love and I have to stop myself from buying
Two or three tubs at a time or I will eat an entire tub with spoon in one sitting
That's a lot no sandwiches just straight from the tub the hugerous is real yabu. That's a lot dude
Almost as many deviled eggs as I can eat
Yeah
Nandaman yes
Nanda man
saved
All right, I'm going up to go kill stuff on the horn
You guys keep locust thing as much as you possibly can get some groups together as you can go ham
There's still a lot of areas out here
That have the plants that need to be taken down and every single person matters every single one
even storage clerk clerks are lagging I'm not having a lag out here I mean we're
in server worker one though so it's like no one's here but us so you're
logging on rock on yeah the more people on the more like literally every plant
you do matters your character's progress could be the difference between us
winning and not every one of you legitimately the dragon star 445 said
Good day, kitten soft hair, I'm interested to know if you have ever heard the sound a
shoe will stomp makes.
Also known as the nature's machine gun.
YAR LARV YAR LARV YAR 7 YAR 7 YAR 7.
I've never heard of that, ever before.
Nature's machine gun.
What a name dude.
I must kill.
What?
What?
God damn it.
My pet just disappeared in the middle of combat.
Oh now you're back? You big piece of shit.
Resummoning you.
What's going to go go massive what's going on I was gonna solo up here, but my pets being a piece of crap
That's not Jim the dandy
Did that crab just teleported what is going on up here?
here. What is happening? Why?
Golem answer. Um, are there two groups over on the Brigman? Do we already have that one
Being formed.
Last episode.
Alright.
Nice.
What are you talking about, Action Dan?
What, dude?
Do you need to be in the guild to contribute to the island?
No.
Anybody can go here.
Anybody.
If you come to the island, everything you do matters.
Every monster you kill, every tree you chop down, anything.
You can actually turn on by hitting the gear icon down here, going into your chat tabs
and clicking on Node Citizenship and you can see exactly how much XP you get for every
action.
And you can optimize from there.
Like this right here, this tree, totally worth XP.
I can send my pet over there to help him.
Textures? Yeah, it's a known issue. I bug reported this a lot. It's because we're changing seasons in 10 hours.
And the seasons start to get real weird with certain ones.
That's the same when it's turning to snow.
That's the weird texture. Yeah, it's a bug.
I've reported that 10 billion times.
Yeah, they're supposed to slowly transform, so they kind of freak out exactly.
Yeah, this is an actual race now though.
an actual race. I love that I can chop a tree down while also fighting. Dots and
and
and
and
and
and
and
Got someone that wants to farm the goblins on the horn if you want to do that. Yeah, we should do that
Because we could pull like 10 of them at once dude. We just like
Farm clear the hell out of that because I was gonna do that already was come up here in solo then
Because they're worth like a hundred each, you know
Now an adolescent coconut doesn't have a father, okay
Adult coconut cut down at its prime
I hope you're having an excellent day.
Anyway, one of the toys my son received for Christmas is from a series called Number Box
And wouldn't you know it his favorite figure is seven?
It warms my heart that my preschooler is already an up and coming goblin.
That's kind of fantastic to be honest with you.
Now that's awesome.
of
the might have all the clerics to the should spread out around the island and
Nope.
If we have all the clerics, why is your health in half?
Everyone of us who's worth 248, good.
nasty enemies. You don't have the ability of your summoner? Yeah I do. It's got automatic
pet abilities on right now.
new shield spot I don't need him to yeah the only thing I need him to do is the
aoe he's not the tank golem answers yeah I legit don't need him to do that
if he was the primary tank yeah how's the audio for movesets oh phenomenal
be honest in there ads are over
I'm going to swap to the DPS, but...
of
Yeah, these are worth 248H.
This is rough.
It's pretty scary, but if we win it and we should win it, we'll be able to have our own
home and be the largest city in this area.
And that enemy force will be so butt-wrestled that I think it may fall off.
I don't think they can go for a triple, you know?
Yeah, the bot rustling will be too large.
They're bustling, yes.
Full bustling.
Do you feel the 700 peg gets affected by server problems very much?
Yeah, a lot.
Like a lot of the time.
Dude, this is actually better than the brig.
It's good to have the brig as well, but like this is faster and more XP than the brig.
insane ring but also insane cost to make that ring.
How much note xp for mod?
It's 248 for goblin.
So like it's a lot dude.
we need everybody locusting because all the locusts are like really good and then we need
everybody doing this as well and we need everybody performing to bring. We're hitting every resource
on the island at the same time.
Yeah that's 285, 285 for that one.
Nice.
Yeah, it was 700 there.
Yeah, that was 700 there. 750.
In total.
Can't see shit, Captain.
Get silenced, nerd!
Nice.
That's so much, dude. We just got another thousand from that.
Yeah.
This is the best place we could be doing this.
Yeah, this is fantastic.
It's just down to how fast we can pull.
Oh, there's a team down there. Let's not encroach on them. They're helping us.
Go, Matthew, let's go this way. Up the beach.
Yeah, let them form.
Let's go up to the beach this way here's a couple this way.
Thank you sincerely the team at the bottom of the hill hell yeah
Yeah we're doing it dude.
Paradox333 with 1000 bits said hey you're sorry for the inappropriate crash out and
trauma done.
What?
I am chill and safe thanks to your less than 3 brain cell overload sorry y'all cheer
1000.
You're good dude, don't even worry about it.
Don't worry at all, it does not matter.
You are just fine.
What's the cap on Citizen Box?
I don't think there is one.
And you can use them anywhere, so like, you know?
By the way, Metacro, if you're not on Brian Barrel, you should go to Brian Barrel,
kill some things, loot some stuff.
Is it more than you do that?
Better everything's gonna go for everybody.
Join us.
Join us on the island.
Come get rich.
You're on Shoal.
Come get rich.
What do you mean Shoal?
Like Shoal Fire?
The island down there?
Don't go there.
Go here.
Here is better.
Oh, the server.
Then do whatever you want.
Oh, the server Shoal F.
Can we just see more people out here?
It's very funny.
There's an island called Shoal Fire.
of
dude our aways insane it's like actually hilarious how much area we have Mr. I see
Bob are you doing the Manos song?
I think you are.
Let's do.
Oh my god they just don't stop do they?
Can you be an acrimancer?
Yes.
archetype of, yeah we've been in 37 for a while. The sub archetype of cleric, so it's
Summoner Cleric would be the way to become Necromancer. We can't do that yet though,
so eventually, yeah.
Kieran Underscore-Ree said that will be a double-expressor bean moccalate, two pumps, no sugar with
open milk, extra foam and vanilla powder on top.
Jesus Christ.
This will be in the next time, Lou.
And you gotta like, say a bunch of like weird, like I want it, I want it Neapolitan, uh,
it needs to be shaken twice, not stirred, upside down with a VW bug on it, right?
Backwards.
You gotta add all the weird shit to it, right?
All the stuff that doesn't even exist.
There's nothing wrong with just black coffee, man.
I know.
It's hilarious.
It always makes you laugh like the the insanity of secret menu orders gets wild
I want 47 pumps of caramel in my coffee
Exactly, and if you do any other number I'll know
I'll know
Hehehehe
47
Zach number
Exactly dude
It's just always insane
Yeah, also I want my drink to be parallel parked in the shower, and if you don't do that, I'll know.
Good to have some coffee with your caramel? Yeah, like a drop of it.
Each of these poles gullum answer is worth 750 to 1,000
and you are beating the Briggs cadence and speed dramatically.
You'll need to find a route where we can just endless farm, but yeah.
There's one.
No.
Ah!
My bones!
Shoot!
Ah!
A drop of hyper coffee?
Hyper coffee.
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Ah!
Hyper coffee.
10 shots of espresso. I want to taste sound. Okay.
Goddamn, my damage is high.
I think the craziest thing about this is we have so many people working in tandem right
now and there's we have so many allies that are doing that as well.
Everybody who's helping on this island, thank you.
Thank you for doing it.
You are amazing.
There would be no way we could do this all alone.
We hit the other groups falls, F. That sucks.
Yeah, every monster that dies counts, man.
That'd be cool if it was daytime. 29 minutes, huh?
Spare melody with 500 bits said calm seas never made a sailor. Ask that girl with daddy issues out.
Vagal evil giggle.
bro wait a minute you made it to the sea make it to the island good luck did you
get a boat no we're putting all that on hold the only thing that matters is this
we need to push the island if you're not on the island come to the island if
you're on the island kill something or loot something do anything form a group
kill a guy
And we have, we're at 37%, we were at 25 when I got on this morning.
We're on Lyneth.
And we're out in Brande-Barrell.
We're having a, we're having a node war.
We're trying to push ours fast in the other guy.
Whoever wins turns the other one into peasants.
And I want a free nation for all pirates here then.
We can't be peasants.
Ruin the whole vibe.
Maybe not that one guy at the lighthouse, he was a person.
He said he became a person again, because I gave him an earring, so.
Gaston is no pe- no peasant. Okay.
The only answer would you say you-
No one tanks like Gaston? Is that-
Is that something you can get behind?
He's thinking.
I can see the tank brain turning.
I can hear it.
The node is creaking.
No one tanks like Gaston.
There it is.
You know Gaston ate like a half dozen eggs?
Yeah, exactly.
I might be turning into Gaston. I had 40 deviled eggs today.
Chat also reminded me that a deviled egg is half of the egg.
I thought I had only eaten 20. I was wrong.
Worth.
Yeah, it's 25 to max level? Yes, currently.
But then it's power creep. From gear, bullshit.
A level 25 in legendary gear is dramatically stronger than a level 25 in common gear, let me tell you.
And I mean, like, multitude stronger.
Yeah.
When I was a lad, I...
12 dozen...
12 dozen eggs, right? Like one of those?
Yeah, I need... I need eggs, dude.
I need more doubled eggs.
I liked this economy dramatically more than it was at the end of last phase
Which I guess it was still phase 2, but I see this as a different phase personally
I
Think they've made dramatic improvements to the game dramatic improvements
I remember when there was no grass on the ground when it was just the Riverlands when it played like shit
When Steven had to sign on and manually upgrade our towns when we hit new levels like
been there been there and it's
It's nice to see how far this has come.
No, this is not phase two.
It's on phase two, which is super weird, right?
I don't know why they're doing that.
The man's got mad with power.
CDK counter three as well.
No, unfortunate.
He's got gaban disease.
It's very sad.
So much of you speed up from Iguana, don't go where Iguanas are.
Stay near the city, and just follow them.
Yeah, phase 2 and 3-4 is exactly it.
From your experience, do you think the development progress speed is understandable for a game
of the sides?
Yes, I do think they're making very strange mistakes with some of the stuff that they're doing.
Um, but I think they're doing a lot of exploratory development, if that makes sense.
When they're like, we have this idea, we think this idea's gonna be really cool,
and then they try it, and then the player base goes, what are you doing, why are you doing this?
And then they go, ooh, well that didn't work.
And they kind of move from there.
It sort of happens like that when you're trying to build weird different systems, but
I do think that there's a lack of priority on some basic structure stuff that they just need to fix, man.
As an example of this, you can't queue up multiple crafts.
You have to do the manually one at a time is insufferable to do.
And I don't understand why that's never changed.
Another one is you can't sell multiple items at the same time.
What?
When you sell an item, you can't hit enter to accept the trade. You have to manually click it.
Just basic bitch stuff that should just be in the game.
And has been like that for two years.
Like, that's, uh, that's stuff that I'd say, like, I'm surprised that they haven't prioritized really low-hanging fruit that is incredibly impactful for player experience.
Yeah. They're weird things, and they're weird things that should just be fixed. Right. Especially at this phase in development.
So I do think that there's a little bit of lack of focus on basic features like that, while they're looking at more kind of high-level features, but, um, yeah, strange. Some of that's strange.
Yeah, basic quality of life stuff that should have been fixed ages ago, I think, on some of that.
And I get that they're not focusing on quality of life right now, but there are some things that are such low-hanging fruit
that there's no reason not to add that or your players to not crash out, right?
Because a lot of players, like, a lot of people in our guild are like,
I don't want to do professions because they feel bad.
And they feel bad because of those two things that just described.
Which means that the developers are getting dramatically less information about an entire section of the game
because they haven't implemented a very simple quality of life feature.
That's detrimental to their testing period, right?
So I think that's important to understand as well.
It's not just like, oh, you can get over it.
Like this is, it's actually damaging their testing.
Yeah.
So I think that's pretty important to make.
I'm going to South West, the north part of the island by a ram.
Rock on.
Make sure to go here
And get the ember spring or go to the middle of the island get the ember spring. So if you die you show it back here
38 38 percent
And they're still at zero
What's up, are you on, Lineth?
You longest stream was 17 hours?
I stream 12 hours a day on average.
Or more.
Ultra Element XE said my bones, Smash Mouth, Blink 182, and Linkin Park are now classified
as oldies.
Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, that's not fair.
You can't do that, so man.
this close to New Year's. You stop that at once.
It's messed up, man.
Lincoln Park's been around for 25 years.
Dammit.
I hate it, man.
I don't want to go that way.
That way sucks.
You feel old?
Don't worry. It's cause you are.
Hehehehehe.
Clef then Twain said good day goblins and goblin king.
king. The last night I made the choice to dive to the bottom of the sea to explore and have
come back a scarred man. At the bottom there is no light, no music, and no sound except
the yap, yap, yapping of the ocean waves. It is a place where the laws of physics do
not obey. I phased through rock formations that I thought nigh impossible to move. I
warn you, goblins do not venture where the light does not touch.
My favorite part about that place down there is there's actually ocean currents that
will push you while you're down there. So sometimes you find a mining node down there
and you're like, oh, I'm going to mine this and it pushes you away and you can't mine
it. Yeah. Oh my God, goblins. There's so many of them.
No you don't.
Oh is that flute in there, dude?
Do you hear that flute for a moment?
Where did that come from?
Is this MMO for employed people? Okay.
That's a loaded question and hilarious.
As you should know MMO enjoyer and watcher of Twitch every MMO is for employed people
But the unemployed will always be better at them
That's how that works. You know that I know that you don't even have to ask
Yeah
Every game a time sink every MMO rule by the non-working class
Yeah, it's just because you could spend more time on it.
If you want to, if you want to, is a guy yourself into a video game and spend a shit
lot of time on it?
Yes, you could totally be better than other people at it.
That's fine.
So, yeah.
This is why streamers are supreme number of players?
No, I think it's because we have gamer chairs, which stop us from having to get up to
use the bathroom.
I think that improves our skill by at least two times.
Yeah.
You have a gamer chair my man
Hafty, you know I don't even realize I say hafting and then you guys bring it up and
I'm
Let's fight it's kind of funny now. Oh my god. Look at all of them. Look at them all
Look at them all!
Yes!
Yes! Eat them all! There's so many of them.
Think of the experienced lads.
Pop that.
Oh my god, the air we...
Shoot him!
Yo that was a lot. Each of those is 248 experience. Each of them.
Ah!
Nope!
You should tank them on the guy.
I tried silencing him and he just kind of sat there like a slug.
Burning him.
Nice.
Rude?
Nope.
Goleman, sir.
You ever think about wrangling cats better, anything about that?
You know, like ever in your life?
All right, I'm going to go back to my room and I'm going to go back to my room.
I brought you a friend. I used my tractor beam on it. It didn't like it. It's hitting my
dude. I like my dude, so that sucks. The man's wrangling. Oh, we got ads in just a moment.
McHaddison with 500 bits said YAR cheer 500 on a second note, an American friend sent
a photo to me of an IHOP coloring in sheet.
On this sheet it showed you how to draw the cool S, with the statement, fun fact, the
S thing was really popular in the late 1900s.
So I'm flying to America to burn down IHOP.
YAR glue.
in the late 1900s.
That sucks dude.
That sucks dude.
I'm posting that on Twitter immediately.
I found it.
I found an exact image of this.
I found an exact image. Hold up.
Hold up. This is pain.
This is actual onerotic pain.
S is for syrup.
Fun fact, the S thing was really popular in the late 1900s.
It's over.
and
I need those
for my craft
your chat you can have this this is for you
that's insane
there you go bud
Gullimanser's lost his mind, he's gone into a tank ridge.
This is when they're most susceptible to propaganda.
Gullimanser, every one of these goblins over here, every one of them owes you money, dude.
All of them.
They owe you so much money dude.
We got to turn around. We got another group.
They told people not to ask for money from other goblins. Yeah, these goblins are different.
Yeah, they're enemy goblins.
Oh!
We used to make a smile logo with the S you posted.
When I was a kid we called that a Stoosey and I don't know why.
I have literally no idea why.
This is scary as a level 4?
Yeah.
Yeah, you're not going to survive a lot here at level 4.
But you are at your home now.
Yeah, we call this Stoosey and I don't know why it was called that.
Yes, Ducey was a brand, but that's what it was called.
I don't know why we called it that, but that was it, man.
So go on about so I do believe that there's a pasting goblin here I'm the nuke yes the
a we all of it the damage the damage look at that oh my god the numbers all the numbers
and that flares really mad and he's going for you dudes
flares the scary one for your clothies
where's my pet man
All right, every one of these is worth 285 XP, it was great, you know, like, give me what
I'm old all the mats who's lost his mind
It's always good to watch a tank finally, you know lose it
What was that let's get a steam message that made him noise
What are we farming?
We are farming experience to push our node.
Before these guys farm experience to push their node, we are 38% ahead of them.
We are 38% how points ahead.
You excited for anything next year?
All of it.
This year we get to break down to, or break ground, building our ferret rescue.
That is phenomenal, honestly.
That is a lifelong achievement, a lifelong goal of mine.
And I'm amazed that we were able to attain that, and you made that possible.
So that's cool as shit, honestly.
We're getting the schematics done right now, they'll take three to four months.
So like, three months left.
That is the thing I am most excited about for next year.
The second thing I'm most excited about is height, though.
Hurt something new home?
50 yards from my house.
Tefra Grammaton with 500 bits said yard cheer 500 greetings and salutations for creator
of ashes, Inquisitor of Inglis and our dad.
How are you on this fine boxing day?
Thank you for streaming on holidays, it helps me get through.
This year has been pretty crappy for me.
My mom had surgery recently, nothing serious, but ever since my dad passed away this February,
I've really been on edge.
Even small things can stress me out.
Anyway, thank you once again.
Happy New Year 2026.
Well, I hope that you're doing okay.
That is incredibly stressful and I'm sorry to hear that.
I'm sorry if you're lost, but yeah, I will always stream on holidays.
I always have, I always will.
I'll be here for New Year's, I'll be here for Christmas every time, because
I know.
I know there are people that don't have anyone to spend time with, and that is devastating.
And people can make poor decisions when they feel like they're unwanted in a great deal
of time like that, especially during holidays.
And I don't...
I don't want that to ever be an option.
So instead I will always be here for that, and I always have.
So, thank you for being here, and I hope you're doing okay despite the circumstances.
MajoratorREX underscore said has anyone else realized that Thor meets all of the qualifications
to be a Disney princess.
Lives in a forest, animal sidekicks, long hair, etc.
Dear god.
I love how you do that, all the people I want to spend time with, aren't a different
city you can't afford to get to, fair, yeah no 100%, it's, it's something I started
like five years ago and um it's it's just like becoming incredibly important to me you know
and i still spend time with with my friends and family during christmas as well
but it's it's one of those things where like it's just important to me to always be there
for that always has been it's been like five or six years for that yeah
i'll see your goblin
The only answer is gone full tank hubris. He is unkillable and a god and insane deeply insane
He's exactly what we need. He's the perfect tank
Yeah unkillable
Willing to pull large amounts of enemies unstoppable screaming incoherently
Perfect tank perfect
He's the six million dollar tank he is
Don't say that he'll get too cocky and that explode good
Hopefully when he does he will take a number of enemies out with him which makes him even more of a perfect tank
Yeah
Brilliant
Brilliant in his execution. Wait. Oh god. Wait. He's leaving. Where's he going?
Okay, good he just wanted more
And then more.
I mean, look at him. Look at him, right? He's just lost his mind. It's great.
I told you, the hubris is taking him.
He's basically on the end game Noita run at this point.
Like he's doing Noita and he's got like the end game build right now.
I don't even know how he moves like look at him go.
He's all the way the hell up there now.
It's ridiculous actually.
I can't even click it.
Yeah, the hubris.
I really love Summoner for AOA man, like I really do.
Rude.
Will he get pollied like in Noida? Is that how it ends for him? I mean, yeah, obviously.
Every Noida run ends and somebody gets polymorphed.
I mean, the best end we can think of for Gullimans here at this point is
either he gets polymorphed and it ends there, or
he becomes so powerful that the game crashes in his presence.
Right? Like, that's effectively where that goes.
Only one of two ends happen in Noytha.
One of those.
Is there a recommendation to buy? I am hesitant. If you are hesitant, do not buy the game.
And that's coming from a player who has played for two years.
I will tell you right now that if you are hesitant in any way, it is likely because you're expecting a finished video game, which it is not.
It is a scuffed alpha that is dramatically better than it was a year ago, and dramatically
better than it was two years ago, but it is still an alpha.
The character will still be wiped.
There are still features that don't work correctly, and you have to be cognizant of that.
And I think that if you're on the fence even a little bit, you should wait.
And it's okay to wait, you know?
What's the max level 25 currently, and I'm at it.
Mass affliction?
God, I love it.
good the dot it's my favorite spell it looks like tentacles it's ridiculous
you're set has it only because your CPU doesn't meet the min spec oh if it
doesn't meet the min spec don't get it no no no the hardware min spec is a
serious hardware min spec yeah isn't 25 too low it takes about 140 hours to
get there if not more so if you're used to World of Warcraft speed leveling
Sure, this is not that
Yeah, I think it was a lot more than 140 hours to be honest with you
Wedger said thank you, mr. Kitten soft hair. Hello streams through this month have helped quiet my brain
I'm currently suffering with mixed anxiety and depression disorder, and I've been off work since the end of November
Shit, not only have you been a comfort when I've been feeling overwhelmed
You've also shown me so many amazing games within December. Thank you again. I'm now going to buy the demo and eat the glue
What an end to that statement don't eat glue stop it
God damn it. Oh
my god, dude
well
I'm glad you're having a good time here. I'm glad it's been really positive for you. Please don't eat glue
No matter what chat says about it. Oh my god, there's so many
He's gone mad look at him look at that tank shield in the middle
The only health bar going down is theirs
It's amazing
Don't eat food
Well, I got a ring.
What the hell does that do?
I should probably do something about all this.
I've gotten forty silvers so far.
I need that mirror.
And I got a ring of some kind.
Magic crit defense defense and magic defense.
That's the tank ring.
That's kind of cool.
Can some magic gear drop please?
Icy Bard, you should know at this point
that there's no such thing as magic gear.
Does not exist.
That will never be such a thing.
And if it did exist,
someone else in the party would win it.
As is tradition, my dude.
I have lost a role on a hat five times now.
Makes me insane. I'm wearing a healer hat as a result.
Oh, the sun is finally out. God, this game is beautiful. Look at this. Just...
Just look at it.
right when it's daytime this game is amazing looking dude it is incredible
and when it's nighttime it looks like shit that's what I'm talking about like
it's just so pretty when it wants to me I just need radiant gear is what I need
I need radiant gear with force on it that's all like to know your magic power
Sure, but uh total magic power is at 208.1
I'm wearing two radiant weapons sea bright great grimoire sea bright tide forage great sword the rest of my gear is not optimized in any good way
We're mostly trying to push our island over anything else, which is a heavy task. There's a lot to do
You're a Jenkins said good afternoon Thor is there a free program I can get that shows
me what connections my computer has at the moment a lot of them actually if you want to
see stuff on your whole network thing I think it's called for that you can just use like
command prompt for your computer though like you don't actually need anything fancy you
You can use Wireshark. Wireshark is super useful for that, but it might be overwhelming at first.
If you're just looking like here, let me pull this up.
If you know your way around Command, probably should be alright. Use Nets that, man.
Um, let me grab this.
Yeah.
And map is for foreign connections. Yeah.
Yeah, Nets that will give you everything, trying to see which is the right command.
Yeah, you can do Nets that dash N or Nets that, you know, dash A-A-N-O.
The biggest thing with it is look up the man page for Nets that and then kind of go
from there and you should be able to just do that when there's any one other problem.
But if you want to get really into it, really into it, then do Wireshark because
Wireshark will show you every connection, every packet sent over those connections, and you
can even take some stuff and rework it. And I'm in the wrong group? Yeah, you can even
take some of that stuff and delay it or pause it or read it or see if it's encrypted or
replay the data stream or reconstruct the data streams. There's a lot of cool shit
you can do with Wireshark. I know I'm in the wrong house. I'm going over.
who's wire shark in networking class legit as super useful and screenshot
i've used it all the time to work and otherwise
it's just funny because i don't get a lot of questions about that
layers but if you just want your computer's connections just to know
what connections they are that's that if you want to know what the traffic is
wire shark
is the the basic way to put it
yes pretty complicated that's why i was like i don't like to tell them
about that but you know whatever
given the complicated thing when figured out
then they learn something, right?
Is the only way to get ashes through steam now? Yes.
But if you already owned it from before, you can link your steam account to your intrepid account
and you will be able to play, and you won't have to rebuy the game.
I mean, like, the way that I look at it is this, right?
I kind of felt that way I was a little bit worried about giving them a thing, right?
Um, because it's too technical.
But if you give them something simple like Nets that, and then you give them something
complex like Wireshark. They can meet in the middle to find out how to use either of those
tools. And there's a billion YouTube videos for Wireshark, man. There's like a billion.
So I'd say just give them the cool tool and see what they can do with it at that point.
Let them learn, you know.
Plus, the filtering in Wireshark is legit. Is what you're doing like a dungeon? Kind
of. I mean, it's an open world elite farming era. We're going around in this
area and farming because every one of those monsters gives us no experience because
who are building up our settlement,
we're settling the land by doing this.
And it's been a massive effort across hundreds of players.
All of us are working together to do this.
Our guild is kind of like the focal point of that,
trying to push it the most,
because I called for taking a grind barrel.
And then we've got an enemy that's trying to push theirs.
They're at 0% of their settlement right now.
We're at 38%.
We have to hit 100%, whoever gets their first wins.
And it's gonna take days, like real life US,
you know, actual days.
Sense of use of Wireshark through my Cyber Sik,
Yeah, no, you'll get that. You ever see Over the Wire? The puzzles for that man?
Brother Patrick's.
If you did like, um, pen testing shit or networking shit, you might really like Over the Wire.
I know I said real life US days, I don't know why I said that. I'm tired. What are you gonna do?
I ate 48 devil legs today. Give me a break, you know?
What are they, a dungeon in the island? We're already farming that as well.
We have two teams that are out here farming this. We have over 100 people that are farming all of the plants in this.
plants in this we have three groups that are farming up here for this some of
them are inner guilds some from outside of our guild we're very organized with a
lot of people no 40 not 48 it could be more I could make it more
40 is too few what the hell let's mess that that's rude you know yeah the US
This rotates slower than the rest of the world?
Yeah.
Because we eat all the eggs.
Obviously.
This man's speed runs gout?
No, I'm not in danger of gout.
I have a pretty balanced diet.
I have a lot of vegetables, too.
Lot of veggies.
40 for breakfast, you surely mean?
Yeah.
Literally, today.
That's what I ate this morning.
I wouldn't stop eating them.
They're just good.
I love deviled eggs.
I have a problem.
No.
I have a solution.
And the solution is deviled eggs.
I don't know what problem it solves, but it definitely is solving something in my life.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk, you know? Like, that's...
I don't know what...
I don't know what it is that it's solving, but it's definitely solving it.
There's something going on there.
Look at all those numbers, man.
Are we still eating eggs? No, I haven't had any more.
And you know
Akami yes, I'm adding enough
So many eggs squishing full of red all golem answers lost his mind further now, that's good. That's good to see
This is getting me to sub not to launch and that'll be over a year from now
So right now if you get it for 40 bucks, you'll just play into launch like the rest of us
You know and you won't have to pay a sub at all. It will date later though. It'll be $15 a month
I mean, you have to understand something, Golemanser is actually a government project
that we created and now he's, well he's perfect, so he's the perfect tank, yeah.
As you can tell, he just doesn't stop.
You start him up, he lasts about 16 hours in a row screaming incoherently and pulling
everything inside.
Does he know this?
I don't know if he knows things, you know, like others know things.
I think that he, um, he has experiences that occur.
And that's about as far as it goes, right?
Like it's something like that.
Yeah, knowing things is not really a thing for the tank to have, right?
Holy shit, an actual goddamn upgrade. He said my head is full of pain and the
gods. Okay, good. That's good. Yeah, that's probably good.
What did I roll?
I rolled a 41.
There's a 96 in there.
I'm done, dude.
It's over.
Enjoy, Dress.
No, I'm not going to write a guide of cleric by Thor, you goblin.
Yeah, I have the exact same old one then
The damage.
Does the island have a carpentry spot?
No.
39%.
We have gained 2% and they've gained zero.
Leveling by just cutting trees on the island is taking so damn long.
Oh yeah, no.
understand something this isn't about you leveling this is about pushing the
node objective together you will be leveled later after we take this place
and we push it to 100% we're going to like after that happens we're gonna
power level everybody dude that is the whole point of this is we got to do
this first, and then we can do that. Yeah. Yeah. To a noob, can you explain what the
goal and reward is? Sure. Let me set myself on follow to icy bard to kind of give an understanding
what's going on. One of these guys, right? Maybe we're a cleric. Please. This video
game. So we have a map right here. This map is like risk. It says who owns what and who
has troops in where, right? Think of this as the forex game outside of the MMO. The MMO
is you just as a single player on your single spot on the beach killing goblins. But this
is the influence map of what's going on. When a city is formed, it's formed because
people play in a certain area. You're killing a monster, farming a tree, cutting a plant,
mining and mining node all of that progresses the place that you live and
right now we're at 39% right these guys are at zero this one over here is at 100
but they can't level up and the reason they can't level up is because they are
a vassal of their host nation of Valgadine. As a city gets larger it
starts grabbing vassals it makes certain cities into peasants and those
peasants can't actually level their city beyond a certain limit. The idea
is that you want to progress quickly enough that you can take over other
areas before they take you over and then you fight about it a lot. You know, at that point
it's siege warfare and blowing up cities and going mad with power. Valgedon here, um, well
we created some enemies is basically what happened here. There is another city called
Kel-Torum. Kel-Torum was going to be able to vassalize us. I didn't want that to
happen. Well, we saw up here that Valgedon, who we're friends with, was about to level
up. They were really close, but these guys were progressing faster. So, we went up
there and we pushed it for them, thus causing these guys to vassalize these guys which stopped
them from vassalizing us. Now they're mad about it and they're trying to enlist the rest of the
server to go and push shorefoot so this city will then vassalize us instead. This is their last
chance. If they don't pull this off the butt wrestling will be so powerful you will hear it
across the entirety of the game. It will be so funny and we're now at 39% and they're at
zero. So all we have to do is hit 100% first and then we win. And we have over 100 players
working together to do it. That's actually pretty damn cool. Welcome to a social sandbox.
I love these games.
You sure they're zero? It hasn't moved. No, they're at zero. They've been going
very slow. There's probably a high zero, but we've gained 2% in the time that they've
game one or gain zero so yeah we're not gonna be domesticated sounds very Eve
because it is I played Eve for 15 years I was the Alliance leader of Stribo and
Clay which is the like largest drug-laving alliance in the game Chronos
who also plays this with me was the Alliance leader of Mac or corporation
leader McCurialis which is the oldest corporation need online we're dorks so
We do a lot of political intrigue video game and I love this shit
Yeah
Dorks United dude
For a lot of people. This is their first social sandbox by the way
So they're learning the ropes through the really ridiculous shit that I show them
Yeah, this is what I live for in these games man, I love it. It is so much fun for me
You stopped Eve when Atlas died? I stopped Eve because skill injectors were bullshit
and the devs were corrupt. BPO tech twos, work wall changes, skill injectors, it's all downhill.
This game will never have paid a win so pretty happy about that.
Skill injectors were in the game, the devs are taking bribes. Well the problem is
is devs are setting up scenarios where their alliance and corporations would win and you
You know, it's no small wonder that everyone in the CSM is a trillionaire in the game, right?
They just look at that.
It's just corruption.
That's all.
Do your former guilds exist in one form or another?
I believe Strybaugh got into merging with some people.
They might be part of Goon Swarm now.
I'd have to find out.
What's a skill injector?
Imagine buying experience from another player using currency that you got in-game because
you used your credit card to get it.
Cool.
Yeah, that's what a skill injector is.
Have you heard that ASUS will produce RAM next year?
Yes, I did hear about that.
I'm actually really interested to see how it goes.
I'm glad that they're making consumer products, right?
Dude, every one of these poles is like 1500 experience from the dead.
It's crazy.
This, plus all of the locusts, plus all of the people on the brig, like, this is it,
man.
Yeah, brig is exactly, this is so much more fun.
But we need the brig running, like the brig is just more XP.
more sources of experience. We're capping out the sources along the island. That's the idea.
Cap everything, you know?
You were locust? Thank you. Like, that's the most important thing, dude, is everybody's
actions matter. Each of these monsters that we kill are worth 248 experience to the node.
One tree is 28 experience. One plant is 28 experience. So for every 10 plants you do,
It's equal to killing one of these and that adds up very fast
Like because there are a hundred of you doing it, you know, that's the whole idea and I love this shit super fun this way
No thought only luck is the a
The aces Ramster is just a rumor. Let's look it up. Let's find out
His aces making ram in 2026
According to recent rumors?
I'm gonna call bullshit.
An inside source.
Do you know where you pull an inside source from?
Your own ass.
That's what happens.
That's what it was inside.
An ass.
Until they make an official statement, I am believing shit.
I hate that.
Yeah, it would be awesome if true would be amazing if true, but like dude I hate rumor
Aces already came out said they weren't F. Well, I guess I had heard about it. I was
like that sounds cool. But if they're not doing it, they're not doing it.
Of course, face is a rumor. Dude, I'm like, five rumors. At least.
Hey, uh, hey, I see Bard. You, um, you got any double eggs, man?
I mean, if you don't, it's cool, but like, like, if you do, you know, like,
I have all the eggs. He's got them all. Get him.
Love devil things.
No, Princess Akane, you don't understand, like they always were.
It's not new.
Slarduk with 500 bits said greetings, thorium, the chemical element with the atomic number
90.
Good to see you, as always.
To date, in the UK, it is Boxing Day, which is about gifts and all that stuff.
Yeah.
However, when I first moved to the UK, I thought Boxing Day was about people beating
the living hell out of each other.
In any case, happy boxing day. Not that one, the other one.
Dude, you are awesome. Chat is awesome. All the best you all.
The first rule about boxing days, and I'm supposed to talk about boxing day now.
That's how it works. Also, you're awesome. Happy boxing day.
Okay, the other one.
Ridiculous, dude.
We're actually making a lot of glint doing this, too.
I think my favorite part of our games like this is we have like a group activity, right?
Like we have a thing that we're all doing together.
And that's what makes Social Sandboxes so fun, though.
It makes it like...
I don't know, there's a story that's happening here, right?
There's a story and we're part of it and it's interesting because of that.
Definitely some boxing and boxing today.
We have that on Black Friday.
thing that happens. So named as to the black eyes that you get for trying to buy a TV. Normal.
Makes you miss Star Wars Galaxy so much? Really?
Some people have brought that up a few times. Yeah. Is there Mythic Plus? No, this is not that kind
of game. All the dungeons are open world. Do you want to know the coolest dungeon in the
game right now though? I showed a little bit of it the other day. We used to raid it
in last phase. It's a 40-man raid, open world. All the dungeons are open world by the way.
But over on this side of the map, all the way down here, there's a place called the Befallen Forge.
And inside of that is a gigantic lava strewn, horrible dwarven fortress of death. And if you
kill all of the bosses, there's a 40-man raid boss at the very end, which we know the tactics
of. We've beaten him many times. But if you kill him, it unlocks two crafting stations
past it. And those crafting stations are used for end game,
weapon smithing and armor smithing. And you can only craft stuff there for that specific role for
those specific items. And when I say end game, I mean level 25 end game. So this isn't even an end
game raid. This is a level 25 raid. And the end game, the true end game is 50. And there's
areas in there that we couldn't even access because the gates don't open yet. Yeah, that's
That's kind of brutal. It's kind of awesome to be honest with you.
We love the shit out of it, man.
There are other ones for other professions. There are. There's other stuff that you can find.
The Tower of Carfin is another really big nasty place.
There's this one up here, which is Grave Peak. Grave Peak is cool as shit.
And we have a couple of weird places over here, like the Harbinger Corruption event is something that's new
that we really need to play around with. Basically, that creates a gigantic PvP enabled zone with horrible
death machines inside of it.
That freaks me out.
That place is nasty.
I watched a tank die and one hit to like 20,000 damage at their once.
Kinda freaked me out.
Way too much damage.
Especially because the tank had like 3,000 at the time.
HP?
It was a...
Eye-opening.
Yeah.
Hmm.
I've become the tired.
I need more deviled eggs to survive this is the only way to live now chat
deviled eggs
ooh a restored treasure map that's freaking sick nice nice
super nice
Double eggs forever you get damn right
But there aren't enough eggs, that's quitter talk
What has been a thing in the calendar a new one
What is it oh
God damn it it went off two minutes ago I'm late
I'm late for my meeting that says quote shit yourself from egg overdose. Thanks, Gronos. Thank you for that
We'll just have to reschedule. Yeah, it's unfortunate
Thanks bud you're welcome. Thanks bud. Are you on this island? So you on this island farming right now?
Are you better be
Setting back to town to drop glint my man
We're getting there. We're at 39% there at zero. So
We're pushing it faster than they are. We have about a hundred people in the island right now
from our guys alone and then we have more from allies and friends which I
want to say again thank you to our allies and friends you are making this
possible and I cannot wait to have this city with all of you it's gonna be
great
you think they'll still need to do crate runs to fill the pillars I don't
I don't know. I don't know if we'll have to do that. We've got a really good strong way of doing that, so I'm not worried about it.
You've coordinated the brig farm for 9 plus hours? Thank you. That is great. That is a really good passive farm of experience of the island.
I've been doing this for a couple of hours. This gives 248 per goblin, so it's actually better than the brig, but the brig is just always the thing.
Always. The thing. We'll be mayor if people vote for me. I hope so.
We'll see.
I've done it before, and I feel like I did it pretty well, so I've got a track record at least.
But we'll see how people feel.
How's the town progressing quite well?
Who is that?
Why are they PvP flagged?
I see what's happening there.
Tell them to turn their PvP flag off.
Or I will kill them.
I don't know who that is.
But if we have someone going through and adding PvP like a plague to our guys, I'll just murder them so that we don't get ganked by somebody else.
the
Jesus.
Hey, Raycleric, all your stuff is sitting here on the ground.
You got legendary stuff in it too.
Raycleric, you got it. You blinked wrong. Too many eggs. Then who's Corpse Pylers is?
Who is that that you're looting right there? Raycleric, who's could it be? Who's is that?
Hmm. Hmm. Hmm.
No idea law. Okay, buddy.
How do you rank 7 or in PPP and PVE against other classes you've tried?
I get dominated by rangers, they just get me in two hits, I can destroy a tank, I can
absolutely annihilate a tanker or fighter, no problem.
Because I have so much lockdown, so things like spectral bindings, rooting, being able
to apply a bunch of dots to them and just kind of walk away is phenomenal.
You know, that's really good.
Enemy healers, I shut them down very, very well, so if you're in a group play kind
of scenario, if you drop, you know, Void into the enemy team, or you drop Void
on top of like say rangers aoe root it's huge that's massive if you do suppression ray against
anybody they're dead in the water no matter who it is i'm trying to supposed to have cc immunity
they can have some like really good get out of jail free cards for that kind of stuff but you
can bait it out so you bait it out with your root and then after there's ends you suppression
random they can't do shit the reason why is because of a couple really interesting spells
i'm not using them because i'm not pvp fit right now but you can do dimensional bolt
where you teleport your pet to the target.
Then if they charge on you, you can use transpose to swap your position with your pet.
You can also make your pet stand very far away
and use ranged attacks and then transpose to it, and that's only a 30 second cooldown.
It's incredibly devastating in PvP with the amount of slows and roots and everything that you have on top of it.
Great, actually.
Also, a lot of people don't realize that they're about to take big burst, like,
massive damage because hex doesn't do its damage till it ends.
And when it ends it explodes and does a shitload of damage. It's your hardest hitting spell
That's really good really good
Even like disintegrate applies snare, you know like so it's just
really good CC
Sounds like fighters in a rough shape for PvP
You ever see Superman kill a guy?
That's what fighters look like when you have a good fighter
They don't leap to a guy. They leap through them and ashes like a pile of ash just sits there in their way like they're horrific
And they're so strong
So anything that can shut that down is a plus in my opinion their fighters are probably the best 1v1 class in the game
They're amazing, but in a group play situation they fall over
They're their choosers of the slain is what they are have you tried all classes yet?
Yeah, they're really good dude. Like they're really really good 1v1. But in group play they
can fall over due to CC effects. You have to play very well. Rogue is best 1v1? I disagree.
Good fighter kills a rogue in two hits. Wait till you see endgame endgame then. Like you
look at it kind of baby endgame this phase. Like last phase when everybody had like fully
kitted out plus 15 legendary bullshit all over them. Fighters scaled better than
than anybody else. They were nightmares.
Very strong.
At least PvP wise.
The random broly tree. I know it's funny.
Rogue deletes mages and healers. I agree with that.
Yeah. Entirely. Rogues are really good for that.
I would say the other thing too is if you have a guy, like I'm wearing a lot of
heavy armor, right?
And the reason I'm doing that is because I know, like if we go near physical,
I've got 25% physical resist and 26% magic resist.
The reason why I'm doing that is because I know what happens for you.
Yeah.
Tank deletes everybody? It does.
Which is why, anytime I see a tank, do you know what I do?
I cast Suppression Ray on it, which silences them and exhausts them.
So they can't use stamina, and they can't use mana.
And then they die.
Instantly.
Because a tank with no stamina or mana is nothing.
Yep, I just go, no.
And then that one dies.
Yeah.
The heavy cropped up, true.
Yeah, you can't shut up and sit down exactly.
Rogue is squishy, they are.
Casconoid is said by the glue.
Eat the demo.
Wait, I did that wrong.
Rogue can delete a fighter in 0.5 seconds if he fails to do that he's gone.
Okay, I could see that.
If you get the burst damage on him, it could work really well, but the problem is how you're going to get the burst damage against a fighter who's wearing heavy, right?
The amount of burst damage you need to overcome heavy armor at that point is pretty rough, you know?
If the fighter would just kill...
You know?
Sort of feel like Rocket Tag, kinda, yeah.
Is it really... I think there is a time to kill problem with the game at the end game right now.
Does Bard have a blazing BVP?
Every class does.
Bard is incredible, dude.
Bard is so good.
They can increase everybody's movement speed, make it so they have anti-gravity and jump
up really high and just impossible to get to.
There's, um, what else can they do?
Healing, mana regeneration, like, Bard's are sick, dude.
Anti-gravity ballad is incredible.
They're so dumb.
Yes, Bard is also really good in 1v1s.
I've lost the bards when V1 with my mage because they just heal the shit out of themselves and you can't catch them.
If they ever get low, they just go new and you're like,
great man.
It's like fighting a mosquito with a bazooka.
It's awful.
Which class would you say is the best? Okay, it's a lowing summoner right now.
Uh, because your pet will just thank everything for you.
One before level 25 in your bard, yeah, bards were overtuned really bad last phase, I'm
wondering if it'll be the same this time.
They just scale really well.
Fighters could still kill him in one hit though, because the bard can't run away from the
fighter.
Without clerics, clerics do a lot of really good damage, judgment's amazing, the ability
to accelerate fire on the opponent into a conflag is just disgustingly strong.
So I think they're really, really good utility pieces.
They're also the only ones who can resurrect, so like without them, your party falls over.
Yeah, when they're geared, they're amazing.
When everybody's geared, they're amazing.
I don't think there's a bad class in this game.
And I know that's like rare, but like I think they've made the classes feel fricking good, dude.
And there's so many different ways to build your character and like play around with it, but like it's just always nice.
It's one of the reasons that I've stayed with the game so long is because the combat
is stellar.
Like, it feels good.
It feels like Gilmore's too.
A lot of combos between different classes and shit.
Mage is best in slot.
I think Mage has the funnest combo in the game.
When I played Mage I really enjoyed it and for those who don't know it has a spell
called Prismatic Ray.
And the way it- or it's Prismatic Beam or Prismatic Ray, the way that it works
is if you don't have an element assigned at the moment and you get your elements
by casting spells, it will steal mana from everybody in a cone.
It's like kind of a line, really.
It's really nasty, so you can just rip through enemy teams and just take all the resources
away.
It's phenomenal.
However, if you drop any spell, a frost spell, you'll be frosted to him.
Then you drop fire, you'll switch over to fire to him.
You can only have one or two minutes at a time, right?
Then it changes that beam to be that attunement.
However, if you drop an arcane rune on the ground, which is like a 45 second
cooldown, I think it is either 45 or a minute, you can get all three elements.
So you drop the rune, you cast Lightning Fire Frost,
and then you cast the ray, and it does all three elements, and just DESTROY SHIT.
It is like, you're just throwing all this stuff at him, and it looks like nothing's going on,
and then you unleash the grossest giga damage the game has ever seen.
And you pull Agro on everything that lives.
It's amazing.
When you play another class, uh, I don't know. I don't know yet.
I'm having fun with Summoner this round.
I think I'm gonna stay on this class at least for this phase yes a death ray I'll play some
other ones though I'll probably play I've got a tank I made named chunk which is a great
name but I like summoner it's kind of busted but I want to give feedback on it and try
things up. Oh my god, the damage. There's the weekend.
Noooooooooo! My pet died. Can't believe it! Fred is dead dude.
Summer in 8 hours, yeah. The season's already changing.
It doesn't change all at once either, it goes slowly.
Tank Jupiter? No, that wasn't Tank Jupiter.
He's dead.
AOE silence, like it's not bugged, they're just not progressing very fast.
Actually a showback around, is he streaming right now?
One sec.
Because I know Showback lived in Shorefoot, I don't know if he still does, is he still
playing it?
I hope so.
That's the time being race against the others. We are racing against them.
And I'm trying to keep the goblins rallied and doing a great job.
My job as guild leader is to make sure that you always have something to do.
Always. No matter what that is.
Generally it won't be as critical as what we're doing right now,
Because this is kind of a critical moment where I need people like doing only this but uh outside of this
I'll always have content ready for you always
Then any server I thought other showback was on the net is he not
Is that not the case
And then I never found out if he was on our server he is
We should reach out to her
How long is alpha open until the game comes up?
Which is over a year from now?
so like we're just gonna play until
it's brutal man we're doing it
that's a direct upgrade for me a massive direct upgrade Jesus Christ
shit beaker wanted damn he got a 98 I'm so full of sadness
oh well what's up voting box I mean you man you trying to trade me what's up I'll never
when I roll dude. Oh, that's nice. Thank you. I'll get one of those in a guild bank. The
other one is quite good. Oh, actually, you can just use it. Sick. Thank you. Have a good
one. Low rollers are the real winners. Dude, he rolled a 98. Clearly, I have to steal
I hadn't played in a few months either. I'm having a blast now, man.
We're playing over on Leneath. We are pushing Brande-Barrell, we're at 39%. Our opponent is at 0.
So we're doing great.
My hope is that we have 50% by tomorrow.
By the time I search stream tomorrow, which is in 11 and a half, or 11 hours, we should have 50%.
That's the idea anyway.
We're gaining at a rate of about 1% every 45 minutes, even though it doesn't seem like we'll be able to keep that up forever.
You know, we'll have people to go to bed and stuff, but that is, that is the goal.
A wet tree with 500 bits said speaking on behalf of my degree at ChatMD,
I can confidently say that a tub of Elmas is likely better for you than 40 deviled eggs.
That's not true. That is not true.
40 deviled eggs is perfect vitamins for Thor.
You don't understand the physiology of me.
I need them, if I don't, I'm like that bus from speed but with deviled eggs so if I don't have enough of them I die or explode or something.
Just give me deviled eggs.
I need them.
I need them.
The microwave egg, made with ostrich egg, insane actually.
in blank you a 500 bits said hello chief bloated Thor with eggs of the fracking five
hope your egg wanted to let you know i am leaving now to dm an 8h session of lancer
i would invite you but you have way too much egg to fit on the door
lancer is a blast and if you are good with keeping the pace it is almost like an action movie
anyway keep locusting take the land leave nothing left number go up for the barrels
for the brine, for the egg, for the fracking five.
I'm actually really excited for the play lancer.
May your ex be never not deviled Yarchere 500.
I'm very excited to play lancer, like I've got my rulebook right here
and I want to play it, but I'm still reading it.
I've been slowly chewing my way through all the rulebook for it and it's a lot man,
like there's a lot of stuff to go on in there.
I really like it though.
I like the direction that the the role playing it feels
and like the way the turns work just feels good.
I love to try Lancy too.
I got that rulebook on Amazon for 30 bucks.
It's $29.95, man.
What did you do wrong, Beaker?
We're at 40?
Beaker, just give that to me.
I want that. I need that.
and
yes
yes
because giving up the pants it's not be good for
the force pants this money needed
It's
I rolled and I won the roll for once in my goddamn life
Yes
Magic power is now at 216.
That's why one of those paints so bad.
all right, I finally get paints.
All right.
And that little switcheroo there allowed me to get a ton of good shit.
He didn't need the pants.
The pants were actually a downgrade for him and now I have a ton of new upgrades.
I'm so excited.
I now have over a thousand it.
And 216.3 magic power.
I was going to be wearing the brown pants because of 48 devil eggs. It was only 40.
It was only 40.
I thought that was 20, but Chad told me that each devil egg half counts as a devil egg.
So, I learned something.
Yeah, there's only 40. What do you mean only 40? I mean only 40. I could eat more, but
there's not more of them in the house. Let's take only two more in the house, but a very
They were shaped and upset.
Alright, I need to be right back. I need to go check some things.
So give me just a minute. I'm going to follow Ray Clark.
And I'll be back. Give me a minute.
news we have entered the greatest timeline I went downstairs and I let she
know that I left some deviled eggs for her and she said and I quote you can have
them I ate some of them last night they're now here they're mine now I'm
eating them
You're God, you're wonderful, you're so good.
It's so good.
You know that it's good when you breathe heavy when you eat it, you know?
Show us the eggs, they're gone man.
They're gone.
Gone.
Hey, Ray. Do you want me to take your loot, man? Cause it's gonna de-spawn.
You can get there before it fades.
I mean there's a legendary elephant here in here, are you sure?
Ah shit.
Being goblin.
By the way, I was wrong.
There weren't two deviled eggs in there.
There were three.
Forty-three deviled eggs.
No, there were not four.
They're gone now.
Three-half.
Yeah, three-half eggs.
Forty-three, a very horrible number I know.
It's glorious.
I have consumed so many eggs today.
The only solution to my current state of being is to lay in the shower on maximum heat.
Like a walrus, really.
Yeah.
That's the day that I want to have.
That's my present to me for Christmas.
43 deviled eggs and I'm lying in the hot shower
The devil eggs are just a step behind egg salad. It's okay if you're wrong
You know you can you could be as wrong as you like their evil notion just understand that before
You defile the glory that is deviled eggs by turning them into egg salad. I will eat them
Insane behavior really
Do you want to see what it's going to be like after the stream you know I'm gonna do you want to see
Spitting image of me. Let me show you for it
That's gonna be me dude right there that's gonna be me. That's my new form. I'm ascending with every devil day
I get closer
No
Jamie? Yeah, dude, I'm Jamie. I'm joining the mythbusters and growing a moustache and joining
mythbusters. It's finally happened. By the way, we're at 40%, which is boss. That means
we're ahead of schedule and under budget. So like keep it up. You can't fit deviled
eggs between slices of bread. Like you can egg salad. That sounds like quitter talk,
Dude, what are you talking about?
Take a baguette, toast it,
hollow out the interior of it
and shove as many deviled eggs into that bitch
as you can and eat it.
What's wrong with you?
Man's never made a deviled egg po-boy.
Should we borrow the Prime's mustache?
Prime June is a pretty good mustache.
Shame about it being fake.
Egg sliders?
Hmm
Honestly, I feel like no matter what we do at this point no matter what it is
You're just reducing the quality of the egg
You know what I mean because like at a certain point all you need is egg
That's it. That's all you need you see the
Shit
There we go, that'll finish that quest
I think you were put on this earth so that I could eat more Dibble-Dabble.
Oh, the egg in an avocado?
Delicious.
You're rid of the dislikes eggs in any form other than scrambled?
I think you were put on this earth so that I could eat more Dibble-Bags with that restriction.
Because I don't have to compete with you.
You know?
You serve a valuable purpose in my egg-based economy.
So thank you.
Thors-Lagi doesn't eat avocados poisonous to him. You'll never prove that.
Action underscore Dan said,
Good boxing day four. I hope all is well.
Fun fact, I recently learned that a microwave cannot melt ice cubes.
I initially thought that was nonsensical, but the molecules of the ice cube are held
so tightly together that the microwave cannot vibrate them.
The only point where the ice cube melts, is when the ambient temperature slightly melts
the ice cube, turning to water, and then the microwave vibrates the molecules of
the water, heating that up which then melts the ice cube.
Have a good one.
there's a funny one actually beyond that microwaves can't kill ants that's
another one a lot of people don't realize yeah weird shit yeah answer
literally too small now they'll kill a rose nether answer actually too small
for the microwaves wavelength it won't kill them won't hurt them weird unless
Because you have a very large species of ant.
Which do exist.
Yep.
Yeah, I always find weird microwave facts to be interesting.
Yeah, weird knowledge increase.
Enjoy it.
Your weird shit from the internet had it, you know.
You think I ought to draw a day or see?
Um, well, not as an archetype, but as a cross class. I believe there is one that is similar.
You have to understand, these are all the classes in the game.
There are 64 in total, so you have primaries and secondaries.
I don't know if there's anything in this that's close to a druid though.
Not really.
I'm going broodwarden, which is summoner into tank, which is, they summon beetles to wear
as armor, which is kind of cool.
I guess shaman is close to druid, yeah.
That might be true.
Yeah.
Summoner ranger?
Beastmaster?
Yeah.
Okay, that's kind of an interesting combo. I wonder whether it's gonna look like them
Very curious about dreadnought. Yeah, I wanted to do mage mage dude
Like I want to have an arc wizard
So I think my main when the game comes out is gonna be arc wizard and then I'll have a
Brood Warden set secondary which might be a lot of fun. I might have brood warden is my primary
I don't know which one's gonna be primary either way. I'm having them mage mage
Where do you train scorpions are you do you already have them?
You actually have the scorpions from the desert, from San
Squall, because if so, you can do them in animal husbandry training.
You might want to talk to Tix knows more about that than I do.
I don't really do animal husbandry.
That is what I have to do.
It's sick.
Okay, that's delivered zinc.
That's delivered rubies.
Delivered tin.
I don't have any of that.
to be able to do that.
And that.
Dragon tree band of that.
Vault of crystals.
That's a discover.
Only that.
Harvest elephant here can't do that one.
Doesn't work too low level.
More like P.E. style druid.
I doubt they will ever have something like that.
It's not that kind of game, right?
Like the classes are.
The classes are the class.
The classes are the class.
the classes are... the classes are really well defined but they have also added a lot of tech
debt by creating them so leave it this way if you want to add another class in this game
you want to add another archetype you are saying to increase the size of this from 64
combinations where it is right now because it's 8 by 8 to 9 by 9 see how they get said
a hand real quick right like that goes crazy if they want to add another class they
It could do it, technically, but it would be a monumental amount of effort.
Yeah, it's just 81 classes, right?
You know, like...
You could do it, though. You could.
But it comes down to...
Is that something I want to do, is it beneficial to the game?
You know, yeah, 64 to 81.
And then if you had one more, it goes to 100, right?
So it's kind of like one of those things of...
Does this even make sense?
And the answer is, I don't know.
Marusa once said hello Thor, early today me and some pals were talking about the Highlander
movies and we had a pretty dark though about the mortality.
Since characters in the movies can only die by getting a head shorter and wounds on the
neck don't disappear, what if someone of them becomes demented?
This would be true horror of immortality.
yeah I am I don't know I like I like Islander there can be only one is quite
interesting about like a concept you know and that is that is how that works
though is like Highlander's always about like one of them going nuts because
he's like I want the power and the rest of them are like just live your life
man just live it and some of them are like it's my time to go please
quicken off of me you know yeah
Goran City, you seem to be very mad, but I hope you have a wonderful Christmas and a
happy new year, but...
Yeah, dude, I like the Highlander.
I always have.
I think it's fantastic.
It's a fun story and it's always really silly.
I guess they did that.
What was that movie?
The one?
The one was like the same storyline with that, right?
Yeah.
I think that's really what it is.
I think it's just like the one was basically the same thing as that.
The Saman had that scenario. Does it actually?
Where's a good spawn for scorpion hunting?
I don't know. I don't really live in the Sanjko Desert. I'm up here in Turquoise Sea.
If you find one though, let me know. I know there's a bunch of scorpions down over this way.
Kind of served the starter zone, but there's also beetles there and I think they share a spawn.
So you might be...
You might be out of luck on that.
I wish I had more knowledge of that area of the world.
I'll have to spend some more time there sometime soon.
Once we finish Brian Bear, anyway.
His son got granted immortality and then was decapitated.
What was that in?
I don't know the storyline for that.
Do you know where Soul Skippers spawned?
No, uh, Soul Skippers have like a really restrictive spawn, and then
and they're basically farmed 24-7 on our server.
There's also a bug with it where they like,
don't spawn as fast as long as the server's going on,
so you have to wait for the server restart,
and it's like a whole thing.
But Tix was able to get me one, I've got it.
And there's a number of us that also have them, so.
Yeah.
Bacana was a good anime with the mortals.
I always thought immortality is a curse, man.
Yeah.
What you say is over a better Ranger or Mage? I think Ranger is incredibly
powerful right now but you're also doing physical damage so as people get more
and more physical defense that's gonna be harder and harder to compete with.
That being said Ranger basically annihilates someone in Light Armor right
now. They just die. They'll kill you in one second even less. Is this a dungeon?
Kind of. It's an open-world elite area. Dungeons are also open-world. The
Brig is a dungeon and we have some people over there farming that as
well. We're on one of the farming teams that specifically trying to push
this island doing this, right? And that's, oh, get rid of that. There we go. So, yeah,
basically what we're trying to do is farm this area. And the idea with this is to farm
everywhere on the island as much as I possibly can, right? So we've got about 100 people
here. We've got 16 people here. We've got three groups of people here and we're farming
every possible thing. Yeah. Farming the island is really tough at level 8. So the
way that you fix that savelet, go to the brig, there's a bunch of material
on the brig and there's no monsters there it's only inside the brig where the monsters are
and then take that go down here to the ember spring sell it and then go back up and do it again
and you can do that infinitely there's people that have farmed like full three levels doing that
which is crazy but also helps the guild you know like and not even the guild the whole area
if we settle this area we have a new capital for this where can you get more profession tools
have to be crafted tarmac is our resident god tier crafters so he makes a lot of them
I need journeyman tools sometime soon.
One sec.
I'm going to get rid of that.
Any word on keeper? What do you mean keeper?
Protect.
Do items have infinite durability? Only when you die do you really lose durability on your items. I haven't lost anything on my gear. Nothing has lost anything.
Oh, tank summoner. That's, um, that's brood warden. I'm waiting for that.
Yeah, mages get slapped really fast. You can wear full heavy in a mage though, which is kind of cool.
Like I'm wearing mostly heavy on a summoner right now, which is effectively a mage.
I'm at 40% magic defense and 23.8% physical defense.
And I'm wearing five pieces of light now, so I've got a lot of magic defense though.
Which is good because that makes it so my pet has a lot of physical defense, because they get the opposite of you.
Yeah, gathering tools lose their ability, but weapons and stuff don't.
Good one and Keeper reverses with each other?
Oh, okay, yeah, that I didn't know.
I never checked the other side.
I guess that would be Tank into Summoner.
I wonder what Keeper does then.
There's kind of descriptions for them on their wiki,
but like there's very little known about it
because they haven't released anything for this.
Probably this is shit little work, to be honest with you.
Best weapon for Summoner?
Right now I'm using a two-handed sword,
magic power, and I'm using a tome,
but that's not because it's the best,
just because it's the best items I've found. Yeah, I wait and see when it's done. I agree
with that. Yeah. But you could see, I kind of slap damage, you know.
The magic speed is broken. I know it is. I know it is.
I would love that way more magic speed. Let me tell you.
A.I. seems kind of nice and similar. Yeah, we get a lot of dots. We get a lot of disables and debuffs.
And we also get a shitload of A.I.
Yeah, I'm just gonna... I'm gonna wait dude. Like, that's not even the goal right now.
right now the goal is trying to get them to fix quality of life systems
currently
you're currently 120 hours in ashes and your first character you're just under
level 18 that's pretty common yeah it's not like World of Warcraft you don't
get to max level very quickly level cap is still level 25 that is correct and I
reached it but it was a lot
we're still at 40% and they haven't hit one yet
This is hilarious. We're owning, dude.
You heard you're making crew pirates, so I am. I am Captain Cinnamon of the Pastry Pirates.
Are you- are you actually? Are you on Lineth? And do you know the Muffin Man?
captains they're dreary lame most terrifying pirate ship known to man oh
you're in resin a lame oh well yeah the muffin man terrifying pirate a beard
full of churros the gumdrop buttons now that's kind of cool though man yeah we've
got up we've got a bunch of pirates out here but basically we're pushing
brindle man so if you guys ever make your way over to the nests and join us
Have some fun.
Got a lot of buddies on the server even having fun.
Games of 50% rock on.
Conker's underscore BFD said did you ever hear about the trained ferrets that save the London Millennium Music Festival?
No.
to them to be able to rewire everything underground since they weren't allowed to dig up anything okay happy holidays, sir
Working ferrets are pretty common running wires
Anti rabbit anti mole stuff like that is pretty interesting. I didn't hear about that situation though. That's quite cool
working ferrets
Yeah working ferrets are really common then yep
Not here in the US a lot of times usually in Europe
and
the U.S.
getting so much glint
of
the magic speeds of 95% of
Oh, it's a sad day when a ferret has to pay taxes, you're funny, dude.
Oh my god.
QueentasticVT said hello for Wild Wizard of Fur noodles.
What's up?
Question for you.
If a hole is an opening on the surface on an object, then does a straw have one hole
or two?
Straw is a toroidal object.
It has no holes.
question. It has three? Oh god. How? Yeah, humans are also donuts. That's true. I say
zero and the reason I say zero is because the intention of the straw is for that to
stay open at all times. So I see it as a toroid. Take a short straw. How short does
it have to be before you stop calling it a hole? Right? The mug is a toroid. The corn
One dog is a Wellington.
The Pop Tart is a Wellington.
Got a summoner feeling PvP?
Great.
One of the funniest things in PvP that you can add with this is when you drop hex on
somebody and then they run away thinking they've survived and then it goes and does
like 800 damage and they just explode.
It's funny you're singing the planet.
You made it out? Nice.
Waiting in the ends.
and
Um not really it incentivizes you to get more and more rare materials
I don't like the rarity system over all though to be honest with you. I
Wish they got rid of rarity. I don't think it's fun. I think it should be volume-based like number of material not
Not rarity of material rarity of material feels very negative to me
And I think it's gonna run into a serious problem about a year after launch
I think rarity on materials is probably the worst mistake the game has right now personally
Peanuts are not nuts they're legumes you're a legume
Peanuts are legumes legune okay I know where chat is
You're five holo goons.
Legume.
And legume.
When mass transport you want trains?
We have boats.
It's like a train, but on water.
Legume.
You're legume.
Legume.
Radiant item.
Radiant item.
Radiant item.
Radiant item.
Radiant item.
Radiant item.
Radiant item.
Radiant item.
Radiant item.
Radiant item.
Radiant item.
I think it sucks.
It's fortitude, man.
No loving DPS should take that.
That's a fortitude piece.
It's five piece fort, man.
Which fort is cool, but it's like that's a tanking thing.
Constitution mentality increase is going to, eh.
I guess maybe it's good for a healer.
because they get more regen, but that's not how they're done so much.
Clerics are pretty tanky.
Do you want to pass a sticker along?
Yeah, just post it in chat, man.
They're called deviled eggs because... what is this?
They're called deviled eggs because the voices whisper and make you eat 20 of them.
Yes.
Yes.
Sending this to Shay.
Now there we go
My god, I'm full of gold
Or a 41
41 we've gained 3% they get none. No we getting 4% they get none
Alright gentlemen, I have been going for 13 and a half hours.
I will now need to tap out.
However, you have done an amazing job today.
You are pushing the island to the capacity that we need.
You're actually ahead of schedule.
You are phenomenal.
You guys are rad.
Keep it up, please.
Yeah.
Definitely get a replacement GPS. I'm really good at AoE.
So having more AoE would probably be in your best step.
Bellamanzer is also needing sleep.
Bellamanzer.
Bellamanzer, but you're a robot.
Robots don't sleep.
We crafted you so that you could be the perfect tank.
The perfect tank.
Oh, you got coach and boats over here. What's he?
Coach and boats, what class are you?
Some fighters shit happening over there.
You a fighter?
Yeah, I cut some boats.
A little 25 fighters.
My man.
What does your gear look like anyway?
Yeah, get cut some boats in.
I will dip out.
You guys take him.
Bring a fighter.
The fighter does gig of damage.
I will sit on this corner of the beach.
Actually, no, I'm gonna go back to town.
I'm gonna go back to town.
I gotta go sell shit.
Tank jippity.
You guys are amazing though.
Awesome group great job today, and if you're sticking around keep rebuilding groups
You can join us a tank no you gotta be able to 20 plus
That is like a world level 25 slapping the shit out of monsters so we can push the island kind of group
Hey self
Brother man have some oats
going through and thinking every team that I can see because they're all just kicking
serious ass. Yeah they're doing great dude.
Darth underscore Godzilla said happy holidays Thor, multi-part question for you. If you
You have the super power to change your form, would you choose to be a ferret sized person
or a ferret sized human?
Also, if you could be one of your ferrets for a day who would you pick and why?
We...
Person or human?
Isn't that the same thing?
I'm so confused.
We're into that wrong, okay.
If you're a human sized ferret, everyone is dead.
It's like an eldritch horror, you want next DTS? Alright.
QueenTasticVT said a thinker for you all, chat.
What makes an American, American?
The general answer would be something like guns, independence and freedom.
Well, the British conquered half of the world with guns and gave them their independence and freedom when they got bored.
So by that measurement they are more American than you are.
How do I respond to that without sounding mad?
As an American.
Actually, you know what?
I do have a way to respond to this.
And that's why we're more American.
Glad I made my point.
Staff underscore Godzilla said correction on last test to speech ferret sized human or
a human sized ferret which would you chose to change into.
Oh there it is.
Ferret sized human or human sized ferret.
I mean if you're human sized ferret everyone would be dead.
Like that's like a high drew level threat dude.
Ferrets are fearless and horrifying and the only reason they don't kill and eat
everyone around them is because they're small.
They're small.
If they were big, it'd be over, dude.
It'd be over.
It would be so over.
They're terrifying.
Terrifying creatures.
Yeah, direfair, they're very small.
They are.
And they steal everything.
They do.
Very cute though.
How did he get a point of that?
that's one
of
Yes. Let me sell this shit. A gold. 80 silver. Yes, Mr. Golemansers. There's something you
need. A singular piece of worm-ling meat. Thank you. I do love worm meat. Delicious.
and
so that off so that off to us for that
so much crap and I'm sorry to this money that okay
that's fine and now was going to know where you are a way to plan for a given them to
and
the ground both of these complete commissions a complete commission and
Did that give us anything?
It did.
It gave 620 experience to Brandeiro.
Sick.
Very nice.
Alright.
Alright.
We did it.
It's done.
All right, all right, we did it, it's done, 41% to 0.
You guys have a wonderful day, we're kicking ass.
And I'm gonna go raid the ferrets.
How big is the world now?
Freakin' enormous, Queen Tastic.
Like, look, look at how big it is.
There's so much map in this map, dude.
And we've spent all of our time here
On an island that looks like Chainsaw Man's head, spitting a lukey.
Love this island.
It's the best.
Alright guys, I will be back on tomorrow. We're gonna have more games for in December and uh, well, hopefully, be over 50% by then. So...
If you are not on Bryan Barrel, please come join Bryan Barrel. Put your TTS. Oh, god damn it.
You gobblin'.
Princess Akana said human-sized ferret four would just steal all the deviled eggs.
It'd be the same.
They require a carnivorous diet, after all, and Thor can't resist the deviled eggs.
I love deviled eggs.
Wait, does that mean if I keep you supplied with deviled eggs I get VIP?
Just give me, Merry Christmas to Thor, Jay, Chat, and all the fur babies.
The council of eggs will decide.
Yeah.
Slushberry games with two dollars said Chat wins.
No, no, Chat will never win.
It'll never win.
I'll see you all tomorrow.
Bye everybody.
You're amazing.
Thank you for being here.
Thank you for supporting in December and all the other stuff that we do.
I would not be able to do this stuff without you.
So you're awesome, stay awesome.
See you tomorrow.
Bye.
Oh and chat smell.