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Can I have… some sugar… water?
Can I have… some sugar… water?
Pshtt, not until he dies of dysentery once or twice.
Well. And maybe the new house doesn’t support their bed.
These days, roguelite tends to mean “A procedural game where you initiate a run that has a start and an end, but then has meta currencies of some kind that you spend in-between runs that affect future runs.”
So in Against the Storm you start a run, and you’re in a fresh environment that depends upon where in the overworld map you chose to start. This portion of the game play is a city builder like Banished or Timberborn or whatnot. You follow the game loop to instruct units to gather raw resources. Spend those construct buildings and allocate units to generate other resources within those buildings. Deal with events that come up. Have a goal that signifies completion of the run, and a hurry up clock of some kind that forces you to get to an end, and then either succeed or fail. Based on how you did, you have meta currency awarded that you can use to purchase unlocks that can allow for new gameplay options or make you stronger so as to be able to play on a higher difficulty, which results in higher meta currency awards.
Are you sure? I thought microtransactions were the core component of successful games these days.
Mix a couple into the candy bowl!
Depending on which of my friends are around:
World War Z
Payday 3
DarkTide
Or with my kids:
Minecraft
Monster Hunter World/Rise
Terraria
Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare
Gonna try out the Enshrouded Steam Next demo this week.
I see a lot of good advice, so I’m going to suggest something different. Have your son watch this guy or someone like him do some stuff.
https://youtube.com/@SebastianLague
He just picks something that interests him and builds on top of that interest.
My kids (8 and 11) don’t even have any interest in doing programming at the moment, and they like watching him build stuff. We watched the Geographical Adventures playlist twice.
You’re talking about PowerShell but then complaining about cmd. Are you unaware that PowerShell is its own cli?
That would take a lot of federal tax dollars away from states you probably like.
Look at this guy trying to play 2 games.
Shit, I know someone who had to purchase an extra SSD just to dedicate it to Call of Duty.
Gigabyte has entered the chat.
All of the Zachtronics games are great.
If you like power wash simulator, you might also like Hard space: Shipbreaker. The gameplay is different, of course, but it’s a similar general play of having a task and working at it. Just this one is in zero-G.
This was over 20 years ago so I don’t remember what kind I had then. But definitely go for the waxed floss now.
Believe me, I tried. I couldn’t get the floss between those teeth. The hygienist also had a lot of difficulty. It stopped being a problem several years later when I had a root canal on one of those problem teeth.
I had to go to an unscheduled dentist visit once to remove some floss that was stuck between my molars. So much pain, and so much relief once they were able to remove it.
I used to call these sort of games “Bird-chirpers”
Cause you’d start playing and then it would suddenly be morning, and birds would be chirping.