Skip Navigation

thepaperpilot

@ thepaperpilot @incremental.social

Posts
13
Comments
77
Joined
3 yr. ago

I'm a software engineer who makes games as a hobby. I love making tools for creatives, and I love incremental games. I'm the creator of Profectus. He/himpaperpilot.dev

  • Removed

    Meet Journiv! A Self-Hosted, Privacy-First Journaling App (Day One/Apple Journal Alternative)

    Jump

  • I just recently discovered SilverBullet and have been happily using that for journaling. Its self hosted and lets you add functionality by writing lua scripts.

  • What games aren't incremental?

    Jump

  • Glad the website could get you started on a whole rabbit hole of interesting reads 🫡

  • What games aren't incremental?

    Jump
  • Incremental Games @incremental.social
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    PegIdle released on Steam

    store.steampowered.com /app/2821890/PegIdle/

  • Save 10% on Astrodle on Steam

    Jump

  • I love incremental games with a story! Definitely picking this up

  • Why don’t you like Apple?

    Jump

  • I don't hate apple. Especially from a privacy record, they actually have a far superior history than essentially every other hardware manufacturer out there.

    I think they're overpriced and I don't agree with some of their design decisions, and in general feel like they could give the consumer more control over things, which is why I don't personally have an iPhone or iPad etc., I use them at work and have nothing against them in general)

  • Weekly Incremental Check-in

    Jump

  • This week has been a roller coaster, but I've been playing magic research 2, cat clicker on galaxy, and a couple smaller games as part of Galaxy's verification process.

    Been also really working on my personal website and am really excited in the direction it's going! The overall theme isn't implemented yet, but I've been converting some of my personal notes into public pages. This week I documented my experiences with life is strange, so if you're interested in that you could read about it here.

  • no really how do we fix this?

    Jump

  • Summer Incremental Game Jam 2024

    Jump

  • There's so many interesting jams going on. If I didn't already have a million things on my plate I'd be so down to participate. Well, looking forward to seeing what others can create at least!

  • Weekly Incremental Check-in

    Jump

  • I'm not sure I understand your question about magic research 2

  • Weekly Incremental Check-in

    Jump

  • I picked up idle orbs 4 based on this recommendation but honestly couldn't really get into it.

    Instead I've just been playing a bunch of Magic Research 2, which I'm having a blast with!

  • Weekly Incremental Check-in

    Jump

  • I actually just picked up magic research 2, and I play through every USI update as soon as it comes out.

  • Single-user Mastodon Instance is a Bad Idea

    Jump

  • Nostr does some interesting things! What I mentioned here is actually just the identity part of what I think could be a significantly improved version of the fediverse. I have ideas on how to support subreddit style communities and decentralized moderation and things like that that make the whole idea a bit different from nostr.

  • Weekly Incremental Check-in

    Jump

  • Glad to have you! Hope you enjoy the community:)

    What games are you playing now?

  • Single-user Mastodon Instance is a Bad Idea

    Jump

  • Yeah, I disagree with that part as well. I think it's fine for servers to store the content and provide endpoints for specific queries/sorts, and expecting the clients to have all the posts is a tad extreme.

    In this case, yes the data needs to live somewhere, but that's the nature of having data be retrievable.

  • Single-user Mastodon Instance is a Bad Idea

    Jump

  • I agree with this take, and recently I actually read this article that criticizes how server centric fedi is as a whole. If it's hard and expensive for a layperson to self host, but you need to have an account associated with a specific server, then you're going to end up with a system where you're under the whims of a instance owner still. Not to mention the whole pick a server step severely hurts our adoption rates.

    I like the idea of having an account just being a public and private key pair. Theoretically you could make one client side, use it to sign your messages, and servers could verify the signature and distribute your post without needing to have an explicit account for you. You could send every message to a random instance and it'd still work. You wouldn't have to worry about links to the "wrong instance" and you wouldn't have to attach your identity to a instance that might shut down or be bought by a bad person. The server would be essentially irrelevant.

  • Incremental Games @incremental.social
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    How often do you like to reset your progress?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    Last week in fediverse - Ep 69

    fediversereport.com /last-week-in-fediverse-ep-69/

  • Weekly Incremental Check-in

    Jump

  • Ive been playing cat incremental as well. It requires a LOT of clicking at the start, but I enjoyed it enough to reach end of content. Although I think the last several prestige bonuses are pretty pointless - once you can quickly max out all the cats within each prestige, the remaining prestiges aren't very interesting. Since it's still under active development, that'll hopefully change though

  • Removed

    Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs

    Jump

  • For matrix specifically, I recommend fluffy chat on mobile and cinny for web/desktop. Most notably, they both support the not-yet-official spec on custom emojis and stickers, which I think is important for any slack-like.

    For the server (since you want to self host), you'd probably want to do Synapse - it supports not being federated as well as SSO. Also it wasn't mentioned by mp3, but xmpp is another protocol that's used by many large companies for internal chat systems as well.

  • How does one make content in an incremental game meaningful, and when should one stop making it?

    Jump

  • What are your thoughts on the antimatter dimensions reality update? It's a game with months of content, but also added a bit of a narrative as you go through the celestials

  • How does one make content in an incremental game meaningful, and when should one stop making it?

    Jump

  • I've discussed this topic and levied criticisms at common issues I see in this genre in an article called What is Content?. Essentially, I think it's better to have planned out the scope of the game in advance (as I've done for gamedev tree, advent incremental, and Kronos), so that the game feels like it has a proper end. It also sidesteps the issue of having new layers outright replace the earlier gameplay rather than extend it, as is common in games that keep asking themselves what to add next. Basically, planning makes better games.

  • Music with a leftist message @lemmy.world
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    System Of A Down - B.Y.O.B.

    piped.video /watch
  • Incremental Games @incremental.social
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    Sixty Four is released!

    store.steampowered.com /app/2659900/Sixty_Four/
  • Incremental Games @incremental.social
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    How would you envision a super auto pets style incremental?

  • Incremental Games @incremental.social
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    When are incremental games genuinely fun?

  • Incremental Games @incremental.social
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    What are your thoughts on games made in recognizable game engines?

  • Incremental Games @incremental.social
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    What are your thoughts on multiplayer incremental games?

  • Incremental Games @incremental.social
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    What's your favorite implementation of a prestige mechanic?

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    Introducing Incremental Social, a community for both players and developers of incremental games!

    incremental.social
  • Forgejo @lemmy.ml
    thepaperpilot @incremental.social

    I finally conceded and migrated thepaperpilot.org to Codeberg pages. I hope to eventually get pages-server setup on Incremental Social so it all works correctly, but for right now I need to prioritize