nic tringali

@nictringali

game? designer?? Forget Starlight releasing soon. currently ???. Amberspire, The Banished Vault, and others, formerly of Bithell Games. Blog at blog.enceledean.com, analog games at enceledean.itch.io, design podcast at paperlabyrinths.com. they

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still painting minis

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a stack of interleaved printed copies of Forget Starlight

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a negative steam review by "2005ChevyMalibu" saying "Way too high price for what you get, you're paying for the author's pretensions."

which, lol, yeah bro such is the terrible nature of art, I don't know what to tell you. unfortunately I can only sell you a signifier, if you don't like what your interpretation of the signified is I can't help you! at least I did think a lot about what I was trying to put behind the foggy glass

nic tringali@nictringali· Jul 1

ANNOUNCEMENT Forget Starlight is a tabletop rpg set on an infinite feudal space station. Written by me, edited by @deptofmeteors.bsky.social. Out this summer with a print version available as well. More info here: enceledean.itch.io/forget-starl...

nic tringali@nictringali· May 31

design notebook complete. spanning most of The Banished Vault, all of Amberspire, and a dozen other various games and projects. June appears to be fateful

nic tringali@nictringali· May 28

I've trained for this

nic tringali@nictringali· May 18

good morning

nic tringali@nictringali· May 12

Really charming. It was nice to kick back and play this for 30 minute stints.

nic tringali@nictringali· May 11

Loving this so far- played for enough to start to get a feel and see the edges of the thing. If you find other city builders too sterile and inorganic, this one is worth a shot!

I'm a big board gamer and the "best of both worlds" thing that's going on is great. More games should have an in-game rulebook. There's big chunky decisions but also the simulationist way the city grows gives a life to the thing. I like how the limited dice pool and range cause you to focus on developing a particular area, but when the wrong results come up it generates a sort of compound sprawling that you can't quite predict as you try to find uses for your resources.

nic tringali@nictringali· May 8

Recommended
8.3 hrs on record
POSTED: YESTERDAY

neat game stimulating some "planning" synapses with a pleasant coating of great art, music, writing and overall impeccable setting
the gameplay is very mild: once you internalise that it doesn't really matter whether you roll the "correct" dice right now or in 10 rolls, it becomes a pretty chill game with none of the common frustrations in other colony survival games - it's because you can't really lose this game and you're guaranteed to make some progress sooner or later (there's no time limit nor game over); and yet you will face challenges along the way that need forethought, optimisation and grit

nic tringali@nictringali· May 6

🌖 Amberspire is OUT NOW! 🌇 A dice driven science fantasy city builder. Grow your city atop a mausoleum moon, interact with strange weather and ecology, gain influence to make deals with powerful off-world factions, experience the history of a future city. PC, Mac, Steam Deck s.team/a/3350750

nic tringali@nictringali· May 4

when you don't share Amberspire this is who you're hurting

nic tringali@nictringali· Apr 29

i made this for Cohost, a better website than you'll ever know

an image of Max Rebo with the text BORN TO JIZZ // FORCED TO WAIL overlaid

nic tringali@nictringali· Apr 29

when you don't share Amberspire this is who you're hurting

a furry gray rectangle with a cat's head sticking out

nic tringali@nictringali· Apr 17

he could be comfier

nic tringali@nictringali· Apr 16

when you don't share Amberspire this is who you're hurting

a lumpy black cat sat in such away that it's a just a beautiful mound with four legs stuck out in odd ways, and a head stuck on top with an air of serene contemplation

nic tringali@nictringali· Apr 14

my lumpy black cat twisted around lying on his back, bare asshole censored

nic tringali@nictringali· Apr 2

you're on the city research shelf!

nic tringali@nictringali· Mar 29

games acquired at Adepticon

Louise, Pirates of the Crimson Coast, Wanted! Reward: CC10,000, Sun Rot, Flames of Orion, Vortex of Hell

nic tringali@nictringali· Mar 20

Amberspire is intentionally much more relaxed than The Banished Vault, but there is one mid/late game trap that you're guaranteed to hate

a slack message from me saying "added a new bit of UI feedback to display how absolutely evil 😇😇😇is" and the innocent emojis are me redacting something you're guaranteed to hate. sorry!! that's how game design goes. games really do rely on frictions to produce emotional and thematic resonances, and overall Amberspire's are pretty minimal or subtle. it relies a lot on just nudging you into making some unusual decisions, but in this case yes it is being evil.

nic tringali@nictringali· Mar 4

Amberspire, our dice driven science fantasy city builder, will release MAY 6! Roll dice, grow a city, forge alliances, interact with an ecology, and read a history of the future. PC, Mac, Steam Deck - May 6! s.team/a/3350750