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Neurobiologist, portland game dev 🏳️‍⚧️ Making Lancer Tactics. I miss cohost. www.wick.works | wick.itch.io

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olive 🌺@wick· 9d

hotfix hotfix getcher hotfixes here wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti... *Not* addressed here is the somewhat concerning report that on certain graphics cards the game does this. I'm so tired. Godot I know it's not your fault but I hate having to think about nvidia's latest graphics driver updates

olive 🌺@wick· 11d

Thanks for the rec, I love this

olive 🌺@wick· 24d

We need some help doing technical writing/editing for Lancer Tactics' rules text! Inline glossary tagging, styling, & adapting wording when it doesn't make sense in a video game context. ~40 hours of contract work staring at google sheets; job posting is here: lancertactics.com/hiring-techn...

olive 🌺@wick· 26d

coming to sportsposting late but

olive 🌺@wick· Jul 10

Worldkiller, Enkidu, Tagetes, and Kutuzov alt frames are now available in Lancer Tactics by way of a mod by the always-amazing GavstarB! Get them via the in-game mod browser or manually here: mod.io/g/lancer-tac...

Lancer Tactics screenshot with the Worldkiller, Enkidu, Tagetes, and Kutuzov alt frames displayed.

olive 🌺@wick· Jul 6

We just had our first malicious upload to Lancer Tactics' mod.io directory! Somebody AI-vibe-coded a mockup of a companion editor app & provided an evil installer URL file. It's been removed, but stay on your toes. This shit looks plausible at first glance (but hilariously wrong in the details)

olive 🌺@wick· Jun 30

Lancer Tactics now officially supports mods! The newest build includes community implementations of the Caliban, Sagarmatha, NPC Rebake grunts, and more: wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti...

olive 🌺@wick· Jun 20

you should! this new little panel & properties makes it so easy to do now. Here's all code for that list on the right to do that wave-slide-in.

olive 🌺@wick· Jun 20

ahahaha I'm unstoppable

olive 🌺@wick· Jun 20

Godot 4.7 added visual control offsets which makes animating UI 1000x easier, so I spent the evening sprinkling it in on various screens.

olive 🌺@wick· May 21

Yeah, .wav files... unfortunately this also doesn't work & all my wav files still end up in the export, inexplicably. I confirmed it's them by unpacking the pck and saw them all listed.

olive 🌺@wick· May 21

Any #godot brained folks able to help me with this? We have audio assets in the project that get compiled to FMOD banks, so don't need to be exported. However, I've tried every method of excluding them to no avail (gdignore, export modes) and nothing works besides deleting the folder before export.

olive 🌺@wick· May 16

by talos this can't be happening

olive 🌺@wick· Apr 15

It's been three years since the three-years-of-funding Kickstarter campaign for Lancer Tactics completed. Time for a report card! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wic... Additionally, the Module Editor is live. Lancer Tactics is now equipped with essentially a miniature visual novel editor.

olive 🌺@wick· Apr 11

Oop, didn't manage this week. Writing a report card for a 3-year project was more emotionally taxing than we were expecting & need a bit more time. However, we'll also be doing a livestream celebration/Kickstarter phase wrapup for Lancer Tactics! April 15, 3-5 PST :: www.youtube.com/live/30huanm...

olive 🌺@wick· Mar 31

Today is trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️ but more immediately for me it's also the 3-year anniversary of Lancer Tactics' Kickstarter campaign. Writing up a larger retrospective for the next backer post, but it's cool to see how far we've come since then.

olive 🌺@wick· Mar 27

found this on my desktop while changing laptops and realized I never posted it. am I too late to chase the trend (aoe2 is the grungler; included for how big an impression the map editor made on me)

olive 🌺@wick· Mar 5

imo it's wild that this basic layout for hasn't changed since godot 2.0; mode buttons up top, scene tabs right below it, and a vertical list of scripts "within" all that. I really think it could use a fundamental experienced UX rethink

godot 2 screenshot taken from https://godotengine.org/article/mir-godot-habla-dein-language-desormais/

olive 🌺@wick· Mar 5

here's what I mean; the script "mode" at the top is actually the top-level organization while editing scripts, so it's strange that there's such a strong organizational visual element of the scene tab between that and what you're working with.

olive 🌺@wick· Mar 5

I understand why it exists, but getting this notification from Kickstarter always makes me *so* mad. I'm literally already writing the update and you're out there obnoxiously tapping on the glass of my aquarium.

Large red banner at the top of Kickstarter that says "a backer requested an update for Lancer tactics". It also sends an email.

olive 🌺@wick· Feb 27

I'm improving editor performance by only redrawing the area around the changed tiles instead of the entire map every time, and accidentally invented Lancer Minesweeper

olive 🌺@wick· Feb 20

marko is generating some v cursed savefiles in the course of QA & bughunting work. improbably dense bucket of ronins.

Screenshot from Lancer Tactics. 24 ronin mechs standing at the bottom of a pit with one at the top which somehow escaped.

olive 🌺@wick· Jan 30

New build for LT is live! v0.6.0 adds the last of the player talents and is coming up on halfway done for the rest of the NPC optionals. Plus some cool new FX and icons: wick.itch.io/lancer-tacti...

olive 🌺@wick· Jan 30

i have such a love/hate with #godot. I'm so glad it exists and I know other engines have problems too but I stg there's always some cursed problem that crops up right as I'm trying to release. This morning I found that our portraits are broken post-4.6 upgrade but only for the exported build.

lots of portraits with the skin color being used for all clothing options

olive 🌺@wick· Jan 28

I've adored this illustration by @badbucket.bsky.social ever since I first saw it in the lancer core book and was delighted to learn they have it available as a print 😍 :: www.inprnt.com/gallery/badb...

Framed print of a mech walking across a field of golden grass with some scifi troopers.

olive 🌺@wick· Jan 15

holy shit

After 48 hours of torture, Dr. Christie wrote a forced confession — “the best thing I ever wrote,” he later told the BBC, noting that he had made sure the confession included “all my recommendations to the African National Congress” about the best way to sabotage Koeberg and other facilities.

“And, gloriously, the judge read it out in court,” Dr. Christie added. “So my recommendations went from the judge’s mouth” straight to the A.N.C.

olive 🌺@wick· Jan 11

Scott McCloud's closure/big triangle are the concepts I reach for when thinking along these lines. More detailed = less to the imagination = can feel less real.

olive 🌺@wick· Jan 4

Doodling on a hoodie

White hoodie painted with metallic green abstract designs

olive 🌺@wick· Jan 2

Altered screencap from Gundam of Char as he betrays Garma, saying "Garma, if you can hear me, blame this on the misfortune of my build."

olive 🌺@wick· Dec 24

Happy holidays, new lancer tactics build: wick.works/devlog/pixel... The post also includes a dive in how we generate palettes and recolor our pixel art.