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I never played Roblox and tend to be fairly out of the loop, and even I have heard about Roblox in connection with child exploitation. Hope those kids eventually get justice and their predators prevented from harming them.

Is this a game where I could reasonably discover how to progress by myself, as an average adult human with no special knowledge of history or technological progression? Or will I need to resort to a wiki? I’m cool with either but curious

Also clicked this post to see if someone would bring up Vintage Story. (Other reason was to see if someone brought up Luanti/Minetest.)

Clicked on this thread purely to see if someone would bring up Minetest/Luanti. Glad to hear it seems to be going well.

+1 for FOSS game. Is the little Linux penguin a racer in the game?

It is something I have always been undecided about. The whole spell creation thing sounds like something I’d love, but I’ve heard the game can be frustrating, and aside from !hades@lemmy.zip roguelikes are not my thing. I should probably see if it has a demo or watch some early gameplay…

Maybe “progression through different tiers of citizens”? Your title made me wonder if a “citizen class development model” was an established thing in video games.

Okay, so I understand

You start on an island with a few resources and build your first villager huts to welcome the opening tier of your civilization. As you meet their needs, you’ll unlock new blueprints and advance through four distinct tiers.

Each tier introduces unique citizen types with their own demands and unlocks:

Tier I: Villagers

Tier II: Townfolk, Recruits, Acolytes

Tier III: Merchants, Soldiers, Apprentices

Tier IV: Nobles, Wizards, Priests

Is this what you mean by “citizen class development model”?

To me, it’s a game. I get some people might not think so because the game is all menus and numbers, with minimal other graphics (not counting achievement backgrounds). But for me, it’s fun. A lot of people like these number go up games where the mechanics are about increasing the numbers fast without much other intermittent gameplay. !incremental_games@incremental.social. It’s a whole genre. https://paperpilot.dev/garden/guide-to-incrementals/defining-the-genre/ might have some discussion on whether it’s a game or not, I forget, but it sure is a nice read about incrementals.

Also, there’s more, but it does take time to unfold.

RIP for cool-sounding games having AI-generated stuff, thanks for putting the notification so people like me who don’t like generative AI can ignore the game instead of checking out the Steam page.

Headline: in short, even great, beloved, skilled people get rejected. Article: more her telling you about the voice acting experience. I can definitely say as a not-great actor who voice acted in a small indie game that shall remain unnamed for the sake of my internet privacy, I also took my theatre skills to voice acting, although I had no motion-capture going on ;) And hey, at least the headline isn’t wrong and it’s uplifting for lots of people. Tale as old as time, but new kids growing up need to hear it with names they know too.

Also, thanks for the crosspost to baldurs_gate_3!

I really miss the days guides were text with images instead of YouTube, YouTube, YouTube. Blah blah typical Lemmy anticorporate views, but more importantly, I’d rather just read and have something I can CTRL+F instead of having to sit through a video. At least transcripts help with trying to skip to the part I need. And at least people who don’t handle reading so well have a format someone is guaranteed to have made a tutorial in. But as a reader I am saddened by watch a video being what everyone suggests now for tutorials. Especially because nowadays, sometimes there is only a video, no book or article.

would also be appropriate for !automationgames@lemmy.zip

Antimatter Dimensions. Free, I have 1,000+ hours. Incremental/idle game though.

Thanks for the explanation!

I do not know the norms of shitpost communities, but as an outsider, I think it fits in perfectly.

Oh yeah, I do report every time now, but I still see way too many.

Am aware downvotes are not insults and I don’t report downvotes, but also aware a lot of people use them as a plain disagree button.

Luckily at the moment they have a lot more upvotes than downvotes. Probably because they are providing information and aside from the “you are stupid for breaking (a likely-predictable) TOS and expecting nothing to happen” judgment, it’s pretty neutral on passing judgment on the bigger argument at hand: whether this policy should be here in the first place.

I know Lemmy’s objection to most of these and I honestly dislike them too (oh no, brainwashed drone alert! Honestly, I consider myself quite lucky I hit a group where I actually do match the hivemind instead of being different yet again. Except I think Lemmy has a much higher tolerance for political posts, and for personal insults towards people who don’t share the hivemind than I do, but hey, you’ll probably never hit 100% consensus with any big group), except: I wasn’t aware that Lemmy had something against a can of beans. Genuinely, could someone please explain? Is this a reference to something, or is it genuine dislike towards canned beans? What’s wrong with canned beans?

Hey, thanks for the information! I’ve been meaning to try specifically some grand strategy and possibly RTS games but never had the time, so I appreciate you telling me what I didn’t end up learning myself.