I recognise one of those names: Hans Speidel was part of the plot to assassinate Hitler (by detonating a briefcase explosive), and was later arrested by the Gestapo. He also famously didn’t relay Hitler’s orders to bombard Paris with V1 and V2 rockets to his superior.

I can kind of understand why someone like him led NATO forces.

Don’t know about the rest of them though.

Thank you for the recommendation!

Thank you for the recommendation!

I clearly didn’t grok that no real money is involved looking at the website and watching your demo video on YouTube. The website design “read” as I commented as a very web3.0 developery thing and not “game”.

I think because it’s missing a quick statement about the game / elevator pitch. And says “begin journey” instead of “play now” or similar.

“Platform features” should be renamed “Features” as platform doesn’t suggest fun.

Perhaps a clear “early access / in development” label at the top too - makes sense about the TLD choice.

Try some user testing. Find people who haven’t played your game before, jump on a screen share and set them the task of “Register for the game and hatch a creature egg”. Record the session and sit back and watch. Don’t tell or teach them, don’t control things for them. Just observe.

You’ve built a lot of platform tech (which is super fun to make) but I think you’d do well to focus more on the gameplay loop. Snake etc are decent mini games to earn currencies but, to me at least, they’re not compelling enough to register for the image generator. Creature collectors typically go for a battle mechanism or something that gives motive to want to engage with the other mechanics.

Keep pushing and keep user testing! Good luck :)

So you collect things to collect them? Why? And why upgrade their stats?

The game part seems to be missing from this game. It seems more fun could be had with an AI image generator directly since the only way to collect a new picture is to play rather generic games (snake for instance).

In a matter of seconds promoting an image generator, you can get:

So this game is an image generator with extra steps but those extra steps aren’t very fun. And paying to get rid of the extra steps (buying in-game currency which is how you fund it all) means I might as well just go give my money to Midjourney or something.

It would make more sense to earn in-game currency by playing a game with or related to the creatures, giving more reason to upgrade their stats and be invested in them.

In the current iteration, the “game” is an unveiled monetisation platform and the downvotes are likely because of that.

There’s the roots of a good idea in here but I’d ditch snake etc and go back to invite only alpha while you iterate on a game loop otherwise you’ll burn your social capital for the FRTL brand quickly.

My first impression for the website was “NTF web3.0 cash grab scam” not “game”.

Other thoughts, .dev tld doesn’t signal game either, but programming.

Additionally, the images are all of such varying design that there’s nothing really iconic about FRTL. You should curate a library of base creatures or something that are inputs for the model to iterate on with the stats so that the rares etc are fun poses, effects, different elements, different colours, sizes, etc.

As a Brit myself, it saddens me how much hate is leeching from my country - especially towards minorities.

Thank you to the mods for making this community open so that people like me can lurk and learn to be better, while simultaneously protecting the people who depend on and need this safe space. Defederating was the right choice.

I won’t pretend I’m well versed in trans issues and struggles - I’m a cishet guy with no real skin in the game but I want to be an ally.

If anyone has good resources for someone like me to read so I can be better armed to refute and educate others who are being hateful, please let me know. The surge in hate after the recent Supreme Court ruling here in the UK has made it painfully clear being passive on the sidelines isn’t acceptable.

Huge apologies in advance if I’ve phrased anything hurtfully. I just want to learn.

Like your pick, anything Cronenberg.

Depends where you live. Just look up regional PC builders and see if they do laptops. They pretty much all sell Clevo, often unbranded or you can request they don’t brand it.

eBay might be another option. Or a laptop refurbisher. I’ve picked up several refurbished Clovos over the years that were ex workstations of some big enterprise.

Custom PC builder in a Clevo case or something is my guess. Chomsky but far easier to get better parts in them and since they’re for custom builders, they’re easy to open and upgrade etc.

Wasn’t me who downvoted. I’m pretty sure gyro zeros when it’s not active so I had mine set to only activate on trackpad touch which negated the issue you’re concerned about.

You should have posted the image directly:

Steam Input means every title supports that. I’ve been using gyro with my Steam Controller on PC for years now.

Weird statement since Apple support their devices for 7 years after launch.

1 year is worse than basically every major mobile device manufacturer, even ASUS where they give you two years then the device will never get updates again.

This is get one year then pay a subscription and maybe they’ll keep doing updates. I couldn’t find a commitment on their site.

You are blessed with a country with a functioning education system. It seems some countries only educate to the level of “Welcome to McDonald’s. Can I take your order?”

Keka is FOSS, supports 7z for both compression and decompression, and is native to macOS.

Why vinegar?

I prefer the extreme sports variant from Gloucestershire, England.

I’ve heard rumblings it’s actually to test out the upcoming move from Gamebryo/Creation to Unreal.

Easier to task a smaller team to take the current state of the UE5 framework for TES games and recreate an existing game (i.e. concept and content complete) and get feedback early so TES6 can learn from it while they are still in development.

They thought it was because the leather was from a pig…

Chess is mostly a memorisation game for gambits / openers and subsequent sets of follow-on moves.

After that, it’s mentally simulating the board state a few moves ahead, varying pieces and guesstimating probability of what move the opponent will make. A lot of that you start to memorise, especially since other chess enthusiasts will often play well-known gambits / strategies.

Intelligence often correlates with memory but they’re not one and the same. I grew up knowing a competitive chess player and remember the time they referred to their “hambag” (handbag). English was their mother tongue…