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I just started running sword combat playtests this weekend for my next game, Today I Will Destroy You, which is about a girl who goes looking for her sister.

Combat is mostly inspired by Sekiro. Here's a minute of gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8NJhd3Ks3k.

Already learned that it gets way too hard too soon, so this week I'm adjusting the training and difficulty curve to avoid frustrating new players.

If you liked Sekiro, have a PC, and want to playtest, please get in touch!

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This week I'll start playtests for the combat system of my next game, Today I Will Destroy You, an action adventure with combat inspired by Sekiro.

In this first round I want to see how players respond to the composure-driven knockdown system, and if they find the sample boss fight difficult enough to be interesting, but genuinely fair. In the background, I'm thinking about how to improve the training mode (it only kind of worked on my daughter), so the game can teach you how to play without telling you how to play.

90s of combat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au6X7snM_G4

I'll also be urging myself to do some marketing during the world cup for my recently released physics soccer arcade game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3802120/Put_One_In_for_Jo...

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I recently released my first Steam game, a little physics soccer game about scoring great goals: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3802120/Put_One_In_for_Jo.... It's not successful, but I'm very happy with how it came out, and I learned a lot.

I've been using and tuning a tool I built myself to help me lower my LDL and ApoB: https://www.heartroutine.com/. I still don't like how the daily check-in system works (it's still too dumb) but it's keeping me consistent for now.

In a few days I'll start running playtests of my combat prototype for my next game, Today I Will Destroy You, some kind of SNES Zelda and Sekiro inspired combat adventure.

Periodically thinking about what the future of helping small teams build software will look like and keeping my personal site up to date: https://piinecone.com/.

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Last month I released my first Steam game, an occasionally frustrating game about scoring great goals: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3802120/Put_One_In_for_Jo....

I built HeartRoutine to help me lower my LDL and ApoB. I recently started beta testing it on some friends, too, to see if anyone other than myself would find it helpful: https://www.heartroutine.com/.

I've started building the combat prototype for my next game, Today I Will Destroy You, inspired by my love of going-on-an-adventure-with-a-sword games and Sekiro-style combat.

I've committed to keeping my personal website up to date: https://piinecone.com/.

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When I have time between freelance work I make games and tools for myself.

Put One In for Johnny Minn (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3802120/Put_One_In_for_Jo...) - A small soccer game all about scoring nice goals. While I don’t expect it to do well, I’m very happy with how it came out, and it’s the first game I’ve made that I’ll release on Steam! Comes out on Thursday (March 12th).

HeartRoutine (https://www.heartroutine.com/) - I built this a few months ago to help me stay on top of my heart health. I enter my numbers on the (offline) app, and then configure my goals (like “lower Apo B through diet and exercise”), and then the server emails me every morning asking me what I ate yesterday, how I exercised, etc. The goal is to stay on track, and to be able to bring a cardiologist a very detailed report.

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