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Jul 11, 02:58 PM

On #GameMakersNotebook, @trentkusters.bsky.social chats w/ @apthomson.bsky.social about his surreal strategy-puzzle game Titanium Court, path into games and meeting long time collaborator @qdork.bsky.social, creating modular systems for faster game dev, advice for becoming a better writer, and more!

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"Titanium Court is a very difficult game to describe. And I think that's because it mixes a bunch of genres together and it is not entirely of any one of those genres. Right. So it has a little bit of match three in it. It's got a little bit of tower defense in it. It's got a little bit of Roguelike in it. It's got more than a little bit of visual novel in it. That's for sure. A lot of visual novel, if you ask me. And it's even got a little bit of point and click adventure game in it. A lot of how I was making decisions about how to design Titanium Court based on the fact that it was a side project. The consequence of that is like if I've only got 20 to 40 minutes to work on this most days, I had to structure the game in such a way that I could design something and make progress on something in the game in just a very small space of time. And yeah, it's just kind of like trying to build systems that were very modular in that way, something that lets me just kind of like insert a new thing without thinking about it too much. So you kind of think of it as like varying layers of stew that I'm just like chucking more ingredients into as I go."

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Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences @official-aias.bsky.social · Jul 9, 10:56 PM

On #GameMakersNotebook, @trentkusters.bsky.social chats w/ @apthomson.bsky.social about his surreal strategy-puzzle game Titanium Court, path into games and meeting long time collaborator @qdork.bsky.social, creating modular systems for faster game dev, advice for becoming a better writer, and more!

<div class="border-l-2 border-slate-800/60 pl-4 py-2 mt-3 ml-2"> <div class="flex items-start gap-2.5"> <!-- Avatar --> <img src="https://cdn.bsky.app/img/avatar/plain/did:plc:k27e4yfma454r3vhoh75engg/bafkreibeilpkveipuqx4lr4qh5d5xzswqpyp23orh5o6tdlb4o2msfuxra" class="w-6 h-6 rounded-full shrink-0 border border-slate-800" /> <!-- Comment Content --> <div class="flex-1 min-w-0"> <div class="flex items-center gap-2 mb-1"> <span class="text-xs font-bold text-slate-300">Academy of Interactive Arts &amp;amp; Sciences</span> <span class="text-[10px] text-slate-500">@official-aias.bsky.social</span> <span class="text-[9px] text-slate-600">· Jul 9, 10:57 PM</span> </div> <p class="text-xs text-slate-350 leading-relaxed break-words">Watch the full episode now on YouTube or listen on your favorite #podcast app! Support the show and get all of our episodes early/ad-free on Apple Podcasts: youtu.be/fz3XqFb5P3U?...</p> </div> </div> <!-- Replies --> </div>