[2021] Tweets by Orteil42 on 21 Sep

still cannot believe we somehow got C418 on board for this. absurd

@C418 sorry we didn't tell you we were gonna keep it a surprise

@Camwoodstock maybe.........

@Velidae_ check my media tab and you may be pleasantly surprised

Did you know that the critically acclaimed idle game Cookie Clicker has a Steam version, and includes the entirety of http://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-YaRj7XsAEVOcS.png

have i mentioned how impossibly thankful we are http://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-ZujUIXEAATu23.png

@kianamosser if i'm not mistaken about the numbers steam is giving me, about 95% of people who bought the game launched it at least once! seems awful high, glad to find out we're not backlog fodder

played too much Noita so i've been catching myself pressing down to drink/eat stuff in Terraria. did it on a worm in the rain earlier, not even sure what i was trying to accomplish. just had a moment of "after all, why not?"

one day i’ll sit down and try to read through all of these http://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-fLAwsXMAEAn1X.png

new beta branch in the Steam version if you wanna help us test some bugfixes! it uses a separate save slot from the live game. more details: https://orteil42.tumblr.com/post/661499576130338816/hey-folks-ive-launched-a-beta-branch-for-steam

added a list of bugs fixed to that post because i am an idiot

@_haitch but... but we have a trailer

@moffmoth1 you can, but to import a save it needs to be from the same or an older version (ie. it won't work currently as the beta is on a higher version than live)! the beta version isn't really intended for actual progression in general

we’ve breached top 10 on Steam for most current players thus proving my 6th grade gym teacher wrong once and for all

@Mossworm1 if i'm not mistaken there's a system where roughly every 6 or 7 minutes the game throws a random encounter your way, and one time i saved right before one and could infinitely reload the save to find a wizard duel, an imperial squad, an escaped bandit, etc etc

Cookie Clicker seriously went 8 years without a drop shadow under the big cookie

Steam Cookie Clicker version 2.042 is up! full patch notes: https://orteil42.tumblr.com/post/661682115609509888/new-patch-is-up-for-steam-cookie-clicker-heres

nothing but respect and fear for the 0.4% of people who launched the game but had the self-restraint to not click on anything http://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-tjumJXIBAQ03v.png

me going "what if i'm not living out my potential as a procedural generation enthusiast with Cookie Clicker" as if 95% of the non-pixel art graphics in the game aren't stuff i generated in Filter Forge

one of my favorite things about Baba Is You is how anything can be and do anything; save for cosmetic properties game objects have no intrinsic rules. walls and robots and stars are only what you make of them. it's very non-essentialist