Rimworld Dev Tracker

2009: CoD Modern Warfare 2
2022: CoD Modern Warfare II
2035: CoD Modern Warfare Two
2048: CoD Modern Warfare the Second
2061: CoD Modern Warfare Secundus
2074: CoD Modern Warfare One Plus One
2087: CoD Modern Warfare Please God Just Buy It Again What Do You Expect From Us Anyway

Back in the day, games were often based *directly* on fiction or reality: Submarine captain, city mayor, airline pilot, wizard adventurer, galactic conqueror, etc.

Nowadays almost all games are based on other games.

We lost a lot of originality in that transition.

I should make this a RimWorld trailer

Quality shines through in sales numbers. Reviews in the last 30 days:

Fallout 3 (both versions): 331
Fallout New Vegas: 1,388

I have the ambition of making RimWorld something worth playing for at least a few people in the 22nd century.

What games will people still play 100 years from now?

Count both games that get continuously updated, and games played in original form.

Counter-Strike is approaching the quarter-century mark and is still going strong.

4) Failing to distinguish between:
- not wanting to hear a message yourself, and
- wanting to prevent others from discussing it between themselves

Sometimes I think of game design like putting each idea on trial. I am prosecutor, defense, judge and jury, each in turn.

Write it. Bolster it. Question it. Attack it. Try to replace it. Make alternatives. Recess, reconvene. Judge. Sentence. Implement, discard, or deep freeze.

Still in 2022 there's no good software I can find for managing game design tasks that's better than Google Docs.

The solutions out there are so featureful but so fatally clunky due to the weight of their features. Can't decide if they want to be used by creators or managers.

Nice of them to make this decision on 4/20.

Our full announcement on RimWorld returning to Steam in Australia:

Good news! RimWorld is now rated and legal to buy again in Australia.

We'll have it back up on Steam soon.

Thanks to everyone who lent their support.

Thanks for the help everyone! I think we got what we need.

What are examples of games which are rated by the Australian Board () which include drug use, especially connected to player incentives?

Seeking examples to bolster an ongoing case (right now).

Kirby and the Forgotten Land is in the same genre as Elden Ring fight me

Twitter increasing its character limit would be the easiest way to improve the quality of discourse (and thus thought) across our whole society.

As it stand's it's a discussion platform that makes it almost structurally impossible to communicate nuanced ideas.

Game design is hard to learn because mistakes feel like victories.

The signals of a mistake are hard to interpret and slow to arrive - often only coming years later.

The try-fail-adjust-retry learning loop is crazy long - if it ever closes at all.