Maximilian Csuk ⚔️ Lost For Swords

Lost For Swords ⚔️ is my love letter to roguelikes and card games. To deckbuilders and dungeon crawlers. To strategy and tactics. It is Slay The Spire meets Into The Breach with a pinch of Diablo 2. If any of that resonates with you ➡️ it's out on Steam now!!!💖(link below)

@currentlynotgho Good, now prepare to suffer in the dark tower! *diabolical laugh*

And i JUST found the dark tower after MONTHS of play wtf @Max_Bytes this game keeps on giving!

lots of talk on here, not a lot of innovation (that includes my work). models have improved, but everything around them is basically a play on the original CC. if agents make experimentation in software so feasible, then why don't we see that materialize in products?

everyone i follow on here that paddles "tokens tokens tokens" either publishes absolutely broken garbage software they themselves haven't used for anything other than building garbage, or blog posts that are inactionable. it's fucking hilarious.

Faith in Despair has been updated! 21 Deities with unique abilities are now available to help you on your journey. ▶ Get it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2686020/Fa…

game dev pipeline: > i'll just make a fun little city builder > ok i need roads to connect > i need my little guys to use them right > roads and sidewalks are constantly changing > wait is this graph theory > why am i reading a 2002 paper on incremental heuristic search

i love that everyone got a robot that writes code for them, and existing apps i use haven’t gotten any better, and there’s no new cool apps that i’ve started using

We've got quite some traffic at @Max_Bytes's #LostforSword's Booth at #BeaverRocks Day 2!

A few things I've noticed as all devs write code with AI. When you write foundational / architectural code of a new project by hand, you "feel" the code pushing back if your abstraction isn't right. You feel when something is harder than it should be. The code is telling you it's not in the right shape. Good engineers are sensitive to this. When you're using an LLM, you keep pushing right through this in a way that feels like you're making progress, and it may even be directionally correct in a sense, but the underlying foundation of it all is actually bad in a way that either kills progress of the LLM later as it buckles under the complexity it has created or destroys your ability to maintain the code long term. Related to this, I see a general restlessness with just sitting and thinking about a problem for a while. As I've been working on a new library here at Laravel, there have been days where it feels like I mainly just stare at my screen thinking about something. When Claude Code is at your fingertips, it's tempting to just start yapping into the terminal and watching code come out the other end. Again, directionally correct in some ways, but often doesn't land on the elegant solution that is waiting to be discovered.

A little less than a week, get hype! 🥳🥳🥳

After 2 1/2 years of working on it... I think it's time. My game Faith in Despair will launch on November 12th 2025. Wishlist it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2686020/Fa…

@Max_Bytes’ “Lost for Swords” won two categories at @BIC_Festival! “Excellence in Game Design” and the grand prize “Jury Prize”! #indiegame #gamedev

We finished set up of @Max_Bytes' Lost for Swords at @BIC_Festival ! Lost For Swords is a Roguelike Deckbuilder, where the cards in your deck shape the rooms you’re exploring! Currently rated "Very Positive" on Steam and available on mobile too! #indiegame #gamedev

In a few days, we are going to be showcasing a total of 5 exciting titles from our line-up at this years' @BIC_Festival!!! See y'all in Busan! #indiegame #gamedev

I'm super excited that Lost For Swords is part of #BIC2025! 🥳🥳🥳 ONLINE : 8. 8 - 8.29 / bicfest.org OFFLINE : 8.15 - 8.17 / BEXCO See you in Busan! 🇰🇷 @BIC_Festival

@badlogicgames Would love to read a practical intro for sure! I had a suspicion that copilot isn't good because everyone seems to have success using AI, and I... don't :D I'm also used to Visual Studio, dunno if that's a problem

@Max_Bytes Copilot is the worst of the bunch. Maybe I should do a blog post/video on practical Code Claude patterns.

Wonder why there's such a massive rift between my claude-snipped non-gamedev friendos and my fuck-ai gamedev friendos. I suppose it's because the training set consists mostly of non-gamedev code and LLMs don't really spit out well performing code.

random #gamedev ramble about something i've been thinking about/seen recently, specifically — looking at a game mechanic in isolation (early in dev especially), not finding fun in it, doubting the design, and feeling forced to add complexity to it to bring that fun out 🧵/1

『LVUPEXPO2025』 出展ゲーム試遊台❷: Fall Up @unicellulargame Yolk Heroes @Matthewmritter Lost For Swords @Max_Bytes

💎 Strategems is live on Steam, now through April 28! 🎉 This first edition, co-organized by @GoblinzPub and @IndieArk_Games, brings together 120+ indie strategy games to discover. Check it out 👉 store.steampowered.com/publisher/gobl…

Lost for Swords - Official Launch Trailer (from IGN [ign.com/videos/lost-fo…])