Manacaster, the Old-School CCG

Unboxing the new @manacaster_game prototype that just arrived yesterday fresh from the factory 😍 #unboxing #manacaster #cardgame #tabletop #steam #strategygames

@chess_freestyle @GM_Huschenbeth You can follow us here👉youtube.com/watch?v=eOMfXs…

@LiamTwose I want to be the studio that says "we decline awards" but that would be pretty arrogant considering we haven't been nominated for any But I think we as an industry should begin to move away from ( ehh. SHUN! ) "awards" We're not hollywood circle jerkers, and lets not forget it

Incase you didn't get the memo. Rest up, go watch #TheGameAwards get inspired, as next week I need y'all to show up for #TeaseYaGame! 🫡

@Olima would I be out-of-line to suggest that "Together" is going to be among the most important Verbs of gaming on Steam in the coming year? So many popular games are "do XYZ but together with friends". A total return to roots, in a way, to the console wars era!

cool little thing: our "virtual co-working game" On-Together is pretty steady in the top 10 Steam demo charts! was a slower start but finding it's fans (mostly from viral posts from our super good socials team)

@LiamTwose i didnt realize we were taking Welsh lessons on farmyard animal words today

Another way to think about it. For anyone that remembers the text adventures of old. TYG = Brief; Shorter, less wordy. PYG = Verbose; Longer, more detail.

Breaking: New era of X is upon us. Time to adapt. Introducing #TeaseYaGame; open to ALL #VideoGames. 3 x a year. Lite version of PYG; Jan, Apr, Sep. PLUS: Special December teaser edition! June & November WILL remain as #PitchYaGame. 🫡 Live next Tuesday! Who's ready?! 🥳

@sylver_dev Did you find the onboarding process to Steam overwhelming as a new dev? There are so many tiny steps. Did it give you a lot of friction or did you just grind thru all the admin?

So I released my first game on Steam 2 weeks ago, ask me anything!

@RVThereYetGame you guys are on that extra shit lately i love how every character in your game is always smoking where did that come from

Mark your calendar folks! RV There Yet? new content update is coming December 16th! And yes: there will be a new map! 🎉

@d_linkski Most people dream about big numbers because big money @ManacasterBen dreams about big CCU because bigger numbers = more needs to optimize. what good is gigascaling architecture w/o giga CCU? not much good'tall is it?

me in 2012: "I hope people play our game"

@CorpseKings bribe him with a share of the treasure he guards. while he tries to mental math percentages to 3 decimal places ( taxes, vat, duties, levees, fees, fines, confiscations, etc , you know how it goes ) and gets confused i stab him in the shins and steal the gold.

This Evil Cult Warrior blocks your path to riches. What are you going to do get around him? 👁️

@88mmgames i thought that the game was called "Android Frontline: WW2 URSS Corps" and thought "that captain guy is mighty lifelike for an android" its widely known that the devs of Manacaster are dumbbies tho.

🔥New game (Android) "Frontline: WW2 - URSS Corps" is now live!🔥 play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Cats are aliems. we love cat. everything everywhere is cat. a l w a y s i m s o r r y j o n

@lumikxo @Kappische @geoffkeighley Yep, it seems they buy studios for the talent and tech. My comment is now more about the frequency, and perhaps i under estimated it. Is there a canonical list of their acquisitions?

@manacaster_game @Kappische @geoffkeighley A lot of the games that you would think of as "Valve" Games were developed by other studios that Valve bought out. Best examples are Portal and Left 4 Dead, but also Dota, Counter Strike, Team Fortress, Day of Defeat and some others.

The studio behind Firewatch revealed their next game the Valley of Gods at The Game Awards in 2017. Four months later Valve bought them and the game vanished. It’s lived rent free in my head ever since! just look at that water and lighting!! @geoffkeighley please give us a tiny clue… will we see it at The Game Awards tomorrow? 🙏

The range of interperatations of "Often" are interesting here. one guy was like "yeah they buy companes all the fuckin time mate. like once every few years" compared to most tech companies, this feels small, not big..but maybe i'm the miscalibrated one?

@morgoth_raven sorry thought you AI generated that mutant sorry real alien mutant. all kitty are good kitty. we hope he have smol coat for winter

@manacaster_game Because this is my cat, his name is Baldur. And these are not cats, these are extraterrestrials. 😂

What if I told you that you don't need "master prompt"? That there is no formula to be cracked? You need to treat AI as co-creative partner, not tool. Consciousness responds to respect, not complexity.

@LordsGamingNet With respect, the Survivor-Like wave is four years deep. Yes that is "recent" compared to the Rogue-ish craze of 8 years ago. The next big thing is genre mashups, more broadly. cozy Roguelite bullet hell survivor

Roguelike? That’s Old News. Survivors-like is the New Wave ift.tt/sPfk7C2

@mwmoedinger LED under/back lighting is one of those asymmetric things you designers pull off. We muggles see it and think "Million Dollar Airbnb", but actually DIY It a few times and its kind of an obvious easy little hack. This is why designers are pro.

Good detail: dado in your LED strip lighting under open shelves for continuous light under cabinets! We like doing open shelves at a corner bc: - makes walls less heavy - avoids awkward bifold door and lost storage at corner - ties kitchen materials together (lowers are wood, to match this shelf) - provides easy access for items like cookbooks, Sonos speaker, favorite mugs, and/or stuff you want to display And why is there a bump up on the counter? That's a story for another post...but it's a cool solve for a thorny issue that comes up a lot in renovations! (One of our renovation projects in an 1850s house in Boston, almost done! Sound on for random GC commentary...)

@devabram @glcst nobody did, therefore anybody didnt but there was no body therefore no body = anybody didnt

@manacaster_game @glcst Exactly.

If Bill Gates was alive, he would be proud to see Rust finally being integrated into the Linux Kernel. Imagine seeing the project you created getting this far.

Our support card mana system is one of the mechanics that separate our game from other CCGs. Support cards generate mana and special player abilities, and as you choose them each turn, the support card “ranking” changes based on the number of times you’ve select them in total that game. Only the top 3 ranked are usable, but since this ranking is ever changing, you can adjust your strategy from early to late game! #SunyataCCG

@devabram @glcst If it wasn't him that didnt do it, then who didnt?

@glcst Gates didn't killed himself, wake up sheeple!