@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place
Post #2055585
2026-05-04 19:08 UTC
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@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-05-04 22:32
the more I think about this, the more lore potential there is. Because it can be a source for why the protag is "special" or gets some kind of advantage, sure but also there would definitely be whole belief systems based around honoring/rejecting things "not of this world" and you'd have people who insist on forgoing the optimization just in case / due to their religion / etc. who get proven right
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@hq@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 23:15
@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place Fun fact: this concept is how electrope works in FFXIV and how the futuristic area does all of its technology https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Electrope It's a mineral that absorbs lightning aether and when you scribe arcane geometries to its surface, the aether can be aspected to any element letting them program in any kind of magical effect they want.
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@tael@yiff.life 2026-05-04 23:23
@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place If the magic system is like a programming language then surely this is an isekai. The protagonist is not of this world because the world is a videogame that they used to play.
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@jcnotwit@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 23:31
@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place Back in the 90s, my circle of friends somehow became a substantially-overlapped Venn Diagram of role-players and Esperanto enthusiasts. One of our number created a magic system which was part "Ars Magicka" and part Esperantist fever dream. Spells were complete sentences built up from Esperanto fragments. This would have been the exact sort of thing we'd have gone for if we'd thought of it. 🤣
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@PTR_K@dice.camp 2026-05-05 02:09
@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place If I understand right, in particle physics, interactions between two particles are sort of the average of a bunch of different intermediary states which have different probabilities. Some of these intermediary states aren't observed to actually exiat in reality, but seem to have an impact on the outcome anyway. Maybe "in this universe" simplifies the calculation (varying reduction in accuracy) by ignoring the possibility of states not observed to exist.
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@chetman@hachyderm.io 2026-05-05 02:26
@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place @mcc@mastodon.social Ooooooo
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@robinkunde@hachyderm.io 2026-05-05 03:56
@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place the founders trilogy by Robert Jackson Bennett gets pretty close to this
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@aismallard@woem.space 2026-05-07 01:14
@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place what would they find not of this world in the castle?
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@77nn@goto.77nn.it 2026-05-08 05:04
@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place Experimenting with import/requires as drawing mana or energy from objects-magical stones. Or applying conditionals to restrict the magic (and make the chant longer) to have it more focused/efficient Yep that may work
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@heinragas@mublog.nl 2026-05-13 08:49
@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place In the Amber Diceless RPG, which is a tabletop RPG based on the Amber series by Roger Zelazny (and it's diceless), magic is treated like a mathematical formula -- the second cycle featuring Merlin as the main character, sees him study computer science and then creating a magic system based on programming. 1/