@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place
Post #2272864
2026-05-04 22:32 UTC
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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@mcc@mastodon.social 2026-05-04 22:50
@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place what would be interesting is if sloppy code lead to the optimization being used in only part of the runework, potentially causing the spell to be only *half* applied, causing unpredictable results or possibly the risk of just crushing the not-of-this-world target like a bug between two invisible rocks "Oops, those two forces weren't ever supposed to interact"
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@passenger@kolektiva.social 2026-05-04 22:56
@airakose@mastodon.gamedev.place The protagonist is a relatively new student who doesn't yet know how to effectively optimise her spells, and therefore she's the only one able to hold back the otherworldly menace.