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@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThen a fellow game developer wrote this beautiful article about the game: https://nonzerosum.games/victoriasmitharticle.html and that only served to encourage me to elevate the game to the level of her words.
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@ajlewis2 Have a play here https://nonzerosum.games/neutropia/
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThen enough people had wondered out loud "Why the number faces? You know some people don't like numbers" and I started toying with som characters. But how would I indicate how much charge they have...?
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyLAUNCH DAY! It's finally here, after over a decade of (admittedly on and off) development... NEUTROPIA is ready to launch. Play at: nonzerosum.games/neutropia/
#GameDev #ScreenShotSaturday #LaunchDay #Devs #GameTheory #EducationalGames #GamesForChange #NonZero #NonZeroSumGames
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyLAUNCH DAY! It's finally here, after over a decade of (admittedly on and off) development... NEUTROPIA is ready to launch. Play at: https://nonzerosum.games/neutropia
#GameDev #ScreenShotSaturday #LaunchDay #Devs #GameTheory #EducationalGames #GamesForChange #NonZero #NonZeroSumGames
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyFor the last 5 years I've corralling my various and disparate games, essays, cartoons, simulations and diagrams into my website at https://nonzerosum.games and have been able to really flesh out the ideas that were core to NEUTROPIA... but I always intended to return to it.
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyAbout a year in it started looking like an actual game... bear in mind I learned to code on this project—and it was in Objective-C and then Swift at this stage! People kept saying "Why aren't you using Unity?" #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gySome “inspo” for NEUTROPIA’s weeds, right there on my house #NatureFindsAWay #GameDev #ScreenshotSaturday (almost). The mads contribute by “fertilising” the map, when the greens plant there you get flowers :)
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyNEUTROPIA gradually got more minimal, as I refined the concept, small puzzle worlds. The neuts became little number faces, with just a dash of personality, and the dragon... rabbit still holding on in there.
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThe NEUTROPIA design kept evolving...
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyNext the "Neuts" of Neutropia needed to feel industrial and utilitarian. The game is all about emotional contagion—the core mechanic: positives build each other up, negatives drag each other down, and in the end the whole can be greater than the sum of its parts.
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyNEUTROPIA began with a cute #dragon as the player—much to the disappointment of my daughter, that changed.
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyI realised at this point, if I was going to try and push it further, and get it published everywhere, I'd need to port NEUTROPIA to #Unity sooner rather than later. This is how it started... well that's different.
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyAbout 2016 I introduced disco mode, and mood walls and... somewhere the dragon got lost... I realised if the message of the game is that we can all make a difference by being a positive influence on those around us, then a magical dragon rescuing us all doesn't really make sense.
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThese posts are a contracted "Dev Log" showing the many iterations over the last 10 years for my upcoming game NEUTROPIA which teaches non-zero dynamics. The 1st version was based on light-switches... they made little clicky noises.
#GameDev #Games #MobileGames #GamesForChange
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyNEUTROPIA is coming along nicely… release next week I reckon #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #nonzerosumgames #gametheory #cute #happiness #positivity
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyGot the full interview: https://youtube.com/watch?v=l7_FAYllmvM&si=6hnpEWlqI-Peg-pw
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyIt's finally here! Our first video interview episode on the 'Non•Zero•Sum James' podcast—with @LivBoeree! View on youtube: youtu.be/l7_FAYllmvM or search Non-Zero-Sum James on your podcast app.
@nonzerosumjames.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@284-220.bsky.social this sort of approach is so vital to leveraging the power of cooperation without creating stubborn or adversarial factions; dynamic permeable collectives. I also work on creative teams like this (in film too) so I can really “align” with what you’re saying.
