@JonShaferDesign

Lead designer and principal gameplay programmer for Civilization 5 and At the Gates. Owner & CEO of Conifer Games. Fortune favors the bold.

 Stockholm, Sweden
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Joined June 2010
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A pretty conservative upgrade for the Switch makes sense, boring as it is. Hardware fragmentation is a big reason why Cyberpunk 2077 had so many problems at release. A bigger jump in performance = more problems devs have to solve.
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This seems right. Really makes you think about how much has changed in games over the past 10 years.
One Proud Bavarian@ProudBavaria11 Jun 2021
One thing we have to realise at this point is the fact that Singleplayer TES games are basically a dead franchise rather than it just being in hibernation. It'll be 5 months until 10 years have passed since Skyrim released. TES VI will be a revival attempt, not a continuation.
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Been replaying Mario Galaxy on the Switch and I’m still impressed by the creative environment design. The camera is more of a struggle than I remember and it's often impossible to get a feel for a level's layout from a distance but I love the ambition.
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Very cool mechanic! Curious to see how it plays.
Matt Stark@mattstark2561 Jun 2021
Hi #PitchYaGame! We're Robot Turtle, a UK team with global collaborators! 🥰 Viewfinder is a mind-bending 1st person adventure game in which you can bring pictures to life and step into other worlds. Use your instant camera to reshape the world and uncover its mysteries!
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As both a designer and big roguelike (roguelite?!) fan going back to 2010-ish I loved this thought-provoking PC Gamer article on the debate over the term “roguelike”. Lots of great articles about games have been written this past year!
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@pcgamer7 Jun 2021
Why the roguelike community is so concerned about the definition of 'roguelike'. trib.al/kgHwBfl

People who argue about the definition of roguelikes are annoying, but what if they're right?

Inside the community of purists who will never stop caring.

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I can understand the frustration of old school fans as their favorite genre evolves away from them. Flight sims used to make up a huge share of the PC gaming conversation. The RTS genre burned brightly, faded, then came back with an indie-survival flavor. Things change.
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One of my favorite scientific figures is this one of the entropy levels of 100 world cities by the orientation of streets. The cities with most ordered streets: Chicago, Miami, & Minneapolis. Most disordered: Charlotte, Sao Paulo, Rome & Singapore. Paper: appliednetsci.springeropen.c…
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I think the question "How do I get into games?" can be improved. You can "get into games" by making a game and attempting to sell it. That's not what most people are asking. What people normally want to know is: "How do I get hired by an established games studio?" A thread...
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Congrats to my friend @robbodev on the release of Hokko Life! Great game made by a great person, go check it out. :) store.steampowered.com/app/8…

Hokko Life on Steam

Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom,...

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Here's another crazy one. I mean, come on.
Sgt. Gary Freeman of the UNC #UE5@IonizedGames26 May 2021
I was able to load a 10 million polygon photoscan of Ziggy in the @UnrealEngine. Using #UE5's Nanite meshes I was able to load 1000 instances of it at 60fps before I got bored. That's 10 billion polygons and it didn't even blink. It could have handled a lot more than this.
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Some of these videos I'm seeing of Unreal Engine 5... wow. I'm sure there are limitations somewhere (it's software, after all) but the visual ceiling is breathtaking.
UE4Arch@ue4arch29 May 2021
Changing the mood with lighting on UE5 @EpicShaders @UnrealEngine @Substance3D
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Congrats to my friends over at Paradox on the announcement of Victoria 3! Been looking forward to this one for a while.
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RIP Miura
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The At the Gates v1.4 Diplomacy Design Plan is now available to read! The overall goal is to make diplomacy more proactive and strategically meaningful. With v1.4 the idea is to get the basics (mainly war and peace) right and then add depth in v1.5+. jonshaferondesign.com/2020/0…
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Hey all, hope you're as well as can be expected given the circumstances. I'm working on a big update for diplomacy in AtG for v1.3 and will be posting my design plan for that next week.
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What games or systems have been highlights for you on the diplomacy front? I've been doing a lot of research here lately in terms of what's worked, what hasn’t, and why and I’ll be sharing my own thoughts in next week's update.
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Here are my videos about @JonShaferDesign previous versions: youtube.com/watch?v=BBYbVleK…
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At the Gates v1.3 is now live! Been working on the AI and it’s now much more active both economically and militarily. Check out the link to learn more about this update. More to come as I’ll be continuing work on improving diplomacy and the AI with v1.4+. steamcommunity.com/games/241…

Steam :: Jon Shafer's At the Gates :: v1.3

v1.3 is now live on the main Steam branch and Humble dashboard! This update contains major AI upgrades, as well as fixes for several crash bugs which have been reported since v1.2 (in particular a...

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Congrats to my friend @Tomislav_Uzelac and the rest of the 2x2 team on today's release of @UnityOfCommand 2! The first game was great and I've been waiting for this follow-up for a long time. A wonderful streamlined WW2 strategy game.
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