If there is one thing that can turn a fantastic roguelike run into a rage-inducing mess, it is watching your smooth 60 FPS suddenly collapse into a slideshow. Wanderburg has a particularly nasty version of this problem. Everything feels great while your rolling fortress is relatively small, but once your castle starts looking like a…
There are few things more annoying in a game like Wanderburg than watching dozens of hours of progress disappear because a save decided to implode. You can spend an evening building a ridiculous fortress on wheels, stacking upgrades, experimenting with your defenses, and finally getting a run that feels unstoppable. Then you restart the game…
If you have spent any time with the modern bullet heaven genre, you already know how dangerous these games can be. You tell yourself you’ll play one quick run, then suddenly it’s two hours later, your screen is buried under zombies, bullets, explosions and damage numbers, and you’re thinking about one more upgrade. Yet Another…
One of the things I love most about game development is discovering where strange ideas actually come from. Sometimes an iconic boss is inspired by a classic RPG. Sometimes a memorable location is based on a real-world place. And sometimes, as we’ve recently learned, one of the most controversial bosses in Slay the Spire 2…
