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Jagriff

@jagriff.bsky.social

Solo dev of open-world penguin puzzler Gentoo Rescue (steampowered.com/app/2830480/) Other interests: 1v1 AFPS, RTS, platform fighters, cs+math (PhD), ergo keyboards, PC hardware, baseball, piano, Esperanto, and cats https://www.twitch.tv/jagriff

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Jagriff@jagriff.bsky.social · 15h ago

I've been playing around with Raylib to prototype some game ideas (one puzzle and one non-puzzle). It's really nice compared to Unreal Engine, where now I can just write code. I'll probably look into SDL as well. I'm not yet sure whether I'll go with one of these or Godot for my next game.

Jagriff@jagriff.bsky.social · 4w ago

The place I live is terrible, so bsky is requiring age verification. Since I now have to use a VPN in order to use this website, you might not see me here as often. Try me on Discord! (until they do the same thing)

Jagriff@jagriff.bsky.social · 4w ago

Only 11 hours remaining on this deal in the Steam Summer Sale! store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/...

Save 21% on Gentoo Rescue on Steam

A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.

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Jagriff@jagriff.bsky.social · last mo.

Why 21%? The major patch last month included a super endgame challenge puzzle that is unlike the rest of the game. It connects each of the game's 21 worlds.

Jagriff@jagriff.bsky.social · last mo.

During my holiday visit, my mom was excited to show her Silksong progress. She's trying to get to the Citadel through Phantom. She told me that it took her a long time to beat The Mist, and is now struggling with the boss. But then I noticed that she had Barbed Braclet equipped!

Jagriff@jagriff.bsky.social · last mo.

I went bowling again to chase my first 200. I almost had my first clean game ever while missing the pocket almost every frame, so I was proud of my spares. Later I was hitting the pocket consistently, but missed 3 easy spares. Any of which would have given 200. Bowling is hard!

168, almost clean game with: 9-, 7/, X, 9/, 1/, 7/, 7/, 8/, 8/, 8/X I beat this score multiple times tonight, but this game I was especially good with spares.190, choke game on 3 different 1-pin spares. X, 9-, X, X, 9-, 9-, 9/, X, X, X72 This was my highest score of the night and second highest ever. If I can continue to hit the pocket like this, then I'll have that 200 game very soon.
Jagriff@jagriff.bsky.social · last mo.

I just set up a bot in the discord server that will share a screenshot of the level when prompted. For a game with 300+ levels, this is very nice! For example, typing "!show Hook" in chat will have the bot reply with this image of Accumulation.Herrings.Hook:

The puzzle Hook, which is in Herrings (which is in Accumulation) Gentoo Rescue.
Jagriff@jagriff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Gentoo Rescue community is trying to rate all 300+ puzzles on a 0-5 difficulty scale where 0 (trivial) and 5 (hardest puzzles in the game). I kind of wanted to do something like this to show players expected difficulty, which would make players more willing to move on from hard puzzles.

Jagriff@jagriff.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Patch 1.2.1, which follows up on the HUGE anniversary patch 1.2.0, is live now for Windows/Linux! (MacOS coming later this week) store.steampowered.com/news/app/283...

Gentoo Rescue - 1.2.1 - More puzzle tweaks (Windows/Linux only for now) - Steam News

Hello! Originally I had plans to include these changes in a bigger patch that will drop once Simplified Chinese translation of all hints and puzzle names is finalized. However I did not want to delay ...

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