Episode 15: Lightning Volcano And Fire Cats

Send us Fan MailWe bounce from game dev brain rewires to interactive fiction teaching war stories, then drop into Daggerheart where a lightning volcano turns exploration into a survival puzzle. We bribe fire cats with fish, steal a power boost from a wounded tree spirit, and learn the hard way that waking a dragon on purpose has consequences. • Unity Vector2 and Vector3 as more than coordinates • Using vectors for distance, angle, and force in physics • Designing a bot opponent with A star pathfinding • Why easy mode should make imperfect choices • The Shawshank Redemption as a masterclass adaptation • Teaching Twine and Inform 7 to humanities students • Inform 7 prose rules and world simulation logic • Grad school travel budgeting and conference panels • Daggerheart exploration at the lightning volcano • Fire cats, offerings, and the burning heart tree • Siphoning gauntlets and the decision to fight • Dragon horde reveals and a brutal solo battle I’ll eventually get around to putting more free adventures on Itch.io now that I’m on summer vacation in air quotes I also put my Inform 7 text-based game on my Itch.io for free  Support the showDownload episode content at https://rajkevis.itch.io/