Garan Lorn
Solo dev and content engineer based in Montreal.
Building Dead Reckoning — a generation ship sim where you make system-level decisions for a crew that’s been asleep for decades. In development in Godot, available in public beta on itch.io.
Day job is knowledge architecture and documentation systems. Nights are spaceships.
Sci-fi reader. Linux user. Interested in the overlap between how systems store knowledge and how games tell stories. garanlorn.itch.io/dead-reckoning
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Garan Lorn@lemmy.caOPtoGamedev@lemmy.world•I've been building a generation ship sim as a solo developer. Here's what that's actually been like.English
1·1 month agoAwesome stuff! I’ll definitely add it. Difficulty will be one thing that will have to be fleshed out before release. Thanks for the feedback!
Garan Lorn@lemmy.caOPtoGamedev@lemmy.world•I've been building a generation ship sim as a solo developer. Here's what that's actually been like.English
1·2 months agoOh for sure. For any new systems I’m going to make sure I have the coverage. Any tips for QA as a solo Dev?
Garan Lorn@lemmy.caOPtoGamedev@lemmy.world•I've been building a generation ship sim as a solo developer. Here's what that's actually been like.English
2·2 months agoAs a shoutout I also highly recommend playing Seedship on mobile to see the inspiration!
Garan Lorn@lemmy.caOPtoGamedev@lemmy.world•I've been building a generation ship sim as a solo developer. Here's what that's actually been like.English
1·2 months agoThank you! Please feel free to leave any feedback!
Garan Lorn@lemmy.caOPtoGamedev@lemmy.world•I've been building a generation ship sim as a solo developer. Here's what that's actually been like.English
2·2 months agoYes. Also I’m learning to get one system down pat before expanding elsewhere. Right now I know the star chart is too linear, but I need to do a flow chart to make sure that it doesn’t break anything else. For example — I added coloinist genders and search and it ended up making a game-breaking bug 15 min after I released. I stubbornly searched for 12 hours before finding the culprit and not rolling it back because I was stubborn — a good lesson.
Garan Lorn@lemmy.caOPtoGamedev@lemmy.world•I've been building a generation ship sim as a solo developer. Here's what that's actually been like.English
2·2 months agoYes there is! https://garanlorn.itch.io/dead-reckoning Any comments there will be read and included in the next bug report/update. I also track names so feel free to post or send a DM as well. I hope to reward playtesters at the end of all this.
Garan Lorn@lemmy.cato
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5English
9·2 months agoWhat a bone-headed move. I guess we’re in the “Benevolent dictator” portion of the AI Boom - Gaming relationship. I feel like we’re at such a disconnect now that gamers are looking elsewhere.
Hot take: I think these decisions will drive gamers back to simplicity, community, and y’know…gameplay rather than flash and boom.
It’s no surprise that smaller studios are profiting while the big ones are languishing.
Then again people keep buying NHL, NFL, and FIFA 26, so what do I know.
Garan Lorn@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•Carney’s Job Cuts Undermine Canada’s Position Against Trump
3·3 months agoI agree with this comment on unions AND contractors (though not all). I think the problem is when service becomes a game or grift and not actually being efficient.
City of Toronto was one of the worst performing unions in most sectors and stank of corruption and over employment, and then on the other side you have MetroLinx which has been one of the biggest wastes of money a government has ever seen.
Then on the flip side you have Parks Canada and the National Archives doing amazing work with limited budgets.
I know with Toronto the culture came from the top, but these days I think contract farming and middle management bloat is what is really killing efficiency.
Also let the damn people work from home.
This post has more investifative reporting than the editor and "journalist"in the Spec.
Also, don’t forget to sign petition e-6879! Don’t be distracted by the fact that the biggest imposition on your quality of life is by billionaires who are winning the class war:
Garan Lorn@lemmy.caOPto
Montréal@lemmy.ca•Luxury units drive Montreal vacancy rate higher, but affordable rentals remain scarce: CMHC
2·3 months agoPourquoi qu’une personne bien nantie irait payer plus cher pour un apart ou un condo de luxe quand un apart ou un condo régulier ou pour premiers acheteurs beaucoup moins cher sont disponibles?
Surtout quand tu peux en acheter deux au prix d’un de luxe et en louer un…
Construire plus n’est pas toujours la solution. Ça prend des règles et des limites. Justement y’a des limites à laisser des barons de l’immobilier tout acheter en ville et continuer d’utiliser leurs actifs pour effectuer plus d’achats. Il faudrait limiter les propriétés résidentielle à deux par personne ou par ménage. (Tsé si tu veux avoir ta résidence principale plus une résidence de vacances mettons)
Oui, je suis d’accord. J’aime bien Carney, car c’était la meilleure option pour cette élection, mais c’est n’importe quoi qu’il se concentre sur le « parc locatif » plutôt que sur d’autres types de logements. Les duplex, en particulier, ne devraient pas faire partie du parc locatif. Ils devraient plutôt faire l’objet d’une transition vers la copropriété, avec des allégements fiscaux pour l’entretien.
Garan Lorn@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•You have 30 more minutes to sign up as an official NDP member if you want to vote in the leadership election
4·3 months agoAlright silly question, but how do I vote for a party leader in this election? I’ve received a plethora of emails about who to vote for, but not much about the process of how.
Garan Lorn@lemmy.cato
Boycott US@lemmy.ca•Fallout Season 2 Episode 7 recap: 'Don't think of them as human beings, think of them as Americans' - PCGamerEnglish
111·3 months agoIf you don’t want to be the bad guys, then don’t act like it. This is what soft power fading looks like.
America is in for a hell of a ride the next ten years. If I was American, I’d be out every day, because foreigners only go by what they experience and feel every day, and when you’re overseas, well…
Let’s just say I wouldn’t feel safe leaving the bubble of the ol’ Red, White, and Blue.
Garan Lorn@lemmy.caOPto
Montréal@lemmy.ca•[Resource] Fighting Rent Increases 2026: Guides & Tools for All Neighborhoods // [Ressource] Contester les hausses de loyer : Guides et outils pour tous les quartiers
2·3 months agoSeems like it’s been removed. Here’s an alternate version. Its old but I’ve used something similar.
https://www.justanswer.com/canada-law/rj458-debra-debra-example-ofcwhat-write.html
Garan Lorn@lemmy.cato
Canada@lemmy.ca•The left case for joining the NDP—and voting for Avi Lewis ⋆ The Breach
2·3 months agoAfter years of the NDP playing weak and rather performative politics, I’m glad to see aggressive and blunt political messaging.
The NDP catered to some leftist bourgeoise and left the working class in the dust. It always needed to be a party of ushers, not gatekeepers, and the kind of righteous individualism needs to make way for collectivism. People have forgotten that banding together powerless people with discrete experiences against power and subjugation is the only answer right now. Its what the Carney speech got completely right.










Thanks! That’s exactly what I was going for. It’s a big loveletter to movies and games of the late 80s/early 90s.