archived-game-design

[swift dew]

Random enemies popping up every three seconds, vines hanging down that you can pull on to shift the terrain

[nova plover]

Quick-Time-Events are one of the most loathed game mechanics among players, even though in a lot of cases they can add more to a game. What exactly are their common problems and how would you fix them?

Maybe something along the lines of Spider-Man? In that game the QTE's had a generous time window for you to press and often had movements that made sense for the situation Spidey was in.

[languid fox]

Thanks

[late vapor]

one problem is flow interruption

in something like an fps, qtes usually disrupt the normal game flow without a good reason

in battlefield 3 or 4 or whatever, they actually use qtes to give players who are about to be stabbed a chance to reflect it, which is questionable

in dead trigger 1, the generic zombie shooting gets completely sidetracked while you are forced to tap multiple points on a zombies' head to avoid taking damage

it adds nothing of value

games like dragons lair had qtes as the only game mechanic. it was essentially trial and error.

I can't think of a game where qtes actually added to the experience

in far cry, weapon jamming was cool to look at a few times, but they became more annoying the more they happened

[azure cliff]

i have a question, would it be good to start with a basic 2D RPG game focused on collecting items and trading items if i have never done game design before?

i had an idea for a game where you would trade items, and learn about characters, and they would help you against enemies you couldn't fight back against.

it sounds simple, but i wanna know if it'd be a good starting place.

[crystal junco]

your game is a 2D sidescroller right? Why not just draw some simple clouds in like paint.net and render them as billboards? It'll look a billion times better than any low poly 3D stuff

https://forums.getpaint.net/topic/18950-almost-realistic-fluffy-clouds/

[crystal junco]

Heck yeah! 2D is super easy to iterate on. The only issue is if it's open world or procedural that will be more difficult to implement than if you have a few smaller levels the player can wander around in.

[wraith socket]

I have some interfaces called IEnemyHealthManager IEnemyDifficultyManager etc

My game is an endless runner with mobs such as patrolling ememies an flying enemies. But it has bosses as well. For programming reasons how'd you call the scripts that hold implementations of the interface

[lost merlin]

Perhaps you've implemented both of these interfaces onto a general script like EnemyManager. In doing so, you've further encapsulated some variables and methods, so when you just want to expose a specific part of this larger script, you can just pass the interfaces in as a parameter to a method.

[lusty bluff]

Hey so I’m in a bit of a pickle, I am making a game for a school project on a school computer (which as you may be able to guess, is ass) I’m the most beginner you can get and I have no idea what I’m doing and I need a lot of help that I can’t really get into detail here because it’s so much but to name a few; movement keys, general coding problems, creating randomness, learning C#. If anyone is willing to help me out a ton that would be amazing, DM me if you want to ig

I have no idea if the previous message is coherent at all

[cinder hamlet]

asking people to DM you without explaining what exactly you need is probably not going to get you a lot of help

• this is game design channel

• if I understood correctly, you're doing a school project of something that you didn't learn?

anyway how much time do you have before deadline?

[lusty bluff]

I apologize you’re right

[lusty bluff]

I had no idea where else to put it (I joined like 30 mins ago)

[lusty bluff]

I’m in an alternative school where you’re supposed to learn things on your own just by doing things

[lusty bluff]

Like 3 months and I’m allowed to drop it if it gives too much pressure

[cinder hamlet]

oh thats good

thats enough time

and yeah, self-practise is most effective here

so you just want to learn gamedev basics and then make a game?

if you're set on using Unity, I recommend starting with learning resources pinned in #💻┃unity-talk

[lusty bluff]

Cool thank you

[wraith socket]

In my code I have an interface called Enemy and two implementations of that interface. The 'Boss' and the 'Troop'. What would you call the troop because I dont like the name 😛

[cinder hamlet]

Soldier
Goon
Baddie

or maybe rename the interface to Entity and then just use the name Enemy for the implementation

[wraith socket]

The truth is that I have way too many folders called enemy for both of them.
I was thinking of minion

Its just for some patrolling beasts and crows

[spice star]

Ok I need help. Im watching a brackeys tutorial on how to make a video game in unity and for some reason he can drag his text file right into his score script and its not working for me I think its because of the TextMeshPro thing but idk. if someone could tell me the problem and a way to fix or get around it that would be nice

top one is mine

[sleek phoenix]

Not game design, #💻┃code-beginner

[spice star]

ok

[cold onyx]

Terra 1 to 1 unity port

[tulip vessel]

Long term questions:
Picture this. I am a total noob at Unity, and I am still getting to grips with programming. I am making decent progress in the Unity Junior Programmer tutorial. If let's say I need to make some character and building models in the future, would using in built tools be easier, lighter (on CPU and GPU?) and make my models detailed or would going to blender and learning there be easier, lighter and make my models detailed?

And (not sure if this is the right channel) what would be a good platform for me to upload my game?

[night shoal]

Unity doesn't really have built-in tools for those things. The closest is Probuilder for making levels and environments.

[tulip vessel]

Really? guess my friend would have made a mistake.
So, modelling has to be done in blender?

[night shoal]

yes

[tulip vessel]

alright, thank you for answering the first one ^_^

[cold onyx]

Depends on the type of game you're making

I personally am going to upload it to either gamejolt or itch io

[tulip vessel]

itch is free right?

[cold onyx]

I think

[grim garden]

Helo peeps

Let’s talk about K e b a b s

[sudden pendant]

Must you type so sporadically?

Either write out your idea fully, or put it somewhere online and link it.

[grim garden]

Oh

Can I put it all in a thread?

[sudden pendant]

Sure

[grim garden]

A Game I wanted to share with everyone

[grim garden]

Is there a somebody to help me with this game?

[cold onyx]

Depends on what help you need

Specifically

[grim garden]

probably I need help with coding

[cold onyx]

First of all, you mean help as in code doesn't work or do you just want me to do all the code

[grim garden]

i need to be taught

[cold onyx]

How to code?

[grim garden]

yes

[cold onyx]

Check pins in #💻┃unity-talk

[grim garden]

is there anyone who wants to join me with the project?

and talk about it more?

[grim garden]

also where do i start off making the project?

the coding

or making the assets?

[sudden pendant]

@grim garden If you want to posts for collaborations, use the forums. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[grim garden]

oh ok

[cold onyx]

How do i design levels for a first person horror game? I dont want it to feel boring. Rather scary and captivating testing video : #1034949492555915264 message

[cold onyx]

Wherever you want

I started on the coding since it's what I am best at

But it's up to you

[cold onyx]

#1034671033262813254 anyone

[wet turtle]

how do i enable these features? i'm new to probuilder so i have no idea how this works

[night shoal]

#🛠️┃probuilder

[wet turtle]

oh shit didnt see that channel

my bad

[marble edge]

Hello, I am wondering what I should do next. At this time I am thinking of making the 25gm RYO JPS REDS slowly generate lung cancers which you can trade in on another screen for ombudsman complaints to buy upgrades, but alternatively I was thinking of introducing a crafting system that consumes the JPS RED and tally hos and green ranch filters to make durries that you can sell to buy upgrades. Maybe both? not sure

I was thinking of maybe displaying the cost, but not sure if that should just be another text component or a tooltip

And maybe having new items fade in as you approach their requirements for purchase

[cold onyx]

wait whats happening there

generate what..?

[marble edge]

smoking causes cancer or so they say so I was thinking that each pack should generate a very small floating point based on life expectancy of smoker versus cancer rate or something

They accrue over time while you click more gbread

[cold onyx]

im very confused like whats the game?

is it a cookie clicker type or..?

[strange kite]

damn that's a morbid turn for a garlic bread clicker lmao

[cold onyx]

#1034671033262813254

[strange kite]

@cold onyx this guy did something very similar to that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLqXFF8mlEU

just scale it up?

[sand nymph]

I got a question , I'm trying to make a game like best fiends and i have the board done but i'm having trouble deciding how to do the upper part of the screen where the battles happen.. Should i make the top part a UI canvas and put enemies/characters and everythign else as images and animations? or is there a better way to do it?

[cinder hamlet]

I think it's better to ask this in #💻┃unity-talk

[cold onyx]

I know, and I watched the whole series but it isn't 1 to 1 and you can't walk on it

And while there is a 1 to 1 heightmap for it

It would probably be thousands of gb

So it's not much use

[strange kite]

Yeah, memory would be a big issue, you'd need a system to stream data in and out as you move around the map

maybe look at how microsoft flight sim handles it?

[cold onyx]

Wait it also uses real world data?

[strange kite]

yeah

[cold onyx]

Is it accurate

[strange kite]

yep

to the buildings too

[cold onyx]

Lemme see

[strange kite]

well kind of

but the buildings are roughly in the right place

terrain data is pretty accruate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuxmYQag4G4

this guy recreated pretty close to the real life photos of places he hiked to in this video using microsoft flight sim

[lost merlin]

Enter on the bottom left (wordle) or bottom right?

[strange kite]

bottom right cuz its also on the right side in real life

[plain mulch]

quick question 3d or 2d if you pick 3d should it be like a game that you can walk around in for a Egg, inc. type of game

[cold onyx]

3d

[cinder hamlet]

3d can mean more work, keep that in mind

[sour anvil]

I'm working on a game where the player's attributes can be boosted by finding and upgrading weapons, armor and artifacts. The issue I'm facing is that there are too many ways to upgrade e.g. weapon cooldown, number of projectiles and abilities like life steal & heath regeneration. These abilities quickly become op and limiting the number of upgrades or items that have these abilities would make the game a lot simpler. I forgot to mention that the player can even permanently upgrade abilities. So I've thought of limiting specific abilities per weapon, a thrown bomb can only have 1 projectile per cooldown. A heavy battle axe has a limit on it's cooldown due to it's weight. The player is constantly presented with upgrade choices, which would drastically be reduced is I was to limit them. There is an option to simply allow the upgrades, but with no discernable effect, which would probably anger some players. Drastically reducing these upgrades (e.g. you upgraded your cooldown via an artifact, so all weapons now have 1 less upgrade available) could confuse players, especially since I indicate a weapon level. TLDR; how can I limit the effect of upgrades but still allow them?

PS: The amount of playtesting and tweaking that goes into making this kind of game feels overwhelming.

[cold onyx]

I m working on a game where the player s

[cold onyx]

Also i highly recommend getting this book and reading it. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08WZ8FXD7/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0 it contains all the answers your looking for. its a light to moderate read that any level design can understand

[nimble ridge]

Hey, Hoping someone here can help me, I am very new to coding and am trying to program a Healthbar system and UI interface for my simple obstacle game. I have been following a tutorial and precisely copied some scripts such as Player Behavior, Unit Health and Healthbar, but I am getting a error about SerializeFiled, does anyone know how to fix this?

[nimble ridge]

I can show you my code, here is where it's saying the problem is...

[regal swan]

Prompt: Single health, God Game. 1 HP, War, Color as a mechanic
I am drawing a bit of a blank n how to approach this in a fun way.
Anyone have some guidance on how to find a concept fitting those elements?

[regal swan]

SerializeField is misspelled

[nimble ridge]

Thanks, yh I notice that now, can't believe I missed it lol

[regal swan]

Im more concerned with your intelissense not complaining about it

[swift dew]

Splatoon but it's an rts and the squids die to pretty much everything

So you have to churn out your army of marine animals in an everlasting war where flesh is pulvurized and hope is lost

Just to change the color of some random bit of ground

[regal swan]

a good start, worth exploring

[thin grove]

Hi, sorry I’m not super sure about the correct channel to put this in, but I’m looking to make a game with unity for my senior project for high school and I need to interview someone who’s knowledgeable about game design on unity to guide me in the right direction. For background I have accumulated a decent amount of experience over the summer but I’d still definitely consider myself a novice. If anyone is interested or can point me in the right direction, that would be extremely helpful!

[sleek phoenix]

you're probably better off asking your questions here instead of trying to get someone to do it with you 1 on 1

[thin grove]

I completely agree. Under normal circumstances that’s exactly what I’d do, but the project is very specific in how I need a one on one interview with someone, but I figured that there are so many knowledgeable people on the channel that a bunch of people would be qualified. It could be through just like text too, nothing fancy.

[stuck ocean]

when I press any button It doesn't press basically

like I am pressing on an image

I am almost done with the game but that problem confused me for a while

[bronze hare]

Heya, no idea where to ask this.

I've imported a character from Unity, but where should I be putting all my scripts, rigidbody, etc?

[sudden pendant]

This isn't a game design question. General questions go in #💻┃unity-talk. As for where, it's up to you, but generally you put the major stuff on the root object.

[bronze hare]

Got it, thanks ^^

[full birch]

Any Multiplayer game design Idea you've came up with but cannot OR havent planned it yet?

[sharp sun]

Hello all, need an opinion here - related to game design and I think its purely a choice based on preferences but - do you think horror game feels more intense when there's no music or music is a must and really needed to add the suspense?

https://youtu.be/dI-IhsdB3_o This is what I currently working on, no music atm - just ambient noise, some static, and sfx, it does add to the suspense because of silence but I don't know if the player will perceive it the same way, because most horror games adds somekind of music to it

would love to hear some opinions!

[strange kite]

Oh there's no sounds? I watched the video with no sound on assuming there was

Definitely, sound design is just as important as atmosphere for horror and getting people to feel the feelings you want to portray

If you go the cliched route, look at all the Conjuring movies

if you're going for a more realistic, less gimmicky kind of horror

look into terror

it involves sounds too, but it leaves it to the viewer's imagination to run wild

rather than loud sound scary

Oh, and music isn't necessary

music sets the mood

game looks great btw!

@sharp sun

[sharp sun]

thanks!

I will look into those

[strange kite]

a source for terror would be Jaws movie, darkwood the game, etc

[sharp sun]

yep - I think I agrees, I would also love to do some ambient/non invasive sound design - not a tense horror beats and music but more of a moodbringer sounds

yep - and yeah, the enemy can't scream, they're mannequins 🙂

trying to implement a creaky walking sound to signify they're approaching or its nearby when not in player vision (as they turn into statue upon player gaze)

right, great idea

if player is in its vision (it detects player) - it walks towards the player, planning to have creaking sounds to signify its walking behind/out of the player vision

[strange kite]

creaking sound when out of sight is a good ingredient to creating terror

mix it in with other sounds that creak (building scaffolding creak, door creak, etc) and you got one example of creating terror

[sharp sun]

yeah - that's a great suggestion

[clear verge]

Hello I have question when you click on play will you be able to walk in the scene 3d while having 2d inventory

[raven whale]

Hello everyone i am searching for a designer for my Game Jam just for a Banner, and a background
and the theme color is a bit red orange white
(just for free cause i have no budget)
(and please send me a private message)

[raven whale]

just disable it before you play the game

[clear verge]

how do display it ??

[raven whale]

in the game

?

[clear verge]

Yes

I mean when i run the game

[raven whale]

press the button that you have coded to show up your inventory

[clear verge]

There is a button that is made to make me go back to the game play but when i press it it makes everything looks 2d it doesn’t work

[raven whale]

try to recreate your inventory system with bolt with a youtube tutorial

because its realy long

[little bane]

anyone know how to fix my ui from looking bad

[lost merlin]

tmpro has some nice shader options for their texts such as outlines and beveling so fool around with that

[snow nacelle]

take inspiration from other games ui
https://www.gameuidatabase.com/

[lost merlin]

could maybe add some texturing, and shaders for the panels

[marble edge]

Durry incremental

[strange kite]

Well that's a massive "it depends" answer

Whats the purpose for involving QTE into the game?

What do you intend to achieve by involving optional strong bosses in low level areas?

[hollow marlin]

First of all use some color palets that suit your vision. There is a lot of websites that will compose color palets for you

[sullen coral]

I think it's courteous to have an accessibility option to auto-pass QTEs if you have em, unless they're central to the core mechanics (in which case congrats you're making a rhythm game)

[steep spear]

Hello what is best way to start classic rpg system in unity? I want to create games like rpgmaker editor but with much more freedom. I am confused little because almost every example is for 3d or 2d mario type games. I need top down game tutorial.

For example when you hit the enemy start battle screen will come out

and after battle finish you continue where you left

[sudden pendant]

@clear verge This isn't a game design question. #💻┃code-beginner

[cold onyx]

What's an inventory system worth drawing inspiration from?

[wheat hare]

Hi, I am terrible at art, anyone got any ideas how I can highlight a selected character in a nice looking way? I tried only using a white outline, but it didn't look anywhere near good. Thanks in advance, help would mean a lot 🙂

[sullen coral]

definitely some sort of border around the selected character. and maybe the color change that happens on click stick around instead of only happening during the click

[wheat hare]

Yeah I agree on the border part, though the problem with the color change sticking around is that the image of the individual characters is not only the characters itself but instead it's a square picture with the character and background all together, thus I can't change the background color during or after the click, only the border around the character which has the exact same color to fill up the extra space

Would you maybe recommend an outline which is more detailed?

[sullen coral]

with this style you could go a little detailed but I think simpler is better

[wheat hare]

Next time, I think Imma render the background transparent in blender, so I can change the entire background

[wheat hare]

I found a free 2D sprite outline maker in the asset store, I'll see if that works and alternatively maybe use an outline that casts a shadow 👍

[grim garden]

I have a bunch of game ideas in mind

But I came up with a new one

But I’ll still focus on the SkewerDolls project

Anyways

So I gave a name for this game

But I probably need suggestions for a better one

The game is called “Rewind, Relive”

At the start of the game, you are at a funeral.

Wait

New thread

[sudden pendant]

@grim garden
#archived-game-design message

[grim garden]

Rewind, Relive

[grim garden]

Hello again

[nova plover]

It's definitely annoying when after spending days coding power-ups, you end up breaking your class' game in ways you can't quite figure out. My personal biggest takeaway from this incident is that I should be prepared to completely rewrite the primary game first before adding in the new stuff, especially if the class provided scripts are designed to function a specific way that my powerup code can't access.

Currently the plan right now is to scrap the powerups in favor of a more straight up 2D top-down shooter project...since the class assignment requires at least 3 major modification to the tutorial classwork, they will now be:

• original sprite work for the player and enemies
• three unique levels
• Re-designed menus
• Original music and sound effects

Also, pretty excited about current develops because I accidentally found a unique game feature by experimenting with a component. The class provided assets include this prefab for a "Chaser" enemy that basically chases the Player around the map relentlessly. I found out that by triggering this function called "Destroy after Damage" to false, it causes the Chaser enemy to phase through solid walls I set up. The result ended up being this freaky maze gunning situation where players need to be hyper aware of their surroundings and keep moving because they never know when the enemies will show up.

[chilly oriole]

https://i.imgur.com/J3aFQE7.png for a office room like this, what should i use for floor and walls?

[blazing dagger]

I am attempting to create an idle game with massive numbers, my issue is that there is a cap on every variable size. I ideally want to reach numbers upwards of 1e100,000. I know that to accomplish this I will need to only display the number as that, while having something different happen in the actual code. How should I go about doing this? I was thinking 2 separate variables, a decimal for the first number and integer for after the "e", although I don't know how to calculate it appropriately, since for every extra number after the e, the decimal needs to be 10x harder to increase.

[sour anvil]

Double.MaxValue = 1.7976931348623157E+308

Ok I read now that long is a signed 64-bit integer value and double is a 64-bit floating point value, so maybe long is a better choice.

[blazing dagger]

i need more than 308 though

i want

100s of thousands

I think I got it now

[wheat hare]

I changed my mind and now rendered the entire background transparent so that I could make the color change that happens on click stay. Though how exactly can I achieve this. Is there an easy way of recognising when the fade of the button click has ended?

On top of that, does anyone, who isn't as terrible at art as I am 😂 , happen to know how I could make a goodlooking UI for when a character is selected, this is what I am currently working with but it can definetly be improved:

[strange kite]

sounds like you're going for an MMO grindy kind of game?

[strange kite]

well I cant say I know much about MMOs, Im not much of a fan myself haha, but if you think thats what the audience will enjoy, then that's all game design boils down to really

[astral plaza]

Hi, how would I snap this platform to the grid there? See the major lines on the grid? I want to snap my plane to one, so the plane fits neatly to the major lines.

I did it! Set Tool Handle to Global and then turn on Snapping.

[sudden pendant]

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow

Download the assets and drag the material onto the plane. This is assuming those materials are compatible with whatever render pipeline you selected when making your project.

[sudden pendant]

This isn't #archived-game-design related, by the way.

[astral plaza]

Sure, art not game. Got it.

[wheat hare]

Does anyone, who isn't as terrible at art as I am 😂 , happen to know how I could make a goodlooking UI for when a character is selected? This is what I am currently working with but it can definetly be improved:

[sudden pendant]

https://www.gameuidatabase.com/

[wheat hare]

Here is a video of my shop:

[wheat hare]

oh nice, didn't know that existed, I'll take a look at this 🙂

[cyan ravine]

Wow I like that.

Perhaps there should be a small “Buy Skin?” subtitle below the buy button though

[wheat hare]

Thanks first of all 😄, do you mean the subtitle should be below or in the buy button though btw?

[cyan ravine]

I think below would be better, but inside would also work if you increased the size of the button, it’s your choice

[wheat hare]

Yeah, I guess I could try that, just need to make sure that that does not take away too much space

Because I still want to fit a header for the character name in there somewhere

[wheat hare]

Btw do you also perhabs have any specific idea on how to improve my UI for a selected character? I think it could be improved, though I am pretty bad at game design😂

[cyan ravine]

I personally think that looks pretty good. It contrast well with the other options.

[wheat hare]

Well that's nice too hear maybe it isn't as bad as I imagine it 😀 , just gotta still figure out how to create a shadow of only the outline, as right now a shadow is created by the image and the outline itself which overlaps in a weird way

[grand jungle]

So I am fairly new to game dev, and I am in the process of making a Pokemon fan game with Fakemons. The question that I have is in regards to setting up my assets and the scripting. There are a lot of items, Pokemon, abilities and moves to contend with not mention the fairly complicated mechanics of a game like this. It seems like scriptable objects may be perfect for this but just looking for advise on how to organize these things and call them. Do I use separate scripts for each item, each pokemon, each ability, each move. Kind of at a loss on how to set it up in an efficient way which is preventing me from getting started

[sleek phoenix]

Have one SO for each category, and then store the data in a list

[grand jungle]

That is what I was thinking, doing this can I make different items (objects) with a different code? Like a potion is different than a pokeball, can they be based on the same item SO

or would I need to break it down by a Balls SO, Potions SO, etc

[sleek phoenix]

Either way is fine, just depends on how you want to organize it

[plain mulch]

Which one should I add the option to have ads to support me on my game? ☑️ = yes ❌ = no

[south hazel]

I coded my cube to walk but now I wanna turn the cube into the person I made how do I do it

[plain mulch]

#💻┃code-beginner

[little bane]

i have a forest desert and snow biome does anyone know what else i should add

[cold onyx]

water biome

and rock biome

[little bane]

ok thanks

[sour anvil]

Have a look at Minecraft's biomes for inspiration. It has dozens.

[fresh matrix]

This conversation is way off topic imo #📲┃ui-ux

<@&502884371011731486>

[sudden pendant]

The conversation is about UI and game design. It sort of fits both. If it's about UI implementation specifically, that goes in #📲┃ui-ux.

Also that conversation was 2 days ago.

[fresh matrix]

He posted in both channels...

[sudden pendant]

Well in that case we don't allow crossposting, no. But seeing as this is two days ago, we'll just leave it

[worn shale]

Who here can make VFX textures? [Spreadsheets and such]

[coral adder]

oh thanks

[fresh lily]

anyone have any ideas for those pick up, killing zombie, shooting, getting damaged audio clips?
I need free sounds with license that gives me permission to use this in game, I am a bit done with searching for so long for this (...) on the freesound.org...

[warm hinge]

I want to do a car game but I want unusual perspective, not 2d or 3d like any other games. Any ideas?

[warm hinge]

I think you can make them yourself in something like FL Studio in a day of learning

Or any other software to be honest

[raw cloud]

I don’t have coding questions but in general I have no idea what I’m doing. My player can move around in the first level but I’m not sure about what to do next aside filling things out maybe? Adding things? Maybe work on gui? I don’t even understand how blender works.

I’m not sure what I’m doing overall.

[sudden pendant]

You prototype your game idea before you start making things nice looking, or adding in unnecessary features.

[raw cloud]

Okay, we’ll level 1 is donish then. I guess. I know I need ui. And another level.

Should I make a game plan?

[sudden pendant]

If you've prototyped the core mechanics of the game and have decided that's the route you want to go, then yes, you should start planning it out.

[raw cloud]

What’s considered core mechanics?

I’ve basically googled myself to this point. Im not sure if that’s good or bad.

[sudden pendant]

The main gameplay mechanics of what you're making. You prototype that and if it feels good, then you know you're on the right track.

If you spend time making art, or UI or things that don't have any real effect on the core mechanics, you can end up wasting time when you realize it was all for nothing because your game plays terribly.

[raw cloud]

Okay cool. So I guess level 1 is where all of that is put into practice right? My player can walk around and parkour a little bit but not too unrealistic. I guess I want to add a flashlight but then I got caught up in needing to make a town/terrain for the next bit. And then got overwhelmed and lost.

And currently circling about what to do.

[sudden pendant]

The point is, you shouldn't have a level 1

You shoudl have a prototype, where you're testing and building the core features. Then you work on level design and the overall game when that's been established.

[raw cloud]

Ooooooooooooooooooh

So me hand drawing a map then making it was a mistake

Well shoot

[sudden pendant]

Not really, if it helps then it helps.

There's no one right path. Just as long as it supports the development in a productive way.

[raw cloud]

Right but I’ve been kind of stuck on trying to make things. Especially trying to figure out the terrain feature on Unity. Haven’t been successful.

I just thought you did things level by level and stitched it together hoping it’s a cohesive mess.

[sudden pendant]

No. It would be unfortunate if you made 10 levels only to realize you need to change your jump height and have to go back and edit all of them to work with it.

Or that you wanted to add a dash mechanic earlier, and now your player can jump to the end without challenge on level 4 requiring a full redesign.

[raw cloud]

True. I’ve been hand drawing maps then trying to figure out how to make them. But I guess I didn’t think about the other things. Should I continue with putting in a flashlight and inventory or is that feature creeping already?

I’ve debated trying a third person controller over a first person controller. But I’m not sure what translates better because I just have my little pill

[sudden pendant]

The only thing I can say is prototype it

Make a sandbox scene, and try your ideas

Look at (good) devlogs on Youtube, especially for platformers, you'll no doubt find they do the same.

[raw cloud]

I have followed tons of channels and try to digest what each person is offering on professional advice. Originally I was playing with godot but got super frustrated when I had to program collision and couldn’t get past that

I like Unity. I guess I google a feature when I need it.

Anyway thank you so much; this has been very helpful.

[civic tinsel]

how should add a sword to my game my current ideas are:
you can only break shields with a sword: 1️⃣
you can only execute enemies with a sword: 2️⃣
using a sword buffs guns and vice versa so you can swap between them for max damage: 3️⃣
other: reply to this message
(and to keep long range weapons viable you can get a ability to pull enemies in and, if i choose to have swords break shields, kick them away )

[dense sparrow]

@civic tinsel couple of of other benefits to consider too:
-compared to long range weapons there is less aiming needed. You can just panic swing to general direction in worst case, as long as enemy is close enough
-that sword will never run out of ammo or need reloading

[modest verge]

Helloo so I was wondering can I make a level-map-room in blender then import it to unity??( I'm kinda new to unity)

[sudden pendant]

Export from Blender as FBX.

Import into Unity.

Drag into scene.

This isn't a game design question. #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[glossy root]

can someone maybe give me an idea on what more i can add to this? so far i've added that the rock shrinks, and the health bar

i was maybe thinking like turning the rock into particles (like little cubes) when i destory it

and make the particles just slowly shrink and dissepear

but i havent got a clue how to do that

[sour anvil]

If you used textures you could use different textures to indicate the amount of damage (like Minecraft does).

[little bane]

Does your inventory work? If not I’d add that

[glossy root]

it does

[sudden pendant]

@red topaz This isn't a game design question. #archived-art-asset-showcase

Try changing the settings to point filtering.

Don't ping me to whine, please.

Keep at it, and you're going to get moderated. You can wait for a response in that channel (ironically I was just reading it too.)

[neon root]

hi, I have a question.

please do let me know if this is in the wrong place, but:

I am thinking of making a game that combines the ease of discord RP with customizable visuals to accompany it.

so it would be in unity and people would be able to create lobbies to connect with their friends in

you could then customize your character, save characters that you make, and play in a variety of maps, both developer and player made

you would also be able to initiate turn based battles with other players, and you can make spells/skills/whatever prior to these battles so that you can customize the RP to the way you see fit

[sleek phoenix]

You never actually asked a question

[ripe nexus]

Hey guys, i'm creating a top down game, and my player isnt colliding with my collision objects (but i've got tilemap collider 2D, and box collider 2d for the player) yet i'm still walking through walls please advise 😅

[wary halo]

And your RigidBody2D configuration?

[wary halo]

Kinematic? Read the docs

[ripe nexus]

ty vm

[slim drift]

any good beginner friendly softwares for 2D sprite design?

[neon root]

Sorry I was handling two things at once so I forgot to ask the question 😅

[cinder hamlet]

If we're talking about pixel art, try Pixelorama (it's on itch.io)

https://orama-interactive.itch.io/pixelorama

[full wraith]

Curious what any of you think of the Alt key being an interact button, where holding it changes the context of other keybinds like Q, E, R, etc. to more specific interactions like "take all", or "swap weapon"; and just press it results in basic interact action.
My thought process is it won't harm your mobility to press it while moving, interaction prompts aren't normally strict on reaction time, and you can press it with your thumb; meaning you can more easily combine it with other buttons.

[mild void]

That depends on how early you are in development. If it's early stages, than maybe it shouldn't be priority.

[slim drift]

nice, tysm. what about vector design?

[cinder hamlet]

havent done that so idk

[cinder hamlet]

not sure what you mean by 'switch character system when on combat/running'

never played genshin

is it like just current character being replaced by another?

I don't remember seeing such mechanic in an endless runner

are you afraid of it being unoriginal?

in your game

this might help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H63Bqex1Urs

[rigid birch]

Any recommendations on sites/services that sell 2D assets.

I'm starting to get to a place in which I have enough functionality that I want to start hooking up non-placeholder art but I'm really struggling to find anything that I like and/or is consistently looking enough. It seems RPG/Dungeon type tiles sets are easy to find but I'm looking for more sci-fi space station-type environments.

Commissioned someone on Fiverr so we'll see how that goes but curious if anyone has any other recommendations outside of like itch io.

[cold onyx]

Does anyone have any program recommendations for designing games?

[cinder hamlet]

what aspect of designing specifically?

brainstorming ideas, organizing them?

[cold onyx]

Yeah more of storyboarding with annotations etc. I know paper is a good use but I was looking for a more full system to use and organise them

[cinder hamlet]

I don't know any app that would have all the features

Have a look at Trello maybe

I think it can work with that

[shadow zenith]

How can I create something like this for a 3D game?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_grFacfiJtE

The parallax, nothing else

[obtuse cipher]

Parallax is already included in 3D games since far off objects move slower across the screen than objects closer to the screen. So basically, just put your objects at different distances away from the camera.

[shadow zenith]

How can I make it something that repeats?

[obtuse cipher]

Hmm.

If you want an endless repeating of background objects then pooling your objects sounds like the best way to go. You'll need to have some sort of manager class to determine when to add and remove those objects from the pool and update their positions. That gets a little tricky as you'll need to work out when an object is within the camera FOV before updating it. There might be some code out on google by someone who has already done this.

So have a look at some guides on object pooling and FOV gameObject detection.

[shadow zenith]

@obtuse cipher thank you!

Is there a way to use a unity particle system to do this?

[obtuse cipher]

Maybe, but when you said repeatable I thought you meant it should follow a pattern and be infinite. The particle system would be random distributions, but could work for you. Never tried it myself though.

[drowsy smelt]

You can also check out Miro. It’s like an infinite white board. Free tier gives you 3 boards

[chilly oriole]

I have an question, I'm trying to make a level based on stealth inside of a work office building, what would be a good unique setting for the player to stealth around in?

[rigid birch]

An automated assembly building for like cars or something.

[digital jackal]

For auto-scroll levels, is the best approach to move the camera at X speed and force the player within the bounds or something else, like moving the level through the camera?

[cinder hamlet]

archives, warehouse, server room, maybe some kind of flooded room, roof...

[chilly oriole]

thank you, those are some good places.

I might even be able to mix them into one

[cinder hamlet]

the whole level doesnt have to be the same setting

[chilly oriole]

ye i know

[maiden lake]

I need game design guidance me lawds

Context: building tower defense game where you can build towers on a tilemap

enemies spawn randomly around the map

very simple stuff, but what I need is how should I communicate to the player how to build things?

[proven bluff]

Game discusion

[cinder hamlet]

Do you want to let the player build towers anywhere or only on a few designated spots?

Either way, a good old method for letting player they can build things is a hammer icon

you can put it on the UI or in tower spots

[fresh matrix]

Create a button for each tower.
Then change the mouse cursor to show the selected tower.
When the player moves the mouse he sees where the tower would be built, and build it on press.

For touch based devices you need to have each spot that can be built a button, when the button is pressed the "to be built" tower is shown, the player confirms the build with another press (Are you sure? Kind of way)

[teal stag]

uhh can i like ask how something that will appear in my game works?

like if i want to make a grapple weapon, how would it work?

i expect it to be alot of work as it can be both used as a mobility tool and a weapon

[fresh matrix]

The player is stuck to a rope that can be shortened is one way to look at it

[teal stag]

So connect a rope to the player's hand yes?

[maiden lake]

How’s this

[bronze hare]

God kveld!

I'm about to start building my world is a couple of days, I'm planning on creating a bigger world, with multiple villages, caves, hidden places and so on.

What should be created in blender, and what should be made in Unity?

Should the general landscape be created in Unity? (hills, mountains, valleys, rivers, etc)

If I wanted to create a big mountain for the player to explore, would I create the general mountain in untiy, or could I create a massive 500m high mountain in blender and import?

If I were to create a farm house, could I create the whole house (minus interactable things like doors, windows, furniture), import, then furnish it in Unity using other imported models?

Never done world building before, no idea what I'm getting into, but looking for some general knowledge before I dive into it

[maiden lake]

Is the world going to be randomly generated or static?

[bronze hare]

Static

[maiden lake]

If it’s static then it doesn’t matter where you create it

You can quite literally do whatever you want

It’s a matter of preference

[bronze hare]

I was considering generated, but I wanna be able to create "local stories" kinda like Skyrim, where a cave can its own little story

If you get what I mean

[maiden lake]

I mean sure, it’s entirely up to your own preference

[bronze hare]

Got it, will probably start off creating a mix of the two.
Terrain, trees and such in Unity, then create caves, houses wtf in blender

Seems like there is no right answer, so I'll figure something out!

Thank you

[azure wraith]

Can somebody give me a quick-to-make 3D game idea?

[cinder hamlet]

consider joining a game jam

[azure wraith]

I want something to do now

I'm bored

[slim drift]

thx

[sudden pendant]

@limber portal You can use the forums for job and collaboration posts. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[wide current]

Is it possible to use unity to make a game that scales like this? (games are Steel Division 2 and Victoria 3) Basically my ultimate goal would be able to have a slow paced world campaign map, but all the while have it real time so when you zoom in you can have tactical buildings. (Terrain and models would be procedurally placed to reduce size and hopefully some kind of performance thing could be incorporated, im still not versed in coding all all that yet)

[jade crystal]

How is this type of level progression called ? It is basicly like a tree level system where when you unlock certein level and complete it it will unlock the levels closest to itself connected by line.

[cinder hamlet]

idk if it has a specific name

you can just call it "level tree"

[jade crystal]

Im trying to search tutorial for it since i know only very complicated way on how to do it and i think that there are more ways

[shadow zenith]

For multiplayer backend design on inventory, is it better to store items meta in the player object, or use keys and reference an item object in a separate data table?

[chilly oriole]

So i'm making a level based on Stealth, thats set in a ran down office building, meaning there would be no working power, meaning no cameras, how could i add a from of stealth into my level which has no power

[cinder hamlet]

What theme is your game

you could have the bad guys set up a hidden outpost/camp/base in the building and maybe even get power from generators

Dishonored has something like that (kind of)

[chilly oriole]

My game is a 3d First person story based Puzzle Game, kinda like the Stanley Parable, with a mix of the Entropy Centre.

The game is about a company that is based around Human Experimenation

[cinder hamlet]

story + puzzle + stealth? Sounds similar to A Plague Tale

but a lot more scifi apparently

[chilly oriole]

Ye, minus the Open World and Dialogue Part.

[cinder hamlet]

You're making an open world and branching dialogues?

[chilly oriole]

The Player is used to a work office environment, and got forcily put inside of a test simulation.

Which is where the Stealth comes in

[chilly oriole]

no minus those two

[cinder hamlet]

well, APT doesnt have those either

its linear

[chilly oriole]

Mystery, Puzzle, and Story

Insprired from the Stanley Parable and The Entropy Centre

[cinder hamlet]

sounds interesting

[oblique mirage]

What are your thoughts/experience using American letter grading (A B C D F) in games that ship internationally?

I've got an app game (English only) that's shipping soon, but some international colleagues raised concern about the A - F letter grading at the end. It seems to be very common in video games, though I know different regions sometimes change their systems depending on where a game is shipping

👍 for A - F 👎 against A - F

[unborn wedge]

I guess you could try doing something like stars?

But personally, I’d keep the A to F letter grading. I’ve also seen a lot of games use it and I’ve never seen anyone have a problem with it.

[stiff wren]

is a clicker idle game just ui?

[sudden pendant]

No

It's certainly UI heavy, but it's not solely UI in most cases. Sure you could if you wanted to go minimalist.

[fossil torrent]

I'm trying to get a mustache on this face without it looking like crap.

[wary halo]

Moustaches always look like crap to begin with, I suggest you invest in a Braun razer and wait for nature to take its course

[olive jacinth]

Has anyone ever made a "Vibe Prototype"? Somewhere between a grayboxed prototype and a vertical slice, a playable prototype using copyrighted assets not meant for any sort of public consumption but used to direct your creative team to know what kind of style to go for? Something like using other video game music as placeholders and sending a playable demo to your musician and saying "Give me something that feels like this"

If I made something like that to send to artists I am commissioning will they be baffled or is this somewhat standard practice?

[chilly oriole]

I have an question, so I'm making a level about decision making, but I'm not sure what aspects of Decision making, i should use. My Game is a 3d Story, Mystery and Puzzle based game. Inspired from The Stanley Parable. The Main character is used to a Office environment, meaning the setting of the level is a office environment. But what aspects of Decision Making should i use in this level?

[sudden pendant]

I've done this, and it's always been appreciated by the receiver. It's not any different really than providing a pitch deck / design doc that references other games with screenshots and videos.

[vagrant furnace]

Español: Hola necesito ayuda, estoy haciendo un juego y quiero agregar un diálogo, dónde tenga que responder una alternativa correcta de cuatro preguntas y luego de eso con el personaje que interactúe me de puntos. Juntar una cantidad de puntos y que ahí quede el juego. Alguien me puede orientar por favor, intenté usar Fungus pero me sirvió mucho, no podía hablar con los personajes con alguna tecla era difícil y InWorld no me sirvió. Una manito por favor

Traducido: Hello, I need help, I am making a game and I want to add a dialogue, where I have to answer a correct alternative of four questions and then with the character that interacts I get points. Collect a number of points and that's where the game ends. Can someone guide me please, I tried to use Fungus but it helped me a lot, I couldn't talk to the characters with some key it was difficult for me and InWorld didn't help me. a hand please

😢

[cinder hamlet]

start by learning basics of C#

then you can experiment and figure out a solution

[copper sluice]

Does anyone know where I could find some solid concept artist

[tribal wraith]

Does anyone know where to start doing 2d art for characters?

[potent mountain]

Which one is better?

This

Or this

[near ridge]

So… I had just devised this the other day when playing a barebones simple RPG.
I almost had this as an entire range of stats, but it it really made me truly think about it.
The game had 4 stats, HP, AP, ATK, and DEF, but the game didn’t really implement AP as well as you would like(to the fact it wasn’t upgradable), but out of my frustration with the game, it gave me inspiration for simple stats and an entire acronym like what you see in Fallout’s special…
May I introduce.
𝐇it Points
𝐀ction Points
𝐑esistance
𝐃amage

HP is the amount of damage you can take before you die.
AP is the amount of moves you can make on your turn.
Resistance is the amount of damage you can negate upon being attacked.
Damage is the amount of damage you can deal in one move.

The damage formula for one attack(which would cost 1 AP) is:
DMG - RES.
If the result is 0 or a negative number, to deal one point, the additional AP needed to deal one damage will be:
1 + (RES - DMG)

No need to thank me. If any of you want to take it and run with it, be my guest and expand upon it! ;3

[cinder hamlet]

Why not just fix the bug before publishing

[distant pollen]

This is game dev, we don’t make sense around here

[worldly spear]

I know this is very bad but tell me things to help with it, coloring, shape, anything, apart from the bad modeling

[cold onyx]

Fix the bug, this is a severe issue in the game

[wet saddle]

anybody know how i can respawn the enemy i hit with my bullet?

[astral wraith]

Is your question not better suited to #🔀┃art-asset-workflow?
Texturing and colouring is the main thing I'm noticing - the handle looks like it has a very stretched texture on it, perhaps something weird happening with the UV unwrapping?

Also, are you using blender for the modelling? If so, you might be better off learning about curves instead of modelling the curve by hand
If not using Blender, I'm pretty sure most 3D software has some form of making a curve via points instead of manually moving vertices / extrusion

[astral wraith]

.
Uh, I'm not sure I fully interpreted what you are saying, but instead of destroying your enemy on bullet hit, deactivate it, move it to the position you want it to spawn in (and reset any settings you need reset), then reactivate it

[clever flower]

Question, when making chairs in a network game would it be reasonable to have the chairs networked or is it fine just having the character show the animation on the chair client side or what would be the best design?

[ripe lava]

I'm not an expert, but I think if the chairs can move at all then they need to be networked. If they are always static but you want players to see other players sitting in them, then only the animation needs to be networked.

[hallow yacht]

Is the GameObject like string,bool,float,int... can be given any variable?

[night shoal]

It's a type, yes. #💻┃code-beginner

[hallow yacht]

Ahh thx

[chilly oriole]

What are some ways to add decision making to my scene, Like, picking the right wire to cut and stuff like that

[cold onyx]

It is a class (or struct I don’t remember) , and you can make classes variables to

[exotic breach]

this might not be design necessarily but wanted some input. i have a diablo style inventory system with tooltips when you hover over items. would you have that tooltip appear anchored near the item (unmoving) or be anchored to the mouse's position (and move as the mouse moves). i see merit in both options and keep going back and forth

[buoyant sapphire]

pick one and stick with it until you find out why the other option is decidedly better in all aspects https://www.google.com/search?q=coin+flip

[little bane]

I don’t think anyone will read the first one because it’s so long

[cinder hamlet]

I'd go with the anchored to item approach because it'll be more controller-friendly

unless you can maybe have it separately for controllers

(thats assuming you might want to add controller support to your game later)

[exotic breach]

that's a good point. i was leaning towards stationary and think that your point may make me go that way. thanks

[little bane]

what style of character should i use

[brisk flame]

i have problem about my game my problem is ppl saying it might not be fun to play . my goal was to make 2d story game about things that ppl need to know to make their lives better .
For example, issues related to family problems. Family problems with children from the point of view of parents and from the point of view of children . Children's problems at school and things that can happen to anyone. Problems that may lead to divorce in families .

My game was a dialogue-based game where the player can see the results of each by having different choices.
Most of the people who are around me and like to play games play action and shooter games, for this group this game is boring. Do you think there is a way that I can have the goal of my game and make the game more fun?

[chilly oriole]

Well first off, you basically said the reason why your friends say it would be boring, you said "Most of the people who are around me and like to play games play action and shooter games", meaning that regardless of what game it is, if its not a shooter or action based, they wont like it. If you want to find people who will like it, try finding people who are more willing to try new games, or enjoy playing games like yours. But if your making this game for your friends, then there is nothing you can do but make a game based on what they like.

[brisk flame]

i want to make a game that can help ppl to act better in lives and do better reactions when they reach to a problem and also play it not that they see it and say oh it is not fun and leave it . i want my game be fun at least for 8 -11 years person then 11 - 13 and 13 -15 years old person . i need more idea about how a game can be fun without killing

[cinder hamlet]

Stardew Valley is a pretty good example

[open trench]

maybes try and like make a demo of the game and put it on itch.io or something and see if people who try it like it, and if they do, then make into a decent game

[nova plover]

What would you guys say is more important to figure out for a point-and-click adventure game first? The gameplay/puzzles or the story?

[sudden pendant]

They go hand in hand, you need to do both in tandem. You can't really make a puzzle without context, and you need a story for context. But you shouldn't spend so much time on story details without also making progress on the development.

But those games are very specific in their designs. You should start with a high level storyboard, and then start seeing where you can integrate the puzzles and such. You don't even have to know what the puzzle mechanics are, just that "here this door will have a puzzle to get to the next area".

[nova plover]

Weird...I actually had a similar thought to this approach.

I think the only issue I can think of is guaging puzzle difficulty with different parts of the story. I want to make sure after all that players aren't turned off by an impossible puzzle in the beginning or let down by easy puzzles near the end.

My only strategy I have is to individually work on each puzzle and then lay them out from easier to harder before properly wrapping the story around them.

[sudden pendant]

Sure that's a way to approach it

[north igloo]

this one is better definitely,

I wouldn't prefer to read two paragraphs of text just for controls

[serene sable]

Hey guys whatsup, could anyone help explain how I would go about implementing HalfTheOpposite's dungeon generater into my own 2d game in unity?

[plain mulch]

Ideas for upgrades

[cold onyx]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/497872424281440267/1045887140954902628/2022-11-25_18-21-21.mp4 Do you think the Trail disappering right away is bad?

[heavy elm]

Why is the arrow covered? its suppose to be on top of all images, look at the hierarchy. what is the problem? im noob to this

[cold onyx]

#💻┃unity-talk

[heavy elm]

okay sorry

[plain mulch]

first of all, you should from here on out put all questions about UI in #📲┃ui-ux also you have to bring whatever you need to have whatever game object as the background in front of the object that your want above your background so for ex I also put my background on the top so it acts like a background

[finite lotus]

morning all! anyone interested working on an rpg engine?

[cinder hamlet]

this isn't a good place for hiring people

[chilly oriole]

What aspects of decision making could i add to my puzzles?

[cinder hamlet]

not sure if puzzles and decision-making go well together

it's mostly just looking for solutions

maybe getting single use items that give you a hint or let you skip a puzzle

[chilly oriole]

I meant like a puzzle where you have to pick the right button, and if you dont you die, and if you do a secet doorway opens up.

[cinder hamlet]

puzzles tend to be annoying if you cannot retry them quickly so I don't recommend that unless you put quick respawn

[tulip path]

Does anyone have any platforming ideas for stuff I could do with a dash ability like Celeste that doesn’t just copy it?

[cinder hamlet]

blocks that you can push by dashing into them

things that when you dash into them, they redirect your dash up

[river onyx]

i think the blocky

what if he turns into a pill format rock and start rolling

[untold elm]

I have never used unity before but I have used other 3d softwares, I’m trying to create a VR game, if I create it and want to test it on my oculus how would I do it?

Do you need a link cable?

[sleek phoenix]

https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/unity/unity-build/

[stray hill]

Anybody have any advice on how to build a stats system for an RPG game? I don't even know where to start (Resources and tips welcome)

[fresh matrix]

What do you want the system to do?

[stray hill]

it's for a turnbased RPG, so I'm thinking I need attack, defence, hp, (not mp - I'm going to use turnbased cooldowns), magic defence (maybe), etc
the system should scale up with leveling and be improved upon with gear
but I should be able to figure out what enemy stats I should use against the player as well

That's where I'm tilting

how can I make the system manageable, preferably mathematically, so I can keep combat difficulty reasonable for both player and AI

[broken dirge]

If you ever come up with a simple answer to this you should write a book about it.
Its not that easy and every game requires something different.
Its usually just.... a lot of spreadsheets and testing. 🤷‍♂️

[stray hill]

that I can totally understand, but how do you begin

copy pasta an existing system that seems to fit the requirements as best as possible at the moment and iterate from there?

[broken dirge]

I mean. Sure if you want your game to feel similar to whatever game your are copying. Its a good start.
But tweaking a single number or multiplier can have vast consequences on the whole system.

[keen horizon]

Hey guys I just had a general question to ask in your opinion how long does it usually take to make a game that would be ready to distribute and make money from with a small team of part time dev's to make substantial profit. pretty general question I was interested in asking.

[broken dirge]

Depending on the team experience, team size, game scope and shortcut used... anywhere from weeks (or ever days) up to multiple years.

I recall that there is specifically one studio that builds commercial steam games and releases one game a month. Can't recall the name right now. But its pretty crazy and I bet they crunch a lot to get it done. (or re-use a lot of their code/assets)

[night shoal]

It's also very rare for your first game to make "substantial profit" so don't get too excited about your future riches just yet

[broken dirge]

I think you have the best chance of success if you actually make something completly original. Without copying another game.
Preferably you have one really cool system/mechanic that is unique and you build your game around it.
The smaller the better. The less secondary mechanics/systems you have the faster you can develop the game.

[fresh matrix]

Just simple multiplier math and playtesting

Damage = Level * WeaponDamage

Hitpoints = Damage * Defence

Defence = Level / MaxLevel

So the attacking character calculates the damage from his level and weapon.

Then the enemy recieving damage calculates how many hitpoints were lost based on his own level.

[teal stag]

Hello guys?

May I ask how to make a sniping aim for a third person game?

Like.....when you aim there'll be 2 lines narrowing in

Kind of like this

[median mantle]

There are probably many ways to do this but just of the top of my head you can have the lines rotate around the center point being the gun till they reach their Destination

Or you would just make an animation for it

[teal stag]

An animation specifically for that will be too much

Much appreciated about the lines rotation thing, I'll note that down

[plain mulch]

Technically no you can use something like virtual desktop or air link but the link cable would be better if you don’t have a great internet connection

[untold elm]

Thanks! I’m going to try air link rn

[valid coral]

If you have different party members in your game, you could have to choose which party member to use, and the person with the wrong skills fails. You could make hostages and your hero have to decide what happens to the hostages- maybe one dies but the enemy lets you move to the next room faster or you have to save them but it takes longer but you get a better reward. You could make enemies that offer a chance to help the hero through a maze, maybe because they also hate the main boss, but the hero isn't sure if it's a setup or not. You could have the hero send someone ahead in the maze, maybe by the hero standing on a switch, but then the hero risks losing the help of that person if the hero gets knocked off the switch by an attack or something. You could have different approaches to solving a puzzle that cause different story line or puzzle line changes- use strength and bash through the wall, but now you face a fire breathing dragon, use agility to try to climb the wall, which might lead to a hidden passage or the wall falling on you, use intellect to solve the clues to the door, etc. Of course, if you are talking about brainstorming, planning, consulting with others, researching, etc, you would want to keep in mind your player's attention spans. Most puzzles in games can get boring if there isn't some idea of how to operate them and it also takes a lot of time to figure out. I'm sure you've probably been in planning meetings where it got really boring because there didn't seem to be a clear sense of direction to the conversation (or your wife/husband was trying to plan with you and it seemed to be leading nowhere). The same can happen in games if you don't set it up right.

So I have the basic parts of a combat mmorpg covered by stats already (damage, accuracy, health, etc). I'm looking for a new way to use the idea of Privilege in combat as a stat. I'd prefer it not be a temp buff, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to add it in. Right now, it is part of my Luck stat (born with it), and my mind always goes to preparation as an idea. How to translate that into combat I'm not sure. I've been thinking maybe defense bypass chance, as that would be quite hated but also in the very nature of privilege (I get around problems by bypassing them), or maybe critical hit defense, as a person is better prepared to deal with emergency type situations. Thoughts on unique ways to use it?

[chilly oriole]

thank you this is what i was looking for.

[sudden pendant]

@chilly oriole #archived-works-in-progress , use a threas

[chilly oriole]

ok

[pliant lava]

I have a few super detailed car models, and im modeling more.
Im trying to think of a original idea i could use them for game wise.
Racing Sim game - taken. Never gonna beat
Mechanic sim - taken
Maybe a arcade racer? But will it fit with realistic cars, and how do i make it different.

[sudden pendant]

Dating sim with cars. If Hatoful Boyfriend can pull it off with birds, then no doubt there's a market for cars. 😛

[pliant lava]

😂😂😂

[dim copper]

Taking a survey and interested to hear your thoughts:
I'm making a deckbuilding fighting game, where two opponents battle each other using cards to perform weapon-based fighting moves. (Each card in the game belongs to one of the various weapon styles, like classes or mana colors in other card games.)
For a game like this, which sounds more appealing to you?

1. You create and control a lone warrior whose deck is comprised of cards from up to 3 different weapon styles. When you use a card to attack, your character switches to the weapon which matches the card type.
   Example: A single character whose deck is a mix of Ninjato, Spear, and Bow & Arrow cards. When you attack with a Spear card, their Spear model replaces the previously wielded weapon in their hand, at the start of the attack animation.

2. You create and control a team of 3 warriors who each specialize in a different weapon style, and whose cards are mixed together in a shared deck. When you use a card to attack, your characters tag each other in, so that the attack will be performed by the one whose weapon matches the card type.
   Example: A team comprised of a Ninjato character, a Spear character, and a Bow & Arrow character. When you attack with a Spear card, your Spear specialist leaps in to replace the previous team member, and performs the attack animation. They remain as the active character until you attack with one of your other team member's cards.

[patent smelt]

Currently my FPS uses really fast projectiles that do give enemies about 0.5 seconds to 'dodge' in order to avoid.

What is "hitscan" should I be trying to use hitscan instead? Playtesters said the game feels to be slightly movement-shooter similar to Valorant. Overwatch has heavy use of projectiles (like Hanzo's arrows I believe).

I largest fear with hitscan is how easy people can cheat, and also how 'counter play' to hitscan sometimes is not intuitive.

This is being used in Unity with Mirror Networking. I am currently trying to focus on the main verbs of the game and making a demo of sorts

Basically asking "hitscan" versus "projectile" in FPS. I am lean to projectile because those have more intuitive counterplay.

[wintry briar]

I personally like hitscan more since it feels more responsive but very fast projectiles are good as well

[hoary ibex]

Can anyone help me making such animations in Unity? For example they would both represent gold and diamond, and when an user picks up the gold the ui adds +1 for the gold, then it would repeat etc etc. (please ping)

[cold onyx]

you could lerp them, or use dotween or something

[patent smelt]

What are the core fundamental verbs that need to be polished in Valorant?

I have a mess of an FPS and now am trying to distill it to the core experience. The networking is already done. It is Valorant but requires significantly less precision and is geared more towards a Teen audience.

I am just trying to polish the verbs used most. Walk and Jump seem fine currently. I guess next is to make things hitscan with indicators showing bullet firing direction opposed to projectile and to implement a firing error.

Maybe a 'footsteps' is also needed. And a 'swap weapon/drop weapon'.

Basically 'what is the most important verb in Valorant that needs to be polished precisely?'

[faint burrow]

recoil

[patent smelt]

Recoil? Why not remove that? I am confused what the purpose of that is.

I would assume the most frequently used verbs in Valorant are: Walk, Sneak, Look Around, and Jump. (All of which I assume I've gotten pretty well polished, except walk sound effect)

Then comes 'shoot'. I would argue that 90% of the gameplay is finding the enemy, then 10% is actually shooting the enemy. I do not understand why headshots are required in precision if the game is about catching enemies off guard. The gunplay only matters in the upper ranks of competitive or something?

I'm trash at Valorant but just trying to figure out how it works and why most people play it. One interesting observation was how the majority of players get into the game and think the individual agent has a major impact when in reality agent does not matter until 'click the head' is mastered.

For some reason Aim > Abilities, while this game seems to advertised itself as having unique superheros? (Implying Abilities > Aim)

Coaches told me if I'm serious I should play deathmatch until 30/40 elims and always instant lock Reyna, Sage, or Pheonix and use the healing on myself. "Select an agent once you get to Gold 1".

More just if the game is all about movement, then shouldn't the precision aiming be made more accessible?

Up to Gold 1, the game is maybe less about movement and more about how much time you are willing to invest to learn aim

[molten girder]

hi guys, i know i've already written this in the unity talk channel, but since they told me to come here, why not

i'm currently working on a TD game, and got to a dead end

i have no clue on how to implement the whole "enemy spawning" thing

i mean, the enemies spawn, they have an health system, a movement system with speed, and their path, and i can control everything

just... I don't know how to make the game progressively difficult

I'd use scriptable objects, but since i thought about a game that requires you to play on a map multiple times, i thought that maybe it would be better if the spawning of enemies is more random

otherwise players can just place the same towers and win everytime

think about it like a mix between Bloons TD and Plants vs Zombies, where you have the random spawning mechanic, that makes the zombies harder as you unlock more towers, and the classic TD setting of Bloons TD

[brisk flame]

i want to make a mini game in my game about a firefighter how i make the particle system about Fire extinguisher and fire and about when firefighter using the Fire extinguisher on fire to decease fire size and then remove it .
im dont remember a single thing about how particle system work and how i should do this thing

[cold onyx]

Should learn basics of Particle systems. How certain settings work and how you can modify them through script

[cold onyx]

This server is for Unity related things

[cold onyx]

o ok

I’m pretty sure you can find some servers for that kind of stuff though

[sour anvil]

You can use enemy ranks, e.g. rank A have 4 possible enemy types, just choose one at random for spawning. The next rank, B has slightly improved enemies, more hp or faster movement, etc. Always choose a random one from a rank and keep going through the ranks to increase difficulty.

If there is a way to measure how well the player is performing, e.g. exp points, you could use this to slightly increase the enemy health so that the game is not too easy.

Another solution that prevents players becoming bored is to allow them to start an attack wave early.

[broken dirge]

Sure. Then its not "like Valorant" but more like Splatoon or something.
Maybe look more at Roblox shooters or Minecraft FPS game modes? They tend to be very casual from what I have seen.
Or mobile game shooters? Shadow Gun Legends maybe? Not sure. I don't play them at all.

[broken dirge]

Well. Tbh I have not seen many TD's where that is not the case.
TD's are progression based games usually. There are no or very little emergent mechanics.

From what I can point out a lot of TD games play around with randomness to achieve some sort of "skill" ceiling.
So you for example get random towers or random upgrades or enemies have random extra traits etc....

BloonsTD explicitly has only two sets of enemies inside the game for every single map. Its either normal rounds or alternate bloon rounds.
( + a few more mixed up for challanges etc...)

[molten girder]

got it, well, i’m trying a different approach, by giving the player the chance to customize e everything they have, like towers, path, etc… so i need in some way compensate with different and stronger enemies, that way players can’t just use the strongest towers in the game and win every time

[terse verge]

Has anyone been to GDC? I just submitted for one of their challenges and I'm wondering if its worth going to as a 2nd year Game Design student

Currently the only piece of work that I have, that I deem portfolio worthy was the submission and I'm not currently looking for work until I finish

[high sky]

Hey guys, I have a question.

I have a cinema, and I add a Videoplayer inside, but whenever I run my game in Fullscreen I dont see the video but if I switch it to Game > Focused Mode I can see it.

What's the issue? I read some forums telling me to tick transcode on (which I have already done), but it still doesn't work.

[leaden trench]

does anyone have like a playground set model

kinda low-poly

its for a vr game i'm making

nevermind found one on the asset store

[vocal kestrel]

I have never been to a GDC, but find the YouTube talks very useful(for the most part)

[fallen junco]

Does anyone here have any game design books them recommend for intermediate to advanced programmers?

[sleek phoenix]

game design and programming are somewhat separate fields, do you just want a programming book? this would do then https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

[finite talon]

you can see tarodev video on making UI in unity he explains very well

[glacial raven]

i have a question about visual styles:

is switching my survival game project's artstyle from bright colours and textures i made myself in MS Paint to realistic textures grabbed from google image search a good idea if i want my game to have more a detailed artstyle?
(for context the survival game i am making is not exactly realistic in terms of game mechanics...)

[cinder hamlet]

first make sure youre allowed to use these textures so its not a copyright infringement

also, artstyle is personal preference

[glacial raven]

very good advice. looks like i will use the MS Paint artstyle then since it seems like the safer option.

[twilit niche]

I remember a few years back there was huge out-rage because of the PCVR version getting downgrades because of the Quest. I don't understand why they couldn't keep PCVR users with the better graphics and Quest 2 with low quality graphics

[patent smelt]

How to create a hitscan FPS that does not allow for Aim Assist or "Aimbot"?

I was considering a sort of data metric where if they have more than 99% of average eliminations the game stops, but this was not really possible as the cheater can just turn it on or off. Currently testing a Valorant/CS:GO clone but in a 5-vs-5 LAN where poeple have the option to turn on an 'auto-aim'.

Basically, it is Valorant, but if the opponent is visible on your screen based on angles you instantly eliminate them.

But if you are caught you get penalized or something. It is just trying to figure out some algorithm way using data to detect Aim Assist or Auto Click. Issue is how the cheater can just turn off the cheat for a few rounds.

[cinder hamlet]

it's not possible, biggest game companies can't fully do this so I doubt you can

besides, some people simply have good aim

[nova plover]

I think for my upcoming capstone class...I'm going to do a point-and-click adventure game level. Only details I really know right know is that I'll probably aim for a 3D point-and-click (similar to Telltale's games) or 2.5D (similar to Grim Fandango), and that the narrative would be about robots (since I'm not that great a 3D artist). But I'm not sure where to go from there... when making a demo game for class or a general presentation of how mechanics work, how many "levels" or encounters should you include for demonstrating? And what should their difficulty be? Beginning-of-game level easy or slightly more challenging to showcase the mechanics in more detail?

[full birch]

AntiCheat 3rd party program coming in

[cold onyx]

can we please get this pinned <@&502884371011731486>

and this

https://dataorienteddesign.com/dodbook/

[timid trout]

How can I do for my Unity 2018 to upgrade android level API 33, or be able to build for Android 13?

[gleaming ermine]

If you were in the middle of a match in a single player tower defense game for example, and you were genuinely struggling or on the verge of loss, you you rather have the option to watch an ad for help or decide to lose, or not even be given the choice in the first place just because of how disruptive to the gameplay it is

[steep umbra]

Personally, I'd rather fail than "watch ad or fail, but you also had this wonderful disruption".
I'm generally very much not fond of that effect of microtransactiony things on gameplay.

[gleaming ermine]

Yeah I share the same opinion, just wanted to check if I'm bonkers or not

Tnx

[hexed patrol]

Hey, does anyone got an idea on how to "get" (good) game ideas. Do you recommend a specific generator xd? Because I am very uncreative and really want to do a game in 3d.

[sleek phoenix]

then just clone a game you like, execution is way more important than the idea itself

[pale roost]

If its themes you are looking for, id recommend listening to music and looking at art it really helps

But for game mechanics/types i can’t really help :p

[devout plank]

I feel like I often come up with a twist while making something basic, so just starting on something is important

[hexed patrol]

Thank you all very much @pale roost @devout plank

[harsh laurel]

Is it possible to import from Invision Studio into unity?

[wary halo]

what file format?

[exotic patio]

guys do you know how to do 2 functions in 1 button ?

[wary halo]

add 2 methods to the OnClick event

[molten girder]

Hi guys, i thought of a 2d puzzle platformer where you have a certain quantity of lives, and whenever you die, the thing that killed you, will now no longer harm you, but the opposite to that thing will kill you instantly.
Example: Drown? Now you can't breathe air, but you can stay underwater as long as you want.
Burn? Now you can touch fire as long as you want, but can't touch water.
Get impaled on a spike? Now you can walk on spikes, but smooth surfaces hurt you.
the problem is that i can't think of any other applications of my design. Is the idea just bad or you can think of some more? thanks.

[civic tinsel]

what would be a good reason why the player in a futuristic fps can respawn (and teammates can revive the player)

[violet peak]

Maybe if an enemy kills you then npcs can hurt you like animals shop keeps ect

[molten girder]

that looks great. Maybe, when killed by an enemy, the player will no longer be able to touch any “friendly” items. Keys and doors included

tomorrow (it’s 3 in the morning here) i’ll start working on it. i’ll try to put updates in the #archived-works-in-progress channel

if y’all have any other ideas, they’d be more than appreciated!

[cinder hamlet]

interesting idea but I'd change it to not be so strict about environment because otherwise level design will be a pain

wait nvm it's supposed to be a puzzle

well yeah, it actually sounds pretty cool then

I imagine it being like small tilemaps or maybe a platformer

[cinder hamlet]

for respawn, cloning

and for revives, fancy medical nanobots or just fancy medicine in general (assuming the player doesn't fully die, just get downed)

[inner gazelle]

What the basic games begin developing recommend?

[molten girder]

exactly, that's what i thought! (:

[astral knot]

Hey

if my game's is 8x8 pixel art, should i make ui 16x16 ?

[cinder hamlet]

if you don't want to/can't use 8x8 then I think it's good enough

[astral knot]

16x16

[cinder hamlet]

I guess you don't want to use 8x8?

[astral knot]

i think it looks a bit too thick

i will see

[coarse wind]

Opinions?

[glass creek]

How would I replicate an artstyle similar to fire watch? Is it using cell shading or just really good texturing and lighting I’m just not sure. I like the style and I would like to replicate it in a game I’m trying to develop.

[alpine marsh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdxQ3HlhTE8

[slender garden]

Maybe this would be better here, than in #💻┃code-beginner . I would appreciate any advice y'all would be willing to offer:
I'm trying to make a city builder style game - something like Banished or Settlement Survival style (mostly). I have a random terrain generation routine in a class called TerrainGenerator. It'll only be run when the user starts a new game. I can't decide if I should put my tree spawning routine in the TerrainGenerator class - because it'll need to be run when the terrain is generated; the SpawnManager class - because sometimes I'll want to spawn new trees; or both. Any advice? (I'm very new to all this - about 2 months +/- into it). I know I can call the SpawnManager routines from the TerrainGenerator class, but am I overthinking this and it would just be better to have it in two places?

[alpine marsh]

I'll recommend the secret third option of having it in its own separate little class which you call from every other place in the code you need it in

If 'SpawnManager' is for all different spawns and the tree generation logic is not so much that it needs its own class, then by all means keep it in the SpawnManager (although it may get too large?)

[slender garden]

Is there any deficit to having things broken out to their own .cs file? Is there any real negative impact on computing at runtime? Or is it all compiled into one .exe?

[alpine marsh]

There should be no impact.

Don't sweat the architecture too much if you're a beginner though. Keep each routine/function in one place (don't duplicate code!) and try not to make things depend on each other too tightly (eg. accessing variables from the TerrainGenerator class directly inside your tree spawner)

[tired kelp]

Why do you not want to duplicate code is it just a best practice while you're learning for more repetition?

I'm a recent Game Design(Dev focus) reviewing my Unity skills and building a portfolio via the Unity Junior Programmer learning path on their website

So any advise would be great 😁

Meant to say graduate up there after game design ^

[slender garden]

I appreciate the advice, @alpine marsh .

[alpine marsh]

There's a software principle called "Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY for short). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself
The general rationale is that you want a "single source of truth" for your software's logic. There's more nuance to it, of course. I do recommend the book "The Pragmatic Programmer" on this.

As an example, imagine you have a function in two places. If there's any bugs or you want to change something about it, then you have to update it in the same way in both places. If you don't, then that means they either go out of sync (so you have two different versions of the same "tree spawner" in your game) or they are now used for wildly different reasons, even though they share a lot of logic. Both can be confusing.

[steep umbra]

It can be a hell to debug too

[tired kelp]

Ahh okay thank you, I have a better idea of what you mean now! I didn't look at the example you were replying to so I also didn't understand the context but I see. Just try not to rewrite code for very similar actions in other scripts or objects. If I understand correctly.

Thank you! I'll check that book out. Are there any other books or resources you recommend to have very strong C# fundamentals(for game dev ofc as that's my main application) that will also support me at the intermediate level as well?(it's fine if that becomes two different recommendations.) I'm planning on working to publish my first game pretty shortly after I'm done reviewing and getting back to speed with everything I need to be functional and start being able to create original projects(thinking I'll probably start this within 3-4 months)

[cold onyx]

Looks very clean

(Good)

[split talon]

Does anyone know any games that go up in a big spiral, i'm looking for some reference

And am not sure if you can just put a giant spiral in a game and it run

[astral knot]

what do you mean by spiral ?

[split talon]

like going up a slope in a spiral, like walking up a spring

[sudden pendant]

Why can't you "just put a spiral in a game", there's no limitations to what you can do aside from your own abilities.

There's also assets on the store that allow for spiraling straight worlds for the same effect, which makes it easier to create since you can make your game on a straight line.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/curved-world-2020-173251

[upper lake]

Making a top down 2d shooting game, should i use projectiles or raycasts?

[astral knot]

projectiles will add more style to your game

if you add projectiles add glow and trails to your projectiles

[upper lake]

ohk, projectiles will be easier to dodge for the player too, btw arent projectiles (prefabs) much more resource intensive than raycasts? I wonder when that will become a concern

[cold onyx]

yoo

is there a place

where you get models (meshes) etc for your game

like a big library

or smth

or u need to make it by urself

[sudden pendant]

Look on google, there's lots of websites that sell models, including the Unity asset store.

[astral knot]

yes, projectiles are prefabs, i would recommend destroying them after a few seconds.

[cinder hamlet]

if you do it right, they will be fine

projectiles can be done using raycasts as well, you don't have to rely on collisions

you simply raycast every physic frame and move the projectile forward if the ray didnt hit anything

[fathom cypress]

whats another word/term for a tractor beam?

plasmatic retrieval ray

[cinder hamlet]

you answered it or still need help?

[fathom cypress]

lmao nah,

i probably will end up using Tractor Beam

not sure of an alternative term for it, was just trying to be original

Trying to think out of the box, I got a Sun Screen element, instead of calling it that, I call it the Solar Guard, instead of Scanner I use Seeker, etc.. but some things don't have a more creative name, without it losing context..

[winged lion]

In my game you can capture cards…. It’s a card game, but instead of buying packs or something you capture cards from opponents. I got two ideas on how this would work … Idea 1. After the battle you get to see your opponents deck and pick 1 card to take ….. Idea 2. When battling an opponent If you see a card you want you tag it, afterwards If you win the battle you get the tagged card. You would have a finite number of tags.

Opponents aren’t real people just computer

[steep umbra]

How does this work with multiple battles?
Can you fight the same 'person' multiple times? Will they actually lose the card you take? Can you lose cards yourself to the same mechanic?
Because depending on how the cards and synergies work, picking out 1 or 2 cards from a deck might completely ruin it

[winged lion]

Na you only battle opponents once, each map loads in different opponents . You don’t loose cards this same way

Each map consist of like 5-8 card battles, three maps make up a zone etc etc

[steep umbra]

I think idea 1 is better regardless. At least if you can see the opponents deck before fighting them. It'd feel bad to fight someone with the specific goal of getting 1 or 2 cards from them and then never seeing them so you can't tag them with system 2.

Similarly, forgetting to tag cards would result in... not getting any? Not necessarily bad as it could encourage self-imposed challenge runs but forgetting that you need to tag them would leave a real sour taste.

[winged lion]

Ah I see your points. My idea with the tagging is that it would feel more organic like you “saw a creature/card” and now had the option to capture it

But I could see how it could create feel bad stuff and make the card capturing more, idk complicated than it needs to be

[steep umbra]

My main worry after thinking about it would be accidentally leaving players feeling bad and/or hampering their progress because of it.
A lot of people will quite happily go "ewww, that felt awful" and then never play the game again. Alternatively "OK, I f'ed up, I could restart and get back here but that's a bother", with much the same end result. Or at least a temporary break where they leave feeling bad.

[winged lion]

Yeah I see, thank you for the thoughtful reply

[steep umbra]

Glad to be of help 🙂

[desert depot]

Hello, does anyone know good alternatives to mesh colliders that I could use because I made a room in another software that I want to use in unity

[sleek phoenix]

why would that prevent you from using mesh colliders

[desert depot]

Stutters, and it crashing framerates on builds

[sleek phoenix]

then use primitive colliders instead

or model a lower poly version and use that to generate the collider

[desert depot]

how would I do a primitive version?

[sleek phoenix]

use box colliders?

[desert depot]

does anyone know how I would more optimize my game so it doesnt stutter as much at it does

[sleek phoenix]

you should really move to #💻┃unity-talk because its not game design related at this point, but to answer your question, learn to use the profiler to identify which parts of your game are performance heavy

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/Profiler.html

[desert depot]

ok

thanks

[prisma kernel]

im making this cheap knock-off billiard game and I'd like to know if there is anything i can add/change about on the components of the balls to have somewhat realistic feeling billiard physics?

all of them have sphere colliders and rigidbody's

[static harness]

Hi people! I am working on a 2D isometric game but I am not using tilemaps, every screen is entirely drawn by our artists. I am having a super basic question: what's the right approach I should take to keep my characters from walking out of the map? I was thinking about 2 different approaches:

1. Draw a polygon collider covering the map floor and make it keep the characters inside instead of outside, but I am not yet sure about how to do it
2. Draw an edge collider around the map borders, but it can't be a closed shape, right? So I should live a little gap somewhere and it makes me feel uncomfortable

Before to start investing a lot of time in exploring every approach, I thought it would be a good idea to ask what's the general consensus about this issue.

Thanks in advance!

[steep umbra]

You're using monob physics? ECS has its own physics system with Physics Shape and Physics Body in place of colliders and rigidbodies. Other than that, I think it's just adjusting the parameters until you get the desired behaviour?

[prisma kernel]

this is the rigidbody of the balls in the back you hit

The white ball has the same values except that Angular Drag is 0

[prisma kernel]

I dont really know anything about physics behavior in unity so 😅

[steep umbra]

Never mind, brain is bad. I'm working in Unity ECS so I keep seeing everything here as relating to that. I don't know if you're using ECS 😅

[prisma kernel]

Well, Im not because i first of all never heard of ECS and I want to try messing around with ingame unity physics first to try and model billiard physics

If ECS is easy to get into or implement for a complete newbie like me, could you tell me how to use it for billiard physics?

[steep umbra]

ECS is a different way of coding entirely. If you just want to get into Unity, don't think about it for now 👍

[golden hinge]

so I want to make everything with the "Hover" layer to have the red material how would you guys go about doing that

[worthy hollow]

anyone got any tools/websites for sound effects? i need a some prototype sound effects for things like shooting with a staff etc

[wintry briar]

Bfxr is a pretty good app for generating sound effects

[hexed patrol]

If I wanna make a "big" (not open world, but big) rpg game, would you suggest procedural generation (would be more exciting, but less beautiful lol xd) or manual created worlds (not endless then)?

It's about deserts and so on....

[nova void]

Hi, I need a little game idea that I can whip up in unity 3D for a school project in about a week?

[cinder hamlet]

how good are you at unity rn?

[nova void]

Pretty beginner.

[cinder hamlet]

well then you should go for something simple that you can handle

like for example a platformer

remember that you also need to handle the art

and mechanics tend to be like 4 times more complex to make than they seem at first

[split talon]

Hello am not sure the best place tot post this, but I was watching a youtuber video and was wondering what this game is as i love the art style

[sudden pendant]

Ori and the Blind Forest. Also, made in Unity.

[split talon]

Wow that's amazing, do you know if it was a single developer

[sudden pendant]

No, definitely not. The studio is
https://www.orithegame.com/moon-studios/

[split talon]

Great thanks, I've been wanting to make a game with this kind of art style for a while but I had no clue what it was called. And i Don't really play games much anymore

[sudden pendant]

Hand drawn is what it really is, mixed with lots of post processing.

There's probably GDC talks on the game, it's been out for long enough

[vocal kestrel]

Yes, the gdc videos on YouTube are awesome resources.

[patent smelt]

These are the variables that can be slid around like a slider or spectrum in design a tactical FPS?

-Head Hitbox (Valorant has larger hitbox than CS:GO)
-Peeker's Advantage/ Angle Advantage; round off corners
-The map itself (How many angles for shotguns)
-The economy on who gets what weapon
-Damage: If headshot damage is removed then the game turns into trading kills? Can anyone clutch if headshot is removed?
-The system in Valorant incentivizes taking kills from teammates as kills contribute to RR. You are rewarded for pushing into dangerous positions.
-The footsteps/Sound system in Valorant, in theory you have to rely a lot on sound -- also in theory you always know where people are from the sound volume of footsteps.
-Automatic spray/burst/tap. Where weapons autocorrect

---

Am wondering if there are any parameter or variable that can be slid around and changed that I am missing?

(Oh, forgot about one, number of positions Attackers/Defenders can take. Sometimes if Defenders are given a Small Crate and Large Crate for potential cover, it allows for 6+ permutations for where Defenders could be. Meanwhile if attackers must funnel through a chokepoint this is advantage to Defender as Attackers have 2 possibilities while Defenders have 6 possibilities.)

[patent smelt]

One other thing that can be changed would be damage dealt from behind. Like what if all weapons dealt double damage from behind

[remote cobalt]

im giving away my animations, if anyone is interested i can give it 4 free
it's just a reload, appear and fire animation for a shotgun
if anyone needs it, im happy to give.

[cinder hamlet]

you can put them on itch.io for anyone to use

[cold onyx]

yooo

where to get textures

for your game?

[wary halo]

do you have google?

[vocal kestrel]

Do you have GIMP(or Photoshop/equivalent), and a bit of art skill?

[leaden trench]

why does my project look like this? (only in scene view)

nvm fixed lol

[gaunt vessel]

so i was messing with my games urp settings and now im stuck with this problem even after reverting to everything

can someone help fix this

[cold onyx]

Is there a channel where I can ask for help?

Or is it this one here?

[sleek phoenix]

#🔎┃find-a-channel pick the relevant one

[cold onyx]

Ok thanks

[grim garden]

LEGO game idea

[sudden pendant]

@copper anvil You can use the forums for job and collaboration posts. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[steep tundra]

hey can anyone help me about my 2d game issues?

[vocal kestrel]

Lots of people can, be specific what you want.

[split talon]

Can anyone find courses or tutorials on a hand painted 2d game art, I can’t find any anywhere

[humble briar]

anyone know a good resource for coming up with puzzles?

[sleek phoenix]

https://youtu.be/m8lOwrWNbEY

[static harness]

Did anyone have experience with non-tiled isometric rendering? I need an insight on how to handle character's layering

Everything on the internet seems to be either tiled isometric or fully drawn top down/side view

I am going to write my own script to handle it, but I still think it's impossible that unity doesn't have a built-in function for this

[ashen sparrow]

Hello! I develop mobile vertical platformer game. I want to add cloud-saves in my mobile game, i know how to do this, but i want to make multiplayer mode for this game. Not realtime multiplayer mode, maybe something like race mode, where you play game, then the result goes to server, then someone other play game with same map, the results go to server, and the fastest player gets reward (currency, lootbox, etc.). Any ideas, what not realtime multiplayer gamemode i can add to game.
I gonna put link to game in the thread, if you wanna play and say, what gamemode i should add.

[primal cave]

how do i make a vr and pc game?

[cinder hamlet]

start by learning to make a small non-vr game

[primal cave]

ive made a vr one XD

[cinder hamlet]

ok so why are you asking how to do it

[primal cave]

how to make it vr AND pc

[cinder hamlet]

I suppose you should use a different script depending on whether or not there's a VR set connected

[cold onyx]

How do I get this guttural, dark style texturing.

The faces particularly

I want something eerie and creepy, the best I could do was this AI generated face of someone who doesn't exist.

[primal cave]

idk what that code i tho

[ashen sparrow]

this is game design channel, please ask in other channels

[near lotus]

So I'm making a top-down game and I'm not sure which audio editing software to use, I'm currently in need of editing the downloaded audio and match it with the walking animation

[eager horizon]

hey does anyone know of a mobile game that's played in portrait mode (vertical) with character swapping you can do quickly with one hand?

[reef lion]

Hello everyone

[limpid finch]

Ihi

[reef lion]

Can someone please link me a video where i can switch between player and AI in my 2d game

[limpid finch]

?

you want a video...

do you mean where its discribed how to switch or like what

[reef lion]

Meaning a tutorial on how to do it on YouTube

I couldn't find something like that on YouTube

[wary halo]

Do you somehow think that YouTube is the only resource available to you?

[reef lion]

Im very new to game development(actually doing it for a uni project)

So im not really familiar with dev sources

[wary halo]

you are a Uni student and does not know how to research, that just makes it worse

[reef lion]

Thank you

So do you have a solution to my problem?

[wary halo]

yes, use all of the research tools available to you not just YouTube

[reef lion]

Such as?

[wary halo]

google to start with

[reef lion]

The problem is that i dont know how to word my problem

[steep umbra]

Worth noting that this channel is for game design and narrative matters

[reef lion]

My bad

[sudden pendant]

@timid dagger recruitment posts go on the forums. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[timid dagger]

oh okay. thanks

[cursive scarab]

What do you guys think? Any suggestions for improving the looks of this scene?

[gleaming ermine]

Can someone explain how is cubecraft on play store not a direct copyright infringement of Minecraft? Concept is one thing, but these guys have extremely similar textures and models, or is this okay? I never know where is the line drawn with these things

[grim wharf]

Any advice for something similar to a conveyor belt system but it doesn't need to be physics based. Just want to transfer items along a path of objects I place. Or atleast visually look like that

[sudden pendant]

@shadow wedge Recruitment posts go on the forums. #📖┃code-of-conduct

[sudden pendant]

You can look into splines that the objects travel alone on the piece then transfer to the start of then next spline.

Or if you're only allowing simple shapes, then you can just use empty objects as waypoints to move between.

Or just straight math.

[candid dragon]

Sketching out the design for the main character in my game. Wanted him to be equal parts little alien astronaut a-lá Olimar and equal parts fantasy adventurer a-lá Link. This chest piece looks so goofy tho. Any tips on how to make it look better? Or does it look fine? I wish you could see the sword poking the back in the holster, but the chest piece gets in the way. What’s y’all thoughts about it? General feedback is appreciated but my focus rn is on fixing this chest piece lmao

[night shoal]

It looks goofy because the body proportions are off. The legs and arms are too short and the torso is way too long.

[candid dragon]

Oh yeah, the arms are a bit short indeed. Tho the legs are higher up than where you put them, his waist is on the belt line

But thanks for the feedback

[night shoal]

so he's wearing trousers like this

[candid dragon]

Nice

[inland crescent]

I plan on making a game like this eventually so I’m asking now, how do games with multiple endings/routes keep track of what to do?

I was thinking that you’d have a script or something that kept track of what conditions were met and changed things accordingly but I’m not sure if that’s how it’s done

I would rather not make janky as hell code and have to rewrite it all again lol

especially with the branching part, I’m sure there has to be a good way to tell the game “this set of events has to happen, not this one”

maybe a way to group the events so I can collectively disable one and enable the other like I have no idea

[candid dragon]

There’s a program called Twine

It’s free iirc

It’s made specifically for that

@inland crescent https://twinery.org/

[inland crescent]

Oh no way, that’s cool! It looks more like a flowchart sort of thing though, I’m currently making a game that utilizes a branching story, but it still has gameplay in it.

I will definitely be using this to map out the story and events though

[candid dragon]

It’s organized as a flowchart, but it’s meant for telling stories. You can write an entire story based game on twine. Basically, each slot is a slide, and they’re meant to be played from start to finish branching off based on multiple choice input. There are also some advance options for variables and stuff

[inland crescent]

Yeeah that’s really cool, I’m gonna try it

[candid dragon]

You can either do the whole thing on twine or just map out major story beats

[steep umbra]

Twine's a great tool, and yeah, there are some fairly impressive things made purely in Twine too. It's honestly surprising the level of complexity it allows if you get into the guts of it.

[inland crescent]

Seems really useful 👀 thanks for showing me!

[candid dragon]

Looking a lot better now, other than that left boot lmao

[candid dragon]

@night shoal Looking better?

Also do you think it's looking unique enough to not be just "generic indie scrimblo bimblo n. 875438745367"?

[cold onyx]

I think that’s better

[cold onyx]

Hi guys, what's the most outlandish crazy Immersive Sim upgrade you guys can come up with?

[late vapor]

pistols do 5% more damage

that's all I got

[wintry briar]

Bear spawn rate up by 15%

[cinder hamlet]

What kind of immersive sim are we talking about

[cold onyx]

think along the lines of cruelty squad or thief

the open levels with many different ways of clapping your target

[cinder hamlet]

so like, upgrade for weapons? or character ability?

[cold onyx]

any

[cinder hamlet]

grab enemy and shove them into your launcher to use as a projectile

[cold onyx]

yes, that's the kind of stuff

it helps that idea that i can have like 60 ragdolls colliding and take no performance impact

[sly silo]

Hey, is this the right place to ask for ideas for your project?

[sudden pendant]

Yes

[sly silo]

Great, I started a game yesterday and I am struggling on what items to add

[wintry briar]

well, what type of game is it? what type of items do you want?

[candid dragon]

Add a big, oversized, cartoonish mallet

[sly silo]

oh, sorry I missed the chat

[candid dragon]

It doesn't matter what type of game you're making, any game needs a huge mallet

[sly silo]

Thanks! I will definitely add a mallet 🙂

[candid dragon]

Glad to be of help

[cold onyx]

2nd what Paprika said, what kind of game is it?

[river onyx]

fire sword

[vocal kestrel]

What if it's an abstract puzzle game, then weapons might not fit.

Or there is nothing to attack in a different sort of game.

[candid dragon]

A big oversized mallet fits in any game.

We need more mallets in racing simulators.

[vocal kestrel]

I did say might not

[candid dragon]

I once played a game that did not feature a huge cartoonish mallet. I cried for three days straight

[river onyx]

add fortnite kids

boom

something to attack

a puzzle game where you have to solve the puzzle while attacking the fortnite kids with a scar

and they all have a op gun that removes half you hp

so you have to constantly hide

[sudden pendant]

Use a thread please

[lofty grotto]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OxiZ4Raq_w
What is it called when the camera is 3rd person but not orbital around the player and changes based on the level? Like in Skylanders specifically or some other platformers

For example if the gameplay took place in a city square, the camera would most likely face top-down, but if the character was to enter a bridge the camera would transition to a side-view

[candid dragon]

Look at my guy. My funky little man. He's the protag! I just don't know what to name him.

[lofty grotto]

name him Pubert

[terse meteor]

Hello guys, i'm really new to unity and wanna ask about: if my enemy trigger the condition to grab the player while fighting, then what should i will do? Is the grab animation from 1 model ( frome the enemy with sprite of him grab the player frame by frame) or from both? If both then i have to make skeletel model?

Sorry for my bad english!!

[vocal kestrel]

Ask in animation channel or something like that, your question is not really game design related.

[shadow mesa]

I figured this question doesnt fit any other Channel so here i go. I am planning on creating a cute little point and click adventure game, the likes of monkey island for example. On paper it shouldnt be that problematic but im already stumbling on some question.
Is it a better decision to make this project in 2D or 3D? While you mostly have a static screen these games tend to have more depths in their visual representation. Which results in me being a bit confused in what would be better.
Wasnt Hollow knight not technically a 3D game to display depths better?

[humble briar]

Hollowknight uses 3d perspective with objects placed on different z axis

Its gonna be really hard to recommend one over the other because it depends on the requirements of thegame

[cinder hamlet]

technically all Unity games are 3d

it just renders it to look like 2d

using a perspective camera in a 2d game in unity is a pretty easy way to make a parallax background

but it'll only be any useful if the camera isn't static

[shadow mesa]

I see thats quite smart, thanks

[still ether]

anyone using .fbx mesh instead of .png for grass?

[sleek phoenix]

not really game design, for one thing. also its better to ask your actual question instead of "does anyone know how to _____?"

[shadow mesa]

I have a question regarding the moving of objects over a set path. In my game i would like to click on an object and let my player walk to that object. Obviously it would have to follow the normal visually accepted path. A street or something for example. I am thinking of saving the clicked object and put many objects along the path. Continued by sending Rays from the clicked object to the path objects, saving the nearest one and repeat until the nearest object is the playerobject.

But i feel like this solution could be a problem when i add more layers like a spiraled staircase. Is there a documentation / wiki or another simple solution to that problem?

[sick dragon]

Is it crazy to make like 40% of the game not reachable in your first run? I kinda like when games have these whole areas and content you couldve never found

On one hand it could be seen as a huge waste of time making something that might never get played

But on the other, having a bunch of secrets is how you build a fan base right?

Like elden ring has countless secrets you may never find

[still ether]

Where do you recommend I post the question?

[sleek phoenix]

Probably #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[cinder hamlet]

sure just focus on the reachable parts first

If you want to hire people, you can do it in the forums, links are in #📖┃code-of-conduct
But I highly recommend you learn the basics of the engine and go for a simpler project. FPS games are very tough to make and so is managing a team.

[candid dragon]

First time properly planning and designing a system instead of balls-to-the-walling it. Is this how it's supposed to be done? Is this like, a "professional" way of presenting it?

[valid ingot]

hey guys i've completed about 50% of my game, however for the past week i havent felt at all like working on it and am feeling a lot of burnout

how can i get back into working on that game?

[cold onyx]

what are these type of charts called? (nvm)

[cold onyx]

try looking for inspiration by walking outside, watching videos of your games genre, seeing what you want to get done and make a plan to do it

and stay healthy

[cold onyx]

it seems pretty well laid out, maybe try a site like trello which has lists you can use

[candid dragon]

Is this cute & weird or creepy & weird? I was aiming for cute

[prisma kernel]

would anyone know how i would go about adding something that visualizes where the white ball would be pushed to? I aim with the camera but there is no like proper line/cursor/marker to show which exact line the white ball would travel

I was trying around with a line renderer but i couldnt properly code that (i still consider that but i wanna try other ways)

[cinder hamlet]

more creepy

try not to make it similar to existing animals if you want it to not be creepy

[wary halo]

line renderer is the way to go

you implement it cleverly you can even visualise bank shots

[prisma kernel]

I tried but failed miserably 😂 I dont know how to properly make it so that i can make the line renderer change color depending on how much input there is for my push on the white ball

Its like the most important feature i want to implement

[wary halo]

easy
https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/LineRenderer-colorGradient.html

[prisma kernel]

I'll give it a try 👍

[narrow pumice]

Looking for a 2D artist to design visuals for a word game (mobile app) and generate assets for Unity. Remote work, small gig, DM with portfolio if interested. Thanks!

[snow nacelle]

#📖┃code-of-conduct has links where you can post collab/job posts

[exotic axle]

I try to make a 2d game

What s the easiest art style

?

[cinder hamlet]

8x8 pixel art

[candid dragon]

It really really depends

What type of 2D game is it? Do you have any experience with art?

[keen gull]

i m making a maze game with no ending lets see who gonna try it

[cold onyx]

Gonna try what

[strange kite]

This is called a software flow chart

if you want examples of professional usage of layouts, look up UML diagrams. Its another form of planning software design

[static harness]

You are on the right way indeed! If you want to perfect it, adopt a single way to express which branches are "yes" and which ones are "no".
The two "NO" blocks on the right path are the end of the chart or they should also lead to something? For example "go back to the start" or something

[shadow mesa]

How far would you go when it comes to planning. As im not even at the starting line im currently trying to write down everything. For example i have written down a well defined way in how i want my movement to work. I am currently doing that for everything. Each mechanic, possibly each type of sprite that behaves different, each event. Inventory system, saving systems audio systems, menus etc.

I think it might be a bit too much but since its my first project i dont have a reference point. I believe in laying out things vaguely i can later come back to these ideas. Basically doing the same things i do at work one might say.

[vocal kestrel]

If you want your game to be played by more than a few people, marketing is important.

[ivory crest]

If I have a terrain object, Is there a way that I could find the slope of the terrain at a certain point on the terrain?

[main imp]

Best place to find free assets? Like buildings etc.

[sudden pendant]

There's not going to be any good place to find free assets.

[main imp]

I know, but yeah, just any that has some free ones lol

I'm just learning anyways

[sudden pendant]

But there's places sure, Unity asset store, open game art, turbo squid.

[main imp]

Which would you recommend?

[sudden pendant]

It takes no time to just look, so any recommendation is pointless.

[main imp]

I guess yeah, thank you :))

[sudden pendant]

My recommendation is to just buy a pack of assets and move on with whatever you want to get done, if art is important to have up front. 🤷‍♂️

[main imp]

Art isn't really important, I just want something better than this lol

I havn't taken my time to learn any asset designing program really

But I might as well just use this tbf

[grim garden]

Game

[haughty turtle]

a game idea:
A souls like game where if you die, a random system folder is deleted including system32

thoughs?

[visual tide]

If you want to break the law, sure

[tribal stag]

Hey, so what would be the best way to get a background from a repeating image? Here's the background image I have and what I'm going for. What I tried doing is just copy and pasting the image, aligning them as I go, but that takes a long time. Looking for a better method.

[sleek phoenix]

use the repeat setting in the texture import settings

[granite arrow]

We're can I go to ask questions

[sleek phoenix]

plenty of short games out there, so yes

[molten basalt]

Depending on what you're trying to achieve, you'd need a variation of patterns with matching edge cases. But I advise watching this video first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GtnM5z6jM8 Just food for thought.

[sleek phoenix]

if all you have is a story, why does it need to be a game?

[sleek phoenix]

walking sim then

[maiden mulch]

hey so i have this 2D game where when you start you are falling down this whole and you land on a white glowing platform and you hear a telephone sound, you meet this character eventually after going forward, he says something and what i want to do is have it so that it somehow transitions to this night area

how do i somehow go from a void to a night area

[sudden pendant]

@cold onyx This isn't the place to beg for free work. Go look online.

[cosmic fog]

if(Input.GetButtonDown(""))

what can i put in the quotes to make the input the w key?

[topaz bough]

Remove quotes and type keycode.w

[cosmic fog]

ok

it says keycode doesnt exist in the conext

if (Input.GetButtonDown(keycode.w));

did i write it wrong?

[steep umbra]

capitalisation, KeyCode.W

[cosmic fog]

oh ok

[steep umbra]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/KeyCode.html

[cosmic fog]

it says it cant convert unityengine.keycode to string

[steep umbra]

Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.Space)

[cosmic fog]

my character just flys, is something wrong with this

    {
        Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.W);

        RB.AddForce(new Vector2(RB.velocity.x, jump));
    }

RB represents RigidBody2D btw

it flys if jump is set to anything over 1

[night shoal]

Why did you remove the if part

[cosmic fog]

my bad

[night shoal]

also this has nothing to do with game design, move over to #💻┃code-beginner

[finite tendon]

In the Unity Course: Create with Code, it is not coming up with tutorial 1.2 however there is 1.1 and 1.3. Can anyone tell me why and help me fix it?

[snow nacelle]

#💻┃code-beginner message

[finite tendon]

Thanks!

[finite tendon]

While doing the tutorial 1.2 (as previously mentioned) the obstacle goes through my vehicle. Can anyone explain this/help me fix it?

[snow nacelle]

not a game design question, also use mp4 rather than mkv for videos you upload to discord. but either you don't have colliders on the objects, you are moving via the transform which doesn't really respect physics, or if you are expecting the obstacle to be pushed away it doesn't have a rigidbody

[finite tendon]

I followed the tutorial, in which it is different

this is the vehicle's components

and this is the obstacle's

Also, yes it is via transform but that's what it said in the tutorial and I don't know how to do anything else

[sudden pendant]

This isn't a game design issue. Move it to #💻┃unity-talk. You can't move things via transform and have collisions work.