archived-game-design

[keen gull]

how to open unity?

[visual tide]

Double click the Unity Hub icon on your desktop

[cold onyx]

You should make a tutorial on this

Video tutorial better

[azure cliff]

When starting game design, what do you guys think is the most important things to learn at first
And can it be summed up in a lesson/small project

And how much will I need to learn at first

[sleek phoenix]

game design is such a hilariously broad field that there isn't a "most important thing". The best way to get started is to, well, make games

[vocal kestrel]

Of you don't know anything about computers, you can always start with tabletop games.

[azure cliff]

I know some about computers lol

[azure cliff]

Let’s be a bit more specific, what if I wanted to make a kingdom hearts/souls like game? Knowing that’ll it take a long time of course

I don’t really know how I’m gonna go about approaching a project like this with the little know how I have

[wary halo]

May I suggest you google 'how to write a game design document' to start with

[azure cliff]

Oh?

[azure cliff]

Helpful website, Danke

[wary halo]

bitte schoen

[limpid burrow]

I've got one big issue that is what is stopping me from finishing my app that I want to build. Can someone dm me and walk me through the steps to get a VR Oculus scene that accepts input from an Oculus controller?

[sudden sparrow]

I just watched the devlog video for Late Night Mop and I realized that i spent the past 2 weeks doing almost the same thing 😭

I need to find something to make my game more original but I'm stuck

[sleek phoenix]

don't know why you're asking here when you've asked in #🥽┃virtual-reality before. I doubt anyone would be willing to walk you through the entire process though, thats a huge time commitment

[limpid burrow]

I keep getting sent to tutorials that work for 5 minutes and then I get blocked off from continuing because of a failure of Unity or something

[sleek phoenix]

you generally want to learn how to debug that kind of thing yourself instead of throwing it all away for another tutorial

[sudden sparrow]

Would someone be nice enough to help with me with the narrative of my game and the game mechanics? I'd like to get basic feedback (I've never talked to anybody about that game on purpose and I need objective opinions) and overall help to make the game go in the right direction

[buoyant turret]

should the player be able to respawn on a moving platform?

[sudden pendant]

What reason would you not?

If it would cause them to reach the other side, then probably not. If the platform resets, then probably not an issue.

[buoyant turret]

so the platform won t reset,atleast for now

im talking about a respawn like in hollow knight where if you hit something like a spike you get respawned even tho you didn t die

[limpid burrow]

The tutorial sent to me told me to add in xr and whatnot. I did exactly what the tutorial said and it wouldn't finish building. So I started over with a brand new scene and my computer died JUST before it finished building so I lost my motivation to keep going. All this trouble to get unity to recognize input from an oculus controller

[sinful sigil]

i want to make some objects appear infront of others even when behind, i know there are 2 ways to do this, with 2 camera or a shader, as I am doing a webgl game which option will be the least expensive?

[narrow panther]

Hey, so I have a feature in mind of a game I'm making, but I'm not sure how to go about it. It's a first person game, and I want to make it so that the player can press and hold a button to look over their shoulder, returning the camera to normal when they release the button. The hold and release part is easy enough, but I'm not sure how best to do the camera shift... I'd like for them to still be able to move the mouse to look around some while looking backwards, but to a limit as they aren't actually turning their character. Likewise, I want the change in view to be independent of their movement. So for example they could be running away in a straight line and look over their shoulder to see if they're being chased without having to change the direction of their movement.

[cinder hamlet]

are you sure this is necessary? I think it'd be more comfortable to just let the player sprint in any direction

[narrow panther]

I'm not sure I understand... They can sprint in any direction regardless, I just want to give them the ability to look behind them while running. For context, this is a horror game.

[cinder hamlet]

then the player can just turn around while running, without any additional mechanic

that would be more intuitive

[narrow panther]

Have you ever tried sprinting backwards? And besides, in order to do that, the player would have to change the buttons their pressing and just hope they end up going where they want to go because they aren't looking. This way they can look back without ever changing what buttons their pressing to run.

I acknowledge that it's a small feature that some people would never choose to use, but including it takes nothing away from the gameplay, so I see no reason not to include it.

[cinder hamlet]

the thing is, using the shoulder look would lock the player's movement direction, preventing them from making adjustments. The only use case I see for this is if you only let the player sprint forward.

A lot of first person games let the player run in any direction and it's not hard to just change the buttons and look back normally

it's intuitive

and the shoulder look feature sounds rather unintuitive

[narrow panther]

Agree to disagree then.

[cold onyx]

Look how Dying Light does this

should help

[narrow panther]

I didn't realize any recent games used any similar mechanics. I don't own the game, and I'm having trouble finding any videos. Can you recommend any that showcase it?

[cold onyx]

the first night has a segment that tutorializes it if i remember correctly

https://youtu.be/fQI_w6PisW0

you can get Dying Light for super cheap on sale if you want to see how it plays / feels

[narrow panther]

Ah, I see! Thank you. Interesting... It does look pretty much like what I have in mind. I'm kind of wrestling with if I should have a secondary camera pointing back over the player's shoulder and just swap between them or if I should actually turn the main player camera similar to how Dying Light seems to do it...
My game will have multiplayer and character customization eventually, so I had kind of thought that it might be a good opportunity to use a secondary camera and pull it out so it's actually a fixed third person camera so you can actually see your character looking back over their shoulder/ turning their torso back slightly. But I feel that would take a lot of extra animation work, rather than just animating them turning their head as I would with moving the first person camera.

[cold onyx]

well the former with a simple animation is how I'd go about it

remember almost anything can be animated

[azure cliff]

man, i really didn't think making a GDD would be difficult but it is, especially since i don't even have most of the story i want to use actually complete

this process is going to take a long while

which is fine, i expect this kind of project to take absolute years

had an idea it might be easier to do a ps2 styled game with big open chunks to explore and such, definitely leaves plenty of room for improvement but i dunno

[sudden sparrow]

You can definitely sprint backwards. You'll only risk tripping over something xD

[azure cliff]

The moment you write more and more then remember all the lore you made, so you start realizing the scope of this project

It’s grown out of control since day 1, wonder if it’d still be worth it

Unless I simply do parts and release bits at a time in a continuous story

[cinder hamlet]

well that tends to happen a lot

[buoyant turret]

how do i get good at level design?

i mean this looks bad af :/ idk how to make levels lol

[cinder hamlet]

-learn theory
-make levels
-ask people to test your levels
-learn from your mistakes
-take inspiration from existing games

[buoyant turret]

where do i learn theory?

[cinder hamlet]

online, for example on youtube

1 sec let me check

[cinder hamlet]

Game Maker's Toolkit has some nice level design tutorials

and also game design in general

https://www.youtube.com/@GMTK

check them out, his tutorials are amazing

[vocal kestrel]

That's when you give up on a game and write a book. And then in 10 years when your book is famous, some big company will want to make a game of it and you can work on it.

[cinder hamlet]

and then they make it a mobile f2p mmorpg

[dense talon]

Hey, got a question regarding save files stored in a games iOS/android cloud saves, could the person owning said accounts edit their saves or is that only allowed for the application saving the files?

[azure cliff]

i refuse.

like hell i'd ever be able to write a decent book

now i'm wondering, as i'm officially starting, do i tackle some blender first? or learn some unity basics? or fall down a rabit hole of switching on and off

actually the main question is where do i even begin after the GDD

[sleek phoenix]

make pong

[azure cliff]

Fair enough

[sturdy wind]

Is making 3D firearms that arent exacly the most barebone basic things in unity a funny idea?

[sudden pendant]

What does that even mean?

[sturdy wind]

Firearm with a good degree of detail.

But still not near AAA quality.

[visual tide]

I don't see how it's funny

[sturdy wind]

Making just a rely bad 3D asset that shoots cubes seems not as intresting

[sudden pendant]

So don't? What's the issue here?

Many games make use of guns of varying levels of detail and quality. You're not going to fall outside what's already been done successfully.

[sturdy wind]

I know that. 🙂

Fallout 4 was a AAA galme known for some poor quality default content for example.

But Im just imagining a small hobby project.

[sudden pendant]

But what's the actual issue you're having with your game design regarding guns?

[sturdy wind]

I'm just curious of how ambitious is to make them have some degree of detail.
Stuff like reload and shooting animations.

[sudden pendant]

Not at all?

[sturdy wind]

🙂

[glacial wind]

Hey, I need some advice. Im currently working on a fps parkour game. You can morph into different "Robots" which are spread over the map. Some have grappling hooks, some the ability to wallrun. My Question is: How to make the morph effect more interesting. Currently the old robot camera gets turned off and the new robots camera turned on. So its like a cut in a movie. But how can I make this process more interesting and make it look more polished?

[vocal kestrel]

@glacial wind think about the lore/etc. of it. when you switch robots, what are they doing? copying their operating systems? switching driver control? make your animations based on that.

[late vapor]

you can probably mask the fact that you're just swapping the models with particles

[glacial wind]

Sorry for the late answer. Had to eat.
You are playing an AI which escapes out of an Laboratory. The scientist have build several robots with different abilities. But after an accident they turned every robot off and ''killed" every AI. You somehow survived the extinction. You are inside the system and control a security camera. You can see a robot laying in a cage. You hack yourself inside a controlpanel and open the cage. Then you morph into the robot. (Your code gets uploaded into the robot) now you can run around and kill scientist. For different parkour elements you need different robots. Which lay in cages around the map.

[azure cliff]

so, when coming up with the game itself, i have the story all figured out, but, what else should i plan before i actually start using blender and unity?

i feel like style would be one right?

[sleek phoenix]

by the time you are proficient enough to actually be able to implement your idea your tastes would have changed. Start learning the tools now instead of theorizing what you can do with them

[azure cliff]

along with gameplay and whatnot, but, it feels like if i don't figure it all out now, then it'll be a mess later when i get to it

[sleek phoenix]

i hope you're not planning to make this your first project

[azure cliff]

oh no, this is after i take on a few smaller projects

[sleek phoenix]

then make those first, learn your limitations, and come back to this later

[azure cliff]

that's true

though i don't think the process of learning the original stuff will take long, i just wanna be sure because i'll still be putting focus into the game i want to make while i'm learning

getting ideas down

fleshing things out

if that makes sense

[sleek phoenix]

no plan survives contact with the enemy

[azure cliff]

a plan can be made while you are training

the plan will obviously change during that time of course, i'm accounting for that

[sleek phoenix]

also, lol

don't think the process of learning the original stuff will take long

[azure cliff]

i know how it'll take, and i know how long the project could take

so i'd rather not be brushed off as ignorant for wanting to prepare and gather information while i'm learning

that way when i do reach the point i'm plenty confident enough to start, i don't NEED to spend the extra time paper planning

i know well that learning can take beyond a year depending on what i want to do

[sleek phoenix]

just saying planning your dream game right now is likely a waste of your time
you're free to write stuff down as you learn the tools but doing it right now isn't going to be very productive imo

[azure cliff]

of course, what did you think i was going to do, go straight into it?

i'm taking notes as i'm learning, i've made points in the Documents i have for my game that things are likely to change

[sleek phoenix]

idk you've been in this channel for a while, could have learned some unity basics by now

[azure cliff]

i chose to go for the blender route for a little bit

and i know a few things about blender, not enough to make a game, but a little bit to get me going

i'm not going to make direct decisions just from what i've gathered, i just want to know about the things i SHOULD be thinking about

while i am planning

so that when i reach that point i won't need to worry about thinking about all the little nitknacks

so if you're not going to provide a suitable answer then i don't understand what your point is here

[sleek phoenix]

there's nothing you should be worrying about, thats my point. work on it as you learn, planning every single nitty detail ahead is a waste of time

[azure cliff]

maybe there's a misunderstanding

i'm not talking entirely technical

i'm talking about the wallpaper the presides over the drywall

[sleek phoenix]

Yes, and my point still stands

[azure cliff]

deterrent

i'm not entirely convinced it is a waste of time

yes i know things will change, the current idea won't last, which is why while i'm practicing, i can plan for change.

i really don't WANT to be thinking about everything after the fact, as it'll just take even more time

so, try and convince me that thinking about the project at a constant while i'm working towards it is a waste of my time

taking small notes and revising the story to match with the flow

[sleek phoenix]

I already said think about it as you learn, I'm saying whatever details you do before you even start getting a grasp on the tools is a waste of time

if you do it later you'll actually know your abilities and limitations instead of working around a theoretical

[azure cliff]

well i obviously wasn't going to do it before, but, i think you misunderstood.

i do not intend to simply come to a decision

[sleek phoenix]

your original question was "so, when coming up with the game itself, i have the story all figured out, but, what else should i plan before i actually start using blender and unity?"

[azure cliff]

yes

[sleek phoenix]

my answer to that is "nothing"

[azure cliff]

i've worked on the story for a very long time

guess i did phrase that wrong

i should have asked, what can i think about while i'm learning blender and unity

what things can i think about that won't force me into corners or make mistakes

though maybe it'd be easier to answer it myself than to have someone tell me it's a waste of time to be coming to choices while i work

[sleek phoenix]

imo, its better to work towards a prototype with all the core gameplay loops and get that playable and iterate on that

[azure cliff]

i also did say i didn't want to think about technical, i already know i'm going to be doing prototypes, seeing what sticks

that's for later

i mean for the games designs, not how combat will work, i mean, it'll be good to collect ideas and try them, but that's not exactly what i'm talking about

[sleek phoenix]

but combat is part of the game's design?

[azure cliff]

i'm just looking for what others think may be good to think on while i work towards the goal, aesthetic wise, maybe a tiny bit of technical, if it fits and isn't going to affect the main flow

well obviously

but that's not what i meant, i know combat's apart of the design process, but i mean outside of the stuff that'll evolve with how i learn

maybe i'm just a bit too confusing

[marsh edge]

anyone know anything ab SQL lol

[sleek phoenix]

like I said, asking for ideas around these vague design questions isn't exactly helpful at this stage. If you're literally just looking for an artstyle I guess you can just look at other games for inspiration

[sleek phoenix]

not exactly a game design question, so no

[azure cliff]

maybe it'll just be best to think about this stuff as it comes to, as i know i'm not going to come anything major, but this early on, even in planning stages i feel like it'd be good to think and not come to choice

for instance, the things i'm already going to be thinking about is the combat, aesthetic, little niches, level layouts and whatnot

but i'm not coming to a decision, i just wanted to know what others think about when designing a game

instead of being told to think about it later

[sleek phoenix]

I would just say look at other GDDs as reference 🤷
I'm obviously not a designer myself, I've just seen my share of overambitious projects

with too much planning and not enough doing

[azure cliff]

what would you describe as overambitious, besides the too much planning

because i only really want to plan the paint and maybe some of the level design (only as i go of course)

and the paint will change, because monster hunter rise seems kinda fun as of late-

[sleek phoenix]

beginners thinking they'll make the next fortnite or mmo or jrpg

[azure cliff]

that's

ah, no, this is just a passion project

[sleek phoenix]

passion projects can still be overambitious

[azure cliff]

it'll also look good on a resume if it's a good game, if i were to go for a game studio job, depending if the studio uses the same engines

that's fair

[sleek phoenix]

how about this: what is your game?

[azure cliff]

well the original idea (that i'm just using as a base) is a bit along the lines of KH1, or something along the ps2 era, and yeah, i know it'll probably take an ungodly amount of time

or maybe not, depending on how well i figure things out, who knows

wanted to separate the game into bits, develop each bit differently as i learn

stopping as i please and using it as points of growth, look back on each version and change things up

[sleek phoenix]

saying KH1 isn't exactly descriptive. do you just mean the combat and levels? gummi ships? characters? disney license?

[azure cliff]

ah, specific

combat i wanted to have it like a more grounded KH1, it's a bubbly game

levels similar, though the idea is floating around to give weapons levels as well, swing faster and such

but i also wanted to do some kind of stamina system so you couldn't spam and had to watch yourself, a lot of it is still a thought though, so it may change as i learn

and definitely no disney

character wise i had the idea of a switchout system with a few characters, having a classic RPG character system for combat, so you'd switch out donald for herc (in the sense if it were disney) at whatever point in the game you'd like

of course the character stuff would only happen after i finish the protagonist and their niches

which is why i'm separating it into several bits so i don't get frustrated working on one BIG project

[sleek phoenix]

ok gonna be frank here, even an experienced developer is not gonna be able to finish this in a decade

[azure cliff]

not on their own, probably not

buuut i still wanna do it

even if it's not everything i described

what's your thought, what would be manageable

[sleek phoenix]

even polishing up a combat prototype is going to take you years

so the question is, what are you willing to cut?

and do you ever want to finish the project

[azure cliff]

probably the character system, leave it to one extra character, maybe the weapon level up system, maybe stamina, but that ones pretty enticing

i know unlike KH i didn't want to do magic

and as far as finishing the project

nope, unless i can get a team up and going for it, nope, it'll just be passive, i do still want to eventually work in the game design market, but i've shoved any hope of ever finishing the story into a pit unless some studio likes the concept enough and asks me to, which, again, i've shoved into a pit

chances are "finishing it" will be me just making comics

it's a passion project to simply grow, but i still wanted to think of things

passive project focused on just growing and doing more art stuff, because i know it's at least going to help in my art

along with understanding how developers think

[sleek phoenix]

eh, at least you recognize that I guess. That makes it even more reason not to think about that many details at this stage tbh, and you're more likely to waste less time thinking about it later when you have a better grasp on the development process

[azure cliff]

that's true, it won't stop me from coming up with ideas that'll eventually change though, kinda hard NOT to

a small bit of me hopes that if i can atleast pull off a few versions i can get a group of people interested enough to help me

but that's a low chance

[sleek phoenix]

coming up with ideas as you go along is fine, but sitting down and planning a bunch of details without any development experience isn't

[azure cliff]

well yeah, it's not like i meant to plan a bunch of details without the experience, i wish merely to think

maybe if i do well enough i can get myself hired somewhere lol

not tryna be the next undertale

[sleek phoenix]

thinking is part of planning

getting a job is a whole other beast

[azure cliff]

hahah yeah

oh to work at a large company, though, if i develop more skills, i'll be more valuable

the idea of being a concept artist is nice, which was actually my main drive to do this project

to do concept art

but then to develop another skill for that concept art

[sleek phoenix]

yeah uh you're not going to be a better concept artist by making a whole ass game

[azure cliff]

actually, having talked to a few artists in the business, they talk about how their art has vastly improved, especially with the modeling department

so that's not entirely true, the coding parts just a personal goal

[sleek phoenix]

okay but not a game as huge as yours and probably not by themselves

[azure cliff]

hmm, still wanna do it, it'd be a fun process, as aggravating as it will also be

[sleek phoenix]

you become a better concept artist by making concept art. That means actually working on a team on a project and learning what the team needs from your art, and how to make designs suitable for the project you're on

you can only learn so much by working solo

[azure cliff]

guess i didn't think about that, arts not good enough to do concept art now so it's solo riding until i find a project thats looking for members

but i assume by all that, you are saying to go and join a team of some kind

you keep mentioning how it would take too long solo, and how it's not going to be done solo

[sleek phoenix]

well yeah, game dev is rarely a solo endeavor for a reason

[azure cliff]

that's true

certainly never going to tackle music or sound on my own holy hell

[sleek phoenix]

if your ultimate goal is to get a job, then joining a team and working on projects is probably the best way to boost your portfolio

[azure cliff]

of course

but i don't see the use in joining a team without having the experience

so making whatever i can with this game will still provide good experience

[sleek phoenix]

plenty of gamejam teams take people with 0 experience

[azure cliff]

a h?

[sleek phoenix]

ideally you'd know some engine basics but thats usually good enough

[azure cliff]

a h..

that's an idea that's now existing

maybe you can explain a little more?

since obv solo isn't the way, i'm still going to do solo for a little bit, but, i do wanna know more about this

[sleek phoenix]

do you know what a gamejam is?

[azure cliff]

it's a kind of event right?

[sleek phoenix]

yes, and?

[azure cliff]

it's an indie game event where people show off games?

that's as far as i know

i've been interested in making games for awhile, but, i never thought about gamejams

[sleek phoenix]

not quite, its a thing where people get together to make games within a short period of time, like 3 days or a week, usually centered around a theme

[azure cliff]

ah ?

is it a local thing?

[sleek phoenix]

global game jam has local events, but many of them are online

ludum dare is coming up actually https://ldjam.com/

but a lot of them are on itch https://itch.io/jams

[azure cliff]

suppose these may look good on a resume if i did go through with them

working on multiple teams to develop a game of a specific theme

[sleek phoenix]

if you come out with a game you're willing to showcase, sure

[azure cliff]

i am now stuck at the dilemma, i guess i could work solo but still attend these events

still learning while learning

[sleek phoenix]

the thing about gamejams is they're not a huge time commitment, so its fine to just take a few days to work on something new with other people

[azure cliff]

which is why i feel it'd be nice to join one

i'm still nervous, working in teams has NEVER been my strong suit, even at work, i did everything better solo, so this stuff is a completely different direction

suppose it'll be healthy

[sleek phoenix]

you have to work in a team when you have a job, so its inevitable

[azure cliff]

that's true

god, thanks for telling me about this stuff though, i might've come off as a bit rude, sorry if i did

not going to put the idea on the back burner though, it'll still be something to do while i'm doing whatever else

you know what, i think i will join this game jam

see if it works out

[cinder hamlet]

going solo is an option too usually

when looking for a team be careful that you dont end up with someone who will stop caring halfway through

happened to a surprising amount of people during GMTK jam 2022

[lone mulch]

Is there a channel for jobs and stuff? Looking for 3d modeling work

[sudden pendant]

Not here, no. You can post on the forums #📖┃code-of-conduct

[lone mulch]

ok

[nova plover]

I'm giving myself a challenge to try and make a small game slice based on this prompt I came up with "a point-and-click adventure, but remove either the point or the click part of the game."

I can certainly figure things out on the "point-only" method where your character will only move to or interact with items you hover your cursor over, but I'm curious how someone would do a "point-and-click game but you can only click"?

[sudden pendant]

How about a game where left click = left path and right click = right path. So it's a bit of a choose your own adventure. Dialogue can be satisfied by also using left/right to choose between two options.

Or, a side scrolling point-and-click (like curse of monkey island), where you just use left/right clicks to move the character. When you're near something you can interact with, clicking both mouse buttons will do so. No pointing needed.

[nova plover]

That is an interesting idea...I can perhaps take that idea further by making middle mouse button the interact button or something.

Alternatively, a point and click adventure using text commands can also qualify perhaps. For example, you type the command to the player ("walk to door") and then just click on the left mouse button to confirm it, or the right mouse button to cancel it.

[unique oracle]

I was making a space game and i was not sure about the player ship.
What do you think about these ships?
The player ship will evolve from 1 to 8

[vocal kestrel]

And I'm pretty sure games like Celeste, the witness, and others all started as game jam projects.

[vocal kestrel]

The ships are amazing, but don't look right for progressing from 1 to 8

[unique oracle]

What changes would you advice?

[vocal kestrel]

I think mainly the transitions from 4-5, and then 6-7 look a bit off

5-6 a little bit too

[unique oracle]

So if I make 5 a bit more similar to 4 and then 6 more similar to 7?

[vocal kestrel]

But I suggest you get more feedback from others first, someone else might say the opposite of me.

[unique oracle]

ok, tnx

[wild meadow]

What sort of things should I keep in mind when deciding desktop vs mobile?

[snow nacelle]

do you want your game to run on a computer? then choose desktop
do you want your game to run on a smartphone or tablet? then choose mobile
those are pretty much the most important considerations when deciding between targeting desktop and mobile

[wild meadow]

Well by run on a smartphone, do you mean from the app store or from a web page?

[snow nacelle]

from the app store. unity's webgl doesn't really support mobile very well at the moment

[wild meadow]

Yes now I just have to get that bolted into my memory so I stop forgetting it.

[finite yoke]

should clouds be marshmallowy or thin and wispy

[finite yoke]

wow, it looks interesting. Is there any place I can see devlogs or progress? will thsi game be released?

[cold onyx]

bro number 4 looks like a god ship

yea I just thought the same

4 > 8

[sour anvil]

There's an old coin-op game where your ship evolves as you pick up drops. If you don't pick up anything for a while, it starts de-evolving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwNzHw7dUYE

[unique oracle]

Ah, mine will be like haunting aliens and then you upgrade ship parts (damage/speed...) And when max out your ship upgrade and so on...

[unique oracle]

@vocal kestrel @finite yoke @cold onyx @cold onyx
What do you think about the order now?

[cold onyx]

looks better it gradually upgraded bigger that’s better!

[unique oracle]

What do you think about the drag lines? Too much? Should I remove them?

[cold onyx]

i think on the last ship there is a little bit to much so maybe lower the amount on that ship?

[unique oracle]

[vocal kestrel]

What all would I need to know how to do to be able to make a two player card game?

[sudden pendant]

It's impossible to list every little thing. You need to know how to make games.

If you're asking this question, you're not ready for multiplayer.

[vocal kestrel]

I've made a few small projects by myself, including a two player pong-ish game that worked over lan

[sudden pendant]

Then, what about a card game is the issue? Seems like you're relatively well equipped to make an attempt if that's the case.

[vocal kestrel]

Ok, thanks, just wondering if there was anything specific.

[sudden pendant]

There's nothing special on the multiplayer side of things. Being turn based, it should be relatively simple. The hardest part will not even be that, it'll be the actual gameplay.

[vocal kestrel]

I was thinking of doing paper prototypes first

[sudden pendant]

Always better to prototype anything first yep

Being multiplayer, and a card game, paper would be the easiest way to know if it's worth spending time on.

[lament mango]

looks like im not the only one that wants to make a card game

[cold onyx]

Yes, I second this. Netcode for Gameobjects is a different beast entirely.

EVERYTHING you do has to go through the host then be sent back to all players

i had to remove it from one of my projects because of just how long it takes to sync even the smallest things

then bugtest every little aspect of it

there are a few good additions to help you though, like clientside transform sync

[finite yoke]

looks very nice!

[cunning rover]

Has anyone has any reference for Need For Speed Mapping that takes place at bottom left in unity?
I wanted to use that kinda thing

[hollow forge]

can someone tell me a horror game idea? I tried asking ChatGPT but it gave me only At Dead Of Night but just different plot. (something unique)

[cold onyx]

how creative do you want to get? @hollow forge

[hollow forge]

i don't know really. I don't want to go in a style where everything is magic. I really want it to be kind of realistic while also featuring small magic things.

[cold onyx]

the issue with writing or designing horror games is that everything you can think of has been done to some extent.

small magic things? how do you mean

[hollow forge]

like idk. maybe some items that look magic or contain magic abilities

[cold onyx]

what is the source of the magic?

interdimensional gateway? already in universe?

[hollow forge]

i think that already in universe.

[cold onyx]

so where does the horror come in

[pseudo yacht]

hey where channel support

[cold onyx]

what type of support you need?

[hollow forge]

idk. maybe some jumpscares.

where you gotta move, complete puzzles and things

[cold onyx]

how about a black book of banned spells is stolen out of protection and opens a gateway to a realm of pure evils

then these beings of unfathomable horror escape and you're tasked with banishing them

[pseudo yacht]

I can't download Unity

[cold onyx]

some creative freedom in enemy design

[cold onyx]

best channel to ask would probably be #💻┃unity-talk

[pseudo yacht]

ty so much

[cold onyx]

each enemy type could have it's own uniquely designed area of varying levels of horror

i.e. a forest with a known being somewhere inside and as you're exploring the trees get stranger and stranger until you see them start to move then realise they aren't trees but the contorted bodies of these demons

[pseudo yacht]

Uhh ! No one answered me 😦

[cold onyx]

would be better than a jumpscare imo, because it would build a lot of tension around the environments. and can really make you uncomfortable when you figure out they were all around you the whole time

[cold onyx]

it's the most popular channel, just wait a little

[hollow forge]

no responses come immediatly. u gotta wait. we all do. if someone isn't online on the respective channel, please wait.

[pseudo yacht]

Okay, I understand

[cold onyx]

although, my personal favourite type of horror is Capitalist Body Horror featured in like only 2 games. Cruelty Squad and Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.

look how cool this design is

[pseudo yacht]

Oh no ! Cringe !!!!!!

[cinder hamlet]

it's intended to look disgusting

[boreal finch]

can anyone help me i need a 2d sprite rpg design with animations "top-down"
ref-

[sudden pendant]

Are you asking someone to make an entire sprite with animations for you? This isn't the place to ask for free handouts.

[boreal finch]

No i m asking if someone has a link to a free asset set or something like that 🙂

[sudden pendant]

Just search Google 🤔

[boreal finch]

I did for like 4hrs straight

[sudden pendant]

Nobody has any secret database of perfect artwork. Whatever you found is what's available.

[pastel portal]

hey guys iam new to unity and i just started in learning it and i have already aproblem

[boreal finch]

Well I was just asking no need to be rude

[pastel portal]

can any body help me

[sudden pendant]

Nobody is being rude. You asked and you've been given an answer.

[boreal finch]

#💻┃code-beginner

[sudden pendant]

Noone can help if they don't know the problem. Feel free to ask in a relevant channel (this is game design). #🔎┃find-a-channel

[pastel portal]

thx

[boreal finch]

Okk thanks for your Answer

[pastel portal]

bro stop being rude

[cinder hamlet]

check on itch.io, theres a lot of nice free assets there

[cinder hamlet]

just say what your problem is

don't ask to ask

you can just ask directly

[buoyant turret]

is it bad if my character has super short legs?

[steep umbra]

Depends on the size on the screen, the mood of the game and a lot other things I'd say.
Lots of character designs have humanoid body shape but certain aspects being very small and others being very large to emphasise certain characteristics, e.g. large arms and hands because this baddie is going to slap you

[unique oracle]

Is it more cost efficient to have 20 box collider in an object or a single mesh collider?

[wary halo]

difficult question, it will depend on the complexity of your mesh collider. In general multiple primitive colliders are more efficient than a mesh collider

[unique oracle]

ty for the info

[cold onyx]

Yoo, I was wondering how textures are done, because when I downloaded a texture i got AmbientOcclusion, Color, Displacement and NormalGL files that somehow are merged in games. Could someone explain it?

[wary halo]

I think you are confusing Textures with Materials

[steep umbra]

They're different things used primarily for lighting. Color is just plain color, the base color for the object, Normal represents the surface normal, the vector going perpendicular to the surface and is used to add depth to the texture ("crinkly surface" basically), AmbientOcclusion has a somewhat similar effect but it's kind of like self-shadowing from environmental light (so not light sources, just the light that's ever present).
Displacement I think is the one used for actually adjusting the vertices - another depth type thing for visual quality.

And as Steve said, they're for materials, not textures.

[cold onyx]

thxx

[heady lantern]

is it ok to make terrains using unity shapes

are there like drawbacks than making the whole thing in blender

[alpine marsh]

There is a dedicated 'Terrain' asset / gameobject. It provides terrain-specific tools but it can be pretty expensive performance-wise. If you're making a game for mobile I would recommend modelling it in Blender, otherwise it's more flexible to use the Unity Terrain system.

[sudden pendant]

@hollow moth There's no off topic here.

[hollow moth]

Sorry, boss.

[brisk yew]

Hey guys how do I make the bars not change their size depending on screen resolution

pic 1:

pic 2:

How can I scale it based on screen resolution?

[brisk yew]

solved

[vital void]

@gritty pike Do you mind if I ask you some more questions about the shader baker in DMs? I got it to work at runtime but there's some issues.

[cold onyx]

How do you think a zombie game like this would play like? With that far camera and hordes

[sudden pendant]

@brisk yew #🖼️┃2d-tools

[wintry briar]

I thinks it's too far away. Or make the zombies bigger and the buildings a bit smaller

But it seems like a cool game idea

[cold onyx]

I'll tweak it and i'll see if it goes somewhere

[weary thicket]

It depends on the type of game. For an RTS it can be fine.

[granite kindle]

how about displaying the shooting direction (like an arrow pointing at the direction if the player can shoot manually)

[gilded plover]

Looks cool, you can put in massive hordes this way. No need for crazy polycounts with that distance

[sinful sigil]

if i have a bunch of objects in the scene that are disabled will that affect performance?

im making a fps multiplayer game and rather than changing the scene I want to just enable the different maps in the same scene

[candid haven]

how hard would it be to build a 2D game world based on bitmaps? black values of 255 would become walls and floors, white values of 255 also for example could become spawn points

[sudden pendant]

Don't think it would be. Harder still would be someone translating those colours into meaning. Unless you swap them out with sprites, but then you just have a normal 2D world.

[lavish pier]

Hello, budding Unity user here, I am having some trouble with colliders in my first ever project. I've been searching for similar issues/solutions for 2 days now but with no luck. The red area is blocking movement even though there is no collider attached to that location. I am very new to game design/dev (started this week!)

[cold onyx]

Do the player contact points show anything?

[lavish pier]

I'm not familiar with the term, would you elaborate a little? The player has a quite small capsule collider inside its sprite.

[cold onyx]

Go into the player's collider and there it should show the contacts

On info > contacts

[grizzled tree]

i need help brainstorming ideas. im making a game for a game jam where its a platformer and you are tiny and need to jump to the top to escape. i need ideas on what that place that the player is escaping from could be. suggestions?

[cold onyx]

The player is a demon and you are escaping from a church, idk

and the traps are crosses

And the church's choir are your enemies

[lavish pier]

you're a cell inside a body, trying to get to the brain. Osmosis Jones style baby!

[lavish pier]

yes there are contacts shown when i touch the unseen colliders, but this is an entire tile before the Tilemap Collider should be present. Is it possibly the Rigid bodies interacting?

[cold onyx]

You could ask it in the unity-ask channel, maybe they have an idea why

I would check with OnCollisionEnter2D with what exactly you are colliding with

using Debug.Log(other.gameObject.name);

[grizzled tree]

i just had an idea, i could make the game kinda like stray aesthetic wise. problem is, would it be too much like stray in concept lol

[cold onyx]

2D or 3D?

[grizzled tree]

3d

[cold onyx]

Then maybe yeah lol

[grizzled tree]

agh i just had an idea that could work, but idk if id have time to make all the assets needed in time, and id have to change the game name to something else

[lavish pier]

does that even exist?

[cold onyx]

It's in the DISCUSSION section

the first one

[lavish pier]

i disagree 😉

[cold onyx]

ah i mean unity-talk lol

that's where i ask my stuff

i almost got it right lol

[lavish pier]

hehe i'll check it out, thanks for the attempt!

[cold onyx]

When I resize the game view window the canvas I made with a legacy text in it changes positions, anyone know how to fix it so it stays in one spot?

[ornate forum]

Was wondering on how I could make a game based on certain topics.
3 topis:
A dream for the future,
Contemporary concerns and provocation. Any idea is welcome

[cold onyx]

A Dream for the future create a game where everything you witness happens in a Dream.. basically create a dystopian future and make the story based on a Dream like none of it ever truly happened idk just an idea😂🤨

Or again create a story that someone probably your main character can see the future and create some sort of a gameplay around that

[nova plover]

I have this thought about non-linear games and interactive choice making...so I'm a huge fan of Telltale style point and click adventure game, where major decisions change how the story is presented, but for obvious reasons they are pretty much required to be played chronologically in order for the choices to have the effect intended. I recently saw Netflix's Kaleidoscope series, which is designed specifically for viewers to watch each episode in whatever random order they choose, and thought it would be cool if there was a telltale-style game like that where the player can do the episodes in a random order, make choices and still have the choices reflect in the game's narrative.

And then I realized Telltale had a special DLC episode for the Walking Dead called 400 days.

[cold onyx]

does anyone know a fix im really new

idk what to do i just started

oh sorry

[sudden pendant]

@quartz coyote We don't have a job and collaboration channel as you've said. You can use the forums for the #📖┃code-of-conduct.

However, it has to be a Unity project to post there

[steep linden]

I know its kind of a open ended question, but what does exactly make a controller tight

I'm working on a fps game, and I can't help but feel that the player controller I made is kind of slippery

I'm trying to make it precise and fast at the same time

kind of like titan fall

where I can always feel I can gain speed

but I can't really figure out where I am going wrong

[woeful glen]

anyone knows why my light isnt emitting light?

[steep linden]

check #archived-lighting

[dusky bobcat]

one question, i have a tactical tablet in the game rn which Will sserve as a map aswell as a support caller. should i limit that to just the squad leaders/radio dudes or should i give to everyone and just limit it for non squad leads/radio dudes

[dusky bobcat]

try searching dani tutorials movement, he did a rigidbody movement tutorial similar to the one in his game(karlson), also there might be alot better tutorials but thats the first one that came to my mind

[steep linden]

its not about the implementation it self, although that might help

my main question is about the feel it self

why does mario's controls in odyssey feel tight af

but in sunshine its a bit on the slippery side

[dusky bobcat]

i mean, i think that has to do whit that ur using?

rigidbodys slide more than character controllers for example(i think)

like something moves trough set position, the other moves by adding force which will get you to the position but more smooth

thats my look on it

[dusky bobcat]

u got any answers on this?

[steep linden]

whats your game about?

[dusky bobcat]

zombie fps, bit more tacticool

[steep linden]

multiplayer?

[mint temple]

What type of light do u have?

[uncut pecan]

If its a zombie shooter then you would probably want to give the tactical tablet to everyone unless you wanted to make the game alot more reliant on teamwork, if you wanted to be unique, but personally I don't think that would work that well for a zombie shooter. If your squad leader wasn't communicating then it would make completing the objective ( assuming its like L4D2 ) significantly more annoying.

[cold onyx]

Anyone got any ideas for how I could make the sprites not get lost with the background?

I tried with a dock but couldn't get it right

[sudden pendant]

This is a screenshot of your desktop ...?

[cold onyx]

I mean the sprites to the right

they are an overlay

[sudden pendant]

In Unity? 🤔

[cold onyx]

yeah

[sudden pendant]

I'm confused. Is this all in Unity? As in you took a screenshot of your desktop and put it in Unity and have icons on top?

As for having them standout, put a white border around them?

[cold onyx]

the program has a transparent background

that's why you can see behind

it's just a normal window, but transparent

and I'm trying to find a way for those sprites to not get lost with the background

[sudden pendant]

Put a white border around them

[cold onyx]

I did both a black and white border, but it didn't look right

will try again though

[buoyant elbow]

give option to put sprites in a panel with a slightly less transparent dark bg. like a group or side bar esk thing. .. check out windows fences, its a desktop mod app allows for grouping of icons.

[cold onyx]

I hadn't though of that, will try

[woeful glen]

it was an emissive material but i fixed it

[mint temple]

Ok

[woeful glen]

cant really say i fixed it, i added an area light in it and made it transparent

[sudden pendant]

#archived-lighting , this isn't a game design topic

[woeful glen]

alr sorry

[zinc heart]

Hey guys, so, naming-wise, this feels like it falls in two camps. Do you call the items you can pick up:
1️⃣ Collectable
2️⃣ Collectible

[sudden pendant]

I struggle with this all the time, just yesterday even. I haven't settled on a spelling.

Prefab is collectable, my script is CollectibleController. 🤷‍♂️

[faint burrow]

A collectible is something that has value in a collection or to a collector. A collectible means that the item can be collected. The spelling collectible is recognized as correct by the dictionary.
Importantly, "collectible" is more commonly used by Americans, while "collectable" tends to be the preferred choice for non-U.S. audiences. Both options are correct.

[sudden pendant]

As a non-american, I do like the look of collectable

[faint burrow]

Me too

[heady terrace]

non-american too, but collectible sounds more familiar than collectable, at least for game terms.
Collectable sounds more like something financial.

[sudden pendant]

@deft acorn We don't allow job postings here, no. You can use the forums for the #📖┃code-of-conduct, or other discords that have a space for postings.

[wise scaffold]

Hi, i have a question, how to make my camera view inside of an interior when the player goes inside an interior, like the roof and walls will be removed and the inside will be visible, just like in zomboid

this is game design related right?

[cinder hamlet]

I'd say it fits more in #💻┃unity-talk or one of the coding channels

[vocal kestrel]

Game design would be if your camera should do that. How to make it do that is not game design

[river onyx]

someone has ideas for a first person adventure game?

[cinder hamlet]

can you provide more information on what you have in mind?

[fast cloud]

hi everyone, i have tried to learn unity so many times and i just give up when i need assets for my game

what do you recommend? i really want to start developing games but im horrible at drawing pixel art and even worse at 3d modelling, should i keep trying to learn art design or are there other options?

[river onyx]

like "oh no i teleported to a weird creepy place and now i have to escape!" pretty much backrooms but im lacking creativity on what i should add :p

[dusky bobcat]

furniture that transforms into monster once you get past a certain point

[river onyx]

genius thank you

someone got a idea what the story of the game could be?

[mild void]

Search Udemy for game assets, there's blender, aseprite, plenty of other starting points.

[faint burrow]

i had that same problem when i started, so i started learning pixel art and used free assets to learn unity.

[steady heath]

So I've got a relatively ambitious idea for a game I would like to make.
I'm wondering if anyone in here has any advice for me before I start this project.

The core concept of the game is essentially a visual novel type of thing. But each character is an AI construct inside a digitally rendered mindscape.
The plan is for the characters to be represented with basic low-poly shapes and somewhat intricate patterns that move and pulse with their voice modulation.

It's gonna need to be a somewhat 3D game, in the sense that you can move within the gameworld between locations. But the only camera movement you will really be doing yourself is more like 3D menu parallax, to nod yes and no, and to help you feel more in the game world.

I've got an aesthetic in mind, but the mechanics are not set in stone, as I'm familiar enough with programming to know not to get my heart set on something that may not be feasible.

As for voices. I'm not gonna be voice acting them all while testing. I'll just use some 8-bit noises with text on screen for testing purposes until the game is in a more completed state

[sleek phoenix]

how many projects have you worked on before this?

[steady heath]

Various simple scripted game mods(starbound, MCPE, Rivals of Aether), robotics competition programming back in HS, updated an old GBA ROM hack a few years ago.

I've messed around in unity a bit with the FPS microgame. Know enough to know how little I know, but that's not too intimidating. Just looking for some advice on where to start, cause there's a lot I need to learn, and I've spent enough time in tutorial videos to know that it's usually better to jump in and fiddle with things till you understand them

Oh yeah and the time I did audio mods in Star Wars BF2 EA. Hah

[sleek phoenix]

then you could first come up with a minimum viable prototype that would show off the core concept, and focus on making that playable

[potent timber]

Does every game have an antagonist the same way every story has one?

[sleek phoenix]

does tetris have an antagonist?

[potent timber]

Yeah, it's basically whatever is throwing blocks at you

In games you're almost always interacting against something

[sleek phoenix]

does snake have an antagonist?

also you're definitely stretching the definition of antagonist a little there

[potent timber]

Your own tail + your unending growth

[steep umbra]

A concept is an antagonist now?

[potent timber]

what would you call it then?

im not married to the word

[steep umbra]

You're the one asking the question

[sleek phoenix]

obstacles to a goal, I suppose

[potent timber]

yeah that's fine too.

Like every story has a protagonist / antagonist, every game has a goal / obstacles to that goal

[steep umbra]

at that point you're getting into the definition of what a game is, and... a lot of them agree that a game isn't a game without a goal and/or obstacles to beat

[cinder hamlet]

stardew valley antagonist?

[dusky bobcat]

stuck in the dream bc u hurt ur head

and when you die you wake up in the middle of the night, act like it was a nightmare and go back to sleep

[river onyx]

nah its not fitting, i already found a story with my friend

[dusky bobcat]

alr

[cold onyx]

No

sandbox games for example

[vivid spindle]

Chess/fps vr game idea

[ancient sphinx]

Hello there, I've got an idea for a 2D platformer, where the character has 4 types of attacks available. The thing is, it's a rather fast paced game with lots of jumping, fighting and climbing and I don't know how to deal with the inputs. What do you think? In RPGs I would just make a menu, but here I would need 4 buttons just for attacks.

the character is supposed to learn the attacks one at a time, not know them all from the beginning. Maybe one button to switch attacks and one to attack?

[steep umbra]

Start with platform and intended interface.
Because if it's computer, is it keyboard and mouse? Just keyboard? Do you intend to support gamepad?

That's pretty core to designing a control scheme

[ancient sphinx]

PC game, preferably keyboard, but would be cool to include gamepad support (a standard PS4 gamepad design when it comes to number of buttons)

anyway, no touch or sensor input for now

and I'd like the controls to be intuitive

[steep umbra]

Intuitive is not something you just do, and how the different controls feel or behave is a huge part of that too.
But think about what controls you want for the basic movement (A+D for left-right and space for jump?) and try to find keys that are easily reachable and better yet have fingers resting on them naturally while using those controls.

My best advice really is to start with the movement controls, try, test and iterate.

[ancient sphinx]

movement controls would be arrow or wsad keys, left-right-up-down (I want toinclude climbing ladders or other obstacles and crouching), space for jumping and the attack keys. I need one for melee attacks, one for magic attacks and one for switching between the 4 attacks I mentioned

[ancient sphinx]

question is how do I control 4 attacks at once? Make a switcher? Or map them to different inputs?

[cinder hamlet]

what kind of attacks are we talking about?

you might want to take the DMC approach where you do different moves if youre aiming your left stick towards or away from enemy

or Witcher 3 where it's just two buttons for 4 attacks: press the button for one attack, hold for a different one

[sleek phoenix]

then ask in the code channels#💻┃code-beginner

[ancient sphinx]

Let’s say the character can use a water attack, an earth attack, a fire attack or a wind attack. The player has to choose between them. Apart from them, there’s a sword always available and basic movement and jumping, climbing or ducking as I mentioned

[faint burrow]

what's the question

[daring eagle]

can i curve a quad?

[sudden pendant]

Not a game design question.

You can model it in a program or do it in shader by moving the vertices.

[cinder hamlet]

On controllers you could let the player hold a trigger/bumper and then press one of the XYAB buttons for each of the four elemental attacks, and without holding it these buttons would do jumping, sword attack and such normally.

On keyboard, you can probably just have separate key for each attack

[normal lance]

Hi

[hallow brook]

So
I'm trying to make a Visual novel
and I'm working on all the visual UI stuffs in terms of design and locations
and I've noticed from images and stuff that the character you are seems to be in the back, and not above the text box
Does anyone have any insight of game design to help me figure out what's best?
I'll send an example
random image I've seen in google images

characters are on the back, even when the character you play as is not a narrator type of character

If you play a fully visual and standalone character, I think it'd make sense if it appeared like dialogue in lets saaay, Hades looks

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/647519069255237654/1064259553732087878/maxresdefault.jpg

[sudden pendant]

And you're asking why that is, or?

[hallow brook]

I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to design my ui

for example I've made this little thing real quick

to mock up the direction

[sudden pendant]

Do these examples not work for you?

[hallow brook]

They work, I just want to figure out what is the best approach

Should the main character also be on the back, despite you playing as them, or should they have more focus?

And for example when someone talks to you, the text box and portrait location would be reversed

[steep umbra]

I think your mock up is fine. Possibly with a few options for the dialogue box as right now it seems like the player character is speaking and reusing the same box for NPCs could look weird

[sudden pendant]

The best approach here is honestly whatever you think fits the look you want.

The main reason for them being behind the dialogue is simply so you don't have to deal with blocking the text since each portrait is different.

From your mock-up, there's a nice clean vertical edge that, if all portraits use, will work fine for being on top.

[steep umbra]

Or that flipping idea, that's a neat solution to it too.

[hallow brook]

obviously wont be transparent but just gone

Just for the visuals of it

Would that make sense visually?

[sudden pendant]

You also have to consider smaller width aspect ratios, especially if this is for mobile. What happens on a thin resolution, and the characters have to slide in towards the center.

Being behind the box means they can without sacrificing the textbox size

[hallow brook]

true

the main issue with flipping it is how text is treated

because english goes left to right

And it might look odd

[sudden pendant]

If your portraits all have that clean edge, then your text simple never goes beyond that in either direction

[hallow brook]

Mhm

I think I'm set on the first non flipped option

[steep umbra]

Resolution is a legit concern. And localisation if that's relevant at all.

[hallow brook]

But I'm not really sure about the npc dialogues

Going back and forth with flipping the location would be weird

so the textbox itself has to stay fixed no matter what

There should be some sort of theory about these type of things

in most games however, the portrait stays the same location

So maybe it's better to do that?

Just a fixed location for both portrait and dialogue box

Although when I do look at it

games like celeste have the portrait the same, but the location of it depends on if you're on the right or left of the screen

But it is a visual novel, so I guess that doesnt matter

[sudden pendant]

If it doesn't hurt the player, then it doesn't matter. It's purely visual preference.

[hallow brook]

I guess so

I think the states of dialogue boxes are to have a 'narrator' like type

and a portrait type

the only difference is that there's no portrait in one

so it wont ruin the flow of text

[cold onyx]

hey guys do you think a final boss should lean towards being more climactic/atmospheric or more difficult

because i think a too difficult final boss diminishes the awe factor of the game coming to a close if the player gets more frustrated than excited

but it cant be a cakewalk either

if you had to choose

which is more important

[hallow brook]

I think an easier but satisfying boss fight is better than a challenging but boring one

I think it should have challenge

But like, lots of scripted events are nice

[cold onyx]

thats fair enough

[hallow brook]

As long as it's fun ofc

Fun is the most important factor imo

If it's not fun, why bother?

[cold onyx]

wise

thanks

[hallow brook]

Reggie said that

[vocal kestrel]

Depends on the game, too

[cold onyx]

true

obviously it should be a mix of both

but its very hard to pull that off

like the only example i can think of off the top of my head is slave knight gael from dark souls 3

and thats it

or asriel from undertale

[hallow brook]

I'd advise to take inspiration from Zelda games

The final bosses are almost always super climactic

Sometimes hard too

Demise for example, or twilight princess ganondorf

They do these right

The guy dies standing up with a sword in his chest

[cold onyx]

oh damn i forgot about demise

[hallow brook]

Who dies standing up

That's so cool

And like you fight him on horseback and stuff and whatnot

The setting is important too

[cold onyx]

i'd say imo after losing at least 6 or 7 times any excitement has been replaced with frustration

[vocal kestrel]

If you're making an arcade style game, for example, then a final boss should be more hard than thematic

[cold onyx]

good point

[steep badger]

I wanna make a scene where the player is in a car, but the trees and road and everything are moving back like the players driving but they can't control the car. Sorry idk how else to describe it but does anybody know how to do that? I can't find ANY tutorials on it.

[sleek phoenix]

that sounds a little too specific for you to find a tutorial for. Break it down into simpler problems. Is this 2D or 3D? Do you just want to move the environment around the car? be more specific

[steep badger]

It's 3D, and yes I only want the environment to move to create a loop.

[sleek phoenix]

okay, so you can look up stuff like "automatically scrolling background" instead of looking for something specific to cars

[steep badger]

oh alright, tysm!

[cinder hamlet]

"subway surfers scrolling" keyword can help

[steep badger]

oki ty

[dreamy hatch]

anyone have some sort of resource for a Road map for building 2d games in unity, like from the very beginning?

[zealous pollen]

I'd recommend the Unity docs as your go to source for information. Learning to use it helped me a lot when I started

[late vapor]

I don't want to start anything, but battles 2 has some serious game design flaws

[zealous pollen]

I completely agree, I could go on and on about it

I stopped playing it a few months ago, the devs gave up on it

[late vapor]

I played since day one and still can't go for too long without reinstalling

[zealous pollen]

The progression system, which is what most people hated, is mostly fixed

It's just everything else

[late vapor]

even though I rage uninstall every time because an ability I tried to micro fired off 1-2 seconds late

better make a thread before we flood this channel

[zealous pollen]

They still havent fixed their netcode after over a year, and the meta is super stale

[zealous pollen]

Yeah

[late vapor]

btdb2

[sonic badger]

Could yall help me with a 5 minute survey for a game class im in? Thank you!!!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1KlEe542BlN7r3Y5Mwrl4CIpK02gQp6UR-if0CKnfxONLTQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

[chilly oriole]

What are some good places inside of a work building, besides, work areas, and offices, like pipe rooms and stuff like that would be good for adding to my game?

[modest hatch]

just did for ua

[modern orbit]

Hi, i want to make an enemy that is huge and when it jumps it sends a "shockwave" in a long direction, i cant figure out how i want it to look (the shockwave) has anyone seen something like that? dont know what to google

[calm river]

needs more context

[calm river]

browse the unity particle pack area and look up some visual graph videos

[chilly oriole]

I'm saying that i'm looking for more rooms to add to my game, that arent rooms that normal employees can casually walk around, like Pipe rooms or electrical rooms, or a room, that only proffesionals are meant to be in.

[calm river]

board room, executive bathroom and lounge, server room, broom closet, utility (electrical/plumbing/heating)

[chilly oriole]

those are some good ideas, i'll see what i can do with that, for some reason my brain could not think of some rooms that would normally be in a office building. Thanks.

[calm river]

np

[versed ocean]

I found out that for these kinds of context questions OpenGPT chat AI is great, it has pretty good knowledge of all kinds of architectural stuff too and you can further define the timeframe etc. for it to get more precise suggestions.

[forest ember]

its a sad day for me today that i realised i lost the progress on my old game and i have to restart

[chilly oriole]

Sadly i wont be putting my phone number into some random website that's been out for a few months and not many people are talkin about.

[cinder hamlet]

rip, remember to make backups next time

or use a version control

[forest ember]

i think i did in the past im not sure

i was looking at trying to decompile the version i had but everyone ive asked how said itd be way too much work than what its worth

[cinder hamlet]

quite possible, recreating a game that you've already made should be a lot easier than making it from scratch

• you'll be able to throw in some improvements on the way

[forest ember]

i might just recreate from scratch tbf, cause im quite new to unity and remember spending 2 days getting a walking and jumping animation working for my old model, so itd give me a chance to make the improivements i didnt on the last run and itll let me learn some more too

like one major mistake i wish i made from my old game was making everything organised

i never knew what was what so i was guessing alot of the time

and imma start being more patient too, i was askign around and everything trying to get stuff done as soon as possible, now i know to just sorta take my time and do what i can instead of stressing myself out over it

[cinder hamlet]

ok nice

[forest ember]

mb if that was alot lmao

i tend to ramble at times 😭

[cinder hamlet]

that was nowhere near "a lot", don't worry

also there's nothing wrong with rambling

[versed ocean]

Not sure what you're referring to, but I'm talking about the one thing that's been on news and everywhere and has a free trial while they're improving it. I don't remember them asking for phone number either, but anyways, of course you decide where you login.

[vocal kestrel]

Is there one genre of game that you intend to never make(or play)? For me it would probably be horror.

[chilly oriole]

Yea thats the one i'm referring to, but i'm using it now and its awesome.

[zealous pollen]

Same here, IMO most games that fall under primarily horror are just dark atmosphere + jumpscares.

[sick blaze]

I have a gaming question in a game if you die and you reload for last check point would you expect your health to be 100% or would you expect your health to be what it was at that check point?

[vernal bolt]

What it was

[sick blaze]

Ok so say last check point you only have 2% health and not potions to sort out your health.
Would that not be a unplayable loop?

This is where I’m stuck as it’s only a demo and if they can’t beat the first boss and they run out of potions, it kind of breaks the game?

Ok let me re phase that.
So say you fight one person and you only have one health and you had to use your potion and you beat the guy with only 2hp remaining. You then save the game. You then fight another boss but you lose and your last check point will be 2%hp. I’m kind of lost

[visual tide]

Could spawn more health drops in during the fight

[sick blaze]

It’s a turn base battle system like Pokémon

I’m thinking in Pokémon if you die you go back and reheal. But my thinking is well really you should have what your last save was

[alpine marsh]

Is it a respawn or a reload ? In other words, does the world reset to what it was at the time of the save or does the player simply respawn as a continuation of their actions?

[sick blaze]

You respawn at last save point

Sorry reload at last save

[alpine marsh]

Then you resume with what you had and you need (as a designer) to include a way for the player to not get stuck.

or if you're trying to make the game harsh on the players, you can also just let them get soft-locked

[wintry briar]

Why not make the player respawn with the health they last had but outside of the battle. So they can either choose to battle again or stay back and reheal

[sick blaze]

Yh so in the demo there is one potion for you to collect and every time you enter a grass area you find a npc if you win you get 1 potion. Now to me that seems ok. Yet some one played my demo. And managed to get Stuck at last save with only 2% and no potions lol

Thanks tho guys I have an idea

[late vapor]

I feel like horror is usually a modifier to another genre rather than its own thing. Having a horror game where the only thing the player does is interact with npcs, run from a monster, collect objects to get to a goal (or any combo) is probably the most boring thing imaginable to make, design, and play

[steady heath]

So I took a few days to think over my game and figure out what things I needed to learn. Talked it over with a few people and set up a text doc for laying out how the game needs to be structured and what mechanics it needs to have, plus how they interact, and which ones I could add on top of those if I have the ambition to.

Came to the only major hurdle of figuring out the little hacking puzzled I wanted, and what kind I was willing to program.. And I ended up scrapping the original slide-puzzle minigame idea and changing it into some sort of puzzle/combat system using BOIDs as an interactive menu.

It's a bit beyond the scope I had intended, but I've messed with 3D BOIDs in unity before, and they're not that hard to mess with once you've set them up. And well documented.
Plus, there's only so much you can do with them, so this isn't going to scope-creep too far on me, which I like.

Much preferable to making dumb little grid puzzles in a non-diegetic menu

[late vapor]

uhhh

this is just me

but I'm in the 'f slide puzzles' group

[cinder hamlet]

slide puzzles are a pain if you don't know the method for solving them

if you know the method, they're painfully easy

[neat cave]

Want to pick some people’s brains, working on my first commercial release and it’s a 2D metroidvania game and I’m only really doing this type of game to start smaller and understand the the full process for a commercial game, ideally I want to make 3d rpg games, my question is it really worth me investing time learning 2D art and the tools for it like asesprite or should I just grab 2D assets from the store to get the game done then focus on what I really want which is learning tools like Blender and to make the games I want to make

[sleek phoenix]

don't see why you can't just learn blender and make a simple 3d platformer to start

a metroidvania is still a huge scope for a solo dev even if its 2d

[neat cave]

Is it not worth learning pixel art to polish the game more?

[sleek phoenix]

how would pixel art help you polish a 3d rpg

[neat cave]

No I mean polish the 2d game I’m on now?

[sleek phoenix]

depends on your goals, don't see anything wrong with just grabbing assets if you just want to learn the dev process

I would still suggest cutting down the scope though

[late vapor]

...I disagree. The essential mechanics are movement and level design that includes unreachable areas unless a condition is met (player gets upgraded or finds a key)

even enemies are optional I feel

[late vapor]

also, you can always 3d model all your assets and render them as images

otherwise you could just use 3d models but still have restrict the playing field to 2d

[neat cave]

thats my thoughts on why I went this route, im going through it pretty well and im learning alot but visually I wish I was doing a 3d game but i feel like this is good for me to just learn to code, understand good movement etc you know ?

[blissful drift]

hey i was wondering if theres like a chat for like helping issues

[cinder hamlet]

check #🔎┃find-a-channel

[hollow night]

Hi everyone, does anyone know how to add the bloom effect to a singular game object?

[forest ember]

hi guys

i was plannign on adding a jump onto my character

just wanted to check the vaildity of a text tutorial i came across

https://vionixstudio.com/2021/10/26/how-to-make-a-character-jump-in-unity/#:~:text=Jump in Unity using physics,-Simple jump with&text=Attach Rigidbody component to your,character is ready to jump.

could you guys lemme know if this would be good?

[late vapor]

wrong channel

[wraith flume]

When should coding begin for a game? I am of the opinion that you shouldn't code until you know exactly what you are coding. My team members want to make art and basically make nuclear throne as step 1, then keep adding items and content. Idk but that sounds like a bad idea, any experienced people have an opinnion?

Is it best to treat it like carving marble where the game reveals itself to you, or to sketch out the whole thing before a line of code?

[broken dirge]

@wraith flume 99.9% of cases the specs change after the feature is coded. So I don't believe it matters when you start. There will be re-works anyway.
Ofc its impossible to code anything unless you have at least some idea of what you want.
Also sounds that the project is waaay overscoped 🤔 maybe pick a smaller game than nuclear throne. That game's weapons and upgrades are pretty complex.

[dense trellis]

Are 3d games any harder to make than 2d games?

[cold onyx]

Sometimes they are easier, sometimes harder

[pine swan]

What are your thoughts on Light Gun Shooter games?

[upper atlas]

how can i import from blender to unity animation

can someone help me i have finished animation in blender but i cant import in unity

[sleek phoenix]

Not a game design question. #🏃┃animation

[deep barn]

A reviewer criticized on steam that my early access game has no objective. What would be an objective for a hunger games inspired game other than survive as long as possible? How do you keep your players engaged in a battle Royale game?

[undone owl]

Hi I'm having this issue when creating a 3d game. How can I fix it?

[vocal kestrel]

Not a game design question

[unborn terrace]

So I have this game mechanic of breaking walls and stuff similar to rainbox six siege but I am not too sure what sort of minigame I can make out it, this is more for a showcase not an actual game so the idea needs to be easy to implement

Anyone has any suggestions?

[late vapor]

@unborn terrace the carnival air gun game

[ashen inlet]

Need ideas for a 3D endless runner for mobile

[vivid cedar]

Hey. How would you guys make complex buildings for a 3d game ? take for example tarkov like buildings etc with a lot of entities inside it etc. Would you just build a 3d house with nothing inside of it as a seperate object and then add everything in side of it seperately and would you build the house in a 3d program like blender or straight inside of unity ?

[dire mantle]

Hello, I am pretty new to the channel. I made a question in the Discussion board (#1066426467736625312 message) mind if you guys have a look if anyone can provide me with any help ?

[dire mantle]

Anyone that can help me with a 2D, Tilemap related issue ? I am working on my Dissertation as a Computer Science student and it's my final year project.

[cold onyx]

I think i would make the building and everything that's not interactable together and the rest as separate

[slow gyro]

hello anyone thinks that a game about a dad trying to get his son milk a good game?

[wintry briar]

yes very good game

[slow gyro]

yes my dad left me

[cold onyx]

[cold onyx]

@undone owl fix modifications normal and flip for its 3d redactor. Maybe it's Unity. I'm sorry it's bad English. I its I'm Ukrainian

[cyan chasm]

Wait, is he not just inside the model with the camera? And the model is not made hollow. So it would look like that? I might be missing something, but my first reaction would be "This guy needs to model the inside of the building, if he wants to be inside it."

[vocal kestrel]

Yes, you can only see one side of a face, which side depends on the normals. If you want to see both sides, you have to make a second set of faces for the inside. But once again, not game design related

[jaunty cipher]

hello

im ner

new

can u guys help with an issue

[sleek phoenix]

https://dontasktoask.com/

although I have a feeling this isn't going to be a game design issue 🫤

[jaunty cipher]

im having this issue fixed in another channel

[jaunty cipher]

how to add a scoped in optipon for my pistol

[hot hull]

there are lots of way to do it. one idea is to set a point above the pistol that you can move the camera to while scoping. when in that camera mode you could also activate some sort of overlay, if you want black borders and a crosshair showing like in some games.

[jaunty cipher]

whta would be the simplest way to just gewt the gun into iron sights mode

[grim garden]

Bro imagine a game where everything is in a window

Like an fps game but the walls

The enemies

The guns

They’re all windows

RamSpam

[fair swan]

would it be a macOS exclusive?

[zealous pollen]

I think I remember seeing a few game jam games that used multiple windows and/or window resizing as a mechanic in game

[bleak moat]

bullet hell, but you are avoiding windows

[cold onyx]

why the hell cant i turn this little thingy on.

[late vapor]

not a game design question

[olive dove]

could someone explain how these numbers work? from observing it my best guess is that after "e" is the number of digits but I could very well be wrong. I'm going to be using breakinfinity soon so I'd like to understand how this works

[icy timber]

https://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/scientific-notation.html

Scroll down a little bit :D

[olive dove]

so from my understanding for example 1e308 is 1 * 10^308 ?

and from the image I sent earlier its 1.12 * 10^39?

[icy timber]

Wait, yeah I just saw that the numbers in the image are really weird but I think so yes

[olive dove]

by weird you mean that there is a 0 before the 39?

[icy timber]

It should be 1.12e+39 I think

[olive dove]

no idea what the game I took it from is coded like (tap titans 2) but I assumed its because maybe they put like ToString(000) and thats how it displays it? or something along those lines

im very new to coding tho so im prob thinking about it wrong

[icy timber]

Yeah, might be some weird thing were the + got turned into a 0

[olive dove]

oh right could also be that

anyway thanks for the help I think I understand scientific notations somewhat now 🙂

[jaunty cipher]

can you guys help with a crouch animation

[olive dove]

no idea but you should probably ask in #🏃┃animation

[lilac ermine]

hello, is this menu design an asset?
If anyone knows, I'd be happy to write.

[faint burrow]

that's scientific notation, "e" means exponent

[gloomy thicket]

How can I control the size of the window my game is when I build it. I am trying to make sprites that are reasonably sized and the camera/aspect ratios are confusing me, resizing the window seems to make it so you can see more instead of scaling up the art and I would love if someone could point me in the right direction.

[chilly oriole]

Yo, so i have a scene based in a Public bathroom, for puzzles, what are some good ways to hide a code in the environment?

[faint burrow]

soap

[bleak moat]

yup soap on the mirror, and you have to steam up the mirror with hot water to see it

[zealous pollen]

You could make one of the toilet seats have the code underneath it

[cold onyx]

intenta cliclearlo

[languid gorge]

Where is the appropriate channel for discusssing naming of projects?

[zealous pollen]

I would assume this channel?

Idk for sure though

[wintry briar]

I think here

maybe #💻┃unity-talk

[zealous pollen]

This is pretty much where all game discussion that doesn’t have a channel goes from what I’ve seen

I’m fairly new though

[wheat hare]

Hello, this is my project so far, it is a 3d runner, where one plays as zyzz (famous deceased bodybuilder). I need an environment for the game, basically meaning I need something that is to the left and right of my obstacles, however I have no idea what exactly to do. I thought a gym environment might look decent, though I do not really have any idea how to do this, I tried just putting walls left and right but that looked pretty bad. 😂 😅 Any help would be much appreciated thanks in advance 🙂

[zealous pollen]

I feel like a gym theme could work well since different gym equipment could be obstacles and stuff. For example you could use tread mills as a booster pad type of thing to speed you up

[wheat hare]

yeah I currently have gym stuff as obstacles, such as dumbells, barbells, gym locker as one can see in the video but I have no idea what to put to the left and right of these obstacles, maybe more gym equipment, maybe decorated walls, i really don't have a clue. Otherwise I could also just have gym equipment as obstacles and have the environment be a forest or so😂 , cause that would be a bit easier I guess

[chilly oriole]

ok thank you

[cold onyx]

It seems to go by a little too fast but people working out on the side?

[wheat hare]

that seems like a pretty good idea, though I don't know if it might get a bit to performance heavy, if all of the people are not just standing still but have their own animations, my game is supposed to be targeted towards mobile after all, though maybe it would also look good if people are just standing there and not doing active movements

[cold onyx]

Just have people mirin then. You can take advantage of the high speed to kind of blur the details

First thought was probably a mirror on one side but that might be a little much as well

[wheat hare]

yeah that seams like a good idea, so people posing and gym equipment alternating to the side, now I just need to find a good looking way to create walls for the gym, thanks for the help 🙂

[lavish wharf]

So i just downloaded an asset from the unity asset store. I clicked on the demo and it erased all of my game's project. Does anyone know how to get it back?

[cinder hamlet]

did you not make any backups?

[craggy terrace]

Can anyone help me identify what kind of armor style this is? (From Eve online). Like this polygonal, sharp looking armor? Trying to match this aesthetic for my game but can't find anything else that looks like this for inspiration. Thanks!

[cold onyx]

Hard surface art

or sci fi in general

[open seal]

Why can't I jump in unity

First person 3D

I followed a tutorial because I couldnt get it to work

But it still doesnt work

Idk if its just my computer

Could someone please help

[round aurora]

Might be more helpful to ask in #💻┃code-beginner or #archived-code-general, if you can paste the code you're using over there.

[open seal]

Oh my bad

Will do

[scenic meteor]

My topdown rpg have different animation for 4 different directions, the idea I have to make my player use different animation for each direction is based from the last wsad input from the user.

For example, the user pressed W .so the next attack would be the W -attack anim
Would this work?
Or are there better ways to do this?

[cinder hamlet]

the animator should be able to automate this

check it out

[scenic meteor]

Im tweaking the animator rn

Like I set a condition for each attack(trigger) + the x and y position

I shouldnt use a blend tree,right?

[cinder hamlet]

actually I suppose this can be annoying sometimes, you might want to instead make it auto-turn towards an enemy when attacking

depends on your needs

[scenic meteor]

Hmmm..like my script would detect where the closest enemy is?

[cinder hamlet]

yes

[scenic meteor]

Any ideas how to do this? Im only been using unity for like a week

Also, I think this kind of mechanic can backfire if the monster closest is weaker than the enemy farther

But sounds goods if all monsters are the same kind

[cinder hamlet]

loop through all of the enemies, that can be a lot easier if theyre all parented to same thing

[cinder hamlet]

then the player can just walk up to whoever they want to attack

or use ranged attack perhaps

[scenic meteor]

Yes yes...I think , I might just combo it

Like attack button + a movement to a direction = att to that direction

Thanks thanks

[cinder hamlet]

yw

[sudden pendant]

Respond in what way? To argue that it's not true or what?

[fiery dawn]

nvm

[olive dove]

I'm curious as to how the items showing on the character were done in the binding of isaac, obviously it could just be that the creator made a ton of different character sprite variations but I feel like there is some other method that was used, does anyone have any ideas?

here are two examples of different combinations

i feel like there definitely has to be a better way of doing it since there are a couple hundred items, most of which show on the player and the character has 4 different "sides" (left, right, front and back)

[orchid cliff]

@olive dove this actually quite interesets me as well, I'll follow this

[proud sluice]

it's definitely just sprite layering

different "slots" that each sprite can take up, and so some overwrite each other while others are additively layer on top

[teal karma]

This is just 2 cents on this and i truly do not know what i am talking about so take it with a sea of salt
I think it might have something to do with applying an effect on the appearance for every items
Danon says it better than me

You preshot me🥲

Tho i wonder how does sprite layering works now

[proud sluice]

each item probably has a "modification" and that modification can make various changes to the body sprites. For example, a modification could apply a 20% size reduction of the head and add a new layered sprite on top of the head (could be a drawing of a syringe, whatever). You could then get another item that changes the "eye" layer to something new. Then if you get an item that is supposed to put a helmet on them, it would remove all "head overlay" sprites which would get rid of the syringe, for example, but keep the eye layer active.

some modifications would have a limit of 1 as well, such as the body color

as that would get immediately overwritten

[olive dove]

So if I'm understanding it right, the character itself is made up of different parts (head, torso etc) that are also made up of different parts? (Eyes, mouth, arms, legs)

[proud sluice]

yes

[orchid prism]

Hi there, I’m currently looking for some game ideas for my research study. It’s about developing a personalized game to learn binary search trees to computer science students. If someone has an idea let me please know. The idea I have is a top down adventure game: the player moves in a binary search tree layout where the rooms are the nodes. He starts at the root node and can travel to the first 2 child nodes. The objective is that the player collects a package and delivers it to the node where it belongs. He fills the binary Search tree nodes with the correct values to proceed. If the correct package was delivered, the door opens to the next node. The game is completed if the player has delivered all packages to the nodes. There are enemies who chase the player to take his package. When this happens the package will be dropped and needs to be picked up again. The player can take out the enemies. Any thoughts, I’m looking for inspiration 🙏

[olive dove]

thanks a lot! i was hoping there was some cheat to it lol 😭

[proud sluice]

no, it's just like 4 billion drawings from every angle

this is why I do not make 2D games most of the time haha

[bright hedge]

The texture is gone if i convert to FBX

@proud sluice

[cold onyx]

I'm currently using free assets from the asset store but down the line I'll have custom ones, is it possible to replace assets in a tilemap easily, or is there a better way to make place holders for my level design currently?

[jade blaze]

How to enable colors in this object? In blender, I used UV Editing and a color pallette. This is how I colored it, and this is my object.

[sleek phoenix]

You'll need to manually assign the texture to the object. Also, not game design related

[jade blaze]

Could you tell me how to do it? I'm new and don't really know how to texture objects. Sorry for putting this post on this channel 😅.

[sleek phoenix]

Just drag the texture onto the object, next time post in #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[night shoal]

Why are you still posting here after being told twice that it's the wrong channel

#🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[jade blaze]

Sorry

[fathom cypress]

Working on a car controller, its merely for transportation, might add some mechanics too it but its def not the center of focus, and doesn't technically matter how it looks.. BUT which one of these looks more better

https://streamable.com/ohzdad Normal Lean

https://streamable.com/va80k1 or Inverse Lean

[cold onyx]

I think normal, also are you using Wheel colliders or your own?

[fathom cypress]

ahaha, lord no

i hate wheel colliders and i still spent a week trying to get them to work

[cold onyx]

Yeah that’s what I thought lmfao, I hate them

[fathom cypress]

https://streamable.com/1fv54t

this was my attempt at wheel colliders

and i didnt just give up, this was after days of tuning

and i still couldn't get it to work correctly..

so i still use em, but heavily heavily modified

[cold onyx]

Personally for me, they take way too long to speed up

[fathom cypress]

went thru github repo's and found the best parts of each controller i could find and frankensteined em together

[fathom cypress]

facts, i just use a speed curve now..

and have it ramped up first thing

so it feels more torque / arcade style

[cold onyx]

Ohhh interesting

[cold onyx]

Well yeah nice car, thanks for speaking with me

[cold onyx]

Oh that’s sick

[fathom cypress]

np 🙂

[fathom cypress]

ya, makes tuning alot easier to have curves for everything

[cold onyx]

Yeah

[fathom cypress]

still isnt perfect, i grabbed the bulk of the asset from a Unity5 project

needless to say, lots of work to be done to get everything to be NOT deprecated lol

[cold onyx]

Lmfao

[fathom cypress]

still better than wheel colliders 😄

[cold onyx]

Yep

[fathom cypress]

https://streamable.com/ou05yw

this shows off teh wheels a bit better

lmao i was messing around with camber... thats why it looks like that 😄

[cold onyx]

Ohhh you can even rotate them like that

Nice good job

[fathom cypress]

alright back to work, good chat 🙂

[pine swan]

I'm experimenting making a platformer rougelike with light-gun shooting mechanics

But lately, I am contemplating on this decision since there is not a lot of feedback to go by and see if it can work.

Since you could potentially shoot anywhere on the screen, you are forced to remain still as a tradeoff in order to attack enemies

and resources to attack is limited

perhaps I should ditch the light-gun element

[winged prairie]

I know this is a lot to ask, but does anyone think they can make something on blender like synty? I have absolutely no funding as I'm in hs.

Or any advice?

[sudden pendant]

Advice:learn or pay someone. Nobody is going to do this for free. Nor is this the place to ask.

[late vapor]

or reduce your scope

[sudden pendant]

Reducing your scope isn't a reason to ask for free work.

[vocal kestrel]

I was just playing Astroneer, and I love the way they do UI and inventory. It's just amazing to me for some reason

[late vapor]

I meant create something that you kinda already know how to

[lavish harness]

Hi guys , I'm making a top down shooter rn in a post apocaliptic desert world , do you guys have any tips for creating maps ? It would be a mix of 2d and 3d : 2d back ground , 3d buildings / objects ( to use as cover for example )

oh and i forgot to say : pixel art

[junior briar]

what are this lines?

[sharp robin]

My only advise is to either hire a level designer or really dedicate time to think about it and research it. We have some rules for FPS (always two ways into every room, etc). But there are some great free talks from GDC on level design for this type of game

[simple haven]

hey im having a problem with my collision code not picking up i have set a tag and i have also checked like 3 other ways to code it also everything is spelled right. any code i can copy and paste? or a link idk whatever works just want my box to detect my wall at first hit...

[high jetty]

I'm making 3d game with a lot of verticality and i need some advice on level design. i got what you call primary gameplay loop and all the numbers finished. Made a lot of concepts in blender but cant fit them together for my game. I need something similar to say doom eternal or ultrakill levels. Gameplay is most important, anything unrelated like art isnt. Some links would be appreciated.

[glacial wing]

Half life 1: Surface Tension

actually

play Half Life 1

basically what I kinda learned from it is that while you want verticality you dont want the player to be super awkwardly trying to look directly above them

have the different areas exposed to each other at a maximum of a 70 degree angle as anything more than that will be painful to aim at

one thing I actually noticed about this exact same question is that in assassination/spy type games most of the vertical areas one has access to are basically scaffolding on a wall, as trying to awkwardly 360 around to see the enemy that just ran past from directly under you is the main buzzkill in a vertical gunfight

dishonoured is a pretty good example

a lot of the time you're on the side of a building looking down into an alley, rarely are you having the experience of trying to awkwardly spin around to get someone who only moved maybe 5 meters directly below you

[high jetty]

thanks for the help. Havent played half life yet

[azure cloak]

Hello everyone, I believe this is the right place to ask this question. I'm working on a small game that has grid-based movement and turns, where the player moves to an adjacent cell and then the enemies do. I'm currently facing some difficulties in implementing the AI for the enemies. I've searched around, and most people suggest using A* pathfinding. Are there any simpler or better alternatives?

[urban jasper]

why dont you just learn blender. Being in hs provides plenty time for you to learn the game dev pipeline

you could also use the basic building blocks to prototype while learning blender... just make a couple "legos" if you will and start prototyping. I'd work on getting the idea on paper first though. IE a GDD or game dev doc

[lavish harness]

I wouldn't refuse more rules if theres more

[late vapor]

two and only two ways?

[sharp robin]

No, just at least two 🙂

2 directions = active action
3 directions or more = decisive action

[late vapor]

I can see that.

[sharp robin]

It depends on the goal of the level

[late vapor]

I've noticed that in nearly every shooter, there's few to no rooms with 1 entry point

[sharp robin]

A shotgun battle underground, you probably want a lot of 2 direction areas with lots of visual instructions.

A strategic area, you want to start having high points of advantage and low ones etc.

[late vapor]

in a survival shooter, rooms like that could either be used to cheese fights, or the player'll have no way to leave if overwhelmed

[sharp robin]

Yeah exactly. It depends on the narration and goal of the level

[late vapor]

I've always loved ledges, because there's a way out at the cost of fall damage or being placed in an unfavorable area

[sharp robin]

I should probably add too that we have someone (else) that does the level design kind of full time. I just set some of the rules for it

But in bigger projects, we create use-cases for various user types. Introvert-active, Extravert-active, Introvert-strategic etc. And you balance the levels to play to certain advantages. A tunnel shotgun warfare could benefit an extravert-active player more than a strategic-passive player (someone who thinks before going into battle versus reacting on instinct)

But with at least two entrances, a strategic player could at least try and pinch from both sides. And if one of the entrances is from the other player base, it means their ally needed to go through an entire enemy base before getting to that half of the tunnel, etc.

But "gdc level design site:youtube.com" is a great place to gather up some level designs and why they were built how they were built and why they work so well

[plush orbit]

What would a Snowman's HP bar look like? Maybe a thermometer that goes up to signify you getting warmer and melting?

[full karma]

For a bit more, add an effect to the bar for both extreme spectrums, like a frozen effect when it's full and a fire or heat overlay or sorts when it's really low.

[plush orbit]

That's a great idea 🙂

[full karma]

You could apply a shader for either, the heat portion could be as simple as distorting the bar a touch, like when you look at the road just right on a scorching hot day, ya know? 😄

[full karma]

Share it if you get it working properly!! I'd love to see it.

[plush orbit]

Totally! I'll report back once I have the shaders cooked up

[full karma]

Hell yeah!!
I've got some shader work to knock out after a couple beers later too. Haha

[cinder hamlet]

if you're hiring, theres links in #📖┃code-of-conduct

[quick harness]

Ok

[silver venture]

Could unity handle a space map of 1000x1000 Km cubic?

There won’t be many props but areas where there are clusters of asteroids

[full karma]

Yes, and you can always apply a scaling factor to everything in your scene to shrink stuff down.

[vocal kestrel]

Are LEGO bricks good for prototyping level design?

[wintry briar]

if it helps you visualize how the level looks then sure

[silver venture]

you mean I make everything smaller to fit in in the world?

float 32's have support for much bigger numbers tho right

[wispy pivot]

It's not a matter of supporting bigger numbers, it's a matter of precision

At this distance from the origin a float doesn't have enough precision for the physics or rendering to work properly

Most probably you'll need something like origin shifting