archived-game-design

[manic wind]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XyIYRW_2xk&t=180s&pp=ygUQYmxlbmRlciBvdmVydmlldw%3D%3D

[manic fern]

That’s a lot

Like a lot a lot

[manic wind]

Blender is a love/hate relationship that lasts for decades

[cold onyx]

my ass just use block bench

well cause its just minecraft artstyle lol

[fossil heart]

Outdated

We're on like, blender 3.6 I thinking...

The UI got simplified a bit, I think

[manic wind]

🥱

[fossil heart]

I mean realistically you're only using like, a half of blender's tool set to make and animate models, so

[fossil heart]

?

What does that even mean

What the heck does it mean to save API calls on bad players?

You would probably wanna make 1 main "battle scene" and then tie what enemies show up and how many of them show up using scripts

At least that's what I would do

[obtuse blade]

Hey guys I got tasked to develop a 3D game with dimension switching (so you switch from reality to another realm)
Im completely stuck on how to make the player have to interchange between them AND gameplay still be fun
I can experiment with awesome movement in the other dimension and cool shaders but then I just cant work a switch back
For example, if say you had to move a block but only in the real realm, gameplay would be slow and lackluster
Any ideas?

[thorny perch]

if u only want pro gamers playin your game then you don't need to waste server memory on bad players if you scare them off

[fossil heart]

???

Why would you want that

You want as many people playing your game as possible

Not to scare off anyone

[thorny perch]

i only want the best

they buy more skins

[sleek phoenix]

Look up what other games have done dimension switching and what made those fun

[cinder hamlet]

look how titanfall 2 did this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90eFsDRxdS8

[manic wind]

Titanfal is am amazing game

i love mech games

[fresh valley]

https://forms.gle/YtnFqFhXRnqVR3Av9 trying to come up with a title for my game- could some of y'all take the time to fill out this poll with a few of the options? should onl take a moment

[sharp zinc]

No idea what your game is about so it is hard to say.

[fresh valley]

that's fair. for reference rewand is like the weapon thing and basamortuko is the desert god of the game

[sharp zinc]

What is the central things of your game ?

[fresh valley]

essentially, pip and lu are the main characters, and the only humans in a desert that you're trapped in. You need to get out of the desert by making an airship thing, and to get parts for that you need to defeat some of the robots with the rewand thing you get in the beginning. the rewand also makes the robots friendly.

im trying to keep it short, i need to write a more eloquent and concise summary but i haven't gotten around to it yet

[glossy root]

what do you guys think of the durability indicators?

[pearl moat]

Probably near unseeable, color mixes with the backdrop might as well make the indicators white

I guess it’s decent?

[glossy root]

so decent or not decent

cause i dont know if its sarcasm

lol

[pearl moat]

I can’t decide 💀

It’s literally just a line I mean technically it could look better but I don’t think there’s any space for that so yea for what you’ve got it’s “decent”

I wouldn’t be able to tell that bar stands for durability lol

[lost merlin]

looks good, could be a color indicator such that it turns yellow to red as it reaches lower levels

[glossy root]

yeah i was thinking of that

like starts of light green

and goes to light red over time

and orange in the middle

[glossy root]

yeah i just dont have enough space for anything else

like i’ve tried everything

[cinder hamlet]

They're good imo

on screenshot they're hard to see but I think theyll be fine in game

you could maybe make them more white if needed

and I think players will be able to intuitively tell that it's durability

[manic wind]

do you like the idea of being able to cache magic spells in an RPG?

[cinder hamlet]

cache?

wdym

[manic wind]

@cinder hamletbeing able to activate magic spells before enging in combat

[cinder hamlet]

so like applying buffs outside of combat in a turn based rpg?

[manic wind]

being able to cast a fire spell out of combat so its auto used during combat

[cinder hamlet]

not sure what that means

gtg ill talk later

[manic wind]

no worries i figured it out with a friend

[lapis seal]

Made an illustration for a problem I'm working on.

I'd like to have a mesh revel the interior of this cave structure. The mesh, like the rest of the cave, is made of 3d modules that are generated live.

The mesh will apply a cutout shader to the cliffs and roof, with a soft fuzzy edge. Meanwhile the inside of the cliff will be filled in with black.

Turning the cutout on and off is pretty straightforward. Either the player's cursor, or the presence of known NPCs or player themselves turns it in and off.

All isometric game have the issue of stuff being hidden on the North Side of walls or roofs -- but would you understand this solution the first time you encounter it, or would it throw you off as a player?

(Tehnical issues aside, controlling lighting when this roof becomes transparent and determining encapsulation & which wall is a "south wall" is not easy.)

[pearl moat]

Make it a feature

[manic wind]

It's not a bug it's a feature

[loud slate]

Hey, I need some personal opinions for an UI question.

I'm developing a very basic Top-Down Zombie Shooter.
Ignore the Default Graphics Style for now.

Left Joystick is for Movement, Right Joystick is for firing the Weapon.
The Button to the right is for picking up Weapons.

I'd love to have another Button for a 360° Melee Attack or another Joystick for Throwable Weapons.

Question is:

• Would another Button or Joystick clutter the UI too much?
• If your opinion is that it wouldn't clutter the UI too much, where would you place the new UI Element(s)?

I could put a Melee Attack Button above the Left Joystick because Movement wouldn't be allowed while doing a 360° Spin, that could work, but what about another (smaller) Joystick for Throwables?

I'm wondering if Throwables would be even reasonable to include, because with a Joystick Control that does the aiming AND throwing, I wouldn't be able to show a trajectory preview in a useful way.

That's very hard to tell without something visible upfront, even if you may "copy" the mechanics, you can go a very different route with the Visual Aspects that would separate your Game from Stackland

You could eventually create a Mockup with just some Visuals for a Screenshot to share and see if people associate it with Stacklands without you giving them the Context

[true river]

I would totally do a different art style and other visual stuff, its just the mechanic im worried about xD

[loud slate]

I didn't play (and, before your message, didn't know about) Stacklands at all, but I believe if you'd be able to utilize 3D Visuals etc for it, it would be quite different
(As in, you drag your Character Card onto a Zombie Card, and then actually have a 3D Character attacking a 3D Zombie)

I'd just give it a try and create a small prototype within some days that people can take a look at, that would grant you waaaay better feedback/opinions.

[true river]

Thats true, thank you a lot

[vapid stream]

I would make it so you can't fire weapons and throw things at the same time

It might make other parts of the game different, but it seems like the most clean method

[hidden helm]

this is my game

[pearl moat]

What is it about

[manic wind]

i think you move left/right dodging arrows and scoring points???

[hidden helm]

yes kind of.... I am sort of a beginner and I am making a new obstacles and make it more exciting

and I am adding a magnet that can collect golds

[manic wind]

sounds fun 😄

[hidden helm]

😄

how do you think player change when it gots the manet

1. hold it
2. wear it
3. become it

[pearl moat]

4. Put it in the oven

[manic wind]

wear the magnet as a hat

[sly locust]

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=CCE9ruiSt0Cc_JtGPyH9Nxs_qkNNRC5CsVwE3FmWuttUN01FNUFDVlA3R0FDSTBGM05TWVJLV1gwUy4u

Please fill my form and answer the questions on how I could improve my game based on user feedback 🙏

[manic wind]

what game?

[sly locust]

2D platformer

[manic wind]

i don't know it

[sly locust]

its based on other 2D game you played and what features you liked about them

[manic wind]

oh okay

i'm really into Celeste but i'm not very good

@sly locusthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yorTG9at90g&ab_channel=GameMaker%27sToolkit

[sly locust]

Can you do the questionnaire and explain what features you like about this game?

[silk blade]

I can't find a channel that completely fits this question, but anyways:

A question to 3D modellers: In terms of both difficulty and time consumption for creating and texturing 3D assets, do you think it is more difficult to make scenes/maps viewed from:

• 3D Top down camera
• 3D First person camera

My initial thoughts are - for top down: the further your camera is zoomed out, the bigger the map requirements, since you'll generally traverse the scene/map much faster than you would in a normal first person setting.
With that being said, you may need fewer assets for top down, and maybe less detailed texture, but not sure how relevant this is when you aren't aiming for high realism, and more of a half-life 2ish look.
I'm thinking the camera will also see different parts of the map depending on whether its seeing a larger area (top down), where you'd need to model a larger area, even if it is unaccessible, that would otherwise not be visible if you were viewing it from a first person perspective, which again means more work unless you simply black out those areas, or restrict the camera's boundaries. On the other hand, if you make the game isometric, you don't need to model or texture the backside of static assets, which would save time

[manic wind]

if you do top down with fixed zoom you can calculate how many polygons are on screen

even max zoom out works too

LOD assets

way too many different methods for this kinda results

too many pros and cons

[silk blade]

If you ignore having to create LODs and simply have a single version of assets (since its not very highly detailed), and the zoom level of the Top down camera is somewhat like Diablo 2, does that make it possible to give an approximate answer?

[manic wind]

yeah if you have a max zoom out then you can just load/unload assets around the edges of the camera

very simple 👍

[silk blade]

I think you misunderstand my question brother

[manic wind]

you can also cheat by baking lights and shadows on static assets

[silk blade]

I'm not really talking about performance here

I'm asking purely in terms of hard and how much time it would take for the 3D modelling work

[manic wind]

that all depends on experience level

something that could take me one hour to make could take another person ten minutes

also depends if you have drafts

[silk blade]

yeah but, I am asking about it in terms of how long asset work would take for a 3D top down game like I just described, or a 3D first person perspective game (like a FPS game)

[manic wind]

the camera angle doesn't matter

[silk blade]

not in that I want an estimate in time, perhaps I should have worded that part better, but i'm just more interested in which perspective game asset creation takes longer

[manic wind]

they're both the same time

all depends on the artist

i'm learning to make modular assets that snap together for world building which speeds things up

kinda like a grouped kit

[silk blade]

I don't know how to say this in an better way but if anyone with some more experience in 3D modelling could weigh in, i'd appreciate it.
Obviously everything depends on experience, but if you just assume a baseline amount of experience in both, it gets factored out.

I also can't believe that what you say is true - that "its the same" and that it doesn't matter. Maybe you think it is such a small difference that it shouldn't be relevant to whether you end up choosing to make a game in either camera perspectives?

[manic wind]

i don't understand why the asset would change depending on viewing angle

[silk blade]

not the asset itself, but maybe the amount of assets to create a good looking scene, the quality of textures, and so on. In first person, you view stuff much closer after all, while in top down, you view a lot more things at once - and if using isometric camera, there are parts of static assets that you don't even see ?

[manic wind]

yeah all about FOV

both have pros and cons

ways you can cheat for better performance

[silk blade]

performance?

[manic wind]

yep

[silk blade]

you mean framerate?

and how is FOV relevant here, it feels like you're answering something else

[manic wind]

you're literally talking about FOVs

first person vs overview

[silk blade]

arguably, but FOV is used in a different context typically, so that's why i'm getting confused

rather than maybe POV

but I'm not interested in the performance aspects, I already have a good idea about that part

purely interested the 3d modellers workload

[manic wind]

you've designed concept artwork for the 3D modeller to work from?

[silk blade]

no, we are so early in development (or not at all) that we are simply deciding this part

[manic wind]

i see

[hidden helm]

i just put the magnet the effect so things go complicated

[hidden helm]

i made a item that can be gained and when we get it, we can get double gold.
But I have no idea how should I design that item

any ideas?

1. Put a gold and say x2
2. Use two golds and x2 in the bottom
3. just x2 in gold
4. A oven

[manic wind]

@hidden helmmake a gold coin with a 2x symbol

[manic wind]

@cold onyxmake puzzles that involve 3D objects in 2D space

have you played FEZ?

you could make it so objects could move towards or away from the camera

too many different methods lol

you could make a little demo experimenting switching between 2D/3D perspectives

that could work!

only you would know

🙂

experiment with perspectives

sounds awesome!

show us progress

not many people post projects updates 😦

[manic wind]

follow a tutorial and try to change it

make a script that will switch between different animations

coding + animations 🙂

enjoy

[cinder hamlet]

yes

probably

[cold onyx]

Eh not really

Yes, it allows you to make games, but it's so limited that you can't even create something simple in it

I watched a video of a guy using it, and he was struggling even to create flappy bird

[pliant charm]

I think this could be a gamedesign question, what do you guys think of lua for game modding?
Implementing modding in my game and questioning if that is the right choice, do you know other options?

This is more game architecutre design, but don't know if there would be a better channel for that

[manic wind]

I love modding games

[patent smelt]

Do any eSports exist that do not have decision making or thinking? Like a sport that you can "turn off your brain" and just play with mechanical skill. Even Mario Kart has some strategy. I guess Touhou?/OSU rhythm games. Sort of like the video game equivalent to "Track and Field's 1 mile sprint". Speedrunning requires decision making and memorization. Running the 1 mile does not.

Am just trying to hypothesize this for potential eSports. Just finished a game of League of Legends and realized all the mistakes I made during the game after watching the replay. My decision making in the moment didn't match the theoretical correct ones I knew.

[hidden helm]

never, it allows us to create games of course, but Im sure we can never place ads or monetize with it

[acoustic portal]

I play osu!, and as someone who has never played sports, It's exactly like sports

[cold onyx]

You can even publish a scratch game properly.
You can only post it on their website.

[thick lichen]

For first person melee combat what approach is used more often. I've seen two main ones being used. Raycast where the melee attack will hit a target if the player is aiming at the target's collider and if its within range. The other is to just use the colliders and the weapon itself will "hit" a target if it ever touches or enters the target's collider.

[hidden helm]

• can't

[manic wind]

hbow would you use road barriers in a survival game?

any tips

[pliant charm]

Depends how accurate you want it to be. Using hit and hurt boxes is the most accurate way, a single raycast works very vell if your game style allows for it.
My game is third person and I use the hit/hurt boxes principle

[cold onyx]

Yes sorry, "can't"

[glossy root]

i need two variants of this, one empty, and one full

[glossy root]

lets say this one would be the full one

how would i draw the empty one?

[glossy root]

i think it looks alright

[pearl moat]

What even is that? Gasoline?

Looks muddy

[glossy root]

gasoline

and the muddy one is a canister

u use the canister and some other things to craft gasoline

[glossy root]

because it is

[vapid stream]

I think you should show that there's something inside the canister for the full one

Kinda like this

[manic wind]

maybe the player could tell from the displayed weight of the canister?

rust would just show visual damage

[celest heron]

Woah that’s cool!

[hidden helm]

cool!

[hidden helm]

wait I did not saw the message above and we basically said the same thing

I'm looking for sounds effects and musics for my games

where should I get them btw

[vast ingot]

assets store maybe?

[obtuse blade]

Hey guys I am unsure if links are allowed here, so please ping me if not
But I made a reddit post about a game design model that I am working on and I am seeking some generic feedback on balancing and I would appreciate some open responses
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedesign/comments/179c7o9/multidimensional_scifi_shooter_feedback_discussion/
I would type it all here but I already described it on Reddit

[hidden helm]

good havent think of them

[thick lichen]

I got the raycast system working from combining a couple tutorials and it works ok. One thing I sort of like is that the player has to be aiming at the target to get a hit, instead they could just flail around and rely on the animation maybe taking the hitbox into the enemy. My game is first person and fairly slow moving so for now I'll keep it.

One issue with using raycasts is you have to test weapons out and have the raycast timing be aligned with the animation (when the weapon would typically be able to strike the enemy) and the raycast length (reach/range of each weapon).

[pliant charm]

Don't do that. Use animation events to fire the raycast

Much more intuitive and scales with the animation speed

And less coroutines and thus cleaner code

If your animator is on a different gameobject than your script, write a simple animEventHandler which redirects these events. If you call an event it musst be defined as a fucntion in a script which is placed on the same object as your animator

[cold onyx]

just create one? wouldnt that be stuck on just one same group of enemies spawning? Im kinda thinking of the same mechanics as pokemon or honkai starrail when you approach an enemy, a battle scene shows up and showing 2 or 3 enemies

[final kiln]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/564923688621834251/1164472561543950407/image.png?ex=65435695&is=6530e195&hm=53b395220506d0dc1211ac4449d1a92a0610a96ab0ce588f3096ecda7e806a1d&

How can I improve this UI? I obviously want to redraw it in a 32x32 style, but I’m not sure how to make it look appealing, or if the current design is even good

[old galleon]

I don't know if this should be here or in the coding section but

When using tile sets for a 2d platformer, do you guys use the built in tilemap collider or create your own colliders throughout the levels?

It's my first shot at using the tile map system and I might just have sliced it poorly or the palette I downloaded to play with is split up weird, but the tiles for the platforms include a few extra squares than just the platform itself so the colliders are too big and causing some problems

[lost merlin]

looks fine. You can always make it withdraw back up when the player isn't using it

or just minimize the control parts and keep the informative parts when non-idle

[final kiln]

good idea

[sharp zinc]

Your UI has less pixel than your game ?

[final kiln]

yes lol i noticed it, i have to make a new one 32x32

[manic wind]

would people play a game/demo thats one hour long?

[sharp zinc]

I think that some would, most would not.

[manic wind]

even if its just an idea?

[sharp zinc]

What do you mean ? 1 hour demo is not an idea.

[cinder hamlet]

yes, that's the whole point of a demo

if that hour is interesting, people will play it

[manic wind]

if

[dusky bobcat]

how to make fog of war effect for rts, so it just shows the enemy if it gets close enough to an allied unit?(3D)

[cold onyx]

Hey guys, I want to add a respawning system into my game, but I don't know what could the animation of the respawning be.
My idea was making an angel that appears in the middle of the screen, plays a small animation and then spawns the player.
Do you think that it's a good idea?

[tiny marsh]

try it and see what it looks like

[cinder hamlet]

you mean visually?

I guess a simple way would be to just put another tilemap on top

oh wait you said 3d

hm, that will be a bit tougher but I suppose you can just make some sort of fog/shadow visual and simply make any enemies in it invisible

[cinder hamlet]

depends entirely on your game

[cold onyx]

It's a 2d runner inspired by flappy bird but based on the moon

[dusky bobcat]

yes like in conflict of nations

like a 3sphere that would reveal a certain layer when inside

but idk how would i do that

[cold onyx]

I don't know how to help you, but you could search in Google how to activate layers trough script, and then make a script with a sphereCast that checks for a layer

[sharp zinc]

The easiest way is to use a tessellate plane and play with the mesh color

[elder sorrel]

What software are u using

[mossy blaze]

Hi everyone. I'm new to Unity. I love it. I'm making a top-down 2d game where a ball will roll around a game board similar to billiards. But I want to have different surfaces with their own friction, so that as the ball rolls the friction increases or decreases depending on the terrain it's on. Any ideas are helpful. I was thinking of "rolling me own" no pun intended but if there is a better system that performs well I would use that. Thanks. I love Unity.

[lost merlin]

Look up physics materials

Oh unless you're asking for opinions, I think it sounds interesting.

[radiant raven]

Does anyone have a really good video on exporting models from blender to unity, I always had issues trying to impliment textures, materails and models either not applying, not exisintg or being rotated/facing wrong direction

[devout onyx]

Hello! I recently found a game called "Ding Dong Dead" by Puppet Combo. I like the kind of oldish pixely "shader" it has and I noticed it was made in unity. Does anyone know how to recreate it? at least to some degree.

[manic wind]

the engine is irrelevant

you want to copy the art style

[devout onyx]

not really. I dont know what to call it besides "art style" its the look. Like it has a very oldish pixely shader or something.

I am really bad at game dev terms

I am not referring to the textures

[manic wind]

oh that game

looks like pixel art textures with shaders

[devout onyx]

yeah, to me it looks like they have some kind of blur and "pixely" shader. It looks like an old monitor.

[manic wind]

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

this might help

[devout onyx]

wait, are we thinking of the same game?

I mean the 3d game made by Puppet Combo.

[manic wind]

sorry i was thinking about game design

i didn't know you wanted to just rip it off

good luck

[devout onyx]

I dont.. 💀 more games have similar styles (the windows are gone for example) I just want to know how to make a pixealted shader.

but aight incel

[glass cedar]

If you want to replicate it, create a VHS style shader (lots of YouTube tutorials for this, and then use low poly textured models

VHS is the effect you're looking for

[devout onyx]

Thank you a lot. The name is exactly what I was looking for!

[tall bloom]

whyd u wanna recreate this tho?

[devout onyx]

I want to make a game with a ps1 aesthetic

[tall bloom]

hmm ok

[sudden pendant]

@cold onyx if you actually have something to share, then use #archived-works-in-progress. But preferably something that isn't an impossible to tell photo.

[sudden pendant]

@glossy root You can use #archived-works-in-progress where you've posted, to get feedback via a thread.

[glossy root]

how

[sudden pendant]

By asking for it in #archived-works-in-progress where you've already shared.

[celest lion]

Hi, I'm trying to draw 2D game elements from an isometric view
How do I unify the drawing style and make the objects consistent in size? I work with several people

[manic wind]

oh i don't know 😮

eye ball it?

[tight radish]

I really like the game Nexomon Extinction. I like the graphic texture of the game on its settings, however I don't know the words to enter on Google to find assets like this. nor find artists in this field

[manic wind]

stylized cell shaded graphics

like this?

cel shader

you can purchase shaders from an asset store

[tight radish]

You thinks its cell shading ?

[manic wind]

i think so

[manic wind]

cel shading/shader

i could be wrong obviously

[celest heron]

WOAH, that looks COOL

Where can I get that MASTERPIECE of design?

[manic wind]

@celest heronfollow shader tutorials

or purchase it

[fossil heart]

i think they were asking what the asset was, if this was found on the asset store

or maybe the origin of the image

[manic wind]

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/product/stylized-rendering-system-cel-shader

sorry lol

here

[fossil heart]

yeeee

tho, this if for the unreal store, but i mean that is the origin of the image

im sure you can achieve a similar effect in unity tho

[manic wind]

yep

which is what i thought we were talking about

the art style

Nexomon Extinction

[fossil heart]

yeeee @celest heron i assumed just wanted to know the origin of the image, while the other user wanted to know how to achieve the effect in general

[charred warren]

So I'm trying to make a hack and slash and was wondering how they resolve situations like this where the enemy (outlined in blue) is within attacking range of the player (outlined in red) but is not facing him. As you can see by the enemy's uneven collider box, I can't just have him rotate around without pushing the player character, so I was wondering what games would do to normally resolve this situation and not look unnatural and robotic. The best I can think of is giving the enemy some kind of sideswipe so that it's natural for it to push back the player as it tries to face it, but I feel there has to be a simpler, less asset intensive solution to this.

[manic wind]

you could make the enemy roll away to engage in combat

or flee

make an enemy not able to attack condition

[charred warren]

I think the main problem with this would be how to decide the direction

[manic wind]

the enemy would have to know it is unable to attack and what direction to player is facing

OR

you could just do area of attacks

as in the enemy leaps into the air and ground pounds

[charred warren]

It has this information. I'm just not sure how it would use it

Other than to know the player is at the side of it

[manic wind]

you can tell the enemy the player is on the side

[charred warren]

But how would it determine what direction to jump back in?

[manic wind]

try moving to the side of a boss in Dark Souls and see how it behaves for ideas

[charred warren]

That's kind of what the side swipe was supposed to be. The idea is that the enemy is a wolf with deer antlers (and probably hindquarters so it can kick if the player gets behind it), but I wasn't sure if there was a simpler, less asset-intensive solution

[manic wind]

side swipe sounds fun

personally i would make the enemy roll sideways turn and fight

either that or a push away animation

[tame bear]

whats that one to-do list website

[sudden pendant]

Trello

[cold onyx]

Also Milanote

[manic wind]

Looks cute

[rich maple]

Weaponed
Assassin for
Reacting
Deadly
Eradication for the
Nation
is this a cool thing for my W.A.R.D.E.N. robot?

cool lore?

[rich maple]

Weaponed
Assassin for
Recognition and
Deadly
Eradication of the
Nation
better version

[marble willow]

Weaponized action response droid could work if ur fine with just W.A.R.D

Can’t think of anything for en

[rich maple]

interesting

[faint igloo]

in a scary horror escape room should we make riddles before making the map or make the map straight up?

[sharp zinc]

You better design the core of the game (riddle) before the rest. That being said, having a general idea of the map could help with designing some of the riddle.

[faint igloo]

ty for the advice o.o

[short steppe]

If I have multiple weapons for an FPS game, is it better to have a different set of arms for each weapon, or one set of arms that changes depending on the held weapon?

[sharp zinc]

No idea what you mean.

Usually, you have 1 set of arms that is independent of the weapon you are handling.

[short steppe]

Got it, thank you

[primal narwhal]

hey I know this is very laggy but what do yall think about my side hook animation so far?

[real stratus]

I'm making an Idle game that is actually idle, so I have pretty long gameplay loops
I'm worried this will cause players to quickly lose interest in the game
Any tips or ideas?

My core loop is, start combat, sit idle for x amount of time, buy upgrades, repeat

[hybrid condor]

Any VR people here?

Anyone using the new levels on the controlles. Is there support for it?

[night shoal]

#🥽┃virtual-reality

[steep tundra]

I need help please

I've been struggling so long with it. I've made a 3d game on unity but the player (sphere) moves (wasd) the opposite direction of what it's supposed to be (w goes back, a goes right), I've tried everything

[night shoal]

Post the code to #💻┃code-beginner

[steep tundra]

Of the player or the camera's?

or both

[night shoal]

Everything relevant. See #854851968446365696 for how to ask

[glossy root]

a name for an interactable in which you will customize items? like attach attachments, change skins etc

Customization Station?

nah too long

anyone got any ideas?

[sudden pendant]

Crafting table?

[ember slate]

is there an advantage to using the new input system?

[lost merlin]

if statements vs events is a good way to think of it

can also think of it as giving property fields to inputs

[ember slate]

alr

[real stratus]

weapons table, closet

dressing room, mirror

[manic wind]

would a stock market mini game be fun idea?

[real stratus]

definitely

[manic wind]

did you play/enjoy the gta 5 stock market with missions?

[real stratus]

nope

it doesn't really matter what your game is about, as long as you make the gameplay fun

something that really opened my eyes is gameplay loops, there's some good YT videos about it

[manic wind]

some people find the idea of a stock market boring regardless of how enjoyable it is

[real stratus]

yeah lots of ppl won't like that game, but that doesn't matter
there's lots of ppl who do enjoy it as well

I used to really like the Neopets stock market

and tons of ppl like real life stock market

[manic wind]

i'll check it out thanks

[ashen tangle]

Has anyone come across any tutorials or videos on game design for hyper casual games, I'm interested in seeing how a few of the systems are actually implemented.. Games like "My Mini Mart" and My Little universe, those type... I am very interested on how they do the inventory and trigger setups around the actual objects and they normally have some interesting fog of war effects

[ancient oar]

Hi guys so I have picked 6 game idea's that i chose that i really love but not sure which one to pick because all of the are a amazing so i made a forms please fill it out so i can see which one the people will like to play!

https://forms.gle/TfD4sJ6J5a6q45bi6\

[dry fulcrum]

i wanna make some simple to play repetitive fnaf game based on cupcake character but i dont want platformer or something like that

[dry fulcrum]

maybe tavern?

[cinder hamlet]

workshop/workbench

[stoic wagon]

Hi everyone! I'm a student majoring in digital design and communications and I've been really interested in game design these past few months, I have an assignment for my English course to interview a professional and I'm reaching out here to know if someone working in the field would be free to do that, thank you ^^

[manic wind]

i'm not a professional sorry

just a hobbyist

[manic wind]

real Steve Jobs 😮

[empty rune]

Is this a sensible way of making an interaction system?

So the interact script is exactly the same for all interactable objects, just telling the raycast that the object is interactable.

[lost merlin]

Right, usually what you'd have is an implementation of an interface such as IInteractable with a default method type which all classes that implement IInteractable will also implement. You'd raycast onto a target and check if the object you hit has the interface implemented on it, and if they do you'd call the method with what custom logic that class implements on it.

https://www.sebastianhutteri.com/blog/pkvpcfvrbzuwmv2ngimiie7l8zd9el

[empty rune]

Hmm okay, so it's essentially achieving what my Interact Script is achieving, but without having to search for tags and stuff? I don't fully understand how it's done, but I'll play around with it. Thanks!

Where does he put the IInteractable script? Maybe I missed it

Seems like he only put the object-specific interact script on the object.

[lost merlin]

public interface IInteractable
{
    void Interact();
}```
Is the interface and the method implementation here

public class InteractableCube : MonoBehaviour, IInteractable```
Is the class with the interface implementation

Which basically tells InteractableCube to implement its own Interact(); method

[empty rune]

Right, and it doesn't have to be attached to any object I guess.

The IInteractable script I mean

[lost merlin]

It's attached to all instances of that class, so if you derive an InteractableCube, you know it also implements IInteractable and so it must have a method Interact();

[empty rune]

Okay I think I understand. I'm a super noob, and so far I've only ever dragged scripts onto objects to make them work lol

Thanks for your help.

[lost merlin]

Yeah, interfaces are somewhat tricky to fully understand but makes this type of concept pretty easily configured.

[empty rune]

Yeah, seems way simpler than what I had planned.

[dry fulcrum]

i wanna make some simple to play repetitive fnaf game based on cupcake character but i dont want platformer or something like that, can someone help me with the idea

[sharp zinc]

You should use large language model such as ChatGPT to give you inspiration. If it is good at one thing, it is with things like that.

[dry fulcrum]

i tried, but all ideas are meh

i dont like em

[night shoal]

Internet randos don't know what you like either

[dry fulcrum]

yeah but ai just gives generative ahh games

[sharp zinc]

Then, it simply means that you might need to change your methodology. There is multiple way to harvest creativity. You could, by example, ask yourself why you do not want a platformer. From this, you probably will find different reason which should guide you towards a potential genre of games.

[empty rune]

So if I wanna move the player or a door for example, is it not recommended to use transform? It seems to complicate collisions and stuff. So is it better to use force or something?

Unless its an object that doesn't have to interact with anything?

[sharp zinc]

Usually, you do not want opening door to interact with player. It induce a lot of impossible to solve issue.

[empty rune]

I've been trying to make a door that swings open and closed, which I've done. But I also want it to pause its rotation if the player is in the way, and continue when the player moves out of the way. This is where I've run into the collision issue. The door and the player don't seem able to collide.

And I guess it might be cuz I use transform for both the door and player?

[sharp zinc]

Which is fine. Don't induces collision for no reason.

Also, you should pretty much never use transform to move a player around.

[empty rune]

So force? or..

Im a noob haha

[sharp zinc]

velocity

[empty rune]

ahh okay I'll look into that

[empty rune]

So what would be an alternative to collision here?

[sharp zinc]

Nothing, just do a sphere cast, if the player is in the main prevent the door to close/open.

[empty rune]

Fist time I've heard of a spherecast. I've used a raycast... lol. I'll look into that too. Thanks so much!

[chrome jetty]

@glossy root
There are multiple ways to categorize terms for ammunition. Using caliber numbers would allow a huge vaiety, but since you're using the actual names of the weapon, I would stick with that. If you want ammo for an m249, call it LMG Ammo. Minigun ammo call it MiniGun ammo. Cannon ammo could be appropriate for that one too, which would allow you to use it not only for specifically a minigun (a SPECIFIC weapon, not a category) but also like a Vulkan or anything like that

[sharp zinc]

You might want to use an overlap

[sharp zinc]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Physics.OverlapBox.html

[glossy root]

alright thanks

[chrome jetty]

I corrected myself btw. An m249 is an LMG, not HMG. You could just go with MG to simplify though

[empty rune]

Hmmm yeah that seems useful 👍

[glossy root]

does this look like a bandage?

[empty rune]

My thought was toilet paper. Maybe make the hole smaller?

Doesn't look bad tho tbh. Some bandage looks like that

[glossy root]

yeah i went through like 5 different ideas

all of them look like toilet paper

might just go with a med kit

[hard hearth]

has there ever been a game where the player(s) are playing inside a sphere and the gravity is going outwards (players are stuck on the inside face of the sphere)?

[true pagoda]

bandages tend to have a sort of grid-like pattern on them that toilet paper lacks

maybe if you add something like that it would read better?

[manic wind]

i thought it was toilet rolls

maybe have half of it inside a white box

[manic wind]

do you like upgrading your house where only the interior increases in size?

[long rampart]

Hey! I'm doing a lowpoly farm management game, and I wonder, how can I build a good, appealing map?

[lost merlin]

Time and effort. Handcrafting levels is something I find quite hard to perfect and I usually resort to randomly generating it all because it all turns out the same, haha.

But for farm games, I'd assume you want to craft it all yourself.

[long rampart]

Sure, but what tool should I use to visualize the map?

[lost merlin]

Actually, if I were to try my hand at recreating a harvest moon/stardew game, I'd probably make the farming field randomly generated such that it spawns different debris and rivers, assuming the player can terraform it later in the game.

[long rampart]

If I want to make a sketch

[long rampart]

I'm not into random generations for now sorry

[lost merlin]

I don't sketch that much, though I do like to drag out a terrain and just play around with that for some ideas. Perhaps you can try starting with a minimap with some pixel software like asperite?

[long rampart]

Or I'll handle the layout on paper?

different zones like crop fields, animal pens, a farmhouse, a market, and decorative areas.

[manic wind]

what are examples of good appealing maps from other farming games?

i'm a big farm game player

i'd like to make a game like A Link to the Past with farming elements

[long rampart]

I like farmland realm's

This should be a simple but a good one

[cinder hamlet]

if you label it "bandage" people will associate it with bandage and not toilet paper I think

or maybe add a + on it

just not a red one unless you wanna break the geneva convention

[manic wind]

i'd play that

are you going for isometric realism?

you should check out Farmville 1 and Harvest Moon 64

check out some farm dioramas

you could also copy real life farms

[long rampart]

Sure 😁

[long rampart]

Okay, I'm now doing that

The question I might ask is how do I divide sections? With fences for example? Like there is a mud road, next to it the land, but how do I divide it? Any ideas you have got from previous games?

[manic wind]

it would be fun to take over an old farm and start repairing it

repair the broken well

repaint the barn

design a barn that needs repainting

[long rampart]

Hmm sure thing

[manic wind]

a broken bridge that needs repairing and allows the player to explore more

[long rampart]

Sure thing

[manic wind]

@long rampartyou could play a farming game and design maps using premade assets from the game

[long rampart]

I made a prototype over a few hours, I now need to place props, decorations, and some stuff so it wont be boring

[manic wind]

very nice

i like decorations

[long rampart]

Sure, once it is done, I'll send you a picture if you do not mind of course

[manic wind]

sure

i'd like to make farm assets but i'm not at that skill level yet

this is my goal

if i can make an asset at this level then i'll start making my own

[long rampart]

Sounds awesome

Here is where I'm now

[elder sorrel]

I could help out in creating asset for u

[manic wind]

you're willing to teach me for free? 😮

[manic wind]

cute little farm

[quartz cape]

how can i fix gap

grass texture

[manic wind]

i dunno sorry

[quartz cape]

np

[long rampart]

Thanks, I'll send you the full version if you're interested once it is done.

[manic wind]

is it top down?

gotta add a windmill for grinding wheat into flour

[manic wind]

do you guys design games with a certain GPU or CPU in mind?

[long rampart]

Are you asking me?

It is not top down

[manic wind]

cute

how tall is he?

maybe i could make you a beehive 😄

[long rampart]

1.5

I have a beehive

But I need help with the decorations, I dont know do I place flowers grass mushrooms, logs correctly.

Like they just dont seem right for me

If I place a bunch, thats ugly, but if I place them more rarely, thats ugly too

[manic wind]

better make a decorative golden chicken statue 😠

welcome to the world of game design lol

where nothing looks right and everything you're doing it wrong

[long rampart]

Ah

:/

But literally, it doesnt seem to look irght

[manic wind]

you'll figure it out

[long rampart]

Sure

[manic wind]

just mess around by moving shit around

also try to figure out what works and why

[manic wind]

maybe try something like this

[long rampart]

Hmm wdym?

[manic wind]

you're making it isometric, no?

maybe you could do more with less

(sorry i am really into studying shapes)

[manic wind]

how cute

pokemon but you catch fish by fishing

[languid kettle]

yep lol

I want to put a system like you can sell your fish (rare etc) to restaurants and maybe open yours, and expose your fish in an aquarium

[manic wind]

sounds dope

i'm too busy helping my friend with his project and working on my own too

[languid kettle]

ah no problem thx !

[manic wind]

speedrunner

fish%

[languid kettle]

bahaha lol

si someone interessed ?

[sleek phoenix]

!collab

[desert marten]

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[vapid jungle]

someone give me a theme for my third person game

[sharp zinc]

Love and Peace

[vapid jungle]

thats crazy because i just started a horror game

[sharp zinc]

Horror is kinda too late

[vapid jungle]

what do you mean

[sharp zinc]

October is finished

[vapid jungle]

so then what do i make

a turkey on a table getting eaten/

[sleek phoenix]

If you can do it in a month sure

[chrome jetty]

It's for two halloweens from now 😂

[manic wind]

its halloween today 😮

[oak cove]

Hello everyone and happy halloween.
I'm not sure that it's the correct place to post my question but I'll assume it is and go ahead 🙂

So, I am new to Unity (I know the basic concepts though) and would like to make a game like this :
The user opens a book (3D) on a desk, like a comic book with multiple boxes within a single page of the book, then the camera would go from box to box and prompting choices to the user.
I would like your opinion on how you guys would achieve this ?
How to make a book flipping pages ? I only found expensive assets on the store (like this one https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/props/endlessbook-134213)

[night shoal]

It's not the correct place, but the easiest way is to make an animation of a turning page in Blender or something and import the animation

[oak cove]

Also, preferrably I don't want to use the UI system for rendering the images inside the book.
I want to leverage the 2D lights and shaders maybe to create cool effects

@night shoal thanks a lot for your answer !
Where would be the correct place to ask ? Is there such a place in this Discord server ?

Also, I'm sorry if my english is not suited/perfectly understandable

[night shoal]

#💻┃unity-talk or if you want to ask about animation specifically then #🏃┃animation

[oak cove]

thanks a lot ! Happy halloween and day 🙂

[night shoal]

or maybe #🔀┃art-asset-workflow

[manic wind]

how would you design low polygon smoke?

if you wanted thick chimney smoke

pixel? voxel?

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/c9/f0/75/c9f07594bbfd646da01c0ec50b040931.gif

[sudden pendant]

Sprite sheet with VFX graph

[manic wind]

thank you i will google it

[neon jackal]

i am testing my fps design skill by making an battle royale game

[manic wind]

very nice

[hardy pond]

I'm researching "place attachment" in game design/motivation for my Masters. Curious to see what you know about it—even if it's zilch!

🚀 Quick Survey Alert!

Time: 2 minutes or less (even quicker if you know little!)
Questions: Max 6
Bonus: Earns you infinite good karma.
Who can participate? Whether you're a student, teacher, or industry pro - all insights matter! Gimme your delicious brains XD (in a non creepy consensual way...you know you want too...)

The only person data is to see if student, educator or professional (otherwise is anonymously)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfORPDPhHm17grA3MMAHWNGmKvTuEnS0UYYtyizgCjkP1ifvw/viewform?usp=sf_link

[manic wind]

i'm none of the listed above 😦

sadge

[hardy pond]

then you will be a mysterious "Other" 🙂

[manic wind]

only took three clicks

👍

[jaunty remnant]

what is a normal FOV for a First person game or is it genre specific?

[manic wind]

default for console is 90

[surreal shoal]

What game should i make

[manic wind]

you should make a game about frogs going into space

[surreal shoal]

[manic wind]

most people play around 120/140 FOV for FSP games on PC

AKA Quake FOV

[jaunty remnant]

is that horizontal or vertical FOV?

[manic wind]

fuck knows

whatever the setting changes

i just move the slider around

[jaunty remnant]

okay so ive found horizontal offers a better option for what im looking for thanx

[manic wind]

nice 👍

[jaunty remnant]

even if im just making a simple point and click game should i be using the input system or is the g'old

if(Input.Getmousebuttondown(1)){

}
``` good enough

[manic wind]

i don't know

[glossy root]

is the trader ui pleasant to look at?

[manic wind]

i like it

[manic wind]

would be better as x1 rather than X1

[glossy root]

i changed the arrow direction

[glossy root]

yeah its the font

it cant have lower case

i need to finally change the font

i also made it really easy to add new trades

it just spawns them when the game starts

instead of manually doing it

[surreal shoal]

Anyone know how to design a human spider that can crawl

[jaunty remnant]

what like spiderman

[late vapor]

not a game design question

[hollow sun]

I believe this is the right channel for this... if not lemme know and i'll move

I wanna make a puzzle where the player has buttons and each button flips the state of some of the lights. I have this all setup already, I just dont know how to figure out the logic behind making the puzzle solvable with some challenge. Any input would be appreciated.

[chilly oriole]

This is meant to be a Security access console, that the player will need to unlock to get access to a room, is this interface too basic, or is it good for it's purpose?

https://i.imgur.com/fc0fyg8.png

[manic wind]

when making video game assets is it okay is vertices don't connect to reduce the polygon count?

[sharp zinc]

Yes, a lot of asset does not have any back because player will never see it.

[cinder hamlet]

why would it be too basic? It just has to do everything it has to do, without artificially complicating it

[manic wind]

not what i meant but sure

[chilly oriole]

Okay thanks for the reply.

I'll keep it the way it is.

[undone river]

i wanna make an android game and im a complete beginner but i cant find any resources on youtube what do i do should i learn to develop pc games first?

[sudden pendant]

!learn

[desert marten]

:teacher: Unity Learn ↗

Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[sudden pendant]

Start by learning Unity before you make your game.

[undone river]

what does learning unity mean

like the interface ?

[sudden pendant]

That and learning the basics of coding within the Unity environment. Essentially the basic foundations of how to make a game.

[undone river]

so like should i learn to code (unity's namespace/library) within unity by following tutorials or should i refer a book and all

also are microgames a good way to learn unity

i cant open microgames using new project in unity version 2022.xx.xx

[sudden pendant]

Of course you should learn before you attempt to do anything on your own, especially make a game.

Just start with the Learn tutorials and go from there.

[undone river]

can i learn with microgames?

[sudden pendant]

I can't tell you how you should learn, that's something you can only figure out.

[undone river]

hmm true

[sudden pendant]

Some people learn from watchin youtube, or going to school, or reading a book and self directing their learning.

[undone river]

can you tell me which version supports learning templates

[sudden pendant]

Just do the essential pathway and it'll guide you to installing.

[undone river]

nah the most recent LTS version does not have microgames

thanks tho

i'll try to find it

[manic wind]

means mastering the basics of the unity engine

oh my discord didn't scroll

[undone river]

thanks, i'll try to do that

[jaunty remnant]

So I'm making FNAF fan game, Currently trying to work out how to make a:

Night system which has configurable characters so its easily changeable and also so that it goes from 12-6am and each hour lasts like 1 min or so (again preferably configurable )

Power system that starts at 100% and goes down based on your usage from lights doors whether cameras are open and any other mechanics i may add and if power goes to 0 I want it so random timer till you die and to disable cams doors and lights and anything that drains power

Camera system which allows you to click on a map to take you to different rooms and the cams will slowly pan (rotate) so u can see entire rooms i want some cams to have.

Animatronic AI which has different pathing (maybe like waypoints) but also poses associated with each point but the move time is a random thing which is also influenced by the nights difficulty and also the animatronic AI need to know whether or not they can attack or if the door is closed or if the light is on them and i want to be able to configure if you get rid of them by Light on or door closed. And then also set up a position where they jumpscare you.

I dont want like how toos i just need basic points of what i should be looking at as my brain is so burnt rn

[sleek phoenix]

Pick one to start out with first, you can tackle the other things later

[jaunty remnant]

yeha thats the problem my brain cant pick one out without it depending on another

[sleek phoenix]

Well you gotta start somewhere, so literally just close your eyes and point at one to do. You want to get something onscreen first instead of trying to figure out everything at once

[sleek phoenix]

why are you asking this in the unity discord

also !collab

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[orchid crag]

Alr

[marsh nest]

2d or 3d for a game to make

[fallow lintel]

question
how many collision detectors on the Player is deemed too much for a 2D pixel platformer game?
we currently got 9 and my System designer is concerned about adding more and performance implications.

[manic wind]

can you pace action gameplay with mini games?

match 3 game after beating a boss

[sharp zinc]

When you mean collision detectors, you mean trigger ?

Because there is no "Collision Detector" in Unity. Only colliders.

[fallow lintel]

coded in Colliders detecting colliders

[sharp zinc]

Then, only the one that coded it can know it.

[fallow lintel]

I'm just comparing other games.
We have much less Animation States, so I can't understand how more checks can be bad. Claims because of performance.

and we havent hit any performance issues yet at all

[sharp zinc]

How am I supposed to know if the performance of a script is bad when I don't even know the code...

Ask the guy that made the script

[pulsar estuary]

Is there any wak i can improve this animation

[sharp zinc]

Add movement to the whole character

[storm rune]

hey guys i made this background for a jam with a snake game, i need ideas for monsters or something to draw here, please help me, i was thinking of some biolumenescent things? it looks like a sea or a deep cave so

[cinder hamlet]

well just google " weird deep ocean fish"

[manic wind]

you could spawn rocks as obsticles

[storm rune]

nice idea and what about the player, what could it be

[manic wind]

an eel?

they're sorta snake shaped

play some ECCO the Dolphin too

[storm rune]

thank you

[manic wind]

maybe instead of the snake getting longer to make the game harder you could start as a tadpol that grows in size

[storm rune]

good idea i made this

idk if they look good

[manic wind]

i love them

reminds me of the Plants Vs Zombies sun 😄

i love your art style

[verbal oasis]

there are alot of good videos on youtube breaking down how the actual original fnaf games did most of that stuff

i believe alot of fan games follow that general architecture as well

[manic wind]

someone should make a game where you can just swap the assets

would be fun to design my own assets and swap them

a full game

turn ores into ingots but you can model/import the furnace yourself

[verbal oasis]

i think most games that allow modding theres easy ways to swap assets

minecraft being the one that immediately came to mind for me

the issue is that it feels like alot of games arent being moddable now

but im not active in any modding community so maybe im just unaware

[pearl moat]

How would you go about moderating that anyway

[sharp zinc]

You know that minecraft does not explicitly support modding. And you know that you can mod pretty much any game without doing anythings ?

[thick lichen]

Anyone know of any good examples, videos, tutorials, etc that show ideas on how to do a 3D game in a platformer perspective, so sort of 2.5D. Games like The Swapper come to mind. I've been experimenting, but something I'm not getting to properly create the look. The depth, camera, etc. It just doesn't look right the way I'm doing it.

[verbal oasis]

i know that its not explicitly supported (though its so ingrained into the community that it might as well be), but no i didnt know that most games were easily moddable

i wouldve thought that for a game to actually have a modding community form, it would need to be built in such a way that it would be easy to implement that kind of stuff

[sharp zinc]

We cannot talk about it unfortunately, because it involves methodology that are ban on this server.

[verbal oasis]

i guess we cant go into detail on how to do it to existing games that prohibit modding

but if i was to make a game with a modding community in mind, i thought i would have needed to make a bunch of design and system choices that specifically allow that to work out well without modders needing to do a bunch of scuffed up stuff

[sharp zinc]

You do not really need to. In fact, you should present a good and well fleshed game and if you are lucky enough, and the game is good enough, people will mod it.

[verbal oasis]

huh, nice

but ive also heard about some games being 'easier to mod' than other games

whats the difference?

might be going a bit into grey territory rn but i think its still valid in game-design

[sharp zinc]

No idea, the methodology is basically the same for every games. If you use Unity as your Engine, you are almost sure that there is already tools to facilate the modding of the game.

My advice to you would be to make a great game. Modding can be done after, and if needed you can refactor/implements pattern that facilate the whole process after it has been done.

[verbal oasis]

thanks, ill look into it; ive always enjoyed the idea of allowing mods on my game but i thought it was too daunting. good to know that its essentially a side effect of a good game

[wispy bane]

Anyone up in here? I have a bit of a brain fart and I can't figure out how to choose which collider to activate when I step into two overlapping ones.

So I have a grid based movement controller. Each mob has a collider that extends one tile forward in all directions, for detection purposes. Player steps inside the collider, mob detects it, combat starts. This works, no problems.

However, sometimes there are two adjacent mobs, standing right next to each other, and their colliders overlap. When I step on a tile where those colliders overlap, I have issues. Unity can't seem to decide which one was first, so it tries to start combat with the two mobs.

So basically I'm trying to figure out how to detect which was the absolute first to detect a collision, deactivate the detection on the other one, start combat with the first and then reactivate the second one and start combat with that one.

[rose gulch]

Maybe make it so when the second one overlaps, it detects that a collider is already present on one of the squares and deactivates it then?

[wispy bane]

I went with that idea. It's a bit convoluted, but aye, it doesn't need to detect collisions to the player while another collider is in.

Hopefully it works properly and the colliders don't fight each other to decide which one deactivates.

[jaunty remnant]

already watched them all its not the how they are done its more how to get it done in unity

i mean ive got power and ive got Time working

[fervent moat]

I am currently making a for GameOff game jam, and I gotta make a level blueprint, now I have something in my mind fo how to do it but idk excatly how to do it and what details to include in it... Can anyone help me in this ?

[glossy briar]

What is the practical use of skeleton rigging guns. Why not just animate the gun by moving individual models around, that's how ive been doing it but all the other models I've used have a skeleton.

[manic wind]

@verbal oasisdo these games come with guides for stuff like polygon count, hit box dimensions, interactive spots?

[polar jasper]

Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to organize tile palettes and and organize sprite sheets for different places....?

Like should i take the time to pick and choose only the ones i will use for that dungeon and make its own tile palette specifically for that 1 dungeon

Im also wanting to do rule tiles like in the grasslands on TopDownEngine

And am just getting lost on a good way to organize it instead of having different tiles I might now use??

Hope this aint too confusing appreciate any advice in advance!

[chilly oriole]

How does this look for a break room, i'll be adding smaller items, but how does it look as a scene. What could i add, to increase the atmosphere?

https://i.imgur.com/H3vEfLH.png

[cinder hamlet]

I assume the lighting is intended to be this dark?

also perhaps you can make it more cozy by making the colors overally warmer, right now it looks like a laboratory with everything being white and shiny

[chilly oriole]

Well, it is meant to be a puzzle room, that is designed as a break room, for a Medical research facility.

[chilly oriole]

Other than colors does it look good for a puzzle room?

[thick verge]

hey guys im making an rpg turn-based game and im looking for enemy ideas

i have biomes of such:
grasslands
caves/mines
forest
tundra
graveyard
volcano
dungeon

and they have names im just giving the name of the general atmosphere of them
wasnt really sure where to put this sorry if its in the wrong channel

[sharp zinc]

What enemies you want to add ?

[thick verge]

for a general answer ill just say anything somewhat human or things like golems, these are some enemies ive made so far:

grass beast, grass giant, assassin, rock golem, treetop archer, dungeon guard, skeleton knight

mythical creatures are fine as long as they fit the environment

[sharp zinc]

Have you implemented them ?

[thick verge]

ive done basic modeling

im working on the menu and ui rn

[sharp zinc]

Then make a game with those.

[thick verge]

well yeah i was just looking for suggestions for future enemies

[sharp zinc]

Bad idea, you are going to lose focus of what is important.

Also, you are going to have a lot of time to have idea.

[thick verge]

i see

ill do that then

thanks

[deft patio]

Halo
Anyone have experience and can recommend an asset for level design editor, with some proc gen?
WFC, Tessera, etc.
I'm looking to make something like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZjSmJ3dxHw
If any asset implements the proc gen with constrains etc but lacks the manual editor side, i can add that. But just wondering which one is closest to it

[sudden pendant]

@jolly vigil read !collab

[desert marten]

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[jolly vigil]

Ah Srry

I deleat The mensage now

Srry

[magic juniper]

Hey all. So been researching and even Chat GPT'ed a game I am interested in creating. The idea is a turn based game, the player gets a x# turns to build their empire, say 30 turns per hour or something. The player can attack other players but its not really real time. The players can choose other players to attack them whether the defender is online or offline. This will lower defenders defenses, troops etc. I want to make it a mobile game play. The player would have to log in with google play, apple or email. There would be top charts etc. Now Chat GPT says
1). make a single player game first, get the game working with ai enemies to start with.
2). implement a logging system.
3). Implement the multiplayer system.
My question is, should I not work on a login and multiplayer system first to get that correctly working and then the game design, functionality or is it easier to get the game structure working first as single player an AI enemies and then convert it to multiplayer?
Thx for any pointers. PS I have never built a multiplayer game before so this will be my first tackle into multiplayer.

[sudden pendant]

Yes, you should make it multiplayer from the start.

[magic juniper]

Thats what I thought. Wonder why chat GPT is pushing to make it single w. AI them implement or convert to multiplayer. Wierd. hehe

With multiplayer, it wont be if even any movable graphics across multiplayer, mostly just data exchanging hands. Can anyone recommend a good tool set for multiplayer. I have seen so many variants out there, most are for fast paced action games. Dots, Netcode etc. Its mostly going to be text and buttons and no player1 character moves to player 2 character and attacks with animations etc.? I think what Im asking, DOTs etc look like very complex systems. Is there something better for simple networking? I think I will have a game room where players can join a game but will only have 1 game active at a time that will run for 30 days and then reset the game and start a new etc. or maybe multiples where 1 game runs 30 days, another 3 months etc. Have not decided fully on that yet. Its basically a strategy game but without all the fancy graphics?

[sharp zinc]

Because, the first advice is to usually make a whole singleplayer game first as your first project. Multiplayer games are really more complex than singleplayer one.

[sharp zinc]

Netcode for GameObjects

[magic juniper]

Thx for the info @sharp zinc

[foggy adder]

I've posted the gameplay of my game on some subreddits and the main critique I got (that I am now trying to counter) is that my environments feel barren and empty. I cannot get any inspiration as everything I find sucks, I have no games that have similar envs as this one and if i find any that come close I am blind to what exactly makes them less empty than my envs. Here is the vid, if anybody got any suggestions for possible fixes please let me know. https://youtu.be/oGhko6i4raw?si=jTWwqMc84WlJm7Yj

[sharp zinc]

It is obvious... I am not an artist myself, but working with some I can already tell that you absolutely needs to break the symmetry, increase the silhouette of things and add more details.

From a more Game Design stand point, you need to increase the variability of your level by adding a high variety of obstacles. (Pipes/Generator/Windows/Broken Things). You also need to increase the variety of enemies/gameplay. Every frame I skip, I always see the exact same thing which is the player hitting the same stupid (literally) bee or jumping on the exact same looking platform. Artistically and Gameplay wise, you need to make things progress. What is the purpose of the room you are in ? What relation each room has ? Maybe you are in a factory, there is something being produced.

To be honest, your environment looks almost the same as what environment I work with in Gray Block phase. It really is blend.

Here are 2 images I randomly took. There is many, many things you can add. (Macro) However, I think you definitely needs to do more in the Micro/details. Unfortunately, I kinda sucks when we are talking about micro details. I also added an example of Micro/Macro.

Obviously, the art style/environment you choose makes it harder to add details. But something like Portal 2 has a similar laboratory environment but feels way less barren.

Oh, and I also observe that your lighting totally sucks. Everything is lighted the exact same way. I believe that makes a hell of a difference because even the Gray Blocks I worked with felt less empty.

[foggy adder]

Ill respond to the other things in a sec, but bro my envs are ALL macro. There is barely any detail to them, thats why im here, thats why i think it feels empty.

[foggy adder]

I mean like you said its hard when dark souls is a realistic looking game that can just put a thousand textures everywhere and look better while i clearly cannot

[foggy adder]

Portal is once again, very realistic and can make use of textures

[foggy adder]

How am i even supposed to approach this, you're just hating at this point. What is the last jab for?? How is that supposed to help my cause

You're approaching in bad faith, trying to bring me down or something

Ill take what you said, but next time dont say shit like that its counterproductive

And after all this you only partly answered my question. You repeated what I already know - "just add more things bro" - I need references from other games that have the same environment types. Portal is pretty good, but i knew that already.

[sharp zinc]

1. True, the only things you have is Macro. That does not means that you have enough of it.
2. You are right to say that it is probably harder to add details to your objects in the art style you choose. That does not mean it is impossible. Unfortunately, I totally sucks with such things. I'm just able to see it as I saw it multiple times.
3. Maybe that you needs to review your artwork ?
4. Saying that your lighting sucks is an understatement. It is for sure the worst of everything you have done in term of art. You either accept it as it is, or you refuse it. I'm not gonna sugar coat it because it is really, really terrible. However, do not take it personally. I'm not saying YOU suck, but that what you have done suck. Here an image of Super Hot which is VR games. There is almost no details. See how the empty walls feel less empty just because of the light. Also, take notes on how they incorporate some details event without texture and really limited budget. (ignore the blocky aspect of things and focus on the "silhouette" and the carving of objects)

Here is genshin impact:

See how a majority of details are "big" notably on the ground.

And again, the lighting makes an absolute difference

Breath of the Wild:

[manic wind]

oh are we studying game design from games 😮

i wanna join

[foggy adder]

1. Yeah
2. Yeah, I'm trying, I suck ASS bro this shit i so unfun 😭. God made me a programmer not a level designer.
3. Wdym artwork, the style?
4. My brother, there is NO lighting. Now you're free to say that it looks awful, but I did that on purpose. As in I consciously decided to NOT have any light sources - therefore everything is evenly lit. I have no idea how to make corporate warehouse lighting, but since you're the second person that talks about that - maybe I should just.. gid gud and actually start caring about it? It would take a shit ton of work to set everything up.. oh and the fucking baking.. Tho I agree with the thing you mentioned - superhot has the same amount of assets as I do (a lil more since it uses physics for gameplay too), but it does look good despite that. Maybe light-work isn't the worst thing afterall.

[foggy adder]

oh def yeah

like again, the CORE problem of my issue is that I have absolutely no reference for games that actually have the same environments as me so i cannot even notice the smaller differences

you know the assets and the light sources for example

in my levels all the light sources would just go out of the cieling

idk how better it would look, but i gotta try ig?

[sharp zinc]

No idea either. You need to experiment.

[foggy adder]

Alr so let's recap so i can pin point what exactly are your issues that you see that I should fix:

1. More high variety of obstacles. (Pipes/Generator/Windows/Broken Things) - As I understand, just random things that will block your path so that you have to jump around them and stuff.
2. Lighting doesn't exist - I should add light sources from the ceiling

thats the main things you mentioned right?

[sharp zinc]

The idea of obstacles is to add variety in the art and break long distance view that are uniform.
Light is really import, ceiling light might be correct, but I believe you need more than just that. Also, for the lord of god, do not add them in symmetric manner. Add variety and difference.

[foggy adder]

its hard to not add light in a symmetric manner when we talking about a corporate warehouse, but i get what you mean

I gotta think about other point where lights would go off of so they break the symmetry a bit

[pastel coral]

Would you play this game? I've had a idea of a game that's like a mix of the long drive and fallout and project zomboid basically in the game you start with a shitty car and drive through somewhat randomly generated maps with different enemies depending on the type of map and different vehicles to get and free customization of them all and each map would have like 4 exits after so long on it that could take you you different maps but you'd never know completely what it would be like

Also the game would have survival mechanics

[sharp zinc]

Maybe

[vapid stream]

Not sure where I'd ask this, but random question: what would you call a top down shooter game where there are random aspects to it, but it's sort of the same level, just that the bosses are in different orders

[sudden pendant]

Roguelite

[manic wind]

HADEs?

[thorn cove]

Maybe you should look at Void Bastards. That's the closest I can think of in terms of that lighting style. But overall, unfortunately, the answer is usually just add more stuff so it doesn't all look the same. Very annoying answer, as it means you need to put a bunch of work into stuff that doesn't actually matter for the gameplay. Each new model or modification to the level art can be simple, but it just needs to exist.

Putting stuff outside the playspace (that isn't just the same wall repeating forever) would do a lot for the visuals. Having random huge pipes, large neon mechanical engines, etc. would make it much more visually interesting to look at. I do not think you need lighting to solve your problem for the most part, lighting is just a relatively easy way to entertain the eye without doing much work yourself

tldr: you need more stuff in the level that isn't directly related to the gameplay in order to keep it entertaining to look at

which is a lot of work.. But you can't build visually interesting, large levels out of just a couple props and one repeating wall texture

[foggy adder]

damn I've never seen this game before, it looks incredibly cool! I'm looking at footage and I might be blind, but this game seems to not have lighting at all? As in it's stylized, therefore it doesn't need lighting - that's what I have at the moment. As you can see in the screenshot the well lit areas got a hard cut off with the dark ones, so there doesn't seem to be any lighting calculations going on.

[foggy adder]

yeah that seems to be the case

so the answer is what i planned before i even started asking: just go to games and reference sites, make a moodboard out of everything that even slightly resembles what the level should look like and then collect/make assets and put them everywhere.

btw thank you, out of all people who answered you were the one that actually answered it completely - that is gave me an example of a game that has the same type of artstyle and environment

i will look at gameplays and add the game to my wishlist as it looks fun as fuck on top of all

[thorn cove]

Yeah, I think it only uses a few tricks to emulate lighting, but there is no standard lighting

It instead adds many props and environment details to make up for it

[foggy adder]

yeah i see how they got nice clearly drawn on shadows on some things

[thorn cove]

You could also look into a toon shader with simple lighting if you wanted

[sharp zinc]

It does have light... It just not your standard lights. The same ground has multiple shade on it at the exact place you pointed out. That given said, the lighting they have is probably the down side of the artistic side of that game. The interior feels blend. The most important take away is the details.

[foggy adder]

that is not lighting, those are just random details

things you would add to something to make it look a lil worn out

[sharp zinc]

Bro, multiple simular object has different shade.

[foggy adder]

"As you can see in the screenshot the well lit areas got a hard cut off with the dark ones, so there doesn't seem to be any lighting calculations going on."

[sharp zinc]

Light can be done in a hard cut way

Have you ever heard of flat shading ?

[foggy adder]

im not blind little brother, i know what lighting looks like, i pointed out it had drawn on shadows, not calculated ones

[sharp zinc]

Also, toon shader does exactly that.

[foggy adder]

im done trying to talk sense with you

you're clearly trying to annoy me

[foggy adder]

im not talking with you anymore, its actually pointless

[manic wind]

can you shade a flat colour with light?

😮

oh wait thats cel shading haha

[thick lichen]

We're making a sort of light metroidvania style game. Does anyone know of any tools or software that helps with designing a large 2D map/level? Something to block out levels quickly just to get a reference before trying to build it out with primatives in Unity?

[sharp zinc]

To be honest, I would've expect you to use paper/crayon or any feature free software like Paint (Windows Default Application).

[lost merlin]

Trying to think of a good way to handle wave based enemy generation in a multiplayer game. Optimally, I'd probably want all the enemies to spawn somewhere right outside of vision so there's less of them trying to path find their way to the players. However, this seems exploitable for that each player can spread out to prevent enemies from spawning in large areas. This could also lead to funky spawns popping up between players if they move far enough away such they are separated by very small gaps of fog.

Ultimately, I think just having the hordes spawn off the level, near the ends where players cant access. Few problems with this idea is that enemies seem to funnel together a lot at far distances, and not to mention the performance in spawning all these enemies from afar.

Not using ECS so I've got a lot of optimization problems with runtime performance.

[magic juniper]

You could put up spawn points and just check that no player object is within radius on spawn. That way they wont spawn on top of a player?

[thick lichen]

Very useful response.

[lost merlin]

Currently they don't spawn in the proximity/vision of the player, but if you say had people defending all entrances of a fort or such, they'd spawn in the middle if no is close enough.

[lost merlin]

Asperite is probably the best 2D tool currently available for like 15-20 bucks, or you can compile the source for free from their git (though outdated version)

with that being said, paint probably works too ;)

[sharp zinc]

For designing, it isnt a really usefully tool.

[sharp zinc]

It is actually what is being used in the industry whatever you believe or not. Before the gray block process.

[sharp zinc]

In addition to spawning them at the edge of the vision, you could have them spawn from holes, ceiling, etc. It is quite frequent to have "ambushed" enemies or enemies with "special" entry animation. Ideally, you should never have active enemies outside of the vision of the player (with a buffer obviously) for performance reason.

There is also quite a limit on how much enemies you would be able to support in a non ECS environment.

[lost merlin]

Right, I probably don't want them active, but they must still pathfind. So I'm thinking of some way to still keep track of their position, but not actively on the scene? Not too sure

[sharp zinc]

Ideally, they should not even pathfinding. Obviously, your game might require that. If it is the case, the only component that should be enable should be the pathfinding component.

Renderer, VFX, Animation, StateMachine, etc should all be disabled.

[lost merlin]

Hmm, so perhaps I can keep the gameobjects on the scene, and perhaps use the top level for the transform values with the pathfinding script, but then disable the children (all the eye candy)

[sharp zinc]

How much enemies your targeting to have at once ?

And what dimension we are talking ? 2D or 3D

[lost merlin]

500 with kinematic rigidbody controller

3D

[sharp zinc]

Yeah, good luck.

What platform ?

And what FPS ?

[lost merlin]

PC platform, but my hunk of junk isn't the greatest to determine the performance.

ideally, it's a good benchmark for lower end I guess

[sharp zinc]

What FPS are you targeting ?

[sharp zinc]

Always start with lower-end device

[lost merlin]

60-120 is fine on my end

[sharp zinc]

At least, when you have considerable low budget/time. It is harder to down grade then to upgrade

[sharp zinc]

At 60 it might be possible if you keep a camera close enough and not a lot of enemies are active at the sametime.

Also, you would not be able to use things like ragdoll or inverse kinematic if you have too much enemies at the sametime.

I strongly suggest that you do a technical proof before investing to much time in your idea.

[lost merlin]

I'm actually doing a 2.5D project, but I have to break batching for rendering purposes for my billboarding

[sharp zinc]

Usually, I'm targeting 20 enemies max. That being said, our enemies are pretty full of feature (Behavior Tree, Inverse Kinematic, Complex Animation, etc.) and we are targeting the Switch.

[sharp zinc]

2.5D as doing 3D on a 2D camera or doing 2D to simulate 3D ?

[lost merlin]

3D with sprites basically

[sharp zinc]

It is going to make things a lot easier.

[lost merlin]

rendering is actually fine, it's more cpu that's being the choke

[sharp zinc]

Yes, at least you want have to deal with animation that much

[sharp zinc]

You probably need to reduce the amount of renderer.

[lost merlin]

and it's mostly because I've 500+ enemies trying to path find and I've got it pretty optimized that they do only update every so often

and regardless of that, they seem to stack up a lot (or make congo lines) when far enough away. Gotta figure out how to kinda keep variation of their tracking

[thick lichen]

The point of a tool would be to not need to draw out a level. A large world would get pretty tedious to design in something like aseprite.

Someone dmed me this https://loganames.itch.io/promelagen but that's a generator.

Googling that then led me to this https://ldtk.io/

Not as simple as I would prefer since I don't intend to import the map into Unity or anything.

[late vapor]

I play killing floor 1 heavily, which has that exact design problem. In that game, what you just described ends up happening -- players, when spread out, completely kill the pace of the game, which is ordinarily super fast paced when all 6 players are together. There are dozens and dozens of fixed spawn points spread throughout the map, and enemies spawn in points that no player is looking at, so when players are spread out on large open maps, enemies get spawned sparsely and far away from everyone

The solution is to have level design accommodate that. Fill large empty spaces. In killing floor 2, enemies physically crawl out of vents on the floors, walls, and ceilings, and drop from heights inaccessible to the player

I'm actually designing a game like this. I'm using offmesh links to allow enemies to traverse through paths the player can't, such as dropping through skylights or falling off ledges towards the player that the player themself would take fall damage from

[lost merlin]

Unfortunately my project is strictly isometric and I'm not looking to add much verticality to it so I'm stuck spawning stuff on the x and z

[cinder hamlet]

Perhaps design your enemies in a way that discourages players from spreading out

have some enemy type(s) specifically made for punishing players who stray away from their teammates for too long

or like almost_friday said, find a creative way to spawn enemies within the player view. For example in Deep Rock Galactic the bugs simply crawl out of the ground, sometimes even right next to players

[lost merlin]

I've actually been thinking about implementing a fog mechanic, such that someone carries a light source which illuminates an area around it, and those that stray too far into the fog would take damage. But, I'm not too sure if players would like that restriction.

It would probably solve most of the problems though and it does look cool (made a stencil shader specifically for it)

[cinder hamlet]

Yeah, I imagine that idea can be a bit risky and also problematic because your team's fate now depends on one guy

My suggestion: just add an enemy that ambushes players who aren't near their teammates

[cold onyx]

opinions on my ui? (beta)

[night shoal]

Looks very default Unity

[atomic anvil]

Maybe add a background panel, cause now it sort of blends with the game view.

[cold onyx]

ok

[pearl moat]

Feels quite simple but it works as a ui for a alpha/beta version

Could be improved

[sharp robin]

It isn't good, but seems functional at least. I wouldn't ship with it, but it let's you test options as a developer.

@cold onyx

• options and text are backwards (descriptor on left, option on right, is normal for left to right reading)
• that isn't a great blue, it doesn't compliment the background
• default Arial is very generic
• I don't like how Arial looks for Play versus PLAY (personal preference)
• the buttons aren't centered to the screen, which is OK, but seems oddly just floating off center. Not as much of a problem except for everything else compounding it (personal preference)
• unity default textures for UI are blurry and kind of ugly
• no titles on the menu pages
• no back / forward buttons
• distances between the buttons is uneven
• unclear instructions, why are they creating a lobby? Can they join one? Is the create for the lobby or username?
• weird that the button is large bold text and items above it smaller normal text. Regions would help solve that and draw the eye better

Does it have sfx? Animations?

[cold onyx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5mDpCSa5Xg can I get input... :[]

🥺

[sharp robin]

The volumes quite low, but the idea looks fun. I only got about 60 seconds in, but what I was saw interesting. The one small piece of advice I have is to maximize the screen on play, otherwise all the can see if your game is a tiny square, and it's the bulk of the interest

[cold onyx]

right. :} thanks

😄

[late vapor]

the tranzit denizens

people absolutely hated them

I think in heavy fog, it'd be fine to spawn enemies randomly out of view. That sounds pretty punishing

[tropic rose]

I'm about to write my own physics engine.
I'm making a physics based game, and I want the player vary from kinematic to rigid body smoothly

[pearl moat]

Then write it

[sharp robin]

Thank you for the vote of confidence! I'd definitely gather feedback from some designers, but if you post anything here I'll definitely try and weigh in.

I wouldn't worry too much, design can be learned just as much as coding:)

[fervent basalt]

Does anyone have any tips or tricks for coming up with game ideas?

[sharp robin]

I have no shortage of ideas :D, but you could ask an AI. Game jams help. Collabs. Look at top selling games and try to combine a few ideas together. Recreate interesting small games.

[sharp zinc]

Study games. Try to find out game that you like and collect them.

[cinder hamlet]

remix ideas from existing games

[pearl moat]

Or mix ideas from basically anything you like

[fervent basalt]

Alright

[north trellis]

Pick a really simple game idea in a genre you like, try to do that, and then as you build the scene out you'll realize all the different ways you can take the game until it's something original (or at least semi-original)

[fervent basalt]

aight

[chrome jetty]

Another thing is to make a super generic game in a genre, and then pick ONE feature to add and do that, then while doing it, you might have an idea for another. Incremental additions can make it a lot more unique.

I do this with a prototype project sometimes, and then go back and decide what I liked and didn't. When I rebuild the actual game, I may change or drop those features and often add different ones.

Just make it fun for yourself and do stuff on whim.

[fervent basalt]

Alright thanks

[thick lichen]

I'm starting to design a light metroidvania game for a jam, but want to limit the length of the game to say 30 min max. Some metroidvania games have hundreds of rooms, so I'm curious as to what might be good limitations to start with so the level doesn't get too large. Super Metroid had something like 260 total rooms.

• number of rooms total (sort of determines world size and game length)
• number of roadblocks (that require abilities to progress), basically separates the "levels" or difficulty areas of a metroidvania

[hexed marsh]

Hey, what software do you use for game design?
Other than pen and paper.

I dont mean prototyping, but writing down/drawing the design/idea of your game.

[sudden pendant]

Milanote or Miro are musts. Though I'd lean towards Milanote more for a game design.

[hexed marsh]

Forgot about Miro, I will check Milanote tho, thanks

[river marlin]

what more can i add to my game

[north trellis]

get at least two more ciricles in there, a green one and a yellow one

the you can do 4-player multiplayer

[river marlin]

Blue is the player

Red is an enemy

lol

[north trellis]

well it sounds like the game is already finished

[river marlin]

I just started coding I don’t wanna get into that

[north trellis]

haha yeah me too, and smart, netcode is a mess

[river marlin]

W h a t

Wat would u ad

Add

[north trellis]

i just messing around, what are you planning on doing with the game?

[river marlin]

Playing it

Showing my friend or brother

I just tryna learn basic coding skills

Until I have enough to make a good game

[north trellis]

Why not try making a simple game of Pong?

you'd learn how to create movement, set boundaries, etc

[river marlin]

In unity or in a console

[north trellis]

oh, unity

[river marlin]

Lll

Cuz u can do it inside a console with just vscode

[river marlin]

I’ll try

[north trellis]

If you're just starting out and looking for the simplest ideas, I would check out Learn Unity

https://learn.unity.com/

they have video courses that walk you through making your own games, you can do as many as you want, skip certain ones (like the starting lego-game course) if you want

the "games" are fairly simple, but you learn a lot in the process

also don't get discourged if the courses start to get really hard. I only made it through Junior Programmer I. I can't yet pass the test to get to Junior Programmer II 😢

[left cove]

add a Health Bar, add some Damage ) with floating numbers when recieving damage )

maybe add a Timer, a Scoreboard

SFX or animations

[broken dirge]

I recommend https://hacknplan.com/ or https://clickup.com/.

[hexed marsh]

Thanks, I used to have hacknplan long time ago, but I had some issues with missing features, maybe they have updated it since then.

[broken dirge]

Not really. Its been the same for the past +-3 years. But I still love how simple the UI is. How quickly you can write the markup design documents and with the customizability of the boards.

[hexed marsh]

Do you remember if there are any limitations for a free plan?

I am not expecting to buy it until I get started with it fully to see if it works for me.
I am using Notion atm and getting back to Miro.

But I found that some of those softwares have limits like "100 lines" etc.
Which is too limiting.

[broken dirge]

No real limitations, just anoyances. Like missing multiselect at the free tier.
Some features missing, like calendar. Another issue is missing integration with github/gitlab.
But you can have unlimited boards, tasks, users etc...
I guess overall I recommend it for a very small team 5<. AMAZING for game jams.
But I would not build a company around it.
For personal projects or just writing GDD its the best.

For a "real" company clickup works better. But it just feels much less fun to use for me.

[final gale]

I can't see my display outline in canvas to add the text

Help me with this

[snow nacelle]

you've turned off gizmos. also not a game design question

[final gale]

where it is to turn on

ohh thanks

I found it

Thanks a lot

[hexed marsh]

Thanks, I think the missing feature was the calendar or something related to counting hours.

[verbal gull]

@north trellis wanna continue chatting about the idea here?

[north trellis]

I was about to go and eat but i can reply to anything after that, sure.

[verbal gull]

gotcha

havent decided yet if im just gonna go for a bare essentials type thing or try and make it look somewhat realistic with small details like wall trims, power outlets and the like, but realistically ill probably end up somewhere in between

[north trellis]

a bit of visual details like that would help, literal icing on the cake

[verbal gull]

alright, i shall return when i have something else worthwhile to discuss. for now im just gonna watch a bunch of tutorials

[north trellis]

!learn might have something you could benefit from if you're interested

[desert marten]

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Over 750 hours of free live and on-demand learning content for all levels of experience!

[left cove]

Does anyone know of the Turn Based System that uses "Turn Meter and Speed" Variables?

I'd like to know how it works, so I can recreate it myself.

Games like The Lord of the Rings HEROES OF MIDDLE EARTH and Stars Wars Heroes

[hybrid relic]

anyone has some tips for level designing.

[cinder hamlet]

First make the level's general layout with basic shapes, then test it thoroughly

only after that work with visuals

best if you can get some other people to help you test. Family, friends, randoms on discord, etc

Watch how they play the level and try to draw conclusions from that

[north trellis]

close doors

what type of game is it to be used in? Puzzle game?

or is it just something you're creating for the use in future projects

[cinder hamlet]

whatever you need it to do

unless you're asking for mechanic ideas

what kind of puzzle game exactly?

a platformer puzzle?

[north trellis]

endless potential with pressure plates and doors then. But it depends on what kind of puzzle game.

[merry yarrow]

does anyone know of a free skydome creator? i want to make my own hdri's but the only thing ive seen is either using blender nodes, Ai or terragon4... does anyone know of a free app that i can use to make seamless skydomes with?

[wild meadow]

Not sure if it should go here or in elsewhere but when making a flat 2d map for a unity game that isnt scrolling in any direction, how do I know what 'size' to make the image?

[north trellis]

do you have any of it made in Unity yet? I.e the first puzzle

with visuals I could give you some ideas to expand the pressure plate/door system

will the player need to locate specific items to place on a plate and open a door, or is it just "place anything here to keep door open"?

if you have enemy NPCs at all in your game, you could have fakeouts where the door opens and a hidden-until-then enemy lunges out of it

the more detail you give on what you want to do with your game and how you plan to use the plate system, the more feedback we can all give

[manic wind]

how do people design hitbox locations for sprite sheets?

[manic wind]

can i make AI generate artwork from my own work i've made?

the main complaint is people using copyright material but what if i own all the material myself

[sharp robin]

Well, first you can build it with anything you like, including AI generated from other materials. That's more of a personal choice.

As for AI though, each platform is formulating different policies. Some are no AI of any kind, some are allowed with disclosure. Both are kind of regardless of what source you used.

There is a lot of confusion and misinformation right now. On often overlooked thing is that models are data generated, and there are ethical data models someone could use. But distributors are so busy trying to figure out what AI is, they have no idea how to handle edge cases.

[manic wind]

yeah its a massive grey area at the moment

[manic wind]

sounds fun

sounds like Zelda puzzles where you place a vase on a switch and stand on another switch to open a door

[glossy root]

looks alright?

[wild meadow]

I'm uncertain how large to make my images for my game for in unity... like my map image. Its 'full screen' in a way, should I go by perhaps what webpages use these days as a guide?

@glossy root Looks pretty good to me. I like it

[glossy root]

i make mine 1024x1024

and i adjust this in unity

max size

watch

[wild meadow]

I mean I'm guessing most people will run the game in Full Screen so...

[wild meadow]

sounds good. What's the usual resolution these days? (not that I will remember when I actually start arting)

[glossy root]

u see the difference

how the other one is pixelated

[wild meadow]

yep I do now!

[glossy root]

i dont know if this is what you meant

[wild meadow]

so start at 'maximum you think necessary' and go from there

[glossy root]

better to make it bigger than smaller

[wild meadow]

I think so yes. Like the raw image/jpg/png file so if you opened it in say, Paint, it was a certain number of pixels across