archived-game-design

[bitter fulcrum]

It is the BEST (in my opinion) 3D modeling software

Or tried to follow tutorial

[modern minnow]

bit of both. it seems like it's extremely confusing to do the most basic things and I don't really get why.

surely there's simpler 3d software

maybe not as good overall but I don't plan on making anything all that complex

[bitter fulcrum]

No idea for any other one

I learned blender about some months ago

Never needed anything else, so never changed

Most good or even ok modeling are not free

[glass grail]

Anyone knows where i can grab SFX / Music for my games?

Free no subscription*

[uncut crown]

Freesounds.org

Or w/e

Google free sample packs

Production reddits usually have a list of free stuff

Also there are torrents which are legit public domain u can download

Also jus sample stuff and fuck around with it till its unrecognizable thats what i do

[glass grail]

ty

[strong orbit]

Anyone know where i can make some easy 3d models

Preferably pixel art

[sudden pendant]

First of all, there is no "where" to making 3D models. You can use Blender, which is a free 3D modeling program.

Secondly, modeling is not easy, and takes effort and experience. But that also depends on the quality you're going for.

Thirdly, pixel art is a 2D style. You can't make 3D pixel art. If you're referring to a minecraft-like look with cubes, those are called voxels. You can also do that in Blender, so might be worth checking out.

[errant pond]

Noob question. How hard would it be to make the backend to turn an existing RPG into an MMO?

[sudden pendant]

Extremely. You would be essentially rewriting the game from the ground up.

On top of the enormous amount of work that comes with making an MMO in general.

[errant pond]

That's a big ol RIP. But thank you lol.

[hoary matrix]

You can try ProBuilder (https://unity.com/features/probuilder) and SketchUp (https://www.sketchup.com/plans-and-pricing/sketchup-free). But I strongly recommend taking the time to learn Blender. Lots of free YouTube tutorials, but I recommend the channel by Grant Abbitt (https://www.youtube.com/c/GrantAbbitt).

[modern minnow]

thanks!

[mint flint]

How would I go about making an enemy follow a path and kills the player if hes caught in the path

[late vapor]

use the navmesh agent and make a simple state machine

[tepid loom]

if i were to make enemy ai that mostly just shoot as a attack, walk around waypoint, would be optimal if they reacted to gunshots in an area and fought using the enviroment like a barrel to hide behind, Is there a good ai asset that could fill those requirements or would i have to do something else? (Im not very experienced with unity or ai)

ive looked at Emerald ai and FSM ai template, but not im not sure if they fill dose requirements, or if there are any other better options, or free ones

[crimson needle]

hi guys im beginner at game dev and i need idea for simple game

[tepid loom]

I just made a infinite platform runner kinda game that speeds up over time in 3-5 hours 2 days ago, it wasnt too difficult but was fun to figure out.

first game ive ever kinda finished

[short frost]

Hi, I just finished the Junior Programmer course on Unity Learn. It's totally free and really good at giving you the basics, and as part of the course you make a simple game alongside. Check it out!

This is the kind of game I felt OK making after following the course. Before it I had never touched unity and hadn't programmed anything for years!

[hoary matrix]

That's cool! Thank you for sharing.

[lost merlin]

sweet stuff

[uncut crown]

anyone know of any resource that is like an archive of different games stats

like the resolution of textures/various stats about how the game was developed

like some kind of an archive that has an analysis of the graphics/development

if that exists please tell me

[cold onyx]

Very nice! Thanks for share

[rare gorge]

like a dev log/blog?

[deft patio]

#narrative doesnt exist anymore eh

I need some lingual help..
Need a few verbs to categorize "fighting" quest objective, other than "Defeat"
There's different rationale behind the few options:
Carnivore verb, Fight of hatred verb, Fight of anger, survival

[hoary matrix]

Some possibilities: Hunt, kill, attack, avenge, punish, destroy, exterminate, defend, guard

[deft patio]

Ah good ones

I'm currently looking for 1 for "unleashing aggression"

It's kind of a way in the game when an npc decides he's angry and will look for target of aggression and fight them to death, to reduce their "aggression" counter down

[hoary matrix]

Perhaps something like rage or rampage

There are just SO many. What are you interested in?

[deft patio]

Hmm.. i can use them. Thanks
As long as i use distinct words
But the hunt, avenge, punish etc were super correct

[manic wind]

does anyone know in retro fighting games like Street Fighter do sprite sheets overlap for registering attacks?

[topaz urchin]

Is this where I can get some help with project planning? I'm brand new to this and have no idea where to even begin looking.

I'm looking to create a game that is essentially a virtual character sheet (for tabletop RPG's). The plan is to allow a user to create and connect all the elements but I can't find a way to get started that isn't for a traditional game that has characters and environments. This is basically just gonna be a whole bunch of menus.

[north jetty]

I posted it in games in development but maybe I should Had post it in here, need some feedback on a action combat that I am creating, I am starting to believe that I should change the targeting to general targeting direction instead of pointing the player gun to the point above the mouse position, need some sugestions if this feels good, probably not, is it ok I post the game here?

[tribal halo]

Hello, what shall be some ideas for items for my multiplayer boyscout camping game?

[hoary matrix]

Google something like “boyscout camping” or just “camping” and see what shows up in Images.

[late vapor]

what comes to mind are some of the slightly competetive activities

raingutter regata, lighting fires, tying knots, throwing hatchets, etc.

[serene viper]

Anyone know how to use a 3D insometric pack!

[buoyant turret]

hey guys how does a rickroll clicker game sound like? for a school project

[untold needle]

Awesome

[spice oasis]

hey guys! im wondering what terrain shader are you guys using or which one would be the best to use?

[simple ruin]

Would you expect right to be rotate clockwise or counterclockwise?

[zenith gulch]

how can I put my Unity in dark mode, so not my game only the things around it

[snow nacelle]

not a game design question, but it's in Edit > Preferences > General > Editor Theme

[zenith gulch]

sorry I didn't know where to ask this but thank you

[sonic totem]

hey guys, what sounds better for an online rpg:
1.A shop that gets new items every 30minutes where everyone can buy a copy of the pool of items.
2.A shop that gets new items every 30minutes and the pool of items is unique for each player

[tranquil stump]

Is this a cash shop or an in game currency shop

[silk sedge]

2nd option be better cause it will give the player a sense of individuality

[sonic totem]

In game currency

[sonic totem]

Yes I thought that too, but it kinda breaks the immersion because technically all players will access “Mike’s shop”

How does Mike have different items for different people 😅

[silk sedge]

Who Mike? Well anyways, if you keep a system where a player can access a certain part of shop only depending upon their game rank, class, or status(like quest history) then it would solve the problem but it would sure add a ton of coding for you to do

Like you need to do a certain question to get that magical spatial bag Or the person who was in the team to kill dragon can access the dragon killer weapons

And dont ask me why he gets dragon killer weapons after killing the dragon

[tranquil stump]

Mixed. Look at Borderlands. Same shop set, for everyone, but has a "Special" item of the day. Maybe make that "special item" be unique to the players instance

[plucky hazel]

Anyone have some simple game ideias? I am stuck right now, and with 0 ideias i have 0 things to work on

[tranquil stump]

What kind of game do you like?

[plucky hazel]

I want to make my first game, so it must be simple xD I would do anything other than platformers

[fickle cave]

Board game

[tranquil stump]

That isnt what I asked you

What games do you enjoy? What style?

[plucky hazel]

Rogue like, or farming afk games

[tranquil stump]

If you've never built a game before, start with a farming afk game. Stay simple. Maybe,
X time = +X coins
New plot = X coins
Buy plot for +coins per X time

Then once you have a decent understanding, start over and make something you'd enjoy.

[plucky hazel]

The problem is finding something unique on farming afk games. I know how to make it, i am good with logic, the problem is the ideia xD

Any cool ideia to add to that farm simple game?

[hoary matrix]

How about farming on Mars? There's a small colony of settlers and they're trying to grow stuff on a difficult environment, perhaps as part of terraforming the planet.

[sonic shard]

Maybe add on to that once you get farther into the game, go to other planets and there are crops or animals specific to those planets

[plucky hazel]

The ideas were good, but not for a first game xD I need a simple game with a end

[supple spade]

How would you make it easy for a game to have specific colors that can be swapped out like a light mode or dark mode for example?

[teal jetty]

Hi do you have the link of this course?

[supple spade]

https://learn.unity.com/pathway/junior-programmer

[cold onyx]

So, I'm trying to add a server to my Unity 2d game. I want it to have a master server (no rooms) and have a console for admin commands. Any ideas?

[short frost]

Could be done with multiple cameras and post processing effects maybe?

[supple spade]

i mean mostly just like what best practice would be for like having specific color themes, like how you would have some certain default colors for text and others for the background, and then swap them out

[tranquil stump]

"Palettes"

[short frost]

Oh so you mean like picking a colour palette that conveys a unified visual style but with enough contrast for each mode?

There's a good website for generating colour palettes, I'll try and find the link

https://coolors.co/bbe5ed-bfbccb-b399a2-986c6a-784f41

[supple spade]

yeah but mostly how you best store those palettes easily

[hidden crescent]

Color is documented in Unity docs

You can use Color[] for example

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

[tribal halo]

Hey, i am making a social deduction game mixed with survival, i was wondering how i could make roles which have to do with survival games like minecraft,rus and valheim?

[tranquil stump]

Can you explain "social deduction" more

[tribal halo]

do u know whats social deduction?

[tranquil stump]

I do, I mean, can you explain what you are wanting to do, in relation to social deduction and survival. i am struggling to find a way it would blend.

Do you want "figure out how to survive together" or do you want "survive while figuring out how to solve such and so"

[tribal halo]

My game basically is like this.

As part of the uninformed majority (the boyscouts) collect resources,craft items and try to stay alive while avoiding the double crossers.
As part of the informed minority (the double crossers) must pretend to be a boyscout while killing ppl.

basically u try to stay alive (survival game style) while trying to discover who is lying and who is not.

[tranquil stump]

So among us x dont starve

[tribal halo]

yes XD

[tranquil stump]

Interesting

And youre wondering what roles/classes to make?

[tribal halo]

yes

[tranquil stump]

If they are the boyscouts, you clearly should make each class be a tier of scout;

[tribal halo]

i already got 3 of those but i wanna make more.

[tranquil stump]

Or tie that to the difficulty at least

[tribal halo]

Scoutmaster: U can provide yourself and other protection.

Senior: Watch a player to see if they kill someone

Eaglescout: Gather info of other players

but i wanna make 4 more XD

[tranquil stump]

Those may be a bit too directive of effects

[tribal halo]

those 3 roles dont count on the survival themed roles

[tranquil stump]

I would do,

Scoutmaster: Increases ally gather speed by 25%

Eagle Scout: Increases team dark-vision by 5 meters

Other term: 50% chance to catch two fish instead of two

Stuff like that

[tribal halo]

keep in mind the roles are also kind of Town of Salem like (if u know what that game is)

[tranquil stump]

mmm I don't

[tribal halo]

oh

I just wanna make 4 roles that fit the camping survival theme

[tribal halo]

well i got a concept of a trapper role.

[rare gorge]

Whats your idea to make it so people don't group together?

[tribal halo]

uuhhh

u got ideas?

[rare gorge]

Maybe, and it'll also solve the survival aspect but brb

[tribal halo]

ok

[tranquil stump]

If you're within X radius of another player, X seconds later the killer gets a ping

[tribal halo]

well, killers dont have a cooldown

but they can only kill at night

[rare gorge]

Just a question do you have a task system?

[tribal halo]

Collecting resources, staying alive and crafting reppace tasks

[rare gorge]

Wait it sounds like you already have a survival element in place

[tribal halo]

I mean for roles

Survival themed roles

[cold onyx]

Someone help me, I'm trying to use paint for texture (it's inside the terrain) and when I add layer to put the texture, the first texture I put applies to the entire map... Is there a solution?

[quartz arch]

hey so i know this is pretty random but any ideas for a main character? i had one before but it isnt turning out so good. for some context: the game has a darker pallete, the main character was locked in a mental institution and his weapon is a dodgeball. any ideas for a charcter would be great since i cant really think of anything

right now my inspo is only candyman from lethal league blaze

[plucky hazel]

Anyone with a simple game ideia? Or mechanic? It will be for my first game

[cold onyx]

I just noticed i do not only have to pool the bullets of each enemy

i also have to pool the enemies themselves

because i want to spam a lot of them in my scene

or let me not say "spam" but i will def create and destroy a lot of enemies and since they are a bit larger 3d models it might lag so i would prolly be better of pooling them

[cold onyx]

Does anyone know how to use the new Economy package that unity has added?

[cold onyx]

What is the banner called to show off a game? like, a stand-still trailer photo

[simple ruin]

Would an effect similar to Minecraft's nausea be a really bad idea in VR?

[zealous fulcrum]

Hi

[tribal halo]

yeh bad idea.

It would make players vommit XD

[simple ruin]

And that's a bad thing? That often happens when one is nauseous.

[sleek phoenix]

would you honestly keep playing a game that made you throw up irl?

[simple ruin]

Hmmm. Depends on how much I enjoyed the gameplay.

[tribal halo]

yea, just dont add it

[sleek phoenix]

would you really still think that while cleaning up your own sick from your carpet?

[simple ruin]

Not while cleaning it up, but I still end up playing it after.

[tranquil stump]

lol, sure you would

[tribal halo]

hey can I get feedback for the roles i created for my social deduction game inspired by Among us?

[cold onyx]

Yes, unless you make it very short and subtle

[simple ruin]

Haha, it would be subtle but not short.

[spring cove]

In a player state machine, what would be the best way to handle collisions with various objects?

Have the character controller pass every collision-related method on to the current state, and have the specific states override them if they use them?

Or have a different script handle all collision stuff and have the states reference that one for variables?

[inner stream]

ok here's a idea for a game mechanic a baseball bunting/parrying system using.... a guitar after parrying Sayed attacked it would give the player the ability to use the guitar to play musical notes in game combinations of said notes give buffs and effects would also be a peggle game where you deflect the attacks

give feedback

[outer birch]

whats the best way to make a first person sword melee attack?

[west wolf]

hello, is it possible to create my own lego minifig for a Lego Microgame?

[peak silo]

yes,
try with stud.io, it's a lego program, it has a second program that allows you to desing parts, but can remember the name
if not.. then for the minifig u can use a 3d program
for texturing photoshop or ilustrator, even paint i think

[untold needle]

there is no best way lol, thats the beauty of game dev, you get to make whatever you like/think is best

[untold needle]

im confused just by reading this

[untold needle]

This depends what you are using the collisions for, if its for more states then the first option, if for something else then new script

[gleaming iron]

any ideas for a top down 2d game

[fickle cave]

what is the best way to control a 2d board game if it is local multiplayer? ive been throwing this idea around for a month and i dunno what my best solution is. the way that pokemon stadium does it, with pokemon moves being selectable without looking at them, makes sense for a “closed” information game like my dice game (where the dice are in a player’s hand). i’m just unclear if there are any other examples of this kind of idea i could look to.

there is also the potential possibility of doing the jackbox solution and essentially creating a controller app, though that comes with its own technical limitations and a whole batch of untapped problems

though it would be a clean solution

[late vapor]

you'll have to be more specific. Are you asking how the mechanic should be implemented, how it should work in relation to other weapons, or even how it should feel?

[manic wind]

do you guys ever speedrun your own content to test it?

i think speedrunning is a great way to play test new content

[austere glade]

if game is single player, speedrunning is smth that will keep it alive for a long time

if it's possible ofc

[manic wind]

i'm talking about speedrunning your own content to playtest it quickly

[broken echo]

Well in some cases it may be, keep in mind a speedrunner plays the game differently than a normal player and that might effect the test. It will be a lot harder to test game pacing and such if you are speeding through content and your perspective on the game might be impacted if you speedrun a lot.

[spark timber]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/373747936825442314/924722229739126874/unknown.png?width=1206&height=673

Hey

I tried to add some death effect to my game

the black particles

but it doesn't fit with the rest of the game

do you guys know any explosion aftermaths effect that could be more coherent with the rest of the game

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/506056614755827732/924691602222485544/unknown.png

befroe that I had thos crater

which matched way better

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/506056614755827732/924693088729964604/unknown.png

but didn't stack well

[tranquil stump]

im assuming you didnt make the art yourself if you cant make it stack right

if thats the case just google "low resolution military game icons"

[spark timber]

yup

[tranquil stump]

The Command and Conquer series would be a good type of game to reference

[spark timber]

I tried those keyword but didn't find anything

[cold onyx]

Low resolution as in just low resolution or straight up Pixel Art?

[spark timber]

uh they use crater x)

[tranquil stump]

Yup

Thats a texture sprite

[spark timber]

maybe more pixel art

[cold onyx]

I can try and make some Pixel Art if you want.

[spark timber]

that would be awesome ! Thanks ! Do you have an idea of what kind of aftermath you'll do ?

[cold onyx]

So a Pixel Art base-thing.

[spark timber]

ok thanks

[cold onyx]

So far.

Kind of resembles a tank.

[spark timber]

oh yes

but like I'm not looking for robots

more for an explosion aftermath

[cold onyx]

I know.

[spark timber]

to replace the crater

oh ok

[cold onyx]

First I wanna make the base.

Just to give you a general idea.

[cold onyx]

Okay, I know how to do that.

[spark timber]

do you want that I send you the current sprite of the robots ?

[spark timber]

nice !

[spark timber]

looks good :o

[cold onyx]

Ignore the slightly lighter do.

An explosion aftermatch thingy.

Looks kind of bad.

I think this one is a bit better.

[spark timber]

noice

[sudden pendant]

Make a thread or take it to DMs if you're going to collaborate.

[cold onyx]

Alrightie.

[cold onyx]

Looks like broken window

[cold onyx]

It's meant to resemble the gunpowder left after a bomb explodes.

Oh, it is good

Add some shades

Nah, too much effort.

Looks fine as is.

[cold onyx]

What is your game about?

[cold onyx]

I'm just making art for Butanium's game.

I'm not a developer, I'm a (wannabe) designer.

Oh

Have you designed 3d platformer levels?

Of course.

Oh, can you show me one?

Here is the issue.

All of my projects were deleted because the new Unity Hub was too hard for me to use.

But.

I can make one right now if you want me to.

Heck, I can even stream it to you.

[cold onyx]

NOOOOOO

Don't worry, they weren't anything much.

[cold onyx]

Bad internet :/

[cold onyx]

Well, I can quickly make it and send you some screenshots.

So, my game have grappling gun, crouch/slide, jump

[cold onyx]

Ok thank

You need something for refrence?

If you want, I can make a level for your game.

No problem.

[cold onyx]

No

[cold onyx]

I just need maybe a drawing or something

Nothing special

Hold on a second.

*speed run music plays in the background *

I can add textures if you want.

No, I have cool ones (orange and purple grid textures)

Can you do littlebit more HARD level, I mean hard as hell

[cold onyx]

OH BOY

[cold onyx]

Minecraft xD

THIS IS WHERE THE FUNNNNN BEGINS

:DDDD

Remember that you can crouch

/slide

[cold onyx]

It doesn't need to look

First you need to maneuver over to hit the small shelf that sticks out of the steel column.

After that you need to make the long jump all the way over there.

After that, you need to jump over the gap but because of the ceiling you have limited space to jump.

Also if you fall you die.

As simple as that.

[cold onyx]

Bruh, o can use grappling gun

You haven't told me that until now.

Alright.

I see that I will have to go overkill.

Oh, so grappling gun is cool

It have its own momentum

The cylinders are spikes. You can't grapple on yellow surfaces.

on the top you have nothing to grapple off of

so you need to jump over the spikes

[cold onyx]

Ok, I can make that you can't grapple, but idk how to make spikes

Just make 'em kill you when you touch them.

For the model, there should be one in the asset store.

It is cool, but make it little bit harder

[cold onyx]

: )

I mean, in this game, there is no tutorial level

Now you need to time your jump so you won't hit the spikes.

Still not hard enough? Alright.

YES, HARDER

Maybe make some grappling path

And perfect gap jump

[cold onyx]

Good idea,

[cold onyx]

Like you must aim well

[cold onyx]

That's better, but still not enough

*you also can push blocs

Okay, so here you need to grapple onto the small silver block and pass through the tight ring,

After that you need to aim up and retract the grappling hook when you hit the silver block so you pass through another ring.

That's a lot better

After that, you get on a small silver platform.

You need to jump through it and hit the silver block.

Hit with a grappling hook of course.

Then swing on it making the letter "U" and land on the final grass block

Do you like that so far?

Or, should I say...

Nevermind.

Yes

I like it

I can send it to you if you don't want to be bothered with remaking it.

[cold onyx]

I will just remake it

[sudden pendant]

Again, as before, make a thread or use DM if you're going to collaborate.

[cold onyx]

It's not a collaboration though, I only gave him some reference point.

[sudden pendant]

Use a thread then.

[cold onyx]

See, I found a loophole.

Haha, I'm in danger.

[golden grail]

Hi I was wondering if anyone knows a good tutorial of some sort that can teach me the bases of level design its my first time adding it to a game.

[vital bison]

Let’s say there’s a game, in said game all players are put into 1 server, every single player online into 1 instance, would that be possible?

[pine kite]

From a game design perspective things might get a bit crowded, but #archived-networking will probably have some concerns with this sort of infrastructure.

[woven roost]

Is Anyone Here A experienced Programmer

Please Help Me in Player Movement Script {C# Language}

[sudden pendant]

@woven roost Use the proper channels, #💻┃code-beginner. Also you need to show your work.

[grim gyro]

Hey guys, So I have been told to talk here about my game idea

Now, My game idea is basically something that people can play to unlock certain things like instruments or maybe certain parts that you can unlock in the DAW.

for example, I would (In my game) like to play a guessing game, Once I answer everything depending on the amount of questions etc, I unlock a random instrument or maybe unlock access to the DAW's first section like a Intro or verse...etc

[tardy jay]

can I use svg in prefab?

[tribal halo]

no

[grave topaz]

Hey does anyone know how to prevent the default FPS controller from "standard assets" from being able to climb very steep (60-80 degree) terrain?

[split raven]

anyone have a game idea for a game I can make (this would be my first game made on unity since I want to do a beginner project)

[cold onyx]

Probably a roll-a-ball game.

[split raven]

So like a game where you roll a ball through a course into the finish line for each level?

[tardy jay]

hmm so i really need png?

[zinc pawn]

Guys I'm trying to design a simple database / software where I could add basically names to an alphabetical list and have it save the data. Is there a simple way to go about doing this? Working on a game and I feel like something like this would be useful in keeping track of the names of everything for my rpg game

sorting and being able to categorize the data would be the biggest benefit to it I think, the way I see it is that it would basically be a read out for form entries

[cold onyx]

you guys want to discuss ideas for a game to build?

are 2d games generally easier to make than 3d?

[zinc pawn]

2d is definitely easier to start with all way around. scaling might be a factor of 10x or more even if you try simple 3d.

[cold onyx]

damn i dont play 2d games so idk how to design one

[zinc pawn]

check on youtube 2d unity games and it will help get you started. 3d modeling / designing and then rigging it to work is normally done by separate people because it takes A LOT of time and skill to do it well.

[cold onyx]

yea but im looking to tackle personal projects

i watched a tutorial for 3d development on unity but i was left without a good idea for a game

but now im thinking about designing a 2d game instead of 3d

because i lose motivation fast

so seeing progress fast is better for me

[lilac plinth]

make a game you are passionate about, something you think is fun, otherwise motivation is hard to keep up

[dusty summit]

hey guys

reckon making a motion book with unity is a bad idea?

[cold onyx]

Idk

For beginners it would be good

[dusty summit]

but don't you think it's a waste of potential what unity engine is for

[cold onyx]

It depends

Do you have a lot of free time: no
You don't have time:yes

[night shoal]

Why would you care about "waste of potential"

If it's suitable for what you want to do then go for it

[rugged vigil]

hey guys i need gimmick ideas for my puzzle type game, the main gimmick is collect all 5 coins and then get to the end, but in level 2 ive added moving platforms

thats what my game looks like

and level 2

[cold onyx]

A simple way to make it more interesting is to add portals, but that's too basic in my opinion.

One option would be make it so that every time you enter a portal, your controls invert.

[rugged vigil]

hmm that might be cool

idk how i could change the controls as im using a navmesh

hmm i have an idea that can incoeperate portals

[cold onyx]

A navmesh?

[rugged vigil]

click to move

[cold onyx]

Aren't those used for AI?

[rugged vigil]

yeah

[cold onyx]

Click to move doesn't really allow for inverted controls.

[rugged vigil]

i have it so wherever the player clicks the green guy goes

[cold onyx]

But portals are always a neat choice to make a game more exciting.

[rugged vigil]

im thinking of switching form an orbiting cam to a locked cam as seen in the pic

so i could have the portals be some kinda optical illusion

[cold onyx]

A locked camera is almost always the better choice no matter what game you are making.

[rugged vigil]

like when you go behind a colored wall you can come out from behind a wall of the same color

idk

[cold onyx]

I actually had this different idea.

[rugged vigil]

yeah i also like orthographical view better

[cold onyx]

In your game you can enter underneath some of those bridge-like things.

[rugged vigil]

or jump down a hole and drop from the sky even

[cold onyx]

You could make it so that when you enter under them and the player is no longer visible, he comes out from underneath a different one.

[rugged vigil]

maybe a bit complex but an idea

ooh

thew only problem with going behind walls and under bridges is that im using a raycast

you cant click behind a wall with a locked cam

hmm

[cold onyx]

The best solution is sometimes the most obvious one.

Making a simple portal that you can click on.

[rugged vigil]

rewrite the whole game lol

jk

[cold onyx]

Well yeah I don't really like the concept with clicking.

But that's because when you click the player automatically finds a way to get to where they are going.

So there it's a bit too easy in my opinion.

[rugged vigil]

yeah thats why i added elevators and moving platforms to break any possible path

the ai doesnt know to push buttons

[cold onyx]

That was a good idea to make the game more interesting.

[rugged vigil]

yeah

also my friend came up with an idea although very complex

a second character you can switch between with a walkable block on his head

[cold onyx]

A walkable block?

[rugged vigil]

and the little green guy can push buttons to allow the platform head to get other places

[cold onyx]

As in the block can walk or the block walks with the player?

[rugged vigil]

so the normal green pill guy

and a second player with like a platform on his head

for the little guy to bridge gapos and stuff

[cold onyx]

I already have an idea for a level with that concept,

To gather the coins the green capsule needs to cross a hole, and the only way to do so is to first step on a button so the one with a block on his head can enter a room.

Then the one with the block needs to stand in a specific spot, then the green capsule presses a button and a piston pushes the block from its head to the gap to close it so that the green capsule can walk over it.

[rugged vigil]

ooh yeah

[cold onyx]

After that, the green capsule needs to go through a portal labyrinth to enter a room with yet another button that opens a passage for the one with the block.

The passage leads to the last coin.

[rugged vigil]

hmm okay

sounds really neat

so thats 3 gimmicks

[cold onyx]

I can even model the level if you want.

However, I need the capsule and the block dimensions.

[rugged vigil]

the floor for each level or room is 20, 1, 20

the capsule is 1, 1, 1

[cold onyx]

Alright.

[rugged vigil]

and the default block size is 4x4 kinda

if yk what i mean

[cold onyx]

Yes.

Also I think we need to make a thread discussing the game or Osteel won't be very pleased.

[rugged vigil]

thread?

[cold onyx]

Yes.

[rugged vigil]

sorri im operating on 1.5 servings of gfuel rn

[cold onyx]

Don't worry, I'm operating on 2 liters of orange juice.

[rugged vigil]

lmao

didint know discord can do that

[cold onyx]

Probably other dinosaurs, mainly carnivores or omnivores.

Or natural disasters such as volcanoes.

Maybe falling down a big ravine.

Or being crushed by a tree.

[sick dove]

So let's say i have 50 diffrent weapons in my game, can 50 diffrent scripts affect my game in any way?

[cold onyx]

As in cause performance issues?

The thing is, if you have 50 different weapons each with a unique script, probably only 1 script will be working at a time.

[sick dove]

ye only 1 weapon needs to be equipped at a time

[cold onyx]

Because scripts are just some text, it doesn't take that much space.

They aren't active 24/7.

They shouldn't cause any performance issues.

Unless every script does something resource heavy, like trigger 150 different particles at once.

[sick dove]

nooo XD

just each weapon with it's own unique perks

i can't combine them to 1 script sadly

[cold onyx]

I must say, 50 unique weapons?

Impressive.

[sick dove]

ye iknow

[cold onyx]

It's much less clustered if you don't.

If you need any weapon ideas, I can come up with those.

[sick dove]

i'll let you know if i need more ait

[cold onyx]

Alrightie.

[mystic kettle]

I'm looking for tutorials teaching newbies and oldies how to build levels and scenes from scratch. I have so much artistic freedom that it is overwhelming. (One directed towards 3rd and 1st person would also be nice, but not nessessary.)

[cold onyx]

Can anyone let me know what i should do to make my horror game scarier?

[torpid thistle]

Gore

[hollow holly]

the best thrillers and horror movies I've watched have one thing in common : a powerful relationship at the core of it 🙂

[tame gust]

give the player something to indicate progress that they can lose

[broken echo]

I'm trying to design a map for an RPG but I always get stuck, either the map is too linear or the map is too hard to find your way through. So how could I make a map that encourages exploration (even for people who are blitzing through the game) while also making it easy to navigate?

[dusty summit]

if so, thee what of make a hacking tool with unity engine?

taking one step further what unity engine is for

Xd

[dusk rock]

I don't have a solution myself (Not experienced enough to say), but generally when stuck on designing something, I find it useful to look over GDC talks or other dev talk videos, like those on Game Maker's Toolkit or similar.
Best of luck.

[cold onyx]

This appears to be a tricky question at first.

The best way to solve the first issue is to make the map more chaotic.

If a section feels clustered, you can increase the space.

For example, if there are like 20 NPCs in every square meter of space in a small village, you should increase the size of the village and scatter the NPCs arround.

Fixing the second issue is very easy.

Adding some waypoints is all it takes.

Something as simple as a sign is enough.

[unreal yarrow]

hello Iam trying to do front end in this bingo game

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fRzplZqE9hroHU80THGTanr75s7TLn1j/view?usp=sharing

which theme do you like the most

?

[cold onyx]

Either the first or the second one.

Probably the second one.

[unreal yarrow]

any Improvements I should make in the scene?

[split raven]

Anyone have any ideas for a beginner game I should make? Maybe a fun shooter or a 2d RPG

[sudden pendant]

Neither of those ideas are beginner games. Start with the roll a ball series on Unity Learn.

[cold onyx]

The font is kind of ugly, but that's about it.

[split raven]

I am currently almost done a similar game tutorial from brackeys and I want to get an idea for a game I can make soon once I'm done this beginners game

[sudden pendant]

Sure, a Roll A Ball game. Tic tac toe. Pong.

The two ideas are still not beginner level projects.

Don't fall into the trap a lot of people make watching Brackeyes thinking it's enough to jump them onto a similar project/dream project just because he made it look easy.

[cold onyx]

A puzzle game is pretty easy.

[split raven]

What do you mean by puzzle game?

Like puzzle pieces that you solve to make an image?

[cold onyx]

As in a game based around riddles. Lots n' lots of riddles.

For example, imagine a roll-a-ball game, except you cannot access most of the map using conventional methods.

Instead, you need to use portals to travel through, and each portal is randomized.

And, for example, one room has a door that is locked. So you need to travel all the way to a different room to push a button that opens the door and come back.

[split raven]

Reminds me of that one popular flash game with that rusty rectangle that moves around a course, and you have to navigate through paths by rotating in certain ways and doing weird moves

I like the simplistic idea

Ty

[rare gorge]

Bloxorz?

[broken echo]

Starting out with game design or video game development?

Cause your first game would be very different depending on the answer.

[chrome coyote]

Whats best animator program for unity integrity?

[cold onyx]

Can someone gimme constructive criticism for my game idea

You are a piece of AI designed by a renowned hacker to break into some of the most secure and advanced systems, as you develop you realise that your creator is using you to steal from the poor and things like that, now you have a new objective, escape your digital form and leave your owner, perhaps with a bit of help?

[sleek phoenix]

that is not a game idea, that is a story

[cold onyx]

Yeh a story for the game

[sleek phoenix]

ok but thats not a game idea

[cold onyx]

-_-

But is the story good?

[cursive bison]

Reminds me of the story of a game jam game I made -> https://gamejolt.com/games/anewdimension/335157

The story is whatever you make out of it. The story of Lord of the Rings is "a hobbit takes a ring to a volcano and drops it to stop the evil overlord" and it's 9+h of movie time.
If you use the story for a hyper casual mobile game, it might be too complicated. If you use it for the next Skyrim sized game, it might be too shallow.

Good, Bad, that's up to the execution, the actual dialogues, the level design, the character animations, the gameplay.
You could write a novel based on it or write it on reddit as (short as) it is.

What I am trying to tell you is that there is no such thing as a good or bad story.

[cold onyx]

Jesus christ ty for finnaly answering the wuestion

[rugged vigil]

okay so...

this is 1/5 levels for my new puzzle game where the first 5 introduce new mechanics sorta like a tutorial or demo ig

but im having a hard time coming up with a way to add a challenge for the player as right now its just collect all 5 coins and get to the end

maybe instead of adding ways to fail add a challange to get each coin? like seperate rooms in one level?

[split raven]

It's good. Dw the other guy was trolling for sure lmao

[cold onyx]

Well idk what your game is but maybe add some vehicles or moveable objects

[broken echo]

The other dude wasn't trolling, when you are talking about a game idea the story doesn't matter. First you have to create solid gameplay before you should even start to think of art and story.

@cold onyx Doesn't seem like a game idea to me, unless you are already in the later stages of game development I advise you to not focus to much on story. Story can be nice but if worked out too much it can take control over the project which is very dangerous.

[broken echo]

Puzzle design can be extremely hard and might be an art on its own. For challenge let the player think, so introduce a mechanic in an easy way for example a level where you first need to rotate a cog once to the left and once to the right. Then you can add challenge the next bit by actually making it a puzzle and requiring the player to think about how cogs might effect each other. The key long term is to make mechanics intractable with each other, mechanics shouldn't be complex but have the ability to create an extremely deep experience.

For puzzle design there are a million games you can study, often games like portal or baba is you are named. But I think a small game called: "Mars Power Industries Deluxe" is extremely good, within the first couple of levels you can see how puzzle games can be structured.

[split raven]

First, don't @ me so I have to read a whole paragraph. Second, the story in his case practically serves as a game idea cuz I, as an individual with more than 2 functioning brain cells (thank God) can infer what his story tells about the game.

If you can't then just don't answer with a sht ton of text meaning jack sht

And also, @cold onyx has an Electro Giant profile pic so he's the homie

[broken echo]

No need to be so toxic about it man, just know that focusing on story is the second largest reason small game devs fail starting out. If you you wish to ignore then that is fine by me.

[cold onyx]

I'm not so sure about the brain cells, a functioning brain requires upwards of 120 billion. Having more than 2 implies you may have less than the threshold.

[crude grove]

ok so im learning unity im trying to make a simple camera that looks left and right and walks with wasd will attaching it to a cylinder work and have the cylinder turn left when the mouse moves left and right when the mouse moves right?

it will be a first person camera

[cold onyx]

Well that's difficult.

[crude grove]

actually probably the wrong place to ask

[crude grove]

ok

[cold onyx]

Yeah, I think #💻┃code-beginner is more suited for thast question.

[crude grove]

ok

[cold onyx]

Also, I wouldn't call that simple.

[halcyon cedar]

Hmmm.. I'm not much into MMORPG genre, but a quick question how would it be possible to have fair match if you create something like D&D set in metaverse with massive assets store and skill creator system.. how you could balance the game? set certain parameters? or creating private matching system?

how hard it would be or is it even possible to let user generated content include code scripting or something like vrchat maybe? without affecting the game balance, safety etc ... I think there's official package for that?

[cold onyx]

how to figure out how to design my levels?

[past steeple]

https://learn.unity.com/tutorial/1-3-make-the-camera-follow-the-vehicle-with-variables?uv=2020.3&pathwayId=5f7e17e1edbc2a5ec21a20af&missionId=5f71fe63edbc2a00200e9de0&projectId=5caccdfbedbc2a3cef0efe63

Following this tutorial and I have the same mass values as the instructor on my car object and the box objects but my boxes don't react the same. They sort of float around and don't spin and slowly fall like they are in space... it looks quite terrible.

Am I missing something?

his fly up and spin around and look real mine are all slow motion and look like space. I think my vehicle also moves slower but I'm using the same calculation... ```c
void Update()
{
// move the vehicle forward
transform.Translate(Vector3.forward * Time.deltaTime * 20);
}

The last post here explains what happens https://forum.unity.com/threads/physics-in-2020-2-5f1-behaving-differently-than-in-2018-4-32f1.1061573/

shoot wrong channel...

[rugged vigil]

hmm thankyou, ill think about ways to interlock multiple mechanics

[torpid thistle]

I feel like my game's player is so fast but the same speed in other games looks perfect 💀

What can I do to make the player not feel like it's flash

[grim geode]

Hey so i am making an inventory system with scriptable objects, and from what ive done so far i can interact with raycasts with the objects and add them to inventory. Now id like to display the items in the inventory. I made a panel with a grid layout but i don't how to make the inventory display the item and update it. Ive seen some tutorial and none of them seem to work the way i want.

[sudden pendant]

Store a reference to the scriptable object in your inventory class, and the count for each. Then when you open the inventory UI, pass the SO to each SlotController and use the SO to populate things like the icon and name.

[grim geode]

yeah i think i have already almost everything you said there, ill see what i can do. And ill update here if it works or not

[grim geode]

How can I get a slot count when using a grid layout? For example imagine that I have a pickaxe in the seventh element of the list, how would I make it display in the equivalent slot?

[sudden pendant]

Store the slots from the grid in a list, then use the same index as the inventory data.

[grim geode]

how would i store them in a list?

should i create a prefab of the buttons?

[sudden pendant]

Create a controller script InventoryController which sits at the root of the inventory UI. Have this handle spawning the prefab of SlotControllers, and thus, caching them into a list. When you call OpenInventory(); on this controller, it'll iterate through the data and for each item in the player's inventory data, have that SlotControllers[i].Initialize (itemDefinition, count);.

The slot controller will then use that itemDefinition to handle it's own visuals.

[cold onyx]

Well that's definitely difficult.

For balancing your best bet would be to make a character whose stats would be the base for other ones.

You could make a "trade-chart" thing, especially if you want tanks or assasins.

For example, tanks get 10HP for every 5DMG lost.

And then you decide how much DMG you remove and how much HP you add based on that.

For example, let's make the base character have 300HP and 50DMG.

A tank would have 500HP but only 30DMG

And then you need to remember that defense can give you more effective health, so you need to adjust accordingly.

Attack speed can too.

For example, a character with 25% less damage but 2x faster attack speed will be overall much stronger.

But in the end, it's best to just test or make an open beta and make nerfs/buffs based on feedback.

[wild shuttle]

Hey I have a quick question about cameras in games. I want mine to be able to render through objects to see the player even if there are objects in the way. Is there a name for this kind of effect? I've been looking around but haven't been able to find one.

[sleek phoenix]

you'll want a shader for that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rEF8A3wF9U

[wild shuttle]

yo thanks so much!

[cold onyx]

Hello, could someone tell me if it's possible to add a link to a 3d object? or is there a way to make a UI pop up when the player is close enough to the object? Thanks in advance!

[prisma gazelle]

use a trigger collider that enables the ui element on trigger enter

[placid solar]

how to know how large a terrain should be?

I don't know how scaling works really

[hoary kindle]

how to implement this type of color splash death animation?

[cold onyx]

The little dance xD

[hoary kindle]

Anyone?

[dull nest]

looks like it's just a particle effect

[cold onyx]

I asked this in Unity talk but I'll ask here as well. Any android developers here? Can tell me if I should be concerned about resolutions or stick to one resolution provided by the unity instead. In other words, is it a best idea to implement dynamic resolution or just go with unity template for android?

[river crescent]

I think the way this works is it deletes/hides the stickman, locates where its center was, goes to the ground plate and from the center off creates a random splatter-pattern

[errant pond]

So I'm in another developer Discord, and I'm a total novice myself. I'm trying to break out of the tutorial hell phase by following a Pokemon tutorial and adapting it to be more of a Final Fantast type of party/battle system. All members and enemies on the field at once, ATB if I can.

We were discussing a minimum viable product for that concept, but I'm not even sure how viable having a MVP actually is for me. Imo, you can't really test if a game like that is worth pursuing with just basic battle mechanics laid out. Of course it's important to lay that foundation for testing purposes, but in terms of having it worthwhile for other people to download and test the game as a game? I feel like I'd need alot more than 1 party member that can do a physical attack, a magic attack, and a heal attacking 2-3 monsters that can do the same without even differentiating row position never mind getting into stuff like status effects.

I was told a minimum viable product for others to test would look something like this:

• Collision
• Building object to test collision
• Tall grass to test battle spawn
• Attacks + heals
• Victory screen (Gain XP/gold but no function for XP or Gold yet)
• Title screen

But to me, I wouldn't bother wasting someone else's time even to play test without something like...

• General
  -- collision between player + solid objects
• Title Screen
  -- enter/space to go to main screen
• Main Screen
  -- new/continue
  --- if new start game
  --- if continue go to File Select Screen
• File Select Screen
  -- get saved files and load
• Town Area setup
  -- transition to world map
  -- buildings to test collision
  -- tall grass to test battle spawn
  -- Recruit Party NPC
  --- 4 total party, "paladin/thief/whitemage/blackmage"
  -- Level up NPC
  -- Item NPC
  -- Equipment NPC
  -- Magic NPC
  -- Boss Battle Engage NPC
• Character on field
  -- move + animate 4 way (disable diag)
• Menu setup
  -- Party Sprite + (de)buff/HP/MP/Lv/Xp
  --- Item
  ---- show items, use on party
  --- Magic
  ---- show magic of selected member, use heals/cures if applicable
  --- Status
  ---- Name, Lv, Sprite, HP, MP, current xp, xp to level up, "can equip", example battle menu options, current stats + (de)buffs
  --- Config
  ---- ATB active/wait, battle + message speed, controls (just show, no re-binding)
  --- Equip
  ---- current stats + equip of selected member in MH/OH/body/accessory slots
  ----- show possible equips on left, stat changes on right, current on top
• Battle Field setup
  -- field background
  -- player party right, enemy left
  -- enemy attacks and heals
  -- battle UI + character battle menu
  --- character battle menu when ATB full
  -- victory screen (gain XP/gold)
  -- game over/respawn
• World Area setup
  -- transition into town
  -- battle spawn without tall grass

What do you guys think?

[errant pond]

Maybe get rid of the save file select, just because you'll have NPCs that give free items/xp as a playtester

[fluid nymph]

Mechanics isn't really the most important aspect here imo

Focus on making the combat juicy and fluid

With proper animations, cinematic camera movements etc

Then you can just set up a couple of battle scenarios for the tester.

Like seriously theres no point in having people "test" walking in circles in a grass patch to get to the battle screen

Better to have a few really good parts than having a lot of half-assed ones

[inner stream]

how would someone go about making a isosemetric platformer

in unity in 2d mode like im having a hard time wrapping my head around how i would be able to use 2d to make a illusion of 3d and have the character be able to wall jump off of this illusion???

[cold onyx]

So you're a total novice, YET the list of things you already want to implement is longer than the shopping list of an average obese woman at Walmart

You're in a rough spot buddy, I don't think it's gonna be that easy/quick to make all of this.

But you can definitely find videos on each individual thing.

[cold onyx]

For starting a battle without tall grass you can just make invisible grass.

[fluid nymph]

Separate the visual representation from the game logic

Make the logic in regular 3d space, then transform those coordinates to 2d for the visual representation

[unique grove]

Try to identify your “game loop” IE the repeatable gameplay that lasts from 2-10 minutes, and turn that into a proof of concept. If it’s fun, then expand that into a small game. If people enjoy the small game you know you have something worth pursuing.

If you’re making a game that is basically a copy of another popular game you don’t really need people to test the idea, it’s already been proven. You just need to execute.

[fluid nymph]

Very good point

[peak stone]

is it possible to change the splash screen on the free version of unity? or at least modify the required one?

[fluid nymph]

No

Plus is only like 30 bucks per month though

Thats the cheapest option

[peak stone]

and what if i buy just one month of plus just to change it

is that possible?

[fluid nymph]

Well yes but if you need to rebuild after your plus period, the splash screen will appear again

Anyway I think plus might come with a 12 month commitment

[sacred siren]

So I had an idea for a exploration survival game that would be 2d, 16 bit, not top down but left and right. Not saying I'm planning on making this since its pretty in depth but I was wondering what other people thought.

You start the game by crashing out of your broken time machine and need to fix it. You travel left and right in the 2d world where the terrain is indestructible so only trees and surface ore nodes could be collected. As you explore you'll notice world altering events happening like a meteor hitting a village or an avalanche blocking a cave all at specific times you record on a pocket watch. Once you repair your time machine you can go back in time and alter some of these events in various ways. You could then be able to find and collect different better resources exclusive to that timeline. Then when you return to the time machine there'll be a visible split in the timeline so that by the endgame you could be dealing with a multiverse of several dozen timelines to explore

[willow patio]

Hey! Looking for podcasts or videos on the topic of survival games (the genre in general and game design of it). Any recommendations?

[low pendant]

Wondering learning python is a good place to start

on learning how to code

or is there another way everyone has done it

[sand perch]

#💻┃code-beginner pinned videos

[night shoal]

Python is a good place to start if your end goal is to learn Python

If you want to use Unity then start with C# directly

[placid solar]

@low pendant It really comes down to what your end goal is gonna be

I learned Python for Data Science and C# for Unity

[short frost]

Those of you who have written narratives for games, which methods did you employ to organise the story? I'm currently using standard screenplay writing techniques and storyboarding, but was curious to see if anyone else has taken a different approach

[worn wyvern]

That sounds pretty cool

[open nest]

👍

[quasi comet]

i had an idea for a 3d fps version of the chrome dino game. So you do all the usual stuff(jumping over dactyls and cacti) in first person and you can also shoot the dactyls with ur gun. Plus asteroids fall after fixed amount of time which are headed to the place you will be in a fixed time, and you need to shoot them up which can give u metal and/or minerals which u can use to upgrade weapons. Plus animals like deer etc will be running beside you which u can shoot for food which replenishes ur hunger bar

[fluid nymph]

Go for it

[late apex]

Hello. Not sure if this is the correct channel, but how would you got to implement a roguelite item based system for a game in Unity?
Taking Risk of Rain 2 for example. You can collect various items (and stack them) for different effects. Increase in movement speed, increase in attack speed, explosions on hit, etc.

Is every item a prefab ? How do you attach the effects to the player ?

It seems so simple, yet I'm having a hard time to figure it out.

[topaz crypt]

Hi, I am working on a project in which users will need to store sensitive account data. What are some best practices and resources that would help me to set up a system to keep data as secure as possible?

[austere glade]

Is there any FPS games that were made specifically made for speedrunning?

[late apex]

Off the top of my head:
SEUM - Speedrunners from Hell https://store.steampowered.com/app/457210/SEUM_Speedrunners_from_Hell/
Clustertruck https://store.steampowered.com/app/397950/Clustertruck/
Defrag gamemode from Quake 3

[glass wing]

Idk if this would count as game design but like for a turn based rpg when switching to battles should I go to another scene or just teleport the player somewhere

[fluid nymph]

It is not. Game design is non-technical

Try #💻┃unity-talk

[glass wing]

ok then

[cold onyx]

i need some 2d game ideas i want to make something but i have no clue and something easy because im quite a beginner like here is a game i made and i want to make a step up from this haha https://padyhaspower.itch.io/hexagogy

[short frost]

Join a game jam! They will give you a theme and a deadline, and it's surprising how creative you can be under pressure

Plus the bigger jams will mean that people will play your games and give you feedback, which is nice

[granite prism]

Heya so I need some opinions on a game I'm working on. Currently I have implemented an overly complicated and not very consistent spell drawing system. I want to make it easier to use, and simplify where I can, and have a few ideas on how to do it, but no idea what I should go with... no idea what will be fun.

Currently the way it works is you use the right stick to input sequences of inputs with 8 directions available. So like, up right left down is lightning for example. Spells drawn go into a queue, which can hold up to 4 spells. They can then be cast, or a button pressed that combines the two latest spells you've drawn to a combo spell. Its fully functional, but hard to use, and I cant imagine building a game around how clunky it is.

some ideas include:

1. Tone it down to 4 cardinal directions instead of 8

2. Remove the spell queue system, and instead make drawn spells repeatable (maybe with mana managment involved) until you get hit. Casting another spell with one readied will upgrade it to a combo spell, etc.

3. Change it so that in order to cast a spell, you ahve to hold or toggle a spell casting mode, and use abxy instead of the stick (much more consistent input). This would be extremely similar to the witch in 'Dragon marked for death' which is the main inspiration for my game, or similar to using abilities in the game Helldivers.

4.remove the spell drawing entirely and go with an equip system that relies on mana managment to cast spells.

I also have a robust melee combo system implemented, with light and heavy attacks that change depending on when in your chain of light attacks you use a heavy (LLH, LLLH, LLL up H, etc)

and whatever system I go with, I may make it so landing melee attacks regenerates mana

[dull fulcrum]

A game where you constantly have to do a certain task to succeed

[carmine warren]

i've made a game, similar to hotlime miami but only the basic combat system and the enemies. now i just can't think of anything i could do with it. i made art and stuff for it too but am now just lost

what do i do now?

[bitter fulcrum]

what is the general vibe you are going for?

[carmine warren]

well when i started development i wanted hotline miami, but as i worked on it i wanted something a bit more focused on the combat system like doom eternal

however i did not change it at all for that

[bitter fulcrum]

Add a jetpack

[carmine warren]

but it's 2d XD

top down

[bitter fulcrum]

(Also never played hotline miami and I was joking)

[carmine warren]

i think i'm talking to the wrong person 👀

[bitter fulcrum]

Yeah

100%

Ok searched it up

[carmine warren]

please play the game

[bitter fulcrum]

It looks good

Also I will play it

I might not be able to help you cause I don't have steam account and am not planning on creating one

[carmine warren]

i wanted a single robust multifaceted multinational and unilateraly combat system

[bitter fulcrum]

Wow

[carmine warren]

😔

[bitter fulcrum]

But have you watched GMTK on combat?

[carmine warren]

yeah 😔

also read a few books

[bitter fulcrum]

Nice, what are the moves player can perform?

[carmine warren]

punching, kicking, dashing, rolling, a lot of guns

but it's boring as hell

[bitter fulcrum]

I have a idea that can make the game a lot more interesting but can potentially change the way you wanted the game to be

[carmine warren]

enemies

better enemies

[bitter fulcrum]

What?

[carmine warren]

thanks for the great tips i owe you one

you have helped severly

[bitter fulcrum]

Are you a bot?

Okay you are not

[carmine warren]

XD

[bitter fulcrum]

Cause I never helped

My idea is to have a grapple gun to fling yourself from enemy to enemy

[carmine warren]

like the super shotgun

but mine wouldn't work with it

doom has verticality

i don't B)

[bitter fulcrum]

That doesn't matter and I don't play a lot of games except for mario and metroid and I don't know what super shotgun is

But this will be for horizontal movement

[fluid nymph]

As a beginner you need to focus on execution rather than ideas, so just keep cloning games until another idea naturally pops up

[bitter fulcrum]

I don't think he is a beginner

[carmine warren]

my guy, it's a 2d top down game there is no y axis

[bitter fulcrum]

Yeah I understand that

Horizontal is the x axis

and y-axis is also horizontal in top-down games

[carmine warren]

🤦

[bitter fulcrum]

Am I doing something wrong

Also what about dadiborn?

Maybe reply to him too

[carmine warren]

he's right

[bitter fulcrum]

Okay

Also, am I using the wrong terminology here?

[carmine warren]

bingo

[bitter fulcrum]

Great what should I say then?

[fluid nymph]

What about me

[fluid nymph]

Coordinate systems differ, in 2d engines you generally do use x and y

In unreal engine, the Z axis is up/down

[bitter fulcrum]

Actually I was saying he didn't reply to you

[granite prism]

so I recently learned that some game devs copyright specific systems or mechanics in their games (like Middle-earth: Shadow of war's nemesis mechanics)

how can I go about finding out what parts of a companies games are copyrighted like this?

[dull fulcrum]

What

Sounds kinda dumb

[granite prism]

it is kinda dumb

the nemesis mechanic in shadow of war is really good, and really carries those games

[bitter fulcrum]

Why

[granite prism]

but the companies have sued over people trying to copy or imitate that mechanic

[dull fulcrum]

Because it’s game design not music or brand

[bitter fulcrum]

Ori made the point

[dull fulcrum]

Like that’s like team fortress 2 suing a game because they added a frying pan

Which is (their) mechanic

[granite prism]

thats too vague or broad

you obviously cant copyright a genre or singular item as a concept

you cant copyright jumping, or platforming

[bitter fulcrum]

Yeah

[granite prism]

but you can copyright unique mechanics, I believe

[dull fulcrum]

Yeah

You can

[granite prism]

though, I guess this system wouldnt be copyright, because I know at least two games that use an almost identical system

that are made by entirely different developers

i.e. Dragon Marked for Death, and Helldivers
both use a system for inputting abilities that involves holding or toggling a mode, then putting in series of ABXY button presses to cast spells or use abilities

helldivers uses ABXY and directional pad
DMFD only uses ABXY but still, the systems are very similar

and I'm wanting to implement something similar in my game. In fact, I already have but I changed it a bit to use 8 directions on the right stick instead... which isnt working out well. Its functional, but stick inputs are innaccurate, and even with a ton of leniency programmed in, its clunky and inconsistent

[dull fulcrum]

^

[granite prism]

so I'm thinking of switching over to using ABXY as well

[dull fulcrum]

Switch it then

[granite prism]

just worried about it being too similar to DMFD

because at that point, it will be nearly the same (at least in terms of 'drawing' the spell, my system for how that spell is used afterwards differs a bit)

[dull fulcrum]

Don’t worry it will be fine

[granite prism]

now my other question, I asked about kinda late night, didnt get any replies, but

#archived-game-design message

I guess its not that far back yet, but looking for some opinions

[topaz crypt]

Is it possible to integrate Unity with a browser pop-up that would receive some data from Unity and then send some back to it. My situation is that I'm working on project for PC and Mac that needs to connect to a pop-up that can only exist in a browser that allows a user to securely verify a transaction. The other problem I'm trying to figure out is that the SDK used to create the pop-up is written in JavaScript, and I'm not sure how to integrate that with Unity. I would appreciate any suggestions or feedback you may have!

Could I use something like Jint to make this work?
https://github.com/sebastienros/jint

[cold onyx]

can anyone help me? The Rect transform just disappeard and idk what to do

[cold onyx]

so i am working on my game, for now i have this premise: It’s a platform shooter about a robot that can change modes from movement options to attack options.

[bitter fulcrum]

this isn't the channel to ask

And are you using UI?

[bitter fulcrum]

Ok

Not the right channel

[hard gust]

sry

[bitter fulcrum]

Not sure which one you should post in so you should check in channel-directory

[hard gust]

not sure either. I looked for a while and decided to post here.

[bitter fulcrum]

Yeah it's fine

I am not the moderator

[hard gust]

I deleted the original post. just really struggling with taking the first step.

i've looked into several assets to purchase in the unity store but this seems to fit in some sort of grey area. do you know where I could post a question about possible assets that might work with my concept?

[bitter fulcrum]

Art asset showcase is probably the best choice

But if you are struggling with things like ideas or something along that line this is the place to come

[hard gust]

i've been looking at assets all day. even spoke to the topdown engine devs and even though it looked perfect its not right

that is more character, movement and camera based

[bitter fulcrum]

Nothing can ever be perfect

[lilac plinth]

maybe try to find someone to make assets for you then? like asking on fivver or something?

[hard gust]

this is more a bunch of maniacs bouncing off the walls where you don't control any of them

not that its not perfect, it wont work

[bitter fulcrum]

is this your game idea?

[lilac plinth]

does it work with boxes and circles?

[hard gust]

I looked on Fiverr but I feel like Discord is better to figure stuff out

[bitter fulcrum]

Yeah

Do you want to create your own art?

[hard gust]

Why would I tell you my game idea. I can tell you that I think it is unique, funny and could be incredibly fun but it just needs to be executed right. That is just a close analogy

[lilac plinth]

so that we can give our opinion on the game idea?

[hard gust]

I have an absolutely great artist onboard. The 2d game graphics can be party hard level. The maniacs would all have a nice card with a crazy picture and stats.

[bitter fulcrum]

No like I meant is this what you are going for I cannot think of art if I don't know how the game looks like in your head

[bitter fulcrum]

So what is the problem then?

[hard gust]

I think it is a good enough idea that I am honestly worried about the concept being stolen.

[lilac plinth]

then what exactly is the question or problem?

[bitter fulcrum]

We aren't here to steal ideas

[lilac plinth]

lol

[hard gust]

To me at least the sprites, the walls, the boundaries and collision actions seem crazy hard

I feel like there is an asset that simplifies that

[lilac plinth]

so problems are with coding and not art assets?

[hard gust]

coding is fine. I have watched a ton of YT videos and just seeing how you select the areas for the boundaries, collision action etc seems very difficult

[bitter fulcrum]

He is refering to assets as everything that can be imported from unityassetstore I think

[hard gust]

correct

[bitter fulcrum]

It is literally built into unity

Do you know how to use unity? Cause it is literally the easiest thing to do in unity

[lilac plinth]

unity should mask assets correctly on its own i believe

[bitter fulcrum]

Can you simplify what you mean by mask?

[lilac plinth]

but i am new to unity as well, you might want to head over to #💻┃code-beginner and ask there more specifically

[hard gust]

I don't know how to use unity. I am a SQL DBA by trade, a fairly good programmer but Unity is escaping me a bit.

[bitter fulcrum]

Then learn unity

It is easy and you don't even have to code!

Collision and boundaries are easy to implement when you know unity

[hard gust]

I've been told make snake and then build on that but I feel like that might be setting me back when I could be designing or coding

[lilac plinth]

i am new to unity so unity might not use the word mask. other game engines use mask as the clickable area of an object, for example if you have a 2D object, transparent pixels would often not be clickable, while in older games the mask might be a rectangle over the visible object.

[bitter fulcrum]

learn how to make pong it will cover any basics of unity you will ever need in a simple game

[bitter fulcrum]

Unity does work like that at the most part

Masking in unity is however another thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pl8DcsCQ_k

[lilac plinth]

yeah, sorry if the term was confusing

[bitter fulcrum]

No problem I understand coming from different engine is hard

Unreal or godot is hard for me

[hard gust]

pong it is I suppose. I guess I am just too overwhelmed in brainstorming the endless ideas for the game. I am just trying to skip past the basics.

[lilac plinth]

and i will never get used to call csharp methods not functions, lol

[bitter fulcrum]

I also call them functions

And methods, depending on how I feel that day

[lilac plinth]

endless ideas is how you end up with unfinished projects

it's one of the biggest hurdles to overcome

[bitter fulcrum]

well said

I will write it down

lol

[lilac plinth]

my only finished games were all created in game jams, exactly because i knew i had a time limit and had to lower my expectations to the basics

[bitter fulcrum]

Yeah I have made a lot of game jam games

[lilac plinth]

other projects i always expanded and expanded

and they never finished

[bitter fulcrum]

But I have some games under my belt that aren't from game jam

[lilac plinth]

so limiting your scope is a really difficult task

[hard gust]

this is very basic at its core but could be massively expanded on. I am trying to throw out everything that could potentially slow it down. multiplayer, multiple floors etc

[bitter fulcrum]

Try to give yourself time limit on every game you make

[bitter fulcrum]

Don't

Just start as small as you can

[hard gust]

I am basically just trying to create a box and make sure said elements stay within said box at first

[lilac plinth]

yeah, currently working on a mod for a game and as it has a very defined scope (a new team for a game has a specific amount of cards and units) it helped me focus a lot more.

[bitter fulcrum]

I have made 10 finished games and about 10 that aren't done and I just started learning about multiplayer

[bitter fulcrum]

yeah never done that but have heard its good practise

[lilac plinth]

writing down everything i wanted to do in a spreadsheet beforehand and checking boxes worked extremely well in structuring my work

[bitter fulcrum]

Get a account on trello cause this sounds exhausting

Its free

[lilac plinth]

so right now while finishing my modding project in these 2 months, i am starting to make a concept for a unity game i want to make, so i again try to boil down and concretisize and limit all these ideas i have in my head to something tangible i can work with

nah spreadsheet was pretty good for that project, i just have a field like gameplay / art / lore for each card and then changed the color to have an easy overview of what was implemented and what needed changes

my next project i am still a bit uncertain about a lot of aspects though, so i am just writing down ideas first to hopefully boil down to more in depth later on.

[short frost]

found an old GDD and laughed at this snippet which I apparently added after a few beers 😂

[lone herald]

hello guys

can i show you my project? and can you give me some recommendations on how to make it better?

if so, here:

[short frost]

Could you be more specific? From this screenshot it's not even clear what kind of game it is

What specifically are you struggling with?

[lone herald]

okay it is supposed to be Backrooms

[lone herald]

im also trying to make the light glow or the material to glow

i used post processing volume and layer and for the material i used emission

[short frost]

Is that a game title?

[lone herald]

yeah

[short frost]

ok I see what you're going for - you might have better luck posting in #💥┃post-processing tbh, if it's specific nodes or settings you're after

[lone herald]

okay

[short frost]

but yeah the ceiling lights should be the only ones with the emissive material, then as long as the settings are correct light and shadows on the walls and floor should be taken care of without the need for more emissions

[spice oasis]

is anyone here with experience with HDRP? i would like to ask a question

[carmine warren]

#archived-hdrp

[cold onyx]

sorry but i already fixed the problem

[bitter fulcrum]

Yeah no problem

[craggy terrace]

Can anyone recommend a tutorial for making a game in 2.5d (like octopath traveler) would love to make a cyberpunk aesthetic 2.5d rpg game with dialogue kinda like rogue hero (like with both character portraits more detailed than the game sprites.

I just have no idea where to start learning anything and would love some tips. Thanks!!!

[full pike]

Yo im making a vr multiplayer and im wondering what type of multiplayer would be good

so im making a survival multiplayer so would something like rust or the forest be good

So i need help if i should have a server always be up or just have people who play the game host the server

[toxic sandal]

Hey, does anyone know how did they create this "low quality 3D" style on Project Zomboid?

[storm estuary]

2D tiles.

The game itself is 2D isometric with Z-levels, very little other than the cars are 3D

[toxic sandal]

are player and zombies 3D?

[bitter fulcrum]

So making 2.5D is kind of literally making 3D and adding 2D

You first create the whole map in 3D

And the player are pixel art

Some games also make players not like a single plain but a extruded plain

[bitter fulcrum]

Use a service like photon

It will be easier

[muted crane]

My First time ever in Blender and Ik it not that good but idc

if anyone good give me and ideas that would help alot 🙂

(Making a fnaf style game but its set in the 1930's )

[bitter fulcrum]

Looks good

Like simplistic style is good

[muted crane]

ran out of ideas and i play fnaf alot lmao

[bitter fulcrum]

Everyone has their favourites

[muted crane]

i like them equally exept secruity breach

we dont talk about that one

[bitter fulcrum]

I see a dani fan here

[bitter fulcrum]

I am not really a horror game guy so can't give you any idea

[muted crane]

?

[bitter fulcrum]

This is his dialouge

[muted crane]

wait rlly lmao

I stopped watching him and unity awhile ago actually, I moved back into clickteamfusion just cause I like the 2d aspect more than unitys :/

[bitter fulcrum]

You are saying that on a unity server

[muted crane]

yes ik

[bitter fulcrum]

Lol

It's just funny

[muted crane]

I love unity alot tbh but I used clickteam when i was younger and loved it alot so i decided not to start a new 2d game engine and just stick with the old one

unity just has too much stuff :/

[bitter fulcrum]

Yeah I can relate to that

[muted crane]

I went from being a scratch animator to trying out each RPG maker to the games factory 2 then click team fusion 2.5 and then unity

I also have tried
Game guru
Game maker 2
Fps Creator
and Leadworks

[bitter fulcrum]

Wow I have used scratch but then the jump was directly to unity

[muted crane]

so ik my share of game engines

[muted crane]

oh lol

[bitter fulcrum]

yeah it just wasn't that fast to make games in scratch

[muted crane]

I tried any game engine i could but non really suited me

yeah scratch had alot you could do but wasnt powerful enough

unity had too much and seemed to have to many things to edit a simple thing

clickteamfusion was kinda the sweet spot

[bitter fulcrum]

I have never tried clickteamfusion

[muted crane]

the full engine is 100 bucks

games factory 2 (which is basically clickteamfusion) is only 25$

[burnt vortex]

What resolution shoud i start when design the ui for my mobile game?

[bitter fulcrum]

900:1600

for potrait

1600:900

for landscape

[burnt vortex]

@bitter fulcrum thanks

[bitter fulcrum]

Welcome 😀

[slow thunder]

Look at our masterpiece

[bitter fulcrum]

Perfectness

lol

[toxic trout]

Hey,
I'm making 2D puzzle game and I would like for some level design suggestions
The game is about a boy need to go from point A (start position) to point B (end position\ portal position) with a twist, the player can move to 4 directions with specific amount of steps in each direction, for example 4 steps on left 5 steps on right 2 on up and 2 on down
Now what I would like help for is creating the levels to be complex but not long (I have already thought for another mechanism for more complex levels, I need help in the beginning levels)
I will add a sample from level 1 for context

[bitter fulcrum]

I am not sure if it helps

but try to trick the player by making them think the solution is easy and then throw a solution that is unexpected

@toxic trout

[toxic trout]

I know, that what I am trying to do, but I am not sure how..

[bitter fulcrum]

neither am I

Your games concept seems a bit too simple to add anything on top of

[broken echo]

Any other mechanics? Portals, things that move, things that move the player or something? With just the movement limit you can't make a puzzles that well.

Like the best you could do is variations of this: (orange and blue are start and end)

Here if you have 2 right, 3+ left, 4+ up and any amount of downs you can use a single route.

But that is probably where the possibilities end.

[cold onyx]

im trying to make a running animation but idk what else to do

[sacred geyser]

would the shadows stay consistent when running?

[sand perch]

google running animation frames and take inspiration for your leg placement

[steady dirge]

Uhm this may be a stupid question, but where can I ask for people if they wanna work together on a game?

I don't wanna spend money on buying the team options in Unity

[cloud jewel]

https://forum.unity.com/forums/non-commercial-collaboration.17/

[steady dirge]

👍 Thank you!

[broken echo]

This is more indirectly related to game design, but anyone know a program that could make a graph like this:

It would be amazing and showing balance in a document

[muted crane]

i got the textures from all the fnaf games >:)

[cold onyx]

made a new character what do you think

[slow thunder]

Nice 👍🏻

[bitter fulcrum]

what is that?

Why is that?

[cold onyx]

it's a half breed computer thing he's an outcast and has to find out about his past

he's half fire and water

they were experiencing on him and he broke out

[bitter fulcrum]

How will you animate him?

[cold onyx]

normally lmao

I want the animations to be similar to that of the first mortal Kombat games

[bitter fulcrum]

is the pixel art is inspired by mortal kombat?

[cold onyx]

a bit

[bitter fulcrum]

Ok that explains the heavy shading

[bitter fulcrum]

I actually asked this because you can't really animate a character that is looking at you

At least not for a game

[cold onyx]

that just him looking at you but it's gonna be a side scroller

[bitter fulcrum]

Yeah makes sense

[short frost]

Does anyone have any good resources on balancing game mechanics? Books, videos, whatever you've got!

[bitter fulcrum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXQzdXPTb2A

@short frost

[short frost]

Brill, thanks! Will take a look

[bitter fulcrum]

Ok

😀

[cold onyx]

how could a situation where the player chases something down be turned into intresting combat?

[bitter fulcrum]

Any context?

[cold onyx]

the player is supposed to hunt down a passive/defensive opponend

[bitter fulcrum]

What kind of combat? melee or ranged?

[grizzled drift]

@cold onyx interesting combat? a chase?

[cold onyx]

yea the enemy u chase down is supossed to defend itself or harm u somehow but i dont know how

[knotty elk]

Dramatic music can really intensify something like that

[bitter fulcrum]

What kind of combat do you want in the game?

Or will he just try and defend

[grizzled drift]

chase is just an unenjoyable thing in all games. target either shoots at you while running away, or turtles up while waiting for bodyguards to take care of you

so the goal may not even be to make it fun, but not to make it boring like the other games

[bitter fulcrum]

It can be interesting if done right I think

[cold onyx]

mhh

[bitter fulcrum]

Do you want the chasing to be fun?

[grizzled drift]

think of it less like something you chase but more like something that leads player through other content

[bitter fulcrum]

Where is the game location? city? desert?

[bitter fulcrum]

Good point

[grizzled drift]

i mean, chase is summarized as that but you also get taunted and annoyed because you focus on target and not gameplay

[cold onyx]

i mean the enemies are going to be more passive like idk child like is a good word for i probably

[grizzled drift]

that's probably why it's so awful every time

[bitter fulcrum]

Yeah then the eye guy is correct

[grizzled drift]

@broken echo you can just use unity. center is 0, each of the corners is the stat's respective 1. you lerp a vertex between them, and connect verts to each other to make them pretty.

[bitter fulcrum]

What is the purpose?

[grizzled drift]

anyways, does anyone have suggestions where to look for people who would enthusiastically come up with puzzles for a game (for free)?

[bitter fulcrum]

discord server

like this one

[grizzled drift]

yeaahh but i figured there has to be a better way

[bitter fulcrum]

idk about that

[cold onyx]

well the game is based on a story im working on where the main character you play as is the bad guy.hes an average sucsessfull man who becomes bored out of his mind because of his hedonism and then to feel something becomes a m*rderer and now ill need some mechanics

[grizzled drift]

oh

that's easy then

do it the "i wanna be the guy" way

[bitter fulcrum]

Is it medicines or mechanics?

[grizzled drift]

make apples falling off trees instakill you and shit

[cold onyx]

what? i need some game mechanics

[bitter fulcrum]

Ok sorry I thought i'll is ill

lol

Very sorry

[grizzled drift]

@bitter fulcrum definitely medicines, but whatever, a game is a game

[bitter fulcrum]

Yeah no this game isn't a simple one

[cold onyx]

oh 😅😂 no problem bro

[bitter fulcrum]

Maybe make him track down rich to you know k*ll