iron yew
https://unscriptedlogic.itch.io/momentum-mayhem-demo
Heya guys! Just kinda released a small demo for my physics based puzzle game. It's a game inspired by "The Incredible Machine", one of the games my dad used to play when he was younger. I'll be posting content updates here as well. Any feedback will be lovely. Thanks!
iron yew
This is the main menu of the game. I was really happy about the circle wipe transition
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a lil short I made with the best moments from my last stream
i think one of the fun parts I wanna capitalize on is seeing other people's bizarre solutions to some of the puzzles on stream
since the game really is just physics after all, there are more often than not multiple ways to solve the same puzzle
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In the midst of working on a personal level editor which will be formatted down the line to cater to a built in level editor as well.
Since the game is simple enough, just storing the rotation and position would be enough. of course I left a Dictionary<string, object> as a catch for extra settings.
Shouldn't be too hard to do (These are famous last words)
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levels are in json now. noice
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an unfortunate arrangement of the ui
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First time I've ever dabbled with a built in level editor so I had a blast making this and had even more of a blast watching myself make levels right in the game itself
Think I improved quite a bit with managing UI this time around. Loved making the ilttle sub menus to all of the interactions
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Changed the line from rb.AddForce to rb.AddForceAtPosition and damn it just made it interactable with even more items
kinda funny to see it just go whacko
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inspired by one of those youtube shorts where a ball bounces inside of a circle and makes some music with some condition attached to it
im not personally annoyed by the sfx of the bumper noise but if it is to you let me know.
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May have forgotten to update it here but hey I added a few more levels to the game as well as some quality of life stuff based on your feedback! Thanks again to everyone who gave me their feedback! 😄
mint stag
I love this art style!
odd sundial
@iron yew I tried your demo. Man! that was amazing gameplay. That is what I want from a game, Amazing artstyle as well as Indulging and addicting gameplay.
iron yew
I love this art style!
Thank you! 😄
iron yew
<@542253006117142548> I tried your demo. Man! that was amazing gameplay. That i...
Aw thanks for your kind words. Greatly appreciated!
what parts of it did you like?
odd sundial
what parts of it did you like?
I started to enjoy the game after level 5 so much!
especially that 8 ball puzzle
iron yew
I started to enjoy the game after level 5 so much!
Thats nice to hear. Glad you enjoyed it 
iron yew
Sorry for the insane lack of updates lately. Here's one of the items I'm currently experimenting with to add into the game
On the other hand, here's a confirmed and finally done item to be added. The barrel
also if you're wondering what happens if 2 pistons are facing each other and activate
so clearly much needed bug fixing
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Okay so instead of making levels or game modes, I decided to spend half the day making this cool set up with the experimental piston item
honestly really liking the pistons. i just need to make sure they're stable before I can confidently add them as part of the game
mint stag
Looks clean
iron yew
thanks!
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I dont know why but I spent today making the level selection screen tilt a little bit based on where your cursor is
and threw in a little 8 ball there for you to play with
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I shall dub this as the Clockwork Piston Spanker set up
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I may or may not have went overboard with the tilting environments
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i just managed to get stuff talking to my backend after some enlightenment from my old projects
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This week's screenshot saturday!
Twitter
I felt like the game needed a more chaotic side to it so I'm bringing in canons
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Here's a gif version
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Here's a few videos of me having fun with the new canons
i thought this one was pretty funny
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I made a little show case video for the canon
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I updated the bottom part of the UI a little bit
this is the first time I actually managed to get 3D objects in the UI and I'm quite proud of how it's turning out. At least now I don't have to make 2D sprite icons for my items haha
I leveraged the nice reactive platform leaning script in that bottom bar as well and i think it turned out to fit nice
fair haven
Looks .I'm developing a similar mobile physics game
iron yew
Looks .I'm developing a similar mobile physics game
oh thats nice!
fair haven
oh thats nice!
Your art so cool and the game looks so fun
iron yew
Your art so cool and the game looks so fun
thank you for the kind words 
iron yew
i tried adding 3d objects to the scrolling menu for selecting objects but realized that 3d objects dont mask the way UI does
what a massive oversight lmfao
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very unique error today. Haven't seen this one before.
essentially, the light panel (not a solar panel) detects light to give off energy.
Now what happens if it powers something that gives off light
fair haven
Nice progress
iron yew
old ui was a gargled mess, here's a more simpler one
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Released a little update for the game
Updated Demo to V0.2
13 new levels
7 New Items
Solution sharing
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Polished up the rotating of items. Now you can press once to rotate but if you continue to hold it down after 0.5 seconds, it starts rotating it automatically.
I know it's a pretty common feature and that I SHOULD already have this, but I've never raelly considered it before and I think I'll count this as a small win
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I polished up some of the UI
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how the different weights in my game affect the new glass panes
had to tweak the weight values a little bit
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Added a windmill that can harness the items that use wind for energy
this unexepectedly turned into quite the cool set up with the shafts being connected with a belt
and I forgot to remove the collider from the middle part of the belt but honestly having it collide with the items is pretty cool
Here's another interesting interaction I've had with it. Since it's offset from the wall, it's possible for it to filter out big objects from smaller ones. Very much unintended but I think it's cool to leave it in.
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I initially put gears on the bench because of how out of place it was with the rest of the items.
Safe to say, I've given him some friends and the gears now feel a little more in place with the game
also yeah, I gave the belts a model
oh yeah, gear ratios are now a thing
framerate of the video sucks but bottom right boi is zoomin
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I turned the belts that binds 2 of the rigidbodies into conveyor belts and I've been having lots of fun with them
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Okay this was pretty fun to make. You can place items with shafts in the middle of the belt for it to be part of the system!
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managed to store the belt data into a json so we are good at making levels with it now. poggers
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some quality of life changes.
placing the belt immediately enteres the secondary build mode to place the end point. (I got tired of opening up the radial menu to click the wrench to initiate this process)
Gears and Windmills now snap into the middle of a pre-existing belt
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Bless unity's joint system honestly. This wouldn't be possible without the configurable joints and the joints working very well
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I gave the gears some proper models
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slapping in some pipes
had to do some teleporting shenanigans to get stuff's velocities properly relayed around the corner pieces
cause having it get stuck there didn't really feel right
unreal bough
slapping in some pipes
this game looks heat
is it 3d and u ju st locked the directions u can move
iron yew
is it 3d and u ju st locked the directions u can move
yeah pretty much
iron yew
this game looks heat
thank you 😄
iron yew
Today, I decided that plain numbers representing levels wasn't really nice.
So, I'm experimenting with loading the levels as mini objects and using them as a preview.
Still a work in progress but I think it's pretty cool to see an big overview of multiple levels.
This is also in hopes that it sparks curiosity for levels that aren't unlocked for the user yet. Seeing a dark dimmed version but sitll quite clear what the level is and seeing some interesting item in the level.
Leveraging the Book of Lenses as I try to be a better game designer:
Lens #4: Curiosity
While my game already has this to a certain degree, i.e. wondering how each item interacts with each other,
I think having a larger over arching form of curiosity outside of the inner loop of the puzzle solving loop would be nice
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I think I'm at that point in this game where I can build goofy little contraptions like these without much friction, It's quite nice.
there's a lot of little "combos" with each items that together do something else. Here you can see me using the small fan and the white see saw to create a kind of gentle releaser.
It can also be used as a 1 way only opening since the other way of rotating it is blocked by the dice
It also can function as a weight sorter because the number of fans determines the resistance of it which I've actually turned into a puzzle already
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about damn time. The rocket now has a better purpose and explodes when hit with a strong force, knocking back objects within a radius
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Testing out some absurd stuff
the small grey balls are little my shot as using faux gravity and the giant purple cog is what I call the world gear which when rotated, rotates the entire level as you are seeing here
