Katamari-Like Game Dev Log

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The game doesnt really have a name yet because i just started a couple hours ago lol but the game is meant to so far replicate the Katamari games published by bandai namco. im aware that they have patented something to do with katamari damacy so eventually once ive got more knowledge in programming, ill make it play slightly differently if needed be, the beginning of development is just me testing out coding the base gameplay of katamari and honestly mostly for practice cause i dont know how to code. if i try to "replicate" something i enjoy, i feel like it will encourage me to keep at this project and inspire me to innovate and possibly add my own spin (no pun intended) at some point.

the general gameplay though in the end will basically be your an object and your rolling over/collecting objects to get bigger. as you get bigger you will be able to roll over or collect bigger objects. was thinking that a cool idea would be that your a fat fella and your rolling over bigger and bigger food, feel like that would be cool. still cooking for ideas. No idea how big ill let the player get yet but its way too early to know so ill go with vibes. hopefully this was a good first post.

just putting this here for me to look back on, this is all ive written so far

[sly owl]

why didn't you pick up the big red cube 😠

Cool idea though
I like where this is going

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Haha thank you!

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That will be the goal, my solution for now was basically to make the collision boxes smaller for every cube and the big cubes one is tiny 😅

Next ill try is to make it so when you pick up objects, the sphere increases in size so it makes it easier to pick up bigger objects

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progress (kinda), got the ball to increase in size when picking up an object but it increases in size way too much and the camera stays in the same place instead of zooming out. from the looks of it the attached objects also increase in size which is odd

//idea// certain objects will decrease you in size allowing you to fit into smaller spaces? //idea//

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managed to make it so the sphere doesnt increase in size a ton but still have issues with the camera. if anybody has any suggestions on how to fix this let me know. trying to not just copy and paste code online but ngl kinda hard. want to learn what im doing.

[sly owl]

you're using cinemachine right? for the thrid person thingy.
if i'm not mistaken there is a value for the top/bottom radius and the middle radius, just like increase that based on how much the sphere increases

that might work

[sly owl]

yes. good idea. very much strategy.
With that if you're making the game level based, you could make it so that the player has to be as big as possible by the end in order to beat the level.

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yep exactly

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and thanks ill actually give this a try at some point