The Capsule Game Thingy | Official Unity Discord | Page 1

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 12:54 PM

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jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 12:54 PM

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woah cool

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 12:54 PM

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Okay so.

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I'll also make a bird's view to show you how exactly to beat the level.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 12:55 PM

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wait so are you just doing this for funm?

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 12:55 PM

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And the portal labyrinth puzzle.

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 12:55 PM

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jovial stone wait so are you just doing this for funm?

For fun and experience.

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I've already helped made 1 game here.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 12:55 PM

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ah well i really appreciate it

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 12:55 PM

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Okay so, the portal labyrinth puzzle.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 12:56 PM

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as you can tell from the levels and ideas i have made a am better at coding then level design and ideas

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 12:56 PM

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My idea was to have 1 room divided into 4 rooms, 1 in each corner if it makes sense.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 12:56 PM

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yes

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so i was thinking

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 12:56 PM

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In every room are 2 portals, each one leads through a different one.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 12:56 PM

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a certain color portal would take you to different rooms

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 12:56 PM

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You need to find a way to enter one of the rooms.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 12:57 PM

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jovial stone a certain color portal would take you to different rooms

and other colors would be linked in that room

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 12:57 PM

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Here is where the fun begins, all of the portals would be the same colour so you wouldn't know which one leads where.

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You'd have to quess.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 12:57 PM

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ooh

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yeah

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ur a genious

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gifted idea guy

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 12:59 PM

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I'm mostly doing this for 2 reasons.

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With enough experience and enough projects I worked with under my belt I can finally consider myself a game designer.

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And thus I earn bragging rights.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 12:59 PM

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yes

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:00 PM

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Just kidding, the real reason is that then I will get to criticize otherwise well-received games.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:00 PM

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im making this game as my final highschool project to show how i wanna become a software engineer

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:00 PM

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Without die-hard fans of the production screaming at me.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:00 PM

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and i was like eh ill slap some shit together

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:00 PM

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jovial stone and i was like eh ill slap some shit together

That's how great ideas are made.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:00 PM

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but its actually really fun to come up with gimmicks

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:00 PM

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That's how Minecraft was born.

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Also, I can make some textures for your game if you need them.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:01 PM

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maybe for the ui?

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:04 PM

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Making the UI is pretty easy, I can do that.

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Okay so.

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So far.

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The other capsule needs to stand in the place of that hole so the green one can make it's way to the other end.

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Where I'll add the portal puzzle.

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Upon pressing the yellow button, the yellow wall will dissapear.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:17 PM

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hmm cool

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portals might take me till tommorow morning to figure out lol

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i started a week ago and i spent 5 hours and 120 lines of code making an elevator

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this why its 5am

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hmm okay so how do you imagine the portals work?

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like an optical illusion or just walking right into it

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cause i thought it might be cool to have the character go behind one pilar and apear out the other one

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:22 PM

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jovial stone like an optical illusion or just walking right into it

You just touch it, some particles spawn, you disappear and reappear at a different portal and some more particles spawn.

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That seems like the best (and easiest) option.

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Here are the portals

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:23 PM

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oh i get it

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im a visual learner this helps

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:25 PM

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I tried to illustrate where the portals would lead.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:26 PM

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i COULD also make all the portals random until the player has gone through a certain ammount

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and they will go to the correct one

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:26 PM

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jovial stone i COULD also make all the portals random until the player has gone through a cer...

Make it so that there is a 1/100 chance to lead to the correct one.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:26 PM

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lmao

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:26 PM

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And then make the animation take around 2 seconds, plus 1 second before and after in which you cannot do any actions.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:26 PM

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its only possible after spending 1 hour on it

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:27 PM

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But to make it actually fun, make it only 1/25.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:27 PM

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hmm

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also for the style of game im going for do you think it would be neat to have gaps in the floor instead of walls?

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:28 PM

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So following this approach.

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The platforms that use the walls as support would just be floating.

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This would be more abstract.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:28 PM

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yeah

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thats somewhat what im going for

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modern and abstract

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:29 PM

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You could make it so that you can either chose to keep them or no.

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As an option in the settings.

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It would be extra impressive.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:29 PM

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yeah

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:30 PM

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If you want to make it extra-abstract, you can even add in some lore.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:30 PM

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lol

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:30 PM

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For example you'd get 1 line of text every time you beat a level.

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That text being the story behind it.

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I already have an idea.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 1:30 PM

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thats cool

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:31 PM

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The protagonist always liked to play with wooden blocks his grandfather made for him when he was 5.

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Eventually after some brain-related injury he developed fatal insomnia.

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In a last-effort attempt to cure it they gave him some experimental medicine, that turned out to be working wonders.

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Every level is him dreaming about the wooden blocks having their own life.

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Eventually, after the last level, the game switches to first person.

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You wake up in your bedroom and see the wooden blocks on the floor, resembling the capsules, the coins and a couple of blocks.

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Then the end credits roll out with some chill tune in the background.

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And at the end some dedication to one of your favorite professors.

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 1:57 PM

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One thing you can do is Import HDRP to increase the graphics quality by a huge margin.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 2:31 PM

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holy crap

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im the best programmer you will ever meet

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look at this seamless teleporter i made

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thats what i meant by optical illusion

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and it could be really cool incormerating 2 way portals this way

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so i can take the coords of the destination pillar and subtract the coords of the starting pillar to get the offset coords

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and then add those coords to the coords of the player when he crosses the infisible like i made

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as long as the dimensions are equal it will be 100% seamless

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:15 PM

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jovial stone im the best programmer you will ever meet

Probably yes.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:15 PM

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i am still awake wtf

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:15 PM

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jovial stone

Holy mother of Joseph I'm going to have a heart attack.

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My game designer eyes are in awe.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:16 PM

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lmao

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:16 PM

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Beautifully done.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:16 PM

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ty

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im almost in tears tho ive been programming for 12 hours straight

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:17 PM

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You've done a better job than the entire development team of FNAF:SB.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:17 PM

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how?

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is the game buggy?

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:18 PM

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Remember when I pointed out how I want to criticize games?

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:18 PM

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yes

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:18 PM

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I mainly wanted to criticize FNAF:SB.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:19 PM

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lmaoo

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:19 PM

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I should probably make an entire Word document detailing why I dislike it.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:19 PM

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ive never played fnaf

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:20 PM

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First of all the game was mostly waited for because its a continuation of FNAF.

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In my opinion, it isn't a FNAF game. It's a free-roam while all of the FNAF games have you sitting in a room trying to defend yourself.

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The game doesn't even feel scary.

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The characters were just forced there to milk the franchise.

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Second, the game was mostly waited for because it had insane graphics.

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As it turns out, the graphics are... not great.

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Considering they used UE4 which is known for already having insane graphics, they did a poor job in my opinion.

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Not to mention the optimization.

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On a PS4, the game constantly lags, has barely any FPS, even on the lowest settings.

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Also the last statement is taken from a different user, I myself don't own a PS4.

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I'm a PC user, but I do have an Xbox.

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Are you sure you want to get into Software Development and not Game Development?

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:23 PM

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no

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so basically

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i wanna do physics/engineering but for a final project its easier to say software engineer

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because i already sorta knew how to use unity

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so basically im making this because im lazy

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:25 PM

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Physics and Engineering?

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:25 PM

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yes

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:25 PM

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Engineering as in developing software for apps/websites etc.?

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:26 PM

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more aeronautical engineer for like nasa or something

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i love space

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:27 PM

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"Spaaaceeee." - Space Core from Portal 2.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:27 PM

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but how can you make a career project on aeronautical engineering idk

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i though it was easier to make a basic game

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:28 PM

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Fun fact, if you were to get thrown into the outer space, without a suit,

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Your death wouldn't be very pleasant.

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First of all, space is a cold place.

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Didn't mean to rhyme.

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But since there is no ozone, the sun would be burning you.

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So basically, your lungs would get crushed, from one side you'd be burning and from the other you'd be freezing to death.

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Something also happened to your blood, but I forgot exactly what.

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Oh yeah, it would start boiling.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:31 PM

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also

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if you tried to hold you breath before goin out the vaccume would suck the air out of your lungs through your body and your lungs would rupture

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is this good for the third level

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im doing 5 levels for the tutorial/ demo and introducing 5 gimicks

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then i will do the one we talked about

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thats how its played

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hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:42 PM

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I only have 1 issue with that.

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The background is kind of empty.

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But there is a simple fix.

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Adding a couple of pillars of varying sizes in the background should be effective enough.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:43 PM

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good idea

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the only problem with that is the ortho cemera view though

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so no matter how close or far something is it always looks the same

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:45 PM

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Well, guess you'll have to experiment since I can't directly help you here.

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:45 PM

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jovial stone

Also there is one thing in this that annoys me.

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Back when I started using Unity I always had a habit, and now it's a part of my philosophy.

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Always, and I mean always have a separate folder for the materials.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:46 PM

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i do

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hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:47 PM

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I thought it said "Maps".

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 5:48 PM

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oh lmao

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 5:48 PM

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My bad.

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Actually a "Maps" folder would make sense in some specific scenarios.

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And as of right now I can only think of one.

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If you wanted to have 2 different maps in the same scene but didn't want to cluster them together.

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 6:57 PM

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jovial stone i am still awake wtf

You are still awake?

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I think you should get some sleep my friend.

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You've outdone yourself today.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 6:58 PM

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no im trying ti fix my sleep schedule lol

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 6:58 PM

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And who knows, maybe with some sleep and some more energy you'll outdo yourself tomorrow?

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 6:58 PM

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jovial stone no im trying ti fix my sleep schedule lol

Ah yes, this approach.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 6:58 PM

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ive only been able to sleep after 4

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 6:58 PM

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Breaking it to the point it fixes.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 6:58 PM

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i pulled an all nighter and now ill go do bed at a reasonable time tonight

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 6:58 PM

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Also, what hour is it? I live in Europe, so I can't exactly put my finger on when you should sleep.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 6:59 PM

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its 11 am now

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 6:59 PM

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So you live in the USA.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 6:59 PM

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canada

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 6:59 PM

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That's a lot better.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 6:59 PM

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yeah lol

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im blesed

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 7:00 PM

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I live in Poland.

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The conditions are...

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They are okay. Not that great, not too bad.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 7:01 PM

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polanmd wow

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i wanna go to europe some day

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 7:01 PM

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You didn't expect my English to be this good considering I'm Polish?

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 7:01 PM

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jovial stone i wanna go to europe some day

I've only ever been to Germany, and I don't really want to go back there.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 7:02 PM

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lmao

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 7:02 PM

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I just want to spend my life in the comforts of my own home.

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Also, wanna know a fun fact?

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 7:02 PM

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sure

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 7:03 PM

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Alright I've read the rules.

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I'm pretty sure that I can say this without getting punished

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I'm only 13.

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Plot twist.

jovial stone Dec 28, 2021, 7:05 PM

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lmao

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nice im 17

hidden trout Dec 28, 2021, 7:06 PM

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So the lore idea.

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Do you give it a green flag? If so I can start already writing the sentences.

hidden trout Dec 29, 2021, 2:02 PM

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I'm going to chance accounts so I'll contact you with the new one.

jovial stone Dec 30, 2021, 7:14 AM

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hey sorry fell asleep for along time lol

hidden trout Dec 30, 2021, 7:12 PM

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This is the new account.

jovial stone Dec 31, 2021, 12:39 AM

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okay

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could i ask why you switched?

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