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@errant sequoia

[ivory canopy]

Oh

Here?

[slim lance]

Yeah

@errant sequoia probably the first months

[ivory canopy]

@errant sequoia

[slim lance]

I feel like the 3rd / 4th were the ones where I worked the most

[ivory canopy]

Hmm for me I just try to do unity every day

[slim lance]

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[ivory canopy]

At least a little bit

[slim lance]

I just do it when I feel like it, sometimes when I don’t want to I just do it and then I get really hyped again

[errant sequoia]

Maybe that’s why you quit

[ivory canopy]

Not really lmao

[errant sequoia]

You will get very tired if you work all days

[ivory canopy]

So far my current approach works best

[ivory canopy]

It's not like just do unity the whole day

I mean I've also beet a .net dev for 2.5 years so I know how to ration my brain to avoid burnouts (also I am aware of my adhd)

[errant sequoia]

You must have in erection for programming

[ivory canopy]

It's really fun once you get somewhat alright at it

[slim lance]

Like today I just didn’t feel like it because yesterday my car didn’t work well (In Unity) today I tried again, it works well so I came up with a new game idea so yeah I’m gonna be working for a couple days straight for some time

[errant sequoia]

I agree

[slim lance]

Yeah

[ivory canopy]

Before i got my current job i was convinced i'd never be a programmer

Good thing it came through since software development seems to be the best career path for a musician

[slim lance]

Is Software development just one of the best in general?

I thought that

[errant sequoia]

But working on a game alone is very difficult

How about we all work on a simple game idea as a challenge to see who accomplish the most?

Like 24 hour challenge?

[slim lance]

Mini game jam

[ivory canopy]

Hahah

Game jams

[errant sequoia]

Yes

Our little game jam

[ivory canopy]

Maybe some time in the future but not now

Especially considering I have work tomorrow :d

[errant sequoia]

Sad

[slim lance]

That would be fun, not to see who finishes the most though, just to make something lol

[ivory canopy]

And I still want to learn a lot in unity

[errant sequoia]

Yes

[errant sequoia]

Trust me I’m worse

I just do for fun

[slim lance]

That’s not really a bad thing

[errant sequoia]

Do it for fun not to win, at least not the main goal

I swear to god whenever I start a project my brain just get blank

But you know what

Fuck it

[ivory canopy]

Oh man i remember this...thing i was working on like half a year ago

Maybe a year

[errant sequoia]

I’ll do it anyway

[ivory canopy]

Pseudogta2

Only got movement, entering and exiting vehicles and picking up weapons done

Looking back at it it's such horrifying spaghetti

[slim lance]

Still, That’s a lot of stuff

[slim lance]

Don’t even remind me of my old code

[ivory canopy]

I make little things like that all the time to check if I remember what I learn from courses

[ivory canopy]

Yeah it's crazy what learning design patterns can do

[slim lance]

To me it’s just crazy that I thought the code was good

Lol

[ivory canopy]

I knew about half of them by just naturally progressing but actually learning their names and correct applications is a huge confidence boost at least to me as a dev

[ivory canopy]

Oh I never thought my og code was good

[errant sequoia]

Ideas comes like storms but making them come to life is probably impossible if not extremely hard

[ivory canopy]

If you get a solid idea write it down

[errant sequoia]

I would like to start project but with a small scale

Like 1 week from start to finish

[ivory canopy]

I have a very strong concept for a game which started as an idea i wrote down and eventually i even had a dream like vision of the thing

Which made me write an even longer note about the game afterwards

[ivory canopy]

Problem with that

The one thing game development always has

Is sheer bulk

Unless you wanna make like a simple quiz game

Then there's really not much there

[errant sequoia]

I wrote probably 5 or 9 ideas rn but it doesn’t matter because ideas aren’t that hard to think of but the hard part is to make the whole game follow the same rule and not make it so random

[ivory canopy]

Rough ideas are easy to come up with

A proper ambition that you can devote yourself to I don't think is so common

[slim lance]

I really did lol

So once I made a thing to reload the current scene, which just used the LoadScene()

Then I created a second scene, so I created a script called SceneReloadetForScene2 or something like that, it just used LoadScene() but with a different index

For each scene I created a new reload script and I though i was smart

[ivory canopy]

Lmao

[errant sequoia]

Wait what?

Load what scene?

[slim lance]

Oh also the project is called “UnityWasBeingDumb” because in the last project I couldn’t get out of orthographic mode (I was just starting)

[slim lance]

So you use LoadScene() to load any scene you want, so I made a separate script for each scene

For scene 1 the script did LoadScene(0)
For scene 2 it did LoadScene(1) and so on

[errant sequoia]

I made a game where you can jump, walk and look around, pick up items, like blocks for example and jump on them, that’s my whole career

[slim lance]

Practice is good

So you didn’t waste time

[ivory canopy]

simple expandable movement system

[errant sequoia]

Do you know how to make health bar and enemy AI?

[slim lance]

Depends on the kind of AI

[ivory canopy]

yes and kinda

i mean i literally learned rudimentary basic enemy ai yesterday ;d

[errant sequoia]

How did it work for you? Can you change movement speed?

[slim lance]

smart AI no, ‘My AI’ yes

[ivory canopy]

well, it works

[errant sequoia]

I mean the movement

[ivory canopy]

the cool thing about it is if i want to make a new type of movement all i need is one new class

like light vehicle, heavy vehicle, helicopter, plane, boat, etc

[errant sequoia]

Nice

[errant sequoia]

Wow that is pretty cool, but I don’t have halicopter nor car

[ivory canopy]

you can tell i'm a web developer originally because i use proper naming convention 😄

[slim lance]

Do you guys make the player controller once, make it into a unity package and use it all the time in each project? That’s what I do

[ivory canopy]

i guess i could to that now

i'm pretty happy with this implementation of input handling

although this is very expandable and most games really don't need such a system

[errant sequoia]

Yes I use the same script with movement Jump, movement speed control and jump height control

[ivory canopy]

this is more for the gta type games

[slim lance]

It’s a very comfortable way

[slim lance]

Yeah alright

[errant sequoia]

Don’t say GTA, it gives me anxiety

[ivory canopy]

just cause

😄

really any game that has more than one type of control set

[errant sequoia]

Team of 1000 took them 4 years to finish the game

It’s impossible to make

IMMPOSSIBLE

[ivory canopy]

for one person? sure

[errant sequoia]

For 10 people? Sure

[ivory canopy]

what i want to make is a 2d endless runner boss rush bullet hell hybrid 😄

[errant sequoia]

Not even 100

[ivory canopy]

and that is very realistic for 1 very persistent and determined developer

[errant sequoia]

2D games is everywhere

Don’t get me started

[ivory canopy]

so are 3d games

i couldn't care less about the market being oversaturated

it's been oversaturated for a decade and there are still overnight successes that follow the exact same formula

[errant sequoia]

Good luck getting 1 downloads on your game

[ivory canopy]

thankfully I am aware of both marketing and ASO

[errant sequoia]

I assure you you are completely unaware

Anyway let me get some sleep

I will nap for few minutes

[ivory canopy]

how so

regardless those are topics I'll concern myself during the last phases of development

[errant sequoia]

You think making games and getting successful is easy is a cow piss

[ivory canopy]

how in the hell did you ever come to the conclusion that I said anything even near that

[errant sequoia]

Don’t bother

[ivory canopy]

don't bother what

[errant sequoia]

I might have misunderstood

[ivory canopy]

explaining to you how i didn't say what you think i did?

seems like you did mate

[errant sequoia]

Ok forget it

Anyway

[ivory canopy]

i have a lot of ios and android app developers in my social circle so i have a good source for info on topics like ASO 😄

[errant sequoia]

Where is juka

[ivory canopy]

chillin i guess

imma chill too for a bit

[slim lance]

I’m back right as you said that

[ivory canopy]

i got to around 8 out of 28h of this course yesterday

[errant sequoia]

What is ASO

[ivory canopy]

app store optimisation

basically ways how to get your app to show up closer to the top of search results in...app...stores

[errant sequoia]

Hey, are you up for the challenge ?

[slim lance]

The mini game jam?

[errant sequoia]

Yes

[slim lance]

Hmm sure

I mean I joined a real game jam and it’s starting in 3 days

[errant sequoia]

When will we start counting the 24 hours?

[slim lance]

Hmmmm idk I’ll see when I’m most free

You to find a good time

[errant sequoia]

I will sleep for now

[slim lance]

Goodnight

[errant sequoia]

But we can start now anyway because it’s not very serious