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« Reply #360 on: October 03, 2020, 01:28:10 AM » |
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So, I'm looking forward to see MM on Steam.  I know that from your, developer's perspective you would like to have tons of unique gameplay. But from my perspective, as a player with not lot of free time, short but intensive experience, it's ideal.  Noted. And then there's the "I've paid 3 dollars and it's only 10 hours long?" player...  |
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« Reply #361 on: October 03, 2020, 04:32:01 AM » |
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Yeah, I know. But, IMO, 3 bucks for 10h of nice experience is totally ok, I would say, it's still low price, especially in case of such special visuals. There's not lot of such voxel games. |
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« Reply #362 on: October 03, 2020, 07:45:15 AM » |
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A good "locked door" spook should be effective, I think. ^_^
As to the length of the game, I think that like both longer and shorter games. (Even though I don't have as much time as once I did, I do also like having something that I can pick away at for some time.) Primarily, I think that I want a given game to have the length appropriate to that game: not so long that it feels padded (or worse, grindy), and not so short that it feels rushed.
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RealScaniX
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« Reply #363 on: October 03, 2020, 12:34:21 PM » |
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A good "locked door" spook should be effective, I think. ^_^
As to the length of the game, I think that like both longer and shorter games. (Even though I don't have as much time as once I did, I do also like having something that I can pick away at for some time.) Primarily, I think that I want a given game to have the length appropriate to that game: not so long that it feels padded (or worse, grindy), and not so short that it feels rushed.
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« Reply #364 on: October 09, 2020, 03:14:19 AM » |
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Agree too!  |
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« Reply #365 on: October 09, 2020, 06:28:59 AM » |
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And then there's the "I've paid 3 dollars and it's only 10 hours long?" player... People like that don't deserve you |
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RealScaniX
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« Reply #366 on: October 09, 2020, 07:54:52 AM » |
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Hehe, thank you! |
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RealScaniX
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« Reply #367 on: January 16, 2021, 02:40:31 AM » |
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Well, yeah... I'm still kinda alive. ^^ I took a looong break and played more than doing gamedev. Then I did a gamejam ( https://itch.io/jam/redefine-2021) to get back into it and it helped a little. You can see the gamejam version in the second half of the video. Now I have started working on MM again by adding the gamejam puzzle to it in a new lightworld (Futura), which will be some sort of labyrinth with puzzles. It could symbolize the protagonist's struggles to find a way out of the current situation. I need to find a schedule where I can play and do gamedev, so those breaks won't repeat too often. XD
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« Reply #368 on: January 16, 2021, 05:31:06 AM » |
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It's good to see you back at this. Welcome back to game-dev! ^_^
That's a nice effect on the walls of your jam-game. The puzzle itself looks neat, and the sound effect are rather pleasant to listen to, I find. ^_^
As to gaming-gamedev schedules, indeed, that can be tricky. Still, I do think that it's likely a good idea to set aside at least some time for leisure (such as gaming).
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« Reply #369 on: January 16, 2021, 05:49:29 AM » |
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I'm not into 3D or voxels but the graphics here is exceptionally inviting! (ignoring all those axes for a moment...)
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RealScaniX
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« Reply #370 on: January 16, 2021, 09:55:36 AM » |
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I'm not into 3D or voxels but the graphics here is exceptionally inviting! (ignoring all those axes for a moment...)
Thank you! It's good to see you back at this. Welcome back to game-dev! ^_^
That's a nice effect on the walls of your jam-game. The puzzle itself looks neat, and the sound effect are rather pleasant to listen to, I find. ^_^
Thank you! Good to be back! The puzzle was hard to "convert", because the voxel resolution is a lot lower than the pixel resolution of the gamejam game. Good to know that I somehow succeeded. As to gaming-gamedev schedules, indeed, that can be tricky. Still, I do think that it's likely a good idea to set aside at least some time for leisure (such as gaming).
Yes, I will. Only work and no fun is making me want to break out after a few months. Xd |
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« Reply #371 on: January 16, 2021, 01:38:11 PM » |
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Hey, welcome back! Glad to see an update, this is one of the more unique-looking games that I'm hyped for The puzzle looks like a fun addition |
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« Reply #372 on: January 16, 2021, 02:53:40 PM » |
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Ohhoo, happy to see you back! Welcome! |
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« Reply #373 on: January 16, 2021, 04:22:34 PM » |
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Hey, welcome back! Glad to see an update, this is one of the more unique-looking games that I'm hyped for The puzzle looks like a fun addition Ohhoo, happy to see you back! Welcome! Hey, thank you very much! Good to see that you are both still around, too. |
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RealScaniX
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« Reply #374 on: January 18, 2021, 12:24:12 PM » |
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The first step for the wastebasket, a searchable container that will appear 4 or 5 times in the house. The trash (placeholders for now) is picked from a list of predefined prefabs and is randomly positioned in the basket and stores the random seed, so it's the same next time. When picking it up, the elements are "thrown out" until you find the item that was hiding beneath it (coming up next). This is done by setting a random velocity to the body (which was asleep before) and shortly afterwards activate the colliders, so it collides with the floor and other items, which was disabled inside as I will allow some overlapping to get that extra messy look. Having such a container makes it possible for me to have a reoccurring item that is a bit more fun than to look through a drawer, in my humble opinion.
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« Reply #375 on: January 18, 2021, 01:25:49 PM » |
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It feels a bit like the things spontaneously jump out now, but I assume you're going for "frantically digging", right? Maybe it works better if you make the stuff jump to the left and right of the POV, alternating. As if we're digging with our left/right hand
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« Reply #376 on: January 18, 2021, 02:20:58 PM » |
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It feels a bit like the things spontaneously jump out now, but I assume you're going for "frantically digging", right? Maybe it works better if you make the stuff jump to the left and right of the POV, alternating. As if we're digging with our left/right hand
Mmh... you might have a point there. Thank you! I wasn't really going for "realistic", but maybe it's a good idea to not drop anything to the front (where the player is) and more to the left/right (like you said) and maybe a bit to the back. Will try this out. |
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« Reply #377 on: January 18, 2021, 02:42:46 PM » |
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Well, it wouldn't stand out as much in other games, but this one is set in a haunted mansion so I think players might mistakenly think the trash can is haunted if it doesn't feel like a player action  |
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« Reply #378 on: January 18, 2021, 04:00:58 PM » |
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Well, it wouldn't stand out as much in other games, but this one is set in a haunted mansion so I think players might mistakenly think the trash can is haunted if it doesn't feel like a player action :D |
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« Reply #379 on: January 19, 2021, 02:57:26 AM » |
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Welcome back!  Will skip puzzle video to avoid spoilers to things I want to solve myself, but the waste bin is neat! I feel like I still don't have a 100% grasp on what this game is about and that intrigues me, seems like it's going to be really interesting to explore.  |
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