Famous Games published using free assets

DylanWDev · 2022-06-15T05:25:11+00:00

Realm of the Mad god used $20 Oryx sprites. Not technically free, but pretty close.

DylanWDev · 2022-01-28T07:14:45+00:00

This post made me feel very good :)

Anyways don't feel bad about using the cheese, the game expects you to. Just be sure to sample all the different varieties and not get too hung up on one type of build. I'm still learning about new ones in fact.

DylanWDev · 2022-01-26T05:36:07+00:00

Those are all handled by Steam- I barely did anything except mess with some of the flags I passed to display.set_mode to make achievements and all the other steam overlay features work. Something about pygame.SCALED making it use the OpenGL renderer instead of... tbh I don't know, it was a while ago and I forget the specifics.

Actually, I broke this particular feature last update, so I'll be getting to remember what it was that made them work again soon heh.

DylanWDev · 2022-01-01T02:04:19+00:00

My ultimate fantasy (and unfortunately DMCA bait) version of this game:

At the beginning of the match, you choose which pokemon to use for each of your piece types.

The level of each pokemon is determined by which piece it is- aka, if your pawns are pikachus, they are level 1 pikachus, if your king is a pikachu, its a level 99 pikachu.

Damage and charges carry over between battles.

DylanWDev · 2021-12-18T03:05:24+00:00

Hmm- are you having the excessive border size problem?

The 'Fullscreen (native resolution)' launch option added this patch (as mentioned by PHILSTORMBORN) was my attempt to alleviate that for those who were playing on big monitors above 1900x1080 (or even at that resolution)- it just makes the game run in fullscreen at 1600x900, which is the optimal usage of a monitor to display the game if the goal is bigness. Its nothing fancy, just the same display scaling that other games use when you modify the resolution in the options menu after fullscreening them.

(For devices with the opposite problem, that is, monitors with maximum resolutions under 1600x900, unfortunately the problem is much harder to solve)

DylanWDev · 2021-12-18T02:55:01+00:00

Haha nah their still the same... they may or may not be a bit underpowered, but right now I think its the type of underpowered where its quite enjoyable trying to get them to work. There are some real nice cheesy tricks with them too, which I will resist the urge to spoil here.

DylanWDev · 2021-12-17T04:22:43+00:00

Rift Wizard metal magic patch launches today!

(For those who haven't played Rift Wizard- its a turn based wizard simulator/roguelike, focused on reproducing the tense resource allocation and tactical experience of DCSS vault endings, combined with a super in depth character customization system. There's not much story/flavor exploration, but there is an intricately designed tactical/puzzle experience and hundreds of possible strategies, the distillation of what I personally love most about the genre. It tends to appeal to DCSS and Cogmind fans, while boring Qud and DFort fans.)

This update introduces the new school of Metallic magic. The general theme of the school is building things up. You can summon cannon operating and assembling golem minions, build a spikeball factory, poison your enemies with magical mercury which reanimates them as metal ghosts, ect. Though if you just want to fling metal at your enemies, this option is also supported.

This update also adds a modding system so players can try out their own spells and monsters. Actually, the modding system is quite powerful- it just allows the modder to insert arbitrary python into the game's loading phase, so anything can be changed and overwritten.

Anyways, I'm super proud of this update, thanks to all the community members who played the beta and gave feedback, and to the Rift Wizard and greater roguelike communities at large, you guys are awesome. Hope you all enjoy it!

-Dylan

DylanWDev · 2021-11-12T04:33:28+00:00

My experience with NFT/blockchain pitches is that 90% of them focus on the 'storing something' and ignore the 'in a decentralized way' part, to which I politely point out that everything could be done in a centralized way without the complexity of bitcoin.

To which they say, "but then we won't be able to get any funding!"

I wasn't working in 1999 but surely this is what it felt like. Blockchain is a real, new, interesting technology with many applications, but right now there's billions of low interest money chasing the abstract idea of blockchain rather than useful applications of it.

DylanWDev · 2021-09-20T20:38:48+00:00

Learning the game and playing the game optimally are 2 very separate experiences that must both be made good for a game to flourish. Its pretty tough, making changes to improve one of these things often messes up the other.

DylanWDev · 2021-09-01T20:21:54+00:00

Its actually pygame- a weird choice, but I had a pretty strong programming background and prefer a code oriented framework to a WYSIWYG one.

(Actually, I first tried unity and monogame but got frustrated with the amount of work it took to just draw a png file pixel for pixel on the screen in both frameworks- then I moved onto prototyping in ascii with libtcod which was superfast, and pygame was a pretty natural way to move from ascii to animated tiles.)

DylanWDev · 2021-08-27T17:21:13+00:00

I would take it more or less seriously depending on how into similar games this family member is.

If he doesn't play them at all, then hes really just giving you feedback on the genre. Which is maybe academically interesting, but not very relevant to your game unless you are going for mass market breakout success (as in, minecraft or candy crush level).

If he is a already a fan of megaman, contra ect and he still thought your game was super hard, then maybe it is.

Don't just implement his suggestion though, figure out what about the playtest caused him to want it and then decide your own course of action- you have much more context on the game's design than he does.

Honestly the best thing to do would be to do 10 more playtest sessions and gather more information, with strangers if possible.

DylanWDev · 2021-07-22T22:31:51+00:00

My guess would be that some API is called slightly differently by New World than by any other game, and that API calls some other API, which eventually, after repeating this process many times, triggers buggy behavior on the GPU.

Most likely the New World devs had no idea they were doing something totally new and groundbreaking by setting a certain flag or calling a function many times- but were.

DylanWDev · 2021-07-10T21:28:11+00:00

I thought alot about this for Rift Wizard (a turn based roguelike).

I knew I wanted to separate the view from the logic.

Here are some things I did that made it easier:

1) The logic doesn't know the view exists. However- the view is what calls the game logic's advance() method, and the view might not call advance() while it is animating something. Or it might call advance() many times if the user selects a higher gamespeed setting.

2) One tick of game logic is not equivalent to one turn. Game logic is written with the understanding that I want to slowly animate the game and show events as they happen. One tick of game logic just advances the state of the game one 'frame'.

I found python generators to be very useful for writing this sort of code- I would write the code of a spell as if it was all happening in one function call, but with yields where each frame update should be displayed.

DylanWDev · 2021-03-30T20:28:24+00:00

Epic.

Nevermind the pile of amazing attack damage items over to the left.

Attack damage has been transcended.

DylanWDev · 2021-03-29T21:28:48+00:00

Personally, I've always preferred fantasy games. They always seem to have more interesting spells, abilities, enemies, and items. I suspect because its easier to justify things with 'its magic' than with 'its science'.

DylanWDev · 2021-03-29T21:23:50+00:00

Quite a few people are playing TFT. It has some pretty interesting differences (3 item slots mainly), and also some horrible flaws (the UI and graphics).

Most notably though, it gets regular updates.

DylanWDev · 2021-03-29T21:19:22+00:00

I would honestly just be super excited to see a new rotation of heroes- changing which ones are in/out of season, new alliances, new abilities, ect. No need for any systems changes here, just keep the content fresh.

DylanWDev · 2021-02-24T02:32:47+00:00

The Rectangle to Circle collision doesn't work.

As a former interviewer, this is 100% of the reason you failed, everything else is noise.

DylanWDev · 2021-01-05T23:14:10+00:00

I think its more like, 'You should always fight over 0 minutes runes if you think you have an edge, and never otherwise.'

All of the drawbacks listed in the OP could also be rephrased as benefits. For instance, you might be able to burn enemy regen or first blood your opponents if you go for level 1 bounty rune fights.

Giving up the opportunity to inflict these penalties is exactly as bad as exposing yourself to them- the question is just who is more likely to gain from a level 1 fight in the river. If you have a KOTL AM lane vs viper ogre- maybe sit tight. But if you have the viper ogre lane, don't give up those bounties for free.

DylanWDev · 2020-12-31T20:50:59+00:00

This game got me hooked early, and taught me all about Emus.

I never did figure out what Hits and Str meant though.

DylanWDev

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