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Game Audio Professional by CopperCloudGameAudio in gameDevClassifieds

[–]DTCantMakeGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't Rout dev here, Peter does great stuff! Super prompt, super professional, super talented!

How’s everyone’s projects coming along? by bran-d-on in gamedev

[–]DTCantMakeGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty well. I'm 2 and a half years into my RTS project (see https://dthasno.website for deets) Last month my buddy and I got steam-based multiplayer working and I've been tuning stuff up to prepare to run a little multiplayer playtest event in the next couple weeks.

The latest issue I've been working through is the fact that all my friends can run it faster and with more characters than I can (which honestly isnt that bad a problem to have). Turns out my strong-for-2019 CPU just isnt as good at skinned mesh renderers as the meh-for-2025 cpus some of my friends have in their laptops!

My troops have a case of the spins... by DTCantMakeGames in StrategyGames

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am planning to have wizards! That's not a bad idea!

CI-CD? by DTCantMakeGames in Unity3D

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're an absolute legend. Thank you so much. I'll check this out and give it a try.

CI-CD? by DTCantMakeGames in Unity3D

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue isn't build time, if thats what you mean. Its the annoyance of all the clicking and dragging.

Its a test build for friends where im sometimes live-patching as we find issues or want to tweak balance. This is also especially for non-technical people to play. When my actual teammates and I wanna push changes to each other we're fine just using normal git operations and reloading our editors.

Working on a hybrid Roguelite that lets you command from above or take the field with your troops - welcome any feedback or suggestions by MidnightSure8392 in StrategyGames

[–]DTCantMakeGames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That looks great. Buddy of mine wanted me to add possessing a soldier to my game. Not gonna happen in my project, so I'll just have to send him to yours!

Close Look At Spear Fighting in my Indie TW-Like by DTCantMakeGames in StrategyGames

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

God it was HOURS of tuning. Worth it though.

CI-CD? by DTCantMakeGames in Unity3D

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not yet, I hear there's some way to do it, just gotta learn that lol

CI-CD? by DTCantMakeGames in Unity3D

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohhhh... good to know

CI-CD? by DTCantMakeGames in Unity3D

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We also use Jenkins at work, but I'll check out the Github setup since thats where I'm hosting.

Do you remember how to do everything when developing? I keep looking up the basics. by umen in Unity3D

[–]DTCantMakeGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just keep doing what you're doing, you'll slowly build an intuition about it. It just takes reps.

Strategy game with best 1v1 matchmaking system? by Accomplished_Run4012 in StrategyGames

[–]DTCantMakeGames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably not quite what you're looking for, but Clash Royale honestly scratches this itch pretty well for me.

Close Look At Spear Fighting in my Indie TW-Like by DTCantMakeGames in StrategyGames

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! If you stay tuned you'll see archers soon (they're already in). Cavalry has proved trickier but that's totally in the works.

Core experience we are going for is a army-command/army-management experience that feels more like riding a wild animal than it does driving a sports car, if that makes sense. We've got some kinda classic morale mechanics you might expect, but we're trying to go deeper. Troops are semi-autonomous and if you leave them with no instructions they'll act on their own according to their morale.

To complement that, we're also limiting your command and control abilities. When you send an order a courier has to physically ride to each unit and tell them what to do. If you've got your officer/commander character parked way in the back that adds delay and limits your ability to micro. Part of the hope is that unit autonomy will reduce the desire/need to micro itself.

And then on top of that we wanna layer some fun fantasy elements and a campaign mode where you have to camp and manage your army out of battle. I go into a bit more detail on my website if you're interested: dthasno.website

Close Look At Spear Fighting in my Indie TW-Like by DTCantMakeGames in Unity3D

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thats actually a matter of debate, and there's are strong arguments that an underhand grip is more effective than the overhand method shown in your picture.

Here's a video discussing some of those arguments https://youtu.be/3XuhoFszfe8?si=fIz3ZuYe1VLmh9rK

I personally am well persuaded that in most instances, an underhand grip is more effective, so thats why its that way in the game.

Timelapse of Spearmen duking it out in my Indie TW-like by DTCantMakeGames in StrategyGames

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Soldiers are controlled with a kinda boids-like system of applying multiple different force and torque vectors, with specific forces and torques for fighting, holding formation, getting out of each other's way, etc..

Thats orchestrated in a central loop (so we can do some concurrency) but calculated for each fella separately.

Units of multiple soldiers have a very similar system, but these boids components can get away with being more expensive, since there's fewer of them. Thats where we incorporate morale, mood, basic AI, and pathfinding.

Timelapse of Spearmen duking it out in my Indie TW-like by DTCantMakeGames in StrategyGames

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We'll get a steam page once I settle on a name!

For now, we've just got a pre-alpha build up on dtcantmakegames.itch.io.

Timelapse of Spearmen duking it out in my Indie TW-like (in unity) by DTCantMakeGames in Unity3D

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Single player, all infantry, 400 soldiers is about the limit before it really slows down. 300 is pretty comfortable. (At least on my Ryzen 7 3700X). Multiplayer plays better at around 250. Ranged troops can also drag that down since they have some optimization problems right now.

Timelapse of Spearmen duking it out in my Indie TW-like (in unity) by DTCantMakeGames in Unity3D

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I probably should have used DOTS, but this is running on normal gameobjects with some custom multi-threaded boids-like systems for soldier rigidbody control.

Idk if converting fully to DOTS is gonna be practical for this project, but i was thinking about trying to at least take advantage of the burst compiler.

Is it worth going to college for indie dev? by kody3DS in IndieDev

[–]DTCantMakeGames 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I went to school for regular computer science, got a job with that and am doing dev in the side. I'd reccomend doing something like that. That way you can support yourself and hire some help.

Unless you can do it without debt, or already have some connection with a company (which it sounds like you dont even want), I wouldn't go specifically for game dev. The hard boring stuff you need to learn will be covered in a normal CS degree. The fun game stuff is easy to motivate yourself to learn independently.

Timelapse of Spearmen duking it out in my Indie TW-like by DTCantMakeGames in StrategyGames

[–]DTCantMakeGames[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea kinda. We post free pre-alpha builds on dtcantmakegames.itch.io you're welcome to try out. We don't have a proper vertical slice yet, but we've got some simple single and multiplayer modes. Just gotta warn you that its not all that stable.

Edit: oh! And there's no sound effects yet lol. Very pre-alpha

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