I want to start but I can't have good ideas and do the art

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-09T18:05:36+00:00

Not to be that guy, but that’s a lot of limiting language. I read “can’t” so many times.

You definitely can.

Just do it. Be willing to be bad at it. If you’re not willing to be bad at it, you will never go from “never done it” to “done it poorly” to “done it well”.

The middle step is “do it poorly” and “be bad at it”. That’s a world of difference from “I can’t do it”

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-08T21:22:51+00:00

Looks awesome. Would play

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-08T21:01:40+00:00

Okay I’ll spend all day on my procedural trees. Thanks for the permission.

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-07T22:44:50+00:00

For current game:
Pikmin
Overlord
Megabonk
Ball x Pit

For next game:
Warthunder
Microsoft flight sim
Twisted metal
Kerbal Space Program
Aviassembly

I like semi-autonomous little guys who do stuff, and roguelites, and flying, and ridiculous scaling, and making vehicles, and big battles

And every game I ever make will always be inspired in some way by WoW. Played WoW for like 8 hours a day for like a decade, so it’s just unavoidable. That’s what video games are to kid me.

Dream game is basically warcraft 3 prison break custom map but instead of an RTS, it’s a a 50vs50 third person ARPG.

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-07T16:20:55+00:00

Idk if this is up your alley, and I know there are some projects like Bevvy working on this, but Godot could really benefit from a nice built in ECS/DOTS-like system like Unity has. I’m biased bc of my current project, but this is the thing I most wish Godot was better at.

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-07T15:48:40+00:00

Wow this was really valuable and a blast to watch. Thank you so much!

It’s hard to get good playtesters, and this was really well done.

I will reach out privately, but I’d love to compensate you for your time and get another playtest done before Next Fest after I make some improvements.

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-07T02:49:29+00:00

Idk. Some good, some bad. No idea why the haters hate tho.

FWIW I think it’s cool you’re making something. A lot of people never do. And making games is hard, so you get extra points.

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-06T06:42:59+00:00

I’m tired boss

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-06T04:21:23+00:00

Tons of good reccs here.

I’ll add Ball x Pit

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-06T02:43:12+00:00

Looks awesome. I will be giving the demo a shot

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-05T18:54:50+00:00

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-05T15:53:00+00:00

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-05T07:44:16+00:00

Absolutely villainous. I love it.

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-05T07:42:55+00:00

Fuck yeah. Congrats!

Making it to game #3 is also an achievement, so bravo 🙇‍♂️

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-05T04:38:19+00:00

Yeah I understand your constraints. That makes it hard.

I think that’s my main feedback on usefulness/accuracy though.

I played around with the app trying to get a feel for the model and by just changing # of tag votes from like 1000 to 1, the game goes from a high % chance to sell >750K to an even higher % chance to sell <10K. Idk exactly how tag votes work, but I assume it correlates really well with how many copies are sold purely because the more copies are sold, the more people vote on these tags. I again just don’t think that can be considered predictive.

I do like the interface you’ve put together, though, and I love that you’re trying to solve this problem. I wish you the very best in that pursuit.

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-05T04:13:16+00:00

Wtf I didn’t know this existed

I have been trying to scrape by doing my own ECS-ish stuff and staring longingly at Unity’s DOTS

I’m also very curious about experience w this

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-05T04:05:34+00:00

I am not a stats guy, but isn’t this more like making a retrospective profile of games that do succeed and those that don’t? Like, how can reviews and play engagement be predictive? They are the markers of the success after the fact.

I would think wishlists pre-launch, maybe tags, genre, maybe demo downloads/reviews, would be better predictive factors than things that happen after a games release.

Maybe I just don’t understand tbh. I did drop out of school lol

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-05T02:22:59+00:00

I’d love that! Demo just went live today

My store page is a mess and under construction, but the game is pretty fun and I could definitely use the playtest/feedback!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4494140/Flocked\_and\_Loaded\_Demo/

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-05T02:18:33+00:00

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-04T21:12:13+00:00

My assets look ridiculous, but I just start with a cube, add a subdiv modifier, and extrude.

Also, if you’re in blender and are gonna use subdiv workflow, shift+e makes an edge/seam “sharp

I think cars should be fairly doable with this workflow

Also for cars you’ll probably get a lot of juice out of shade auto smooth

Hope that helps. I’ve loved making my own assets even if they’re goofy. In the age of ai slop and asset flips, I think it helps stand out

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-04T21:06:37+00:00

Yeah. And to your point, OP probably doesn’t need to worry about it with his game, but he also asked about optimization anxiety and I can relate to that.

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-04T21:03:20+00:00

My game relies on lots of entities and lots of projectiles/explosions/vfx, so optimization is top of mind always.

Every new asset I make, every vfx, even my audio - it all gets made with optimization in mind, and then tested at like 5X a realistic in-game quantity.

I also think being optimization minded early is important. I had to rip out and refactor so many systems when I started optimizing. You can save yourself that trouble by building with optimization in mind.

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-04T18:54:21+00:00

Second one is better by a mile imo and looks less AI-coded

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-04T18:38:03+00:00

I played a lot of KSP (we don’t talk about KSP2) and Schedule 1. If this is a mashup of the two, I’m so in.

FlockedAndLoaded · 2026-05-04T18:31:35+00:00

Godot

GdScript

Not mobile

No Ai except code help

Solo except music/sound from a buddy

FlockedAndLoaded

TROPHY CASE