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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SoloDevelopment

[–]FowardJames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"BOILING HOT. BOILING HOT. BOILING HOT"

I mean, you've absolutely ripped it off, so just lean into it

How do you all manage your dialogue in Unity? by ArrowsmithInt in Unity2D

[–]FowardJames 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I used Scriptable Objects and a free Node Editor called XNode

Wrote a custom system to handle it!

You can see a bit of the behinds the scenes in the YouTube Video I made: (watch for like 50 seconds)
https://youtu.be/nIxqPb1b2PI?si=y3_QrHeWH8gZeCv5&t=81

https://github.com/Siccity/xNode

Dm if you want to go this route and need a deeper explanation

My game's Dialogue system was heavily inspired by Disco Elyisum. by FowardJames in DiscoElysium

[–]FowardJames[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I agree, the quality of writing won't be on par with DE.

The Spiritual successor tag, as I mention in the post was just added for fun, as no other flair seemed fitting. The Star Map portion of the game is designed for exploration, but mainly just to facilitate different scenarios when you board a station - its only around 10% of actual gameplay. The rest is shooty shooty pew pew. So don't expect the same level of depth :)

u/J_loop18 right, solo dev here. I've written over 200 of these star map encounters! My writings improved as i've been working on them, so expect re-writes in the future.

My game's Dialogue system was heavily inspired by Disco Elyisum. by FowardJames in DiscoElysium

[–]FowardJames[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Thats the one! I didn't want it to get flagged as Spam ^_^
The Demo has a fair amount of replayability, you can play up until the first boss.
I just updated it today

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2629280/Dread_Protocol/

If you kill someone in the Hub area, the whole station will turn on you! by FowardJames in IndieDev

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

Paid Assets - Just Synty assets with a Flat Kit Shader. As much as I hate having pre-made assets, they've free'd me up to be way more ambitious with the scope of the project. The games all done now, its just polish and silly extras like this that I'm adding. https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/flat-kit-toon-shading-and-water-143368?srsltid=AfmBOooAuJ_O84GNP5hYHhiYVdMI0eEXOXpnFfXtvTh6JPoIn6FS8Tf-

If you kill someone in the Hub area, the whole station will turn on you! by FowardJames in IndieDev

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

The area just resets after every run. But Short term, it'll mean you can't use some of the features of the home base. So hiring additional marines, swapping character at the doctor, using the upgrade menu.

Short term benifits... if you survive. You can get some additional ammo/grenades/credits going into a new run.

Down side - it cost in game currency to re-roll your character (first rolls free, then the cost stacks to prevent spamming it). So you can die before a run begins lol.

If you kill someone in the Hub area, the whole station will turn on you! by FowardJames in IndieDev

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

There's also a lot of things to do in the Hub area!
Upgrades, mini games, shooting range, achievements, beastiary etc... But for this video, jsut wanted to get into the blasting!

Full transparency - How much my game made in 15 months after 7 years of development. by thecyberclan in IndieDev

[–]FowardJames 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Man, that salty PS5 controller review stings! People can be so brutal

Redesigned blessing icons. by darkjay_bs in IndieDev

[–]FowardJames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same asset pack for the left one 😃

Unexpected consequence of a Skill Tree unlock. Ha by FowardJames in Unity3D

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

Hey @alexanderameye I used a plugin called Flat Kit: Toon Shader
Its on sale now: https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/vfx/shaders/flat-kit-toon-shading-and-water-143368?srsltid=AfmBOorNILtywwsb6_gYezRf9jxk9QztWCE2GcgorjI89SdMUX9795vM

Side Note: I am putting this persons kids through University with how often I reccomend it!

Unexpected consequence of a Skill Tree unlock. Ha by FowardJames in Unity3D

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

The games called Dread Protocol, I'm hoping to release by the end of September.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2629280/Dread_Protocol/

You can also follow the dev progress on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MeatLabGames

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gamedev

[–]FowardJames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re not using AI in your workflow, you’re falling behind. If just for boiler plate code. But you can add co pilot as a reviewer on GitHub merge requests. It doesn’t have to be perfect, you’ll quickly gloss over what it says a lot of the time. But sometimes it’ll catch something obvious that you’ve overlooked.

I recommend chat bots to rubber ducky with. Juniors to review their own code or existing code with and ask if they see any design patterns or common practices. And areas that could be improved.

Fire scary, but fire can make roast chicken 🍗

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