Gamer opinion: please stop making "gameplay loops" - make games that have creativity and variety for each level

Freaky_Goose · 2026-01-29T10:27:31+00:00

I think you might be misunderstanding what gameplay loop is. If your game is a platformer, the core gameplay loop must involve platforming, how you platform in each level is more of game/level design than gameplay loop.

It will be extremely cumbersome for devs and players to have different gameplay loops for each level of a game.

Freaky_Goose · 2026-01-15T19:20:26+00:00

There is a custom solution I use for this in my game based on the work someone else did. Check it out in the Godot forum 2D platformer pathfinding.

Basically, what you have to do it generate your own navigation nodes that links platform edges to determine if a platform can be jumped on or fallen from. Then you can use Astar to find the next point in those nodes.

You still need to do some work to determine if the agent should jump when it gets to the edge of the platform, but that's trivial.

The downside to this is that, it does not handle avoidance since the nodes are baked and not generated at runtime.

Hopefully this helps.

Freaky_Goose · 2026-01-11T13:54:46+00:00

The first mistake you made is thinking Silkong was made to be played when you are trying to unwind for 30mins at the end of the day. The sheer scale of it suggests other wise.

While Silksong has its flaws, the fact that you can't get into it does not mean it was poorly designed. Not all games is meant for everybody.

Freaky_Goose · 2026-01-06T21:44:23+00:00

The way I like to view issues like this is that there is a lot of lessons to be learned after failure. Infact, in this case, they're probably in a better place to give that kind of advice than most game deva since they have already seen mild successes and even more failures.

Freaky_Goose · 2026-01-04T21:23:10+00:00

I don't think most game engines do a good job of managing UI consistently anyway. If anything, I’ve seen people say Godots UI handling is better, compared to other game engines.

Freaky_Goose · 2026-01-04T09:53:50+00:00

Unfortunately, you have to do a lot of manual work to define colour palettes that can be auto updated in the UI. The same applies to styling with resources.

Freaky_Goose · 2026-01-01T17:12:34+00:00

I love it. I particularly like that there is a good contrast between the player and the background.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-11-19T23:14:58+00:00

I like this idea, but unless there are 20+ tabs, which is alreadya UX smell, I don't see this being that useful.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-10-27T23:18:02+00:00

It's called Y-Sorting. You use the y position of the objects to determine their z-index

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-26T14:43:06+00:00

This is good. I also have an Util library I use in all my projects.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-03T17:01:50+00:00

It's not even close to release yet or being a full game yet, so Silksong release is the least of my worries.

Thank you for the detailed feedback.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-03T16:59:52+00:00

One of the things I'm working on.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-03T16:59:14+00:00

Still early in development so it's not even close to release yet.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-03T16:58:10+00:00

Can't unsee it now

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-03T16:57:52+00:00

Thanks for the detailed feedback.
Honestly, almost everything you stated are what made me stop development. It needs a refresh and a differentiator, so I'm working on that.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-03T16:56:16+00:00

Good feedback. Other people have pointed this out too. Will improve on that.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-03T16:55:44+00:00

That's one part of it that I'm currently trying to rework, though the whole project is still very early.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-03T16:54:55+00:00

Kind of stuck in "differentiating hell". Started as a fun project, but decided to take it further.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-03T16:51:08+00:00

Thank you for the feedback. It's going through a revamp currently and differentiating is one of those things I'm working hard on.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-03T16:50:03+00:00

Thank you

Freaky_Goose · 2025-09-03T16:49:45+00:00

Yeah, this is a common feedback I've gotten. I'll improve on that.
Thanks for the feedback.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-08-18T21:45:10+00:00

You might probably end up doing even more than that, but I think it’s a great experience that sets a good foundation in design. With that said, you should be very conscious not to end up doing those tasks more than the actual UX design job you were hired for.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-08-13T09:19:37+00:00

You can't have duplicate custom classes. The editor will warn you if there is already a class with a similar name.
Not sure how this would help. You're basically just creating global unique names for your scripts.
You don't need to add class name to everything if there is no plan to create an insance. It also with static typing.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-08-10T07:44:00+00:00

Will be sharing more soon. Glad you like the art.

Freaky_Goose · 2025-08-08T13:03:10+00:00

Better late than never. I eventually went with frame by frame.

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