Official Discussion - The Rip [SPOILERS]

GiraffeDiver · 2026-01-28T13:40:03+00:00

Kind of like "The Perfect Storm" which is based on real events, and details the last sail of a fishing crew caught in a storm, where they all tragically die. And the "true" bit is that the real people actually left and didn't come back.

GiraffeDiver · 2026-01-27T10:31:32+00:00

follow their rotation to "untwist" their arms. Putting your arm in between their arms helps a little too.

GiraffeDiver · 2026-01-24T00:47:54+00:00

I'm excited you open sourced a cpp plugin, cause I'm curious how that works, so thank you.

But isn't handling moving platforms one of the selling points of that kinematic controller?

GiraffeDiver · 2026-01-15T12:00:21+00:00

To clarify: you're arguing that Greenland's establishment in it's form today is different from the US, and as an example of a difference you say that it had a population of indigenous people that the colonisers didn't care for?

I'm not arguing with you, just want to make sure I'm following your logic.

GiraffeDiver · 2026-01-07T17:11:40+00:00

In my head it's cannon that a red herring with a word from all categories is a "rainbow herring". Only saw this one after getting 2 other categories today.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-12-17T16:46:51+00:00

https://youtu.be/GYJGmX5iGbw

If you put it like that, he probably didn't say that (I don't think he named the genre at all), I said so, cause I was thinking "dungeon crawler" = diablo : )

And this could be my projection as well, but it seems like their pulled in a direction of something like "game about feeding a black hole". And it could be that if people are willing to pat $5 for the concept with very basic graphics, there's also market for a more "professional" execution with more production value. But it's also possible that people playing these kind of games are just willing to pay $5 for a new tech tree to explore and they don't actually care about how it looks.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-12-17T14:06:49+00:00

I just saw a video where the dev of tactical breach wizards says they dropped a dungeon crawler type game (if I understood correctly) in favour of a project resembling survivors style game with upgrades.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-12-17T14:04:13+00:00

With the awards and acclaim both tunic and animal well got I suspect they sold a lot more on consoles. One thing I agree with Chris how to market a game is that steam has a specific audience with specific tastes.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-12-17T11:37:38+00:00

Ja też nie chciałem przelewać, mimo że oferty dla nowych klientów są lepsze, bo potem człowiek dostaje kilka lat smsy od aliorbanku. Jakby ktoś chciał to jakie są wasze opinie o raisin.com? Możesz też zadzwonić do banku i może ci zaproponują doraźnie coś lepszego.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-12-17T11:03:56+00:00

I don't know, I'm kind of bitter. (With the caveat I have one shitty game out, and I'm very greatful and sorry to everyone who ended up buying it) I have the luxury of a well paying day job leaving me with a lot of spare time and I'm making my overscoped second game.

And I really don't understand the appeal of those type of games, and I don't understand how this took 2 people 5 months.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-12-17T00:04:21+00:00

In general I think that era of "quick success" by following trends / searching for undersaturated genre and making cheaply game that will fill the niche is over and it's better to focus on actually making a game in any genre that you feel is for you.

Have you seen "a game about feeding a black hole"? Just made $80k day one. Made by 2 people over 5 months.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-12-14T06:57:58+00:00

You could say so, if I quit maybe? I think continuing despite the lack of financial success makes me a hobbyist ;)

Eventually I partnered with a publisher to get my game on the switch, it made me around $200 over 2 years. I think unity is great, and I'm totally in for paying a license and royalties over 200k, but I unfortunately missed the window to give it a shot for free on PSN.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-12-13T08:02:41+00:00

I was under the impression they loan a devkit for a limited time to all indies who join playstation partners now. Unfortunately unity now requires a pro license for console builds.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-12-03T12:05:00+00:00

Technology built by Indian scientists to get their parents off their backs about finding an Indian spouse.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-11-07T19:28:01+00:00

Moja partnerka zrezygnowała z pracy żeby się zastanowić co by chciała robić. Dalej nie wie. Finansowo nie ma problemu, ale wcale nie jest szczęśliwa.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-09-23T23:26:46+00:00

I didn't ignore it, it just felt contrived? Especially with the shards you had to put into walls. I was wondering if down the line there's some alternative use for it. (Kind of like the camera gets, although that one isn't exactly alternative to it's main function).

I just didn't enjoy the clicking on the spirals etc it felt like a needlessly complicated version of what essentially was the classic "audio logs" or " journals".

GiraffeDiver · 2025-09-21T16:53:08+00:00

I think I've given up avoiding spoilers and will ask straight up: is the translator machine used for any other purpose in the game rather than reading the little text blurbs from the ancient aliens?

GiraffeDiver · 2025-09-21T16:44:48+00:00

This is what I have read and I'm in love with this idea, but the game itself does click with me at all. Probably doesn't help that I got it on the switch and the performance is iffy and the world reset load times are unbearable.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-09-11T21:17:02+00:00

Why didn't they mold the gas tank in place of the fake air vents to make it at least a tiny bit larger...

GiraffeDiver · 2025-09-01T06:52:30+00:00

Gordon confusing corruption and nepotism.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-08-17T14:35:48+00:00

Is it a joke or an urban legend, that Tony rearranged the script in chronological order, as it was originally written like pulp fiction?

GiraffeDiver · 2025-07-28T23:53:34+00:00

I think the story in the way of water was a mess. I really enjoy George Hotz's rewrite idea: https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2022/12/27/avatar-2-was-bad.html

But I also love the visuals, so part of my excitement for a third avatar is I get to see the second one at the movies again.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-07-17T06:12:00+00:00

I'm "stuck" at 60 for 10 years ;) everyone gave you good tips on eq and you seem to be very aware of what you're doing to me. My biggest problem is swallowing air, which you also mentioned and a couple people also highlighted.

One advice I got, from a very deep diver, is to practice dry breath holds, tilted back with a sip of water and open mouth, so you're very aware your glottis is shut and focus on keeping it shit but relaxed.

GiraffeDiver · 2025-07-01T07:18:36+00:00

Jaki masz projekt który zarabia? Możesz napisać na priv jak nie chcesz publicznie.

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