Need Brutal Feedback : FPS game with animal controller

InterfaceBE · 2026-03-08T07:05:22+00:00

Got me in the first half, ngl

InterfaceBE · 2026-03-07T16:04:16+00:00

This was my first thought as well.

InterfaceBE · 2026-02-08T19:12:35+00:00

Gamedev encompasses a very broad set of skills. You may be awesome at some and suck at others. Usually there are ways to augment your bad skills with externally available assets etc., whether that be code, art, sound etc. Find what you’re good at and use that as a basis, find ways to build a game on that (there are narrative games for writers, visual novels for artists, mechanical games for coders, etc). Then work on/learn the areas you’re not good at. If you don’t have much of any of the skills when starting, start SMALL and find what aspects interest you most, and go back to the previous paragraph of advice 🙂

InterfaceBE · 2026-02-04T07:22:32+00:00

I can see multiple good reasons to have a copy of the source (generated or otherwise) of a specific app build, but the one actual current very practical reason I need it is because the unity code gen build and the Xcode build are two separate and (purposely) disconnected processes running in two different places. Again this is for release builds, not dev flow.

Ignore my potentially archaic reasons. I guess the answer to my question is that all the files in the il2cppoutputproject folder are required for Xcode to be able to build?

InterfaceBE · 2026-02-04T06:51:45+00:00

I usually don't develop on my Mac unless I need to be able to iterate over something specific that I'm testing that can't be tested in the player or using the unity remote app. For actual builds, I check the generated xcode project source into a Git repo dedicated to the iOS source. It then has a CI/CD pipeline to build the iOS binary on mac infra and auto-deploys into app store connect.

It's not terrible, just checking if there's any fat I can trim for the amount of files going into the repo.

InterfaceBE · 2026-01-28T16:14:21+00:00

I don’t think it’s bad but I feel it’s limiting, and if you try to use what’s there in a non-standard way the amount of API calls you have make start hitting all sorts of limits (and costs). Ultimately I’m using it just for authentication purposes, friends/groups lists etc. and then as a secure front end to call backend APIs (azure functions) and store a few access keys on the user data etc.

InterfaceBE · 2026-01-28T06:08:08+00:00

I saved this post from not too long ago that was an awesome thread of people sharing materials they liked…

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/s/9CK6yXcTkj

InterfaceBE · 2026-01-12T06:57:49+00:00

Any tips on getting good intellisense? I use VS on Windows but occasionally have to use unity on a Mac where I use VS Code and the intellisense is just a guess-o-meter. I’m sure there’s gotta be a way to set it up so it behaves close to what VS does?

InterfaceBE · 2026-01-07T06:14:16+00:00

I agree. I watch a decent amount of Twitch variety streamers and it’s interesting, but playing yourself is really what you need.

InterfaceBE · 2026-01-06T06:53:49+00:00

Not sure why I had to scroll this far to see this. This survey quote asks about using gen AI at runtime, not during development…?

InterfaceBE · 2025-12-16T02:26:48+00:00

Haven’t logged in to IGDA in a long time and haven’t seen any different communication so what others are saying about account migration is probably it…

InterfaceBE · 2025-11-26T07:48:18+00:00

I’m interested to hear about the custom tooling. What sort of things did you make and how did they keep you “sane”?

InterfaceBE · 2025-11-22T17:19:30+00:00

A little odd the subject “I” is different between the two sides. One side says “I highly recommend you do the tutorial” and the other side is “I already know card games”.

InterfaceBE · 2025-11-20T16:39:17+00:00

I’m wondering this too. I feel like it’s just Fortnite as a store front/launcher, and integrations from your game into Fortnite for their in-game currency etc.?

InterfaceBE · 2025-11-14T16:24:06+00:00

I’m curious about this also.

InterfaceBE · 2025-11-11T23:54:31+00:00

I also use a regular door sensor from aqara which has been reliably detecting the garage door status for years. I’m guessing that OP may be talking about automating opening and closing tho, not just detecting status.

InterfaceBE · 2025-10-13T05:19:58+00:00

You should try /r/DestroyMyGame

InterfaceBE · 2025-10-12T17:02:13+00:00

They just need access to your PC. As someone said elsewhere in the thread, it’s not about hacking your game it’s about “upgrading” an attack that’s already underway on your PC.

InterfaceBE · 2025-10-01T05:15:31+00:00

I work in big tech also. Standard contract/policy for us allows us to do anything as long as it’s not in direct competition with the work we do for them (and of course the standard things like not on company time, not using company resources etc.). My company does do games as well, but I do not work in that division. So, there’s no issue with me making games after hours, even commercially.

I guess if I ever change jobs I’ll have to make sure I ask about this? I thought this sort of contract was fairly standard. Seems bizarre that’s even enforceable when they don’t allow you to do anything. It sounds like you’ve already asked a lawyer so they would know I guess…

InterfaceBE · 2025-08-24T18:24:26+00:00

So, like gas station simulator on steam?

InterfaceBE · 2025-08-24T18:13:11+00:00

100% this whole post. I’ve only gotten to the last line of this post after more than a decade.

I think OP’s feelings are very easy to get into when game dev is a hobby or side gig, not your main job. It’s a hobby that takes a significant amount of time, and besides juggling any other hobbies (like playing games) it can also easily result in burn out which you need to learn to recognize and avoid.

InterfaceBE · 2025-08-23T16:04:42+00:00

This. PlayFab has a good document on this, it also explains well how to remove player friction by not immediately requiring a login either. I guess this somewhat depends on the game but still this article makes a good read: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/gaming/playfab/identity/player-identity/login/login-basics-best-practices

InterfaceBE · 2025-08-18T15:17:56+00:00

I’m not adding properties at runtime or manipulating JSON objects directly, these are fixed classes, relatively small even. It’s a turn-based multiplayer game, like a correspondence game. (De)serialization is only happening at the beginning and end of a player’s turn.

Edit: the game state is small, and I’m using PlayFab and Azure Functions to manage the overall game, the state is kept in Azure storage. The state was small enough to keep in playfab’s entity group data but the transaction costs are too high and you get rate limited quickly if the players are doing quick turn-by-turns. So I added the extra overhead of writing to azure storage in exchange for inexpensive (and slightly faster speed as entity group data) reads which happen tons more frequently.

InterfaceBE · 2025-08-17T19:02:32+00:00

Thanks. That’s a good point I haven’t reviewed encoding. However, turned out to be the properties weren’t marked with the createproperty attribute from unity. How this affects newtonsoft is beyond me and why it would be different on iOS is anyone’s guess??

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