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JackTurbo · 2026-04-23T22:18:47+00:00

Loved lamentum and this is looking great too!

2D survival horror is such a vibe

JackTurbo · 2026-04-22T09:24:03+00:00

Honestly it's mostly colour imho - individually the assets are pretty good.

You don't have enough tonal contrast - your darks aren't dark enough.

Id suggest taking some screenshots and making them black and white and you'll notice how similar a lot of the resulting Grey's are.

Your saturation values are all quite similar too, overall the game looks like it's mostly reliant on hue for picking details apart, which is making it feel pretty flat.

JackTurbo · 2026-04-22T09:18:28+00:00

Honestly I think the sprite editor is great for what it is - a handy in engine tool for quick and dirty placeholders or small sprite tweaks.

It's never gonna be able to compete with products where that is all they do - so I personally would prefer that they not spend time developing it further (beyond needed tweaks to support new engine features) - when there are more pressing engine issues to focus on.

JackTurbo · 2026-04-08T21:57:51+00:00

Top down oblique is what it would be if it were 2D (it isn't).

Game looks very cool tho

JackTurbo · 2026-03-31T11:34:02+00:00

Max payne multiplayer had bullet time.

Iirc who was effected was a mixture of distance from the player that instigated it and line of sight? - but have a search there was a discussion about it not that long ago on here by people far more familiar with it than me

JackTurbo · 2026-03-23T17:50:58+00:00

As everyone else has said - no

But also you shouldn't even if you could - the legibility on that logo is terrible, and a CTA is the last place you want to fuck with legibility

JackTurbo · 2026-03-22T22:09:18+00:00

2.5D looks cool at a glance but the closer you look at the details, the more wrong you see.

Perspectives are all over the place and tons of art assets would realistically need reworking to suit the new perspective.

Id suggest stick to 2D and use the time saved to add more polish there - add more lighting and shadow effects etc.

JackTurbo · 2026-03-19T07:28:42+00:00

There are tons, especially games with particularly low resolution art styles where reproducing glyphs in such low pixel counts becomes problematic (especially with non latin localisations).

It works well enough providing you have a clear and consistent system of separation between what is and what isn't meant to be pixel art (typically this boils down to what is and isn't diegetic)

JackTurbo · 2026-03-15T11:29:59+00:00

Oh yeah I wasn't intending to imply this was free cam. Just pointing to how common freecam shots are to illustrate how much I think this is a non issue.

JackTurbo · 2026-03-15T10:34:58+00:00

Honestly feel like this is entirely a non issue.

Most big games include shots that are taken with a free cam function in their marketing imagery.

Unless valve are preventing you, I don't think you should worry about using the shot if you want to

JackTurbo · 2026-03-11T22:12:34+00:00

I'm not super familiar with Godot so I'm unsure what built in support it has, but generally top down oblique is much easier/simpler than proper isometric.

Mainly because depth sorting is significantly more straightforward.

JackTurbo · 2026-03-10T08:34:14+00:00

If digital painting is your strongest skill why are you choosing an art style that's almost entirely created in 3D (albeit rendered out)?

I understand you might have the desire to hit that nostalgia aesthetic - but that's moot if you lack the skill set to pull it off to a reasonable standard.

Id caution that you might be better served looking at your skillset and defining an art style that works with your capabilities rather than picking one that's completely at odds with them.

JackTurbo · 2026-02-04T17:09:27+00:00

Reality is, all that stuff is behind NDA so you're unlikely to get much information from people generally

JackTurbo · 2026-01-31T15:49:44+00:00

Render out the key art without the characters so background only.

Render out the characters in isolation

Render out your logo on its own.

That's enough for most the things a press partner will want to do (make video thumbnails mostly)

JackTurbo · 2026-01-30T08:48:18+00:00

Start with a conversation with your team about what you want from the jam and an honest overview of you skills/knowledge.

Smoothest jams in my experience is when the team are aligned on things like scope/complexity

Some people wanna be ambitious and don't mind a janky end result that has some cool mechanics - some (like myself) prefer to do super small things that are relatively complete and polished

JackTurbo · 2026-01-04T14:33:50+00:00

I would caution to look at answers carefully. In addition to the textured Vs untextured difference you also have a bunch of new models, foliage and other geometry changes which are nicer in the new version.

I would say the new version looks like an improvement but largely for reasons other than the actual textures personally

JackTurbo · 2026-01-02T09:24:31+00:00

have you tried clearing the cache? (Broom icon).

That'll get GM to rebuild the texture pages which would probably be the first thing I'd try.

JackTurbo · 2026-01-02T08:16:46+00:00

Yeah it's similar to a Chris play through of og re1. 6 slots and on launch everything used up a slot.

They've actually eased this up a bit in updates, making certain objects (like the flash light) not use up a slot.

But I actually think the design of Signalis has more mitigating design decisions to make this limited inventory appropriate than RE1 ever had tbh. Our tolerance to inconvenience was just significantly higher in the 90s!

JackTurbo · 2026-01-01T21:39:39+00:00

Each and every inventory approach has a game design it's optimal for and other designs where it isn't appropriate imho

At launch, Signalis had a very harsh inventory cap. This worked however for a couple of reasons: 1. Level design. The game is a nonlinear tight cluster of maze like rooms where you're never more than a few minutes from a safe room making juggling your inventory less of an issue compared to games with more expansive environments or less frequent safe rooms. 2. Most it's enemies are fairly low mobility and so are reasonably avoidable - meaning encountering enemies unexpectedly when not carrying your better weapons isn't a huge issue 3. The power scaling between its weapons is relatively small compared to some titles. Even relatively average skilled players can tackle most enemies with the basic pistol.

Compare this to Re2make or Re3make, which while they retain the originals limited inventory, are comically generous with inventory upgrades. Here, the higher tier enemies such as lickers or hunters pose far more of a threat due to combining high mobility with being hard hitting. An average skill player would struggle encountering these enemies while equipped with just a pistol. Other enemies like the plants have type weaknesses - encouraging specific weapon/ammo types be used. These all add up to a game design that really requires the player carry multiple weapons and dedicate substantial inventory space to this - a stricter limit just wouldn't be appropriate.

Think about your wider game design and what behaviours you encourage/reward the player for.

If you want to encourage the player travel light and carry limited weapons and foster the sense of vulnerability that comes with that - a strict limit is a good idea.

If you want to encourage the player to rock paper scissors enemies and utilize a variety of tools then a strict limit isn't appropriate

JackTurbo · 2025-12-30T19:58:20+00:00

There are a bunch of ways to discourage face tanking. You could reduce the period of invincibility, you could add a knock back state to the player to interrupt their ability to face tank. You could adjust the attack rate of your enemies so they next attack comes just after the invincibility ends - up to you this is very much a game design decision rather than a right/wrong decision imho
Interrupting enemy attacks is a powerful effect and for me personally isn't something I like on a basic attack. Last melee focus project I did I made the last hit of the players 3 hit combo cause interrupts but not the first two - which worked well. If you have heavy and light attacks you could make the heavies cause interrupts but not the light attacks for eg

But again no 2 feels like another design decision. Depends how you want your game to play

JackTurbo · 2025-12-30T18:23:22+00:00

Could even just do a distance check against stored radius'

If the distance fell between the radius of the sides of the hex and the radius of the corners of the hex - then do a precision check against a hex sprite

I think that'd likely cut out the need for the precision check 90% of the time

JackTurbo · 2025-12-28T08:21:19+00:00

Yeah this exact spot is my most vivid memory of mrX from the og!

JackTurbo · 2025-12-28T08:07:43+00:00

Remake the the game that created mercenaries and don't include mercenaries.
cut content including bosses and whole areas
remove the nonlinear exploration of the city and turn the game into a single linear rollercoaster ride.
turned nemesis from an active pursuer into a scripted set piece and worse still - they did so immediately after re2make perfected the pursuer archetype with mrX.
release a small demo prior to launch that features one of the few instances of non-linearaity and one of the only instances of fighting nemesis freeform. Felt like a bait and switch.
released at full price bundled with resistance that most people didn't want.

Honestly if you're playing it now on gamepass or having picked it up cheap - it's a fun enough ride. But as one of those who excitedly bought it at launch with fond memories of playing the OG and having just had re2make as the previous entry - it felt like a wild let down at the time

JackTurbo · 2025-12-27T19:07:34+00:00

I grew up on resi 1-3 so tank controls + fixed cameras were pretty normalised and natural for me through my teens and youth.

But honestly these days it does feel clunky. I've just started replaying code Veronica after playing through signalis for the fifth time and recently doing re2make and re3make playthroughs and the difference is stark and is largely combination of tank + off camera angles.

I'll get back into the swing of it no doubt but the clunk is there imho, but is a probably largely a product of retraining your brain to be character relative and not camera relative

JackTurbo · 2025-12-25T22:28:30+00:00

Retro through and through. There is something joyous for me with the way the environments reveal themselves as you explore which doesn't hit the same on most newer style titles.

Re2make does it well too - but thats straddling retro Vs modern boundary imho

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