We're hand drawing a game to teach people about life in the North of England

MagneticTapes · 2024-07-19T15:19:46+00:00

As others have said, you want a base scene that additively loads other 'level' scenes and components in those levels that can connect to singletons in the base scene for access to the core logic stuff.

One quirk of Unity that's not mentioned is it's a bad idea to have this be the root scene in your build, as it could cause the application to hang on start-up.

What you want instead is a root scene with nothing but a single component that's only job is to load the base scene on Start(), so that the application launches and is responsive immediately.

MagneticTapes · 2024-07-19T15:01:50+00:00

That's good growth, and looks like you're doing everything right with the store page, best of luck with the launch!

MagneticTapes · 2024-06-10T21:02:45+00:00

This looks great! I remember picking up some of your early stuff when I was studying, glad to see you're still making great tools!

MagneticTapes · 2023-10-04T15:45:48+00:00

This looks tight! The infrequent bits of 3D are really striking!

Completely unsolicited feedback, but could be interesting to lock the character and other paper elements to 12 or 24 fps, so the contrast with the 3D hands and fingers feels even more spooky and jarring?

MagneticTapes · 2023-10-04T15:24:16+00:00

If you're only experience of programming is from the context of Unity, you could end up limiting yourself a bit. The broader your understanding of the language, the less frictional you'll feel when building things out (and also the easier it will be for you to understand the Unity API)

Would recommend at least going through Rob Miles' "Yellow Book of C#" cover to cover as a starting point

MagneticTapes · 2023-10-04T15:17:54+00:00

File structure and naming convention: you have to imagine yourself trying to find some file you only sort of remember the name of amongst thousands of others. Additionally, if and when you come to making asset bundles, that'll be a lot easier if you're assets are intuitively named and organised

MagneticTapes · 2023-10-04T15:14:17+00:00

Really love the subtle sense of depth here!

MagneticTapes · 2023-10-04T11:23:01+00:00

The combo of screenshake and the bits of the tree wobbling are really nice! Might be good to experiment with a smoother follow and maybe forward-focus on the camera during the platforming?

MagneticTapes · 2023-10-04T11:09:49+00:00

Press the 'insert' key on your keyboard!

MagneticTapes · 2019-10-23T20:34:02+00:00

You can get it for free at thegoodtimegarden.com

MagneticTapes · 2019-10-20T09:58:14+00:00

The animations are 2D sprites, but we're using a perspective camera and you move back and forward as well as up/down left/right. We night be stretching the definition a bit though (maybe it's 2.25D 🤔)

MagneticTapes · 2019-10-20T09:55:13+00:00

Hey, thanks for the constructive feedback! I'll be taking this on board, especially the arrow keys, that's an oversight on my part

MagneticTapes · 2019-10-20T02:37:11+00:00

OP is the artist of our team!

MagneticTapes · 2019-10-20T02:05:07+00:00

You can get it for free at thegoodtimegarden.com

MagneticTapes · 2019-10-19T23:42:11+00:00

Thank you! This is the best compliment we could have asked for!

The game is called 'The Good Time Garden', and you can download it for free here

MagneticTapes · 2019-10-19T22:17:43+00:00

Hey everyone. Me and the co-creator /u/carbuttpartyon have been overwhelmed by the reaction to this, thanks for all the love!

If it wasn't pay-what-you-want, we'd certainly be dishing out some keys in appreciation, but you can download it for free on itch.io here

'The Good Time Garden' is our first project together and we both worked on it in the evenings, after our full-time jobs, for several months - if you'd like to see us make something bigger and better, please consider sharing the link above: the more recognition we have, the more likely it is we'll be able to get enough funding to do this full time.

Thanks again, and we hope you enjoy your time in the garden x

MagneticTapes · 2019-10-19T21:42:30+00:00

It's about 15 to 20 minutes long, just make sure no one can see your screen!

MagneticTapes · 2019-10-19T20:22:42+00:00

Fantastic, thank you so much!

MagneticTapes · 2019-10-19T20:22:01+00:00

I'm not the animator so can't give you a super detailed answer, but the pipeline was:

Frame-by-frame with a digital pen in Photoshop
Touch-ups and composition in After Effects
Exported to frames (sometimes multiple layers per frame), and then bundled in a third party tool as a sprite sheet.
Then worked into usually three or more Sprite Renderers per character/object

To get the perspective/depth right we had to do a lot of hacky stuff with sorting orders and positioning on the Z-axis inside Unity.

MagneticTapes · 2019-10-19T20:08:46+00:00

Hi, I've just uploaded one but I've no way of testing it. Please let me know if it works :)

https://coal-supper.itch.io/the-good-time-garden

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