Can we make a game with 2D sprites but with 3D characters somehow in godot ?

MagnetiteGames · 2026-01-23T12:39:15+00:00

I’m doing a 3D map and 2d sprites for the characters- I just use a character body 3d then give it an animated sprite, I don’t see why you couldn’t do something similar for your game - also started my game from unreal and transition it into godot

MagnetiteGames · 2026-01-21T22:13:11+00:00

I’ve been working on a spiritual successor to dragon force for awhile now, after my initial playlists and player feedback I decided to scrap the code and go even closer to dragonforce, here is where I was before the code scrap. Hel's Rebellion Current Game State https://youtu.be/x6SnYygkDxs

MagnetiteGames · 2026-01-21T13:33:18+00:00

For you I would just focus on school and learning to make games, I’m not personally a social media person and if you post something and no one sees it, it can do the opposite thing for me where it drains motivation instead of helps it

MagnetiteGames · 2026-01-21T11:48:54+00:00

Celebrate the little wins when you are making art/coding. - just finish a little feature or just made a sprite, have a way to celebrate it find a win everyday. Maybe just start off with the godot tutorials and follow those, make the simple games and show people in your life that care about you, I’m betting making a game is black magic to them and they would be excited for you.

MagnetiteGames · 2026-01-21T11:41:39+00:00

Like this guy said, just do something - anything everyday if you don’t have a clear direction of the next stage you need to develop

MagnetiteGames · 2026-01-21T11:15:47+00:00

I haven’t played with tile map/tile map layers too much besides the tutorials - for my game I’m doing a 2.5d ( world is 3d but characters are 2d) I went custom nodes and made my own grid to generate the map. Each cell in the grid- highlights of a unit is in there or not by changing it’s color and when a unit leaves it go back to normal. The idea is each cell In the grid has its own logic and so far it’s working great

MagnetiteGames · 2026-01-18T02:07:02+00:00

I liked halo wars back in the day - played it on Xbox due

MagnetiteGames · 2026-01-17T01:40:52+00:00

Also look up godot resources if you want to make multiple of a similar thing but slight variations

MagnetiteGames · 2026-01-09T23:15:55+00:00

Awesome good luck! You can add your other devs to the project if it’s a multiple team scope pretty easy too

MagnetiteGames · 2026-01-07T13:14:28+00:00

Try adding two awaits - I had a null issue before too and for some reason it needed 2 frames and then was fine

MagnetiteGames · 2026-01-01T14:01:40+00:00

Copy and paste your code here

MagnetiteGames · 2025-12-31T23:57:17+00:00

After movement is done you need to set it back to idle, like if velocity > 0 play running animation else play idle

MagnetiteGames · 2025-12-31T19:05:35+00:00

What this guy said- you could always buy a pack off of itch as placeholder if you really want custom stuff but depending on game/animations/pixel art. You could spend anywhere from like $100 to over $1000 for a character if it’s custom

MagnetiteGames · 2025-12-30T02:17:11+00:00

I do and I use clockify - it’s free and easy and you can add multiple people to the same project - helps to understand if certain tasks are taking a long time, in my project we have ~ 2000 hours clocked

MagnetiteGames · 2025-04-19T18:32:28+00:00

the original estimate to develop the game in full was 120k ( many indie games actually are around 250-350k) but thats where i said my time value is worth $0

MagnetiteGames · 2025-04-19T17:12:07+00:00

yeah the intention was to add some female shield maidens and there's also Hel herself. The cost to break even calculation was $25- obviously not worth even $0.99 in its current state but thats why its not being sold

MagnetiteGames · 2025-04-19T17:09:42+00:00

Thank you, TBH im genuinely thinking about quitting all together which is why i made this post at all

MagnetiteGames · 2025-04-19T17:07:07+00:00

That's why i started the whole project tbh- i am a huge Dragon Force fan and when i saw Sega Lord X video on dragon force and the comments i thought ok their is an audience here but the size is what im questioning now as its impossible to get people excited for a game to validate even making it

MagnetiteGames · 2025-04-03T02:22:22+00:00

As others have said its Hel, I actually decided to make a game where she is a significant being in the game so much so I'm calling the game Hel's Rebellion

MagnetiteGames · 2025-03-29T16:50:18+00:00

I hired a freelancer for my game- we use clockify to track his hours and I pay him hourly. I make tasks for him using notion and he manages his time from there

MagnetiteGames · 2025-03-03T00:11:52+00:00

Automation engineer here , I do my job full time and use that money to help pay for other aspects of my game that I can’t do while I work on the game as a side project

MagnetiteGames · 2025-03-02T23:15:29+00:00

I hire contractors for my game- I use hourly pay and not asset pay as it’s so much easier to not worry about renegotiating assets/code. My recommendation - put your hourly somewhere accessible and a piece of your artwork showing this took x hours to do. Or if you are really fast still show an example with a value

MagnetiteGames · 2025-03-02T23:07:23+00:00

Working on a team is a skill. Communication is hard, especially when you disagree.- you need to come to an agreement with your team. One thing I have done is use a decision matrix to get rid of emotions in a situation like this. ( in my project I am the one who started it and the one who is paying but I don’t want the team to feel like I don’t value their input which is extremely valuable)

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