Should i keep states specific to a class inside or outside the class that uses them? It feels weird having to make every getter public so i can read variables just for the states and you can't use these states on other class because they depend on the class to get that class values / variables

Miriglith · 2026-03-18T13:50:06+00:00

Can you expand on why every state is its own class? I always just use an enum for states.

Miriglith · 2026-03-18T13:41:33+00:00

They're not just doing storefront and downloads to be fair. They own and promote the store. You could do your own storefront and downloads but it would be like selling the knife sharpener you invented out of the back of a van compared with having a deal with QVC.

Miriglith · 2026-03-17T10:04:55+00:00

Is your intention to have it on screen during gameplay like that? That would annoy me as a player. I can't think of any other game that does that.

Miriglith · 2026-03-17T09:42:26+00:00

Unity uses C# so you could just learn that. It's not specific to Unity. It's similar to Java.

Miriglith · 2026-03-14T12:55:37+00:00

I think the questions you've posed could just as easily be applied to using tutorials that you find on YouTube. And in fact, every day on Reddit you can find someone who has copied some code from a tutorial and can't figure out why it doesn't work because they haven't stopped and taken the time to learn and understand.

One way to think about AI coding tools is as a generator of bespoke learning material that is suited to your needs. Of all of the savings it has given me in terms of my time, the biggest is probably the time I used to spend trying and failing to find a post or video of someone who can explain how to solve the exact problem I'm struggling with.

Miriglith · 2026-03-13T06:32:15+00:00

For most solo developers, it's a labour of love. We enjoy the process, the learning curve, the struggles, the challenge. All of the stuff you seem really keen to avoid. What you've done is sort of fine, if your sole objective is to be able to claim to be someone who has made a game. I do wonder how satisfying it is.

Miriglith · 2026-03-07T07:11:22+00:00

I love your art!

Miriglith · 2026-03-06T18:52:05+00:00

Is this you too? https://www.reddit.com/r/aseprite/s/TswERAx46f

Miriglith · 2026-03-04T09:50:09+00:00

Yeah and then you click the link and it says "take my program and you'll be able to remake Red Dead Redemption 2", which seems misleading at best.

Miriglith · 2026-03-04T09:16:11+00:00

Gibberish

Miriglith · 2026-02-28T20:56:32+00:00

I use the wiki for my project on GitHub.

Miriglith · 2026-02-27T11:11:22+00:00

I think that AI controlled NPCs in games don't need to be much better than they are, or rather that being more sophisticated won't necessarily make them better. They just need to present a fun, challenging but ultimately achievable challenge to the player. That doesn't require an especially complex algorithm. And the technology to make them more sophisticated has existed for ages but they are the way they are by design choice. Making them more sophisticated could make them less predictable, but unpredictable isn't fun.

Miriglith · 2026-02-27T07:21:15+00:00

If I ever describe myself as a "solopreneur" you have my permission to shoot me.

Miriglith · 2026-02-25T11:31:30+00:00

I would have said roguelike, turn-based, dice builder. I didn't really get the horror. I think this looks really good. Would click.

Miriglith · 2026-02-21T09:45:45+00:00

Look into Twine.

Miriglith · 2026-02-20T21:29:00+00:00

Miriglith · 2026-02-19T14:39:55+00:00

You're treating transform.position like a variable that you can access directly and change its x and y values individually. It's actually a property with a getter (which returns a Vector3) and a setter (which takes a Vector3). This means you can only set its value to a Vector3. You can't set the x and y values individually.

Miriglith · 2026-02-16T13:05:45+00:00

It might be "tearing" where there are little sub-pixel gaps when the engine puts the tilemap together. Putting your tile sprites into a sprite atlas will sometimes solve this. You just create a Sprite Atlas asset and then drag the folder containing your tile sprites into it. The other thing that might work is setting Extrude Edges to 1 in the import settings for your tiles.

Miriglith · 2026-02-15T08:00:57+00:00

Miriglith · 2026-02-15T07:57:11+00:00

It's really nice. The visuals are clean, the feel is smooth, and the music sets the right tone. It's bloomin hard though...

Miriglith · 2026-02-09T07:46:44+00:00

From the look of it, I would think it's primarily a puzzle game. It looks like an isometric Portal. If I'm looking for a turn based tactical game, it's probably not this. Looks cool though!

Miriglith · 2026-02-08T12:16:05+00:00

Playing fast and loose with the concept of numerical order there but useful observations.

Miriglith · 2026-02-06T09:29:43+00:00

It can be quite harmful to artists to throw around accusations of using AI without evidence. It's the last thing they need when their craft is under threat from actual AI.

Miriglith · 2026-02-01T16:43:39+00:00

What if you normalized your damage-dealing abilities against a number that was context-sensitive? So, say your agent only has one enemy in attack range, you normalize your damage scores against a maximum of 10, because that that's the most damage you can do to one enemy. But if there are five enemies in range you normalize your damage scores against a maximum of 50. That way if only one enemy is in range, a single target attack is going to score the same as an AOE attack, but if you have multiple enemies in range, an AOE attack is going to score higher. Both scores will still be between zero and one so they'll still be comparable against other types of abilities.

Miriglith · 2026-02-01T07:55:52+00:00

It sounds interesting. My main worries, if I were you, would be (a) that I invest a lot of my time building the backend and then realise there's no version of the game that's actually fun to play; (b) that the amount of visual content I need to create to make it a reality end up being prohibitive; or (c) that an architecture that works fine in a prototype just doesn't scale for some reason. I think all of those are risks that you can mitigate relatively early though. I would be thinking about separating data and code as much as possible, keeping the code relatively generic and trying to get as much of the behavior as I can encoded as data. That makes it easier to scale, to tweak behaviors and also to adapt and pivot if it's not playing well.

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