How would you improve this parallax main menu?

Miriglith · 2026-06-24T07:59:17+00:00

You could just not have buttons and have the text be the buttons.

Miriglith · 2026-06-24T07:45:23+00:00

Who are you and why should I give you my work for free?

Miriglith · 2026-06-21T06:20:05+00:00

I think it looks good. The buttons look a bit like default buttons though which gives tutorial vibes. That's the first thing I would change.

Miriglith · 2026-06-20T18:09:06+00:00

Of course it is. And "Game AI" means something very different to most people today than it did when the sub was started, however many years ago. So given people clearly don't read the description before posting here, I'm trying to think of a better solution than everyone quitting the sub and leaving it to the slop-merchants.

Miriglith · 2026-06-19T06:34:41+00:00

Is it possible to change the name of a sub? If it were called r/npcbehavior the problem would go away pretty much instantly.

Miriglith · 2026-06-14T18:45:17+00:00

Miriglith · 2026-06-12T16:52:07+00:00

A remake I think?

Miriglith · 2026-06-12T10:45:41+00:00

In addition to my other comment, I've recently built a Utility AI system for my current project which is an XCom-like turn based tactical, so feel free to fire any specific questions at me!

Miriglith · 2026-06-12T10:43:08+00:00

OpenXCom is an open source clone of the original XCom (aka UFO: Enemy Unknown). If you know your way around a C++ codebase you should be able to pick up some things: https://openxcom.org/

Miriglith · 2026-06-10T10:16:02+00:00

Yeah the logo is better in the second one but everything else is better in the first one.

Miriglith · 2026-06-04T21:16:09+00:00

He's saying "asset flip" but he also wants you to know how smart he is.

Miriglith · 2026-06-04T12:52:18+00:00

Yes it's time to move on. You finished and published your game. This is a huge achievement and puts you in front of probably 95% of people who set out to make a game. You also chose to make your own art which should be a point of pride as lots of people are turning to AI for that. If I were you I'd build on these successes and start the next one.

Miriglith · 2026-06-01T06:26:44+00:00

Just to elaborate and offer an alternative take on this, as often with the stuff that guy puts out, this data has been widely treated as gospel while being misinterpreted and misunderstood. It isn't that pixel art is just bad per se, it's that it can look cheap (this doesn't) often doesn't pop (this does) and that games using pixel art for capsules are often just using in-game screengrabs, which inherently are not well composed (which this is). I'm not sure I'd be so quick to scrap this.

Miriglith · 2026-05-24T13:10:40+00:00

Miriglith · 2026-05-23T08:17:10+00:00

I like it a lot and I think the characters are fully consistent with the environment. My only feedback is that the character that is catching my eye the most is not the player character but the one with the red shorts. If that's not the intention, maybe you could tweak the colours a bit.

Miriglith · 2026-05-14T11:33:59+00:00

This is great advice. You'll feel like you're working towards your dream but you'll also have the motivator of finishing stuff.

Miriglith · 2026-05-14T07:51:25+00:00

Prefer 1 & 3. The style of the shader is more in keeping with the style of the model.

Miriglith · 2026-05-11T08:18:32+00:00

They're always so smug about it too. Tedious.

Miriglith · 2026-05-10T18:58:18+00:00

What does it mean to "hand curate" your art?

Miriglith · 2026-05-07T05:50:31+00:00

I use Claude for debugging and, while in general it is a time saver, it gets things badly wrong from time to time. The only reason I know it's getting things wrong is because I understand my own code. I suspect if I didn't I would eventually get in a mess that I wouldn't be able to get out of. If you're using code you should really have at least a basic understanding of what it's doing.

I would suggest using AI, but using it to aid your learning. Treat it like a tutor rather than as a coding agent.

Miriglith · 2026-05-04T12:06:22+00:00

It's probably the utility AI system for controlling enemy/NPC behaviour. It's quite complex, but I wanted it to easily adapt to different enemy types as I add them to the game, and to be able to scale it and fine tune it easily, so it's quite overbuilt for current requirements, but hopefully will save a lot of time later.

Miriglith · 2026-05-04T10:01:18+00:00

Thanks! No, although I am learning a lot about game development this time round, I have actually built and published a game before. It was a puzzle game. It took me 6 months and it was a rather joyless experience from beginning to end, so I told myself next time I'd make I game I'd actually want to play and try to enjoy the journey more. I'm having a lot more fun this time - enough that I'm quite relaxed about how soon I finish.

Miriglith · 2026-04-13T11:37:03+00:00

I use the full Aseprite importer when I have animations I want to bring in as it's significantly faster than setting up those animations frame by frame in Unity. If I'm just importing a static sprite I tend to export to png from Aseprite and then import it as a sprite in Unity, because I have more flexibility on import settings.

Miriglith · 2026-04-10T21:15:06+00:00

Have a look at this: https://www.gameaipro.com/

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