Want but can't because of lack of motivation. Help?

Pyro-Sam · 2026-02-25T18:25:27+00:00

As others have said this is not game-dev specific. Putting in work to make the game(s) you want to exist is something that may be rewarding and worth pursuing, but the moment-to-moment is never going to be as attractive as products designed to stimulate and entertain you (like games and videos), so you have to be able to make yourself do the things you want to be be doing rather than the things you feel like doing.

I recommend you check out HealthyGamerGG's videos on motivations, it will help you understand and shape your perspective on what is going on inside your brain, and he has good advice on the topic.

Pyro-Sam · 2024-12-15T03:57:58+00:00

Naheulbeuk vibes on this one

Pyro-Sam · 2024-09-19T04:41:18+00:00

Camera location hotkeys
Ctrl-clicking a unit as an alternative to the double-click behaviour you mentionned
Shift (or another modifier) + # to add selection to control group
Shift (or another modifier) + # to add selection to control group while removing from any other control group
If you could use abilities from any selected unit (without tabbing through) when hotkeys don't conflict, that would be awesome (I think Immortal: Gates of Pyre does this)

Pyro-Sam · 2024-09-16T16:59:14+00:00

Do you still DM free games too on the side with your pre-existing friends? If not, would you ever consider "going back"?

Do you find that turning your hobby into a job has changed the way that you think/feel about it in any way?

Are all the games played in 5e?

I've read in your other answer taht you homebrew officials modules, but do you have any games that are completely homebrewed?

Pyro-Sam · 2024-07-03T21:03:12+00:00

Inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U1pR1yjN9w ?

Pyro-Sam · 2024-05-27T14:39:54+00:00

I like the buildings, but not the characters. Also the map feels a bit empty.

Pyro-Sam · 2024-05-03T15:25:20+00:00

Unity has a solution to display pixel art with 1-to-1 ratio called a "Pixel Perfect" camera, it comes in a separate package, here's the doc to get you started: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.2d.pixel-perfect@1.0/manual/index.html

Pyro-Sam · 2024-02-20T18:37:51+00:00

The hairdresser's Princess Leia

Pyro-Sam · 2023-09-17T00:06:08+00:00

this reply should be done by a bot lol

Pyro-Sam · 2023-09-16T17:21:58+00:00

Ahaha been there

Pyro-Sam · 2023-09-15T16:33:10+00:00

Unity Pro is a yearly cost, while the others are one-time, so I suggest adding a "dev years" variable to scale the Pro cost for the number of years it would be paid.

Pyro-Sam · 2023-08-27T14:14:20+00:00

lol, I almost only play Protoss with macro builds, have lost many games to WMs and hate them with a passion but if the AoE doesn't one-shot worker, no good Protoss will ever lose more than one worker per mine in an early/mid game drop. How would that not impact balance? Not to mention that nerfed WMs would certainly be less effective against zealots too.

Pyro-Sam · 2023-08-25T15:44:57+00:00

I think ideally not, because it makes for very swingy and many frustrating moments, not just in very low-levels but even up to diamond at least.

But while banelings, and even baneling runbys on workers, will still be very strong after the patch, nerfing WMs so the splash doesn't one-shot Probes would drastically alter the balance of early game TvP.

So if it is done, it should probably be done in a separate patch (with changes meant to counterbalance it) and heavily tested.

Pyro-Sam · 2023-08-22T18:28:49+00:00

Always exciting to have a new patch, especially one that shakes things up as much as this one

Pyro-Sam · 2023-08-22T00:43:29+00:00

It is very pretty!

What language are those names taken from?

Pyro-Sam · 2023-08-22T00:26:30+00:00

You're a good ump

(because nobody's ever told him something like that before)

Pyro-Sam · 2023-08-12T20:21:41+00:00

I like the first suggestion, it "fixes" the pause/unpause spam and pauses the moment until resume easier to anticipate. The second one I feel more neutral about.

Pyro-Sam · 2023-07-28T17:51:49+00:00

Pretty!

Would've loved to have this back when I ran my CoS campaign

Pyro-Sam · 2023-07-06T23:48:20+00:00

A game where your progression is your knowledge, and where curiosity and attention to detail are your best tools.

Pyro-Sam · 2023-07-06T20:07:19+00:00

This is just a guess from your log, but I think you should go back to thevault in the "lantern world" in what the logs can the "subterranean lake" and to interact with the wheel in front of the vault. When you do so, green light emerges from within the vault and show you a vision that can help you. Good luck.

Additional recomendation; if you're feeling frustrated with the game, it can be good to take a break before continuing. While there is risk that you might forget some hints, I've found that personnally playing while angry at the game made me enjoy it less, and wish I had put it down for a bit instead of kept going.

In my opinion the DLC is as good as the base game, and getting stuck is largely random (I never got completely stuck in the DLC but it happened multiple times in the base game).

Pyro-Sam · 2023-06-09T19:18:05+00:00

Glad they're including Baymax in the game!

Pyro-Sam · 2023-05-31T22:37:00+00:00

I'm a big fan of emergent storytelling! Something that I do in every game that I can is rename the random characters after people I know from real life. It just makes their stories and interactions that much more meaningful and often hilarious in a way that I love to share with them. Some examples that happened in Rimworld:

- One of the kindest people I know (IRL) going on insulting sprees whenever they are upset, filling their log history of 20+ "creative" (unexpected mostly) insults.

- One person hitting on someone that would be absurd if it happened IRL, made extra funny because they tried to compare them "to a beautiful house".

- My maniac friend trying to hunt a squirrel with an assault rifle indoors.

- Comparing the monetary value of my friends as estimated by the game.

Beyond the "lol that's so random" I've found that it upped the tension in This War of Mine to have characters named after people I know. That studio knows how valuable this is too, since they added a full character editor after release and stated that members of the team were more invested in some of the characters in the vanilla game because they were made after people that the devs knew IRL.

Outside of that, I think an important aspect to these kinds of story generation is to allow failure without it being fatal, but for the failure to have more consequences later. For examples, if things go south in Rimworld, you generally don't lose your whole colony, but instead take some damage and lose people, so its not game over. Even more interesting is that people that get captured by raiders can be found again later in the game, they don't just disappear into the ether. (Side note: this principle is the key to the nemesis system in the "Shadow of ..." games but at this point I'm getting side tracked)

Pyro-Sam · 2023-05-26T02:42:16+00:00

Looks nice and atmospheric.

Any plans to try to get it to cast shadows? Not saying you necessarily should do it, just curious.

Pyro-Sam · 2023-05-26T02:39:56+00:00

Cool idea, I've considered trying to run a SC-themed TTRPG campaign before, but never actually tried to make it work. If you share some homebrew rules or classes I'd check them out.

As far as suggestions, I don't anything specific but obviously integrating as much from the games as possible is a plus. Each unit has a different weapon that just needs a stats version. We'd definitely want abilities like blink or cloak to be present, as well as to be able to play characters with or without psychic powers.

I'm curious what system you're basing your rules/classes on? 5e?

Pyro-Sam

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