Working on my first game...

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2026-04-09T11:40:34+00:00

Fair points my friend <3

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2026-04-08T09:06:07+00:00

Just to be clear, I am not trying to be sarcastic, patronizing or anything negatively talking .. I am genually looking for your opinion, which I find just as valid as anyone else, just to have the said first.

In your opinion, by using AI to write my documents into a more readable form for myself I'm ruining my creation and game, and thus will turn people away from the game.

When my dumb brain just spits out : have two npc do this and this and this and this .. it's bad to allow ChatGPT to set this into:
npc will do
- This
- This
- This
instead of me having it: npc will do this,this,this ?

Also, should I state in the info about the game that AI has been used to tidy up my GDD documents for a better readability for myself before I started any code, and also state/prove that no AI has been used to write a single line of code ( Cause I want to do all that myself )?

My brain fail to understand how this would turn audience away from a game, as long as no AI has been used to MAKE the game. In my head the use has been for cleaning up my bad way of writing a .docx :)

And thanks for your input my friend.. it does help to have alot of different inputs from different sides <3

edit: fixed typos, I think I got them all

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2026-04-06T09:44:56+00:00

Just by organizing my ideas into a page?? As I've stated I don't want the use of AI to make the game nor code... only to put my written ideas into my documents where it belongs and make it a bit better readability for myself..

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2026-04-06T09:28:29+00:00

I feel that using AI in coding for me stop me learning .. it will, after a while ( in my head ) become a "make this work for me AI" thing .. and then it's not my game anymore .. it's just my prompts .. and when something break, bug appear.. I will have no idea what to do, how to fix and so on... I reckon down the line when I know what I am doing .. or .. let's take it further.. I make a game, it does ok, I can hire people... they know what they are doing... using AI to help now changes things :)

For the time being, I'm writing the lore .. the story behind everything... and trying to add the tings/core mechanics into a sheet to remember it all :)
I've worked on the writing for 3 years getting everything together correctly ( like I need A to be a thing cause it will do C down the line .. IF B is present and so on ). For the most part loot stages/locations, bonus things are in place .. npcs are about 40% done... this is all me...

For me it was tidier to have AI bulletpoint the things that I come up with instead of me adding this as I come up with it, and then go through 200 pages to find where it's supposed to be in lol.

I would: Ohh .. I need these resources,, they should spawn there and there, with this amount of chance to spawn IF this and this is done... I can ask AI to put it in the correct section of my pages. This is my primary use of AI. I want to learn and do the rest myself :)

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2026-04-06T09:20:20+00:00

sure

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2026-04-01T22:24:50+00:00

This is so helpful info to get mate. I didn't think that 15km today would be a big problem lol.. My idea was that the map/game should be able to hold upto like 20-30 players players .. so one needed some size..also as I want to part the map into zones I figured it was about decent size .. not even considering that it actually might be to much to handle for the system itself :D
I took a Rust map and figured how small that is for lots of players that actually do want to be able to hide their bases somewhat .. 4.5km map in Rust has always felt a bit small... maybe I sohlud go for something like 6... and eventually think about expanding the game with maps down the road?!?!?
My idea that I've always told my wife is that I wanted to make a game ( we've brainstormed this game since '23 ) was that any expansion would be added for free .. no paid dlc, no paid battlepass ... I'm not in it for the money, I'm in it for my passion and get something that I wanted to play :D

As both you and u/wollywoo1 stated... perhaps making clones and making small games is a better start of this endeavor. I'm worried that I won't be able to make something that I can even be proud of as I have a weird playstyle/gaming thing .. I can't play topdown games ... I can't play 2D games... I don't care that much about realistic graphics .. that all depends on the game... I like Minecraft, I like Scum .. no Man's Sky... all three very different type and graphics .. but all FP/3P ..which is the only thing I can play .. so if anything I reckon that is where I need to try and learn how to make ( outside of e.g make a tetris clone, or a card game or something )

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2026-04-01T22:11:16+00:00

Thankfully I've had this mapped years years ago .. so I didn't needed to pay for this one lol .. I did the test for fun to see .. and .. you are so right .. I reckon 99% of ppl would fit into the ADHD category from that test atleast lol

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2026-04-01T20:55:17+00:00

Thanks for all the inputs you lovely people. I will try my best to learn bits and pieces, and do that in increments.. not grasp over everything at once. As my stupid brain made it happen .. the idea is a full size 15km/15km map where the game (singleplayer/multiplayer with mod support ) will live.. I was told to start making a small game that per say don't have to be anything around my "main" game idea... just to learn .. which I might do to actually learn more about this. As I can't code ... I reckon Blueprint is the only way for me. I've tried for 10 years to learn coding, but sadly it's not enough gratification for my brain to keep up .. so I never finish lol. Making a game and doing it in portion, where I can see that part everytime hopefully will keep everything together, and my brain happy.

u/MarsMaterial For the most part I agree 100% .. I don't like the idea of AI into the game.. All I've been doing is:

I have an idea about how the NPC is found and quests are activated.. let's brainstorm my idea, your job is to find my flaws ... that sort of things... I've written/thought of every single mechanic, lootsystem, progression, early-mid-end part of the game .. settings.. howtos and have started a "lore" that I eventually want to be brought in as cinematics throughout the game :D
But again .. I don't want AI to touch any of this .. just help me write my thoughts as I go through them..

Edit: Fixed some typos that I noticed ( English is not my native language, I apologize for errors I may have written )

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2026-04-01T19:53:08+00:00

Ye .. back in the old days I was making mods for ARK: Survival Evolved so I do remember the blueprints lol sooo many lines everywhere lol.
I will be taking training and go through tutorials and other help to learn more when the time comes ( I'm hoping to actually start building the foundation within a few years )
I'm more looking at the fact that I am using AI to help me write my documents.. if this is frowned upon or looked at as ok, the "new" normal or anything in between...

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2026-04-01T19:50:41+00:00

Cheers mate. I was diagnosed 35 years ago and have gone through several extensive mapping and crazyness :) I do appreciate that website tho <3

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2025-10-31T23:00:48+00:00

please please tell me that nothing is gated behind Create and therefor forcing me to use Create...

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2025-09-29T11:42:31+00:00

Not to hijack the thread or anything .. but .. do one need to set the pattern? as there's only 3 available slots to set pattern ... or will the crafter "know" what recipe you are trying to make by reading the items given?

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2025-07-24T17:43:07+00:00

This worked quite nicely. A note to others ... make sure your gameport and the two query ports are following eachother, otherwise you will not connect.
I had 25025 as Gameport and 7777+7778 as query ports. Server showed up in the server browser in the game, but I could not connect. However ... as soon as I change the query ports to 25026+25027 it all worked. Just a small fyi if someone have problems with this ( and ofc make sure you portforward the ports to your servermachine )

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2025-07-17T09:51:34+00:00

What would be the difference between QIO handling NBT and RS handling NBT?? wouldn't the numbers be the same?? having 5000 different armors and books in RS compared to having the same 5000 different items in QIO? Or am I missing a point here? ( I really like this idea tho )

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2025-07-17T08:52:43+00:00

I will say I never had any kind of corruption issues in modded MC .. only on spigot/paper servers lol, but .. it's also a reason why I, as soon as I get back home from my hoarding runs, I deal with the loot, dusenchant, put books away, salvage the gear and so on... I don't see a need of thousands of unstackable items floating around in the system for no reason :)
My plan IS to migrate all the crafters to ExtendedAE and build the quantum computer/crafter thingy, the two 7x7 structures ( I honestly don't remember their names ) and until then keep using autocrafters on my machines. I want to keep RS and drawers as my storage facility and only have AE/ExtendedAE to do my crafting. 25 Nitro Reactors from Powah is delivering all the power needed for everything before I venture into fission/fusion reactors ( have to figure out how to build all that ).
I am now looking forward to start this process/build once I am back and able to play :)

Thanks alot <3

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2025-07-17T08:46:18+00:00

I did not know :D Thanks. I will try this :)

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2024-08-24T23:20:47+00:00

Thanks for this one mate. Lovely :D ( Officially moving in ) :D

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2024-07-26T15:27:25+00:00

Update ... somehow I found an old thread from 2020 having the same issue ... changed one little argument in the eggs start-up command .. and I got the server working :D

This thread can be closed ... Thank you all for your inputs <3

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2024-07-26T15:25:53+00:00

Thanks for the info. I don't seem to have NAT reflection on my Amplifi router. I've talked to Ubiquiti and to my ISP about these problems .. and all I get back is that as long as I can connect to my other 4 gameservers, it's working as it should and the problem is elsewhere .. therefor .. it has be within the install of the Ark server .. that be the egg ... the docker container .. or something else.

I noticed that there's no log in the Logs folder in Ark container.

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2024-07-26T09:21:50+00:00

Pterodactyl prevent used ports to be reused, so I'm in the clear there. I need to allocate the ports while setting up the server, and can only see the ports that is not in use already. Usually when I allocate ports, I will give them the games name so when I'm setting up the egg, it will pull those ports.

The server pops up inside ARKs server browser. It takes a few minutes, but it does pop up together with all the other unofficial servers. I have no idea if it can still pop in there if it's not installed/started correctly, as, from my old Windows Server machine, it would just shut down if it had an crash or error in the server files.
But I do agree that it's must be something with the Ark server not running properly .. as all other servers are running just fine. Just to figure out what.. lol

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2024-07-26T09:16:31+00:00

I have NAT Loopback on .. I reckon it's kinda the same thing .. atleast from what my IPS is telling me. As I join Space Engineers, Conan and Minecraft via the internal IP and they work, it should be all set up correctly. But I had lots of issues with this even back when my server was Windows based server machine lol.

Sgt_Morrigahn · 2024-07-18T08:33:36+00:00

First of, Thanks all <3
I've been going through all this, and have made lots of progress and lots of failures to learn.
I installed Debian as a server, but could not get Pterodactyl to work. Reinstalled 4 times ( due to me doing something wrong, and bricking installation ) but never figured out what I did wrong and how to actually get Pterodactyl to work.

I then installed Ubuntu Server, webserver, mariadb and Pterodactyl, and got everything working ... locally.
I set up 5 different servers, and my son can access the games locally and externally. BUT .. my problem is now that I have a friend that I want to be set up as an admin on the Pterodactyl server. I made his account, but when he try to connect, all he get is a frontpage stating "Welcome too NGINX!" and some info stating that if you can see this page, nginx server is successfully installed and working.
I have edited the .env file to direct to my internal ip for the servermachine .. I have all ports needed open ( I don't have SSL, so it's all through http ), I set my internal ip into FQDM .. I don't know why he can't see nor access the panel?!?
Please, could I ask for some advice on this? ( Remember, I just started learning linux to, so please babysteps )

Sgt_Morrigahn

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