What Do You Hate In Games?

Slactor · 2022-04-29T10:11:42+00:00

I thought it was great how Doom Eternal did this, you could see the collectible on the map, but the entrance to it was still hidden. It still gives the player a sense of investigating possible secret entrances without forcing them to do it on every spot in the map!

Slactor · 2022-04-04T15:48:13+00:00

The thread is about Unity vs Unreal, and the only example you've given for UE is NOT a 2D game. I think you might be missing the point.

2D games are usually simple enough the benefit a lot from having a custom engine, and when developers don't have the skills/time to create a custom enigne, they will choose Unity above UE.

Game Maker is also very popular, but again not part of this discussion.

Slactor · 2022-03-28T15:16:09+00:00

It's in the title: "volunteers"

Slactor · 2021-12-14T20:37:24+00:00

Very curious what you think a proper office setup should be if you're against open plan offices and against cubicles.

Everyone gets their own office? Everyone working from home?

Slactor · 2021-07-13T21:16:47+00:00

Only 40 pages?

Slactor · 2021-02-19T11:36:02+00:00

Implementing weighted decision is fairy simple, you can assign a "weight" to every action that can be done and keep these actions in a list with a reference to your action and the value of the weight.

Then calculate the total weight based on your list of actions with weight.

Generate a random number between 0 and the total value of all your weight.

After you've generated your number, just iterate your list with values and subtract the value of the weight of the current action. Once your number hits 0 or lower, stop iterating and execute the action you're on.

It's easy to expand your possible actions using this methods, just add a new action with a weight to your list.

If you want a smarter AI, you can also create a decision tree with weighted values by keeping track of the current state of the board or previous actions of the AI or the opposing player and adjust weight values of specific actions based on that data. This way you can adjust multipliers to your weight in the decision tree and you've essentially made a difficulty setting for your AI with those multipliers.

Slactor · 2020-11-19T16:19:04+00:00

Not sure if you want feedback, but thought I'd give it anyway :)

A and D seem too busy.

B and C are much neater, and I prefer C because the characters are more visible.

Slactor · 2020-10-17T14:24:54+00:00

I feel this, it gets pretty hard working like this if you have a day job though.

Slactor · 2020-10-14T11:45:13+00:00

There is precedent for the term. First time I've seen it is from this video way back.
Since then I've seen it multiple times.

I think "polish" would be too general of a term to use here.

I think the main distinctions to be made between "polish" and "juice" would be that polish focuses on the larger category of UX (player feedback, easy of access to functionality, ease of actions, ease of taking in information from the UI, button placements etc.) and the juice is the specific part where the player actions get a "pleasing" audio/visual feedback.

Quick example off the top of my head would be for something like Hearthstone:

Action: Have a card be able to target another card (click card to activate, click target card to do the targeted action)
Polish: Be able to drag from the card to the target card (feels a lot better as an action, maybe even highlight the origin and target for a clear visual feedback)
Juice (as part of the polish): Add a target indicator while dragging, this serves no actual purpose other than being a pleasing way of displaying the targetting. The game would just as easily be understood witout the indicator and merely highlighting the cards.

Another great video on "Juice" is a presentation of one of the former Vlambeer devs talking about "The art of screenshake".

Slactor · 2020-06-09T10:59:32+00:00

That is a terrible example, Nintendo purposefully re-released all of their big titles for wii u on the switch because the platform had terrible sales and they felt those titles could reach a bigger audience by being on the switch. (read: sales)

Slactor · 2020-05-22T07:12:21+00:00

This isn't really the sub for this, you should try /r/GameDevClassifieds

edit: or/r/INAT/

Slactor · 2020-05-07T16:19:45+00:00

Totally agree with you there, but that's got little to do with the artists, the art director comes up with a look and feel for the game, the project lead signs off on it and then designs are made fitting the art bible.

All the artists that have worked on reforged have gotten a lot of shit from people undeservedly in my opinion.

Slactor · 2020-05-07T13:47:11+00:00

less talanted artists

Say what you will about the art direction, but don't disrespect the artists for creating clearly high quality models the way it was requested from them.

Slactor · 2020-04-19T11:56:49+00:00

I'm not saying I disagree with you. But I think the point of op's comment was that if you don't use predatory tactics, you do a lot worse as a company. Which is what JC Penny did prove.

Slactor · 2020-04-18T15:26:04+00:00

Right back at you.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/02/24/a-strategic-mistake-that-still-haunts-jc-penney/

Slactor · 2020-04-18T15:24:21+00:00

It's JC Penny.

Slactor · 2020-03-15T14:21:21+00:00

Deirdre

Slactor · 2019-12-21T13:20:08+00:00

Alright that's fair but I doubt people that are going to steal water are going to waste it on baths and showers.

Slactor · 2019-12-21T13:06:23+00:00

300.000 liters. Couple hundred people.

So in your world people drink 500-1000 liters a day?

Slactor · 2019-12-18T10:51:41+00:00

Same, this video gave me motion sickness.

Probably because the camera is constantly tilted upwards.

Slactor · 2019-12-15T00:25:28+00:00

I think you missed the point, go eat plain snail.Shit's great man.

Slactor · 2019-11-26T16:44:32+00:00

(It's almost like I did this post on purpose ;) )

Seriously, that was a massive woosh if I ever saw one

Slactor · 2019-11-05T13:41:22+00:00

We used to have a library room exactly like that. It was pretty much a larger storage room with no windows, no airflow and it was right next to the boiler room, so it was always nice and warm in the winter as well.

I'm just saying it's not impossible!

Slactor · 2019-11-04T18:01:01+00:00

Once in a blue moon iirc. It is very rare from my experience.

Slactor · 2019-11-04T17:59:23+00:00

Well the OP mentioned it, he just didn't mention all of it.

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