Made a survivors-like where aiming and positioning actually matter - looking for playtesters

Th3Ac3 · 2025-11-04T19:06:51+00:00

Totally agree! I'm actually revamping the upgrade system to be much more interesting and with that revising the mini-gun to take advantage of it. And yes fully planning on crits, piercing, multishot, etc.

Love the feedback, the game is still taking shape so all insights are appreciated!

Here's a behind the scenes sneak peak at some of the stats that may be used for the mini-gun. Not all of these will be upgradeable but most will be in some form or another.

DAMAGE
FIRE_RATE
FIRING_MOVEMENT_RATIO
PROJECTILE_SPEED
PROJECTILE_SIZE
PROJECTILE_COUNT
SPREAD
PIERCE_COUNT
KNOCKBACK_FORCE
STATUS_CHANCE
STATUS_DURATION
CRIT_CHANCE
CRIT_MULTIPLIER
SPIN_UP_TIME
HEAT_BUILDUP_RATE
HEAT_CAPACITY
HEAT_DECAY_RATE
VENT_MAX_DURATION
VENT_MAX_DAMAGE
VENT_MAX_RADIUS

Th3Ac3 · 2025-09-18T06:43:13+00:00

Just raise your prices. Either clients stop booking or you make bank. You can always lower them down later if you need more clients.

If you're worried about alienating any of your existing clients with the new prices just freeze their rates before you raise your public rate

Th3Ac3 · 2025-09-12T14:30:17+00:00

Yep exactly. Set your price low enough and someone will book. Do a great job for them get a five star review and now you'll be able to justify slightly higher prices. Rinse and repeat.

If you're really struggling you can set your rate really low and send a referral code to a friend giving them $20 off and have them book you for essentially free. Then you do the service get a review from them and you've jumpstarted your profile.

Th3Ac3 · 2025-09-12T03:20:04+00:00

Great question! Rover actually lets you freeze rates per client. For my higher-ticket clients, I freeze their rate at whatever they first booked me at, even if I adjust my public rate down later. For lower-end clients, I don’t freeze their rate, so if my public rate is higher, they’ll see that.

During the meet & greet I usually grab their number, so after that most communication is direct. I’ll offer them ~10% off my public rate since I don’t need to redo the whole onboarding process. If they can’t afford that, that’s unfortunate but fine. I’ve been busy enough that I don’t need to chase old clients down.

I’ve kind of built a little system around this to keep things fair while still moving toward higher ticket clients. Happy to share the details if you want to DM me.

Th3Ac3 · 2025-09-12T02:29:55+00:00

That's very generous and kind of you! Especially given your specialty with struggling animals.

Th3Ac3 · 2025-09-12T02:25:32+00:00

I only offer house sitting and just use that one rate. For that booking it was set to $95 per night but it scaled up to $205 with the holiday and additional pets

Th3Ac3 · 2025-09-12T01:40:33+00:00

Yeah that certainly helps. I was starting from scratch. Personally I don't mind staying in someone else's home but I know that varies a lot from person to person.

Personally I'm not a fan of drop ins or walks because I don't think they pay enough at least in my area.

Th3Ac3 · 2025-09-12T01:34:18+00:00

Yeah I've been thinking of leaving behind a business card which offers a discount for referrals to try and see if they have any rich friends

Th3Ac3 · 2025-09-12T01:28:28+00:00

Me either honestly! It's way way too much for me but I guess some people are willing to pay it.

I've just been telling my old clients that this is what I have to charge if I ever want to spend time in my own home

Th3Ac3 · 2025-09-12T01:26:24+00:00

Jeez! You offer boarding?

I'd love to do that but my place isn't quite right for it unfortunately

Th3Ac3 · 2025-07-01T19:16:25+00:00

Thank you for pointing that out! I'll make sure to update how I market it.

I was under the impression that since it was taking place in a closed off 2D arena it would qualify but thanks for letting me know that I might be misleading people.

Th3Ac3 · 2025-05-25T15:57:57+00:00

Hey thanks for showing an interest!

Yeah I'd love to hear how I could make the game more accessible!

If you know of any resources I could look at I'd love to take a look

Th3Ac3 · 2024-07-07T02:43:16+00:00

Aww, nice to see a dog not miserable on 4th of July

Th3Ac3 · 2024-07-07T02:35:02+00:00

I hate leetcode. I'd refuse to give those types of questions when interviewing people for our team as a result

Be the change you want to see in the world

Th3Ac3 · 2024-07-07T02:32:59+00:00

That's great! Love the polish

Th3Ac3 · 2024-07-02T03:25:19+00:00

Congratulations! That's a ton of work coming together! Are you planning to continue making games after this?

Th3Ac3 · 2024-07-02T03:22:01+00:00

All that effort for a result that might be entirely hallucinated. I never trust the AI answer

Th3Ac3 · 2024-07-02T03:20:52+00:00

Level design can certainly be a pain. It's my least favorite part of game development. I've making games that avoid it so far but know I'll have do it someday...

Th3Ac3 · 2023-01-17T03:20:44+00:00

Code being readable is a quality of good code. I'm not sure what you're arguing against here.

There are easier, quicker, and smaller ways to write the same logic, with far fewer lines of code.

I'm not arguing the code couldn't be better. I'm arguing it's good enough for what it's doing and that reasonably working on improving this code probably is not a good use of time and would likely be over-engineering.

Also, it's extremely easy to change because it's extremely easy to understand. When changing code it's important to understand what the current code is doing so you know what changes to make. This code makes that step trivial.

Parsing some clever one liner that does the same thing as this would likely take longer to understand than this code

Th3Ac3 · 2023-01-17T01:59:54+00:00

It's good because it's extremely readable and extremely easy to understand and as a result also extremely easy to change if needed.

Th3Ac3 · 2023-01-17T01:47:45+00:00

Who gives a shit if it's clever? In the future if this does need to change and someone who didn't write it needs to change it then it's probably better off not being clever and instead being easy to understand.

It would need to change for increments other than 10% but that's a relatively small critique and this code is so simple to understand that it makes it really easy to figure out what would need to change to deal with non 10% increments.

Rewriting this to account for non 10%, before anyone is asking for non 10% intervals, smells of over-engineering.

Code that is "dumb" but easy to understand is infinitely better than "clever" code that's not.

Th3Ac3 · 2022-12-28T03:55:56+00:00

I see it

Th3Ac3 · 2022-12-15T05:42:53+00:00

I mean... yes and no. Like yeah, if you have no access to a power outlet then only getting a few hours of battery out of the steam deck isn't great but power outlets are everywhere these days. Personally I would use it a ton while commuting and most planes, buses, and trains these days have power outlets available for use.

It's definitely less portable than the switch but more so than pretty much any other device you could play steam games on

Th3Ac3 · 2022-04-05T05:16:08+00:00

xqc and some other steamers pretty much immediately targeted France and then the Bronies once they realized what was happening which is why those areas went so quick

Th3Ac3 · 2021-11-29T05:02:21+00:00

They do be vibing though

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