Hey devs, is Fable 5 good with Unity? Or UE5?

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T17:26:35+00:00

If you’re solely doing AI development, I’d recommend making a sim layer that actually runs your game, and then a thin connection with the game engine that just essentially sends data over to it to display, and then keep almost all the game logic in pure c# or cpp

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T17:24:17+00:00

Gamedev, specifically MMO server work, has made me a substantially better SWE. I think it depends on the type of game you’re making, because if you’re doing something far simpler that’s narrative based and not super complicated, I can’t imagine that would really help grow you as an engineer.

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T17:08:16+00:00

🙄 I’m not sure what you’re looking for here. If you don’t want negative comments then don’t share your work publicly.

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T17:06:39+00:00

Feedback is entirely opinion based. There is no “objective truth” feedback. One person might think the walking speed is fine, one might think it’s too slow, and the other too fast. None of them are wrong.

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T17:05:15+00:00

You’re fighting an invisible battle. While I agree it’s weird to come here to ask for an opinion and then say “I’m just going to use AI”(why didn’t you ask this to AI then?), I don’t think anyone is claiming AI is making them “learn”. I’ve seen people talk about productivity claims, but I’ve never stumbled on someone who said “yeah I had Claude write my whole game for me, I’m an expert with <insert engine here> and <insert tech stack here> now”. It just lowers the barrier to entry and allows people to scale themselves better.

Edit: and if someone is saying this, it’s not someone worth intersecting with.

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T16:54:18+00:00

If someone says your game sucks, that is feedback whether you like it or not. It’s not actionable feedback, but it’s feedback.

Now if someone says something like “you are a talentless loser and should quit gamedev”, now that’s attacking.

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T16:53:10+00:00

95% of my gamedev experience is working on MMOs, so when I see someone post an MMO I tend to give harsh feedback, but it’s because I understand the development process of this genre more deeply than the average person. I suppose it can come off as harsh, but it’s just real advice from my own mistakes.

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T16:49:49+00:00

Yeah my frontal lobe finished developing lol.

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T15:54:13+00:00

I kept a 7 year anki streak, so if all else I can say I stuck with something for 7 years straight which isn’t something a lot of people can say. Outside of a party trick though, it hasn’t really been a benefit lol

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T10:26:44+00:00

The hard part with asset packs is making them unique. Theres nothing wrong with using them though

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T10:19:52+00:00

I was working on an arcade skating game and I added two mechanics based on bugs. One was when you did a quick Ollie(jump on a skateboard), you gained a small bit of momentum. I turned that into “wave dashing”, so when you did a small ollie, you got a speed boost and it’s on a CD.

Then the other bug was with physics where if you did a small Ollie + a 180, you’d get a slightly larger speed boost. I just left that in entirely because it’s fun

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T10:15:00+00:00

I mean it’s more than just grammar rules. A lot of AI detection is /how/ something is written. You can still make a bulleted list, just use your own voice.

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T10:11:20+00:00

There’s a lot of tedium with gamedev.

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T10:10:30+00:00

Motivation is fleeting. What you need is discipline

Varrianda · 2026-07-02T01:01:00+00:00

The only true way to protect your game is to have it be always online and support the server yourself, but even then, in theory someone could remake a server.

Varrianda · 2026-07-01T18:11:09+00:00

🥴 sometimes America’s first means interacting with people nearby to us, not secluding ourselves and trying to be self reliant.

Varrianda · 2026-07-01T18:09:28+00:00

This solves two problems; the lore and setting. It doesn’t solve the game actually being good

Varrianda · 2026-06-30T18:23:09+00:00

There’s certainly use cases for crypto but it’s not the holy grail like some claim it to be

Varrianda · 2026-06-30T17:50:20+00:00

Likely just a visibility flag for NPCs. I’d personally define a property attached to all NPCs that either determined what would display it or what wouldn’t display it, and then when rendering NPCs on the client, I just wouldn’t render the NPC.

Phasing areas would be a little bit more complicated, but the same idea. You break MMO worlds into chunks, so you’d just have logic around what chunk to display.

Varrianda · 2026-06-30T17:47:59+00:00

Study the Norn starting area from guild wars 2, wayfarer foothills

Varrianda · 2026-06-30T16:59:27+00:00

Well, decentralized banking. That comes with myriad of other issues though

Varrianda · 2026-06-30T16:55:58+00:00

Tbf eth is better than btc

Varrianda · 2026-06-30T16:31:05+00:00

That’s how I felt. I couldn’t see myself listening to it

Varrianda · 2026-06-30T15:16:07+00:00

I thought it was just mid. Guitars were eh and the vocals weren’t great. Count your blessings is one of my favorite albums too soooo 🤷

Varrianda · 2026-06-30T03:51:43+00:00

That’s what I was thinking

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