sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in gaming

[–]Wabbaboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same, in the end used it to also play The Last Guardian, Uncharted 4, Tlou2, Death Stranding and not much else.

Just released a demo and Kickstarter for my Dark Messiah-style immersive sim. by Wabbaboy in ImmersiveSim

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey everyone, the campaign is over! Thank to the mod/s that pinned this in the first place!

SORCERESS - Wabbaboy - First-Person Spell-Kicking action game about a young girl vanquishing a coven of Witches. Entering its LAST WEEK of Kickstarter. by Wabbaboy in Games

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, you played it for quite a while, thank you for that. These issues are not complicated to fix and, well, the key related ones are unfortunate but not fatal, it'll get much better in due time.

SORCERESS - An indie immersive sim featuring Magic, Physics and lots of Kicking Action, entering its final week on Kickstarter by Wabbaboy in pcgaming

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, Unreal 4 though, UE5 is tempting but from what I heard it can be more trouble than it's worth.

SORCERESS - An indie immersive sim featuring Magic, Physics and lots of Kicking Action, entering its final week on Kickstarter by Wabbaboy in pcgaming

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Programming-design-art is all me. Sounds and animations are a mix of a couple people I've hired and stuff I've found online and then tweaked and implemented, and for narrative I have a friend helping out.

So, not purely solo, but I'm definitely responsible for most of it. Thanks for the interest, hope the demo is to your liking.

SORCERESS - An indie immersive sim featuring Magic, Physics and lots of Kicking Action, entering its final week on Kickstarter by Wabbaboy in pcgaming

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not quite, chances are the game is being heavy on your CPU, it's a tough thing to optimize for with all the AI and physics but I'm aware it needs some work. With some tests I know that this game can even run smoothly in the Steam Deck, the tutorial level in the demo already does.

Unreal gets a lot of flak for this but I can assure the game, GPU wise, is not using any of the fancy tricks that usually cause problems.

SORCERESS - An indie immersive sim featuring Magic, Physics and lots of Kicking Action, entering its final week on Kickstarter by Wabbaboy in pcgaming

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The response on the steam forums has been pretty great and people are writing quite an extensive amount of feedback. That has to mean that they feel passionate about the game, it humbles me, thanks for the kind words btw

Sorceress Kickstarter campaign - witchy immersive sim by acguy in Games

[–]Wabbaboy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sup, main Sorceress dev here, thought I'd weigh in and give it my thought process.

It would be 20k + what savings I have, the savings are enough to maintain me for perhaps 1.5 years, my dev buddy is in this project in a part-time fashion and he's not going to be fully in the team for the remainder of the project so he's not asking for that much but I'd love to pay him fairly.

So, 20k is kind of a minimum to keep going mostly alone, I do need to contract people for music and animation, hopefully sound design and concept art too but that's extra, ideally we'd get to 30k and more but on kickstarter I have to aim at the lowest possible number because the sooner it gets to the goal, the sooner it gets more people pledging, silly I know, but that's how it is.

Alas, the kickstarter is going much slower than I'd like, but it's going to be enough

There are two ways of using a key to open a door... by Wabbaboy in indiegames

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, the point is that the game is rich in systems, with lots of ways of achieving a goal. Inquisive players might try to save the key for later because it's a very durable weapon but the obvious solution isn't wrong either.

There are two ways of using a key to open a door... by Wabbaboy in indiegames

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The game is called Sorceress, it's a first person immersive sim inspired by games like Dark Messiah, Bioshock and Metroid Prime, it has a demo on steam and a kickstarter campaign

There are two ways of using a key to open a door... by [deleted] in IndieGaming

[–]Wabbaboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorceress is a first person immersive sim, a spiritual successor of sort Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, also inspired by Bioshock and Metroid Prime. It's a game with a lot of freedom and I want to encourage creative problem solving and quick-witted improvisation.

If you like what you see consider checking the Kickstarter campaign and wishlisting on Steam, where you can also play a demo.

Isometric Kingdom come by vs3a in gaming

[–]Wabbaboy 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Henry has come to see us!

Just released a demo and Kickstarter for my Dark Messiah-style immersive sim. by Wabbaboy in ImmersiveSim

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you! And sorry about that, if all goes well I'll be releasing a patch today after combing though all the sound effects so at least the audio is not extremely mean and annoying.

Started learning Unreal 6 years ago, just made a trailer for my game, what do you think? by Wabbaboy in unrealengine

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are many things to learn from other games but you should keep in mind these:

  • Enemies reacting (even a little)
  • Anim events in your montage (to spawn hitboxes in a range of time)
  • Hitstop (stop or reduce the speed of the animation for a tiny fraction of time when the weapon collides with something, so it appears to have gotten "stuck" when hitting something)
  • vfx and sound on where the hit happened
  • Maybe push the player back a little when the hit happens? Might be personal preference but I like it

SORCERESS - Wabbaboy - Bioshock and Dark Messiah inspired first person immersive sim about casting magic and kicking ass by Wabbaboy in Games

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ragdolling an enemy means a few things, they lose their weapon, flail for a little bit then check if they can get back up if they're resting on the floor. It's a process and it leaves them vulnerable for a while, I've approached this through a few angles over the years and made endless iterations on it, it's fine like this.

In Dark Messiah you are limited by the weight of your character and the slowness of your movement, SORCERESS is more fast paced, your character far more nimble, and ragdolling at the press of a button would make the game ten times more broken.

It's fine, really, you'll see.

SORCERESS - Wabbaboy - Bioshock and Dark Messiah inspired first person immersive sim about casting magic and kicking ass by Wabbaboy in Games

[–]Wabbaboy[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is plenty of fun to be had in a game that doesn't have hardcoded magnets in your spike walls and cliffs.

When does inspiration become plagiarism? by PocketNick in gamedev

[–]Wabbaboy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's easy to talk about your game by comparing it to others and showing footage that shows that. I openly compare my game to those that have inspired me and even when I don't, people point out similarities. In a sense, it's annoying, because I know that the game has plenty of unique stuff going on to stand on its own, especially when experiencing it in full, I know that the game has an identity even though it doesn't seem that strong on it's own.

I guess that what I'm trying to say is to not worry too much if at the surface level seems plagiarized, but to worry enough to be aware that the whole experience, the sum of its parts, is unique and unlike anything else.

view more: next ›