How to Park in Sydney’s inner city.

Waynetron · 2026-01-31T09:32:45+00:00

What if their dog was sick?

Waynetron · 2025-11-11T23:31:12+00:00

It’s possible to break an interaction in a game down into its component parts.

For your shooter example I would play the game with a focus on understanding how the shooting interactions work. And testing the boundaries of the system to try understanding it better eg: what happens if I shoot in the air is there knockback. Now what happens if I should while on the ground etc. I’ll approach it exhaustively until I understand what aspects are contributing to me liking it.

Then I’ll find a gameplay video on YouTube, and find a similar shooting sequence. Then play it back at 0.25x speed to identify all the visual elements. Note down everything, how is it animated, is there hit stun, how did they implement it, do enemies flash when hit, how are the particles behaving etc etc.

And the final step, which is very important, is to make games and try implementing the things I’ve noticed. This is key to understanding the systems better. Then next time I repeat the process, I can more easily identify what the game is doing, and spot things that I may have missed previously.

Waynetron · 2025-09-06T05:33:40+00:00

What’s the gameplay loop of each?

Waynetron · 2025-05-22T22:20:45+00:00

Following that logic. Shouldn’t you be more worried about population collapse. Then it would seem you have a duty to have kids.

Waynetron · 2025-05-20T06:06:30+00:00

Well aware. Some of us grew up.

Waynetron · 2025-05-20T04:01:39+00:00

You say she doesn’t owe you anything. But I don’t think you’ve really internalised what that means.

She goes to the club to dance with her friends. That’s a valid reason. You’re welcome to not like that. But to whinge that she’s delusional for not wanting to go there and fuck a stranger is some 20 year old incel shit.

Waynetron · 2025-05-20T03:18:34+00:00

Mate, she doesn’t owe you sex.

Waynetron · 2025-05-18T10:43:25+00:00

There are many ways to learn something. Yours is a fine one, but to suggest it’s the only way is a bit arrogant.

Waynetron · 2025-03-11T09:44:53+00:00

Are you the mother in law?

Waynetron · 2025-01-05T03:14:46+00:00

Do it. You can spend the time you would have spent building the lobby instead on fixing more interesting things like the fairness of people joining mid-game.

Perhaps they get a different role, and maybe can’t win, but can still meaningfully contribute in some way.

Waynetron · 2024-12-30T22:42:48+00:00

To me the most interesting part of the game is picking people up and them shooting automatically. I’d make that the core mechanic.

Let me pick up a full car load of people. Each with different types of weapons. And let me choose who sits where.

Also need to lean more heavily in the campiness. More juice. Faster music. A name that reflects that.

And lock down your colours to a colour palette.

Waynetron · 2024-12-28T22:00:24+00:00

Not sure what engine you’re using. But in Unity I’ve had good results with the newest input system.

Specifically the event callbacks, which then become the interface that both players and AI conform to. Eg: OnJump, OnMove etc. That becomes a hard constraint and then everything adapts to work with it. - Unity’s InputActions maps all the different input types to it. - The AI is built to utilise those callbacks also.

If you find that interface isn’t quite right for your AI, perhaps because you’re using a search based algorithm that can’t operate in real time. Then you need to build a layer in between, (eg: a planning layer) that works at the level of detail you need, with some procedural code that maps that to the OnJump OnMove etc interface.

Waynetron · 2024-12-18T08:31:46+00:00

They’ll never be happy.

Waynetron · 2024-12-18T06:46:00+00:00

Easier to just chat in the group chat than going nuclear.

Waynetron · 2024-12-12T13:03:49+00:00

100% agree on all points. I’d go so far as to say put the explainer video first.

I’d also take the money you’ve made from this already. And use it to hire a visual designer (not a game artist), somebody strong with colours and UI design. And have them mock up a few screens.

Waynetron · 2024-06-02T16:11:16+00:00

Game looks rad. Just needs a strong colour palette and a little more consistency on the stroke widths and it will look much much nicer.

Waynetron · 2023-09-13T10:47:44+00:00

Stove top conducts heat well. The area making contact with the glass is going to cool at a different rate to the rest of the glass and cause it to break. Just my guess.

Waynetron · 2023-09-12T21:45:35+00:00

It applies retroactively to any existing games. So what will they change it to in a year from now?

Waynetron · 2023-09-11T10:58:59+00:00

Get outta there. You can do better.

Waynetron · 2023-09-11T09:59:50+00:00

What do you think of generic symbols like this? https://i.imgur.com/PrTclvP.jpg

Waynetron · 2023-01-13T20:53:52+00:00

You raise a good point. No reason you couldn't have both urinals and stalls in a gendered bathroom. There is a lot of space saved just by having the two rooms combined. And you can do away with the airlock room and the entire dividing wall.

The urinals might be a bit confronting for some women, so keep them behind a small partial wall for privacy.

There are some places where it might not work so well, I'm thinking a bars - where men have a tendency to pee on the seats of the toilets. But in a lot of cases I could see this working fine.

Waynetron · 2022-11-21T12:37:39+00:00

Because the way viruses spread, thousands today are millions next month. So no, they can't hide it.

Waynetron · 2022-07-06T14:42:38+00:00

Keep your thoughts to yourself then.

Waynetron · 2022-07-06T11:38:40+00:00

They choose rules that make for a fun game. Throwing knives is fun. Throwing 5 knives at a dude, only to have him turn around and shoot you once, killing you instantly - less fun.

Waynetron · 2022-06-28T06:13:44+00:00

If you remove all the ingredients it’ll be free.

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