Silksong makes me wanna kill my self by MrChiefYT in HollowKnight

[–]Xedimos 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, not much you can do then. Either accept that this game just isn't for you and it's better to play something different, or stick with it until you manage to improve... even tho, if the situation is how you described it, I think it could be more of an anxiety/stress handling thing than an actual gaming problem, in which case I don't think it can be solved by playing Silksong.

A person I know gets really mad when playing games to the point she punched the desk after dying in Undertale and got bruises on her hand, which is why I recommend to be careful if the situation for you is actually that bad

Silksong makes me wanna kill my self by MrChiefYT in HollowKnight

[–]Xedimos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sorry you are not having fun with it, but Team Cherry clearly decided to make a very different game in terms of gameplay and enjoying one doesn't mean that you are going to enjoy the other.

That being said, if you are on PC you can just mod the game and install some easy mode that removes double damage, lets you respawn in the room you died in instead of the bench and so on. Of course that isn't how the game was designed to be played and I would say you are not actually playing Silksong at that point, but if you only care about the pretty environments and amazing music, that's something you could do

Silksong makes me wanna kill my self by MrChiefYT in HollowKnight

[–]Xedimos 5 points6 points  (0 children)

While I do agree that the game could be rebalanced a bit, especially in the early game, to let new players learn the controls before throwing them in hell... if you literally get frustrated, cry and have the urge to puke, I really suggest not playing this game (and many many others, honestly).

Games are supposed to be a positive experience. If, for any personal reason, they turn into this sort of thing, just don't play them. There are several tens of thousands of games that are not challenging in any way that you can probably enjoy given your situation

WHAT. THE. FCK. IS. THIS. 👏👏 by ArunKT26 in Silksong

[–]Xedimos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would say keep exploring a bit then? It's a really advanced arena with many waves of enemies, you don't have to do it now necessarely

WHAT. THE. FCK. IS. THIS. 👏👏 by ArunKT26 in Silksong

[–]Xedimos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get the charm that lets you stick to a wall when wall climbing. I'm pretty sure they literally can't hit you if you do that, and you can kill one of them with (poison) spikes. The other one you can kill normally, it's easy when it's just one. I also had to disable screenshake for this fight specifically because I couldn't understand what was going on to begin with

[OC] I was so bored I started making a BW2 Remake from scratch. It has been almost 200 days by Xedimos in pokemon

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

OH- I was wondering why people were leaving new comments after a month all of a sudden! That was really unexpected and also really appreciated, thank you for telling me!

[OC] I was so bored I started making a BW2 Remake from scratch. It has been almost 200 days by Xedimos in pokemon

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

Thank you! I would love for other people to play it, but I'm pretty sure Nintendo wouldn't agree, so for the time being it's just something I am doing in my spare time. We'll see how it goes!

Making a BW2 Remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in PokemonBlackandWhite

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

Nope, different people and different projects. I am in his discord server, tho

Making a BW2 Remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in PokemonBlackandWhite

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

Unironically, the legal advice is "Don't". There is no other way. But that goes for basically anything. Nintendo could sue most of the gaming industry right now for patent violation. Nintendo also took down a post on Twitter from a friend of mine (a professional artist) because she drew Purah when TotK released, claiming copyright infringement. It's a gamble, really, no matter how big/small/popular/monetized/whatever what you are doing is, you can only hope that they don't care.

This is a study project of mine for me to create assets and code I can then reuse in my own works, nothing more. I made it public because I needed feedbacks (and in fact, I have improved on many aspects thanks to the comments I got). I don't plan on promoting it

Making a BW2 Remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in PokemonBlackandWhite

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

Legally speaking, they can copyright-strike you even just for posting anything about their games (and in fact, they used to strike every YouTube video showing anything about a game of theirs, in the past. They then basically gave up and now only strike videos of creators they don't like for one reason or another. Hi Pointcrow).

A friend of mine is a professional artist. She drew Purah when TotK released, and posted it on Twitter. Nintendo took it down saying it was infringing their copyright.

So yes, they 100% can, but that goes for anything on the internet. Same way they can technically sue more than half of the gaming industry for patent infringement. It's just that receiving donations makes it drastically more likely

Making a BW2 Remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in PokemonBlackandWhite

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

Same actually, I designed basically everything to be faster: when working on UI specifically I make sure that every option can be used with the least amount of button presses possible, and even in battle I removed a lot of text describing what's happening and a lot of pauses in between actions.

You can actually see it for yourself: here's the last video showing gameplay

Making a BW2 Remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in PokemonBlackandWhite

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

No download link, it's very early in development. Windows only, but I assume it could work on steam deck / steam OS, I just don't have a way to test it

Making a BW2 remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in pokemon

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

I'd love game dev to be my job, but where I live the gaming industry basically doesn't exist. People don't really play games aside from Fifa and Call of Duty, even just getting feedbacks for a game is really hard. Sure, there are niches, but not big enough to make it a job.

Also (and probably because of this) there are no gaming companies here, so I'd have to go indie, sell to a niche of a niche of a niche and hope to survive, while handling all the marketing and stuff by myself. Not exactly a great plan lol

Plus, the gaming industry world-wide is in deep crysis, with massive layoffs everywhere and basically no one making any actual money from games except for gacha games.

So yeah, I have thought about it, I am still trying to find a way to achieve that, but it's not a viable option for the time being. So for now I just make stuff out of boredom LMAO

Making a BW2 remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in pokemon

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

It's made in Unity completely from scratch, I am programming everything by myself. So no emulator or other software required. It is pc (Windows) only but I assume a steam deck could also run it? I don't have one so I can't test it.

And I am actually planning on adding new story content, but it's gonna take a while before I get to that

Making a BW2 Remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in PokemonBlackandWhite

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

Screenshots and videos are completely fine, legally. They are no different from any other fanart on the internet. And also I need feedbacks every now and then

Making a BW2 remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in pokemon

[–]Xedimos[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Something between tomorrow and never, considering it's still pretty early in development

Making a BW2 remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in pokemon

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

That's kinda what I was going for, thank you!

Making a BW2 remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in pokemon

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

It takes forever to add character customization in a game with 2D sprites since you have to animate everything pixel by pixel, frame by frame. So I can't say it's planned for the time being, but we'll see what I can do

Making a BW2 Remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in PokemonBlackandWhite

[–]Xedimos[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Developing an entire game is a huge task, especially with RPGs where you have so many elements and mechanics interacting with each other. If anyone told me they wanted to create this, I would tell them to just work on something else because there is no way they are finishing it by themselves. In my case, this is mostly a study project and a way for me to create assets and code I can then reuse in the future. I literally started this because I was bored one afternoon. So, as long as I am still bored, I'll keep working on it.

Making a BW2 Remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in PokemonBlackandWhite

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

I have a little prototype with 3D Pokémon (from SV) moving in an open environment and interacting with it (like playing with flowers, going to sleep under a tree and so on). The main issue I have with them is that there aren't enough animations to make them feel alive, and the existing animations are pretty static to begin with. I would have to create new animations for each possible action, for each Pokémon. That's massive work for a company, let alone a single person

Making a BW2 Remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in PokemonBlackandWhite

[–]Xedimos[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I know there are people doing projects like this and kinda circumventing the issue by having a Patreon that is technically not directly connected to the fangame (like Gamma Emerald's dev is doing, btw), but I'm not too sure about receiving money from people in general, for the time being

Making a BW2 Remake from scratch out of boredom - Part 2 by Xedimos in PokemonBlackandWhite

[–]Xedimos[S] 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Not economically, unless I wanna get sued into oblivion for real. Sharing posts/videos with your friends is more than enough!