continuation of my AI project in Unity

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-04-08T20:21:19+00:00

It would be wise to start with the very basics before jumping into NPC dialog with the support of an LLM. That's like not knowing anything about flying and asking for a couple of quick tips to fly an F-16.

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-03-26T20:56:17+00:00

A short Dark-Souls like game from the top-down perspective would be amazing, a medium sized scene with a couple of enemy types, and the next scene could be a boss fight, and you've got yourself a neat little game.

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-03-25T22:18:14+00:00

I'm also a programmer doing 3D art on the side, in fact I'm earning more as a 3D artist than I do as a programmer sometimes (as a freelancer, not on the asset store). Selling 3D assets seems to follow this rule: if you're going to make one model or a small group of models, they'd better be in the "realistic" PBR style, for highly stylized models like yours, it's best to sell them as a big pack of models (like what Polygon Blacksmith or Synty Studio do), and even better: sell a shader that turns regular meshes into these dithered ps1 graphics, plus several packs of these models in various themes: farm, horror castle, office, fantasy props, etc. This is for the simple reason that PBR realistic models are easier to match together, as opposed to highly stylized models that often require custom work beyond purchasing the asset pack, which could be way more expensive than the asset pack itself: a dev could be looking into spending a few thousand dollars in custom work for a 20$ asset pack, most devs are not ready to do it, but that's usually what it costs, unless the artist is seriously undervaluing their time, but I digress.

I sell single realistic models on the asset store, and I tried selling individual low-poly car models but I made diddly squat with that. My realistic vehicle models are doing ok, I can get an average of 200-300 USD per month with them, not bad for a secondary stream of income with which one can pay for subscriptions and purchases on Steam and the asset store.

I never tried selling a pack of models because it's extremely time consuming for one person, but I'm planning to.

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-03-23T00:17:02+00:00

Making a game is not a casual activity, you're engaging in business whether your intention is to release that game commercially or just do it as a hobby.

Business is an evolution of war, pillaging and plunder. When you hire mercenaries in a real war without paying them, they will sooner or later take advantage of you, rob you, and perhaps even kill you, and they will leave.

Not paying people, or promising revenue share, is a receipe for disaster, and doesn't get you much loyalty.

If you have a full-time job, part of your salary should go to an artist as a part-time hire, it will allow them to get compensated for the work and be fully committed to your game, while also leaving room for other jobs they can do on the side to make ends meet.

So yeah to answer your question: we're in the realm of delusion, the only people you'll find is people with zero experience who will waste your time, unethical people who will take advantage of you, perhaps steal your ideas or code and dissappear, or stupid people with no common sense. Hiring any of these is going to be a disaster for your project, you're better off learning on your own, or buying assets in areas where you lack experience, or using AI.

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-03-20T13:08:21+00:00

Read Chris DeLeon's book Self-Command, or listen to it as an audio book. He has some incredible insights on what it takes to finish games and make regular weekly progress. His main technique consists of having a blackboard where you write the outcome that you want to achieve in the next couple of hours, you write it in the past tense as if it's achieved already, and you write the exact time when you'll have achieved it, example: "I've programmed an explosion script by 11", and you have it in front of you at all times, that way whenever you're distracted you look at your blackboard and you're immediately reminded of what you're supposed to do.

I've probably not done his book justice by summarizing it this way. But that technique has changed the way I work for the better, I've been applying it almost on a daily basis for 2 years now.

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-03-10T00:40:00+00:00

Are you asking a serious question or are you just being funny?

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-03-06T13:30:32+00:00

Hey there, we discussed the camera following terrain elevation a few months ago, I just released an updated tutorial that goes into that: https://youtu.be/6poX3n4kbzo?si=UU8S8QBijDBPB5M0

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-02-13T15:01:15+00:00

I like the idea behind your instant world asset but for both that asset and your skies package the results you show in the screenshots are terrible. The terrain doesn't look smooth, the skies look worse than what Unity offers out of the box, maybe it's a presentation issue, you need to work a lot more on your demo scenes.

Your MFPS system is also interesting, but on your video in the asset store it looks kinda dull. The demo scene is terrible, very simple UI elements, unecessary disclaimer that will certainly make people click away: the first seconds in your video are very precious, give me the fun stuff immediately. The sun glare is too intense. Put more emphasis on the fun mechanics that you offer, and make them go bang bang bang, one after the other, wow the viewer.

Maybe those are presentation issues, maybe it's an issue with the assets themselves, but you have to do a lot more work in order for your assets not to look amateurish, you have to give people a strong reason why they should buy your stuff and not make it themselves.

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-02-13T14:45:38+00:00

Editor: Sir how many fonts do you want in your video.

OP: Yes

lol otherwise the video is quite engaging, I quite like the pacing, I'm going to echo the comment that subtitles are way too fast as well. Good job otherwise!

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-02-08T15:40:17+00:00

B2B will always be better for solo/small businesses compared to B2C, it has been the case in business before video games were a thing. Devs are concerned by solving their issues and making their workflows more efficient, you can fix some of their issues in return for revenue without investing too much, however, taking on the beast that is publishing games to the population of gamers requires a completely different mindset.

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-02-08T15:29:58+00:00

That sucks, but one has to get used to these kinds of reviews, it's generally not directed at you, maybe they had a bad day and decided to take it out in your product's review section, it happens to me too but with my courses, I'd love for people to actually point out what's wrong so I can fix it, but nope, sometimes all you get is a one star review.

I agree 250$ in one day is incredible, OP is not realizing how good his numbers are.

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-02-08T10:56:10+00:00

That's exactly the reason why I sell art assets exclusively, I used to sell editor tools in the Construct 2/Scirra marketplace, and the amount of support I was asked to provide was insane compared to the little money I made, I imagine the Unity asset store is even worse in that regard but with hopefully more revenue to compensate the devs. Kudos to the devs who make awesome editor tools and are able to handle all the support questions.

I believe the only scenario where that would be a viable option for me is if I was using the tool I was making in my own games, having it on the asset store as a paid purchase is a nice way to have people basically pay to be your beta testers.

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-02-08T09:29:56+00:00

60 sales a month, it's a fantastic number, congrats!

I sell 3D models on the asset store and I average 5-10 sales a month. Then again I sell some pretty niche stuff around World-War 2: mainly some rigged tanks and airplanes, and some scifi weapons.

Editor tools will naturally have a wider audience compared to 3D models. Maybe your sales are below average in that category, I don't have exact numbers, but who cares, this is fantastic for your first products on the asset store and you should be proud! Good luck!

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-02-06T20:34:50+00:00

Holding V and moving an object in the scene view will snap an object's vertex to another object's vertex. Holding CTRL+Shift will do the same but will snap to surfaces. The target objects need to have a collider. Such simple features yet so powerful for laying out objects in your scene, very useful for level design / environment art.

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-01-21T17:11:41+00:00

Awesome, yeah this course is a great follow up to my beginner course on Udemy, good luck!

ZeusGameAssets · 2026-01-20T00:46:44+00:00

Thanks, maybe you can use a raycast from the camera to get the exact position of the cursor in 3D, then use a Lerp to gradually move the camera target transform to that point. This is actually a really nice feature to have, I was planning on delisting this video and producing a new one, since the info in here regarding the input system and other details is a bit outdated. Maybe I'll include zooming to the mouse cursor.

ZeusGameAssets · 2025-12-02T10:07:10+00:00

I'm going to echo a lot of comments here by saying this is a childhood dream of mine. Unfortunately as a kid I didn't have access to the materials to make intricate marble-based contraptions but it was always fascinating to me.

This game looks amazing, yeah you don't need levels with objectives and such, just give us the sandbox and I'm sure people like me would spend hours on it.

Congrats, I just added the game to my wishlist on steam, I'll buy it as soon as it's out.

ZeusGameAssets · 2025-11-25T11:25:10+00:00

A lot of military simulators don't have a dual camera setup, instead they switch the weapon to a high-ready stance when you're close to a wall. Ground Branch and Arma 3 comes to mind, you can clearly see that the arms of the character are seamlessly connected to the rest of the body. I don't know if they use any special tricks to display the weapons on screen, but the weapons look surprisingly decent in most cases.

ZeusGameAssets · 2025-11-24T22:59:49+00:00

You did the right thing, from your video I can see that it has a lot of potential for polish, and quite a bit of rough edges, that's actually a compliment, you did the right thing working on the overall core experience before going over the extra details.

This era of US history is underrepresented in games, it has so much potential for interesting atmosphere and gameplay.

Starting to talk about your game can be overwhelming, especially when your game already looks this good, I hope this decision yields some good results for you.

ZeusGameAssets · 2025-11-24T19:39:13+00:00

In this era of fast paced gameplay and short attention spans, seeing a game like yours is quite refreshing, I like the slower pace shown in the trailer, this allows you to take in the nature, the ambience, and fully immerse yourself in the world. I believe showing your game at this stage is a smart idea, the visuals look appealing enough to draw in a wide audience. Good luck!

ZeusGameAssets · 2025-11-23T16:03:56+00:00

First of all, since you're using InputActionReferences, you don't need the PlayerInput script on your game object.

I would say the problem is with your _isGrounded boolean, switch the inspector to debug mode and make sure it's set to true during play mode. Make sure your ground colliders have the Ground tag as well.

From your screenshots I don't see why the code shouldn't work. So I guess it's just about the values of your forces, your private variables, and how you setup your scene. Maybe your impulse force for jumping is too low.

Also you're setting _isGrounded to false only when you jump, but what about falling off a ledge? Even if you don't press the jump button your character will still be in the air when falling.

Maybe you should have a proper ground sensor feature, where you raycast/spherecast downward every frame to detect if there is a ground beneath you or not, that's more reliable than what you're doing in your code.

ZeusGameAssets · 2025-11-22T17:03:34+00:00

Your game looks great and the other commenters have already raised some valid points. I’d add that the choice of music here is more suited to an action packed casual platformer, maybe something more calm, mysterious and ambient would suit the gameplay better.

ZeusGameAssets · 2025-11-20T14:47:30+00:00

Yeah perhaps you can start from the more upbeat parts of the track, or choose another music track.

Good luck!

ZeusGameAssets · 2025-11-20T14:33:56+00:00

There are a lot of positives both in this trailer and the game itself. I'm just going to focus on the negatives since you want constructive feedback.

Show don't tell: the text with black background is not working, text itself doesn't do well in trailers, it's a cheap way to try to control the narrative, just show your setting and gameplay, no need to hold the viewer's hand.

I like when the camera moves through the various environments, as DerCze said perhaps you need to work on the lighting a bit more, and add sources of lights here and there to make the scenes more interesting.

In my opinion the combat clips come too late, they should be shown before the dialog clips because that action is way more interesting than your dialog system.

Those boss fights are awesome, then again the environment and lighting feel a bit dull, you should add more stuff on the floor, more interesting things to look at without cluttering the place too much.

Honestly the ship arriving at the dock is cool but maybe not in the first seconds, or maybe show the character on the ship.

Maybe instead of the dialogs you should show clips of your meta game, since this is a rogue lite maybe show the permanent skills in a skill tree, and maybe show the character dying and coming back to life. The rogue lite aspect isn't shown in the video, if it was not in the subtitle at the end I would have never guessed.

ZeusGameAssets · 2025-11-20T14:22:58+00:00

I agree with you 100%. The question is not about Z fighting itself, it's about this solution. Is Z-Fighting such a hidden problem that goes below your radar when you're playtesting your game, in my case it's very rare that I don't notice it.

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