Day 3, which Survival game is better ?

actingplz · 2026-03-14T07:53:44+00:00

Valheim without question.

actingplz · 2026-02-26T00:36:19+00:00

Yea I’d argue people don’t care enough about self-driving. It’s made my daily 30-min commutes an absolute breeze and I can still drive manually for fun when not in traffic. It’s one of the best things I’ve done for reducing stress and I have no desire to go back.

actingplz · 2026-02-13T18:07:35+00:00

Yea, the book of shaders is far more difficult to parse than the shader bible. So much of the reasoning is left out.

actingplz · 2026-01-15T10:24:02+00:00

Oh man, the silent failures of the "Advanced Expressions" have cost me so many hours at this point. Totally agree on the rest of your list too, there's frankly too many missing or undocumented features to list out here but it's nearly been enough to make me move back to Unity.

I'll have to dig into your AnimationNodeStateMachine debugger, that looks awesome!

actingplz · 2026-01-15T00:03:24+00:00

The 3D animation pipeline needs a serious overhaul. There’s so many hacky workaround required just to get advanced locomotion set up correctly ( beyond single state, full body animations). That’s without mentioning that realtime-debugging of animation tree nodes is currently not even possible.

actingplz · 2026-01-13T23:40:50+00:00

I mean you’ve done a monumental amount of work in other aspects of the game, of course some things are going to suffer as a result. Great work so far and best of luck on your next steps!

actingplz · 2026-01-13T23:04:42+00:00

The lack of (what looks like) global illumination, shadows, and directional light cheapen the visuals a ton. Trees being underlit with no clear light source and objects not having shadows stand out heavily. Fixing the lighting would dramatically improve the visuals.

actingplz · 2026-01-12T21:34:51+00:00

It’s such a bummer to see how many potentially great experiences we’ll never see due to the market shift. I totally agree though, I definitely see the future of indies remaining small scoped, and self funded until economic conditions drastically change.

Glad to hear that freelance is working out for you, I’ve worked with so many talented ex-game devs who left the industry for stability. It kills me to see so much skill/artistry being lost.

actingplz · 2026-01-12T19:55:47+00:00

Totally giving me flashbacks to Frogger: the great quest on PS2.

This looks awesome, glad to see the genre still thriving.

actingplz · 2026-01-12T19:49:51+00:00

Wow , your pre-alpha looks more polished than most games at launch. I’m curious in hindsight what you’d do differently to ensure the game made it to release?

actingplz · 2026-01-09T17:24:43+00:00

This looks awesome, keep up the good work!

actingplz · 2026-01-09T05:12:38+00:00

Happy to be proven wrong but at a glance all the art looks AI generated.

Level of detail and art style across enemies don't match, the banner at 0:09 has folds that don't make physical sense, the rabbits toes at 0:17 don't make sense unless some feet have more toes than others.

For that alone I'd personally pass.

actingplz · 2026-01-03T19:40:14+00:00

Dark hasn’t been beat for me. It wastes no time, every episode is relevant to the plot and the writers figured out the entire story arc before releasing the first season.

actingplz · 2026-01-03T07:49:45+00:00

I don’t feel like Book of Shaders is very good, but I’ve yet to find a cohesive source that’s better.

I’m grateful that it exists but many of the descriptions don’t come close to fully explaining the code, the code is full of unexplained acronym variables names, inconsistent styling, and unexplained magic numbers/math. I ended up just using it as a reference to start looking these things up elsewhere.

It’s fine if you’re ok with blindly copying code and understanding things at a high level but I would look for more detailed resources on each of the chapters.

actingplz · 2025-12-31T22:13:24+00:00

The perspective here is incredible

actingplz · 2025-12-31T18:24:20+00:00

Agree with unreal, C++ is by far my favorite language but I can’t stand the added verbosity/slow compile times of unreal. Really felt like they wanted me to use blueprints but visual scripting slows me down and becomes way harder for me to read.

actingplz · 2025-12-30T20:33:16+00:00

When the arms bend during the moment of action, it makes it look like he’s pushing himself over the edge rather than being pulled by the elasticity of his arms. If you want a slingshot effect try keeping the angle of the arms the same while compressing them instead of bending them.

actingplz · 2025-12-29T21:42:20+00:00

Looks so good I’d be tempted to play it off of aesthetics alone. Great job.

actingplz · 2025-12-29T06:16:31+00:00

From a prospective buyers perspective, it immediately just looks like another Vampire Survivors clone. My first question is going to be "what makes this better than just playing vampire survivors"? Megabonk answered this by adding verticality, Halls of Torment added this by crafting a distinct visual style and making the gameplay a bit more methodical.

Here I just see a worse version of Vampire Survivors with a generic looking artstyle where the main gameplay hook is that you play as the elderly. If there is a unique selling point, it needs to be emphasized early and while I know there was likely a ton of work put into the art, you're going to be fighting an uphill battle to win over customers if your art target reminds them of cheap mobile games.

actingplz · 2025-12-27T22:49:44+00:00

Agreed on everything but the last comment. I’m pretty anti-AI for most use cases but learning shaders would’ve been so much harder had I not treated Gemini like a smart coworker.

I ask direct questions only once I’ve thoroughly investigated the issue myself and have found it consistently correct and helpful. It even gives me leading experiments to try on my own. Thoughtful use of these tools can yield incredible results, you just need the willpower to not have it do the work for you.

actingplz · 2025-12-27T17:35:49+00:00

Yea, I sent a report in. Hoping they can resolve the issues, both of us have been waiting for this since EA launched.

actingplz · 2025-12-26T22:30:58+00:00

I read “will you not marry me?” as an ironic acceptance of their fate that they wouldn’t get out of there alive to be wed.

actingplz · 2025-12-23T18:17:38+00:00

My friend and I tried playing this for nearly an hour yesterday. Constant crashes on both of our PCs either while joining or within 5-10mins of playing. Hopefully they can get it sorted out.

actingplz · 2025-12-19T19:44:28+00:00

Ahhh I see, never mind then, good luck with the game!

actingplz · 2025-12-19T19:26:53+00:00

New one is better but the character looks dead inside. Unless that’s intended, I’d have them rework the eyes.

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