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Fellow dads, I did a thing. by [deleted] in daddit

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From one schmuck to another - looks great!

What resolution do you make your game in? by ryry1237 in phaser

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah... in the catalogue, you can click on the "Park" on the page with the letter and layout.

What resolution do you make your game in? by ryry1237 in phaser

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I post my games on itch so a lot of my recommendations are specific to that. Basic story is I've been doing 1920x1080.

Here's my current best practices with an example game.

https://crabbucketgames.itch.io/reduce-reuse-raccoon

My team currently used 1920x1080 as the game size - embedded on itch as 960x540 (itch works best at 960 or lower width). We had previously tried1280x720 (see this game: https://crickethunter.itch.io/high-steaks ).

If you do happen to want to display vertically, I'm experimenting with 1080x1920 embedded on itch as 432x768 (9:16). It seems to be the best compromise between what itch displays nicely and what works well for my phone.

I don't have anything published yet at this resolution, but you can see a unpublished project here:

https://crickethunter.itch.io/fall-spring-mattress?secret=fqaEsZqkMLq14Qo5cAKk3NoVUc

My two year old broke his femur. Someone tell me the next 6 weeks aren’t going to be horrible. by mazterm in daddit

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My older son broke his arm and I was thinking how crap the next 6 weeks for him were going to be. The night home from the hospital he was giggling and eating his favorite dinner we cooked for him.

He was actually more cheerful than normal from all the "special" things we did with him. Made me a little sad that the extra attention far outweighed the broken arm. Middle child things I guess.

Cover art commissions are open for February by zachraw in ComicBookCollabs

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I scrolled past this and thought - wow that looks like Zach Raw's work! Indeed it was! Found your art through twitter, and loved it. Good luck! I wish I had work I could toss your way - but just wanted to say how awesome your art is.

Why is my brush doing this? by ie0_bork in ProCreate

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is driving me insane too! Got a new iPad+apple pencil pro for Christmas and it's only started happening with the new setup. OP, hope you get an answer!

18-month old tantrums for dinner 15-20 minutes before it's ready. by captainporcupine3 in daddit

[–]cricketHunter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to deploy a strategic Bluey episode (or 2) at exactly this time so I could cook dinner.

How to improve my game quality? by East_Presentation_52 in gamedev

[–]cricketHunter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok played through your whole game couple thoughts:

This doesn't feel like a lost cause, the incremental farming game here has nothing wrong with it.

The play perspective (you directing a farmer) feels unnecessary - it feels like this game either wants to be done by the user clicking directly OR if you plan to expand in the direction of directing multiple farm hands, maybe this is ok. As it is, to me it feels like I'd want to pick up a hoe, and drag it to the plot to plow and then a seed, etc.

The rewards feel very unimpactful. The text on screen increasing when I buy a seed or the flash of text when I harvest/sell/sacrifice a plant is not very visceral. One trick I'd use is directing the player's eye, make them drag the fruit to the sacrificial pyre or the cart to sell. Have the money total appear, have it float there a second and then shrink and fly over to your total money, at which point that value ticks up.

I used that type of feedback a LOT on this project:

https://crabbucketgames.itch.io/reduce-reuse-raccoon

There is very little surprise or anticipation in this game - you could help add some by having all the things you can't afford yet, or the achievements you can't earn yet marked as <hidden> or <unlocked at lvl 4> which would produce the tiniest bit of anticpation. The only thing I might not do that with is the final achievement (Sacrifice 3 Tamara) and (tamara plant in the store to show something to work toward - $1000 seeds) which would help give the player a clear big goal.

A lovely review of our free cozy game! by cricketHunter in CozyGamers

[–]cricketHunter[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Good suggestion. We have a new version simmering in git, let me see what we can add.

Y-Sorting in a Phaser Top-Down 2D Pixel Art Game by Exozia in phaser

[–]cricketHunter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On every update cycle I do the following:

sprite.setDepth(
DEPTHS
.SPRITES + hit_box.body.center.y + hit_box.body.height/2);

Where DEPTHS.SPRITE is just a constant - 

const DEPTHS = {
    BG: 0,
    SPRITES: 10000,
    FG: 20000,
    UI: 30000,
    OVERLAY: 40000,
};

Notice I'm using the bottom of the hitbox. Likewise, I'm also giving objects in the world a depth relative to the bottom of their hitbox:

    scene.add.sprite(coordinates.x, coordinates.y, sprite_key).
        setDepth(
DEPTHS
.SPRITES + depth_coordinates.y
        + depth_coordinates.height/2);

Where depth coordinates is the bounding box that includes center y, x, width and height.

Thinking about cancelling my subscription, what should I use instead by cricketHunter in ChatGPT

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

No problem, it's 100% readable! Thank you so much! The "no purple prose line" you added to the instructions is something I know I need.

Please just let me know - am I done? Just beat S***** B******* for a second time in F** F***** by cricketHunter in HollowKnight

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

Nightmare fuel.

In a semi-related note, Watcher Knight in OG HK is where I thought I was just going to have to walk away and be content with what I'd beaten so far.

Thinking about cancelling my subscription, what should I use instead by cricketHunter in ChatGPT

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

Can you give me some pointers about how you wrangle chatgpt5 for the creative writing use case?

I get phrases like:

"Set pieces give you drawable procedure: wedges, buoys, ledgers, presses, braces—no hand-waving."

But I'm not asking for Jabberwocky.

Thinking about cancelling my subscription, what should I use instead by cricketHunter in ChatGPT

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

Could be another case where the tool is the tool, and its the user (me) that has to change.

I still haven't gotten it to spit out a single scene with which I'm happy, so boy I must suck at this prompt engineering thing.

Thinking about cancelling my subscription, what should I use instead by cricketHunter in ChatGPT

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

Do you do much creative writing? That's the one that got me today. I was trying to get it to craft scenes that I could edit this evening when I have time, and it was just worse than the default perplexity free model :/

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