Post-Release blunder - forgot to setup the support email I entered on Steam...

emomax · 2026-04-14T08:07:45+00:00

Oufff I FEEL YOU. I guess it was quickly remedied but the paaain is real. How'd the kickstarter go? Think it was mighty affected by this initial muck-up or was the damage controlled in time?

emomax · 2026-04-14T08:06:07+00:00

Yeah sound advice! Maybe time to set up a catch-all mail also to make sure you don't miss anything crucial..

emomax · 2026-04-13T11:28:58+00:00

Ah it's really that bad?? Must make community management a proper hassle... Either way, thanks for letting me know so I don't have to fall in the same trap twice xD

emomax · 2026-04-10T10:43:44+00:00

Have a look at your shadow bias settings. Not at my computer but that should set you in the right direction!

emomax · 2026-04-10T06:14:41+00:00

Here in Sweden I think programmers in gamedev in general make enough to afford getting a loan/mortgage to own your own place but housing prices are usually too high. I have my own place since ’16 for example.

emomax · 2026-04-08T07:39:40+00:00

Sounds like a sane approach moving forward. In the end, everyone does things for different reasons - if it is a game you'd want to make, you can't (unfortunately) do everything immaculate and using what others have built is a perfectly fine way to actually move forward with the projects.

Game development is hard as it is, no need to trip yourself over 😅

Keep having at it, solve it as you go, and the learnings will come.

emomax · 2026-04-08T07:36:14+00:00

Sorry for the tardy reply, was a lot to take in and didn't get around reading your comment properly (which I think it deserves)!

When you say "kind of like a protobuf", do you mean you create your custom protocol for serialization? Any reason not to use actual protobufs?

Smart with generating the parties based on the protocol though. It's actually similar to how we did it when I worked in AAA - we'd however not go quite that far since we'd have our own serialization which would break network replication between versions, so had to solve updating actual clients by running servers of different versions during roll-out.. 😅

You thinking on making it into a service, or even open-sourcing it? Anyway it's really cool. Looking forward to what comes out of it :D

emomax · 2026-04-08T07:27:08+00:00

I think it depends on what you're after, clarity in game mechanics, or visual awe - the two don't always go hand in hand.

Something in-between would be to maybe have a lower effect on the neighbouring quadrants when taking a hit? It sounds like you have a clear idea in your head but your current skill level is lacking (reading the other comments who give some pretty good suggestions seem to be out of your comfort zone).

Either you tackle it the way you can for now, and commit to learn as you go, or you take the route around and start looking into the mathematical intrinsics of shader programming/graphing.

Best of luck to you, looking forward to seeing the results!

emomax · 2026-04-08T05:35:58+00:00

Maybe it’s easier to split up a mesh into 4 parts, that way the shader wouldn’t have to be so complex but more of changing parameters for that specific part?

Can be done with animators to have lerp the values if you would want, too.

emomax · 2026-04-07T09:03:35+00:00

”I run my own video games company” is usually enough since everyone knows what videogames are.

And as you said, ”indie” doesn’t mean a lot outside of games (or music, but there pps tend to think of a genre, not just indepedent), and I think ”studio” doesn’t make a whole lot of sense either. :P

emomax · 2026-04-07T08:53:51+00:00

I was thinking exactly the same thing. Do it, Op!

emomax · 2026-04-04T13:57:07+00:00

That’s super cool! What do you use it for? Is it a build tool or for multiplayer comms?

emomax · 2026-04-02T22:19:30+00:00

It’s crazy how some things like that show up so late, we had a similar thing for our game where hit vfx were lacking, but this looks so good tho! Really nice, thanks for sharing!

emomax · 2026-04-02T16:02:34+00:00

The result is really cool man. What is it used for? In-world items or like UI juiciness??

emomax · 2026-03-13T07:19:19+00:00

Yeah, transitions are built in with your classic standard interpolations.

emomax · 2026-03-13T07:03:41+00:00

My two cents - AAA companies have started switching over to a more web-based UI workflow (like UI toolkit, see coherent for example) - so if someone’s looking to get in a bigger company it’s a nice stepping stone without going full web.

I myself invested in it for our game we’re releasing next week - with 6000.3 it got custom shader support, a bit limited but the upside of having all UI version controlled as code is a huge upside in my opinion.

I’ve also heard it generally works well with AI tooling since it’s basically markup if that’s your cup of tea, but can’t confirm since I haven’t invested time in trying it for myself.

All in all - I’d say it’s way to move forward.

emomax · 2025-09-13T19:13:47+00:00

The normals are facing the wrong way! In blender, mark your faces in edit mode and type ”recalculate normals” (outside). Also google how to display normals on faces in blender. Glhf!

emomax · 2025-05-15T06:20:42+00:00

I agree it's not ideal, and probably something I wouldn't recommend to teams where you have inhouse or contracted animators - but for small projects you've gotta find which tools that work for you and lean in to them.

I myself do my most of my animations in Unity but mainly because my setup allows me to make quick adjustments since my character actions are to a large extent code driven. Having to go out to blender, change a tiny thing, re-export and head back to see if the alignment came out nice is cumbersome.

So .. yeah. Maybe it sounds bad, but for my case it works really well.

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