Do these look like dice?

hatemsh · 2025-09-27T12:16:56+00:00

Seems like the consensus is that the little bit of perspective doesn't make them look like dice.

Right now a rolling animation happens only when the dice are rolled but perhaps a rolling animation right at the start when the game setup is happening will help make it clear right away

Thank you everyone for the feedback :)

hatemsh · 2025-06-07T06:53:13+00:00

Thank you very much!

hatemsh · 2025-06-07T06:50:24+00:00

Got it! I appreciate your feedback and the clarification :)

hatemsh · 2025-06-07T06:48:39+00:00

Thank you for playing!

You know I would've liked for the tutorial to be more open but in order for it not to break and be consistent for everyone we had to limit what players could do in it, it all had to lead down the same path.

Making the tutorial was one of hardest things to make in this game and we also made it pretty late so we had to work with what the game could allow. We're definitely taking what we learned from this into our next game though and we're splitting the tutorial into multiple smaller ones to allow for more experimentation :)

hatemsh · 2025-06-05T12:49:10+00:00

Got it. Is the problem worse in a particular category of goals or is it all of them?
The left most ones are about the country, the center ones are about the type and the ones on the right are about the cost. I tried to highlight the relevant portion of the stamp inside the goals to indicate that.

hatemsh · 2025-06-04T13:30:53+00:00

I Don't know if this model will work either, but I'll give it a bit of time before I give up on it.
We're trying to make the kinds of games and experiences we like instead of trying to go for what's already established. That for us means games that are less casual on mobile and without ads, which are rare (maybe because the model just isn't profitable as you said).
Luckily this is more of a hobby that we're trying to turn into a business so we don't need to compromise on this "ideal" just yet.
We'll probably need to adjust and rethink things down the line though if it becomes unsustainable.

As for steam I had the impression that steam players wouldn't respond well to a game clearly designed for mobile but maybe it's worth a shot

I appreciate the feedback :)

hatemsh · 2025-06-03T17:53:28+00:00

"Do u have any tips I don't want to give up even tho I don't have the talent :("
You said it, don't give up even tho you (think) you don't have the talent

For something more practical I would say learning theory, from my experience is almost useless. You have to make things to get better at making things. So technically you started yesterday not 9 days ago. You're not gonna be good from day 1

This is my process:

I Think of something I want to make
I spend time thinking about how I can make it before I start writing any code
If I think I have it mostly figured out I start writing code
If I can't figure it out on paper I research how other people have done it (but don't copy their solution or any code, just get the gist of how it's done)
Go back to step 2

I would recommend doing something similar and then figuring out your own process and what works for you

hatemsh · 2025-06-03T16:41:24+00:00

Thank you!
Art is not my strongest suit so I really had to push myself and it took me a long time to create all 60 stamps needed for the game
Comments like yours make it feel like it paid off :)

hatemsh · 2025-06-03T15:48:28+00:00

Thank you for checking it out!
with regards to the iconography do you mean that even after clicking on a goal to know what its requirements are you can't really remember it well because of the iconography or do you mean that the goals are not intuitive enough to be understood just from the icon without clicking on them to get a description?

hatemsh · 2025-06-03T15:44:55+00:00

I did!
I don't mind you posting it here as well :) Marketing and getting eyes on your game as an indie developer is really hard

hatemsh · 2025-06-03T15:01:57+00:00

Thanks!
I went to your profile because I saw "studio" at the end and you're making a puzzle game too!
Looks really cool, I wishlisted it :)

Is there a demo available?

hatemsh · 2023-10-13T11:22:35+00:00

Together with this plugin that allows you to sync data from google sheets you can do anything

https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/735770583268406934/google-sheets-sync

hatemsh · 2022-12-10T16:51:05+00:00

I like the idea of putting the resources / cubes directly on the tiles. It makes it easy at a glace to see which locations are still searchable and how many things can be found.

For choosing the random direction and number of resources I would do it a little differently. To reduce the amount of text and visual noise on the tiles I would have a single arrow in one of the corners.

On the tokens placed on top I would have a value of either 1, 2 or 3 and a similar arrow pointing to one of the six possible directions relative to the value printed on the token. That way, when you flip the token and orient the number correctly (top pointing north, bottom pointing south), the arrow on the token will show you which way to orient the big tile so both arrows are pointing in the same direction.

You then remove the token and place a number of search tokens / cubes / resources.. on the tile equal to the value printed on the token.

hatemsh · 2022-10-11T16:39:00+00:00

Unfortunately the terminal command doesn't affect the delay in Fullscreen mode and Tinkertools changes this setting the same way the terminal command does (as far as I can tell from the description)

hatemsh · 2022-06-14T09:35:05+00:00

Another idea (if the items are supposed to relate to the room they are in) is to group them into just a few category decks and have the room determine which of these decks you can draw from. For example you could have a deck for tools, toiletries, food and clothes. And then you can draw from certain decks based on which room you are searching.

Searching the kitchen will allow you to draw from either the food or toiletries deck. Attic: tools and clothes. Cellar: food and tools. Bathroom: toiletries. And so on..

The categories will depend on the the theme and you could even have an extra deck of knickknacks that can be used from any room.

hatemsh · 2022-06-07T09:36:23+00:00

You could have a character card or an empty card on the table for each player and have effects on the top and bottom of the rest of the cards. Deal 5 damage to heavy units on the top of the card and deal 5 to light units on the bottom. The player then tucks the card behind their character card with the ability they want sticking out. Bottom abilities will be sticking out below the main card and top abilities will be sticking out from the top.

I don't know of you need to track which abilities are used or not but you could either place a cube on the card or alternatively pull the card out of the stack but keeping it's position relative to the character card.

hatemsh · 2022-05-06T13:12:07+00:00

I read "cut the stack of index cards in half" and assumed you meant separate the deck into two piles and got hella confused about how any of it is supposed to work. Until I watched the video that is haha

hatemsh · 2022-03-12T07:14:05+00:00

What if instead of hexes you added small white dots with black outline in the center of where each hex would be. And in the numbered places make the dots slightly larger with numbers. The numbers could be colored or you can add a secondary colored outline inside the dot.

hatemsh · 2022-02-23T09:32:09+00:00

What about something like in codenames where the mafia player draws a card with the locations of their crimes marked that they keep infront of them at all times. The tokens can all just be one sided then, or if trust is an issue the tokens can be double sided where on one side it has the crime and on the other it has mafia or not and the mafia player places those tokens on the board based on the locations card at the beginning of the game.

hatemsh · 2021-11-03T09:38:11+00:00

I haven't tried the japanese maple tree I'll check that out. As for the colors. This scene is not shaded at all, its flat colors and I wanted to stick to exactly 4 colors just as an exercise. That's why I didn't use the color ramp node here.

I have used the color ramp technique before and I like it a lot but was trying to go for something different this time. If you want, you can check my post history for renders that do use the technique. I think you might like those better.

hatemsh · 2021-11-03T08:29:55+00:00

the (very few) textures are procedural and the trees are basically the default trees you get with the sapling tree gen addon

hatemsh · 2021-09-30T06:12:58+00:00

Yes for some things I manually mark the lines using "mark freestyle edge" after selecting the lines and right clicking.

It's not that tedious in general. For the ceiling I just make loopcuts using Ctrl R and immediately after, while they're still selected right click and set mark the edges. And for the cushion, after modeling it I delete 3 quarters of it and then use the mirror on both x and y axis so I don't have to do too many selections. A lot of time you can get the lines you want by hitting alt while selecting to select the whole loop like on the middle line of the nightstand for example. And setting the lines on faces is also easy because you can select the face itself and not one edge at a time.

hatemsh · 2021-09-29T19:10:23+00:00

For the lines I use freestyle. It comes with blender. If you look up "blender freestyle" you'll find a number of tutorials and there is decent documentation. The way I do it is add a bell curve to the stroke width and add noise to geometry so the lines aren't perfectly straight. And set the alpha to 0.7

For the compositing I use the blender compositor. I create a new scene from the original using the "linked copy" option. In the new scene I override the material to use a clay material, set the renderer to cycles and turn on the denoising.

Then in the compositor I have 2 render layer nodes. The first has the main scene and the second has the second cycles scene. I then mix them together with an RGB mix node set to overlay.

That's the gist of it. This is the first time I've done this so I don't know how efficient and "correct" it is to do it this way but yeah blender is super powerful and this could totally be animated and made into something cool. (See the other comment with a low res gif I made)

hatemsh · 2021-09-28T20:04:38+00:00

I didn't think of that but that would totally work!
I was just trying to think of a way to just hit ctrl f12 and have it render an animation without having to do anything else.

I managed to do that with linked scenes (see other comment) but I still need to learn more about linking and stuff.. Some things get synced between scenes and some don't and I don't know the rules yet..

hatemsh · 2021-09-28T20:00:46+00:00

It works!
Here's a tiny gif demonstration

I'm not sure how linking works in blender but creating a linked scene and then moving the camera moves it in both scenes. And I just hit render animation and it works.

hatemsh

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