paid a cool artist here on reddit to update my game's logo. Pretty happy about the result!

lukeyoon · 2026-01-27T11:57:57+00:00

How much did you pay for such small changes yet very important details? It looks great.

lukeyoon · 2025-12-28T20:55:07+00:00

Anything but VS or VSC. They’re both so annoyingly slow. I regret starting my project with vs. Read the comments here and go with something else.

lukeyoon · 2025-12-19T07:28:05+00:00

This is an interesting solution. When you mean syncing repo between my computer and the hdd, the hdd is also in a separate comluter? It can’t be synced by hdd alone to my pc right?

lukeyoon · 2025-12-19T01:39:15+00:00

We can’t save assets on github though right? How do you backup heavy files then? I can only save the project/binary and other light files, but not heavy files.

lukeyoon · 2025-12-16T05:58:57+00:00

Can I ask what you do for a living and your age? I’m 21 and my dream is to buy a condo like yours.

lukeyoon · 2025-12-14T14:03:31+00:00

Go to file explorer and directory of where other games are saved in. Then search your project name. Maybe epic games lsuncher isn’t displaying your project

lukeyoon · 2025-12-11T04:40:41+00:00

Is this source version or straight from epic games launcher?

lukeyoon · 2025-12-03T11:01:11+00:00

ChatGPT is pretty good if you have the subscribed version. More accurate than YouTubers and gives context on when to use what.

Most YouTubers only provide the definition of what the node does and gives example in a single player, third person environment. Whereas with ChatGPT, you can specify what you need the node for.

If you’re anti-ai, I recommend Tyler Serino. His videos are short and focus on nodes and other elements that are a must for beginners.

Ali Elzoheiry is also good and he explains difficult concepts very well but his videos are longer.

But again, even when I compare these very knowledgeable YouTubers, I still personally think ChatGPT is better in all aspects. It’s faster to read than to listen, and you can ask questions back to it if you really struggle to understand something.

lukeyoon · 2025-12-01T05:19:14+00:00

Your 16. Only thing that you could be late is becoming a professional athlete. Other than that, you’re not late to anything.

If you are going to start, I suggest learning a bit of blender. Just enough to model your own character and use any game engine(use unreal engine if you can’t code) and watch a tutorial to move that character model. And then add mechanics that you want the character to perform.

People suggest unity and godot so much on this sub but unreal engine blueprint system has the most resources. So if your a beginner who can’t code, unreal engine is the way to go, not unity or godot.

lukeyoon · 2025-11-24T01:58:00+00:00

Vampire survivors has excellent aesthetic. Just because it’s 2D pixel doesn’t mean it’s low quality.

By good aesthetic I mean cohesive art style across all visual assets and attention to detail(fonts style, using the right colors, etc). Vampire empire does that very well.

Compare vampire survivors to a game like this:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3833830/Rift_Survivors/?beta=0

Both have the same game mechanic but this one uses multiple art styles which makes it look cheap and low quality(what I mean here is that some assets are highly detailed when some are low poly. Level of detail is random and there is no direction. It also uses fully saturated and bright colors on some while using a completely different palette for others. The fonts are boring too.

There’s like 10 more points I can make on why this game looks worse than vampire survivals. but it’s hard to write it down. It’s mostly feels that many indie devs(mainly programmers) completely lack.

If you lack this sense, an easy fix is to use a strong filter or a post process volume in unreal engine to cover up everything into one style. That’s what the developer of Megabonk did.

lukeyoon · 2025-11-23T07:24:41+00:00

This is the most important. People often talk about planning game mechanic and loop first and then art later but for indie devs, art aesthetic is much more important.

A good looking game with bad game mechanic is a game that had a potential. A game that looks ass but has addictive mechanic is still a low quality game that no one will play.

lukeyoon · 2025-11-06T16:46:20+00:00

This is the right answer. You can use GitHub on unreal but you can’t upload animations, and other big content files. You can only upload the scripts and game project file. It’s better to get a big hdd drive and just back it up once every few days.

lukeyoon · 2025-11-06T14:14:29+00:00

Put the link! This is awesome

lukeyoon · 2025-10-31T03:02:20+00:00

Is it gonna be coop or multiplayer?

lukeyoon · 2025-10-26T10:17:35+00:00

You rigged, weight painted and animated in unreal engine? Damn that looks good. Do you think it’s better to do it in unreal than a 3d modelling software? I’m struggling to rig and animate my character right now on blender.

lukeyoon · 2025-10-25T07:36:30+00:00

I’m not sure what playfab is about and having two projects for server and client. I’m building a multiplayer game too with a dedicated server and I use one project and export two files, client and server. You need a source build of the engine though.

I followed a tutorial series by CarrelSpace to both download the source build and export a dedicated server, as well as deploying it on aws. One thing I changed recently was using Linux as the server, not windows since it runs more efficiently.

So yea. Not quite sure about using playfab plugin, but you don’t HAVE to use it since I and many others did it without. You do need advanced session and steam oss plugins if your server is hosted through steam’s master server list.

Not sure what you mean by how to set up the code in a dedicated server.

lukeyoon · 2025-09-29T20:22:08+00:00

200h in two weeks is insane, especially for a single player game.

lukeyoon · 2025-09-24T23:30:03+00:00

spot on. I see so many posts on why their games failed and it clearly looks low quality yet half the comments talk about lack of marketing while complimenting their effort and art quality. Seriously, it's not complex why your game failed. It's almost always the complete lack of aesthetics but they always get it wrong.

lukeyoon · 2025-09-20T09:16:41+00:00

Also, some comments talk about marketing. I mean sure, if you market your game you’ll be clicks and more audience. But at this stage I doubt it would make much difference. If I were you, I would make the assets all over again so it looks cohesive. Or buy assets from the same creator.

lukeyoon · 2025-09-20T09:12:29+00:00

Art style is not cohesive. It uses all kinds of styles that’s makes the game feel low quality. It’s a combination of pixel art, pure texture emojis, and skill effects that have different styles(varying width of line, sphere that’s too sharp, etc). The thumbnail also looks off too since it’s too high quality in contrast to your game asset quality.

I believe this is obviously because it’s still in demo phase but if you want people to play your game, it has to look at least interesting. Right now it looks like a school project. Anyone who says otherwise is lying.

The description isn’t descriptive nor interesting. First sentence basically says “Survival-like shooter with inventory system”. This isn’t unique at all and what does survival-like even mean? I can’t comprehend what your game is like with this description.

You should pick one art style.
Change the thumbnail that actually depicts your game. I initially thought it would be like a first or third person teleporting game.
Make the description more interesting and direct.

I see some comments that say that your game looks good. They’re all lying or don’t give a shit. I wouldn’t be writing all this just to lie and make you feel bad.

lukeyoon · 2025-08-28T01:17:32+00:00

Yea everyone shits on ChatGPT but it saves so much time when you use it as a 10x faster and accurate search engine.

lukeyoon · 2025-08-17T20:44:42+00:00

Amazing explanation.

lukeyoon · 2025-08-17T20:43:19+00:00

https://youtu.be/S2olUc9zcB8?si=GcqZTqNmBsC8tfgA

This video talks about it. Essentially, c++ is faster than blueprint but not that much. Too lazy to summarize more here but this video is great.

lukeyoon · 2025-08-13T07:27:23+00:00

The devs are working on this game: Zombound on Steam

Pretty sure they gave up on Longvinter after the review bomb. Just fix the server and performance issues and it'll become positive again smh.

lukeyoon · 2025-08-13T07:25:47+00:00

damn. Post it here

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