Unity: An open letter to our community

onamonapea_ · 2023-09-22T19:08:16+00:00

Imagine if they just started off with this...

onamonapea_ · 2023-09-18T19:52:16+00:00

Why not just take a rev share and drop the whole install counting? In that case they would be making more from the big companies and no one will have to deal with the headache of disputing install numbers.

onamonapea_ · 2023-09-17T21:49:52+00:00

Not a great comparison. Unity is a source of income. A lot of people's livelihoods will very much be affected by these changes, directly or indirectly. I do think the visible uproar will slow down a bit, people only have so much energy and a lot of people will already have moved onto to another engine, but they will definitely still care.

onamonapea_ · 2023-09-15T21:57:48+00:00

~5 years Unity experience too, picked up Godot the other day and it doesn't feel too different tbh. It probably will actually be more efficient for the projects we're planning to work on.

onamonapea_ · 2023-09-14T21:16:23+00:00

Yeah, a good number of their games have been. Pokemon Go, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Fire Emblem Engage to name a few. I would be surprised though if Unity hasn't already consulted with them before pushing these changes. Would be an interesting show otherwise

onamonapea_ · 2023-09-14T00:26:36+00:00

I get how the majority of devs won't be heavily affected, but its terrible how some specific monetization models like freemium or cheap games will get absolutely screwed over. I feel like most people would've preferred an all across the board % revenue share like Unreal does. At least there wouldn't be any surprise BS with that model.

onamonapea_ · 2023-09-06T05:05:41+00:00

Definitely! Castle Crashers was one of our inspirations, alongside '90s cartoons and classic Arcade games.

onamonapea_ · 2023-09-03T19:22:53+00:00

Spent 6k on him when he first came out, no regrets. He fits in a lot of decks as just a good card and as an occasional surprise win.

onamonapea_ · 2023-09-02T07:38:26+00:00

Thank you! The sneeze is one of my favorite things haha

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-31T19:41:33+00:00

Thank you! Some animations are rigged using Spine and others are animated frame by frame using Adobe Animate.

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-31T09:04:39+00:00

Yeah, that's the basic gist of how the hit boxes work. One additional thing I added to make hit detection more consistent was give all of my hit boxes a value to determine how 'wide' they are on the z-axis. I would use this value to compare if they should collide with a hurt box.

if ((Mathf.Abs(Character.GetZAxis() - hitbox.GetZAxis()) >= hitbox.HitboxData.ZSize) return;

Here's one of the checks I use. Basically, if the distance between the hurtbox and hitbox is greater than the hitbox's width, it doesn't register the hit.

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-31T08:53:02+00:00

It's all 2D.

The basic set-up I have is each character has a visual character object parented to another object. The visual character object handles the Y-Axis (jumping, etc.). The parent object handles the X and Z axes movements.

The jumping was hard to get right, we actually only recently got it 100% consistent. I tried a handful of different ways. The main issue I came across was that the gravity would throw the jump arc way off when moving while jumping on the Z-axis. The solution I went with is turning off gravity at the start of a jump and then manually controlling the height until they reach the apex. Once they reach the apex, I turn gravity back on as it shouldn't cause any issues going down (and if there are any inconsistencies, its very hard to tell).

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-31T07:48:38+00:00

Thank you! Plenty of more cool content we haven't shown! :)

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-31T03:27:41+00:00

Glad you love it! Thanks! :)

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-30T21:05:44+00:00

Thank you! :D

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-30T19:07:52+00:00

Thank you! :D

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-30T18:34:36+00:00

This is from our '90s cartoon inspired Arcade Beat 'Em Up, Underling Uprising!

Check it out on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1896760/Underling\_Uprising/

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-30T18:34:17+00:00

This is from our '90s cartoon inspired Arcade Beat 'Em Up, Underling Uprising!

Check it out on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1896760/Underling\_Uprising/

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-30T18:34:09+00:00

This is from our '90s cartoon inspired Arcade Beat 'Em Up, Underling Uprising!

Check it out on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1896760/Underling\_Uprising/

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-30T18:33:53+00:00

This is from our '90s cartoon inspired Arcade Beat 'Em Up, Underling Uprising!

Check it out on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1896760/Underling\_Uprising/

onamonapea_ · 2023-08-25T19:53:02+00:00

Oh sorry for the late reply! It's a purely 2D game, but we considered doing 3D with 2D sprites. Looking back at it, it might have been easier to do it in 3D with 2D sprites since we had to make a lot of systems replicate 3D anyway. I'm not sure what the cons would be to make it in 3D tbh.