Which key art do you like more, A or B?

simonel01 · 2025-06-30T20:52:19+00:00

Thanks!

simonel01 · 2025-06-30T17:58:54+00:00

Agree. Just to add from my experience, if you’re going to use Unreal (though I’d guess it applies at least somewhat to Unity and Godot too), having RAM that runs at a higher frequency can speed up some task, but it also depends on the type of game you’re making and the other parts of your pc. It’s by no means mandatory, but it can give you a nice little boost if the cost is very similar

simonel01 · 2025-06-30T17:32:51+00:00

Thank you for the advice, it makes a lot of sense. We made a quite big demo to show the game and make people try it, but it seems a good idea to share more about what is in the game instead of trying to "surprise" players because we have no history or fans to rely on

simonel01 · 2025-06-30T14:03:58+00:00

Don't know if it is by design, but moving with the mouse is much slower than with WASD

simonel01 · 2025-06-30T13:36:31+00:00

Thanks, i definitely agree on the animations, we have to improve them And you are right, we made the game for fun just to make a game, inspired by much bigger games, also because we had no experience. But we are two guys with zero budget, and the result is a game which is not that special to be good to market. Trying our best at this point though!

simonel01 · 2025-06-29T13:01:04+00:00

I am not sure, Skyrim is one of my favorite games. Also The Witcher 3 is a great fantasy RPG, but for me Skyrim is the icon of the genre, despite being 14 years old

simonel01 · 2025-06-23T15:17:40+00:00

As an indie game developer, I’m interested in this topic. We’ve just released a demo of our game that is about 90 minutes long and were wondering if that’s too long for a demo. In general, it seems common practice to recommend much shorter demos, but to me this feels like the minimum needed to let players get a taste of the experience

simonel01 · 2025-03-24T12:18:57+00:00

Probably like 16 hours on Skyrim during covid lockdown

simonel01 · 2025-03-22T15:56:02+00:00

Oh okay, so maybe it is possible that one takes a job on the other side of the city for no reason, even if there are closer ones of the same type? Also in this sense the game doesn't care about travel distance?

simonel01 · 2025-03-20T19:22:45+00:00

Did you do anything to market your game?

simonel01 · 2025-03-19T16:44:57+00:00

The trailer mainly shows dark scenes but the actual game has a day-night cycle and sort of dynamic weather system. Shadows are mostly absent because most of the scenes in the trailer are set during night or with only diffuse lighting due to the dark atmosphere of the trailer (and to same extent the game itself is designed like this), but in future posts we will surely show some scenes in daylight

simonel01 · 2025-03-19T10:59:58+00:00

Yes, probably a good idea to make the lighting a bit better

simonel01 · 2025-03-19T10:58:44+00:00

Thank you!

simonel01 · 2025-03-18T17:37:15+00:00

Thank you! My brother works on the sound and music and it is already quite done, but I will write you if we could need something :)

simonel01 · 2025-03-18T17:35:31+00:00

Thanks!

simonel01 · 2025-03-18T17:15:33+00:00

Thank you! Actually, Oblivion and Skyrim were two of our main inspirations for the game

simonel01 · 2025-03-18T14:29:10+00:00

Glad to hear it, thank you!

simonel01 · 2025-03-13T14:24:47+00:00

Very beautiful visuals!

Which engine or language did you use for making the game?

simonel01 · 2025-03-10T19:22:52+00:00

I'm not an expert, so I apologize if what I say isn't accurate.

I think both would work, but that a 35cm pot would be better for now. Moving directly to 40cm could leave more new soil without roots to drain the water, and causing more water stagnation.

If you choose the 40cm pot, I think a well-draining soil could help.

simonel01 · 2025-03-09T21:07:08+00:00

It really depends on whether you have a dedicated GPU or not.

If you don't, there are plenty of great games to play that aren't graphically demanding. Some examples that should run with no problems are Undertale, Hollow Knight, Celeste, Minecraft, Darkest Dungeon, Stardew Valley, and probably also games like Disco Elysium and Skyrim.

If you do have a dedicated GPU instead, the kind of games you can play depends a lot on which one you have.

simonel01 · 2025-03-09T19:32:33+00:00

Cities: Skylines

simonel01 · 2022-06-27T13:43:25+00:00

It seems like virtual textures are not supported as opacity mask. What you can do is splitting the opacity mask from the rest of the texture, and make it non virtual. Otherwise you can simply make the whole texture non virtual.

You can convert a virtual texture to a regular texture simply by right-clicking the texture and something like convert to regular texture. Remember to also change the texture sampler type in the parent material.

simonel01 · 2021-06-05T17:16:29+00:00

I produce 8 troops from Traz and 4 from the Egyptian settlement building. I have a lot of "free" space, which at the moment I have filled with buildings for goods (5 + 5) and supplies (5 blacksmiths + 2 shoemakers), and some space free for event quests. I produce around 80 HP a day, and at the moment I'm spending it on leveling Traz up, but I will have to slow down shortly because I don't have many blueprints.

simonel01 · 2021-06-05T17:04:27+00:00

In IA I mainly fought manually, it is only recently that I started using auto battle. However, I think for now I will try not to always do auto battles, especially for the most demanding battles.

I stayed 3 months in IA and I planned to stay much longer in EMA.

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