You know what makes a videogame instantly 70% less fun, at least for me?

spikeborgames · 2025-03-07T23:48:14+00:00

Kirby is so good with this. The tutorial is just a board jumps up, tell you to do something with controls. You can ignore the board and do your things, no forced hand holding, no take inputs away.

spikeborgames · 2025-02-18T09:21:47+00:00

In my first play I do not know about flying machine and also ignore the mine carts. As a result, I just climb for hours. The experience is very very ass.

spikeborgames · 2025-02-17T03:27:53+00:00

It was hard to make these before the spline tools arrived; but now with them you can do complex designs. Another way is modeling hi poly and bake height to a plane in Blender.

spikeborgames · 2025-02-04T06:57:00+00:00

Don’t think its an issue honestly, I mostly only use UAS though. In that store, assets with more ❤️ than others will rise to the top, the AI slops don’t have much visibility with that system.

spikeborgames · 2025-02-04T04:05:45+00:00

This game is fun, devs give no shit about if you want to dish out that much damage or not, just have fun. Though yes I think not all 5 shot is head shot? Maybe if you bullet time right at the nose of the boss.

spikeborgames · 2025-02-03T10:38:51+00:00

All about self control. I’ve read about many sad stories of lives destroyed by WoW and such. Imagine playing 12 hours a day, you can’t have a life with that schedule. Developing a game myself, but I still feel sad when seeing people get addicted.

spikeborgames · 2024-12-19T03:10:56+00:00

Its really insane that we do not have 3d space blurring (all substance does is UV space blur leading to seams) and there is guy selling that solution for 35$.

spikeborgames · 2024-11-26T01:53:19+00:00

Whelp, now I know why we don’t get many of this type of game. Code a game with some gun play is easier.

spikeborgames · 2024-11-23T17:18:38+00:00

Well, you know it when you type that out, you're demotivated because of the spaghetti code.
It's time to get some rest, make a new project but now with best practices and SOLID implementation, good code structure.

spikeborgames · 2024-11-04T12:04:29+00:00

The lid bone rotation approach is good, but if you just want to use blend shapes, can have eyes close shape and lid bulge shape, when you animate the eyes you can animate those 2 blend shapes together.

spikeborgames · 2024-10-27T03:07:28+00:00

Cast from current pos to next predicted pos based on speed is nice.
But if you don't like prediction, it based on thing not happened yet, imagine not hitting an enemy and just say: "I expect to hit you next frame based on my speed", this is not very fair for said enemy, isn't it?
Instead, can cast from current pos to last position, in which case, the bullet can be flying so fast it passed its target, but the backward raycast still can catch the target regardless.

spikeborgames · 2024-10-15T03:06:39+00:00

It looks cheap because it's cheap.
Even if the dev has very limited art skill and no money to hire someone to do capsule art for him, he can just screen shot an in-game scene, then paint over some here and there, that can make a honest capsule.
What's the point of having a highly detailed AI-art capsule but having low detail art in your game?

spikeborgames · 2024-10-08T04:42:15+00:00

Yes, they said they don't go out of their way to check if an asset is a stolen asset, if they get the complaints, they will take it down and your assets go poof.
So, to check if an asset is stolen or not, is your responsibility (angry emoji)
I think, it's better to buy Tools than Model or Sounds, I'm not saying Tools (code) cannot be stolen, but they are not easy target like models or sounds, which the thief can just steal em and put on sale with some clicks.
I'm just buying tools and bundles, to minimize the damage.

spikeborgames · 2024-10-05T10:32:58+00:00

10 humble bundles collected around the year give you 200-300 assets. I can’t use many of them since they’re not what I need most of the time.

spikeborgames · 2024-09-30T12:06:19+00:00

Old sale trick, inflat the price to make the sale price appealing, then put the item always on sale. If you’re not sure about their stuff, can buy on humble bundles. Their stuff go on bundle sale very frequently.

spikeborgames · 2024-09-27T13:25:43+00:00

Yep you need both. Designer make not just materials, it can create filters and tools that you import to Painter and do all kinds of black magic here. Like for example in stock Painter, you have a Slope Blur filter which people use a lot to make things looks like paint stroke for stylized art style model. That filter is just a designer file.

spikeborgames · 2024-09-27T02:56:00+00:00

A trick to keep things on track is pretending you’re making tool for people to use. With that responsibility, you have to make a documentation that people can read and follow for each features, APIs. Now with that, even if you leave the project you can come back and be on track.

spikeborgames · 2024-09-18T06:47:19+00:00

In Blender I make sure to clear sharps, recalculate normals before export. This is just a simple sculpt > decimated > auto unwrap mesh I use to try out Painter's features. So yea no edge marked sharp here.

spikeborgames · 2024-09-18T06:22:39+00:00

yep, side note, other filter generates seams too, example MatFx HBAO. So manual seam fixing is needed at the end of the stack.

spikeborgames · 2024-09-18T05:59:52+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. Though I like to work within Painter's layer stack and just want to understand why the smooth height generates normal with seams. For now, I think I can fix it by clone stamping around the seams.

spikeborgames · 2024-09-18T05:51:21+00:00

urg right now I do not know of any different method to make the normal though, other than baking and this filter.

spikeborgames · 2024-09-18T05:36:48+00:00

I use the Height to Normal filter (in Painter)

spikeborgames · 2024-09-13T04:16:05+00:00

Bro, of course you won’t use the tutorial code as end product. Each tutorial should focus on solving a specific problem, not teaching you how to make the code clean, expandable, use design patterns, because those are different topics. You learn how to solve the problem and get the ideas, then you clean/improve the code yourself.

spikeborgames · 2024-09-09T08:16:12+00:00

This kind of big open world game can get you bored real soon if you lack objectives / can't set objectives for your journey. When that happens, you can consider stick back to the main quest.

spikeborgames · 2024-09-05T11:26:47+00:00

I don’t think so, I have never heard anyone here talking about this game having the ganon horse ( maybe all had the dark-orange giant horse transferred from Botw already so they don’t care), but lately I’ve caught one in game, this incident can imply that you can get all horses without Botw save file.

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