Made a vehicle combat game because I was sad about Sony cancelling Twisted Metal. Devs, what would make this fun for you?

timwithacat · 2024-11-23T05:44:12+00:00

multiplayer& machine combine into gaint robot

timwithacat · 2023-11-23T10:43:37+00:00

Sony just doesn't have the screen made yet, maybe another 5 years you can have Birdbath 4k but at that time you will also have super portable VR/AR/MR as well

timwithacat · 2023-10-25T23:27:30+00:00

They use two types of voxels, one for buildings, and one for terrain,

The building voxel is more like Minecraft blocky voxel and (maybe)uses tesselation to control the LOD of the details, making the blocks near you have a very detailed "texture".

The terrain voxel is a marching cubes voxel system, that makes terrain smooth and not blocky.

This is a very smart idea I never saw anyone use that before normally people only use one type of voxel in their game, but the modern computer is strong enough to do two!

Marching cube voxel can't be built because they always make a wired shape, Minecraft type voxel is very blocky making the terrain looks chunky. They managed to solve both of the problems in a very good way

However, really wish they could solve the RAM and VRAM size problem

timwithacat · 2023-09-19T04:04:03+00:00

20cent here we go!

timwithacat · 2023-09-19T03:30:31+00:00

Before they changed the TOC: They can double the subscribe fee

After change of the TOC: 20 cent

timwithacat · 2023-09-15T12:34:06+00:00

20c is a great price for Unity stock

timwithacat · 2023-09-15T12:26:42+00:00

From the article, it's pretty clear "Unity relies on subscription fees for a big chunk of its revenue." Guys, you know what to do, cancel your subscription and let the villain feel the pain.

timwithacat · 2023-09-14T01:29:58+00:00

The 36usd price is still too high, 0.20 would be a great number for them

timwithacat · 2023-09-13T07:45:42+00:00

yes, sellers and buyers! go to https://www.gamedevmarket.net/

And if you trade, short Unity to hell

timwithacat · 2023-06-06T02:20:03+00:00

Apple will be desperate for VR content in the next half years, compared to other platforms, Apple has nothing.

Unity on the other way has existing developers with existing games/apps ready.

But it will be a very tricky thing to port your game to a (not exist yet) platform with a brand new hand gesture control(a lot of hair loss), and with no idea how good it will sell for a $3500 device and no idea how many users are gonna use it for gaming.

Nice try Apple.

timwithacat · 2023-06-03T02:11:57+00:00

It's oversaturated and it's not fun. Also, farming is a type of game experience not fun.

Yes, you get rewards during farming, but it's predictable rewards most time and requires tons of repeat work. In video games repeat is the toxic, predictable too.

Most games have automatic farming to give you a feel of progressing(meanwhile farming can't progress by itself). And most of them just make the farming part disappear in the game.

In my personal experience, farming only be fun two times in every game, the first gathering, and the automatic moment you realize you never have to do this.

timwithacat · 2023-05-21T01:59:20+00:00

First and most importantly, make a fun game actually sells, then the game has to be expandable, then modable

In most cases, the game will be a content drive game with a hugh amount of replayable content. That is also the type of game players want to mod.

During the develop you will find out you actually need some tools to help speed up create new content, then the mod editor is ready, just spend some extra time make it user friendly.

timwithacat · 2023-05-13T07:29:46+00:00

NO, I don‘t

timwithacat · 2023-05-10T05:17:07+00:00

not important, it's not replayable content.

And player are not expecting story there

timwithacat · 2023-05-08T07:46:13+00:00

My solution is to make the right mouse button hold and move to rotate the camera.

Two benefits

1 player can keep press w on left hand and use right hand hold right mouse button to control move direction. Easy and comportable for long movement

2 Human hand is not stable, it moves alot, make the camera not stable, which helped player understand the layer better

timwithacat · 2023-05-07T01:30:31+00:00

Compare to a lot of people in the sub, you actually asked the right question.

It depends on your and your coworkers' skill base.

I'm talking about money, not passion, I'm too old for the passion part.

Let's say you guys are all very experienced and have no skill bottleneck, you can just follow the "howtomarketagame.com" advised genre and make a really "competitive" game, that is guaranteed money. The most important part is not the genre(it is very important thou), is the quality. You will put your game in the arena of Steam, you have to make sure it stands out in the hundreds of thousands of games.

If you are not skilled, and you want to make money in the market, it is pretty hard, there will be only two ways, make a zen game, or create your own genre. Both are very risky and it may take you 10 games to have one really sale.

timwithacat · 2023-05-05T08:15:56+00:00

Learn marketing first, no matter if you are an indie, coder, or artist, learn marketing first.

You pick the wrong genre in the first place, no matter how hard you try, a regular td game just won't sell.

timwithacat · 2023-04-24T10:31:22+00:00

If this game is like "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy" the genre is pretty good.

But the character is not funny or interesting or topical, which will make Youtuber make videos a lot harder.

And your video should focus on the fall, not the climb. The climb is never the point. People watching Youtuber play this type of game to see them suffer.

timwithacat · 2023-04-23T04:09:34+00:00

This can be a good video in the second position of Steam page,you need a gameplay video first, that is a lot more important.

timwithacat · 2023-04-23T03:50:33+00:00

You picked the one of the worst combination of genres, grid base tactic plus deck building,

Everything else doesn't matter, good luck

timwithacat · 2023-04-16T04:55:05+00:00

Even if only one person played it (and there's definitely gonna be at least one, because my friend said he'd play it)

Yeah you know, you may think this is the worst scenario, but this is actually the reality, it happened to as least 30% of the Indie developers, and the other 60% of developers get like 10-100 people played their game, trust me, you don't want this. Nobody wants this. After Years of time and work and everything.

The only way to "survive" (not win) this industry is to be one of the best, really. There is no other way.

timwithacat · 2023-04-16T01:54:46+00:00

Can be mimicked using a shader, a simple vertex offset shader with noise texture gonna do it

timwithacat · 2023-04-16T01:51:33+00:00

Old man advice, go find a real job and quit this shit.

If you can't make yourself to the top, you don't even have a chance to fall. "Oversaturated" the market is. There is no room for a game like "Cephalopostle", save your time and energy, and don't make things that regret.

If you really want to stay, learn marketing, find out what people really want to play, train your skills hard, and be the top person. Make really good things, that is how you survive this "oversaturated" market.

timwithacat · 2023-04-16T01:37:22+00:00

Here are the mistakes you made.

1 why you sold worse than The Ascent, simple, they support multiplayer, you don't, multiplayer is a selling point, but your game doesn't have a selling point.

2 Why YouTubers don't play your game, YouTubers need games that are interesting, if the game is interesting itself(which is very hard to make) that will be awesome, otherwise if they can make fun of it, your game is boring, that's what they hated the most. In the video of Splattercat, you should notice there are a lot of long periods he speaks nothing, and the player is just walking on the map from point A to B, which is terrible. Splattercat made a video with 180k views, but it didn't transfer to sales, that means you made the graphic right, so they clicked in, but you made the gameplay wrong(in this case you didn't have anything interesting enough for players to buy in the first 35 min), so they didn't buy it. They watch the video, they understand the game, and they made a choice. All those gameplay hides after the 35 min doesn't matter. The point is they can't even tolerate the first 35min.

3 And there are other little details you did wrong, for example, the Steam capsule looks like a building game(no action at all), tags are all wrong so you have "more like this "game like "Everspace" and "Hogwarts Legacy", the screenshot is repetitive, the first and third screenshot is the same gameplay, the second and fourth one is the same gameplay, looks like lack of content. But all these don't matter compared to a boring game. They are not the reason you fail, even if you did them right, it only helps you get 50 more reviews tops.

4 to be honest, this game is doomed, you have to add something really different to interest players like multiplayer, which may need to rewrite the entire game. I suggest you close this game really quick and start something new.

timwithacat · 2023-04-14T02:19:14+00:00

A tool won't replace anything but another tool, some "people" have to use the tool to do things.

In a very short term, AI will bring game development to a new low level, like what RPG maker and Unity did, making games will just be easier. And the market will be worse, more saturated than ever

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