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FakeGAF Episode 5: The Thirst Awakens
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You really only need two for a Metroidvania: one at the beginning and one at the end.
along the way you meet various characters and sometimes they do things.
right now I have to make a character physically run and jump etc. from one room of the map to like 4 rooms over, talking along the way.
there's no intelligent pathfinding in my game, so I can't just say "go here" and the unit will do it. I'm scripting every movement and animation change by hand.
yesssss
my big idea for one is a new genre I call "don't souls" which I may have already talked about.
:: hires you to program it ::
:: shitty pay ::
That does look about q lifetime supply for me. Good call
I lost an Isaac run one that was massively overpowered with max hearts cause I couldn't stop dodging into stuff
Just make roguelikes and only roguelikes
You are a mad man!
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Jobbs, all I'm doing today is DLC shit, too. We can be friends!
I lost an Isaac run one that was massively overpowered with max hearts cause I couldn't stop dodging into stuff
After drinks we all started playing Mortal Kombat Test Your Luck. Functioning gaming drunk, I guess.
I'm gonna take a look at Amazon Lumberyard and see if it's any good, and maybe screw around with Unity later.
Did I tell you about my idea of a soulsish roguelike?
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Nomadic Sparks
Banned
What about a beat-em up or platformer where you get to pick two monsters from a wider selection and they act as a pair, using their unique powers to fight or solve puzzles? You can call it PAIR-ANORMAL.
nope! it better not be stealing from MY idea for a soulsish roguelike.
Ewww beat-em ups and platformers
The main unique mechanic is that your character has perma death and you have to find and fight your old undead corpse with a new character to get your equipment back
liliththepale
Banned
No kidding. I barely weigh anything and that dramatically changes the blood alcohol chemistry.
It's okay, you wouldn't love the music I listen to either. There's nothing wrong with that.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. Execution and exposure are everything.
fascinating. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter
gonna make you all sign ten NDAs before I tell you my amazing idea because I am paranoid someone will steal my valuable idea that no one else has ever had because my ideas are awesome and no one else can think of them
Tfw you single me out
I tried to make a blog but it only lasted one entry
You would be surprised to know that I have several guilty top 40 favorites.
I'm tired of saying it but I dislike the very notion of "guilty pleasure" I only believe in pleasure
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I already thought of it. Too slow.
Guilty implies that you should feel bad for enjoying it. Which is kinda messed up. So yeah, I agree.
liliththepale
Banned
I didn't mean to. It's a general principal that applies to everybody.
Ideas take a lot to get up and running, and they take a lot more work to become fun and polished. Most game devs have several ideas floating around in their head, possibly even dozens, and you never stop coming up with new ideas. Yet there's only time to work on one or two at a time, and it'll take a lot of time and effort to pattern out.
If I seem jaded or disparaging it's because I've seen several thousand ideas for games over the last decade as I've built stuff and hung around others building stuff, but I've seen far fewer good games get made than that.
But if you really believe in your idea, great! Do what you can to figure out how you can make it happen!
I'm of the opinion that popular things are popular for a good reason.
Not everyone has to like every popular thing but that doesn't make the popular thing less deserving of its popularity.
Zombi has this mechanic. It's pretty cool.
RobotNinjaHornets
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I didn't mean to. It's a general principal that applies to everybody.
Ideas take a lot to get up and running, and they take a lot more work to become fun and polished. Most game devs have several ideas floating around in their head, possibly even dozens, and you never stop coming up with new ideas. Yet there's only time to work on one or two at a time, and it'll take a lot of time and effort to pattern out.
If I seem jaded or disparaging it's because I've seen several thousand ideas for games over the last decade as I've built stuff and hung around others building stuff, but I've seen far fewer good games get made than that.
But if you really believe in your idea, great! Do what you can to figure out how you can make it happen!
Rami Ismail of Vlambeer does good talks about this sort of thing. In one of them he just called on a random member of the audience and was like "You, gimme a game idea." and the guy, after getting over the nerves of being called on, came up with an idea in like 5 minutes.
I didn't mean to. It's a general principal that applies to everybody.
Ideas take a lot to get up and running, and they take a lot more work to become fun and polished. Most game devs have several ideas floating around in their head, possibly even dozens, and you never stop coming up with new ideas. Yet there's only time to work on one or two at a time, and it'll take a lot of time and effort to pattern out.
If I seem jaded or disparaging it's because I've seen several thousand ideas for games over the last decade as I've built stuff and hung around others building stuff, but I've seen far fewer good games get made than that.
But if you really believe in your idea, great! Do what you can to figure out how you can make it happen!
I'm just teasing. I come up with tons of ideas but I only expect a couple to ever have anything done and who knows how good they'll end up.
Actually the main reason why I don't have a problem with sharing my ideas is exactly because of that. I don't know if I'll ever get them done so if someone else did that would be cool too and even if it ended up competing with me, theres still the matter of execution
Also I'd rather treat it like art rather than a product
gosh darn. beaten again
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I don't think anything "deserves" to be popular. By definition, the word is based on mass positive opinion. People just like what they like and don't like what they don't like.
But I drew this mummy and everything! For platforming he was going to use his bandages to swing and for combat he could use them to pull in enemies. Then he and the other person could do a group attack called "Shoot the moon" where the other character grabs mummy and uses him as a human yo-yo to attack enemies from a distance.
You could still do it. It's not common and is really cool.
it's a peav of mine when someone else acts defensive over their idea
I don't do it at all. I let me ideas flow. I don't care
ideas are mostly worthless
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btw, I think it's kind of like cheating when someone cries in response to an argument. it's because I can go no further after that point, I'm disarmed, but it's so passive aggressive -- it's like I'm not allowed to be angry, and I'm not allowed to be right. You have to win just because I have too much decency to not show compassion when someone is in emotional distress.
I don't do it at all. I let me ideas flow. I don't care
ideas are mostly worthless
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btw, I think it's kind of like cheating when someone cries in response to an argument. it's because I can go no further after that point, I'm disarmed, but it's so passive aggressive -- it's like I'm not allowed to be angry, and I'm not allowed to be right. You have to win just because I have too much decency to not show compassion when someone is in emotional distress.
liliththepale
Banned
Wow, that's bold, but good on Rami!
Right, but also it's easy to develop feelings for an idea without really thinking things out. A sort of game-dev crush, if you will. It's not until you see that idea in action or try to work things out with the idea that you'll see whether it's actually a even good idea in the first place. Some ideas are attractive but have lots of flaws and it's too hard to make it work.
To that end, I prefer romancing game ideas that I can date or get a solid impression of.
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
"What one man can do another can do!"
http://youtu.be/9ALOI63X_CE
I love The Edge. Such a guilty pleasure.
http://youtu.be/9ALOI63X_CE
I love The Edge. Such a guilty pleasure.
Personally I think I have a really good idea about this. Would you mind signing this NDA before I share it?
:: pushes clipboard over ::
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
I think pretty often popular things target and appeal to the lowest common denominator. Hence "guilty pleasure"
Sometimes though, a thing is lightning in a bottle and it is both extremely popular but also maintains artistic integrity. I feel the Souls series is a good example of this.
so what, though?
if you like something, then who cares? why defend or justify it? own it.
if you make it I'm sure you could get other people who aren't me to play it!
yeah especially in the genre it would be unique and if you combine that with a lot of the other mechanics, it would fit the type of medieval wasteland pretty well
I get attached to all my ideas but I don't feel the need for most of them to be seen through. A lot of it is just to entertain myself and I don't feel the need for visuals or anything for that
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Worst marketing campaign ever
It's seltzer. WTF
It's seltzer. WTF
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Me: "I don't know how to write dating sims."
Other Me: "But you know how to write plays. This is just a sexy play."
Me: "Oh, ok."
Other Me: "But you know how to write plays. This is just a sexy play."
Me: "Oh, ok."
I'm not insecure of my like of something that doesn't have as much integrity as I would prefer. I just recognize how shallow it is.
Nothing wrong with shallow so long as it is not the entirety of what you are about. It's about balance.
I know people that are on the other end that refuse to listen to pop on principle and that is about the most elitist shit I have ever seen.
liliththepale
Banned
I don't believe the lowest common denominator has anything to do with people. LCD gets ridiculously low results, and for 99.99% of integer sets the LCD is 1.
No, what you're looking for is the shape in the venn diagram with the largest surface area, which has no intrinsic value association.
seems to have worked on you!
A Fish Aficionado
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
...touché.seems to have worked on you!
To be fair, I've been drinking it since forever. It's like if you were really good friends with someone and they suddenly became interested in some garbage pop culture phenomenon.
liliththepale
Banned
Yeah, I figured. I've never heard of Polar, usually drink Perrier or San Pelegrino.
This actually happened.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
What the fuck.
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