@bitinn
I think it's always been that way, but projects were shorter back then. So crunch was "work overtime for 6 months to make a film tie-in" rather than "work overtime for 5 years to make a sequel".
@dphrygian yeah it is one of my working theories: cycles. Both the cycle for a big game is longer and the cycle of game market is at a point where you go big or go broke.
But still, we are creating much more values then before, the market matured, yet the project management regressed?
@minionsoft I love this. I was a big fan of the Atic on my old Speccy back when. Good to know some things don't change.. I still really like it and I'm still pretty crap at it!
I'm starting to add replication since I'm now getting into actual player interaction systems. To reduce code duplication, I wanted a generic interaction function with a templated parameter.
Doesn't work. Unreals reflection system, which is needed for replication, can't really handle template types. That's a bummer.
@dergell I think TECHNICALLY this would be possible via a UHT extension. If you would be able to hook that process and use something like Clang to expand the templates/macros...
But I agree it's way to complex. It's a shame that unreals code gen isn't smart enough to understand any C×× metaprogramming techniques
@daviwil I wonder how easily one could patch that into gzDoom, for instance. There are numerous retro games with either open-source ports or original source out there.
No, I want to see Descent 1 and 2 with this applied.
Hey #gamedev if you're making a gritty #soulslike game, let me compose for it. I am dying to flex my dark fantasy orchestra skills and it would be an honor to score your game. <3
An example of using the Exponential Height Fog and how the lighting looks with it... what I love about the Unreal Engine 5, a couple of objects in the scene make magic, I only adjusted the distance and density
An interesting fact about Unreal Engine 5, I don't know if it was in UE4, but now when creating volume material you need to place Exponential Height Fog on the scene and on Volumetric Fog, otherwise, the material is not displayed
If you want the emotional high of "I am a God! I'm so smart!", only to return to "I'm the biggest idiot" 10 minutes later. Become a Game developer. #gamedev#solodev#struggle
At a certain point, if I want to make 2D games that aren’t bound to a specific closed-source engine (Construct, Defold) or proprietary language/GUI-based app (Godot), and can run on basically anything (including HTML5, consoles, Playdate)…
Introduction Online gaming is exploding globally, raking in a cool $180.3 billion last year. That's some serious loot! From classic titles to esports and f...
Really enjoying #AnimalWell having its moment in the spotlight. What a great showcase of how putting passion into an #IndieDev project can capture the attention and interest of so many people.
For such a well-trodden genre, it’s proving there is a lot of fresh ground to cover, and indies seem to be able to do that even better than big industry players.
Makes me excited to put more energy into my own #GameDev projects as well!
@OffTheBooks Bigmode is Dunkey's company he started, so a built in audience of near 8 million viewers definitely helps get a game noticed. Nothing wrong with that obviously, I applaud it, the whole idea of setting up the publisher was literally to help good, smaller games succeed as he saw great games constantly flying under the radar.
How do I stop my own windows (the one with the giant X) from looking like they're out from the early 2010's? I really want to throw out SDL from my engine ASAP.
@PixelPerfectEngine Are you saying this is SDL doing that? Or you're trying to create the windows yourself so you can get rid of SDL and your windows are doing that?
Need more practice, so today I decided to learn more about Post Processing in Unreal Engine 5, I made the draft of the scanner Material. The final goal is to do as in the game Days Gone or Death Stranding. What other examples do you like?
Yesterday, I wrote a #devblog update for my #indiegame after four years of working on other projects. It feels good to return to the unfinished update 1.0.2 for my #dungeoncrawler game "The Fire of Ardor".
I have a made couple of improvements lately and plan to release the update this summer:
Welcome back! (To this game, haha) I just returned to working on a little game project myself after a 2 year hiatus. Pretty similar story, I lost interest in it after the pile of Things to Do got too daunting.
But, I just finished rewriting the backend because I wanted better controller support too (and some other things)! I'd also been musing on the need to detatch the cursor as it's own object, only loosely coupled to the mouse pointer.
The new #CRT7 demo is live! Decypher strange computers, unravel modified tape players, and unlock impossible doors. Point & click your way around a huge variety of puzzles in a mysterious basement!
Shares and wishlists appreciated to get to the next milestone 🧡
I've removed image decoding from the engine and built a small "asset packer" program that converts PNGs to binary assets at build time, reducing them to 8 grayscale colors with RLE compression. Efficiency achieved!
