Small Game Studio

At 3PM PST/6PM EST today, I'll be playing an improvised set of modular synthesizer music featuring videogame samples for the ROMchip Journal Fundraiser! We're live right now so drop by twitch.tv/romchipjournal and check out donate.romchip.org/schedule for the whole schedule!

Finally, @maxkreminski.bsky.social is sharing some of their work on Patchwork in “Creative AI: Lensing the Imagination” starting with a chain of generators—from world to character to story. There’s a problem of homogeneity so tools for users to guide/select/direct helps make more specific “lenses.”

The next talk, by Issac Karth, was on “Vivisecting Procgen” and focused on the procedural generation systems in Elite (1984). I didn’t realize how central Elite is in contemporary research on procgen and appreciated the breakdown of the system/seed used to generate the game’s galaxy.

First up, at “AI & Storytelling,” @quakefultales.bsky.social presented on “Play as in Stage Play: Systemic Acting for Interactive Storytelling” which focused on forms of performativity shared between games and theater and how it modulates story. “Caves of Qud as a play and Macbeth as a Roguelike.”

Hi @wen85.bsky.social, remember to use the #SmallGameStudio hashtag on your posts, otherwise we won't be able to see your work in our shared feed!

Looking great—lovely selection of assets!

Haha, try rotating the Directional Light and the sun will set! (Procedural sky box)

Love this—lovely minimal design. Also happy to see the Blender to Unity pipeline is working for you. Great start!

You'll get it! Just have to give it time—practice makes perfect :)

Yes! Excited to hear what you think of Robert Yang's writing on the game :)

Hmmm, remind me to talk more about collision in class—we'll figure it out!

Oops! Good opportunity to practice!

You're doing good!

Haha, excellent!

Yes! We'll learn more tricks like this to make things easier! Looking good!

Trapper keeper cover vibes!

Awesome, can't wait to see what you make!

Scripts in Project 0! This is a first :)

Ah, look at the culling settings on the camera. You can change how far away it renders polys and shadows.

Interesting! What filetype did you export from Tinkercad? Looks like it worked well!

Haha, looking good!

Oh wow! First solo projects lets gooooo!

Looking good! Try to make the microblogging useful to you—follow friends, game makers, and artists to fill your feed with interesting things; try to document your progress with screenshots and short thoughts as you work; and remember to respond to others posts to develop conversations!

Haha, at least you know now!

The "focus" shortcut works in other 3D programs like Maya too!

Awesome—yes, Maya is such a powerful tool! Here's Unity's documentation on importing from Maya: docs.unity3d.com/Manual/HOWTO...

Uh oh! I think we figured out that the FPS Controller assets weren't all loaded. For the mouse, maybe unplug and replug?

Neat! Have you tried changing some of the values on the controller component? You can really change the feel by tweaking speed, gravity, etc.

Oh, good call on giphy!

Haha, oh no! How long did it take?