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It's good! The RNG can get a bit annoying though but I suppose that is par for the course for many roguelite deckbuilders

Pinpoint by tombasche Find and help the survivors

I made a thing for a game jam.

It's a 90's adventure-game-inspired point and click where you scan the airwaves looking for survivors in a post-apocalyptic world.

Fun twist at the end. Doesn't take long to finish ✌️

tombasche.itch.io/pinpoint

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Urgh. Comments are fine. People are being silly.

Fallout 3 and Tron Legacy have the exact same plot

tbh the "that's not real code" thing is definitely something someone inexperienced would say as a kind of insecure deflection.

Most programmers would be like "yep, get's the job done"

You will get better. AI code will always be shit

Woltin omistajista tuli miljonäärejä, mutta kenen kustannuksella? ”Tämä on nykypäivän orjuutta”

Thanks! I haven’t done a jam in a while and I definitely missed the feeling of all these constraints

The progress so far for this game jam entry.

It's been a fun lesson in sound design, mood-setting and conveying information through the environment.

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Bloomberg headline: "Nvidia Halts Plan to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI, WSJ says"

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Got a nice mood going. Chopin always adds some frivolity

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Entered a game jam last minute

The theme is Wasteland / Radio Communications. This is a couple hours of ideation, setup and blocking out a scene.

Let's see what the weekend brings.

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WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI

As an expat I found it fascinating attempting to explain Jan 26. to locals here (Finland).

They wish me "Happy Australia Day" and when I say oh we don't really say that or celebrate it in our house there is such a look of genuine confusion.

Now you can undo every single track you've placed because you've made a terrible mistake and need to try a different path

May or may not be a metaphor for life choices

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Working on the gameplay loop...

get it

LOOP

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(probably costs less than a cup of coffee depending on where you live!)

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Kinda neat follow camera going on now, which uses the track spline as a dolly.

I had this idea where you have to keep the train from going too fast around corners otherwise it'll topple - perhaps that's the next blob of dev time!

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Custom spline animation component for Unity (replacement for Spline Animate) Custom spline animation component for Unity (replacement for Spline Animate) - MoveAlongSpline.cs

If you like code, here's the incredibly simple component

gist.github.com/tombasche/11...

Added some speed controls to the tiny train! Now you can zip along as fast or as slow as you want.

Fun fact: had to write my own Spline animation component since the Unity provided one suuuuuuuucks

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I have a software dev friend like this bless him - lots of opinions and “one day I will open a games studio” but literally never finished (or started!) anything

Yeah I mean you don’t see actual devs asking for mean advice because like - they already get valuable feedback

I think game dev is also full of “tourists” - people who like the idea of game dev but never actually really do the hard stuff.

They like jeering their advice from the sidelines

I think it’s also an outlet for people specifically to be mean as well

It’s useful maybe?

But in general showing off some video of gameplay or a trailer with zero context and expecting feedback on things that you haven’t already noticed means you’ve probably already failed in getting feedback or to playtest extensively

I was on Reddit for a while there but oh man is it a depressing toxic echo chamber of marketing “advice” and basic beginner stuff.

I have to wonder what percentage of people there have ever shipped anything.

Especially in r/DestroyMyGame…

Had the exact same rug thing as a kid! Feel like I need to include this now in same way.

and yeah some kind of exploration toy train thing with roguelite elements ... let's see!

gamedev.tv folks have some good stuff and pretty reasonable pricing

Added something you can actually do in the world, but no idea if I like the idea of limited tracks and having to rely on RNG to stock up 🤔

Overall vibe is "whimsical exploration" - I'd love to hear ideas.

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