Daniel Catt Game Dev

Went to this very trippy gig on Thursday. The Johnny Halifax Invocation playing at St Giles Church in Camberwell. Fantastic musicians and a spectacular venue, not to mention real-time graphics made with oil and water. I'm new to the genre of psychedelic rock but after this I think I'm a fan :)

New Team project been started at #lsbu and I am very excited to be back in game production!

A certain dynamic should exist at all or be in a genre shows some ignorance to how these genre's are born.

Most modern day genre's came from a cool idea that resonates with people, that then has real thought put into it, and turned into something with a framework around it.

Should they have done that? I don't think there is really a definitive answer really.

but I do think that there is some naivety in thinking that games shouldn't be built upon certain systems at all. if it's not your thing of course that is fair, but to say that you don't think-

Mechanics that objectively provide benefit to the game, is something being 'Fun' good enough?

Devil May cry in specific has developed itself into a combo series, ever since 3 the games have very clearly wanted to push in the direction of combos, and whilst that is fun to some

The air, trivialising the difficulty of not only this enemy, but also all enemies around them, meaning some players can view it as 'Cheesy' which I can absolutely hear the argument for.

But it this line of thinking leads to a question, should all video games only include-

Motivated to keep coming back.

Now the only problem with this is that ultimately combos provide very little tangible benefit, in a lot of situations combos are not best means to taking out an enemy, and the few times they do help, it is because they let you juggle enemies in-

Modes, but also the players that do commit time often commit LUDICROUS levels of time comparable to live service games that have miles more content to consume.

Entirely because intrinsically that system has enough complexity and good enough feedback that the player is-

This can lead to more investment in the base game mechanics, if you can make just playing any part of the core game fun, then the replayability sky rockets, I mean in most of the devil may cry games, not only is it intended to be replayed, like increased difficulties or extra-

Something that Combos excel at, whilst obviously there's no objective metric that everybody enjoys combos, as this argument has proven, there is enough of an audience that does in fact believe them to be fun.

Combos Force a deeper interaction with the arsenal at hand

I think though that it boils down to how combos support the idea of Intrinsic rewards in games

Intrinsic rewards or better known as Intrinsic Motivation means how fun the game is to play in terms of raw feeling, is movement fun? is combat satisfying? etc.

The core argument comes from Devil May Cry vs Ninja Gaiden fans

And i get ninja gaiden fans point, that the point of these games is to survive a gauntlet of enemies and if you can simply juggle enemies forever then where is the difficulty or challenge?

This recent "Combo's shouldn't be in CAG's" mess recently has inspired me to talk about it a little more in depth.

Because at the end of the day it does bring up a good point that is what is the point of combos in action games?

:) Nipped into CEX on way in and bagged us a couple of additions to our Xbox 360 collection #lsbugames

Just had our presentation for... Peanut Pals! our team working on a new project! #LSBUGames #LANutoire #InANutShell

Something about a peanut with a bowler hat is tickling my fancy right about now… #LSBU

Working on the game jam over the weekend was not the best idea... Maybe next time bring a laptop that actually has good battery if you're going to use it on the road.

Regardless here are some assets from the game.

At #LSBU they are hosting an awesome game jam, but due to personal reasons, I could not participate as much as I want to, so to make up for it, I have joined the Unity 2025 Game jam, from today to Sunday at 12pm!

The theme is Timeless... Let's see how this goes.

#GameJam #GameDev #Student

4️⃣ 4️⃣ 4️⃣ #LSBUGames #Student #FantasticFour #Posing #3DAnimation

Been experimenting with the VFX Graphs in unity, A couple hours (and a cheeky tutorial) and out this comes #LSBUGames #LSBU #Unity #VFX #Student

Got a project on the works very WHO inspired... #LSBUGames #LSBU #DOCTORWHO #GameDev #Student

Really excited about Portal Chess, Some of the models I have made for it #LSBUgames