RealityBeholder (STANDBOX GAME)

New trailer dropped! youtube.com/watch?v=6hE8yt… #gamedevs #ragdolls #unreal

@musyasugyo Honestly, the part that hit me the most with that game was how cool PvPvE was amazing in the context of a regular shooter.

It's been about a decade and still nobody has made a multiplayer shooter that's a fraction as electric or emphatic as Titanfall, where moments like this are a dime a dozen.

@HoratiuNotar @videotechuk_ I'm familiar with that link and they don't talk about anything related to fluid simulation in context of the water there.

@RealityBeholder @videotechuk_ No flowmap. It's actualy a simulated volume. They detail the fluid simulation tech here: crimsondesert.pearlabyss.com/en-us/News/Not…

One of the developers who worked on the rivers in Red Dead Redemption 2 shared their thoughts on the Crimson Desert water system, saying it appears more advanced than RDR2’s and suggesting it may be using some form of “live particle system". Source: youtube.com/watch?v=V8mEdK…

#1 UE pet peeve:

@tyrranKPX "bad"? For doing what you want with what you purchased on your private computer? Wild take.

PC gamers do not get enough shit for doing things like this. Nowhere near as bad as removing double damage from Silksong and adding easy modes to that game

@Star_Rims @oliver_drk It really doesn't. You can make a lot of arguments about artistic vision/AD/control/human factor sure, but the left one is strikingly accurate to what one would use as a reference picture to get to pic2...

@oliver_drk Nope, it breaks the continuity and cohesiveness of the original.

I have two functioning eyes. Sorry, I won't pretend this DLSS feature isn't impressive from a technical standpoint.

@brittlehoellow That map was incredibly cool, super inspiring for RP etc.

theres something so beautiful about people straight up not caring about insane texture tiling/repetition

@hen_mesh (himself*)

Stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself! #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

@Tsar_Games jfc bathroom combat sim

Filthy Combat

It's patronizing because the game picks when you can unlock the easy mode... so he wants the game to always pick the difficulty for you? It's even more patronizing it assume the player's mind is made of sugar and will dissolve at slightest amount of pushback. Ridiculous. Bully the fuck out of me - if a game lacks challenge my vision blur and I disconnect mentally.

Video game discourse has fallen so far that we have Yahtzee describing rudely-named difficulty settings as "ableist" and whining about how "patronizing" designers are. He suggests adaptive difficulty as the best solution because "no one has to see it." What if I specifically want the game to be harder, period? Why should difficulty be a self-tuning black box hidden away from the player? This is just another step towards making games into guided amusement park tours. If I'm stuck on a difficult section or boss, I don't want it automatically toned down, I want to get better at the game and beat it. He even brings up DMC games as an example of being "too patronizing" because it doesn't give you an easy mode unless you die enough times, but you know what? The higher difficulties are locked at the start, too. Some of us would say that's patronizing. Why shouldn't I be able to choose Hard mode right away?

For the facial animations in my game, I use a technique that yields results similar to L.A. Noire. To keep it simple: I first generate a facial animation video using AI like LTX 2. Then, I create a video depth map from that animation and project it onto a face mask. Using vertex displacement, the depth map dynamically deforms the face as the character speaks. The result looks good in standalone VR. I actually created this workflow long time ago: x.com/alexfredo87/st…

@homerjahsimpson "I'm not here for fun" really begs the question...

because a lot of people view video games like this

@Whalebone_lab What happens while gliding if you let only one hand expire its stamina?

左右の手で別々にスタミナ管理する 仕様にしてみた。 新感覚のよじ登りゲームにしたい。 I've implemented a system where stamina is managed separately for each hand. I want to create a climbing game with a completely new feel. #スーパー開発デー #gamedev #ScreenshotSaturday

@BenjiGameDev In all fairness and without any shade, an action shouldn't ideally result in a soft-loop like this. It's just awkward on many levels. You give a hammer to the player, you make the nail react and then you get surprised the player keeps trying?

all the new RE games have had moments where I've asked "what exactly does the game want me to do here, because what *I* want to do isn't working" it's just a pitfall of a more tightly designed narrative experience

I feel like you might get a better result figuring out an optimal target rotation and using some inertial spring to get there rather than a hard set force. It would look more natural and would be easier to fine-tune. In any case, you might want to look into PIDs to avoid hysteresis and other issues. Here's a very good video on the topic if you need: youtube.com/watch?v=Y3MgFS…

Spend a whole day to figuring how to stabilize hover car with godot physics. Whyyyyyyy ( ఠ ͟ʖ ఠ)

@SunnyChowTheGuy As someone without motion sickness, the smoothed one actually feels more "motion sickness" inducing to me.

I received some feedback about motion sickness caused by sudden camera rotation when crossing corners, so I added an alternative algorithm for the camera angle. Does it feel like an improvement? #gamedev #devlog #indiedev

@punishedrhoden @BenjiGameDev I have no skin in this game but I approve of this reply.

@BenjiGameDev That's because you were bad at them. I'm good at them. Cracked, actually. You're below me, on a sort of spiritual level actually

I feel like my memory of the original Sonic trilogy is completely different to everyone else's. those games were just regular mascot platformers, jumping over spikes and stuff

It sounds like you're expecting most people to nuance appearance and substance. On the other hand, if an AI can reliably model all the consequences of reality (light, physics, movement, sound) and the subtleties of art (composition, architecture, colorimetry, tropes, etc), do you really think modelling the logic of a game is a complex task in comparison?

How do people not understand that there’s no actual data here? You had an LLM create a video based on other videos it’s been trained on. What you don’t have here is any geometry, systems, models, animations, shaders… in short: You really got nothing. But for some reason the technically inept think that we’re close to this becoming a fully interactive thing that makes sense and is fun to play. Good Luck with that!

@marmaduke091 @BenPielstick yeah I can't wait to pay a yearly subscription for my slop from AAAA company without artists /s

@BenPielstick That is also a direction I am very excited for

This is absolutely insane 🫠 People are yearning for a LOTR game like this. We’ve somehow normalized waiting 2 years for 6 episodes of a TV show and a decade for a game sequel. Imagine getting a new GTA game every year. AI will replace the bottlenecks, not human direction.

Yeah I definitely believe having the player feeling like his agency is always taken into account is a core principle, but as a designer, how do you mitigate the escalating complexity of micro and macro behaviours, once you start accumulating all those cool reactions per example? It seems like maintaining game balance without having an exponential complexity debt is a daunting task.

That depends a bit on the type/style of game you want to make (e.g. arcade-y vs battle sim). But I would say one of the most important things to focus on is enemies reacting to the player in relatable ways. Are they taking heavy fire? They should be retreating and looking for cover. Then think about pacing/flow of the encounter itself as a tug-of-war. Players push enemies back, then they get reinforcements and hold their ground, then the player switches to a power weapon and takes them out and moves forward again. Ups/downs/highs/lows will make it feel dynamic.

Halo encounters actually used fairly rigidly-scripted behavior trees (I know this because I scripted many of them). The reason they felt dynamic was because of the balance of macro manually-scripted behaviors (player kills 50% of Squad X, remaining enemies fall back to Zone B) plus AI micro behaviors (kill an Elite and the grunts panic). Add sandbox spontaneity and you have a magical recipe for encounters that feel 'alive'.