Overdraw Games

New trailer for my solo project, Resistance Is Brutal just went live for #screenshotsaturday! Featuring original music by @BenRComposer. Demo coming soon. Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/3378140 #indiedev #solodev #madewithunreal #ue5 #flecs #gamedevs

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@ericjeker these hooks are so cringe, ugh. it's a shame they seem to work so well.

@OverdrawGames Let me help you. 🤪

So I kind of hate marketing my game because it feels spammy, but it's a big part of whether or not the game is going to be successful and gain any traction on steam. So with that being said I want to say thanks to everyone who wishlisted the game in the past few weeks! It means a ton to me and it's a great motivator to keep working and make the game as good as i can for everyone who's excited to play it. And for those who haven't seen it yet but want to check it out -> store.steampowered.com/app/3378140/Re…

@IrrationalShuma @planter222 Thanks man it’s an honor

@planter222 @OverdrawGames Literally never wishlisted a game before and wishlisted this one to purchase it.

@planter222 I was under the impression that if you have lots of pre-release wishlists, you are more likely to show up in the "Popular New Releases" section of steam, which helps with discoverability. Does it not work like that?

@OverdrawGames It does not work like that at all. Your wishlist-*rate* is CORRELATED with success, not your wishlist raw numbers and wishlists don't CAUSE success. Campaigning for wishlists will only distort your ability to judge how successful you will be based on wishlist numbers

Respectfully disagree. Posting your game directly leads to wishlist conversions, which is a primary factor in steam's algorithm. The more wishlists you have, the more likely steam's algorithm will go to work promoting your game for you. I've measured about a 0.5% to 0.75% x post views -> Steam wishlists.

@OverdrawGames It's not a big part though, posting your game has next to no effect, the primary way it will succeed or fail is how popular it is in the Steam algorithm

Yeah it's a bit harder than it looks, mostly due to time constraints. The game logic says that if there's line of sight, then face the player. Otherwise face the direction of movement. If they always face direction of movement, they do weird things when they are forced backwards, like spin around suddenly. I'm trying to avoid needing full animation suits for each enemy since it's just myself doing everything. So some small sacrifices need to be made on the visuals of this probably. We'll see.

@OverdrawGames the game looks awesome but i wonder if you can do something to fix the "perfect direction" effect here, the enemies hordes looks like an iron "dust" aligning to a magnet and it really doesn't match the "creatures/monsters" themes, even as robots its odd. youtube.com/watch?v=snNG48…

"This game looks fake" That's what some people are telling me on social media about Resistance is Brutal I promise it's not. What you see is actual gameplay, developed entirely by me in my free time. All art, all animations, all vfx. Just me. And it runs at 60fps. Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/3378140/Re…

@QuietFSoftware Thanks! It's in English, the engine is Unreal Engine 5.

@OverdrawGames Ok, that looks wicked! will definitely wishlist. Can I ask the language/engine?

@josh75130668590 they just beams with some particles coming off of them. the shader uses an inverse square energy so they look nice and hot at the center of them

@OverdrawGames i wishlisted them lasers look really nice do they have post processing on them or are the shaders really cool?

@sybaritictrance Thanks dude!

@OverdrawGames This looks so dope, I can't wait to play it.

@SignalMxB Soonish

@OverdrawGames Demo ?

@Nixamaiir Not planned at the moment, but if early access goes well it’s not off the table for a future update!

@OverdrawGames Local coop ?

60 Frames per second. That's what gamers deserve when playing Resistance is Brutal. I'm pouring everything I have into making this game as performant as possible from the very beginning, even with 100s of enemies on screen at once. If you liked the chaos of vampire survivors, you'll love this. Please consider Wishlisting! It helps a lot. store.steampowered.com/app/3378140/

@nickdiazofnauts I used multi threaded ECS systems instead of actors, primarily. This helps keep the game thread running at a reasonable speed. Also using vertex animated entities rather than skeletal mesh. Those are two biggest things.

@OverdrawGames This looks so smooth! Biggest tips to optimizing your/a game!?

@richmugen A good understanding of Ray marching techniques, fluid simulation, shader programming and some friends who teach you the math and physics of black holes. And some artistic capabilities

@OverdrawGames how do you even start something like this?

I revisited my #UE5 blackhole project recently. Updated the lighting. Before the light was only coming from the photon sphere around the event horizon. Now, in addition to that, I've added light coming from the gas itself, which gives it a much more realistic appearance. More screenshots in thread.

@taoleeh @XorDev I’m on a Titan rtx which is like a 2080 and it runs at 60fps

@OverdrawGames @XorDev Do I need a super massive computer to run this super massive blackhole?

@miolini Nah

@OverdrawGames Great results! Do you have plans to add relativistic jets too?

The disk was simulated with Niagara. Rendered with a custom ray-marching material which contains physically-accurate calculations for rendering the gravitational lensing of a non-spinning black hole.