Erik Rydeman

Excited to announce that we've begun exploring Clone Drone VR! I didn't think we'd be going in this direction, but after playing a bunch of VR games, I can't stop thinking about the awesome opportunities unlocked by the format.

🚨VR CREATOR CALL🚨 We're looking for VR Content Creators for some slicing, dicing roguelike actioning in @CloneDroneZone 🤺 Get in touch with us at community@thunderful.games if you're interested in covering! RT's appreciated 🙏

I don't hang out on twitter much anymore, but if I did I would say that: CLONE DRONE IN THE HYPERDOME launches on December 12th!!! 🔥⚔️🔥⚔️🔥youtube.com/watch?v=Lak9cQ…

🤖Ever wanted to get a close look at our robots or use them to make an animation? Download the 3D models from Clone Drone in the Danger Zone here! clonedroneinthedangerzone.com/3d-models/

And it's interesting to think that others probably played those games and were inspired by some completely different aspect of them. Anyway, I really like the practice of dissecting things you love to understand why you love them, and allowing that to influence your work.

It reminds me of the early days of exploring Clone Drone. I drew heavy influence from the old Jedi Knight games, but what I tried to create was not so much a copy of the gameplay as the same *feeling* I remembered from them. Powerful slow strikes, emphasis on distance and timing.

Really loved this episode of @WritingExcuses : Dissecting Influence wp.me/pV9iY-4o8 Identifying what it is you love about something and applying that to your own work vs copying the surface level thing is powerful. Great nuanced discussion about that!

lol, gamedev is spending 2 days trying to make your thing interact realistically with rigidbody physics before trying a stupid 5 line approximation that looks much more realistic.

@AlexStrook A bug that's still in our game is that if you emote right before the game's first cutscene the player can dance the whole time. 😅

@BitGamerr Not yet! We're still working on setting up the infrastructure we need to be able to make the game as cool as it can be. Will definitely let you specifically know when we have something available though! <3

@iamdoborog do you have any data for open beta?

It's a minor feature but one of the things I'm most excited about for our new mocap system are these little preview animations. Look at those cute little robots stabbing eachother!

@mrhelmut Wow! This is amazing info.

I asked a few scammers how they find and target game developers to request free game keys. I came up with a couple very simple tricks to 100% catch all of them and auto-flag them as scam. (thread)

I really love this TikTok lol. (sound on!)

Easy. The expert will tell you they're an imposter.

@bcjordan Man, the Whatsapp one is having a really bad day. 🥹

😧 workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/pdf/2020_04.pdf

We're currently working on a mocap editor that works directly inside VR. The ease of capturing new animations and iterating on them instantly is going to be so much fun!

I feel like people often think of #gamedev tools purely in terms of speed and productivity, assuming the same result could be achieved over a longer period of time. But great tools make you want to do things you would never attempt without them. Dance robot, dance! :D

@BizzleBeard Probably not initially. We want to keep the scope fairly focused to be able to make it really awesome. Who knows down the line though.

Excited to announce that we've begun exploring Clone Drone VR! I didn't think we'd be going in this direction, but after playing a bunch of VR games, I can't stop thinking about the awesome opportunities unlocked by the format.

@irc56762 Not yet! Pretty early still.

@iamdoborog is there a open beta for this?

GPU instanced cubes turned out to be a pretty viable way to optimize voxel rendering for us! Still requires a whole bunch of work and experimentation, but for Clone Drone VR I think this might be how we will optimize sword cuts!