Anyone here make their own games too?

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Readydaer
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22 Oct 2023, 5:29 pm

Esme wrote:

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I certainly have an interest in learning, and I have loads of great ideas, but I'm only an excellent writer and pretty good composer (composing only, I'm not good at making full fledged songs!). I've tried coding and it's just so hard to wrap my head around. My main interest right now is making a Touhou-style bullet hell shooter but no luck so far.

One day I want to be a narrative writer for video games

You have the opposite type of brain to me!

I love the coding part and my least favourite thing is writing and music (followed closely by building the level environments, which I can do but find boring as hell as it takes so long deciding where to put things)! I'm using a lot of royalty free music for the game and Chat-GPT for the quests (basically cheating, don't judge me!). But I'd much rather do the logic/mechanics stuff all day long.

What is it about the coding that you find difficult? If you're more visual, have you tried something like Unreal blueprints? You might find that easier to understand. It's a good way to learn the basics of OOP and how things are structured.

I won't judge. I used an AI for my book cover so I really can't :lol:

and yeah my specialty is worldbuilding and character interactions. The basic premise for that failed game I mentioned is that a female scientist with her crew in the future on a space station orbiting a black hole periodically temporarily enters it, where she finds a parallel world eventually revealed to be her future, involving an eldritch goddess that controls photons. On the music side I really just think of Touhou music and compose something like that, giving it my own flair.

It's the whole different language of logic for me that's hard to understand. I'd much rather input "Make the oval projectiles arc in a parabola and then semi-randomly fall towards the player" than all of the actual math required to make that happen. I've never heard of blueprint before, but isn't Unreal used for huge and complex games? I'm only really interested in smaller 2D ones anyway, that's as much ambition as I can handle thinking about.

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22 Oct 2023, 6:18 pm

funeralxempire wrote:

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I designed my own naval war simulation game...pre computer...using hex sheets tables and dice...to simulate naval warfare of the two world wars. Battleships, cruisers, destroyers. Pushing cardboard markers around ...shooting at each other. twenty sided dice and six sided dice. More addicting than smoking crack. Its all still packed in a box. Havent touched it in a while.

That sounds fun.

Ever heard of Evil Stevie's Pirate Game?

Never heard of it.

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