107 shrines, 293 koroks...

294

Yahaha! 296

the whole game so far (only just made it to the Zora domain) feels like a glorified Banjo-Kazooie-esque "collect all the things in any order you fancy" kind of deal

way different from previous Zeldas where dungeons were typically accessed in a linear order

I hope there's some bosses soon :(

It's good but it's also super different from what I was expecting!

There's a lot of large monsters, and a few bosses

no keys, no minimap, no dungeon map, no acquiring new tools, just :/

Yeah, instead of large dungeons with lots of puzzles you get lots of puzzle-shrines and a few boss-dungeons with a small bit of puzzle factor.

And lots of mini-puzzle koroks

You do find new suits

Mmm so it's got the puzzle factor of Zelda games, but without the coupled chain of close-quarter room-to-room solving that a "dungeon" used to bring

It's just that the tool finding is right at the beginning so then you're free to go almost all over the place

yeah

I like the management tho

plus you can fling it at the enemy when its almost broken for extra damage when it blows up

yea

completely threw me off lol

hours take minutes,minutes take seconds

being trolled for sure

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What should we look at?

I'm guessing the UI, yeah it's way too big

How you made each of the HUD in each corner?

The only thing I'd suggest would be to place the avatars of the characters that are on the right hand side of the screen as 'mirrors' to those on the left: stick them to the side of the screen and flip the sprite!

Nope, the UI is still too big and takes too much space

Replace the text by icons!

I'd suggest having the HP as a vertical bar

can you compact each UI box?

@Tyyppi_77 You just need a rectangle and another one on top of that, and then you resize the top rectangle by the percentage of the HP

^that could work too

I think giving each player a corner is a better idea

either way's fine

Yeah, that's what I said :P

looks better

what's the white bar for?

I'd go for vertical health bars

I like that one!

if you keep the right hand side ones mirrored, the confusion wouldn't be a problem

because if they all look to the same side, I would get confused when I was 2nd or 3rd and would have to stop to re-orient myself

I don't think in this case the right-hand side ones need to be mirrored.

well, it's your decision anyway, but I'd surely get confused during gameplay

@JohnHamilton I see your point, though..

okay so, if I'm always lookin at the upper left corner

I won't look at other corners to see myself

because that's my corner, my brain will go on auto and look there

but if there's a list and I'm second or third, I might look at the second when I'm third

Yeah, it can avoid a bit of confusion

and probably will because I do that even when we're 2 player and the hud is like that

that's why usually you'll see player one on the upper left and player two on the upper right in arcades

oh and, this is what I'd do btw

shield on top of the health since it's health's shield

and keep the bar vertical to save space

blue space for weapon

and grenades either like you did "grenade icon"x5 or 1 for every grenade you have

naw

when you get hit and the shield is removed

the below rectangle is full red

then that won't work, how does the shield work?

so it's like "immunity for a while"? or is it like overhealing in unreal tournament?

so you just shine the whole hud then imho

a blue hue to the hud

it should scream that the player is immune

and the blue hue itself should be a bar that drains

like the more blue color you have on the hud, the more time you have

Path of Exile has a thing where your shield sort of overlaps your healthbar a little

I'm just thinking, it would be better to "see it without looking at it"

@ChrisMcFarland yeah that

or Destiny, I think your shield is a thin bar above your healthbar?

but that won't be obvious because it's a power bar that drains

doesn't go down if you get hit, right?

okay so think something like a thinner bar on the health like chris said, but when you press and hold the "shield button" you get a blue or white layer on the UI that is mostly transparent that drains down so that you can see how much time you have on the shield (from the corner of your eye) without looking at the shield bar.

so that you don't have an annoying effect on top of the UI all the time but can see the shield bar

By my experience as someone who completed his beta, I prefer to have the energy bar separated from the health one

this is the best I could do in paint

imagine the bottom blue "bar" as 0.3 alpha or something

that way, the remaining time on shield is obvious without looking at the power bar

maybe make it flashing or something too

because when you have 4 people on screen

actually turning your eye towards the portrait and looking at the remaining power bar

will probably get you to lose where your character is

and you'll lose valuable seconds from the shield itself

of course this is all just my point of view as a gamer

as a game dev, I say to hell with it and don't even bother

yeah, like I said, as a game dev, I wouldn't really bother with it. As a user though I'd love to have it :P

maybe just put a UI scale option in the options menu?

some people I know would love to have the upper one

yeah, scaling to screen size will probably be the same thing

maybe have a few different UIs pre-scaled

like 100% 150% and 200%

the poor-dev solution

If you don't have a borderless windowed fullscreen option

well then that's fine lol

then scaling the UI is not much of a thing to be worried about

yeah, that may be a problem, but if you don't want to scale it

like I said just give 3 options that are prepared beforehand

or even two, small UI, big UI :P

Unity uses borderless window (if set) but sets its internal resolution I believe, upscales or downscales as needed

you do cloud saves yet?

what functions are you using?

what happens if steam is down or your internet is off?

so

the way I understand it -- you are reproducing what the api already provides

steam will pull the latest cloud save files locally

yeah, I think steam overwrites even if the local saves are more recent

oh btw, I think you should have the shield bar at the top of the player sprite rather than the UI

if at all possible

man... i'm saving a different file per level for the save data

The shield bar isn't a passive shield, it's an active one

Yeah I know

That would be very distracting and misleading having the shield to have a bar on top of your head

ehh.. i might leave it

its easy for me

Not to mention that the bars would merge with each other when the players are close to each other

^different colors would solve that also, I don't think everyone would use the shield at the same time

but anyway, that's also work to be put in

@Tyyppi_77 GZ man :)

I need some advice on how to do something in unity

hey guys, have any of you used micropather ? in C++

@RNewell122 I did not, sorry.

I am making a menu for a game and I want the title to have a distortion effect once in a while

what would be the best way of doing this? I thought maybe make a video in after effects on it and play it on a loop?

@AlexandreVaillancourt ah nvrmind thanks anyway :

sounds like a job for composition

I can't really find shaders for what I want

haha yeah

:)

i submitted gorb for steam approval.

well its not ready yet

it has cloud saves -- missing achievements and playing cards

but I needed to send it for approval so that it will appear as "coming soon" or whatever

yeah

and a game build

oh, well there are 2 approval things

Store Page, and Game Build

I thought about how I could make the tile-map responsive. Then I thought "f*ck it, I make it into scrollable rooms"

I'm not sure how other games, like Binding of Isaac do it.

disney should make a Pepe le Pew movie

But not the common one

Should be the rarest Pepe le Pew

hehe

nationalism is huge

the Steve Irwin and 'roo in the middle, lmao

The tiny rick

Two Quebec flags and HABS logo :D

oh a Shantae!

Right under Australia's green 'Straya'

hehe

I need to add polygon collision zones so I can do 8bit style collisions

but with vectors

ah yes

So many 2.5D games use the horrible sphere collider

And a weird rubber band feel to the character

Like Little Big Planet, Trine, Life Goes On, ...

I still like those games, despite the horrible rubber-control and sphere colliders :P

LittleBigPlanet was super floaty

Trine and Life goes on much less but still floaty

I've seen a lot of 2.5D game do that. I just cant remember the name of them all.

for Life goes on I can manage maybe 20~30mins of it before I get too annoyed at the sphere colliders and floaty controls. Stop playing for 2-4 months until I forget and try again :P

heh

I'm using 2D capsule colliders for movement atm for t2

just to not get stuck on ledges with the sharp box corners

It bugs me when the character is off the ledge and the pill is hitting at 45 degrees and you can just keep pressing left/right and it'll slowly climb the corner.

And the character is walking/hanging in the air

yeah it's a design thing

T1 uses box colliders, but I did end up implementing a small "boost" if you just missed the edge of a block by a smidgen, cuz it was annoying having to jump up again

yeah

That thing is like nails on a chalkboard for me :D

if you had like

maybe would be a happy middleground

yeah. most good old 2D games have that 1 pixel allowance

But the trick is those games also use a different "collider" for horizontal and vertical.

and not really a collider, it's a "is there anything there?" query. And then the AI code does something on a case-by-case basis.

yea

I've built my collision "system" like that. AI queries if there's anything "that way" and gets returned what it hit and a suggestion. AI's free to completely ignore it. No callbacks. The result is on the stack, not on the heap, so very little cache trashing compared to other collision systems that process and resolve all collisions at once.

Pro

my AI, I usually have a "wall in front of me" and a "is there any floor in front of me" check, for about-facing usually

@ChrisMcFarland yeah, same. simple stuff, works great.

:D