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@lotias exactly! I don't mean it'll be a huge success. Just a fun thing for fans of the game for a few minutes.
@tokeeffe9 good idea! when its out :)
Here's a couple of quick high concept sketches of the two perspectives to show how it could work.
Concept 1- Sidescrolling
Concept 2 - First person
@iboshow well we haven't seen what rule #3 does with the game yet :) and yes I'm more interested in building it than making a fun game but maybe there is a way to make it fun. I think casual fans could enjoy it for a bit.
Box Peek's simple rules and great characters inspires and I think it would be really cool to make a small game where you can play box peek matches. Obviously if I had the resources it would be extremely cool to have all the characters and customize your own that would fit the universe and play increasingly hard matches against people of the different tiers the show lays out. The show does a great job explaining the rules and scope of the Box Peek game that can be drawn from.
I've spent way too much time these past few weeks thinking about the game, scope, tech and tons of other stuff. My brain seems to like this idea way too much.
My first two basic concepts are either a sidescrolling game:
..where you first see you and your opponents box and when it starts it zooms in on your box so you cant see whether the opponent peeks and then you can press space to peek or withdraw (after two seconds!). If you peek the camera zooms out to bring both into view.
or
a first person 3d game where you are in the box and press a button to peek and withdraw and the camera pops and lets you see out
This I feel is the MVP core gameplay to expand from. Let's see if I can play around in Unity and post something real at some point but the basics seem really simple and I've made 2 small commercial games before so I know how to make them if it comes to that but for now I'm just toying with the idea.
I'd love to hear your ideas and takes on what a game could be like.
looking forward to next week. still some good ones that need to be squeezed in somewhere. it's definitely getting real hard.
@smoothrunes ok I can see that. and I understand the legacy and nostalgia for people and how good the remake seems to be. I'm just way more hyped for things like last of us, control and red dead (tho open worlds are starting to bother me too xD)
@smoothrunes glad I'm not decapitated yet :) maybe I put it a bit too low even for me. Maybe around Fallout 76 somewhere would be better. I liked the reveal at E3 but I don't understand why it is so hyped. I'm not into gore or horror at all though so that kind of puts it low by default for me. And I'm pretty over zombies at this point in general. There's just been too much of it the last 10-15 years. Like everywhere. So anything with zombies is gonna have a hard time on my lists currently.
Oo lists!
People are not gonna like mine I suspect.
== DAY ONE BUY THRESHOLD ==
== WILL PLAY EVENTUALLY THRESHOLD ==
== PROBABLY NEVER GONNA PLAY THRESHOLD ==
== NO THRESHOLD ==
@ffff0 it's the same with texture filtering. we had to add a transparent pixel all around the images and offset each pixel by 0.5 to not get white lines at the edges so the filtering takes from the transparent pixel in the texture rather than trying to fetch outside the texture.
also, mipmaps might help in your situation since you've already downscaled the image before rendering it if it selects a mipmap at the right level.
@Alexandra_Nilsson_T you mocapped this game with a kinect? thats insane :D yeah I'm sticking to 2D, I can't be bothered to learn everything you've gone through Alexandra xD I want to code and get things moving immediately. This is your first game and you've learnt all this in 2 years? That's very fast if that's the case!