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gonna be one of those weeks

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Death Stranding but cozy in a little french city on the ocean and you have friends who drive a shitty little car and you have a talking cat and do your deliveries on a broom for grandmas and baker himbos and do art lebnian social link and you are a witch you are Kiki's Delivery Service video game give me 1 million dollars to make this

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♪ baby do you like these bees, i cast them to make you bleed ♪

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ripperdoc pranks

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enormous jacket gang

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It was difficult to aim the laser so I added a green targeting translucent thing. The targeting indicator is just one object that is invisible until a raycast from the player's laser hits something, at which point that object is moved to the location of whatever you hit, copies its shape and size, and has its texture changed to a translucent green

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Game design talk time

A game I really a lot is ... Yahtzee. I want the gameplay loop for salvaging space junk in this game to feel essentially like Yahtzee. In making this I put together some notes on breaking down the compelling aspects of that game and how I could apply that to my salvaging mini game.

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What if the Switch 2 launched with a new Midnight Club and Dark Cloud game haha what if

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Salvaging space junk in my "try not to burn up in the atmosphere after the ship you normally dock with blew up" game is going alright

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I mean who hasn't always wanted a tractor beam. Except if the thing you hit is bigger than you in which case YOU start orbiting the target.

But the goal is to match the rotation etc of the big space hulk so you can get in there and salvage! And that is working so far. Please dont ask what happens when you deactivate the tractor beam it is bad.

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I am a coder of some renown

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Some bugs in the tractor beam

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Claustrophobic in here

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hardcore space sim game update

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First dev diary for a game I'm currently calling Orbital Decay.

You're a worker aboard a small craft in orbit responsible for cleaning up orbital debris. Suddenly, the conversation you were having with your manager goes to static mid sentence. You look out the tiny porthole window to see the Earth's surface light up in a hundred explosions.

Your first thought is to dock up with the larger space station that your company works out of, but it's not responding on radio, either.

You've got enough water for a day or two.

Oxygen for a week.

In a month, without extra fuel, you'll fall into the atmosphere.

But, you're an expert in cleaning up orbital debris. The tractor beam is charged, and radar is picking up a *lot* more wreckage than is supposed to be up here. There's got to be something useful in all that, right?

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On one hand it was really neat that they just used re-enactors to film Gettysburg (1993). On the other hand watching the 20th Maine's bayonet charge culminate in just sort of slowing to a stop and patting the rebels on the back for a job well done re-enacting is a little...?

Choosing to make a movie about the country's bloodiest, "never again" battle and depicting a general taking grapeshot point blank to the dome and falling over like "egad, I'm slain!" while triumphant brass swells. Yeah it sucks. War is bad. Saving Private Ryan coming out five years later and making this entire genre look like stupid shit was a good thing.

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game design is my passion