To kick things off then. Progress on my little solarpunk city builder has basically ground to a halt the last couple of weeks among illness and other priorities. So it feels good to be back on the horse this weekend.

I've done some planning, picked out focus tasks for the weekend, and first up is to tweak this model a bit. It's the central "hub" building in my city and it's a little too six-way symmetrical for my tastes.

Here's how it currently looks in-game, I'm still in the prototyping stage so there's not much visual variety (all the house tiles are the same etc), but tackling that is a nice low-hanging task to ease me back in.

rolls up sleeves

Let's get to it!

Ok I think my server might be acting up again but let's see if this will post!

I'm doing the My First Game Jam, only 4 days left and I'm kinda struggling, but it's been a learning journey for sure. I had this ambitious idea for a 3D tile-based puzzle thing, but the real puzzle is how I thought I could pull it off solo! Don't even have anything pretty to share, I did have this one model animated but it seems to be broken now😅

Definitely gotta get the hang of scoping down, but I got some awesome tips from my jam advice thread, it's all good! 🙌

Hi all. First post on Lemmy, I guess I'm a natural lurker.

I wrote this up as a separate post but honestly it's more of a rant than anything so I figured it could just go in here.

I'm Pydin, I'm a Unity developer from the UK who just graduated last year and was lucky enough to fall straight into a job. It's ok, but we mostly work on mobile games and the workload is pretty intense. At uni we mostly used Unreal so Unity has been a big change but it's decent enough.

Anyway the last few weeks - but particularly since signing up here and seeing what other people are working on - it's really made me realise how draining it's been to work in essentially a mobile game mill. I have a lot of free time outside of work, so I'm thinking it might be time to get back to what drew me to games dev in the first place.

Problem is, all the games I want to make are waaaaay too big. Even the process of coming up with a surmountable idea seems insurmountable. In the uni days we were given a lot of constraints and weren't really trying too hard to make something release-worthy, or we'd be working in teams and my part would be more doable. But now it's just me, and it's a bit like standing on a precipice staring into the void. So that's my rant, great first contribution to the group I know.

I've been doing a lot of reading around this already, but if anyone has any wisdom to share I'd appreciate it.

I've spent the past few months revising and reworking some core mechanics, filling out skill sets, and improving the GUI and QoL. This week I am starting design on the final dungeon, which has been challenging to work on. Since it's the final dungeon, I feel like I need to step up the complexity while still keeping up with thematic elements, so it's going more slowly than the simpler early levels.