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A screenshot that is the old evidence of my first ever attempt at a game. (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 day ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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The old program is unfortunately long lost, and I deleted the textures and such, leaving only this screenshot as proof this test project existed.

This was my project learning how to do simple programming in a first person shooter. The enemy is a skeleton I pulled from the internet, the rest of the visuals I whipped up quickly. It wasn't about havingt great visuals, this was closer to trying to make a greybox to learn programming. I made this project with the goal of having simple enemy interactions and working health.

Thanks to my inability to program I ended up with a player character that could be killed, but the enemy did not have working health. The bullets of the gun were actual projectiles and with some settings actually interacted with the skeleton and pushed it back. The final state was a skeleton that was smart enough to chase the player if the player appeared in the field of view, and attack the player if close enough. The player had infinite full auto fire that could push the skeleton back without killing it.

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[–] catfeeder@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 15 hours ago

YEAH ~~KILL~~ PUSH THE SKELETON!!!

Here's a screenshot for my first "game" on LOVE2d:
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The creature just follows your cursor and can teleport if you press a button lol

[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, the concept "pushing the enemy back without killing it and having infinite ammo" sounds pretty interesting to me, like an Vampire Survivors but the enemies never die, it would be pretty hard!

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah sounds like a pretty cool game concept.

Reminds me of that one enemy (in form of a ghost) in Phasmophobia, a Deogen (if my memory serves me correctly). Unlike the rest of the ghosts which only know your location based on any noise you make, any interactions you make with certain objects, or if you are in its line of sight... This ghost ALWAYS knows where you are, except it is really slow.

I love/hate the idea of an enemy slowly making it's way over to you from across the map, and you can't see it, but it can see you. * shudders *

It would be pretty neat to have a game based solely around prolonging your inevitable demise, trying to survive for as long as possible, maybe with roguelike features such as rng and differing runs.

[–] Nelots@piefed.zip 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I love the deogen. I was just playing phasmophobia last night and encountered one or two of them. I love that it flips the game on its head. Quite literally every other ghost wants you to hide somewhere, usually in a tight spot like a locker or behind a cabinet so the ghost can never get line of sight on you. But for the deogen that's the exact opposite of what you should be doing, and if you don't know that or don't know it's a deogen before it hunts, you're screwed. Nothing gets my heart pumping like hearing a ghost rapidly running towards my exact location like Usain Bolt as I realize what it is and desperately try to escape my hiding place before it traps me.

Fun thing about the deogen is that it's the second fastest ghost in the entire game, and then it slows down to be the slowest ghost when it's extremely close to you. So you can't safely hide anywhere, no matter how far away from it you are. By the time it's near you, the deogen becomes slow enough to out-walk, but if you manage to back yourself into a corner? Good luck.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

However, I haven't played the game in quite a while (despite it being one of my most played games) since imho the devs did a great job of royally fucking up the game. With the direction they took it, I just get burned out when playing it after such a short time nowadays.

Bear in mind this example is one of a long list of things I believe they got wrong: I initially thought the equipment overhaul was a good idea, except after having played for over 100hrs I don't feel like grinding to get all my old equipment back again, especially after so little has been done to make the core gameplay more interesting.

Anyway, sorry, rant over, used to be one of my all time favourite games.

[–] Nelots@piefed.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was also a big fan of the gear overhaul initially, until I saw how it was actually implemented and really came to dislike it. I just don't see who it's here for. It screws over newer players who are stuck with really poor gear, making the already punishing learning curve the game has significantly worse, and it screws over any experienced players by punishing anybody that actually wants to interact with the level prestige mechanic once they do get themselves to level 100. Meanwhile anybody who doesn't prestige just permanently has even better gear than what previously existed and never needs to worry about the other tiers. And since there's no reward for prestiging aside from a cosmetic badge, why should you interact with the system at all? Overall it was a poorly thought out and unbalanced update.

While some updates haven't been great and some things desperately need to be reworked, I've still been really enjoying the game. Once you get to around level 40 and unlock all the original gear, you can largely pretend the gear overhaul never happened. The newer maps and map reworks are awesome (aside from the new-ish lighthouse map point hope, that thing sucks), and I don't play frequently enough to get too bored of the basic gameplay loop. Playing on nightmare where you only get 2 evidence helps since it adds a bit more strategy to each round than just getting 3 pieces of evidence and leaving. The newly reworked media evidence is pretty fun too, where you get rewarded for getting videos and pictures of unique forms of evidence rather than taking 10 pictures of a pile of salt that somebody stepped in.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago

Totally agree, though I haven't played since the lighthouse update so can't really comment on that.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly yes, such a great game mechanic.

[–] Rakqoi@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

Oh wow this gave me a wave of nostalgia for my first experience developing games. I took a class in like middle school for game development, and they provided the software Alice for the course.

I fondly remember trying to make a first person, open world sandbox RPG, but if I remember correctly, the engine not being able to create new instances of anything severely limited what I wanted to do. Also, the engine had a ton of floating point precision issues and everything would be rotated in funny ways after the game was running for a long time. And I hated the visual programming and got so frustrated that I couldn't just type the scripts instead haha... that's when I switched to GameMaker

Anyway, I was reminded of it because the first enemies in my game were also sword-wielding skeletons just like in the OP screenshots. I appreciate the peak into your past, and I'm thankful for that nostalgia hit :3

[–] justdaveisfine@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago

Looks glorious.

That's pretty good for a first attempt, most people's first games are barely functional, if at all, so I'd consider this a win.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hell yeah! My first game was a text only java program where you killed skeletons and dragons, gained levels, and movement was done by typing a wasd key then hitting enter lol. You still making games at all?

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I mostly made models and textures, I was never a one-person team. I made assets for a number of students in game dev programming and I worked on some gamejams. Quite a few games, but nothing beyond the scope of a limited project. Currently I just don't have the time in between other things to go back to making assets.

[–] Rakqoi@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

movement was done by typing a wasd key then hitting enter lol.

haha I adore this, now I really want someone to make a full game with this control scheme

[–] Chivera@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Looks like unturned

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did you use any engine or framework for this, or built it from pure code and gl libs?

[–] setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This was built inside of Unity.

[–] four@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Looks pretty much like my first attempts lol

I do miss that carefree goofing around. Now I need to design, plan, optimize, etc. I know how to do stuff (mostly), so there less exploration and discovery and more of just work.

But at least stuff I make now is better hah (or at least I hope so)

[–] shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I'm sad I no longer have my files from my time spent in college doing games design, would've loved to see if I could do better now.

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

This reminds me of my first game, a Zelda arrow shooting clone that we built in Microsoft XNA. What was this built in?