Currently I’m working on two projects. One is meant to be a super short story 2d game. The other is a simple mobile game. Both in unity.
I’m trying to improve my skills and not focus on huge ideas. I will post pictures soon. For the mobile game, it’s currently pretty simple and I’m trying to find a way to make it standout more.
I’m going to move the current content of this site to my other domain https://thinksleepmake-games.com . I want to make this current one more about my personal projects and progress, and the other about game development.
New content will be in the other domain. I’ll probably remove existing content from here when I start uploading the new content here.
In my awesome assets segments, i want to give a quick mention to any awesome assets i find in the Unity Asset store or Unreal Engine Marketplace.
Environments are incredibly important in games. A good environment can make a good game seem great. One important aspect of good environments is the sky.
The Ultra Dynamic Sky asset on the Unreal Marketplace can help QUICKLY give your game AAA quality sky.
The asset just needs to be dropped into your scene, then you can tweak it’s Settings to match your game. Here are some of the settings you can tweak to achieve your perfect sky.
This asset can work for almost any type of 3D Game. Be sure to check it out on the unreal marketplace.
Every month Epic games offers developers free Marketplace assets. Sometimes worth several hundred dollars, this is a deal you can’t overlook. In addition, once you get the assets; you have them forever.
This month Epic Games is giving away the following assets for free:
Here are some basic descriptions of each package.
The Brushify – Artic Pack is an artic-themed modular environment for the Brushify toolkit.
The Landscape Stamps can be used to build various patterns into your landscapes. Examples include, cliffs, hills, craters, and even mountains.
The Portals Blueprint pack will give you the ability to make a game like valves Portal.
The Zero Gravity Part One pack contains AAA quality, modern, space interiors. Great for making a modern space game.
The Player Build System contains everything you need to make multiplayer compatible games where players can construct their own buildings and forts.
Each pack is free for the month of December, you should grab them just in case.
I recently made a post about Unity’s Black Friday Sale. Epic Games is also hosting a Black Friday sale in the Unreal Engine 4 Marketplace. The sale lasts until December 4th.
I’ve previously mentioned this in my previous post about Unity’s Black Friday Sale. Tl;Dr The Unreal Engine Marketplace has tons of content that you can use for making multiple games in the Unreal Engine. If you do not have the time, money, or skills to do a particular task, there is certainly something in the marketplace to assist you.
Some items are up to 70% off their normal price, and can be used for multiple games. Be sure to check it out.
The Unity Asset Store is having a black Friday sale. The sale lasts until December 1st. Some of it’s top assets are up to 50% off.
Not every developer or studio has the skills, resources, or time to create a game purely from scratch. The unity asset store as 3d models, music, starter kits, editor utilities, sounds, and more.
The asset store can get you the help you need in the areas you may be lacking in, for an affordable price. Once you buy an asset you can use it on multiple projects also, so it can be considered an investment also.
Whether your making a prototype for fun, or are targeting a multi-platform release; the asset store had something for you.
Unfortunately, my entry didn’t place well. Overall I placed #531, which is about the half way mark.
I made a fps game. In this game the player is playing a VR game console. The console constantly lies to the player. Eventually the player will leave the simulation.
The idea behind the VR game console came from the hosts including “the game is” in the title. That’s just how I interpreted it.
I’ve thought about continuing it. But I’m not exactly sure what direction I would want to take it in to really make it engaging and interesting.
I had a total of five reviews. Here we the overall stats for my game.
I think I needed more reviews. Five is difficult to really get an accurate description of. I should have put my game out more, but it didn’t help that I had a large size downloadable game. I saw alot of entries were web based.
As, for the rest of the entries;Here are the results:
It was a fun experience. I’m glad I did it. Next time I’ll probably try to do even better.
Often while making games in Unreal i’ll use the basic 3D primitive shapes(spheres,cubes,planes,cylinders,and cones) for prototyping levels. In Unreal Engine you can merge a set of actors into a new (reusable) static actor.
This is great for building levels and props without 3D modelling experience, or if you need a placeholder until the actual prop is ready.
To merge actors into a single static mesh, select a group of actors. Then right-click on them. There should be a menu option named “Convert Actors to Static Mesh“. Select that option, then choose the save location and name. After that, you can reuse the created static mesh as many times as you want.
One caveat is that the origin isn’t always where you want it to be, but that is a minor inconvenience for such useful fuctionality.
Step 1, Drag a basic cube onto the scene.
Step 2, move & scale the cube. Then create duplicates, and move & scale them. You should end up with a fence made up of multiple Cube static mesh actors.
Step 3, select the cubes and right-click.
Step 4, select “Convert Actors to Static Mesh” and, select a save name and location.
Step 6, locate your new static mesh.
Step 7, drop it in the scene.
NOTE: The existing actors will still be in the scene after you create the static mesh, you can reuse them, or delete them once you have confirmed it’s creation.
And that’s it!
In my entry for the August 2019 Community Game Jam, i did this with the buildings. Each building probably consists of 10+ Cubes. I built out the building, merged the 10+ actors into a static mesh, and saved a lot of space in my world outliner.
Hope that helps.
A follow up to a previous post. I entered a game jam one week ago. I’ve finialized my submission. It’s been a interesting week. Things didn’t always go as planned. Improvision was sometimes the neccessary route.
Previous Post: https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/thinksleepplay-games.com/71
https://thinksleepplaygames.itch.io/the-vboxstation-experience
I’ll make a in-depth post a little later when i have time to relax and take some input in, but i’ll give some simple details. The theme of the game jam was “The Game Is a Liar”. My game is a FPS game about a guy/girl who got a new virtual reality console. I do not want to spoil anything else.
Thanks for reading.
Just a quick update on the community Game Jam I posted about previously. It has begun and I have an idea in works. The theme is ” The game is a liar”. I’ll post some progress later in the week.
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