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| 🍶🦊Alright, chat, hear me out:
First Person Marble!
Good idea or nah?
the creatures fka "avie!!"@memoriesin8bit ohh interesting, I wasn't expecting a static camera attached to the marble honestly
i mean it makes more sense than what I was expecting which is something akin to the old increpare title "Salome" where the camera is fixed to one part of the ball meaning you experience the full rotation in first person (and consequently get immediate motion sickness)
@avie yeah. I was planning initially to rotate the camera towards movement direction but even that could get too jarring. So I left the rotation entirely up to the player and it made things a lot more manageable.
@memoriesin8bit honestly going the Salome route would be very funny to me given how the look and feel of your marble game is very bright colourful and happy vs Salome's isolating unsettling ambiance lmao
just a thing of like "oh, first person mode? thats interesting let's look at th--OH GOD NO LETS NOT LOOK AT THAT"
@avie I try to think of "haha funny if I made this another option to do" but I am also way too busy how to organize the inputs (esp on gamepad the whole building marble machines already consumes ALL buttons), fix material fading, add a third person orbit mode, make everything less puke inducing, add puke warnings, if this is possible in VR despite your head larger than a marble....
It's fun cause this test video was 3 lines of code. Making it a proper polished feature will likely take a month.
@memoriesin8bit I appreciate your commitment to making a normal video game that people can enjoy and not letting the Brain Gremlins take over to do horrible things because it would be funny (/gen)
@avie No, trust me, I love absolutely crazy things. I always say it's better to have something fun and crazy than a polished game that's super boring and uninspired.
I got three days a week to work on this and I'm almost 5 years in. So I'm getting anxious with every idea. And I hate that I think like this.
I got three days a week to work on this and I'm almost 5 years in. So I'm getting anxious with every idea. And I hate that I think like this.
@memoriesin8bit think of it this way, once you've completed this project, you have a great excuse to make something just completely unhinged and ridiculous
@avie I kinda did that already. That was my first solo game. It's where I said: "What if you take a SHMUP, throw in some Geometry Wars and add the gravity mechanics of Mario Galaxy?"
It's called DOKI DOKI GRAVITY DIVE and it's on GOG and itch :D
@memoriesin8bit oh hell yes I gotta check this out
but also I meant More Unhinged, full shit post type thing , stuff where it just sucks for the player in really funny ways 
@avie It was already so unhinged, it put off enough people to barely make back the money I put in to have the music made. :D
@memoriesin8bit bless, absolutely perfect, thats what i love to hear (apart from the barely making back the money people need to be less cowardly grrrr)
@memoriesin8bit see i joke about making barely playable things for a laugh but i do genuinely appreciate going in the opposite direction of "marketable" so so much because having a unique look and/or feel to your game is so crucial to me and it pains me so much when i see cool games that do that but dont really get much recognition as a result
i even run a whole steam curator page with a friend to try and boost their existence a bit more lmao https://store.steampowered.com/curator/42578071/
@avie Don't get me wrong: Spending 2 years and just making pennies back, I admit, it hurts. But I know how crowded the market is and money is short. I can live cause I work as a contractor also. Means I can work on my games less, but I am fine. When/if that work ends one day, I can get anxious, open a Patreon/KoFi - whatevs. Till then I try to have fun making games :)
@memoriesin8bit 💜 i hope in future you get a buncha dosh back for your hard work regardless tbh
@avie Me too. My retirement fund would be happy so I can stop working before I turn 90. :D
@memoriesin8bit (placed it on the wishlist, will grab it when I next get paid!!)
@avie If you got an itch account, you may already own it. It was part of a lot of charity bundles.
