Smos Bois

Anyone up for a totally normal and regular game of pool?

Made a standee! It took all day, but it came out really nice!

Excited for the upcoming #hku #exposure

Making a cut-out for our upcoming exposure this weekend.
He's big ✨

Now I wonder what the bad days look like 🫣

Are you ever making a game and the phsyics just...

Check out the cooking station one of our artists made for Surf 'n Turf!
Going to have a lot of fun prepping and cooking ingredients on this!

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Surf 'n Turf on Steam Island-hopping, dish-making 3D platformer. In Surf 'n Turf you are a little lizard chef that gathers ingredients by hopping along islands with an expansive move set. Twirl and flip your way to the del...

We've made a ledgegrab! The ledgegrab has been the bane of my existence for the past couple weeks. Turns out a physics based game doesn't like it when you want to do something like this.

If you think the game looks cool, consider wishlisting it on Steam!

store.steampowered.com/app/3514850/...

From the start, I kept in mind the size of the player. Munch has always been made with a size of 1 units in Unity in mind.
The only thing I had to do was note down what the change of the position was at the end of the animation, copy these values to Unity, and teleport the rigidbody there

During this animation, I lock the rigidbody in place where it started the ledgegrab. When the animation is finished, I teleport it atop of the ledge where the animation ended up.

A little sleight of hand, but the player never needs to know ;)

It's a tough process, but absolutely worth it! You got this!

The answer: I don't use the rigidbody for the ledgegrab!

While all other animations happen in place while Munch moves around. The animation for the ledgegrab moves the entirety of Munch.

Now we face the biggest problem with the ledgegrab:

All the movement in the game is done by changing the velocity of a rigidbody, how do I do that for the ledgegrab? I can't just push it up and forward, it would look jarring and imprecise

A ceiling would shoot a laser down, which would be a (0,-1,0) 3d vector.
A floor would shoot a laser up, a (0,1,0) vector.

That's the one we need, so we check if normal.y = 1

Now we only ledgegrab on flat platforms

But hold on! if we hit a sloped surface we don't want to do a ledgegrab.
To check if what we hit is a flat surface, we can check the normal of what we hit.

A normal of a surface is the direction it's facing. Basically, if you shoot a laser from a hole in that surface, which direction would it go?

To check if Munch has a ledge to grab onto, I send raycast that starts a little above and in front of Munch.
This raycast shoots down until it hits something, we can do a ledgegrab!

The ledgegrab would penalize Munch by slowing their movement. If you want to keep your speed, perform the jump better 😈

During testing, players would struggle with some platforms, often panicking when they missed it slightly.
Our solution: give a little leeway when reaching a platform.

To start, I'm making a 3d platformer with a heavy focus on movement.
Introducing Munch, our main character, and the one who will be showing how a ledgegrab works!

Do you ever wonder how you make a ledgegrab?
I did, and I will show you how I made it (a thread 🧵):

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I do hope they improve the Unity animator soon

Very good point! I will try out different angles!

I can see now that the video has been very heavily compressed, I promise the player is way more visible in-game. Usually the camera is even further from the player so there's more control when moving at high speed. Would you prefer a camera that's closer?

If I try really hard I can skip a part of my route by surfing over land! It's really fun!

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Haha I struggled with this with pokemon gold. I played with my brother and we always reset after entering the first cave, since we didn't know what to do. They tell you how it works when entering, but we couldn't read it

I made the twirljump a little silly, but it's a great way to cover a long distance!

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We have upgraded our little tadpole, please welcome Munch to the stage!

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Playing balatro while on a midnight walk hits different

Honestly the refresh rate of an ereader isn't the best, and it flickers every time it has to update the screen. Can't recommend

Out here playing #Balatro on my ereader

We're making a Movement AND Cooking Game?! - Surf 'n Turf Devlog 0 YouTube video by Startaste Studios

We are make a movement & cooking game!
Our first devlog is out and we're really excited about it! You can watch it here:
youtu.be/tZazR-60ay0

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