For anyone that has tried the 1.0 release of entities what do you think of it?

I plan on making a small test project with it soon and comparing it to Bevy.

I tried the 0.17 version a while ago, and I remember the API was a huge mess. I'm sure things could only get better from there.

The whole idea of interfaces finally clicked and I'm starting to see how useful they are for introducing possibilities of emergent gameplay. I might be addicted.

Oh yeah, and hi - just found this place. Looks pretty cool so far. (RIP RIF)

Welcome to Feedback Friday! This is a day all about getting feedback on your projects.

Have a scene in your game that you want to know if it looks good? Have a mechanic prototype that you want tested? Want to know if your steam page is good? Or do you want feedback on some other part of your game? Feel free to post them below for others to give feedback!

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/149828

Hey everyone! Wanted to highlight some other game development related communities in the instance

I Need a Team (Getting teammates)

A community for finding teammates to work with for both free and paid work. This includes getting teammates for making commercial games, finding other people to work with for a game jam, etc.

Play My Game (Posting about game)

A community for showing off your completed game to others

Destroy My Game (Getting Feedback)

A community for getting honest feedback on things such as aspects of your game, your store page, mechanics, etc.

Godot (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the godot game engine

Unity (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the unity game engine

Unreal (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the unreal game engine

Pico-8 (Game Engine)

A community for posting anything relating to the pico-8 game engine

Welcome to Welcoming Wednesday! This is a day all about helping new people in the community get started.

If you’re new feel free to post questions, post things that you’re struggling with, or introduce yourself to the community! If you're not new feel free to post resources to help newcomers.

I'm looking to learn Unity and C#. Any suggestions on online classes (paid or free) or YouTube channels that are good?

Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday! This is a weekly thread where you can post any kind of tutorial for how to do things or request one from others

Text tutorials, video tutorials, image tutorials, linking to a post in the community, etc. are all allowed. If you feel it deserves its own post feel free to instead post it as a separate post and then link it here

Welcome to the Weekly Discussion! This is a place where you can do general chat in the community for things that might not deserve their own post

Welcome to Feedback Friday!

Have a scene in your game that you want to know if it looks good? Have a mechanic prototype that you want tested? Want to know if your steam page is good? Or do you want feedback on some other part of your game? Feel free to post them below for others to give feedback!

I never seem to have enough Unity Guides to follow, what are some of your favorite Youtubers when it comes to Unity Guides and information?

Mix and Jam One of my favorites.

I’ve been down a small rabbit hole recently into WFC as a procedural generation tool and i’m super excited to find a unity asset that i can’t wait to get the opportunity to play with.

This was the youtube video that got me started - have fun!

link to the asset (there’s a more expensive paid version with more features but the cheap one still has a lot going for it): https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/level-design/tessera-procedural-tile-based-generator-155425#description

A game jam for the fediverse community from July 14th to July 23rd! Anyone is welcome to join and all of the main communication about the jam will be taking place within the fediverse

Open sourcing games you make for it is recommended so people in the community can learn from what you did. Youll also be able to show off your game around the fediverse communities while the jams running and after it ends

More information can be found in the linked jam page as well as the button to hit to sign up

Hope you enjoy! :)

Team finder thread

It's almost a year since the GMTK GameJam 2022, the Jam that started off my first project that would eventually be commercial. I have been doing games for over 20 years, i have more than 200 game projects i have done just a prototype but a new idea always popped up.

I remember i was at a party and i was talking to a random guy about game development, he mention this new engine called Unity and since then i was hooked on this engine it was still in its early days.

Fast forward to the GMTK Gamejam 2022 i had 48h to make a game, and i finally made a game that looked like a game you can play for more than an hour. The feedback i got from it gave me a huge dopamine kick, something i wanted more of and so i decided, this game is the game i am gonna start my game studio with.

I slowly continue the game on Itch where the GameJam was hosted and i started to see growth, for each day i got more and more dopamine from watching the analytics grow, one day it exploded, i had over 500% more players than the previous day, what happened? I searched on Google for my game and found a Youtube video from the Youtuber Olexa, he made a video of my game, this brought in tons of new players and i started to get small donations for the game. I have never been so high on dopamine before.

My development speed of the game is hugly based on how much dopamine i currently have, it's the best motivation i have ever had for a game project and i was riding the flow, i started a Steam page to gain wishlist.

I did not have the same momentum on Steam as i had on Itch, the wishlisting was slow, i decided, i already have a functioning game, let's put the price low for now and put it into early access. At the same time i send a few emails to Youtubers giving them free keys so they could also do some giveaways, the game is only $3 anyway and i like these Youtubers content so i saw it as a way to donate to them. I has a early access release sale at the same time a few of these Youtubers plaid the game, i got a lot more money than i thought i would and so i started the process of starting my own gaming studio so the revenue would go there instead.

There is a few months since a Youtuber plaid my game now, and sales are slow, my review ratio is weird, but i am at a point in the game where developing it is so much fun that i can't start a new project, i am past the point of no return, i cant let my players down.

If you wanna try the you can play the most updated version on Steam, the Demo is quite big if you just want to try it out. But if you do decide to buy it, don't forget to leave a review.

Made with love in Unity ♥