You can mainly just move around and talk to people. But I'm trying to make it completely randomly generated, which means it constantly feels like it lacks in depth. I'm aiming for emergent gameplay over an actual story.
But, you can chop down trees, dig under ground, farm some veg. Fight whoever you want to fight. But, it's all text based, so you're literally just watching a letter X move over to a letter T (for Tree) for example haha.
I've got a Map Editor which I'm quite happy with though! Can produce a map from a seed and adjust its climate/mountain level/water level etc.
Have you considered eventually adding graphics?
If you have letters already displayed, replacing them with graphical objects shouldn't be too difficult, depending on how unity handles the display?
Yeah, games that are meant to provide a lot of flexibility & options are generally going to feel underdeveloped while you're working on them. The worst part is, I wouldn't be surprised if it keeps feeling that way, since you'll grow more and more used to what the game can already do.
It might help to every once in a while show off the game to some people, just for fun, so that their reactions can be a measuring stick rather than your own perception.
A map editor is quite the thing to add. Is that external tooling or is it an in-built feature of the game you're making?
Oooooh. Sounds awesome! I know people can get pretty crazy in RPG Maker, when you use it as a foundation and go above and beyond. I hope you'll keep going with it!
At some point I plan to play around more with Unreal Engine, but right now I still have so much I wanna do in 2D first. I recently started going a little into writing GLSL shaders to see what kind of stuff you can just directly do on the graphic card's cores (since you can just add a shader to any sprite). It's pretty cool, but what some people can do with it is straight-up magic. So far I'm just going to use it for some smooth flowing UI effects and maybe special rain shaders.
Mines all Unity. But it's definitely not just me coding it - I'd be waaay behind without my best pal ChatGPT.
How's that working, exactly? I've always shied away from it, because I'm handling so many interconnected managers & handlers that everything has to meet very specific specifications or it won't work.
And I looooove the Tactics System! Making something like that more accessible would be ace for people.
Yeah, that's one of the reasons I'm working on it. It's just a timelessly good system and if done right, would make developing tactics games super easy.
I've already implemented a lot of stuff on the battle map, including the pathfinding. Now I mostly have to settle on the final design for combat stats & how I want the combat menus & combat interaction to look. xD
. I feel if I wait to long everyone understands the meta better then my drafts are just a coins sink.
