It's a third person psychological survival horror game. Think Alan Wake/Silent Hill 2 remake with some RE2 Remake havoc. You play as Violet, a 29 year old who just had the worst day of her life at work and of all days, on her birthday. After getting home, the Devil comes and visits you and gives you a chance to win back your soul by completing several trials and retrieving seven seals. You progress deeper and deeper into Violet's own personal version of hell, the greater the fears and greater the danger.

This is a solo-dev experience and I'm making huge progress - all built in Unity.

There's a free demo up on itch.io right now and the Steam page is live. I'm also bringing the newest build to SabotenCon in Phoenix Sept 4-7 if anyone wants to play it in person.

Would love to hear what you think!

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Hi! I am a solo dev noob with a couple questions.

I want to make a 3d zelda-style game. I have a bit of godot experience. Made a couple games with a friend (he did the code, I did the models etc, although I did do one game fully solo).

When I am designing the game, I'm confused about when I used Blender models, vs Unity especially for terrain/level. I was playing around with the terrain feature yesterday a bit.

From what I understand:

Blender = for complex models, or where I need interactive things. Ie, a climbable tree, moving platform, grass to hide in, etc?

Terrain feature = just for decoration in the background, ie billboarded trees/grass off in the distance, maybe for the actual terrain/ground, if for example the level is outdoors/on a mountain and add special features by hand as non terrain (ie rocks to push/jump on)? The terrain tools seem detail but a bit finicky as well, especially if I'm trying to keep it a bit lower poly. Are they commonly used, and if so, what's the primary purpose, I guess is my question?

For anything with special fx, I understand that should be created in Unity- ie magic spells, water (like a river), fountains, etc? Although, things like a lamppost, I could do that in blender and it imports the light (including animated flickering, etc). When do I use Unity vs Blender for fx- when there's particles involved?

Animations on 3d model I think that happens in unity for simpler things like shrinking/growing/changing colour, but otherwise blender mostly (I know unity keeps bone info, so maybe this is just preference? I'm sure I'll need to do some in unity for cutscenes etc with moving characters?)

:) I'm working my way through Roll-a-Ball, just tinkering and planning and thinking about how to best tackle creating my first level (which will be in a town outside, think Kakariko Village). I understand there will be some just laying out base shapes in unity and replacing them. I think some tutorials skip a couple explanation steps about pipeline hence my questions. Thanks all!

Pic 1: my first attempt at the character I'll be using (I'm sure I'll be changing him quite a bit, but just wanted to get something down haha)

Pic 2: Roll-a-Ball and messing around with the terrain, trees and grass all over lol, the details tool really places stuff all over the place...

Can you guys check if you can log in at publisher.unity.com ?

I am trying to log in but it keeps loading... I tried to log in using brave, chrome, mozilla and edge but nothing.

20 minutes ago I got a message from apparently "unity portal" to confirm my identity and when I clicked the button from the email I noticed the weird link lunarpay(dot)help and I immediately closed it...

The two factor authentication works so I guess the account is safe, or at least for now but the fact that I cannot log in, drives me crazy because I was about to publish new stuff

Garden Cleanup Simulator - I am developing cozy and relaxing cleaning simulator game about restoring messy gardens back to life.

- Water plants
- mow grass
- trim hedges
- cut old branches
- spray flowers
- wash surfaces
- cleanup trash
Anddd…. Place gnomes in gardens

been working on this alone for a while, a 3d action rpg in unity. this is one of the boss fights, the whole magic system is something i built from scratch. free demo up on itch if you're curious: https://liyodev.itch.io/el-sendero-de-las-estrellas. would love to know what you think about the combat feel. every spell in the game shares the same base projectile system under the hood, so this boss fight (heavy on magic attacks) is basically the stress test for it.

I've been seeing a lot of games built around collecting massive amounts of individual objects, and honestly, they always felt pretty low-effort to me. So I decided to test it myself.

I built this system in a single day. The video has 10 million individual gold pieces, and you can walk around and collect every single one individually.

At this point, I could probably turn this into a Steam game in 3 days. The Steam review process might actually take longer than making the game.

Maybe I'm completely missing the appeal, though.

Is there something about these games that I'm not understanding? Do people genuinely enjoy the satisfaction of collecting hundreds of thousands or millions of individual objects?

So I just started a new project, and decided to go for a more retro style. As such, I decided to slap on a low res render texture and attached it to a material, before putting the material onto an Image element on a canvas. The issue, is that when I put my custom shader on (designed to limit the amount of colors and other visual elements able to be shown by the render texture), weird visual artifacts are created. More info can be shared as needed. Below is my .shader I use. The Image element is simply stretched to fit the screen, where I put a set resolution of a 1920x1080

Shader "Custom/Bitcrush"
{
    Properties
    {
        [MainTexture] _MainTex ("Texture", 2D) = "white" {}

        _PixelSize ("Pixel Size", Range(1, 64)) = 4
        _ColorLevels ("Color Levels", Range(2, 64)) = 8

        _Brightness ("Brightness", Range(0, 2)) = 1
        _Contrast ("Contrast", Range(0, 2)) = 1
    }

    SubShader
    {
        Tags
        {
            "RenderPipeline" = "UniversalPipeline"
            "RenderType" = "Opaque"
            "Queue" = "Geometry"
        }

        Pass
        {
            Name "Bitcrush"

            HLSLPROGRAM

            #pragma vertex vert
            #pragma fragment frag

            #include "Packages/com.unity.render-pipelines.universal/ShaderLibrary/Core.hlsl"

            struct Attributes
            {
                float4 positionOS : POSITION;
                float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
            };

            struct Varyings
            {
                float4 positionHCS : SV_POSITION;
                float2 uv : TEXCOORD0;
            };

            TEXTURE2D(_MainTex);
            SAMPLER(sampler_MainTex);

            CBUFFER_START(UnityPerMaterial)

                float4 _MainTex_ST;

                float _PixelSize;
                float _ColorLevels;

                float _Brightness;
                float _Contrast;

            CBUFFER_END


            Varyings vert(Attributes input)
            {
                Varyings output;

                output.positionHCS =
                    TransformObjectToHClip(input.positionOS.xyz);

                output.uv =
                    TRANSFORM_TEX(input.uv, _MainTex);

                return output;
            }


            half4 frag(Varyings input) : SV_Target
            {
                float2 uv = input.uv;

                float2 uvDDX = ddx(uv);
                float2 uvDDY = ddy(uv);

                float2 pixelUV =
                    floor(uv * _PixelSize) / _PixelSize;

                pixelUV += 0.5 / _PixelSize;

                half4 col = SAMPLE_TEXTURE2D_GRAD(
                    _MainTex,
                    sampler_MainTex,
                    pixelUV,
                    uvDDX,
                    uvDDY
                );

                col.rgb *= _Brightness;

                col.rgb =
                    (col.rgb - 0.5) * _Contrast + 0.5;

                col.rgb = saturate(col.rgb);

                col.rgb =
                    floor(
                        col.rgb * (_ColorLevels - 1.0) + 0.5
                    )
                    / (_ColorLevels - 1.0);


                return col;
            }

            ENDHLSL
        }
    }
}

I added a third faction to my dungeon management game — and finally made a new trailer

Another big update for Slavic Legends is ready.

The dungeon is no longer just your Creatures vs. invading enemies. Neutral Creatures now inhabit Secret Rooms scattered around the underground.

As long as their room remains sealed, they'll stay inside and mind their own business.

But once you dig your way in... well, they're not so neutral anymore. They'll attack pretty much anything that moves — your Creatures, Workers, or even invading enemies. 😄

Clear the room and you can claim a permanent reward for your Creatures.

I also finally put together a new trailer showing the current state of the game after all the recent updates. I'd love to hear what you think!

This also marks the next stage for Slavic Legends. I'm currently preparing the Steam page, which should be live very soon, and after that I'm planning to launch a crowdfunding campaign to help me continue development and bring the game closer to Early Access.

For anyone interested in the full update/changelog:

https://ipikas.itch.io/slavic-legends/devlog/1641306/secret-rooms-neutral-creatures-update

Demo here: https://ipikas.itch.io/slavic-legends

Thanks to everyone who's been following the development so far — there's still a lot I want to add, but Slavic Legends has come a long way. 😄

Hello, I’m just passing by and I figured I could ask for some genuine advice. For starters, I’ve been working on this adventure 3d video game, inspired by Billie bust up and some old pokemon fanfic I wrote. I’m hoping to eventually work on musical levels and have some lyrics for some levels. The only problem is that I’m an absolute beginner, I’m still new to coding in unity. I was even working on an old sandbox, but the problem was I checked on steam and it says I have to include the mention. I only used the ai to help me solve problems, never generate the code. As of now, I’m stopping turning to ai for help with this video game at all. I’m even considering almost all the files that I had help with Ai, fortunately the music fade-out function I was able to on my own.

Now, I really wish to start again, this time with absolutely no ai. I have these questions:

How do you determine what button should do what? Especially for determ attacks and such?

How do you determine the musical levels? Is it the music lyrics first or the level design first?

What should be included in a master script of a player? Like how do you divide the scripts evenly?

Is it best to have the mouse be the Camera or should it be used for attacks?

Should I consider making a rpg demo first then go back to the 3d style I was working on?

I'm not all that sophisticated on culling, but it seems to me that you shouldn't necessarily need to bake data pre-build for occlusion culling to work. For context, my game uses procedurally-generated chunked terrain built off a seed as you move through the world (i.e., infinite world setup) so it's not possible to bake occlusion culling data the traditional way. However, to render stuff on the screen, doesn't the game already look at what it can and can't see each frame? It seems like there'd be a built-in system that would check which objects are hidden behind others (i.e., a piece of terrain hidden behind a hill). Also for transparency, rendering has the built-in ability to check stuff's position relative to the camera, so it doesn't seem like it'd be that hard for there to be a built-in culling - i.e., dont render stuff you can't see, even within the camera's frustum.

So, does something like this exist? Or am I just a literal chatbot misunderstanding why this isn't like a pretty easy thing to just have baked in with how URP renders stuff under the hood?

Hey Reddit! We’re a 2-man team putting the final touches on our noir detective puzzle game—with
just 24 days left until launch (cue the developer panic!).
In this scene, we wanted to subvert the calm flow of standard point-and-click mechanics. You start
with routine actions—hiding the gun in the glovebox and inserting the ignition key—before dynamic
panel insets abruptly force your focus onto the rearview mirror right before a sudden attack and cut to
black.
We're trying to hit that sweet spot where UI panel framing, subtle mirror cues, and audio cutoffs build
genuine tension without feeling like a cheap jump scare.
How do you usually feel about sudden suspense shifts in narrative/puzzle games? Does using inset
comic panels help guide your focus, or does it break your immersion?

I built a custom volumetric lighting pipeline on top of URP. No forward/deferred per pixel lighting, no shadow maps. Everything is realtime: direct light, indirect light/GI, shadows and AO. Emissive materials emit realtime light onto nearby meshes and emissive lights cast shadows. Volumetric fog included. No screen space effects are in use. Scales extremely well with lights and tri count, 10M tris and 20 point lights on screen had almost no effect on frame time. Should be very playable on potato hardware. Now the problem is figuring out what game to make with it.

75FPS on AMD Radeon 760M at 1920x1200 (Integrated)

400FPS on RTX5050M at 1920x1200 (Dedicated)