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I managed to port the game to Unity and spent most of the time adjusting the lighting and the atmosphere so the game has a good contrast and depth.
The earlier versions looked flat and boring so I changed the art style from grimey rust to dark neon blue again - similar to the threejs prototype.
I also added the option to play the game with twin joysticks instead of an auto shooter. It's more of a challenge.
The UI is still terrible. I had Codex assemple all the ui into prefabs yesterday so I can adjust it myself as I'm not particularly good at Unity and can't edit UI through code yet.
Switching to twin joysticks over auto shoot is the right call for that arena layout, gives players a reason to actually aim. Honest touch admitting the UI still needs work, most devs would just not mention it.
Thank you - Yeah, it makes the game more fun as you need to become good at it to survive. As for the ui, might as well admit it first before someone else does it :)
Great work so far🙌
Respect for admitting the UI still needs work instead of just showing the highlight reel. Now that Codex handled assembling the prefabs, is adjusting them by hand actually faster, or did it just move the bottleneck somewhere else?
I think I'm the bottleneck now since I don't know much about creating UI in Unity. It would probably be faster if I just created the UI in Figma and told Codex to implement it, but I've wanted to learn Unity for a while so I'm using it as a way to learn.
... for now at least. I...
the lighting is a big jump from the earlier version
Nice work🔥👏👏
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The game I built yesterday is fun, but I want to port it to an app at some point and I also want to make it prettier, so I started working on porting my Bolt Pit game from Threejs to Unity.
Also, based on a few gamer coworkers' suggestions I'm also switching the gameplay from arena level progression to a more rogue-like game.
Somehow along the way the art style changed from neon to dirty rust and I'm not a fan, so I'm changing the art style back.
I'm using the Top Down Engine to do a lot of the heavy lifting of the gameplay and speed up production.
One of the best designs I’ve seen today. Really solid work 👏 Porting Threejs mechanics over to Unity gives game development workflows so much flexibility.
My X feed filled up with people shipping little games with the new Astra model.
When I finally got access, I started one of my own.
I made three concept images in ChatGPT first. Neon arena. Industrial pit. The kind of Smash TV energy I grew up on. Then I handed those to an agent and let it build.
What came back was playable faster than I expected. Twin-stick arena shooter. Short runs. Waves. A boss. Browser, mobile and desktop.
The first prototype took about 30 minutes and everything after has been fine tuning the gameplay and polish.
The first iterations were too easy, so I cranked up the difficulty which helped a lot.
Bolt Pit is public now if you want to try a run:
I'm working on porting it to Unity now also as I want to take advantage of the unity engine.
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