I love this forum, all the awesome work and advice on here. I thought I'd finally share a bit of my WIP. This is a 3d exploration / puzzle game I'm working on. I'm doing everything except the music
Most of these are getting close to final I think, but the set dressing will probably change a bit.
This one isn't really done or ready for crit, it's an older WIP:
Anyway, really excited to start sharing here with this great community. Working as a solo game developer I really miss having coworkers to bounce ideas off of, so please feel free to gchat me (barrettmeeker@gmail.com) or ask me question here, I'm happy to share!
Hope you Enjoy!
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There are books and papers that through a game puzzle you can learn to read and they work pretty much the same where you pick them up temporarily to read them.
But unlike Gone Home, there are also more normal puzzle interactions like pick up a key, use it in a lock etc. So you can end up with a small inventory of objects to use for puzzle solving etc.
There are some construction details that are off, like the conduit and other electrical work. Also, the texture of the ceiling is unusual. Not important to anyone except guys who've worked in construction.
Ryan, if you have any little suggestions for the conduits I'd be curious how I could make them a bit more realistic. I don't know if it's practical but I'm curious
Here's some pointless details but if you want to make the scene a bit more realistic looking your could incorporate some of these things. There's a lot of other stuff I left out but again, just a matter of how realistic you want it.
Thanks! Some of the 4x4's (those without conduits) you point to are actually random brackets, but yea from the side the look like 4x4.
Also the knock-outs are round, but because of the lens distortion they start to look elongated.
Thanks for pointing out this stuff though I'll try to fix some of it I think, like that penetrating coupling and better tube material, I was trying to get away with not having to make them transparent at the time for some reason...
Thanks again for taking the time!
Flourescent tubes are not completely transparent, they are coated on the inside with a paint that reacts to the mercury. It's a milky white so you could just make them opaque. Burnt out tubes will usually have darkening on the ends of the tubes.
Oh awesome! Yes I was trying to go for super old / burned out tubes, but your the second person who has said they look weird so I'll go for something more like what you've posted, black at the ends. Thanks!
Yeah, looks good, it's a geeky thing to pay attention to but here's the real world equivalents for anyone interested:
1110 box:
4x4
Conduit coupling:
EMT:
Conduit connector (connects conduit to box)
This is a box offset bend: