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Error messages are like the unsung heroes of game development, but did you know that a good one can save your player's experience? 💾
🧵 Let's explore the dos and don'ts in this thread 👇👇
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🧵 Let's explore the dos and don'ts in this thread 👇👇
#unrealEngine #gameDev #indieDev #unity3D
As a developer you are probably writing lots of error messages while developing your game. But do you pay attention to crafting them in a way so they are really helpful to players?
Let's start by talking about what makes a bad error message actually bad:
Let's start by talking about what makes a bad error message actually bad:
- [ Too Generic ] -
It's generally a bad idea to just add a generic title to all your error messages. "Something went wrong" is telling your player exactly nothing about what happened.
And that's particularly bad as it increases frustration and confusion.
It's generally a bad idea to just add a generic title to all your error messages. "Something went wrong" is telling your player exactly nothing about what happened.
And that's particularly bad as it increases frustration and confusion.
Want to know a secret to making your game development process run smoothly? 🔥
Let's talk about versioning 🧵👇
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Let's talk about versioning 🧵👇
#gameDev #indieDev #indieGameDev #coding #unrealEngine #unity3D
First of all I want to point out the importance of clear and consistent versioning of your game builds. Keeping track of changes and updates is essential for ensuring that your game is stable, efficient, and easy to understand for both the development team and the players.
Typically a game version is made up of 3 to 4 elements, like 1.0.14 or 1.3.74.8.
You can basically break them down as follows: [Major].[Minor].[Patch].[Build]
You can basically break them down as follows: [Major].[Minor].[Patch].[Build]
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1/7 Translucency see-through trick that might be useful... sort-of? This is usually done with custom stencil/depth (which has its benefits) but using a translucency material allows you to cheat a bit...⬇️
1/7 Translucency see-through trick that might be useful... sort-of? This is usually done with custom stencil/depth (which has its benefits) but using a translucency material allows you to cheat a bit...⬇️
2/7 First we'll make a translucent material that has Depth Test disabled. Then we're going to sample the SceneDepth and recompute the world position of anything that was occluding our view...
3/7 ... then get the squared distance (cheaper) from that scene world position to the camera and compare it with the squared distance of our own position to the camera. If ours is higher, means we're behind something! We can then get a binary mask with an if statement.
