This is WILD. I don't think folks are as excited about this as they should be.
It's a sea change for how to make 3D platforming/action games more accessible. This generalizes in so many ways, if you start designing from the idea that perspective dictates reality.
It's a sea change for how to make 3D platforming/action games more accessible. This generalizes in so many ways, if you start designing from the idea that perspective dictates reality.
https://twitter.com/gosokkyu/status/1506883854636036098
Or this?
This is coyote time for 2022. It's the same idea, extrapolating intent that diverges from physical reality, but applied to perspective. It looks like it should work, so it does.
This is coyote time for 2022. It's the same idea, extrapolating intent that diverges from physical reality, but applied to perspective. It looks like it should work, so it does.
https://twitter.com/gosokkyu/status/1506887122720272388
Will this make 3D platforming/action games easier in an easily exploitable way? Of course.
Does that matter? Come on. There's clearly an audience for harder games in the space (Hat In Time), but Banjoe Kazooie wasn't really about perfectly timed and aimed melee attacks.
Does that matter? Come on. There's clearly an audience for harder games in the space (Hat In Time), but Banjoe Kazooie wasn't really about perfectly timed and aimed melee attacks.
Now, as far as how to actually do this?
Woof. You know all the games about perspective dictating reality? How crazy the physics are behind the scene? That's uh, pretty much what you have to do here, except all your clever work is (if you've done it right) completely invisible.
Woof. You know all the games about perspective dictating reality? How crazy the physics are behind the scene? That's uh, pretty much what you have to do here, except all your clever work is (if you've done it right) completely invisible.
I think you'd end up projecting all hitboxes back along the camera forward? Except you'd probably run into some odd cases there.
So maybe you'd actually want to duplicate the attack a bunch of times in an arc as though the player were facing in each direction? Gets super messy.
So maybe you'd actually want to duplicate the attack a bunch of times in an arc as though the player were facing in each direction? Gets super messy.
My gut says running your attack a ton of times in parallel for each 5 degrees or so of rotation the player could have, and then picking how many degrees you allow based on camera height, and dropping to the "nearest" angle that hits as the true attack, is probably where to start?
The jump stuff, tho. Your allowance for effectively-grounded changes based on camera angle off-up. There's probably smarter ways, but I'd do designer tuning. Pick a max/min height allowance, lerp between based on height off ground.
But I bet it feels wrong if you do it linearly.
But I bet it feels wrong if you do it linearly.
I mean, yeah, this is absolutely a case where I bet the "feels good" solution is this inscrutable Curve that some designer made while hopped up on 3x energy drinks at 2am, and they just look at you in the code review and say
truuuust meeeee
truuuust meeeee
https://twitter.com/spenceregart/status/1507046073000288266
Wasn't expecting to be this excited about the tech behind Kirby, but here we are.
It's genuinely one of the most important game-design advancements of the last few years. It could radically alter the appeal of 3D action-platformers. This precise issue is part of why they lagged.
It's genuinely one of the most important game-design advancements of the last few years. It could radically alter the appeal of 3D action-platformers. This precise issue is part of why they lagged.
But anyways I don't mean to downplay the actual Most Important new tech that Kirby has pioneered:
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