julianh

I've been working on this game for about 2 years, and finally created a proper trailer for it!

Feel free to ask questions and/or tell me what you think. If you're interested, I also have a steam page up: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2565520/Year_Unknown/

(Please let me know if this counts as advertising and I'll remove it)

I'm a huge fan of weird "walking sim" type games - stuff like Naissancee, The Beginner's Guide, Inside, etc.. So now I'm finally making my own, with some more focus on story.

I've been working on Year Unknown for a few years now, and I've already made a couple devlogs if you want to learn more about the game. But now I've finally published a steam page!

I'm also kinda proud to have almost entirely used free, open source software to create it - Godot, Blender, GIMP, and Audacity.

Let me know what you think!

(For TL:DR just read the docs)

So you might know Godot has the ability to import blender files directly. (If not, well now you know!) This is nice, but I was trying to make some large levels and I found the workflow less than ideal. The import dialogue is a bit clunky, so it's hard to specify what objects have collision if there's a lot of objects.

Import hints help a lot. Basically, in blender, for each object you want to have collision, you can append -col or -convcol to the end of the object name and Godot will add it automatically!

You can use -colonly or -convcolonly to make the geometry only import as collision. This isn't even limited to geometry - you can add it to empty objects and it will create primitive collision shapes.

-noimp can also be used to simply skip importing an object. I actually found a really cool workflow tip with this: Lets say you have a large level file, and maybe you want to split it up into multiple .blend files for organization or convenience. (For me, it was due to lightmaps. I wanted to separate far detail so I could lower the lightmap resolution.) In Blender, for each file, you can go to File->Link, select the other blend file, and add its main collection containing everything else. Then, add -noimp to that linked collection. Now, you can view the entire level in blender but Godot will keep them all separate on import!

There's a few other hints and I recommend you check out the documentation for all the details.

Hopefully some of you found this useful!

(edit: vague spoilers for outer wilds + dlc!)

If I had a nickle for every time an exploration-based game partially inspired by the failure of skyward sword involved uncovering the ruins of an ancient civilization of goat-like creatures with three eyes, included time travel as both a major story and gameplay element, had a blue aesthetic for an advanced ancient civilization, and then had a follow-up with a new, previously unknown ancient civilization that has a green aesthetic, I'd have two nickles.

Pretty much sums up my reaction.

Made with https://youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html

I decided to join non-vac-secured servers and see what horrors awaited me.

I tried posting in [email protected] and it gets stuck when I select English as the language. It worked when the language was set to Undetermined though.

Here's the request that errors out: {"name":"test pleas ignore","community_id":883,"language_id":37,"auth":"eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOjIwNywiaXNzIjoibGVtbS5lZSIsImlhdCI6MTY4ODc3NTEyMn0.jiiIoY4chyzDRfmBMtccUBpmINlbmFRksjScH4vuYos"}

Reponse (400): {"error":"language_not_allowed"}

Dunno if this is an issue with this instance or startrek.website, either way though I should report it.

Edit: I was able to set the language for this post fine if that gives any clues.

A video I made a while back on Portal 2's soundtrack.