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Question about rules.

A topic by buhubuhu created Feb 11, 2020 Views: 744 Replies: 20

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buhubuhuSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

Im developing my own, innovative player movement system for about 4 months. I really want to test it on... with you guys but dont want to break the rules of the jam. When the jam start I plan to set up a game around my system taking ofcourse theme into account. Is it ok? I feel like its a little bit unfair because creating system like this is imposible to be made in a week. I can give up on reward if problem like it will occur because my main purpose here is test the system on bigger audience.

Are you guys ok with it?

AshkSubmitted4 years ago

I am ok but we should wait too see if jam hosters will approve or not.

Revifle-Monarch Studios4 years ago (1 edit)

I don't know. Do you really think that it is THAT innovative that you can't redo it in a week? And there's no one controlling or checking if you wrote it during the jam time or before. Participating in a jam does not mean that you must be able to call everything from older objects directly into your head, there are also people looking onto Tutorials for their jam game.

I think that it makes no real difference whether you just put it in directly or write it new while constantly looking at how you have done it.
So, just use it.

buhubuhuSubmitted4 years ago

I know how jams works. That is more like a moral question.

CleverAISubmitted4 years ago

Hmm, I think this time it is a gray zone, because they allow for this Game Jam ANY KIND OF ASSET you want.

So you could probably declare your movement system as an asset, but let the host's decide.

AshkSubmitted4 years ago

Totally not related but you don't have to use ' for plural names. Like hosts or hopes and dreams!

CleverAISubmitted4 years ago(+1)

You're right. The plural -s don't need an apostrophe. Thank you for improving my english language skills.

AshkSubmitted4 years ago

CodeMystJam Host4 years ago

If it's available for others to use as well in form of an asset / package / git repo (and has a somewhat permissive license) then feel free to.

buhubuhuSubmitted4 years ago

it isn't available to anyone. Its 100% my own work from last couple months.

So... I cant use it?

TipuSubmitted4 years ago

Or just release it now:D. I mean thats very easy to do In itchio or some other webpage. I dont know anything about rules just saw the talk and needed to say that. Also its fine to me if u use it even if u dont share the code

buhubuhuSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

General idea is that my character is active ragdoll driven by about 30 rigidbodies connected by many different joints and tricks. I spend many days tweaking the numbers to get to the nice and smooth movement. Giving the code will not help anybody because code is just target velocity/ drivers/spring patterns for different situations. Everything is driven by Unity joints physics so I would need to release the whole package with a character ... and I dont want to do it because I want to use it to make something bigger in future.

AshkSubmitted4 years ago

Now you have my attention

CleverAISubmitted4 years ago

What makes it different from Unity's ragdoll? I am just curious.

buhubuhuSubmitted4 years ago(+1)

He is standing, walking, jumping, punching, grabing things and couple more via quite standard gaming input (WSAD, space, ctrl, shift) and still fully physics based so every body part react to environment like a ragdoll.

CleverAISubmitted4 years ago

And not only the reaction, but all movement is also physic based?

That would be quite neat and reminds me of the "Flexibla Muscle-Based Locomotion". You can watch it on YouTube, if you don't know what I mean.

buhubuhuSubmitted4 years ago (1 edit)

all movement is physics based. It hard to explain in one post. Check metallcore999 on YouTube, his active ragdoll is similar to mine. He was my inspiration in this project.

Edit. I know Flexibla Muscle-Based LLocomotion, but its different approuch. Their system is complex, and I dont think it is game-ready. I made couple shortcuts because I wanted system suitable for games not to brag on YouTube ;).

Anyway. I hope I will be able to finish the build til sunday so you can test it on your own... For now I'm sick and laying on the bed so I didnt even start yet :(

CleverAISubmitted4 years ago

That sounds really nice, but not your sickness of course.

Looking forward to it.

buhubuhuSubmitted4 years ago

I manage to recreate my system (basically I spend one day just coping all numbers from project to project - so I guess it's fair, because I wasted one day ;) )
If you want to check it - it's there (don't forget to rate it tomorrow)

https://bigreengames.itch.io/ragedoll

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SafwanSubmitted4 years ago

It's totally allowed, plus I don't think that anyone would really care… the whole point is to have fun after all!