BooksAreLikeDragons

30 Mar 2019, 09:12

I was thinking that as a reference for me (since I'm making the Book of Dragons featured in the game) and whoever is going to create the models (I'm not sure if @Dragonrider's Fury will currently be able to do it, due to having problems with Unity), I will write a list of every single dragon species that appeared in every film (unless we'd want to include the dragons from the TV series).

BooksAreLikeDragons

31 Mar 2019, 14:24

I'm sorry if I annoyed you, I didn't mean to.

Dragonrider's Fury

31 Mar 2019, 16:56

BooksAreLikeDragons

31 Mar 2019, 14:24

I'm sorry if I annoyed you, I didn't mean to.

I wasn't annoyed, so don't worry.

Quote:

 

Hi there,

Sorry for the late reply.

1st off, the MacGyver game I've made isn't really copyright free, and I am currently going through a process of getting the decision to officially release. Without explaining too much, I had to remove and change a few things, but ultimately it's going well, but it's offline to the public at the moment.

Basically it all comes down to who you contact. I was extremely lucky to actually have the chance to talk to the producer of MacGyver, and set up some rough guidelines. It took a few years to develop what's done do far. And there's a few small fixes that should be done.

The game engine I use is Unity, which is 'easy' compared to some others out there. And I also use Blender 2.6 to make models, and thankfully there's various tools for Unity which make certain things much easier to handle. Currently I'm using free versions of everything. But there was some costs involved with the tools, and hiring programmers to actually code the game. As I am mainly a 3D artist / animator, I only know a little bit of code.
Unity costs money every month, and there are also royalties involved - if say your game sells over $100,000, you have to pay Unity some amount. So I've decided to use the free version for now and sort all of that out when I can. The differences of a full version VS the free version of Unity are varied, and always change.

So if you're a beginner with all of the programs, I suggest watching as many tutorials on youtube as possible.


This one, was one of the 1st videos I watched for Blender that worked for me. After about a month or 2 of practicing Blender, I'm now kind of addicted even though I'm not exactly doing a lot with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJJRC2ebvSE

This was one of the 1st Unity programming tutorials I watched up until part 176, and then I basically started to hire programmers because I got lazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqzz1d ... 0574BF4B06
(and I'm unsure if he's code works with any version of Unity 2017 on-wards)


Game development can be crazy fun, but at the same time it can be ruthless. It can certainly be stressful at times, and very costly. Some 'indie' devs have a budget of 1 million. I certainly didn't, lol.

I have the issue of creating a massive idea in my head, and then writing down a game design document that is either too much to handle, or becomes a complete mess of ideas. I suggest something like GoogleDocs to handle concept documents. Easily shared and can be edited by more than 1 person - if you have a team.
Teams can be good, but in my experience - they don't work out unless you know your team members personally. I've helped out over 10 teams before and only 1 of them exist now.

If you have the passion to create something, you'll work it all out - in good time. I could go on and on, but I'll stop here heh. But if you have any questions, I might be able to help.

Cheers!

Dragondog

31 Mar 2019, 20:03

Yes, keep writing the book

I managed to hear back from the guy I mentioned, and here's what he said:

Quote:

 

Hi there,

Sorry for the late reply.

1st off, the MacGyver game I've made isn't really copyright free, and I am currently going through a process of getting the decision to officially release. Without explaining too much, I had to remove and change a few things, but ultimately it's going well, but it's offline to the public at the moment.

Basically it all comes down to who you contact. I was extremely lucky to actually have the chance to talk to the producer of MacGyver, and set up some rough guidelines. It took a few years to develop what's done do far. And there's a few small fixes that should be done.

The game engine I use is Unity, which is 'easy' compared to some others out there. And I also use Blender 2.6 to make models, and thankfully there's various tools for Unity which make certain things much easier to handle. Currently I'm using free versions of everything. But there was some costs involved with the tools, and hiring programmers to actually code the game. As I am mainly a 3D artist / animator, I only know a little bit of code.
Unity costs money every month, and there are also royalties involved - if say your game sells over $100,000, you have to pay Unity some amount. So I've decided to use the free version for now and sort all of that out when I can. The differences of a full version VS the free version of Unity are varied, and always change.

So if you're a beginner with all of the programs, I suggest watching as many tutorials on youtube as possible.


This one, was one of the 1st videos I watched for Blender that worked for me. After about a month or 2 of practicing Blender, I'm now kind of addicted even though I'm not exactly doing a lot with it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJJRC2ebvSE

This was one of the 1st Unity programming tutorials I watched up until part 176, and then I basically started to hire programmers because I got lazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqzz1d ... 0574BF4B06
(and I'm unsure if he's code works with any version of Unity 2017 on-wards)


Game development can be crazy fun, but at the same time it can be ruthless. It can certainly be stressful at times, and very costly. Some 'indie' devs have a budget of 1 million. I certainly didn't, lol.

I have the issue of creating a massive idea in my head, and then writing down a game design document that is either too much to handle, or becomes a complete mess of ideas. I suggest something like GoogleDocs to handle concept documents. Easily shared and can be edited by more than 1 person - if you have a team.
Teams can be good, but in my experience - they don't work out unless you know your team members personally. I've helped out over 10 teams before and only 1 of them exist now.

If you have the passion to create something, you'll work it all out - in good time. I could go on and on, but I'll stop here heh. But if you have any questions, I might be able to help.

Cheers!

Dragonrider's Fury

01 Apr 2019, 18:46

Unless you feel like getting me a new computer that can run the latest version of Unity, nothing comes to mind.