Foon → Ludum Dare Explorer → LD46 → Team Yggdrasil
By omiya-games
| Category | Rank | Score | Count | |
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| Overall | 5 | |||
| Fun | 5 | |||
| Innovation | 5 | |||
| Theme | 5 | |||
| Mood | 5 |
If you can export this for Mac or HTML then more people will be able to try it.
The idea sounds interesting, but confusing. There's hints for everyone except you where your resource is? I guess being multiplayer you can help people find theirs and they can help you find yours?
PS: Multiplayer is hard, I also did a multiplayer game, and it's hard to get people onto it all at the same time.
Tried it, but doesn't seem to be in a stable state (I joined with an older laptop in my own game). I see a bunch of black rectangles laid around with something like "no attribute." Hope to check it out potentially later!
So, long-story-short, it turns out Unreal multiplayer testing and debugging requires two computers, which I didn't have during the development process. It took the full four days to setup the Lobby system, only to hit this roadblock, so literally every feature implementation besides the lobby is guess-work. The original idea was to take Spaceteam and somehow make it into an FPS fetch quest. Each player would be given information on where to find a collectable, but not necessarily which player has access to it.
If I *was* able to code correctly, what *should* happen is that both light beams and a single collectable will appear on the map for all players. The collectable is a bit small on purpose, as the light beams is supposed to indicate where it's at. Obviously, using the Spaceteam catch, said beams only indicate the location of another player's collectable, but not yours.
I couldn't confirm the collectable graphics being swapped out for light beams logic has been coded correctly or not, so if it's not, that's my lack of understanding Unreal multiplayer.
Can't really judge too much of the game if nobody else is playing it, but I walked around for a bit in my own hosted match. I'd say as long as you learned something during the jam then you succeeded! Trying to learn an entire new engine during a jam is arduous task, even in a game jam.
Would love to try this when a Mac build is available!