Adding Characters to my Indie Factory Game - Factory Game

Episode 7 of my series of devlogs following the development of my indie factory game based on a hexagonal grid!
In this episode, I talk about the design process behind adding characters in my game, as well as implementing the character controllers.
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-- Music Credit --
Chillhop Music
Philanthrope - Beavis pt.2
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Chillhop Music
C Y G N - Time to Chill
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[@ultimaratiojr]

This is coming along very nicely! Looks amazing! I like the use of the shader, it definitely feels more crisp.

[@madrededios77]

Thank you so much 😊

[@xKond3i]

Glad to be your 500th subscriber!
Grow big and keep up the good work.

[@madrededios77]

Thank you!!

[@dianateixeira3482]

Nice to see the character and the scenery. It looks great!

[@madrededios77]

Thanks so much!

[@PhilipPetrunak]

Just dynamically enable and disable colliders objects based on the position of the characters and any other physics dependent objects. For obvious reasons, try to minimize the use of collisions.

[@madrededios77]

Yes! I guess that's pretty straightforward! And it might be enough for me! Thanks

[@julesl2087]

Great progress! Concerning the networking, does the server have to be in the cloud? Or can it also work on one of the players' PC?

[@madrededios77]

Thank you! 😊
The server will only be one of the players' PC. I am not planning on having dedicated servers

[@alexanderwalter4504]

Is the terrain changeable, xample can create a lake, river, then a startup generated custom mesh for larger chuncks of the landsacape could work better than tile based collision.

[@madrededios77]

I think my terrain will not be changeable! I didn't feel like it lacked in many factory games I played that don't have it. You are right, chunkisation is definitely on my roadmap!

[@rechen2023]

Hey this looks awesome! Do you need music for it? I am an audio engineer and composer. Let me know!

[@madrededios77]

Thanks! I will at some point yes! I would love to hear more if you feel like reaching out on Discord 😊

[@rechen2023]

@@madrededios77 I definitely can!

[@adulab5429]

How does the hex-based movement work in the beginning? Was it used in the project?

[@madrededios77]

You mean the hex math I talk about in the first episodes?
It's not used for movement, the player moves in euclidian space. The hex math is used for world queries, such as getting the blocks around another, or chunck based operations

[@adulab5429]

@@madrededios77 Ah yes, thanks so much!