Working a sanity mechanic into my game is starting to feel very wrong... #GameDev #VideoGameDesign #Sanity - ThreadSky

mkschmidt30.bsky.social • 135 days ago

Working a sanity mechanic into my game is starting to feel very wrong...
#GameDev #VideoGameDesign #Sanity

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briancrick.bsky.social•135 days ago

My current project has a ThoughtManager class which I always found super unsettling

mkschmidt30.bsky.social•135 days ago

We all could use one of those! :)

faragher.at.betweentheborders.com•135 days ago

I wouldn't worry until it's "while(true)"

thelostsectors.bsky.social•135 days ago

Need to add a counter that triggers an event at 19.

nezumisoft.neocities.org•135 days ago

Really silly idea but what if freaky evil stuff only appears if you're at low sanity. Like, there are only things you can interact with or battle at a low sanity level.

It could also incentivize players to keep their sanity up.

mkschmidt30.bsky.social•135 days ago

Oh yeah, this is going to be all about managing sanity. Still working on different ways to incorporate it into the gameplay, but certain allies will drain your sanity if you don't take precautions.

gealachfola.bsky.social•135 days ago

I had an idea a while back after my neighbor brought bedbugs into our building for a game like this. The more I started to map it, the more I felt like I was dking something awful lol. Keep on with it though, sanity mechanics are super cool.

sanjuny.bsky.social•135 days ago

Calls try_to_relax()

Returns undefined

🥲

krgamestudios.bsky.social•135 days ago

Yeah, if you overshoot the value of 1, it'll break.

Use <= 1 instead.

hammyhavoc.com•135 days ago

You ever play Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit? You can have a vending machine eating your quarter be what tips a protag over the edge into offing themselves by jumping off a rooftop. No joke. Surprised the hell out of me in 2005. Multiple endings too. That game is absolutely wild.

mkschmidt30.bsky.social•135 days ago

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth was my first foray into this kind of thing (in games), and I loved it, but I don't want to go quite as dark as that.

hammyhavoc.com•135 days ago

Wow—that was a dark game! It was a good era for oddly mainstream dark games.

Excited to see what you do with it though—this sort of unusual mechanic really gets me going.

scottyrich.bsky.social•135 days ago

Unrealistic. There would be an overwhelming number of parameters for a function like that.

/jk

krgamestudios.bsky.social•135 days ago

You're not wrong.

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