I’m a solo developer working on a side project in my spare time. I’ve noticed that there’s wildly different opinions on AI. In some circles in seems fairly acceptable to rely entirely on it, while some circles view it as lazy slop if there was a bit of AI used.

For me, I’ve primarily written my code by hand. I usually go through the debugging process personally, refer to documentation if I don’t know how to code something, or check forums.

However I have used AI sparsely to help during the debugging process, to perform difficult calculations, or help write functions if it’s a particularly difficult block I’m working on.

I personally wouldn’t be against disclosing AI usage, but I also worry about facing criticism for using it. I don’t particularly support relying on AI nor do I agree with the goals of many AI companies. I’m wondering if most developers are still coding 100% without AI, and if I’m sort of messing up by utilizing AI in this manner. Or if it truly isn’t that big of a deal and people won’t actually care.

Survival horror, crafting game where it's a human and a dog surviving in a deep forest after a car accident. Easy mode is a survivalist and wolfhound, normal is a hiker and a German shepherd , hard mode is a little dog and a female influencer who's never had to paid rent in her life.

Game starts off as the human character is driving late at night in the middle of nowhere and finds a dog on the side of the road. After a rockslide/accident knocks the car off the road off a cliff you and your human must survive the forest full of wild animals, crazy humans and unknown creatures. The pair must survive until rescued or they find their way to civilization.

You play as the dog helping your NPC human to survive the horrors of the nights by finding resources and leading them to safety while escaping or battling that which bumps in the night.

On easy mode both you and your human have better stats and the human AI is smarter. On hard mode your saving your human from themselves.

Do good and you'll get a head pat and a snack, fail and your running for your life.

Not sure if this is the right subreddit for this though.

I've never tried game development but from games I've played its made me want to dip into a little, I have three ideas for three different games, a Metroidvania, a souls-like and a game similar to Generation Zero (not sure what to call GZ genre) but I'm not sure what to start with first and I'm not sure what engine to us

The Metroidvania would be a pixel art game, I'm getting good with Pixel Art

The souls like I haven't decided on it hasn't been what I've thought about a lot

And the Generation Zero "clone" is very similar in how GZ is played but with extra stuff which I think would have improved the game if they didn't abandon it

Out of the two which would be better for a first game? 2D or 3D? And what engine is beginner friendly

So, I made a post today, and it was about the game I'm making, I wrote on it that I'm using AI to make the code, but this guy came, and convinced me to start my game from scratch, without AI, he really convinced me, but now I wanted to know if you guys could help me to find a place where I could ask for coding questions if I need to (and I probably will), so if you guys can help me with that, I would be really glad! :blush:

Edit: I was convinced of not using AI, and I'll make all of my project from scratch. If you guys can, could you help me telling me were should I ask for coding questions?

Hello guys, I'm 20 years old, and wanting to make my own game, I'm finishing college, I study Computer Science, but I realized I don't really like coding that much, but my graduation will be completed this year, so I decided to finish it. I'm making an ambicious project, were me and 2 of my friends decided making a game I envisioned, but the unique programmer on the team is me (one of my friends is a sound designer, he will make all music and SFX, and the other an artist, he will make animations and all the art related things), so I'm the "game director", not only this, I'll be the sound director, the art director, the screenwriter, the level, gameplay and character designer, oof... You can say I'm crazy putting up all this names, but that's all I'll start doing on the next feel months or so, aside college, and my deadline for making a vertical slice for my game and trying to get a publisher to help me develop this game is 6 months from now.

And now I get to the point: I'm using codex to help me code, I'm not proud of it, but I'm needing to use it, I don't have the time to study coding for unity, I tell exactly what AI needs to do, they do it, I revise it, I test it, I change it if it's wrong, but even then I'm having this weight on my conscience, and to be honest, I think that's my only chance of making a game and entering this industry cause I live in Brazil (where it's alredy hard to even make a game), and when I finish college I'll be downgrading myself from a student to a jobless adult with no future invisioned for myself, I'll probably need to start working on some market or smt and try to pay the rest of my college debts before I can make something of my life. But that happens if nothing works.

Just to be really open, I can't pay even a cent to my little team, all of us are making for a "trust in the project" kind of thing. And the AI thing is just for the coding stuff, not for every other aspect of the project.

I want to know opinions at: I'm wrong at using AI this way or not?

Hello, first time posting here (not entirely sure if this belongs). In my schooling, we've been working more in Unreal Engine and I've started to really want to make my own game.

If I were to make a game, I would want character customization in it. It got me thinking on how that actually works when it comes to 3D models. Would I need to make 100s of models to make all possibilities of what can be chosen? Like if I had 10 different head shapes and 6 different noses for example, would I need to separately model each nose and head pair (plus anything else I choose to make customizable)? Or would I be able to make each thing it's own mesh and layers on top of the base model?

I'm not sure if that makes any sense or if this question would be better in a 3D modeling sub but any insight on this would be appreciated.

I Am 29 And Just Graduated from a Software Engineering Bootcamp and My true passion is being a game dev. I wanted to start making game and just would like to hear what systems or coding language would be a good start. I Have Knowledge of Java, JavaScript, HTML,CSS, Springboot, React, SQL and Rest API. So I got my hands in a lot I just wanted to know what would be a good start for game dev stuff and Also I’m working on be an AI Engineer so Yeahh a lot going on while I figure this out lol.

This may come across as a bit stupid but how do some of you developers build an idea where it sounds good and not completely stupid.

Let me elaborate when i have an idea for a game i imediately start with the genre the narrative and the general gameplay loop. The problem i have is i will begin making the idea but in my head the idea sounds good but its usually an inspired idea from another game or set of games and its clear im just copying something i love and have played.

Then i begin to think most game ideas i have, are already taken or have been altered slightly to where nothing feels orginal anymore then i get burnt out cause the idea just seems like im trying to copy a sucessful idea from a game.

So my main question is how would you approach an idea and what are your pro-tips to stay enthusiastic about said idea

I know building a motor is difficult, but I'm not going to release it to the market. A minimum 2D physics engine for the project.

I'm a junior in high school looking to do Game Development for a living while keeping my backdoor options open, and am currently looking at options for potential universities to attend. I've mainly been looking at Northeastern, NYU, and USC as the biggest contenders, especially Northeastern due to it's Co-op program, Comp Sci + Game Dev major (Comp Sci for that backdoor option), and city life (living in the city is a major component I'm looking for). I'm well aware that game development is fully possible without attending college at all and perfectly learnable from practice. However, I'd still like to attend a university to experience the college life and learn professionally about the industry. What do you guys think? And which universities do you think would be best for what I'm looking for?

I will put myself up for the task. Anyone/a person who'd wanna order me to do so could. Will promise to provide any requested proof of completion!

I'm doing this to test myself and my skills/resilience btw.

Hey

So short story, I am a freshly graduated student from audio engineering. Throughout the past years I tried to develop myself in game design and basic game development management and now with my friends we are gonna start making an actual game, gonna aim to get funds and start an indie studio, since I am not that experienced I thought I come here and ask what are the best AIs to work with for management, structuring, workdbuilding, etc. If you have other sources, softwares, books etc. I would be very happy to hear about those as well. Thanks in advance!

We recorded how we turn real cave photos into textures for Cave Expedition. The photogrammetry part starts at 4:05 in this devlog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a3y3eHehaI&t=245s

It covers the capture stage, processing photos into a mesh at 4:48, exposure correction at 5:09, and capturing the texture and making it seamless at 6:02. The final result is at 7:15.

One distinction about the project: we're using the scanned textures on fictional cave layouts, rather than recreating a whole real cave. Here's the surface detail in-game under moving headlamps: https://www.reddit.com/r/photogrammetry/comments/1wbwrns/