And is it the same genre you love to develop for? Please vote & discuss!
Anecdote: I love FPS games. Less much Third person shooters. At least that’s what I play. Combined arms combat is very fun unless its not done to my liking. Case in point in Battlefield the tanks do not adjust for the terrain gradient like modern tanks, so its very much hit and miss, shoot and scoot. Not too realistic but complicates driving and firing.
I also really enjoy developing action games… I’ve not made an FPS because that genre’s high bar of quality is set pretty high, also don’t want to monkey with animations/rigs/humanoid characters. I sort of miss older game themes, where not everything was hyper-realistic. Some games (Conker: Live & Reloaded) I had a blast with as a kid, and the funny thing is there wasn’t an ammo counter nor did it try to be super realistic. I mean its teddies vs squirrels!
Ballistics in action games is rather interesting too…
My favourite game atm is Fran Bow. And I’m really looking forward to playing Little misfortune, I’ve deliberately been trying to avoid watching any spoilers on youtube.
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My favourite games tend to end up being platformers or action platformers of some variety, with a smattering of first person shooters in there, but right now I’m mostly working on dynamic terrain third person shooters based around compensating for movement of high-mass characters (mech suits) that can easily accidentally crash through buildings if the player isn’t careful because I like playing with movement physics.
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I feel like you and I have met before @Murgilod … are you on the Wolves dev team? PM me if you don’t want people knowing.
Nah, I’m doing my own thing with some random consulting work on the side, but that’s largely for sales and other marketing reasons. Haven’t worked on Wolves.
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I don’t think I have a really specific favorite genre. I have genres that I don’t like at all, which includes storybook type things, and cheesy(to me) simulators like Farm games, to an extent sim games in some cases. Puzzle games tend to bore me pretty quickly too, though I can play them for a time. I play just about anything else though, but I don’t play a lot of games. You can find me on Mechwarrior Online some, as well as HBS Battletech(made with Unity too). I also play older games, RPGs like Final Fantasy series games, and one of my cult classic favorites is Magic Carpet(mid 90s Bullfrog game). That last one is specifically on my TODO list as far as development once I get better at it.
Right now, I’m making a top-down space shooter, similar gameplay to Asteroids but with actual levels, bosses, weapon upgrades, etc…
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I like most genres as long as its VR. For example platformers like Moss, I never played platformers on desktop.
But my heart will always have a extra place for shooters.
edit: and yes, I’m developing the genre that I love the most. Must be pretty common. If you only follow the money not your passion it will never be as good.
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