How long would it take you to make a level of your favourite retro game in Unity?

LOL! at the end summary.

I get what you're saying. Atlantic Crisis and Treasures of Ali-Gar were the last two games I completed in Unity. I left game dev for a couple of months and then I stumbled on AGK and started dabbling around with it near the end of the year. My current game is in AGK.

But for me this is exactly the reason. With AGK I can just focus on my game itself. I don't have to think about all of this other stuff, the Editor, prefabs (or not), GameObjects, monobehaviours, rigidbodies/physics in general, etc. And I don't need to think how to get around these things.... how to turn them off (if possible) and so forth.

It's the opposite... I know that unless I have explicitly programmed something in or am explictly using the API to do something... then it is not in there. And this simplifies things and makes development more straightforward.

And it's not just about retro games. For me it is any game. I expect one day to make a 3D FPS game one kind or another and a 3D RPG of one kind or another. And I still won't have any use for this stuff. Or at least not some of it.

So this is why I would love to see some examples... retro games or otherwise... showing what the best practices are for using Unity without using rigidbodies/physics system, nav system, even without using the Animator, etc. To me this is what is lacking and would make Unity usable for far more game projects and be useful to more developers.

 

That's a fair point. I'm definitely heavily influenced by the fact that I've been tinkering with Unity and C# for a number of years now, so my inclination is to use something I'm familiar with. But there's definitely no golden hammer that works for every situation, and if a developer decides that any engine isn't right for them, it's always the correct call.

 

Just graphics but it's a start, and I'm testing in WebGL as I go.

 

This is how you make doom, the guy keeps updating and making it better

 

The fast reload thing is idiotic and looks like masturbation. Bullet holes in screen looks odd and distracting.

 

What Brutal Doom has to do with the topic anyway? It was developed for six years and is a mod, not a remake.

 

Have you seen the rather retro but great looking COMPUND?

Now that looks good retro art!

 

Great, now I have to change the aesthetic of my current project.

Either that, or beat this person to market.

 

No i didnt looks great

 

Had a major setback, Virus, HD wiped, lost a lot of work!

Note to self regular backups and or cloud based storage of projects a must!