Game Engines

Yep This is the 6th iteration of this idea. I finally realized the term for type of game I’ve been failing to finish over and over is ‘Colony Sim’. I have loved these games since I was a kid, but didn’t really experience many until the last few years. I spent hours and hours playing SimAnt, but that was about it. Later, I played Age of Empires and Empire Earth, but really only enjoyed them for their colony management features, which are limited because the core of the gameplay was RTS combat, which I was not very keen on....

I’ve been struggling with this one for months. It has made me stop working on this game altogether (as have other things). First off, the problem doesn’t make much sense. I’m using equivalent logic to handle the positioning of some elements in one view as I am in another. The game is the latest iteration of my resource management sim idea. Villagers get assigned to work stations that produce resources the villagers need to survive....

I’m working on getting back into using AWS tools, and ran across their game hosting tool: Game Lift. It has support for Unity 2019. We’re hosting a game, yo. Bullets from main tutorial: Each version of your game server is called a build Game servers are deployed into fleets of one or more Amazon EC2 instances (this takes a while) There also seems to be a hard limit of one instance for free (?...