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i just played sayonara wild hearts and would now like to revise my goty pick for 2019

attn @Kaori_Inohttps://twitter.com/Iearnhistory/status/1433629138812735489 …

though checks for single colliders (i.e. Physics2D.OverlapCapsule) are nearly useless. they're too likely to return the querying collider, which you must then ignore somehow and check for another collision. might as well just grab all collisions and .FirstOrDefault, excluding it.

this will be particularly useful as an extension, as i can conveniently ignore the supplied collider too

so... i think i'm gonna make some extension methods now that extend all existing 2d collider shapes, mapping them to 2d shapes that plug into the static overlap functions. hoping to share this eventually.

you CAN query overlaps of generic 2d physics shapes at any position. these are the same exact shapes as 2d colliders in the scene. the fact that this is missing from actual colliders seems like a simple oversight. but 2d colliders have been around for AGES. what gives?

in unity you can cast any collider into the scene over a distance, like a ray (expensive, as it's queried repeatedly along the resulting vector), but you can't simply query an overlap at x position, much cheaper and more useful. why?? #unity3d #gamedev

dear fellow indies, please invest as much time and money into professional audio as you do into your art it cheapens your games SO much to have bad audio mixes, cheap library sfx, stock music, poorly recorded voice acting etc.

*me talking to my dad, trying to explain game dev in the simplest possible way* my dad: "oh. hm. mh-hm. yes yes. i see. so you have to draw every single frame of what could happen?"

*camera pans to reveal a giant, grotesque monster with countless bizarre, ever twisting limbs and just as many oozing orifices; a bleeding, screaming mass of flesh and terror* video game protagonist: "this thing... is not human."

violence, now with diversity™