2The ghost will roam areas, but it want it to be jumpscare style, not like granny or anything, something more horror, Like maybe phasmaphobia, You see the ghost run past you, then you see it in the mirror, and it suddenly disappears, After a while it follows you like normal. I have no Idea how to do this, so anything would help, Preferably someone teaching it, or even suggestions or if anyone does make the AI.
These overarching subjects cover everything but the mini-map. Which brings me to suggest your attention be brought to the Horror Engine. Its fun out of the box, its very optimized, and best of all, its free!
Horror Engine has a pretty neat event system you can use as a reference for some of your requests.
For the eyes telling the AI where the player is: You might want to consider just using a Blackboard/Behavior tree for general navigation. The documentation I am linking here has a great starter guide on this.
The principle is to solve the big problems first, then work down to smaller problems. Biggest problem is getting all the moving pieces talking to eachother so that events fire in the right order and you can effectively play the game from start to finish, even if all the output is just print logs.
Yes you are right in the sense that i should just get the game running first, however with the eyes I mentioned before, It will be too difficult to optimise for mobile later on if I use particle effects, procedural materials, etc. I plan on making it cross-play between pc and mobile thats why.
Also with the time management and ordering what to do first or sorting out tasks, I think you are totally correct about that, I never managed to finish a game before that, however this time I made a whole list of what to do first, then next, etc. It helps a lot.
Hello, how are you? Did you abandon the project? I myself have encountered this question and am wondering how best to start writing. I would like to know what you came up with. P.S: Sorry for the mistakes, I am writing with a translator.
I've decided the only way to do it is to become a ghost with the unfinished business of not having read every book ever made. That also comes with the complication of somehow getting ghost hands on all the books that are no longer available in the earthly realm. Perhaps there is a ghost library. Also, the living would have to stop making books so you could catch up, or you'd have to learn to speed read at a level beyond our current comprehension of physics.
One thing that did exist, though, was a newly published story called "The Canterville Ghost" by an author named Oscar Wilde. You may not think that a story from over 130 years ago would still be relevant today, but you'd be oh so wrong.
At least...today. In fact, if Oscar Wilde were alive today, his entire existence would be pretty controversial in places like America. You see, Oscar Wilde's work, like The Picture of Dorian Gray, was getting banned way before it was cool.
He was known for his wit, flamboyant style, and infamous imprisonment. Born in Dublin, Ireland, Oscar Wilde quickly ascended the ranks of the literary world, eventually leaving behind plays, poems, and prose that are still famous today. While (mostly) welcomed from a literary perspective, his personal life was marked by controversy. He openly challenged the rigid societal norms of Victorian England and questioned those norms in his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The novel is set against the backdrop of London, and the narrative follows the life of Dorian Gray, a man who remains forever young. A painting of Dorian Gray ages and displays the consequences of his moral depravities. The novel was groundbreaking in its exploration of vanity, hedonism, and moral duplicity.
With all this controversy surrounding him, and while the prudes clutched their pearls over his personal life, Oscar busied himself penning sardonic gems that served deliciously snarky critiques of society.
It is a short story in which Oscar Wilde doesn't just take a potshot at societal norms; he loads a satirical cannon and fires gleefully at both the stuffy British aristocracy and the ever-so-confident Americans.
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a straight-laced British ghost met a fearless American family with no qualms about agitating the supernatural? Welcome to Oscar Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost", where British traditions clash with American audacity.
Picture this: An ancient British mansion, complete with its very own ghost named Sir Simon. Sir Simon has been doing his ghostly duties (haunting) for centuries, taking pride in his ability to send aristocratic invaders running and screaming off the premises. Everything's worked quite well, and Sir Simon has been able to keep anyone from staying in the mansion.
Enter the Otis family from the USA, who, instead of trembling in fear, offer Sir Simon the ghost some lubricant for his noisy chains and try to give him throw pillows to keep him quiet when he groans.
Unfortunately for Sir Simon, his old-school haunting tactics meet modern American commercial solutions, and the results are pure comedic gold. No real spoilers, but I will say that the story has two twin American boys (named "Stars" and "Stripes") who keep setting up traps around the mansion for Sir Simon.
It is a short story of only about 11,000 words (think something like 45 pages), so it's a quick read. Some of the movies you've seen or books you've read may have been inspired by "The Canterville Ghost", like, perhaps, Beetlejuice and Home Alone. So, if you haven't read it (or if you have, but it's been a while), check it out.
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Andrews, North Carolina, 2034. No bills, no bosses, no people. Things sure are different after the apocalypse. Daily life is a constant struggle for food, water, and shelter from the searing sun. A lone school teacher makes a discovery that could change the world and bring back "normal" for himself, but at what cost?
One last particular spooky #MSWL : A Japanese horror featuring Japanese ghosts / folklore from a Japanese author would be AMAZING. If you can comp to a Chilla's Art game, I would be so happy. OR a horror centered around video games would be *chef's kiss*
For a super detailed #MSWL check out my website:
careyblankenshipkramer.com/agenting.html. Let's start with a really good, ol' fashioned haunted house story from a BIPOC author. Kidlit or adult! Also, where are my MG kiddos being chased by ghosts? I love those and want to see more in my inbox!
I would really just love some romance with a spec twist in my inbox right now (adult or YA, I'm not picky) -- give me your ghost hunters falling for each other, your vampire crushes, your love spells gone wrong. #MSWL
5. When it comes to Upper MG, I enjoy adventures with pirates, witches, ghosts, animals that can communicate, an underlying moral lesson learned by the main character, strong friendships, and stories of courage, overcoming obstacles, or shining in the face of adversity.
FICTION: Adult, YA, some Upper MG
1. My main jam is thrillers and sub-genres. Domestic suspense, psychological thrillers, gothic and supernatural thrillers/horror, etc. I love fast-paced thrillers with high tension and high stakes. Ghosts & haunted houses are a huge draw for me.
Fall is here, and I am excited to find something cozy. In particular, I'd love to read a cozy romantasy set in our world, or maybe a gripping, atmospheric mystery with a fantastic voice. I'm also into gothic stories that feature ghosts/hauntings, vampires, or curses! #mswl
Make no mistake: This is no horror film. Lowery (Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Pete's Dragon) firmly establishes it as art-house material with an early scene in which he keeps the camera on Rooney Mara for five straight minutes as she devours a pie.
There is an emotional rationale for this audience endurance test: Mara's unnamed character has just lost her significant other (Casey Affleck) to an accident. As she destroys the poor pastry with grief-driven fork jabs, his ghost stands in the background of the shot, observing.
We know Affleck's character has become a ghost because he wears a white sheet with eyeholes cut in it. By allowing us to chuckle at this dime-store visualization of the supernatural, the film somehow reminds us how inadequate and unscary even the most expensive CG apparitions are.
A Ghost Story is so ostentatiously minimalist, like many festival-circuit films these days, that one may feel blindsided when it abruptly reveals the philosophical scope of a Terrence Malick epic. In a scene around the midpoint, an uncharacteristically verbose character (singer-songwriter Will Oldham) establishes the true stakes of our ghost's quest. Whether you love or hate the movie may hinge on whether and how his monologue resonates with you.
Because, as it turns out, A Ghost Story is about more than love, grief and frenzied pie eating. It's about whether any of us has a reason to exist, pre- or post-decease. That question has already lent itself to some pretty ponderous cinematic musings. By contrast, the twisted brilliance of this film is that Lowery sends existential dread sneaking up on us, clothing towering doubts in the harmless, negligible shape of whimsy.
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