The Short Snow on Steam
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THE SHORT SNOW! Realistic open-world survival experience, you find yourself lost in a vast, snow-covered forest after a harrowing plane crash. With temperatures plummeting and hunger gnawing, will you succumb to the elements, or will you conquer the frozen wilderness? The choice is yours!
  • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I think the post is better suited for a gaming community than programming.

    • laradev@programming.devOP
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      11 days ago

      Hi, it is not a copy game, all of things is totallry different than long dark, just a cover photo looks similar, which i will change it soon.

      • SweatyFireBalls@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        The long dark is one of my favorite games of all time and I have to say, I don’t know how you can say just the cover photo looks similar. Here are some very similar things I noticed:

        1. You have a picture of an in game menu that looks exactly like TLD
        2. The way the flare and torches are handled is wildly similar, especially in your video where you are holding off wolves.
        3. That frozen body with snow all over it? It literally looks like it was copy pasted from TLD.
        4. You mention that there will be two modes, story and endless, very much like TLD too. I would wave that as a coincidence if everything else, including the name of the game, feel like a rip of TLD.

        I can’t just look at these things and think it is a coincidence, they are all so similar.

        I would have been more likely to wishlist and had less of a negative reaction if you:

        1. Didn’t act like there is nothing similar between the games and owned up to the fact you were inspired by such a masterpiece of a game.
        2. Actually was bringing something new to the table here, most of your trailer is showing everything I know from TLD, if you have new proprietary systems and ideas, like cooking why aren’t you showcasing them? All I see is an animation for cooking.
        3. The game looks really rough at the moment, and I respect the ambition. However, when I seen 2024 as the release date and this is what there is on show, I can only assume the rest of the game lacks the same polish.

        I do wish you luck, but in my opinion as someone from your likely target audience I would not purchase your game.

        • laradev@programming.devOP
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          11 days ago

          Thanks for your thoughts. Inspiration is not a bad thing, but you can not tell me that it is copy of the long dark game. Animations about holdinf torch is generally like that on other games too not just like on long dark, for example check the forest ,green hell,winter survival and etc… And yeah it is not final result i will work on it and polish it more and more.

          Thanks

  • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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    11 days ago

    What game engine did you use? Animations look rigid like a 90’s Pixar film, textures look like shit, lighting looks bad. If you stayed with a unique consistent non-realistic theme, such as a 90’s PS1 game aesthetic, it would look better and people would forgive the shitty looks.

    • laradev@programming.devOP
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      11 days ago

      Most o people told me that the graphics is looking realistic, also textures lightings is really good. I use Unity. And this is not final result, i will do changes on animations,lightings and etc.

      • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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        11 days ago

        Realistic graphics do not do your wonderful game any favors, I recommend deliberately forcing an overlay filter of some kind that cannot be adjusted, such as a film grain or 90’s VHS signal.

          • BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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            11 days ago

            No, you really shouldn’t listen to critics, including myself. You should commit to your vision of your game, since it’s your art. Everything I said is for a game i want, not for a game you want to make

    • laradev@programming.devOP
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      11 days ago

      What part of this game is the long dark? just cover photo? come on you can not just tell that is a long dark copy just because of cover photo is looks similar.

      • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        I went to steam page and watched the video. I’m sorry if you don’t like hearing the criticism, but the gameplay, animal behavior, the visuals, everything but roasting your meat on a stick looks like a blatant copy. Come on man, you know what you did here.

        • laradev@programming.devOP
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          11 days ago

          You told “but roasting your meat on a stick looks like a blatant copy” , But as a fan of The Long Dark game, i never saw such animation or mechanic like that “roasting your meat on a stick” , Also, roasting meat on campfire is generally on all of the survival games. Please do not be so aggressive

          • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            11 days ago

            I said “everything but” meaning roasting your meat on a stick is the only thing I saw here that looks original.

  • stuckgum@lemmy.ml
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    11 days ago

    I am bit tired of seeing open-world-survival-explore-everything-do-everything type of games, it is an oversaturated market. Wishing you all the best of luck!