After playing a bunch of post-main-story #CloudPunk before bed, driving around exploring and collecting things, I finally had kind of a CloudPunk dream. I don't remember most of it, but in the last part just before I woke up I was trying to park in a big complicated parking lot where I had to maneuver between two cars to get to where I needed to park. I was driving the car from a third person perspective, and it was like my car from CloudPunk, only it wasn't a flying car.

Maybe it would help if I played it on my big monitor.

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How should characters work? If we use skeletal animation, we could have a standard skeleton with pre-made animations. In that case the models themselves could be #lowpoly, or they could be #voxel models like in #CloudPunk.

Another option would be to use #MagicaVoxel's per-frame animation. This uses a lot of space for the different meshes, but it would avoid the need to rig the model in #Blender.

#PixelArt animation is an intriguing idea, but especially with unconstrained camera movement I think it's by far the most difficult option. Since you have to create the animation from different camera angles it does allow making shadow masks without extra work beyond drawing from a multitude of camera angles, though.

I like low poly the best. The voxel characters in CloudPunk are one of the least attractive aspects of the game. It appears #IonLands have gone to low-poly characters for #Nivalis. I think low-poly might be better for other models like vehicles as well, but I need to do some experiments to see how they look together. If characters need to be rigged in Blender anyway, it might make the most sense to have those be the only lowpoly models, while everything else is made in MagicaVoxel.

@yuki2501 It looks like #Nivalis, which is being made by the same developers as #CloudPunk and takes place in the same city (Nivalis) may be exactly what you're looking for. I'm guessing it will still be a Windows game but will run on Proton as well.

"In Nivalis, you choose how to spend your time in the city. In this unique slice-of-life
sim with realistic weather simulation and night and day cycles, you can grow your business, meet strange and diverse characters, form friendships and experience the danger and wonder of this cyberpunk voxel city."

https://nivalisgame.com/

#CloudPunk is a #Windows #game, but I played it under #Proton 8.10 using #Lutris with no major issues. I had to disable key repeat in #GNOME to avoid having the keyboard commands continue to register after I released the key.

The game takes place in a huge, vertical city caled Nivalis. You play Rania, a female delivery driver on her first night working for the semi-legal delivery company CloudPunk. The game is almost entirely driving, with some walking around and lots of talking to people. You drive a HOVA, a flying car. It's able to go up and down within a given range, and there are tubes to access the higher and lower sections of the city. It took a little while to get used to driving, but once I figured it out (just hold down w while pushing s and d to steer) it was a lot of fun.

They did a very good job of making the city feel huge. There are plenty of places to explore, though sometimes it can be hard to find the right place to park to get somewhere on foot. And sometimes things are on different levels and there isn't a lift nearby, so you end up hunting around a bit. But the minimap is pretty good once you figure it out.

The game feels a bit unpolished in places, and the plot is fairly derivative and mostly linear with a few choices where it's unclear how they affect the game, which is probably why the game only has 3.2 stars on Gog. But the dialog is well scripted and well recorded with lots of voice actors, and the characters are great. I enjoyed just exploring the city, which you have plenty of excuses to do.

I just started playing the DLC, City of Ghosts. It works fine under Proton as well.

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https://www.gog.com/en/game/cloudpunk

I was having issues with keyboard controls continuing to register even after I released the key in #CloudPunk running under #Proton / #WINE on #PopOS. A quick web search said to turn off #KeyRepeat in #GNOME's accessibility settings. I did that and it worked, but of course now I don't have key repeat. Anyone know of a way to fix this problem without having to lose key repeat globally?

Had to switch back to #PopOS's #GNOME desktop from #Cinnamon because for some reason #Proton keeps crashing Cinnamon, at least when running #CloudPunk.

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Je test le jeu cloudpunk qui est sur steam et en réduction, c'est bien sympa pour passer un dimanche tranquille pour se reposer un peu.

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Spent the day continuing my exploration of Nevalis. Grabbed even more achievements, met more colorful characters, and found more colorful clothes!

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Well I've given #Cloudpunk a few short tries (~10 minutes each) and call me dense but look... I can't figure out how to park the fucking car. I cannot. For the life of me. It's not shown in the button mapping, can't find anything about it in forums, it seems totally obvious to everyone in the world but me. This is easily the stupidest I have ever felt in my life. It's so weird. This time it is the GAME that has beaten ME.

I would be remiss not to yell into the void of the internet how much I love #Cloudpunk. Rania is such a good character and literally everything about the game is so so well done.

Some thoughts on #Cloudpunk https://analogue.gg/cloudpunk #blog #gaming

En otro orden de cosas, hoy he terminado #Cloudpunk que no lo tocaba desde Junio y he vuelto a empezar #Hellblade. A ver si esta vez no lo abandono.

I recently finished #Cloudpunk and liked it quite a bit. Favorite characters and voice actors: Camus, Rania, and Control. https://store.steampowered.com/app/746850/Cloudpunk/

I've never been much of a #gamer. My favorites were the original Thief (first really good stealth game that almost caused me to fail out of college), Quake 3 (because there is no chaos like a 10 player CTF on a small map), and later, Firewatch for its great story-driven focus and beautiful graphics.

But it's been a long time since I've enjoyed a chill game like #Cloudpunk. Really feels like I'm wandering around BladeRunner Los Angeles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y891t5q7K8

I finished #Cloudpunk on the #Switch. A really nice game. Have to sort my thoughts about it a bit longer. #gaming #voxel

Hey @MergeGamesLtd how about an Update as to when we can expeckt the Xbox Series Update for #Cloudpunk ?

Chill #Gaming evening with #Cloudpunk, which seems to be a narration driven simulator so far. Really liking the music and the ambiance, but I swear, if anything happens to Camus, I'm uninstalling right away.