This first one is simply confirmation about stat bars (even if it’s referencing hunger bars in particular).
We will not have a hunger bar.
Expiring food might be a thing though.
Also I’m gonna have the fridge let you put stuff in it.
These next two quotes are Macs opinions, but I agree with them, hence why I’m quoting them. Note that these are NOT official Pixeltail statements anymore.
I personally don’t like stamina bars.
Video games to me have always been about answering the question: “what can you do in this virtual world that you can’t do in real life?”
I feel that stamina is a cheap tactic to balance having fast player movement then slowly taking it away so there’s a “balanced gameplay” when really it just annoys.
I apologize for having such a critical view on it - but ultimately I feel that it doesn’t really add much to video games, but takes away. The only time I would allow it is if the game had a rich story and the stamina was there to explain why the character can’t always run.
Here’s why I hate hunger bars.
Our goal with Tower Unite is not to mimic reality. Our goal is to let players have fun without limits and without always conforming to reality.
Hunger bars, air bars (when underwater), and others go completely against what I consider fun in a game.
Example, The Ship. An otherwise great game if it weren’t for the…
Games that do these things literally take away enjoyment for literally zero reasons. Yes, you could argue that a hunger bar adds immersion, but at what point in time in a video game do you want to stop EVERYTHING you’re doing to… increase a bar on the screen. How is that fun?
It adds no variety or enjoyment to the game. It adds no actual real gameplay and instead just adds a timer for the entire duration of the game.
Call me old fashioned, but I hate this new trend of survival games that just slap on hunger bars and add nothing to the actual gameplay. When am I gonna get a survival game where I actually have to use my wit to survive and not “oh, I gotta eat food all day”.
This is in no way aimed towards anyone, I just needed to vent about this frustrating aspect to games.This is also my opinion, not anyone else on the team.
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