Making a Game About Being Short

Ever wanted to know what it's like to be short. Well wonder no more, now's your chance to step into their tiny little shoes just to see how hard life can be for someone so short.
With the massive success that was only up, an arguably terrible game. I decided it was my turn to make people mad, and hopefully release it on steam.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - Links - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Steam page: store.steampowered.com/app/25...
Itch page: overphil.itch.io/i-am-short
Join our Discord Community - / discord
#unity #gamedev #devlog #indiegame

[@mo-mool]

PLEASE use the falling pipe sound ( 5:27 ) instead
And maybe a cat that chases you and tries to eat you

[@overphildev]

Oh that could be fun

[@chiefpanda7040]

@@overphildev maybe we should be able to change the sound like have a group of sounds we can unlock

[@UsernameHere51]

An outline that appears on objects that you can interact with, similar to how the cursor changes colour now might be a good idea. Easier to see

[@overphildev]

That's a good idea I'll try it out

[@mimozaceka1234]

​@@overphildevbro, ur abscent like 3 months

[@acherest2768]

You should add an fov slider to make the screen a bit easier to look at 👍

[@overphildev]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try and improve it

[@shacogaming1976]

Name it "5'11 Simulator"

[@EtanMarlin]

or 5'12" simulator lol

[@xapg5]

and then the sequel is tall person simulator and call it 9'11 Simulator

[@shacogaming1976]

@@xapg5 that is incredibly unfunny man

[@xapg5]

@@shacogaming1976 no u

[@zojirushi1]

Speedrun any % this lol. Make a leaderboard for it

[@plamshaw]

adding a little ball shooter might be neat, you could shoot things off of hard to reach places or whatnot, and have a limit of like three foam balls that you would otherwise have to pick up

[@rosx_8446]

where is bro

[@kurtcrean]

Ahaha funny concept, looking forward to trying it later.

[@aloyminimum]

You made a tiny error
Had a little slip?
Falling short, are we?
Stick, meet short end.
Twas a small fall
Went from low bar to rock bottom
Live by the short sword, die by the short sword
You’ve expired, or for shorthand, ded
That was like a millimeter fall (causing rage by agreeing that it was unfair)
A short notice on death?
Edit: imagine a pompous British man twirling his long mustache

[@VerySmartPerson]

I don't see a concrete goal yet, I suggest a top-shelf cookie jar. Nice game!

[@creativemind42069]

Someone this small would definitely survive the fall. if you throw a ant off a skyscraper it's gonna basically survive without a scratch.

[@zojirushi1]

It’s like the game I am bread lol

[@xspvrblx]

oooh, this reminds me of that one game set in a lab or something, where you get shorter if i remember correctly

[@edvinfalt8937]

Having the metal pipe sound every once in a while when you die would be a fun easter egg and jumpscare at the same time. I would probably laugh my ass of if it happened to me.

[@Spealer]

This is so cool! Some suggestions are to add a FOV slider, and ambient occulsion throughout :)

[@BrockRocksGaming]

make the wine bottles shatter and the champaign pop and fly like a ballon being let go

[@realberserkpanda]

You ALMOST dit it!

[@greatgodoffire4139]

Hide some items which help the player navigate the map e.g. a grappling gun or a rope

[@jtanger8158]

Looks cool. Also, did you finish your other game?
edit: you should make toy cars and you can drive them

[@magentawool2556]

This seems a lot like "inch by inch"

[@teaboy9614]

Ye exactly my thoughts :)

[@gamerdom7712]

Cool game!

[@oz_jones]

"medium tall" 😂

[@regularhuman4208]

As i short person, i can confirm this guy game is true😢

[@MrThreat_]

Bro did u
You quit I wanna another vid man

[@overphildev]

No, just got really busy. Hopefully I'll be back soon

[@OriginalJetForMe]

Make the candle flame kill you.

[@chiefpanda7040]

Algorithm 😊😊😊😊😊 video funny game

[@hippopotamusbosch]

Did a little person murder your family or something? This seems personal.

[@overphildev]

Yes

[@LiquidMark]

epic

[@dazcarrr]

ah, the 5'11 experience

[@overphildev]

My comment section is funnier than me

[@user-zp8tz8hs2h]

​@@overphildevI know right

[@tehtonym]

Welllll what happened??

[@jaxwhoa9703]

Wdym a game it’s not a game unless my life is a game

[@zombie123j]

you quit on your dream game I hope you start again

[@overphildev]

No, just taking a creative break. This was supposed to be only 1 video but it ended up being a little more than I thought

[@zombie123j]

ok thanks 👍

[@rosx_8446]

make it for mac pls m1

[@realberserkpanda]

Umpa lumpa dobady doo I got a job and it perfect for you.

[@mimozaceka1234]

It would be cool if you die you get a specific death message!
For example:
You fall- Eh, shorty! And others....
A item falls above you- SQUISHED And others....
(idk if this would happen) You hack- Eh, i think i should probably ban you... and others...
Someone does that fly hack:
Niceeeee, you tried to speedrun, But its looks like it didn't work..... and others....

[@user-zp8tz8hs2h]

NICE

[@dhstudios7438]

bro ever since u stopped posting regularly i haven't been that motivated to make my game

[@pixeldust8362]

please increase the fov a lot, this perspective sucks

[@CasproGaming]

it doesn't scream rage-game enough for me

[@BestDax]

Bro start working on ur games again

[@gamerdom7712]

Pin?

[@Gureenu]

try to remove the "unity" look so it will be much more pleasant to stream and such

[@overphildev]

What would you recommend to help with that? I know post processing but I'm sure there is more

[@stickguy9109]

​@@overphildevYeah the only thing you can really do is to add some post processing. The "unity look" comes from the standard material and unity's renderer you can't avoid it unless you use your own custom built shaders