Hello all! I made this trailer for a world I was building for a 20-25 min CG short film that I wrote a script for and everything.
Lately the algorithm gods blessed the video and it is getting some traction. Now people in the comments want me to make this game and I would absolutely love to make a world exploration adventure game. However I have no game design background. I have played with UE5 for last 4-5 years but on the cinematics side and not the game design side.
I am a senior VFX artist for film and TV and love worldbuilding but idk if I should focus on finishing the whole short that explores this world and release that OR make a game instead?
I thought if I really want to dabble into game design, I should start with something small as I am scared attempting a project of this scale will just ruin the idea/world if not done right to my level of quality. But on the contrary, any small game I will make will be me doing it for the sake of it instead of enjoying the build/learn process which I know I would enjoy if I built this world as I already know everything about it.
Would appreciate any/all guidance!
TLDR: Made a trailer, people like it and want the game. Not sure what to do.
i would suggest both… there are plenty of free templates… since you have to build a world for a movie, throw in a few clues to find while just staying one step ahead of the bad guys… but of course the movie can’t be a spoiler f0r the game, your game would have a different set of clues or something… good job
That’s true, I have to build a world anyways for cinematics but it is just that sometimes these worlds are just built from the camera perspective. I know sometimes games are built that way too but I think it would be better instead to focus all my effort into telling a good story and building the world. If people love it enough still, I can always redirect my energy afterwards to gamedev I think and hire/collab with people who know this more than me.
good call… agreed, focus on the movie (i do movies too, sets can be very small)… try to set a game as you go, but if it don’t play out, it don’t play out (shrug)… good luck, you are quite talented, much more than me (smile)
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