{"id":6000,"date":"2022-12-04T22:32:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T22:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/?page_id=6000"},"modified":"2022-12-04T23:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T23:02:08","slug":"climb-the-giant-man-obby-part-6","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/climb-the-giant-man-obby-part-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Climb The Giant Man Obby: Part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, over the weekend I did a little playtesting of my Obby with friends and how got some useful feedback about how it&#8217;s shaping up so far &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EyQXb1qVoAMdlbn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500px\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Basically, I think I&#8217;ve fallen into the trap of trying to make every stage too &#8220;interesting&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EyQXo8QVcAcI8UC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500px\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is a bad thing, as I talked about a bit earlier in the thread! It&#8217;s resulting in a game that&#8217;s shaping up to be overworked and stressful feeling<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to see how I ended up here &#8211; I&#8217;m still learning the tools, so everything I try becomes a little rabbit hole to explore. The process itself is inspiring new content! But that means it&#8217;s all gotten a little bit too&#8230; complicated?<\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EyQYczGUcAUrWXA.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So today: I&#8217;m going to try to space things out more, and try to make some challenges that feel a little more relaxed!<\/p>\n<p>I think every roblox creator probably has a place like this. Maybe I&#8217;ll make mine public some day!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EyWj5n7UUAA9drh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500px\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>slowly making progress. It&#8217;s important to take breaks<\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EyXS8eAVoAITQo2.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The different save options in Roblox are a frequent source of anxiety &#8211; you can save your work as a local file, save it directly to the roblox servers, or &#8220;publish&#8221; it, which is different from saving to the servers in some way that I don&#8217;t really understand<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EybT_wEU8AMh4bE.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500px\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>anyway I&#8217;ve done a ton of work in the local file today and it&#8217;s not letting me save it to Roblox right now, which is a little scary. Hopefully I haven&#8217;t lost anything.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, phew, a restart fixed it, I was able to &#8220;overwrite&#8221; the existing game on the server. That&#8217;s definitely a lot more nervewracking than it should be!<\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EybVvOLUYAAk3SP.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>New content is going well, I&#8217;m up as far as the right hand! Starting to notice the game lagging a bit, though, so at some point soon I&#8217;m gonna need to dig into optimisation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EybaZzfU4AM8Prr.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This official tutorial on managing lag is a good read &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.roblox.com\/en-us\/articles\/Fighting-Against-Lag\">developer.roblox.com\/en-us\/articles\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EyblX7gVIAE10vN.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500px\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>hmm &#8211; what&#8217;s an interesting obstacle for this part?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/Eyb7jmdU4AAPcZl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500px\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(seriously, suggestions welcome! I&#8217;ve spent a while on it now and I don&#8217;t have anything I really like yet)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks all! I like this suggestion &#8211; gonna see if I can figure out how to do it<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-align=\"center\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BobisOnlyBob\/status\/1380068977959927808\">@BobisOnlyBob: is some kind of zipline between the fingers feasible? not everything has to be a challenging obstacle if it&#8217;s cool enough!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>asset toolbox is not off to a great start<\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EycLoxkVIAc2loT.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>ohhh this one&#8217;s pretty good tho<\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EycS7U2UYAAw3AK.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Ahhh this one by <a class=\"entity-mention\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EgoMoose\">@EgoMoose<\/a> is clearly the best, though (thanks for the recommendation, <a class=\"entity-mention\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Spicy_Josh\">@Spicy_Josh<\/a>!) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roblox.com\/library\/2194493101\/Zip-lines\">roblox.com\/library\/219449\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EycXTnYVIAYWXjX.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>ahhhh so happy with this<\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EychFQFVgAQNe5D.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I assume this error message I keep getting is nothing to worry about<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/EyfgaAJU4AEO6ao.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500px\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Been slowly adding more and more stages to my obby. Really happy with this one!<\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/hGyrSrKFm7U-isGO.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To be honest, I&#8217;m at the point now where there&#8217;s not a lot of Roblox specific things to comment on, and it&#8217;s more just figuring out general game design stuff<\/p>\n<p>I have some ideas for the shoulder levels, and some jokes I wanna squeeze in there, and then I&#8217;m basically done. Gonna make a big push to try and finish up this little side project this week!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t find this style of challenge super interesting, but it makes a nice change of pace &#8211; plus it&#8217;s good to reference the tropes<\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/N8ZscvxWMM8z6VUa.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.ahhh who am I kidding, ok, let&#8217;s see, how do I make this more interesting<\/p>\n<p>been using this really nice plugin, Archimedes, to build geometry like this quickly: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roblox.com\/library\/144938633\/Archimedes-Two-v2-4\">roblox.com\/library\/144938\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" autoplay=\"\" loop=\"\" muted=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/Ey2UzWPUcAEgYKq.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>ok! I made some improvements. It&#8217;s now split in two paths: a slow, safe elevated upper path with plenty of drama, and a faster lower path with some tricky jumps<\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/2yWGuga2H8zt_YFD.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Getting *extremely* close to the end here. Just two challenges left to do, I think?<\/p>\n<p><center><video controls=\"\" width=\"500\"><source src=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/images\/twitterthreads\/climb-the-giant-man-obby\/FtrnI8cXzNR-8Y5k.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag.<\/video><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;\"><big><a href=\"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/climb-the-giant-man-obby-part-7\/\">Part 7: Shoulder Blade Playground -&gt;<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, over the weekend I did a little playtesting of my Obby with friends and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6000","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6000"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6353,"href":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6000\/revisions\/6353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/distractionware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}