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Cart #lathetest-0 | 2025-01-21 | Code ▽ | Embed ▽ | No License
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Hi, this is a little lathe toy thing I'm working on. So far turning and facing works, and you can affect the finish
to do:
-fix collision between work piece and tool
-make things prettier
-add other materials (brass, wood, shawarma etc)
-add other tools
-make it into a game somehow

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This is satisfying


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In my personal experience, and from what I've seen from other devs, turning expressive toys like this into satisfying games is very tricky. Look at something like Fract OSC. It was a great musical toy with aspirations of being a game that won an IGF award in 2011. It took them three years to figure out how to make it into a game, and they ended up with a mediocre Myst-like that occasionally had you playing with a great musical toy. That's usually how they end up -- either they lose what made the toy great, or the toy ends up something you play with while also playing a game.

I'm not saying don't go for it, but I am saying don't feel bad if you fail. You still made a fun satisfying toy, and it doesn't need to be anything else.



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