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This jam is FPS only??

A topic by DeveloperMode created Nov 27, 2021 Views: 684 Replies: 9
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Am I not allowed to make a third/second person shooter games? If I do it, am I gonna get disqualified?

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First person isn’t required, you can make anything you want as there’s no rules. When in doubt check out the FAQ :)

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how the heck do you make a second person shooter

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Hey bud, contextually i see your confusion. However second-person view refers to the addressing of the user in the form of Narration.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/point-of-view-first-second-third-person-difference

I can't be sure if this is the intended meaning from the O.P, but alas this could probably be showcased in a gamified way through dialog options, one would imagine. 

Hope this helps! 😎

The onion did a good bit on that


Submitted

thank you for following me I had subscribe you on YouTube gooood luck👍

Great, thank you! 😊

uhh. for that to work. another player has to be following you with the camera from their view (being a cpu) while the player there looking at is who you control btw

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There is such a thing as a second person shooter. Some examples even exist here on itch.io

Even the old text adventure days are, effectively second person: “You are standing outside a small house…”

UPDATE: ok, here’s a throwaway idea. Your target is the host of the game’s camera, under AI control. Their “view” is what the player gets to use to try to control the shooter.

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Another option is that the camera is always pointing at the player character, but not from behind. The tracking Resident Evil cameras are occasionally like that, so zombies that the player character would see from a first person perspective are completely invisible to the player looking at the screen. However, looking at the avatar’s face could give clues where the enemy is. As an alt, the AI (and your view) could be of a shooter, and you have to escape, but can only see what they see