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[Unity][Art][Unpaid] Looking for help with visuals for quiz-based game

A topic by zoemiranda created Aug 05, 2024 Views: 277 Replies: 8
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Edit: Now setting it to unpaid and focusing only on the visual part. Thanks everyone for your help.

Hi!

My name is Zoe (She/Her) and I’m currently developing a quiz-based language learning/practice game on Unity (C#). It’s already playable on Steam, with early access.

I’m mostly looking for people to talk to about the game and receive some guidance from.

MillioPoly features questions about grammar, vocabulary, culture, geography, and texts for reading comprehension in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and French. It also has some new modes that work on other skills and currently has more than 1500 questions in different difficulty levels and categories.

I like this project a lot, and I know it has good potential to become something nice, but it has a major problem.

It just doesn’t look good or beautiful. It is now a little better than what the Steam page shows, with more colors and some details here and there, but it’s still not great. Visuals are not one of my strengths and I can only (poorly) draw stickmen. I’ve been told I don’t have a good sense of visual design for things and I guess I have to believe that. I’d like some help with that, maybe from someone who can tell me a direction to follow, give me an idea, or even create a mascot, background, or something. What does the game need to improve its visuals? How can I improve it?

I believe most things I need help with can be solved through talking and maybe some screenshots or screen sharing to show the issues, but I also know that it requires your time and attention. I can’t pay anything right now since the game barely gives me any money, but I need some help with the art.

My discord is: zoemiranda

In return, I can translate from and into English, Portuguese, and Spanish. I can also give you a Steam key or two.

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Hi Zoe. 

I read your post and maybe have some thoughts about the coding part. A little bit hard to give any advice just based on your description, but I would say it is a good idea to move the 2000 questions outside of the scripts. Should you move them to the .JSON file? Hard to say. I'm not sure that it will help, but again, I might be wrong and in your case it will work. As far as I understand all these questions can be selected for different goals or skills. In this case I would suggest to have all these 2000 questions in one table ... maybe CSV file. And you would have 3 columns:

  • Question - one question for each row
  • Skill - here you could add skills as tags for every question
  • Goal - here you could add goals as tags for every question

For example:

QuestionSkillGoal
How are you?
Beginner, Level 1, Start
Be better, Just to start, Any

Then you just import the file and pars tags from Skills and Goals for each question. Maybe that might help. But again, it is hard to give any advice just based on the description. So, I might got you wrong and you are looking for something else.

Hi!

Thanks for your help.

I think you’re correct, but I’d probably need more columns for each option/, the correct answer/option, and other details.

I guess I could do that in a CSV file.

I was wondering if I should do it in a .JSON file or in Google Firebase Firestore, which someone suggested after I posted this. I’m still getting to know how it works.

Maybe a table would be more suitable, as you suggested. I’ll consider that.

Thank you again!

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If the database is your choice, I would suggest to check Unity asset store. Most probably there are some "ready to go" solution for Unity. Haven't done anything with Google Firebase Firestore myself, maybe this is something that really will help you, but I would check SQLite libraries for Unity. It is a small and lightweight database in a local file.

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You could pause development and do some learning about topics that might help with the problem you are facing, most of problems cease to exist when you learn about questions that they are based on

Thanks!

That’s a good suggestion.

The thing is that I did pause the development for a while and am returning to it now. Pausing for longer would feel weird for me, especially because I know some of the things I want to add are necessary for the game. But I guess I don’t have much of a choice if I simply can’t do everything I want. xD

Thank you again!

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HI! Do you think to make your game in Italian? I'm an Italian translator and I love your project, If you need help contact me on email: amb2905@gmail.com or discord: annamaria_bosco.
I want to expande my cv so I work for free

Hi! Yes, Italian is the next language I intend to add, but I’m still only a beginner at it. I’ll add you on Discord! :)

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When I tried to add you on Discord, it showed an error message. Can you try to add me? zoemiranda