The Atoms of Gimkit -- Further Exploration

[ars3nic]

No idea, but we can be on-topic until it gets unhidden.
Edit: Oh my gorb I’m so stupid it unhides itself once you edit it

[ars3nic]

So is anyone working on this right now? @Boss_1s you edited the to-do list, so are you working on it?

[Boss_1s]

Per chance → yea

[ars3nic]

Huh? me being slang clueless

[Boss_1s]

I think I’ma list all the devices that are impractical to construct with atoms (and the atoms itself) here,to assist my thought process:(this is unfinished I’ll be back to add more)

• Questioner (atom)
• Camera View^[1]
• Camera Point (atom)
• Trigger (atom)
• Item Granter (atom)
• item inventory manager (atom)
• button (atom)
• text (atom)
• popup (atom)
• notification (atom)
• property (atom)
• damager (atom)
• barrier (atom)
• Ball
• Sentry
• End of Game Widget
• Teleporter (Trigger + zone + ? No device is able to recreate teleportation ability)
• …(More to come)

(That’s already 12 atoms + 5/40 non atoms)

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1. cant be constructed with atoms,but can be with props or terrain instead ↩︎

[ars3nic]

Technically the camera view is unnecessary?
Camera point is an atom, though.
There are 52 devices so we can say about 1/5 of the devices are atoms? That would make sense because the devices are designed to serve different purposes.

[Boss_1s]

@ars3nic

Technically the camera view is unnecessary?

Why tho?

[ars3nic]

You could use like prop effects so in the game it’s not really necessary.

[Boss_1s]

Uh, according to ai overview there’s seventeen atoms?

[TinanYx]

I think relays are impossible to re-create.

[Boss_1s]

You could player scope or team scope a trigger to recreate a relay, but it’s functionality would be limited

I’ma add that

[Coderdash]

why is movement meter an atom when we can recreate it with repeaters trigger loops counters and speed modifiers

[ars3nic]

We all know Google isn’t exactly a reliable source when it comes to a semi-obscure niche game like Gimkit. ie a game for nerds
For one, the zone can be recreated with triggers, barrier can be recreated with props, laser device can be made with triggers and damagers, etc

[Boss_1s]

Alr let’s ignore ai then, it was just a find, and for some reason in the back of my subconsciousness I knew movement meter wasn’t an atom, but I didn’t notice lol

[Boss_1s]

@ars3nic

zone can be recreated with triggers,

But to what extent? Are we gonna place a bunch of triggers with coloision around a border? It might not be a lot of memory, but it’ll look ugly…

@ars3nic

barrier can be recreated with props

I thought this was the device atoms of gimkit…



Yeah idk

[SlimExtraterrestrial]

@ars3nic

For one, the zone can be recreated with triggers

I’ve recreated it with coordinates. (Sorta)

The coordinate device- a replacement for the zone?

While I was thinking of some ways to be memory efficient, came across a thought that was saying, “Doesn’t the coordinate device just check if a player’s coordinates are less then a certain area?” So I decided to investigate. So far I have made this. [1] I want to expand on it, but don’t know how to not get notified when I’m in the zone, just when I first enter it. Can anyone else help figure this out? Another note: This would only work if you already have the coordinate device, as it cos…

[ars3nic]

Well, barrier is honestly kind of pathetic T-T
Props have collision, too so we can just recreate that effect more visually. Sure, they have their functions, but not anything radical or unreproducible like a trigger or something.
Edit: wait it censored “radical”?!

[Dungeonmaster]

No laser, no zone, no barrier, technically no counter, no checker, no item spawner

[Boss_1s]

For constructables or atoms

[ars3nic]

What do you mean?