How's your game going?
Bad I can't think of any good games to make for android.
>>335038331
Flappy birds but slightly easier so people die further in and then you can offer to revive their character with gems
>think of adding the mechanic
>play games that implement it
>burn out
>repeat
Is there a way out of this vicious cycle?
Thought about downloading one of these, realized I didn't actually have any ideas for a game, and went back to fapping.
>>335038212
too slow.
>>335039783
Step it up then
>>335038212
Relationship mechanics worked fine and implemented well in my SRPG.
Characters genuinely get bootyblasted when you keep launching friendly fire on them, to the point they actively sabotage you.
Going to finish Chapter 1 development as fast as possible
>>335038558
Think of adding mechanics no other games have implemented before?
made the arena explode once someone scores enough points
It's going GREAT! I have this awesome idea where you play as all of the 4chan memes (sadfrog, Moot, piccolo, etc) fighting against various youtube personas, SJWs and normies. And you build up a meme meter to use your special attack, such as shooting them in the knees!
I have way more great ideas. All I need is a programmer, artist and musician to make this happen.
>>335040071
Holy shit I almost had a heart attack you sick fuck.
>>335040198
I assume they're all going to be working for free?
>>335040198
we dont work for free mate.
posted this in the thread that died last night. working on a 2.5D platformer. just started the artwork last night and will be continuing later tonight.
>>335040296
Well initially of course, but once the game releases and it sells as well as I know it will each will get 15%! Pretty good deal if I do say so myself. Even then it's a great opportunity to advance in their field and have something to put on their resume!
>>335040198
Idea: you could coin the term 'memeter' to refer to the meme meter.
>>335040580
>resume for the idea guy
>>335040468
It's not for free, you get an opportunity to become rich!
>>335040584
... shit, that's good.
>>335038212
made a sort of touhout 9 clone, basically it's a shmup where you kill shit and when you reach combo chains you can add even more shit on enemy screen until someone dies
problem is it's 100% placeholder assets and made in javascript/canvas so it's pretty easy to cheat and bypass any freemium content i might add
i could make server side validation to prevent cheating but i'm shit at coding network and the server already struggles at sending shit with decent latency
>>335040725
http://imgur.com/a/vsZ5r
http://imgur.com/osEzCeB
i do the coding in my games but i have no art talent
i work in game maker and unreal
Just started a duck adoption screen.
https://youtu.be/gIY5iwjICk0
I had pretty much a free day today with annual leave from work.
But just could not concentrate for some reason.
>>335039826
I should by I lost lots of momentum by being forced to redo some shit from scratch once again because my coding is weak.
>>335040884
>i do the coding in my games but i have no art talent
make roguelikes, it's the ultimate "code only" genre
>>335041118
kinda what im starting but my crack house shooter is going to have to wait until have some new art.
>>335040884
>but I have no art talent
Literally doesn't matter
>>335041258
>>335041258
true but my game needs the polishing
>>335040071
closer look at the score meters
>>335041118
Stop making 2d games jesus fucking christ, somebody kill this pixel-shit meme. Why don't people try to do lowpoly 3d games?
>>335040198
I read an article about a guy who had the same idea. He made a bit of money from the game but got sued because the troll-face picture (or some meme) is actually copywrited.
>>335041360
because good lowpoly 3d is as hard as good 2d to make, plus 2d simplifies game logic a fuckton
just imagine the difference between coding 2d and 3d pathfinding
>>335041360
Because, surprise surprise, low poly is harder and more expensive than shitty 2D and its easier to look like absolute fucking ass in 3D. Do you actually think shitty 2D pixel games are done for anything other than time saving and money reasons?
>>335041461
Okay I was just fucking around as a dumb ideas guy, but I had no idea. Learn something new every day.
>>335041461
God bless Whynne for keeping that stupid shit out of pop media.
Mostly.
>>335041360
because not only it look worse than pixelshit and a way to shill generic garbage models made by third world jews in unity store, it also run worse.
so bad that most pixel games have more buyers than this low poly 3d games per game.
pixelart scaled better to high res and they look crisp and sharper while low poly looks terrible in all resolution, especially when the GUI look far better than the game itself.
so go shill your model turds else whereTo be honest, very few people care if your game is low poly or pixel as long as it have good and consistent art direction and fun gameplay. Check steamspy for the market proof of that and above statements
>>335041793
>trollface
>out of pop media
it's probably the first meme ran to the ground after becoming normie approved
>>335041919
Yeah but you can't monetize the thing. Imagine how often you would see that fucking thing walking outside if it wasn't copyrighted
>>335038331
go on newgrounds and look at top 50
>>335041637
>expensive
>money reasons
Are you in a game company or something? I'm sure 99% from here are just indies doing in for fun becouse they know it's almost imposible to make any money out of this
>>335038212I have to find someone who can code for mobile
Pretty good I guess.
Working on some "sorted inventory" system.
Shit's slow though, at ~1000 items, the game drops down to 10-20 fps.
Don't know what to do. Should I try multithreading or some shit?
>>335042157
Time is money nigger, no matter where you are or what you do.
>>335041893
Well, you know, if 8 out of 10 indies make 2d games it's expected that there are much more 2d games than 3d thus it's more probable that more 2d games 'shine', that top sells thing you say is only a statistic fact
>>335042401
i do that
>>335042409
Don't try to make your way out of this now, you could have just said it's more time consuming instead of using a damn metaphor, it's obvious that you were refering to money, not time.
>>335042408
don't do your own multithreading unless you know exactly what you are doing.
>>335042426
stop getting so butthurt, jew
Tell us about your game, not your models.
>>335042062
pretty often because some chinese guy just made a similar rip off and started selling that on shirts instead
>>335040575
good job it's shit
>>335042532
have you made any demos? are you comfortable with 3d?
>>335042909
depends what engine if you want add me on steam
/id/LexieMang/
>>335042408
when doing any computation, did you do it using data stored in arrays or did you just compute using object properties?
one take less than a milisecond while the other is vastly far slower
>>335042649
>don't do your own multithreading
Is it really that hard? Is there anything else I can do?
Can't find anything relevant, except for multithreading.
I'm still working on code optimization for now, might be better.
>>335043068
it is not exactly hard to do but it is very easy for your game to crash and your game logic to go haywire if you don't have enough precautions coded.
A first person listen-em-up, a game where you have to actively listen to succeed, with a silly minimalist style kind of based on bismuth crystals.
I have two weeks to finish it for my final year project at university.
>>335042627
Its both depending on the circumstances. If you're hiring an artsfag to make and texture your models, its more than likely going to cost more than hiring an artsfag to do pixelshit. If you're doing it yourself its more time consuming since not only do you have to code the game, you also have to make and rig almost all the models AND you also have to texture the fucking things if you don't want it looking like complete ass.
Like I said before, Its just easier to do 2D. You can do 3D lowpoly all you want but if you're not willing to pay someone to either code or model along with you your game's more than likely going to be in development way longer than it should.
>>335038212
I've stopped working on it for now.
>>335043197
Oh, I see.
>>335043049
Isn't object properties related to javascript?
Or I might just be a dumbass and can't understand what you mean...
>>335043807
>Isn't object properties related to javascript?
I misspoke.
What I mean is it is better to transfer all information and data to data storage objects such as dictionaries and arrays for purpose of computation because when you do computation especially with complex math formulas, the data is being processed by both memory and cpu.
If you compute it straight from the sprites or models properties/variables itself, the graphical data is processed together despite not being used and this create a huge lag.
How big is the difference? Data in raw form usually is only a few to kilo bytes big while graphics are from tens of kilobytes to megabytes big.
Try and see the difference.
>>335044347
Thanks anon.
I'll try that, and see if it's better.
>>335043745
Nice consistence art style.
Is this a harvest moon type game?
>>335043271
I cannot stand AO on low-poly/flat colored shit
>>335040296
>>335040468
>>335040725
>>335040884
>>335041793
>>335040671
>not working for free
>>335045106
>working for free
>being a commie
>>335045106
I don't get that. Actually do work in the industry and between jobs you need to work free on your own projects or using other peoples ideas but then naturally writing your own proper game design document so that their idea doesn't suck so much shit.
Still you do get some nice ideas from time to time.
>>335044695
Nah, mean to be like Settlers, Banished and Anno series.
>>335045190
>being a facist drumpftard
up against the wall
>>335045289
yeah precisely, there's too much of a fucking whining entitlement syndrome. no shitspergs, you HAVE to work for free. you are not worth shit. your skills aren't unique. you do not deserve the money with which i feed myself. if you cared about video games, you would work for free.
>>335045434
Looks good,
Which engine are you using?
>>335045569
UE4 and blueprints since I only know the bare bone basics of C++.
>>335045434
>that Unreal print string text
At this point I could probably play my game with no graphics, only operating based on the frequency that a teal "Hello" gets printed
Going pretty good but finding it hard to search for affordable musicians.
>>335038212
Finished a game 5 months ago. It's a puzzle kind of game for android.
never told anyone I released it. Only 2 people know. I have 1 download. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.johansson.mattias.quace
>>335040963
What happens if I press adopt?
>>335045454
Well, Most artist aren't there a dim a dozen.
Most ideas people don't know what game design is. It's making something fun because there needs to be a risk like that knee idea and then a reward.
Still programming pays pretty well.
>>335045434
Make it Sci fi, Make that into a drone swarm and a hanger.
Trigger it and the drones detach and pick up tree's and drop it into a chipper that turns them into planks or something.
Beyond earth had a cool concept thing you could reference to the drone hive.
>>335045454
>Implying I'm American
Typical Commie behavior, if you're not with us you're with them mindset.
Enjoy your 60% income tax increase fuckboy.
>>335045732
that's one strong motherfucker
>>335045837
It'll will take you to the garden level, where you can look after the duck.
So far you can only feed the duck, but the plan is to add a few toys to interact with it a bit more.
>>335045732
>Those pokemon trees.
But I'll make you music for free if ya like. I'll just have you know that i'm not very good at it.
https://u.pomf.is/rkbxku.mp3
To answer OP's question mine is coming along pretty ok I guess. I've been doing alot of concept art and music for the last week because I haven't felt like coding. I feel like I should be done with the engine by now but I'm not. Oh well.
>>335045732
What kind of music are you looking for?
https://soundcloud.com/aoiichi/sets/portfolio
I'll happily write you a demo (especially if what you're after's a bit different to what I've got in my portfolio at the moment) and send it to you if you give me an email. We can work something out from there.
>>335046317
if you give me an email address to use, whoops
>>335046295
not that guy but that sounds like a song for a tutorial to me
>>335042409
Not if I'm at home after work using my free time. You faggot.
>>335046718
Crime scene investigation. Plays when you get to study a crime scene for the first time.
>>335046752
>you can't make money on your free time
>you can't make plans to get more money on your free time
>>335045717
I try to remove them as I don't need them, but i usually just forget about them. Thank god you can search for print string globally in blueprints to remove all the nodes.
>>335045850
Sorry I've never been to much into sci-fi. And the theme for my game won't be realism or anything close to that. One of the enemies you will meet in the game is a tribal that worships the moon and their goal is to sacrifice enough blood to pull the moon down. I've had ideas for one of the levels to take place on a gigantic moving animal.
Finished DAS 3 so I can get back to work.
Making a stealth section. You can choose between breaking in and stealing the stuff you need, or doing a different dialogue-based challenge where you convince them to give it to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmbHkNFZ5Y
Refactored a lot of old code (again), but now I got slopes and moving platforms working. Back to boss AI.
>>335038212
Pretty good.
Its got a lot of copy paste code for the menu's it has but thats okay, its gonna get tricky when it comes time to do the actual math calculations.
>>335046317
Wow your work is great! My partner is sending you a message on soundcloud with the details.
>>335046317
How did you learn?
>>335038212
Made a simple walking/jumping sprite sheet and now I'm playing around learning to use the animation stuff in Unity. Wondering if GameMaker might be the easier way to go for a 2D game.
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I'm currently going though two game concepts.
1. An open world action platformer, objective is to pull off massive combos to progress though the game.
2. An Quake like Shooter with the regular gun pool. but you can modify them to have various elemental powers to traverse the levels with flying speeds. oh and giant bosses.
I don't have much to show. All i've done on unreal for the first one is some props for the art style i want to go for.
Even if you already have a music guy, I encourage you to try and make some music yourselves, even if it's just a simple melody you can give to your music guy. It's a very inspirational and intimate experience, and you'll feel like you understand your game and story a lot better.
just my 2 cents.
>>335038212
Anyone want to critique my idea before I start fleshing it out and doing the prototype?
>>335052872
I'll do it. Spill the beans.
Game balance is fucking tedious ;___;
Been playing around with the settings on UE4 to try to make the artstyle somewhat similar to some PS2 games like Nocturne.
Is artstyle more dependent on the materials/textures you make or do I have to mess with post-process effects to get a similar look?
>>335053289
Just make everything OP
>>335053289
oops forgot my image
>>335040071
make it so the arena explodes mid game. like in Smash where the stage changes during the fights.
>>335054064
that's what's happening yes
I'll have like one more thing like that happening for the end of the match.
>Tfw can't draw pixal art for shit
How do I git gud?
>>335054254
practice until you hate art. Then keep practicing.
>>335054254
change the meaning of good.
literally draw crap, give it a name and say it's meant to look like that.
congrats, you are now an artist.
>>335054254
Do your best and Bullshit the rest
>>335045732
Whats your email, I'll do some music for you
>>335054361
That's actually a reallygoodidea
>>335053158
Alright. Maybe too complex, but here goes.
TL;DR It's a Civ-type game, but you actually control the emperor in an 2D top-down RPG format. In addition, you have a bloodline, and your traits are passed down from generation to generation. Lastly, you start out in the beginning of a very long term Tolkien-type world, and your goal is... you dunno, actually.
I'm thinking that you get technological, warlike/peacelike, etc traits and that determines what ending you get. e.g if you're the dominant species before you invent space flight, when you invent space flight another species might sabotage the mission, leading to a bad ending, because your secret goal was to go to space. You might get a "do this" mission that is your next step along the way if you're off course, but otherwise it's about you figuring out what to do. You never know whose toes you stepped on, so if you screwed up at some point along the way, your game is over -- but I'd make sure you could fix it (negotiate with the species).
As for controlling the character, you walk around and kill enemies or talk to them, make tons of decisions about the country, marry someone so the bloodline doesn't die, declare wars, explore new areas (especially during the caveman-esque times at the beginning), gather resources so there's no revolts.
Your bloodline is important -- it's like Rogue Legacy, but your ancestors influence your child once you get killed (by an enemy, an assassin, whatever). If you're strong, your child is strong. You often mutate and gain a trait (like insanity, leading to ineffective decision making, or ADHD, faster movement but can't look at a screen for that long without the screen starting to fuzz) or lose a trait that the bloodline had. You'll get a selection of 4-6 characters, sorta like in RL, but you can make your own to a reasonable extent if you decide to make a coup d'etat.
>>335053371
Did you do that art yourself? Fucking hell that's good.
>>335053371
Yo. Where the alpha at.
In all seriousnes though, do what >>335053365 said.
>>335053289
that's even worse when you are trying to make a TBS and want to make all options feasible while ensuring the gameplay is strategic not lel RNG oneshotting savescum contest.
>>335055160
that sounds hideous. I'm just trying to make it so the player is challenged without steamrolling them.
>>335055076
alpha's in my pants. Come get it.
>>335054941
wry thank you! Don't look too close, it's ugly at second glance, or with the lights on,like my face
>>335046317
love your music. You seems to always go for the 'epic' and over the top orchestral arrangement, tho (not saying it's bad), do you have anything more subtle and intimate? like something you would use for a sad or dramatic moment?
>>335055534
I'll fucking fly to philly Krinkels, I'll search every shithole there until I find you.at least I think you're in philly
>>335055796
yeah, i live two blocks from pat's n geno's.
>>335056351
Booking my flight now
Hope you have enough room for another sperg on your busy schedule of shitposting
Give me your game ideas so I can steal them for my own!
>>335057860
a merchant simulator when you are trying to scam people
using scams from old fashioned like snake oil scam to the newest billion dollar scam, climate change.
hire "scientists", "doctors" and politicians to scare people so you can jew more money from them.
>>335057860
DayZ-zombies+Minecraft Factions.
>>335058181
you make me sick
don't even joke about that kind of thing
>>335058109
interesting but this genre has been a diamond dozen the past year or so
>>335057860
pong with two balls
>>335058502
We'll call it "Ping-Pong".
Somebody hurry up and trademark that.
>>335058234
Come on you know its a good idea.
Walking around a fuckhuge piece of land, Getting to build your base, raiding other bases with your bros, defending your base from every nigger who thinks they can take you down, getting mad sick loot like gold, jewelry, food, guns, cars, rocket lawn chairs, etc., eventually becoming the king of Chucklefuck island.
>>335058602
im on the case
>>335057860
oldschool nintendo-style rpg which combines the vore fandom with singstar voice mic karaoke battles and up to five different endings depending on the different kinds of ethics your character follows during the game (from kantian to nietzschean oh my)
>>335058732
its called Eve Online, and just like Eve Online nobody would care because you cant play it on and off
>>335058732
the concept always sounds amazing but this genre is never not shit when it's made into reality. the only people that enjoy dayz and it's ilk tire of it in a month or so and hop onto the next early-access survival game.
i'd LIKE these games to be good but it just isnt possible yet
>>335057860
a static vaporware image with an unintelligible name. submit it to an art museum
>>335043745
You should continue working on it
It looks like something that people would actually buy
>>335057860
make halo but with no guns or swords and only grenades and with anime titty girls too
How do you make 3d maps like in the newer pokemon or fire emblem games?
Like is the whole terrain a single object? Or is it separated in tiles?
>>335045732
Aw man how'd you make such a nice map?
>>335059186
The problem with DayZ and the like is that their server Size's are way too small for the amount of land in the game. You'll more than likely walk for fucking hours in DayZ without seeing someone unless you go to conflict sites like the Airports or Elektro. Dayz servers should be 150ish max players, which is a really fucking hard thing to do, or put on a smaller, more condensed map. Zombie AI needs to not be complete shit/removed altogether and the UI needs to stop being a clunky fucking mess. Finally these games need to stop this open alpha shit.
As to why most Open World Survival games are shit, they're made/directed by amateur modders with delusions of grandeur or people looking to jump on a cash cow. If you gave a team of people who actually cared about making a fun game, led by a designer/director who wasn't pants on head retarded and had a sense of business, there's not a doubt in my mind that they couldn't make a good open world survival MMOFPS.
/ramblings
>>335042772
epic
>>335052872
execution>idea anyway
