How's your game going?
I can't program and I can't art.
>tfw programming is the easy part
It was doing fine until I downloaded the latest Unity version and now I'm waiting.
still trying to fix jumping, but fixing one thing breaks 3 other things
>>344072673
That's pretty cute dude.
>>344072337
Just use "le retro" sprites and sounds.
>>344072960
thanks
>>344072337
Just read loomis, then copy panty and stocking.
>>344072613
Guys, help me please. The download is smooth and fast until it starts downloading the standard assets, the download speed drops stupidly, and it says 2-3 hours remaining.
What do?
>>344073390
wait for 2-3 hours?
I mean if you don't have the patience to wait for 2-3 hours you won't have the patience to work on a videogame
>>344070310
Still learning how to program. Can do everything else though.
Launched a greenlight page and trailer for this trump inspired wall building game last night. It's doing ok. I'm gonna work on getting the gameplay loop fully completed in the following days and start sending it to youtubers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4l9uBChuhM
Just started watching some Construct 2 tutorials, seems to be the best option for me now.
>>344073645
It's not about patience, it's about it doesn't make sense that the download speed drops so much.
Now I cancelled the installation, and unchecked the Standard Assets bullshit, and it's doing fine.
And my patience is fine, I've had courses in college where I had to wait hours for an algorithm to end.
Spent weeks learning how to make a proper character rig for animation, it's coming along well now. Hopefully will be able to share animation tests soon instead of the same model over and over again.
>>344073940
That's so cool.
>>344074740
wait, are the freckles their own object or are they a part of the texture?
Wasn't making any progress with my project, so I chose to host a freeform nation leading roleplay in /qst/ for now. It is going smoothly so far and I feel that this side project is gonna pay off when I continue with my vidya project.
>>344074740
how did you learn? im going to be learning rigging the next week. ive done it before, but never liked the videos I used. they only focused on bones and not the actual rig.
I did a lot of battle related work.
For some reason the webm conversion sped up the recording.
>>344075139
It's in the texture, the triangle controlling them is controlling the upper cheek to create smile expressions.
>>344075506
You're a cool person.
>>344075506
you worried about C&Ds at all?
>>344075359
I watched this guys videos over and over again while copying him and eventually learnt how things work
https://www.youtube.com/user/thatstudio/videos
I was then able to take that knowledge and invent methods to control different parts of the character (like the skirt).
Prepare to do the same piece of work like 5 times and end up with a really untidy version you will probably completely re-do by the end of it.
>>344075506
>no crowd during battle
dropped
>>344076042
From who?
>>344076206
nintendo, obviously
they're cruel in regards to their IPs
>>344076095
>Prepare to do the same piece of work like 5 times
I'm mostly a programmer, im used to doing the same task over and over again
>>344076042
>>344076432
From what I know, game mechanics aren't patented with exception of the minigame loading screens but those are expiring anyway.
And the setting is original, I mean there are blatant zelda 1 clones being sold on steam but they all use original settings and characters, so Nintendo can't sue them since they aren't infringing their IPs.
>>344076432
Why, which IP is he using?
Do you mean Paper Mario? the thing about that is you can't really copy write game rules, or a UI layout. If he was using nintendo characters sure but he's not.
You could actually make a game very similar to existing games, but change all of the aesthetics, and you'd be golden.
I'm trying to learn C# but I keep starting and stopping.
I've got the first 3 chapters of my C# book fucking down though.
>>344077781
If you know how programming logic works and knows how to use if, else, for, functions and etc you can just learn in a week or less watching youtube tutorials.
>>344078435
I keep just getting to that part, burning out for a couple months, having to re-do a lot, then getting burnt out again.
I'm honestly thinking of going to college and learning it there.
>>344079368
Try following a few tutorials for basic games like platformers and stuff, at least that's how I learned C#.
Are you trying to use Unity?
Im..uh...researching on monster girls
Goo Girls are pretty great arnt they?
>>344074740
You using Maya?
>>344080230
Honestly I don't actually have an engine yet. Just trying to learn C# and see what happens from there. worst case scenario I have a skill that's applicable to other jobs.
>>344070310
I don't feel confidant enough in my math skills to learn programming and I can't draw for shit.
Only thing I am good at is music, but people who can make music are easy to find compared to programmers and artists.
My problem is that whenever I pick something up I always get bored and go the next thing, I am so scatterbrained and lazy. I can never finish things to the end. I just want to fucking kill myself to be honest.
I tried learning gamemaker once but I just started losing hope and mental energy to learn even the basics of game design.
I couldn't even finish my Doom map that I spent 40+ hours on.
This thread fucking unzipped me.
>>344080793
Dude you're just an autist, that's all.
Make a shit ton of music and post it on youtube, then nodevs will throw money at you to make music for their doomed projects.
>>344080793
If you know the 4 basic math operations then you can make any game as most engines do the complex math for you.
About art you can just make shitty placeholders. There is an anon here literally using numbered boxes for sprites.
And if you don't do your idea, no one will, unless you pay them to make it for you.
At least you can music, so that's something. In my opinion, music people are harder to find than programmers/artists.
Packaging a demo for /agdg/'s Demo Day on Saturday or Sunday or whatever.
I'll be updating that demo over tomorrow and Friday and re-cooking, but knowing the issues I have with cook errors I want to make sure I hammer those out first, especially since I'm experimenting with Nativization this time around and who KNOWS what might go wrong.
>>344081220
I thought autists were good at things like math and logic. Aren't autistic people usually super passionate and focused at very specific things? I probably have the kind of autism that makes me shit at everything.
>>344081934
No. People who are autistic usually have low intelligence. It's hilarious how what autism actually is has become obscured by people taking focused hardworking people and calling them autist because TV wanted block stackers to seem hyper intelligent and not mentally deficient.
>>344082226
there is the occasional autist with amazing memory or logic solving concepts, but you're right. Most seem to spend too much time being unable to talk properly, screaming or urinanting on a whim to be "smart".I have to work with them every now and then and I feel really bad for the fairly normal quiet ones who get grouped with the screaming retards who try and jump on fire
>>344081779
Case in point, I'm getting random errors now around "unknown structs".
These sort of errors piss me off because deploying the game and playing it always works fine, it ONLY breaks when packaging.
Which means now I get to do experiments, and every experiment takes an hour of packaging time to test.
Egh.
>>344080471
>No one will make a game where you start as a small slime and then go around growing and becoming new things with more mass to solve puzzles
It has a lot of potential.
>>344083731
...so, a Katamari Damacy H-game?
>>344080793
post your music
>>344083875
You didn't solve puzzles in katamari.
r8 my shitty elemental signsbonus points if you can figure them all out
>>344085641
fire water wind earth space time?
>>344086080
Holy shit you got them all
>>344086204
for real?
>>344086268
No that guy's shitting you, you only got one. There's no space/time. Also depending on your viewpoint the answer/s might feel like bullshit.
Is there a C++ alternative to SFML for 2D games or is that pretty much it?
I know SDL is there but I really don't know the C way of doing things desu
>>344070310
Got 4 more enemies planned out, these plants gonna fuck your shit up. YOU EVER FIGHT A HEDGE NIGGA?
>>344073842
reminds me of domestic dog simulator.
I like the low poly models
>>344080793
Do Game Maker tutorials.
What are some basic games I can program? Taking courses in university. Most I've done is abstract data structures so far.
>>344076563
then you're a bad programmer
Would anyone be willing to collaborate with me on a project? I can do music and character design.
I have this great idea for a game.
>>344091325
Is it a kirby clone?
>>344091514
No and the guy in the pic isn't even for the game, he's just this doodle I made
>>344070310
Here's my progress from long ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGWThppo2-Q
>>344091325
pic looks straight outta kirby. Good luck finding a programmer
Anyone here using Unreal know how to limit the amount of rotation a Spring Arm component can do? I want to have the camera set up in a way that prevents players from rotating it low enough to look at the player character's balls.
>>344070310
I just scrapped all my current level design.
Its going well.
>>344075506
Is there a place I can check your progress?
>>344093695
seconded
>>344093695
>>344093843
http://paperbugdev.tumblr.com/ this is usually where stuff is posted, but I post more actual progresses here in the dev threads.
Haven't settled on designs and story for my RPG Maker game so whenever I try to jump in I feel like I don't have a good starting point.
However, if anyone makes a plugin for Timed Hits or Action Commands, I may try my hand at a Paper Mario fangame...
>>344091325
How big a game are we talking?
>>344094043
https://galvs-scripts.com/galvs-timed-button-attacks/
?
Literally first result on google.
>>344075506
Wow this is creative. Hope you have a good composer, the majority are music school graduate trash.
>>344094371
That's for RPG Maker VX Ace, not RPG Maker MV.
VX Ace uses a scripting language called RGSS3, MV uses Javascript.
>>344094554
Just use VX Ace then, it has more support. It is worth since MV only have few changes/mobile export that VX Ace doesn't.
>>344093980
Paper Bug's Life?
I made a pong like game when I was 13
putting the finishing touches on my game for Demo Day 9. it goes up tomorrow!
keep an eye on https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-9
>>344094713
MV is easier to use, and has MAJOR support from Yanfly, who has already made 100+ plugins for it, including a CTB battle system that I can easily turn into a Paper Mario styled battle system.
>>344073940
Meh, I like your mechanic, I don't like the theme and I get why you choose an First person view since it hides what coming from the other side.
>>344085641
Arcane, Diamonds, lightning, wind. Ice
>>344094135
Completely 2D graphics, size of an average Fire Emblem game
>>344081779
Do you have a publishing deal yet?
Because if not we should talk.
Anyone else doing Big Awful Jam this year? I'm still brainstorming my Grandpa based racist tower defense game.
>>344095859
I was summoned from the ether to give you this.
I started working on something new yesterday actually.
You're an astronaut stuck in the HYPERSPACE.
Strange stuff is happening in the hyperspace and since it doesn't necessarily follow the rules of the 3 dimensions world.
The gameplay will essentially consists of exploration and puzzles. And the game will be stuffed with MINDBLOWING shit.
>>344096172
plsfinish
i want your game inside me
I'm making a first person strangler dungeon crawler
>>344096172
this looks really cool. where can I keep up to date on your progress
>>344096002
thx
>>344086828
thanks
>>344076196
>the crowd ruined the battle system of TTYD
I ain't got a fucking clue how to do Birds eye view areas
>>344097015
They added to the play feel, so you could just put them in and have it not affect gameplay.
>>344095253
>arcane
I was sort of afraid of this, but the first guy got it right so maybe it's not that bad?
>diamonds
kekYou also got one right. You either forgot one or chose not to do the last one, I'm not entirely sure.
>>344097673
All it does and constantly annoy you and fuck you over.You'll never understand the pain of being 90 levels into the 100 Pit of Trials and die because the game thought it would funny to freeze you for no reason
>>344098025
Again, you could remove the gameplay aspect, maybe have it just look different depending on how well you're doing and absolutely nothing else.
>>344098183
Then again it barely makes sense in and out of context anyways unless you're in an arena area.
>>344080793
Theres very little math involved in programming. Im talking plus/minus/multiply. Depending on what kind of game you want to make it can get more complex, but it doesn't have to.
>>344098717
>Theres very little math involved in programming. Im talking plus/minus/multiply.
t. Girlswhocode
>>344080793
are you me?
Testing out an effect between polishing for the demo. It'll be out late Thursday or early Friday.
It features pretty much everything I've shown off so farexcept this webm, so keep an eye out on agdg demo day page or one of these threads tomorrow.
>>344098717
There's some trig involved if you want to do 3d, but most 3d focused engines have minimized the need to crunch numbers yourself. Most of it is a lot of basic calculations all at once.
>try to learn some basic 3D modeling
>make my shitty model
>everything goes to hell once I try texturing it
>>344098717
If you're just scripting, sure. Graphical programming requires a good understanding of matrices. It also helps to know trig to make sure nothing crazy happens to the orientation of your objects.
>>344096608
thanks.
sorry I don't have anything where I post progress.
If you keep checking these threads you might come across progress though.
>>344096448
glad you like it.
I intend to release a playable demo by the end of August, probably on itch.
I'm working on an open world rpg/adventure game in the vein of classic zelda
I'm putting a heavy focus on combat and interesting boss designs
Unfortunately i suck ass at pixel art so i have to use "muh retro minimalist style" but here is a character, Oakley the lumberjack.
>>344100053
at least it's as unique as you can get when it comes to pixel art. Learn better shading techniques and you're golden. P.s. I like him.
>>344100196
thanks anon, I'm trying to give everything at least some personality
Here's a combo of him attacking
Slow.At least I'm getting a bit more confident in my drawing skills, kinda.
>>344100354
Looks even better in motion anon.
>>344100053
>>344100354
Hairstyle makes me think of carl the cuck.
>>344099994
What do you mean by "just scripting"? Do you not consider it "real" programming if it isn't in HLSL?
>>344100354
indieshit anon here, might as well dump my progress because i got nowhere else to put it
This is belladonna, a warrior from the island of Ragna Rock famous for slaying giant monsters (which you will be able to fight in game)
you don't find out she's a little girl until you meet her.
>>344100354
Why don't you use this?
https://dunin.itch.io/ptop
It's free so even people like you can make decent art..
>>344100372
LooksCute
>>344100868
i think i might stick with this style for now, but for cutscenes i'll definitely keep this in mind. Could be great for higher quality stuff
>>344100951
Thanks. I wish I wouldn't lose most of the image detail when rescaling it, though.
>>344100854
her in action
>>344100729
It's a bit of jargon that hails from the term 'Script Kiddies'. Script Kiddies were hackers who didn't write their own code or only knew enough to change variables. They weren't very well looked upon in the hacking community since hacking was about using creativity to solve complex problems.
Basically, I mean that if all he's doing is making a car go forward when 'W' is pressed, he doesn't need a lot of math. Whether or not the code is high-level/real-time is not the issue I was referring to.
Trying to start up a prototype, but my autism wont let me finish programming until i have at least 8 years worth of art assets.
>>344103843
That's a cool animation anon.
But I think people will tie in 2 pixel wide outlines to Lisa nowadays.
>>344103843
That's cute.
>>344104052
I don't think most people are shallow enough to tie in thick outlines to lisa, and even those who do, what does that really change? I doubt they'd think my game is a barren and trippy rpg if they saw more than 2 seconds of gameplay.
>>344105836
No you are.
>>344095859
How are you making your tower defense? I played so many of these when i was a kid so i've always been interested on making one
>>344104052
yeah this anon is right
better make em 3 pixels wide
>>344103843
Looks pretty cool.
Going alright so far, trying to make a top down metroidvania inspired by dreams
>>344080793
From experience, people who are good at music are shit at making video game music... like I don't know how many times I had to explain how to make dynamic music to fellow composers...
>>344109481
That looks cool as hell anon, got a blog or something?
decided to make sprites for diagonal movement
I do not know why I decided to make sprites for diagonal movement
save my soul
>>344109481
Is this a HLD clone?
>>344070310
Quite well. I'm making a stealth game set in WWII that's similar to the Sniper Elite series, but more about sneaking and silently killing Nazis at night instead of shooting Hitler in the balls.
>>344109481
I like it.
makes me think of Hyper Light Drifter
>>344106763
I once tried to make a earthbound like RPG with 2 pixel thick outlines.
But I stopped because drawing all the animations were too much work and I started another project.
>>344109737
Thanks man, no not atm but might start one soon
>>344109829
It looks that way now but it plays completely differently. Will definitely be its own thing by completion
>>344109481
>It's Hyper Light Drifter without the neon
PASS
>>344109481
>those blood effects
I like it. Is it choosing from a set of sprites each time it makes a blood puddle or is there a more complex algorithm behind it?
>>344110850
Yep it does exactly that, chooses from a set of about 9 sprites but then they get stretched or squashed randomly from both the x and y axis
I've got a mockup of the core gameplay in both 2d and 3d and I straight up can't decide which is better (or more accurately, whether it will be made better enough by making it 3d to justify the extra work of making it 3d). And the mockups are shitty, glitchy, and barebones, but I don't want to start working on making them better until I decide what route to go down.
>>344070310
Where do I start developing my shitty games?
I lost all my motivation to work on my current, more realistic project. Now I'm just waiting for pic related engine to drop.
it's going
Modular house.
>>344100372хyйня кaкaя-тo
>list index out of range
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I've done the math myself and it's perfectly within the range of the list, fuck you python
this one fucking error is keeping me from being able to make rooms and move onto more interesting things
>>344111559
why such shit taste, anon? is that a key feature?
>>344112302
It starts at 0, not 1.
>>344113412
I know that, friend.
>>344073940
That's pretty funny famalam
I finished up a demo for demo day.
It's been like 7 months since my last demo. There's actually a lot of content I'm leaving out because a lot of it is late game stuff I'm saving for the final version. This will probably be my last public demo.
>>344113538
It finishes at size -1
>>344074740
I know this post is 6 hours old but if that's your character that is a fuckton of controls of absolutely disgusting proportions. If you want a clean body and face rig use the free rigging plugin from AdvancedSkeleton.
I might have a demo ready by Friday if I can fix the framerate, fix a ton bugs, fix the AI for a few units, and re-add the millions of features that were present months ago but have since been broken
working on my 'game of the day'
still lots to do, but player movement is solid, and platforms work great.
platform generation is already good and fair
next things to do:
- scaling difficulty
- score
- sound effects
- death
- ambient music
>>344115010
you replied twice, now you must help me
pic related is my code for generating rooms at random locations with random dimensions (working on a top down dungeon crawler btw)
this function is supposed to take a maximum x coordinate, maximum y, and maximum width and height parameters and return a map with a room that fits those conditions
the if-else blocks are my confusing way of checking to make sure none of the rooms extend beyond the edge of the map, as that would give me a list error. unfortunately something is happening and large numbers are making it past this "check system". my most recent attempt showed that the function attempted to make a room 7680 pixels high, and I've tried calculating it with the values (all the print statements) and I can't figure out how it got to a number that high. the values printed to the console for the error were
x_pos: 17
y_pos: 31
*
width_raw: 5
height_raw: 2
*
width: 80
height: 7680
obviously something went wrong and I can't figure out what's happening.
TILESIZE is 16, the pixel x and y of each tile
>>344117750
while counter <= roomnum should be your problem...
>>344117940
I pass 1 for roomNum, so it only creates one room. It works when I give it raw values instead of making it come up with random ones, so it's not that.
the console keeps giving me a "list assignment index out of range" error so I know it's the room generating process itself
>>344117750
>>344118167
i believe the reason why you getting exploded height might be because some engines have y=0 start at the top instead of bottom like FLASH for example so you will have to rework that IF statement. idk what you are using tho with what i am assuming is python, i don't program in that language so i am stumped, sorry i can't help out brotha, best of luck.
>>344074740
TFW I can do
>advanced programming
>3d modeling, rigging, texturing, etc
>full knowledge of Unity3d and Unreal
And don't want to make a fucking game.
I'm 29, games suck ass, no interest in making any more of them. Waste of life. Waste of time.
I've wasted my entire life doing something I no longer want to do and now I have no knowledge to do anything else and don't know what I want to do anyway.
>>344119590
It's alright, nobody likes what they do after a few years.
>>344120158
>after a few years.
>draw something
>hate it after 2 days
>>344120270
>draw something
>hate it after 2 days
You just need to learn to suck it up and make/release things that you hate. It's like medicine.
If you do that enough you'll eventually learn how to make things that you like.
>>344070310
still stuck on asset creation
still struggling to find an art style that is appealing while that can be reasonably done by one person
can't code for shit
still trying
>>344120712
the MSpaint Aesthetic is coming back
>Want to make vidya
>End up drawing porn of Alma from FEAR instead.
I'll never have a real job making vidya. I'm a goddamn degenerate.
Thanks, /v/.
>>344120859
3d not 2d
>>344121031
low poly
Well, same as ever.
>>344121202
that was in consideration, before I ditched that idea because of
1. can't make it look appealing
2. game will be violent. think Soldier of Fortune. but I want said violence to make people uncomfortable, don't think low poly will suffice for that
>>344113269
What do you mean?
>>344120859
Wait what? You can't code OR draw? No offense but those sketches are pretty amateurish, even for "mspaint aesthetic." I hope that's not a serious attempt.
>>344121923
don't make everyone ragdoll when they die. have actual death animations
>have thousands of ideas
>finish one of them
>want to make next project
>suddenly dislike all ideas
help
>>344117750
Learn to use a debugger: step through the for loops and see what kind of values r and c are getting. For example, if your x_pos happens to be 99 and width happens to be 1, and the size of the array is 100x100, you'll be assigning a value outside the array and obviously get an exception.
>>344117750
>>344122908
Also, if the tilemaps is actually tiles (and not pixels), the function is completely broken. The width- and height variables seem to be in pixels but x_pos and y_pos seem to be in tiles.
>x_pos: 17
>y_pos: 31
>*
>width: 80
>height: 7680
In this case you'd be iterating the r variable from 31 to 7711 and the c variable from 31 to 97, and most likely try to use indices that are outside the array. Again, this is something that you could've figured out in a minute if you'd taken your debugger and stepped through the function to see what it actually does.
>>344081779
>>344096172
>>344109481
These all look good
I have really good ideas, but fuck it coding seems like black magic, I'm too stupid for that. I'm good at drawing and art shit tho. Basically I want to make games like spyro, but modern, with massive level designs and complex architectures. The aesthetic of Christendom mushroom porn, magic castles and biological formations in the land
![1316010687836[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/mIG2HwV.jpg "1316010687836[1].jpg")
>>344109481
Oh hey look Hyper Light
I really had hopes for that game, but it just was lacking something, it was super fun but there was just something missing
I hope you get it right
>>344123559
hey guess what you condescending prick, I don't have a debugger. fuck off.
>>344123925
At least post some sketches or something before you make wild unfounded claims.
>>344124447
16 year old sighted
don't ask for help if you can't help yourself
>>344124570
fedora-tipper spotted
don't offer "help" if you're going to be a faggot about it. off yourself.
>>344124447
Then you need to get one. And isn't that PyCharm? It does have a debugger and quite a lot of useful debugging tools that you should learn to use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJtWxm12Eo0
>>344124695
don't ask for help if you're going to be a faggot about it.
I had a project going with fluid movement combat and stat values done but i gave up on it, was gonna be an rpg of some sort
Every time I try to make a game, someone bails on me
I tried to make an Animal Crossing h-game, and all the artists and writers left
Someone invited me to help them make a Tower Girls game (with help from Gats himself, no less) and then he just disappears despite being the one to start it
At this point I'm just getting good at my own art so I can solo a project
>>344123925
I didn't know shit about programming when I started. That's really not much of an excuse in an era when game engines are so streamlined and readily available, and resources on learning more is just a google search away.
>>344125778
What kind of skills are you looking for in a teammate? Also, are you looking to make a game just for fun or professionally?
>>344123925
>coding seems to complex
>talks about level design
I don't see a problem here. Learn 3D modeling and bring someone else in once you have enough content to pitch your game.
I'll never make it, even though I actually have good, moderately marketable and original concepts.
