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/!\ ALERT: DEMO DAY EDITION /!\
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-5
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> Chats
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/vgamedevcrew
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=vidyadev
> Demo Days
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-5
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-4
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-3
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-2
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day
> Jams
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-jam-november-2015
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-halloween-gamejam
https://itch.io/jam/wj2015
> Engines
GameMaker: http://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/000_using%20gamemaker/index.html
Godot: http://github.com/okamstudio/godot/wiki
Haxeflixel: http://haxeflixel.com/documentation/tutorials/
UE4: http://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?483-Community-Tutorials-for-UE4
Unity: http://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials
> Models/art/textures/sprites
http://opengameart.org/
http://www.blender-models.com/
http://www.mayang.com/textures/
> Free audio
https://machinimasound.com/
http://freesound.org/browse/
http://incompetech.com/music/
xth for semen demon protag
2nd for
>that filename
thrid for im in love with vine
How old are you, /agdg/?
https://strawpoll.me/5945409/
A game about pandas that panders
go for distance!
I bet you don't even call your engine from executable mapped memory
Demo day devs, do you prefer a written review or a video one? I haven't posted progress in a while but still want to help my fellow devs
Thanks for playing the game. Hope you had fun but I guess not everyone was able to run it.
Anyways I'm expecting as much feedback as possible but so far I got none from here, I know there is not really a lot to talk about but feel free to post about anything you liked/dislike, or what would you like to see/see changed.
>>121721469
>Make a game abound pandas
>Get a cease and desist letter from the Chinese government
ok guys.
I'm back.
;)
Yo fags, do we have a working archive? I don't want to post feedback and have it lost forever.
>>121721748
>le cristian face
>>121721748
>Java
What happened to giving up?
How many Demo days did you have to skip from when you started work on your game to when it was ready for a demo?
>>121721748
>all those files for a few sprites on screen
>>121721937
I'll let you know after a few more demo days
>>121721748
>the guy getting extremely butthurt whenever someone criticized mobile is Cristian
Surprise surprise
Idea guy here
Make a fighting game, doing well timed and accurate combos will make your character slower and weaker, but the more you button mash, the more random and quickly that button mashing is, the faster and stronger your character will attack.
>>121721578
Video review is way more helpful, it lets us see how people are playing our game mechanically, and how we might forget or not think about a certain behaviour
>>121721913
I suffer from depresion.
>>121722040
;)
>>121721937
>>121722019
>tfw my game will be ready in time for Demos Day15
>>121721624
Rare kot
>>121721080
In this period of progress and gamedev, please don't bully anime nodevs too hard, they just want to be cool and hangout with devs, thank you.
>>121722112
FGC here.
>making a game that punish skill play and rewards mashing
kill yourself fag.
how to run a sandbox? VMs are shit at performance
>>121722141
how do you feel about video recordings without voice and then text afterward?cause that's what I'm doing and you're going to have to deal w it
>>121722112
god hand
I hate visual view editing, is there a game engine where I can just write it all in code without any hassles?
I miss rotate
>>121722451
all of them
maybe you should git gut
>>121722451
Your own game engine.
>>121722451
libgdx let you write all your game without editors.
>>121722472
meow mewo i am so drunk lmao
also im not a pedo
it wasnt me posting in irc
fuck you guys im leaving agdg 5ever!1!1!!better?
I miss AGDOS
>>121722686
a bit
Where's the demo day 5 song?
>>121722686
>meow mewo i am so drunk lmao
is this why mothdan is so easily triggered by alcohol, did he get into a drunken tiff with rotate
>>121722839
the musicfag said he wont do one because of mothdans constant shitposting
>>121722839
>>121722901
the musicfag said he wont do one because he just doesn't have the time
YEAH? WHERE IS MY DEMO DAY 5 SONG? THIS DEMO DAY SUCKS
TENDER ARMS DEMO REVIEW:
+Love the style, minimalist artwork, and color choice.
+Interface/movement/sfx are very nice and juiced.
+LoS doesn't look like shit, unlike most roguelikes.
-Game crashed almost every time I tried to use a scroll on a door. I only got past the first sealed door once. (Error message: "This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.)
-Holding the move key against a wall causes you to move trough it.
>>121723140
>literal gamebreaking bugs
>BUT ITS JUICEY!!!!!!!!
10/10
>>121722901
>>121723056
>musicians always referred to as musicbros
>one too busy to devote free work to the community
>instantly becomes musicfag
>>121722451
Unity?
You can do everything through code with Visual Studio if you want to, there's nothing forcing you to use their GUI.
>>121722842
>>121722901
>samefagging about mothdan
reek you really are obsessed
two years of your life, spent in these threads, day in day out
at least you seem to have given up on your engine, we can only hope you give up on life soon and end it all
>>121723301
I didn't know this was Finished Product Day 5.
>>121723140
LIGHT GAME DEMO REVIEW:
-see pic relatedI know I can probably open the .love and fix the issue, but I respect you're privacy, anon
>>121723301
Here's your (You)
>>121723348
dont you have to add components and shit with the gui?
>get home from work
>all motivation to dev lost
Why?
>>121723493
Nope.
The GUI is just a wrapper over Unity API, it doesn't do anything unique.
>>121723140
Well this is one happy accident I thought I solved for the last demo day. A shame, there is an endless + combat section after the sealed door.
Are you also on Windows 7? At this point I'm looking at dual booting it.
>>121723596
>work as a software developer
>get home
>do software development for fun
>tfw want to start working on next game, but afraid it is too large in scope and might wind up being the idiot that works on it for over a decade and it sucks.
>tfw could make a simple turn based rpg but no good idea to go along with it story/plotwise
>>121723470
if anything, it should be about functional prototypes that don't necessarily look great rather than OMG JUICCCEEEE!!!!
>>121723871
>simple turn based rpg
Currently making a simple turn based rpg.
It's not simple.
>>121719546
>Named "Not Dynablade"
I thought I was pretty clear anon.
Its probably good you didn't play the demo to see the rest of the sprites I ripped from. They're placeholder, its a demo. I don't have the time to make original assets yet having straight collision rectangles don't make the cut.
But still, you are right anon. I shouldn't have a Dynablade recolor as a screenshot advertising my unfinished game. How should I fix it?
http://strawpoll.me/5956835
>>121723871
a princes got kidnapped and the worlds fate is in the hands of orphans who are also childhood friends also the kidnapped princess was in your party all along
>>121724003
why are you telling me, I was the one who defende4d you
>>121723871
>RPG
>simple
Simple to get a prototype working I suppose. It's another thing altogether to fill it with meaningful content.
>>121723972
why not just use RPGMaker
its sole purpose is to make simple turn based rpgs
>>121724003
desu the mspain flamingo was absolutely perfect and with the right direction it could be good enough for going gold just for being so ridiculous
>>121724003
fuck, meant to reply to >>121712219
>>121724110
I'm making a turn based rpg like Fire Emblem desu baka senpai.
>>121724036
is this as common and cliche a JRPG plot as it sounds or did I just really enjoy FF8 that much
>>121724170
old fire emblem isn't really an rpg and if you want new fire emblem RenPy might be more for a kek lord like yourself desu senpai
baka
Anybody have a link to that site where you list game features and it tells you how long it will take to develop it?
>>121724313
love the videos these guys put out. good, tasteful, non pandering prank videos.
>>121724313
It's FF9 not FF8.
Confirmed fake rpg nerd.
Kill yourself desu.
>>121724479
looks like it is as cliche as I think because that's pretty much FF8, right down to "the princess was in your party all along also everyone was orphans at the same orphanage but didn't remember because reasons"
except instead of a princess it's a witch but it's FF and everyone is magic so it's basically the same thing
If you can't get to the 2nd floor of Aethyr then you suck at videogames.I devved really hard so you could play it...
>>121723479
You actually need a prerelease version of LOVE, sorry
https://love2d.org/builds/
The fact that the little message that says "this is the wrong version of LOVE" didn't show up is a legit bug though
>>121723493
You at least need to have a single unity scene with a single gameobject and monobehaviour attached to it, after that you can do absolutely everything via IDE.
That being said, Unity's greatest strengths are in the run-time debugging that you get from being able to mess with all the different components as well as the flexible asset creation.
Most of my actual game logic work is done in IDE, going into Unity to run and check that things work properly. Trying to make scenes and things by making prefabs with different monobehaviours and junk like that gets messy fast, in my experience.
Pic related is a thing I made for helping to test out cars.
>>121724449
http://yourgameideaistoobig.com/
what do u dev when you're bored of spacial mechanics like action games? i feel like i've mastered it, want to explore new areas..
>>121724702
Get to #1 on ranked ;)
>>121724660
I'm not gonna force myself to play a game that is not well balanced, no matter how much you worked on it. You need to make the first dungeon easier or you need to make another first dungeon and use that one as a 2nd or 3rd. I've been giving you the same feedback for 3 demo days now I think.
>>121724701
>http://yourgameideaistoobig.com/
Thanks captain
>>121724702
I don't think you've mastered it but there are game ideas literally falling off of trees if that's what you need
https://twitter.com/PeterMolydeux
>>121724806
..w-what?
>>121724702
Test stuff
>>121724702
Make boardgame-like things.
>>121724875
Your game is popular, right? Surely it must be if you've mastered the genre so thoroughly. Play it until you're not only the best dev, but also the best player!
So that's all it costs for state of the art visuals?
>>121724702
make a clicker game. those games are really interesting from a numbers perspective. getting the math right so that the game is addicting is a cool challenge
>>121723479
SPACE DEMENTIA DEMO REVIEW
+The physics are practically flawless, I tried my best to get stuck in a wall or jump into odd collision angles and shit, and it always worked fine.
+I've been dying to play this game since it was only gifs of not-ultraman getting his skeleton ripped off his body, so thank you for this demo
- Crouching while jumping looks extremely odd
- As that other guy said, I'm unsure if I'm supposed to be able to damage the boss.
* I would have loved a bigger/deeper body of water to try to "slingshot" as you showed in some .gifs
>>121723746
Yes, I'm on windows 7, anon. Any other way I can help you?
>>121724669
I don't even think I'm using the latest stable version, my bad. I'll try the .exe instead.
>>121724821
>If you can't get to the 2nd floor of Aethyr then you suck at videogames.
It's a easy, kiddo.
>>121724701
>http://yourgameideaistoobig.com/
>Okay it's a game
1 week of work at hobby pace is not a grand's worth of hours and I don't understand what it thinks I'm spending the money on or why I'm doing everything from scratch
>it's a game
>and an fps
boom, boot up the old Forge editor, get cracking on Anvil and it's maybe two weeks of spritework, tops, for a legit classic 3d sprite shooter, since the engine is right there rarin' to go and super easy to modify (and is open source, I bet the core Bungie folks would love hearing about a game on their old engine and probably endorse it)
>>121724994
Sure, making a single empty scene that looks decent isn't that hard
>>121725059
Enjoy no one playing your game because they can't progress at all.
How's your art coming along, /agdg/?
>>121725064
>core bungie folks
soz to say but there aint any of those niggers left, they all quit or got fired, except for jason and like... shiek
>>121724702
>i feel like i've mastered it
Top fucking kek, you haven't mastered shit anon.
>>121724994
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nLGoqqDc0w
basically this
>>121724669
Ok, redid your feedback:
You should pick a key other than slash for jumping.I'm not using an english keyboard and I literally can't jump with any key.
>>121725356
I'd have figured they died of old age but whatever, maybe they'd come out of retirementI thought the bungie core crew stayed mostly unchanged and that's why they fled microsoft to make Destiny after 343i got handed Halo (and why destiny is weird space wizard bullshit, kinda like how marathon and pathways are canon to eachother)is Marathon/Halo canon to Destiny? I wouldnt be surprised. Bungie loves that shit. I'm pretty sure their stupid Minotaur flash game that came in the original Action Sac disc is fucking canon to Marathon and Halo
>>121725342
It's not. since art isn't progress
Hey demoday dev. If you're here, please tell me which one's your gam so I can play it now and give you live feedback.
Where's your kickstarter aggy?
>>121725650
Just wanted to say that I'll never play your game unless you get a good artist.
>>121724994
>download UE4
>make some shaders
wow, so dificult.
>>121725573
marty was the oldest guy on the crew and he's only like 60
watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNIPzkxftm4
and read up on marty's lawsuit
>>121725948
Why doesn't your game have AAA graphics then anon? :^)
>>121725342
Art is hard. I have 17 animations to make for every weapon in my game. most are about 5 frames long.Trying not to think about the fact that that's just for my player character and that every enemy will be almost as complex
are there any online battle royale type games, with DEEP gameplay?
i want a game where u leave footprints in sand, where if u disturb birds or shoot a gun u attract attention of others, where u can paint urself with mud to camouflage.. sneaky survival type shit
>>121726163
sounds like you need to cut the complexity of your enemies then, make them do one or two things each
>>121725808
Kickstarter is pointless in >2015. I mean, c'mon people.
>>121724660
As soon as I get in the sewers it runs at about 3 FPS.
I have a powerful rig.
>>121726362
That sounds autistic and not fun.
Kill yourself.
>>121726362
evolve is probably the closest you'll get
>>121726373
unfortunately it's sort of necessary for the gameplay to work
>>121724660
game is good, just needs some more polish
>>121726531
That's depressing
>>121726435
Consistently? or just dips occasionally?
>>121725965
I actually don't care that much about Destiny tbqh
>>121724701
>http://yourgameideaistoobig.com/
>voice acting for a novel of text is only 800 dollars above the no options vanilla flavor "it's a game" game
>but want it to be a driving game, and suddenly it's double the time and an extra 1200 bucks
i dont trust this generator, man. i dont thing it has accurate prices of things
>>121726435
no 2d game should run like shit even on a toaster these days
>>121726494
its not supposed to be fun. is ace of spades fun when u get headshot for the 100th time and theres only 1 gun? no, but it makes cool stories, then they made it more like COD and it was shit
>>121726531
thanks ill take a look
>>121726649
Consistently.
Also why the fuck is opening the menu bound to the up arrow and not the Start button? I'd prefer to have the D-pad for menu navigation (and I like it better for directional movement desu).
>>121726097
because my goal is anime girls in 3D, not some gay bald photo shit traced from photos without any regard for art.
anime > realism.
>>121726814
gamepad controls are super shit, sorry.
That's really weird, and I have no idea why that would happen. There's nothing that intensive happening. The only thing I know of that causes slowdown is creating particles and projectiles because I haven't implemented object pools for those yet.
>http://yourgameideaistoobig.com/
>Or you could make it yourself in 5 months
Actually seems accurate to me. Probably like 2.5 months away atm and I've only been working for 3 on and off
>>121726362
ArmA or OpFlash custom modes offer this
but it works out to the same thing as >>121726494 because they are autistic and not fun.
Kill yourself.
>>121726972
Otherwise the game was pretty good, by the way.
You should consider making the overworld area a bit more interesting and varied.
>>121727149
Thanks. Didn't you see the sign at the start of the over world?
reminder that pic related is gonna be indie goty of the year all years, and you could have had just as much success if only you let go of your naive notions that indie game dev is about games and not tits and tummies
>>121727673
>it's a BETA
>>121727751
I don't know who that is but tits and tummies really are the best.
>>121727751
if their game sells well with that art ill just give up
>>121727751
>implying huniecam doesn't look like shit
Should've stuck with the original artist baka
> last time I checked there were 18 games for demo day
> there's now 35
this is the BEST
>>121727987
>>121728301
there's a poll on the greenlight page that overwhelmingly reflects this
wouldn't be surprised if they do change it
>>121727970
>>121727987
>>121728301
>>121728369
Anon, if you are denying that this is the gotyay indie game of all time, you are out of your freakin' mind, homie.
Just look at those FEATURES, man
>>121728663
That art sucks, what happened to their old artist?
>>121728663
>making bank off of shitty flash tier porn games because they're women
REEEEEEEE
>>121728663
wtf man.
that looks like trash.
I can't fap to this.
Why arent you making porn game?
>>121728663
>>121728759
Literally, the how to draw animu gurl tutorial of vidya. I mean fuck, this art style is comparable with Zwinkies.
3/10 would not fap.
>>121728663
the heart pupils really bother me, but I don't mind the art style otherwise
and if they can make it as fun to actually play as HuniePop wasby cloning popular existing gamesit should be pretty good
>>121729152
the breeding season team aren't even making a porn game any more
they just give it minor updates so people won't think they've abandoned it
>>121727987
Face it. Quality isn't what matters. It's how much you shill. Because seriously, every fucking person on 4chan/plebbit/tumblr/what-the-fuck-ever knows this game and it's not coming out for how long now?
Same with Undertale. Shill threads for that date back to at least 2 years ago.
What's the next big technology that video games should add?
I like water physics
>mfw the next minecraft is waiting to be made
You useless ideaguys can't even find a minecraft-tier idea, I want my 2.5 billions(2500
000000)$
>>121729432
>Quality isn't what matters
Maybe I hold people in too high retard, but I honestly doubt too many people from here will buy it if it looks like a mobile game
You guys...
What are you guys even doing in here?
>>121729457
jiggling butts
jiggling futanari penises
>>121729152
what's the best place to sell a porn game?
>>121729605
>inferior american billions
lel
>>121729309
>shitty dating sim x bejeweled
>fun
>>121729760
Anywhere that accepts bitcoin
Nothing to appear on your bank statements and I'm sure that the nerds that buy porn games have some cryptocurrency around.
>>121729659
The first game's art was bland as fuck, yet it's got 215000 sales.
The shilling for this game is far beyond the previous one's, and while the art isn't as "hot" as the previous game, it's got a strange sort of cuteness that loads of fags will gobble up.
Keep in mind that people can fap to Sonic characters. They'll have no trouble whacking it to this.
>>121729457
>water physics
see: hydrophobia
the next big thing is multithreading, game engines are still single threaded designs with multithreading hacked in
when you take full advantage of modern cores you suddenly have no limits, and you can start to really integrate things like physics and AI into every part of your game
>>121729926
isn't DL site a web to sell porn games to gooks?
>>121729659
>Maybe I hold people in too high retard
>>121729760
steam
>>121730048
reminder that multithreading isn't magic
>>121730165
it's porn allowed on steam?
Wheres the demo tier list?
>>121730181
when you increase your performance by a factor of 10 it is
>>121729457
>that image
haha :-)
>>121730181
Apparently it is to most game programmers
>>121730240
make it censored with an optional decensor patch on your webzone
>>121730274
>Top tier:
Everyone that submitted a demo
>That's okay, you'll submit one next time tier:
Everyone that didn't submit a demo
Man, some of these zero effort demo day submissions. tbqh baka family.
>>121730352
It's there a tutorial on this?
whats the point where minecraft2 is needed?
is minecraft2 even needed?
i doubt minecraft will ever die
i give up desu
slashing my leg open in a fit was literally the only good decision ive ever made
>>121730009
holy shit its real
>>121730402
>everyone who participated is a winner
America, everyone
I have one subject left to complete my university career. I have began to learn programming to pass the time. I began to learn Python doing tutorials. My question is; could I make a shitty game with only one language?
PS: This is not bait.
>>121730534
>can I make some kind of furniture using any tool, even if they're designed for kids?
>>121730534
yeah just use source
j/k man.use renpy.
>platformer
>uses mouse for anything
>>121730658
People make games with GM all the time
>>121730274
there's 35 games and the deadline isn't even over yet
cool your brakes kid
>went to work on tuesday
>spent about 20 hours a day sleeping until friday
>only didnt continue being bedridden because of work
this is how depressing game dev is
i cant even play vidya anymore and have fun, when i slept too long and couldnt sleep more, not even cowadoody and forza could get me to even stop frowning
i fukken give up
im not gonna make it, senseis
In SDL, is it possible to turn the screen upside down?
I'm making a game with gamepad controls in mind and you can't do nothing to change my mind.
???????????
I can't come up with a decent way of handling non-angular movement.
Maybe straight up translating it is okay??
Also should I add a shield?
>>121730981
You can do it, anon!
I believe in you!
>>121731169
>I can't come up with a decent way of handling non-angular movement.
What do you mean
>>121731260
Moving the pommel itself
Right now I'm just using torque around a fixed point
>>121731228
jfk got shot in the fucking head and was a mafia-controlled communist, why should i listen to him
>>121731328
And why can't you just move it
>>121730890
why doesn't that artist do any nice consenual handholding male + futanari anymore
>>121731370
What about Bruce Lee?
>>121731417
"infinite" force in a physics based game makes me cringe
But oh well I guess it can't be helped
What's the best way to learn XNA/Mono these days?
As in, actual resources.
>>121731545
literally the same fate except the shooter wasn't a cydonian
>>121721712
500 km?! A lot of cars wouldn't be able to make that trip with their tank full...
>>121729152
I'll at least try once to make something I want that is non porn, then I'll do porn if it isn't as successful as I wanted.
>>121731732
you can't just use force instead of torque?
>>121731865
Well I'll bet you can't find a flaw with Courage Wolf.
>>121731956
Hmm, I wonder why they would put a warning up
>>121732127
Even if it was 300 km, which basically all cars can do, they'd put it there. The sign is mostly about "make sure your tank is full" rather than "you won't be able to make it".
>>121731169
spoiler ur lewd pls
Does your game support triple monitors?
>>121732053
Can you explain what you mean by "instead"? Torque is used to rotate the blade around the pommel versus moving the entire blade, pommel and all
>>121729152
They can't keep getting away with this
>>121731956
What about bringing some full jerrycans.
>>121732054
literally the worst meme since advice dog
>>121732458
Do you have a game?
>>121732053
Use force to move the entire sword for non-angular movement.
A game where you play a small child that falls into an underground world filled with monsters who want to destroy humanity. The twist is that you can complete the game without killing anyone. Basic bullethell mechanics give you the illusion of actual gameplay. The game contains a large number of characters designed to appeal to the tumblr audience in order to maximise $$$.
you dont have a game!
>>121733030
>basic bullethell mechanic
>illusion of actual gameplay
But anon, that is gameplay. It may be simple gameplay, but it still gameplay.
>>121733143
Does walking around and picking up one single apple count as a game?
>>121733253
If you're being a pedant, yes
>>121733253
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deG_vMcKiNU
Ready for greenlight
>>121733143
You don't have an engine!
>Have issue with concept
>Find a tutorial video
>Oh boy its an anime MC with an anime avatar
>It actually works and answers all my questions.
So, was I wrong about Anime posters the whole time? Or is it just anime devs are the good ones?
>>121729457
A good and cheap realtime global illumination method. All the current ones either have serious flaws or will only run on top tier hardware.
>>121733742
dude why are you posting about this shit
This general has some serious next-gen shitposting.
>>121733779
>realtime global illumination
literally why
>waiting patiently for someone to review the games and my game
>>121734238
>He doesn't want to forget VR isn't real
>>121734116
It's amazing really. Other generals have to deal with waifufags, and other assorted faggotry, while we just have intense shitposting.
>>121734238
Why not?
>>121734523
because, like a lot of other "It's Realistic!" technologies, the potential for abuse and subsequent destruction of all things artistically sane is too great to let it fall into the wrong hands
see also: colored lighting
>>121734748
> the potential for abuse and subsequent destruction of all things artistically sane is too great
What did he mean by this?
I need to write some sort of validation function for my random road tile generator. It doesn't need to be too fancy, at the lowest level it'd need a way to parse sequences like:
road - end_of_road - n*empty_lot - start_of_road - road
I don't want to hardcode this, I'd like it to parse text templates for rules. Anyone have any tips for such stuff?
>>121734748
>because, like a lot of other "It's Realistic!" technologies, the potential for abuse and subsequent destruction of all things artistically sane is too great to let it fall into the wrong hands
>>121734521
it's not even particularly meta, either, it's just that much harder and faster
every other general is listening to mac+ and meme grips and we're here ripping classic death metal pretending people aren't dying in the circle pit
this thread has literally killed people, mothdan and rotate DID get into a ten-hour gun battle with sourcefam and his crew
>tfw all my favorite AGDG games released demos
>>121735434
Why are you being mean about my game
anyone want me to play their demo just say the word and I'll pop it on
Ok, dev.
Here it goes.
First of all, you game is looking really nice, I like the setting and the visuals, polish it and you might get some good stuff.
Now, let's talk about what's bad.
First, the camera. It's just bad, it changes way too quickly when you move from one side to another.
Second, climbing speed is way too slow even. Make it just a little bit faster and it would be fine.
Third, I'm sure you will change the attacks, but right now they are really shitty.
The sword is useless in comparison to the ice shots and even then, the shots are just a question of "keep pressing the button until it hits something".
Fourth, I couldn't get through the part in the tower you need to pass with the rope, the rope just didn't reached there, so I needed to go all the way back to your crab form to get the boots, I say you should check this matter.
As a last note, It's nice for the boss to have multiple attack patterns, I liked that, but I still couldn't beat it because of these fucking weapons. Maybe I am just bad at metroidvanias.
Keep devving, this could turn out a good game. I hope you find the objective you are looking for.
Random events can happen now.
You can also name units, the AI is more developed, and multiple AI teams will interact with each other.
Health, health bars, and combat is in the game.
Going to do some 3D modelling for the buildings now I guess, since I have to add in all the basic buildings to finish the AI & add in the tech tree's functionality.
>>121735434
>tfw your game isn't one of his favourites
>>121735348
>moth and rotate ever not hating each other
But what does it matter, all the strings are being pulled by steamchat, and googum is MIA
What happened to googum?
>>121735580
If it makes you feel better my favorite agdg game didn't release a demo
It could even be your game!
>0 downloads
>>121735825
Australia finally got him.
>>121735905
I'll download and play it! Just link it to me. :D
Would Godot work well for making a static, interface only app game?Essentially text and buttons?
>>121735905
Here's a lullaby to close your eyes
It was always you that I despised
>>121735825
On a scale of 'banned' to 'fucking banned', he's fucking banned.
>>121735143
>too new to remember shitty quake maps with too many shiny surfaces all bathed in gaudy colored lighting
realtime light bounces would end badly, trust me
>>121736027
>instantly opened youtube "Room of Angel"
Thanks, anon.
>>121735905
>3 downloads
>none of them from demo day
>no comments/feedback
>>121725808
That dev is a douche, but he didn't abandon the game. He just keeps expanding the scope of a game for which development was always slow to begin with, even before the Kickstarter campaign (they've been working on it for like 10 years now).
>>121736027
>no indie dev will be able to make a game comparable to Silent Hill
C'mon, just give it SH1 graphics and focus on game mechanics, spooks and sound design.
>>121735825
murdered by mothdan's family during a shootout involving sourcefam
there was a gopro video of it from the firefight but it's gone now. it looked like it came straight out of afghanistan, but it's actually the midwest somewhere. crazy that this stuff still happens on US soil
>>121736478
I want to make a SH ripoff but I can't think of a decent story, setting or characters.
>>121736580
Ever since this happened I've been afraid of posting progress because I don't want mothdan to show up at my house. Crazy stalker.
>>121735905
A free lesson on the importance of marketing.
>>121736595
someone is lost
quiet mound
a middle aged man
how do I code the bullets in a shmup?
do I need fancy math?
I just want the enemy bullets to move in a curve.
>>121736580
Man, that sounds like something bobbendev would've done. I wonder what happened to him.
i'm fascinated by architecture i just dunno how to make an interesting game about it
>>121736595
Look at Lone Survivor, that's the closest we've gotten to an indie Silent Hill, and the story elements in it are pretty light. I thought it was pretty fun for a few playthroughs to get some endings.
>>121736760
Use Pi a lot.
>>121736792
who?
another member of the infamous /AGDG/ Kill List?
>>121736760
Just use something like a sine function or whatever, depends on what kind of curve you want.
>>121736760
give the bullets the origin point
distance from the origin point
rotation
ezpz
>>121735905
desu I didn't download any games that had an ugly or dumb banner image.
>>121736935
A game where you build mazes
>>121737120
I just want the bullets to move like touhou where the advance in a circular motion.
>>121737146
dunno, does this work?
how do I code this in java?
>>121736760
>fancy math
it's literally grade 10 functions to determine its X position relative to its Y to make a curve (or Y to X, depends how your game is oriented)
just keep incrementing X or Y as you see fit for the orientation and it'll follow whatever sine or parabolic function you want
a perfect circular path may need a couple if-thens in there to determine what relative quadrant the bullet is supposed to be in
>>121736945
>entire experience was in his head
Not exactly selling me on the narrative.
>>121736935
game where you explore world like in your pic and you can change your direction of gravity.
>>121737221
>desu
fuck, I forgot about that word filter.
I guess I'll start typing out to be honest. No more being lazy.
How do you guys develop gameplay and design puzzles based around that gameplay? I can't figure out where to start with this shit.
>>121737490
What I'm trying to say is that even with a shitty narrative you can still make a pseudo-Silent Hill
>>121737361
>how do I code this in java?
dont troll here unless it's about mailing people bombs, we expect a certain level of hardness here
>>121737471
I'm not carmack bro.
I barely remember basic arithmetic.
I though math was useless because I wanted to learn drawing.
>>121737626
Fair enough
>>121736450
>scope
That reminds me, what happened to overgrowth?
>>121737801
absolutely nothing, same as last time anyone asked
>>121737101
Just an old memory from a time long gone.
>>121737626
>>121737594
Silent Hill was not a good series tbqh and it's good it died
it had some cool setpieces but the core gameplay is awful and boring
>>121737684
>americans
hey /agdg/
i'm just finishing an ios game i had to do for a scholarship. would it be cool to show it to you here? i am not a frequent so i don't know how you use to do
>>121736935
A game where you kidnap a baby and you try and stop his sister from taking him back with your horde of goblins and illusion globes
>>121737594
You have a main puzzle preventing you from continuing but you only get pieces to that puzzle by solving other minor puzzles or gathering items throughout the level. The hardest part is pacing it properly.
>>121738287
>reek thinking his 1st year full sail course makes him a game designer still
two
years
>>121724702
Digital card games
Text adventures
Character interaction games aka "interactive storytelling" (read Chris Crawford)
Menu-based economic simulators like Dope Wars
Audio games
<Pick a genre> with a 1D playing field
Simon
>not using robohash for every single art asset
>>121738287
Don't ask if you can ask a question sort of thing. Don't ask if you can post, that's retarded.
I'm interest in creating a JRPG fantasy styled game about a young warrior in training whose mom was brutally assassinated and house set on fire by the Ijiwaru Klan; An elite group of deadly ninja assassins who are seeking world domination through assassinations of hero's families. Their ultimate goal is to unite all heroes to fight them, such as my MC, Setsuyuki Takahara, of the Takahara Clan. But in the end, they are actually gathering heroes to destroy the true dark evil, so they're actually pretty cool.
Tell me what you think?Also, it's not turn based.
>>121738287
You're going to get some shitposting, but just post it. If it's shit, people wil call it shit. If it's good, a couple of guys will say it's good and everyone else will call it shit.
>>121738287
If you're just here to viral, then no.
>>121738632
it was actually only a semester and no, i am definitely not a game designer. it doesnt change the fact that i developed a game (a mobile one, tho)
>>121738703
i just dont want to be like HEY GUYS LOOK AT MA GAME SHARE&SUBSCRIBE if you are not into it
>>121738705
>mfw not sure if this is joke or not
>>121738808
That's cinematic sword fighting. Actual sword fighting consisted of trying to stab your opponent, swords weren't blunt objects.
wtf is this and how if fucking works?
fucking CS man.
this is too much.
:/
>>121738985
>HEY GUYS LOOK AT MA GAME
You don't have to ask
>SHARE&SUBSCRIBE
Don't do that
Ghost Train is up, wanted to have a pause menu and stuff but MouseLook is a bitch and I couldn't change it to .JS because excuses excuses. Anyway, play it.
http://brucebelk.itch.io/ghost-train
>>121739046
You're right, I'll make the game boring and unfun for the sake of realism. Thanks!
>>121725342
Pretty good
>>121739046
>>121738808
Change them into Non-Specific Light Beam Swordsâ„¢ like you see in popular movies about wars in space.
They are always doing that grinding thing, and you can add the cool noises and sparks
>>121739091
nigger are you seriously this fucking thick?
sin is the graph of your x-axis displacement, cos is the y axis displacement
some basic fucking shit
>tfw dyscalculia is becoming an insurmountable obstacle
>understand the basics of how i can make x do y
>try to write code x to do y
>cannot into numbers
>become a frustrated mess within a few hours, can't even write basic functions like random npc movement, let alone anything substantial
>have to rely on game maker events and actions
>trying to find convoluted solutions when code could do it easily
>end up just sitting making art assets because thats all i can do
should i just give up and try to find someone to program my game for me/with me?
this is becoming depressingly frustrating and i've been at this for weeks, i just want to be a game dev
>>121739091
>CS
it's basic trig, you should have learned in highschool.
>>121738287
posting a finished game here without ever having posted before is inadvisable.
/agdg/ is about posting progress updates and getting feedback on that progress.
Just lurk for a while, and don't post some random finished game.
>>121739315
>dat gap
hnnng
>>121739046
Depends on the kind of sword. Some places/units just used big swords meant to smash through armor rather than piece it. Pretty much any curved sword is generally intended for slicing unarmored people up rather than piercing plate/mail/lacquered wood/whateverI eagerly await stabby technique btfoing everything 5ever in his game though
>>121739091
You aren't reinventing mathematics, just use the functions and formulas you find online. In most cases you don't need to know how it works underneath.
>>121739336
Lightsabers should look/feel lighter though, no? Though I may add unrealistic but juicy sparks on hard hits, thanks :)
>>121739091
This is really your first exposure to sine and cosine?
They're functions that take an angle argument, and spit out the corresponding x (for cosin) and y (for sin) value on the unit circle.
>>121739315
Looks good, too bad I can't read the slavrunes.
>>121739486
>/agdg/ is about shitposting and circlejerking
fix'd
>>121739450
>dyscalculia
self diagnosed, aka you're shit at maths and can't be fucked learning, or do you actually have that?
>>121739434
>>121739453
high school never explained me how to make games using math.
I was busy learning about humanities.
;u;
>Overgrowth gets an update video after 9 months
>spent months evaluating if switching to UE4 would be a good move, before deciding against it and rewriting the graphics engine for reasons
>23 people are now working on the game and it barely looks any different
Is this the power of enginedevs
>>121739091
You don't need to know math to see how that works. The sin function pushes the point to the left or right depending on whether the red line is sitting above or below the middle point (negative or positive). The cos function does the same, but for the y component.
If you just look at the cos component and removed the sin component then you would have a point oscillating up and down but not left to right, producing a straight vertical line. If you removed the cos component but kept the sin component you would have a point oscillating left to right instead. Combining the two components gives you a circle instead.I think
>>121739596
Thank you for that picture anon. I finally understand.
>pic related, the game you dropped
>>121738808
new armor games logo looking good
>Spacecraft
>tfw ramming spaceships with my shield
>Pewpew sounds everywhere
Congrats dev, your game is now fun.
>>121739727
i've been diagnosed since high school
i had to a do a special GCSE math test for retards + was allowed to use a calculator since it was the only way i was going to get above a fail
i barely scraped a D, even doing the easy test for retards
i had to have special help at college and university because of my inability to do even basic addition and subtraction without a calculator
>>121739582
iirc they explain in one of the shitty novels that lightsabers have about the same weight as an equivalently sized sword because the plasma beam generates a lot of recoil or something. And also that's why only jedi can use them, everyone else is literally just too limp-wristed and can't reliably swing one around without throwing out their back or wrenching their shoulders and jedi just get around it by using the force
the moar u kno about autistic sci-fi
>>121740232
shit man
that does not sound fun
>>121740237
Are there laser shields? I want to add shields too
>>121740232
should add that i had to resit my maths GCSE later to get the C that would allow me to go to college
>>121740232
>>121739450
>americans
>>121740468
americans don't do GCSE's you dumb cunt
How do I pass a method to a function so I can add it to a delegate in c#?
>>121740416
ye there's forcefields and shit and I don't see why they couldn't use reflective ballistic shields like a modern riot shield but with a high polish
What would be the best way to go about a purely menu based game? Would gms be best suited?
>>121740801
https://www.google.com/search?q=How+do+I+pass+a+method+to+a+function+so+I+can+add+it+to+a+delegate+in+c%23
>>121740801
make your function take a parameter of type <your delegate>
>>121735538
Thank you anon. Saving this.
>>121738896
>>121739486
thanks, i will lurk around. it isnt perfectly finished so i might show some things
>>121738902
i'm not, dont worry. thanks though
How does Nintendo bake textures like this? I'm pretty okay at modeling in Blender but even simply baking ambient occlusion always turns out looking like shit. Are there any resources on this?
>>121741408
Use a different program for your AO if Blender isn't working. Like xNormal.
Though that looks like a render so you shouldn't expect that quality anyway.
>tfw going to khan academy to study stuff that is being taugh to 8 years old.
fuck
now I know how non drawfags feel about art.
>>121740924
html
I'm not even joking
>>121742056
Well, the game kind of looks like that too
Nintendo first party games always look neat despite the hardware
It's a nice rainy day out...
Here's a silly first person fist, probably for the trap jam, if I can finish the thing in time.
>>121739315
Love it, hope it turns into a good game!
I'm gonna make video games and everyone's gonna play.Who's laughing now
>>121742654
Mario Kart 8 does look really good but that's more the lighting/shaders. The actual textures are fairly simple.
Here ya go:
http://www.models-resource.com/wii_u/mariokart8/
>>121743409
https://clyp.it/c3ja3olq
RIP the demo day song guy who got eaten alive by rotatedev
>>121741408
i use blender for a lot, but not AO
not like this
not like this
>>121738705
>that swoosh as fuck hand on the sword
What a lad
>>121739034
>>121744045
I'm not even joking, I've had to practice so hard just to be able to do draw like that. Here's an in game shot, it's darks souls inspired, please no bully.
>>121744814
Yo you should be able to do black flips and summon shadow versions of yourself that kill all the enemies for you (and the shadows should be able to do backflips too)
Make sure to put my name in the credits btw
>>121744814
Anon, you might have better luck either spending years improving your art, making something ironic, or going back to 1998. Athough it does have some charm to it, I thik you could touch that up and have it as a "retro" game.
>>121745146
>Yo you should be able to do black flips and summon shadow versions of yourself that kill all the enemies for you (and the shadows should be able to do backflips too)
https://youtu.be/-bib8W6ouhA?t=156
>>121746331
looks like low quality strider hiryu
>>121744814
authentic NES graphics
nice
What is the best progression for aggying? One of my personal dreams is to make at-least one game of each genre.
>>121746601
Gee I wonder why
>>121747001
Just like make game
then just like make anothe game
man I played almost all of the games in the jam and now I am tired as heck
a lot of them are pretty good
some of them are REALLY good
overall I am impressed by the general quality of games you guys have created
Maybe tomorrow I'll write up my thoughts
for now though gj folks
eight out of eight
A game where you're a refrigerator
hey aggydaggy how about you, like, make gaem and stuff
>>121747402
thanks anon
all i want is to make a good game
>>121747916
do you run?
>>121747916
Does it run?
>no demo day song
its not the same
>>121747916
Better not get caught
>>121747001
>What is the best progression for aggying?
Everyone has set different goals and dreams, always be sure to follow your own.
>>121747001
step 1: be an artist
step 2: learn to draw
>people complain about indie games all having shit pixel art when compared to old vidya
I mean i think so too but why would anyone even put any effort when garbage sells?
>>121748681
exactly, there is simply no need.
Just submitted for Demo Day 5.
Got a few really cool features like Spawners and some game play changes from Demo Day 4.
Any feedback would be appreciated.
http://pillowdev.itch.io/dream-dungeon
Hello?
>>121750648
ALLISON
>>121750648
Tickle tickle tickle!
A fighting game where you tickle instead of fight
>>121749225
she didnt deserve this
>>121747970
>normies want in on antisocial/depressive guys hobbies
why?
A while back there was a tutorial to do motion tracking from a prerendered after effects video into unity, anyone know where it is?
>>121750940
>Stage 1
Oh no! Someone left those pastries in the window! I think you can save the day, but keep an eye on your cord!
>>121749225
did you change your characters outfit/model?
>try you're already working on your thespian game
>they won't even notice
hehehe
>>121751320
i got b8d hard
>>121750848
I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND
I can't take it any more, I think I'm gonna kill myself
>>121751440
drama whore
>>121751671
make game first.
>>121751271
Not from Demo Day 4, but a new artist is pushing for a new design (top-left portrait & titlescreen)
>>121751817
Why tho?
/r9k/ is fucking gay just kill yourself already
WHODEEEEV
>>121751671
Thrid time's the charm!
hahahahahahaha
How difficult is it really to make a game?
Let's say a roguelike top view or maybe an isometric RPG, using unity?
>>121752890
Well they have a tutorial to make a roguelike in unity, so not hard.
>>121748681
because agdg conditioned you to believe that, they simply take extreme cases of successful games with poor visuals and put them to measure
>>121751820
I'd say it looks waaay less cute but it's your call obviously.
>>121753060
Thanks for the feedback.
Was there anything specific you liked about the old character?
>>121752890
Probably want to start with something easier. Try pong then keep moving to the next thing.
>>121753481
>female cow
why would you put your mom in the game thats fucked up
>>121729152
>>121753481
me too bro
^5
>>121739193
>http://brucebelk.itch.io/ghost-train
I've been looking forward to this good job on the demo release man
>>121737801
The dev is too busy flaunting his twitter presence.
> Should I make a shitty bad English audio, lowbitrate 720p stream playing all the demo day games?
http://strawpoll.me/5959780
>>121754774
dew it
>>121754774
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu5iAgJ65dA
>>121755747
(You)r game is shit
>>121755747
> Hm, my game has no comments. I want comments, because comments are feedback.
> I know, I'll post about it in the /vg/ thread. That way, people will know I'm looking for feedback.
> Should I tell people what my game is, though?
> ...
> ...
> No, of course not. I'm a fucking retard.
All right /vg/inas, I am looking to get into this with Unity but something is scaring me away, and that is textures and modeling which terrify me.
Is it hard, how did you learn?
When's demoday 6? I'm going to have something playable a few days after demoday :(
this guy's character sprites are all 10x10 pixels, but it seems like his environments are based on a larger grid (?) but at the same resolution or level of detail. How exactly does this work? Do you create/sprite out the tiles at the larger size (say 20x20) and then do 4x scale when you render them in-game?
When I look at tiles that are themselves 10x10 they look like absolute shit, but it seems like when you have a grouping of them they can look good depending on how you approach it.
So what's the sane way to handle this?
pic related
>>121756374
2 months from now
>>121756104
practice
also amking a 2d game first is probably the smartest choice
>>121725342
I gave up on it. I'll see if 3d modeling is doable for my pleb-tier mind.
>tfw jump back and forth between things, unsure on what to do
At least I can code, I suppose.
>>121756104
You don't need complex 3D art to make a 3D game. Use tasteful colors and cool shaders and you will only need the simplest of shapes
>>121742364
I feel you. I have the math level of an elementary school student according to Khan.
this is an outline of a 2D procedural level generator.
It has template support from biome level to rooms-in-a-building level.
It is made of nested properties, connectivity analysis and simple mathematical rules.
thank you weed
>>121726163
At least you don't have 17 unfinished games
>>121729432
what's the most efficient way to shill?
>>121752890
Shit games are easy.
Actually good games you can be proud of? It's hard.
So how are the demo day games?
>>121756862
>Use tasteful colors
How?
Color theory?
>>121757306
As good as I expected
>>121756397
I'm trying to figure out what you exactly you're asking.
I think the reason why the assets look good in the image, even if they look simplistic individually, is because of the artist's smart use of colour theory to enforce contrast.
It's very possible that the character sprites are at a lower resolution than the background texture. On a technical level, it's mostly irrelevant. Understanding visual art principles is what the artist does best, not making hi-fidelity assets.
tl;dr it's all in the colors
>>121757141
Why is it hard?
What about simple games carried out well, basically as practice projects for more ambitious projects later?
>>121753481
Use Holstaur instead of 'Female Cow'. (Just use MGE names when in doubt, most people know them)
>>121756862
As in, low poly models? I could get into that yeah
how important are slopes?
I'm planning to remove them from my game
>>121756104
It's honestly just a matter of practice.
There are two basic tests for asset creation.
> Can I recognize what I'm looking at, even when the image is shrunk down and the texture details blurred?
> Can I understand the image even in greyscale?
This demonstrates good construction and color theory.
>>121757469
Because of scope and required skills.
I've done a couple of practice games like you mention, but I just see them as steps on the way up to games that I actually want to do.
>>121757469
Making a shit game good is what's difficult, regardless of ambition. Just practice the entire process (as in, not just starting and giving up half way) as much as you can and you'll improve over time.
>>121757463
no. His environment tiles seem to be 16x16 so what I'm guessing he just scales them so that the pixels are equal size
but you blew it
sin = y circle
cos = x circle
tan = y/x circle
It's this correct?
It's there anything else I need to know?
It seems trigonometry is usefull if you want circular movement, right?
>>121757759
You have to learn how to learn to articulate yourself better. I'm hoping someone else will be able to figure out what you're asking and give you what you need.
>>121757759
What are you talking about? Why would his environment being 16x16 and the player being smaller than 16x16 affect anything? The player still fits within the 16x16 sprite size. The pixels for the player and the environment are the same size.
Working 1MA is pain, but the thought of keeping social contracts gives me shiver and panic.
What do?
>>121754774
Are you actually gonna do it the absolute madman?
I'm pretty interested.
>>121757697
>young me
>playing starcraft
>because I'm like 8 and don't know what the fuck is going on, think the shoulders of the Terran Marines are big bulbous eyes and that the Terrans had bug robots fighting for them
>also thought the Vulture's Spider Mines were just little marines cause they kinda looked like they had big bulbous eyes too
I also thought the Hydralisk Den looked like a peepee, which it still does
your game is garbage
>>121758025
Trig and vectors are probably the most important math to know for gamedev.
How do i daggerfall dungeon generation?
>>121758125
OMA the basic skeleton of your game, then buy the rest.
>>121758208
thanks, added that to my list of things to fix.
>>121758196
>minecraft
>im like 8
MOOOOOOODS
>>121758025
Trig is important for anything to do with x/y coordinates, especially so when doing vector math.
In particular get familiar with inverse tan, you'll be using that a lot.
>>121758051
>>121758054
You guys are right. I guess what I'm confused about relates to scaling pixel art. I now realize that all I have to do is make sure that the scaling factor is the same no matter what and my game won't look shitty (like it does with mixels when you scale things differently). That was part of my confusion.
But now what I'm wondering is whether or not it's better to base everything on e.g. 8x8 and just make extra tiles for connector pieces or to use 16x16 and simply not use all of the maximum space when spriting (as the guy did in the aforementioned example).
Pic related--tileset with 8x8 pixel grid base
I'm guessing it's easier to make smaller 8x8 tiles and place four of them than it is to make multiple 16x16 tiles with slight variations on one theme.
If I'm still not being clear, I'm working with 8x8 sprites and I'm trying to make my environment look good and not like a pile of shit (will post example of this in a sec). I like the way sprites themselves look at 8x8 but I hate how environmental objects turn out in that confined space, so the practical way to get around this is to just literally have four 8x8 tiles representing one pattern or object, OR to use 16x16 and scale them appropriately
>>121758508
get your eyes checked anon
>>121758196
It was a lot harder back then because your assets could only be viewed from a fixed perspective and your resolution limits were so small. Asset guys had to be a lot smarter and were forced to understand visual art principles back then.
Nowadays, you have people sculpting hi-fidelity assets that still look ugly. It's because they often lack the basic knowledge of what goes into good construction.
>>121758550
forgot pic of good-looking 8x8
>>121758025
You'll probably want to brush up on k-means clustering
>>121758508
please re-read that post
What is the best way to distribute my SDL game? Is it better to statically compile it, or just include all the extra files?
Keep in mind I have absolutely no idea how to statically compile a library in C++.
>>121756104
Just focus on learning the engine first.
If you're a competent spriter, then work with sprites first.
If not, then just use cubes and spheres as your characters/enemies/pick ups/etc.
I'm also just starting with Unity, and I can already see that it doesn't matter how good of a modeler/texture-er you are, because that shit will do fuck all if you don't know how to use or write script for the engine.
Also, I'm pretty sure Unity provides some free assets on their Assets store (I haven't taken a look at, so I'm not entirely sure about this).
TJust get the engine and look up some tutorials to see what you're dealing with.
Fear usually stems forms ignorance, so inform yourself.
>>121757392
Also, there's plenty of palette creating software now a days, like
http://paletton.com/
http://palettegenerator.com/
I've seen other shit, but didn't save them. Point is, if you look for it, you'll find it.
>>121758550
>>121758051
>>121758054
>>121758736
and here's a shitty 8x8
>>121758710
What's the basic knowledge? What should I google?
>>121758550
Resolution isn't the issue here, even if you think it is. It's clear that you're not going to listen to me so I hope you get whatever you need to hear from someone else.
>>121758918
>>121758550 (You)
>>121758051
>>121758054
>>121758736 (You)
...and finally a 16x16 that looks NOTHING like the others
so I'm wondering
will my simple 8x8 sprites look okay with a 16x16 environment like this?
>>121752529
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUzsVy9HdL4
I know this is question is a bit too stupid for here but what is the best software to be using to compose music? I've used a few programs for it in the past but really just want to pick something and stay with it but am not really sure what is standard use.
>>121759104
what is a mixel
Someone mind explaing to me what in the fuck Entabrain is thinking? They came up with not one, but two RPG makers that are in 3D. but on the PC they just keep coming out with the same version over and over, essentially just changing the bootup splash screen.
The giant fucking change in MV is that all the resources are twice the size, not even twice the resolution, but twice the actual size, so instead of everything looking better, it just looks slightly more blown up. The entire fact they actually make people wait years for these releases that any other company would just include as a free patch considering how little has changed is already annoying it itself, but then they completely refuse to include an engine that they already made 20 years ago even though people keep asking for it just makes them seem completely detached from reality.
>>121759084
I'm willing to listen to you, I'm just confused.
Here's another question that relates to my confusion: Say I'm using pic related as my player character and I want a boss monster that is four times the size of my PC. What resolution do I make the boss monster's sprite at? Do I use 8x8 and simply scale the sprite by 4x with my sprite code? Won't that look like absolute shit because it'll be massive and have no detail? Or do I use 16x16 and use the same scaling factor of 1x?
this is also the sort of confusion that I have about my environment. It IS about resolution because it relates to how the environment will look compared to my character.
>>121758550
>>121758736
>>121758918
>>121759104
I think I see what you're saying
The thing is if you scale the environment up to 16x16 tiles that means the whole map size will be twice the size if you want to avoid mixels.
The characters would look twice as small if you kept them the same resolution.
Honestly I think the best thing is to scale up the characters and add more detail to them. You don't need to make them 16x16, you can make them smaller than 16x16, as long as you keep the pixel size the same it wont be mixels.
I won't be participating on demo day
have a demo video instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zf8oyJXBVo
>>121759398
>Enterbrain
>Not talking about derby stallion ds
you have a lot to learn nodev
>>121759470
forgot pic
I feel so lonely, AGDG
>>121759549
I'm sad there wont be a demo of this.
But god damn it's looking sexy as fuck now. Good work man, it's progressed a lot since last demo day.
>>121759708
How is derby stallion related to agdg?
>>121759003
Keep in mind that I'm definitely not an expert, but it helps to understand the basic elements of art. Form, line, color, space, and texture. Understand them well enough to identify them whenever you look at a given piece of visual art. Don't just know that they exist.
To be more specific, a good asset (in a technical sense, not in a stylistic sense) has all of the following.
> Clear silhouette when in a neutral pose
> Larger silhouette is made up of simple general shapes
> You can still make out the silhouette of the object when it's shrunk down
That's the most general and universal criteria for a good asset that I can give. Things become more granular when it comes to things such as color theory and animation. Like them or hate them, Valve's handbook of Dota2 asset creation is extremely helpful and a good place to get your feet wet.
http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2CharacterArtGuide.pdf
It gets more complicated as you learn more, but start here and slowly work your way deeper. Making something presentable isn't hard so long as you follow the three criteria earlier. Making something notably good takes practice and experimentation.
Just make sure you get comfortable with your art program first, whether you're making 2D or 3D assets.
someone shoot me.
>>121757656
Slopes are not very important
W-who's up for some multiplayer testing?
>>121759906
Thank you, hopefully it isn't too bad for me
>>121759984
*bang*
>>121759549
seeexxxxyyyyyyyyyy
>>121*sho7599ota84
Uppity*
>>121759549
>That main menu
>That pause screen
A E S T H E T I C
But seriously man, change the main menu colors, they are all unsaturated colors and they are clashing too much.
Also, does the city only has Casinos?
What will we do if itch.io dies?
>>121759984
This is why I create base meshes through the old-fashioned subdivision method to maintain quads. It's a pain in the ass but I have to deal with retopologizing nonsense far less.
I'm honestly shocked at how long asset guys take to retopologize their stuff. It sometimes feels like they take even longer than a guy like me who still sticks with sub-d.
>>121760069
Send it, family.
>>121759549
That's great, now just publish it on android and slap on an RPG-like level-up system that's completely required for any progression and demands an inhuman amount of time to make any progression so you can milk anyone that plays your game out of several hundred dollars worth of microtransactions.
You'll be a millionaire, because the average IQ of an app gamer seems to be in double digits.
>>121760245
die too
I like to imagine that if that happens leaf will release the source but it doesn't sound like he's doing too bad for himself at all
>>121760245
I highly doubt it will die. It's getting more and more popular.
If it dies then we will find an alternative.
>>121760262
It's like 2GB, will it be fine?
>>121760248
for basic models like i just made yes i agree
but what about stuff you have to facerig, do you maintain the same edge flow
Anyone play Moxel? Looking for feedback and what needs to be changed sooner than later
>>121760467
This is going to make me look like a total punk, but I don't handle faces that well. Mostly torso work, which is a lot simpler.
In other words, I talk like I know better but really don't when it comes to more complicated stuff like faces.
>>121760475
meh
>>121759498
>>121758550
>>121758736
>>121758918
>>121759104
>>121758918
>>121758550
>>121758051
>>121758054
>>121758736
>>121759723
Okay, here's another example. This is the game Realm of the Mad God with player sprites at 8x8 and the big black knight boss guy sprite at 16x16. Both are presented with 1x scaling factor. This results in a knight that is literally 4x the size (double in each direction) but the same resolution. If you made the black knight 8x8 and then scaled him 4x he'd look like absolute shit because the actual resolution for any given area of the screen is 1/4 that of the player character.
My confusion is basically all of the above applied to my environment/map tileset. I guess the best course of action is to simply use 16x16 tiles and subdivide them into 8x8's. I just don't want my environment to look like terrible garbage, nor do I want my character size to seem out of whack.
>>121759549
Release date when?
who here has played boatshit spherecrap from the demo day? I'm kinda afraid to download it.
>>121759549
This is incredible.
Great art and music, and the way the environment objects move makes it really feel like you're moving fast.
>>121759549
I hope you add weapons or at least heavy car customization otherwise it's going to be one of those games you play once or twice and then never touch again.
>>121760467
This is going to make me look like a total punk, but I don't handle feces that well. Mostly torso work, which is a lot simpler.
In other words, I talk like I know better but really don't when it comes to more complicated stuff like feces.
>>121760437
>2GB Multiplayer game "in progress"
It's just loads of cp, ain't it?
Can't fool me faggot, go away.
>>121760614
fucking christ I forgot the picture
>>121760585
this whole thing is a fucking headache, there is already something like topogun which experienced modelers use
>>121760770
You know what is worse?it's for android
>>121760232
those colors are supposed to mimic 90's design trends. google 'bus seat patterns' to understand where that came from
the city has hotels too
>>121760670
>weapons
completely outside the game's tone. I'll try to add as much variety as I can, but it's still an arcade game after all.
>>121760642
this year, I hope. those two tracks on the video are 100% definitive. Now I need 28 more :^)
>>121759549
It looks really nice, but I can't imagine enjoying it for more than a few minutes
>>121759549
I can't believe how much you've progressed.
I'm proud of you,irmão
I dislike writing. With programming you have a set goal and you can achieve it with an application of effort, skill, and time. There's usually a distinct finish line in sight, where something is done. You can look back and objectively determine if it's good or not, usually if it does the job well and works for future revisions.
Artwork is also straight forward enough to do. You have elements of style, construction, depth, and so on. Put it all together well enough and you can get an attractive result, usually in the ball park of what you were intending. The more you know, the better you do.
Writing, on the other hand, is like walking through a maze with a map. Even if you get to the other side you have to wonder if your journey through the maze was worth going through the maze in the first place. And sometimes there is no map you just wander around like a clueless idiot until you emerge on the other side--or just give up, return to the beginning and start over.
How to make writing entertaining and engaging?
smfh famy tbfh
Would you play a game, if you play as mice that see two feet in front of them and scream very loudly?
>>121760651
me. it's just really unfinished, it's not a virus or something
>>121754774
>>121754945
>>121755159
>>121758192
I hope you don't get any expectations thinking I'm trying to appear modest in front of a-anon se-sempai, my English is shitty, so is my microphone and my internet connection. It will be cringe but I'm bitting the bullet for the greater good, I would have wanted someone to do ithad I made it in time.
> when?
http://strawpoll.me/5960204
Vote at will, it's multiple choice.
>>121760651
it's just the sailing game on the tiny planet
if you saw the webms you've already seen everything in it
>>121761072
I'll do it
What is your game about?
>>121761072
don't
more than enough cunts in the world in everywhere thinks they're good writers, let them do and if they're not as good as they think let them know.
>>121760475
Anon, I've given you feedback countless times, yet you ignored all of it.
I'm not falling for it again, sorry.
>>121761072
Give me money to do it for you
Read books or maybe even poetry or something to get an idea of what kind of style you like, and develop your own.
Have you heard of the snowflake method?
>start with a core idea
>branch off metaphors, explore different ways the idea could be expressed
>end up with a story with characters, events, etc
>>121761191
now or never you kek, you're already late, you should've been started like half hour ago
why does lua let you get a table value with
local val = table.key
but you can't set a table value the same way with
table.key = val
>>121736935
Ruins
Seriously. Good ruins are the best place to explore in a game.
>>121761339
It's for baby bones
>>121761276
A refrigerator that functions properly. You live in the kitchen of an NPC, and sometimes people ask the NPC if you are functioning properly.
>>121760614
>>121760781
Listen man. Stop thinking about that shit. Do you want more detailed environment? It's fine to make it more detailed. BUT you need to keep the pixels the same. NOT THE FUCKING SPRITE SIZE, NOT THE FUCKING TILE SIZE. IT doesn't MATTER. Just the pixel size. If the pixels are the same FUCKING size then it will be fine.
Remember that if your character is 8x8 and they're standing next to an object that is 16x16 then the character will look twice as small. That's just how it is. If you want the character to be bigger without mixels then you need to add more detail to the character. But remember KEEP THE PIXELS THE SAME SIZE.
>>121736935
Kairo did it already my friend
>>121761585
and there ya go. a game about architecture.
>tfw no-one ever encourages you
>>121761484
Thank god I'm an adult bone.
r8 muh gaymes
http://kfarwell.itch.io/
>>121761808
NO PROGRESS NO ENCOURAGEMENT
How do I handle config files? I created a config.ini file, and I can load it, but I don't know how to get the values from the lines. Right now my file looks like:
>screenWidth: 1920
>screenHeight: 1080
>fullscreen: 1;
When I load the .ini file, what should I do?
>>121761890
Who the fuck are you?
Have you ever posted here before? Why should we care about you if you've never participated in this community?
>>121761441
This tbqh with you fami.
>>121761925
I made some placeholder models today.
>>121761890
go away faggot
>>121761808
you can do it anon-kun
>>121761434
I've heard about it. I suppose the issue isn't coming up with characters and settings and so on, but actually getting into the nitty and gritty and making those characters and settings interesting for the player. Specifically, humorous type dialog that is supposed to be engaging enough to carry player interest. It's like, "is this stuff good enough? Is it actually funny? If it's not funny, does it contribute something to what's going on? Is it just dull?"
I have other people working with me, so I can't just go all wacky and zany without them critiquing this or that. Which is good, in a way, since I have active feedback, but we also have radically different ideas about what makes stories good. Or maybe I'm just a terrible hack of a writer, who knows.
Do you guys balance combat in you games just by playing it for ages and tweaking it gradually, or is there some mathematical way to do it?
>>121762341
>playing it for ages and tweaking it gradually
only if you want a very hard game
>some mathematical way to do it
unlikely
> you will never go back in time
> you will never kill Toby Fox
> you will never make infertile
>>121761072
>breeding season
>worries about writing in a porn game
>>121762000
what language
which libraries
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.streamreader.readline(v=vs.110).aspx
look for something like this
I'm making a competitive multiplayer game.
And my levels are randomly generated.AND THEY ARE NOT SYMMETRICAL
>>121762238
Post an example?
>>121762238
If you want wider feedback on your writing you could just post it here. Best way to see if something's good is to get as many eyes on it as possible.
Besides, I need to stay in practice, and poking holes in other people's shit is good for that
Remind me to never again make an RPG with a complex combat system, gotta hold 8 sets of variables for each potential player slot, in addition to 4 variables that can change when you switch active party members
>>121761890
nice demo, whodev
>>121762045
>Have you ever posted here before?
yes
sorry I don't whore for attention after every commit while I write my games
>posting feedback to itch
>Error: post must be at most 1024 chars
FUCK
>>121762436
>only if you want a very hard game
Isn't balancing making it easier/fairer?
Can anyone record themselves screaming? I need like 5 variants for, like ten seconds.I'll even put you into the credits
>>121762707
You should! It's great fun. Today I learned how to use classes without looking like a fucking idiot, and now my code is a little shinier.
>>121762772
If you balance it over a long period of time, you will get better and better at it, until your idea of balanced is (probably) far above the average player's.
>>121761460
Anyone? Is there some way I can make it work like that with metamethods? I'm learning lua so I'm not sure what I'm talking about.
>>121762797
sounds like a job for pugdev
>>121762550
Well that's not really the problem. I can get the line, for example, "screenWidth: 1920", but I need to know how to get just the "1920" part out of it and convert it to an integer so I can set the screen width.
I guess I could set it up like:
>screenWidth:
>1920
>screenHeight:
>1080
That way I could see which value it is, and then just take the next line, but I'm sure there's a nicer way.
>>121762772
If you keep replaying your game, you'll end up getting really good at it. Which means that something you find "easy" or "average" is harder for everyone else.
>>121762707
I believe I remember you posting some jewel stuff.
Posting progress isn't whoring for attention, it's literally participating in the community. You'll know when you're whoring for attention when you become a meme and everyone hates you.
>>121762797
Also, that's a small rat screaming, for the reference
>>121762938
Oh, I guess I should mention, it's C++ and SDL.
We're all gonna make it
#demoday
>>121762960
>>121762872
>making games for scrubs
G E T O U T
>>121762902
that's exactly how it works, anon
maybe you meant you want to store the key in a variable? Lua keys are actually just strings, so
table.key = val
is exactly the same as
table["key"] = val
which is the same as
local myKey = "key"
table[myKey] = val
>>121763101
>being an idiot
i'm so sorry
>>121762687
that aint shit dude
>>121763067
>DEL
HERE IT'S TYPE PROBED
>>121763183
it is for me as it's practically the first real game I'll be making
I miss the singleton doge
>>121762929
oh you
>>121762000
foreach line in allLines
string[ ] componentsOfLine = line.split(" ")
>>121762872
>>121762985
I prefer talking about general shit (engines, languages, balancing, art, etc) and helping people between games, else I get distracted and never get any real work done
feedback is good *from time to time*
>>121763093
Maybe is hopoo would post a new demo, that gets everyone all kinds of attention.
>>121763093
what geemu?
>>121763093
>no anti-aliasing on text
Jesus dude, how do you even browse the internet?
>>121761441
>>121761191
>>121762078
> Most voted option is the soonest
> Second most voted option is options are shit
I'm not going to start until the deadline but it seems people want it asap, Tueday at like 8-12 AM EST? Is that what you want?
I added all those options but I didn't think people would want it earlier in the day.
>>121763351
The what doge?
Has anyone ever built indating/romancesimulators to their RPGs?
Was itfun?
>>121763772
start right after the deadline
>>121762616
>>121762682
As it happens to be, I'm starting over with the script for like the...I don't even know. The stuff I already have implemented (and now discarded) is in scripting format, so it's hard to read.
I can post a few character backgrounds I've recently gone back and rewritten, straight from wordpad: http://pastebin.com/6jeErV59
Picture related.
>>121763772
start it the second the deadline is up
and don't pre-download any of the games, that can be part of the Experience
>>121763849
dude I almost forgot to do this
thank you for reminding me
>>121763183
This is what classes are for.
>>121763849
undertale did it
why monster girl island dev
why
>>121763915
got a tumblr? i like your art style a lot in all the pictures youve posted in this thread.
>>121761329
I've tried to update the game according to the feedback, have you played the difference between demo days?
>>121763636
I don't think he's going to do that. I remember him saying that an early demo like that getting a lot of exposure made him uncomfortable.
>>121763651
the buggiest one
>>121763720
antialiasing looks like shit to be honest
>>121763067
copy the file contents to a buffer (rdbf)
file "screenWidth:1080;" -> buffer
create 2 cursors
position cursor a at the end of the keyword screenWidth: and
cursor b before a ";"
string key = "screenWidth:";
cur_a = buffer.find("map_w=") + key.size();
cur_b = buffer.find(";", cur_a);
then copy whats inbetween cursor a and b
string _w = buffer.substr(cur_a, (cur_b - cur_a));
convert to string
int w = stoi(_w);
>>121762341
>>121762436
>unlikely
There is quite a lot of mathematics on game theory. A whimsical (but quite solid) starting point is pic related, by Conway of Game of Life fame, and others.
>>121764064
I'll give you a chance, anon. You gonna be here for a while?
>>121764343
That "unlikely" is solely based on the fact that 'combat', as it was asked, is way too broad of a term to consider an example of deterministic combat. It can be done with certain genres of course. But in any game you need to play over an over to balance, it's probably not the case.
>>121763915
You have some redundant words like
>Oswald was ALSO born
And some repeated adjectives like
> Camilla wanted to be a bright, shining STAR IN THE SKY, adored by thousands of loyal fans. But for a street urchin that life was as unreachable as the STARRY NIGHT SKY.
>>121763826
>>121763993
I can't handle all this newfag, holy shit.
>>121764884
i just asked for someone's tumblr. whats the problem????
Thanks to everyone who has tried my game so far :>
http://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-5/rate/12565
>>121764884
Unless you explain why you quoted those posts, I'm gonna ssume you're retarded.
>>121765037
is there any reason the resolution is so absurdly high?
I think it's making the game lag
>>121765147
>I'm gonna ssume you're retarded.
it's best to just go in with that assumption from the start here desu
>>121765192
The actual resolution is only 480x270, it just gets scaled up in integer increments. That isn't what causes the lag, its a number of other factors that I'm working on. Just make sure you're using Chrome (or Chromium). if it's still laggy, sorry :(, still working on optimizing it a lot.
https://strawpoll.me/5960550
>>121763993
That's not me, guy. Shwig's the artist, but if you still want a very bare tumblr: http://shoulderon.tumblr.com/
>>121764728
I usually catch stuff like that, but I haven't really proofread that stuff beyond a glance. Anyway, thanks for reading. I do need to eliminate redundant words more frequently.
>>121765509
Our opinions don't matter.
The masses have spoken, they don't want pixel art, no matter the costs.
>>121765706
what masses?
>>121765037
Its horrible, you should feel ashamed of yourself. I could do it a thousand times better in my sleep if I knew how to install a toolset, code, compile, or make resources.
>>121765781
edgy
>>121765769
People that play indie games, but that anon is wrong, its not that they don't want pixel art, its that they don't want "lol so retro" obvious copout for lack of any ability kind of retro. like the kind that's low fidelity and/or hit by a million filters like crt and chromatic aberration.
>>121766074
Nah even people with fancy pixel art have been complaining about it and hopping ship for smooth graphics.
Something about pixel art turns people's brain to much, even if it's super solid pixel art.
>>121763915
ok well here's just osric for starters:
- please don't actually call him Goodfinger.
- I'm fairly certain chapters and orders are actually politically distinct, but I haven't researched that recently so I could be wrong.
- he's a coward and a glutton, but also a jovial, agreeable person? He's a knight, who would have been stupid enough to talk shit to him?
- he did nothing of note in the military, but he rose through the ranks anyway? why? if he's a noble, why did he even have to rise through the ranks? nobles are officers, and knights are at least cavalry iirc.
- now he has tenacity and grit, and in the same line as reminding us he's a massive coward. those are definitely not compatible.
- okay, so his quote definitely paints him as a glutton, so he'd be shit in the military, so there's no way he'd rise through the ranks even if he could. Useful idiots get shitty jobs and no promotions.
And also a BUNCH of grammar errors, but fixing those is a story for another time.
Basically it sounds like you haven't decided if this guy is "idiot noble who coasts on his heritage" or "cowardly knight who keeps avoiding death by running away from it" and currently just have both.
>>121766595
>>121766074
You guys don't know what you're talking about. There are tons of games with pixel art that have been released lately that did really really well. If your art looks passable after that it doesn't really matter and all that counts is gameplay.
>>121766924
Just because something's possible doesn't mean it's a good idea, Anon. Surely you should try to improve your odds, rather than just blindly charging in because you saw others succeed.
Other factors like previous popularity, good connections, etc can help you push through a relatively ugly looking game.
>>121765781
Oh it's written in Javascript so there is no need to compile :D
>>121757531
Will do.
>>121767107
>Other factors like previous popularity, good connections, etc can help you push through a relatively ugly looking game.
And when you lack those you have to make a good looking game. I don't even understand your point here.
>>121767236
When you lack those, making your game good looking becomes more important, yes.
I'm assuming most/all of us here are lacking those things.
>>121767383
There are a number of games here that look passable, so not everyone.
Christmas has come early!
t. cloner
>>121766791
>chapters and orders
An Order is an organization, Chapters are divisions within it (usually geographical, i,e, the Malta Chapter of the Knights Hospitalier)
>knights
A knight generally has enough money to BE heavy cavalry but it's a title distinct from actual military role
>gaining rank
He mentions that he does it through pure luck more or less, and is actually shit. Though you make a good point with his nobility granting him the rank anyway
I think the idea is more of an idiot noble whose heritage means other people expect him to be good, but in actuality he is a cowardly fat fuck
>>121767479
"those things" being connections/previous success, Anon.
Working on the first NPC model I'm actually kind of proud of.
Learning the kinks of baking normals is a good feeling. I know it's basic bitch, but to me it feels like a huge potential visual jump just opened up.
>>121767570
WHAT IS YOUR ARGUMENT
>>121767638
You're trolling and/or dumb, guess we're done here!
>>121767513
>>121766791
Wait, he's not even landed nobility. He just comes from a family of good soldiers.
>>121760475
I went ahead and gave your game one last chance. Have your feedback.
Your camera is awful. Is way too easy to look at the ceiling, or at the immediate floor behind you(useless). I understand cameras are usually hard in 3d action games, but yours needs some serious tweaking. Go do some math and add some easing so that it's easier to stay in the useful vertical angle of the camera.
The combat is not really fun. It's mostly "enter room, locate enemies, find way to put shield between all enemies and me, walk backwards while hitting with sword". Yeah, there's some timing involved, and I'm aware of the dodge mechanic, but it boils down to that. Not sure how to fix that, though.
There's also little combat feedback. I know you were probably looking at M&B or dark souls when designing the combat, so please notice those games have HUGE feedback to let you know if you're hitting the enemy or not. Yours doesn't. Little "clangs" don't count.
Also, make the stamina bar way more noticeable. It's usually lost in the heat of the combat, and when it runs out it ends up feeling as unresponsive combat instead of lack of energy. A "tired" pose/walk cycle for your guy would do miracles. Also check out SotC stamina circle for a way better stamina bar that can easily be taken into account while fighting.
The rest of my complaints involve either the artstyle and the genre conventions, so I'll leave them out.
I wish you best of luck, anon. I don't like your game, but I hope it does well.
>>121767593
really nice
what's with the wrist spikes?
>>121767746
>guess we're done here!
Just kill yourself. You're not saying anything meaningful and none of it relates to pixel art in any way.
>>121766924
>You guys don't know what you're talking about.
Nice argument, faggot.
>There are tons of games with pixel art that have been released lately that did really really well.
"well" isn't great, I also did say pixel art itself isn't the issue, but if you're not seeing all the flak around retro art style in the last five or so years you're either living in a cave or a god damn retard, considering your arguments I'd go for the later.
>If your art looks passable after that it doesn't really matter and all that counts is gameplay.
You're half right, gameplay counts, yes, but "it doesn't matter if art is passable" is extreme denial. the entire industry is focused and hellbent on pushing visuals.
I get it, now I spoken against you, you're going to turn int a pissy little bitch and start shit flinging, but not that I was expecting much of an argument from a faggot in denial.
>>121767803
Supposed to be the edge of his bones, since he's kind of skinny. I got a little over-enthusiastic. Nothing that can't be flattened out a bit.
Well at least I'm consistent.
>>121767756
this is good feedback
>>121767893
>but if you're not seeing all the flak around retro art style in the last five or so years
You should stop spending time on /v/, it warps your views of things. If you spend any time on Steam forums you'll see lots of young people really dislike Anime style anything, for instance. I've literally had people say to me: "this looks too much like anime, I don't like it". The market is huge and there are vocal groups of people that dislike lots of random shit, pixel art being one of them. If suddenly pixel games weren't successful anymore you'd have a point, but there are tons of games released lately that are pixel art and that do just fine. I'm not talking only about big well known games either.
>the entire industry is focused and hellbent on pushing visuals.
Ah, yea, Undertale got so big because of its visuals lol What the entire industry is doing is irrelevant to indie developers. You don't need to cater to a huge audience
>>121766791
Damn it. Refreshing ate my comment. Don't read too far into the realism aspect, it's not meant to be entirely serious. He's a fat, cowardly fuck who boasts to others of his heroism and grit while possessing neither. He is high-up in the hierarchy because he is a noble and everyone else is dead (or undead).
And I really should have like checked this over before I posted it, but I wasn't expecting to post it in the first place. Sorry about the grammar, here's a quick fix for fat cowardly fuck: http://pastebin.com/aVzTujq7
I don't understand
>>121768539
itch.io is braille-enabled
>>121768506
And it might be worth mentioning that even though he's a knight, he doesn't ride a horse into battle. Mainly because there's no sprite for it, but also because all the horses are dead. And this picture is one of few not done by shwig.
>>121767513
>>121767750
Dammit I knew there'd be a bunch of shit I got wrong
>>121768506
OK yeah this is better. I'd still make a couple changes, but mostly for style rather than content (and the style DLC costs £9.99)
Just please don't call your vampire character Dracular if you can possibly avoid it
>>121767756
Thanks, this is solid feedback. I'm gonna copy that and try to turn it into a solid to do list. I've been debating on switching the camera up so movement is free from the camera, and you can move it around to see the front of the character. What do you think about that? It would be completely re done so hopefully it would remove some of the problems that currently exist
>>121768296
>You should stop spending time on /v/
Nice argument, faggot.
>>121768296
>Ah, yea, Undertale
Amazing! You sure proved me wrong, I'm sorry, Oh man, it sucks how one example supporting your claim completelay negats thousands supporting mine, I wish the world didn't work that way.
Oh wait, you're still a fucking retard.
But wait there's more.
>Undertale
>So big
>300k units at $9~
Are you fucking kidding me with this shit? Are you a god damn child? a fucking imbecile? 300k units is not "big" by any means, 300k can't even get you a fucking publishing contract.
Seriously dude, put a fucking gun against your head and murder yourself, just do the world a fucking favor, because if you're going to continue argue with just opinions and lies you might as well die now and spare the world the prick you'll become once you hit puberty.
>>121769479
>300k units is not big
Anon, with 30k units sold at $10~ I'd make enough money to last me for 5 years (divided with another team member too). I don't know where you live but you must have some inflated cost of living or something..
>>121769243
>movement is free from the camera, and you can move it around to see the front of the character
I think that would be a mistake. Maybe lagging the camera a bit behind the player rotation can make it feel less weird. But free camera means controlling your aim with the keyboard, and that's nonsense.
>I'm gonna copy that and try to turn it into a solid to do list.
Good luck, anon.
>>121763915
All of those portraits have eyes in completely different styles. Bottom left has kaiji eyes. On the top right you can see 90% of her entire eyeball. It looks like it's falling out. The other two are different but fine.
>>121769479
> almost two million dollars after steam's cut
> not "big" by any means
you seem like an extremely angry person
I hope you find someone who can teach you how to enjoy life instead of screaming at it
>>121769660
>>121769750
>Anon, with 30k units sold at $10~ I'd make enough money to last me for 5 years
Nice deflecting.
We're not discussing your concept of finances, we're discussing pixel art and success. Serously, please I'm begging you, I will literally write your family a check for $500, fuck, I will cash it and deliver it personally, if you agree to end your god damn life.
>>121768785
S-Purple, you mean.
>>121769750
>>121769660
>Went from using a bad example on how pixel art isn't good to arguing how long you can live on 300k sales.
What are you, retarded?
>>121769660
>>121770083
>>121769950
>tfw I started this stupid argument by posting a strawpoll
do you guys have autism
>>121769950
>>121770083
lol I just got here
>>121770168
twice
>>121768296
please stop taking undertale as an example,you don't even have the money or connections to have big as a campaign undertale did.
you are blind anon. you really think bunch of hipsters made undertale put it on greenlight and suddenly sold 300k units?
>>121769950
lol u need 2 take a chill pill man
>>121770235
>lol I just got here
So why are you replying to shit that you didn't read all the way through?
>>121769950
>being set financially for life isn't success
>>121769950
Uh, anon, I literally said I wasn't talking only about big games. Mentioning Undertale was clearly a mistake because apparently you can't read. Here, some pixel art games that did well lately. I found them by going to Steam, searching "pixel art" and sorting by release date.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/368230/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/364420/ (release 3 days ago, good for an opening)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/315860/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/280360/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/274270/
This was about 5 pages worth of "pixel art" on Steam (back to this year's July) and only the ones that did reasonably well to the point where I could live off of the money for a few years. So I dunno, it seems pretty fair. You could compare with other filters to see if you'd get similar or much better results. For instance, if you search for "roguelike" and you go back to July and see how many games did equally well. If you get 20 then it either means "roguelike" is in a current boom or that "pixel art" is indeed hated by a lot of people. You repeat this multiple times for multiple filters and you'll get real data on what the market values and what the market doesn't value.
If I make even one dollar off a game I make I'll be more than happy.
>>121771073
your life is five years long?
>>121769069
Can't avoid, I'm afraid. It's a throwback to something else I worked on, picture related.
>>121769742
Noted. I don't handle the artwork for this though.
>>121771193
damn man what kind of lifestyle do you live that blows through $2 million in 5 years?
>>121771298
Its called paying bills and supporting a family. You'll learn about it when you leave puberty and mommy stops feeding you.
>>121771125
>Uh, anon, I literally said I wasn't talking only about big games.
Uh, anon, size of games LITERALLY wasn't the issue here.
We;ve already went over over this, now you're just beating a dead horse and expanding the discussion further to be able to support your point and win an argument, you're starting to get pretty annoying in fact.
>>121771578
college is much cheaper in the rest of the world
americans have the cheapest food tho, in some countries food a mcdonalds meal would cost 10 times more
>>121771721
>provide data to back up my claims
>>youre starting to get real annoying
>>121771298
>needing $2 million to support a family for 5 years
White people
>>121771852
...a $10 McChicken, jesus fuck.
How much would normal food be? Why would anyone pay that much for stuff that tastes like garbage unless you are drunk?
>>121771578____;)___
Boy golly all this arguing
remember game dev is a fun hobby!
>>121771578
>family
So this is why you're so angry. I don't have a family and probably never will which means that I can pursue my dreams while also being financially responsible and living a frugal life. *tips fedora*
Don't take it out on other people that you've made a life-long mistake.
>>121771852
College is actually free in most places of the world and normal food tends to follow the standard of living of that place. McDonalds isn't normal food though and anyone who buys it is a retard. Americans have cheap junk food, that's true.
>>121772065
KILL YOURSELF REEEE
>>121771969
I'm in south east asia, you'd be suprised how many people eat in KFC and Mcdonalds, they love the taste for some reason. There's no god tier fast food here.
>>121772227
In rollercoaster tycoon I used to charge a lot for food.
And gouge people on umbrellas when it rained.
>>121771969
no just mcdoanls just the overall availability of food and the price of it
i can't really buy a graded cheese and some canned noodles and without paying like a motherfucker,rental is skyhigh too
only thing that is cheap is medical
>>121772065
It IS fun.
Look, I made a little thing where a bunch of cavemen team up and kill a mammoth!
http://steelcap.itch.io/mammoth-hunt?secret=0SFnB5ubstJSmORpE4IYsiKWNI
>>121771578
If you don't know how to manage money that's your own personal problem. $2 million should last at least 30 years even with a family and with plenty of extra for personal luxury expenses.
>>121772354
gotta show them goys
>>121771578
I can't grasp how much bills you pay to spend 2 million in 5 years, for the sake of math, what's your monthly bill overall?
>gave some agdg anon a game idea last week
>browsing new greenlight submissions just now
>see a game that's exactly what I described
huh.
>>121772598
>>121771578
Better yet, invest even half of it, or get a bank to do it for you, you'll get lods of emone
>>121771969
I remember hearing about the McDonald fries in Argentina or something being crazy expensive because of reasons. 5% of a minimum wage worker's salary or something.
>>121772830
wow, a week is pretty good turn around
>>121772830
shit dude
give me an idea
>>121772470
I used an axe and then killed a mammoth. No new mammoth came back. 0/10, it's ok.
I was a short-term freelancer for a cancelled project byKingthat went under whenthey were bought out by Activision.
What should I do with the info?
>>121773126
I gotta add a victory screen that tallies up damage contribution and deaths then sends you back to lobby to load a fresh round.
Good feedback/10
>>121772794
>>121771578
Seriously, it'd be no issue to live on 50k a year
>>121772470
>kill mammoth
>never comes back
:|
also i hate the controls etc
>shoot spear
>have to stop in place for like 1+ second
>>121773445
spears stationary during reload as balance constraint compared to axers who maintain free movement even while attacking.
>>121773551
artificial difficulty
0/10
>>121773242
Post some stuff from it? Tell us about it?
https://vimeo.com/145096472
>people playin my dumb mammoth game
feels good man.
http://trainwiz.itch.io/smithereens
Finished my game, you all like virtual reality right
>>121774762
>make sure you have a leap motion and oculus rift to play.
Hmmmm
>>121774967
Eventually I'm gonna have a non-VR version.
Once I figure out the controls for that.
>>121774762
Is this a game about a ghost? spoopy
So, I'm working with multiplayer, 1 v 4 or similar, how should I network my game?
receive and implement the actions of the 4 on the 1 and make it the client and send the updated frame back?
no clue what I'm doing, I just know how to send info from client to server.
>>121768785
This reminds me of Blazing Dragons. Wonderful game.
Is 3-5000 polys still considered low poly or do I need to go even lower??
>>121775303
In my eyes, anything higher than 1000 polys spent on shape is not low-poly. It can still look like low-poly though, but then you most likely have some superfluous geometry.
>go to sleep early because dev depression
>wake up because I'm mysteriously itchy and uncomfortable and having weird nightmares
>realize I've been bitten all over by bedbugs
i cant even fucking go to sleep
and not get completely shit on for it
cant even fucking sleep anymore
>I feel like some god is angry with me and has decided that hell approaching and constant nightmares are not enough and he needs to send angels to simulate some of the more subtle bits of the inferno in waking life.
>>121775613
Any tips for getting my polycount lower??
>>121775156
>relevant to my interests
More details please. Engine/tickrate/frequency of update packets required
>>121775904
game maker, 30 fps tickrate I guess?, I'd hope for once a frame update
>>121775820
CLEAN YOUR HOUSE
>>121759251
What's the difference between using a native 16x16 tile and a 8x8 character than doing it the same way as retro games and just have the 16x16 tile split in four?
>>121775820
a-at least your not all alone in your bed ; ;
>>121775613
>In my eyes, anything higher than 1000 polys spent on shape is not low-poly
with amazing painting skills you would make any polycount look good,thing is the topology helps alot in painting it if you don't have an actual 2d reference
>>121776125
server controls the game state.
Clients message the server with their inputs, receive information about the current game state such as their position and the position of all other entities.
https://www.yoyogames.com/tech_blog/11
>>121776178
groce d00d
>>121776353
bedbugs feed on blood, so you can get them even if your house is clean
>>121738231
You'd be surprised how many people here are like this.
>>121775896
It's 2015, a couple thousand extra polygons aren't going to hurt anybody.
If you really need a lower polycount though, doing a good inspection of your model and just finding where vertices are redundant, then appropriately merging or deleting them works fine.
And keep a limit in mind when setting out to make the model. If I want to make a low-poly human, I'll set my limit at 1000 and divide that across the body:
Torso gets ~300, arms get ~100 each, same goes for legs, head is usually in the 50 range without hair, rest is divided between fingers and toes if the character needs those, as those are expensive.
>>121776460
so send input to server, and receive the updated game.
>>121774762
this game will be niche for a while due to the small userbase for the occulus but once it grows (if the price drops I'm assuming) All you'd have to do is polish the game a bit and I could see this going viral
Will people cosplay your game characters?
>>121775896
do manual retopology
but if ur model is already 5k and you need 1k and closer just skip it ,wouldn't make much of a difference if you have good rig
>>121776971
Cosplayability and rule34iness are actually quite high up on my list when designing a character
Free marketing.
>>121776556
your house isn't clean if there are bugs in it
how do I do it? how do I dev?
I just can't focus on shit
>>121776851
I suddenly want to write up a tight concise "Game state" serialize/deserializer for packet encapsulation.
>>121777197
You just have to. Seriously, put on some music, disconnect your computer from the internet if you have to, just like make game.
>>121774762
>Hammerrabi
I have 2 ideas for games. And all I want to do is flip flop between them, but I know that means I'll never get them done.
>>121774762
this game will be niche for a while due to the small userbase for the occulus but once it grows (if the price drops I'm assuming) All you'd have to do is polish the game a bit and I could see this going viral if simulators are still in in 1-3 years
just, like, prove theorems about games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_QFmQU_VA
but really this is a good lecturer if you're into that sort of thing. I'm not in school anymore so I find it very cozy.
>>121724994
>Afraid my idea is massively daunting with the amount of writing for it
>Only 5 months estimation
HuhNow only if I could start it :^)
>>121777134
you're right. i should burn it down. its clearly the only way at this point
>>121777654
game theory =/= game dev theory
Gnite bby
my house is mysteriously full of pigeon feathers as well. i'm not sure where they're coming from but there's a lot of them
not, like, big piles, but more than a few. are pigeons coming to attack me in my sleep??? or are they kissing me goodnight
>>121776971
Considering they're animals: no.
>>121774762
Reminds me of that Blacksmith game on the 3DS, except this looks like it's actually like real blacksmithing.
what's a decent tablet for a programmer looking to start learning art...
pencil and paper is cool but i wanna make game stuff.....
>>121779435
ipad pro
>>121779496
omg... i mean a drawing tablet obviously......................... smhfam
>>121779435
Any Wacom tablet. All tablet drivers are shit, but Wacom's will give you the least amount of grief.
>>121779109
your curved gigantic pixels are triggering me, 4/10 unwrap tbqh fa m
>>121779579
which one though... they seem expensive...
i have this old graphite thing but it's actually just garbage, all scratched up n too small n stuff
>>121779659
Any of them. Whatever you're comfortable spending.
>>121779659
intuos is pretty decent
>>121779659
I've got a bamboo. It's cheap and works fine, although it doesn't let me redefine controls on a per-program basis like my last tablet did.
>>121776971
I hope so but only if they are qt
>>121776971
is that hao?
I posted a WebGL version of my Pong clone, but it's not loading properly for me. http://plokdev.itch.io/overdesigned-pong-webgl?secret=JjysKmgcfKNChRX625BF1Lu1I
Unity version is here: http://plokdev.itch.io/e5y
What's the best framework for implementing a web interface for a game's server?
I don't really want to just serve HTTP straight from the game. I just want to give people a web interface to spawn servers on a box running the server software. I've been mucking around with cakephp since that looks like babby's first web framework, I was thinking I'd just scan for unused ports and run the server binary when someone requests a server host, passing in the map and whatever that the user selects in the web interface. But since it's geared towards sessions it seems cumbersome to implement tracking the servers, ports they're on, logging their changes and so forth, things that would usually be fairly easy. Now I'm thinking it'd be easier to just have a small C program the serves basic HTTP and administers the child servers. I don't really want to do that though because the last time I wrote something that serves HTTP it was a huge pain in the ass getting it to conform to the RFC and served really ugly web pages anyway.
>>121780223
did you make all the objects yourself or just rip them shamelessly from the internet desu
>>121781230
The models are all mine. The textures are not.
>>121722451
Monogame you nigger faggot.
>>121779910
that clipping is upsetting
>>121781379
>i modeled some boxes, that makes me le game dev :^)
literally Source tier shitposting
>>121781460
But art isn't real gamedev :^)
>>121781460
I don't animate things that will be controlled by physics.
>>121744814
Are you fucking kidding?
If that's really true then you should just give up, you're absolutely talentless. What the fuck.
>>121781663
nodevs at it again
>>121772227
it's kinda like how people in north america like going for shitty cheap sushi or fast chinese food, they like mcdos and kfc more in the east because it's "exotic" but still cheap junk
is googum finally dead?
>>121782159
FO4 tbqh
>>121782159
yup. killed in a gun battle with mothdan and his family
>>121782159
The wastes of Australia have finally reclaimed him. Ashes to ashes, shitposts to shitposts.
>>121781946
Who the fuck calls Mcdonalds mcdos? smfh tbqh
>>121782649
>Who the fuck calls Mcdonalds mcdos
quebecois people
it made sense when I started hearing it a lot so I figured it was kinda international, i guess it's just a snownigger thing
>>121780223
you forgot to disable dev build in unity
also the ball got stuck after 3 seconds of playing
>>121782869
I just discovered that bug.
>switch to WebGL to make a build
>switch back to the Unity player
>everything is fucked
I'm setting the build to private until it's fixed.
>>121782853
And I thought calling McDonalds "macca's" was fucking hilarious, these niggers and abos sure love their shitty slangs.
Tell me /agdg/, will I dream?
>>121783067
it gets worse in non english speaking countries
>>121783194
Humor me
>>121783358
no its embarassing
>>121777841
>tfw i want to make 2ho game but zun will sue the shit out of me for selling his waifes on steam in a crudely made shovelware
>>121783358
Here in Norway, the slang for McDonalds is "Maccer'n" which translates to "The Maccer".
Finally settled on a syntax representation that works well -- polymorphic de Bruijn indices. There's much less going on that feels hacked together, now.
I've also decided to avoid one-letter variable names as much as possible, so it looks more like code and less like operator soup.
anyone want to team up
>>121783694
this is a game dev general famy
>>121783751
pick me
>>121783768
Come now anon, now's not the time for a game. That comes later.
>>121783634
Mac D' yo
>wake up
>monster girl island dev didnt upload demo
a-at least i dont have to feel bad for jerking off yesterday
>>121783830
k ill be back tomorrow it's getting late and i need to work tomorrow
what timezone are you in?
>>121783971
central timezone
>>121783751
yeah lets use Source together homie
>>121783358
It used to be various alternatives of the word duck here in the 90ties because of donald duck
>>121784114
are you an ideaguy
>>121784163
did they ever release the new source engine? I'm behind the times on source...
>>121784114
ok. i killed only one bedbug when i woke up, cleaned my bed area, moved the frame away, and put the mattress on the floor. I did a check of its seams nad i dont think theres more bedbugs. i bagged my bedding and threw it on my balcony to freeze out in a mostly airtight bag and then hopefully cook during the day in the sun like black bottles in van campers. what are the chances there's just the one bug and I needn't worry anymore. im paranoid as fuck rn and its impacting my ability to dev
nigger bit me right in my face, one on my fucking ear
what kind of nigger bug bites someone in the ear
>>121784223
im a C++amateur
>>121784273
there are bugs that just crawl into your ear and chill there until they die
so id rather have a bug that bites me in my ear and fucks off
>>121784163
>using a dead end engine with shitty tools
even cryengine is better at this point desu
>>121784223
>did they ever release the new source engine?
they're kinda slowly updating DOTA2 into it but it's not significantly different from source 1 from the user's perspective
>>121784398
name literally one feature source 1 is missing for you're project
http://strawpoll.me/5939303
>>121784278
niceme too :3i actually got my cs degree but ive only recently found some motivation to dev again
im trying to learn art but its so much harder than programming...
>>121784523
its hard because you werent born naturally talented
give up theres no point in practicing art
>>121784174
>>121783634
>>121783391
you guys are out of your fucking minds
>>121784558
ill practice if i want to
as long as im doing something dev related ill be happy
i need to stop wasting all my time doing nothing productive desu
>>121783694
Oh I just started learning Haskell. I have a ways to go, but I really like it a lot so far. Can't wait to eventually dig into some reactive stuff.
>>121783358
japs just call it makudo
>>121784927
literally just chink "mcdos"
>>121784481
>lot of entities
if you want to make half life 2 again, sure
>well documented
pic related
its way too early for me to worry about this but has anyone had any experience with musicians?
how much would i need to pay for medicore soundtrack for my game?
>>121784481
also the episode 1 engine update made it run like complete shit on 2002-era toasters
>>121784650
FRP is really cool, I'm glad you're interested.
new thread when
>>121784650
>learning Haskell
you actually fell for that shitty /g/ meme?
>>121785131
>entities only refer to headcrabs
>the VDC doesn't exist and there aren't a gorillion fansites
it's old and busted but at least try not to lie, man
>>121785332
back in my day agdg threads went to 2000 posts and we didnt make a new thread before the original was deleted
it was all progress no anime no shitposting
everyone was happy and deving hard
>Don't have a Demo for Demo-Day
>Only have this stupid GIF that took me a min to make
WELP ALWAYS NEXT TIME
>>121785303
This De Bruijn business seems awesome from the wikipedia too (but not really a fan of learning from wikipedia.) Combinators and HoTT are on the "someday" list.
>>121785334
After loving math, hating C++, hating Java, loving reasonable code, yeah sure I guess, though I don't go to /g/. Enjoy chasing down your runtime fails.
>>121785543
>vdc
has literally no code documentation beyond a few step-by-step hello world tier tutorials
the only source code documentation exists in the minds exclusively of those where were lucky enough to do goldsource modding back when the valve devs were actively answering questions on the verc and other mailing lists, that are now defunct and unsearchable
everyone else is stuck trying to decipher that fucking uncommented spaghetti, and I'd rather just use a good engine desu
Friendly reminder: you can still make money without pandering to furries, while STILL jerking off to foxes with huuuuuuuuuge dicks
>>121785931
???? explain
With absolutely no experience in anything other than simple HTML I attempted to do some tutorials word-for-word in Unity, but that didn't work. I've literally copied and pasted the code given into a script and I'm still getting an error with it.
Is God telling me to do other things than become a video game development hobbyist?
>>121785965
https://www.patreon.com/YMS?ty=h
>>121785735
I would buy a game that did nothing but make me feel better about nodeving.
>>121785992
or you could copy paste those errors into google and learn?
>>121785803
>has literally no code documentation
here's your fucking "code documentation"
http://www.cplusplus.com/
>>121786003
You'll never be a yesdev with that attitude.
Flat square grids or pointy square grids?
>>121785660
>no anime no shitposting
Where do you think we are?
But for real the biggest difference was that there weren't people who are literally just crazy shitting up the threads.
http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/remove-input-section-from-launcher.141438/ are those niggers for real?
>remove the ability to change input
>>121786765
I wonder, for what purpose?
>>121787332
Because they want to do it in-game and want the launcher to be minimal as possible?
That said the launcher sure is ugly as fuck... You'd think they'd pop on something a bit better looking (or can you skin it?)
>>121787519
my guess would be he doesnt want people to change controls because hes retarded
yes there are people like that
>>121787519
If that were the case, wouldn't they be fine with dropping the launcher altogether?
>>121787631
I can kind of understand... in that I thought the same thing when I was a retarded beginner.
Can I pick up C# by making shit games in Unity or should I just suck it up and learn it? How gud should I git before I start making video games for fun?
>>121789226
You can possibly learn C# by making shit in unity but it depends a lot on how much you use the Unity editor and how much you use the C# IDE. Hint, one of them involves doing C# programming.
But don't worry nodev, dev is fun and easy.
actually finishing anything is fucking impossible though.
>>121789226
Making games is probably the best way to learn to program.
>>121726683
>i dont trust this generator, man. i dont thing it has accurate prices of things
>Expertly designed and polished GOTY contender!
>Estimate: $9,000*
I dunno, eh
English is not my native language. Is there a word which means "without a weakness", or to remove something's weakness? Invincible is not quite what I'm looking for since it indicates general invulnerability.
>>121789889
Immunity?
>>121789889
invulnerable?
Let's say I was a very good sprite artist. Where can I get jobs (even with small payments) to build up a good portfolio and eventually live of this? This is not even for me, I just now a kickass artist and I want to help him.
I can't show his work out of respect, but I don't think it matters. Where should he begin?
>>121790183
gamasutra has a work board
>>121790183
>its totally for a friend guys
fuck off m8
>>121790183
it's very competitive and quite toxic, you need to start marketing and networking through different social channels
>>121790183
Tumblr and reddit.
>>121790272
thanks, I'll check that out
>>121790281
why would i even want to hide if it was me? I wouldn't give a shit man.
>>121790293
do you have any examples of successful artists that suceeded through networking and social shit?
>>121790419
>do you have any examples of successful artists that suceeded through networking and social shit?
Dude, literally every successful artist in history.
>>121790419
Not him but almost every indie artist networked their asses off
>>121790419
>do you have any examples of successful artists that suceeded through networking and social shit?
All of them. Even the particularly autismal painters of the medieval and renaissance periods were all buttbuddies with eachother and went to/taught at the same art school(s)
I want to make a total conversion based on one of the many available doom engines. however, I understand quite a few of them have licensing issues regarding commercial usage.
which ones allow commercial usage, and aren't abandoned projects?
>>121791153
www.google.com
The sooner you get in the habit of this the sooner you will be a good gamedev.
>>121791153
https://github.com/Olde-Skuul/doom3do/blob/master/LICENSE is MIT, apparently.
I don't have a fucking clue what the 3DO was, but good luck.
>>121791227
yeah i'm googling my ass off right now
just shopping my idea around, looking for input and bantz m8
>>121791153
Have you considered that doom is shit? All that cruft working with someone else's code might be better dropped into just quickly setting up the same thing but in Unity.
>>121791621
>doom is shit
I bet you're just jealous that no one ever shot up a school because of your game.
>>121725808
Shit, he's in bed with Quinn? And to think I liked all their Adventures in Game Dev videos from several years ago.
>>121791816
Oh, it's a neat bit of history, and it's even fun to go back and play it. But if you're making something now, there are better options, even if you're paying homage/want to invoke nostalgia.
>>121791316
neato
here's my list so far:
>chocolate doom
pros: in debian repos! actively maintained, gplv2
cons: is technically on par with "vanilla" doom, so may lack features I would want later on.
>odamex
pros: actively maintained, 256 player multiplayer support (mite b cool)
cons: http://odamex.net/wiki/License you tell me
>eternity engine
pros: gplv3 actively maintained
cons: stumbled across this, has pretty much no community
>doomsday engine
pros: in debian repos!, gplv3, multiplayer support, actively maintained
cons: ehhhh can't really think of any
>prboom-plus
pros: in debian repos!, gplv2+ (or compatible idk) seems well matured and actively maintained
cons: idk?
>>121791621
>>121791915
ehh, I'm being a bit of a freetard, and i also just like dooms 2.5d gfx and sprites
if i said i didn't want to use unity, and cared somewhat about muh freedoms what would you suggest as an alternative engine?
>>121792590
>if i said i didn't want to use unity, and cared somewhat about muh freedoms what would you suggest as an alternative engine?
Stick with your current plan then really. Don't think there's any worthwhile engine like that.
>>121792590
GPL doesn't allow commercial usage without releasing your code. If you're happy releasing everything but the assets, or using an unmodified engine, go for it.
Is a game in the doom engine going to be commercially viable? It might not even be a problem.
~~~* RECAP MONDAY *~~~
game:
dev:
tools:
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>>121793392
game: planetboatshit
dev: haybales
tools: unity
website: -
progress: Added inventory, chest looting, and basic equipment set up.
Upgraded the placeholder character sprite to appeal more to people who like curves.
>>121793718
nice seafarer ripoff lmao
>>121793110
>GPL doesn't allow commercial usage without releasing your code. If you're happy releasing everything but the assets, or using an unmodified engine, go for it.
I'm thinking I'll package the whole game freely for debian maybe get dweebs to install lunix and sell it on steam but that's REALLY getting ahead of myself
>tfw vine will never notice you
>tfw vine probably has bf that creampies her boipussy everyday
>tfw vine will never hold your hand
why dev
>>121793850
cry more nodev
>>121793974
>hurr muh unity tutorial
>>121793718
I don't like you. fuck you.
>>121793392
game: Dyson Maintenance Unit
dev: literalcitrus
tools: Unity
website: literalcitrus.itch.io/
progress: Some rudimentary "game" slapped on for demo day
New art assets for things in the works
>>121794076
you can keep fucking right off
what does my character placeholder need before I actually make a completely unrelated character
>>121794190
no you fuck off
>>121794190
No I won't. fuck you.
>>121794338 (You)
>>121794276 (You)
>>121793974 (You)
>>121794024 (You)
all me
>>121794387 (You)
are you bored
>>121794426 (You) (You)
where is my game?
>>121794276
>>121794338
yikes
c-can we friendly gamedev rivals instead? where instead of falling for bait we try to one-up eachother through dev, eventually boosting us both up?
>>121794483
b-baka
>>121794483
I fucking hate you. Kill yourself.
>>121726362
Arma 2-3 or DayZ (and DayZ Mod)
>>121794483
grats fa m, you just fed the shitposters
Well at least my character creation is functional, though I need to make sure I have every single variable I could possibly need for the combat, I think I'm going to just make like 20 dummy variables for each character slot before I copy and paste the code like 100 times so every slot works
first basic programming challenges
then 2d maps
then the world
>>121794105
lmao forgot the screenshot
>>121759398
What is the game pictured?
anyone here into mobile dev? I never play mobile games but had to develop one. will it be too hard to get into pc games dev?
>over 800 posts
>page 10
>>121795951
Read the content of his post and figure it out god damn it.
I know you're not my personal teacher, agdg, but i'm completely stuck. I'm using RigidBodyCharacterController script and trying to get the current speed display on screen via UI-text. So i get the velocity of a rigidbody allright, but it always shows zero, whether i'm trying to get velocity or velocity.magnitude. Here's the script that i'm almost exactly copy-pasted from official tutorial for unity 5.
[code]using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;
using UnityEngine.UI;
public class DisplaySpeed : MonoBehaviour {
public GameObject Player;
public Rigidbody PlayersRB;
public float PlayerSpeed;
Text text;
// Use this for initialization
void Awake () {
text = GetComponent<Text> ();
PlayersRB = Player.GetComponent<Rigidbody> ();
PlayerSpeed = PlayersRB.velocity.magnitude;
}
// Update is called once per frame
void Update () {
text.text = PlayerSpeed.ToString() ;
}
}[/code]
>no pregnant protagonists this demo day
when will i be pandered to, you lazy fucks?
>>121796536
PlayerSpeed is only updated once, on awake, put the PlayerSpeed = PlayersRB.velocity.magnitude; into your fixedupdate function
>>121796560
I hear you, anon.
For the trap jam, my mc will be a pregnant little boy who looks like a girl, just for you.
>>121796626
I am an idiot. Thank you.
>>121796734
i got you fa m
>>121785660
sad but true
>>121786460
>>121786460
>>121786460
this
>literally crazy
how silly will it sound if i do all the voice acting?
>>121797821
You ever watched the film Kung Pow?
>>121797821
it will sound exactly like what is is: like a penny pincher.
there are so many cheap voice actors out there
>>121797954
yes i did
>>121797976
ya gotta to squeeze every penny
>>121798302
Well, that's how silly it sounds when one man does all the voices himself.
what happened with hopo's new game?
>>121798406
i wish i was born with talent like matt stone and trey parker so i could do all voices myself
