>>!!!UPCOMING JAM!!!<<
>http://itch.io/jam/agdg-winter-jam-2015
>14th December to 21st December
>Theme is Winter
Helpful Links: http://alloyed.github.io/agdg-links/
New Threads: >>>/vg/agdg
Archive: https://boards.fireden.net/vg/search/subject/agdg/
> Chats
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/vgamedevcrew
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=vidyadev
> Demo Days
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-6
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
http://itch.io/jam/agdg-winter-jam-2015
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/
First for post your Twitter account so I can add you to the /agdg/ list
First, for progress.
I'm embarrassed to say how long it took to implement the basics of a Map class (including Tile class). At least now it's done properly. On the heap, no leaking, great performance and easy to edit.
So excited!>tfw game doesn't work on W.I.N.E., because unlike the last time I tried coding this same project, I'm doing it properly
>>123942043
What does being part of a list do?
>>123942160
you get stalked by You Know Who
>>123942160
Makes you better at game development
>>123942196
Will it help me shill mynonexistantgame?
reposting >>123941596 cuz i'm proud of my dialogue progress
>>123942043
For what purpose. /agdg/ is utterly useless for shilling.
>>123942871
For socializing and fun.Where should I shill instead btw?
>>123942943
>socializing
Please no
>>123943005
>have a really grandiose idea for a game
>start thinking about how theres no way I'm going to do this
>actually think of a way to simplify it to it's basics
>have an idea that can actually be completed in less than a month
>mention the idea to anyone, explain how I plan to do it if asked, ask for ways to refine it
>they shit all over it every time and tell me to just make a walking simulator instead
Game dev is ass
>>123943391
what limits your ability to make a game
>>123942052
If a soundbro wants to make me a really subtle and comfy player step sound I'd be down with that. I found www.bfxr.net, but I'm pretty hopeless with it.
Needs to be .wav.
>I'm a programmer
>I use Game Maker
>>123943509
what limits your ability to jump in front of a moving car
>>123943663
>I care about maintaining my online programmer nerd cred
Enginedev
>>Hey anon, can I try your game?
>No, I'm improving the rendering performance and working out some bugs in my collision system
>>Uh, okay, whatever. Nerd.
GMdev
>>Hey anon, can I try your game?
>Sure, here's the download link! Let me know what you think.
>>Wow, this is so fun! When can I buy it?
You've never made a fun thing in your life
>>123944360
Nodev
>>Hey anon, can I try your game?
>Sorry, I'm too busy shitposting on an anime imageboard about how other people allegedly don't have games to have a game myself.
>>Uh, bye.
Made another AGDG Demo Day 5 video, since it happens to actually run more or less decently enough now, and it was bugging me that I didn't do all the ones I could. I did a really shitty job though!
https://youtu.be/2k0A8G5FqGA
I figured out a cool Game Development Life Hack: make a list of all the shit u already have implemented and then u feel motivated since u see that you've actually made huge progress already
Worked for me, anyway
>>123943663
>im making a pixel game
>im making a platformer
>i have a female protagonist
>game is about tolerance and love
>>123944826
get back to work
hey /agdg/ so i decided to say fuck it and just make my game into a smash bros home run contest clone
>>123944805
Eh I find it more motivating to keep a list of what I need to do, in small <15 minute chunks. Never too intimidating to finish one.
Regularly finishing shit is more rewarding.
>>123944805
>list of things I have implemented:
>
How is this supposed to motivate me again?
>>123912023
Reposting to hopefully get more votes, thus a more accurate representation of AGDG;
http://strawpoll.me/6146413/
damnit
ive been making progress, but very slowly, since the last demo day.
im slowly becoming shittier. how do i reverse this spell?
>>123946205
kek
>>123946243
>there's two 3d artists amongst us
Where are you.
>>123942346
Dude that looks very nice I'm glad to see your still making progress.
>>123946257
discipline
>>123946257
Practice and watch more anime
>>123946370
I saw that one video about megaman x tutorial level so I'm pretty much a professional level designer now.
>>123946370
I made a 3d model yesterday. Can I stay?
>>123946243
>all those code monkeys
>almost no game designers or artists
No wonder there's no good games on agdg.
>>123946552
Can't make a game unless you can program so it's not all that surprising actually.
>>123946552
I'm a code squid :3
>>123946243
>can't pick multiple
I do level construction which is design and 3d, but I can't model characters for shit. which do I choose? shit poll
>>123946338
Making game.
oops
>>123946692
Paper Mario?
>>123946601
I can do multiple stuff but if asked I'd go with artist.
There's not pride in being a game programmer unless you are making an engine, in which case you have no game.
>>123946692
cute
>>123946601
literally every major engine makes that no longer true
fiddle faddle
>>123946864
Okay buddy.
>He makes games with literally zero logic.
>>123946338
right here
>>123946850
thanks
>>123946764
nop
>>123947048
I meant the movement.
>>123947161
wut?
>>123947219
Cause the movement is like Paper Mario bro. Nothing wrong with that though. Just noticing.
hahahahahahahahaha
>>123946997
I think he's referring to visual scripting plugins. (Such as Unity's 'Playmaker')
Ha Ha, smells like a mixture of failure and alcohol. Something a stalker would smell like, I think. Just wind him up and watch him go!
>>123947274
Give up, your forced meme will never take off
worms but it's topdown, realtime and the entire level is filled at the start
>>123947265
oh :)
yeah paper mario was a big inspiration for the characters, some of my old stuff is a direct ripoff of it
>>123947406
worms 3d gave you that option
>>123946243
Why is there no 'shitty jack of all trades' option for devs who aren't special at anything and completely terrible at everything?
I'm sure most of those "programmers" are using Unity or Game Maker.
>you can now search for only free shit on unity asset store
Oh sheeet
>>123947327
I was thinking more like GM and Construct's visual scripting and UE's blueprinting andSource'sbuilt-in entity I/O but basically yeah
They're not the most powerful things around, but remember that 90% of indie games and 99% of agdg games are shitty pixel platformers that don't do anything new, and live or die on their design and aesthetic alone.
>>123947497
I second this.
>>123947713
Don't bother
>>123947497
That's game design
toribash but you're fucking each other instead of fighting
>>123947497
That would be the "Game Dev" option unless you outsource all your resources.
Friendly reminder to give up if you're making a multiplayer game
>>123948319
>fucking
>not raping
Pause menu working, how's the GIF look to you folks?
>>123948794
it looks like pure shit
>>123948794
garbage
>>123948794
Looks pretty good, reminds me of shovel knight.
>>123948794
blurry
>>123948794
Why bother making some stupid UI shit? You should just make a kickstarter for an "indie furry game" and post pics of that character, and you'd get gorillion dollarydiddles in a minute.
Just figured out an easy way to get shadows into my 2D game in Unity
Shits gonna look so much more professional now
>>123947406
worms but you play as the terrain and must ruin matches by placing single pixels of dirt in front of somebody to block the bazooka
>>123948990
>2
>d
>g
>a
>m
>e
>u
>n
>i
>t
>y
>>123948990
Fancy lighting is rather easy to do for 2d in Unity. IMO Dungeon of the Endless did a great job. IIRC they had a Unite presentation showing their implementation.
>>123949103
>Dungeon of the Endless
Thanks, I'll check it out for tips
>>123948936
Gonna try again, going through a bunch of programs to get a GIF is a pain in the ass.
>>123948982
If only!
>>123949402
why not just record it with licecap?
>>123948794
Actually really bad. The more of the actual game I see, the less I'm interested. Stick to porn, dude.
Progress, just drawing assets though.
>>123949804
looking forward to markiplier playing this "super cool dark indie game with deep story"
>>123949804
you need to add color your gif is awfully desaturated
>>123949438
>>123948936
Betterer?
>>123949647
>Stick to porn, dude.
About that...
>>123950223
It looks good.
I'm homophobic so I'll never play or endorse it but as dev to dev I wish you the best of luck.
>>123950223
seriously just make pixel porn and leave the game part out
it's bad
>>123950294
>>123948832
>>123948849
>>123949647
>Anon doesn't know how to communicate so he just grunts "it's shit"
>>123950294
better than your game
>>123950158
I think that's the point.
>>123950284
This
>>123950396
>implying nodevs have games
>>123950284
>>123950509
There'll be a clean version if you guys ever get interested in playing a shitty pixel platformer sometime.
>>123950223
Much better gif-wise. As for the actual game, the UI looks pretty standard. I'd honestly leave the URL off though, it ruins the feel at least for me.
god I suck so much at animating how do I get better?
>>123950223
Is the dog a nod to Toblertale?
>>123950783
looks tight
>>123941912
why do we have an irrelevant cartoon picture in the op?
>>123950783
Keep at it. I felt the same way when I first started.
Persistence pays off.
>>123950783
Learn to animate regularly, then apply the skills to sprites. It's all the same skills other than knowing how to represent something using only a small number of pixels.
>>123950783
lookin' p solid
if you're looking for animation advice, The Animator's Survival Kit is probably the best resource of all time
>>123950390
>>123950396
where is you're game, homie
>>123950589
I want the exact opposite of that.
>>123950783
Practice, study, look at references for what you're trying to animate. Make good use of onion skins.
Then practice more. Animating is fucking difficult and tedious, but it pays off.
>>123950783
i like gwyns nongigner sister
definitely better than that new white clothes gwyn faggotry
>>123950929
i'll look into it thanks!
>>123951067
gwyn still going to have those white clothes. this is a new project entirely. I'm considering changing the face so people dont associate it with gwyn
>>123951048
when someone says "its shit" he is obliged to present his game
trust me its easier to judge
>>123951063
Speaking of which goddamn that's some crisp animation
Really loving the look there. Is it an adventure game?
>>123950783
add weight to stuff. like if you move something, some of the stuff takes a frames to start moving.
that and ease into your key frames.
also maybe look up some tutorials.
>>123951229
Thank you! More or less, yeah. I still have to work out a lot of kinks with it; mainly the fact that it looks like he just shrinks instead of hunching over when he walks. On top of that, I have to make frames for when he stops walking and stands up straight again.
>>123951194
it must suck to have retarded artist oh well good to see you not giving up on games just because of him brown gwyn looks nicer
>>123951067
>gwyn
I really want to try that game, but every build I play gets a game breaking bug like a minute in and I have to close the window
>>123951327
not gonna lie it does look like you squashed his torso when he walks.
maybe try angeling his body just slightly so it looks like his "arms" are moving back and forth?
you're might need some fake arms though to keep it consistent.
>>123951450
BBBUT ITS SO PRETTY!!!
can someone help me out here
why the fuck is the capsule collider getting stuck all the time i even tried to play around with physics materials but that didnt help
also why do those weird black lines appear i dont even know what to google
>>123951558
when i say angle his body I mean his shoulders, like make it look like they're turning.
>>123951593
The pattern might be Z-fighting, if you have more than one model on the ground.
>>123951593
THATS WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT USING TWINE
>>123950783
#bringbackrectangle
>>123951701
nope its just one mesh i checked even deleted some faces in blender to make sure
>>123951705
would rather have that then twine
>>123951593
Those lines look like a graphics card thing, maybe your pumping to much data or your card is expiring.
I may or may not be ready to upgrade the visuals on my game.
>>123952062
That new one looks fucking great. Props.
I see literally no reason not to use ue4 for a 3D game over Unity. Especially the lighting thing. Does everyone just use Unity because they're familiar with it?
>>123952062
>vampie of the sands
>its a mummy
>>123951739
this, that rectangle had some real sass to it
I liked it too, it's a way better platform hero than Generic Pixelshit Genderless Biped #578
>>123952185
Unity's got more documentation and will take a smaller cut.
>>123952196
The boss of the game is a vampire, don't tell anyone.
>>123952220
Unity is shit and you weren't going to make millions anyway. Especially if your game looks like shit because Unity.
>>123952185
>Unity
>easier to use
>it's more well known
>it runs on toasters
Especially that last one.
>>123952062
>yfw the new one is on the left
>>123952185
Unity 5's lighting might not be as good looking as UE4 but it's still quite fucking powerful. I'd say it doesn't even matter until you start getting A-AAA tier assets.
>>123952429
>it runs on toasters
no
>>123946243
>28 programmers for every 8 artists
lol
>>123952660
yes
>>123951935
the whole scene is no more then 10k verts and like 3 textures so that should be fine
when i delete directional light from the scene it stops
so i guess i need to find some correct lighting settings
>>123952727
youre wrong
>>123952660
yes it does work on shitty computers
>tfw middle mouse click is about to break
>doesn't work half the time
>it's used to rotate the view in blender
>keep making mistakes because shit doesn't rotate
>>123952894
foiled again
>>123952929
et a get the a new mouse the
>>123952978
how much do the chinks pay you boy
>>
>
You'll never make it.
You might make it
You will make it
What is it? Where is it? How can it effect me?
Fuck that shit, I need that shit, bound to be the death of me
Fuck sharing it I'm taking it
>>123952705
Anyone can learn how to code.
You need talent for art.
>>123946692
this looks great, anon!
>>123953215
>Anyone can learn how to code
Coding is like writing in anther language, except if you make even a single mistake some dude will kick you in the balls and likely won't even tell you what you did wrong. And you need to be able to write what he tells you to write, otherwise you can't get past him.
Art is just like draw picture, man. It takes practice and strong vision, that's all.
>>123953347
>likely won't even tell you what you did wrong
I hate when people say this shit. If your compiler isn't telling you what went wrong then you're using a shit compiler or doing something you deserve to get kicked in the balls for.
>>123953347
man from the past you should know times have changed
its not 1980 anymore
rejoice!
>>123953347
if you are not an artist best advice i can give you is simply take a blank page and start drawing, doesn't have to be impressive or symmetrical just do it to train your hand with strokes
after that pick an artstyle that isn't too difficult to mimic.
remember: it doesn't matter if ur art is shit, every drawing you make will be better than the last one
fuck unity physics
thats it im gonna do it myself
im booting up matlab as we speak
>>123953540
this tbqhwyfam
What's a decent, cheap VPS for hosting online games?
Now the portrait flashes just a single time when damaged.
>>123954276
Much improved. Also that enemy is a bit hard to read against the wall there, is that intentional?
>>123954252
>decent
>cheap
choose zero
>>123954276
i feel sorry for you
repent of your sins
>>123954276
Wow it's amazing how much better that is.
Swank background too... but it's too noisy, just like your goddamn foreground.
>>123954413
So you're telling me these millions of mobile games are paying out the ass the host scoreboards?
>>123954504
I think some of them get away with using a free dropbox account.
>>123954504
I don't think you want a fucking VPS for a scoreboard. There are lots of cheap shared hosting options that will let you run PHP files, which is more than enough for a
I'm paying like $10/year (though that's with a special sale from like 5 years back, haven't really looked around since then).
Uhh though maybe Amazon's webhosting might work? I know they have low metered fees if you're careful with which shit you turn on.
>>123954381
Yeah, snakes and hornets are the annoyance sort of enemies in this.
>>123954486
Definitely an improvement. That type of tile for the foreground will likely be there for the entire game I'm afraid. Backgrounds will change though.
>>123954636
Not him, but a VPS is exactly what you want for tasks like that, though hopefully you'd put it to better use. You can get one for like $3 dollars a month at the lowest tiers. What you wouldn't want is a dedicated server, since it'd be massive overkill and you're talking on the order of $100+ dollars a month.
Amazon is basically a pay-as-you-go cloud hosting service (very similar to a VPS, but tends to be more expensive), with a lot of other features tacked on. I'd be careful of going with them unless you know what you're doing, their payment plans are convoluted as balls.
>>123955052
Oh I conflated the two, goddamn it.
Also I actually got burned by AWS precisely because I couldn't figure out what the fuck.
>>123951063
increase the playback speed, it looks like slow motion
>>123954504
google hosts scores for you
i'm assuming apple would too
Reminder not to have the following as your dev avatar in Twitter or any other place:
- A pixel art version of your face
- Half your face (the other half is clipped off the side)
- Your face as a painting or with heavily photoshop filters or greyscale
- Anything related to your game
- Anything anime related
- Anything political
>>123955443
What about just having a solid grey square as your avatar?
>>123955157
That's just the default speed in photoshop; it'll move slightly faster in-engine but not much. The game's pretty slow pace and you don't do just a ton of running around inside of buildings.
>>123955443
>Half your face (the other half is clipped off the side)
this is the fucking worst one out of all of them
>>123955443
Mine is an egg, but ironically
![tumblr_static_bvfip[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/S3BYMv1.jpg "tumblr_static_bvfip[1].jpg")
>>123955443
>hating on anime
>>123955443
how about eggs
>>123955443
Well fuck, mine's a pixel art version of my face heavily filtered in photoshop cropped in half and superimposed over a scaled down screen shot of my game about the good aspects of Hitler.
>>123955582
Well at least there's nothing anime-related.
>>123955582
>>123955617
I forgot, Hitler is a cute anime girl in my game.
![Adolf-Hitler-moe[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RflGZEx.jpg "Adolf-Hitler-moe[1].jpg")
>>123955617
it'sanime hitler
>>123955681
Has there been an actual anime about Hitler-chan yet?
I'd watch the shit out of that.
>>123946692
>yfw when an awesome looking game you thought was looking to shape up to be great ends up being a restaurant cooking game.
Everyone recommended me to use construct 2 because it doesn't use code, and it'sfun??
But I feel like gamemaker can do much more, and I even have that $6 license from humble frumble.
but, i'm a retard and can't code. Even codecombat is like moon runes to me.
I just want to make good game.
>>123955443
so rainbowdash it is
thanks anon ^.^
>>123955443
>A pixel art version of your face
Makes me chuckle every time. The pixel art is usually pretty bad as well.
>>123951593
The lines are just unity shadows fucking up. Mess with the bias option and it should go away.
>>123955994
np m8
>>123955927
Hahaha who drew that, that's fucking great.
>>123955905
What kind of game did you think it was going to be based on the footage?
A dating game where you could throw fish at people?
>>123956045
oh yeah i fixed that one thanks anyway
>>123956124
paper mario fortress
>>123955927
Game Maker has D&D and you can even do your mixels and rixels right in the room editor now, which I saw someone say was a strength other babby's firsts had over older versions of Game Maker.
That said, learn to fucking code you retard.
>>123956201
Fortress as in Dorf Fortress?
You're fucking high if you think anything made in AGDG is going to get anywhere near the scope of DF.
>>123942043
I dunno what this list is but ill participate :)
Cant find a recent webm so ill post one from like 6 months ago haha
@JofersGames
>>123942043
>in before this is a ruse of some sort
Anyhow: @Homph
>>123944826
>2deep
>>123942043
No, I only complain about my life.
>>123956294
i wish i could afford to get high
>>123956294
Toady started out in agdg you retard
>>123956294
I should probably just kill myself then because I have yet to find a game that's more funbecause dwarf fortress is about YOUR story and it captures your imagination.
>>123956609
oh okay sry i didnt know that
>>123956609
But Toady is also an anomaly.
The odds that AGDG will get another person like Toady are astronomical.
>>123956794
Hopoo of Risk of Rain
>>123956609
Wait what? Really?
>>123956609
>>123956839
Bullshit.
>>123956839
No. Dwarf Fotress is older than most agdg browsers.
>>123956835
Are you implying that Risk of Rain is even close to the complexity of Dwarf Fortress?
>>123956937
It sold more copies ;)
>>123956937
Yeah sorry I had already hit submit when I realized my mistake. He hit it big (re: $$$) but that has nothing to do with game complexity!
>>123956927
I didn't look up when agdg was born but I figured 4chan is older than DF so maybe he could have gone from like b -> v or something idk.
I figured it was retarded.
According to youtube AGDG is 100% male and .5% female.Also Clarent is the most popular AGDG Demo Day 5 game (at least re: time watched + total views)
>>123957017
agdg as an established general is relatively young. Even when people say Notch was one of us, he wasn't really he just went to /v/ a few times he wasn't a regular in any general.
>>123957062
0,5% is vine obviously she is our queen and purest and only girl
pic related its vine
>>123957098
He did post in the /v/ gamedev threads, though, back when minecraft was a shitty demo where you could could do nothing more than break blocks
>>123957062
>"This is what agdg calls diversity"
I guess I already knew Clarent would be the popular one. The fact that Ari-chan got chased out of agdg is a dead give away.
Aaaand that's progress for today.
Tweaked the walk cycle, as well as added animations for stopping on both left and right steps.
>>123957178
yes im so sorry hes gone
agdg needs more whiny faggots
>>123957209
The animation for standing back up needs some work, it doesn't look nearly as smooth as the animation for hunching over.
Kickass walk cycle overall, though. I love how each step feels like it's got weight to it instead of him just sliding over the ground.
>>123957209
what game?
>>123957062
>100.5%
seems legit
A strawpoll put it more like 20%
>>123957659
Believe it or not but Internet polls might not always give reliable results.
>>123957659
LETS CHECK IT NAOOOO
http://strawpoll.me/6149191
>>123957929
btw sorry in advance strawpoll only has checkboxes no slider option
>>123957929
i voted im a girl even tho im not
>>123958015
me too
>>123957657
Recaps shouldn't be NSFW
>>123958015
>>123958047
you want to be girls, though, don't you? You both should start a support group for feminine nodevs
>>123957657
Why didnt anubisdev post in the recap?
>>123958083
your not the boss of me
fite me irl bitch nigga
>>123958126
your not the boss of me
sex me irl bitch boi
I think I just wasted a year working on a game, why oh why did I think it was a good idea to work on this type of game?
>>123958215
you can always re-utilize the engine
>>123958215
What kind of game was it?
>>123958215
Is that you, gwyndev?
>>123958215
But look at all the experience you got :^)
>>123958102
There are enough people here that don't want to be associated with the game that I refrain from doing so.
>>123958215
Atleast you've been working. I haven't written a single line of code since June.
>>123958271
Well it's basically hand of fate in a way, but hand of fate already exists, except mine used a turn based battle system, I really didn't get that far as I hardly worked on it, but still that's a decent amount of time, since I did a lot of work on the math and game mechanics outside of coding.
>>123958338
I guess
>>123958346
We don't want to be associated with you. Go away you sick furry.
>>123958052
I've got a calendar way racier than that on my desk at work.
Has anyone ever made like an AI town where each person has a job they perform and interact with each other? I think it's a fresh new idea nobody's implemented before
>>123958215
You can sill release it for attention even if it's not saleable.
>>123958458
so where is the game part
>>123958392
a-are you gogum?
>>123958458
nigga that idea is as old as games
>>123958349
Goddamn.
>>123958493
Make it emergent gameplay. The player can go around taking people out and their role will create a demand for a product, and new people will arrive to fill it.
