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> Waifu Jam finished, go play some games!
https://itch.io/jam/wj2016
> Next Demo Day (Nine)
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-9
> Next Game Jam will be...
SPACE themed. Jam starts July 14th. You can start early, you can work with by yourself or with a team.
>New /agdg/ Website (Still in beta)
http://tools.aggydaggy.com/#
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
> Previous Demo Days
http://pastebin.com/Qi63yBxd
> Previous Jams
http://pastebin.com/QwcSPdnx
> Engines
GameMaker: https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker
Godot: https://www.godotengine.org/
LÖVE: https://love2d.org/
UE4: https://www.unrealengine.com/what-is-unreal-engine-4
Unity: https://unity3d.com/
> 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/
http://freemusicarchive.org/
First for video game development
>>144517032
I rather have a guy posting motivational pictures while giving feedback than a nodev just angrily attacking him thou
Reposting in real thread
How does the fragments that spawn out of the bigger asteroids look? The idea is that they should act as a shotgun blast if the bigger asteroid is hit by a missile. Should they travel faster?
>>144517153
second for more waifujams fanart
REAL NEW
REAL NEW
>>144516417
>>144516417
>>144516417
>>144517304
Looks good in my opinion. I just think they get lost a little on the background. I understand you can't really do too much about that on a space game though
>>144517343
Shouldn't have made it so early and shouldn't have fucked with the OP.
>>144517343
>neutered OP
fug off
>>144517276
>another thread ruined by dogposter
All we need next is Anime and Sourcefam and the destruction is complete.
Guns are working, added a kickback as well.
All i need now are some enemies to shoot at.
Reminder that programming is a skill, but art is a talent.
>>144517450
Nah, he does it on purpose, everytime there is a new thread around this time of the day. Always with a 'funny' image and a 'funny' acronym. Since nobody gives a shit about it his threads usually die really fast too.
>>144517420
Good point i'll brighten the scene a bit.
>>144517492
Why are you upside down now?
Is this literally you, dogposter?
>>144517539
Programming is also a Talent. It's why Unity is so good and is the #1 choice for making games -- it's the ONLY way to make a game unless you have Talent.
>>144517304
Is the aspect ratio off? That planet is oval
Is the game 3d? The nebula and asteroids are pretty indistinginct, and the asteroids overlapping the planet is kind of confusing.
I like all the textures from an artistic point of view, but keeping the game readable is also very important.
I've been enjoying your progress, please keep posting it.
>>144517578
Maybe the missiles could cast a little bit of blue light on the asteroids?
>>144517568
Exactly this. Blakey boy should stop trying to destroy /agdg/. It didn't work with agdg2 and it won't work now. :)
http://imgur.com/a/3Yl07
http://imgur.com/a/3Yl07
http://imgur.com/a/3Yl07
Over 420 views. :)
>>144517679
I'm using UE4 and i'm making a game without any talent, please stop the shitposting and post progress even if its old.
>>144517813
Don't reply to shitposts friend
>>144517578
Do NOT listen to the salty nodev. He has no game, and is just shitting on others because he wants everyone to be as much of a failure he is.
>>144517307
I wanna cuddle the witch.
>>144517683
>his planets aren't elliptical
>>144517813
>please stop the shitposting and post progress even if its old.
Most of this is yesterday's progress, but hey.
This whole screen is gonna serve as an interactive UI for equipping planes and stuff.I honestly don't know what I was thinking. All of this will be a bitch to animate.
I'm making an RPG. Should I let the player name the player character(s)?
>>144518179
Yeah looks dope though
>>144517813
I don't have to validate myself to you, nodev. I don't want my game associated with furries and pedophiles.
>>144518216
Do players actually roleplay a character or are they just playing as your own original creation?
>>144518282
>Posts devving progress
>You're the nodev!
Whew. But yeah gonna stop giving you (you)'s now though that your baiting is that bad.
>>144518216
You could always go with the jrpg way. Let the player name their characters and if he doesn't name them they have a default name.
>>144518216
yeah.
but also give the character canon names.
if possible i always use the default name.
>>144518160
>anime
>negrosepeak
Why do nodevs keep coming here and trying to destroy the general? Does Rotate have henchmen beyond the dogposter now?
>>144518417
>play jrpg
>try to go for non-default name
>the voiced cutscenes use the default names
>have no idea who the characters are talking about because I didn't remember the default names
Yeah, default names is usually the way to go, especially if you want to have discussions about the game online
Can some make me a basic platformer character sprite?
>>144518432
Where is your game?
>>144518708
here you go, enjoy
i threw in a few extras too
>>144518432
I'm not her henchman I'm her lover
>>144518708
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=basic+platformer+character+sprite
so, using unity store assets, this is about as far as i got, cause i have no idea how to code.
what do I do now? i'd love to control him but i've no idea how.
>>144518747
Where is your game, literally insane nodev shitposter?
>>144518809
No comments.
>>144517678
Because i'm taking the old petrified game dev conventions and turning them their heads
mind = blown
>>144518831
You should watch some unity tutorials on their website.
>>144518849
Nice rebuttal. Maybe you should fuck off if you have nothing to contribute but shitposts about irrelevant faggots.
>>144518831
You're gonna have a bad time with no idea how to code. I'd suggest learning some basic C# if you're going to use Unity. And watch or read lots of tutorials for Unity. You're probably going to need to start smaller, like making pong.
There should be plenty of tutorials or examples for making a third person character though, since that's one of the most popular types of games with Unity.
>>144518831
Now you learn how to make a game
>>144518547
>Play Devil Summoner II
>Name the MC with canon name i looked up, raidou kuzunoha
>it's actually the title of his role
>later on in the game i'm asked if i did what i did because my role imposed to (as Raidou blabla) or because i personally thought it was the right thing to do (as player name).
>>144519107
>>144519146
>>144519159
I heard learning C# is bad practice. Is that true?
>>144519256
Sorry, learning C# in Unity is bad practice*
>>144518547
Yeah, that's shitty as fuck.
Custom player names are ok if you don't have voiced cutscenes and take the little time and work to use that custom name on the dialogs.
But if you plant to have voiced cutscenes you either never name the main character on them or don't allow the player to name him.
>>144519354
Yeah, I'd recommend using XNA or Monogame with C# if you want to learn in a gamedev environment.
>>144519354
to be completely honest everything about Unity is bad. UE4 is a better engine, C++ is better than C#, and you can use blueprints if you're really terrible at programming.
>>144519483
>everything about unity is bad
this meme needs to end desu, it's a solid platform.
>>144519256
don't listen to those guys, most people who don't suggest unity are too prideful to use an engine or are compsci students who already know how to program already
stick to unity, it's what most people use
Ah I think I'm getting faster. Started this guy today and he's already rigged. The rig needs polish still, though.
>>144519354
I think learning any language by trying to use an engine is bad practice. Go off an learn the language first, then come back and use that knowledge to make a game.
since both threads forgot to include the directions to sign up for placement collabs, I will repost
"I have decided to take the initiative and make the groups based on stats you guys give me.
if you want to collaborate on this jam, email me at
[email protected]
answering the following questions:
>what is an original (appropriate) name that i can refer to you as when i post the list of groups?
>What is your area of expertise and skill level?
briefly describe what you are good at in game deving/what you can do. preferably rate yourself honestly on these skills so I can place you with a suited group.
>what experience do you have making games?
>What are your ambitions with this jam?
are you going to be spending day and night working crazy to make something super awesome? do you have work/school and cant garuntee your availability? tell me all this :P
>Are you willing to work with less experienced devs? more experienced?
are you willing to be a leader for your group and work with some possibly less experienced devs or would you absolutely require someone veteran? Tell me and ill see what i can do (this is hard to guarantee.
>Your contact info
please leave as much as you are willing for your group members to contact you and arrange a group chat for the collab. Make a throwaway if you're worried about anonymity.
that should be everything..
this is designed for you all to have fun working together on this. try to work together with your team mates and make something great!
i will email you with the contact info of your group members on July 14 and let you guys arrange the group chat. Late comers are welcome to participate in this jam but should set up their own collab in the thread."
>>144518831
>buying assets with no clear game in mind
See? This is why the Unity Asset Store works so well.
>>144519715
>implying i bought them
>>144519556
eh it's really not "solid". It's capable of making games, sure, but it's not the holy grail of engines like some people like to make it out to be.UE4 also isn't the holy grail of course, but it is better
>>144518216
Only if the characters does not have any sort of name to begin with. So if the main hero is not "Link" or whatever, but just the silent, nameless wanderer, the player itself.
Why would you give the option to name the character if it already has a name?
Is the concept of Jurassic Park (i.e, "people make a theme park with real dinosaurs and everything goes wrong") legally protected, or just the name?
I want to make a platformer where you play as a particularly intelligent Utahraptor in a JP-like facility, going on a rampage trying to find your way into the wilderness, but I'm not sure if doing so would be putting myself at risk.
>>144519715
That's a free asset.
>>144519771
I see, and I suppose you use UE4. There is no holy grail of games, and I can tell from your posts that you have no put any real amount of time into learning unity. You're just parroting all the memeposting.
I've tried both engines, and Unity is my preference. Stop misleading new programmers to make you feel more secure about your platform choice.
>>144519893
Of course I've used both Unity and UE4, and UE4 is my preference.
>>144518708
http://opengameart.org/content/classic-hero
>>144519861
do it at a zoo instead
bootleg jurassic park but at least you wont catch a case
lions and gorillas are almost as scary as dinos
>>144519893
I used both engines, i heavily prefer UE4 but as any sane person I realize thats just preference, would recommend Unity to someone new to game dev.
UE4 has however 2 big advantages over Unity:
1: High fidelity (which is almost guaranteed to be irrelevant to an indie dev)
2: Longelivety, its well known that Unity is a sinking ship and might not be supported in a year or two whilst UE is going ahead strongly.
>>144520103
I agree that from a business standpoint Unity is in a weaker position than UE4, but I doubt it would be an amount of time like a year or two. I think it will see support through the next 5 years easily.
Can I learn coding from here? codecombat
>>144520238
Did you miss the whole news of the clusterfuck when they started kicking out the old programmers who disliked them monetizing it so much and have not done a proper update to the engine since?
>>144517813
Is this Vive stuff?
>>144520293
I did miss that. Link?
>>144520246
You can learn imperative programming I guess
>>144520246
Yes, though obviously specific things like hero.moveRight() and such won't be in your language of choice by default.
But the logic you learn there should apply elsewhere. At least much of the later stuff will.
>>144520321
Yeah on a computer way under spec.
>>144520420
I just looked at the website. Later on, there's much more useful stuff.
>>144520420
>>144520428
cool. coding gets me excited, can't wait to learn C# and whatnot.
the game is being played in python, so thats cool
Unity is much much easier to get into and actually do a game.
Then again, by the time unity releases a new update that breaks half of the shit you did, unreal will release 3-4 major updates that adds atleast a couple hundred dollars worth of new features that you could "aquire" from the Unity Asset store™ . so there's that.
In the end how I see it is :
If you want to make a relatively simple and small game that doesn't require alot of low level coding, if you want to have a library of answered questions, tutorials and ASSETS™ - pick unity
If you want to make a game that either looks very good out of the box, that requires heavy work with materials, low level coding, an engine that has features (for free) that Unity Store™ sells for hundreds of $$$ and you would love the engine to actual have bug fixes done on it - pick UE4.
Also unity has a relatively dead/dying community, but a whole treasure chest of old answered questions and discussed/solved problems.
UE4 is much more active with the community now and offers alot of things to build up the community and help you out in general (UE4 grant, constant jams that give some good prizes etc). But it doesn't have a good collection of answered questions just yet.
As far as personal experience goes, I've had actual UE4 engine devs help me out with problems, explain the reasoning behind their solutions and how they came up with it etc., while on Unity Forums™ the devs are almost never there. They don't work on the engine. They don't communicate. Literally jacking off somewhere.and yet I still use Unity, because I enjoy prototyping games in days/weeks, rather than weeks/monthsalot of unity engine devs are leaving unity. Makes you wonder what the reason could be, considering it should be the golden age to work on and sell game engines
>>144517683
Yeah the aspect ratio is a bit off, doesn't look like that ingame.
It's not 3d, but regarding the asteroid thing i do agree it looks weird, i'm still working on making gravity that doesn't look completely retarded.
I'll keep posting!
>>144520543
If I were you, I'd just use GameMaker Studio and watch HeartBeast's and Shaun Spaulding's tutorials, PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT THE CODE DOES. HeartBeast does a great job explaining what everything does as you go. And then if you want to do anything else, bust out the documentation and figure it out from there.
This is how I learned, and I went from basically zero to coding a decently solid platformer in like, a day.
>>144520446
Cool, do you want art assets?
I'm guessing 4GB isn't really enough to work with UE4? The FPS is always great in the editor while working with assets, but the editor itself just takes forever to react to things.
>>144520543
Just read a book instead. Learning from a game is something for 8 year olds.
>>144520723
sounds good. I want as much help as I can get, even took some free classes on edx
thanks anon. i'll check them out!
>>144520854
> learning how to code by reading books
Digging your grave right there.
>>144520547
Personally I use Unity for 2 reasons.
1) UE4 runs like absolute ass on my laptop. On lowest settings I can manage 60fps in a small room, but I don't like my computer fan going totally haywire the entire time I'm devving. Makes me feel like I'm breaking my computer
2) I comfort myself with the idea that even if unity goes under, there is nothing stopping me using their engine (r-right?)
Honeslty if someone were to offer me an alternative with a decent amount of support, I would go for it. For now I don't really have any choice.
>>144520758
Yeah currently i'm just doing some bad ones myself. can be reached at [email protected]
>>144520898
I taught myself first through books and then learning by doing. A healthy mix of the two is good if you're smart enough to not fall to deep into the "The book must be right about everything and everything needs to be abstracted and entirely structural" meme.
>>144520957
Yeah and any smart person won't judge you for that. Both have their advantages for a small dev.
>>144520043
This "Living " anhimals are way more scary in my opinion because they are common sights, while dinosaurs always have that touch of fantasy on them. You could easilly make a game about hungry man-eating dogs and it would be scary as fuckAnd don't even get me started on spiders..
>>144520767
Yeah probably.
It's not uncommon for the editor to be using >8GB, especially when baking.
How does 2D in UE4 compare to Unity? Everything from sprites to physics. From what I've heard, UE4's Paper 2D is absolutely awful.
>>144521140
They're both inappropriate for 2D
>>144521065
I get what your saying anon, but im not sure what books are good, i heard there are alot of bad programming books out there.
and plus, this game is a nice little introduction to coding for me. i am going to use books, of course, but i'd like to know a little before going into one, ya feel?
>>144520898
A good mixture of books, practical assignments and internet tutorials for when you get stuck will get you further than any game will.
Plus i think if you need a game to keep you interested while you learn then you may as well give up now.
>>144521313
Yeah yeah. Again it boils down to personal preference, go with whatever works for you. Agree that going into a book with no background at all can mess your view up.
>>144521208
What would you use?
So what's a good engine to make a 2d game in with the possibility of making a 3d game later on?
POST PROGRESS!
>>144521594
flash
>>144519598
Fuckin sick
>>144521594
the one you make yourself you fucking peasant
Finished my first todo list.
Started working on asteroid model and shards of an asteroid when it breaks up.
Also giving the asteroid a hit counter so it can take more than one hit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMKNXJqyknA
Do we have any Godot devs here?
Does anyone want something programmed?
https://soundcloud.com/user-795244489/beach-theme-waves
i posted this track i made yesterday in the last thread but people said it sounded like creepy doll music so i added the wave sound effects to make it more relaxing
(its designed to loop indefinitely so that's why its short)
>>144521813
my game
>>144521978
Be more specific you fuck
Got collisions working
>>144521878
It sounds like something that plays during a childhood flashback more than anything else desu.
>>144522221
thanks. that's something positive at least (better than it sounding creepy)
if i have ADD is it worth doing anything before i get myself some ritalin?i've tried multiple times due to lack of focus and confusion, so being truthful i'm just looking for affirmation in my decision to nodev.
>Everyone recommending UE4
>Check recap
>Every single dev is using Unity or GM:S, save for 1 godot user, 1 UE4 user, and some engine devs
If UE4 is better where are all the games?
>>144522302
Stop using your ADD as an excuse to not focus. Your brain isn't "stuck" in a certain way, it is modular. Regardless of what diagnosis you are given by a doctor, you have a lot of control over your brain.
The best way to fix your ADD is not ritalin, it's structured and strict practice and discipline
sincerely,
someone with ADD.
What is the most common way people increase compiling time in GMS?
It's starting to get really fucking slow.
>>144522624
Alright you fucking steel willed monk. You got any tips
>>144520246
does it teach you conditionals or loops?
>>144522772
yeah, im pretty sure
>>144522624
>it's structured and strict practice and discipline
i can reassure you this will never happen.
if not ADD, then lack of willpower will stop me. we can yell platitudes all we want about how i technically have the power, but at the end of the day i can see from here that nothing's going to change if change is hard [or even if it's easy but requires commitment beyond "put thing in mouth"].i bet ritalin doesn't even work. nothing ever does. or it does work, but i just wind up a hyperfocused masturbator.
>>144522302
watch some really short bite-sized tutorials and follow along instead of embarking on a huge ebin project right off the bat (that's what worked for me as a fellow ADD ridden imbecile)
>>144522634
Too much music in the project file can seriously slow down your compiling time. Maybe that's the problem? Have your game load it from an external folder instead.
Did anon ever make my tree?
Anyway I added image ordering so things closest to the camera are drawn last.
>>144522624
I agree. I have ADD and it's not really a problem as long as you stop acting like a little bitch about it and just put in the effort to concentrate.
Make one game a week.
Publish it on as many websites as you can.
Post pictures of your games on social media as often as possible.
>>144520246
These things basically teach algorithmic thinking in general. These are targeted towards kids at a young age (lets say from 3 to 8), so they understand that when they give orders to a computer, they have to think ahead and they have to be very specific with what they want.
>>144522746
1) Start small, begin by focusing on specific tasks for say, 20 minutes, then taking a break. (Google the pomodoro technique and give that a try)
2) Practice meditation. I know it probably has a reputation for being new age nonsense, but research it and you will see it is basically like working out for your brain. Sit and meditate for 5 minutes at first, and work your way up. This will increase (among other things) your concentration, focus, and willpower.
I recommend getting an app like Headspace (free for the first 10 sessions, and you can reuse them as much as you want) in order to get into the habit.
3) Do some form of exercise in the mornings to get your body ready for activity. And get some fucking sleep.
4) Eat healthily
5) Try to escape the mindset of things being pointless or too difficult, or that you lack some ability other people have. Everyone has to work hard. If you have ADD you might have to work harder than them.
I try to look at it like this:
Is it impossible for me to do the thing that I am trying to do?
If it's not, stop fucking around and get to work.
Good luck taking control. Don't give up.
>>144523102
what if im 20
>>144523193
Then you're screwed.
Give up now.
>>144521878
Basically what >>144522221 said. Or this is that kind of piece which is a slowed down version of the main theme which plays when the main character and the love interest have the bonding talk after a minor adventure and before a huge fight.
>>144523035
Are you talking about the donald trump tree?
>tfw making an mmo
>>144523071
>>144523126
an operative assumption you both make is that effort exerted for a given task is something reliable.
[what?]
that one can simply put in effort and have it pay off. it is possible to be so reliably unreliable that it's certifiable you're not ever going to put in effort [but still want to kickstart yourself away from that in a low-to-no effort way.]
now that's not an ADD thing, it's remarkably common to be a low-effort fuck, look at half of /r9k/ or whatever. no ADD, but no matter what you do they're never going to put in effort in the early stages necessary to build up more effort-power.
it reminds me of kids do well early in school, only to crash when they hit university because they go from being smart enough to not have to put in effort and being used to low effort when high-effort suddenly becomes required.
by comparison, a lot of kids who get used to putting in effort during high-school wind up doing fine in university because it's a natural curve for them. while they start slightly further behind, they end up far further ahead for it in the long term, and the initially smart kid who became a university drop out has a hell of a climb to recover his lead.
>>144523101
>on game a week
Who is going to make the art?
Would you guys recommend making a small game in each engine before making my choice if I am a new programmer?
I've done a few in Unity, a few in GM:S, now I'm going to give Godot a shot.
>>144523263
does anyone here have a game with one of those scenarios? all the scenes you are describing seem very fitting for my piece.
>>144523345
Maybe. It should look like the bush in the pic I posted. Do you have a link to trump tree?
>>144523236
what if i dont want to
>>144522070
its minecraft but better
>>144523193
I think at that age you can simply pick up any game engine or any language in general and get experience from tutorials. Try to make your first Space invaders or Asteroids in anything you want. If you are really afraid of semicolons, declarations and curly braces, then I suggest you to take a look at Scratch. It's a tool which lets you make games. You basically have to combine pre-made elements (like in the game you've posted) to create your own thing.
>>144523651
then don't play a kids game and fool yourself into thinking you're making progress. Actually make progress.
>>144523528
I know the kind of person you talk about, because I am that kind of person. I have had to fight through my own spoiledness for a majority of my life. I'm 28 now, I got my degree at 27, I am only just now in regular employment, and making things like game dev happen is something I didnt even consider as a possiblity until very recently.
For me, I had a very low-effort, lazy upbringing. It wasn't good, either. So basically we're talking about depression, self loathing, general misanthropy, and if I'm being honest, shitty genes.
Since I stopped making excuses for myself and living in a fantasy that I'd do everything "some day", I have honestly improved my life a lot. I am more confident, more dedicated to my projects, and just generally have some level of self efficacy.
I'm saying this because I see a lot of people just assume that because they are lazy now, they are just never going to accomplish anything, which reinforces this toxic belief and habit system in them and ensures that they are correct.
You only get one go around this track (and other such cliches). I think I owe it to other losers like myself to tell them that taking control of your life is not an impossible dream, and they are not beneath achieving it.
>>144523534
You are.You're making one game a week regardless of artistic talent/skill/vodoo. One of the biggest problems I see when people try to do art is that it doesn't look good and they stop so if you don't have time to stop and need to put out a game in one week then you'll be forced to compromise in art or elsewhere.
>>144523641
No,I was asking for things to model and sime posted trump tree and i never did it. This was about a month ago.
>>144523862
but what if i am actually making progress by understanding what they tell me, it doesn't matter if its for kids, if i can understand it, then im that much closer to getting better at programming,
just because im not using big boy programs and books doesn't mean i can't learn programming in a kids way my man. its a good introduction to programming, im not gonna base all my coding from that little game, of course not.
i'd rather go at my own pace, ya feel?
>>144523745
More specific you flick
>>144524064
Then why are you asking us?
>>144524243
I wanted to know if anybody else might've used it.
Seems not, so i guess ill just roll with it and see what knowledge i gain at the end
>>144521813
Yeah, I need someone to write me a JSON parser that takes items from a json file and adds them to a list. Unity. C#.
I'm shit at this sort of thing.
>>144519710
I like that picture
>>144523560
I really wish I could help you. A game like that would require long months if not years of dedication from all the participants, and currently I don't feel like I can make that commitment.
I think you should just keep on posting here until someone shows up with something like that in mind, or you take a visit to the RPG Maker general here on /vg/. I think you'll have more luck here.
>>144524064
>its a good introduction to programming
How would you know that if you dont know anything about programming?
>>144522095
Nice m8
>>144524374
Don't forget to come back and tell us what you have learned and when you're ready I reccomend game maker, it has a very friendly work flow and a lot of good tutorials. Shaun Spaulding specifically
> tfw implement a* and see 900 AI moving around to random destinations while going around obstacles
Feels good, but i'm sure I couldn't do any better while using Unity. Makes me wish I wasn't so afraid of C++
Going to start writing a tutorial. Would the best audience be the absolute beginners or intermediate/advanced-level people?
On one hand, there are substantially more beginners, but beginner material has been covered a million times over and I could only clarify and streamline what's already in existing tutorials. However, intermediate/advanced-level tutorials haven't been done before, BUT the topics I cover would be very niche and only help specific people with extremely specific things needed in their games.
>>144524726
of course anon. always gotta post progress, right?
>>144524416>>144524583
You got an example json file?
>>144524602
fucking ace
>>144524924
A niche is a great way to get followers.
>>144524864
Post a webum of that shit.
>>144524583
o
>>144524594
i see. thank you for the feedback. its my second try at composing for games and ill check out rpgmaker gen. what sort of music would aggydag games use? just wondering
>>144524685
Next is combat.
What's the easiest way to make a playable and fun game with some merit? Read a beginner tutorial and just start from there? Wouldn't that take me months, even assuming I learn nonstop?
>>144524924
What kind of topics do you have in mind?
>>144525395
*suspicious picture of a child saved*
>>144525378
>months
If you're an imbecile, maybe.
You should be able to go from no programming\art experience to tetris, pong or asteroids in a week.
>>144525267
Space music.
>>144525453
>Not having a picture of decision making tortilla god
>>144525439
Oh, I forgot to mention it'd all be gamemaker stuff
>>144525395
Doing both sounds appealing, and if I'm successful (i.e. get enough traffic to warrant making more) I probably will do both. However, I'd prefer to stick to one in order to build up a consistent audience.
>>144525559
>space music.
any good examples I can study up on? I'm not that good with techno sounding stuff and most of my music is more for classical instruments.
>>144525267
You should check previous demo days for that. It's really a mixed bag, yet I think mostly dark or action oriented pieces are needed here. However there are even comfy games, which might not have a story, but might use a tune like yours.
>>144525656
Ftl soundtrack.
Go. Go now.
>>144523193
You are going to learn not even the very basics of actual programming. All the functions are provided to you in a "game" like that. You don't have to actually write what is happening mathematically or on hardware.
>>144525656
FTL soundtrack. Yeah it's all synth. How many games would need classical soundtracks?
>>144525594
*Worships child as a god*
>>144523920
Do you seriously believe that people are going to play a game with art like >>144518809 ?
>>144525559
Sorry, I honestly do not know if you are being serious. Are you saying that any man on the street can learn the skills to completely make tetris, pong or asteroids within a week?
>>144525775
i think alot of rpgs, or chill adventure games, vn's maybe lots of modern games use classical soundtracks i believe
>>144525734
duly noted. studying ahead
>>144525716
what do people ussually do for their game music? do it themselves? royalty free?
>>144525793
if it's free? fuck it, why not?
>>144525932
Any person who has the means and time to post stupid questions on an amateur video game development thread on 4chan sure can.
>>144525793
Some will. Some won't. This is about improving yourself by completing a project and being able to look at it critically once done and take what you learn and apply to the next game you make. Your arts going to look bad at first,but you'll improve with time and consistency
>>144526132
>delete this
>>144525787
>Not worshipping what all societies recognize as pure and innocent
>>144525932
>Are you saying that any man on the street can learn the skills to completely make tetris, pong or asteroids within a week?
Pong in a week, ez.
Tetris and asteroids would be two months at most, half that if they're using gamemaker or unity.
>>144526329
*worshiping what all societies perceive as illegal*
>>144525976
That is a very good question. Based on previous Demo Day and personal experience, you can meet with the following cases:
- Royalty free
- Someone else made it for them
- The game is dead silence (this is because music implementation is usually one of the last parts of game making, so it's unclear which of the above options they'll go with)
With that said, I can not name any dev at the moment who makes his own music for his game.
>>144524064
>just because im not using big boy programs and books doesn't mean i can't learn programming in a kids way my man
Actually you're better off with those "big boy" programs. The typical programming you get in a beginners book is:
>display text on screen
>add 2 numbers
>make an array
>populate the array
>simple if/else logic
>while do loops
etc
If you don't know that shit you'll never make a game. It's basically ... the alphabet. How the fuck are you going to write a book if you don't know the alphabet?
>>144526461
>its illegal to be child
>>144526527
i see. this is very informative for me, thank you.
do you think my piece could fit in a rogue like? something closer to an rpg cuz i see people developing those around here. maybe in like a peaceful treasure room or something idk
>>144526461
Isabel Moctezuma married three times before she was even 13
>>144526228
>but you'll improve with time
A bit off-topic but improved shit art is still shit art. I don't understand why you guys cannot accept the fact that some people just won't improve in a field even after years of training.
I'm installing Visual Studio
t-time to become a dev I guess
>>144524982
http://hastebin.com/opovusemuj.dos
This is just a rough example, but..
What it comes down to is - multliple item types
the serializer needs to go trough all the items, figure out what type each one is and add it to the list accordingly, with the relevant data structure. i.e.= a reactor or a weapon wont have an armor value. only an armor item will.
I haven't done pretty much anything with json in unity yet, watched an outdated tutorial, heard that its inbuilt now etc, but never touched it. Thats the extent of my knowledge on the subject. The more you can help me the more of a headache you'll save me.
>>144527001
Not till you install Linux, kiddo
>>144526864
Then you're not looking critically at your work and should ask for feedback or your stagnating and have stopped pushing yourself.
>>144527013
Come back in an hour an I'll have it done.
>tfw no willpower to learn a new tool because the workflow isn't there yet
>>144527001
I hope you got an SSD or it'll literally take 30 seconds to start VS.
>>144527465
why do people even use VS? do they need their tools to look important?
If a game CAN be achieved in 2d without loss of features, should it be?
>>144527465
wut
>>144521313
if you've never programmed before, you only need to get one book. after you've learned one language all of the others are pretty easy to learn on your own. Idk which one you should start with, I started with an AS3 book back when flash was still a thing, I'd probably start off on something easy like Java since it does most of the heavy lifting for you unlike C/C++. Or you could just follow some beginner tutorials and never get past having a character move and shoot.
>>144527702
VS 3D, I mean.
>>144518831
standar assets have a third person controller
>>144527561
For some reason most game engines have their easiest setup guides for visual studio. I'd rather use Eclipse.
>>144527456
I learned GM in one night after using unity for a year, workflow almost instantly passed my unity speed
>>144527183
Look, your hero optimistic speech is fine and all but the reality is not like that.
Just take a look at the agdg games history. There's a reason why all of the cute or good-looking games with competent artists have all been on hiatus for 2 to more years.
The artists are just too busy with their arts and their lives to take on programming seriously, thus why the "another cute platformer with cute girls" meme is going around in here. And in worst occasions the games have just turned into a VN or point&click.
Memedora excluded, I'm 100% sure that games like crystal gun girl, charlotte, sugar, catmouth2, super wizbros and that maid game will never be finished.
>>144527561
because I don't know what I'm doing. Is there anything better than VS for Windows?
>>144527985
>Look at all these games that failed
>it's impossible to succeed!
I want to make a Super Mario World clone.
How much of the game am I allowed to copy and get away with? I mean I literally want to remake the game 1:1, just with different levels and music/art.
>>144528250
THE SKY IS FALLING
THE END IS NIGH
Hazzah
>>144528250
Some of those haven't even failed
Reminder that it is impossible to improve and nobody has ever made a game by themselves.
>>144528302
What makes it a Super Mario World clone and not just a platformer?
>>144528352
perfect, now get it on steam greenlight and send demo keys to youtubers
i think ill put off progress for a while so i dont fail this term again
>>144528302
Why not just use Lunar Magic?
>>144528302
>Not just romhacking Super Mario World
Get Lunar Magic and mod the game directly.
>>> smwcentral.net
>>144528378
That's half-true. No one without a gf has ever successfully completed a game
>>144528340
That's just wrong
Someone tell me which dudes look better.
Bulkyer (left) or smaller (right). It's supposed to be a nearly top down slightly from the front angle. Boxes/Barrels /Truck are there to give you a better idea of how they fit in the scene.
>>144527334
Dayum. I'll take you to your word. I'm a real scrub when it comes to C# and unity, so if you feel like commenting stuff out, but I have basic programming know-how please do. It'll help me in the long run.I'm actually looking for a programmer to work on the project with me 'full time'.
>>144528501
Left, more detail.
>>144528381
> 1:1 physics (speed, friction & jump height)
> Jump on enemies to kill them
> Bonk blocks with your head to get coins/power-up
> Power up makes the guy twice higher and he can't move through small spaces
> Fire Flower and Hammer Suit power up (hammer suit wasn't in SMW but I like it anyway)
>>144528439
>>144528462
I want to add some mechanics too. Also I might want tosell it.
>>144528250
>you can be the exception!
Ok. So you're not being realistic like I thought.
And even if we look at the great successful hopoo vine and cie agdg games they are far from being exceptional visual artistic creations.
And no, I'm not saying they look like shit, I'm saying that there's nothing to improve in the first place if you plan to make pixel limbs ror-ish art.
>100 percent of people who have completed a game by themselves have completed an entire game by themselves
>You haven't
Wake up. It's impossible.
>>144528482
are yuo IMPLYING that there are NO LGBT GAME DEVELOPERS?
O P P R E S S I O N
>>144528614
You can't sell a game with ripped off assets unless you live in China or some shit
>>144528680
They all have gfs. Even the gay ones.
>>144528654
>over 99% of all the people that ever lived never managed to finish developing a video game in their entire lives
why are we even trying
>>144527995
if you don't know what you're doing then probably anything that will compile your code is fine
>>144528501
I'd say bottom left is best. The others just look like gorillas.
>>144528614
>I want to add some mechanics too
You could always learn ASM. There's a massive community waiting to support you and help you make the game into something completely batshit (Brutal Mario comes to mind).
>Selling it
Well, if you've got the exact same mechanics and none of the art/code/sound, it's not a ripoff, it's a clone.
Mechanics aren't copyrighted, AFAIK, so copy as many as you'd like.
>>144528861
>Mechanics aren't copyrighted, AFAIK, so copy as many as you'd like.
This is what I wanted to hear. Thank you anon.
HANDS UP
NOBODY MOVE
PUT ALL OF YOUR PROGRESS IN THE BAG KIDDO OR ITS ALL OVER FOR YOU
>>144528635
is not me>>144528250
What I'm saying is that you develop skills by challenging yourself and look critically at your work and learning from the mistakes you've made,regardless of artistic style.
>>144528614
>wanting to sell a game that's almost virtually identical
Even if Nintendo doesn't get on your case, I strongly suggest reconsidering because "like x but with y" doesn't sound profitable at all, especially since the series being discussed isn't dead.
I don't come here often, but I have some bare experience with Unity and UE4.
How complicated is it to make an Ico clone?
Like a 3d Prince of Persia platformer?
>>144528965
there you go.
>>144529128
>I strongly suggest reconsidering because "like x but with y" doesn't sound profitable at all, especially since the series being discussed isn't dead.
wait what I thought that was literally the most popular way to make a good game
>>144529195
The animation would be the hardest i'd imagine.
>>144529195
Pretty complicated.
>>144529195
About 90 complication units.
What do you guys have against singletons?
>>144529316
oh noooo
>>144529316
You're full of shit. It's at most 55 CU, or around 550 Complexins of work.
>>144529316
I'm not familiar with the metric system, what is that in Imperial units?
>>144529286
The animation in Ico is godly, you'd think it was mocapped.
>>144528965
No game progress only practice
>>144529521
About 23.8 word problems
Does anyone have any decent guides/tutorials for doing "soft" pixel art.
where can I find a good sound for walking on grass? I can't findor makeshit
More outdoorsy tiles.
I feel I'm finally starting to get the hang of vivid colours!
>>144527786
>after you've learned one language all of the others are pretty easy to learn on your own.
how's the air up there?
>>144529763
That ice looks so icy
Post game ideas for Space Jam!
>>144529752
http://freesound.org/search/?q=grass
>>144530032
You run a branch of IKEA, and have to organise furniture to maximisespace
>>144529908
Thanks!
>>144530132
I actually hope someone makes a game that relates to space but not the "universe-planets-galaxies-sci-fi-aliens" sense.
>>144530032
I came up with this one this morning. Hopefully it's not too shitty.a game where you come up with your own game ideas and stop being lazy]
>>144530032
whacky 2d platformer meme game
clowns in space, use clown tricks as weapons (honking the horn, squirty flower, baloon tricks) to defeat I dunno, vampire magicians or witches or some shit.
>>144530276
Sounds fun but I don't see the relation to space.
>>144530253
You're the principal of a school and you have to make sure that your school isn't a place of learning, but rather a safespace.
>>144530032
planet dating sim w/ memes
>>144530386
kek'd in my pants
isnt rhythm doctor technically a space game
>>144530253
An emotional tale as you help the space bar come to terms with it's obesity
>>144530420
Jupiter best planetand Sailor Warrior
>>144530523
>jupiter best planet
>not saturn
step it up lad
>>144530032
That's not how you spell Saturn
>>144530420
Did you know there are only going to be 7 planets soon?
Because Uranus is going to get destroyed.
>>144529786
>he can do something better then me, therefore he is stupid
>>144530595
Meant for
>>144530523
this took way too long to draw and I'm still not happy with the shading of its cloth
>>144530825
I'm more triggered by the legs on the right seemingly having a bit of the shadow drawn on their layer so that when thye move about it has this weird horizontal line move with it
I need help aggydaggy.
I'm a professional software engineer. I make games in my spare time. The problem is I can't draw for shit.
Now before directing me to drawabox, ctrlpaint, draw with right side of brain etc. listen for a second. I've done my homework, started drawabox and made progress too. But it takes too long and my aim is not "perfect" art or become a pro digital painter. I just wanna churn out passable art and be done with it.
Please direct me to a book, course, site whatever that will take less than 6 months to learn how to make passable art for my games.
>>144530032
Eccentric rich billionaire has but a 100 billion dollar bounty on the moon. You play a moon assassin competing against other assassins trying to blow up the moon as well as moon security and moon conversationalists.
>>144531176
agreed with this dude, it's pretty good. though
>>144530825
>>144528965
s...shit plz dont kill me
here, its just some background juice for this tileset, but its all the progress I have I swear.
>>144529195
As with most games, you could probably make all the mechanics in a few months and then spend years trying to fill it with content. A ton of people worked 12 hours a day on ICO for years.
>>144530032
rape in space
>>144531187
nigga thats despicable me
>>144531264
Is the name of this god Shruggoth?
>>144531453
Kekko
>>144531453
Shrug-niggurath
An eccentric bajillionaire offers a few million for you to make your dream game.
The only condition is that the first screen that comes up must be a picture of your face, it must stay there for 10 seconds unskippably, and it must have below it the words "Child Molester".
What do you choose? What is more important to you, your dreams or your dignity?
is anyone here even using their own engine
Does Game Maker Studio have online multiplayer support?
Would be neat if some nodevs/current devs made short minigame-esque games with default assets then we put it together into a party game.
People who want to practice completing a project/get into dev can make a very short game and people who want to practice art can provide us the assets. Would be win/win imo.
>>144531680
Dreams.Being Norwegian, I can probably still make games in prison, too.
>Getting new job
>Nothing related to gamedev but at least it's coding
>No jobs in my country have anything related to 3d or gamedev
What am I supposed to do, /agdg/? Keep working on vidya dev with what little energy I have after working, plus the weekends and advance at a snail's pace?
Save for 2-3 years, quit, and hope it's enough money and time to finish a game and that said game manages to feed me?
Work for 7-8 years, invest heavily into very low risk, and live off investments?
It just feels like no matter what I do, it'll be the wrong choice.
>>144531680
Easy: Just add the words "Not A" to the top.
>>144531680
I just wont release the game.
>>144531832
This isn't some moralistic djinni tale, that invalidates the deal and in fact now you have to have a second picture of you sitting with a kid on your lap too
>>144531264
two failed kickstarters and samefagging on multiple chans
>>144528501
Are they going to be moving around?
>>144531680
Honestly, that is not the kind of thing that would hurt my pride.
>>144531832
>implying this wouldn't be worse and sound like you're trying to clear your name
>>144528965
Got a new health/stamina bar and re-did the design on my merchant npc.
Not really got anything I wanted done this week because of having to work, sad times.
>want to make games
>solo isnt an option for anything decent
>forums filled with shit teams with shit games
>starting a team is somehow worse than all of the above
>>144531935
No changing the deal shitlord. It doesn't say I can't add to the image.
>>144531941
ahem excuse me, ONE failed kickstarter.
>>144532180
the deal didn't say anything about money either so yeah
>have a 1.5 page essay due
>want to dev
Fuck
is my placeholder ok
i have never sprited before.
>>144532180
>Inexplicably, this recent indie game begins with a picture of the developer, along with the text "Not A Child Molester".
>>144532430
Its alright, you wouldnt have done any dev anyway
>>144531680
pros
>millions in bank account
>get to make the game i wanted to make without a care in the world
>game will become a gigantic meme
cons
>gaming media will catch on and kickstart the harassment even if i try to downplay it with "but it's ironic! it's #ART!"
>i won't have anyone to play the game with once it is finished, since people will only buy it for the ebin youtube shock value
>family won't want to speak to me
>will never have a close relationship with any human being ever, forced to remain anonymous
>will eventually feel pressured to do plastic surgery and get a name change because of personal harassment
nah
>>144532438
It doesn't matter what a placeholder looks like.
And it doesn't look good.
>>144531958
The idea is - they're only to serve as part of the background. Most will be barely animated. Sitting around, leaning on crates etc. One or two might end up randomly walking left & right, if i can make it look good.
Still dont know what to go for though.
Lads, should I pretend to be black? It seems like it'd get some attention in the indie game scene and help my brand stand out. A small side benefit is it gives me natural defense against any leftists triggered by me or my game. I'm pretty decent with black memes, I can easily pull it off online. If I have to go accept an award like hopoo did, I can always pay somebody 50 bucks to pretend to be me for the evening. Blacks don't snitch, so nobody would find out.
>>144531680
That actually sounds like something somebody would put into a game as a joke way back in the 90's.
>>144532760
do it
your plan is flawless
>>144532704
>implying journos don't defend pedophiles
>>144532760
Kill yourself dude
>>144532760
Black would be okay. Getting a girl to take credit for your game would be even better.
Make her the game designer/producer while you take credit for everything else. Guaranteed publicity.
>>144532760
Thanks for giving me an idea. This is now the plot of my next game, targeting a 2018 release.
>>144532760
I like your style. That sounds like one of my dumbass plans that either end in total success or with a narrow escape into the drunk tank.
>>144532928
>not just wearing a rubber girl suit/mask and squeaky voice for interviews
>>144532330
so far.
>>144533052
>not just wearing a bandage covering your face during interviews
>>144532760
>>144532928
Pretend to be a black girl and you'll become a millionaire and media darling with even just a basic platformer.
If you do have to accept the reward, just go up there as yourself. The media will lose its shit and you'll go down as a legend.
When you ship your game, be sure to include a few totally unnecessary DirectX and Visual C++ redistributeables.
How do you prevent fragmentation when using a large preallocated memory pool?
>>144533705
just do what's standard in *nix, scatter your crap all over the place
>>144531186
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaW5cpjBPpWrO1dRq4PAERAnoX2h2QldR
>>144534104
Thanks m8
>>144534104
>>144534205
always glad to have someone not spit in my face when i try to help
>>144524924
first is what tool are you going to cover? are you just trying to teach coding in general? SDL, unity engine? find out what you want to cover.
I would recommend just making a video game and covering your entire process of making it.
>>144534349
You usually get that when you decide to actually be helpful instead of being a snarky cunt.
>>144527995
Do you know any coding language yet?
>>144531186
>it takes too long
>>144531186
Can you post an example of your current level?
>>144533098
Now we're getting somewhere!
>>144534349
>>144534205
That's not me and you didn't actually answer my question but thanks I guess
>all this artfag talk
yesterday I gave you all a quick shading guide, but apparently it wasn't enough, so I compiled the guide into na easy format to share
>>144528965
mostly audio/graphics stuff. changed the tallgrass sprite, still not pleased with it. added a bigger tree shadow, and made dirt disappear after a while if it's untouched.
The boss is now able to be killed (before it would just stand around and do nothing while playing the idle animation), and the game remembers you killed it. Need to fix multi-hits and the HP bar going into negatives now.
>Bought an art tablet to draw assets for my game
>Forgot to buy artistic talent
WHOOPS.
>>144535673
how did that not answer your question?
>>144535993
iktf
>>144534104
4chan.org/ic/
>>144534104
>>144534349
Shilling your youtube videos is against the rules.
Also, kill yourself, googie.
Does the artistic talent gene cover both 2D and 3D? All styles? I'm a little confused on that thx
>>144536054
yep
>>144536054
do you realize that almost all drawings are of 3d objects?
>>144527702
wtf is this question being asked? Should it be instead of 3D?
>>144535838
Nice. Could I use yellow for shading and blue for highlighting if I changed their saturation?
>>144536054
your best bet on raising a litter of art slaves is to mate with a Chinese ruanjia knock-off
>>144536054
Once you grasp it, There is alot of overlap between different mediums.
press X to give up
>>144535991
Cool stuff.
would art of this style put you off playing a game
your game gets removed from steam for not meeting the community standards
how do you react?
>>144536276
You don't have to """grasp""" anything if you have the gene retard. It's the same with music. Have you ever seen what happens when Jimmy Hendrix picks up a guitar? Ask yourself why that doesn't happen when a random nobody picks up a guitar
>>144536350
yes
>>144536350
Probably yeah, unless the same is like an RTS with a zoomed out camera.
>>144536350
if it were being displayed at that size I might
Got the sniper scope working.
Check your my sweet MLG skills.
>tfw can't even hit a stationary basketball
Oh wow, this takes me back to my battlefield
>>144536393
I go to shitpost about it on /v/ of course
>>144536393
Outrage, begging, despair, resolve.
Boost animation now with added lighting on buildup! Just noticed one of the lights isn't disappearing properly when it's ending though, need to get that fixed.
Is this what depression feels like?
>>144536416
This is probably bait, but as an artfag, I don't believe in an art or music gene. I do think some people have the chemistry to understand (all) things better then others.
That being said, the ability to make art is an acquired skill. Talentfags just use it as an excuse and its really an insult to everyone who worked for it.
>>144536817
No you can feel.
>>144536792
Legs are too thick
>>144517679
Talent is just a pursued interest anon.
>>144536961
low test detected
>>144535483
I'm worse than that pic you posted
>>144534969
I'm not looking for a shortcut, I'm just looking for a relatively shorter way to get passable art. Like if someone here wanted to learn programming for gamedev and not planning to be a computer scientist or an engineer, I wouldn't direct them to Introduction to Algorithms, SCIP and C++. I would direct them to python, codeacademy etc. I'm looking equivalent advice for art.
>get some followers
>lose them the next day
People on twitter are such dicks
Is it true that I should create art assets before I start working on the bulk of my game?
>>144536961
the actual legs or the spacing?
>>144536416
>Hendrix had watched Butch Snipes play with his teeth in Seattle and by now Alphonso 'Baby Boo' Young, the other guitarist in the band, was performing this guitar gimmick.[55] Not to be upstaged, Hendrix learned to play with his teeth. He later commented: "The idea of doing that came to me...in Tennessee. Down there you have to play with your teeth or else you get shot. There's a trail of broken teeth all over the stage."[56]
>>144537029
they were probably bots and/or advertisers anyway
>>144537067
sounds like a meme to me
>>144537067
no, but having an idea of what assets you might need for a section before you work on it will help (if the plyaer needs a key or a set peice needs to be there etc)
>>144537132
>>144537153
>>144537158
So then gogem is lying to me?
>>144535838
>>144534104
>>144534349
These make it look so easy. The problem is that some people can not visualize things. Or take music for example: I love it, yet I can not even imagine how music gets born in someone. When you post tutorials like this, it's the same as when someone tries to explain how finding the central tone works, and how you can build music upon that, and you're like, ok, good, now what? It's like you tell me the exact steps how to open a tin can, but I don't have a tin can opener. Thomas was alone, Super Meat Boy, VVVVVV all good and all, but those people CAN do art. Just look at the water and the fog on that screen shot. If you can not come up with a concept, if you can not tell what color, or shape, or object fits with the rest, then you're doomed for good.
You give us all these nice books, tutorials and what not, but it's like you want to teach us how to run, yet we can not even walk.
>>144536416
except hendrix was a talentless black playing off the drug enduced euphoria of his audience. Real guitarists like J Mascis honed their art through practice and dedication
>>144537067
1. start working on the mechanics
2. start doing some level design
3. repeat 1 and 2
4. get stuck with either of those and make some art
>>144537304
J mascis is pretty good and all but hendrix practiced literally constantly and was superior to mascis in technique by a league.
>>144537241
he does that to curb the progress of devs
>>144537241
Gogem has never created an art asset, so looks like you've been rused.
>>144537067
do you want to make a lot of money while promising a game you maybe can't finish? -> create assets and artwork for a kickstarter and dont worry about prototyping or coding anything
do you want to slowly build up a game that definitely works and has a prototype which likely nobody will care about because it looks bad? -> code the game prototype first and work on assets later
>>144536567
*days
>>144536346
Thanks anon.
>>144537447
hendrix please stop posting
>>144529763
Damn, the ice looks really nice. But the random noise present in your artwork is even more noticeable here,
>>144536787
The end of the particles charge stops in a perfect line, that looks weird. Also, there seems to be a small white flame appearing before the blue flame, it looks odd too..
Finally, the thruster flame needs more dynamism. Right now it looks extremely static and un-flame-ey.
Otherwise, good work!
>>144537243
>how music gets born
>thomas was alone is running
nigga what? how about you fucking make something before i jimi hendrix your mouth.
>>144537243
>Or take music for example: I love it, yet I can not even imagine how music gets born in someone.
do you play an instrument? have you ever tried creating music before using say, a keyboard or some kind of digital software?
How can i call a newbie warrior in training?
Squire is only for wannabe knights, right?
AGDG IS MY FAVORITE INTERNET
I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS
Weird question while we're talking about music
I frequently make up some melodies on the fly when I'm, say, really really bored, or showering.
Is that normal? Does it mean I should try making music?
>>144538140
Fighter? Or rookie, if you're looking for really inexperienced.
>>144538140
Militia.
>>144538140
recruit, rookie, cadet
>>144538389
You might have the music talent gene, talk to your doctor.
But meming aside, it's fun to do. Learn the basics of sheet music notation and scales and rhythm so you can jot that shit down in a language that was meant for jotting down music. It's not a perfect language, plenty of shitty legacy features, but on the plus side it'll open you up to being able to read vast amounts of music that's written in that language.
Can someone using UE 4.11/4.12 do me a favour and get a camera or post process volume, set the Vignette Intensity to 10 and tell me if the circle you can see through is in the middle of your screen, or is it off to the right and down?
>>144537851
I've played an instrument, and I have played around with music creating software, yet it still puzzles me. Maybe the key is what >>144538837 said.
DOS
>>144539010
I'm curious for what purpose?
I'd help but I don't use UE4. You might have better luck trying steamchat.
>>144539010
dat bear is cool, is that 3D printed?
>>144538140
Squire is just the person who attends to an actual Knight.
So yeah he's not a knight yet.
I'd go with Mercenary.
Wait, MIT licence means that I can basically steal the whole thing, but then somewhere in credits I have to say who I stole from?
I fucking love open source
Does it make any difference starting a project in XNA and then port to mongame instead of doing monogame from the start?
>>144536567
that's not how a scope works
>>144538140
grunt
>>144539357
I was using extreme values for when you get eaten, but since upgrading from 4.10 the effect seems to originate from the side instead of the middle.
>>144539965
Yes.
You should just go with monogame from the start.
>>144518179
what is your twitter? id like it incase of possible collab in the future, I made a multiplayer pixel based fighter plane game a while back
>>144540229
Just want to know the reasons, because from what i saw monogame is apparently slower than XNA / FNA.
>>144539781
You have to include the entire copyright notice, not just say who you took it from. Usually inside of a LICENSE.txt file
>Copyright (c) 20XX Whoever-You-Stole-It-From
>
>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
>of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
>in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
>to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
>copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
>furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
>
>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
>all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Do any of you work on gardening or making a gardening/farming sim? PSA, the Homegrowmen general on /out/ is actually quite good. I've been lurking it for about a week and there's minimal shitposting, but full of great info and knowledgeable people.
>>144540329
Because there's differences in how content is managed between monogame and XNA.
For example, fonts have to be done completely differently in monogame.
>>144540329
Why do you care if it's "slower"? Are you really going to need to squeeze that extra 100fps out of your pong clone?
>>144540365
>>144539781
Does this also mean that you can't decide to turn your code proprietary? I get confused on the code licenses.
>>144539140
no it requires common sense
>>144540234
Don't have a twitter yet, until I come up with a game name and think of/am given a dev name to go under etc...Although I think a few of you might remember a "watermark dev"
If you wanna collab i can give you an email. Could use someone well versed in C# / Unity.
>>144540525
No, it doesn't mean that. WIth MIT, you're allowed to make your code proprietary.
>>144535948
what happens if you till two vertically adjacent tiles?
>>144540365
They way this is worded makes it seem like I have to make my game open source in order to use their engine
>>144528501
Here's the JSON parser, took me longer than I expected but it works.
https://a.pomf.cat/fjauah.zip
>>144541770
Why write your own c# json parser when newtonsoft already exists?
>>144541770
JSON.net exists.
Why would you do it?
>>144540493
Thanks, i'll stick to monogame then!
>>144519618
>Go off an learn the language first, then come back and use that knowledge to make a game.
See you in 10 years, onii-senpai.
>>144542008
>>144542075
I had trouble getting it to work with Unity, so I said fuck it.
>>144540195
I would test but i can't find the setting for the life of me.
>tfw wont be able to dev for a month or two because I'll be working out of town
What are some good dev books I should load up on my laptop/phone for reading in the meantime? inb4 loomis, I already have Dynamic Drawing
![[HorribleSubs] Space Patrol Luluco - 02 [720p].mkv_snapshot_05.35_[2016.06.03_10.09.51].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/NsUP1uK.jpg "[HorribleSubs] Space Patrol Luluco - 02 [720p].mkv snapshot 05.35 [2016.06.03 10.09.51]")
Fuck this. Wht is everything so hard?
>>144542681
Fuck off furfag
>>144542786
>is this snake ever gonna get tired of biting my back
>>144540195
Okay i was just retarded found it: It appears in the center for me.
>>144542805
Pokemon fanart is not furry, you goddamn mongoloid.
>>144542937
Well that's concerning. Which version?
And thanks.
>>144543258
4.12
>>144541095
nothing yet, I might make it connect idk yet.
I need some good 32x32 placeholder tilesets for dungeons anyone know the best stuff?Not opengameart.
>>144542681
r-reasking because i'll be without internet for ages and dont have a lot of books >w<
>>144539010
Center on 4.11 for me
>>144543917
What do you want to read about? Art? Programming? Music comp? Game Design...?
>>144544053
All of them! All the general basics! I want to have at least enough skill to understand a collaborator's work!
I just want to make art for someone's videogame
>>144543917
>>144542681
Game Engine Architecture by Jason Gregory
OpenGL Programming Guide by Shreiner, Sellers, et al
You will feel euphoric as you are enlightened by the enginedev
>>144544434
make me a platformer character with a gun.
>>144543905
http://kenney.nl/assets
>>144544629
>http://kenney.nl/assets
These are all 16x16
>>144544434
Post art.
>>144544053
Not him, but I humbly request any game-specific programming books if you have em.
>>144541770
Damn dude! Thanks a ton. I honestly didn't think you'd deliver. Got it to work with a little bit of fiddling. Saved me hours! Would you consider sharing contact info / working with me in future?
I'm quite the competent artist, but I could use someone to back me up in the coding department. If nothing else it'd be nice to have someone look at my data structure & have someone to bounce some of my core (coding related) ideas off.
>>144544023
>>144543608
Turns out it only happens in the small window, when I maximise it gets fixed.
Oh well, hopefully it won't happen if the player has a weird resolution.
Thanks.
if I can't code at all I should just go to GM:S and stop being unrealistic with unity and monogame and love2d and shit right?
Just sick of stagnating at this point.
>>144544434
make a witch on a broom in either 16 or 32 bit, only real detail that matters is that the wittches cape/cowl/hat or any clothing be the colour of pic related
>>144544616
M / F?
>>144544709
re posting from previous threads
>>144545131
I'll leave that up to you.
>>144529763
Made some more (pic)
>>144537662
>Damn, the ice looks really nice. But the random noise present in your artwork is even more noticeable here,
Thanks!
Random noise is what I make graphics from, so it can't be helped, I'm afraid.
4:40AM here now - Going to bed!
>>144544434
>>144545131
>>144523035
Make me some replacements for all these sprites, the tiles too.
>>144545064
If you can't code at all you should learn to
But yeah a visual scripting system like UE4 blueprints and whatever GM has might be a good stepping stone to it, just make sure you at some point sit down and learn C# or whatever.
Please help!
In Gamemaker, how do you combine 2 integers to make one integer? I don't mean adding/subtracting/multiplying/etc., I mean doing something like this:
>var selector_x = <any value from 1 through 4>;
>var selector_y = <any value from 1 through 3>;
So let's say selector_x becomes 2, and selector_y becomes 3. I now want this:
>var selector_z = 23;
But I want to be able to do this with any of the optional values in selector_x and selector_y. Is there even a function in math that allows for this? I've taken up to Algebra II/Trig and can't ever remember just magically putting two numbers together to make a new number like so. You'd have to do some kind of expression first and then evaluate them with addition/subtraction/multiplication/division. What am I even trying to do, does it have a name in math?
is there a way to easily edit aabb to support slopes
>>144545471
Please be bait...
>>144545471
selector_x*10 + selectory_y
you have brain issues dude
I have no drive and no self-accountability whatsoever
I am destined to be a nobody forever, hobby gamedev was a mistake
>fuuuuuck, there's no way this is going to work
>try it anyway
>it works
>make gui screen
>satisfied
>go to bed
>wake up
>screen feels lacking
>redo screen completely
GUI is suffering.
>>144545064
Just learn to program so that your not restricted to simple drag and drop engines. It looks like a large task at first, but it's just patience and practice.
I am trying to implement a fast travel system for my RPG. Something akin to Morrowind fast travel system. But more grounded in realism.
Caravaners and ship are not taxis that just wait for a single customer and then go where that person wants. No, they move along their own route at their own pace. If anyone wants to go with them, then the customer must wait for their departure and join them then. And the caravan might make multiple stops in intermediary locations between the desired location. And in each location player can roam the local town for a few days during which the caravan stops at the town.
Just trying to formulate a vague idea into concise thing. Hey, ideaguys, got any ideas?
>>144518179
I keep reading danger danger, exhaust exhaust. Why do you have it there twice?
The rest looks great by the way.
>>144545609
>selector_x*10 + selectory_y
This is what I wanted to avoid. Right now the numbers are small but what if there's more like 30 or 20 per row/column? I want to avoid maths because it might mess it up in the future when stuff gets bigger, then I'd have come back and change the formula to multiply by 10s or hundreds.
>>144545596
Unfortunately no, I might just be very stupid.
>>144545783
It's functional, and that's what's important
>>144545773
>Not sure how to do something
>Write a lot of bullshit for like 30 minutes
>It works perfectly fine the first try except for some minor issues that are easy to fix
>>144546107
Never mind, I'll use this formula for now, thanks. Don't want to hurt myself thinking too hard about this.
>>144545471
If all you want to do is make something hold two values, why not use a vector or make a class yourself?
>>144546107
You can always make a constant for that.
>>144546243
Yeah, but that's after I fixed it. Before I had it being just one strip and scrolling. It was plain ridiculous and I have no idea what I was thinking.
>>144546107
>I want to avoid maths
Yet you're developing games
>>144545975
(cont.)
So basically caravan systems would work sorta like modern day trains and buses.
Well the caravan and ship trains need routes and schedules then. Hmm, I think about doing smth dynamic.
>Fixed number of caravans in existence at any moments.
>if one dies, another spawns at a random location
>through some sort of system, caravaners create routes for themselves
>they then travel by routes
well, this seems like a start
Has anyone here used Godot for 3d?
Considering it as a lightweight alternative to Unity. My graphical needs are wii/dreamcast esque so nothing too intense.
>>144545471
What you're saying is that you basically want to treat the numbers like characters that are concatenated as a string. I suspect that you'll figure out an answer if you look into GMS int to string and string to int functions similar to itoa in C. I would approach it that way in C, anyway.
>>144545975
create a schedule system that places the caravans/ships at certain places on roads heading towards a destination.
>>144546107
string_to_int(int_to_string(x) + int_to_string(y))
>>144543905
You making a roguelike? Try DCSS art.
http://opengameart.org/content/dungeon-crawl-32x32-tiles
(I know, it's hosted on OpenGameArt, but it's still the Crawl art.)
>>144546105
I figured someone would complain about this sooner or later. I've spaced them out a little more, so hopefully it makes more sense now?
>>144546302
>>144546327
>>144546330
>>144546619
>vector, class, constant, concatenated, string, int functions, itoa
Thank you for the advice. I'll look these words up and try to add them to my vocabulary.I'm an artist, sorry. I only know English. Actually, I do know string, I think those are letters/words you show instead of values in code.
>>144545471
selector_z = real( string(selector_x) + string(selector_y) )
Here you go.
Are there any decent plug and play multiplayer FPS engines out there? Like, if I just want to slap in some models and script in some game modes and weapon behavior without having to put together an entire netcode system and building the FPS controllers.
And this wouldn't be for any sort of commercial game, I just want to throw a simple thing together and play with some friends.
>>144536416
>Have you ever seen what happens when Jimmy Hendrix picks up a guitar? Ask yourself why that doesn't happen when a random nobody picks up a guitar
because hendrix played a lot more and had his own amazing and personal style.
>>144537304
literally who.
hendrix was in a league of his own back then.
>>144538837
wow you're seriously recommending someone new to music to start by learning sheet notation? that's like recommending a writer to start by studying a grammar book
>>144547167
UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.UE4.
>>144547167
UE4 FPS template is probably a good start.
>>144547167
this is literally exactly what unreal engine was made for
>>144546605
Kinda depends on how the game works. Yours is like an Elder Scrolls game, right?
>>144547239
>>144547250
>>144547301
Well shit, I feel like I should have known that.
Thanks though, I'll look into it
>>144547086
I'll be fine with going ahead and teaching you what a constant is. It's just a value that's stored and is never changed unless you're changing things at the system level. Such as maybe NumberOfColumnsInItemScreen. One day you may choose to use 5 instead of 3, or something of that nature. They're pretty useful for things that potentially could change but for now are set in stone, your magic numbers. Also I should mentioned that they're defined in one location typically and all things that use it call it from that location. So you change it once and the change ripples through your program, basically.
Also yeah the name is long but I'm trying to keep memonic for him. Please don't bully.
>>144547104
selector_z = real( string(selector_x) + string(selector_y) )
Whoa, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you so much!
>>144546605
(cont.)
So, about how caravans and ships generate their routes.
>each settlement has trade value that increases over time based on its population
>each visiting caravan or ship decreases that value
>caravans and ships seek to maximise their profit along the travel
>smaller settlements go without no caravans but will eventually get at least one since the trade value constantly builds up
but I have a feeling about this system that it might not provide quite what I expect from it. Can't quite put my finger on it, but it feels fishy.
>>144531680
I'd make the game around that. So you start with the Child molester screen, and the game is about proving that you have been framed. At the end, the player discovers that the true molester was the bajillionaire, who also happens to be secretly addicted to triple anal penetration.
9/10 very deep -IGN
4.5/5 you will cry -Gamasutra
Check mate
>>144547435
Ah, alright, thanks, that clears up constants. Don't worry, I'll look up and try to memorize the others.
>>144547180
>literally who
>doens't know who J Mascis is
>think he has any credibility to speak on how a guitarist was "in their own league"
it's like an art fag trying to comment on the layout of a programmers source code
>>144545014
sure his my email address
[email protected]
>>144547086
i remember being in your place once, you'll be good. i've got things like "look up static" or "what is void" written down old notebooks somewhere.
>>144547583
Actually >>144546704 posted the exact same code first, but without GM specific functions - I didn't see it at first.
>>144547736
>Implying your dream game is about proving you aren't a child molester
>>144547663
Depends on what the hell your game is even about. Say in Mount&Blade: Warband, towns have "Enterprises", such as tanners, smiths, dye works, etc.., the pricing of say - a sword in a town may depend on how many smiths are in town. The smiths aren't profitable if theres no iron mine nearby since they dont have the materials, meaning they eventually close down, and balance out... etc.
>>144547583
C guy here; I would advise you to avoid doing that too often because it will be slow due to the string concatenation.
>>144547009
that's a bit better yeh.
Good stuff anon.
>>144547663
This is a far more complicated system for a simple feature than even Bethesda would humor. Are you really willing to devote so many resources toward building it? Consider how core it is to your game, and how the player may not actually be able to see the logic behind it anyway. If the rest of your game can't create intense immersion in your world, than this system will be propping up an illusion that doesn't exist, and will seem unnecessarily cumbersome.
>>144528965
no idea how to make it bigger without it looking shitter than it already is
>>144547902
Let's not get carried away. J Mascis is fine, but there are plenty of better guitarists. I know dinosaur jr is probably your favourite band right now but don't make yourself look foolish.
>>144547663
who is this titty tantalizer
>>144547663
Make a function that calculates the profitability of each trip, like trade value over travel time, and have that pick out the best path. Actually getting the travel to work properly will be a little annoying.
>>144545773
>test it a few more times
>it doesn't actually work
>>144532057
coming along nicely anon, didn't expect this after the slam slapping so soon. Now I've got to finish my stuff.
>>144544434
Have you emailed the guy organizing teams for SPACE COLLAB JULY 14-31 ???
It was mean-spirited for the OP to remove the pastebin.
>>144547902
i've played guitar for 8 years so i think i have some credibility.
whereas you're just a contrarian artfag who listens to shitty 90's music.
>>144546653
no need for that. my game can handle moving agents along roads and also can handle the situation when two agents meet
>>144547396
It works like a generic RPG in general terms, but at the atomic level it is something else entirely.
It doesn't have the 3D or 2D map on which a lot of RPG's depend on. It ony has menus. You can move on any road and you can wander off road through another menu system, but there is no "click on the map where you want to go". You either turn left or right on the road fork or you try to search for an object in a certain wilderness region and after inding it, you search for a way back to the road.
The explanatin is a clusterfuck, but when it all comes together it works quite like an Elder Scrolls game.
>>144545014
>>144547925
>witnessing a collab being born
>>144548183
Thanks for the heads up. Don't worry, it's only during a couple menus and the only time it will activate is when the player confirms a selection. I'll try both the string version and the *10 version.
![emperors-new-groove-disneyscreencaps.com-1066[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Uq6KaDy.jpg "emperors-new-groove-disneyscreencaps.com-1066[1]")
>>144545773
>write 500 lines of code without stopping to test anything even once
>it compiles without even a warning and works flawlessly
>can't stick to a project
>that doubt begins to set in
>feel like just quitting
fuck
Okay, so I have my 2d platformer 100% working. Now I just need a theme so I can start with the art.
>>144548757
So its kind of like one of the old text adventures but with an interface? That simplifies it a lot. Im betting that moving around the world is a lot easier in your system then it would be if the game was full 3D like an ES game.
>>144548725
actually I've been playing for about 10 years
and how could you possibly have been playing for so long wihtout knowing who J Mascis, (an 80's musician btw, not 90's) is, considering the impact he had on guitar driven music (notably, most of the influence was noticable in the 1990's, such as nirvana)
>guitarist dick measuring contest in my thread
take your meme instruments and fuck off
>>144548781
This is the best feeling in the world.
>>144546793
>>144544591
I'm not the original asker of those questions, but you have my gratitude. Thank you!
>>144549162
More like memestruments, am I right
If you want to collab for Space Jam but want someone else to set you up on a team, a friendly anon took initiative to set up teams, just email him answering a few short questions, and use a throwaway email if you think anyone gives a shit about your personal information.
Info here:
http://pastebin.com/NEPv0pPC
How many lines of code is your game, /agdg/?
>>144549162
shut up and fix your physics, enginedev. books aren't supposed to open and close and flap around by themselves when left alone on a desk.
>>144549323
1mil+ lines
.5mil+lines counting only OS, and engine
>>144549323
Taken last week or so. I've coded one or two thousand more lines since then.
>>144549301
>but I don't think I'm good enough, I'll be wasting their time
This came up before and teamanon said a number of total beginners have written with interest in a chill attempt at making game.
>>144549323
its big
its really big
>>144548759
I'm the only one who births collabs here.
if you wanna be placed in a collab email me at [email protected] answering these questions:
"I have decided to take the initiative and make the groups based on stats you guys give me.
if you want to collaborate on this jam, email me at
[email protected]
answering the following questions:
>what is an original (appropriate) name that i can refer to you as when i post the list of groups?
>What is your area of expertise and skill level?
briefly describe what you are good at in game deving/what you can do. preferably rate yourself honestly on these skills so I can place you with a suited group.
>what experience do you have making games?
>What are your ambitions with this jam?
are you going to be spending day and night working crazy to make something super awesome? do you have work/school and cant garuntee your availability? tell me all this :P
>Are you willing to work with less experienced devs? more experienced?
are you willing to be a leader for your group and work with some possibly less experienced devs or would you absolutely require someone veteran? Tell me and ill see what i can do (this is hard to guarantee.
>Your contact info
please leave as much as you are willing for your group members to contact you and arrange a group chat for the collab. Make a throwaway if you're worried about anonymity.
that should be everything..
this is designed for you all to have fun working together on this. try to work together with your team mates and make something great!
i will email you with the contact info of your group members on July 14 and let you guys arrange the group chat. Late comers are welcome to participate in this jam but should set up their own collab in the thread.
reposting 4 tha afternoon crowd.
>tfw just made my first non hostile npc in my game
Its so comfy. I have a friend in this empty world now.
>>144550261
i gave my brainless enemies some kind of idle ai where they just walk around, pair up for a while (to imitate talking) and continue walking
really does feel comfy as fuck
>>144549957
>I'm the only one who births collabs here.
Check yourself friend, appreciate your work here but your position is temporary until we work out how to do collabs via the website.
>>144549057
i don't know i think it's because i have actual taste in music. as far as the guitar goes, i think 70's guys like blackmore, page, hendrix, iommi, gilmour are the most inspiring of all.
with hendrix he was truly something special with the way he moved around the fretboard, playing multiple notes at the same time. at the time nobody played like him and nobody was as original as him. this was back in the mid-late 60's when the beatles were still releasing albums.
>pleb-tier guitar ITT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TmiDC_a6ss
>>144550518
thats super cute. I love when games do this
>>144550715
only joking mango
>>144550715
Reminder that (besides design changes) I'm not working on a collab system for the site until more anons fills out the feedback form on the home page to tell me how they'd like the system to work.
I'm working on my roguelite shop simulator in the meantime.
>>144547663
(cont.)
there could arise the problem where all of the caravans travel by the same route eventually
perhaps instead of changing the system, I could tailor the gameworld to make it work better. namely make big trade hubs far from each other. preferrably so that there are several minor locations on the roads from one place to another
>>144548020
my game is more an RPG than some sort of trading sim. But I plan on having events where a city or five get majorly sacked and thus their trade value diminishes marginally.
>>144548336
I strive for a little bit more realism than TES series.
>>144548489
I thought about having an A* algorythm calculate a path based on trade value over travel time. And there would be a randomised parameter of how long that trip can be, from 1 week to say 3 months. The entire path would be calculated before the journey and the caravan having to commit to that path until it is done.
>>144548547
I have not, mind filling me in on the details? I've missed the past few threads.
>>144545097
Progress
>>144545221
>>144545398
I haven't forgotten you guys!
how do I set up an LLC
>>144550784
>i have actual taste in music
>le music taste is superior
>listens to fucking hendrix
take your random not and whammy fuckery elsewhere you gormless dolt
>>144551410
>>144549957
>>144551240
That's understandable. It's an interesting problem. I'm more excited about seeing your roguelike turn into a shop simulator tho tbqh
>>144551538
listen to angsty music for teenagers isn't exactly much better man
excuse me, real music coming through
>>144551574
I don't think I'm going to do traditional roguelike gameplay anymore (turn-based, fog of war, Dice-rolling combat). I've been trying to draw up design docs and scope it all day and I've come up with something I think is a realistic scope and makes sense gameplay wise for progression and challenge. I'd post it, but I'd rather post gameplay progress when my engine is further along instead of idea-guying.
>>144551538
you don't get what i'm saying
kys
>>144548996
Yea, it is kinda like a text adventure with interface. One can move around the world easily, sure. But thanks to this text adventure style, I can make the world pretty big without going down the daggerfall route. So a trek from one major city to another could take days or even weeks. But the catch of the setting is that the wilds are pretty dangerous. Sorta like the Pandora from Avatar movie. Nothing too dangerous that a group of armored mercenaries couldn't overcome, but dangerous enough that weak peasants would get eaten at the first night if they were alone. So, for safety in the beginning of the game, caravans should be the go to choice.
>>144551953
bitch
what you know about music
ITT 2 guitarists who cant play even barre chords discussing the pinnacle of technique
>>144551775
Good thing I don't
Alright I am done working on this map, time for some levels.
>>144551410
that's a real cutie
>>144552795
Dinosaur Jr and Nirvana are the definition of angsty teenager music.
this thread needs to check out my soundcloud for real music...
im sorry
https://soundcloud.com/user-795244489
>>144552816
Will you be in the next Demo Day?
>>144553201
Yes that is the plan!
>>144550261
>>144550518
>comfy
this. cant wait to add more npcs/enemies/life/props to my dead-looking map.
So now the AI is improved; they can use FTL and they go after capture points.
If I want things on a grand scale (i.e. monsters, dragons, etc) am I best off going with a 2d game? 3D seems like it would require a lot more time for those things.
>>144553003
Did you find a game yet?
I like your music
>>144553352
that thread is full of proof that talent is real
>>144553712
I guarantee you every decent pixel artist there has worked for a long ass time at their craft.
>>144553635
thank you. i haven't found a game. just made those two tracks in a day each and im gonna make my next one longer.
>>144553712
Reality is subjective
>>144553712
>being good at something means you're talented
>>144553942
>tfw born with the painting talent gene but not the pixel art talent gene
life is really unfair
>>144552503
But what if it do?
ruh roh
>and it was all going so well
>>144554462
>agdg told
>>144554462
Some of us dont have all day to make pizza crust, we're just hungry.
>>144554710
Everyone has all day each day
>>144554491
>lain
>lain2
>lain3
wtf anon?Also your install is broken, uninstall reinstall
>>144554565
not really
I mean the analogy makes sense, most of us do this stuff poorly, and purely as a hobby
making a home pizza with premade crust still suggests that you enjoy the process of creation over simply ordering pizza and hey, it can turn out pretty delicious still
>>144552816
This is a very nice map!
Have some criticism:
-These green cylinders don't really look like trees. If they are, try making them a bit more tree-shaped.
-Clouds and shadows don't seem synchronized (e.g. that cloud dangerously close to the ground on the very left; that lone shadow above the rightmost cloud).
-Get rid of the sideways bobbing water on the top of the map, it messes with the perspective.
-Maybe make the cloud bumps a bit rounder?
Otherwise, it's both fancy and comfy. I especially like the colors. Great work!
>>144554810
>deliberately missing the point
not everyone is a neet.
>>144554491
you've probably run out of memory. serves you right for running UE4 on a potato
>>144554462
Tommy, Jonny and Casey are honestly the fucking poster boys of NIH syndrome and they're stuck in their circlejerk bubble full of yes men reinforcing this shit.
Is this cunt really trying to imply that anything he has ever written can compare to Unreal Engine 4, CryEngine or idTech 6? This is the guy who kept telling everyone he knew what he was doing while his game got rekt by a simple SQL vulnerability. He really has no ground to stand on when it comes to criticizing other programmers.
my unity project just crashed and deleted my anime folder
>>144554462
guy seems a bit full of himself
>it's a "bullying enginedevs" episode
>>144554819
the lain thing is weeb garbage that's best ignored, and I trie verifying the installent
changed nothing
it's the map alone, the single umap file, everything else works. it's a simple file mind you so re-creating it wont be a hassle if I have to but...it worked yesterday...;~;
>>144554962
good, you dont need that shit, keep dving bro
>>144554902
My point stands but I'm bracing for endless excuses
>>144552816
Looks comfy as fuck, but why are the clouds not more squarish like the rest of your stuff?
>>144552816
btw i really like your game and i composed this piece after getting inspired by it
https://soundcloud.com/user-795244489/beach-theme-waves
>>144554962
Download some Manga. It's lightweight.
>>144554906
that is not the case
>>144555031
I am an enginedev but I can recognize that UE4 is way beyond anything a single person could do. Is it maybe more convoluted than your own engine? Sure, but it also has every damn feature you could ever want.
To me it seems like Tommy, Jonny and the rest of that clique all use some piece of software for about 5 minutes before throwing their hands up and going "I'd better reimplement this!". Jonny came up with his own fucking serialization format for the Witness, for fuck's sake. These guys just constantly complain about every piece of software they can think of, but what are they doing to change it? They're never going to license their engines to anyone because they know they'd get fucking ripped apart.
Feels good to get back to devving. Working on adding oversized, 2-handed weapons.
>>144555089
Because they are more placeholders at the moment. But I do like the idea of more square stuff.
>>144554861
With the sideways bobbing water do you think it would be better if I just moved the height of the bobbing down a bit? Also I realized why the clouds weren't in sync so thanks for pointing that out. The cylinders were supposed to be dopey hills, but they ended up looking flat, OOPS.
>>144555132
That's really pretty and peaceful, do you happen to have more tracks that I can listen to at the moment?
>>144555526
>>144555526
damn thats alot of frames i cant even get past two xD
>>144555745
That's not even the main file for the player animations haha. I made a new one for the Great Weapons since they need a bigger canvas.
>>144555495
>Jonny came up with his own fucking serialization format for the Witness, for fuck's sake.
That's a good thing. If you know what you need to save and load, you don't need an overly generalized format that takes up more space on the user's drive and makes them wait longer in loading screens. Sure, there's such thing as NIH syndrome, but this doesn't count. It could be premature optimization, but for all we know they could have done this later in development specifically to solve those issues.
Just like how premature optimization has the flipside of premature pessimization, the converse of NIH syndrome should also be talked about. It's not always bad to do something yourself if there are already existing solutions - they might be quite suboptimal for your use case. And you can talk about specific use cases when you're developing an engine for a game and not an engine like UE4 or Unity that has to be used for thousands of completely different games.
>>144555526
we missed you
how's the new job?
>>144556037
Now I kinda want to see that in movement.
Missed waifu jam, but pretty happy with what I've got so far
>>144556037
holy shet show us some gameplay dude that look so well done
>>144554302
I don't understand your question?
>>144556238
It's not bad, thanks for asking. It's been pretty insane for the first week, trying to figure out how their workflow and systems work, since the guy who was supposed to train me quit.
>>144555636
>do you think it would be better if I just moved the height of the bobbing down a bit?
If you move them town by the exact height of your brown dirt ledges, it could work! See pic related.
P.S. there's still some light blue on the top edges of the map, also see pic related. Gotta remove that.
>>144556474
>its dont
But what if it do? If it's do the problems weren't.
You dont think it be like it is. But it do.
>>144556070
He said that even the slow version of his serialization format which just used text files (i.e. the equivalent of a JSON or XML parser) was more than fast enough. So he spent ~a month on what could have been an afternoon adding a single header file to the project.
The Witness took 10+ people 5 years to make. The game is fairly big and has a large variety of assets, sure. But I can't imagine anyone thinking that's a reasonable amount of time for that game if they didn't have to repurpose the Braid engine and bolt on a ton of features they would have gotten for free with any other engine. Despite that he keeps acting like a smug cunt about how superior he is, how using an engine is terrible etc. when it could literally have saved years of man-hours spent on the game.
hey guys, just wanted to say I've kindof been having a shit day all day but reading through this thread made me feel better and gave me some motivation.
go get it.
>>144556569
I am trying to find the brown spec and I am undable to find it all. I'll keep an eye out for it thanks!
>>144557097
juicy af
>>144557097
Honestly you are one of the many things that is making me wanna switch from unity to GM:S. I don't get shit done in unity and I remember the brief time I spent in GM was workflow as fuck.
>>144557097
sheet it looks dope i remember you bro, keep the good work coming!
>downloaded VS2015 community
>tried to build Godot
>error
>no idea what i'm doing
building things is too hard, I should just stick to babby scripting.
>>144556974
It's a judgement call, really.
You can't say that every game should use a prebuilt engine or that no game should, and you can't say that every feature should come from a library or that nothing should.
It's almost even personal preference. For example, I have little interest in writing code for audio or cross-platform abstraction, so I'll use comprehensive libraries for those things. On the other hand, I'm very interested in engine architecture and graphics programming, so I'll enjoy rolling my own solutions for those. Also depends what you want to do, like if you're making a game that requires precise control over reliable, deterministic physics, you want to stay away from things like PhysX.
>>144557584
You can literally download Godot on Steam
>>144557370
>>144557474
Thanks guys, I appreciate it!
>>144557471
I really enjoy Game Maker: Studio, and have always used it (or previously, other GM versions). However I don't work in 3D at all, so it works for me.
>>144557701
I know, but I wanted to build the latest commits.
>>144557257
its gonna be okay bro !
>>144554302
>>144556570
Do you mean:
>What if I don't?
Well, you can travel without using a caravan. But then you have to find your own food. You have to make your own camp for night and you have to bushcraft a shelter for the night. And you have to accept that some animals are gonna attack you during your sleep. If your character is not skilled enough to fight angry forest dwellers then your character will die. So better off hitching a ride with one of those caravans.
To the musicbros in this thread.
I'm making a rhythm game (the one with the bunny girlWHICH IS NOT FOR LEWD SO STOP SAYING YOU WANT TO DO LEWD THINGS WITH HER).
Of course I'm going to need songs to play to, but I have some requests and I need to know if they're actually achievable before I think of commissioning anything.
1. Can you make a song (even a short one) focusing on 3 or 4 distinct notes?
2. is there a way to "visualize" the song so that I can keep track of which note plays at which second and the distance between notes? I know another guy uses an extension that automatically does this with any track but I wouldn't know where to start so I'm currently doing it manually.
Thanks.
>>144525559
>Space music
Not that anon but here anon, for you:
https://clyp.it/uj2reigh
You're welcome
>>144557673
Yeah, I can agree with that. That's why I think these guys are such cunts, because they don't understand that making everything from the ground up isn't a net positive for every project, and that their opinions aren't infallible. It's just insulting to read shit like >>144554462 from a guy who AFAIK hasn't made a single 3D game. Yeah, your flash games are definitely the artisan pizza here, and the engine with 20 years of development history from hundreds of contributors that is at the cutting edge of real time graphics is the store bought variety.
And by the way, fucking "artisan pizza"? Last time I heard that combination of words it was as a joke.
>>144548504
>it turns out the fix requires restructuring all of the code, and the restructuring means some of the integral design choices you made were "wrong", so for the cleanest possible codebase you'd really need to just throw it all out and start over
>these people getting so upset over a random tweet joke
autism
>tfw been wanting to make a game for over a year now with an idea that I've had for almost as long but never actually started
Since I have a bit of free time I figured I might as well start. Though I'm unsure of what engine to use, my idea is a kind of 2D RPG/Platformer. Kind of like Shovel Knight and Rogue Legacy but a bit more open and RPG like.
I was thinking of using UE4 since it probably uses the most documentable language for me to read up on (I downloaded a ton of books from the /g/ ftp for basically any language I'd need to top up on) though looking through the thread, Game Maker seems like it could be a decent choice since it might make things easier for me.
Anyone got thoughts on either of those engines for 2D?
I'll welcome other suggestions for me to have a look at too, I'm by no means settled on one of the two.
>>144558325
>joke
If you'd actually seen some of the shit these people post on their twitter's you'd know very well that it isn't a joke.
>>144558352
>2D
>UE4
No.
>>144558402
Why not? It says it can do 2D and since it's probably one of the most popular engines I reckon I'd find quite a bit of stuff to read on how to build a 2D game in it.
>>144558352
Write it yourself desu.
>>144558325
hi tommy
>>144558000
Could use chords instead of specific notes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
>>144551289
>there could arise the problem where all of the caravans travel by the same route eventually
When a caravan picks a path, have it subtract the amount of trade value it will "take" immediately rather than when it arrives.
have 2 trade value variables if you want to use trade value for something else.
>>144558569
Who could ever be able to sleep in a bed like that?
Why would someone take a shower sitting in the toilet?
>>144558783
Toilet could be a fold out or comes out from inside the wall or something.
Bed depends on the size of the room since there's no dimensions on the image.
>>144555636
there is the other track on my soundcloud which you may have already heard.
https://soundcloud.com/user-795244489/relaxing-vidya-theme
aside from that there's not much else but i'm planning on making more soon.
there is an 8 minute improvisation but its not really suited for a video game. if you'd like:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s17LamLHGUtT
thank you for the feedback btw
>>144558783
I sleep in fetal position
>>144558783
When I was looking for an apartment there was one that had the shower above the toilet like that
The broker tried to play it off like it was no big deal but jesus christ I was out of there seconds later
>>144558000
>>144558687
Second this Anon. But I'm guessing what you mean is a "theme" that plays recurringly. But if you just want continuity between the songs chords are another easier way to do it.
>>144555031
>tfw have to enginedev because my computer is a piece of shit
>>144558569
Do you mean write the engine myself?
>>144547583
if the numbers (at least of the lesser variable) are always in a known range that has the same number of base-10 digits (so e.g. 2-7 or 23-77 but not 7-12) you can just multiply the greater by the number of digits the lesser has and add them.
So for the example in >>144545471 :
selector_z = selector_x*10+selector_y
Otherwise it gets a bit more complex; you'll need to find the number of digits in the lesser variable.
selector_z = selector_x*ceil(log10(selector_y))+selector_y
dunno much about gamemaker but I assume you have access to a log10 function.
>>144559053
>>144558680
That's pretty cool. Yeah I guess chords would work perfectly.
The thing I would need the most though it some kind of song sheet that lets me see which notes or chords are being played and the distance between them so that I can convert them in game format.
>>144559147
No, the game. Writing one single game and writing a game engine are completely different things. A lot of people don't seem to get this.
You don't need a full blown engine for a 2D game.
>>144558526
unreal doesn't have too much information about it, especially compared to something like unity. 2d unreal has hardly any documentation.
>>144560014
easy for you to say anime
>>144560014
I really am too stressed. Does meditation work? I should try that.
How many layers of parallax scrolling can you add before it goes from juicy to stupid?
>>144560431
3-4
what do you guys use for todo lists & planning?
>>144560419
What does /agdg/ think of New Game?
>>144560654
Paper, but Trello is good apparently.
>>144560431
whatever Ulillillia says
>>144560654
Text editor and plain text files
>>144560334
It does work. Try it.
Headspace is a good app to get you started.
>>144559494
I don't think it's a "people don't get this" as much as it is "people don't agree on what an engine is".
>>144560654
ive been using trello for this project and it is good so far
>>144560431
It goes stupid once you cross the line between "background of parallax scrolling layers" and "3D background". Speaking of Ulillillia, he would be firmly seated on the latter end of the spectrum.
>>144560654
notepad and pen u pleb
>>144560719
Best gamedev manga
>>144560910
>>144561270
Who is Ulillillia and can you show me examples of his over the top parallax scrolling?
>can't get health bar to render at the correct spot
>spend an hour messing with the numbers, adding and subtracting the camera position and the screen width/height
>about to rip my hair out
>turns out i didn't need any of that, just to render it at (0,0)
>>144561667
I'll notepad your pen.
Is HaxeFlixel any good? Or is it a meme?
>>144561897
Meme
>>144561748
*ahem*
>>144560654
Remember what I'm going to do.
>Write unit vector function
>Figure out why missile aren't being created
>Add difficulty modes
>[several hours of sins of a solar empire and watching star trek]
>Add more enemies
Haha ok switching to a 3/4 perspective for the left and right facings now, I can't make a side on view look human let alone nice.
>>144560654
notepad.exe
>>144562213
Looks fine
Just ditch the shitty short hair
>>144562149
And your reasoning is..?
>>144562208
I meant to put [several hours of sins and star trek] between every line
>>144562304
I'm learning how to into art, gotta get skull shape down and not looking deformed before I move onto hairstyles proper.
Going to make the npc models be simplified and give the characters portraits in dialog so I have an easier time doing fancy shit like drill hair.
>>144561819
bully me senpai~
>>144561819
more like "pencil" his whatever
>>144558687
Yea this seems reasonable.
Now I found another problem. This simulacra method will probably not return desired results with small islands.
See example pic I have provided. Red dots are example cities, brown lines are roads and blue lines are the possible paths any ship can take. Red arrows point to problematic areas.
There is no way that a trade caravan from mainland can end up on one of those islands. And if a trade caravan should happen to spawn on one of those islands, it will be destined to stay on that island, travelling between the only two cities indefinately or until smth kills them.
This is not desired.
>>144563538
let them take ship routes but give it a high pathfinding cost.
remember that what you're working on here is LITERALLY the traveling salesman problem so don't worry about it finding true optimal routes.
>Ulillillia doesn't come to /agdg/ and talk about gamedev
>>144558352
then you are lazy
when you have the drive but not the doing its called laziness
>>144563703
so that a caravan would essentially rent a ship to make the required sea voyage?
I don't know if it would be realistic thematically, but the solution you offered - I like it
>>144558352
>>144564027
Sadly these posts are a dime a dozen. You really need to just start doing and posting on here for a couple (You)s to feel a part of game dev. I would know.
>>144564502
The alternative is have some threshold of trade value/path cost that makes a caravan disband due to starvation; so you'll have caravans pop up in islands periodically, service all the cities, then disband.
You'd probably need a more complex dynamic spawning algorithm to ensure you get semi-regular caravans on the islands, though.
>>144557097
How do you deal with your player sprites in GM?
Do you make a separate sprite for each animation or is it all clumped together in one big sprite file where you have to find them by their number index?
>>144547167
Doom. The mapmaker lets you make entire single player campaigns/co-op, multiplayer or even MOBA-style games, and it's all drag n' drop. Don't even need any artistic skills or programming knowledge. This is where level designers shine.
>>144564709
to be clear I meant trade value divided by path cost; if it's below the threshold, your caravaneers are traveling all over creation for a pittance.
>>144564846
Do you mean in terms of changing sprites? Not that guy but I just change the sprite when the corresponding action occurs, pretty simple stuff.
There might be a better way though, I'm still new to this myself.
>>144564846
I separated mine into different sprites but I don't have too many different animations so it's manageable.
>>144565109
Not really what I meant
>>144565263
I'm currently doing this but if there's a better way I'd really like to know before I delve into making more
anyone here really good at 3d sculpting and anatomy?
Anyone doing a game with hand drawn sprites?
Would love to see if so.
>>144563127
I'm not your senpai~ you sick fuck.
>>144563472
You wanna get bullied too?
Any good links for learning monogame? Everything i find is outrageously outdated.
>not making your own language to dev your engine in
do you guys have any good manga, movies, anime etc. for game dev inspo? i've seen indie game: the movie and it was pretty good
anything else?
>>144565575
I am. Are you talking pixel art hand-drawn or like anti-aliased hand-drawn?
I think there's a couple more of us, but I think their art is still aliased like BlazBlue or SF3.
>>144565764
>monogame
it's shit. try sfml.net
>>144565563
why?
i sculpted for some time, i familiar with how brushes work and made simple things here and there
>>144565976
>not fucking off to to pretend work on something you'll complete.
>>144565976
most languages respect muh freedom
>>144566015
I don't mind really, just curious to see how people are doing it etc. I'm leaning towards it myself cos I'm better with a pencil than I am with a mouse.
>>144566035
But i want C# not C++ senpai
>>144565575
check it
>>144564874
Whoa they already have a mapmaker?
What do you think of my blaster?
Currently working on adding the mandatory big fucking lazer to my spacegame. I want to make it kind of spastic and twitchy but that makes collision detection such a struggle. Any tips?
>>144566247
refreshing
>>144566239
there's a port. that's why i said sfml.NET frendo
http://www.sfml-dev.org/download/sfml.net/
>>144566293
its a blast
>*receives rough anal gangbang from entire thread*
>>144566392
i really thought it was a website mate
sorry for that and thank you , i'll take a look!
>>144566354
your game is so sexy. are you signed up for the space jam? any group would be lucky to have you and it should be a fun time making games with new summer chums
if you are interested see here >>144549957
>>144549957
>"I'm the only one who births collabs here."
This is a joke right?
>>144566427
Do you honestly have actual criticism or opinion whatsoever?
>>144564878
>>144564709
If I understand you correctly, caravans should disband whenever it is impossible to generate a profitable route.
And to guarantee that no place goes without a caravan for too long, their spawning location should be determined semi randomly based on trade value. Of course considering currently existing paths of other trade routes.
I am the collab master
>>144566986
Want to collab on a SFW hentai character fighting game?
>>144566910
personally you are a much better artist than i but from an objective standpoint i will critique it.
looks good, could be more detailed
>>144566719
Thanks anon, i'll check it out!
>>144566976
yeah, that's what I'm suggesting if you want to avoid them hiring ships.
Just think of the spawning/despawning as a bunch of local merchants from the island hiring a few "adventurers" to escort a caravan between the island cities. Once they've arbitraged all the profits away there's no reason to keep the caravan going.
>>144566354
Not sure of your engine or how the beam is projected, but i'd suggest using raycasts along the beam to do it.
>>144566293
Looks more like a mailbox to me. Make it more cylindrical.
>>144566354
Damn, nice. Beziers, I assume? (Can't really come up with an answer, sorry.)
>>144567075
A fighting game where they try and tickle eachother
>>144567241
Game maker. Don't know if GMS supports raycasts.
>>144567703
If it supports rotated boxes you could simulate it that way (doubt it though)
>>144567703
>don't know if GMS supports raycasts.
lmao nice engine GMtards.
>>144565575
>>144566210
Here's mine. Everything is still placeholder including the catgirl, but the shrimp-looking blue girl is closer to what the art style is going to look like for everyone else.
Everything is drawn, painted and animated in Photoshop with an Intuos 4, then exported as separate .PNGs and rearranged in GameMaker Studio. The backgrounds/UI/font were also done in Photoshop. Some of the text and everything else is done with GameMaker.
If you plan on using hi-res stuff, good luck with the origin points. It took me like 3 or 4 different tries with different characters to realize I should make every character 1-size-fits all. It means having lots of empty space in my .PNGs but at least it saves me the hassle of trying to look for the correct origin so that the characters don't get stuck in the ground or float in the air. For every new character I just duplicate the file and upload a new set of sprites so that all the values stay the same. With lower-res pixel art you can use exact measurements because you can see every pixel right away and count them if you want, but it's a mess if anything is using anti-aliasing because some pixels are near invisible, on top of being in huge images.
>>144567852
No enginebullying please!
>>144567852
GM:S is probably better than your engine desu. That's why he's posting a game here and you're just being a petty little bitch.
>>144567893
that run is so damn slow. I know it most likely placeholder, but for the love of Christ I'd kill myself if i had to play through a game with that being the run speed
>>144567341
How's this?
how the fuck can a legit engine not have raycasts
what am I even reading
>>144568185
>implying he's an enginedev and not a Unity user
>>144567893
I want break my fist off in that shrimp girl's ass.
>gamemaker
>>144568204
It's a slow game. Think League of Legends, but in 2D. You can't even jump, heh. There's going to be movement abilities like a sprint/dash/teleport/escape for each character but they all have cooldowns, just like in a real moba.
>>144568185
>some engine
>lots of premade features that do a million things with loads of bloat
>your engine
>does exactly what you want, zero bloat, full control of performance
More != better.
>>144568297
Better, but you need to round this part
>>144567893
Looking great anon, and thanks for the tips! Kat5 reminds me of a cat version of Crash from Quake.
>>144537067
assets are always come later. you can always use free assets or shit ones and just add in better models/textures later. get working on your code so you actually have a game and then polish can come later.
>>144565493
>>144564846
Yup, this is how I do it. I import everything new into one big sprite, then I duplicate it into as many sprites as it contains, then shave out the parts I don't need in each sprite. It's easier than doing multiple imports from sprite sheets.
My personal naming convention has always been "spr_" but it really doesn't matter as long as you have some kind of prefix.
Post Dev Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sIBspT-YmE&list=PLVzqMAxAvWISX1AHKhRE9SDabBa7DIM-c
Anyone who wants to talk shit about gamemaker should look at the recap desu.
If your engines are so good, where are your games?
>>144569002
>starting shit.
>>144569002
game make is the most yesdev engine provided it can handle the scope of your game
>unity
who else /multiengine/ here
>unity for 3d
>GMS for 2d
>learning godot alongside
>>144548759
volkanon is based
Anyone feel like streaming? nice to get comfy with whilst devving.
>>144569002
>implying anybody talks shit about GM besides fags who want to grasp at straws to believe that Unity2D is more than a marketing lie
The current server for my game is written in java. Should I rewrite in C++?
>>144568935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIrIZyACm1s
>>144569934
If it's fast enough, why bother?
I mean, I'd use C++ over Java anyday even disregarding performance, but I'd have just started with C++ and not have to worry about rewriting.
>>144569934
yes
>>144569509
libgdx for 2D android shovelware
learning irrlicht for 3D
>change limbs from using triggers to using colliders for a new effect
>wonder why i used triggers in the first place
Oh, right.
>>144570308
Did you get the "sheared" reflection working?
>>144568816
Better?
>>144570438
Nope. Unity's tex2dproj simultaneously distorts the reflection and returns a pixel color. For this to work, I need to change the reflection offset after it's distorted but before it returns a pixel.
how do I directly access physx in unity
>>144570790
So the reflections are screen-space?
>>144570750
Now it's too round
>>144568935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTzNT8cWivo
>>144570886
Idol worship and ritual sacrifice.
>>144570962
Is this better?
>>144571257
Yep, nice
>>144568818
Thanks! Heh, she's getting a full redesign later.
>>144568443
Shrimp-fisting is not a feature I plan on adding to the game Anon, sorry.The shrimp will be the one doing the 'fisting', so keep that guard up and make sure your chin is tucked in. Don't want to leave yourself open.
>>144571346
You should give her a pistol shrimp hadouken.
>>144570890
Sort of? I think Unity divides the texture by the depth of the camera, but that's basically how perspective-correct texturing works. Only this time it does it "manually".
My plan is to somehow do a reverse version of this division and hope it cancels it out, effectively moving the reflection offset in screen space.
>>144571495
Oh, I see what you mean. So it's only doing one part of the process but it's also not letting you intervene and do the second part.
Can't you just use a "simpler" sampling function and do the projection yourself?
>>144568935
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZv6hL6aYfQ
>>144571793
>such a game is never allowed to exist
What does he mean by that?
>>144571793
whats PT
>>144571963
phantom tayne
>>144570308
>>144570790
I love your game, please finish it <3
>>144571693
That's another one of my ideas. Go into the tex2dproj function, get rid of the sampling and have it return a texture2d instead.
I'll get back to work on it when I'm done fixing a few bugs and implmenting one new feature.
>>144571893
Konami will kill it. Even if it's not one of their games. They will find it and they will destroy it. They are the Terminator of first person survival horrors set in a house. Run.
>>144571325
Whoo,thanks for the input.
>>144571346
listen to this guy
>>144571440
WHERES THE NEW THREAD
>>144573105
please include this pastebin in the op of the next thread
http://pastebin.com/NEPv0pPC
so people can find out how to enter the collab jam
it was forgotten in this one
I'm just going to stay in this thread I think
>>144573720
NEU! THREAD
>>144573568
For a while I thought that song Ophelia by the Lumineers was about Hamlet and I was fairly impressed with it. But it's not.
>>144555132
reminds me of the pokemon emerald opening.
>>144574982
i never played emerald (fire red since im only 18) but im gonna listen to it now and thanks
Is there anyway i can find the center point of the top ofcylinder on the right, place the smaller cylinder there and have blender treat it as one shape?
>>144575263
I meant the image, sorry, emerald's got some pretty neat music though.
>>144575473
extrude the shape of the smaller one out of the large
>>144575710
o its ok the image is reminiscent of it, i agree
>>144575807
I was making a battery kind of thing, cheers for the help though.I should really have more confidence in myself this shit took minutes
>>144573761
distinct lack of krautrock in that thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAXYMOgHQI4
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