/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

>random anime image
k

Reminder that this is what you'll become if you use Unity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZPbi_E2-mw

>>166455361
You're right there is a better way for sure.

I want to be able to have a dictionary of the name of the sprite, and the sprite so I can just go sprite - TextureDatabase.GetSprite("Sword"). I also want to be able to easily rename sprite sheet elments

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>>166455803
charming man

>>166455957
>shilling as a who
Oh, anon, you'll be trolled to death. Good luck with your project, nevertheless.

Does anyone know how much of a hassle it is to use F# instead of C# in regards to monogame? Any other recommendations for someone who prefers functional programming?

>>166455957
Fuck off!

>>166455957
literally who

>>166455250
This is a cute OP picture. I see it contains the AGDG logo

I'm using GML and the pause system for my game draws a background gotten from the application surface, but whenever I pause it, the opacity of translucent objects darkens. Is this a bad sign? I have a feeling that it is.

>>166455789
I'm trying a new style I learned about recently, basically you make the texture a color palette, and you just select the faces you want and move them to the right color block. I know it's a bit wasteful, but honestly who cares, it's not like it's going to impact the performance. Plus this way I can zoom in as much as I want without risking to show the pixels in the textures since it's all flat colors.

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Tell me something.

I often hear that taking the open world route for indie developpers is a mistake and that it costs too much.
But why does it cost so much ?
What's the difference between making several big zones and making one medium open world ?
It's something I see more in Japanese games. They'd rather make a game with zones (like the Yakuza series- instead of open worlds when they probably have enough contents in these zones to make it one big map.

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Finished alternate/mouse controls and polished mechanics a little bit,
I believe I never posted the character throwing the log randomly instead of using it to feed the fire before.

>>166450196
Not sure if you saw my answer because I didn't attach any pic on it
Turns out I hadn't read that one, but I had luck and found it on agdg's google drive. As always impressive work!

What is up aggy daggy
I've been gone for like a week, post progress please!

>>166457154

Zones = easier to manage content, easy to quality control, less things to worry about

>>166457154
Because open world is a stupid meme that nobody can do right and make good. People fail to realize that what they don't want is an open world, because the actualy open world people mimic is empty and boring as shit. Having smaller and multiple zones allow for easier area development and optimization of them, thus making it easier to pack content into individual places and make them more unique and worthwhile while also cutting out unneeded travel time padding that would happen in an open world game.

Smaller zones make it easier to focus on individual things per zone overall instead of worrying about the loads of issues and problems that come with a game being open. There is more for a player to do and you can easily make drastic changes in locations and visuals by just separating zones and saying "You took a boat to X" or "You went through X and found this dank volcano".

There are a lot of people that praise open world to high heaven in Japanese games because they think games like FF7 are open world, but fail to realize that Japanese games, especially JRPGs, are about the illusion of choice and openness and not actually open world, which will ALWAYS work out better in every possible way.

>>166457154
Because open world games are really good for big studios since they can work on different parts of the map concurrently.
As a single dev its burdening yourself with more work and your overall game will feel incoherent

>>166457435
where do u get you are sprites from?

>>166457519
sooo no progress?

>>166457692
I am sprites made by myself.

>>166457692
the aether

>>166457763
I made a lot of progress in World of Warcraft.

>>166457813
i made a lot of progress in diablo 3, your point?

>>166457629
Yeah but in the case of Sleeping Dogs, I think it was really well made.
Same goes for GTA San Andreas and while I know that the atmosphere in Sleeping Dogs is the reason it felt so good, I have no idea why SA's world is more fun than the other games of the series.

>>166457527
>>166457631
But then, why games made with separated zones aren't that popular in the west ?
I can't think of any western recent games that used this system. (I mean games that take places in cities or setting that's normally created in open worlds)

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where do i get a girlfriend that will help me making progress?
pic related, the crushing loneliness is killing me from the inside

>>166458092
someone took that picture, you're not fooling anyone.

>>166457519
I started my comfy jam game. I don't think I'll make it.

>>166457435
I like the style. It reminds me of RPG Maker 2003 assets, maybe RPGs like CT and DarkHalf. I especially like the FF black wizard type hat. What's the gameplay will be like?

I responded, by the way, >>166451074, but I'm glad you could find it either way, and that you liked it despite its dark tone.

>>166458262
still more progress than 95percent of this thread.

>>166458092
>tfw this anon finally gets a girlfriend and it was nothing like his expectations
lol @ you

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>Video tutorials

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>>166459548
>follow tutorial
>memory leak

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>>166459647

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>>166458583
Thanks. I was aiming for a old pc game look with this, is nice to know I got it right.
Gameplay will be really simple, at least for now. You have to keep the fire alive to keep monsters away. So, when it starts looking weaker you need to look for wood.
I don't want to promise anything yet, because I don't know if I'll get it working in time for the jam, but the original goal was to implement networking so you can sit around the campfire with other guys. It probably will be pretty similar to the cat MMO, to some degree.
>2D or 3D?
As a 1MA I'd have to stick with 2D because sadly I have zero talent for 3D assets.

Don't worry, I got very surprised on how dark things turned out, but I enjoyed it a lot anyway. You are a great writer. I'm glad I was lucky enough to earn your fics.

>>166459548
>watching tutorial
>PascalCasing variables
>camelCasing methods
>non-standard fonts in the IDE
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>166459727
>watching tutorial
You fucked up.

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>>166459685

>>166459548
>watch tutorial about thing
>doesn't do thing how I want
>repeat

I eventually just did it without a tutorial. Involved lots of if/else statements.

>>166459854
Hi, toby.

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>>166457519
I made a single small enemy sprite. Got music to work after fumbling around a bit. But nothing major really.

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>>166459854
I'm so tired of this

>>166459962
Right is better.
I should rewatch Hyouka though, it was so good

>>166459685
whats the cat mmo you refer to?

anyone need voice acting ?

My post on tumblr got liked/reblogged by Black Shell Media

what is this I've seen some posts about it here

>>166460324
can you do cute anime onee-chan voices?

>>166460148
ChatChat, made by the same guy behind VVVVVV

>>166460148
http://www.kongregate.com/games/TerryCavanagh_B/chatchat

>>166459685
Looking forward to it! Even if it's out of the scope for a jam game, I wonder how the multiplayer aspect would play. Hope you'll come around to it later. That would be super comfy.

How is networking handled in GM, by the way? Is there a GM server which you "rent" or do you have to set up your own rig?

All those nice words I'm not worthy of. ;_; Thank you and have a nice day!

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>>166460328
They're supposed to shill your game for you and take a bunch of the profits.

@166458092
>making fun of sysad
kys

>Modifying the default material in one UE4 project modifies it in every UE4 project

Really?

>>166460796
>>166460328
>Black Shell Media
Seems pretty pointless.

>Steam 30%
>BSM another 30%
>UE4? 5%
So you get 40-35% of the profits from your game, that you developed all on your own.
If you co-own the title, with one other person, that ends up being 20-17% instead. You'll probably already have had to pay for sounds, and maybe even music.

If the game really is great... Then somebody should pick it up, or you can pay some streamer to play it for $200-300 instead.

>>166461037

I'd give away 100% of my game if it sold

>>166461037
pointless if they don't shill the ever-living fuck out of your game, ya

Also what happened to Way of the Red? Even Social Interaction Trainer is outperforming it.

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>>166461085
>getting 100% cucked just to get your game out there
Disgusting

>>166460328
they're a """publisher""" whose marketing strategy involves firing up 10-15 twitter bots and flooding various hashtags with projectile e-vomit then taking 30% of your profits in exchange for this valuable ""service""

>>166461131

Acceptable losses. You're not gonna strike it rich with one game alone.

>>166461206
I've already made huge porgress on paying for my apartment on a single game. I don't need to be rich.

>>166461183
>>166461037
>>166460796

Okay so stay the fuck away from Black Shell Media. Got it. Thanks dudes.

>>166460487
no

>>166460487
Not him but I can, will trade for qt nature sprites

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SS13 port! Please contribute

https://github.com/pauls313/Space-Station-17

>>166461359
>implying ss13-likes aren't a creative/productive black hole
Literally at least the 30th person from here to start on something like that

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How does Terraria get away with not being pixel perfect? Was I hoodwinked? Did agdg autism about pixels get to me?

>>166461435
normies don't care about pixel autism like /agdg/ does.

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play my game jam game here

https://lukesanderson18.github.io/Bum-Note/

gib feedback
i know the controls are kinda hard to get used to

>>166461415
My nigga, this is my 10th attempt at a port. All of the other attempts failed due to bad engine choice or bad design, but I learned my lesson and found the best engine, plus all I code is meant to be as flexible as possible

>>166461274
>>166461183
I have no idea, it really would just be about how well their service works.

If their service really is twitter bots, then it seem to be pointless.
But their site says they'll put in ads on pc gamer magazines and the likes... But maybe that's just for their very high performing clients.

If they can double your sales, it's worth it (even if you earn a bit less, your next game might get more attention, and better on your resume).

>>166461435
Yes you were hoodwinked. A lot of the top pixel art games have mixels. Normies really don't give a fuck.

Get a load of:
Stardew Valley
Binding of Isaac
Shovel Knight

to name a few

>>166461435
if you want to impress over game devs, make a game that's pixel perfect

if you want to impress players, make a game that's fun to play

>>166461617
shovel knight doesnt have mixels...?
plus its one of the only NES styled games that actually tries to keep the resolution (minus the widescreen of course)

>>166461719
Look more closely at the background, Anon.

>>166460785
Thanks! I'll do my best on it.
With GM you set up your own server. Pretty simple and straightforward, and I kinda like it better that way.
For this project I wanted to test a different approach and connect through an irc protocol, to make sure I have a working server 24/7. It won't be the most efficient way, and a lot of things could go very wrong, but since the game will be really simple, it seems like a good chance to make the experiment, just for fun.

You are worthy of them, anon. You gave me a lot of motiviation I needed. Have a nice day too!

>>166461719
Also they squish the entire screen depending on the resolution, meaning you'll get skewed upscaled pixels.

>>166460796
>Dungeon Souls devs fell for it
Literally everything else they have is shovelware and Dungeon Souls is a RoR ripoff.

>>166461816
Sanctuary Black and Overture did well too.

>>166461556
Ok, I just googled it a little.
Seem like they're a "scam publisher".

Fires up twitter bots, likely only tweeting other bots, and then take a large cut of your revenue.

>>166461359
pay me or no

>>166461523
the controls are kinda hard to get used to

>>166461921

Jokes on them, my game is free

>>166461620
>not doing both
>implying i dev

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/BlueprintAPI/Online/TurnBased/index.html

EPIC documentation

>>166457629
>>>/v/

stupid idea guy nodev with no sense of design

>>166463001
>1ma Open World dev who will never ever finish a game

>>166463062
just limit your scope bro

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>>166463062
not him, but im 1ma an open world seemless multiplayer rpg

and im making good progress :)

only like a month in and i have 3 partial zones and multiplayer working

https://youtu.be/UwupgFm6UHA

>>166463203

what the fuck lamo

>>166463332
haha :D

>>166463203
Top fucking kek

Now I know I'm not a complete failure, thanks

I released a trailer for my game :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPOIlHxvJeI

Please tell me your thoughts, /agdg/.

>>166463513
Nah you are, you just don't know yet.

>>166463513
well that makes me sad :(

>>166463530
its shit.

>>166463530

graphics shit
wanna be skyrim 2/10

>>166463530
7.8/10
Too much water.

>>166463530
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-cXdFMByM
get on my level man.

>>166463530
2D>3D

>>166463530
>palm trees in the ocean
>palm trees on cliffs
>palm trees in a desert
chill the fuck out with the palm trees

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Are there any unreal friends around? How do I do something like pic related. I want to keep the turn going until the player activates every unit they have available.

>>166463647
Fuck that project is still alive? I'm not sure I wanted to watch that.

>>166461535
>best engine
>love2D
pick one

>>166463693
Don't forget the palm trees in the forest and in the rainforest!

>>166463707
Why don't you try writing some code instead of dragon dropping spaghetti?

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>>166463597
>>166463610
>>166463638
>>166463675
Wow, way to be rude guys, I'm never gonna post progress ever again.

>>166463693
>>166463873
Pic related.
>"I wonder where..."

>>166455250
is there a good tutorial for understanding how properly update your game?

For instance, the player presses a button to poison an enemy. The enemy takes damage for 10 seconds then dies.
This scenario sounds so simple, but when I try to implement it, the code seems to be overly complicated.

>>166464546
Coroutines.

need comfy jam ideas for 3d, please I'm desperate and keep in mind I'm 1MA

>>166464671

I know this feel.

>>166464671
i always find harvest moon the comfiest

>>166464546
that's just a loop using a while
>enemy gets poisoned
>start loop
>make each loop last 1 second
>damage enemy
>when you reach 10 repeateas loop stops
>enemy is kill

>>166461359
Add a license to the project.

>>166464671
A game about the solace of death. I've always found that to be a fairly comfy subject.

>>166464546
O
O
P

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>>166465197

>>166465197
It's a meme, no one uses OOP anymore

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Who /nice warm cup of coffee and ready to yesdev/ here?

>>166465703
who /quitdrinkingcoffeeandisnowapplejuicemasterrace/ here?

>>166465097
License?

>>166465798
>>166465703
It's all about the true gamer fuel: water.

"Today is the day I start my Comfy Jam game," the nodev said to himself, for the seventh day in a row.

trying to make pixel art is draining all my energy desu, how much would it cost to pay an artist to do it for me? game's like SV

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>>166465703
Bihourly reminder that a healthy lifestyle and healthy mind is the key to making progress! Eat your greens! Socialize! Donate to a charity! You're not making excuses, right, Anonyboy?

>>166456094
>have a balaclava so I can put it on my head and make meme piracy joke pictures
>also visit /k/ so I have a bought several guns, most of them for joke purpose too

I'm in for some really awkward situations if police ever searches my house.

>>166465931
Comfy jam hasn't even actually started, why is everyone going at it already?

>>166466104
More time = epicer game

>>166465972
Streetfighter V?

>>166466104
every homo jam with the subject revealed before the start date is like this

>>166465931
But ive alredy started my comfyjam game

>>166466228
stardew valley

>>166465992
>donate to charity
shut the fuck up moron

>>166465992
>Donate to a charity
B-but i am a charity case anon

>>166465807
The /tg/station branch (and derivatives) of SS13 is GPLed (not sure about the others), you might as well add a freetard license since you put the source on Github anyway

>>166465992
> Socialize! Donate to a charity! You're not making excuses, right, Anonyboy?

Looks to me like you're making excuses not to dev. Nothing will get your game done any faster other than actually working on it.

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>>166465992
Socialize? I'm an aspie, so no thanks. Donate to charity, I don't have any money, so no thanks.

>>166465992
wtf who put that duck in the trash

>>166466562
it's a cock

>>166466598
you sicko pervert
its clearly a duck its quacking

>>166466860
I think that you might be "quacked" in your head.

>>166458092
>full buddha sitting on the floor
>surrounded by PCs

This is some next level Nirvana shit.

>>166466095
you're in for a not so awkward moment if niggers invade your home
you did the right thing

Using a premade engine such as Unity is like getting another man to fuck your wife.

>>166467274
are you that guy who kept writing shit like "Hanging out with my game! :)" and "My game brought up doing a threesome last night. I'm feeling a tiny bit insecure!" for a while

>>166467274
this

Better make your own engine, it's like having a daughter and raising her for future fun.

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>>166467274
>>166467428

>>166467428
>Better make your own engine, it's like having a daughter and raising her for future fun.

Except you have to raise her for 18 years before finally having sex with her.

>>166467584
Gj you found the problem.

>>166467524
bait: the comic

>>166467524
lol

>>166467691
t. child playing with his toys

>>166467524
Revealed: most /agdg/ posters have ADD

>>166467524
Moral of the Story: Only niggers use Open Sores

>>166465703
>tfw woke up sick
>coughing and sneezing non-stop
>literally can't even code because I'm sneezing so much
This is awful.

>>166467524
>shield insignia
Nice touch mate.

>>166467926
I'm surprised how much snot my nose created nonstop all day.

So hard to concentrate...

>>166465992
Socialization is the biggest progress drain ever.

>>166467524
Notice how Unreal was the only one that did the job.

>>166468162
>go out with people
>come home and too tired to do anything
Every time.

>>166468245
But the princess is going to vanish.
Game maker is the best option

>>166468245
game maker did it too

>>166468162
>>166468406
>normies
Not even once.

>>166468589
But if we base ourselves on the comic, GM is the best option for non-normies.
You get the job done in the end, who cares what people think of you.
>>>/out/

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>>166463530
>Zelda taking bath

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I need some advice.
My dream is to make good games.
I'm in software engineering degree.
If I work in games, I'll be overworked and paid 50k.
If I work in software I'll make 80k.
Should I simply get a job in software and then pay starving Indies to make a game?

It seems the more reasonable plan.

>>166469181
Get a job in software and do gamedev as a hobby on the side. Once you're established, then make your own games and pace yourself however you want.

>ProBuilder is free
>Dev asks to stop using it after GGJ17

Wtf

>>166469354
Hurry. Grab the download while you can.

>>166469431
I did but it's just... weird.

>>166469297
Is impossible for a single guy to make something that can compete with what studios make.

>>166469525
Why do you want to compete with studios?

Anyone has some good tutorials for memepoly?

Also should I just deal with it and learn blendur, or I can get away with shit like sketchup or pirated 3dmax?

>>166463530
>Next gen

Typical Unity asset flip trash. Shoulda used UE4

>>166469621
dont make games to compete with studios, successful indies are mostly passion projects

>>166464546
delegates, events and coroutines.

>>166463784
This
Love2d is a meme and a bad meme at that
Terrible performance, absolutely awful

>>166469621
Because of quality.
Sure, cave story is fine, but do people give a fuck about it?
My nephew refuses to play indie games on the PC.
We need to accept is better to make teams.

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Serial Blueprint abuser here, decided I need to learn C++ proper. Would you guys suggest general C++ resources or ones specific to Unreal Engine? I can read and somewhat understand what a piece of code does but that's about as much knowledge as I have. Used to mess with VB/Python and shit when I was in school.

>>166470401
A team of professionals or hobbists? If you want professionals get ready to pay them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/5pqfav/gamers_of_reddit_whats_a_gameplay_mechanic_you/

>tfw making a timed escort invisible wall game

Just kill me now

>>166470472
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Entry_Level_Guide_to_UE4_C%2B%2B

>>166470502
>he can't read that's what I mean

>>166470401
>cave story is fine, but do people give a fuck about it?
It was popular as fuck about 10 years ago. After it was remade (Cave Story+) and everyone finally got a taste of it, it's finally died out in popularity. A similar story goes for Spelunky.

Your nephew isn't everyone in the world. 1MAs can still make something of quality.

>>166470356
>tfw no Love2D clone in a comfy lisp

>>166457629
During an interview with Todd Howard talking about Fallout 4 they said they measure the success or failure of their open worlds based on whether players
>stop what they're doing and just look at stuff
>stop what they're doing and get distracted doing something else

Literally the entire point of an Open World is to get players to go off the beaten path and reward them for it, with cool stuff, or with extra content that they feel belongs only to them because they had the curiosity to go a different way.

Bethesda does do open world right and they're games are fucking loved because if it. Hell they do it so well they've basically fueled the Open World meme for an entire generation of developers.

People are obsessed with trying to figure out some way to create what feels like a crafted open world with a random generator and will be a goal for RPG devs for the next couple of decades because of the prospect of endless wonder.

>>166469525
Don't tell me what I can't do

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Is GMS2 worth getting? I can only judge at a surface level, the interface and tools and all, but I don't know if there are any major behind-curtains improvements over GMS in terms of performance or any major upgrades at a core level?

>>166471581
>they want people to explore
>implement fast travel

sasuga

the REAL reason to have an open world is to consistently answer the question "why can't I go there"

too many shitty designers make linear games on a huge map and call it "open world"

you don't need a crazy amount of content for open world to work well, just look at assassin's creed 1, simplify the graphics and that level of content is quite doable for an indie and it supports the gameplay really well

>>166471581
>Hell they do it so well they've basically fueled the Open World meme for an entire generation of developers.
The core of Bethesda is fucking retarded. Their main storyline always fuckings sucks. It's when their 'B' team kicks in doing stuff that Todd finds unimportant and trash that shit gets fantastic.

Who the fuck is the guy who kept sneaking in mannequins everywhere.

>>166471581
>Literally the entire point of an Open World is to get players to go off the beaten path and reward them for it, with cool stuff, or with extra content that they feel belongs only to them because they had the curiosity to go a different way.

Guess that's why they implemented fast travel past morrowind.

Nah bruh, they're the most popular option on the market right now but hardly a good one. Morrowind did it great, Gothic did it great, today people just want things to meme about, not authentic exploration, and the developers are more than glad to provide exactly that.

Can we stop abusing the word meme. Something being popular doesn't make it a meme.

>>166472563
Whether you like it or not, Milhouse Is Not a Meme is a meme.

>>166472350
>Guess that's why they implemented fast travel past morrowind.
Morrowind already had fast travel between hubs which is quite enough.

If only the 'boring' parts of gamedev like AI, optimizations, data structures, 3D rendering/shaders interest you, should you still go into gamedev?

>>166472563
Calling everything a meme is a meme

>>166470597
Thank you my friend

>>166472691
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>>166472691
Enginedev instead

>>166472667
You know what I meant by when I said fast travel, as in open map left click and get teleported. Having a "bus" go between some towns and letting the player board it is hardly in the same vein.

>>166472691
>AI, optimizations, data structures, 3D rendering/shaders
I'm sorry. This is your future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66JhNsFxdw

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>>166472936
>I only eat pizzas

>>166473140
For 20 years and going strong. Pure enginedev.

>>166473140
I feel bad for Uli.

He thinks he's losing weight because he's discovered the secret strategy of degreasing his pizzas, but it's much more likely that his body is withering away because of several years of nutrition only derived from fucking pizzas.

>>166473367
>>166473140
Pizzas are vegetables so it's OK

>>166468015
Please tell us more about your snot m8.

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>>166455250
anyone else hate these small time "publishers" that sell $40-60 bundles of cheap indie games in packs

it makes it hard to gauge whether a recently released game that is similar to the one you're making actually sold well or not, because the sales data is muddied from thousands of people owning it as a result of buying the bundle instead of actually buying the game itself

>>166473597
in northern scandinavia games are made from the snot of trolls and elk piss

>>166467926
I've got one word for you anon.

Anti-histamines.

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Would you rather a 999-style series of story segments buffered by puzzles and travel - or a game that is monogamous to one style of play (Choose-your-own Adventure / Puzzle Adventure game)?

If you'd rather reply to a poll than my post: http://www.strawpoll.me/12187391

>>166473823
pure gameplay is always better than hybrid

>>166472172
>>166472234
Just because fast travel exists doesn't mean you have to use it. They implemented carriages in Skyrim as an immersive compromise.

I agree Morrowind was the best Elder Scrolls and open world game that they've made but its for different reasons than just the lack of fast travel and increased amount of exploration based content.

>Speechcraft is useful literally all the time, you can taunt people into fighting you, bypass quest objectives, sweettalk guards, lower prices on services etc. There's far more room to use it in the game.

>Items are in the world if they exist in the world. Artifacts of power stored in a muesium are actually there for you to steal if you can. If a lord is wearing ebony armor, he is actually wearing ebony armor. If a shopkeep has an enchanted rapeblade the enchanted rapeblade is somewhere in his store and not in some unobtainable NPC_Shop_Chest copy.

>No stupid faggoty mini-games. Speechcraft, lockpicking, alchemy, etc are all just skillchecks, combat is just skillchecks, everything is just stats and skillchecks which make it a true immersive RPG.

>written dialogue, voice acting makes it significantly more expensive and production intensive to make quests and NPC's. You can hire a team of good writers significantly cheaper and just have them pump the shit out of content for your world.

In my opinion Morrowind made the right compromises for an RPG. It focused on the stuff thats important and didn't invest time in the shit that isn't important. EG.
>Voice Acting
>Combat Animations / Non-RPG Action based combat
>Stupid Minigames
>Cinematic Event Based Quest Design (thats only cinematic the first playthrough and honestly feels like a waste once you realize they sacrificed 2/3 of the quests they could have made in order to get the event system/cinematic feel right)

Like if every dungeon was Bleak Falls Barrow tier quality I'd keep my mouth shut but you can objectively tell it take so much fucking time to do it.

>>166467926
stop powerleveling

>>166473938
>They implemented carriages in Skyrim as an immersive compromise.

they also implemented instantly going to any previously visited location carriage or not

>you don't have to use it
but people do use it, so they get the wrong idea about the game

>explorer starts spazzing out
>Photoshop starts freezing randomly
>VS stops working out of the blue
hmm

>>166473938
>Just because fast travel exists doesn't mean you have to use it.

Every time. Every single time.

Look bro, it sounds good in theory, but in reality what actually happens is that the game becomes designed around fast travel. The testers and developers(while testing) will use fast travel, so they won't notice and report how mindless and boring it is to trudge through kilometers of filler where they didn't bother to add anything of interest to the player, because they used fast-travel. If fast travel didn't exist as an option, they would have put more time into designing the map and touched up a bit on the more boring, desolate places that happen to exist between points of interest.

It's "optional" will always mean that you're getting fucked if you're not going for that "option".

>>166474396
Install linux

>>166474396
>explorer
>VS
wtf is wrong with you

>>166474420
If fast travel is an option, it should not be free. It should cost nearly as much as it would inconvenience the player to actually travel the distance.

The burden would then go to the game to make traveling that distance something that's appetizing enough to, contrarily, make not spending those resources to fast travel an attractive option.

I will develop autistic games, and they will suck

>>166473938
>>No stupid faggoty mini-games. Speechcraft, lockpicking, alchemy, etc are all just skillchecks, combat is just skillchecks, everything is just stats and skillchecks which make it a true immersive RPG.

one of the best decisions that skyrim made was getting rid of that shit and making it into a proper action game

first person stat combat is absolute trash, if you want stat checks make your game turn based

>>Voice Acting
>not important
reading text is absolutely trash for immersion, the brain has two modes of understanding, object and verbal, switching rapidly between them is confusing, skyrim put its text lore where it belongs, in books, and consistently voiced everything else, all improvements, across the board

skyrim is the first and only TES that isn't trash, because they made all the right design decisions

>>166474629
>skyrim
>proper action game
What the fuck am I reading

>>166474629
>immersion
>non-VR game

>>166474851
>VR
>immersive
>not a gimmick

>>166474629
>reading text is absolutely trash for immersion

Yeah, people didn't even get immersed into video games or books up until 2000 when VAs became a thing.

>>166474958
>games didn't have VA before 2000
wew

>>166474936
>play on a screen
>outside the screen is 2017 room
>inside screen is mediæval fantasy land with health bars and shit
Yeah, the juxtaposition is just a little jarring and immersion-breaking.

>>166474958
>until 2000 when VAs became a thing
Sorry, try again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BQ0V_REKHY

>>166475116
>>166475187
A thing as in a "regular thing" like we have today, there are games, even arcade games with VAs even before 1990 but they were hardly the norm. Take that stick out of your ass.

I want to make a 2d platformer but I'm already stuck with engine choice.
I want to try out love2d engine but I don't really like pure codding approach. I also can't find any good articles or tutorials (because I am autist). I saw some people like Vine make some crazy stuff in it and I'm really fascinated.
I also think about GameMaker Studio. But I doubt about it for no reason.
Please help me /agdg/

>>166475424
Learn C

>>166475116
>>166475187
massive autism

>>166475420
It's been a regular thing since Wing Commander, anon. 1996 was when VA was starting to not just become popular but ubiquitous.

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What is she seeing?

>>166475630
Something blue, assuming that monocular's endpiece is glass. So the sea or the sky I'm guessing.

>>166475424
>I want to try out love2d
>but I don't like coding
>and I can't find good guides
>but I saw some guy make something cool with it so I think I can make something cool with it

You can either learn to like coding or you can use something that has tools for non-coders. Either you git gud or you find a way around it.

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>>166475630

>>166475630
>RaggedyAnnPirateEdition.png

I finally found the solution to all my ills.

Hooking up a second monitor has sent my 'ductivity through the roof. Expect 'gress soon, friends.

>>166475567
You sure you're not confusing "hua, hua, woaha , yahoo, ding" sounds and other grunts with voice acting? Or do you also consider Mortal Kombat's "FINISH HIM" to fit the criteria?

Dunno about you, but I've been playing games since 1992 and the first time I played a game where every speaking line was voice acted was after 2000.

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>>166475630
This week's devmusic, the new Neil Cicierega album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBmoQSHfO2U

>>166476058
You were mostly playing on consoles then, I'd wager. VA was pretty popular at the time in space combat flight sims and adventure games.

>>166476058
PLEASE NO HURT NO KILL
KEEP ALIVE AND NEXT TIME
GOOD BRING TO YOU

>>166476161
like the LucasArts point and click adventures

>>166476405
AGs in general, really. Lest we forget, the mid-90s was the middle of the era of FMV-driven adventure games - those had VA by necessity.

>>166467524

About right.

>>166476405
>>166476161

I'd hardly call them the norm, if you compare it with the number of other non fully voiced games released at the time, but think as you see fit, we'll just have to agree to disagree, the original point which was that reading is for faggots already degenerated far enough.

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Finally starting on level design for this/content making.

I wish webms had sound so you could all hear the frog sounds when he jumps.

Are top down shooters still popular and worthwhile to make, or are they old news so to say?

>>166476734
Anything is worthwhile to make so long as there's a market for it, you're going to cater to that market, and making the game is something you feel confident about.

These days its less about what's popular and more about 'how much of a market's attention can you grab'.

>>166469525

That is correct.

Only a retard would think to compete with even a two man team in game development.

The only reason to be an indie developer is because you want to be one, not succeed.

Anyone else come here to laugh at all the devs who make shit progress and feel better about yourself?

>>166476868
I came here to lead, not to read your shitposting blog.

>>166475630
Your stagnation as an artist.

>>166475684
But the sky isn't blue.

Ask my friend Rayleigh.

>>166476807
So do you think there is a market for TDSs these days? I'm a little out of touch with what people want to play these days. Is it still roguelites and survival games?

I'm thinking of making a purely free tds for mobile, but I'm not sure if anyone would care about it (disregarding the mobile market being a crapshoot) due to the current market (which I don't know much about).

>>166477001
Bullshit. That's clearly the best squaredev model yet

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>>166476868

>>166476678
https://mixtape.moe/
>>166477081
she looks worse than bunny.

I'm going to learn Cobol and fortran, wish me luck.

>>166476852
>The only reason to be an indie developer is because you want to be one, not succeed.
Truth. The amount of work required is too much, the skills required too many and the chances of any success floored.

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>>166477081
S-Stop it.

>>166477151
You're right, although I fucked the last rigging I ever made for Bunny so this one's a bit better I think.
To be fair, I worked on Bunny's model a whole lot, while I only worked on this yesterday and today.

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>>166477001
>>166477151

>>166476649
>FMV-driven adventure games - those had VA
Its obtuse to call FMV VA

>>166477042
I think there is a market, yes. There are people still playing TDS - though what studios are putting out tend to be very high angle 3D games rather than 'true topdown'.

>>166477378
keep at it faggot.
>>166477401
bullying saves games.

>>166477282
learn prolog

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>>166477151
No way. If you think this is better than that model you must be biased in some way

>>166477541
That may be my best bet then, since I've read here that many people find true top down to be kind of ugly, and I agree.

Alright! Thank you for the advice anon. I apologize for the dumb question but I guess I needed some kind of validation that this isn't a completely stupid idea. Good luck with your game, anon.

>>166477546
what are some legacy languages that bussiness are paying lots of money because the programmers are baby boomers?

>>166477693
bunny looks more polished, note the:
>To be fair, I worked on Bunny's model a whole lot, while I only worked on this yesterday and today.

>>166477716
Thanks. I'm hoping spending all this time on working on the story and refining my characters will pay off.

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>>166477545
I don't know art, so you might be right even though I really adore his models. However what I really admire in him is the fact that he actually fucking devs and experiments with different types of games. Let me count his last year:
- That phone game with the balls
- Bunny
- Cosmic Castaway
- That lewd game which sadly got cancelled
- Halloween jam game
- Dino jam game
- That house of dead like FPS
- Viking game started

And now this.

He's a fucking machine. He does not give a fuck. He wants to make games and he does just that. Godspeed, Square dev, godspeed!

>>166475167
>what is tunnel vision

fuck off idiot

>>166477769
Cobol. I always hear they are looking for them, since there are still systems out there with that code, yet no one around to maintain it.

>>166477832
This isn't about the polishing. Bunny model is worse down to the silhouette

>>166477769
I remember dudes on HN talking about Lisp and Cobol jobs a year ago

>>166477769
fortran is still the preferred language for HPC, it lends itself really well to math, optimizing and large scale multithreading

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I got collision for snake's flamethrower. Its not 100% but it will do for now. Next I want to make snake climb trees and shoot fireballs, flames not good enough!

Will you guys bully me if I used rpgmaker to make my game? I just finished a trailer for my demo and I'd like to share it here

I'm not using any default assets, scripts, etc.

if I can't into music, can I still try to compose music in gamemaker? Because having a game with no sound would be boring.

>>166478190
nah, it may have proportion issues among others, but I like it a lot more than blocky-chan.

>>166463530
holy fuck those graphics are bad.
They're clearly trying to make it look good while making it look like the N(igger)64 version and it just looks like shit.

>>166478537
I never understood why RPG Maker has its own general to begin with, so it's fine for me. Go on.

You'll be bullied because sever other reasons, nevertheless.

>>166478537
I mean I personally don't mind but there's already a general for rpgmaker games
>>>/rpgmg/

Where's the best place to buy 3D models to use in a game?

And there's no legal issues once you pay for a model, you can sell your game right?

>>166478532
Neat fire effect.

>>166476678
>Chameleon Twist tongue mechanic
You are a good person, my nigga.

>>166478537
No, I use RPGMaker a lot myself.

>>166478537
>Will you guys bully me if I used rpgmaker to make my game?
As long as you're not using the out-of-box assets nobody will care that you're using RPGMaker.

>>166478607
That's what I meant when I said biased. You can't say a model is good or that an artist stagnated based on whether they cater to your preferences. Or rather, you can, but you shouldn't.

>>166478537
Yes.

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>>166478537
>>166478693
>>166478701
>>166478794

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0srXPe3PWm0

It's a silly little game about solving puzzles to befriend people. I've actually finished the demo more than a month ago but haven't had the guts to shill it around. The people who played it really enjoyed it, let me know what you all think!

>>166478756
Its bokudev so hes not a good person sorry.

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>>166478059
Stop it. I'm autistic and I can't handle being praised like this.
Thank you, I'm really flattered that someone here thinks so highly of me.
Also I don't consider the lewd witch game canceled, just delayed. I definitely want to finish it eventually.

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>>166455250
The recap site doesn't have any of the ones from December or January. Where can I get them?

>>166479045
*stands between you and bokudev*

Back off, bully.

>>166479013
We're not gonna bully you for using RPGMaker.

But you can bet you ass we're going to shit all over you for posting here already finished demos/games without ever posting progress beforehand.

>>166479013
stop with the WORDSWORDSWORDS.
It's a game, we know we're going to [hopefully] explore, and meet people/things. And solve problems via [MEANS].
If you ever make a second trailer, have it just be like everything after 0:27

It's when I was suddenly interested.

>instead of progressing
>I'm dis-progressing
reasons is that there were problems in my coding so I had to start over a couple of parts, rewatching a couple of times the tutorial of Shaun Spalding on making platformer games, but for what ever reason, when I was pressing the Left arrow keep it would make my sprite respawn at the opposite direction. Which confused me on how to fix this mess.

>>166479013
Is that guy going to use the pokeballs on his head to capture that wobbuffet and ditto?

>>166479013
Nice Undertale clone

>>166479267
There are recaps from January in the Google Drive folder, so it's only 2 at the moment, but nothing from before.

Where is the recap

>>166478712
Anybody? Or is it better to hire an actual artist and pay them?

>>166479267
Why don't you look in the archive

>>166479663
>still shitting on bunnydev
Geez, I wonder who's behind those posts.

Speaking of bunnydev, did he ever post a link to the model? I can't remember.
It'd be fun to make something with her for the comfy jam only to annoy the shit out of the haters.

>>166478712
I don't know. There are many sites that sell models even the asset stores
You should look into the license of the specific models you purchase but usually you buy them for that specific reason so usually yes

>>166479762
The guy posts the previous week's recap on Wednesdays after the submission time to the current one runs out.

>>166479992
I think the bunny he didn't. There is the witch and AGDG tan though

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I'm working on my 3D modeling skills, but it's probably going to take at least a year before I'm happy with the results.

How much would it cost to hire an artist who can do pic-related?

>>166479992
B-but I did nothing wrong, anon. ;_; I was just telling someone that there are some recaps in the GD folder. Sorry if my lines could be misinterpreted.

if I have an not standard sprite size to make a platform game? How should I fix the pixels collision?
Because my sprite character is neither 32x32pixels or 64x64pixels. The height is around 70-75px of height and about 50 px width.

>>166479992
I could upload it, but as I said I'm not really proud of the last rig I made for her.
If you still want it, I can post it though. I'd love to see a comfy game featuring her.

>>166480245
Sorry misquoted

>>166480404
I'll redo the rig and rework a bit on the model so no worries.

>>166480483
Alright, give me a sec.

What is a game without a qt femprotag?

Does it even count as a game?

>>166480749
A game where you play as a heroic protag that saves the cute girl is completely valid as a game

>>166480749
>implying I don't want a manly badass protag in my game
I'm just too lazy to think of a character design that doesn't look like kenshiro or jojo.

>>166480932
not the heroic female protag "saving" the young boy in distress

>>166480990
All current animes are about female protags abusing and saving young boys so we don't need any more of them.

>>166481282
>anime
>relevant

lol

How do you fight people constantly restarting your game to get a good starting position, in a game with randomly generated starts?

:^)

>>166481581
give them incentive not too

>>166481282
There aren't enough where the heroine isn't a bitch

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>wake up
>feel tired
>open IDE
>too tired to focus on anything
>close IDE
>watch people playing videogames the entire day

>>166481581
>:^)
Question discarded.

>>166481581
give the reset a cooldown, or generate the reset at the end instead of the start

also >>166481616

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>>166481635
>not feeling refreshed and motivated after an hour or two laying in bed watching entertainment
Taking a nap might help.

>>166481679
>give the reset a cooldown
nope
The best answer by far is to obscure the things that make a seed good or bad until later, followed by minor incentive stuff like winstreaks

>>166481581
This is a balance problem in general. If you let the player choose where they start and the starts are unbalanced, they will pick the best one. If not, and the starts are unbalanced, they will reset until they get the best one.

Is it okay to save data every couple seconds? Or will that cause problems? The alternative is just saving when the user stops, but I don't think there's a way to stop alt-f4 from losing some data.

Would you play a cute with dark elements "romance" based 2D platformer with some text where you have to save your waifu?

>>166481938
It's pretty standard for roguelikes to save every X number of turns.

Does it really matter if the player loses 30 seconds of progress?

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playing with tiled, made a mockup screenshot. got graphics for hud elements done and arrangement is something I'm happy with finally.

Gonna start coding tonight hopefully so I can turn the faux screenshot into an actual thing where I can walk around and do a tile load test

>>166481938
so many games do this. even corridor shooters that save at checkpoints. an experienced player will fly through the game activating saving very frequently. not an issue unless you are saving a Pokemon tier save every 5 seconds

>>166481938
IO is super slow, so it's semi-important that you plan around autosaving if you're going to do it

use append-only formats, do it in a separate thread, etc.

>>166481581
>make it so there is no "good" starting position either by nerfing it or buffing the others

>make it so players can't tell if it's a good start until they've put a few minutes in

>reward players in some way for choosing the harder starting position

>make starting a run cost some kind of meta currency that the player would like to save

>>166481938
if you want to punish abusing savestates, save data twice - when you load the savestate (to set up a flag) and when you end the game
this way if somebody just alt+f4s out without saving, you can do something mean next time they load the game

>>166480749
A game without a qt femprotag is an actual game and not waifubait fanservice bullshit.

>>166482186
I forget what it was called, but there was an old roguelike I played that if you quit out without properly saving the recordkeeper would scold you for that, and if you did it twice in one run you'd start to get very high-level monsters early on because you accidentally tore the page your record was on, causing holes in reality to occur in your game save. abusing this was also an interesting way to get a very powerful stave early on that dealt bonus damage to enemies stronger than you with it's projectile at the cost of preventing you from getting any XP at all. Using this let you do low-level runs that were really fun.

>>166482193
Except you can have an actual game with waifubait fanservice which doubles the experience. Stop being so hateful.

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>>166482193
How about me, anon?

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>>166477693

>>166482814
cancer.
this mentality is also why reddit gamedev > 4chimps

>>166482710
that sounds really cool actually