/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

Next demo day when

None of my assets are working with lighting in Unity properly. Every guide I'm using just says you need to set the object to static, but it doesn't work for my models. It only wants to work with Unity's default objects. Is there some crucial step that I'm missing?

>>166819658
Do they have UV maps?

So how fruitless is it truly to try and one man a MMO?

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>>166819436

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--->>>POSTING PROGRESS<<<----
FUCK ANIME THREAD

A bunch of useless shit.
>Dust juice for player
>Level key can be picked up by enemies, must be killed to get key back
>Secret rooms now stay uncovered once found

Gonna start separating level generation from player stats to enable actual level progression (something I should've done from the start).

>>166819689
Yes, just plain placeholder textures though. Not sure if there's a bunch of other things I need. None of the guides touch that part.

>>166819728
I'd say over 80,000 fruitless units

>>166819746
>FUCK ANIME THREAD
Dropped. >>>/r/eddit is more to your speed.

Does cloth in Unity need thickness?

What is the most used graphics/game library/SDK for android game development?
What is the most used graphics/game library/SDK for iphone game development?
Is there a library/language that supports both? The only thing i can think of is C++/SDL.
Is it better to develop your game on android first and than port it over?

>>166819631
Quality bait, saved. Thanks m8.

>>166819746
i like you

>>166819658
is your shader lit?

>>166819732
>>166819436
Thank you, sometimes I forget that

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DD13: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-13

>>166819601

>>166819732
that's advice for children, not for adults

>>166820180
thanks. This should really be in the OP, by now.

>>166820152
Shader is just standard.

Trying to create a game entirely by yourself is difficult. I can code just fine, but having to teach myself how to draw and make a decent story and compose music is stressful. Does anyone have advice for this kind of thing?

>>166820237
Post a screenshot of your scene etc

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I've been debating whether the train should be physics based, or have 'perfect' motion travelling along a spline/equivalent.

I'm leaning towards the latter, I don't trust game physics to reliably follow a track, and it bugging out would be pretty uncomfy.

Am I wrong? I can still fake acceleration on slopes and whatever.

When I import a Blender model into Unity, some of the faces don't appear. I've recalculated normals but it keeps happening.

>>166820369
1. unity reads blend files directly
2. turn on backface culling in blender, sometimes recalculate fails, probably because of shitty topology or duplicate verts somewhere

>>166820263
>Does anyone have advice for this kind of thing?
Story/plot when youre in bed
art when youre stuck on a programming problem.
Final art can be last and iterating placeholders is dumb.
and music can be a level by level basis.
as long as youre making consistent progress, youre fine

>>166820346
you don't even have a train

>>166820573
It's a toy train set, use your imagination

>>166820346
How about using physics but locking it to the axis the train is currently moving along?

>>166820346

is there any reason you'd need physics in the game ?

if not then why add a mechanic to your game that's only going to make it more expensive resource wise ?

How do people find people who would want to work with them on a project? Is there some sort of environment I'm unaware of where people get together to make games?

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>>166820573
Bet you feel pretty silly now.

>>166820674
Yeah I could do a mix of the two, where it'll follow a spline but still wobble and bounce a bit.

>>166820781
Fair point.
People might like the train to be able to fly off the track, meme physics and all that, but I guess that goes against the overall theme.

>>166821338
you could fake the wobble just as easily

theres really no reason for full physics here

>>166821338
#REKT
#SAVAGE
#BRUTAL
#BTFO

>>166820925
I find people in AGDG

>>166821338

the downside to not using physics is that you'll have to code some behaviours by yourself, such as acceleration, deceleration, that kind of thing but it'll be worth it.

>>166821338
HOW WILL HE RECOVER

How export bone scaling animation from blender?
How is bone formed?

Why does going back to sleep feel so much better than working on my game?

>>166820925
People to work with you in a project? At paid jobs.

My projects are my own and I 1MA them. I already do enough teamwork to pay for my living expenses.

>>166821972
make a game about sleeping

>>166821972
why is neil young so serious about maids

>>166822287
nice Charlotte clone

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>>166820346

that's a nice track builder you got there btw

>>166820234
If you change anything in the OP autists start flailing their arms.

>>166819879
Anybody who actually did some mobile game development point me in the right direction?
If you're given a large sum of cash to make a mobile game. Where do you start?

>>166822441
literally no-one starts flailing their arms at swapping out demodays and arm flailing at changing jams is rare

>>166822474
unity is great for mobile dev

>>166822474
iphone will make you more and the piracy of rooted vs jailbroken is much higher

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>>166821338

>>166822627
I'm not scared of actual programming though. Even if it requires raw EGL.
Wouldn't it make most sense to develop the android game in java using android SDK?
And for iphone, using objective-c or swift using xcode?
My question is, what do most gamedevs use?

>>166822669
In the end it has to work on both iphone and android so it doesn't really matter which comes first.

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>>166822885

>>166819746
>look at me I'm saying fuck anime when my game clearly is full of japanese/anime influence.

>>166822885
It's on my to-do list

Made the attacks shorter in general

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Webm didn't get added, weird.

Anyway, added some more stuff, continued to up the juice, and made the attacks shorter so it changes up more often.

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I'm trying to design a magma insect kinda thing, but I'm at a loss as to what to do with the head and legs. Any suggestions?

>>166823003
pretty sure unity is the most popular by far. ubisoft uses it for mobile dev, nintendo does, blizzard does, popcap used it for pvz heroes etc
basically every good mobile game has been made in unity. unity makes testing really easy and you can easily build for every platform, including pc and consoles.

>>166823059
literally what

>>166823059
??????? I don't really see any

>>166819728
>>166819781

I'm serious about this question BTW. I want to know before investing time and money into the project

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>>166819414
I finally fixed the sitting down bug, now to make my beautiful daughteru some clothes <3

>>166823059
The only reason a person would post that on 4chan of all places is as a cry for attention, which you are giving him so it worked.

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>>166824172
for context this was the bug before the fix :)
https://youtu.be/OvmcWFIDRp4

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>>166824172

>>166824172
>>166824298
STOP WITH THE GAY EMOJI FAGGOT

>>166824151
It's really fucking fruitless.

1. You cannot make enough content alone.
2. Dealing with the net bull and server shit will melt you.
3. MMOs are on the way out.

Make a design doc of the idea and then file it away in case you ever become zillionaire.

>>166824463

I'll take your word for it. Its disheartening but I'm enough of a realist to accept the reality.

Instead, what sort of game should solo developers try to make? Point and click games? Simple shooters? What?

>>166824463
>MMOs are on the way out.
In what universe

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>>166824253
stop shitposting and post P R O G R E S S

>Revamped level generation to allow for SECRET LEVELS
>>Really just a closed - off section in the room and the "stairs" teleport you there. Not what I had originally in mind but (mostly) works just fine.

>>166824426
emojis are qt :)

>>166824590
anything that doesn't require a massive playerbase, complex new programming, lots of content, or prohibitive server costs

>>166824590
You're acting like there is no middle ground and by not making an MMO, you're making pong.

You can make complex video games as a solo developer, just not one with hundreds of hours of hand made content designed to handle thousands of players.

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Did some odd staircasing.

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>>166822885

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>>166823519
Please excuse my laziness and not using a tablet

>>166824926
Nice antichamber clone.

>>166824926
Pretty cool

What happens if I dig through it though

>>166824670
>>166824797

Alright, thanks for the heads up.

I was just feeling really nostalgic towards City of Heroes the last few days so I was thinking about making an MMO and shit. The new Resident Evil is pretty cool, maybe I'll use that for inspiration. Time to make game.

>>166825297
Indie first person horror games are pretty common, I hope you have some plans to make it special

>>166825468

Giving the player a gun and actual gameplay beyond random jumpscare simulator x100 or run and hide amnesia clone is already pretty original.

>>166824649
unlike you >:^)

>>166825276
Made sure you can't in this case - would probably have the current state no longer modifiable otherwise, leaving only one of the paths open.

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>>166825562
pls take that back
i am a delight <3

How do I make engine

>>166825665
http://gameenginebook.com/
Will give you a good starting point to then do your own research into how exactly you want to implement things (or if you maybe just want to use libraries).

>>166824649
>>166824426
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/06/difference-between-emoji-and-emoticons-explained

>>166825662
You are a blight ;-)

>>166825272
That looks awesome! I'm gonna try my best to emulate that. Thank you!

>>166825780
That just ain't right

>>166825868
nigga u tight

>>166825926
I'm gonna start a fight

>>166825780
well that made me sad, im going to make a hot chocolate with extra mellows, hopefully this will heal the wound :)

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Does this look too mega man like?

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Learning to draw happy little clouds. One day I will be able to draw them too.

>>166826138
Metroid Prime more than mega man

>>166824926
You should try some different transitions for changing floors. Maybe opacity + zoom (like perspective) into current view?

>>166820346
BRIO could sue you for this, they hold patent for that track design.

>>166825762
Ty m8 for the material. I want to make the libraries, to experiment with some shit

What if games were asynchronous and multithreaded
What if there were two threads, one for input and one for audiovisual output
First polls input and modifies game state
Second polls game state and renders audio & video frames
What if there was software transactional memory

People have made virtual machines like this, maybe it's crazy enough to work

>>166819294
Rotate never asked for feedback or listened to people he just posted progress once a month and samefagged himself with 20 replies of "wow rotate you are the best programmer here you're going to be rich!"

There is definitely a resemblance between rotate and boku when it comes to sucking that discord dick though.

>>166826432
i wouldnt say no to rotate sucking my dick

>>166826357
It's not meant to technically be a different floor. I've considered doing it that way, but the solution is not worth the effort for the effect it would give. The actual floors change with a fade in/out.

>>166826432
Were you here yesterday? They bullied him out of using trees because they came from an asset package so now he's using some horrible self made trees that look like marshmallows glued together. I don't feel sorry for people who let nodevs in chat push them around. They care more about their popularity than they do about their game.

How do you guys map in Unity 3D?
I'm so used to how Unreal and Source does shit, should I just make individual models for every bit of architecture or what?

>inb4 go back to UDK
I'm planning on making at least one game with every game engine to help improve myself

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>kind of a slow dev
>doing stuff all the time and posting progress now and then
>someone new shows up
>they're doing something very similar to me with very similar elements
>they're faster than me and have better gameplay and presentation
>even though I've been devving at a slower pace yet before them, once I add the planned features they already implemented i'm gonna look like a hack

If you want your game to succeed, don't join the discord.

Bokdev did this and now his game is going down hill.

>>166826868
>They care more about their popularity than they do about their game.
Popularity with a handful of nobodies in a chat room > popularity with hundreds of thousands of potential players
Gotta get those priorities straight if you want to be a agdg superstar

>>166826936
agdg will bitch about literally anything, but I don't think I've ever seen it bitch /consistently/ because two games had similar mechanics

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>>166826984
but

there's lots of other people doing just fine

>>166826984
plenty of people have "made it" in discord now

>>166827191
>survivor bias
Everytime.
Discord is shit. Chat is for cucks.

>>166827191
Who? I want to know which games to not buy ever.

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>>166826138
>arm cannon
overrated

make metal legs instead

>>166826984
>his game is going down hill
define what you mean by downhill? It looks more done than any game here from what I see.

>>166826868
You're right, that's entirely unlike this thread that bullies people into things that make their game worse :^)

>>166825297
make cat city online

>>166826936
shit like this has been following me whole life

you practice, learn, work like madman. then there comes your colleague/buddy/whatever who can do awesome things in 2 days ezpz whereas you sweat your balls off

>whybother.jpg

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>>166826984
Can confirm.
You can shrug off the shitposters here but the discord is filled with airheaded pessimists that tell others to change trivial shit because they don't like it.
My progress has gone downhill ever since I started using the discord, I don't know why I'm still even there.

>>166825536
the reason amnesia run and hide clones are so popular is because amnesia reminded us that having a gun isn't scary

>>166827156
>>166827191

I call bullshit, who?

guys guys
im making a shmup in c++

youll have 2 different colors to switch between. its been done before but im thinking of some unique patterns and stuff to do with this and also a fun way to implement procedural branching paths and the different colors can come into play with that

for the graphics, should I do CGA colors? im thinking of doing lowres cga color graphics or something.

maybe ega or something would be better because i want lots of juicy particle effects and that'd be hard to do with like 3 colors

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Nodev here, experimenting with stuffing textures with perlin noise.

Low ambition, low energy stuff.

>le discord boogeyman
it's this time of the day

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So this is the power of game dev?

>>166827851
just a small selection of games that made good money by people who lurk in disc
http://store.steampowered.com/app/248820/ - ror
http://store.steampowered.com/app/394970/ -deadbolt
http://store.steampowered.com/app/321830/ - cavern kings
http://store.steampowered.com/app/261180/?snr=1_1050_1051__1050 - lethal league

>>166828204
discord is not agdg

>>166828246
yes it is

>>166826885
i just make everything within blender then hate myself

>>166828204
>http://store.steampowered.com/app/248820/ - ror
>http://store.steampowered.com/app/394970/ -deadbolt
>http://store.steampowered.com/app/321830/ - cavern kings
>http://store.steampowered.com/app/261180/?snr=1_1050_1051__1050 - lethal league

Discord didn't even exist when these games were released, so your point is moot.

>>166824648
teknopants is that you

>>166824926
It's really fucking confusing in it's current state, and I've played a lot of roguelikes

Enginedev or go home.

>>166828409
you asked about people who "made it", you got people who "made it", they're in the discord
your question was answered

also, reminder that world of horror dev lurks the discord without any sign of bullying

>>166827729
It's easy to ignore anons in a thread. Chat is full of namefags who use peer pressure and cucks like boku cave in to it.

>>166828739
>they used p-peer p-pressure
>WAAAHHHH

>>166828782
fuck off nodev

>>166828739
>Chat
Which one?

>>166828813
>t. gets buttblasted in chat

I've done more dev in the last week than you have in your entire life

>>166828054
Yeah I bet it's all the same poster too. I bet it's all your boogeyman.

Fagtard.

>>166828204
Amazing that a moderator of the chat is not bullied in the chat :^)

>>166828782
t. nodev who pops a boner peer pressuring yesdevs

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>>166827885
Nice, I love shmups. Good luck. What res are you going for?
Horizontal or vertical?

>>166828912
never been to the chat, and it sounds like you should go back

>>166828912
Imagination is fun!

>>166829194
Like you imagining doing dev?

>>166829265
Like you imagining your fellow nodevs in chat are your friends, so you make excuses for them?

>>166828632
>plenty of people have "made it" in discord now

then this sentence is poorly worded, because you're implying that people who hang on discord has made it thanks to the chat which is the point I was making that they do not.

People who get their feedback from discord will eventually fail because of the cancer there.

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Lightning effect improved

>>166829119
vertical hallway-style shmup with segments where you pick a direction by changing your color (so i can reuse the controls) before you smash into the wall and explode

also gonna have secret branches that pop up at the last second and shops to spend plasmashit in

>>166829459
what engine
looks fucking cash

>>166829459
undertale in space?

>>166829590
My own custom engine, using SDL1 from Python

>being a pathetic member of the proletariat

HAHAHA IT'S LIKE YOU DON'T EVEN WANT TO BE A CAPITALIST

>>166829626
Beware, the future ruling class is the proletariat. Chose your side wisely anon.

>>166829459
I really hope you make those hitboxes explicitly clear

>>166829381
>then this sentence is poorly worded, because you're implying that people who hang on discord has made it thanks to the chat which is the point I was making that they do not.
i'm not the one who originally posted that sentence, but there is nothing incorrect about it
no-one "made it" because of discord or because of 4chan thread critique, they "made it" thanks to their own skill and persistence
>People who get their feedback from discord will eventually fail because of the cancer there.
that's a very bold assumption
i can't blame you though, there is a lot of baseless negativity towards the discord like everywhere else on 4chan since salty chatfags sometimes come to the boards with out-of-context screencaps when they're angry, not to mention massive amount of samefaggotry is extremely easy to commit in order to make it look like there's a hivemind behind it
the truth is that discord is about on the level of thread when it comes to cancer, though most of the memes are contained in their respective channels when they don't leak
faggots will be faggots on the boards and on the chat alike

@166829626
fuck off commie

>>166829702
seem pretty clear to me. never played a shmup before?

The problem with chat is they're afraid to argue with eachother over feedback and the mods there are extremely sensitive snowflakes. If someone tells boku to do something stupid nobody in the chat speaks up because they're all cucks who don't want to risk their imaginary online friendship with eachother and not wanting to upset the mods.

Also known as circle jerking.

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>>166829459
>this boss fight
>not a bullet hell

>>166829860
It's always like that though. Same with the steam group a while back.
It always devolves into circle jerks.

>>166828435
just a copycat :^)

>>166828565
I'll see what I can do.

>>166829590
Game Maker Studio

>>166829617
Nah its a roguelite

>>166829702
If you're worried about "unfair" damage I tend to lean towards hitboxes being smaller than the visuals to avoid that

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Alright agdg which dialogue box is better.

>>166830181
Left

Would be even better if it were flat i.e. not projected along the wall

>>166830181
Left. Make the point a bit pointier.

>>166830181
>pure colors
absolutely trash
both are bad

>>166829985
>There are bullets on screen

Must be a bullet hell, guys

>>166830181
make it normal

>>166830357
>carpetbombing the player with bullets half a screen at a time
>leaving a safe space of a few pixels between full screens of bullets
>interlocked spiral bullet patterns that require you to move very slightly at the very bottom of the screen
>not a bullet hell

yeah okay buddy

>>166830607
bullet hell babies will never understand

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I fucked up and I have no idea why or how

>>166819746
I like the gameplay and flow of your game, but got a feeling those tight spaces are going to be extremely frustrating for a skill based game

>>166830906
nice ramiel

>>166823514
I didn't like the red tint overlay when he charges the electric/lazer attacks, it feels like you took damage

>>166830269
>>166830375
don't listen to these guys, keep it unique

>>166831149
Noted, thanks. It's pretty easy to change the level generation to have wider corridors for example, so I can make the levels more open at will.

>>166831769
Unique isn't always better, anon

>>166831194
thanks, it was a lot of trouble to create such an intricate shape
I'd really like it if you could see the face you're looking at and not the ones behind though. Time to check and uncheck boxes in hopes that it'll work.

>>166831769
unique doesn't necessarily mean good, having the text slanted makes it harder to read

danny won't join discord because he'd get banned
he can evade bans here, thats why he likes it so much here

he doesnt want everyone to leave because then hed be replying to his own posts 20 times in an empty thread without anyone to point out how literally insane he is..

>>166831941
kys

>>166830607
"a few pixels"

>keks softly

>>166832305
>>166830796
you can stop now monolithdev, you're embarassing yourself

>>166831941
>this shit again
Nobody cares about your boogeyman. Nobody cares about your chat.
Please kill yourself as suggested by >>166832039

>>166831550
Yeah I actually have been having a bit of that problem, I might have to change it.

>>166831941
You are why nobody likes the discord.

>>166831941
Hey rotate remember when you used like 50 proxies to keep joining the discord and kept getting banned? Isn't that proof that ban dodging is possible on the thread and chat it makes no difference :^) Nobody cares about your obsession with danny you ugly faggot.

really hit a nerve this time didn't i?
interesting how you can't dispute it though

>>166834060
someone linked his tumblr in chat
he really is ugly

>>166833605
Make the enemy core thing flash instead?

>>166834192
Stupid too. He couldn't even put together a 2d platformer.

>>166834316
stupid and ugly? i can't believe dogposter would break up with such a catch :3

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>>166832381
>implying

>>166819414
Hey guys. First time on this board (I usually browse /v/ when it comes to video games), but I need some advice on how to get started creating my own game. I have hundreds (if not over 1,000) pages of just ideas that I would love to turn into video games, but I'm completely clueless when it comes to coding, modeling, etc. As other Anons have been so kind to tell me "Having ideas means nothing. You are worthless. Worthless.". So where do I start? Should I get a team together? Is it easier just to do this alone? How do I even do it? What do I need to know? Should I just give up on it?

What happened to Clarent? Did he abandon his game?

>>166834542
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/sorry-idea-guy-position-game-industry-david-mullich
aquire actual skills. practice drawing, get into coding, do music, level design, anything.

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working on color overlays for different weapons

>>166834542
step 1 is having an idea you can actually make by yourself or together with whatever limited help you may be able to acquire

>>166834542
when it comes to coding, you gotta understand the basics of programming. unfortunately i don't exactly know what to recommend for study, but you can start learning with a game engine instead of straight up code if all you want is to make a game or a few

start small to improve on skill, maybe try to replicate the simpler games, for example

having a first game being an ambitious one will get you nowhere

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>>166834316
he makes 3d games now!! best dev! check out all this gameplay!

>>166834958
Unity babies BTFO xD

>>166830906
Good news : I did fuck up somewhere
Bad news : I still don't have no clue where
Bonus bad news : lightning craps itself on a test mesh

>>166834542
If you're doing it all alone, be prepared to rip your hair off, and even more so if you have no skills anywhere, I'm "managing" to do stuff because I've got basic artistic skills and "understand" 3D geometry.
Ideas ALONE are worthless. And putting them in practice is much harder than you think.

>>166834958
That looks genuinely awful.

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>>166835224
forgot the pic of said test mesh
it actually looks better when the lightning isn't built

>>166834542
If I were you I would pick your favorite skill and focus on learning that. If you were more of a math/science guy in school, learn programming. If you were more of an art guy, learn to draw or 3d model. Make sure you learn how to animate. Don't learn how to write though, that only puts you slightly above idea guy level. Music is useful but remember that art and programming are the two most important tools so basically pick one of those.
Once you've got a skill down you can find a partner who has the other skill and make a game.

Most people here are working alone, and most of them also give up because games are a shitload of work.

>>166835260
games often resemble their owner

>>166834250
Well it's not actually a charging effect its the screen flashing from the actual lightning strike.

>>166835385
>Music is useful
I think one of the things a lot of people forget is "audio design", or whatever it's called. Not just the music but also the sounds of whatever's in your game.
If you can write the music, but also on top of that, use sound synthesis or record stuff on your own to completely shape the game, you can give a lot more depth to it.

>>166834682
Please answer.

>>166835462
Yeah but I assumed the screen flash from the lightning is to indicate it's a big strong scary attack, to make it more intimidating yeah? Something like the core flashing would still indicate that while retaining visual clarity that you haven't actually taken damage. If not then please disregard me, I'm only posting here to distract myself from the arduous process of trying to learn to code and eventually graduate from being a nodev

is /v/ just a quarantine for mouth-breathing Skinner box addicts?

>>166835939
Nah it's just to make the lightning look cooler

>>166835957
Butthurt that they didn't like your ideas?

>>166835957
that's /agdg/

>>166835957
I don't know. /v/ is sometimes even more cancer than /b/ or /s4s/. It sometimes resembles a soft core porn board.

>>166836110
Fair enough. Visual clarity issues aside though your game looks great anon, keep up the good work.

>>166836150
That doesn't even make sense.

>>166835383
show me the UV, I think you fucked up here.

>>166835383
don't you hate how nice curved surfaces require so many polygons?

>>166834958
I for one am glad he finally gave up on pretending to be a game dev. These "progress posts" were getting really tiresome.

Does anyone know that sprite material painting program that let you do it directly onto the .obj files in a 3d environment?

There was that racing game here being made with it and it was open source but I can't find it for the life of me.

hey, all i know how to do is make music. i've tried to learn programming and art but just can't really focus and end up drifting back to music. but i'd still love to be involved in the creation of a video game in some form.

lately i got to contribute music to someone's game and it was really cool. it felt good to be part of something like that.

i do lo-fi ambient and electronic music. like, with a sampler and some old 90s synth keyboards, with cassette tapes for fuzz and texture. anybody looking for something like that for their game?

>>166836685
Most probably, on the diamond-shaped thing, UE4 kept crashing if I imported the texture and material and on the ducc I barely bothered with it

>>166836871
Isn't there some shading tricks to deal with that anyway ?

>>166837417
>hey i do thing
>would you trust me on my word alone
"no"

>>166819631
$0.03 has been deposited into your Autodesk account.

>>166837417
Friendly reminder to post prior work when asking for collab buds

>>166837417
post examples

>>166824648
>posting progress several times per thread
At this rate I wonder how hard the burnout will hit.

>>166837417
The problem is, that even though I admire video game musicians and I even buy OSTs when I can, I also see that they are not that easy to hire. I mean, how do you give them work? Like now I'm working on this game, and I know that in the end I might need 2-3 scores for it, but I don't know how I should keep a musicbro "entertained" throughout the whole development process. With that said, I would feel like I'm just screwing you over because you would be ready in 1-2 weeks at best, while the rest of the game is nowhere to be finished.

Even at an AAA company it puzzles me. Like Blizzard. A new IP only comes out every 2-3 years at best. Do a complete soundtrack really requires that much time to complete? Aren't they bored out of their minds or do they have other jobs as well?

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Decided to ditch doing 2D backgrounds for this section entirely and just do it in this 3D style. Still working on how to make it look good.

>>166837959
post the source for this, can't remember the original company, UE?

>>166838278
> does a complete soundtrack really require that much time to complete?
if you're asking this the answer is always "yes, and probably ten times what you're picturing in your head"

nothing good is ever quick

>>166838081
>>166838089
my bad.

stuff with drums:
https://djrozwell.bandcamp.com/track/rough-2-feat-bbpirate-2
https://djrozwell.bandcamp.com/track/none-of-this-is-real-51
https://djrozwell.bandcamp.com/track/none-of-this-is-real-102

ambient stuff:
https://djrozwell.bandcamp.com/track/desert-pepper
https://djrozwell.bandcamp.com/track/none-of-this-is-real-94

>>166838278
well, from what i know of how the whole process works, isn't music one of the last things that ends up going into a game? so that the musician has a complete idea of what will fit gameplay flow and graphic style and whatnot.

>>166819728
I'd say it's chock full of fruit and that fruit is bananas

>>166838278
The music for my game currently takes about 1 week per minute.

My musicbro waits for me to gather example tracks of what I want, sends me WiPs, asks for feedback, presumably must wait until I respond, works on it some more.

Things take time.

>>166821875
you can key scaling

>>166824151
You'll never be able to create enough content.

>>166838278
Musicians are often working with multiple projects at any given time. Don't worry about entertaining them - you're not in an exclusive relationship unless you're paying lots extra.

Each track can take anywhere from a few days to a month to make. Expect that. If you need it shorter than that all you're going to get from the musician is a melody or like two instruments. Through the process, if you're working with a professional musician, you'll be getting sent samples and asked questions about the direction of the track - unless you're just fine with whatever they put out.

You need music even faster than that? You need to hire someone like Hans Zimmer who can just rip a new track from thin air in insanely short periods of time.

Good music takes time. Bad music is easy and quick.

>>166838494
Microsoft

>>166838884
>>166838721
>>166838519
>>166838643
Do artist ever make up music in advance , like the basic motifs of melody, nothing fancy? Just to be ready for the actual job and to not have to start from nothing

>>166839238
With the way chord progression and music theory works, you don't really need to.

>>166839238
Not really - but part of the process of making music often leaves a lot of quick tracks and such that were discarded. Those can be revisited later if the musician wants.

If you want tracks that a musician's already made, you can always ask if you can buy the non-exclusive (important) rights to a few of them.

What do you all think of /r/gamedev?

If you feel the need to say >le reddit, then just don't reply

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Guys, is Blender and Unity a smooth solution for 3D game making? I'm obviously using Unity for the most part, but for I'm not sure to what extent I should use Blender to produce stuff.

I already have modelling and animation experience with 3DS Max, and I'm learning the basics of Unity atm. My current "test game" or prototype if you will is a simple 3rd person platformer. Something to create a nice "sandbox engine" in which to experiment an learn how to work different elements of Unity, especially coding.

I'm wondering though, should I do all my modelling, texturing and animation in Blender, or is Unity good for some of those things and I can focus on character and object modelling/texturing only in Blender? To what extent do you guys use Unity, of those who use it?

pic semi-related, concept sketch

>>166838870

You could always work smarter and not harder.

Creation of assets, AI, enemy types and so forth takes a lot of effort, as does scripting missions and content as well as MMO specific things like raids, pvp convent and so forth.

BUT

That is why you work smarter and not harder.

Create less themepark/scripted content and create more sandbox elements. Get players invested in the crafting and PVP sides of the game and go all in on that. Use a mixture of procedural and scripted content on missions. Create several difficulty levels for your dungeons/raids/endgame content and make it damn near impossible to complete without perfect items and great teamwork. Place tiny one-time-use-per-character loot boxes or lore snippets in hard to reach places in your world zones, give players a REASON to jump on top of buildings and find alternate areas beyond just following the roads. Throw a hard as fuck random monster in the middle of the newbie zone off in a corner. Watch as players scheme to come back there and finish it off, regardless of what shit loot it creates. Use a very minor amount of scripting to allow players to create 'memento' items with no actual uses or value, but let them create the item with a short name and description using one of the in-game item pictures you already have and let it lose upon the RPers.

Work smarter.
Not harder.

>>166839468
I don't go there, because a) leddit and b) it's just shills shilling shills

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Boo!
tfw this is all the progress I made today
okay, I also sketched some more character ideas, but still.

>>166838643
dis p good
i could see it working with something like teleglitch or satellite reign

>>166839468
i prefer anonymity

>>166839468
not too different from aggydag just a different flavor of shit

>>166839468
I still don't get reddit as a whole, but I should learn it, eventually. Or just go there some time.

>>166839671
dilute this

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>>166839614
I like the artstyle. Very Clock-Tower.

>>166839489
Another sketch.

What better setting for a first game than a robot one? Slices a big chuck off modelling and animation difficulty right there, barely any need for wrapping.

>>166838643
Honestly, you'd be slumming it working with a gamedev considering it looks like you have a fuck huge number of albums out. Most musicbros want to make it big by having their music in a popular game, not by having their popular music appear in a random indie game.

>>166839629
thanks man! teleglitch has a cool soundtrack so that's a pretty big compliment.

>>166834859
I just now realized it's a hand cannon and not a separate weapon.

>>166839671
>not too different from aggydag
Fucking lol
"no"

>>166839945
>clock-tower

Fug, I meant Alone in the Dark.

>>166839468
I don't really care about it anymore, I'm not terribly interested in what other gamedevs are doing and I don't feel like posting my own progress there. Therefore it makes more sense to just shoot the shit in agdg.

>>166826138
>those line breaks in the texture
Dude, what the fuck are you doing?
Just draw a straight line and move the UVs around to fit it - Don't draw the shape of the line directly!

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Making some UI animations. Is this glitchy enough?

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It looks like it's time to implement 3d physics.

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>>166840768
needs more randomness

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>>166840930
>Big Rigs Over The Road Racing public beta footage.webm

>>166841158
I don't get it.

>>166840768
I agree with this guy:
>>166841121

But I like how you make the glitchiness sort of "scan" through it from top to bottom.

>>166841297
collision

>>166821338
>meme physics and all that
you can easily implement this modally: like if the train is going too fast around a corner then it becomes derailed and becomes a normal physics object that can rip apart the tracks and whatnot

>>166841414
That's not the word I would use. My physics is just a 2d physics. I have to change it.

>>166841297
I am referring to an infamous, brokenly unfinished and bad game, look it up and you'll understand.

I'm working on a way to convert blender's hair particles into a solid piece of geometry resembling the shape of the styled strands.

converted it to mesh, extruded the vertices a tiny bit, and added a remesh modifier. was getting close to what I wanted but at 12 iterations blender just hangs forever

I wonder if I could shrink wrap a crazy subdivided plane to it. gonna try that after work.

is there already a good method out there for doing this?

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>>166841121
Added some jitter to make it seem more random

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is there a name for this part that isn't loincloth?

>>166841775
hard to say if it works well without the full context of what the whole game is, definitely like it tho

>>166841960
Yes.

>>166841775
looks better already!

what's the UI element? healthbar? when does the anim play?

>>166841960
post face

>>166841960
waistcloth for the whole thing?

>>166842065
The UI element in question is a health bar, though I'll probably add similar effects to other elements if it doesn't get too obnoxious. The animation plays once every few seconds.

>>166842003
It's a sci-fi game, so I think the glitch fits in pretty well

>>166841960
tasset

Is making enemy obj animation in Gamemaker much different than the player object? I mean is the code really different. I'm retard but I'd like to know how to work with enemies animation.

>>166842179
that wwworks but it's a separate part and I'm being too autistic so I'll just go with SkirtFront. thanks anyway!

>>166842345
oh nice ty

>>166842297
i meant full context of how the UI sits within the whole render space

>>166842398
what

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>>166842439
Oh, right. This is the current UI, definitely a work in progress

>>166842398
how exactly does gamemaker differentiate between player obj animation and enemy obj animation?

Bit flags are confusing as fuck and while I'm going to learn them I hope to god I never have to use them.

>>166842661
It doesn't

>>166842398
tl;dr no

Really depends on the game. Usually you have a state variable which will tell teh object which sprite to use and how fast it will animate.

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>>166842676
>Bit flags are confusing as fuck

>>166842676
Why would you need to use them. I doubt a few booleans are what's slowing your game down

>>166842401
What about Tabard?

>>166842793
I started learning coding from absolute scratch 2 days ago, pls no bully.

>>166839957
i'm not really all that popular, trust me. i just make a lot of music.

>>166842401
>>166842345
actually, 'faulds' might be more correct

>>166842894
I've always seen tabard used for a full body thing, more like an apron

>>166843106
remind me not to play scrabble against you!!

Anyone read Texture and Modelling By Ebert, Musgrave, Peachey, Perlin? Is it good?

I kinda want to dive into noise and make everything from scratch for some reason

>>166843898
That doesn't sound like a game

>>166844228
Plan here is to mess with noise/procgen and wait for an idea to pop in my head

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I hate HATE putting together npc text box systems, guis, and inventories. Its fucking boring and always complicated. Finished text boxes but now I have to implement question text boxes. Wish my game didn't hinge on so much npc interaction.

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Thinking of having the player play as a mannequin that you deck out in sweet equipment and gear. Current player is on the right. Dumb idea or is it ok?

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>>166820180

>>166844378
Literally just did that in game maker. Also a basic quest system. It's pretty nice when it's done though.

>>166824172
>>166824298
Real talk, are you trying to make yourself into a meme?

>>166844378
I'm doing dialogue too. Unity doesn't give you a lot of options with the text generation so I'm basically stuck doing it all from scratch.

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Where can I post my progress and make it visible?

>>166844532
My first impression is that I'd rather play the squaredude.

>>166845054
twitter #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Anyone need an artist?

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>>166842746
let's say I would have to animate this sprite, (It's just a standard base pose, but let's say I want it to attack in specific kind of pattern with huge hitbox because the sword is long.

>>166844682
I'm also in game maker.
Wish there was an easy way to pause an object's step event until the box closes. Right now I'm having boxes get added to a queue and the game automatically runs through the queue of text boxes in order until all are gone.

my game is better than yours

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>>166845261

>>166844532
I like the idea, since it also fits with the paper world etc

>>166839489
You have to do modeling and texturing in Blender, Animation is up to you as long as your character right is generic.

>>166845360
is your game an indie shit pixelated platformer or a 3d game made out of any variation of low poly or cubes?

>>166845539
*rig

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wip dialog menu

>>166845316
I make every NPC own their own text boxes through their parent (obj_npc_base) and control the proceed/cancel the boxes with their own scripts.

>>166845539
So Unity allows for rigging, keyframe animating, setting up inverse kinematics and all that? Most tutorials I've seen on the subject just use free packages from the asset store.

>>166840768
Not if it keeps doing that so regularly. A glitch should be a bit more unpredictable.

>>166845772
>hold to interact
in le trash it goes

>>166845702
art is irrelevant to the quality of a game

I will never, ever play your game

>>166846036
Yes you will

>>166846036

Joke's on you, I will never finish my game.

>>166845969
oh i forgot about that, i've been meaning to remove it for a while but i'm just so used to it. left over from when this was a parody game

>>166846036
>implying I'll let you

>>166845995
Art is the game.

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>>166845995
>gameplay is all that matters meme

>>166819414
>3 days until start
>0 ideas
please help me ideaguys

>>166845261
Actually started looking a couple days ago, what kind of art do you do?

>>166842676
>>166842904
It's very easy once you know binary, try to learn that separately first. This video might also help you grasp the concepts behind bit flags: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUzQtTLCglk

>>166846212
A game is not a game without gameplay

>>166846216
>gameplay is all that matters if its good enough
>story is all that matters if its good enough
>the shit part of the game gets ignored

ftfy

>>166845887
You have to model, rig and texture a character in blender, but if your character rig is a generic humanoid you can use Unity Mecanim&IK to do stuff like aiming or even walking right inside Unity. Animation packs like
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/26876
work like that. I have no idea how to do it, I just know it's possible.

>>166846227
Many different kinds. Historically, mostly traditional media, but I have been branching into digital art in the past year. Would love a project to work on, what's your game?

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Iv fixed my dialogue box and iv added the ability to kill naggy dag if he offends you too much

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>>166846415
Ah, thanks! Just what I wanted to know.

I wanted to avoid sitting down and spending hours on perfecting animations by hand in Blender, only to realize there is a much better, faster way to do it in Unity.

Have another concept sketch.

Working on the lua integration with my game.

>>166846304
Gameplay is a vehicle for the art.

cozy in bed, watching netflix with my game :)

Does anyone happen to know why if I play a sound effect in GM:S it seems to soft mute the music just a bit until the sound is over? I don't want any sound, music or otherwise, to take priority over another unless I am the one modifying it's volume.

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>>166846459
>Iv fixed my dialogue box

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This is pretty fun, but I wonder if the effect will get old fast

Remember to relax and have fun! Don't let it be "all business" between you and your game. Plan a date night, no progress, just spending time together

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I've not programmed games in a long time.

Is this a good way to do motion for say throwing a ball?

>>166847294
Oops, that bottom line shouldn't be there.