/agdg/ amateur game dev general

good thread

>lets never put monogame in any of the engine collection images

why?

Ren'Py is not an engine

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added a chain lightning spell and an upstab, as well as some more decoration props. i think all the particles rekt the webm quality though

>>167802535
monogame is a framework

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>>167802273
repostan progress.

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gotta fix up some stuff, but I got this working now

>>167802671
So is LOVE.

>>167803096
yeah well the picture is shit

>>167801527
I mean, I dunno if you're the same guy, but I'd be willing to try. I'm not very picky, I just want some experience.

Which one of you muthafuckas did VA-11 HALL-A?

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Camera now follows every fen but is weighted to put the real player closer to the center

>>167803812
Keys when?

I can't into art

If I'm making a 2D shmup, and use placeholder assets (sprites stolen from Gradius) in order to start coding and fleshing out mechanics, how hard would it be to transition to new sprites down the road?

Is there a better way to handle placeholder stuff? If I want to design an original boss fight, how would I go about that without any art assets?

>>167802898

What engine?

Where are the 3D modeling infographs ?

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Does anybody know how to resize sprites to be way the fuck bigger without making them blurry as shit?

>>167803923
There's nothing fundamentally wrong with the Source engine

Why is it bad to use Unity engine to make 2d games?

>>167804338
really?

>>167804561
Ask the Inside devs

>>167804561
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VEKCCe3JAs

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>>167804397
I gotchu senpai

>>167804397
You want to change the resampling method when scaling up - Photoshop and most image viewers have that option. In your case you'd want the Nearest Neighbor.

>>167804775
>bad programmers make a game with bad performance
>blame the engine

>>167802640
>tfw nobody responds to your progress because they'd rather shitpost about people asking questions
ganba, anon

>>167805415
I don't reply to 3d games

>>167802640
Your game is quite bizarre and I love it

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>>167804570
>work at the intended resolution and zoom in your canvas
What? No, I mean, when I'm working on it, that's fine. I can already zoom in. But the sprites I'm making are 32x32, so once I put them in the game, they're unbelievably small. So, I size'em up and then they're super blurry.

Making them bmps would fix that?

>>167804776
Holy heck, that's exactly what I mean- how'd you do that?

>>167805036
I don't think anyone's disputing that.

>>167805434
Fair enough.

>>167804882
I originally meant how do I resize once I've already put the image in the game, but this is probably a way less stupid way to do it, so thank you.

>>167805613
why?

>>167805832
congrats on being the first person to ruin this thread full of progress with anime

>>167805958
I thought it might be motivating. Didn't mean to piss anybody off.

>>167805832
it's linear / nearest neighbour scaling
it's... in everything
every image editor will do this

>>167805958
But there was already an anime banner at the top of the thread?

>>167805832
>going to develop a game by himself
>is too stupid to even figure out how to resize an image

I admire your ambition

sex with a woman

>>167806270
You just wait and see once I'm done with my game! You'll be like:
>That's what he wanted to make? That's stupid. He's stupid.

And then I'LL be the one laughing

>>167806771
my dog ate it (lol!)

i don't see much talk about designing boss fights. What do you guys think make a memorable boss fight? It can be any genre.

>>167806976
screenshake and memes

>>167806976
taking your game mechanics to the logical extreme

A World in which this can fucking happen:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Gorilla-Hot-Cheetos-RARE-One-of-a-Kind-Cheetos-Harambe-Gorilla-/172504352676

I suddenly have new found hope for succeeding in game dev. Because apparently people will buy all sorts of stupid shit

>>167806976
Make sure when the boss hits half health it turns invincible and spawns a bunch of regular enemies that you have to defeat before the boss becomes hittable again

>>167807143
spotted the enginedev

>consistently having problems with Unity GUI
>get told that GUI is "no longer supported" and that I just should move on to the canvas-based system

fucking retarded, why would they even keep it in Unity if it doesn't work right anymore? canvas-based system is shit. Guess I'll have to spend even more fucking time recoding everything to work with a custom GUI system then. goddamn.

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>>167805030
this game was made by SONY ITSELF

>Unity for pixel art

STOP

>>167807417
lovin' that one retarded missile.

>>167807582
show us all your games, o' wise master of gamedev.

>>167807417
Knack wasn't made in unity, this isn't a valid argument

>>167807638
>hey guys
>guys
>target is over there
>guys?
>guys, we gonna lose him
>oh fuck it

>>167807638
holy shit i didn't notice it until you posted it
now i'm dying

Are there any good video series for beginner drawing?

I will work hard tomorrow

>>167807684
he is just a retard looking for any excuse to post /v/ meemees

>>167807417
Made by, or published by?

>>167807684
well it shows that slow frame rate on ps4 is not a exclusive unity problem
wasnt broforce released on ps3 too?

>>167807914
Dev work for Knack was done by SCE Japan Studio.

welp

>>167807914
Both,
SCE Japan Studio is a sony studio.

>>167808028
>>167808068
I actually had no idea that Sony actually made video games.

>>167807865
>can walljump in plain air

radical

>>167805832
dude, that's not how you make your picture a meme, you have to be mean or you have to continue being totally fucking oblivious (and preferably dial it up a notch)

>>167808207
Wasn't trying to meme or anything. I was just being very stupid and asked a very silly question, and y'all helped me fix my issue.

>>167807395
>have to use actual game objects for the new UI system

fuck that's retarded

>>167808176
that's called a double jump anon

>>167808165
sony has lots of inhouse studios
most of then just shit shovelware

>>167808176
a.k.a. double jump

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>>167808363
oh, makes sense now
why does it change angles like a wall jump then?

>>167808176
i definitely have to tweak the jumps to make it easier to tell them apart, visually. right now, they both 'read' as wall jumps.

>>167808573
see >>167808652

>>167808765
i see, just make it do a backflip during double jumps and it will be diferent. the game looks cool

>>167808853
ooh, nice idea.

and thanks for the compliment!

Im gonna be that guy, I would like to make a game. Itd be a hobby and nothing more but I want to take this seriously and will be dedicating about 9-12 hours a week to it. I dont know what specific kind of game I would like to make but I assume Ill have to make a series of 2d/3d simple concept single level type things until I get the hang of how to properly approach deving.

Is Unity right for me? If it is should I learn C# first or do it as I go?

Any generally well regarded tutorials or youtube vids for this sort of thing?

Im artistically challenged but I guess that wont matter until way further down the line. For the purposes of learning I imagine simple colors and shapes would be enough and on the 3d side free models should allow me to understand the actual game making?

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Is this true?

http://va.lent.in/should-you-use-playmaker-in-production/

And if so, why do you fucking hacks use visual scripting machines?

>>167810019
Of course it's true, visual scripting machines are for babbies who are scared of learning technical skills

>>167810019
Blueprints fix all that

>>167810363
What the fuck is blueprints? Do you mean Unreal? Because that's a totally different engine, my dude.

>>167810510
you said "visual scripting machines" without specifying engine

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>>167810019
The only thing this post proves is that Unity is garbage. Visual scripting is great and Epic Games have proven it.

>>167802898
>Platformer_V2_8 (65)
.....

>>167802898
link for the plugin ?

>>167810772
Yeah but the type of idiot who can barely code aka me who would want to use visual scripting shouldn't be using unreal

>>167810772
>literally 10 times worse performance than actual code

>>167811208
In the absolute worst case, but they can be converted to C++ automatically now anyway.

>>167811208
How about a no?
>Optimize runtime performance for packaged games, by providing users an optional cook step for converting Blueprint assets into C++ classes.
This has been an experimental feature and in 4.15 is going to be fully supported.

>>167811208
>nearly 3 year old meme

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Haven't posted here in quite a while, are there as many yesdevs as there were back in the day?

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>>167811614

>>167811090
I'm making it myself, it's not in a release state right now though

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Trying a different icon to show the player is swordless.

>>167811901
does it always land rightside up regardless of current sprite?

>>167812527
Yeah. Mainly for simplicity's sake

>>167812652
looks good in vid, but might look weird if it flips 180

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>>167812804
In actual combat you won't have much time to stop and pay attention to how the sword lands

>>167807167
make sure that right before it does it's desperation move that deals around 10000000 times your health 3 times over, the boss locks up your healing spell so you can't survive.

Guess the game

>>167799490
Unity noob myself, but transforms are one of those things that seem to be a fundamental part of the way Unity works. Try a public gameobject, then use that gameobject's transform.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b4QrkI3DT8
Legitimately better than yanderedev

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So would I be better off getting a visual scripter for Unity, or just using Unreal even though it's C++ and thus nine thousand times more difficult?

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I think I'm probably done with this animation. How does this look?

>>167813602
arms and wings good, legs weird because of dress.

>>167813602
wing or whatever blends into Yotsuba B / 10

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>>167813685
Sorry, forgot to export it with the background.

>>167813681
What's weird about the legs?

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Outsider here, is there any reason as to why Clickteam Fusion 2.5 is not a part of the recommended engines list?

The software seems to have potential to create some great games, though I could only point out to Freedom Planet (game on pic) for a concrete example. Played the game and loved it through and through.

Is it because there is no option to make actual raw scripts, code or such in contrast with the ones that are already there? That may be the answer but I'd like to make sure.

>>167813852
well the legs are fine but the way the dress moves makes no sense

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>>167814090
Yeah, I see what you mean. I had the dress moving like this, but changed it to a simple stretch because I wasn't happy with how it looks here.

>>167813852
, the dress bobbing up and down doesn't match the way the legs move, the animation should imply the cloth moving with the legs

>>167813602
>>167814337

I'd recommend stiffing the animation on those wings, they look like they are flapping as the character is walking around. Wings should probably not move much when they are not in use/when walking on the ground.

>>167814337
Hair bob is too slight, especially because it's colliding with the wing thing.

>want to make game
>really into it
>start thinking about features, systems
>write it all down
>get bored

Is having two projects going at once a good cure for boredom or lack of motivation to work on one?

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Alright devs.

In THREE WORDS, tell me why people should buy your game.

>>167814938
cool
fun
good

>>167814938
it is free

>>167814938
it
just
werks

>>167814938
loli rape simulator

>>167814785

Perhaps the process of writing everything down is what is fucking you up?

Maybe if you have an idea just test it out really quick on your engine of choice, I find that I get motivated to work on something when it is already going underway, so try to get your project rolling before the boredom point sets in.

>>167814938
BIG ANIME TITS

right question , is FERTGERVIFE good name for main warror of RPG-game ? sorry am not up notch at enlgish yet .

>>167814938
SICK
ASS
COMBOS

>>167814938
choke
on
it

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>>167815148

Yooooooo this one wins for me.

>>167814938
don't
lose
home

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can someone help me? I use GS: studio, trying to make an rpg battle system.
idk anything about the coding i just follow whatever the yt tutorials say but. something always breaks.
Right now, the enemies still attack when dead. the only thing that prevents it is a gobal event. but i cant use global. as i'm trying to make enemies have different levels of health.

if someone knows how to do enemies with different health or without them attacking me at the end please let me know

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/kssollkw0a2hxex/AAD1087_SWtOUyMPFz1UAvu8a

>>167814938
manlet
knight
adventures

>>167814938
milfs
furry
storyline

>>167814938
monster
plot
gunpoint

>>167815121
It's pretty stupid
Use something like Virilgerverf instead

>>167814938
comfy
comfy
COMFY

>>167814938
fuck
a
duck

>>167814976
>>167815974
>>167815806
>fun
>story
>plot
lol no wonder AGDG is doomed to remain in the gutters

>>167814938
pet
cute
monsters

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OK. How does the dress look now? And the hair bob too? Thanks to everyone for all the feedback, by the way, I really appreciate it.

>>167814938
cute
animal
protagonist

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which is better

>>167816085
>Virilgerverf
that`s retarded . . my idea of course , found better. no thanks any way.

>>167816959
>arms are one pixel
>legs are 2 pixel hoofs
???

>>167817358
T H I C C
H
I
C
C

pee pee poo poo jam when

>>167817271
cavalier, clearly, you fucking nodev

>>167817271
dimetric

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>>167817659
>poo jam

What editor do you use? vim/emacs?

>>167818029
Code Blocks
will fully transition to vim eventually

>>167818232
I bet that's not the only transition you're doing eh anon?

youre not even getting an @ for that heresy

>>167818029
I wrote my own code editor.

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>there are LITERALLY people in this thread right now who believe the earth is actually round
Looks like some people's almonds aren't activated.

>>167814938
I genuinely care

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----[ Recap Complete ]----
First recap with score data in the image. I'm quite liking the idea, so unless there is a lot of opposition, I will be removing the scores section. As always, you can still visit the scores archive for a detailed list of all past and current game scores. Also I didn't manually correct any title misspellings this week, so some of you probably have incorrect score data shown. I'm writing a script to sort out those errors as I see them so it'll be fixed by next recap.

Quick poll
http://poal.me/h85s9h

-------- LINKS
Read me: pastebin.com/QA047M2e
Recap archive: dropbox.com/sh/icm5ng2zs8p24uh/AACC61OsXzCgl6-9Vdwb4sRAa
Scores archive: pastebin.com/AmFmLeAy

-------- FEEDBACK
Notice something wrong with your entry, score, or anything else? Let me know and I'll look into it.

>>167818975
where's the source game? are you manually pruning entries now?

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Ignore shitposters and research it for yourself. Every single question you ask is freely available online. No sense posting here, you'll just attract trolls and shills andround earthers that have had their headed pounded with false info. Good luck.

>>167818975
>Jofer pulled a pugdev

>>167818975
If >>167819097 is true, you should also remove jofers game because the guy is obviously just doing it for the attention.

Also, any chance the games in the recap will be listed according to their score? That would make joke-entries and half-assed entries less of an eye-sore

If you were a cool witch which 5 magic symbols would you use?

>>167818380
>all this silence from sourcepham and his cronies now
Funny how they all disappeared... Almost suspicious. Like a bunch of paid shills. The moment someone started lighting their asses with their own facts they all ran off....lol

>>167818975
>Comfort of your own
whats this about?

Who is/was rotatedev?

>>167819710

Earth doesn't rotate, that's why we don't feel any motion. Research "Airy's Failure." He had light come down the barrel of a telescope that was pointed at a star, then filled it water and noticed that the image of the star he was looking at didn't disappear. Which means the earth isn't moving in reference to the stars and the stars -are- moving in reference to the earth.

>>167819556
-backwards swastika
-star of david
-upside down cross
-crescent of islam
-hammer and sickel

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>>167819826

>>167806370
I don't like boss fights where I feel like I'm being cheated. I like the final boss in Jade Empire because its hard unless you cheese it and its a straight up 1v1 with the big bad. It doesn't pull any stupid punches, it doesn't give you some super weapon or unique mechanic that you HAVE to use in order to beat the fight, its just a really hard 1v1 fight.

If you take the Darth Malak fight I hated that he had is stupid health absorbing bullshit. Its like if I'm playing an RPG and its a starwars game where you're playing a jedi, as cliche as it is you want your fucking 1v1 dude.

It all depends on the game though. In metal gear solid I don't expect a 1v1 climactic brawl because for all purposes snake is just a guy, he isn't a Hero, using the term in a way that makes sense for classifying characters. When you're a guy vs a giant mechanical wolf mech sniper I don't expect you to 1v1 it in a traditional sense.

Also I don't like boss fights where the bad guy transforms and gains new powers randomly, though it bothers me less in JRPG's because thats just a thing that happens. If I'm playing like Bioshock I kind of hated that the game even had a final boss, like it didn't even need a final boss, it could have been better if you just found the guy and bashed his skull in with a wrench.

>>167819710
Some fag that used to post here. That's about it.

>>167814938

Why do you believe I have any intention of releasing my game for a price?

>>167820172
emphasis on the word "fag"

Like "mommy is going to be mad I used her make up to dress up like a girl but I do it because it makes me feel pretty" tier fag.

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this is why its extremely important to make backups on flash drives.

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>>167820335

>>167820417
those are some next level dance moves

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>>167820050
>I don't like boss fights where I feel like I'm being cheated
fucking gill still pisses me off

>>167820417
are you on a 4:3 monitor?

>>167820629
yes.

>>167820629
It looks like it.

Why is he posting here? Poordevs need to LEAVE.

>>167820417
>450x360
Seriously, nigger? Fucking really? Just fuck off.

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>>167820417
>450x360
>>167820702
>4:3 monitor

>>167820417
>its extremely important to make backups on flash drives
Are you memeing me?
you're not using source control?

>>167821106
Don't say that, don't say that word here.

>>167820789
>>167820997
Holy shit dude this triggers me more than any amount of art bullying ever will. Just let him dev man, changing resolution later on is super easy if he scales his interface right and you might as well dev fore the poorest of fags and make sure it works if you want that.

>>167821235

yea but, 450x360.

he should know better.

>>167821476
What's wrong with 5:4? 1280x1024 was quite popular back in the day.

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>>167821558
>back in the day
My monitor works just fine, tyvm.

>>167821235
>triggers
A lot of things trigger you, don't they, sourcepham?
Keep dancing, monkey. :^)

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>aliums are real
>all high as fuck
Also space area now a thing. I'm kind of starting to not like godot.
>gimped glsl
>plently of stuff undocumented
>some shit broken and dev's dont care because 3.0

>>167814938
You really shouldn't

>>167821753
>when you make a post and get confused with sourcedev

I'm just not going to post anymore tonight I've clearly gone too far. Good luck everyone.

>>167821235
Here's an idea: stop being a poorfag if you want to post with the real alpha bulls here.

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kek

Kill me now famalams

>>167819826
I said cool, not 15 year old edgelady you edgelady.

>>167822043
give it the right sound and particle effects and honestly it would be endearing as fuck as an enemy type.

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ComfyKids little progress update: working on inventory menu.

How it works:

Push button to bring up the pause screen, up down go between menu things. pushing right will move you into the items section, where you can interact with your loot. going further right puts you into the equipment section where you can put on/swap/remove gear from those slots.

Anything worn in the equipment section does not contribute to your storage limits, but if you have no room to take an item off and don't have space to swap for it you'll have to make room before you can do that.

Above the item boxes are a backpack and two pouches. You start the game with none of these, and a max carrying capacity of 4. You find the backpack in the first like two or three minutes of the game and it brings your item capacity up to 12 (16 if you count worn items)

Crafting pouches expands your inventory by +4 slots, and you can craft two pouches (it will reject you crafting more than two)

Player picture up in the top left will change according to how much LIFE you have left, current status effects are displayed below it, and the text box area at the bottom pops up when interacting with an item.

Crafting menu will just prompt you to tag two items, and it will prompt if you want to add a third. once you've done that, itll ask you what you want to do with them (COMBINE, COOK, CARVE, etc) based on things like "are you facing a fire or a cooking area?" or "what tools do you have (knife, axe, etc)"

This part might take a bit of time but it's a hella lot of fun to work on it.

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>>167819556

>>167822515
I briefly thought this was WoH due to it being black and white haha.

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>>167822515
>that picture for ants
Whoops, zoomed in a bit so you can see things. (normally in-game it auto scales stuff, but you can adjust scaling to better fit your screen)

>>167822650
confusing menu at such a small scale... those little 5x5 pixel icons just blend into a confusing mess... I suggest either making them larger, getting rid of them, or at least spacing it out...

other than that, I like it

>>167823053
>>167822650
on second though, maybe adding colour would help differentiate them too

but that depends on the art style you're going for

>open source my game
>much more capable dev forks it, makes progress like a mad man
>doing things to my game that I could only dream of
>ask him if I can help
>he tells me he's not interested, but wishes me luck
Open source was a mistake

Post the cutest AGDG game characters.

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Robo and Robo's cool older brother

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>>167823419

is there a way to draw simple things on the game screen in unity, like text? e.g. some kind of "print" command?

>inb4
>b-but what about GUI
no
>b-but what about UI canvas
no
>b-but what about TextMesh
no
>b-but what about Debug.Log?
fucking no

if you suggest any of the above things congratulations you are as fucking stupid as the moron mongoloids who inhabit the Unity support forums

I just want to know if something like that is supported, not stupid ass unhelpful suggestions to "just do [something else]"

>>167824146
Create your own image/text classes that use GL draw functions

>>167823494
nice Enslaved clone>>167824146
>you are as fucking stupid as the moron mongoloids who inhabit the Unity support forums
and so are you for using unity where you have to even ask such a question

>>167824371
their GUI/UI systems are garbage. canvases are ultimate garbage.

using Unity because its easiest for a 3D game, but I wanted to make 2D menus.

>>167824451
>using Unity because its easiest for a 3D game
and yet you have to avoid all their tools

>>167803096
no, love is a graphics engine

>>167824590
did you even read what I said retard

3D tools = good
2D tools = bad

its a mixed bag but I'm not ready to try to code my own 3D engine

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>trixels

>>167824757
Anon even AAA games use canvas-style solutions for game UIs. If you move the camera around in games from the early 2000s when you're in a menu you'd see that it's just a 2d object floating in 3d space right in front of the camera.

>>167824146
there's the immediate mode GUI, it's mainly meant for debugging and placeholder, but it's perfectly functional

>>167824757
>2d menu for a 3d game

And the fact that they have no competent UI system sure seems like an easy and good tool

>>167824146

GL.Begin (GL.QUADS);

for(int i = 0; i < verts.Length/3; i++)
{
GL.TexCoord2(uvs[2*i],uvs[2*i+1]);
GL.Vertex3(verts[3*i], verts[3*i+1], verts[3*i+2]);
}
GL.End ();

>>167824861
>>167824958
when your menu depends on drawing perfectly and being aligned to the screen space its better to draw it directly to the screen space through code

faggot

>>167825057
>>167824997
you have to keep track of the coordinates yourself, which gives you the pixel perfect control you're looking for

>>167825140
>>167824997
good shit, thanks

>>167825057
There's a lot of things Unity does that "it's better" to do a different way. That's the price you pay for not rolling your own solution from the ground up, you have to play in someone else's ball pit.

>>167823338
Did someone literally cuck you?

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How do I name my game?

>>167824371

>nice Enslaved clone

Not really seeing it, but thanks.

>>167825682
describe your gameplay in one word

>>167825682
on itch.io theres a textbox where you enter the name, just put it in there

>>167825775
Gay Niggers from Outer Space

>>167825791
But how do I think of what to put there?

>>167825775
I can't name my game Fuck

>>167825775
It's like Legend of Zelda but Metroid is a girl

>>167825878
Nice idea. It's mine now. ;^)

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>>167826094
REEEE

GIVE IT BACK

>>167811614
Hi, anon! I love to follow your stuff on tumblr. Any demo in sight for a demo day?

>>167825878
Okami already did this

How should I store level map data in a binary file? What sort of layout should I use for the file?

hey babes
just dropping in to say, you're doing great -- can't wait to play that game babe!

>>167826219
Never. ;^)

>>167825682
name it after an important part of your story.

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>>167825775
Shit

>>167825775

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>>167826651
d-don't say that! you're better than this!

game is only 9% done at best with half of a first level out 9 but I made the mistake of making it "pretty" so its not just squares firing smaller squares. Please don't meme me when I start posting progress because it is still the equivalent of 'square in room + wow its fucking nothing'

Is Loomis really the goto resource for learning to draw? All these millennia of drawing and there's nothing better?

To any music devs ITT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY2KnW19Tls

What are the defining characteristics of this track? What would you keep in mind if trying to emulate it?

>>167827464
if you need a resource it's already too late
the people who are good artists have been drawing from their imagination since they were 5 years old
and they didn't use books

What engine are you using for your 2D platformer? I'm getting sick of LOVE's weird ass physics.

>>167827375
what are you? a pussy?

>>167827814
Not him, but that's dumb. There wasn't a 1500 year gap in art just because no talented artists were born. Techniques were loss and had to be rediscovered. No one artist "discovered" realism on their own, it took hundreds of years and countless artists sharing their knowledge.

>>167827983
>There wasn't a 1500 year gap in art just because no talented artists were born.
but that literally happened. its called the dark ages. get an education, moron

>>167828063
Get literate, m8.

>>167827983
I'm not talking about approaching the power level of vermeer or some shit
it goes without saying that that is way beyond the reach of the people here

>>167828063
>le dark ages family guy is so right fuck christianity hahahah xddd

http://lost-history.com/fallofrome.php

>>167828135
>fuck christianity hahahah xddd
but i didnt say that. i said that no people with talent were born and so talent genes couldnt be passed on

its like why we dont have cavendish bananas anymore

>>167828063
>>167828115
>>167828127
>>167828135
>>167828326
Video Shame

what should I make my health pick ups look like?

>>167828365
Not a red cross on a white background, that symbol's trademarked and the red cross foundation will be on your ass

>>167828365
cigarettes

>>167828473
It'll be okay if you have an LLC to protect you.

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There was an attempt at a sliding animation. With every new animation I make, I feel like I bullshit it even harder than the previous one lord help me with the reverse roll. Probably try redoing most of these animations when I get better at this, but I want to move on to the other animations.

The dash afterimages are temporarily disabled for it until all of the dash animations are completed. It will do silly things if it is enabled right now.

>>167823731
saved as h*ck

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Does anyone know why my character might not be moving? I'm working in Unity, and I'm not getting any errors whatsoever. The input vector and all that shit even change as I press controls, but the character doesn't move an inch.

>>167828572
His name is Blander

>>167828658
>Unity
bingo

>>167828794
I'm glad you've got more ammo for your engine war, but I legit have a problem here. If this were an error I wouldn't be bothering the thread, but I seriously don't know how to solve this without an actual error to investigate.

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>>167827818
Literally just applying upward force on a dynamic object standing on a static object with 0 friction every 2 seconds.
>height of jump changes when applying same force every time
>sinking in to static object
>weird floaty shit
Why?

>tfw you will never be a qt student dev making games with normies in a dev university
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrKjVBbzdM

People told me design programs were a waste but desu they've already sold a ton of copies of that thing.

>>167828658
Put in print messages so you can see what parts of your code are actually running

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>>167828964
>dev university
my fucking sides. Yes I'll have fries with that.

>>167828925
I'd try making a for loop that moves your character up a pixel at a time until you're on top of the ground again.

>>167828365
What's your setting?

>>167829015
>this is how /agdg/ actually debugs

>>167829045
Really? I just want a physics system that works properly. There must be a cleaner way to program a 2D platformer.

>>167829015
I'm not really sure what you're asking me. If you mean what shows up on the console at the bottom, nothing.

>>167829053
Fantasy. You're a mage trapped inside a dungeon.

>>167829096
there is literally nothing wrong with print debugging

>>167804775
how the fuck do you fuck up performance in a pixel game

that shit is unacceptable, kill yourself

>>167829096
Print debugging is absolutely practical to catch runtime bugs

>>167829235
throw some Debug.Log(string) or print(string) into various parts of your code, make them print out the value of variables relevant to the problem you're having

>>167829028
They're already selling their game on Steam. Where's yours?

>>167829096
Pop quiz: why is one of the standard C text streams called Standard Error?

>>167829330
These fucking clowns. I swear. I can't tell who's trolling who anymore.

>>167829190
Are you using a tile grid?
If not, the for loop I suggested is a good catch-all, just make sure to only run it if your character is already in the ground.

>>167829404
By throwing thousands of physics particles on the screen at once

>>167829428

You know what it probably is? My player character is a sprite object. That's probably fucking everything up. I'll bet sprites don't move in Unity or some dumb shit like that.

>>167829549
How exactly are you trying to move this object? Are you changing the transform position or using unity's rigid body stuff?

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>>167829471
Is there an implementation of a tile grid in the default LOVE library? I am not using a tile grid. I literally just have 2 objects.

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hidden arrow traps activated by not-so-subtle switch

give more trap ideas pls

>>167829741
cute girl but there's a penis in the pants

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>print debugging

>>167829697
Transform. I seriously don't know what I fucked up here. Earlier I was having a problem with "Horizontal Axis not set up" or something like that, but it turns out I accidentally put a space after the word, so I deleted that and fixed it.

Or at least I thought I did, but even though that previous error is gone, he still doesn't move, and he has the word "movement" over his body for some reason. i'm at a loss.

>>167829715
I'm literally a meme in human form and the only language I know is actionscript 2.
Can't really help you with LOVE, sorry.

>>167829998
There's not much more I can say without seeing your code directly desu

>>167830019
Ah alright no worries, I appreciate the effort anon.

>>167829741
I like how xhe explodes into sparkles

What do you call a skill tree node that has been spent points on?

Like, activated, but another word

>>167830771
where's your game?

>>167830108

Well, I got it to work by replacing my sprite with a box, and then attaching the sprite to the box.

But now I have the problem of a box zipping around instead of the character. Do you know any way to make a box invisible?

Also they move at light speed.

>>167830771
unlocked - locked
active - inactive
open - closed

>>167831108
>unlocked - locked

thank you. i was already using active/inactive for something else, so unlocked/locked works

>>167831105
1. stop what you're doing
2. follow the tutorials
3. learn unity
4.repeat steps 2 and 3
20. go back to devving your game

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>>167831105

Well I figured out how to make the box invisible, so my player can finally move and the camera finally follows him.

But I have the sinking feeling that that's probably a really dumb solution to get a sprite to move and it'll lag my game later on or something.

What are some underrated gimmicks in video games?

>>167831396
jumping down instead of up

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Reminder to pay attention to color theory

>>167831396
anything that doesn't involve combat or war

what the FUCK is a godot

>>167831747
reminder to not save that picture as a .jpg you cunt

>>167832036
something you wait for

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>tfw
How do I fight it?

>>167832896
Write it down, save it for later.

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You have 30 seconds to explain whats causing the depression that is getting in the way of making game

>>167833397
Shit lifestyle.

>>167833397
>you have 30 seconds to explain some emotional issue buried deep in your subconcious

>>167833456
all emotional issues are caused by simple triggers desu

>>167833397

I don't have depression, I'm just dumb lol.

>>167833603
I'd say vidya gamers don't really give a shit

>>167833397
>minor health issues
>all my friends are too busy to hang out with me
>ugly as sin
Still making game tho
Is one of the few things that make me feel better about myself

>>167833669
>ugly as sin
can we see

>>167833603
enjoy your 3 day ban

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>>167828658
Paste code.

I suspect a reference problem.
Things like

>gameObject.transform.position.x = something;

don't work, you need to first do something like

>Vector3 newPos = >gameObject.transform.position;
>newPos.x = something
>gameObject.transform.position = newPos;

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Got camera and character movement working!

Next up is trying to get the animations to play properly. I assume it will be unbelievably complicated.

>>167833893
Why would I get banned for asking about if it's a good idea to make a game based off or it or not

>>167833910
I solved the issue by attaching the sprite to an invisible cylinder, and then it worked perfectly instantly. I didn't change anything else, so I guess you can't move a sprite directly in 3D Unity? Or something?

>>167833951
janitors ban anyone who mentions the topic you've posted about on vg
might be ok since it's 5am est though

>>167833934
Congrats! You're a step ahead of me, anon. Keep it up!

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>>167834015
Yeah I saw the rest of the conversation after replying, sorry about that.
You definitely should be able to move a sprite though, so there has to be something in your code causing it

>>167834168
Thanks! It was way more difficult than I thought it'd be, but I guess that makes sense, seeing that I've never done any programming or coding stuff before, except for the first week of an HTML class like four years ago.

Anyway, point being, I never thought I'd be so happy to see a completely static character glide across a flat plane.

>>167834264
Well I really appreciate you replying regardless. I'm doing my best with my very limited skillset. Everyone's telling me to go read a C# book or watch tutorials, and I am, but I also don't want to wait a million years to start work on a game, y'know? I suppose that's impatient of me, but you learn by doing, right?

I really wish I could find what the problem was so I won't have to make an invisible block for every single character. Because it said in my inspector that I was moving whenever I hit the buttons, but the sprite never moved. And I've compiled and debugged and all that, and there aren't any errors. Super weird. Wish I weren't such a beginner.

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which one do you prefer
static bg or...

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>>167834523
scrolling bg

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Time to start working on Blaz's strongest attack

>>167834608
This one

>>167833397
Pretty much this
>>167833515

>>167834608
This one

>>167834523
This whole UI has too much contrast. It should be guiding your eyes to the actual items/maps/whatnot, not drawing attention.

>tfw want to use the 5 Chinese elements because you need a wheel with 5 types but your wheel needs each type to oppose the two not adjacent to it so you can't

>>167834398
>but you learn by doing, right?
Yep, that's how it works for me too. You have to break some eggs if you want to make an omelette.

>>167831747
Why is there a whole row of blue in the "fruit" colors? What fruit are blue?

>>167833397
Unreliable partners being unable to hold up their end of the work. It's my fault for expecting someone to put effort in for doing shit for free, but when having a fit because they want to be the only one to do X because they're selfish and not being able to have anyone else, not much else I can do. I'm learning how to do everything they do though, so hopefully that will no longer be an issue.

Ok let's make a game.

Designer: Me.

2D artist: free
3D artist: free
musician: free
writer: free
programmer: free

>>167833397
I have no sense of scale

>>167835923
Let's get meta /agdg/
A game about an idea guy trying to convince artists/musicians/programmers/writers to join his project by lying about having the rest of the team already assembled.

Designer: Me.
2D artist: Me
musician: Me
writer: Me
programmer: Me
With special thanks to: (you)

In game maker how would I go about making a capture and store function like a pokemon game?

>>167836085
...in a dating sim format.

>>167830771
clopen

>>167833397
Y'all don't have depression, you are just lazy and insecure.

>>167836316
If I ever make a game I'm going to dedicate it to (You) in the credits.

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>>167833603
>cruz saga
what does this refer to?

>>167814938
nostalgia
comfy
monsters

>>167833397
>paint meme poster wants to talk about depression
we live in an age where literally everyone on the internet deals with sixty layers of irony in their funny images and pretend to be suicidally depressed for sake of a joke

>>167832896
You don't want to hear it, the solution to finishing games is building discipline (which is an information issue, not a motivation issue).

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>>167833603
>>167833893
told you

>>167836406
The same way you would do it in any other engine

Atelier + Animal Crossing.
Y/N?

>>167838079
Y if it's good.