/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

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First for next jam theme poll!
http://vote.pollcode.com/35192779
>http://vote.pollcode.com/35192779
http://vote.pollcode.com/35192779
>http://vote.pollcode.com/35192779

>>168531068
How do you guys feel about female protagonists?

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What is your plan for this thread, Anon?

I'm using System.Linq in c# for loading data from xml documents, how can I make and read a list in an xml document?

something like
<ClassList>Warrior,Rogue,Mage</ClassList>
and then when loading
List<Classes> = xml.Element("ClassList")
???
something like that???

>>168531261
Limited. Females can not be subjected to many things that are a-ok to do to males without social media backlash.

Reminder that marketing is important, even if you have a good game!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9AmX1Qfzpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CYfKWEKusg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bH-1v-Yz9k

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Just gonna ask this aain, would love to get some input and personal advice.

I cant seem to work on anything or dev. I write down my plans, setup a schedule to dev, but I end up not doing it. I don't even fully know why. It's a weird feeling of anxiety and feeling like I wont make it anyways. Lately i've been feeling this with everything I loved doing. Be it vidya, reading, drawing, cooking.

I get short bursts of motivation of sorts and can work for days without stop. But then it feels like the magic is gone and it all comes crashing down.

Am I just being lazy? How do I stop being like this and work on something? Anyone ever felt like this and were able to pull through? I need some advice.

Also the only thing that does work to some degree is small collaborations of sorts or friendly competitions. When I feel that i'm working on something and someone DEPENDS on me doing it right, I just do it. But once the other person shows a lack of interest, it freezes up again.

>>168531354
Leaving it to those weirdoes who don't live in the same timezone than me.

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online works demo saturday : )

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>>168529692
I dunno man, I have at least 5 people that committed to buying it already

>>168521702
Thanks!

>>168521690
Not at all, in VR it's incredibly cool and useful. Hell, even valve couldn't figure it out.
It's incredibly useful for things like inventory systems (I.E. bags of holding) and locomotion in VR since it offers a natural-seeming way to move without having to leave the playspace.

>>168531261
Do they pilot a mecha?
If yes, then it's good. If no, then they need to pilot a mecha.

>tfw have lots of ideas
>start prototyping them, excited about what it could be
>get it almost playable
>realize it isn't fun
How do I stop having ideas that completely die on contact with a player? I just can't into gameplay. Nothing that I have in my head actually works once it's in front of me and tangible.

I can program. I'm okay at art. I make decent progress.

My games just suck. Help me.

>>168531354
Keeping myself alive seems to be the most important task for now. Maybe start a side project after that.

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Post logos.

>>168531674
That's the point of prototyping. Make lots and lots of prototypes fast, many will suck. Change them up a bunch, see what becomes fun. Once you find something that is a lot of fun, expand on it.

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>>168531546
That is super interesting, thanks for posting it.

>revolver360
Off to a depressing start. Shit looks super nice.

>>168531528
I've never understood that, it's sexist as fuck.
It wouldn't be too extreme anyway just yopur average fantasy violence.
>>168531645
I don't like mecha very much, plus it's medieval and magic focused.

How do I start devving for switch? All I can see on devportal is some nda and wii/3ds shit.

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>>168531763

>>168531632
Out of curiosity, how much do you sell it? the link to the asset seems broken.

How do you tell your collab partner you want out?

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>>168531763

>>168532005
>I've never understood that, it's sexist as fuck.
>"So in your game women get beat, raped, tortured, and mutilated? Shouldn't you see a shrink about that?"
Fucking normies.

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>>168532043
Wait, you can't click the link to the asset?
Oh shiiiiiiii, I copied the wrong one
here you go
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/81638

I followed the guideline pricing, I wish that I could generate discount codes for folks here but unfortunately the Unity store offers no such thing.

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You can now loot the test enemy like a container after your bring their life to 0!

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>>168531763

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>>168531632
>train getting bigger

literally molyneux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGiPUx9Zgi0

>>168531354
Hoping to finish up some mechanics work so I can post today, but if not I will try my damnedest to post progress tomorrow.

>>168531585
Open the IDE. Above all else, as long as you have not become numb to seeing it sit there idling then having your IDE open should, at the very least, give you a sense of obligation. (This one is tough though because if you have been doing this then the sight of it sitting there is just background noise at this point)

Also decide on something small. Something super small and cute. Get some hot tea or coffee or hot chocolate, put on some music or podcasts or story readings and Just Like Make Game. Even completing something small will give you a huge boost in confidence and determination.

Always remember, the person depending on you is yourself. Don't let that person down, anon. They depend upon you the most out of everyone else. Sharing here also helps because you can get some interaction on your progress and feel good about doing something.

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>>168532005
>implying mecha can't exist in a fantasy magical world

>>168532163
>So you believe women should be treated equally and not like children?
>Oh you want them coddled and protected from any consequence aswell?
You sure do love your strong women...

>>168532380
I never saw that game but you could use this asset to re-create that game easily given how scaling is relative.

>>168532135
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjV8SHjHvHk

>>168532520
it was more of a tech demo, I think it was for dimitri/milo

just something to show off at gdc, keep in mind this was 2005 or 6

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>>168531585
Damn, anon. It's like I'm reading my own thoughts.

I was always a guy with a lot of enthusiasm, you know? I was with full of energy, always pushing forward. I'm always way to worked up, just to meet the harsh reality that it is only I how care about the given thing this much. I slowly learned that no matter the effort, I won't reach that magical fairy land I always dreamed of. Nowadays I just want to work. I just make up these small challenges, call it game dev or writing or whatever, to have a reason to wake up. However when that drive is gone, either because the others involved seemingly lost interest or because I face a wall I can not climb, I become immobilized. I end up in a state where I can not work, but can not really relax either. Days just go by and I wonder if my life is going anywhere.

Most of the time I don't even believe what I'm doing is real. Am I really sitting in this office with these people? Damn, they talk to me about all these tasks we should do, and they really think I give a damn, while I just want to get home and work on my game.

Sorry. I feel like an ass now. I guess that helped in no way. Maybe I just wanted to let you know you are not alone. You can tell me if there's more, I'm a good listener.

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Got resource generation and storage done.

A generator can make several different kinds of resources, each with their own probability of generation and total amount, there are only solar panels now but in the future you will be able to mine the environment for limited resources.
Each turn the game controller checks for all generated resources and tries to send them to the emptiest storage.

Right now the resources just teleport around but I will make so that they have to travel through transmission nodes, similar to how Creeper World does it.

I can mix and match unit types too, I can have a miner that also fires projectiles and stores its own resources for example, the goal is to let the player build their own units to deal with different situations, akin to Warzone 2100.

The resources don't do anything yet so the next step will be making it so that units require certain kinds of resources to be build and work.

>>168531585
sounds like manic/depressive episodes, but I'm not a psych so I can't say for sure

Anyone have any spare game ideas laying around? I could use a few.

>>168531687
If you need support anon I'm here for you.

>>168532756
I have too many

I could probably come up with a new one on the spot if you give me some requirements

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>>168532216
>a hack n slash game with portals
>a racing game with portals

so many possibilities

>>168532756
Rhythm game X Shmup

>>168531585
Anon, how's your health? Are you eating well? Getting some exercise? Socializing every now and then, even just in multiplayer games?

A lot of what you just described sounds like depression, especially that you're losing motivation to do so many of the things you love. Remember to take care of yourself.

Like that other anon said, setting small goals and working towards that is good. And realizing that you rely on you is a good thing too.

But you gotta stay healthy. Take a shower, eat some good food, take a walk, call a friend. Remember to do the stuff that keeps you alive. Then set small goals, and go for it.

I believe in you, anon. Take care of you, and Just Like Make Game.

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How would you implement something like this where you're actually able to cut away material and reform the geometry in real time?

My idea that I've currently implemented was taking a very point cloud and then removing the points that exist within the geometry of the cutting tool then writing a geometry shader to create a solid from it (if htat's even possible, never worked with geometry shaders and haven't attempted this yet). However doing it this method is extremely slow and w

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>>168532929

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advanced destruction physics

>>168533041
marchiccubees

>>168531354
Hopefully decide what the fuck I want to make for my next game.

>>168531585
Been through that. Talked to a doc, got meds. Meds helped my motivation, especially in the beginning. Progress fucken' everywhere.
Doesn't mean you'll have a constant high though. I'm still on meds, still believe they help, but I've been putting off seeking a therapist due to a bunch of other unresolved shit.
It may seem scary at first to hand yourself in like that, but it really needs to be done. And get a professional to talk to. Don't repeat my mistake.

>>168532216
This link works, thanks.

The price seems a bit high for an asset, but as >>168532916 said, there are tons of stuff to do with this. And I never took the time to try this mechanic, so maybe the maths involded justify the cost.
Looks fun, though, good luck!

>>168531260
>loli winning
>again
Don't try to fight it agdg
Embrace it

>>168533575
It doesn't matter what website you host the poll on, nodevs and people who hate jams will always vote for dumb themes. I don't understand why this isn't clear to you.

>>168533575
Is this the appropriate time to ask for loli game ideas?

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What do you guys do to promote your game?
>sent to all my friends
>post on every social media site I can find
>email as many gaming sites as possible
>post devblogs and repost them on reddit and gamedev forums
Starting to run out of ideas for where I can further promote my game

I see all these Unity tutorials on how to do an indexcolor palette swap for spritesheets but I have no idea how to do this in UE4's material editor

>>168533301
Thank you this is exactly what I'm looking for.

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Reminder

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>>168531354
Finish up these goddamn death animations.

6 monsters to go, one of which is getting a complete overhaul for sprites and behaviour, two of which need to actually be made.

>>168533801
youtubers

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>>168531763

>>168533801
I plan on keeping my game a secret so that after I die people can discover my opus, you know, just like that janitor who did all that art featuring big titty angels with dicks

>>168533801
shill on /v/

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What's a good name for space kinda-like asteroids game (but it has no asteroids really) but with a huge skill tree?

>>168533801
Youtube personalities that play your game's genre. Strategy / townbuilder to quill18, W40k to TotalBiscuit, unironically shitty games to Cr1t1kal etc.
Journalists' personal email.

>>168534041
faggots in space: skill trees edition

>>168533761
does it matter?
you can make the same game as long there is a loli on it it will count

>>168533981
source?

>tfw 0 (zero) (You)s

>>168534041
Space Core : Ranger Rogue

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>>168531261
there's only a few options really
a) muh representation / women can be men too silly boys / other sjw garbage
b) teenage boy bait / artist female body fetish / waifu bait / lolicon bait / other disgusting fetishism
c) thematic fit i.e. cooking mama

all of which are garbage, I can think of very few female characters that have a reason to exist that don't go in the above brackets, and fewer main characters

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>>168533790
>motto misprint
Hey there, fellow collector.

>>168534341
Where does Samus fall into this?

>>168534041
darkstar one

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>>168534341
>thematic fit is garbage

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>>168532832
Damn, anon. Thank you for your kindness. It's just, you know. I can not even describe. I live the perfect normie life, yet I have these constant suicidal thoughts. But I rather stop here. People often get warned or banned for playing /adv/ on /vg/.

So, yeah, I guess a side project might cheer me up in the weekend.

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It's been a minute.

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>>168534437
>bet you thought this robot was a man huh?
>zero suit fetishism

trash

>>168534341
>muh e-every woman is inferior to me! I'm a big strong man!
simply epic.

When will the GM:S2 discount offer end?

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>>168533293
Unity wins again.

>>168533510
It's only at the price point that it is because it's optimized out the wazoo and it fully functions on mobile and in VR, plus it has full physics passthrough support which literally none of the other portal assets on the unity store have

>>168532916
Yup! And, since scripts can go through portals independently of their host objects, all of that fun stuff works exactly as you'd expect it to

>>168534654
Are there any female protags that meet your autistically high standards then?

>>168534694
Why should it matter? If you're serious about game dev you'd be willing to pay full price for Gamemaker.

That's a lot of responses! I'm kinda happy to hear others had/have this problem aswell.

>>168532421
I do have the IDE and engine open during the day. I just look at it and can't seem to work on anything.

> Always remember, the person depending on you is yourself. Don't let that person down, anon.

I feel like i've already let myself down.

>>168532640
> I become immobilized. I end up in a state where I can not work, but can not really relax either. Days just go by and I wonder if my life is going anywhere.

That's how I feel aswell. Technically I don't feel sadness or bad, I just feel stuck As if i'm in a swap. Numb even.

>>168532732
>>168532953
>>168533468
I do go to a therapist. I've actually started seriously visiting one a couple months ago. Therapy, tons of tests. Started taking meds. I don't feel it helped me with working at all. I do feel better overall and my mind is much clear than before, but I still can't force myself to do any of the things I loved.

Maybe i'm just trying to do too much at once and should focus on smaller doses. Could it be a problem that when I do progress I do it for 8,10 sometimes 12+ hours / day? Over working and burning out? I need to start working on smaller chunks and stop worrying that I didn't finish something. Write down what needs to be finished during the next session and stop when the schedule says to stop.

Maybe that could help?

I also feel like I require someone to push me. Motivate me. Someone that comes up to me and says "hey anon, show me your progress! Also here's mine. Lets discuss how we did it", a one on one thing, but that also sounds as if i'm spoiled.

> tfw blogposting

>>168531585
It amazes me that people like you take the time to write out personal diaries on the internet about your depression and problems but you don't have the time to just fucking do something productive.

You always have anime calling cards as well. Typical.

>>168534132
>count
But I don't want to make a game which simply "counts" I want to make a dang hyper greatly neatly groovy game. And one needs good ideas for that

>>168534862
>Why should it matter if you lose $40?

>>168534924
>happy to hear others had/have this problem
Asshole.

>>168535001
>caring about money
>buying proprietary software
It's possible to make a game with completely gratis software, some of which is even free.

>>168534924
>>168531585
Just kill yourself you whining faggot nobody gives a shit

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>>168534998
a game about finding a place to sleep?

>>168535001
$40 is nothing. Gamemaker is a top tier engine, that means you'll be making millions of dollars, if you're serious about being a game dev.

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How can I make a 2D game about shooting the shit outta everything without it turning into just another SHMUP or Run-n-Gun?

>>168534830
Don't get me wrong, the price is fair for a commercial use, considering the saved time.
But a "demo"(not allowed to use in a commercial project, 2/3 useful functions cutted out) could get you some customers.

>>168535217
C-CUTE

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>>168531585
>Just gonna ask this aain
Because the first time wasn't good enough?
>Am I just being lazy?
Yes. Why would you even need to ask other people? You're being lazy and you want attention for it.

>>168532640
>>>/adv/ literally nothing about this is gamedev related.

>>168534924
>That's a lot of responses!
Jesus fucking christ you're not even trying to hide what an attentionwhore you are.

>>168535276
Slain enemies drop guns that stack onto your guns for a fixed amount of ammunition before they detach.

So think katamari damacy but with dakka

>>168535341
I am doing this right now, actually.
It's gonna run kind of poorly and it won't have physics passthrough or optimizations or seamlessness but it'll work

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>>168531585
>>168534554
No problem familia I don't care if I get banned since I'm bokudev I know how it feels. If you need someone to talk to hit me up senpai.

>>168535276
Get orky on it, make it about upgrading/rigging your guns with ridiculous shit.

>>168535176
Fucking this. I despise nodev weeb shitters who use the thread as their depression blog.

>progress posts get 0 replies
>/adv/ bullshit gets 300
ebin
just ebin

>>168535561
>>168535546
Where are your games?

>>168531585
Have you tried a change of location? Try to dev in a library or something

>>168535546
Some people have no where else to blog their depression and get help. As sad as that is that agdg or the internet could be their only place I understand that, and thats horrible.

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>>168535561
you got look the way i see it. if people dont shittalk your game it means its not bad

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>>168534924
>I do go to a therapist.
Why the fuck are you dumping your issues in here then?

>>168535561
Why would you shitpost instead of replying to progress posts?

>>168531585
I wish people like you stopped posting here. This isnt adv. You have depression now either make a game or kill yourself.
>>168534924
This post makes it obvious youre an attention seeking unstable anime faggot. What a fucking surprise
This is why I keep telling people to stop pandering to this bullshit. Stop pandering to shit themes like lewd, waifu, loli. Stop pandering to weeb meme games or you attract people like this.

>>168535657
Here you go:
https://discord.gg/chquY2e

Shitpost there instead.

>>168534857
chell
femshep (pre-3)
aeon commander

can't think of many honestly

I didn't have any particular objections to faith, but it's sweden so their motivations are automatically suspect

>>168535657
>Some people have no where else to blog their depression and get help
That anon literally said they are already going to a therapist. And even if you're not, this is a gamedev thread. There is no excuse for coming in here and demanding attention and sympathy for being a lazy piece of shit.

>>168534924
>hey anon, show me your progress! Also here's mine. Lets discuss how we did it
Maybe you should let us know how we can do that, anon. You know, a throwaway e-mail or something. Cheerleaders won't appear out of nowhere in your life.

Also: watch out for burnout. It can really ruin ones life. Work less and learn to relax. Learn that there's no rush in life. Just go with the flow. You are not your achievements. You won't be a better person by doing vidya. You are already a good and wonderful being, you just need to learn to love and appreciate yourself.

>>168535887
Chell I'll agree with but femshep can arguably be pandering seeing as you can go out of your way to have her fuck a bunch of people.

Besides when I think Samus I think purely Samus in her armor. None of that zero suit shit.

>>168535818
Already in discord.

Post progress or your mother will lose all of her progresstonight

>>168535804
This. Posters like that give me physical reactions of disgust.

>>168535804
>>168536223
Admin

20 posts about depression and shit
10 posts complaining about them
0 progress

Sheesh

>>168536223
> anonymous posts on the internet give me a physical reaction of disgust
Not sure which one of you are more mentally ill at this point.

>>168536336
I'm trying to learn how to art, I don't think anyone wants to see that.

>>168536315
kys

>>168531585
Boohoo, I want to dev but I don't dev. Tell me the magic words that will make everything alright. Woe is me!

>>168536065
femshep is there because it's an RPG and you can choose your character basically

the star trek future setting almost demands it, it's more of a reference than an sjw thing and they give you adequate tools to roleplay a good reason for a girl to be in the military

you can fuck anything that moves as manshep too, so femshep is not any more or less fetishistic than the rest of the cast

it wasn't until 3 they started with the "look at how egalitarian our game is guys" marketing shit

you can think of samus how you like, doesn't change the fact that she's just there to lecture you at the end of the game and be a sex object in her underwear

>>168533712
but not when the theme you like wins right? faggot

>>168536336
I posted something here >>168533894 quit your bitching.

>>168536415
with all due respect to actually depressed people, i would rather see disfigured scribbles rather than all this shit lingering around in this thread

>>168536568
Don't reply to any post that users the word "ebin".

>>168536521
Do you actually think loli is a serious theme that lots of people are going to enter?

>>168536507
>you can think of samus how you like, doesn't change the fact that she's just there to lecture you at the end of the game and be a sex object in her underwear
>implying Samus wasn't a strong character in every game besides Metroid and Other M

>>168536790
Do you actually think lewd is a serious theme that lots of people are going to enter?

>>168536747
That post doesn't have the word "ebin" in it.

>>168536846
you can add as much characterization as you want after the fact, the japs are usually pretty good at it, but she ticks both boxes either way

the only reason she exists is to stick it to the man and look sexy

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In some countries, doing nothing is considered progress.

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Nodev weebs are extremely thirsty for attention right now. Deny.

To be fair the anon only did two(?) Posts. The ones shitting up the thread are the usual people who flip over anything. This happens everytime. A topic pops up and people grab it and bash it.

Ironic, but the same people who scream nodev can spend hours talking about an empty topic. The most recent ones were the polls, themes, age of consent, loli art .

>>168537002
>>168537036
Where is your game?

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>>168536675
I'm just trying to get a base shape/size that I can trace over for the sprites.
I can sketch okay irl so maybe I should get a cheapish tablet.

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>>168531763

>>168531585
>I cant seem to work on anything or dev.
i stopped reading here because everything afterwards is excuses.
remember this.

WIP suspenseful music for a level in the middle of a snowstorm, there will probably be wind sounds and radar pinging to guide the player.
https://clyp.it/b3jeakiq

>>168537002
> yesdev on the left
> discord on the right throwing a fit on AGDG again

>>168535762
Cause it gets me replies

>>168536973
Literally only the first out of 11 games in the series portrays her that way. While you can't undo what's already been done, does that mean it's still significant? You could even consider it retconned, what with Zero Mission (which, while it led to the current Zero Suit cancer, was a subversion of the Justin Bailey outfit and instead turned it into a way to show how strong Samus is even without her suit).

>>168535561
Maybe cause your game is shit and i'd rather reply to an /adv/ post than spend the time thinking of a single positive thing to say about your game?

>>168536973
>>168537494
Also Samus in her bikini is an obvious reference to Ripley in the beginning of Alien. Was that degrading towards Ripley? No. It's possible to show a woman in her underwear without it being sexist.

>>168537178
That's pretty nice, my only complaint would be it gets kind of (distorted? twangy?) at some points.
I'm not really a /mu/ guy.

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>>168494754
It does, but I haven't done the high resolution cockpits yet. They're still shitty and low res.

>>168495968
Yeah I think I might take this anons advice >>168496949 and add a tiny bit of emissive just so they don't get too dark at night.

actually thinking about it more closely, if you want to be anal, femshep and supcom characters both exist in a kind of post-sjw star trek future, and are bracket a) just by association

I don't know, honestly can't really think of any protagonists, protagonist rules out some good examples

karen from homeworld, I guess? but even then, I can imagine alex garden and rob cunningham going "we need a strong woman" "I'll draw her real pretty like" and that's that

and if you look at the mythological themes she's really just "look women can be moses too"

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control surfaces are for chumps

>>168537723
Why are you so obsessed with women and how they're portrayed?

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Hey guys done the basic outline of my horse
should I apply my Mirror modifier and start to add more detail to the face or do you guys think the body needs more work

>>168537106
i can barely tell what this is but i don't see anything too wrong with this

>>168537036
Yes anon. Often a single post by one person may attract many replies from multiple people. Isn't that neat?

>people grab it and bash it.
Depression blogging weeb nodevs cannot be bashed enough.

>>168538036
you asked

>tfw no game ideas

>>168538060
body needs more work.

needs more curves.
but I'd say put a mirror down first.

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>>168537036
It's a common rule on 4chan that anti-anime retards shit up threads way more with their complaining than the anime posters. They will prove me right in 3...2...

>>168538271
Ideas come to you if you actually start working and thinking about them.

>>168538271
Then you can make a clone of a small game like tetris or dr mario, to learn a bit more about the engine you're using.

can anyone recommend any fun singleplayer racing games? I want to do something racing-ish but I don't think I've ever played one that wasn't most fun in multiplayer.

>>168538450
Carmageddon, maybe?

>>168538060
too many polies, did not consider 3D shape at all

>>168538450
I dount there's a racin game with both multiplayer and single player that is not more fun in mp.

>>168538390
>people hate me and my posts because ANIME

>>168537707
>he's going to do high res cockpits for all his planes
>all by himself

madness

>>168538450
Nitronic Rush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9eNQl_xEg4

>>168538450
Racing games are always more fun multiplayer simply because it's more fun to race a friend.

>>168538734
I don't see how that's such a big issue with the right workflow.

>>168538450
Initial D (from 3 onwards). It has multiplayer too tho.

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Hi AGDG, I've decided to try making a game. I'll do my best!

>>168538179
It's just meant to be a basic head shape that I can draw the actual sprites over for consistent size/shape etc.
I don't really know much about art but I think this will make it easier in the long run.

>>168537723
good grief this is the most cynical and unreasonable post I've read today
and I'm in fucking /agdg/

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Working on visuals and level design right now. Got the gun working (as in, it does damage; I still need the reticle knockback) and a placeholder reload function (it just refills ammo, gotta implement the animation system).

As a plus, the world is really starting to come together. It's fairly large in scale, which I have mixed feelings about; when you have the power slide, it feels really open and fun, but it's a little bit big for just running around.

I'm thinking that the right way to work with levels of this size is to design them large, and then populate the empty spaces with "stuff" (enemy encounters, little platforming challenges, traps, etc), which will give some life to the space and prevent these encounters from being too cramped or fatiguing... but there's always the concern that it goes the other way and becomes this Banjo-Tooiean nightmare space of Just Endless Fucking Walking.

>>168538948
Good luck Anon-san

>>168539076
give out the power slide from the start then
better yet, rollerskates

>>168538948
You already have a better game than 90% of the people posting in this thread right now. Congratulations.

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I feel burnt out, even though I'm so close to being done. The only thing left to add is multiplayer, but it's really difficult to change a singleplayer game into a multiplayer one. I'd even pay someone to do it...

>>168538734
The whole project revolves around madness.

>>168538948
We have too many bunnies!

>>168539047
why don't you make a game with a woman protagonist who is not fetishized, pedestalized, there to prove something to the patriarchy, a man with tits or pandering to some niche audience of sad existences then?

a female character who could not possibly be anything else

>>168539380
Deciding if a game is going to be single player or multiplayer is something you should do day one.

>>168539526
because if I did that you'd just say it's one of the 8 things on your naughty list and I'd have wasted my time

this isn't a case of you having reasonable standards people just aren't meeting
this is a case of you projecting your own bullshit onto everything you see

>>168539253
Power slide is definitely going to be an unlockable move. It's got way too much utility in combat (command gap closer) to be available from the start.

Plus there's something satisfying about unlocking Fast.

It's a question of making sure that the worlds aren't designed "around" the ability before you have it. Granted, this world is about as big as it's going to get (there's a little bit more stuff going on the cliff face that will go just above the beach and seal the world shut, but that's it) and inside the cave to the left of the start, but this is the full space.

Takes about 35 seconds to run from the start to the furthest edge of the level... definitely shorter than the time it would take to cover, say, a Banjo Tooie map or Hyrule Field (my "avoid at all costs" models) but still probably longer than it would take to get from one end of Bob-Omb Battlefield or Treasure Trove Cove to the other.

>>168539502
power rankings:

moths > frogs >>>>>>bunnies

>>168539502
They breed like bunnies

>>168539380
call it singleplayer and wrap it up then
MP's going to die out after a week anyway

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>>168539620
well if you go and do it to prove something to me, you already failed yeah

>>168539686
where are cats located in this scale?

>>168539853
> prove me wrong sucka
>> no you'll just say I didn't whatever happens
> well yeah if you try to prove me wrong you've already lost
good grief you're an idiot

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>>168539539
That's what everyone said and I didn't listen...
>>168539768
Most of the depth in this game would come from the multiplayer mode though. It's like cod/bf/other fps's in that the main attraction is the multiplayer mode.

>>168540197
you wouldn't make a game with a male protagonist to prove to me that you can make one with a good one that isn't pandering or out to prove something

you'd just make it and make him fit whatever archetype your game needs

you want women to be equal to that?

step 1: stop thinking about how to make women equal to that, it's impossible

>>168540293
Not to pile on but you better figure out how to include local multi then, because I can tell you now, an independent game with weak singleplayer content is dead on arrival for multiplayer.

Anon, AAA studios struggle with trying to build up the necessary playerbase to sustain a multiplayer title. I've literally NEVER seen an indie game pull it off successfully, except maybe once (Niddhog).

Unless that game also has strong singleplayer or local multi options to make purchasing and playing worthwhile WITHOUT online play, nobody will buy it and be available to sustain the MP.

>>168540197
>good grief you're an idiot
That's true but more specifically he's a shitposter and just wants your attention so he can feel like his opinions are worth something.

>>168538798
what if instead of racing your friends, your friends were your pit stop crew?

>>168540064
below moths and frogs but above dogs

>>168540528
>I've literally NEVER seen an indie game pull it off successfully
Peer2Peer Indie MP games do okay if they catch on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRcI4KTbBdg

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Reply decides my dev name

>>168540963
yaranaika

>Soundfont Player in FL Studio is sold separately
Holy moly.

Should I just stick with LMMS, or is Reaper a good option?

>>168540461
we've already established I wouldn't do shit to prove anything to you, so I'm not sure wtf you're on about at this point

but I'm done arguing with flat earth logic
believe whatever you want

>>168540963
yukizini

https://github.com/yukizini

>>168540947
>if they catch on
Yeah, but without strong single-player content that's a pretty ENORMOUS if, unless you have an in with popular streamers or something to promote it. It can't grow organically by word of mouth.

>>168523865
If you want advice on that let me know.

>>168538450
Tokyo Xtreme Racer series, if you don't count the barebones local multiplayer.

>>168539076
Consider populating it with visually appealing objects like: Rocks, materials with something other than an albedo channel, more polys, etc. Currently your character looks great but quite frankly the terrain looks like it's out of an entirely different game. If you can, you should also add blended textures to your walkways to show the player walkways and to increase how visually appealing it is (make it look worn down etc)

Unity 2d destructible voxel terrain: any good tutorials?

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>>168541126
no need to get this much cognitive dissonance

>>168541314
>2d
>voxel

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>>168541150
What about overwatch? That doesn't have anything worth speaking of for singleplayer.
>>168540528
How many players would I have to have to be 'sustainable'? I'm not going to be anywhere near AAA quality, but I think my game would fill a niche.

>>168541145
>cloning repos onto your github and doing nothing with them
lol

>>168541443
in what world is "guy on /agdg/" and Blizzard fucking Entertainment even remotely comparable, anon

>>168540064
a cat is fine too.

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>>168541573
>he thinks overmeme is a good game

>>168541798
>>>/v/

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>>168540064
Top

>>168541150
Strong single player content? Fuck no.

What you need are bullshit skinner box mechanics. Nobody in general audiences where the money is comes back to play the same game because it's fun anymore. They want to grind the same content to unlock cosmetics or vital gameplay features.

>>168541313
Yeah, decorative meshes are absolutely planned but are a much later stage of the game. I'll probably also smooth out some of the brush edges when I start doing mesh conversions, too.

Doing both path-drawing and edge textures (grass "spilling over" sheer cliff faces) is something I also intend to do, it's just a question of how... Probably vertex painting to lerp between two materials, I think that's how Banjo did it, but it needs to wait for meshing as well so I have vertices to use for it.

But decorating the level isn't my real concern, it's less about visual detail and more about gameplay detail. Banjo Tooie was a very visually busy game (and looked great) but that didn't stop it from being Just A Whole Lot of Walking.

>>168541443
>What about overwatch?

Yeah what about the game made by a multimillion company with an already established fanbase with bigger production values and infrastructure to support matchmaking and dedicated servers that keeps getting visibility by the major gaming media.

Why can they get away with no SP content and not my unknown project.

Sorry to present it like this but if you want to get away with it you have to get your niche before release and start spreading word now to even have a remote chance.

How the fuck does one program AI?
I don't even mean state machines and shit, literally, hoe do you tell it to move following certain limits instead of "move to wherever the target is in a straight line"? How do I make it go "target is on my right so I need to steer while moving"

>>168541798
>MUH MEMES
>ALL THOSE GAMES ARE MEMES
>(Attached)meme.jpeg
Top cancer.

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Enemy AI work

What do you think of daily levels that can't be retried? Like Spelunky.

>>168542089
you have a few options. from easiest to hardest:
>walk towards the target in a straight line
>walk towards the player using a spring dampener system so that it maintains some momentum as the target moves
>build a path to the player using A* when it's position has changed by a threshold
>build a path to to a predefined location (cover, vantage point etc) in the level using A*, choosing the best location based on some heuristic

pick the easiest one that works for your game.

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>>168542370
If the enemy AI finds you and has no way to get to you they will still try but in a funny way fail like falling

>>168542089
>How do I make it go "target is on my right so I need to steer while moving"
Use the angle between the entity's heading and the direction to the target. Not that hard mate.

"I don't care if Shepard becomes a woman" burbles Bioware, eyes bulging with imagined riches

>>168542478
"eh"

>>168540064
most basic animal. below bunnies, worms, children, spiders. etc etc/

>>168542724
>cats
>basic
looollll cats are extra af f a m

>>168542027
that right there is the death of video games

>>168543007
Death of video games is where blatant cheats like wallhack have become "features"

>>168540963
Fill Phish

Reminder that there's nothing wrong with skinner box mechanics as long as they don't dictate gameplay, but instead add to it.

>>168543135
Elaborate.

The Blue Spade.

>>168543135
This. I really don't give a fuck as long as you're not cutting me off just as my feel good chemicals are peaking because I'm out of stamina or something

>>168542813
>looollll
>f a m
Looks like your cat already infected you with that brain parasite.

>>168542478
I like them. It's fun to see how good I am compared to everyone else playing. Although ultimately there will be cheaters who dominate the top spots with ridiculously high scores, so that kind of ruins the fun.

>>168543248
Steadily reward the player for playing the game with stuff like collectibles and achievements but don't make it the focus of the gameplay, it needs to be fun even without these things.

>>168543873
And adding to this:
What drives a player forward is anticipation.
Maybe he wants to see the next epic cutscene, the next unlockable outfit or whatever else.
You should encourage that and give the player a carrot on a stick saying "hey look if you keep playing the game you will unlock this awesome thing".

ATTENTION

The thread is closed until further notice so that it may be cleansed of Nodevs and Shitposters. Thank you for your patience and obedience in this trying time.

ATTENTION

Would you rather play a roguelike or a tactics game?

>>168544727
Literally insane shitposter

>>168544779
Why not both

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>>168542558
He should start to panic the moment he realizes that he won't make it, some kind of wile e coyote like reaction would be cool.

I implemented pole targets, one step closer to having a working ik rig. How else would i put holding hands in a 3d game.

>>168544214
Maybe what drives the player forward is that your game is actually enjoyable and feels good to play.

Maybe actually good games have all those things as supplementary values on top of actually making the game enjoyable.

Don't get me wrong: There is value in what you're saying. But generalisations such as "anticipation for totally sweet unlocks and the level up ding is why players play games and makes them progress" lead to shitty, notfun games and miss the point entirely of the post you responded to.

The sad thing is: If TF2 were released today without any drop system, "competitive" ELO wankery or anything like that I'm pretty sure it'd be dead within a few months. I don't know if there is a market for just "play a multiplayer game for fun because it's fun and that's it" multiplayer games anymore. Should I be implementing some kind of progression system in my multiplayer game?

>>168545140
Do you hold hands in missionary position?

>>168544779
roguelikes kind of are a subset of tactics games

>>168545330
how else do you keep the girl from scratching your eyes out?

>>168545325
>Should I be implementing some kind of progression system in my multiplayer game?
Only if you want to make money with it.

>>168545325
>Should I be implementing some kind of progression system in my multiplayer game?

Depends on what kind of game is your game. Fighting games generally lack such progression systems yet people keep playing them because no two matches are the same.

Any MOBA that isn't League also rely on this "no two matches are the same" to keep people playing, though they also add the layer of cosmetics and in the case of League clones the rune and mastery system.

Cosmetics or other similar unlockables are a good idea to keep people engaged but the main draw is to keep the game's matches from being stale.

>>168531585
As someone who was/is severely depressed and going through that faze of just getting home and sleeping most days after work instead of working on a project I planned out months ago.

See a doctor. I might go back soon.

>>168545325
I didn't imply you should sacrifice gameplay, even the best games rely a lot on anticipatory rewards.

These rewards can be anything and not just le epik level up ding, MGS3 for example lets you unlock new camos and a more abstract example can be Star Control 2, each alien race is a big box of rewards with their own graphics, personalities and music, driving the player forward to meet new ones.

Even the best game gets stale without a steady trickle of rewards, thinking that your game will be enjoyable forever is silly.

>>168542061
Sometimes exploration can be rewarding itself. If you have stuff worth finding, a landscape that is visually appealing (and therefore more desirable to explore), and a satisfying control system (which you seem to have), than sometimes just walking around finding shit can be fun. I do not know too much about your game so maybe wandering around and looking for stuff isn't what you want it to be and in that case you should ignore me. I just personally really enjoy when a game gives you the freedom to just run around for the sake of it and hope you stumble upon on some good ass shit. So thats something to consider if you feel worried about it being too big. Find ways to reward the player for deciding to go snooping around the corners of a big map.

Wtf is happening with Godot?
We realtime GI now?

https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/C4yEeCrWEAA8HGO.mp4

>>168546680
Is 3.0 released?

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When you struggle with projectile physics for half a day because your retarded and haven't done physics since high school, then you give up and go get drunks with buddies, and then get back home and fix it up in 5 minutes.
Feels gucci tbqh.
Next up, predictive ballistics.

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>>168546910
not yet, but damn, they should use some better assets if they want to show off all their new features.

>>168547108
you're*
sorry I'm still drunk.

>>168547108
Thjat looks good but a tanks projectiles should move faster and have alot longer between shots.

>>168547380
Ye of course, I turned down the velocity by a lot so the curve would be visible in the webm.
In reality it's quite a bit faster, the curve is nearly flat.

>Working with unity
>"color"
Any way I can make it the proper spelling or do I have to go back and mispell it every time?

>>168547548
Programming in general uses American English as a standard. Not ideal for the rest of us but what can you do.

>>168547548
are you asking whether unity has a find and replace or are you just being a pissy bitch

>>168548059
Mainly the latter but I was wondering if there was any way I could change something so it accepted the u. It keeps tripping me up. Don't imagine there is but I figured it was worth checking.

>>168547548
What do you mean

>>168547998
I always make colour an alias for color because I don't hate other human beings but some languages don't make that particularly easy

>>168548529
>I don't hate other human
Have you meet them?

>>168536973
No, she exists because Nintendo wanted to create a bounty hunter IP and decided to make the protagonist female because they wanted to.

None of this neo-progressive SJW shit. Samus in her bikini was a reference to Alien.
>>168539526
Nobody fucking cares. Creators have the right to make their protagonist either of the two genders they want!
Stop getting anal over how somebody makes their own character!

All of you need to shut and POST PROGRESS!

GameMaker uses colour.

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>>168545330
>>168545612
Only cuddling allowed.

>>168547108
does the projectile velocity take the tanks speed at the time of shooting into account?

>>168548643
Game "designers" (read: opinionated nodevs) don't make games. This navel gazing over trivial things and trying to argue with gamedevs about it is really all they do.

>>168539076
thats a pretty long high quality webm, which software did you use to encode it?

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>>168548529
>I always make colour an alias for color because I don't hate other human beings
What the fuck is this fag shit

>>168548774
No, I made sure it didn't.
I can't really afford to have that sort of subtle "random" effects because the aiming will not be done by the player at runtime.

>>168548774
This is a sex game right?

>>168546680
I met the godot dude last year
He seems very passionate about threedee tech

>>168548941
UK indoctrination. They can't even talk about color without immediately thinking about muh racism.

>>168548059
Unity has a bunch of library classes with Color in the name and he's pretending he's autistic

Being American and using Unity is the only way to make a game.

>>168531261
It doesn't matter to me but it always sells less. The Remember Me guys said in an interview publishers kept wanting them to change their protagonist to a male because it sells better.

>>168549297
What about in an rpg and the choice of male or female?
With the characters being more or less the same physically like twins.

>>168549248
Being you is the most surefire way to never make a game.

Like ever.
Seriously never ever.

>>168549458
Well I guess that's fine as long as the poster guy is, well, the guy.

>>168531354
Verifying the hookups between Dialogue System for Unity and Ink - then moving swiftly onwards to quickly outline the segue to Act One and the events in it.

>>168549248
>not american so can't make game
>>168549524
>not him so can make game?
I'm so confused.
>>168549571
Yeah I figured, it would be easier to just make them male but it's like at that point a set character.
Which would be weird since you can choice their stats and customize their combat style hugely.
Not even mention in game choices.

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>>168531354
Making some placeholder assets to start doing some gameplay so I can stop being bullied about not having any yet.

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What's the verdict on this book?

>wanted to start a new project today
>got absolutely nothing done because can't settle on an idea to work on
I hate this.

>>168534862
>serious game development
>game maker

>>168549297
The Remember Me guy was also trying to market around the fact he has a female protagonist super hard, mind. They were trying to make it "buy my game to prove that female protagonists are profitable. What do you mean my gameplay is boring?"

Not exactly the best example.

>>168550085
>serious art development
>sketching

I know right? What scrubs, using tools like that to enhance their skillset through practice.

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What are some good mobile game ideas?

I'm liking the idea of a strategy base-building game, but Clash of Clans and its various clones pretty much dominated that market already.

iPhone normies seem to like basic strategy and multiplayer apps so I want to make something like that. So far all I've come up with is a tower defense type game where you set up defenses, and other players have armies that try to make it through, but I feel like that's too close to CoC and I wouldn't be able to execute it properly on my own(which is how I want to stay).
My other idea involves warships out on the open ocean, with gameplay like World of Tanks, however a MMO would be way too big a project for me to take on, even for an app.
My most crazy idea that would definitely sell if the scope weren't insane is basically EVE online but for phones.

So far I can draw, model, texture, and program on a beginner-intermediate level, everything else I will learn as I go along.

I'm calling on all the idea guys in this thread to make something original that will make me rich.

>>168550038
probably shit
if it's not academic it boils down to "make sure it feels good"
if you've been playing games your entire life you know when it feels good. Get Rules of Play instead

Any webpage designers want to collab on a small thing?

>>168550323
rip off castle fight

it's a wc3 custom map if you dont know

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New hook video. Added lava, made swinging a bit more natural. Lava continues to rise as time goes on.

https://youtu.be/ZED05wOnRFM

Thoughts on other shit I should add?

How do I make it so my boss has multiple phases? I want it to stay stationary until it's at half of its life bar and then start moving around the room asteroid style.

Do people actually choose to pay for free games on itchio?

>>168529309
Totally agree. Is specially fascinating when you start reading about some genius trickery they used to make some stuff work with the limitations they had.

>>168551527
What is your actual question? How do you code that? Wat?

>>168551527
if

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>>168548957
That's alright in that case.

>>168548976
No. Maybe, if I can't make it fun.

>>168551163
Nice spiderman game, how much air control is there? Also being able to place a second hook while the first one is still attached might be cool.

>>168551527
Change his AI and actions at half health? Or well just swap him against another boss that looks the same but behaves different if that is easier.

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>>168550038

>>168551527
When you modify your bosses health add a check that switches it to the phase 2 state if health is below 50.
You are using getters and setters, right?

>>168551960
Oh fuck I can't believe I didn't think of that! Right click to shoot another hook. On it. There's basically 100% air control right now, to make it feel really good to move around.

>>168551960
Damn, I'm sure I can 'use' it anyway.
That witch is fine!

>>168552106
I wouldn't do that. I would simply check the health each update, reason being then you can easily control exactly when the switch happens.

Is UE4.15 really faster? I hated having to wait like 10 years to compile something.

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>>168531068
Holy fuck why does GML make arrays so complicated!?

I just want to create an empty inventory array in the player object and add to it when I activate certain objects! But it refuses to work because of GML's gay ass rules.

>>168553031
Why don't you use a list or a map?

>>168553031
Use ds_lists (and other ds_'s)

>>168552465
Nah, what the other guy said above is right. You should always be controlling stuff via getters/setters and not directly modifying a variable. That way you can control significant changes in one place.

boss.damage(10)

public int damage(int damage) {
health -= damage;
if (health < 50) {
Event.post("Boss at half health"); //or whatever event system
}

return health;
}

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not enough bullets that point towards their trajectory.

>>168553268
>That way you can control significant changes in one place.
And how is what I suggested not doing this? How does a setter handle not doing the change right away, which could be necessary? Why are you adding an event system, why so much damn complexity for something that is literally a fucking if?

>>168551960
Your witch is a fucking slut.

>>168553403
Here's the problem.

Let's say you have 10 different sources that have to lower the boss's health. You can do Boss.health -= 5 in every one of those sources. What if you want to make it so that every time the boss gets damaged, you also increase a counter that tallies, say, "total hits on boss" or something? Do you add a line to every place you're damaging the boss?

If you create a Damage function, you can put any logic around damaging the boss in one place.

Using an event system may seem super complicated at first but it actually removes a ton of complexity over time. The sooner you learn it the better. That isn't actually needed in this example though, you can just do phase2Entered = true;

>>168553074
>>168553105
Any good tutorials you could rec?

>>168553403
It's called over-engineering and some programmers are all about it. It's humorous to observe but when you have to work with someone who does it it's hell.

>>168553645
>Let's say you have 10 different sources that have to lower the boss's health. You can do Boss.health -= 5 in every one of those sources. What if you want to make it so that every time the boss gets damaged, you also increase a counter that tallies, say, "total hits on boss" or something? Do you add a line to every place you're damaging the boss?
>If you create a Damage function, you can put any logic around damaging the boss in one place.
I agree with this but this is completely irrelevant to the problem. He's obviously very new so you don't need to go and talk about getters and setters when right now they're not going be anything but boilerplate anyway.

>Using an event system may seem super complicated at first but it actually removes a ton of complexity over time. The sooner you learn it the better. That isn't actually needed in this example though, you can just do phase2Entered = true;
Yeah, yeah. Empty claims, like always. Of course it's not necessary here, why did you even bring it up?

>>168553707
https://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/data%20structures/ds%20lists/

>>168553707
the manual
Press f1

You can also middle click on functions to open their manual pages.

>>168553773
none of that was over-engineering though, that was just really basic code organizing

>>168553894
What exactly was that organizing, pray tell?

>>168553854
Everything I said above I'd be happy if someone told me. I'd rather be taught the "right way" instead of the quick way.

Also how is an event system being useful an "empty claim"?

>>168553986
Their code. It takes pretty much 0 extra effort to write it the "right" way and you save headaches later on.

Jesus you people are really against well-written code.

>something as simple as an event system makes nodevs scream
Wait until I tell them about state machines...

>>168550085
>countless games that have made millions are made with game maker
These games prove that game maker is for serious game devs. Any engine that doesn't have million dollar games made with it are all worthless pieces of shit.

>>168554310
anytime we start talking about programming they start screeching

>>168554310
Even more, I used to post a lot of progress about the next step, tree behaviors. And I never got any replies

>>168554035
>Also how is an event system being useful an "empty claim"?
Because all you said was "it actually removes a ton of complexity over time" which from experience I can tell you is not true. Event systems add a lot of complexity in the sense that things chain react and have effects all over the place. Pulling information is much more well-behaved.

>the "right way"
>>168554183
>the "right" way
There's nothing "right" about this design pattern and other cargo cult nonsense. The quick and obvious way is often the best way.

>>168554310
Nothing wrong with state machines, but a lot of people implement them horribly.

Also nice 3x samefag.

>>168554403
Because the majority of people who give programming "advice" in AGDG are borderline retarded and have been brainwashed by OOP into thinking that if you're not using a design pattern you're doing something wrong.

>>168553031
Please don't speak poorly of GML, it's a serious language made specifically for game development. It's the perfect tool, and anyone who is making a game should learn to use it.

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>>168553856
>>168553892
Thanks meine negers.
>>168554497
Hey, I'm not that against it, I just think it's odd that you can't make an empty array. Most languages have that basic functionality.