/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

How do I write my own language?

>>170003108
Haskell

First for let's kill gogem

>>170003108
https://github.com/hoaproject/Compiler/

>>170003008
Worst OP image yet. You clearly have some kind of agenda or message to push OP but it's not clear what it is.

You should delete this thread and then yourself.

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Whole lot of progress to report today, mostly because what I started yesterday I never reported: Guns! I've implemented the first ACTUAL weapon into the game (the basic Twin Handguns) and I've gotten all the relevant subsystems online for it.

+Dual wielding (with per-side mesh, socket, effect, etc., specification) so guns can be fired in alternation. As a bonus, when aiming a gun that can be aimed (with down-the-sights view) only the primary gun fires. Dual wielding also carries over into melee weapons...

+Because gun melee is now active! With a weapon that is a Gun Class, heavy attacks are replaced with DMC-style auto-shotting, with 3D lock-on and slow-walk capability. Gun use automatically offsets melee combos and can be used in air or on the ground.

+Fixed the air float system to now have a finite limit until regrounded or using a resetting attack; this enables you to use sustained air melee sequences (like the guns) with movement, without exploit-floating around. It also makes sustaining an air combo substantially harder, AND allows me to add a buyable upgrade (longer float times)

+Lock on mechanics changed; now, if a lock-on was successful, the game checks for the next lock target in that direction rather than the movement input direction (and resets only when a lock fails). This enables you to reposition in-combat without losing a target more easily. I MAY change this if it turns out that switching to a target behind you is too frustrating.

+Aiming reticle overhaul; weapons now specify a silhouette and offset angle so I can customize the reticle shape and orientation but still use fully-procedural modification (for max ammo counts and such). Also implemented reticle-positioning mechanics for melee weapons in the secondary slot; the reticle now moves out to the location of the attack correctly, based on Dixie's direction and whether melee-aim is in effect.

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>>170003157
second for epic memes, lets get derek in here cool cat needs a barney style game

>that OP img

wew confirmed le ebin trolling shitpost edition right out the gate.

>>170003350
it's the pinnacle of /agdg/ posts, saved here for our descendants

>>170002417
Since there aren't that many counters, it could work, but is it the best way to do it? I thought there would be an easier and better way to do something like fixing my frame rate.

Will keep looking, in case I find nothing, I will do that.

>>170003394
>Ryan is going to crash and burn and end up a second literally insane shitposter forever stuck in AGDG limbo

>>170003108
write a lexer that reads your language and outputs C

once the language details are finalized rewrite the export code to output llvm bytecode, then use llvm to convert the byte code to an executable

or I guess you could do it in reverse and do the bytecode stuff first but the other way around seems easier to me

>>170003460
No it's just some post that triggered your autism that you thought was significant enough to save and post later like anyone of us care.

Make games not memes kiddo.

>>170003382
How easy is it to make a spectacle fighter/DMC style game in UE4? Are there decent blueprints for it, or did you do this all yourself?

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>>170003394
oh god this coolcat casino website has like fur bait
>>170003535
Bob, just stop

>>170003621
>Bob
Gogem's name is literally Ryan.
Also, kill yourself, Ryan.

I can see the shitposter is getting aroused by the combination of loli and gogem shitposting. I'll come back later.

>>170003750
he's trying to false flag everyone who speaks ill of gogem now
isn't it amazing how only the mentally ill defend gogem?

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>>170003008
AI idea, any suggestion

>>170003739
>but you don't know me! Oooooh!
you're so powerful and frightening! you shit up the thread real well

>>170003617
I did it all myself, though it's not actually particularly challenging as long as you understand how a cuhrayzee combat system is made.

The biggest obstacle to overcome isn't UE4/Blueprints, it's figuring out at a core level how to do the implementation of combat (and that was a lesson hard-learned for me since I did it wrong for Mayhem League and had to start from near-scratch a couple of times):

-Don't rely on physics collision for weapon damage, use simple hurtbox checks like a fighting game would.

-Use an automatic animation blending system to stitch attacks together, don't try to animate entire combo strings and snip them into pieces.

-Use AnimNotifies (in UE4, these are animation-specific markers with a guaranteed begin, tick, and end event call that always fire regardless of blend) for animation-centric logic so you don't have to try to manage relevant variables at EVERY point where one animation can potentially cancel another; i.e. let your hover animation declare "I am done" on blend out and unset the hover movement vars; don't try to manually unset the hover movement vars at every place that a hover-cancelling action is callable. Cuhrayzee games are all about animation cancels, tying logic to animations is sensible

-Write a Notify system that lets you reshape attack playback speed at keyframes in the animation, so you can use the engine to tweak your animations iteratively to give more weight or a better rhythm, rather than going back to your animation software every time.

-Get particle effects that have predetermined shapes for slashes; getting a good-feeling melee attack speed often means going so few frames that a procedural trail generator won't work properly at all. Tune the SHIT out of your hit effects; subtle hit stop, camera shake, lighting changes, etc., tuned so that for the lightest, flimsiest attacks, it doesn't even feel like they're there until you disable them and see the difference.

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Did some audio work today and got a bulk of the sound effects that were still missing added in. Additionally I went ahead and set up 3D audio, just using GM's built in listener/emitter stuff.

w/ audio: https://youtu.be/4-_XjRF6jcg

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I had several weeks of good progress, so it makes sense the depression would set it now

It's not like that progress will ever get me anywhere

worst hobby

>>170003896
it's broken? I'm not so high up yet

>>170004403
here's a (you), 5 of them can be exchanged for 1 unit of self-worth

>>170003008
make a game about this

New idea: 萌 Jam
Make a game about things you feel 萌 for.

>>170003896
i'd rename idea to plan, because that's what a list of actions is although it would be nice that instead of a list it would be an oriented graph

>monsterai
IT KEEPS HAPPENING
please, don't encode your data into code

how do you plan to deal with interruptions? avoid them completely?

>>170005067
I approve

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>>170005067
rider and horse get more powerful as their relationship develops, psychic talking horse of course

I feel like the "honest feedback" here doesn't excuse for having to ingest mind garbage like this >>170004403

>>170005380
Leave then.

>>170005380
>honest feedback
It's just a buzzword that they use as an excuse to shit on everyone.

>>170005380
the honest feedback meme doesn't hold as much weight as it used to. this place is just a locker room loosely based on game dev

>>170005227
how's that oriented graph? i've never heard about it.
Also i'm just planing to make a list a "plans" with a memory of conditions to happen in the trigger.

>>170005479
I will. And I want you to be aware that it's because this place has nothing of value to offer and reading the posts here from all the losers and crybabies and failures is just baggage that you couldn't pay me to bother with.

You should all give up and quit pretending to be game devs if you can't finish a game.

I guess though that is what you're doing by being here. This is where the failures congregate.

>>170005718
I understand now the oriented graph, yes it's a good idea.

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>>170003896
We don't understand what you want to do and it doesn't seem like you do either, so you should just write some code and factor out when you find yourself repeating.

>>170005380
>post about the depression and hopelessness of game dev
>you get mad at it
>make a post that is depressed and hopeless

really made me think

>>170005735
Bye

>>170005909
Give up.

>>170005869
AIMotion probably doesn't need to be separate either. The methods from AIMind and AIMotion can either be implemented by the subclass or they can be delegates that each instance can set differently.

>>170005872
Here's a better idea, instead of crying to strangers on the internet about your failures just give up. But then you wouldn't get attention right?

>>170006060
I'm separating them because I'm thinking in add scriptable functions to the motion, as example not all AI need to perform random curves to reach a target and some AI objects just walk directly to the target.

>>170005976
No

>>170006123
one day I hope I can be as successful as you, so successful I spend my time getting upset at what you describe as losers and failures.

What a life that is.

>>170006370
>kicking dirt at pieces of trash who deliberately cover themselves in dirt is "getting upset"
Here's some more dirt for ya, dirt hog.
Give up because you will never make a game.

>>170004379
Your sound design is amazing. I'm just hoping to get the bare minimum, non muddy sfx down (currently if both are maxed the music will drown out the sound effects to nearly silent) and you are putting together a near AAA sound experience. Great work, anon! Keep it up!

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>>170003008
Anyone here use F# with Unity?

Not looking for a language holy war, by the way. I just like F# and want to know if I can use it for gamedev.

>>170006615
https://github.com/eriksvedang/FSharp-Unity

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Guys, how the hell does this hue shift business work?
I can't get it right, no matter what increments I pick.
None of these actually look like you could shade a person with them.

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>>170006509

>>170006824
This is the real ninja way

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whos the wiz thats been floating here for like 2 days straight

>>170006527
Aww thanks anon.

Music can be tough to balance in games. If you listen to some of the best music from the SNES, you can generally get an idea of what works well. Many of those songs have only a few instruments playing at any given time, which allows them to not get too busy as to drown out everything that's going.

Take the Overworld theme from Link to the Past.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u4NNOwh2lI

At any given time, there's only about 3-4 instruments going - The Octave Trumpet, the string track, and some percussion. And the strings aren't really as noticeable, because the trumpet establishes the melody, and the strings just support it.

A big mistake I made early on with composing for games is that I was composing as if I were writing music that would stand alone - where the song is all the listener would be focusing on. This isn't the case with video game BGMs. They need to be enjoyable and all, but the player shouldn't be aware they're listening to music - it should be a supporting element that ties everything together. One thing you see with AAA games nowadays (such as Resident Evil 6, who was a huge offender) is that they have these chaotic, full orchestral tracks, but they're just quieted down and sort of play behind everything since they'd otherwise drown everything out, which in my opinion is a shoddy way of doing things.

>>170004070
Ryan, stop.
No one likes you.

>>170007376
Sourceposter, stop.
Nobody falls for your shit.

>>170007262
Disclaimer: I'm not a professional, these are just things that I try to focus on, and generally work for me.

>come to thread
>see >>170007376 , >>170007579
Are you here every fucking hour? Holy shit get a fucking life.
I'll just have to come back another day.

>>170004341
h wow, this is more than I could have asked for as tips! Thanks, dude! I've been thinking of how I should implement combat in my game and this'll help me a ton!

>>170007694
Okay sourceposter.

>>170005270
do you have to rub peanut butter on a horses brain in order to make it look like it's speaking to you telepathically?

>>170008063
Please do not rub peanut butter on the horse's brain it might be allergic

i need a new job

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some progress here:

in preparation of making room transitions happen, i made doors and now i think, those could be fun to just use intractable in the room itself.

>>170003108
>>170003271
>>170003556
This is neat and I want to learn more

what's the worst videogame in history? i vote bubsy 3d

>>170006696
I've seen this repo, but what I am interested in is how well does F# work in practice considering Unity's ancient version of Mono and suchlike?

>>170007751
No problem.

I also recommend the following:

-An AI that randomly sidesteps when waiting to attack. I did this for Dixie based on a loose approximation of the behavior of enemies in Transformers Devastation and it's AMAZING how much life it gives to the game

-Root motion. The beautiful thing about root motion in UE4 is it overrides all other motion, so you can lock attacks in place. What I do is check for the world-space input direction at the moment the attack button is pressed, and at the moment the attack animation triggers I use a rotational lerp to twist the character toward it. This makes changing attack directions feel responsive without you being able to pirouette your character crazily, and without having to worry about trying to tweak character movement parameters during combos (which is how Warframe does it, and it's awful)

-Make enemies "launch" (there's a node) backwards when attacks connect, even if just barely. Launching enemies is nice because it guarantees they will have a backward velocity and automatically interrupts pathfinding, meaning when they're hit all they can do is wait until they touch the ground again (which itself has a guaranteed sanity check, nothing will ever just float forever). Much easier than making them stumble or step back with an animation, since that locks them in place.

-Come up with some system for making enemies and the player "meet each other" in midair if you're doing a juggle system; nothing is more irritating than trying to juggle and having you and the enemy move just too far past each other laterally for your combos to connect. In Dixie and ML I had knocked-back enemies literally copy the player's vertical location if the player was in midair and engaged in a melee animation and the enemy was stunned (and the stun didn't have a flag to ignore this effect, like an attack which knocks them to the ground). DMC just had jump trajectories be really rectangular rather than arced; this is fine too.

etc.

>>170008626
Is that an MSX Metal Gear-style game?

>>170003108
Don't do it mang you'd have to write your own syntax highlighting too

>>170009179
But the secrets, anon.

>>170009181
Probably terribly. If you want to make games with F# you should probably use MonoGame.

>>170009342
That's like the easiest part.

>>170009307

plan is a shitty binding of isaac like game

>>170009342
If you can write a language you can write syntax highlighting for it. Well, actually in practice most syntax highlighters are regex for some insanely retarded reason, so you have a point. Not that you need it.

>>170009342
>muh syntax highlighting
>muh autocompletions
>muh IDE

You scrubbos are so coddled these days. If you can't make your entire game on punchcards you're not a real dev.

/agdg/ is the best gamedev community of all time.

>>170009236
Much appreciated! I spend a lot of time playing Plat games and DMC, learning those systems, experiencing them and trying to get down to the nitty gritty in understand the combat. I don't see games like them often being made in UE4 or Unity, so it's nice to see one.

Good luck on your project!

>>170009793
>not liking pretty colors

>really like DCSS design philosophy
>I should remove and automate anything tedious!
>basically making an idle game now
when you boil everything down how do you avoid the issue where your game is just a slot machine that pays out after a player invests X amount of time

puzzles are the only thing I can think of where there's no correlation to time investment and winning the game.

>>170009807
Sorry but no. Tigsource pre-2012 was infinitely superior.

Also I know it's a hard pill to swallow here but /r/gamedev is higher quality than agdg has ever come close to achieving as far as resources and actual game dev presence.

>>170009870
I recommend you also look into Tetrachroma, We Shall Wake, Alice in Tokyo Wonderland, and Heart and Slash for examples of games (either extant or upcoming) made in Unity/UE4 that are trying to do this.

>>170010036
Then go back there.

>>170010036
That's just like, you know, your opinion, man.

>>170010124
Go back to 2011?

>>170009991
>if it's not a slot machine it's tedious
I think this is a personal problem anon.

>>170010080
We Shall Wake isn't Java enginedev anymore?

>>170009991
Think about it like this, monkey's with typewriters might eventually write shakespeare but that doesn't mean there's no value in writing a book, most video games have you struggle through things untill you come to a conclusion, that struggle is where the fun of the game lies, nobody would say the best part of a mario game is riding down the flagpole at the end of the level, it's the specific challenges of levels that people enjoy, if you shy away from the struggle of a game, then effectively the only thing that can exist are things like VN's and Idle games.

I unironically like these YESDEV videos, thanks /agdg/. Also, RRPS was just a ruse to get zawa stickers on Steam.

>>170010036
Can't I contribute to both communities though?

Or would I have to develop two games and keep them completely separated so neither realizes I post on the other.

How vain is it of me to listen to my own gametunes unironically?

>>170010209
/r/gamedev

>>170010307
>RRPS was just a ruse to get zawa stickers on Steam.
most hurtful thing ive read in AGDG in 6 years

>>170009991
>>170009991
You have taken the first steps, my friend. Now the work begins.

http://keithburgun.net/cgd-podcast-episode-17-rogue-likes-and-other-bar-games/
http://keithburgun.net/clockwork-criteria-guidelines-for-ideal-strategy-game-design/

>>170010376
But I'm always there. Stop trying to push me out of your safe space.

>>170010362
If you've made tunes you like then why wouldn't you? Feel proud for making music you like.

>>170010307
I also like the yesdev vids and the only one I really disagree with him on is the RNG episode.

>>170010261
Was he? I honestly didn't know that. Sure looks like UE4.

Is it possible to make a game in Android Studio?

>>170010339
>Can't I contribute to both communities though?
NO

how do I write a lexer

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>>170010307
I hate them. Gogem sounds like a mumble mouth retarded 14 year old which is concerning seeing as he's middle aged. Also he has nothing original or constructive to say

He has also stolen every single piece of game footage from agdg without crediting a single dev. He should be lynched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVWAy2-1b_E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ0e3QUADw8

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>>170011041
fuck off retard

>>170011124
Compelling argument shitposter. If this is the kind of damage control you offer gogem I think you're doing more harm than good.

>>170011041
I think you both should be lynched. xD

>>170011124
>i like thing :3
>i don't like thing and here is why
>FUCK OFF RETARD >:O

>>170011041
I hate you, so much more than googs.

And I think googs opinion on RNG is shit, his political opinions are shit, his economic opinions are shit, and he's an SJW cuckold.

But I hate you so much more.

>>170011730
but why do you hate him more?

>>170011730
>I hate you, so much more than googs.
But anon I thought we were talking about the videos. Why are you making it so personal? Is it impossible for you to support gogem without being shitposting an overly emotional maniac?

>>170011980
>he should be lynched
>I was talking about the videos
pick 1

The more the shitposter tries to damage control for gogem the more clear he makes it that only shitposting cucks even tolerate gogem let alone like him.

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>>170010504
Look what just came in the mail!

>>170011041
Yeah he seems to go a bit to far with the mumbling shit, but he's editing with it in mind so it hasn't gotten too annoying for me. Not sure how I feel about using unaccredited /agdg/ shit as background... should be doing his due diligence but doesn't make me mad, just lazy and/or a bad ruse to get people to view and comment looking for their own stuff.

>>170010685
Jumping ahead to the RNG one now, friendo. Tend to disagree with people on RNG stuff since everyone says that they want no RNG in their games but it's one of the things that people say and think they want but don't _actually_ want.

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source is suffering

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>>170011862
>everything is cubes
>house has rectangles

>>170012051
But anon that was in regards to what he's doing with the videos. What am I doing with the videos besides commenting on them like yourself?

So irrational.

>>170011041
>He has also stolen every single piece of game footage from agdg without crediting a single dev.
People should be grateful for the exposure.

>>170012364
Actually dear anon I hope you can understand why what he has done has robbed gamedevs of exposure.

A viewer who unfortunately stumbles upon gogem's videos hoping to learn how to gamedev and being fooled by the words "tutorial" in the title will see the video and see games in there being made by agdg and think to himself

"that looks like a cool game there I wonder which game that is"?

And guess where he can find that information? Nowhere. Because gogem stole the intellectual property of others outright without citing a single source.

>>170011934
Because he spends a significant amount of time trying to start drama shit in the thread about anything he possibly can and its painfully obvious, no body actually takes any drama bait, everyone knows its just some guy trying to start shit. He's never going to stop, and shitposting like this doesn't make him any less of a member of /agdg/, but holy shit just fucking stop.

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>>170012147
>he paid real actual money so he could feel a pdf

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>>170012594
>no body actually takes any drama bait

>>170012664
How else could i FEEL it?!?! Think about it, Anon.

>>170012260
i'm being perfectly rational here, that comment wasn't directed at the video no matter how you put it

>>170012594
hey faggot have you considered that this poster was the one to even bring the topic up? >>170010307
starting to agree there is a trend of retards damage controlling for gogem and it's actually just making him look worse

>>170012664
>being this poor

>>170012792
don't you have some badly drawn flash penis to be sucking on?

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>>170012752
>all the anons get called googs
>googs gets called anon

>>170013003
what

>>170013010
Nobody calls you googs except for your nuthuggers, faggot.

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>post count increasing
>no new posts
>turn on stubs to check
>see this
I see it's shitposting hours again.

>>170012885
>starting to agree there is a trend of retards damage controlling for gogem and it's actually just making him look worse

I don't care if he looks worse. I don't care if the shitposter is getting free (you)'s from these posts. I'm going to post what I think.
>The Yesdev videos are fine
>Who gives a shit about (((stolen))) assets
>Stop trying to start retarded drama

>>170013180
>nuthuggers
Gogem has 0 (zero) nuthuggers. Other pedophiles and shitposters like him take his side out of spite towards agdg but nobody actually supports him.

Great general

>>170012664
hold on, why does it explode at the end?

>>170013309
>>170013393
Fuck off bitch.

>>170013529
Wtf I literally just complimented the general why are you so angry?

>>170013468
im no boat genius but im thinking whatever munition done made it take on water also hit something that aint like being hit.

>>170013309
Nigger we can all see the OP don't act like this is isn't a shitpost thread.
>still posts his gay little screenshots of hidden posts like anyone cares

How rolled paper-y is this roll of paper?

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>>170013748
>>170013010
>>170012664
>>170010504
Hey "googs" are you going to enter into loli jam too?

Your last jam game was SUPER impressive.
https://itch.io/jam/lewd-jam-2016/rate/88139

Your game even got reviewed on video at 1:20 here
Don't blink or you will miss it!
https://youtu.be/zUqj2F_0ydk?t=1m21s

>>170013785
You seem to care, I'm guessing your posts were the ones hidden?

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>>170014104
fug

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>>170014116
>https://itch.io/jam/lewd-jam-2016/rate/88139
>https://youtu.be/zUqj2F_0ydk?t=1m21s

>>170014254
Almost Warcraft/10.

>>170014116
that was a joke submission right?

>>170014116
>it's real
hahahahahahaha

>>170013309
u mad, broseph?

>>170014116
>>170014265
>>170014802
>>170014937
HEY SHUTUP HE ONLY GAVE HIMSELF TWO WEEKS
Let's see you do better in only 2 weeks

>>170015062
this

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>>170014116
>>170015062
>two weeks
>for that

Any good GMS tutorials that don't just end up being a D&d tutorial?
I want to know what you can do with the functions besides just copypastaing code

gogem, how does it feel knowing you are a small community meme?

>>170015062
*2days

>>170015465
It's worth more to him than making good games or having fans (as opposed to customers who hate him)
Apparently
http://steamcommunity.com/app/519930/discussions/0/217691032430905828/

>>170015530
also just a correction not an excuse (i made original SIT in 2 days)
real excuse is i didnt do enough gamedesign in preparation and unity slowed me down

>>170015339
You can do literally anything with it, just google whatever you want.

>>170015663
Gogem there is no excuse for releasing that """game""" and making excuses for it for so long unless you're a real life crazy person. The time to pass it off as a joke or just admit that it was bad is so long passed now I just can't lie to myself anymore. You're truly deranged.

>>170015680
>Heartbeast and other d&d youtube tutorials pop up
>Yo-yo games forums are vague and just D&d too
I mean usually I'd agree Anon, but Google ain't doing shit for me this time
I even bought heartbeast's book man, cut me some slack

>>170014392
Is this a compliment or not, I can't tell.

>>170016171
If whatever you are googling brings up d&d then it's certainly something so ridiculously simple that you don't need to worry about the language's limitations.

>>170003108
http://terralang.org/

>>170016403
When you make a game that makes you 3 billion dollars, you will understand.

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>>170015663
Yeah you made Social Interaction Trainer in 2 days for PewDiePie's game jam.

So ironic considering it's the only game you have an inkling of pride for and it's a jam game and you constantly shit on gamejams as a whole.

Faggot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjhL7EbsNLU

>>170016473
I wish
Well thanks anyway /agdg/ my search continues

>>170016652
>So ironic considering it's the only game you have an inkling of pride

he takes pride in rrps

>>170016403
It was meant to be, yes. It reminds me of the cartoonish Warcraft assets, I like Warcraft, hence I love your work.

If I pay someone else to make my game, it still counts as me making it, right?

>>170016821
Oh cool, thank you!

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Temporary tiles. All that's left is pumping out levels and that's no fun.

>>170016847
if you also pay them to have your name somewhere relevant in the credits

>>170016792
>rrps
animated cutscenes and online multiplayer
i'd take pride in that

>>170016847
As long as you have creative control

>>170012664
>It's funny because you can see people die.

>>170017017
Quiet engie.

>>170017118
who are you quoting?

>>170017017
In terms of her sexual satisfaction I think it does.

>>170017143
epic le /sci/ meme

>>170017118
Well yeah. That's why it's a classic gameplay mechanic.

>>170017336
The mind of a man who would make a child murder simulator and then be shocked that nobody likes him for it.

>>170017503
dang, anon

>>170017336
The webm. You noticed people died there, right?

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>>170003621
Nice.

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hi AGDOGEs, python scripting anon here. Does anyone of you have experience with Godot engine? I am starting a project in the spirit of Heroes of might and magic 3, but with forking decision tree within the maps (chose your adventure kind of shit). Godot seems nice, but 2.x will be deprecated in a couple months, and the project is estimated at around 2.5 years (it's a hobby and I have a job).

I would like to know what your experiences are with the engine? Does it handle mobile well? I hope so, because I don't want to learn C# and unity. It would take half a year..

How does it handle network code?

etc etc. Thank you for your answers ahead of time!

I know gogem is a literal faggot but it still disturbs me how much he enjoys being bullied.

>>170016917
What a confusing UI.

>>170017924
Homosexuals are 10x more likely to be mentally ill like that. They are also 10x more likely to be pedophiles. It all adds up really.

>>170016917
I did not finish my MSC, anon. Game looks hard.

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Are videogames art? Will games ever transcend the current position they are in? (i.e. cheap entertainment)

>>170017921
I haven't used it but the scripting language is similar to python.

>>170018236
>video games
>cheap
In which world?

>>170018236
Not until games become more socially responsible.

>>170017921

I have experience with godot networking before the master/client/rpc update.

Worked fine on mobile, much easier and smoother than unity; you can either serialize a dictionary and call_group with params or use the new master/client stuff which looks pretty straightforward.

>>170018289
This part wasn't meant to be taken literally, mate.

>>170018289
bait

why didn't you guys tell me making levels in Blender is a lot of fun?

>>170018236
Games are art in the same way that rocks are art. Them on themselves aren't art, but you can paint them, make them play music or write a story on them.
Games themselves aren't art but they can contain other forms of art such as books/paintings/music.

>>170014116
Why the fuck is this person such a con artist? Is it just memes like is he playing a character here? I don't get it.

>>170017921
Only reason I would wait is if you are doing 3D, otherwise most things should be compatible. I also think they are planning on releasing a conversion tool.

>Mobile
I'm using it with Android and it's very easy to export and test. You can also debug your game over adb as it runs on the phone.

>C#
Godot's main language is GDScript, which is like a worse python but with language support for Godot-specific things. It uses reference counting for GC to avoid unpredictable delays.

>Network
3.0 adds both RPCs and built-in ENet bindings, in case RPCs aren't flexible enough for what you want to do. Not in 2.x though.

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I need some objective ideas. So far I only have fairly generic
>collect and deliver stuff
>knock into stuff

Things which make particular use of some piece of furniture would be nice.

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>>170017969
>>170018183
You'll get it fast, arrows+enter are all the available controls.

I hope these aren't just petty yous.

>>170018289
Cheap in a way that it's not really challenging to the mind, like a Transformers movie.

>>170018323
This 100%.

I was hoping for games to become a new art form, but they are pretentious bullcrap at best.

Okay, there are gems, like In Between is a pretty heavy stuff about dealing with cancer, and the ending is a beautiful example how can games be used as a way to deliver a message in a way only a video game can.

>>170018459
gogem is a con man who will continue trying to con someone who has already found him out. in other words he's only conning himself.

>>170018580
Oh yeah, I guess you should also wait for network stuff. I have an idea that I would want ENet for (and I don't want to bother compiling in ENet support when the interface will change anyway)

>>170018402
Why wouldn't you do it in your engine?

>>170018236
You're asking the wrong question, videogames are just a medium like "motion-pictures", "pictures" or "books".

>>170018587
The meme blur and meme AO is a bit much, but it does look nice

>>170018591
No, the UI could definitely be made more elegant. I get what it does and how the game plays after watching the GIF for a moment, don't worry.

>>170018580
>>170018685
Old 2.X does support sockets

>>170013339
we don't deserve you, wizmudev

>>170018825
Got anything specific in mind?

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>>170018282
Hence the choice, anon. Thank's for checking it out, either way. :)
>>170018351
I'm completely new to networking, so I will take your word on that, mate.
>>170018580
>3d
It will be a 2D game, friend. HoMM3 kinda stuff, hexa and turn based combat screen, etc.
>Android debugging
Read neat!
>language
Thing is, I do python stuff for my linux software tester job, so the transition would not be much of an investment. Hence my engine choice. But mobile is important for the monnies, if it ever goes that far.
>network in 3.0
I suppose I will make an MVP in 2.x then, and run it around the friends for playtesting. It might turn out not to be fun at all, right?

Thank you all for the based replies. Good to have people like you around these boards.

>>170018438
I meant that most games don't have any artistic merit nor didactic value. Games of the same genre are basically cookie-cutter copies with similar themes and mechanics; and I somewhat understand that, making video games takes lots of money and time, however what I do not understand is why do we still use the same cliches after all those years, considering the fact that game making tools are widely available? Why isn't it an accepted artistic medium? Will it ever? How do we change this?

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Would you come out of this closet?
no is the right answer, you gays

>>170018890
Yeah, but you will have to use TCP or UDP. TCP would work fine if you don't have low latency requirements, but if you do then you will end up recreating ENet with UDP.

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>>170019037
Something doesn't cease to be art just because most people think it isn't.

>>170019264
>>170018957
So just to be clear, there is network support in 2.x, just only with standard UDP and TCP

>>170019127
If I were gay I would stay in the closet forever like gogem.

>>170019127
I'm not gay I just like traps with big dongs don't tell my gf tho

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>>170019037
>games don't have any artistic merit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSuAk8zjcPA
pic and vid related
If this isn't art, then I don't know what the fuck is
>nor didactic value
that's utter horseshit, every RPG ever sells moralfaggotry and other baggage, most shooters you play the good guy, tons and tons of games now literally don't serve any other purpose besides making some kind of 2deep4u statement

>>170018587
your going to need to parent those rocks to the cars, right now its looks insanely difficult to keep them in the cars.

>>170019264
Yeah, but he stated it is a turn-based game, so raw TCP + dictionary serialization should do just fine...

>>170019776
I am super ashamed of how little time I have put into Witcher 3.

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Made everything blinky, I think that's about enough, moving on to the second half of the sleep menu.

>>170019893
too blinky

>>170018459
This thread is clearly 100% shitpost so I give up and I'll start shitposting too.

At first I thought his yesdev videos were funny, but then I realized he's a low level yanderedev style attention whore. He thinks being an annoying faggot is AMAZING TROLLING and he's clearly come unhinged the last couple threads because it's like he's fucking dedicated himself to shitting these threads into the ground. Which he's clearly succeeding at at this point.

About the "stolen footage", he's basically using other people's game footage to give the illusion that he's a pro gamedev who's made so many successful games he can tell other people how to be a "yesdev". And COINCIDENTALLY I'm sure, he's making YouTube money off of it. It doesn't actually matter that much because only /agdg/ fucking watches or cares about those videos or the yesdev/nodev meme, but the fact that his half-assed stealing amounts to nothing doesn't really negate the intent to profit off of other people's work.

Without any context, they're funny videos with fairly sound advice, but taking a step back and taking a look at what he's actually accomplished (a rock paper scissors simulator and a youtube meme bait game) and looking at his really intense need to damage control and troll people when they call him out on being a scummy money grubber, these yesdev videos aren't so amazing that I feel the need to white knight for him, and I'm not terribly surprised he pisses people off enough that they feel the need to want to try and take the piss out of him.

Also, if he's middle aged, that's really sad, because I thought his videos were cute and funny coming from some teenage kid. Imagining a 30-something really earnestly trying to sound cool by saying he "knows" the dev of Risk of Rain because he happens to post in /agdg/ threads... lmao.

He reminds me of that weirdo mugenjohn or whatever who just shitposted stupid jokes on Lemmasoft forums for years until everyone gave up and now mostly ignore him.

>>170019378
The main hurdle is that I've never done networking code for games, but I guess there are plenty docs around the web for me to start with. Thanks again!

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>>170019781
Yeah, I'm still deciding on a middle ground between that and a 'perfect' set up

>>170020504
Are you thinking of peer-to-peer or client-server networking?

>>170020631
You can just fake it. Like do the "perfect" setup but have it shoot out bits if you're turning too fast and reduce the size a little each time.

>>170019037
Aren't we still waiting for comic books and TV shows to considered art? They've been around much longer and still haven't made it.

>>170020631
marbles?

>>170020227
>mugenjohn or whatever who just shitposted stupid jokes on Lemmasoft forums

Were there more people with 'mugen' in the name there?
I wasn't a regular, but I only remember one mugen and he was chill, showed his stuff and gave people advice.

>>170018587
Wallace & Gromit Xtreme firstperson track laying Simulator. Weave that shit between chairlegs etc

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>>170019776
I am sorry to say but I have to disagree, The Witcher 3 is a pretty game both musically and visually (thanks to the artists), yes, but it employs the same scheme games have been using for decades - "go there, figure it out / kill someone, get back to me and I'll give you five golden obols". I mean, I get that even in fiction there are objectives and goals that certain characters have, but come on. For how long can we keep going with this formula? The section that sees most development is graphics, and even though it is an important part of the game, it is not all that matters. I don't know, man. It is just so painful to see the potential of the truly sole interactive medium go down the drain. Also, using shooters as an example? Come the fuck on, how is that realistic portray of any fucking war, ever? Main characters are ruthless, remorseless and the only people found in all scenarios (we can just call them battle arenas to be honest) are either meant to be killed or allied with, there are no civilians. (althought it is possible that civs are included in some games, they are never developed to any meaningful extent) There is this game, This War of Mine I think it was called but yeah, it wasn't a shooting game so I guess it doesn't really qualify as an example in your argument. Also, please don't spin my words, there was a 'most' before
>games don't have any artistic merit
and you've deliberately omitted it. Don't do that, mate.

>>170003382
>>170004341
>>170009236


Just so you know, I'm saving all those posts, Cuhrayzee slasher was one of my first ideas for UE4 but I got stuck at trying to design a state machine for the system. I'll definitely consult you if you hang out there long enough (realistically, I'll have resources for a Cuhrayzee game in few years at least)

>>170020148
You think so? I may tweak it some later

>>170020825
Maybe we should stop caring about the plebs opinion

>>170021132
fiction literature*

>>170020715
I would like to make a multiplayer feature similar to the play-by-email style of Frozen Synapse. Essentially, you take a turn, hit the End Turn button, and the next player is notified and requested to move. While it would make combat a bit slower, it would allow folks to play 5-10 games at once online with others. I never liked how the multiplayer worked in Heroes games. You spend a lot of your time sitting around, while 6 other folks take their turns.

It would be an extra feature of the game anyway, since I would like to have the option to play that way myself. I have time, but not 10 hours at a time. I play go games on a 30-day time as well at online-go dot com, so why not have something similar in my own creation.

>>170018587
Wasn't there a puzzle game with water and pipes? Just make that. Give the player limited tracks and make them find a path through a block city.

>>170020715
>>170021394
But to give you a short answer, lobby/game server communication, yes. I just have to make sure I can push messages to player clients when it's their turn to move.

>>170016950
You sure would, Ryan.

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>>170021104
>>170020923
That's the idea

>>170020790
Yeah that's probably the thing to do.

>>170021402
That could work. I also have an idea to let the player move furniture around, make it so tracks can't just float.

>>170018920
Primary colours, maybe? Take a look at Cultist Simulator's art design. weatherfactory dot biz or something is the blog of the designer.

>>170021709
NOT COMFY

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>>170003108
http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

If you want some theoretical background then learn some basic grammars and automata theory, it helps a lot to know this shit if you want to get into programming languages.

>>170021727
If the flaws aren't obvious, it likely requires an overhaul and the project is too small for that.

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Progress time!

STAB STAB STAB.

Stabbing works. Enemies are still dumb and harmless, but you can kill them, and that’s something. Progress is slow but steady. I’ll have to work on enemy behaviour next, so that I can arrange a simple fight to test if gameplay is actually fun.

>>170021949
i would not care what genitals that person has iykwim.

>>170021550
Then tcp will suffice.
Beware that the last time I used Godot It didn't have out-of-the-box push notifications support.

A game which feels like starting coffee while visiting a sick friend, to play some baduk and talk about gamedev

>>170022230
The blinking is weird, is it a mechanic?

A game that feels like fixing up an old shed, in the spring after a particularly cold winter

>>170014254
PS1/10

>>170022706
google 'the witness'

>>170022884
i love this shitpost

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Can you give me some tips on how a good 2D D&D game should look? Especially the combat system but any idea you have will be helpful.

I was thinking of having an overworld where you can move freely (on a grid like a roguelike for simplicity) and move into combat mode for encounters, which would either be advance wars style or maybe a small arena turn based like banner saga. But I'm open to different ideas.

Also, hexagonal or square grid? (or something else?)

>>170022706
Mystery case files. You search through piles of mess for the entirety of the game.

>>170019893
Yeah the blinking doesn't look as good as when it just filled up. However the blink when the bar fills all the way would be pretty satisfying I think

>>170021132
>"go there, figure it out / kill someone, get back to me and I'll give you five golden obols"
You are cordially invited to do better and I mean it, if you figure out how to do this better but BETTER - in a way that hooks people up - you will be rolling in dosh.
>It is just so painful to see the potential of the truly sole interactive medium go down the drain.
Describe this hidden potential to me, in detail please, the suspense is killing me. Because the most visible path I see the games taking is greater interactivity and immersion, allowing player to do even more things he wants to do on a whim and make it look organic.
>Also, using shooters as an example?
They carry moral baggage, therefore have didactic value, however shitty that value is beside the point.
>how is that realistic portray of any fucking war, ever?
war is fucking boring and during the brief moments when it's not boring it's fucking chaos and I don't mean Michael Bay propane tank explosions + F-22's and bald eagle gripping US flag flying overhead with rock music playing chaos, but "I have no idea What the FUCK is going on or who is carpet bombing us right now, I can't see SHIT, hear only EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, have blood in my mouth and my legs are getting cold for some reason" kind of chaos. Good luck putting that in a game people would want to poke with a ten foot stick.
>and you've deliberately omitted it.
Because 'most' doesn't give you any credence in this situation.
You haven't played most games, hell you haven't played a considerable fraction and I don't need a crystal ball to know that, you would need several lifetimes to even try out most video games at this point.

>>170022698

Yeah, I want to build the whole game around that. Make it sort of a turn based combat, where actions other than walking around can be done only during blinks. It looks better in the game than in webm, but I'll probably have to tweak it in the future.

>>170022948
>or something else
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_tilings_by_convex_regular_polygons

>>170021709
when moving those blocks they better make that comfy soft wood 'clunk' sound

>>170023243
Could be very cool, good luck

>>170023368

Thanks!

>>170023192
I think the worst offender is the green progress bar, made it blink a much more subtle color now.

>>170022505
Hopefully they will have that in with 3.x
Thanks for the heads up.

Might have to 'soft' hardcode some stuff just to have it usable soon. If you play shmups have you ever found yourself wanting to use the number row or the F keys for playing?

>>170024328
I only play shmups if they have controller support.

>>170022230
Turn it into a horror game.

>>170024328
If you hardcode something make a comment saying what it is and why you hardcoded it. This way if in the future you want to fix it you'll be able to faster.

>start writing code
>know what I'm doing with java, c++, etc
>hmm lets do scripts in godot
>no idea wtf is going on

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>>170023009
Grats on GL!

No turn based RPG comes to mind from recent years, and I'm sure you've already played the best of them. Maybe you could give a try to Trails in the Sky, but I warn you, it's long as hell.

>>170024834
seconded, best worldbuilding ever

Hey agdg, suppose you were making a turn based space game based off of D&D and needed class types for different space ships. Do you guys have any suggestions on what I have so far or should ave?

>Carriers
Carry fighters which are their main form of attack(effectively melee). Pretty useless without them.

>Battleship
Ranged DPS. No or very few fighters, lower movement range than carriers but higher HP

>Assault Carrier
mix between carrier and battleship. lower fighter capacity but more offensive power

>Titan
OP piece of shit for bosses

>>170004379
Are you going to make it so that your character can block? Or at least so that attacks can stun the enemy? Or is it meant to be really hard and unforgiving?

>>170025238
Stealth ships - lower firepower, useful for hit and run attacks as can attack targets of opportunity and quietly escape

Assault Barges - boarding ships loaded with SPACE MARINES, high melee attack but weak on the approach
bonus points if you can use them to steal enemy ships

How do you get good music for your game?

>>170025474
learn to play a instrument

Actually, there is this old chinese man who sometimes busks in the train station near me and I have been considering finding him one day and asking to record him playing for like $10 or something, pretty sure he plays one of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu

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>>170024993
I'm like 24 hours in, and I'm only at the 3rd town. Damn. It promised sex on the box, but that cuck Joshua hasn't even hit on Estelle. I loved the gay guy, hope he'll back soon. The purple haired school girl looks promising, but I guess Joshua will be a pussy for her, too. At least the harmonica playing scene was nice.

I wish there would be more romance focused RPGs out there.

>>170004403
Hang in the bud. You'll make it.

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Finally got entities loading their graphics dynamically to their own textures and also doing so via background threads. Feels good, but I wonder what I should do for the entity pop-in stuff. What is considered best practice for that? Disallowing all entity activity until it has loaded its graphics?

>>170022948
>>170021949
Damn, reverse image search made me stuck on this weird twitter which reblogs these kinds of pics. Thanks for derailing the dev train.

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>>170024834
Deleted the post cuz I posted the wrong screenshot, but thanks for the recommendation and the congrats, I'll check out Trails In The Sky! (Also dat acronym)

>>170004710
>every progress post gets a decent number of replies
>still have no confidence

don't go around telling lies

>>170025621
>>170024834
Just about to grab it for my Vita, any reason I should get the PC version instead (content/performance wise)?

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next enemy. good enough or nah?

>>170021550
>>170022505
Did you mean the feature called push notifications on Android or did you just mean sending a message to the client?

>>170024686

Not this per se. I'm planning to make this a quick techdemo. But I have plans for a bigger version with horror elements in it

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>>170026218
I have no clue. I play on the PsP.

>>170026069
Damn, I have never noticed that.

>>170025375
Blocks no, staggers yes.

A big part of the gunplay is "focusing" your shots to deliver more powerful hits

>>170026410
that's cute.

>only four legs

why tho

>>170026682
laziness

>>170026410
Impressive.

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I'm thinking of making the player actually write his own journal in game instead of writing it for him.
If you don't remind yourself you've got shit to do, and how to do it, based on what you've learned, you're basically fucked.

>>170026463
Bought it and downloading on my Vita now, going to play tonight. Reminds me a bit of Ragnarok Online as far as the looks go, I loved that game as a kid. Thanks for the recommendation anon!

>>170019776
No offense, but a lot of you are mistaking art inside games with the game itself. Games aren't art, the elements (visuals, story, etc.) inside them are. Game mechanics express nothing, but without them it's not a game.

>>170027137
So it's like the games from the pre '90s era are bac? Drawing a map for Zelda and Metroid etc.

Even if the idea could be fun, I don't see it would have a place in the current gaming era, when you are reminded every single time which button press does what.

>>170026429
I did mean "push notifications on Android" meaning "sending a notification to someone who doesn't have the game running directly to his mobile phone notification area"

>>170027149
Have fun, but don't blame me if the too much text and the extremely slow pacing is overwhelming at first. Like the tutorial alone was almost one hour. It was really meant to be a handheld game, which you could play endlessly on the train.

>>170027137
Good idea tbqh, just make sure that characters can refresh your memory in so far as directions, specific items etc. because exhausting dialogue options, forgetting something, and talking to them again only to get in response
>why are you still hanging around shit cunt? go do that thing
>dialogue ends<
is annoying

>>170008761
This playlist is a pretty good primer for getting started: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEMXAbCVnmY67m-UT7H1DKFuL4gJyR3P_

Granted it's mostly about metaprogramming (which is basically a way to add functionality on top of a language), but it's a short leap from metaprogramming to writing a new language. He shows how to write a basic lexer, etc.

>>170027170
>Game mechanics express nothing

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

But seriously though, I feel like hide and seek's mechanics create feelings of paranoia and fear. Vampire Hunt (also known as mafia) does the same thing, the mechanics whittle players down until eventually there's only a few people left and the feeling of the game changes entirely.

Those games have no art, or music, they aren't video games, yet the mechanics create the human emotions by mimicking real situations and triggering stimulus's. That's what play if for, that's why we want it, that's why we keep searching for novel mechanics because we get used to the situations and the play isn't engaging anymore.

>>170027359
I've found myself really enjoying Witcher 3 after pretty much turning off entire HUD.
I play much more slowly, but this time I'm actually looking at the game and not into the upper right corner.

>>170027170
this opinion is the small brain on a meme image.

>>170027359
Grimrock sold well, so does Etrian Odyssey.

>I don't see it would have a place in the current gaming era

The mechanic has value, its not something that's been obsoleted by automapping. There's a generation of gamers that never grew up in the 90's and they'll be searching for new types of games too, and that will be something they've never done before.

>the days of programmer art being the norm are long gone and never coming back

Anyone else get depressed thinking about how rich and famous you'd be as a dev in the 70's and 80's?

>30 minutes of nothing
Alright, let's see that progress

>>170030085
back then unity engine wouldn't give you the best tech, make a game for you and wipe your ass as a bonus

>>170030085
no, because devs in the 70's and 80's weren't famous and probably didn't get rich either

>>170030102
Progress: Improved makefile

>>170030085
No because you just hire an artist and you're game doesn't look like a shit

>>170030085
If anything my chances of getting rich and famous would be smaller in the 70s-80s

how do you pick your colors? I just been googling "Grass RGB" and shit like that, but there must be a better way.

>>170030085
i wouldve made so much dough slangin those ziploc'd diskettes

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>>170030156
delet

>>170011124
Bonus?

>>170030657
psst

switch to cmake

doooo iiiiiiit

>>170031010
Manually, using the HSV slider
Sometimes I google references but I never use the eyedropper tool

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>>170031165
You get what you're contracted like everybody else.

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>>170031010
I have this
I don't now what it does but it has colors in it
you can keep it

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been looking at the requirements for getting a game on the Xbox Live Creator's Program, and the legal and monetary and account requirements seem simple enough, but the fucking hoops you have to jump through to actually code for it are just batty, at least assuming you don't use Unity-- and the only two options at the moment are Unity or build it from scratch in Visual Studio

this is what I typed up so I could remember it:
-- to go through the Xbox Live Creator's Program, set up and compile things with VS as a UWP (under Visual C#, Windows, Universal, but using C++) integrating the package Microsoft.Xbox.Live.SDK.Cpp.UWP, and right-click the StartUp Project in VS and go to Associate App with the Store, and create a special JSON file as detailed in the getting started walkthrough, and open package.appxmanifest in VS and under Capabilities set Internet (Client), and run SwitchSandbox.cmb as detailed in the walkthrough

the sample programs are easily dozens and dozens of kilobytes in size; they include every file under the sun; they have variable and class and structure names that are entirely too long; they make use of Microsoft's fucking C++ extensions that basically turn it into a different language; the comment density and depth vary and some large chunks are uncommented
I know they just opened it up, but it just kind of seems like a mess

>>170031010
googling "nice rgb colors" and paletton.com

>>170032124
Welcome to writing software for Microsoft platforms.

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>>170031010
I use a palette named Arne64. Just pick anything from there.

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>>170031010
Dawnbringer32 is also popular.

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>>170031010
As is Dawnbringer16. Choose a palette and go from there. It applies to more than just pixel art too. It's not a bad practice to limit what colors you can choose from in 3D too.

my Game Maker studio 2 won't open any more because i can't log in (for no reason). Guess I'm totally fucked because I need all my code even if I want to port it into game maker 1. what the fuck.

>>170033438
>logging into an engine
hahaha what the fuck
Just use Godot, you don't ever need to log into anything.

>>170033763
but I'd need to log into 100 different forums just to find one person that knows something about the Godot.

>>170034013
except you don't

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>>170006790
I don't want to seem like a shill or anything, but Color Constructor might help you out.

Something rough for a tragic villain theme.

https://clyp.it/cldtzsel

>>170031010
trial and error >_>

>want to Dev regularly and become a yesdev
>Girl I'm crushing on buys Overwatch, says it would be cool to okay with someone
>I could afford it if I tried, but I know with it my productivity will be kill

What do anons, I have two dreams in my life, to become a famous Dev and to have a nice relationship, and now they seem to have become exclusive :(

>>170034643

If she's not down with dev, she's better off dead.

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Should I have an area right in the beginning where the player can get one-shot? I think it's kind of funny to walk into a room and have a robot punch your lights out immediately.

>>170034643
>have first good relationship in my life
>become fulltime yesdev, stop dating as often
>she leaves me
>been depressed for half a year now
could be worse man

>>170034747
>>170034857
>unironically responding to an emoticonposter
remove yourselves from this general

>>170034643
Show her your code, show her you can make games, show her that you're already working on your dreams when other people around you are busy fucking off. Knowing how to do shit is cool, believing in yourself and having a vision of success is significantly better than the "guys" your competing with that are probably getting high every day playing league of legends and trying to be "chill".

>>170016171
>Heartbeast and other d&d youtube tutorials pop up

You found the wrong one then, because he doesn't do d&d expect at the very beginning

Look for his Spelunky-clone tutorial on cgpeers or something

>>170034857
This post is just for you, literally no one else needs to read it because it's off topic:


This book cured by post-relationship depression several years ago and maybe saved by life.
https://therationalmale.com/the-best-of-rational-male-year-one/
I highly recommend all of "year one" so you can get back to devving. Now I'm content beyond whhat i thought possible and haven't made the mistakes i used to make. I wouldn't steer you wrong.