/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

>>170529581
>(embed)
ONE JOB

>>170529686
*embeds a foot up you're are arse*

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I'm starting a lewd roguelike that involves rampant copyright flouting. Wish me luck, Anons.

>>170529689
I'll fuck you up nigga

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>>170529686
Fuck, copy pasted and didn't notice.
It's over. /agdg/ will cease to exist after this. Just enjoy the last thread.

More fanart from another anon.

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I updated the file on itch.io to be a simple executable instead of an installer since some people don't like that.

https://awk.itch.io/less-click

With the DD build out of the way it's time to break my game to fix two growing pains:

Switching from 16x16 to 32x32 pixel sprites, I also have been thinking about downloading some free tileset just to temporarily stop my eyes from bleeding and maybe give me a decent idea of what the graphics might look like later on but I don't want to get too attached to placeholder assets. Dilemma!
Refactoring energy packets since they are buggy as hell (and fix some code stuff related to energy demand while I'm at it).

Maybe the game will have some actual gameplay for DD14.

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>>170529809

You don't like
fuck
cartmen and spongebob and the pony though

right?

>>170530021
You do, man, you do.

You play as whatever the fuck character you want, and then you perform lewd combat on everyone else.

>>170529581
Every fucking time I see Rocket Project guy's face I lost my shit.
Good job drawfag.

no one gave Metanoia a single line of feedback should i change that?

>>170530191
You should give feedback on all the games you play, if you have something new to say!

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repostan

>>170529809
What's itch.io's policy on copyright stuff?
Like, if I use a character or music from something else?

>>170530389
Outside of itch.io:
Re-drawing copyright shit is safe
Using different names is safe

As far as music goes, it's a bit messier. Generally if you're reconstructing shit yourself you'll be fine. It's when you start stealing direct clips that you'll get into shit.

I don't know if itch.io goes beyond just what's legal.

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>>170529581
https://youtu.be/oUsW2a7ujGE
vid related or pic related for art style?

Every time I'm thinking of joining agdg jam this text:
>If you are not a part of the community then this jam is not for you.
frightens me and I don't. What do?

>>170530565
post progress in thread
that's all

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Okay, I think this is pretty much wrapped up. All of the characters were drawn by themselves first, so if you want the art of your character by themselves shoot me a message at jasozz.tumblr.com

>>170530565
Ask your lawyer.

>>170530565
Just go for it. If you've posted progress in the thread a few times you should be fine.

>>170530389
Okay so... I don't see anything in their policies about it other than "don't copyright infringe".

However there's a report button on games, dunno if they're like other services where once they get a lot of reports they pull you regardless of reality...

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>>170530731
Very nice. I feel special now.

>>170530731
No demo now, but thank you for making this! You truly made my day and gave me some motivation fuel.

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>>170530003
Oh hey the resolution switch was pretty painless, I didn't even have to change a single line of code.

>>170529810
Damn he actually did it too.

>>170530389
I've seen a handful of Pokémon fan games on there before so if they allow that I mean you may be good.

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What kind of sound do you imagine this makes?

>>170531924
electric buzzing followed by marbles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7TnNS9FtWY

>>170531924
Shove a pole into a bunch of small rocks/gravel, double the sound effect
Also drop the rocks onto the ground, and append it to the end of the effect.
You could go buy some charcole and do it with that too, but they're usually large pieces. Maybe it would be better anyways.

>>170529847
Wow this art is awesome!

>>170530731
Thank you so much for this anon!

>>170531995
Poster of >>170532006 here
I agree with prepending the electric buzzing sound, but the marble sound isn't deep enough. You can change that though by lowering the pitch I think, so it's probably a better idea.

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first and last time i repost my shitty feedback in case devs missed it

Battle Network Clone
http://pastebin.com/Bv62ggvH

GunCat
http://pastebin.com/mkTxLqXp

Pantsu Harvest
http://pastebin.com/9Du5Ym6T

Tiny Siege Prototype
http://pastebin.com/6yXQGcMt

NipNip
http://pastebin.com/mL8AHnYt

>>170531924
>>170531924
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-d0vzlUCzk

>>170530380
Love me one ancient gods. Looks great as always

>>170532254
kek, that's good.

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Time to save VR, bros!

>>170532472
meanwhile at japan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y8uMGMkVpc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8sB4QrIOBk

What's the point of #gamedev bots who retweet literally everything?

No one who cares about their twitter feed could possibly follow them

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>>170532472
>>170532582

>>170532660
Not everyone is so lucid as you, Anon.

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>>170532472
I don't get what this means.

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So I did a stream last night with most of the entries for Demo Day 13. If any devs are looking for feedback it just might happen your game is in there.
Any game that was not playable in windowed was unfortunately skipped. They were generally played in alphabetical order except for some later entries, just look closer to the finish.

Anyway, i you're interested in sifting through six hours of demos look up fruitdev @ twitch
(fuck not being able to post twitch links)

I'd also really appreciate any feedback on my entry:
https://fruitdev.itch.io/black-valentine

>>170532796
Maybe they're trying the Gone Home strategy

If you can't make it good, make it gay and people will call it good.

>>170532582
my friend tried one of these out and he said it is better than sex

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Which art style should I go for?

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Everyone is posting demos and I'm just here trying to make my FoV code not retarded. What a life.

>>170532882
But that's just lazy and soulless.

>>170532940
first wood and second tip

>>170532968
Yeah.

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Mario RAPES your ass for 13 orgasm points!
You can't bear it!

You spurt!
Would you like your possessions identified?

>>170532796
I'm guessing "bed-shitting gamers" means people who are anti LGBTQP.

If you make your games gay as heck, they'll look elsewhere.

>>170532878
Thanks senpai, I will check it out.

Why do you guys keep recommending Godot when there was not a single game shipped with it?

>>170533112
No probs anon-sama.

>>170532878
If I missed any game and you really want some feedback, hit me up and I could maybe throw something together

>>170533524
That doesn't even matter, if it happens to actually be a good tool.

People have problem finishing games no matter what tool they're using.

>>170530731
H-hello, could you maybe draw something from my game, Apotheosis? I've been left out in fan art since the start ;_;
also i dont have tumblr. i think

>>170531924
"glomp"

>>170531924
a native american going EEEHEHEHEHEHEE

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>>170530551
>ask for advice
>someone leaves a dislike
>check thread for why they didn't like it
>no feedback

>>170534135
It'll be someone being an ass.

>>170532472
Get back to making Half Life maps, Robert

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>>170532878
Unnamed pixel platformer dev here, much appreciated.

Looks like I need to address teaching the moves to the player better. There was a signpost in the start though you never stopped to read it, and only found the different attacks by accident after 10 minutes of play and never found the more powerful special attacks.

Any suggestions for this?

>>170534216
Think about Mario teaches you how to use abilities. It doesn't. You figure things out as you go but it's because the game is intuitive and teaches you through gameplay.

>>170534216
Yeah I'd like to know this as well. Some of the main complaints for my game were not knowing which controls did what yet, when I had a tutorial, people would complain about handholding.

I've yet to find a subtle way to teach the player how to play the game.

>>170534216
The dash being a limited resource makes me kinda annoyed.

>>170532882
won't work on VR though since the people that are able and willing to drop that much money on gaming accessoires are sually not the SJW type.

>>170533081
But is the LGBASDF crowd willing to spend $1k on a headset and a GPU?

>>170534216
Honestly? Finding out you have more mechanics than you first thought is awesome. That's just another dimension of the player being allowed to explore the game.

But yeah, the moves you feel are really crucial should probably be easy to find/taught. The sign just blended into the graphics for me, it didn't really stick out I guess. Maybe the moves should be unlocked rather than being available all at once?

And yeah I'm really curious what you're going for with the level design and game progression desu. Will probably finish the demo later since I didn't during the stream

I really liked it even though it does have some flaws

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>>170529581
>rocket project guy's face

me too, buddy

>>170534405
Try and find a balance between tutorial and actually playing the game.

>>170534019
Do you have a screenshot from your game or a sprite of your character I can use as reference?

>>170534626
With all their patreon support, it wouldn't be hard to afford a few for them and their friends.

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>>170534959
>>170532878
This little duder would love to be included as well if you don't mind

>>170534356
When the problem is that the player never tries pressing the button at all, I can't think of many ways to teach it besides a button prompt. Perhaps I could block the path and require them to use a different move to progress, although if they don't know the button they might just give up and quit instead.

>>170534443
It's already game-breakingly powerful and pays itself back in any non-trivial fight.

>>170534637
I'm glad you see it this way, but I'm worried about people who quit before they even figure out the mechanics.

>Maybe the moves should be unlocked rather than being available all at once?
I've been thinking about this, and considering it for the specials. I want to have at least a few different moves to start with however.

>>170535169
>I can't think of many ways to teach it besides a button prompt
It's not a bad idea if for the first few times an ability is needed you have a simple button prompt appear.

>>170534637
>And yeah I'm really curious what you're going for with the level design and game progression desu.
I'm not really sure. The game was supposed to be very short with much simpler mechanics originally, basically the next logical step from pong and tetris clones. Then feature creep set in, and now I want to make it significantly longer as well.

How do your cameras work? Mine is just a square that moves, and anything inside it gets rendered. It's lacking a bunch of very basic features, like zooming.
SDL, by the way.

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>>170534959
This is the main character, he's pretty easy to draw I guess since in-game he's rather tiny compared to the enemies

>>170535169
Like, with a more linear level approach, you could easily teach the "double jump" to players, because then they'll figure that's what they have to do to progress. As for the other moves, I'm not quite sure. But I think you're onto something, you should have multiple moves from the start, and then yeah maybe unlock the rest.

Anyway, in a final product, people are not as prone to quitting a game as they do on a demo, just because they know it will be kinda unpolished, you can't really trust the design just yet, you know? Like I didn't assume you had all these cool moves to deal with the situations I found bullshit, I just assumed it was badly design because it's a demo and I don't know anything about the dev. If I bought the product I'd give it the benefit of the doubt.

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>>170534959
Here's to hoping little turnip can be included as well

>>170531924
Is this supposed to look like a man squatting and shitting a magnet out of his asshole?

>>170535393
I've got a camera center parent object which is moved and rotated while the camera is looking straight at it.

>>170535648
Looks cute desu

>>170535352
Well that's kind of problematic. I'd try less open levels to be honest and give the player more sense of progression you know? I'd absolutely prefer this game more 100% linear than what it is now, even though I love exploration. Maybe look into the Momodora games or something for level design/map layout

>>170535596
>>170535782
Yeah, in the final game the first level at least is going to be much more linear. As I've been changing mechanics and moves between demos, I've tried to build a level that showcases all the game has to offer for each demo, which is why the level is so long and perhaps convoluted.

All the old demo levels are playable back-to-back though, so if you're interested, do check them out. Some have unintended shortcuts now due to the airjump but otherwise there shouldn't be problems.

>>170532878
Hey thanks for the Whimp playthrough, really cool to see. I'll do a runthrough of a bunch of games this weekend and I'll try to leave feedback both in comments and in a big pastebin, so lookout for that

>>170532254
fuck that is perfectly timed to his animation loop

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>>170535094
>that death spin animation

>>170536169
Coolio, might check it out later.

>>170536246
Yeah no problem, I really liked what I saw, those mechanics have some real potential, that's for sure. And I'll keep an eye out

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>>170535648
>>170535452
>>170535094
Welcome to the club

>>170536645
You the man

>>170536645
Aww yes, thanks anon

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>>170536645
do i have a chance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-cXdFMByM

>>170536645
CUTE

>>170536807
You're welcome!

>>170536874
Did you submit to DD13?

>>170537003
>Did you submit to DD13?
game is out already so no

>>170536874
Don't know how to break this to you but...
http://www.kerfuffle.io/

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I guess it's time to add a proper camera, i think I'll try it with a simple camera similar to zelda games, with lock on for people/objects and rotating with mouse/right analog stick. Also she is able to duck automatically which happened by accident, need to make it a bit more stable and then I'll call it a feature.
Fuck stairs.

>>170537101
I know.

he cant beat my trailer thought/spoiler]

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>>170537116
>that ending

>>170536645
I...am HONORED.

>>170536874
That's a pretty sweet trailer my man, but I think the group art should stay exclusively for participants of DD13.

Not that those jiggly mantits don't deserve fanart

>>170536874
why is Eastern-European inspired music so damn good?

>>170534160
Thank you for the like (im guessing it was you) :)

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>>170538010
>english song with hollywood slav accent
>eastern-european inspired

>>170538304
are you retarded?

>>170538304
> hollywood slav accent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRVhooUQwrM

its a real slav accent anon

>>170538304
>slavs
>white

>>170530380
Really can't wait man!

>>170530380
I like the spider one

>>170538427
>>170538459
I am a slav you dildos. I went to school with 800 other slavs.
Nobody fucking talks like that. Even people who couldn't speak english at gunpoint didn't talk like that.
It's literally how you retards made russians sound in 80's movies and people picked that shit up.

>>170538895
they are not talking, they are singing.

>>170538895
How DO they sound
Post vocaroo

>>170538895
do you guys squat tho?

>>170539136
Not in groups as you may think. I only squatted when I was little when I was forced to go to church and I didn't care what priest was saying

>>170539558
Is that like instead of kneeling, or instead of sitting?

>>170539558
>squatting in church
Mate. They have seats in churches.

>>170539720
I think he squatted on top of the bench

>>170539558
why do you squat on the benches when you can sit instead? It doesn't make any sense

>>170539814
He squatted in front of the bench.

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>>170539869
are you sure

>>170539720
But here are no seats in russian churches tho.

>>170539952
Slavs are deeply religious. It would be sacrilege to actually use the bench in Church.

>>170539720
>>170539814
>>170539869
>>170539854
he squated over the priest

>>170539676
>>170539720
Not in church, outside (it was a small church). I was more interested in bugs life than listening the same story again

>>170539720
benches are for old people
young folks and kids don't get to sit when the church is packed

>>170539094
Once they pass the trial of hot potato, they sound like American newscasters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWQeYA2-Eks

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Be honest: is it readily apparent which parts of Dixie's character controller are more or less completed and which ones are still being worked on?

>>170540358
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Uzu58N-Sso

>>170540385
as someone who never used Blueprint, I have no clue at all

>>170540358
In Russia cat pets you

>>170540385
Yes

Why would you intentionally start shit though

>>170540385
>filename
i see no difference

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Guys, I'm going insane here and I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

I'm trying to do the motion tutorial for SDL2, but I'm getting the weirdest behaviour.

Nothing I tried to render through ANY class method worked, until I made a dummy Texture to render.

Now, everything works, but EVERY SINGLE TEXTURE called in the program defaults to what's loaded in gTexture.
Despite the fact that gTexture isn't used in ANY function implementation, or really, ANYWHERE that isn't its own declaration and initialization.

I really don't understand what the fuck is going on, somebody please help.

http://pastebin.com/bSxq0yEq

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>>170540385

Are there any games where you move around with the following mechanic?

>While moving forward, you can hold button
>While holding button, you can turn around at a fixed rate, but continue moving in original direction
>After releasing button, your velocity suddenly changes to your new facing direction

I'm considering implementing this into a fast-paced 2D shooter. Kinda like Mario Kart's drifting, but expanded to go in every direction.

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character complete

>>170542649
Kawaii desu ne.

>>170542649
>literally a moe blob
wew lad
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l
a
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I've been too busy fucking my hot girlfriend to dev.

What have I become...

>>170542978
a monster

>>170542978
>not putting a laptop on her back while hitting it from behind and coding

>>170542978
>not letting her do you with a strap on while you gamedev

What are you some kind of pleb?

>>170542978
Can you get her to do lewd voice acting for me

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>>170530191
Please feel free. I'm pushing a new build to Itch now that fixes a dumb bug that was in yesterday's build that caused my tag-processing to stop working in the big text sections.

It seems to be working well now (after I forced it to process tags on every entry regardless of whether it was null or not) so the new build should be up in a few minutes.

All that said, I don't expect a whole lot of feedback from /agdg/ on Metanoia. Point and click adventure / visual novel stuff isn't really /agdg/'s bag.

>>170543032
Implying that you can do anything worthwhile in 30 seconds.

>>170541749
>mTexture = tempTexture;
>SDL_DestroyTexture(tempTexture);
Silly nigger, mTexture is now a pointer to the freed tempTexture.

Once you fix that, post new code, I'll have a look.

>>170541749
The issue seems to be that you delete tempTexture in LTexture::loadTexture. You set the pointer to mTexture to tempTexture, but destroying that also destroys mTexture.

>>170543310

I realized my mistake in the same instant I saw the notification for your reply.
I keep forgetting that I'm constantly working with pointers and that nothing is 'real' at any given time.

Thanks to >>170543326 too.

I still don't understand why initializing the completely unrelated gTexture made it work though.
Was it because it initialized to the same address mTexture was still pointing to by pure coincidence?

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swarmhosts are for bullying

>>170543491
The power of undefined behaviour.

/r/ing the picture saying "C is god, segmentation fault gibberish if the devil's work from the OS"

>>170543671
What's the music like for this game?

>>170543978
Chiptuney.

>>170543978
https://clyp.it/kkbat11u

>>170544118
I'm 100% on board now.

I'm a SJW, will agdg accept me?

>>170543671
I'm assuming spammimg those with multiple shots makes them be really abusive on those projectiles?

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>>170543671

>>170544247
https://monolithdevs.itch.io/monolith

then give it a shot, maybe?

>>170544827
Game looks really good, man. Going to give you a follow.

>>170544418
Have you got a game? I don't give a shit what you believe if you actually have a project.

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>>170544418
of course

>>170544418
Yeah, as long as your game doesn't feature women as anything but sex objects, niggers as anything but comic relief, faggots as anything but objects for bullying or anything else undesirable not offset by fun.

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>>170544418
>accept
right after you show your game
let's start with tolerate

>>170544418
Games or GTFO

>>170544418
I don't care as long as you don't try to impose your values on other games

>>170544554
nah, they got a hard cooldown between shots.

>>170542978
if you have a penis it doesn't matter how cute you are, you're still a boy.

>>170516410

Thank you for this, anon!

>>170544974
>>170545301
>>170545438
I-I don't have a game yet. I just wanted to know if I could post here. The game I have in mind would indeed have a message that could be considered political by some. Are there any SJW devs here?

>>170545980
Googum is.

stop replying to obvious shitposts

>>170545301

I don't understand that slide.
How could you have "losses" if you're indie?

An indie team, by definition, has to be a closely knit team of a few at most.
And if you're splurging thousands on outsourcing graphics/code/etc then you're not really "indie".

Are they counting small studios as "indie" for the purposes of this?

>>170545980
>sjw on 4chan
wut

>>170546021
4chan standards of sjw right here

>>170546251
Probably counting time spent making the game as time spent not earning money with a job, for some bizarre reason.

>>170546304
got ya

>>170546251
Time is money senpai, just because you aren't paying someone it doesn't mean that you are doing it for free.

any non-artist devs want an artist to help make art/animations for their game? 2d art, maybe some type of pixelart platformer-esque game.
nothing really serious; just for fun and experience
maybe long-term contact if it works out that way
i'll post temp email if someone's interested

>>170546021
What a KEK.

>>170545980
Come back with a game buddy. Then you'll be welcome here.
he won't be back

>>170543245
>Point and click adventure / visual novel stuff isn't really /agdg/'s bag.
well i have a thing for point and clicks and played pretty much all classics so i hope i can be helpful

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>>170546251
Time is money.
You spend time you could have spent making money making a game.
Game makes no returns.
You have losses.

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>>170546774
I'm making a srpg and I've got absolutely zero art and am fully incapable of making any.
Be warned that I'll likely never finish the game.

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>>170546330
>>170546517
>>170547128

Still makes me wonder about how much they value a dev's time.
Like, if I'm a NEET who made a game to fill his worthless days, any amount of money is a profit.

But how much are they valuing my time?

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Uploaded an alpha version to my first demo day. Give it a spin and I hope you enjoy it!

https://shotgun-anaconda.itch.io/house-cleaner

>>170547236
A base salary of 40k is pretty fair I'd think.

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>>170547161
If you're willing to draw angled shit that is.

>>170547236
$72k a year is the average for inexperienced vidya programmers in the US, apparently.

>>170536874
That trailer is the only thing I've ever seen from that game.

>>170547282
W H O
H
O

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Thank you to everyone who tried the demo! Four of the biggest concerns I have seen besides keyboard and dpad issues (which I believe I fixed with the v_3 upload) I will quickly address below.

1. Lag/fps:
I have not nailed down the recommended system requirements yet so it will not run at 60fps for all players (but it absolutely can run at 60). I will do my best to optimize things as much as possible to allow more people to enjoy the game.

2. Invisible hitbox:
I noticed most ppl never used the Focus button in their plays/attempts. If you hold the Focus button (default is Shift on keyboard and Left Trigger on controller) it will both slow down your movement to make dodging easier as well as make your hit box visible (a small dot in the middle of her sprite). Focus also brings your burst flames in closer if you have any so you can concentrate your attacks.

tl;dr Use focus for dodging and concentrating attacks and unfocused for faster movement and spread attack

3. Difficulty:
I am striving for this to be as accessible as possible to even casual/beginners of the genre but at this early stage I knew balance was still yet to be reached. I added a Lost Coin Purse to the Shrine>Offering section for this purpose. Normally you get spirit coins by playing but this option will let you not only get enough coins to buy all of the upgrades above it (lives, credits, dust) but it will also let you start the demo with max burst

4. Burst button does nothing:
In order to use your Burst attack for large damage and score boost your gauge under your portrait needs to read 5.0/4.0
Each 1.0 you get up to 4 will add a black flame which attacks with you to increase your overall damage. Exceeding will give you a blue flame (picture related) which indicates you can fire it. Firing it drops you back to 4.0/4.0

Use your Special (tap, release, and then hold shoot) to fire red and build burst faster but you have to refresh it every few seconds.

Thank you again for giving my project a chance!

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>>170547490
i post it here since it looked like this

>>170547497
I dont know what that means

Post your trailer anon, you DO have a trailer, right?

>>170547889
I barely even have a game.

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>>170547407
>tfw you could live like a motherfucking king with that kind of dosh

>>170547719
Guess I haven't been around agdg at the time. I'm taking back the implied whodev.

>>170547407
Even before the 50% taxes in my country I could lead a happy life with that income.

>>170547741
He's calling you a whodev. A whodev is someone who doesn't post here and only shows up for releases and demos. Essentially he's saying: "Post more progress updates"

>tfw you realize nobody will want to play your game

>>170548273
"just be yours-i mean, make game for yourself bro!" is a meme if you want publicity instead of just being an indie artist cred

>>170529847
Is the artist going to post a nice scan of this?

gogem is the hero we need save us from nodev hell

>>170548273
There is someone, somewhere, who wants to play your game. Probably even a whole group of people. Maybe even hundreds of thousands or millions.

The trouble is finding them and marketing to them.

>>170548273
I'm doing a quick playthrough and leaving feedback on the games I can run using Wine, shoot me the link and I'll give it a try.

>>170548491
if by "nodev hell" you mean "posts that are tangentially related to gamedev at best", then i'm afraid googum is not the solution to your problem

>>170530551
bald

>>170548598
Let me know if Metanoia boots for you. I'm curious.

Anyone here use GMare?

Is there not a way to scale instances in it like the standard GM room editor?

Also does the creation code you can add for individual instances run after or before the instances normal creation code, or does it replace it or what?

Should I bother building my game for Mac? I have Windows/Linux builds and my game theoretically works on Macs, but I don't have a mac build environment setup.

What do you create your 3D environments in?

I'm really, really not feeling the Unity Terrain tool.

>>170549098
I build them IRL (actual size) and scan them.

>>170549089
i don't use gmare but about the event order
create event -> room instance code -> room start event

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spent all day yesterday trying to make unity do a dumb cel shader

why is it so complex

im honestly surprised there isnt a retard safe button that says "cel shaded"

>>170549093
If you think Linux is important enough to build for and it's no hassle to shit out a Mac version: Go for it.
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

>>170549093
I get asked for a Mac build quite routinely.

Whether that actually means a significant number would use it is another issue.

>>170532878
>https://fruitdev.itch.io/black-valentine
where was the development

>>170549206
it's easy you just have to practice

>>170534019
Is it really fan art if you dont bother playing the game?

>>170548491
what heroics are you expecting?

>his game doesn't work in browsers
Good luck! As for me, I'm going places

>>170550078
make porn games in flash like you used to

link form of the demo day URL because autism: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-13

>>170549187

Nah nah, Gmare lets you add a custom create event script to individual instances in its room editor.

I'm just wondering if it replaces or runs before or ahead of the instances normal creation code.

If I had to guess though it just adds all those scripts to the room creation code.

>>170550257
wait, what the fuck? yesterday it said 1 day 11 hours and now it says 1 day 12 hours

>>170550386
Maybe you are confusing "time until start" with "time left for submissions" and have a terrible feeling for days passing?

>>170548251
oh ok.. ive been posting regulary tho... i jsut get ignored most o the time.

How do you structure your actors? Right now I have it in one array, so when one actor searches for other actors to interact with, it iterates through all of them. But this is obviously a very slow solution when each actor iterates through all of them. Surely, there is a faster way.

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>>170548689
It runs fine, played it for about 15 minutes, I'll get back to it and finish it tonight as I have a meeting in 10 minutes.
Left you some feedback.
Great job.

>>170550627
>when one actor searches for other actors to interact with
What for?

If it's just a roundabout way to do collision detection then you should use spatial partitioning.

>>170550627
Why is your actor searching for others?

>>170550717
>spacial partitioning
I haven't heard of this term, so obviously I have some things to look up.

>tfw trying to learn pixel art
Might kill myself.

>>170550907
Pixel art is fun. It's like painting+lego bricks

>>170550758
Right now for example, when a player attacks, it iterates through all of the actors and checks each hurtbox to see which ones are within the hitbox. I can see the performance degrade when I start adding more and more actors, so this is obviously a bad solution.

>>170550975
I'm not creative enough for painting and I'm not autistic enough for lego. It took me almost 24 hours to learn how to draw a tile of dirt and it looks fucking dreadful.

>>170551057
Yeah, spatial partitioning.

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>>170550681
Thanks a bunch, anon! Great to know that it's working on wine and thanks so much for the feedback.

There's a lot of polish work left to do on it I think just in general with the text but I'm glad you're liking what's already there.

Oh, and this is a general question so anyone else who played it may feel free to chime in: Do you feel like the time it took for the text to write was too fast/slow? I'm considering making an option which toggles the current typewriter behavior or fading-in the whole line/paragraph of text at once.

>>170551086
Are you looking at how other games do it?

>>170550907
make pixel art like milkyquest

>>170551093
Thanks, I'll look into this

>>170551160
I'm looking at as much reference material as I can. Other games, people just doing random pixel art online, anything I can get my hands on. My brain just can't make that synapse connection it needs to make. I can't imagine something and then move my hands to create that image. I've got artism.

>>170535094
I wish you would have posted your game here before DD anon. Now I can't play it.

>>170550907
I found the hardest part was limiting myself to a certain resolution...

So you spend all this time making pixel art... oh dear, it's too big, now I have to make it smaller and redo half the fucking thing because resizing pixel art fucks it up

>>170551519
Don't do that. Once you've decided your base resolution then draw some platforms and your character to the scale you want within that resolution. Then use those as references when drawing everything else.

>>170550907
It's easy you need a good tutorial to learn it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgLG84RiHb0&list=PL9FzW-m48fn1gHoXXwep4blLnvVGHyeYj&index=10

this guy is one of the best to explain how to do it properly watch a few of his pixel art tutorials and you should be good to go

Why can't all vidya music be 2hu
If your vidya music isn't like 2hu you're wrong

>>170552051
For some reason, this has only made me more terrified of this process because the thought of "yeah but what if a coloured light is next to the object" hit my head. Fuck sake. It's going to be weeks before I can even come close to making useable assets of any kind.

>>170552051
That doesn't look good though, the guy is a ""GameMaker guru"" but he's not very good at drawing.

>>170552241
Know any pixel art tutorials worth a shit?

>>170551380
Yeah it's a shame we haven't seem him around, but I also saw him play other anons' games for like 5 hours straight on twitch so he's alright. Giving back to the community is a good thing.

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Alright, gonna start playing them demos.
If you're here and want your feedback now, tell me so I can play your gam first.

>>170552223
try the tutorial see if it helps

>>170552241
It is pretty decent looking. What pixel art tutorial do you recommend?

>>170552353
dunno lol I'm not good at art

>>170552375
I'm here but my demo is bad and I'm scared of feedback because there's nothing positive to say about my game

>>170552375
Well, I imagine most of us posted to get feedback now. Feel free.

Mine's Metanoia.

>>170552163
Making 2hu music is impossible

>>170552489
Surely that's the whole point?

>>170546774
if anyone is interested mail me [email protected]

>>170547161
>>170551086

>>170552502
Yeah, but I mean like, now now.
>metanoia
Is there major improvements from the last demo? I gave you my feedback on that one like, a week ago.

>>170552489
Come on, nigga.

>>170552051
i hate that style of pixel art, it's like bare minimum and lazy

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>>170550228
im excited for loli jam too

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>>170551121

Most VN's have a speed slider for text write speed, just provide it as an option. And while I feel the default speed was a bit slow for me, that's not really my issue. When I left-click to speed up the text, I expect the current block to finish immediately, then start the next one. The current behavior is that the next block of text starts coming in, but the current one also keeps fading in at the same rate, which is very odd.
See my hastily made webm for an example, although they didn't provide any speed setting, you can just click through it.

I'd also like a backlog.

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>>170552051
>>170552241
His background tutorial actually looks pretty nice but I hate how he doesn't add highlights and shit, it's like there's no sun and the trees look like posterized photos.

>>170552729
Use it as a foundation so you can move onto better pixel art

>>170552705
There's about 20-30 minutes more play in it now, yeah. I don't think the previous version had the text-adventure elements in it but now it does; though the conversation with Wu hasn't been touched yet so it's still a little oddball.

How many games do people actually try in demo day? im currently downloading most of them and gonna run throgh them.

im currently sitting on a whopping 1 download and 5 views lol

>>170552729
Please recommend a better one than just complaining

>>170552801
That does look like a pretty good background tutorial and I saw a few of his tutorials I thought they were pretty good for beginners to start to learn pixel art

>>170552797
Ah, yeah. I'm trying to figure out how to code that behavior myself actually. Haven't figured out how to force that script to work how I'd like it to yet though.

>>170553150
For reference, the last DemoDay got M:TS some 100~ views and 20 downloads.

>>170553150
I don't actually have an interest in playing other people's demos, but I suppose I could do it tonight (about 7 hours) and leave feedback for each of you like.

>>170553217
a specific tutorial isn't going to teach you how to make nice pixel art, because it's just that, art

you need to know how to draw and color things like any other art. you can use this for the specific details like anti-aliasing and such
http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/42648699708/pixel-art-tutorial

>>170553150
I only plan on trying maybe 5 games. But I try and pick different ones each time.

0-4 fap
5-9 dev

>>170529581
>I don't actually have an interest in playing other people's demos
>expects feedback anyway

>>170553802
Everyone posts, no one plays

>>170553410
what are you even doing here

>>170553150
I played most of them, it's kinda funnysad how I have less views than there are submitted games.

>>170552705
>Come on, nigga.
I suppose I could ask you to try out city night but you may not want to play it for more than 30 seconds, because that's how long it takes to realize just how bad it is.

>>170552825
Presentation is top notch, but it's not the kind of game I enjoy, man. I'm already skipping text. I'm not saying that your writing isn't good, just that it didn't engage me at all. You've not given me a lot to care for these characters, and I'm already stuck hearing about their interactions.
Also If I click for text to appear faster I expect the previous line to appear instantly, not to have a paragraph slowly fading in

>>170553941
I'll give it a shot right now

>>170553547
>that comments section
kek

What would be the best engine to make a game like Silent Hill in?

>>170553886
What do you mean?
I'm here to receive feedback. I don't have an interest in trying out other people's games, but I said I'll do it anyway because it wouldn't be fair not to.

>>170552825
>>170554086
Also, before you go to a "next" screen of text, give me a button to press.
If I click a lot to get the whole text to read instead of being forced to read rally fucking slowly, I'll accidentally skip screens that have no options at the end.

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You can do it!

>>170554106
Game Maker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y96cyRODUKI

Memeing aside, Unity or Unreal.

Added a minimap. It's now a million times easier to navigate, but before I update the demo entry and ask for more feedback I think I need to solve the "wrong object in the wrong scene" problem once and for all. I'll do that this evening after I get some other stuff done.

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>>170553941
Alright, let's see.
The time it takes to start moving after coming to a full stop is awful
The inventory is a mess, I hit a few buttons and now I'm walking around with a fireball at my feet.
The music is ok if you're going for "weird niche little known game discussed in obscure games threads", otherwise it needs some work.
It's too easy to get fat al stuck on a wall.
I haven't found my destination, if there's any. If this is the "class in the far left", then the game crashed when I touched that door.
The animations are fine.

>>170553892
Nice, hope you try the new ones too (aka i just uploaded and hope u try it)

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>>170554828
It would probably help if I remembered the image.

>>170554174
Which one is your game?
I'm not interested in shitty feedback from someone who doesn't want to help out fellow devs. And I also would like to know so I stop playing your game.

Nobody is saying you need to suck other devs cocks and praise their shit, but if you don't have an honest interest in helping out others then why are you in a game dev community. Just go somewhere with players when your game is good enough and let them test it for you.

>>170554279
>>170554086
Added those notes to my big notepad of things to consider. Thanks!

>>170554521
second was the best one

>>170555020
No problem. Have you considered asking /vng/ for feedback? I know it's an adventure game and not a visual novel, but in your game's current state they can probably give you some good feedback. I guess, I don't read visual novels

>>170555204
Sadly, that general is explicitly for JVNs rather than EVNs. Though I did ask and was told I could still technically post it - I'd just get my shit kicked in for it by some of the thread-goers.

There was a general for EVNs - but it died due to disinterest.

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If I were the dude who made Undertale, I'd have been working to port the game to consoles and mobile asap and be making a shit ton of merchandise. But it seems like the guy has dragged his ass getting around to even just basic merchandise - I bet he could've made 3-4 times as much money as he has.

Besides ports and merchandise what else should I be thinking about for my games release?

Time signatures how do they work

>>170555482
actually making a game

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added basic magik and a battle log.

>>170553150
I usually try none because
>.exe

but this time I'm doing a VM (Windows 10 has an easy built in one) so I can give feedback

8 views, 3 downloads, for reference

>>170552375
Am i too late? My game is House Cleaner, would be cool if you tried it.

post good art tutorials

Did the weekly recap die?

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>>170555815

>>170552801
Looks like he needs to learn hue shifting too.

>>170554861
Thank you so much for the feedback!
There's actually a lot you pointed out that I had no idea was bad, like the music and the movement feel. I guess it's hard for me to tell if something is fine, or if I've just been staring at it so long that I just got used to it.
I'm definitely working on redoing the inventory completely. I agree that it's a mess.
That's the right class, yeah. I didn't realize it crashes there! but yeah, that's all there is to it.
I'm bad at programming, but I'm absolutely trying to look.
Again, thank you so much!

>>170555356
>JVNs rather than EVNs
I have no idea what you're talking about, but I'll assume it's related to weebs
Also your main menu improved a lot, but why are you working on your menu instead of the game mate.

>>170555528
Just stay with 4/4

>>170555654
>not using sandboxy for your demo day needs
also
>Windows 10 has an easy built in one
really? I don't use win10 but never heard of this

>>170555664
I'm on it.

>>170553150
I'm downloading the ones that I think I may enjoy (e.g. I'm into platformers so I will get those, while I'll skip the bullethells since I know I don't like (suck at) them). I try to leave feedback on everything I play in a way that's constructive and motivating, though it can be difficult since a lot of criticism can be attributed to the fact that they're demos or proof-of-concepts.

>>170555654
>>170553892
What games did you upload? I'll give them a go if I haven't already

>>170555654
What system are you on? Mind's Windows only this time but I'll try to get it on whatever platform you're on

>>170555815
This. Completely incapable of drawing a human for a sidescroller.

>>170555921
>why the main menu improvements

Well, it is a demo. Might as well try and polish parts of it up as best I can while I work on the rest of it. It's still not finished but it's at least a little more polished now.

JVN/EVN is really just a distinction on what the VNs original language was. There's a lot of purists in that thread. It's a lot like 'don't you dare post western art' in a thread about anime girls even if you're still making anime-girl art you're a 'western artist'. It's that sort of thing.

I'd probably only be truly welcome in that thread if I did something like Katawa Shoujo where all the chars were based on a japanese artist's concept art and everything was very nicely done super-anime-style.

>>170555921
>I'm on it.
thank you brother

>>170555909
No problem man. Don't be afraid to ask for feedback when someone is asking what demos to play, that's what your demo is for
You can make the whole "following" a bit better without going into complex programming like pathfinding, by having your MC leave invisible "waypoints" every now and then for the enemy to follow.

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Looking for some more anatomy feedback. Pretty sure this will be good enough this time around except for some very minor things. https://sketchfab.com/models/f7f8bd97a3664614bbc7269ea749fb96

Fixed since last time: Made hands, feet and head bigger. Moved pecs, abs, elbows and ass down. Made ankles thinner but tried to add these weird orbs you got on them.

>>170554521
Skin texturing terrifies me. No choice now tho

>>170556318
I still haven't seen one good art tutorial posted here on /agdg/

>>170552375
Whimp the Bold amigo. It's mainly to test out how movement feels, but I'd love feedback, and also to know what key mappings you like

>>170556673
Neck seems too long at first glance.

>>170552375
HACK the FBI
has no content so it would be quick to do

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>>170551121
feedback for Metanoia
http://pastebin.com/dw8P1JXA

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It begins.

>>170556531
Thanks! That sounds like a good idea.

How do I form the basis of an RPG system? I'm talking aside from any sort of "content" that exists in the genre that separates it from other games like quests, worldbuilding, characters, art direction, etc. Has anyone here made an RPG?

I'm having trouble putting together a base system just to do testing to expand upon it. I'm thinking of just literally ripping something from an existing RPG like dungeons and dragons.

>>170557248
Take an existing system like d20 or gurps or something. d20 and SPECIAL were actually inspired by gurps.

>>170556938
Is Hack the FBI the same as Cybership? Is it a side project or a new direction for the same project?

>>170557248
i dont know if u play Dungeons and dragons like a nerd, but just checkout how their stats and shit works with a dice and just copy that

>>170556790
Yeah it looks like that to me too but no one commented on it before. I'll play around with that and see how it looks.

>>170556673
Neck and trpezius don't look right.

>>170556967
Hrm. Not sure what to do about all of those scaling problems with the text. I greatly boosted the scaling of it but I don't know what to do with very large displays and so on.

Lots to think about with that feedback, thanks!

>>170556509
I hate it. WHY would you add acceleration. I'm sure there's a neat game there, but the controls are abhorrent. Also fatman took way too many bullets to die

>>170556778
on it
>>170556938
>no content
what am I supposed to test then

>>170557248
I'll post a good resource for you since no one around here does

https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-build-a-jrpg-a-primer-for-game-developers--gamedev-6676

>>170557532
Its a side project where all the open-world intent is stripped out, and its more like a linear adventure game. Basically "what kind of game can get put out using just what already exists, but with a layer of linear story"

>>170557836
>I hate it. WHY would you add acceleration. I'm sure there's a neat game there, but the controls are abhorrent. Also fatman took way too many bullets to die
I hate it. WHY would you add acceleration. I'm sure there's a neat game there, but the controls are abhorrent. Also fatman took way too many bullets to die

I wanted to make movement based on decisions and punishing if you just run go in without thought. I'll tune fatman but he's meaning is to build energy while you are attacing the regular ones.

But thank you for playing!!

>>170557248
I'm gonna be using d20 (or something similar to it) for my game since it has the mechanics I need already defined. You could always take a pre-existing system and modify it based on what you need or don't need.

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Does your game have this (quite old) bit of tech?

>>170558159
My game is 2D

>>170558159
Nope, no delicious shota calves in my game.

>>170558370
>2d games don't have stairs

>>170558021
I'll give it a playthrough this weekend with the other games. Look out for a comment on your game or a pastebin in the thread

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... in Sandboxie in Windows 10 requires a physical restart on quitting, and apparently fucked up my keyboard for a second

>>170556778
z-x-space as default controls is terrible for anyone with an adult sized hand
Movement feels super fun, kudos for that
The trees on foreground are kinda annoying
Sometimes after doing the double jump inflation, if you jump again right as you touch the ground you'll do a shitty short jump
The dash seems like it will be used nonstop to avoid touching the ground in "real" levels, you better have some good level design skills
The dying screen is great, but it'll probably get old in hard levels where you die a lot.
The textboxes go outside the screen if you're close to the upper edge.


>>170558021
>I wanted to make movement based on decisions and punishing if you just run go in without thought
You went way overboard with that, mate. You're not making Asteroids. It's hard to go trough a doorway without a full stop. All I got from your reply is "thanks buth this is how I like it" so I assume you won't change shit, but controls are way too important on a game like this, so please reconsider.

>>170558495
My game doesn't have any special animation for walking up stairs, all it does is slows down movement

>>170555921

Just a fun fact if you didnt know, things like password stealers work work well in sandboxie.