/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

Finally got everything backed up to GIT, updated my scripts, and manually resolved a bad call in the bridge between them.

That's a big sigh of relief over here as my game's progress can now continue where it's been stalled the last two days.

How are your games coming, anons?

REMEMBER KIDS, ALWAYS ADD V-SYNC TO YOUR GAME SERVERS TO PROVIDE MORE PACKETS TO USERS WITH HIGHER PING!

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>>171098201
Sorry it took a while to reply, had to go for a bit.
I think the shapes are mostly good. You just need to add some details/texture. Not a lot of course, just a little bit.

>>171104637
This is better

>>171104547
Are there bots on 4chan now?

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>>171104164
>>171103965
I was going off this, plus some elements from panels on space stations, I need a center pylon on it, because anon's game is about attaching cables to everything and it's always doing it in that place.
I will try something out

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>>171104637
yeah i'll keep the tiles but i'll probably add something like the journey wall texture instead to the walls

ty anyway anon

posting in real thread

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>2 Threads
ffs

Anyways, screeny is test of 1st person cam

Video of 3rd person:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3LSJaCX23M&feature=youtu.be

I feel like 3rd is best

>>171104547
Newb here: I thought v-sync was a rendering tool to make the game look nicer; wouldn't v-sync on a server be a waste of processing power? If the goal is to cap latency or whatever, isn't there an easier way?

>>171104637
Needs more detail you lazy fuck

>>171105083
I can't fully judge from the vid but the fur does not seem too appealing. I'm not a furry though so there's that.

>>171104740
No. That was me.

>>171105123
that's some anon messing around with my mockup

what kinds of details you angry autist

>>171105343
literally anything but flat colors

>>171105086
No, v-sync caps the game at 60 fps. Instead of reaching the full power your PC can do, like 140, it caps it at 60 fps and doesn't use those resources. When something that uses extra processing power comes by, it uses those extra resources to stay at 60 FPS. If the server has built-in v-sync, it only gives enough packets to each player the reach the max of 60 fps and no more, more packets for people with higher ping to help them reach a higher frame count.

>>171105421
so gradients are ok then?

and you're going to have to have flat colours at some points in the game you know

>>171105432
Oh, I thought that was simply referred to as frame rate capping. Didn't realize it was the same thing as v-sync.

>>171105595
>so gradients are ok then?
better than flat colors

>>171105602
Yeah, so remember, if your gonna have multiplayer, add v-sync built-in to your server.

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this is ugly right

>>171105595
Stop replying to him he's just trolling you.

>>171105738
I think it looks good as a pixelated aesthetic. Tone is done a bit and you'll have a perfect theme for your game's graphics.

>>171105752
>trolling
Saying trolling in the year 2017. This is clearly a shitposter, ignore this man.

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Made some pretty serious progress these past 2 days getting the Showdown Zone implemented fully.

Showdown Zones are now fully procedural Hex Tile grids with a per-wave specifiable heightmap layout. Also kludged together a wave-preview system for use in UE4's level editor so I can see what I'm mapping out as I do it.

Yes, it's basically lifted wholesale from Furi and Transformers, but it's a nice way of having consistent arenas that can change radically

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>>171104361
Reminder

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Does anyone know if their is an analytical expression for the derivative of the volume of a Voronoi cell with respect to its generator site positoins?

>>171105738
i thought this was sprites until the guy fell over

like this was a 3rd person doom mod or something
>>171105857
>I think it looks good as a pixelated aesthetic.
ok you're trolling

so i want to make a turn based rpg but with quite a bit of VN sections.
I got a preetty hefty script ready so it's gonna be a lot of VN and some fighting throughout.
But I've got no skills outside of drawing and writing yet.
I heard that for VNs renpy is the only good option BUT question, can it actually do anything outside of that, like say turn based fighting and item menu management.

It's going to be something pretty basic, think persona but strip the 3d movement navigation.

Maybe some basic tile based dungeon crawling akin to something really really old, like brandish but maybe not even that, it would require too much designing not to feel unnecessary since this is going to be mostly story based.

tl;dr can renpy stretch outside "just a VN" and do some other really basic game functions or should i stick with something else.

>>171105875
You have a good game there, don't give up. If you do, i'll kill you.

>>171105896
Not necessarily. Sometimes it works really well. It just depends on the gameplay.

>>171103776
>I feel as though I actually understand whats being generated and how right now, and while I also understand how gening it from an array would work, I probably wouldn't have any idea as to how to add to it
You could implement the current technique on an array pretty easily. Have X and Y variables that you update the same way you update the GameObject position.

The real benefit is that basically all existing procedural generation techniques are designed for arrays. So once you get the array thing working, you'll be able to work with all sorts of other examples, like the stuff from http://pcg.wikidot.com/

>>171105738
Not really. Its kinda cool actually.

>>171105875
Seems decent.
Did you make all the models and yourself?

The turning and animations are really floaty but I assume they're just there for the time being.

>>171105896
But that's wrong.

>>171105738
It doesn't look "bad" I just think it doesn't match the aesthetic

>>171105896
I will build my gameplay on top of the story

>>171105896
sounds like the sort of naive thing he would say

>>171105967
It can, yes. There are some community scripts to that effect that are up on its wiki and so forth.

That said, if you're going to go that far you might as well just jump that hurdle and head right on in to Unity via the help of add-ons like Adventure Creator or Dialogue System for Unity or Ink. I'm using all 3 and am very happy with it.

Context: Making a game that's more or less half point-and-click adventure game and half interactive-fiction/VN.

>>171105960
No, I think it legitimately looks good as a graphic theme. Very retro-esque.

>>171105875
You got a good game on your hands there. That finishing move where she kicks the enemy in the stomach is very slow, I can't tell if that's recording lag, animation transition error or just a slow animation, but try to fix it either way. You should also try to fix that speed issue, when you start to run, the speed is very low and the animation moves in slow motion. I know you try to have the animation match the speed, but easy fix, just adjust how the speed fades in, instead of little to big, the character should jolt into running in almost no time.

>>171105602
No, you're right, the other guy is just retarded. V-sync does cap framerate to the monitor's refresh rate, but it also ensures that rendering happens at the right time in the cycle to avoid tearing. Talking about enabling v-sync on the server makes no sense because the server doesn't do any rendering.

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So, I'm stuck in meetings all day, unable to code but free to goof off however I see fit, so I'm doing a mockup character select screen for Project TUSSLE. Anyone want to have a character in the mockup as filler? Character portraits are 128x128, but I'm okay with cropping down a full art splash.

>>171105738
Well, since everything has a plain color, it does not really match with the rest.

>>171106310
>made a fuckton of gaming defining titles that shape the entire industry
>naive
Nice no games you have there, nodev

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Healing progress

>>171106518
I am entitled to not like him, his games, and his game design philosophy. Hopefully you and your (surely great) game are ok with this.

>>171106657
Not bad but it's weird
don't make the numbers bounce

flying out and dropping is nice but one of them (that I noticed) on the 2nd from the bottom does a bounce jump another time and it's weird

>>171106070
Yes I made the models myself. The turning (you mean the walk/run turning or the attack rotations?) may get a retune; the animations aren't placeholder so I'd love to hear what you think they need to be fixed.

>>171106434
The run speed can be retuned a bit but I do want there to be some weight to the movement. It might be extreme, but 0-60 movement isn't consistent with how a 3D platformer should play.

The big finisher just has a lot of hitlag on it, which gets multiplied when the attack actually knocks an enemy back; I can probably cap it lower so that it doesn't feel QUITE so long.

>>171105875
I am a fan and think all the mechanics and combat look great I wish I could play this as a not-little-girl though. You had the potential to make the next ninja gaiden.

After watching a load of Pannen videos, I'm unsure if SM64 is a badly made game, or the practical level of gamedev is actually less elegant that I previously imagined.

>>171107220
>play this as a not-little-girl
but that's the best part

>>171107220
My main inspiration for the character's design was Panty and Stocking; I believed then and I believe now that you can have a goofy cartoon character in an action sequence and have it still be exciting.

>>171107521
That's pretty cool.
I do wish I could see her model in something that doesn't look like a blur of colors and a basic outline though.(barely can tell what I'm looking at in the webm)

But the first thing I thought was mighty n09/megaman/roll type character is what it looked like.

>>171107273
>the practical level of gamedev is actually less elegant that I previously imagined
This one.

Get deep into speedrunning and see the exploits people discover; you'd be amazed how quickly the entire game falls apart if you just peek behind the curtain.

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>>171107687
It doesn't look much more flattering in proper resolution.

But I have no talent for modeling or rigging, a large part of why I went with an N64-low-poly artstyle was specifically because it enabled me to shit out assets with very little attention to detail and have it come together into a cohesive art style.

>>171107950
is she something like Alex Mercer?

Do you guys follow tutorials or just dive in?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFvsRvo_78Y

>>171107273
Stressed programmers start using bandaid solutions come crunch time.

>>171107273
sm64 is a bunch of very loose level design and programmer art. the game is still great to this day - let it be a lesson not to take this shit too seriously

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>FPS drops from 60 to 58

>>171108093
dive in, watch tutorial, dive in, get frustrated, watch tutorial, dive in repeat infinitely. welcome to any creative endeavor

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>>171108038
I guess kinda, yeah.

The frame story is that one of these power cell things exploded and a massive radioactive (or whatever, imbued with plot-relevant energy) shard of it got lodged in her skull. As a result of that (and my taking major liberties with biology) she has the ability to manipulate their energy and summon them to her. She wears them on her hands and feet for strength and protection, and most of her "special abilities" like double jumping and whatnot involve hands appearing and throwing her/flipping her/becoming wings/etc.

She's like, Magic Hands Girl. But I can basically make magic hands do whatever the fuck I want them to do because, again, Looney Toons logic is at work.

I thought engies were enginedevs.

>>171108379

minor FPS dips are ok if its for something cpu intensive

>>171108684
not they aren't, rewrite the code to be less cpu intensive

How do I optimization.
It seems like some kind of black magic.

>>171108835
this anons got it

>>171108984
nah

>>171108984
you'll feel violated when you work on video games for me and get nothing out of it does that sound good enough?

>>171108867
Start with algorithmic complexity. If you're using a managed language, your only other concern is basically reducing garbage collection as much as possible. If you're using an unmanaged language, you can get into even more low level optimizations like cache and branch coherency.

>>171108492
>be near dangerous power source
>it explodes
>almost die
>wake up with super powers

It worked for most caped super heroes, I don't see anything wrong with this plan.

>>171109417
no that's way too much effort

>Trying to balance dev'ing and wageslaving
>Forgot how long dev'ing takes
>Some days feel like i'm making no progress at all

Soon I'll have a game to call my own

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>tfw learning about functional programming in school

>>171109308
Well, the story of the game is that the same thing happens to Dixie's little sister Trixie... only she gets the explosion much, MUCH worse. And then, because that's the second power core to have a failure out in that region, the company that's building and researching them dispatches a robot quarantine team to seal off the area until the cause of failure can be determined.

And because Trixie is so heavily inundated with the material, they kidnap her as part of the quarantine/cleanup effort. And Dixie sets out to rescue her, but every robot that sees her will attack on sight because she too is inundated with the material and therefore needs to be "quarantined".

So, wake up with superpowers, but also get a bullseye painted on your back.

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>>171106468
So far I've got all of the Smashified character art and a few other fighters I'd like to see in it. If anyone has any character art they want in the mockup, let me know. I'm actually having fun building this, even if it's ultimately going to be pointless once the UI designer builds the real one, because it really hypes up just how big of a crossover this game could be.

Also, fighter builder is in the works. If anyone wants a character in the game proper let me know and I'll work with you to make that happen. I'm getting near to the point that the game is beta-able and I want to start filling out the roster.

>>171110380
>Forced Shovel knight
>Shantae
>Ridley
>Furry waifutrash bait

I hope you enjoy not being played

>>171110505
It's just a mockup. None of these fighters except Zero are in the game. I literally just threw in every character from the Smashified tumblr that faked Rayman last year since it was a bunch of ready-made art assets.

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>get asked to stream dev
>tfw don't want people to see how shit you are at coding and art and how much you wing things

I need a random port for my network protocol.

Somebody give me a random 16-bit number.

>>171110873
>complaining about people being actively interested in your project

Meanwhile I am happy when someone other than blackshell media visit my tumblr, ffs

>>171111248
>tfw even blackshell media don't visit you

>>171111410

I honestly don't know what their agenda is. All I post consists of placeholders, grids or standard UE4 meshes. there is literally one other mesh I stole from Tinkercad. Which is also a placeholder, because even though I could use this for the final product and give credit, fuck that. I don't want some random people in my credits section.

>>171111197
80

>>171111676
It's just a bot that reblogs everything related to gamedev to advertise their shitty marketing services, everyone knows about them so it works I guess.

>>171111197
0xA6D6

I want to make a porn game for patreon bucks.

Any tips?

>>171112950
just like make game

>>171111248
>blackshell media
Aren't they a scam or something?

>>171112950
have decent art

make it some kind of sim or VN if you can't into gameplay. that or a simple 2D platformer where enemies rape you, stick with a female protagonist since about 70% of hentai gamers prefer it

remember, at least decent art.

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>>171112950
if you're not making a game about obscure fetishes with thirsty as fuck consumer base, prepare to make some god tier art to get some actual money

I think I have a herniated lumbar disc.

>>171112950
Steal an abandoned game and mod it with new content

>>171113098

yes, they are, see:

>>171111926

But yeah, since they reblog a lot of shit you can find other devs by going to their tumblr. I don't know if any non-devs know about them, though

>>171113098
did his post imply otherwise?

>>171113162
I can do decent art/animations. Is there really a market for VNs? I figured the game would need be at least a 2d platformer to make a decent amount of money.

>>171113189
What about xenophilia?

>>171106462
This, that guy is fucking retarded.

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>>171114129
some xenos sell better than the others

>>171112950
I thought maiddev had launched a lewd patreon. But going back over his tumblr/twitter, I can't find any mention of it. Not sure if he backed out or I imagined it.

>>171114129
incest is the new entry level normie fetish so go for that

>>171114348
He did, but it looks like he abandoned it.

>>171114129
sc2vn tanked so i don't think so

make an undertale clone and use the vn VN elements like long gone days

http://longgonedays.com/faq/

>>171114129
wait if you're trying to draw porn then just draw porn and sell it by itself

>>171115150
really dislike how they settled for that level of detail in that game
could be much prettier with minimal effort

>>171115354
is this the same autist

post a piece of perfect pixel art so i can see what meets your standards

>>171115480
so I'm not the first one to notice?

>>171115685
are you the same person who bitches about detail whenever i post pixel art

>>171115150
This is not good art, not even close.

>>171115812
I bitch about shit pixel art too!

>>171115812
don't know
you don't have a nametag and I do criticize lazy pixel art when I see one

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more progress

>>171106796
You're right. I knew I wanted values and such bouncing out of characters but i didn't put too much effort into making it properly juicy yet.

>>171115937
>>171115956
>>171115995
post good pixel art then

or whenever someone calls my shit amateurish i'm going to assume you mean leagues above pro work

>tfw you pretend to be someone else in other communities to see what people think of your game

who /sneaky/ here?

>>171116360
I don't get what you mean. So you pretend to be Joe Blow and then say "Hey I saw this game where you can XXX (your own game), what do you think of it?"

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You've been visited by the Good Game Dev.
You will be blessed with instant bugfixes and perfect lineart, but only if you reply to this post with progress.

>>171116565
yeah but not that obivous of course

>>171116049
Those skullingtonss are nicee

>>171116567
>just be yourself man all you have to do is go talk to her

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Trying to figure out what my text-box ought look like for Metanoia.

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What kind of a sign is this there at the end in yellow, and how do I make this?

Pixel artist here for my daily drawing

I will draw you pixel art for your game.Taking requests

>>171116567
>just download more money

How do I make a good boss fight?

>>171116837
>serif
disgusting

>>171116971
have a good combat system

How do I make a good combat system?

>>171116971
challenge your boss and write down what happened

>tfw doing contract work to raise money for your game and haven't made progress in months

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>>171116971
Have a simple enemy with twice of everything: size, health, damage. If the usual enemy summons one fire ball at a time, let it summon two and so on. Oh, and make it a different color.

>>171116750
they sure are because I fucking ripped them off from dokapon.
fuck yea placeholder art. It can only go downhill from here.

>>171117071
The difference between good combat and bad combat is enemy reactions

>>171116939
%, the percent sign, or sometimes the modulo-operator
Shift + 5 on my keyboard

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Less Click dev are you here?

>>171117251
>that pic

anon pls, my dick

>>171117339
>%, the percent sign
You sure about that? It looks very different to me.

programmer here

I will write you one function for your game

>>171117542
I'm quite sure.

>>171117653
Custom implementation of a C++ vector, using templates. I just need the Add() (/push) functionality.
Can be unoptimized, I'll do that later myself, anyways.

template <class T> void DynamicArray<T>::Add(T*)
{
// Do stuff here
}

Usage:
DynamicArray a;
a.Add(new Type);

>>171116971
good art, animations and dialogue

high health and armour

>>171117424
Hello I am here.

>>171116942
Draw a top down 32x32 metallic looking "power up" container/crate with a large and visible "S" letter on it. use DawnBringer's 32 color pallete.

Out of curiosity - what do you draw these in?

>>171116971
Mechanics consistent with the rest of the game
See:Final Fantasy for a complete rejection of this that ends horribly.

>>171117820
Why don't you just use std::vector?

>>171117820
StackElement* stack0=0;

void push(int z) {
StackElement *stack1 = new StackElement;
stack1->digit = z;
stack1->predecessor = stack0;
stack0 = stack1;
}

>>171118068
Because that wouldn't be a
>custom implementation of a C++ vector, using templates

>>171118149
But why do you need that in the first place?

>>171117917
did you see new turrets?

>>171118296
where

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>>171118458

>>171118210
Why do I need anything? I don't.
"I" am just a bunch of quantum probability waves collapsing unto eachother in a pattern that is a pathetic attempt at defying the quirks of inevitable entropy.
This, in a universe that in itself is quite literally meaningless, and by extension, consists of only meaningless pieces of dust. There is no I, there is no universe, there is no grand scheme or meaning. Nothing has or ever will have meaning, everything will be forgotten and nothing will remain.

I don't need shit, "I" just want to learn how to code, while I wait for the inevitable.

seeya, wouldn't want to be ya

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>>171118569
Not bad but I think it's too small, maybe try something with a more blocky aesthetic like in Advance Wars for example, the game will have zooming so it's important that the units stay readable even from far away.

How fucked am I now that Yoyo is forcing everyone to switch to GM:S 2 for $100? All I have is a free version of 1.4

>>171116567
There is something to be learned from Toby though
It's that if you can pander to the holy trinity of internet autists (furries, retro hipsters, social justice bloggers) you will have a hit

>>171119124
You could try out a free alternative, such as Godot.

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Any good guides on how to create top down characters in a similar style to these? Seems like every character I create comes out wonky.

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>>171119124
$100 is nothing, if you are so stingy that you can't pay for the best tool you will ever find for game development then maybe this hobby isn't for you.

>>171104361
Would Learning Python help me get better at GameMaker? I want to learn to code but theres only courses for Python atm close by.

>>171119124
>forcing everyone to switch to GM:S 2
In what way are they forcing anyone to do that?

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>>171116567
I hate working on ui.

>>171105738
Make the robe the same color as the hat and make more smaller white bubbles rise from the edges?

Looks nice tho

>>171119787
picked the fuck outta that ration

>>171106657
make the numbers not bounce that much, also a bit slower and go higher up.

>>171119578
enjoy animating these things

>>171119965
make the numbers bounce more and faster

>>171119618
OR Java.

>>171116837
the text should be off-black like the box, otherwise it looks good

i choose pixel art because its less things to keep track of, seems easier

>>171116942
if you're not the same as the other guy, can you do a guy on crutches 32x64?

>>171119069
anon those are 64x64, I have to work with 1/4 of that size, but I will think of something

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So I'm working on my shit again after personal issues got in the way.

Basically it's a top-down shooter with some Zelda quirks, namely Link's Awakening which had minor platforming and the Tingle Tuner from The Wind Waker.

Anyway, I'm trying to come up with a GUI and I feel like feedback would be good at this point.

>>171120457
Is your HUD gonna work like a PipBoy form Fallout?

>>171120587
That's a concern I've had with it mostly for legal reasons, but no I don't think it'll end up like that.

It's going to be used in real time, or maybe slow down when in use.

>>171119614
>$100 is nothing, if you are so stingy that you can't pay for the best tool you will ever find for game development then maybe this hobby isn't for you.

If you think GameMaker is the best tool for game development then game development probably isn't for you.

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>>171120449
The style is the important part, even the tiny sprites are easily readable.

>>171120457
Obvious complaint is "GUI takes up a loot of screen estate", although I'd have to play it to see how bad that really is.

As far as aesthetics, the GUI is probably the best part of what you've got going there, I like the lil' guy. The bars in the top left are good, icons not so much.

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>>171120783
>>171120449
Also you can extend the sprite vertically a bit and let it obscure the one on top if you need the space like the characters in this pic.

>>171120832
It does take up a fair amount but unless I tone down the gameplay I'm afraid it'll need it.

It hasn't been an issue to me so far but I'm likely biased towards it.

Thanks for the feedback

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Making city assets is actually pretty fun

>>171119618
Yeah. Knowing the basics of programming will help you translate to any new language.

>>171121296
getting a strong Vagrant Story environment vibe especially from the darker walls.

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>Mfw 2 months into a "Tiny sideproject just to relax"

>>171121003
I will pull something off don't worry

>>171121296
nice order of ecclesia textures

>>171121404
Haven't played that game, but I love the colours and stuff.

Max Payne is what I've been thinking about while working on this. Was considering making a comfy snowy city like in that game, but I think I'll be dropping the snow, because it would involve a lot of blending snow tiles.

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>>171121296

>>171121470

I'm both excited for and dread the day when I get my hands on the Vive. possibilities drive me crazy, but at the same time I can already see how it devolves into a million single gimmick vr projects that never get finnished

>>171121683
OC, actually

>>171121756
Thanks!

>>171121863
Pretty much sums up my experience. This space trucker sim thing is feeling really cozy already though.

>>171120759
is it basically beemo from adventure time lol

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>>171117953

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Progress:
>Added framework to have unique characters with special abilities and playermodels.
>Working on adrenaline Aura ability
>Removed furries

any tips on first person camera shake?

>>171122483
yeah, don't.

>>171122483
the more the better

>>171122483
just kind of do some

>>171122483
If you do it for even one second it will trigger my motion sickness. If it happens to often I will be physically unable to play your game in about 30 minutes

>>171120271
what are you doing with all those cripples?

if you can't draw or do art just learn 3d modeling it is easy

>>171122483
I think Unity has a standard asset for that.

>>171123048
How are you going to draw the reference sheets

>>171123185
By modelling them in 3D first.

slow-motion screenshake

My motivation is dwindling lately. I find excuses to not dev constantly. I'm going to go for a short and intensive dev session now, wish me luck anons!

How can I make my game unique?

>>171123302
>relying on motivation
I feel bad for you, I really do

>>171123302
take a 2 day break?

they usually help me

>>171123385
Do something in a way it hasn't been done before

>>171122483
kys

>>171123495
I feel like we live in an age where everything has been done before.

>>171123302
Here's a better idea, go back in time and get your parents to make you do chores so you don't grow up to be a weasely manchild

You're still here reading this aren't you? Good luck!

>>171123557
you can still execute better

>>171123557
Your feelings are wrong.

>>171123302
>I find excuses to not dev constantly
Make dev your job!

But then you'll never want to dev for fun.

Friendly Reminder that your game will never be finished

>>171123557
>>171123676
>>171123743
time is a flat circle rus

>>171123260
this

when I am too lazy to draw a sketch on paper and scan it I will make a rough model and then model it properly based off the rough model in Blender

>>171105875
Game looks fun
PLEASE fix the lighting, this kind of lighting doesn't suit the cartoony look of the game.
I'd expect some nintendo style colors for this.

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What are some essential platformers to steal ideas from?

>>171105875
this game looks like it is going to make it and make some cash

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>Use Gaussian sampling function in UE4. This is the distribution and associated 1d voronoi mesh I get.

My own function next.

>>171124497
anything really

the bare essentials are DK country for 2d and most likely mario 64 for 3d

i personally think supernintendo had the best platformers such as thatr rocket mouse game called Rocket Knight Adventures

the playstation had some good ones too like tomba

i think tomba is the best game ever fucking meme ruined the whole series for me god damn it i hate normies i still have my copy of tomba

>>171114348
>>171115010
I abandoned it.
Turns out lewd games need lewd art and I'm not good enough to make any.
I'm just gonna focus on my main game.

>>171124332
My game has been finished once before and so I know it can be finished again.

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>>171124703
And here is a distribution that I get after I iteratively refine the output of the UE4 Gaussian generator. UE4s generator did a shit job recreating a gaussian, whereas this is so much more fucking accurate.

Conclusion: Use Unity

>>171124741
>Rocket Knight Adventures
That was Mega Drive not SNES

>>171124491
>I expect trash
?

>>171124873
where da gameplay

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>>171124887
was the genesis competitor to super nintendo or was it the normal nintendo

i forgot

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>>171124873
>Guys look i didn't read the documentation so i'll use unity

Yeah unity is a really good option if you are new to programming.

>>171125247
underagefag detected

>>171125175
I'm using it for an airstrikes. An airstrike consists of a collection of missiles which I want to hit Gaussian distributed on the target.

>>171124703
>>171124873
Did you try multiplying by 255?

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>>171125393
only had a super nintendo growing up

brought a genesis for 20$ yard sale

Would you twerps be down for a harvest moon clone with animal hunting set in a low fantasy Western Frontier?

>>171125841
Absolutely.
I will buy almost any game with harvest moon mechanics.

>>171125841
i'll be the progammer

>>171123023
just like breaking legs

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>>171125952
Phew, I'll have one sale!

>>171125841
I would also play this

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progress:
added a hookshot mechanic

it doesn't feel quite right yet though. how can i improve it?

>>171125841
>low fantasy

Dropped.

A western Rancher style harvest moon/stardew valley would be cool. Have a nice cozy western town, fight outlaws trying to get your cattle, and herd/raise cows and horses and shit for sale. Also building derricks for oil and a more indepth mining system would be great.

>>171124873
>Gaussian generator
neat
you're getting Gaussian distributions, right? what for?

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House Cleaner --[PROGRESS]--

Animated Shotgunner and implemented him. Basic AI but he chases the player and shoots when he's triggered. Good enough for now.

With the 3 enemies in the game i have a good enemy balance.
Pistol guy forces you to move around and activily dodge.
Grenede Fatso gives you a chance to build energy for crowd control
Shotgun guy forces you to kite enemies.

Good times

>>171126240
Kind of already looks like you're heading in that direction.
Whats this gonna be about? I'm quite intrigued.

ftl is a great game but how the fuck did that game take 18 months to make?

its brain numblingly short

>>171126375
Missile locations from an airstrike.

Its an iterative method that refines to a gaussian. Its actually kinda resource intensive since I need a lot of iterations, but what I've done is have it do one iteration per frame. The airstrike is on a 10 second timer, so I have time to do hundreds of iterations before the strike, giving me nice beautiful gaussian distributions, instead of the normal UE4 shit.

Undertale is a pretty good game

>>171126769
How many games have you made in the past 18 months?

>>171126769
t. never completed a game
t. definitely never completed an FTL quality game

>>171124497
You've posted the best one. Also SMW maybe.

>>171126738
Basically harvest moon, but with some tower defense elements, as well as dungeon crawling for mining.

>>171126769
Polish is how it took so long to make.
Polish and refining mechanics.

>>171126769
At least 50% of all dev time is just changing shit you don't like anymore.

>>171126769
If you can make an FTL clone that is longer than FTL, in 18 months or less I'll personally buy 10 copies.

>>171126240
How did you do that axe animation? Is it 3D or have you done gazillion sprites?

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>>171127864
It's 3D, my dude.

Then just a combination of rotating and translating the model in relation to the player.

>>171128475
I see you made this in Blender *rubs hands*

>>171126240
This looks great, but the axe shouldn't have that black outline. It looks foreign to everything else.

>>171126539
Might be me but the square bullets make it feel like they are sparks or some form of shrapnel from a blast and not bullets.

>>171128475
What engine are you using?

>>171128537
y...yes?

>>171128626
You're not wrong. I think I'm going to include a slot in the inventory table to store an outline color. The models look weird without the outline, but I think an outline that matches the color of the model better would look okay.

>>171126240
Do you guys like better this game or his Resident Evil 2d shooter game?

>>171105083
I'm begging you to look into lighting, it makes all the difference in a scene... :(
>>171105875
Cell shading would look good

>>171127751
Its mindblowing that theres no FTL with multiplayer encounters

>>171129417
>he thinks shading matters in a game

Anon...

>>171129017
hes some what wrong

the readability of the models will go down without the black line

>>171128937
Game Maker: Studio

>>171129562
Yeah like I said, I don't plan to get rid of the outline entirely, just adjust the color so it doesn't clash with the model so much.

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>>171121296
Your things are giving me a really eerie Pathological vibe.

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experimented with removing enemy collisions, i think its better this way ( although still unsure if they should never have collisions, and the draw order of sprites ( player on top 100% of the time? enemy drawn first when hes attacking? )

the hookshot now takes you a bit ahead of the enemy instead of directly on top of him.

added a downward attack.

also added a spoopy skelton that an anon from a couple threads ago made for me ( thanks for that by the way! )

>>171129864
Maybe try having the collision zone really small ? It feels a bit too floaty, in my opinion.

>>171129864
Hahaha

you actually used the skeleton I made for you in your game that is pretty funny

10/10 you made my day Anon

>>171129836
Nice! I haven't played Pathologic, but I like the look of it
Hopefully we'll be able to make something which feels a bit eerie (though it will play like a fairly straight forward fast-paced shooter).

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Is this a good item notification to tell the player that he is actually picking up items ?

>>171122483
PAN IT DON'T SPIN IT

>>171129990
i'll try some things and see. i do intend to have the enemies attack at some point so it will have kind of a pseudo collision with knockback. the main issue with true collision though is having an enemy land on your head and stay there lol, still haven't figured out what to do about that.

>>171130042
of course! i love all the sprites i have.

>>171130489

I'd use the MGS system.

First pick up shows the item information while pausing the game, subsequent pick ups show the item name above the pick up location.

>>171130760
i'll make you a main character instead of the square

What do you want it to be? a knight? a wizard? a creature?

whatever you have in mind?

>>171130849
Do you think that the game really should pause and explain things like "this is an assault rifle. It's a rifle to assault with" or "this is a ration, you eat it" ?

There really aren't any strange or unclear items/weapons that need explanation, and if there were i rather teach about them through gameplay (like explaining how to use a EMP grenade by heavily hinting at using it as the easiest way to complete a level, or even the only one.)

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>he felt for the 3d meme
Beside AceCombatDev, nobody else has proven that they can make an actual good polished looking non-meme game.

>>171118787
>copenhagen

you're actually just a retard anon

>>171131120
You could say that about 2D dev as well though

>>171131120
>admitting an exception exists
it's like you don't want your shitpost to be effective

whats better, _________ or _________ ?

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>>171131120

I dev like a black man today.

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>>171122230

>removed furries

what, you don't like free money?

>>171131608
inspired by that the sneaking part from legend of zelda ?

>>171131120
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-cXdFMByM

COF. COF.

>>171131094

Depends on how the items are valued.

If it's like MGS where you go from having no assault rifle, to having an assault rifle for the rest of the game, then I think it's good to draw attention to it.

If it's a throwaway item that will get replaced, then no, don't.

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>>171131653
Changelog:
>Re-added furries

>>171131763
I don't get tired of watching this

>>171131094
>pause
no

>explain
yes

just use a quick small tool tip or text block

why are the best artists furries?

>>171130992
well, if you're offering! i was thinking a dragoon themed character. wearing engraved dark/dark blue armor, a dragon head helmet, and a long cloak. his weapon of choice being a simple steel lance or spear, nothing flashy but gets the job done.

hopefully this doesn't sound too much like kain or gwendolyn, but i think they had really cool designs.

>>171132150
They are not

>>171132150
They're not. It's just that the best artists draw furries because furries are always willing to spend big bucks on high quality furry art.

>>171132150
it's by necessity
if you want to see a naked woman, you can do it just fine
if you want to see a naked whatever the fuck we could be talking about, you must visualize it yourself

>>171131763

>that first person mode though

>>171132289
Wait, scratch that. I don't know, they might be. We have no way of knowing though.

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>>171132367
SF2 copied me

>>171132150
Furries are so fucking terrible normally that it takes master artists to make them look passable

>>171122230
What's up with the atrocious rendering?
Did you puke in the shader or something?

>>171123825
>>171123608
>>171123482


In the end I reimplemented picking up items as a part of a more robust player-world interaction system. It's still rough here and there, and can potentially result in a softlock (if by some magic chance item that is being picked up despawns - which will NEVER happen), but it allowed me to make a simple usable teleports (ladders for example) and will allow to ad any combo of buttons/levers/doors/locks/keys I can come up with. I'll drop a webm when it's more polished

>>171132689
I poured vodka down my nose and at the time it seemed like a good idea

>>171131763
>unavailable
Rude

>>171133330
Err, only copied part of it

Why does everyone hate UE4 suddenly.

>>171133758
home many samefagging shitposters does it take to make you think "everyone" hates something?

one?
two?

>>171133853
Me (personally) it's the license that I can't agree with.

would you rather have a cute woman sit on your face or gamedev

>>171134057
Gamedev
Sex isn't fulfilling.

I am having a hard time deciding

I am okay at pixel art and drawing in general should I learn 3d modeling in Blender instead?

>>171134258
pixel art and 3d modeling are two different things

but pixel art can come in handy for 3d modeling when making textures and stuff

its like hotdogs to hamburgers

>>171134057
I'd rather smash through your window in the middle of the night and crumple your puny skull with a club before you had the chance to throw off your covers.

>>171134057
3D women aren't important

>>171134057

Gamedev, until I get and famous, then cute women will fight for that seat.

>>171134057

Dev.

>asking about cute woman sitting on faces yields more (you)s than majority of progress posts
this is completely explainable and understandable but it will never stop rubbing me up the wrong way

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>>171134510

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tfw no music friend

>>171134057
I would enjoy trading some hours of gamedev for some facesitting every now and then but if the question is "you must pick one and can never do the other" my ero doujins are quite enough.

>>171134623
Make a game featuring cute girl facesitting

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>>171134639
>went with a normal person instead
>but not before taking a large sum of his money

lol at real life women stick to waifus

>>171134639
Wow, that's... Sad.

>>171133940
5% royalties for an entire professional game engine is a good deal, if you make a successful game you'll be taking home more than enough.

>>171134639
I will never believe the "too much money can be bad" meme

>>171134639
I am aware of this. That's why I'll start looking for a girl just as I enter this new rich lifestyle, so that she can get used to it and not scared

>>171135064
He is wiping away his tears with crisp $500 bills

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>/agdg/ so confident they'll become the new notch
post your're games motherfucks

>>171129417
It IS cel shaded, anon.

I'd love to fix the lighting but I'm not sure how: I can crank up the baseline diffuse (just make the whole thing brighter in shadows) but the real challenge is getting sharp contact shadows, which the game wants desperately but UE4 is unfortunately just super ill-equipped to handle performantly due to how it works (which is that it's built ground-up to try to realistically emulate light's functionality, and most of its shortcuts and performance-savers lean toward faking realistic lighting, not faking toon shadows).

>>171135292
Actually, that's not my primary problem with it.

>>171134639
>move to a different country
>date a girl and pretend to live a modest life
>reveal you're actually rich after you're married with 2.5 kids

>>171135526
No, I'm gonna be the next tobyfox!!!

>>171135608
I doubt the sharpness of the shadows is his major concern

(I think it looks fine)

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Will I be able to use my gamedev skills to get a job if I have no degree?

>>171136464
Contributions to any sort of open-source project would be better.

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made my hotbar nicer

>>171137160

>gun turns upside down when pointed backwards

Wouldn't advise that.

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>>171136375
Too bad, I made it brighter anyway and it really does look better.

The cave scene is interesting; because I manually shaded the walls to be "dark" so that my platform spotlights didn't catch the walls, it looks just as dark but with better visibility, and it really improves the look of things overall.

It was a good call-out on his part.

>>171136464
SICP is a meme book

>>171137614
It's not a meme book at all, it's just not a gamedev book.

>>171136946
The only open-source project I know is Godot Engine and I have no real idea how to contribute to it

>>171137564
Those stepins while punching mid air are really annoying.

>>171137614
It is pure quality.

>>171137614
The SICP meme doesn't make it a meme book.

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A game that gives you back the last 5 years of your life..

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Did a bunch of changes to the cockpit view and now to play the cockpit view almost completely hudless because you'll have the option to enable all crucial elements to be displayed on the projection screen.

Changed the camera movements too.

>>171137947
You can talk directly with the devs on their irc, if you need any help understanding the engine architecture.