Amateur Game Development General /agdg/

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Added a sliding animation tonight and it kinda looks like a game now
Goal for next week is a successful net test and new character sets

This is a good thread!
Let's see the progress, agdg!

>>172096458
oops oops oops
>>172096491
:(

>>172096848
tools.aggydaggy.com
If you aren't able to navigate this website and find the webm links, you may not be smart enough for gamedev.
The webm links have been there for several months, at least.

>>172096905
>tools.aggydaggy.com
but theres nothing about webms on there
even if there were, if something as specific as blender models gets its own mention, certainly something that applies to EVERYONE like webm-making should get a section in the OP

>shitposts about OP containing webm info
>shitposts about OP not containing webm info
There is just no winning with you guys.

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>>172097014
Are you just a handicapped shitposter?
tools.aggydaggy.com/tools

Game dev

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ATTENTION
Respond to this post with:
• A screenshot of what you're currently working on
• A link to what you're currently listening too

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>>172097264
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CbFAZ2ztlE

>>172097264
don't really have anything to show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daB9QRwVQH4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyQiKi87CX4#t=34m15s

>tfw you're not blessed with waifu autistic gook genetics

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>>172097264
>1
A top down tutorial thing. Pls no bully
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CS93CdMv_E

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>>172097264
https://soundcloud.com/dawnoflight/arcade-disc

Currently getting rid of ssh accounts and converting it to use the os user accounts, which I think is how it is irl? The end goal of tonight being a screenshotcaturday clip of an NPC logging into your machine, uploading a hacking tool, and running it remotely

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>>172097497
>xml

>>172097604
Blame Dwarf Fortress and tutorials tbhfam

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>>172097264
some fishgirl random idles since shes going to wait around until you solve the puzzle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=261HhJ_R_r8

This is amazing.

https://youtu.be/uELAA3Yn2qc

>>172097497
Use .tscn for scene files, not .xml
.xml is being deprecated as a scene format in Godot 3.

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>>172097709
Thanks,the tutorials are kind of outdated I guess.

So, I want to make my first actual game (actual being not fucking around making asteroids clones and shitty arena shooters in various engines), and I wanted to make it having Rocket Jumping as it's main mechanic (like Quake or Team Fortress). What engine should I use for this, and how should I go about making the game?

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>>172097852
>how should I go about making the game

>>172097690
>let me show you my desktop
>listen to my voice in terribad quality
>i'll make sure to play some super annoying music at unnecessarily high volume
I have lost all interest in knowing about this tool.

>>172097852
Any engine that supports 3D. There's so many ways to go about it it's hard to really say, what specifically would you want to know?

>>172097852
You have made asteroid clones and shit and still don't know what engine you like? nigga....

>>172098014
IDK, I just fuck about with an engine until I get bored. I think I made a top down Zelda clone in GameMaker Studio with like 3 rooms and basic AI once.

>>172097483

those Japs are weird as fuck.

>>172097690

i bet you could do that shit in blender

>>172097985
I wanted to make the main combat mechanic like Market Gardening in TF2, where you Rocket Jump and then hit people while you're landing. I was wondering what 3D engine would be the easiest for doing this, and maybe what other things could be added to the game on top of it to make it more interesting, because literally all of the thought I've put into the game idea was "huh market garden is fun. what if I made game about funny meme shovel."

>>172097264

No screenshot, but I'm trying to implement a proper ledge grab in GM.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_8IXx4tsus

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>>172097264
Modeling the player character and trying to think of a hairstyle for him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYKpFdxK-F8

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

hey /agdg/ I recently run into a bunch of free time and I am starting to make models in Blender. is this some where I can post my stuff for people to use/critique? my primary focus is making models for video games.

>>172098810
There is a CG board, but if its game making related then you're posting higher quality content than 80% of what we get here.

>>172098889
ah ok. for being such a small board /3/ can be pretty rude to their newcomers.

>>172097690
what is this?

sounds interesting.

can I pirate it?

>>172098548
UE4, Godot, and Unity. Those are engines that are beginner friendly, mostly. Godot is probably the easiest, but Unity is more popular, and UE4 looks the best. So look at or play with them all and choose one.

Making a first person character, making a rocket, and making melee are all pretty simple, there's likely tutorials for all those things.

As for other gameplay, I'm not sure. You can make a few different enemies that have different patterns and might need to be approached different ways.

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>>172098707
needs more curves

>>172099236
I want traposters to leave

>>172099285
> sees dicks where they don't exist
:thinking:

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>>172099236
His partner has enough for the both of them
She's not as far along as the male though

>>172099404
post topology?

>>172098707
>>172099236
>>172099404
What is this /agdg/ Blender night hour?

>>172099143
Good enough to get started, I guess. I'll try unity again since it's been a while since I've used it. Thanks Anon :)

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>>172097264
Doing menu things

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

>>172099657
Post Maya then.
Or Poser

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>>172099495
Using subdivision modifier to give a temporary smoother look.

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>http://dragonbones.com/en/animation.html

put this in the OP

>>172100150
its the maga wolf

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We chamber and new hands now

>The blackness those finger textures
>How pale the skin is
Fucking clients

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Is there such a thing as having too many elements in your game?

I'm trying to think of some concept art but I'm wondering if many architectural style would kill the vibe of the game a bit. Because everything you add, you must also add/change/remove something almost.

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>skeletal 2D animation

>>172100239
oh my god it's like he's been working on a car all his life but also has never seen the sun

>>172100325
>anon discovers minimalism

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>>172100332
>my preferences are the only preferences

>>172100372
>he thinks skeletal 2D looks even good

>>172100369
I mean I'm working on an mmorpg so it needs to be wholesome

>>172099385
Yes, many games cram way too much into the game and end up ruining the game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmSBIyT0ih0

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>>172100428
>he assumes that one example is indicative of the whole

I assumed this was amateur game dev general, not pixelated elitist platformer fuckface cult

>>172100549
interesting quote

>>172100428
>he thinks skeletar 2D looks bad

You and what proof?

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>>172097264
Making bug levels.
Pretty sure they're wayy too saturated compared to everything else

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioOp1rUvLNM

>>172100601
>he wants the stiffness of bad 3D with the limitations of 2D
lmao

>>172100616
I've never seen good 2D skeletal animation, and I've looked at the software showreels.

>>172100694
darkest dungeon tho

>>172100694
what about vanillaware games (idk if that's skeletal so correct me if wrong)

>>172100761
has that lazy tween look.

It could look good if the method wasn't used to literally make lazy animations,

>>172100613
h-ha oops

This >>172100549
is meant for >>172100325

how come I never seen any of the devs here making a fighting game

Are they too hard to make?

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Made a defensive flak cannon for the capital ship's two manned turrets. Doesn't do any damage against other capitals, but it's meant as a deterrent for bombers. Now I need to decide what to do for this ship's main (pilot) gun.

>>172102162
>Thousands of animations
>Years of playtesting to ensure balance
>Colorful cast of characters with unique movesets
>Gen Pop has been playing the same fighting games for a decade now
Good luck mane

>>172102162
>Are they too hard to make?
Fighting games bring the collective troubles of both sides of the spectrum.
>large amount of good art + animations
> High degree of tedium in making the engine and fine-tuning

The indie fighting game market is wide open because all we have are meme shit.

>>172102162
theyre pretty overdone, how can you make your unique

>>172102162
I want to make a beat em up just because no noe will play a fighting game other then sf

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accio ak47

>>172102162
>>172102327
this plus you need a community for a fighting game, which indie devs have to be insanely lucky to get.

lethal league was from here at some point, so it is possible

Fellow engine devs is there any benefit in creating a command buffer for my opengl calls or should I just directly call the functions as needed?

The only benefit I can think of is if I process my scene and I want to execute the commands multiple times with slightly different settings maybe?

>>172102552
i am going to make a better version of this game with 3d triangles instead because they are superior to cubes

>>172102736
>3d
>triangle

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https://github.com/BoomR59/Blender_Webm_Exp

Now I can rest

>>172100852
thats what i thought. but making an mmo i feel it needs a lot of things and appeal to a lot of players since it's so expensive and large

>>172103459
>3d
>not triangles

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How do people who are no game designers even think it's a good idea to work on a shitty idea? Is it because of the money or they're so fucking stupid they think the game will be good?

does anyone here even finish games? All I see are cool demo game concepts or cool models or nice artwork but no finished games

>>172104195
no

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>>172097264
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIK1Vn6Va3w

>>172098750
engine?

>>172104241
>that bass
>those drums
whoa

>>172104241
Some funky slaps, anon

>>172102552
teach me your modeling ways

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>>172097264
A boss. He's really tricky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uroBFhFt830

>>172105037
Whats your Spider boss look like, anon?

>>172102873
Sorry, meant *cube

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>>172105184
It's actually not a spider right now, I'm just testing individual attacks. Probably going to sneak this guy into the demo somehow though.

The webm is WAY too big to squeze into 3mb, so
https://my.mixtape.moe/zxzlun.webm

>>172097681
So you don't play as the fish?

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if I made an entire game of cubes do you think people would enjoy playing it?

>>172106348
Do you think Notch asked himself the same thing?

>>172106348
depends how much you sell it for

>>172106452
>>172106653
I was thinking cubefu a fighting cubeman game

how hard is it to draw furry art and make maximum furry bait to make a lot of money off of your game about furry memes

>>172106994
Will it, or will it not have porn?

Because someone else here already tried this and failed because he would deliver only tease and no actual porn.

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>>172102552

>>172108221

pretty much. i'm working on a weapon switching system and i thought i would mess with the values a bit.

>>172102552

what happens if you pull the gun towards you and your behind something?

>>172102552
>>172108575
lol, I thought it was in reverse at first

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still trying to decide how these guys should move

What does /agdg/ think of GAME DEVELOPMENT?

>>172110726
wat

Trying out Godot
So far I'm really enjoying the lightweight editor. Unlike unity that is 2 fucking GiB

>>172110982
>saying GiB instead of just gb like a normal person
I didn't know my agdg was this autistic...

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>Do art on game
>Dev gives up on project after a week
>Can't even be mad because I know what a pain it is to start from scratch

Every bloody time

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>>172111529
>he fell for the cooperation meme
lmao @ you

we warned you dogg

>>172111145
>not using the proper words when talking about something
no wonder games/softwares are shit these days

>>172110982
but Unity supports 3D and all that gay shit
>>172111145
gibibyte =/= gigabyte
but no one fucking cares so wathever

>>172111579
I know man but I don't know what to do with my life anymore.

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Couldn't decide what the main gun of this destroyer should be so I gave it this dinky little armor piercing missile. Maybe a missile salvo weapon could be cool, but I need to implement weapon spread for that first.

I'll think of something in the morning.

>>172111696
why don't you try doing something in Contruct2 or other engines where you don't need that much programming knowledge?
you could at least put your art to use

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>>172111145
>gamedev is all about attention to detail
>AGDG, naturally, shames people with such
wow!

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Dang my Johnny Bravo looks like a manlet

>>172111650
So does Godot apparently but I don't really know that's why I'm testing it out

>>172111770
Looks weak as fuck, also, missiles in space should accelerate, not have a constant speed. If you cant to push it further, make it loose some mass after in burned some fuel, it'll accelerate at an even faster rate.

>>172111831
>>172111595
>>172111650
Autism, everyone.

>>172112051
t. nodev who has literally zero clue why his gamedev endeavors keep going south

>>172112031
Yeah, it's hilariously tiny compared to the ship. I'm probably not keeping it as a missile, so it will likely end up just being a sort of armor piercing round. Accelerating projectiles would be a lot of trouble to do due to netcode technicalities though. Once I do bullet spread I'll have it firing a burst of around 20 of them as a low-accuracy short-range brawling kind of weapon, which should look more appropriate.

>>172111934
the first one is fucked up

>>172112298
Yeah I figured accelerating the projectiles wouldn't be easy, what engine, if any, are you using?

Do you guys know any alternatives for OpenGameArt? I'm looking for chiptune/8-bit music but the ones on that site are shit.

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>>172111934
When the autismo kicks in

>>172112379
Unity, but only barely. Essentially just for graphics. The physics, netcode, socket library, and all of the game logic are my own code and separate from Unity, since the server itself isn't a Unity executable.

>>172112524
I see, did you write your own physics code or are you using a library?

>>172112607
Wrote my own, since I couldn't find any that met my needs for networking. My only two code dependencies are Unity (client-only) and a JSON library.

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exciting new tooltip progress
i'll probably move the detailed descriptions to a more menuey screen eventually

So why are you "game devs" helping out each other? Aren't you supposed to be against each other so your game will rise above the other?

>>172112703
Noice, do you have any other webms to share?

>>172112714
Very nice!

>>172112818
thanks!

>>172112725
Most will fail (this isn't even being pessimistic at this point).

Often enough we're not even competing with each other because we're making games for completely different genres.

Also a fair amount of us have expressed that they don't define success as "making lots of money", which is probably part of it too.

There's no need to be so cut throat here.

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>>172112808
Here's an older one from my last playtest in February, before I had capital ships. Gives a better picture of how the game plays. Capital ships are now feature complete, but I have a few other things I want to get in before I do another full test like this, mostly UI stuff.

>>172112925
Oh, also this earlier in the thread shows the flak cannon turrets on the destroyer: >>172102227

>>172112925
It looks very nice

>>172113053
Thanks! It's a lot of fun to work on. I'm behind most of the hard technical stuff for now and just working on features.

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>>172097264
Gonna do a proper leaves and bark texture, probably some smaller foliage like bushes and grass too.
The music I'm listening to does not fit the mood at all but it gets me hyped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHhNu8Jg_IM

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So you're telling me if the android looks and feel human enough with actual facial animations, people wont mind playing an android.

I was looking at 2B from Nier:Automata and I guess that's how you make an android. Although I'm not sure if such an android is realistic enough. Because I aim for possibility and not fantasy.

>>172111529
>>172111579
>>172111696
you know exactly what to do
either travel down the holy path of 1MA https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaW5cpjBPpWrO1dRq4PAERAnoX2h2QldR
or if you have no intention to expand your skillset you can leave this cursed place and do something more suited to the skills you already have

>>172114189
Make it funny, like C3PO

>>172114189
>So you're telling me if the android looks and feel human enough with actual facial animations, people wont mind playing an android.
That's pretty much how an android is supposed to be though. "Humans" that actually are machines. Depending on how far from now your game takes place, they're more or less human looking, and feeling.
I don't think players would mind playing even as a simple robot to be honest.

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wew lad

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>>172097264
Melee combat, probably have to redo the hit animation in blender.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYFz4pKclyA

>>172114189
>>172114784
since when do people have problem playing as androids?

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>>172114125

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>>172115543
How does it look like in motion ?

>>172115972
I love you /agdg/.

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progress:

fixed over 400 compile-time errors, now only 600 left to go

>>172116814
Someone forgot to put -Wall and -Wextra right from the beginning

>>172116947
You are right, I have /W3 /WX now though

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So it turns out coming up with rules for growth/death that have interesting outcomes is not that easy, it's always basically either inflating, slow amoeba-like and quite boring, epilepsy-inducing flickering lines, or scurrying about like in Conway's rules. Even accounting for three layers of neighbours and doing shit like checking only the diagonals or any arbitrary pattern only does underwhelming, unsatisfying shit (although directional growth might not be too bad once I start using my blob-recognition to apply different rules to different areas instead of the whole world at once). I'll probably have to force spatial heterogeneity with randomness or something if I want fun tree-like or snake-like stuff...

Hello, /agdg/!
Can someone nudge me to some good cItybuilding ideas? Or opensource cbgames, so i can ripoff engine?

question for the computer science type folks since I'm a brainlet

so I've implemented a tree-searching algorithm (increasing depth search) and it works great except when the depth gets really big (around 15 branches deep) there are noticeable framerate drops. My plan is to make the search 'smarter' by designating centralized 'hubs' (any branch with lots of children becomes designated as a 'hub') then storing each 'hub' in all subsequent children so that even the deepest branch has a link to the hub.

Then I separate the pathfinding by saying
find the path from current location to hub
find the path from current hub to goal hub
find the path from goal hub to goal location

Intuitively this sounds like it should be faster but when I think about it I'm not sure what's the difference between this and just brute forcing a location>goal location search. If there's something else I should be using lemme know what to google.

>just browsed under 10 min the last 3 threads
>saw a total of 30~ progress posts
It's amazing how fast you can read the threads once you realized how shitty the place went because of shitposting.
You really just have to take a look at agdg once every 2 days, you're not missing out anything.

>>172117543
What is your tree used for? If it's branches to children represent distances, you should take a look at the A* algorithm

>>172117620
There are a lot of new people thinking that edgy is the way these things work.

>>172117543
yes I have heard of this before w.r.t video games

but it was an article on some other site, my memory is fuzzy

it might have been an RTS game

they would manually place point-of-interest nodes around the maps, and their tool would pre-gen an optimal travel plan from each point to each other point, and the units would path find to/from the nearest point of their start and the destination, and in between it would be travelling the predetermined point network

is that like it

>models
>textures
>animations
I just wanted to make games :/

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Probably won't use it as is due to the pixel distortion, but should be ok for quick transitions.

>>172117543
If depth first search isn't fast, you can try and see if your performance is better with breadth first search. It'll be faster for stuff thats closer and slower for things that are further away.

Those algorithms are usually really slow. You almost always want to have some kind of binary search since the speed is so much better.

>>172118551
models and animation don't really bother me that much but holy shit fuck textures. I can't even find pleasing references.

>>172118726
In a game that doesn't try to be pixel perfect, this would be an interesting idea for a confusion effect.

>>172118726
anti-alias test.gif

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>>172118726
Nevermind, with linear filtering of the FBO it's passable.

I want to make a 2d game, but I don't wanna use Love and want to use an engine that uses an actual programming language and not a proprietary scripting language.

Any suggestions?

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Do you really think anyone will play your low quality game(s)? Nobody's gonna even bother pirating them. Most of the games posted daily in /agdg/ suck ass. Literally meme games and pandering fetishit. Time to let it go. You're still a nodev if nobody considers your game as something not worth looking into.

>>172119006
>if nobody considers your game as something not worth looking into

that's encouraging

>>172118968
beautiful

>>172117683
it's for pathfinding but without distances so I can't have a heuristic that determines if a path is 'closer' or not. At least I don't think I can.

I basically have a bunch of 'cities' that are connected by a bunch of 'roads', and they all exist purely as objects (so they aren't on a grid or anything). Travel only occurs on roads but a single city might be connected to between 1 or 12 roads. To pathfind I'm doing an iterative deepening search (so search for the cities that are 1 road away, if that fails try 2 roads, then 3 etc). All in all the system works exactly like it's supposed to. It's just when I scale up from 10 cities to 100 the whole game locks up while the pathfinding code runs. Once it finishes the paths are good though. It's just the searching that's taking too much time (arguably just 5 to 6 seconds isn't a 'lot' of time but it certainly feels like it for what should be pretty simple code)

>>172119006
>Nobody's gonna even bother pirating them.
This is quite true,there are million indie titles daily on pc-games and I cant even be bothered to download and play them for free.

>>172119006
>You're still a nodev if nobody considers your game as something not worth looking into.
wut?

>>172119129
Well you can use A* and set a distance of 1 between every city, will work fine

hit me with your edgy story ideas similar to firewatch

>>172119129
>>172119180

If its a path finding algorithm, A* is the best general purpose one.

>>172119210
Your newly aquired friend is the 2nd final boss. You can choose to end him or let him alive. This will affect how the Actual FINAL boss will behave.

>>172119210
>you and some people are assigned to investigate an SOS signal from a remote research facility in some frozen wasteland
>facilities show signs of usage but nobody in the premises
>you find some camcorder tapes labeled with dates
>insert the first one
>game makes you relive the life of the guy holding the camcorder in first person view, although this part is shown through the TV that the tape is being watched on
>this lets you find out what happened to the people previously here
>they were investigating the insides of some cave
>when you die in these parts of the game, another member of the team picks up the camcorder and continues
>if all teammates (in the recording) die, you lose
>each tape "viewed" is like one chapter
>in-between each tape you play, you (the actual you in the game) take some breaks: you talk with your comrades remarking about what happened in the video recording, if you look intently outside the window, you may occassionally see some figure in the distance that moves away once you see it, etc.

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Looks like the effects don't play along though.

Ok, I'll stop posting.

>>172119210
Church is the good guys

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Ok ideas man of /agdg/, hit me with some original ideas/"never-been-tried-before" stuff for a text based game.Will give back free (you)'s if interesting concepts.

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>tfw only games I've ever made are agdg jam ones

When's next one? I'm feeling urge to dev right now, but I don't have any theme nor deadline to rely onto...

>>172119560
fuck, that's really good m8, although a bit outside of my scope

>>172119769
gimme girl model pls

>>172119569

How about if Church isn't strictly good or bad?

>>172119710
>opens up torrents to check for ideas
sports game

>>172120003
What are you going to do with her?

>>172096458
I am learning to code in Java for college.
But I also want to code some games with it.
What would be the limitations for it, to speak in normie terms?

>>172120201
Limitations for what? Java? Only decent framework I know is LibGdx. It supports both 2D and 3D so you will be fine as long as you want to make something simple which I recommend to start from.

Otherwise go with C# & Unity or C++ & Unreal.

>>172100150
It's Liru, from Pokan. There's also a vr porn game of her.

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>>172097264
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET6657PH9gQ

Reminder there is still time to join underwater jam https://itch.io/jam/agdggj01

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>>172097264
Fixing up a bunch of bone errors for new Condensation particles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQT_LwV2qwM

>>172121379
post some webbums I like your work

>>172121279
What is this?

If you need art for your game, let's talk

I need a programmer for my game

>>172120184
Finish her game. What do YOU think I'd do with her?

>>172121785
>one post from this id

>>172121785
fuck off

>>172121785
fuck off

>>172121661
Searching for an art style identity. Implemented anime shading and thought it would be interesting to see it in Unreal's realistic rendering example level. The idea is waifu sim/pron? with next-gen graphics

>>172100654
You should post more webm

Friends if I want to be successful do I:

>Put my heart and soul into a game that may or not be successful
>shit out a mobile indie-tier game to try and get some sales numbers and profits incoming

I'm seriously on the fence. I really want to make my "dream" game but at the same time, I feel like it's better to just shit out a few shit games for some profits and then try and make the good one.

>>172121785

I'm actually looking for idea guys. Know anyone who's interested?

>>172122152
Do you
>have any skill

Is the most important question of all

>>172121279
can u show us the backside pls

>>172122152
First, look at the numbers. "may or may not be successful" is extremely generous. The same goes for mobile games.

Just make the game you think is right, because there's an enormous, overwhelmingly near-certain probability that no one but a few friends will play it, even if it's really good and you did everything right.

>>172122152
>average mobile game
>profits

>>172121869
Dunno, that's why I'm asking.

>>172122171
I'm trying to find someone who is actively working on a game. The ideas come from the existing structure and assets.

>>172121982
It looks bretty gud, didn't know unreal could look that good actually, especially that couch.
>>172122171
Idea-guy-currently-trying-to-not-be-an-idea guy reporting in.

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>>172121576
Thanks anon.

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>>172122404
We should hook up

>>172122152
>make shitty mobile game
>release on iOS and Android
>put the ad slider on maximum overdrive cancerous edition
>???
>enjoy shekels

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>>172122243
Here you go.

>>172122391
Don't know man. The backgrounds are amazing, that's for sure. There is a reason why it's used for ArchViz nowadays. But this clash with 2D feels like something alien was spawned upon this world.

>successful
>gamedev
pick one

>>172122701
Everything but the model has textures, the model is way too shiny, I think if you toned down the flat colors and shine it would look fine, but then again I don't use unreal, i don't know what you can do.

>>172122404
functional airbrakes are quite unusual sight in arcade air combat

>>172122404
looks marvelous anon, you should post moar updates and webms

>>172122895
>Everything but the model has textures, the model is way too shiny,
dude that's literally a Unreal 4 demo showroom

>>172122404
Your game gets me hard, it's both arcade and sim right ?

>>172122989
Yeah I know, that's the fucking problem, the contrast looks horrid.

How many of you are working on a game with the childish notion that it will somehow make you money? Just wondering

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How do I get good?

>>172122391
>didn't know unreal could look that good actually, especially that couch.
that picture doesn't even do it justice
it looks absolutely sick in real time

>there are people on /agdg/ who regurgitate the same meme a dozen times during the weekend
you should either just put an end to your pathetic lives or find something better to do, like for example making fucking video games

>>172121982
fuck you I've got the same idea but not as much waifumaking talent

>>172123405
What if I actually am an artist who's hoping to find a game to work on?

>>172123405
>making fucking video games
video game breeding simulator when?

>>172123224
Practice.

>>172122171
Idea guy here. Willling to provide ideas for a SFW hentai fan fighting game

>>172122342
Just give her to me already.

Do you ever feel like, well, like you're kind of in a relationship with your game?

>>172123405
>during the weekend
It has been going for over 2 years now, or probably more since I've left agdg for around one year at that time.

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>>172097264
been working on an xml based item database, which has been a pain since xml does not work well with interfaces.

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nYRmTf4r5u0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

>>172123205
I still think I will somehow be a big success and won't have to get a real job and nothing anyone says can change my mind

>>172123976
Why are you getting so nervous?

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>>172122895
It was just a test to see how it would look like with realistic backgrounds.

I would really like to just go for 3D. But getting it right is a tedious work which requires money and real models for textures. Otherwise it will look like plastic. Here is a fast setup of default skin shaders and base materials without post-processing.

I think I will just stick to 2D and just make backgrounds accommodate characters so they don't stick out as much as this sample content does.

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>>172124414
GOOD LUCK

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daily reminder.

>>172124520
I don't even need luck. It's fate.

>>172121982
>>172121279
Dayum, did you also make the model and implemented the shader from scratch?

You could give Monster Girl Island dev a run for his money.

>>172124363
This guy did a pretty good series on getting a JSON database working with a drag and drop interface in unity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW6RCKVnqT4&t=209s

>>172124574
>with 4 hours of focused practice a day (don't check your smartphone every 30 seconds) this training will last a whole year and probably a bit more.
>Don't forget to attend life drawing sessions in your town regularly.
>lol bro just b urself git gud at art, its not that hard!

>>172124574
>dude just spend 1 year, 4 hours per day, several hundreds of dollar worth of stuff
no

>>172124592
You and fate should run those numbers again friendo. The likelihood of any random dev "making it" in any way is vanishingly small.

I'm having issues with Game Maker not clearing surfaces properly.

I want to clear the surface and draw something else on it on the same frame, but it's not working as intended.

I'm doing

surface_set_target(surface_name);
draw_clear_alpha(c_black,0);
surface_reset_target();
surface_free(surface_name);

And then draw all over again on it, but the renders are overlapping. Anyone had something similar happen?

>>172124574
But I don't want to go to life drawing it's full of humans there and I hate humans

>>172124592
Dude. I'm pretty much you, but you have to think realisticly. You will likely not be a big success, but you might be a small success. I started a game studio a couple years back. We did release a game and earned some money off of it, but the studio died pretty much right after release, since we had no clue on how to do things.

If you want to make games for a living, make sure you know what you're doing or work together with people who do.

Otherwise, go for it man.

>>172124505
So did you make that model or not?

>>172124896
I am the living exception to the rule. I can feel it in my guts.

>>172124804
>>172124851
>pirate books
>ask your friends to pose for you
>go around your neightborhood sketching people you see on the street
>baaaahh why isn't art easy

>>172124997
In other words, it becomes a "real job"

>>172125032
wow actually I can feel your passion and determination from here. I actually think you are going to make it afterall

>>172125058
>approximately 1424 hours of focused training
>lmao sweetie learning art is easy i've been doing this for only 14 years and see how good i am :)!

>>172124607
Model is not mine. I have experience in this area but not to the same degree. I see no problem though as everything nowadays is outsourceable.

That's the plan.

>>172125105
>In other words, it becomes a "real job"
Excactly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of7LXoom3dk&list=PLGYoE903Nir5I5A8IBNVV0euTUuKcpq7Y

Opinions on this course?

>>172125138
>he thinks there's some shit like genetic talent for drawing and painting

>>172124574
Is this a new meme that I missed out on or something? How the fuck is learning classical illustration useful to the average 1MA amateur dev?

>>172125194
i'm only aping people who act like art is easy and there is no excuse to have a butt-ugly game

>>172125226
Most game features human characters

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>>172124574
so if you can afford only 1 hour instead of 4,, sometimes not even that, you look at 4-5 years of not making a game

You are also going to buy (or pirate, whatever) 11 books, buy a "good" PC, whateverfuck that means, could be anything from $600 to excess of $1,000 machine a $500 tablet and a bunch of other shit

sound like a sweet deal

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>>172124574
>tfw you can't get AGDG to even complete looking at that image, let alone do the contents say
ha

>>172125058
>>pirate books
hold up, let me just quickly pirate that intuos
>>ask your friends to pose for you
>implying anyone wants to stand in the same position for more than an hour for free
>>go around your neightborhood sketching people you see on the street
>get your drawings fucked by the weather and act like some creepy dude
>>baaaahh why isn't art easy
I'm not going to become fucking picasso just for a video game.

>>172125226
>how is learning to do ART traditionally will help me to make art that isn't ugly as fuck
>muh pixel art

>>172125312
well, is not gonna be easy fagget.

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>>172125058
>ask your friends to pose for you
>ask your friends
>your friends

>>172125326
>>172125349
>instead of getting gud agdg uses more excuses

>>172125312
With careful planning you might be able to use your game as art practice

>>172125451
Hey I'm well on my quest to getting good. Just some observations about the basic bitches who frequent AGDG

Okay, I'm gonna get gud. Starting tomorrow. I have a plan.

>>172125581
Yesterday you said tomorrow

>>172125451
oh yes bro hold up i'm going to get gud, just give me an hour a day so in 4 years i might or might not make a game that still won't look too good because as a 1ma i can't spend another 7 years making all the assets and by the time i can finish my game the whole indie market might or might not be extinct after gabe ramps up the steam direct price to a modest 10k dollarydoos

>>172125581
>a plan
In other words, an idea? Would you say that you're a guy with an idea?

>>172125581
>>172125672
It doesn't take more than two years of concentrated effort and smart practice, with an ACTUAL PLAN to get gud in a skill.

>>172125194
Skimming through it right now, the particular video seems good enough to get the basic UI of FL.
Spending 20 minutes on the piano roll seems weid though, but maybe I'm biased from being an musician and already having experience with ableton live.

>>172125381
>>172125451
I don't mean that you don't need a certain skill to make art, but you shouldn't spend a year, focusing all your time and ressources on just that if you're doing a game by yourself, because then you'll do the same for programming, the same for music, and so on.
And video game assets are more forgiving than traditional formats. Proportions on a model are wrong ? Click on a handle and you can deal with that problem.

>>172125294
>>172125381
Classical illustration isn't a relevant skillset for the sort of art styles that are feasible for a 1MA. Nobody has time to send hundreds of hours on self taught life drawing when the only useful skills they will gain from it could have been picked up from a basic animation or cartooning text.

>>172125581
Start getting good RIGHT NOW bitch

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If you can't accept this shit is is literally a second job that usually doesn't pay until you've sunk thousands of hours into it, you should just quit.

Convince me to give up my 2D indie platformer and make a shitty Adult game instead.

Been away for some time
When's the next jam and what's the theme?
I haven't devved in a while so I'd like to get back by making something small.

>>172125928
don't

>>172125928
>2D indie platformer
you lost before you started

>>172125928
No, I don't want that

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>>172125828
A form of this should be permanently in the OP to be honest

>>172125630
>>172125810
I gotta follow the plan. The plan is scheduled to start tomorrow. I guess I could do a bit of a warmup preparation today but I can't START today.
>>172125695
No I have more than simply an idea. I have installed an mobile app and scheduled 2 hours of programming and 2 hours of art scheduled every day. Now I just have to define what exactly I will be programming or drawing each day and then follow the plan.
>>172125721
I hope so

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>>172125828
You don't know me, you haven't faced me in battle

>>172125828
>literally a second job
can't be a second job when I don't have a job

>>172125928
Your game is the next Braid, you're so special anon, it will magically generate tons of interest even though you never leave your house because your choices of game mechanics, artstyle and themes are just so unique, fun and innovative. It will stand out from the rest like a shining beacon of creativity.

>>172126054
By the way if anyone is interested the app is TimeTune. There are no ads.

>>172125803
If you want your game to look good you must have good art in it. Any kind of illustration will help you to create better art, no matter if you draw apples or whatever.

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What are the odds of making a successful mobile game?

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Does my game's menu look okay /agdg/?
I'm making it for mobile, and there's also an 8-bit techno music playing in the background in beat with the color and size changing of the menu.
Is there something I can add to it or modify that can make it look better?

>>172124424
So you're either not the creator or you don't want to. Fine then, let's move on.

>>172126309
Well pocketgamer says there are 770,000 games on the app store.

How many do you know about?

>>172119769
See
>>172121339

>>172126364
Feels like you need a logo or something. A background + text is a liiiiiiiiittle too plain.

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>>172097264
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ookGv44MMd4

yeah you got me

Does anyone have an idea how to rotate your screen for the game through code in Unity?
For a vertical shooter I want to have it so that the player also can use the whole screen space if he wants to rotate his monitor.

>>172126572
Hmmm okay. I'm not good at making a logo (or any art for that matter) so I just wrote the title in text and made it as the logo. I guess I'll just try to find someone who can make it for me.

>>172125952
See
>>172126614

>>172126273
The title isn't really readable and looks bland. Having it bounce to the rhythm is a good idea though.

Also,
>mobile
RIP in peace, my brother.

>>172125451
I think what my colleagues are trying to say is that this isn't /ic/. Not everyone here wants to be a full-fledged artist.

4 hours every single day for practice is a huge amount of time for an adult. Assuming you work 8 hours and sleep 8 hours, added with those 4 hours you end up with only 4 hours left to spend on eating, hygiene, transport , recreation and actual game deving. I'm sure you can realize just how big of a time-sink it would be.

The books are definitely good, as is the regime, but that's something you'd recommend to someone who wants to make art his job. You don't need advanced perspective, photorealistic rendering techniques, masterful usage of composition and light, detailed anatomy, etc for an indie game. You need those for AAA games where you're just one artist among many. Do you really think the devs behind Terraria, FTL, Minecraft, and other games with small teams, spent that much time on art?

>>172126761
Art is literally the most important aspect of a game. If you are not good at art, then just stop.

>>172125803
What is "feasible for a 1MA" depends on the game.

>>172126809
>t. mad artfag who thinks his "skill" is important to gamedev XDDD

>>172126809
>When the shitposter is shitposting so hard that he doesn't even read the post before posting his canned reply.

>>172126897
>>172126925
Amusingly enough he posted a good argument while you too could only reply with greentext memeing.

Art is the most important skill in gamedev. Deal with it.

>>172126708
Rotating the monitor is just changing the aspect ratio, as long as you set up your UI elements correctly it should just werk.

>>172127056
That's why, as an artist, I am not going to agree to start working on some codemonkey's game until I know a bit about whether he's an actual Programmer or uses GM or the such.

>>172127124
That's why you're an idiot.

Hopoo became a millionaire with GM.

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>a-artists are game devs too... right?!?!?!?! i-i can draw!!!

>itch.io is down

i'm panicing

>>172127197
I also won't get involved with idiots who can't into basic math and statistics.

Do you realize how many GM users are not that single isolated incident? If you're supposed to be the programmer, you sure as fuck better be at least as good at math as I am.

>>172127197
Don't talk to the shitposter.

>>172127201
Why do you think so many devs can just recycle their games? The code for all the Souls games is not that much different from each other. It's basically just recycled code. The reason they still sell well is because it always has fresh art in it.

>>172125952
pls respond

>>172127469
lolijam

>>172127429
>Souls
>fresh art
OH I'M LAFFIN

>>172127508
when is that

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>>172097264
Random dungeon generation then building a 3D map from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5-_4VbzF_A&t=1812s

>>172127124
Exactly. This is why I reject people who use Love2D and make their own engines.

Not only is it possible to make money at gamedev
It's practically certain

>>172119562
>entering_the_twilight_zone.webm

>>172127737
I don't know, sometime in april.

>>172127215
Fuck, it's all over. Gone are the days of uploading a game for free and selling it. We're all gonna be forced to pay Steam for a chance to get our game there.

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>>172127201
Why yes, this might come as a surprise to some, but VIDEO games, happen to be a visual medium first, as normal, non-disabled humans happen to rely on their eyesight the most of all of their senses.

In the bygone era of monochrome displays, and 640KB RAM, you could go away with basic geometric shapes instead of complex objects. Now?
Not a fucking snowball chance in hell, unless your gameplay is just shitting over all competition and hooks people up like heroin.

I'm not like other gamedevs

>>172128309
In what way? have you actually made a game?

>>172128309
You're like other nodevs.

If I wanted to use someone's likeness in my game do I need to get permission?

Just like, a couple of e-celebs. It would be more of a nod rather than explicit "LOL ITS THIS GUY"

>>172128783
As long as you can argue it's a parody, it's fine.

>>172102552
Is that like a force-pull for weapons? Damn that will be cool if you can just vacuum grab weapons lying around like that in the middle of action segments.

>>172128783
No, you don't need it.

Well I learned something today while replaying the 1st and 2nd paper marios /agdg/.

Although TTYD had better graphics and better battle-play, the level design and story are worse in comparison.
The level design in TTYD is so much worse because it makes you continuously go back-and-forth on the same "maps" and battle the same enemies in the same positions, whereas in the first paper mario there is much less of that.
It's not even like the maps have to be incredibly different to make the level design less awful. Just feeling like there are a lot of different maps in a chapter that you have to traverse through instead of 6 that you have to go back and forth through 5 times is important.
The story in TTYD is also worse because acquiring inanimate stars feels like a scavanger hunt, whereas the animate ones felt more like a hostage rescue operation. Working to defeat bowser in the first one is also much more motivating (i.e. the villain is really important). Also the whole computer-loves-peach romance thing makes me cringe every time. Oh and I hated how they changed it from peach communicating with mario with a star spirit to peach communicating with mario through a computer. How boring as hell.

So yeah...gona apply these lessons to my RPG. It's been nice to finally take a break.

>>172128946
those kind of "parodies" can't be for profit

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Is this good enough? Or do I really need to hire an artist for the logo?

>>172129226
>can't be for profit
thats where you're wrong kiddo

>>172129226
Yes they can mate.

That said it has to be literal parody of the featured people/characters themselves. You can't just include them as part of a thing that's funny.

>>172129335
It's better.