/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

first for godot

pOOP

change your game to match my retarded ideas of what your game should be like or else you're a nodev

First for D

>>172854593
>being this triggered by feedback on someone else's concept

>>172854625
see >>172854462

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First progress of the thread.
+player and enemy now regain slight amounts of health whenever they hit each other.
+the background now scrolls when you land a hit!
+more under-the-hood progress towards the enemy having a proper KO'd state, but it's not visible in this webm.

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>>172854593
>>172854761
oh have we moved in this thread now

as i was saying i could have some textless sections but i just think that people are used to and expect text in adventure games

thoughts on libgdx?

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>>172854381
Why the OP does include information about engines but not about actual programming? For example:
- seven-degrees-of-freedom.blogspot.com.es/2009/10/latency-elephant.html
- gamesfromwithin.com/data-oriented-design
- slideshare.net/DICEStudio/introduction-to-data-oriented-design
- gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/
- gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html

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reminder

10th for post loli jam game ideas

>>172854885
WARNING: OPINIONS BELOW

Descriptive text was a crutch for when videogames were too primitive to properly display the artist's intent, nothing wrong with dialogue or narration though.

Do you ever hear a guy explaining what you're looking at in a movie? No, that's silly. The viewer can already see what's happening without being told so.

>>172854916
it's good, if you want to make games in Java then you should use it

>>172855082
Why would you lump in a design pattern cookbook with these actually good resources?

>>172854863
So any languages that support OOP is bad to you? You don't have to use classes.

>>172855258
monologues/soliloquys in movies do that all the time

besides, games aren't movies

>>172854865
you nodevs need to be like this guy posting progress daily non stop everyday

where is degenerogue dev to draw us teen powerpuff girls

>>172855258
idk i kind of want to make it like problem sleuth and life is strange

>Descriptive text was a crutch for when videogames were too primitive to properly display the artist's intent, nothing wrong with dialogue or narration though.
ok i'll make the descriptive text said by a narrator

"the sun's rays beat down on you"

>>172855372
>garbage collection
i could go all day

>>172855501
It's optional, next.

>>172855501
Java did nothing wrong fuck off noprogrammer

>>172855451
for what it's worth, when it said "The sun is hot" I assumed it to be part of the character's internal monologue, so the message I got from it was not only that it's hot but also that it's unpleasant enough that the character can't help but focus on it

>>172855585
maybe if you don't want to use any libraries

>>172855590
Java does nothing right.
Thank god C# exists.

>>172855689
would garbage collection even make an appreciable difference if your game isn't particularly resource-intensive by today's standards

>>172855451
>"the sun's rays beat down on you"
That sounds better than just plainly describing the scene that the player can already see anyway, text is supposed to add flavor and not just describe.

>>172855689
I like that you said you could go all day but stopped after one argument.

>>172855143
A game where you play as a horse and savely have to maneuver lolis through a parkour.

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>>172855784
garbage collection doesn't really bring down the average frame rate but it causes occasional pauses

>>172855850
>metaprogramming is just string manipulation

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cool skellies wear black condoms on their head

>>172855953
Minecraft triggers me so much, it never ever runs smoothly.

>>172855585
It's not, unless you think leaking memory is acceptable. All because the devs were incapable of doing the one job they needed to do: not gc the stdlib.

>>172855653
>when it said "The sun is hot" I assumed it to be part of the character's internal monologue, so the message I got from it was not only that it's hot but also that it's unpleasant enough that the character can't help but focus on it
what if i said

"It's hot as hell out here"

a narrator that could be the protagonist or someone else
>>172855797
that's what describing is

i like this idea of only using descriptions for things you can't see

This thread could do with a bit of garbage collection

>>172856101
This thread IS the garbage collection

so I kinda decided to make a stealth game for Loli Jam.
You play as Little Red Riding Hood and must avoid being caught by the wolf.
Other than hiding behind stuff and throwing rocks to distract the wolf, what else should I put in? I was thinking something like attracting the attention of the hunter so that he will go after the wolf.

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Making shitty sprites takes longer than I remember

>>172856172
what happens if you get caught 0w0

>>172855727
Java and C# are practically the same programming language ya nooby

>>172856217
he calls you stupid and steals your basket

>>172856059
>"It's hot as hell out here"
that would work, it's really your decision whether you want there to be a narrator or just an ongoing internal monologue. personally I'm more partial to the internal monologue but that's a matter of personal taste

>>172856172
that's fucking yomiwari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMzt3QFXX9c

>>172856385
an internal monologue is narration

>>172856497
an internal cumshot is often but not always impregnation

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whats your favorite place to find concept art to use for modeling/spriting reference, world-building, whatever

>>172856497
fair enough but by "narrator" I meant "narrator who is not a character in the game"

Godlike programmer here

I will program your entire game very fast for fun

>>172856573
sci-fi animu

>R loli M I N D jam R
loli jam runs April 1 to 15
post your progress in the thread to cause endless REEE from normie shitposters
upload your game to any filehost and link in the thread
if you get banned we will honor your memory
lolijam friendly irc is #AGDC on rizon.net (irc://rizon.net/AGDC)

>>172856685
>post your progress in the thread to cause endless REEE from normie shitposters
REEE only happens when loli pedos pretend that they aren't pedos though, I'm ok with your honest jam.

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>>172856573
>whats your favorite place to find concept art to use for modeling/spriting reference, world-building, whatever
other vidya

>>172856620
Good, how can I make a reference of a scene object in Unity C# to a prefab object?
I have to drag the scene object into an inspector field of the prefab object, but this doesn't work in Unity, so how can I code this?

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>>172854381
Little fishies swim about in water sources waiting to be caught now :)
Need to get my rod binding to my hands correctly and functioning correctly now

>>172856951
>Need to get my rod binding to my hands correctly and functioning correctly now
That's what teenagehood is all about

>>172856884
Incestuous design isn't healthy, you should always get inspiration from other media (or real life).

>>172856902
use Unity events

>>172857009
haha :D

>>172857042
how?

>>172857019
>you should always get inspiration from other media (or real life).
yeah but your main reference should always be other videogames, just as books should be based off other books

>>172857116
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UnityEvents.html

>>172857179
No it shouldn't.

>>172856573
Depends on what you want to find. If you want spaceships and shit like in your pic, i recommend http://conceptships.blogspot.com/. It's not a perfect website, but it has a metric ton of amazing spaceship/scifi design, i browse it just to look at spaceship eye candy.

>>172856902
Gameobject go;
void Start() {
go = Gameobject.FindObjectWithTag("YourTag");

>>172857296
oh so you're making a videogame that is totally not based off any videogames

liar

>>172856573
pinterest + jdownloader

>>172857427
It's based on a random idea I had when bored out of my mind at the beach playing Sudoku, clonefags will never make it.

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>>172857545
>Sudoku
well, well, well

>>172857363
Even with its syntax errors corrected, this does not work for me.

>>172857545
>bored out of my mind
>at the beach
do you hate swimming or something

>>172857545
post it

>>172857639
It's not related to Sudoku, I just mentioned it for extra flavor which I will use when writing my autobiography.

>>172857686
Yes.

>>172856573
Tumblr

>>172857761
>Yes.
well that sucks, beach swimming is some of the most fun swimming

>>172857761
Even Ulilllillia likes blue water now.

>>172857179
>ust as books should be based off other books
u wot m8, that's the dumbest thing in this thread so far

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drawing dem pixels

>>172857680
Then there's something wrong with your scene.

>>172857680
Set up your tags then. Tag != instance name.
Or use GameObject.Find if you want to get object by instance name.

>>172858060
this is the kind of shit i expect from people who don't even read

all books in the western canon are based off the bible
>>172858089
is this the stripperella game that makes me really uncomfortable whenever i see it

>>172858089
>tfw you want to draw pixels but your image editor isnt done yet

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Added some smooth head animation

>>172858189
I did set up the tag.
It just doesn't work.

>>172857363
>>172857680
should be GameObject.FindWithTag("YourTag"). make sure the object you want a reference to is the only one with that tag.

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.FindWithTag.html

I'm guessing that was a change they made in 5.0 since I think it used to be FindObjectWithTag

>>172858290
Why are you wasting your time making an image editor

>>172858208
>this is the kind of shit i expect from people who don't even read
I read quite a lot
>all books in the western canon are based off the bible
What the fuck is "western canon", some kind of congregation of hack writers only you read?

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ayy

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>>172858440
>I read quite a lot
>What the fuck is "western canon", some kind of congregation of hack writers only you read?

>>172855258
Japanese animes do this sort of thing with internal dialogues. That's why I can only stomach some of them.

>>172858208
no (?)

>>172858346
Nice. It reminds me of the X-ray visor.

>looking at your junk while you jack it.
Absolute degeneracy

>>172858382
Oh. I just checked. I didn't have Unity open, and it was a typo.
It's either FindGameObjectWithTag (probably deprecated soon, but still offered in autocomplete) or FindWithTag - they return the same thing.

>>172858536
>everyone should only read books approved by my book reading regime

>>172858346
very nice. what engine are you working in?

>>172858290
don't make an image editor unless your goal is to make an image editor

if your goal is to make a game then making an image editor doesn't help you do that

>>172858440
not that guy but the western canon is the collection of books (and other literature) considered by historians to have been the most influential in shaping western culture/civilization

it's the exact opposite of hack writing since it's literally the classics

>>172858385
To learn programming, fix the things I don't like about the existing image editors and allow me to implement features specific to my game and test new autistic features no one needs.

>>172858791
As long as you realize how autistic that is then keep it up friend.

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>>172858757
>i only read mature and sophisticated books from genres like scifi and fantasy

>>172835615
Well, I still think it's very nice work. Hope to see more from the game.

I also hope that on one day I'll be able to put together something that appealing and nice as your work.

>>172858385
Remember folks: you aren't a real developer unless you make your own game engine.
And IDE.
And image editor.
And operating system.
And kernel.

Then and only then...

And motherboard.
And graphics card (or integrate it on the motherboard you just made).
And RAM sticks.
And hard drive (then again, persistent storage is for pussies).
And keyboard.
And mouse (but only if you're some kind of pleb and actually need one).

But surely then, you will truly be...

And monitor.
And speakers.

...a true developer.

Also never use OOP. True developers don't...right?

>>172858382
>>172858754
Still doesn't work. Object can't find the reference.
I already tried everything there, since days already, it just doesn't work.

>>172858791
Damn, you really took the "you have to make your own computer and software if you want to be a yesdev" meme seriously.

>>172858759
In the long run I will spend thousands of hours using a image editor, way less than the time I expect to spend making it so I think it will be worth it

>>172859035
post code

>>172858641
Yeah, it's pretty similar in use, but the scanning is always active, even while running. It provides light, and negates illusions and camouflage, which is perfect for combat too. Had some other ideas but that would be too much work.

>>172858759
>very nice. what engine are you working in?
My own, I'm using SFML

>>172859058
Will you spend thousands of hours using the image editor or spend thousands of hours making it?

>>172859058
Image editors already exist though, it's a pretty large and competitive market.

>>172859035
Are you trying to access a component, maybe? If so, try GameObject.FindWithTag("tag").GetComponent<ComponentName_ie_RigidBody,_BoxCollider>();
But then you have to declare a component rather than GameObject.

>>172859052
It's a shame, because chances are they're just going to steal ideas from existing programs and hardware. They can't resist doing it.

>I am programming
>*autistic screeching*

>>172858754
yeah, I wasn't sure whether it was only deprecated or if it had been removed entirely, so I thought I'd mention it.

>>172858757
this is literally retarded, stop making an idiot of yourself

>>172859058
do what you want, but those thousands of hours in an image editor will be spent making a game while the time you spend making an editor

>>172859035
it's obvious that there's something wrong, either in your scene or elsewhere in your code, that you aren't aware of or aren't telling us about.

>>172859165
your game looks pretty cool, keep up the good work

>>172859031
You forgot the two most important parts of gamedev, making your own CPU and your own programming language, you fucking idiot.

I wish i had an art fag friend to do all the character design and stuff

>>172856013
Hi Darklurkers

>>172859389
I'm sorry. I thought maybe we could just...buy an existing CPU and maybe use an existing free language.
I have brought dishonor upon my family. I shall never develop games again.

>>172856573
My work or my artist's work.

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>>172859031

> not reinventing the wheel and then elucidating from there all technology up to our present level

> a true developer

TSK TSK TSK

>>172857448

pinterest is the cancer that is destroying the internet

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>>172854381
So has the Slipstream dev "andsor" given up on the project? I remember when he was on this board regularly but it's been radio silence for 6 months. Considering I gave a fiver to this project I can't say I'm happy, it had a lot of potential

How has AGDG been doing lately? Any new cool shit been posted in the last couple of months?


Been thinking of getting back into dev lately but I know I'll just get far enough to have a vaguely interesting looking game only to completely lose motivation and disappoint myself and others. It's happened enough times in the past that I don't come to post what little stuff I do anymore.

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>>172859132
Here is the Enemyhealth code attached to the enemy prefab (which gets spawned through a spawner into the scene)
https://hastebin.com/gicekefatu.cs

Here is the Barscript attached to the enemyhealthbar which is an object in the scene. the person in the tutorial dragged this object into the enemy object inspector field, but this doesn't work for me since my enemies are prefabs.
https://hastebin.com/hehuhevamu.cs

then there also is a Stat script, which I don't have attached to anything somehow.
https://hastebin.com/keguqukomi.cs

In the pic you can see the enemyhealthbar blue underlined. That's what the tutorial dragged into the inspector field of the enemy, which is the 3rd space time prefab you can see in my pic.

>>172859807
From what I understand he lives somewhere that barely ever gets internet connection. So he can't really post much online.

I really hope he didn't give up though, it was one of my favorite games on /agdg/. I still play the demo occasionally.

>>172859365
>it's obvious that there's something wrong, either in your scene or elsewhere in your code, that you aren't aware of or aren't telling us about.
The thing is, that the code works, if I drag the prefab into the scene, so I know there is nothing wrong with my code. I just can't get a reference from the prefab to the scene object.

if anyone's interested, here's a short devblog/progress video of my game dev sim game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoDDxV7-MlE

in the vid I talk about a new feature (bookshelves) and overall improvements to motivational speeches, the review system, platform userbase migration and other minor stuff

there isn't much gameplay there, but please let me know what you think of it, and give any feedback you have

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do you guys think this blends well?

>>172859207
Using it. I'm hoping it won't take to long too code it.

>>172859365
What I learn will help me when I try to make a game and if everything goes nicely the features might save me time while doing art for the game. Of course there is a very real chance my image editor will end up being a unusable piece of crap but I'm keeping the optimism

>>172859876
Which games if I may ask?

My endless struggle is asset creation. I got all hyped for a prototype, tell myself that this time it'll be different, I'm gonna practice asset creation for this very project, but then the task ahead becomes so daunting I just give up until the next hype period.

Seriously. If you can make art and have a functioning brain, you'll have a finished game in no time, but coders are pretty much useless in the indie industry.

>>172860213
>If you can make art and have a functioning brain, you'll have a finished game in no time, but coders are pretty much useless in the indie industry.
oh its true its so true
:(

>>172859790
nah
it's good to hoard pics

>>172859807
>it had a lot of potential
it was a generic racing game, it made more money on kickstarter then it ever wouldve gotten being sold.
you're an easy mark, you got kickstarter'd, reevaluate your life decisions.

>>172860213
>but coders are pretty much useless in the indie industry
name an indie game made without a competent programmer

>>172860398
Minecraft.

>>172860398
Minecraft, tumblrtale, m&b, tw1...

>>172860398
most of them.
also most of AAA games too.

>>172860532
tw1 was tight as fuck for what kind of programmers they were, they literally never made a game before it

>>172860386
why is this guy such a bully?

>>172859948
Your error is in Stat.cs. You need to allocate memory to BarScript, ie BarScript bar = new BarScript(). You can't just drag a script into a serialized field - it needs to be either new Script() or it needs to be attached to a gameobject and that gameobject is what you put into the serialized field. You can access the script by accessing that object's component. Google how to access other object's scripts if you need more info, there are tutorials on how to do that.

Unrealios,

How would you make a material for a vehicle that needed both transparent windows and metallic for the body?

Are material functions and 'use material attributes' the only way?

>>172860889
you put a different material on the windows...

>>172860816
it's not bullying if it's facts you need to know.

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>>172860117
please respond
I need an outsider to tell me if it's alright, so I can move on to the next thing

>>172860213
I made a couple of games before I went to uni, mainly shitty platformers like voltorometer.

Then I went to uni to do a computing course which completely killed my interest in doing anything like this, but I don't know if it's because of uni or because of general depression.

Started making another game which was a boss rush which a few people here thought it looked cool, stopped making it due to lack of motivation, started back up again a few months later and then stopped again.


I don't have a major problem with asset creation, I can make stuff that looks "good" because I generally stick to things that are within my ability to make, usually avoiding animation because I'm shit at it. I think my main problem is I guess you'd call it my internal critic or whatever? I think everything I do is shit or I expect too much of myself which leads to me obsessing over things maybe more than I should, spending so long on one dumb thing that it kills my motivation because now I'm there thinking "If it took me this long to get this working to a standard that I don't even think is good, how am I going to finish this"

I think a lot of people have similar motivational problems though and it's all down to our individual ability to push past these mental blocks, apparently I'm just the worst at it because I haven't made a game in 5 years now.

>>172860889
Use a different material, or mask it out depending on how your game/mesh is setup. Since you are asking in the first place, I would recommend the easiest and simplest way which is using a separate material. Its not like you won't be using a glass shader in other areas.

>>172860117
>>172861121
idk what you mean by blends but your sprite looks kinda off

maybe it's the style idk

>>172861121
It looks fine, dude.

>>172856172
pls respond

>>172860785
It was chuckfull of bugs. Experience or not, those weren't competent programmers.

>>172860873
I have no idea what you want me to do there. And I already googled the last 2 days. It doesn't help.

>>172860117
You'll need a version of her firing with her legs in the opposite position unless she'll have to take a step to fire her gun

>>172861427
Go learn to program with Scratch, then learn to actually program with python, then learn C#, then come back. If you ever manage to grasp such incredibly complex concepts like variables or loops that is.

thanks guys

>>172860979
I'm sorry if this is completely retarded but they're the same mesh... can you apply two materials on the same mesh?

>>172861209
is there a better way to mask it out than using material functions, alphas, and using 'use material attributes'? What other way is there to have an opacity and metallic in the same material?

>>172861540
>can you apply two materials on the same mesh
Yeah, you just need to make sure it has 2 materials when you export it from your modelling software

>>172860386
>you got kickstarter'd
By a fellow /agdg/er as well ;_;

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I need more derpy enemies to doodle.

>>172861427
You have private BarScript bar; bar is undefined. It needs a value. So you either: BarScript bar = new BarScript(); or attach BarScript to another (can even be empty) gameobject and access its BarScript component.

>>172861712
a very dangerous hobo

>>172861712
Zombie would be ok.

>>172861712
A nigger

>>172860513
>>172860532
>Minecraft

Are you able to even program a clone? No unity plugins.

>had first ever cup of espresso
>tons of energy, too much to dev
>know I'm gonna crash soon and have no energy to dev
this was a mistake

>>172861138
I know that feeling too well, anon, I relate so much.

Take it from me: if you still have some spark for game dev, do it, but do it with caution. Take breaks, try to avoid burnout. Don't push yourself too hard. You are not your game. You are still a good person, even if your game flops, while you can also be a complete asshole, even if your game is amazing. Don't make your mental health and confidence, your picture about yourself dependent on this thing. Do it because you find it fun.

And always remember: everyone who is good in something has massive self doubt. That's why they worked so hard on it.

You can do it, anon, I truly believe in you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-sfG8BV8wU

>>172861928
>>tons of energy, too much to dev
Bullshit. I'd bet you have been wasting the coffee buzz focusing intently on the wrong things.

>>172860117
Her head is XBOX HEUG. I can see you're going for a relatively realistic visual, so an average human is about 7 1/2 heads tall. She's about 4 1/2 or 5. Either lengthen the body or shrink the head.

>>172862090
Her head is about perfect size if you ask me.

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>>172861713
I wrote it like this now, still doesn't work.

>>172845976
this is the most buttflustered failure attitude I've ever seen

It wasn't entirely his original idea but he delivered the most original thing the game industry has seen in decades, and it spawned hundreds of games.

>He literally won a lottery.
LMAO!

>>172862084
probably, I started cleaning my house.
Everything is clean now though, I'll try again tomorrow and focus solely on gamedev.

>Daily Dev Vlogs
Yes or No.

On one hand. Poeple might see them.

On the other hand, it may motivate me to actually dev.

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Trying to implement 2d box collision in a 2d sidescroller. Made a sort of simulation to help me build it. It sort of casts a ray, represented by the green lines, from the vertices of the rectangle which will collide first to the projected new position of the same vertex, storing each intersection with the grid as necessary (these being the points collision would occur at first).

Because it checks each tile the player could collide with from the old to new position it will always detect the collision even if your going super sanic speeds. Problems would arise with rectangles with width/height greater than two tiles however.

Still need to write the code that corrects the movement, almost done.

>>172862442
You could do worse. Tidy place tidy mind. And cleaning is very boring.

>>172862497
>post up a video
>expect views
>keep refreshing for hours
>0 views turns into 1 view
Motivation through demotivation, huh, I guess it works for some.

>>172861627
ok, good to know. for some reason, the whole single material thing appeals to me so I'm going to figure that out for now but this is some very useful info.

>>172862676
I think it would be cool as a chronicle of the process if I ever actually get a game on steam or whatever. I can look back and see my slow descent into madness.

my games not shit, its experimental.

>>172862786
Please don't

>>172862851
It is quite boring to read daily quirks. If you have some interesting feature implemented, you could write about it tho.

Is the guy with the Automata game here? What is the game written in? And what engines/libraries?

>>172861712
an octopus-faced lovecraftian hominoid

>>172862950
maybe a weekly roundup is better?

>>172862932
why not?

>>172861256
I'm not experienced enough to have a style, so it's probably an actual error

>>172861269
thank you, but as you can see, not to everyone

>>172861464
I'm not sure if I can pull off that kind of advanced frame to frame transitions ingame, but drawing it shouldn't be a problem, thanks

>>172862090
>human is about 7 1/2 heads tall
that's a ratio for an adult, no?

>>172863045
Because I don't think material functions are what you think they are, you can't have a single material with both opaque and translucent properties.

>>172863176
Oh, is it a child?

>>172861901
Yeah, in about an hour. Are you retarded or just pretending?

>>172863280
I just thought the preferred way was to have one final material for one final mesh.

Let me see if I can prove you wrong on that, I'll report back.

>>172863176
>that's a ratio for an adult, no?
you mean that's a child?

make its body fatter

>>172863441
Ok, i'm waitting.

>>172862347
How does notch's cock taste like and who gets paid when you service him?

>>172863040
Go and look at code of honor and remark on how silly your idea is.

>>172863562
I'm busy developing a game. Maybe you should be, too, instead of lusting so hard for notch's hard cock.

>>172863562
I don't feel like making a clone or an easy youtuber bait game, I have integrity, I want to fight for my success.

Where did that guy making the anime game in UE4 go?

>>172863283
yeah
>>172863558
I'm a thin privilege enabler, I can't do that, but I promise there will be enough visual clues around to disperse any doubts about her age

>>172863874
>making the anime game in UE4
playing with dolls is not gamedev

>>172863929
When those dolls in a better game than you can even hope to produce, it is.

>>172863996
>store-bought assets
>no gameplay

what game

>>172864202
He actually modeled his characters.

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meme game

Is there a mirror of the free ue4 assets from the store? I can't download them because apparently the store doesn't tell you but you need the client, and the client isn't multiplatform yet.

>>172862961
I think you'll have to be more specific

Do you mean like Nier or the dictionary definition of the word?

>>172864237
nope

>>172864279
>no pepe or wojak in sight
i could get behind this if it was a game

>>172864279
>keeping the poop memes alive
god bless you

>>172854865
post blog

>>172864321
there was a guy with bullet hell game with some buff golems and the webm of gameplay was named automata

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I'm making a game in which you can marry and breed monstergirls and normal humans and elves and shit if you're into that you sick bastard. That much is definitely in place, but I'm not sure what gameloop to put around it. I'm considering the following, possibly in combination:
>Pokemon style catching loop, with some kind of combat. Here the focus would really be on the varieties of monsters that you can get by breeding them. A new monster child would happen fairly often. If this is in combination with 2 or 3, you can also either breed with wild monsters or "domesticate" them and bring them back to town.
>Life sim where you run a farm with a few monsterwives, inside a town with many more AI controlled monsters. The progression here would be growing your small farm into a large family. Here YOUR family would only have a child infrequently, the townsfolk would have kids more often, and maybe you would be able to play matchmaker with the townsfolk? Key here is that you can command your own family but not the town.
>Town sim more akin to Banished but without the harshness. Your town can't die off but it can stop growing and maybe people move out? You're in charge of assigning the townsfolk jobs. Overall breeding events would happen about as often as in the life sim, but you have explicit control over who breeds with whomst.

What sounds most appealing?
>inb4 ideaguy
That's exactly what I'm doing except I have made games and now I want your input to make this one.

>>172864592
If you aren't making 20k a month then you won't beat out MonsterGirlIsland. Give up.

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>>172864592
>That's exactly what I'm doing except I have made games
before we go any further

>>172864592
>I'm making a game
>wall of text
>meme pic
ideaguy

>>172864592
>hentai game
no one is going to play this for the porn and honestly the gameplay just sounds like pokemon focusing on the bad parts of pokemon

this reminds me of free cities which was also very dull

>>172863280
>>172863451

Ok I gave up. How do you export an fbx with multiple materials from blender?

>>172864734
that's cool i just have to hit 21k

>>172864592
1 and 2 sound like better ideas. I can't tell which is better, they both sound fantastic. Maybe 2 on account of the fact there are too few games in that style anyway.

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How much progress have you made today, Anon-kun?

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>>172864776
Select some faces and do this

>>172864971
a bunch

>>172863874
i want his shaders

>>172865118
He still didn't post the hair mat he made

>>172864279
Try "It's powered by lamp oil, ok?" Your second language is showing.

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I'm finding it impossible to write anything except really dramatic music
This is a problem because the project we're working on is supposed to be comfy and relatively whimsical
What the fuck do I do

>>172864592
>all these cloning concepts
wait until my loli jam game is out, you can see what a theme organic game loop looks like.

>>172864971
I figured out how to setup a mirror-like plane with planar reflections in ue4 (it almost works, but resolution is kinda shit and there are artifacts, though I think that's unresolvable, I might have to use RTT instead), and finally got the basic control scheme I wanted working. I'm worrying a bit about the fact I'm relying too much on the default CharacterMovementComponent though. Hopefully I can just subclass and not pay too much from the parent's setup when the time comes.

Is gamemaker still bretty good. Been on nodev streak since 2014 im tryna get back in but im so out of practice with 3d modelling/hate bad 3d id rather return with sprite-based

Trying to do a basic unit/inventory management game and expand from there

>>172864971
I have given up.

>>172865287
Gogem do you have fun humiliating yourself like this?

how would you design a proper new perfect board game.

I suppose you need to design it around war, or diplomacy.

I'm sure I will need to read the art of war of tsun zun and think how to approach his wisdom in terms of a board game.

I think it would need to have territory control and units.

The goal could be the destruction of the enemy leader, or control of more space, like go, or some combination of both.

Any ideas.

I'm sure chess is about medieval warfare, but I'm sure a modern equivalent could be also made that doesn't look like warhamer 40k but more simplified, like chess, where each unit represents a batallion or military unit.

Some stuff from risk could be also taken, like territory form of taking new territory, and could be mixed with the territory way to control territory from go.

Even some stuff like cities from Freeciv could be also implemented.

Any more idea?

>>172865267
Listen to more comfy game music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cORbSzL3JzM

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>>172861797
>>172861854
>>172863003

>>172865484
you brought this on yourselves the moment you spammed the polls with lolijam votes

>>172864971
Absolutely non, since 2 days already.
I just can't get this fucking reference to a prefab to work, and nobody also wants to explain me how to do it.

>>172865289
You know you can select the planar reflection actor and change the quality?

>>172864971
I've made some, but I can't fucking model a shoulder so right now I'm stuck on it

>>172864475
here ya go.
https://kickindev.tumblr.com/

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>>172865532
>tsun zun
that's the creator of Touhou, not Art of War, anon
but you could probably whip up a decent board game out of that too

>>172864734
>>172864761
>>172864756
>>172864739
Thank you for the encouragement.

>>172864948
I would like to combine the two, since this naturally uses the pattern of "safe town, unsafe wilderness, go back and for between them", but combining two game loops is awkward. So you'd spend most of your time in town but venture into the woods for new monsterwives and rare items.

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How's this for an attacking script/state?

pls critique

>>172865634
literally google your problem try all the solutions it's that easy

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>>172864971

I can't even decide on an engine, or if I just want to go full-on enginedev and not even entertain the illusion of finishing a game. Unity is probably the "best" choice, but I also want need to fuck around with C++ for experience, and I also just prefer C so I've been thinking about something with C/sdl. I just know that the farther I go down that, the less I'll get done. There's also the issue of developing on (not just for) linux and windows at the same time. Working with C on windows blows mad dick so far. I do want the advantages of VS though, but it makes such a fucking mess whereas in linux I only need source and a makefile.

Someone decide for me, please.

>>172865704
Awesome. I know a guy who really likes goats, he'll be pleased.

>>172859948
>>172862294
EnemyHealth1.cs: https://hastebin.com/anubidotiq.cs
BarScript.cs: fine as is
Stat.cs: unnecessary

Use the inspector to set default health and maxHealth values for enemies (or you can do it from within another script.) Note that line 38 is dependent upon both the organization of your hierarchy (EnemyHealthBar is a child of Canvas) and EnemyHealthBar's name.

>>172865947
You've heard of pastebin, right?

>>172865996
guess what i already did the last 2 days...

>>172865947
I like your comments.

>>172866165
welll then you are screwed because that is what I did early to suggest the unity events thing for you hahahaha

>>172862497
Do it but don't let yourself look at view counts/responses more than a single time per week. no refreshing

>>172864996
thanks for putting up with me kindly stranger

I've got it now.

>>172865324
Gamemaker is still popular, but Godot exists now, which is better in a lot of ways. The only thing Gamemaker has going for it over Godot is better beginner tutorials.

>>172866027
I use VS but generally compile with a makefile and Clang anyway. I only compile in VS if I need to use the debugger and building in VS is often broken because it doesn't support all the macro shenanigans I'm doing. Portability between Linux and Windows hasn't been that big of an issue aside from compiling some stuff on Windows sucking dick.

I'd use UE4 if I wanted to actually finish a game.

>>172866027
>>172866027
If actually finishing games is your goal, start in an engine for your fist project. Make one short game in Unity, Godot, UE4, or GM. Flip a coin or default to unity.

If you just want a hobby I've heard enginedev is very fun so go with that.

If you like C please just use C++ and whatever subset fits your autism.

>>172866153
I never posted code before, I'll use pastebin from now on thanks

>>172864279
don't do what >>172865241 says, the inaccurate english makes it better

>>172862612
Looks rad, anon, keep it up!

>>172864971
I am kind of hoping to finish implementing my last character mechanics wise. Art will have to wait til later as I have been prioritizing functionality and fun over assets.

>>172865676
Is that the screen percentage? I already maxed it out but it's still not good enough. I don't see any other obvious parameter beside the fades.

>>172854865
good art but the animations seem a bit weak, not very punchy. The enemy animations are very clear though, which is good. The defensive state looks defensive, and the punch windup looks like a punch windup.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw0h9WmBlsw

>>172866150
>>172866150
Doesn't work.
StackOverflowException: The requested operation caused a stack overflow.
EnemyHealth1.get_health () (at Assets/Scripts/GUI/EnemyHealth1.cs:15)

>>172865751
Have you played games in the RF series? If not, I recommend you give them a go. They should prove inspiring.

>>172864476
https://meneerguus.itch.io/apotheosis

>>172866929
Change the name of your property to "Health" and add a private float called "health". "Stack overflow" is an error caused by an infinite loop. The health get function just calls itself forever.

>>172867007
What's the actual name?

>>172866389

Nice to see someone makes it work. This has assured me greatly, thanks.

>>172867117
No idea what you want me to do there again...

>>172866027
Unity is a buggy piece of crap and even the most modest of game can never run at a good framerate without quad titan X with it. UE4 is the correct choice though it's also surprisingly weak for an AAA engine (the engine itself is grand, and doesn't have the performance or bugs of unity, but the editor itself isn't so swell, being quite buggy, and having quite a few broken functions).

For 3D, you basically have no choice, you need to use an engine (although it's viable, for games that aren't too complex, to assemble one from parts, but you will need a 3rd party rendering engine at least, because even simple 3d games need good optimizations to perform well). For 2d games, I honestly believe you're better off making your own engine since the overhead of learning another engine will be as high or higher than writing your own from scratch, ASSUMING you are actually a decent programmer.

DO NOT USE C NO MATTER WHAT. Use C++ if you must.

>>172866864
Could you post a screenshot of the reflection?

Mine seems pretty good

>>172867117
Rune factory.

>>172867336
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x9fsa0sw.aspx

>>172867365
Why should I listen to anything you say?

>>172867365
>the editor itself isn't so swell, being quite buggy, and having quite a few broken functions
Is there actually any editor which isn't?

Seems like all game dev tools crash more often than most other software.

>>172867498
So you want me to write "Health" everytime instead of "health" or what? i don't get it sry...

>>172867035
thanks

>>172867651
Yes, this seems to be the case, I don't really understand why given that these should be quite solid due to their purpose though.

>>172867365

Thanks for this.

>For 3D, you basically have no choice, you need to use an engine
>DO NOT USE C NO MATTER WHAT. Use C++ if you must.

I figured as much about the 3D part. However if I fuck around with small 2D games I'm going to fuck with C and you can't possibly stop me. But it's good to know I was right about thinking that engineless 3D is its own kind of hell.

>>172866914
Thank you for the feedback!
The player animations are placeholders that are a lot earlier than the enemy animations, and everything except the player's jabs and supers are running on the gamemaker default animation engine instead of my own one (which lets me have much finer control over how long each frame lasts). The player animations are definitely going to be redone later down the line.

>>172867651
Problem with Unity and UE4 is that the engine and editor are tied together so tightly. In e.g. Decima the editor is completely detached from the engine, so the game crashing doesn't crash the editor and the editor crashing doesn't crash the engine. Seems like a simple concept but neither UE4 nor Unity work like that. Maybe in UE5 I guess.

>>172866929
whoops, too used to C++ heh. >>172867117 is right.

revised version:
https://hastebin.com/amarilehaw.cs

>>172867862
What I mean by not using C is simply that you'll end up with spaghetti code full of unforeseen bugs that will manifest in the hardest to replicate of circumstances and then you'll bang your head on this for days or even weeks if your game isn't a pacman clone. Of course you can use whatever you want and ultimately should prefer whatever you're familiar with.

>>172867734
You don't know what properties DO and you clearly didn't have time to read the page I just linked you.

People can't help you because you don't have the foundational knowledge. It would be like trying to talk to someone in English but needing every third word explained. It's just way to much work for a programmer who knows what they're doing to communicate with someone who doesn't know the basics and can't bother to google things.

It's like, people ARE trying to help you, but their code is just slightly off. As a programmer you have to be able to piece things together and make changes.

>>172868075
That's what you get when people start learning engines and not programming.

>>172868067

I'm definitely aware of the issues of using C as an idiot. But yeah I don't have delusions of doing anything past small hobby-level stuff, so don't think I have this idea of making anything significantly complex with it.

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bogpill me on why use component based system instead of inheritance

>>172867734
btw incredible work. you're the first troll in years who's actually made me angry

>>172868351
just use multiple inheritance

>>172868389
you should have seen him last night when he was insulting people who were trying to help him>>172868389

>>172868351
It's a huge meme, the only reason people do that is that shit languages like C# and java have very shitty object models so things like multiple inheritance are not possible (not to be confused with multiple interface inheritance on account of the lack of logic in interfaces).

Ultimately, ECS are slower and consist of high overhead (i.e. you need to write one before you can start anything) for no good reason and should be avoided when possible.

>>172868351
I hate inheritance.

>>172868539
I've been here since day one and it's a great show

>>172868075
I know that i don't have the knowledge, that's why I ask for help and follow tutorials.

It’s a 10x10 board like chess.

The pieces are shaped like shogi, in the sense they can upgrade by fliping themselves on the board.

There’s a river in the middle.

The pieces after they go through the river change their behaviours and their movements are heavily limited.

There’s a castle or enemy HQ where the leader resides and he can’t leave this HQ.

There’s three corridors to reach the enemy castle, separated through a basic wall the pieces can’t go through.

>>172868351

saved. i love this meme.

>>172868895
stolen

>>172869085
I have a hundred ideas more.

;)

>>172869163
we will steal all of them

>>172868075
>and you clearly didn't have time to read the page I just linked you
I skipped through it and just saw hundreds of terms again I have no idea what they mean.
The text didn't help, because I didn't understand it.
It's like posting an explanation, full of terms which need more explanations.

Would be the same to just say "fuck off and learn from scratch again".

>>172869215
>fuck off and learn from scratch again
this but minus the "again" part

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>>172867481
The edges are weirdly distorted and the reflection is too pixelized.

>>172868895
>chess-shogi-chinese chess hybrid
WOAH! Genius!

>>172869215
come back when you know what
"property"
"variable"
"prefab"
"reference"
"script"
etc etc mean. people will not tell you exactly what code you need, and when they do it will be a little wrong. you must be able to read explanation and translate them to code, and to change code that's given to you.

>>172869373
that's more than most 3D games do today though
shit even new DOOM had all bathroom mirrors broken and that game feels like it could have done it

>>172869373
Does scaling up the actor fix the edges?

You want the box to cover the whole surface

>>172869496
>wow, all original ideas are remixes of older ones
wow, nigger, shocking.

>>172869687
all of my game ideas are completely original.

>>172867897
Still doesn't work. First the text was full of syntax errors, and then after fixing them it just caused a stack overflow again.

>>172869752
post one.

>>172869753
show us how you changed it

>>172869671
No, it already covers the whole surface. Also, the distortions are a function of the camera (if I look up, the pattern and location changes).

>>172869634
I actually only use the mirror to check if my movement code is working right so it's good enough for me but there has to be a way to make it not that bad (the problem with mirrors is usually when they're not straight, which isn't the case here). The reason games usually don't do mirrors is simply that they're too expensive (pretty sure that's also why the default actor here renders at half resolution). Deferred rendering fucked shit up on that end.

>>172869753
what were the syntax errors

>>172869849
Here https://hastebin.com/ribuviyaqi.cs

I just added a few "_" to it, since it was full of errors otherwise.
Still causes stack overflow though.

>>172869831
everyone in the thread will have to sign an NDA and a non-compete agreement first

>>172869567
Why do you think I am following tutorials, and not code on my own?
Because I am trying to learn all these things.

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>>172870037
you know, there has to be a cheap way to make reflections, at least in confined spaces with static lighting, like bathrooms

shit why don't they just project a literal billboard of the player and the room behind him anf just change the character size based on coordinates?
that's few hours of work for an artist and programmer and literally zero impact on the performance

>>172870123
You just reintroduced the problem. You renamed your property to "_health". What you need is a property called "health" and a separate, private variable called "_health". The property (please look up what this is) is like a function that accesses the private variable. Anywhere that you want to change health, you use the property "health", and ONLY IN THE PROPERTY'S GET{} AND SET {} do you use "_health".

>>172870345
Do some tutorials that teach these concepts and don't teach you how to do a specific thing.

>>172870265
you can't copyright gameplay ideas retard.

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what I've been working on today

>>172870463
You can patent them.

>>172870123
I could have sworn I had written the line that reads "private float _health;" but apparently I didn't
https://hastebin.com/nomimoxeho.cs

>>172870446
>You just reintroduced the problem.
Without it the code was full of errors and didnt even let me start the game. It didnt fix anything, it made it only worse.

>>172870365
If your lighting is static you might as well switch to a forward renderer for that area. FREE accurate reflections.

>>172870587
good luck winning your demand, just like crapcom tried to patent hadouken and the judge told them to fuck off.

>patenting anything non industrial
>patenting art
lmao retard.

>>172870345
You should stop following tutorials and instead read a primer on C# first

gimme a cool name for a generic assault rifle thats roughly 12 letters long

>>172870365
That's how the high quality reflections are done in GTAV and Uncharted 4, I'm pretty sure. But in a lot of games there aren't many scenarios where that's going to make sense because that means the player e.g. can't bring items into the room since they're not going to be reflected. In the new Deus Ex game for example the player could always pick up a fridge or some shit and bring it into the bathroom and then they'd need to put a bunch of extra care into making that work, when it's much simpler to just not have mirrors.

>>172870723
You still need to run all your shaders twice

>>172870345
You're obviously not trying to learn anything. Fuck off troll.

>>172870787
give me
country of origin and caliber

>>172870715
I'm not in the loop, what is it that you're trying to achieve?

>>172870787
assaultrifle

>>172870037
Weird, my reflections are basically perfect.

>>172870365
Planar reflections aren't crazy expensive, they're viable to use without destroying performance.
You can disable effects, hide/show specific actors etc.

>>172870868
russia 7.62

>>172865343
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F5p1_hR2Ws

>>172870787
assblastgun

>>172870715
The real issue here is that you don't have the requisite knowledge to notice simple mistakes like the one mentioned in >>172870635 and correct them yourself. You've already been told multiple times how to solve your health bar problem, but the whole thing keeps getting hung up on simple problems/mistakes that, if you were actually ready to be programming games, you'd pick up on and fix on your own.

>>172870787
Kalashnikov

>>172870908
thats bad

>>172870787
Rattatatatata
Faztschutgunn
Booletfrowar

>>172870969
What the fuck is with this dubbing

>>172870948
Avtomat Sokolova - AS

>>172871162
It's not dubbing.

godd you are all noobs at gamedev

>>172870787
cock catapult

>>172870526
Please respond I worked hard on it

>>172871219
yeah :(

>>172870835
I am trying to learn, but it is very difficult to learn this stuff completely.

>>172870635
This works already better, but still not really.
Now I can manipulate the bar in game with Q, but it just goes completely empty immediately when pressing Q only once.

>>172871193
im going to name it Sokolov only because all the other names are shit and Avtomat sounds pretty gay

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>lolijam
>REMEMBER do not sexualize lolis you guys!!!!

>>172871334
who would have thunk, that's precisely what people did with Avtomat Kalashnikova

>>172871334
you're pretty gay

>>172871334
> Avtomat sounds pretty gay
But the ak-47's name is literally Avtomat Kalashnikova, you, my son, are bang out of order.

Is godot really just a meme still? Or should I stick with Gamemaker.

I'm not a huge fan of the way stuff is structured in game maker and would like some better alternatives for things that are really easy to do in actual code.

>>172871302
That's probably because you haven't set the values of health and maxHealth in the inspector. They're both defaulting to 0.0 most likely, so what's happening is this:

you hit Q
10.0 gets subtracted from health
health is now -10.0 so it gets clamped to 0.0
bar gets updated to reflect new value of 0.0

>>172871445
dunno man maybe theres some relation there
>>172871449
i know

why is programming so hard? It doesn't even make sense

>>172871394
?