/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

What are some old / obscure devs or games that you remember?

2nd for godot is a better gms and unity (for 2d)

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>>175607283
3D too (soon)

>>175607135
hopoo

>>175607356
3.0 wait is killing me.
I just want the alpha already.

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>calls himself a game dev
>keeps coming back to agdg
>year after year
>still has never made a game
Explain?

>>175607449
the alpha already exists with nightly builds

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half ded

>>175607457
engine dev takes a bit

>>175607283
>no documentation
>slapped by two starving argentinian coders
>"fix it yourself" model a la linux

nah

>>175607523
That's a pre-alpha.

Where do I find someone to do some sketches for me

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>>175607457
I don't know how to finish a project.

I already read a couple of C++ tutorials and Bjarne's book but that doesn't really help.

also I can't draw, my math skill is higher than my drawing skill and I only know math at a highschool senior level.

>>175607283
Unity is the best game development engine.

>>175607523
Are there any nightly builds that are up to date? The only one I know of is http://fixnum.org/godot/
But the last build was 10 days ago. There's been some updates in the last couple days I want to play with.

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Reply to this post with one idea, character, or item and I will add it to my game.

>>175607635
>needing documentation when you can look at classes and they switched to the full name convention
nigga, all you need is be familiar with 2.1

>>175607816
A talking penis.

>>175607816
working PS4 emulator as an ingame minigame

>>175607816
Peter Molyneux

>>175607816
Gun that shoots bees

>>175607920
already mentioned
>>175607884

>>175607635
>no documentation
Maybe a year ago.
>slapped by two starving argentinian coders
Maybe 3 years ago.
>"fix it yourself" model a la linux
Nope. Just because it's open source doesn't mean it's "fix it yourself". If there's an issue you can report the problem to get fixed. The engine is 100% usable without any C++ knowledge.

Which engines are the best and worst for custom physics?

>>175607816
Bees with guns that shoot bees

So did rotatedev finally give up on his alterego and that shitty red pixel cape thing after getting found out again?

>>175608119
*her

>>175607283
Godot is GMS for people who think saying you make games with an engine called Game Maker is embarassing, despite being the engine used to make great indie vidya over the past few years

the ONLY thing it has over GMS besides using a real programming language is the name, and only oversensitive, insecure faggots care about that shit

>>175608119
>baiting Voldemort

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>>175596203
An attempt was made at copying a gait cycle. Art quality aside, the motion is more convincing. Thanks!

>>175607571
Cute pixel guy.

>>175608186
I used GM for a long time and I can tell you that Godot is superior in every conceivable way.
"Godot is a meme" is a meme.

>>175608181
*its

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Thief but sci-fi!

>>175607816
A shota who has had his brain swapped with a male bee.

>>175607135
putt putt saves the zoo

>>175608431
She is clear about presenting as female so there is no need to be ambiguous about it.

>>175607571
> A phrase that I, to this day still fear.
This needs either zero commas or two, "to this day still fear" does not stand on it's own.

>>175608186
I use Godot because it's open source, royalty free, and I can make custom C++ modules to compensate for GDscript's shortcomings. Not for any of the gay reasons you listed.

>>175608327
well done anon!

this is still garbage from a technical artistic standpoint, but it has a certain charm. it's a local maximum: try too hard to make good art and you fail, but aim for an ironically bad style like this and people will like it

i would play a game in this style and enjoy it

>>175608536
*It is clear about presenting as female

>>175607816
a lynched nigger with a sign around her neck that clearly reads "I as the developer HATE niggers, spics, jews, transvestites, and gays and I sincerely don't want you deplorable half-human shitstains playing or buying my game. You should all be purged WHITE POWER!"

>>175608396
godot will remain nothing but a meme until there are actually good games out of it - unity has them, ue has them, even gamemaker has them, godot has shovelware from its parent developers at best
on /agdg/ there's at least twice the people shitposting about godot's superiority than those who actually use it to make games and post progress
the only thing you can do to change this is make the fucking game

>>175608647
Aware of that, the problem is that I need the pause after I.

>A phrase that I
>*move away from the mic to breathe in*
>to this day still fear

Could possibly change the sentence altogether, but it's the best I got right now.

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Messing around with enemy placements. You guys are gonna play my game r-right?

>>175608327
https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Definitive/dp/1585429201

>>175608849
where's is u are game

>>175608914
A phrase that I, to this day, still fear?

>>175608186
I don't care about the name, "Game Maker" always sounded straightforward and to-the-point to me

>great indie vidya
true, but that's really due to certain strengths (pixels are the units of the coordinate system, etc.) and despite various flaws/inconsistencies/hacky implementations. Maybe they fixed some of that in GMS 2, I dunno

also GMS's business model of selling exporters separately is shit

>>175608650
this desu, plus I really like the node tree and its concept of scenes

>>175608849
Yeah, this is true. Kind of unfortunate it has to be this way when the engine is already pretty proven. But few people will take it seriously until there's a hugely popular game made on it.

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>>175608840
Sounds like bokudev

>>175608945
>You guys are gonna play my game r-right?
Give link

>>175609096
Yeah, that's just the way it is. It doesn't matter much anyway, since I like godot and I can keep using it regardless of what its reputation is

>>175609004
The problem is deeper than that. Every comma does a pause in the text, if you'd read the correct sentence (with 2 commas) you'd pause only (or at least longer) before the first one. The code can't handle same symbols with different pause durations atm and would pause the same amount on both, resulting in the equivalent of "that I ... to this day ... still fear".

>>175609541
just add two commas,, nobody will notice

>>175609541
Ohhhh, you're doing this with text to speech? Neat.

>>175608186
I hope you're baiting.

Godot is open source, gamemaker is not.
Godot runs NATIVELY on linux, gamemaker doesn't, at all.
See a problem in gamemaker? Go tell daddy yoyo to fix it and hope that at least 500 people saw the problem AND that yoyo gives a fuck about it.
Wanna do 3D? good luck son.

Fuck off now please

>>175609692
Fine, I'll do it properly and add code to support per symbol durations. Double comma hurts to even think about on a resolution of that size.

>>175609708
The pauses are time before the next character is printed, no more. Sorry to disappoint.

>>175610092
>on linux
If you're trying to make a game on Linx you're doing something very, very wrong.

>>175610584
Not true in the slightest. You can always export to other platforms.

>>175610584
why?

>>175608186
GMS is proprietary software. It's not good.

Godot is open source, so if a bug comes up, or you want to implement something on an engine-level, you can do it yourself, or download improvements others have made.

GMS you also have to pay Yoyo if you make any money. Godot is under a MIT license so you're free to do whatever you want for it.

Godot will most likely kill GMS once it garners enough tutorials online. Godot's 3D is also pretty good, and it'll start to rival unity, especially since Unity's built in physics and shit are so terrible.

>>175610584
Prepare to get (You)'d to death, motherfucker

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Delaware, New Mexico, or Wyoming?
>for a solo dev

> tfw initially wanted to start devving in godot but fell for gamemaker meme
i''ll consider switching after i finish the game

>>175610935
Wyoming is probably cheap, but good luck getting a job and not being depressed. If you dev full time you could be okay I guess.

>>175610771
>GMS you also have to pay Yoyo if you make any money.
since when

>>175611029
Anon was asking which state to register his LLC in for maximum tax benefit.

>>175610935
I live in New Mexico, it's pretty nice weather, seems as good as anyplace to solo dev. Are you thinking Albuquerque or someplace else?

>>175610864
>he thinks anons actually use linux
kek
Maybe the tryhards with actual autism.

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>>175609004
Thanks for the push.

>>175611134
Excuse my autism.

>>175611202
Once you learn to properly utilize linux, it's hard to go back desu. It's like baking your own bread.

>>175608479
System shock predates Thief you nerd.

>>175611078
It's the entire business model.

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For shits and giggles I made a simple AI that aggressively pursues the first ship it meets and charges towards it in a berserk rage. I warped into a system where a ship just like mine happened to spawn, and we killed each other.

>>175611189
>>175611029
I'm thinking about registering an LLC in one of those states, since they are supposed to be the ones with lowest annual taxes/fees.

>>175611331
>implying I haven't used linux before
Another delusion of linux users. You think people only use Windows because they don't know better or something.

Linux is fucking garbage for anything outside of webdev or vanilla software development.

>>175611473
That's just, like, your opinion man

>>175611427
entire business model of yoyo is paying an unhealthy fuckload of money for dumb modules and that was about it for gm:s1
you pay yoyo nothing from your sales
so i am asking if they changed anything with gm:s2

About 25% of my itch downloads were for the Linux version (0% for OSX).
Sure Windows has a much bigger audience but if your engine allows Linux export then there's absolutely no reason why you shouldn't use it.
Linux users are also much more likely to donate and such since it's so rare to find good Linux games, it's stupid how often devs forget to do builds for other systems even though their engines easily allow it.

>>175611334
System Shock isn't about stealing. ;)

>>175611564
Yeah because it's so easy to have 3 OS installed on your machine

>>175611934
Just use VMware or Virtualbox and test your linux port on it. Unless your game is 3D and resource intensive that should be enough.

>>175611564
>About 25% of my itch downloads were for the Linux version
That's because the majority of "people" downloading your pedoshit are from 4chan.

>>175611217
I think that it rolls nicer without the pause, or with a pause after the second comma.

Also I think it would technically be "a phrase which" instead of "a phrase that".

>>175611934
Not that anon, but I don't even test other OSes, I just export the games to each OS and test the Windows build.
I've never run into any OS specific bugs that would require me to use another OS. I don't even think that would be possible without it being a bug in the engine itself.

>>175611189
Get off /agdg/ and back to AGDG, burqueño.

>>175611934
>Yeah because it's so easy to have 3 OS installed on your machine

It is, though. For a gamedev that should be a piece of cake.

>>175612174
You're seriously underestimating the number of people who unironically use Linux and nothing else. Just check the steam reviews for any semi-decent 2D game with a linux port. They're not just 4chan memers.

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>>175612174
>pedoshit
what did he meme by this

I don't even use Linux but I'm more than happy to increase my audience, I will probably be learning and installing it too just for testing since the Linux audience has been so receptive.

>>175611334
So the fuck what? In any overlap between what System Shock and Thief attempt to do, System Shock's attempt at it is dogshit by comparison.

>>175612387
>You're seriously underestimating the number of people who unironically use Linux and nothing else.
No. You're pushing a fantasy that isn't supported by facts. Just another habit of linux users that make them look even worse as underdogs who can't admit where they lie in the userbase.

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Ok which of you faggots was this?

>>175612753
>WAAAAH I HATE PEOPLE WHO USE THIS PARTICULAR OPERATING SYSTEM PLAYING MY NONEXISTENT GAME
Getting all political over something as simple as supporting other operating systems is the classic mark of a nodev.

>>175612838
Half Bomb
Half Box

Think about it, anon

Not box, not bomb, but something different

>>175612838
>Not Bombox
really

>>175612838
this game and your company have really bad seo

>>175613741
>you can't even find it by typing "Dogma Bombx"
fucking hell

>>175612358
Ok, so let's break it down:

A OSX machine is fucking expensive. I don't know where you guys live but here I would rather buy a motorcycle with that amount of money. Unless you try a hackintosh, but probably isn't a good idea.
For that to work, you will need to partition your machine. It's always kind of annoying when Linux install fucking Grub.
Also, every OS takes at least 30GB of space nowadays. If you have 1TB of more, good for you. If you are using a SSD card like me, not a good idea.

>>175612053
You will need a powerful machine for that. Even a simple 3D game will require some GPU memory and if the one you have is not that good, both your OS and the one in the virtual machine will be slow as fuck.
But if you game is that simple, why not go for WebGL?

>>175612304
Probably what a lot of people do but not that wise.
I know Unity, Unreal & family does the heavy lifting but something unexpected can happen you have no way to fix it.

>>175613741
>>175613979
It's for the best.

>>175614097
J- just you wait

This month's game will be super duper amazing and blow you all away

>>175612838
On this note, how many frames (or sprites, whatever) did the average Genesis game have?

>>175614049
I can understand not supporting OSX since it's so expensive and its userbase is full of normies that don't even play games but Linux is free, it's easy as fuck to install and it has a considerable amount of users.
If you seriously can't bother buying a $5 USB drive and installing one of the retard-friendly Linux versions in it just for playtesting then why the fuck are you trying to make a game which is far more complex than installing an OS?

>>175614668
>Why don't you learn an entire new OS for an insignificant market share?
I wonder.

>>175614838
>click install
>open game
>you now learned everything you need to know
It's really not that hard to install Linux and I'm a Windows babby that doesn't give a fuck about it, I just want more people playing my game (which I got thanks to the minimal effort I had to go through).

>>175614668
You reminded me that I actually tried that once but for everyday use, not play testing. It's really a good idea, even though it's useless to install the GPU driver because it rarely works.

>>175615109
>encounter OS specific bug
>uhhhhhhhhhhh
Yeah dude, sure.

>>175615272
>read error message
>google the problem if it's not something immediately obvious
Are you really this incompetent?
What kind of shit engine are you using anyway?

>>175614565
>the average Genesis game
Can't answer about the average game, but I can tell you what's there:

You have two tile layers for backgrounds (4 if you count the priority flags) and sprites with a maximum size of 32x32. Bigger sprites can be made using composite sprites (keep in mind the MD has a resolution of 320x240).

The Mega Drive supports up to 80 sprites overall and 20 sprites per horizontal line, which, frankly, is not a lot. Kinda cool what kinda stuff they made with it. There are some more palette/color tricks you can abuse, but that would go too much into detail here.

>>175615465
>the problem will definitely be googleable
Pfft.

>>175615642
It's ok, you can switch to some engine that doesn't make you pay to unlock Linux builds for your next game and you won't need to do mental gymnastics anymore.

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>>175616060
>being this butthurt that developers want to ensure that they don't rip off their customers by potentially offering a product they can't debug with 100% certainty
More competent developers than you have been stumped by lesser issues, but I'm sure your game is such a shallow little nothing that there's virtually no chance of anything going wrong with it. Good luck with those free Linux sales :)

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>tfw someone asks you what you're making your game in and you're too embarrassed to say unity

>>175616676
Shouldn't have chosen such a cucked engine

>>175616676
As a construct 2 dev all I've gotta say is you have nothing to complain about.

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>>175616496
I don't know what piece of shit framework you're using to dev but the big three engines don't have major OS-specific problems and pretty much all games using them support Win/Linux/Mac nowadays.
Why are you so reluctant, anon?

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I made a thing. Now, choose A, B, C, or D

>>175617042
All rook the same.

>>175617042
Took me minutes to realize you meant the goddamn grass

B

>>175616676
>go to an indie game convention
>in literally every conversation about my game I get asked why I use UE4
At least you're not a freak

>>175617313
But why? UE4 is hella popular. Look at Snake Pass and...uh...

>>175617042
What is this game

>>175617042
The differences are so subtle that it's hard to say for sure, but the bottom left speaks to me in a nebulous, undefined way.

>>175617428
google "the witness"

>>175617207
>>175617271
A is no textures
B is rock and grass textures
C is rock texture
D is grass texture

>>175617469
I'm loving this meme

>>175617042
A.

>>175617042
A by far

>>175617413
and the game that has been top of the Steam charts for literally forever

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>>175616676
>happily say OpenGL
>Watch them accept that I'm of genetically superior stock

>>175617313
>>go to an indie game convention

Found your problem. What you even want to accomplish going there?

>>175612037

just use transform.eulerAngles( new Vector3 (0,0,[your rotation here in degrees]))

>>175617861
It was a convenient place to meet with a potential publisher ironically.

>>175617729
You mean Playerunknown's Battlegrounds? I was looking at the steam page and saw "Bluehole, Inc" but at first glance it looks like "Butthole, Inc"

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Continued work goes into my FTL inspired game. Instead of space, it'll be medieval themed. Swords and magic. You'll use food and rations to go from point to point on the map, encountering events. Some of them will be combat, which will be turn based. Currently working on that. The characters and effects are placeholders atm.

Has anyone used nez with monogame https://github.com/prime31/Nez/ ? It has stuff like UI/ECS/collision/tilemaps implemented for you. I was thinking of using it instead of Unity for my 2D game.

>>175618020
I kinda take umbrage at calling a turn based freeform tactics game "FTL inspired", but it's also not for me to say what inspires you so oh well.

>>175618190
>unity for 2D
Why would you even entertain the thought?

>>175617957
I think he's talking about Rocket League, It's been more or less in the top 10 for almost 2 years now.

>>175617957
Finally a game developed/published by the unforgettable Butthole Surfers.

>>175618445
Did you even read my post?

>>175618340
I suppose FTL is inspiring the random maps and dialogue styled events more than anything. The combat isn't the same at all.

>>175618494
You implied you considered Unity for 2D which is ridiculous, I don't particularly know about Nez but really anything is better than Unity for 2D.

>>175618687
>You implied you considered Unity for 2D which is ridiculous
A significant amount of the successful 2D games on Steam are made in Unity

>>175618779
There are successful games made in flash too but that doesn't make it a good engine, there are strictly better alternatives.

Redpill me on cutscenes.

>>175619432
the absolute madman

>>175619432
the absolute madman

>>175619432
the absolute madman

So uh are gaming conventions worth it? Will people play my game?

>>175620179
As long as you can find one which isn't just full of your twitter hipster types, they're fun.

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How does this make /agdg/ feel?
A semi-popular in development game is completely canceled because the artist left.

>>175620396
Never trust artists

>>175620519
I'm an artist and I can confirm this
Trust me

>>175620396
Serves him right
He believed an artist

>>175620396
This happens so often it's not even funny, never rely on artfags for anything and only hire one (at a flat fee) when your game is mostly done.

>tfw literally all notes I get on Tumblr are from bots
seriously what the fuck

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>>175620396
>the game was in development for 3 years

>>175617042
can you give me a quick rundown on this method?

>>175616496
technically if they don't release a linux version, then linux users aren't their customers anyway

but companies don't eschew linux to avoid "ripping off" their customers with buggy games, they do it because they think the cost of supporting linux outweighs the benefits, which they probably do if they're doing all kinds of custom shit. If you're using Unity/UE4/whatever and you aren't making huge modifications to the engine itself? Chances are the engine's QA teams already ironed out most platform-specific bugs you could encounter, and as a small/indie developer getting those linux users playing your game poses a lot more benefit to you than it would to a AAA dev. Marketing is a good example, more people playing means more chance for marketing by word-of-mouth, and on top of that there are ideological Linux users who will spread the word about your game (if it's good enough) just because you chose to support their OS of choice.

>>175616676
nobody worth caring about actually gives a shit what engine you use, other than out of curiosity or maybe if they want to know how you did some specific thing in your game. the engine wars here on /agdg/ are just pointless posturing

I've never done games beyond text adventures with Python. I'm kind of interested in trying to make a 3D roguelike/Souls-like just for myself. Is Unity the default go-to engine? I've got a little bit of UE2 & 3 experience from a decade ago, would that translate at all to UE4? Shit all over me if this is a question you get every day.

>>175621451
Just try out the engines and pick the one you hate the least, they are free to use.

>>175621451
Unity is the default go-to and has the most help available, I prefer UE4.

>>175621146
>ground shader colours edges differently, based on vertex normals/normal maps (kinda like a realtime curvature map)
>ground shader also puts grass on surfaces pointing up

>blades of grass are (meant to be) the same color as the ground grass, and gradually become brighter near the tip
>blades of grass also have some transparency at the base, to hide their geometry clipping against the ground, and also to make the colour transition smoother

>no ambient occlusion, to avoid getting a 3d look, and look more like flat 2d instead

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I think I'm going to give up on animating my own sprites, I don't have the patience for it, although it's been fun doodling. Back to the old programmer's standby of using cubes for characters!

how do you make a page for the jam? how do you make a page for a game on itch.io in general? what should I put on mine?

Stop making arcade shit.

>>175622791
1. Create account
2. Make game page
3. Put words in it
4. Upload game files
5. Submit it to jam
6. ???
8. No profit

>>175622338
It's gonna have to happen sometime unless you want this to happen to you:
>>175620396
sad clown twitter profile pic included.

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>>175622983
I already made an account and I just found the game page creation link, but I'm sketchy on step 3
what words should I put in it? I have no idea what to say about it

>>175620396
>scroll down timeline
>political bitching that has nothing to do with game development
Every time.

>>175623185
In [game name] you play as a Unity capsule that collects little cubes, collect them all to win the game!

Controls:
Arrow keys: movement
Enter: Jump
DON'T PRESS ESC IT CRASHES THE GAME

Known bugs:
You can jump while in the air
Game freezes after 5 minutes

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>>175623489

>>175623228
I like the tweet where he bitches about his grandma talking too much while he tries to make a video

that in itself tells me everything I need to know about him as a person

>>175623647
I wish my grandma was still alive to talk during my videos.

>>175617042
C
>>175616676
Why would I be embarrassed by the tools I use? I can make a dogshit pixel platformer in UE4 and a gorgeous 3d RPG in Unity. What you use is irrelevant, what matters is the result. Also, C# is comfy as fuck.

>>175623724
iktf anon :(

>>175617042
sea

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What do you like to listen to when doing heavy duty programming?

>>175624234
My neighbors fucking

>>175624234
My dad shouting and my mom crying

>>175624234
I don't listen to anything while working.

>>175624234
My grandma talking too much.

>>175620396
One man army here.
Seeing people who fell for the cooperation meme gives me such delicious schadenfreude.

>>175622338
>hi i'm new to art
>so... I'll make 10000x10000 assets to get my feet wet

>>175625189
The bigger it is it easier it is, less pixels means smaller flaws are more visible.
32x32 is the hardest resolution because all pixels are easily visible so it has to be perfect.

>>175624234
nothing, or stuff I like but don't like a whole lot, otherwise I'll be too busy grooving out

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>Did some stuff in the morning/afternoon
>Didn't do anything else all day despite not even having internet/cable due to a crazy storm

Welp, tomorrow is another day.

>>175625189
not sure what you're implying but it sounds like you're saying artists should start drawing on little 2cm x 2cm pieces of paper before moving up to postcard size, then to 8x10, then bigger etc which is a pretty funny though

>>175624234
honestly I'd like to say something but I already have ADHD so whenever I listen to music I just zone out in the music and start analyzing the lyrics and go on "auto-pilot mode" without even realizing what is going on.

>>175625821
I've honestly considered getting some graph paper, doodling a tiny dude in each square and scanning it in.

>>175625821
size != detail

>>175625648
I always mutter "mulligan" to myself at the end of days like that.

>tfw can't be original with 16x16 anymore because all possible sprites have already been drawn
I just copy pokemon sprites because they already achieved the most perfect designs possible.

Is it just me or is the Lua C API a bit of a mess to work with?

>>175626319
>>175625456
I worked really hard on these baits and I demand (You)s.

#175626815
No.

>>175626319
What are you talking about? Even if we're just talking monochrome, there are 2^256 possible 16x16 sprites. That's approximately 10^77. If everybody in the world alive today had been making a sprite every second since the beginning of the universe, they'd only have made 10^27 sprites.

>>175626948
>Ultra (You)
Woah, thanks Anon.

>>175617042
B is preddy gud, but loses to C due to the fact that the detail is not applied to the shadowy areas.
And what the hell is that watermark doing there?

#175627043
Nice try.

>>175619331
Your writing is not nearly good enough to utilize this loadscreen-hiding mechanic.

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Got re-bindable keys working again and now the help text displays the appropriate controls. I'll need to add some kind of warning that a key got automatically rebound later.

Should I add loading screens even if my game loads pretty much instantly?

>>175626668
Yeah, a bit. The biggest annoyance to me is the inability to obtain a handle to any Lua object, particularly closures. If you want scripts to be able to register callbacks for engine events, you have to do some stupid trick like storing the callbacks in a global table and using the table key as the "handle" on the native side. Meanwhile, with Python you can just take the PyObject* and keep it wherever you want. (Not that Python is perfect, either.)

>>175620396
>unable to emulate an "artist's" "work"
And to think I almost pitied the guy.

>>175627212
>even more
Nice nice nice nice nice nice nice.

>>175627320
>not artificially extending loadtimes to fool players into thinking that some quality background stuff is going on

>>175627387
Let's see your Mona Lisa emulation.

>monster jam
>not monster mash

Turn in your fucking badge.

hey guys, what's the best way to approach "3D" arrays in gamemaker?

i'll only need 8 "3D" arrays with 16 slots of data, each of those 16 slots containing 3 sub-pieces of data each

>>175627894
ds_lists inside a ds_grid

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>>175627820
I took some liberties due to the fact that this is a mongolian pottery board.

Should you ever pay more than some small amount, say $5, for a game made in GameMaker, Godot, Unity, etc.? I don't feel that it's right to reward lazy developers and studios.

>>175627990
oh goddamn, i was hoping there'd be something better than that, but i'll just have to make do

thanks anyways, i hope yoyo games considers adding multidimensional arrays eventually

>>175628164
Is this what you're doing with your night?

Does anyone else use Pico-8?

I think it's pretty fun

>>175628224
What do you mean, anon?

>>175628164
Of course not, indie games are purely hobbit endeavors and you're getting scammed if you ever buy one.

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>>175628164
>paying any amount of currency for someone's hobby

>>175628164
it's all about artistic vision and execution, anon

>>175628332
IS it true they harass you if you don't sign a contract with them?

>>175628305
>hobbit endeavors

How bad an idea is it to make maps in Blender?

>>175629094
Its the standard way for years now. Source and BSP shit is outdated. The more modular your assets the better

>>175628164
If you can clearly tell what the game was made in it's a bad game.

>>175624234
EUROBEAT

>>175628575
I'm pretty sure they do either way.

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>>175624234

>>175629606
I on the other hand am smart enough to do two things at once.

i do not understand why all of you hate monster girl gamu. it is a great game everybody should play

>>175629703
But you won't do those two things as good as you would doing the one thing

I'm looking for a friend.
Who wants to be my friend? No devving necessary.

>>175629717
>it is a [...] game
Is it?

>>175629785
What's in it for me?

>>175629819
of course!

>>175629717
No one ever mentions your game here, you get about 2 replies hating on your occasional stupid pointless shilling post but that's it.

>>175629781
I'd rather dev at 50/50 than listen to music at 100%.

>>175629898
It's not even shilling dude. It's just shitposting.

>>175629898
speaking the truth is shilling?

>>175629839
I can provide you plenty of carefree discussions and jokes, I can adapt to your preferences and I'm not needy at all, I can handle not getting replies for days without a problem.

>>175629785
What engine do you use?

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>>175629983
>not devving at 100% and using the remaining 50% to listen to Turner Classic Movies

>>175630060
>I'm not needy at all
As can be seen by your original post.

>>175624234
lo-fi hiphop. Just smooth beats with little-to-no lyrics.
When I art I can listen to music with lyrics though.

>>175624234

Lyrical cafe music or environmental sound playlists on Spotify. Something that kills the dead air, but isn't distracting.

>>175624234
The soundtracks of successful indie games.

>>175630162
I'm just looking for a casual relationship without drama, there's no commitment and I won't bother you if you bail out.

>>175630063
You can ask these personal questions once we know each other better.

>>175628575
They don't harass, at least I've never heard of that happening. They just like/follow then unfollow the next day random gamedevs on twitter and tumblr in hopes that a gamedev will sign with them.

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>>175630543

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Aside from the fact that I can't seem to get sprites to tile properly (you would think that 8 pixel sprites scaled by 16x should be 128 units apart, but apparently there is some conversion factor between sprite pixels and Unity units that I can't work out), what is that yellow line along the left of some of the dirt tiles? Weird.

>>175630681
>unity for 2d
seriously who the fuck is fooling so many devs into doing this?

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>>175630681
>2D
>Unity

>>175630681
You've got a spritesheet fuckup going on. Look at all the weird lines on each of the tiles; they're parts of other tiles.

>>175630681
its a slice of the tile next to it on the spritesheet.
you can see it in every tile if you look

you can do pixel perfect in unity but it takes some work

>>175630681
>what is that yellow line along the left of some of the dirt tiles?
The same as the blue and green lines on other tiles. It's another tile's graphic seeping into it.
Also
>Unity3D
>for 2D

>>175630852
>rixels
I mean I guess it looks pretty good YOU HEATHEN

>>175630852
I can't tell, does crashing into another ship cause damage? Anyway it's weird seeing them fly through each other, I feel like they should bounce or something, especially if both have their shields up.

>>175630852
Oh shit, this is still alive?
I was enjoying the progress on this last year.

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>>175630852
Smooth. Simple. Efficient. Inspired by Luftrausers' visuals?

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How's your progress going?
Can you see the light at the end of the tunnel?

>>175631695
The only light I see is the sun rising after another night of nodev.

>>175631695
yeah my GDD is nearing completion

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I didn't have much time to code tonight because of a tabletop, but I did put in a small thing.

Sometimes you gotta
do a little dance
make a little love
get down tonight

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>>175631326
I picked it back up

I reach the finish line
But there is no light
The day has run its course
What a terrible night to have a curse

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>>175631695
Going slowly but progressing.
>can you see the light at the end of the tunnel
HA.
My shit is going to take YEARS if I really do keep to it.

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>demo day in 3 days
>haven't touched my game in 3 months

>>175632189
Why is the hand cursor so far away from the items.

>>175630852
>>175631092
>>175632104
Seriously though, why the fuck do you use rixels? You only even have to draw the silhouette.

>>175632272

Was really hoping I'd have combat in for demo day, but I'll just have to wait for the next one I guess.

Reminder that you can't have a game without an idea, but you can have an idea without a game.

My rates are low, I accept both flat payments and revenue shares.

>>175632475
It didn't used to, just thought I'd see what people thought

>>175632781
Give us a free sample.

>>175632901
Just remember that you were guaranteed at least one autistic cunt bitching about rixels and that doesn't mean it looks bad (what you have now looks good).

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>>175632438
Just some issue with the shifting variable I think. I'll fix it later.

I got tons of small bugs like that. Not going to do much bugfixing till I get more major parts done in case I realize I did something retarded and there was a better way anyways (happened recently with my camera).

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>>175632508
>I'll just have to wait for the next one I guess.
>tfw I've been saying this same thing since DD3

>>175632957
Dungeon Keeper but it's a haunted mansion and you have to spook invaders to death, their souls can be used to make more spooks.

>>175633070

I mean honestly it's still very early. All I have is dungeon crawling movement and other hooks for an actual game that I've worked on an off during my spare time while getting school work done.

The tough part will be the combat, but I can't wait to dive into it after finals when my head is cleared out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mVqv-NWW4E

If I post a game on Steam at some point would you guys help me get it greenlit?

>>175633638
Yeah, if you posted progress regularly here. "No" votes literally don't matter, so you're sure to get some up votes just by posting here.

You need to hurry the fuck up though, greenlight is dying. If you don't have something up within a month you may already be too late.

>>175633638
I will vote for it and not hate on you if you posted progress here but I won't help with marketing.

>>175633638
I upvote every non-whodev greenlight that gets posted here, without exception.

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>>175620396
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z-cXdFMByM

And the superior kerfuffle wins;

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set up the item get screen, turned out funnier than i thought

also have a gif I recorded from the egypt level because why not

https://a.pomf.cat/ivzutd.mp4

>>175633740
If greenlight goes away then I guess steam direct is my only option? I suppose at least then I won't need votes, just cash.

>>175633741
>>175633756
Thanks anons. I plan to start posting progress once I've stopped rapidly trying and throwing out things.

>>175634000
Correct.

Failing that, there are other platforms, but you'll likely see 1/60th of the income on them. Number is literally what I got, I'm not just pulling it out of my ass.

>>175624234
anything that can shut the voices on my head

>>175633972
Anon, I'm super excited for this game. Keep up the good work!

>>175624517
kek

>>175607816
The US constitution but all mention of the words "the United States" have been crossed out and replaced with "Nicolas Cage"

>>175633972
>grabbing stuff results in a punching sound
It's the little things that make life worth living.

>>175634929
and all of the long s'es are replaced with f's

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I decided to try this gamedev thing out, so I downloaded unity and did this in an evening.

I kinda want to build a sidescroller, modern day, rpg but I'm not 100% sure if it'd work well. Maybe I should take a more "papermarioesque" aproach?

>>175633972
Everytime I see a post of this game I get this nostalgia wave of this dungeon crawling game I played on my Nintendo DS ages ago. Think it was made by Id software.

Really looks cool

hey if anyone needs an ost, i wanna work for video game music. I have some shit to listen to as well if you so desire

>>175635383
Dementium?

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>>175635502
just googled it to remember, it's Orcs & Elves. it feels like turn-based Heretic/Hexen

>>175633972
looks fucking great, I love the grab animation.

>>175635383
>>175635502
Okay I assumed you meant the game had an Id aesthetic and thus thought Dementium but apparently Id actually made a dungeon crawling game for the Nintendo DS. Never would've guessed.

>>175635457
post soundcloud

>>175635672
https://soundcloud.com/agdgost/sample
unfortunately it's the only one i have right now.
all the others were lost

>>175635664
I think they made the engine for phone games (like for Java based phones) based on Wolfenstein and Doom, but ended up making them turn based dungeon crawlers because lol phones, and then it just made sense to make a fantasy themed game in the engine.

>>175634929
weak iteration on the meme desu

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hey artists and ideaguys

what's your workflow for getting a visual reference guide? do you just put all your refs in a folder, do you open up photshop and make a collage, drop it all in word? what if i also want some annotations on each image?

>find an artist who seemed enthusiastic about collaborating
>we click creatively
>made great concept sketches
>ghosts me after a week

what did she mean by this?

>>175636078
Simple, but catchy. First 20 seconds are shit though.

>>175628305
well hobbit endeavors seem to go pretty well, why wouldn't I want to support them?
>captcha: General CLOSE

>>175636494
>flakey female artist post
So easy it has to be bait.

>>175636494
>girl
>artist
>internet
Take your pick of reasons

>>175636408
>giving cacodemons appendages
NO NO NO

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>>175636494
>artist flakes out
Damn, that's a surprise.

>>175636554
fair enough
i started it off with something else in mind, but i did decide to go elsewhere with it after the start

>>175636580

I first met her in person, that's the amusing part. And she was the one who initiated.

>>175636408
Folders. Subfolders for bg, characters, sometimes a folder for reference for a particular idea if it's big enough.

I use Image Eye to look at them and make a temporary collage on my screen. Wish I had something better for that though. There's padlet.com but I want something offline

>what if i also want some annotations on each image

if you find a solution to that, let us know, I want this too

>>175636739
>And she was the one who initiated.
You would think that would mean she was really interested in pursuing something with you wouldn't you?

>>175636494
my guess, she chickened out, maybe from some bad past experience

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Implemented game pause. Also, I never showed off the HUD, so here it is. The coin counter has a progress bar attached that fills up with coins collected, and the health progress bar is filled up whenever the robot hits a wrench.

>>175632958
Yeah I know

Thank you senpai

>>175637934
I had assumed that the Matrix parodies died with the change of decades. It appears I was wrong.

>>175638068
The free camera in pause is usable if you want to view the level from above :).

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Using SDL, is it better to process keyboard input via events, or via keyboard state?

>>175634203
>>175635149
>>175635639
thanks guys :D glad its working for you all

>>175635383
thanks. You might be thinking of orcs & elves? I think that was developed by id. dark spire is another cool ds dungeon crawler

has anyone here reached profitability to the point where you're making more than you would have made from a "real" job?

>>175632272
it hurts
I want to dev but I hate all my existing games and I never have enough time to spin up a new one

>>175638945
If anyone has, they are on this list: http://homph.com/steam/
Anyone <20k copies I wouldn't expect to answer that question positively though.

>>175637934
could you make it so the coins get pulled toward you from a certain distance like how it works in ratchet in clank because it looks like it would be a real pain to try to collect all the coins

>Go on Discord
>it's a 175 blocked messages episode

I love the ability to block retards.

>>175618020
this looks fucking cool how does it only have 1 reply

>>175639084
I thought about it. The coins from a box will probably get this feature. Not all the coins, because it will make the game too easy.

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>>175638945
I've reached profitability where I have my food expenses for every month covered by my game, and I work a normal job for more money...

>>175622178
just saw this, thank you

>>175627072
the watermark comes from unreal, it says "preview"

havent used unreal enough to know when it gets taken out, presumably at build time

How legit is the Learn C++ and Make Games udemy course if i get it for free??

What's a good engine to use for an Advance Wars style game?

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>>175640386
>videos
>learning
reeeeeee


Also if it's free, just fucking grab it and judge for yourself.

>>175640386
>>175640438
Videos are great for learning you fucking mongol.
>>175640437
All of them are fine

>>175638945
Probably only the gay furryshit porn """"game"""" will make that much.
If you want to make money, just make porn. The less gameplay your game has, the better it will sell.

>>175640485
>Videos are great for learning you fucking mongol.
t. millennial who grew up on ADHD youtube videos and bought in hard on the "reading is retarded" meme
Enjoy your shit dev + confusion as to why everything seems to go shitty for you lol

>>175640581
Some people learn better with actual instruction as opposed to reading and copying from a text book. It has nothing to do with ADHD.

>>175640759
videos are as good or better than text for 90% of things

videos are specifically really bad for coding

>>175640841
Oh, right, I meant to specify coding. Obviously videos are great for shit like learning form for sports, cooking, building physical things, art, etc...

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>>175620396
That's pretty fucked.

>>175640841
how does that even remotely make sense...? You can read everything that's going on, no problem AND you get a visual aid.

>>175640437
i would make my own engine for it but almost anything would be ok, like gamemaker studio, or unity if you want 3d graphics

>>175607723
>C++
there's your problem

>>175607723
is this bait? you read the whole book in 24 hours? did you even do the practice questions? it's not a story book; you can't read it quickly and expect to absorb all the information about C++ in the book. I've got no hope for you.

>>175640993
Too slow
Too hard for referencing
Visual aid feature is essentially useless