/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

I love you, /agdg/, and I love seeing the progress you all make!

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Autism intensifies

I love semen, I mean /agdg/, and I love seeing all the progress I make!

If I make a super simple game (like going from home to school, just one level) but gives the option to play in diferent settings:
>Story (a text adventure)
>Music (a shitty game with good orchestral pop music)
>Graphics (PBR meme AAA graphics)
>Gameplay (8 bit nes actual game).

Will people consider I'm innovative and give me awards?

>>180126650
https://www.mediafire.com/?41slld21h3zi65r

I forgot

>>180126676
I wont care

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>tfw vidya playlist isn't even one month long and ffshrine forums are down so can't get more
can barely dev in these conditions lads

>>180126676
Someone already did that, except each style had multiple levels and gameplay.

But if you make yours free, sure, I guess do whatever.

>>180126676
You have to insert a political message or talk about mental disorders. The rest doesn't matter.

>>180126826
sauce?

>>180126806
I just listen to this for 4 hours on repeat while devving.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9186rZtCQM

Technologies to use for a browser game? Ideally multiplayer, but doesn't need to be.

redpill me on godot

>>180126650
>average blueprint screenshot

>>180126806
>not listening to extreme metal when making a cute game
Aphex Twin works great too

>>180126974
Do you want to make video games? Godot is one of many game engines that is capable of making video games. Godot is particularly good at 2D.

>>180126974
godot can't even do 2D arrays

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How do you like your Egyptian Mythology senpai.

>>180127220
2D arrays are just arrays within arrays

>>180127220
t.dumb faggot

>>180126882
W- would a game with a message against excessive drone killing be super duper popular? Like, 32 Twitter followers popular?

>>180126974
It's a buggy shit, use anything else for anything else.

>>180127319
I look forward to battling through levels of pixelshit so I can fap to softcore porn guest starring Mr.Crocodile

>>180127517
Anti-war isn't trendy these days. Not to mention you are way too lukewarm on the subject
>excessive drone killing
>not just drone killing

I am the most talented gamedev ever.

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>>180127319

>>180127697
I could sample real screams from real warzones and give it an edgy quality, would that work?

>>180102682
This game is looking really cool. One thing I'm not fond of is how similar all the ships look, to the point where even your own ship can be hard to pick out if there's enough on screen. Also do the player bullets need to be so small? Aiming accurately with that kind of control scheme is already pretty hard.

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>>180127517
>excessive drone killing
poor drones

EEEVVERRRRR

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Why are there so many Godot shills here if there are no Godot games?

>>180127914
Drone killing is the untold crime of our generation
Kill all eagles

>>180126925
I'll be honest I don't remember the name. But the game would go from SNES-tier graphics up to full 3D

>>180127994
s-shut up

>>180126826
>>180128034
You talking about Evoland? That and the sequel were pretty shitty games.

>>180126676
Pony Island did that too, in a way. Though that wasn't their USP, so go nuts.

>>180127697
what about a game that's majorly pro-drone because it keeps the troops safe and saves money?

Since the last thread got torched I'm putting it here:
Any advice on creating a 2D RPG from scratch when it comes to graphics. I would prefer to write it in C++. Graphics are the only things that I might have trouble with. Mechanics will be relatively easy to implement.

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ahem

Is it better to sculpt your landscape in a 3d modeling software, or do it in Unreals landscape tools?

https://pastebin.com/ZJrkkXHQ

I made some sort of floaty inertia controls for my car game, the only problem is when you release the direction key for any direction but Right ('D'), the vehicle pulls to the right a little bit. Any idea why?

godot editor is actually made using godot engine, give me an engine that has a better and easier gui

>>180128227
gamemaker or unity

>>180128227
use unity, it uses c# but its very similar

>>180128227
There's so many RPG maker tilesets out there, you oughta have graphics and artistic inspiration to last you a lifetime.

http://evoland.shirogames.com/

wow, someone made your idea but better.

RIP

>>180127914
>Unity is real

>>180127994
shhh

>>180128173
No, that's gay
I want my anti-war-drone game

>>180128227
>Any advice [...] Graphics are the only things that I might have trouble with.
well I guess you need an artist then
you should start looking for one (but not here, there's a weird meme that won't fucking die about artists looking for programmers that makes it nearly impossible to hold a conversation about it)

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I fucking love skeleton enemies

>>180128805
He's a big guy

>>180128615
how about this
>you play as a peaceful refugee
>you are only trying to bring about the caliphate
>an evil drone spots you when you were about to peacefully blow up some infidels

that way you showcase how drones stand in the way of the caliphate

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nice just in time for new thread to post some progress before sleep.

added some things since last time, a bunch actually.
>lots of juicy effects and materials
>there's actually real bullets with physics now instead of just an linetrace - applydamage
>bullets ricochet
>new map scene asset things scifi styled
>working minimap although it doesn't show anything but the player


the weird looking alignment of that bullet and crosshair, i'm going to add lasersight to weapon and remove crosshair for more immersion and that's gonna make it more accurate since it shows you the exact spot the guns pipe is pointing

that light grey box on left is box for quest stuff, which works, but still needs some refining.

And also I've decided some gameplay aspects, it's going to be like slenderman with guns, you got timelimit(maybe optional) to find required items and some other stuff in order to proceed to next level while bad guys are wanting to rape you.

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>>180127697
>>180128173
You goddamn glazed donuts are missing the point, you're supposed to be supporting the agenda to kill off billions of people, because that's the popular sentiment right now. Everyone wants to cull the herd

>>180128859
It doesn't help the character I'm playing as is a manlet.

>>180128871
No, I will make a game about shooting a lot of squishy orange bunny things

Then near the end, in a twist never before seen in gaming, it will be revealed the squishy bunny things were humans all along.

I feel the BAFTA, boys. I'll mention you guys in the speech.

>>180128932
wow

MOST TALENTED

Gameplay at last
https://streamable.com/lwsat

How does agdg plan the program structure of their games?

I'm currently just adding stuff without much prior thought and the program is becoming a hard-to-handle mess.

>>180129159
Just like refactor game

>>180129159
in software development you write down the requirements of your game and then design how it will work before coding anything
you could try that approach

>>180129156
10/10

>>180127319
What I don't like is furfaggotry.

>>180126460
>picture
I'm really enjoying our descent into a vortex of cocks. I think it suits AGDG.

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>inb4 unity is too bloated for 2D

>>180129156
Sound effects really make a huge difference.

>>180127319
We

>>180129482
someone post the cute bull terrier with the agdg logo.

>>180129156
>those particle effects at the end
ANON WTF Y ARE U NOT WORKING FOR NINTENDO OR SOMETHING??

>>180128932
Those smoke puffs on bullet impact are ridiculous. It's like the walls were made out of chalk powder or something.

Seems like you did a good job making the 3rd person controller but how much of it is standard Unreal stuff? and are any of the assets your own?

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>mfw I have to make a truck driving simulator in unity for a college project and just keep kicking around the bush and not doing anything

Id rather be cooking rcandy

>>180128348
>>180128330

Don't these force me to releases my game under their licensing and stuff? I'm not too keen on that.

>>180129156
I raffed

>>180129958
godot then you little memer, it will have C++ bindings in 3.0

>>180129958
Not as far as I know with Unity, you can use SDL if you want.

>>180129156
>wakamoto robot

i approve

>>180129156
You're not supposed to make the memes about your games yourself.

>>180128932
Is that all placeholder or is it your final art? I mean the environment and the FX.

>>180130238
All is fair in love and game development

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>>180129156
How long did this take you?

>>180129156
>tfw I would unironically buy a game with this as a trailer

>>180130418
is Japanese really that great?

>>180130351
longer than it should

>>180130238
I saw my character get glitched into the sky... and I couldn't help myself.

>>180130083
I see you're a man of taste as well

>>180130567
そ です

>>180129327
That's only because the prevalent method of software design is OOP, which resists change.

>>180129712
controller? you mean the actual player controller or the animationblueprint? is just animations blending with eachother, like anyother, i don't know what you mean by standard ue stuff, how else you can even make it?
and the 3d models are from internets

>>180130282
i do this project for fun and im happy with those effects so yeah theyre final, ofc theyre easy to modify so no problem if i change mind

>>180129091
nice men against fire clone

>>180129006
I don't want to
and I was actually serious about the drone thing, we should continue moving towards unmanned combat

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So, Assuming I make a KSP clone, as in a game with the same concept of designing and flying spacecraft, what could the goal be?

Follow a sequence of missions?

>>180131109
I just googled that and it's not a game

There's one level that plays itself, but calling my game a tv series is kind of a stretch

I'm ripping of Spec Ops: The Line, ok

>>180131232
You'd have plenty of making just getting a KSP style spacecraft building implemented.

>>180130919
>i do this project for fun and im happy with those effects so yeah theyre final
Yeah I wasn't complaining about it, it's just that I don't recognize those assets, they look quite nice but super generic and if you were planning on actually taking this further it might have a negative impact. Since you are only doing this for fun I guess it doesn't matter.
Good progress.

>>180126973
I'm pretty sure every engine supports exporting to HTML (somewhat).
When it comes to multiplayer, UE4 supports it the best. Unity has something builtin, but I don't don't know of what quality.
Other than that, there is a Photon Bolt asset for Unity, obviously not free.

>>180130892
videogames also use OOP, games change constantly during development but writing down what are you going to implement and seeing how it interacts with what you already have before doing it could help to structure the code

>>180127994
>posted 4 finished small games on Godot here already
>every time everybody ignored em completely
>now asks why there are no Godot games
Because you retards are not interested in games and devving at all. All you want to do is to shitpost all day long.

>>180131707
>videogames also use OOP
They shouldn't, and many don't. Data oriented design originates from the game industry (unsurprisingly, from the more advanced and efficient engines like Frostbite and Bitsquid).

>writing down what are you going to implement and seeing how it interacts with what you already have before doing it could help to structure the code
It could, but it's also a waste of time if you write flexible procedural code that can be "compressed" using composition, higher order functions, etc.
https://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0019.html

>>180131817
>comes to shitpost central
>complaints about shitposting

you know there are better sites to discuss game development, leave us with our memes and shitposts

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>>180131817
Then work on a BIG game.

>>180126973
>>180131573
I think Unity Unet works with webgl. The restriction might have been that you can't host from a webgl client.

Hi guys I am sorry for the argument earlier about drag forces. I shouldn't of insult the guy trying to help me.

Figured out my car bullshit controls, and I almost have my collisions working. However, the vehicle I'm ramming will only go left or down, if I try to hit it upwards, it goes down. Very irritating. This is my collision code:

var movedir = direction;
var movespd = vspeed + hspeed;
var force = (movespd*(weight - other.weight))/10;

with (other){
motion_add(movedir, force);
alarm[0] = 1 * room_speed/3;
}

The alarm just gives control back to the car that was rammed.

>>180132252
>var movespd = vspeed + hspeed;
This is really, really wrong.

>>180132252
Oops, mean right or down. The rammed cars only go right and down.

>>180130892
How so, if you refuse to use inheritance?

>>180132005
>apologizing
not gonna make it

>>180132507
Encapsulation leads to shared mutable state (unless you are very disciplined about ownership and don't mind a tonne of boilerplate) which leads to spaghetti code which resists change. Inheritance is just the cherry on top of the shit sundae.

>>180129862
Is this supposed to actually use unity's physics, or can you """"""fake"""""" physics?
In the former case I would shoot mysef.

>>180132696
Its supposed to look like driving a truck, they dont know anything about computers, its a development project, not teaching

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more of that practice

>>180132609
You are attacking shared mutable state more than OOP itself (it just so happens that OOP languages do not support immutable classes because not many people ask for these)

I haven't devved in a month
I have ascended to a level beyond the nodev
and college didn't even start yet it will be worse then

>>180133479
It will probably be better, actually
Not being able to dev is the biggest nodev killer known to man

>>180133438
I'm asserting that OOP encourages shared mutable state because otherwise you have to write way too much boilerplate. Also OOP style encapsulation is way too strict. Information hiding within modules is much more useful.

>>180133421
Nice Gumby hairpiece

>>180132696
I had to do something similar but in java. Everyone faked the physics and the teacher never knew.

>>180131573
Good point. Thanks.

>Can't stop trying to make everyone in my game a nazi
Does this happen to anyone else after 50+ hours of uninterrupted consciousness?

>every thread there is some reply chains about some computer science theory or optimization data thing or another
how do I get to be on the same level of you whiz kids

>>180134284
Be curious. This kind of thing generally isn't taught, you have to find it and try it yourself.

>>180134284
90% of the people talking about those topics have no idea what they are talking about. Don't join in on the shitposting.

>>180131908
>Data oriented design
interesting i didn't know about this

i don't really care about using oop or a different methodology but when you have a lot of people working in a project, coming and going the structure of oop can make the job easier

anyway my point was to write things down to think how to implement them before throwing code at the screen and then realizing your work was useless or having to do 'ugly' things to reuse the code

>>180134284
>what is google
>what are the /sci/ and /g/ wiki on computer science
>what are the MIT lectures on youtube
>what are books

>>180133569
I'm not sure what kind of boilerplate (in the best case possible) are you talking about. When you combine OOP with immutability, you get functions that transform data - it's just that these functions are bound to specific datatypes.
Said functions might as well even be declared outside of the datatype declaration.
Of course there are always functions that just shouldn't be part of a class, but in many cases functions are made for transforming verry specific datatype anyway.

how do I get placeholder music?

>>180134284
Become a CS loser.

>>180134531
I don't think Nintendo read any of /g/'s books
>/sci/
So not only are you reading a library to write your own kernel, you're going to write a physics emulator for a custom CPU architecture for that kernel as well?
I just want to make a game, not get a NEET degree

>>180134959
I think you want things without putting in effort

>>180134959
simply start small retard.
make pong, then breakout, then maybe tetris, galaga, then maybe make a platformer, then a metroidvania, then a rpg, then a 3D game.

>>180135151
then an MMO

>>180134959
A company like nintendo who writes their own engines has read all the /g/ books.

>>180135292
Has Nintendo EVER released ANY source for anything?

Hi I'm Nintendo read SICP.

>>180134959
>>180135292
The people who work at Nintendo are the ones who WRITE the /g/ books.

>>180134453
>anyway my point was to write things down to think how to implement them before throwing code at the screen and then realizing your work was useless
I think that's just as valuable, if not more so, than planning things on paper. If you just write code and abstract as you need instead of trying to make your abstractions first, it's not really possible to waste code.

>or having to do 'ugly' things to reuse the code
Where do you get this idea from?

>>180134534
>I'm not sure what kind of boilerplate (in the best case possible) are you talking about.
In my experience it's because encapsulation at the class level forces you to write a lot of forwarding methods, getters and setters. Granted, encapsulation at any level forces this. I'm a big fan of making everything public and using automatic assertions (like in Ada) or proofs (with dependent types) to maintain invariants.

>When you combine OOP with immutability, you get functions that transform data - it's just that these functions are bound to specific datatypes.
Making everything immutable is a poor solution for efficiency reasons.

>>180131418
Would streamline spacecraft design, no surface mounting, just stack and radial

Also reduce part count, have big parts with a list of modules, each modules takes volume from the available and adds mass
As a matter of fact, each segment or stage would be one big part with some external modules such as engines, antennas, doors, solar panels

>>180135151
Ummm sweetie?
The new path is now pong, rock paper scissors, flappy bird, magic 8 ball app, idle game, VN, VN with RPG elements, RPG, RPG with in app purchases, then 2d self playing RPG with in app purchases

>>180135480
>goyim editor skin

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Progress: I made a map for ma game.

>>180135954
is it a murder mystery

>>180119014
hey, I remember your textures. Nice.

>>180128227
SFML

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>>180135954
How do you get to these places?

>>180132296
What's wrong with that? It's just to get a rough idea of how fast the vehicle is moving to knock a little more force into the car getting rammed.

>>180136510
I'm assuming the black line between buildings are alleyways

>>180135842
>Making everything immutable is a poor solution for efficiency reasons.
Unless datatypes are persistent, so that updated versions don't need to copy all the data from the original, just references.

>>180136584
Let's say your car is moving directly up. vspeed will be negative, hspeed will be zero. Thus you are applying negative motion up, i.e. down.

It should just be movespd = speed.

>>180136627
That requires garbage collection.

Quick, the thread garbage collector is coming around, if you haven't posted progress recently the thread will decide that you are no longer useful and you will be removed!

>>180136584
read Pythagoras theorem

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>>180136889

>>180137120
>Am I being detained?

>>180136510
"house" is part of the toü right street and "shooting range" is part of the police station.

>>180137397
>toü
top

I give up.

>>180137596
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F5p1_hR2Ws

What do you call a garbage collector that doesn't cost anything? The janitor.

>>180127994
But I am making a game in Godot. And I plan to make the first big Godot success.
Also just because someone likes Godot doesn't make them a shill. If that were the case there are shills for every engine.

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>>180129612

>>180138245
>If that were the case there are shills for every engine.
And that is true.

>>180138245
>And I plan to make the first big Godot success.
When do you expect to release it?
Just asking for a friend...

>>180138903
s-soon, only like 3 years away

>>180139062
Great, maybe godot 3 will be out by then!

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I HAD ABANDONED MY GAMEDEV DREAMS /AGDG/!
I WANT TO YESDEV AGAIN!
SHOW ME THE RIGHT PATH!

>>180141997
You are lost forever, my boy. Destined to endlessly follow the path of a nodev.

>>180141997
https://youtu.be/1K3cfilPAWc?t=3m22s

>>180133421
the upper half of the face bothers me more the more I look at it, the proportions are pretty uniformly a bit too big there
otherwise this is lookin' pretty sweet man

>>180129556
wuz furries?

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>>180142117

NO PLEASE

>>180142165
But it's too hard anon.

>>180127319
it really wouldn't bother me as much if he didn't look like a fucking 8-year-old on top of all the gay implications

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>>180129159
your plan is not important, what matters is your end result

Heard joke once: Man goes to agdg. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what sells ahead is vague and uncertain. Anon says, "Treatment is simple. Great shitposter and neck-memer gogem is in the thread tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But anon...I am gogem.

>>180134284
more often than not, it's not, it's code and concepts from GameMaker and Unity, it just looks like hot shit because those engines are really complicated

writing code to offload/load stuff. lining up my arrays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWBmaKk32fE

where I can download free sounds without signing up BS?

>>180119014
What's your game about

>>180127319
Release when Anubis-dev?

>>180142396
now that you say it, i can't unsee it... its hard to keep proportions consistent because i tend to focus feature by feature

>>180142996
What the fuck are you talking about?

>have no idea what to use as background music
>0 inspiration
>put on youtube random words plus the word music
>playlists with music
>hours of content
wow

Brand new to Godot and am only just out of the documentation and into playing around with something myself. I've got the little man moving but I've run into an issue. So my player is a scene that's then imported onto the scene for the world. I was fiddling around with the movement speed in the script and I found I had to save and reimport to get it to update in the scene where the object was imported. Is this just going to be something I have to keep in mind or have I missed something?

>>180145169
Use sissy hypno tracks

I'm aiming to release my game in mid 2018, please make fun of me if I fail.

>>180145868
You don't need to do that, just save the scene and all instances of it will be updated.

>>180145868
Is your speed an exported var? If it is it means the value is exported to the editor to allow you to edit it there. Which means changing the variable in the script wont change the value if it was changed in the editor.

>>180146075
This made me take a look again. I found pretty much what >>180146270 said. The value in the box is what matters, rather than the one in the code. Thanks you two.

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Would you guys play a game about a cat who falls into wonderland, meets a fairy, and turns into a real girl, switching between forms and cooperating with the fairy to solve puzzles?

>>180146943
Sounds like a furry game tbqh anon

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Anyone else using haxe?

Animating multiple facing angles on sprites when there's animations involved is such a nightmare.
It's getting to the point where I'm thinking of learning how to 3D model for my next game. I've put in so much work and I get 4 facing angles that look kinda clunky as they switch between, it's pathetic.

It's no wonder platformers reign supreme. I'm starting to truly believe 3D modeling is much easier than sprites, at least when it comes to this stuff. Really appreciating the sprite creation methods Dungeon Keeper 1 and Diablo 1 & 2 used, although that was from an era inbetween the dimensional generation, these days I guess you go full 3D.

>>180146983

It IS a furry game. Maybe with a splash of hentai.

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>>180146983
It's just a cute game about a cat solving puzzles, anon. Inspired by an old ass GB game.

>>180147020
You can still render 3d into sprites. It opens up some very cool aesthetic options that are much harder to do with pure 2d or pure 3d. There's also the benefit of not necessarily needing as much detail as regular 3d and you can hide a lot of imperfections with some tweaking when making your sprites.

>>180147103
how does being a cat help. cats can't push blocks

>>180147103
All that was just to kill that one nigga ?

Goddamn, fucking puzzle games

But sounds cute anon, I'd give it a try

>>180147464
The cat can climbing walls, go fast, jump high, and jump long distances and having a hover when the fairy is with her. So basically the form is for actual platforming.

>>180147491
I spent an embarassing amount of time to solve that puzzle as you can see by the timer.

>>180144378
Hoping for sometime this year. Like October at the earliest.

>>180146943
nice momodora iv: reverie in the moonlight clone (puzzle version)

>>180147712
That series has 4 games already?

>>180147765
he even posted progress on iv in /agdg/ for a few days

>>180127319
I like my mythology like I like my men: gay and furry

>>180147810
Heh, damn. I missed that. Last I had heard, it was on 2. I didn't think enough time passed that a 4 was out.

>>180147865
it was when gwyn (the obvious momodora rip off) was still being posted here, he got extremely butthurt about it and left

>>180147947
I do remember hearing about that.

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Here's an obscenely small amount of progress. I got around to adding some fancy particle effects to activated checkpoints. I'm happy with it.

>>180147462
I doubt the extra pipeline work is worth it for these 'aesthetic options'. People seem to think it looks ugly anyway, I've sadly seen people say Donkey Kong Country series looks like shit.

For someone new to 3D it's probably more trouble than it's worth.

>>180133548
Only true when you haven't experienced serious responsibilities and actually have no time. Then the opposite occurs and when you have any period of prolonged free time you become a god of progress.

>>180131817
Where's your STEAM game?

>>180148173
>People seem to think it looks ugly anyway
I've never really heard anyone say that but that might be how the average consumer sees it.

Diablo 1+2 and old CRPGs have a fairly timeless aesthetic because of the style they used. Pillars of Eternity looked fabulous. There's also Ghost Trick for a cartoony style using the same technique.

Sure, pipeline wise it needs some effort but you could fairly easily set up a script that takes care of the creation of the sprite sheet so you could simply make the models and their animation frames.

>>180148656
I think it looks like shit. I don't really blame DKC since it was trying to push graphics past what the SNES could do, but when you niggas start doing that shit in fucking Unity, it's like like ayy hol up mang dats bullshiet

>>180148841
Your opinion is shit.

>>180148173
>I've sadly seen people say Donkey Kong Country series looks like shit.
I'm one of those, but I don't think is the 3D rendered to 2D sprites fault. I think is a mix of the low resolution and the shiny look 3D models had back then what makes it unnapealing to me. Again just a personal opinion.

Someone please enlighten me as to how prerendered 3D can look better than 3D.

>>180148969
When it comes to sprites, that is.

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>>180147462
>>180148173

currently doing renders of 3D models for my project

>>180148656
hmm, maybe I can use this method with Game Maker. That way I get the benefit of 3D without having to learn unity lel

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>>180149145

>>180148969
Because videogames are real-time. If you can render more detail via prerendering than you could in real-time 3D then it can look better.

Other than that it's likely either a retro aesthetic (nostalgia), or maybe someone wants to make a game with 2D art but wants to take animation shortcuts so they animate objects in 3D and then render them down into 2D sprites.

>>180148910
It's a style born of hardware limitations. It doesn't look good on its own when it could be shown in objectively higher quality both in resolution and framerate. There's no argument here. You're allowed to like it, though, even though your're opinion is the one that is shit.

>>180148969
You said it yourself. 'Pre' rendered. The work is already done. It is the same difference as a game running on high settings and a video of the same game running on high settings. One has your computer rendering a 3D environment and the other is a video.

>>180149358
>Because videogames are real-time. If you can render more detail via prerendering than you could in real-time 3D then it can look better.
>>180149089

>Other than that it's likely either a retro aesthetic (nostalgia)
You don't need to prerender to achieve the aesthetic. You just need a shader that works with a small palette and does dithering.

>or maybe someone wants to make a game with 2D art but wants to take animation shortcuts so they animate objects in 3D and then render them down into 2D sprites.
You can mix 3D and 2D rendering (2D rendering is pretty much always implemented as 3D rendering nowadays).

>>180149474
>>180149089

>>180127319
>loli rape isnt ok
>gay furfags are
AGDG went to shit last year

How do you make your webms lads, I want to post progress

>>180149595
Whomst are you quoting?

>>180149515
>You don't need to prerender to achieve the aesthetic. You just need a shader that works with a small palette and does dithering.
Why would you put that much work in to acheive the same effect in a less performant way?

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>>180149145
>>180149317
i wont get into what looks better because its really objective

though i will say having interpolation on animation makes animating way less tedius and less clunky,

and i plan on adding my own smears maybe to give more 2D feel to my rendered models.

its way easier for me to create a 3D model and have several animations for them with their weapons being the exact same proportions at all times.

another reason i did this is because i really dont want to learn a new 3D engine

>>180149317
neat, although it might possibly be a poor resolution to go with as it has neither the aesthetic of pixel art nor the appearance of high definition art.

>>180149673
Why would you put the work in to prerender all the sprites down just to lose frame rate and angles and lighting unless you want a combinatorial explosion of frames in memory?

>>180149595
Neither are acceptable. Just report, hope it gets deleted, and move on.

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>>180149358
>>180149145
>>180148969
>>180148173>>180149515


>>180147020
I am doing prerendered as well. I don't really have a interest in making a 3D game but I can't draw for shit and found modeling to be much more enjoyable.

I also see a lot of games using this same technique( albiet with a lot more cleanup in a sprite editor) like Slain and Dead Cells(I'm almost certain the MC of Dead Cells started as a 3D model.)

>>180149815
Both are acceptable, fuck off back to https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/

>>180149787
It sounds like you want to do something different and are asking people to try to convince you otherwise so you can disagree with them.

>>180150113
It sounds like you're deflecting. I think prerendering sprites is a waste of time unless you're using some limited piece of shit like Game Maker. This subreddit is for game development discussion, not fee fee protection.

>>180150249
its the exact opposite of a waste of time

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Made some new plants. Planning to add foliage collision to the player and their attacks, so it bends away when you walk through it or attack. Also going to have the sword cut grass if it is not too taxing.

>>180150330
Oh?

>>180150359
you could just have grass particles fly up, most AAA devs dont bother with actually cutting blades of grass, unless thats what you meant,

looks good

stfu

>>180149219
>That way I get the benefit of 3D
Benefits of 3D go beyond graphics but sure you can do this in gamemaker.

>>180149145
>>180149317
>>180149735
You should look into Guilty Gear and other fighting games that do it. With some work this could start to look fairly okay.

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How do I make Blanco's design more appealing? After about a year of playing with his current design, it's starting to seem very bland and empty.

>>180151658
looks like a block game so add character creation

>>180151658
Make it round

>>180151658
haha

>>180150060
>Both are acceptable
nope

>>180151658
Hats

if anybody needs visual inspiration, this recently archived thread should help >>>/v/381027125

>>180151869
>nope
yep

>>180151658
steal from better artists.

that's what real pros do when they call it reference and inspiration.

>>180151658
I'd say ditch the "outlines" and try solid colored blocks for the body with cute uneven eyes drawn on in higher-res.

But then I realize you're using voxels and there's no hope for you.

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>>180151897
Plenty o' hats

>Saw demo day is in 2 weeks
>Calculate how much time it'll take to do what I want for demo day
>It's gonna take 3 weeks

Well fug this will be the 3rd Ive missed in a row.

>>180150457
Thanks! That is probably what I'll do.

>>180151658
I think you tried to push the idea way to far. I would've stuck with a minimalistic 3d platformer with really simple art.

>>180149595
>2017
>still crying about your persecution
It's not even a game though.

>>180153096
I didn't bring up loli dev because i'm him, i brought it up because i like loli rape

Assuming I finish my game by the end of this year, and it gets reasonably popular, how long till I get my qt gf ?

>>180153165
Stay in /b/ then.

>>180153341
Depends, when do you start talking to women?

is there any webm converter that is not some github shit? I just want a simple app man

>>180153341

gamedev gives negative points, anon

>>180153432
Online:When I release the game,hopefully some grill would like it enough to talk to me
IRL:never

>>180153495

ffmpeg

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I have written the tutorial for my game and it rips on the disciplinary hearing from the 2009 Star Trek film. Only thing I'm not sure of is if its too close to the plot of the Star Trek film, its designed to be a rip off, but I don't want it to be identical.

Basic story flow is:
> Setting: Orbital Navy Academy
> Welcome to the game
> Menu walkthrough
> Game features walkthrough
> Combat walkthrough
> Player fails combat walkthrough
> Player is told the purpose of the walkthrough is to fail
> Player has the option of redoing the final part of the combat walkthrough
> Is given the option to cheat
> If player chooses option to cheat, they win the combat walkthrough scenario
> Later, player is charged with academic dishonesty
> Has the option to defend themselves in a hearing
> Tutorial ends (sudden enemy attack interrupts hearing)

Thoughts?

>>180153601
thanks but its still a mess of command line and what not. I'm talking about an actual app that use like one or two button, not some linux hacker stuff

>>180153906
Well if something is meant to be an intentional ripoff that the audience is intended to be aware of I think you should rip off something that is either classic or at least more a part of current pop-culture. Something like that people are likely either not going to recognize or they will recognize it and think you're unoriginal.

>>180154128
>they will recognize it and think you're unoriginal.

That's what I'm worried about. I want it to come across as an intentional rip-off, not being unoriginal.

>>180153950

> hacker

Nah, just write some python or whatever you know, replace variables and there.
It is not even a long command, anon.
Also, it works for winblows.

>>180154207
Put something there that gives away the fact it's a rip off to anyone who might recognize the scene, but then intentionally nod towards it/make it known that you're self aware. You have to be careful to make it not too obvious that people who otherwise don't know the source of it get confused, but make sure the people who do get the message.

A metroidvania about human society and ego death.

Let's say I want to use model-view-control in my game. Do I only use one class to render all objects on screen or do I use separate class for each object?

>>180154318
I dont understand why after all these years there so good app that is literally : pick a file -> convert. What the fuck is so fucking special with webm that I need to program shit to make it work. I just dont understand. At this ponit I'm thinking about just not posting progress because I've been fucking around with recording for the past 2h or so, like how much time can I lose to just share webms that might have 0 replies anyways.

>>180154625
>Let's say I want to use model-view-control in my game.
Don't.

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>>180154365

How about this, is this obvious enough for people to connect the dots?

>>180153906
Too much VN like. Screw the coices to cheat or nah, and instead make the character cheat without any user input. Why bother with useless functions that add nothing to the gameplay itself ?
It'd be like being given to option to give bowser the finger in a mario game tutorial. Just make it part of the story. Same with the hearing, unless it's a game mechanic that player has to face hearings after doing anything "academically dishonest".

>>180154625
try killing yourself first

>>180154937
I think you're overestimating how intimately most people know Star Trek 2009.

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>>180154737

Biggest issue with 4chan is they don't allow webms with sound tracks, and most video editors don't even have an option to create webms with no sound tracks.

I spent 4 hours trying to install ffmpeg with no success. Still can't figure out why it won't work.

I use https://cloudconvert.com/mp4-to-webm, you can only do so many conversions in a day, but it works. Just record in mp4 format then convert to webm and download.

>>180154737
>>180155232
https://gitgud.io/nixx/WebMConverter

>>180155232
thanks. And yeah, I got some conversion going now but with sounds... I'll try that, thanks.
Also nice style.

>>180154737

Your whole world is closing, anon, just because you can't make what you need.
That shit would literally take an hour, with python, java, or even c.
I understand that you just wanna be a gamedev, but for fucks sake, why can't you solve your simple problems.

[code]
ffmpeg -i input.flv -vcodec libvpx -acodec libvorbis output.webm
[/code]

Is this so hard to understand?
This is not gonna take away your gamedev time, but complaining about the bloat tools that someone else developed is gonna get you nowhere.

>>180128227
Unreal Engine 4

>>180155232
>>180155332
>>180154737

Gonna release a free online tool then. It will have just a button and no custom options.

>>180155541
you need to adjusty the quality retard

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>>180155943

It's like it was meant to be used as something else

>>180155541
As retarded as it may sound as long as it saves time is a good idea.

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I don't really have a status update right now, mostly trying to figure out how to get model attachments to models working 'right'.

So far I have it 'pretty alright', the only thing that is hanging me up is figuring out whats the proper way to orient the attached object in relation to the bone.

Pic related, which is the preferred option - or is there some other approach I am missing?

>>180157026

Doing it tomorrow.
It will have some serious upload restrictions tho, can't afford a bigger server atm.

>>180157132
I usually just put an empty object where I want the items to attach to and then set the pivot of the items to fit that empty object so that they don't need any adjustment. And the empty object obviously is set to be the child of the bone it needs to move with.

There's probably a better way to handle it.

>>180131817
Which ones? I'd like to check them out, I only saw monster tactics.

Anyone using phaser.io?

>>180128245
Shoulda kept making 2D buddy, this looks awful.

>>180147996
this is cute

you're cute

>>180157680
Stop looking for greener grass and JLMG

>>180158068

It's steadily getting real.
I just wanted to know if anyone else was using it.

>>180131908
Whenever I try to figure out data oriented design I only find extremely vague mumbo jumbo, is there any concrete examples of that shit working?

>>180158430
It looks like mumbo jumbo to you because you don't understand how a CPU works. Fix that.

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Attempting to improve my overworld tiles because I feel they're of a much lower quality than the rest of the game.
Starting with the mountains cause I thought those were the worst of the worst.

>>180157680
no

>>180158816
Looking good, add some white peaks though faggot.

Also is your gameplay in the state where you can start worrying about re-doing your art?

>>180158816
which one is the new?

>>180158816
Nice. Kind of looks like you can walk through them now, though. Maybe change the grass colour in the valleys?

>>180158927
>Looking good, add some white peaks though faggot.
Will absolutely do. That's the one part of the old tiles I actually liked.

>Also is your gameplay in the state where you can start worrying about re-doing your art?
Yeah, in fact I have a demo ready to release this Saturday coming up.
>>180158940
Left

>>180158963
I was worried they looked too spaced out. I'll try something.

>>180158816
>>180158963
I'd suggest changing the entire base grass color. It's way too saturated.

>>180153361
Tell that to the furries first.

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>>180159153

>>180159415
>blood on sword
So is he gonna fuck him or just murder him, I am getting some serious mixed messages here

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>>180159134
Maybe this cooler green could work?

>>180159472
Why not both

Why do so many queers here put the before on the left?

>>180159415
Is this still following MSX's restrictions? Not really familiar with them.

>>180159697
>>180159519
pulsate between the two

>>180159934
genius

i just had the realization that if you're going to use cloth physics in your game and decide to use a plane, one side will never render because of backface culling.
but if you add thickness to the plane by converting it into a hollow rectangle, you're effectively doubling the amount of polygons that are being simulated.

how the fuck do you deal with this

>>180159975
Unity has certain shaders that let you have two-sided planes.

>>180159975
any renderer can do both sides if you tell it to

>>180159973
Remember to randomly make the pulsation change frequency.

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Doing some preparation for dialogues with npcs, while messing around with some textures. I should start my encounter stuff soon. One day I need to do that walking animation (and idle).

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>>180161024
Some basic texture/area. Kind of like how it looks even if its basic for now.

>>180161138
yeah that's a nice iso perspective. Reminiscent of Bauldur's Gate and Blood Omen.

>>180161024
>>180161138
Colors are kinda crazy and I don't know about the line thing the grounds doing

>>180159519
Are you trying to burn my eyes out?

>>180162237
I'll take that as a no

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Inventory screen.

Thoughts, comments, criticisms welcome.

Ship has an internal/external view. Internal shows compartments, bays and command staff. External view shows hardpoints and point defence.

Crew shows crew for the selected vessel. Shows stats like number injured, morale and coherency of the crew.

Plants are the replicators that turn compressed hydrogen into whatever you need (Supplies, ammunition, fuel, components etc.)

Fleet Cargo is a shared cargo, so players can browse other ships cargo in the fleet without having to change ships.

>>180162889
How many different types of crew members will you have? Does it really need to be a slotted inventory type display?

>>180162889
>Thoughts, comments, criticisms
Stop making a space game
You will NOT make it

>>180159975
Wot? I added a cape to the very first cube+character controller that I ever drag and dropped together in unity and it had no issues rendering at all. Surely there is a setting to render backfaces or something, because I'm a complete dumbass and I got it to work years ago. Even got the cape to catch and tear on scenery which was pretty rad. RIP CapeMan. He died in the great HDD fire of 2013.

>>180163069

Many different types including aliens.

The slots represent the theoretical maximum space on the ship. So tall aliens will be 3x1, while powered armour or troopers will be 2x2. Smaller drones and repair bots would be 1x1 for example.

Stacked groups of crew also form a division which gains experience and levels up. So its risky to bulk up your slots with big soldiers, because if you lose the whole division all that xp is lost. So a player may choose instead to have smaller, less well armed and armored soldiers, then a few elites.

>>180161610
>>180161829
thanks for the feedback

>>180163360
Seems to me that I could have 50 tall aliens and they'll still take up the same room as a 2x1 janitor and a repair drone

>>180162889
I'd probably separate the weapons and fuel/ammo/cubes view from the crew and officers one.

The internal/external thing sounds annoying as fuck.

This level of detail is both too much and too little. It'll be too little when a player is learning, they'll need to mouse over every little thing to get the tooltip until they learn. And it's too much when they're proficient, in which case everything will seem too big and in their face.

You should have a "fleet view" with a scrollable list of ships, where selecting one gives you a summary of this info so fleet outfitting will be quick and easy for proficient players.

Your game is way too big in scope with too many small boring micromanagement decisions and making UI mockups all day isn't gamedev.

>>180163360
Seems a bit weird to limit the total crew directly as well as limiting the different types of crew indirectly.

>>180162889
Instead of Internal/External view and inventory slot for crew units, here's a better idea.
Instead of internal/external view, make it
>Crew screen
It'd have a screen with types of units with their number as a multiplier and portrait,like
Waifu girl(x1)
Stern beret guy(x3)
Alien(x5)
You get the idea. This screen would be totally about crew management. Screw the ship

>Ship management screen
This screen would have various things like
Inventory
Cargo
Weapons/Fuel
etc.

There, a less overwhelming ,less confusing intuitive interface for the player.

>Try to make game
>Every tiny snippet of code creates bug that takes days to figure out
wwwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhyyyyyyyyyyyyy

>>180164275
>>180162889
Different guy. Building on this idea. As for crew levels/advancement, you can do it the way valkyria chronicles does. Each class has its own level as a group.
>Your stern beret guys are level 8 and have X and Y bonuses.
>Ayylmao species 1 are level 5 have A and B bonuses

>>180164498
how well did you plan your code?

There's this old art style where characters consisted of mostly solid blocks of a single color. Does it have a name?

>>180164665
Old

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>>180164665
Atari?

>>180164498
because you don't know what you are doing
stop copypasting and learn to program

>>180163263
Not him/her/xer, but why?

>>180164665
you mean like, interstate 76 or virtua fighter or something? no, there's no special name for that.

you should really post an example of what you're even talking about, though.

>>180147996
Monolith sequel is looking good

>>180163263
Shut the fuck up. This game has my waifu and I will see that it's completed

>>180147008
When use it instead of *whatever language you're compiling Haxe to*

>>180165161
>>180165043
space games are dead dead DEAD

>>180164665
Bad

>>180165291
Can you back that up?

>>180165051
Interstate 76 or Virtua Fighter is basically memepoly back when it didn't exist yet.

>>180165291
space games will be fine up until the point where new star wars stops it's yearly advertising campaign for space media.

Sound design is fun

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