/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

i am become chicken, destroyer of threads

FUCK YOU CHICKEN POSTER

Fuck artist, construct, gamemaker and unity.

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Asked in the last thread shortly before this one was made to replace it.

Does this seem like a good process for making a text adventure, since the implementation is relatively straightforward (as I'll be using and extending an existing parser rather than creating one from scratch)?

1. Write the bare bones of everything, including the puzzles, on paper, from beginning to end.
2. Implement this game skeleton so that someone doing everything right can beat the game.
3. Add detail and make everything you're "supposed" to do all nice.
4. Add all the obvious things someone could do besides this.
5. Have people playtest it without my input, getting logs of everything they tried.
6. Add interesting responses to all the things they tried.
7. Add soft background music, occasional illustrations, and so on.

>>182392439
sure, but there's a reason why people stopped making text adventures and started making systems-based games instead

How much should really be in Update()?
I feel like sticking loads of if else then shit in it is bad practice.

>>182392259
what's wrong with unity

was thinking about getting into game development as a hobby. already know how to code in a few languages (went to school for it), and was thinking of jumping into unity

>>182387951
>>182388229

Very nice anon, somewhat inspirational too.

>>182392561
>people stopped making text adventures
They didn't, though. Making and playing them is a thriving hobby, and the "Choice Of..." games, while closer to choose-your-own-adventure books/gamebooks are pretty damn popular despite selling for $4-7 a pop.

yeah, lost 10 thousand our so lines last hard drive failure. lost a lot of games before that. backup often.

>>182393205
bad idea: backups
good idea: invest in a decent fucking hard drive so you don't have failures every 6 months

>>182393338
best idea: don't make a game or have anything of value so you don't care when things break

>>182393338
I only by monster hard drives with the gold plating

How important is texle continuity?

>>182393338
i got a separate drive i put everything on now. but really your drive will crash. just a heads up.

>>182393565
it didn't crash in the last 10 years I don't see why it would in the next

you just make bad purchasing decisions

I haven't died in the last 25 years. Clearly I'm invincible.

>>182393684
ok your computers special.

>>182393565

I put back ups in google drive. Is that good or should I really have a separate harddrive?

>>182393797
i had this cool space game back in the day. kinda like warhammer meets apolo mission.

>>182393794
gj anon
Invincibility is a rare talent these days

>>182393886
sounds good enough, but it wouldn't hurt.

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>>182393205
>>182393338

I have never lost a hard drive in my life.

I first started using computers in 1992. Since then, using them continuously and daily, I have never - not once - experienced hard drive failure.

I have absolutely no idea how you people keep having hard drives fail on you.

My game will occasionally and very slightly change a few things here and there like in those hidden camera experiments where a two actors switch places and such, the idea is to fuck with the player's mind and make them question their own memory and sanity.

nodevs -- no harddrives

>>182394341
It's amazing that probability distributions will always produce a small percent of people like you

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>>182394341
>anime smugposting
k

where's that dude with the mutated notepad text adventure game?

>>182392736
If you aren't including a text parser, don't bother.

>>182394341
It's a low chance, but it happens.

I had 2 fail on me within the same month. They were both Seagate 3TB's of course. Must have gotten that bad batch. A 70GB harddrive I have from 1998 is still working just fine.

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>>182394341
people use technical failure as an excuse like employees who call in sick.
>>182394480
good times.

>>182394341
I had once to happen to me, it happens.

>>182393205
I still have games I made from when I was 10 years old.

what a journey

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>>182394590
>seagate
>3TB

>>182394341
I haven't ever had a hard drive failure, except for an external one. But that was because of shocks, not usage.

I still backup though, one wrong crash/power cut could fuck up some assets and I don't want to bother doing them again once they're finished

How come setting my rotation to (0, Pi, 0) makes it (-Pi, 0, -Pi) instead of (0, Pi, 0)? How do I deal with this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xd3_bwGCBm0&feature=youtu.be

these computers run constantly. and they fail every 5-10 years. our maybe i suck.

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>>182394418
>>182394590

You know, I have a hypothesis that hard drive failure correlates heavily with distance to high power cables or substations. I think the powerful electro-magnetic fields mess with the hard drive.

I've always lived in rural or semi-rural areas a significant distance from power distribution systems. So maybe that is why I've never had any fail on me.

>>182394480

> pic related

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>tfw writing a big meaty commit message

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Got some progress. Got a stamina bar working properly. Currently stamina goes down when you sprint, swim, and dodge. Stamina refuses to go up while attacking. The further down your stamina goes from the top, the longer it takes to start regenerating. There are five tiers of regeneration. If you're above 75% stamina when you stop using it, it takes 1/3rd of a second for it to start regenerating. If you're between 50% and 75%, it takes 1/2nd of a second to start regenerating. Between 25% and 50%, 2/3rds of a second. Between 0% and 25%, 5/6ths of a second to start regenerating. If stamina is drained all the way to 0, then you take the largest penalty, with it requiring 2 whole seconds to begin regenerating.

I also redid a big portion of my weapon code to ensure I could create weird weapons far easier, like I did with the whip I've posted, as that whip was more of a hack than anything else. This is why I'm back to square one in terms of sword swings.

MY COMPUTER IS IMMORTAL JUST LIKE ME
BOW NOW MORTALS

>>182395101
i live 200 feet from a substation and high power lines so maybe.

>>182395239
surge protectors are a thing

>I never got in a car crash so I don't wear a seatbelt

>>182395101
Sounds like something a country bumpkin would say. I bet you voted for trump too.

>>182395321
>I wear seatbelts even though they often are the killers in accidents

good goy

daily reminder that clean european electricity is superior to unsafe american electricity

>people get killed by stepping on the bare ground because amerilards just stick live wires straight into the fucking ground

>>182394971
Hard to see the code in the video. Can you post it on hastebin?
Also (0, Pi, 0) and (-Pi, 0, -Pi) are the same rotation. This is why people use quaternions.

>>182395325
t. CNN

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I'm retarded but I got this working.

>>182395523
y u think its called a ground

dummy

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>>182395290

Surge protectors can't insulate from electro-magnetic fields.

>>182395239

You should move, those fields mess with your head too. It's not healthy.

>>182395325

I'm Australian mate and I voted for the Liberals.

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Need your help my brothers, I'm a retard
I'm trying to make a formula for a turn based combat to give you a score based on the following two variables:

* Time it took for you to finish the battle
* Enemy grade (a number from 1 to 100, 100 being the strongest enemy in the game).

I want to show the scores as S, A, B, C and D. I'm a total pleb when it comes to math and it seems I can't get around this logic to make it balanced and working.

An example, if I'm fighting a grade 30 enemy and finish it in 60 seconds it means I might get an S. Perhaps I should through another variable into accounting? My game doesn't have levels.

Any ideas?

>>182394341
This, I am using computers since '95 , and never had any HDDs fail on me.

>>182395580
looks good to me. working within parameters.

>>182395636
do you have a basement? the ground should shield you

>>182395732
I guess I'll make it a gameplay mechanic.

>>182394493
1. I am including a text parser, just not rolling my own from scratch.
2. Literally none of the Choice Of games I mentioned used text parsers, and they are extremely popular interactive fiction.

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>>182395792

I live in a small valley with hills on either side.

Can't get radio AM or FM, or free to air television. Mobile picks up the tower though.

I'm also insulated by heavy tree cover.

>>182395949
How powerful will your game's parsing be?

>>182395526
>Also (0, Pi, 0) and (-Pi, 0, -Pi) are the same rotation.
I'm aware, but the catch is that my mouse input increases the second element of that vector, so whenever I rotate halfway around, the input effectively gets reversed, bouncing me away.

Earlier I considered using quats (pretty sure you told me), but I made a camera pivot node instead and changed it's X so that the player character would always be standing upright, which let me dodge the problem for a while since the character now only had to rotate on the Y. Though I changed my parent node to a kenimatic body and the problem popped up again.

https://hastebin.com/ufomahinij.php

>>182396106
Sounds comfy

>>182396142
Pretty damn good. I'm using Inform, which is developed in large part by Emily Short aka the deity of interactive fiction, and then just adding my own verbs and such on top of that.

>>182396301
What sorts of things will I be able to have it understand? Any of these?

>go east
>open scary green door
>pick nose
>attack monster
>jerk off into cup

>>182396590
Probably all but the last one. I might add some responses to vulgar and/or sexual commands, just saying it wouldn't be appropriate under the circumstances.

Given the very compact nature of the game, I might disable compass-based movement and just have you say "enter elevator" or "go to porch" and so on.

>>182395949
>2. Literally none of the Choice Of games I mentioned used text parsers
But that's the problem.
I might have bought one of them if they used text parsers.
But without a text parser, it's just a choose-your-own-adventure book.

>>182395682
Whenever I need to do something like this I just fire up Desmos and start making some graphs.
I'd first normalize the data you have. So the enemy's level would be (x/100) so it's between 0 and 1.
For the time you'll have to decide how long it should take for the player to beat any enemy in the game.

>>182396914
>But without a text parser, it's just a choose-your-own-adventure book.
Not necessarily, if you used pretty images it would be an Infinity Engine game.

>tfw having to draw gay furry porn in order to fund your videogame project
living the dream

>>182396914
They're choose-your-own-adventure books with a lot more complexity (and stats), but yeah, they're basically supposed to be CYOA for grownups.

That's not what I'm going for, though. I'm aiming much more for a new generation of Zork style games, with a bit less maze bullshit and a bit more NPC interactivity.

>>182397172
Why even bother with the videogame project, anon?

>>182397102
Fuck you. Those had gameplay.

>>182397206
>I'm aiming much more for a new generation of Zork style games,
That's something I might buy.

>>182397249
because I don't like drawing gay furry porn, anon

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>>182393338
>bad idea: backups

>>182395171
Neat progress there.
I'm looking forward to when you switch that programmer art to something more appropriate. I'm sure that it'll get more attention then. For now just keep working on the core gameplay.

does anyone use animation ghosts or motion curves in blender?

>>182397314
>Fuck you. Those had gameplay.
Relax anon, I was only joking.

>>182397320
Why not, anon?

>>182395682
the fuck did he do to that boy to make him turn out like this
I mean shit I have autism and I wasn't that bad off when I was his age

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>>182397172
>>tfw having to draw gay furry porn in order to fund your videogame project
so if the videogame is you main project, I guess you could say that furry porn is you pet project?

>>182397320
Draw straight furry porn then.

>>182397517
oxymoron

>>182397496
yiff in hell, carlos

>>182397496
DAMMIT TURKISH CARLOS, I CAN'T BREATHE

>>182397496
>somehow wrote "you" instead of "your" twice
why do bad things always gotta happen to me?

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My game is original, TOO original.
It will usher in a new era of My game-likes.

>>182397450
>Why not, anon?
furries are the worst fucking people to cater to, and the unfortunate thing about drawing furry porn is that you are then interacting directly with them
>>182397496
plz go

>>182395682
Pulling out of my ass; rejigger the Enemy Grade so that it corresponds to how long it should take to defeat. (eg. EnemyGrade = 1 means it takes about 1 second to kill

For each encounter, calculate a number X = [TimeToComplete] / [Sum of Enemy Grade in encounter]

If X < .5, Score = S
If .5 < X < 1, Score = A
and so on

add coefficients/weighting as necessary.

>>182397032
I'm not a smart man, please do it for me

thanks

>>182397401
Thank you very much. Core gameplay is definitely far more important to me than art, so I dunno when that will happen.

>>182398084
>furries are the worst fucking people to cater to, and the unfortunate thing about drawing furry porn is that you are then interacting directly with them
Why not hire someone to handle customer relations for you?

>>182397921
Post webms to prove it.

>>182397634
>TURKISH CARLOS
lel

>>182397921
Whats with the sudden resurgence of the immersive sim? It is getting mentioned a lot. Are DE-fags finally starting to come to positions of power in their dev studios and media departments and longing for the era of GOOD videogames?

>>182396194
I'm not sure, it's all kind of confusing to me.
But here's code I used for a first person thing I made. It's using degrees, but you can just change it to radians. It's also using the input_event instead of doing it every frame. In _ready() you'll have to do set_process_input(true)
yaw and pitch are variables at the top of the script
https://hastebin.com/ujodiluqiw.gd

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>>182397921

>>182398382
Euro Truck Simulator is an immersive sim, Deus Ex is a shooter.

>>182395101
where do you live?

>>182398382
Deus Ex isn't a sim and FPS-RPG is a genre that borders on stillborn.

I D E A G U Y

where the thieflikes at
now that's a genre I want to see become a meme

rendering 2d depth in illustration is just sculpting with colors

>>182399129
There's
uh
Dishonored?
And the original Deus Ex.
But in both of those games it's often easier to kill people, and I actually don't think Dishonored uses shadows for stealth.

>it's another top-down game with rotating guns

@182399737
>my shitpost paid off that one time so i'll keep repeating it forever

>>182398252
you have an interesting idea of how doing business over the internet goes

>>182399856
I'm not the original shitposter, I just felt this vintage bait deserved an encore.

>>182398252
>hire a customer service guy
>increased speed of work and customer service keeps people coming back
>can't keep up with demand
>hire an apprentice to do the linework
>no one can tell the difference
>gay doggos drawing at incredible high speed.png
>hire an apprentice to do the rendering, chinese schools are pumping them out by now
>hire a webdev to make you a site
>oops i started a furry porn empire
>still no game

>>182400263
At that point you could simply use your riches to commission your game.

>>182400263
There's more money in furry porn than video games desu

>tfw twitter is the best place to shill right now

>>182400483
this is the part where you post your cherry picked examples

how do I get my game published by cool guys like devolver

>>182400263
>4 people
>empire

>>182401063
where's your empire?

>>182401198
you made a furry startup.

>>182400605
I don't need to cherry pick.
If your game only sells 10,000 copies, you probably would've made more money drawing furry porn.
If you sell gogem numbers you may as well just become a full-time furry artist.

>>182400263
>still no game
I kekked.

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woah when did googums art extend to influence anime?

stop composing in major keys

>want to make a point-and-click adventure game
>can't draw for shit

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NetBeans or Eclipse?

>>182401769
IntelliJ IDEA

>>182401394
check out this season's Welcome to the Ballroom.

>>182401940
Hey gogem you're pretty much worthless for gamedev but what was that animoo about gamedev again? I feel like weebing out.

>>182392008
I need to decide on colors. Should I switch it up from the norm?
Player and good guys are Red
Bad guys are Blue

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>>182401940
dear lord you weren't kidding neck length is even worse in other scenes

>>182402056
No.
Good Guys = Blue, Green
Bad Guys = Red

>>182401769
small brain:
IDE
expanded brain:
notepad

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>>182402046
there's been at least 4.
i couldnt tell you which one you're thinking of.
they're all pretty trash, this is the least trash because at least it has solid yesdev quotes.

>>182402445
That would be the one. Now get back to your latest menu simulator, ya lousy jerkoid maloy

>>182393554
wheres bokube?

>>182402445
what is the name of this? Your file naming is trash

>>182402605
On my twitter

>>182402606
It's shoejee taco mawai something, can't you read?

>>182402605
On my pants

>>182402606
https://www.google.com/search?q=shoujotachi+wa+kouya+wo+mezasu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

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Found one with english dubbed thank goodness. I have work to do not animoo to read.

>>182403083
>>182402729
Omg they are making a fucking visual novel?

THATS NOT EVEN A GAME

fucking dropped. Why cant we get a GOOD realistic anime about gamedev without cute girls and is similar to kaiji where its a bunch of losers to society fighting for their lives to make game and make money to survive or fail.


Fucking moe bullshit and a visual novel game off to bat wtf

it could be cool to watch a gamedev anime with /agdg/ in a chatroom
pretty sure that technology exists by now
discord lets you stream video?

how do I make a rigidbody rotates towards getting in up position when hitting the ground?

>>182403621
/g/ used to watch movies by streaming them with vlc
there was also a livestreaming site that seemed to give 0 fucks about copyright, I forget its name tho

>>182403621
No. Let's watch art/programming/gamedev lectures/tutorials instead.

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>>182403603
>implying Kaiji wouldn't lose all his money making a VN

>>182403743
I used to watched movies with /tv/ back on...I think justin tv. That was before it was an irredeemable shitposting board.

>>182403756
That would split the audience, only artists would watch artists tutorials, programmers would watch programming lectures, and ideaguys would be excluded completely

A comfy anime is something all of us can enjoy

>>182403621
Do not do discord, start a cy.tube channel.
Just mention the channel name don't link it cause that's against the rules.

daily reminder that if you arent making your own game engine you arent making a real game

>>182403621
https://www.rabb.it/ is the new meme one

>>182404417
And why's that tough guy?

>>182404504
because otherwise you are just making a mod.

>>182404417
t. witch porn "dev"

I love to suck cocks.

>>182404609
Forgot your name goo

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i expect nothing less than a 50 post debate

>>182404558
Garrys mod sold realy well

>>182401769
Netbeans is the comfiest by far. The repository support seems kinda shitty which is perhaps why a lot of people don't recommend it.

All the other IDEs seem really lame (ugly, unable to do basic things without wasting hours setting it up yourself, awkward UI layouts, etc) whenever I've tried them out.

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Did they deprecate ScreenPointToRay in Unity 5? I'm trying to do a raycast from the cursor, but I keep getting an error saying that the type Camera doesn't have a definition for ScreenPointToRay even though even the official documentation uses it in this way.

Avatarfagging with my shitty globe from the last time I posted, for progress's sake

>>182394761
it's a been a long 2 years

>>182403942
>try justin.tv
>it 404s
>haha must have faded into obscurity because it was a shit site
>mfw it became Twitch

>>182404990
Not biting but lol that image

>>182395523
how do I wash my electricty?

>>182405143
Are you sure you're calling it on an instance of camera, not on the Camera class itself?

>>182404990
>mfw programmers who cant make game on their own try to take vision and control of my projects

>>182397451
>the fuck did he do to that boy to make him turn out like this
he googled his mom and fapped to her nudes

>>182404990
>he watches anime
lol fuck off

>>182405408
Here's an abridged version of my code, running from the Planet object:

private Camera camera;
private Ray ray;

// Use this for initialization
void Start () {
camera = GetComponentInParent<Camera> ();
}

void OnMouseUp (){
ray = camera.ScreenPointToRay(Input.mousePosition);
}

>>182399374
you forgot Oblivion and Skyrim. Playing a stealth character in that is just like playing Thief

with this bait I am guaranteed no less than 72 virgin (you)s. all praise be to allah

in gamemaker i'm using a ds_list to store item names. what would i use to attach variables like damage and armor to those items?

>>182402056
player and good guys = green
bad guys also green

>>182405710
Try renaming your camera to something else, there's a built-in "camera" variable that is deprecated

OR, try
ray = this.camera.ScreenToblahblah
note the 'this'

>>182403756
no let's watch the Fred Savage magnum opus, The Wizard

>>182405787
The Thieves' Guild in Oblivion actually does resemble Thief in that you're strongly encouraged to use stealth and penalized for killing people but not animals or monsters.
Light also plays a pretty significant role in the stealth calculations iirc.

>>182405787
That's actually not very far from the truth if you install a bunch of stealth and difficulty mods, it's fun as fuck to creep around in bandit dens stealing shit.

t. stealth archer pro

>>182405787
... never should of come here!

>>182406092
Alright, so I tried looking this up on Google again using different keywords than last time, apparently what was messing me up was that I had a separate script named Camera which was screwing things up in Unity by being named "Camera". Thanks for your help though.

>>182406197
lol everyone who played that game was a stealth archer pro, also a melee pro, and a magic pro, and also a shoplifting pro all at the same time.

>>182406665
true

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Been messing with my attacking system still. Changed the test attack to be with a scythe so I could make the swing trail better. I needed it to be different depending on the sprite, so I started the swing trail from the tip of a scythe, since it's very off center.

>>182406946
I like it

how do I make a capsule to stand up?

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>>182397434
still curious if anyone uses these tools, blocking out a run cycle

if i am making a 16 frame walk cycle (sebastin lague tutorial) should i add secondary motion only on the keyframes or anywhere?

>>182407218
set_rotation(Vector3(0, 0, 0))

>>182407349
how do I interpolate that between current position and that?

>>182407349
>>182407421
nevermind.
solved it by setting it to x axis.

>>182405913
Use arrays instead
Also enums are useful

>>182392730
Thank you, though trying to discern if people are baiting with saying the left image on that one is better

Thanks everyone else too

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>tfw making the chicken bounce gave me a nice and better idea for my idea
>tfw going to add some ragdoll and make it bounce

>>182407194
Thank you. I'm planning on implementing other visual effects for things like charging up an attack or maybe elemental affects.

>need to create an aim offset for a handgun
>Epic's free animation pack doesn't include a handgun aimspace even though there are other handgun animations
wew this sucks

>>182409507
Should have made your own engine, anon.

>>182407345
dam son, what type of game?

>>182409645
Yeah, then I wouldn't have to worry about graphics or animations until 10 years from now.

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Does your game contain cute robot girls?

>>182409779
It did but then you made it not cool...
delete

>>182409779
>draw a girl
>call her a robot

>>182407345
you've been officially invited to the discord!
https://discord.gg/DSzZa9K

>>182410181
no anon she's holding a technology

when is the last time you saw a girl hold a technology?

that's a robot girl anon

>>182410371
>>182410181
Look at her arms, legs, and neck.
How many girls do you know that have skin made of individual panels?

is wrong to think of an idea that has potential for meme games but is literally the definition of least amount of effort possible?

like flappy bird 2.0?

>>182410553
Might as well buy lottery tickets instead, your odds are better

how do I into grayscales?

Trying to do a palette swaps and I thought it was as simple as setting up my color gradient where the horizontal placement of the colors would map to the gray value in the source texture, so that every place that is Black, would get the first pixel color in the gradient, and every place that was 25,25,25 would get the color in the 25th pixel in the gradient.

But this no work

>>182410535
>>draw a girl
>>scribble some lines on her skin
>>call her a robot

>>182409779
My game has no characters, it's all spaceships right now. But I guess one day I'll add dialogue and portraits for some story or whatever.

What I'm saying is, I'll add robot girls that talk to you.

Robots are just automated or mechanical synthetic creatures.

If you have a character or creature of any sort in your game you have already made a robot.

>>182410809
sounds wrong but ok

GAMA DEVU ANIMUUU

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

>>182410553
Just making a game and having it become a viral success is extremely rare. I'm pretty sure even Flappy Bird bought some Chinese download/like farms or whatever to get the initial boost. So you'll need to do marketing of some kind.

As for making the game, there's nothing wrong with that. Flappy Bird was a completely fine game. If you enjoy making it, that's the most important thing. Just don't expect it to be a guaranteed hit.

>>182410553
cris pls stop

>>182411013
what are those subtitles, arabic?

>>182411219
Flappy Bird was out for months before it pewdiepie played it and made it popular. literally dumb luck

>>182411219
Afaik flappy bird was suspected to have bought tens of thousands of downloads.

>>182409656
something top-down, need a model that is easy to animate

>>182411378
thai if I'm wrong.

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>>182410735
>robot girls that talk to you
I- I'm looking forward to this

>>182411378
that's thai

>>182410553
You can still make a viral game, just not a minimum effort game. Here's what I would do if I were to pursue this (probably will do it sometime in 2018):
First stage: 1 month idea farm. Get a friend to help out since you need the input of another person to bounce ideas off of. Spend 10-12 hour days JUST THINKING OF IDEAS. The best ideas will come at the end of the day after you've thrown out hundreds already. Consume plenty of non-game media from a wide variety of genres and mediums. Play some games but only to see what's come before, try not to X + Y. Use standard creativity help memes. At the end of the month, get a list of 100 possible game ideas. You're looking for the perfect meme game pitch. I think it would probably have some physics and be otherwise humorous but idk yet.
Second stage: Choose an idea and execute. Spend a month on the idea. If the game is not fun after 2 weeks, drop it and choose another one from the list. If it's still fun at the end of the month, you can spend another couple months polishing. After that, ship it to steam and choose another idea. Repeat until one takes off.

>>182411957
my idea is basically make ragdolls jump on your tablet.

>>182411408
It was popular before pewdiepie played it

>>182412054
you can prototype that in 3 days in unity. do it.

what are my options for gamedev in C?

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Lots of good progress today, mostly code as always but added some visuals. welding tool to repair the ship. Will post the new harpoon and harpoon gun next

>>182412385
Learn literally any other language unless you're devving for 30-year-old hardware.
Even Lisp has probably been used in more games in the last 20 years since Naughty Dog loves it.

Where to find artists for a paid gig besides deviant art?

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>>182412156
?

>>182412716 >>182412385
I still appreciate learning C as my first language in college, but there's no way I'd dev a whole game in it.

>>182412784
but there are countless games made in C. how can it be a problem?

>>182412728
what engine do you use ;^)
For real though, upworks or etc. Google "Hire artist" and lots of career pages pop up. Otherwise, indie game dev forums.

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>>182412753

>>182412950
what indie game dev forums aren't dead at this point?

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>>182412563
not perfect but I like it. Might have to re-rework the wooden stock.

>>182412909
Yes, but there are better choices these days, if your goal is complete a commercial game as quickly and efficiently as possible. Note this doesn't mean sacrificing quality, only that you are getting things done efficiently.

If your goal is to mess around as a hobbyist, who gives a fuck, do what makes you happy.

>>182398413
Welp, if you're wondering, I managed to fix it. Using rotate_y() managed to let me rotate all the way around, but there was still the issue of the yaw value flipping the controls around, so whenever I'm facing backwards I have to change my yaw-angle-variable from plain old "get_rotation().y" to "pi-get_rotation().y".

It seems like godot won't allow any element in the object's rotation vector be outside of the range of pi and negative pi.

https://hastebin.com/dudoferuca.php

>>182413147
>wood
>underwater

>>182413021
Lemmasoft is one I know off the top of my head.

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wew lads.

>>182413354
it's high-tech composite material made to ressemble a comfy wood floor to prevent home sickness in workers

>>182412909
Use C++ if you want to enginedev.
Use whatever your engine uses if you don't.

>wasted time and energy adding narrative stuff to my game
>it doesn't really match the gameplay well even though I really wanted to create a compelling universe / story

It just kind of slows it down and I imagine the average person might think "who cares" during story stuff when the gameplay is kind of fast paced and fun. I dunno. It doesn't match well. Now I'm not sure if should just focus on gameplay above all and drop the narrative stuff almost entirely

>>182413824
What's your game like? It really depends on the game.
Whether you have story stuff or not, it's still a good idea to have breaks in the action to allow the player to rest a bit before getting back into it.

>>182413824
>tfw shopkeeper will randomly drop sick deeps while you're trying to buy parts
>virtually no other dialogue in my game

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Wasnt happy with the previous version so i changed it now.

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Goofy shit is much more fun to draw than preoccupying myself with boring crap like anatomy and sensible clothing.

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>>182410637
figured it out no thanks to you jerks!

the color gradient can't just map from black to the lightest gray in my image, but it has to go from black to white?

my palette has to be 256x1 even though I only 14 colors? surely there has to be some sort of mathy solution so I can just use a 16x1 image.

fug I need smoke a cigar and drink some coffee.

>>182414906
is your shopkeeper cute

>>182416568
2D in UE4 or you're doing 3D with a filter?

can i declare a variable in a different object in gamemaker?

>>182417337
2d in 3d. all sprites aligned to an orthographic camera, but collision happens in 3d for easy peasy z sorting and projectile logic. it will look no different than a true 2d game.

>>182405203
wow it's actually gone?
it's so weird
they had this nothing site that was starting to become popular, game streams were one of the more popular things, so they spun that off, and then it fucking overtook the main site and every other streaming site out there

What's literally the easiest engine today?

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Remember to drink your milk, or you'll get rocket fisted by skeletons.

https://my.mixtape.moe/akrmyl.webm

>>182417342
yes, to call it just do obj_name.variable

https://streamable.com/jxvmb

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Yes yes, very good No Man's Sky, very good..

HOWEVER...

>>182417931
Your game looks like a speed runners wet dream

how to motivate yourself to animate?

>>182417806
oh, it really is that easy

thanks

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>>182418046

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>>182417681
Probably id Tech 6 as used by Bethesda for DOOM.

The id Tech series in general is a benchmark for the industry most of the time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00S64bc-QBE

>>182417681
RPG Maker.

Oh did you not actually want "easiest"?

>>182418353
I read "best" instead of easiest for some reason.
kek

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>>182418104
The same way you'd motivate yourself to anything.
Also read this book.

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>>182417931
looks smooth

Also, progress w/ engine

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>>182392008
Backdashing has been added. It is also able to cancel into melee attacks back and forth.
I've also changed rolling and backdashing to conserve momentum in the air and changed the dash smoke a little bit.
Working on HUDs, hitstun, and hitboxes next, but that will be more developed tomorrow.

S to spit on thread's grave

P to post progress.

D to dance on thread's grave

G to googumize the thread

F to finish a game

>>182420056
SGDF

>gogem does everything but post progress

>>182418980
Nice steven universe clone.

>>182418980
I like the HUD so far, and I always liked how you could use dashes to cancel attacks in some of the Castlevania games.

>>182420250
But I don't watch Steven Universe.

Making an inventory is hard

>>182420209
you really dont want him to post "progress"

>>182420447
What are you struggling with? Or what hurdles are you running in to?

>>182420398
Most SU characters are brightly coloured magical girls with light based abilities. Your character art is pretty good though, so no-one will confuse it.

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can now walk on planets. Works great.

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>>182401940

You might be a worthless yesdev, but at least you don't have shit taste.

I have a feeling Welcome to the Ballroom is going to be AOTS.

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Is there a more optimized way to calculate where the y should be on a tile slope?

For ascending-right slopes (that are 45 degrees), I have been using:

y = (ty*v) + ( v - ( ox - (tx*u) ) );

For ascending-left slopes (that are 45 degrees), I have been using:

y = (ty*u) + ( ox - (tx*v) ) * ( v / u );

This is what the following stuff means:
>ox: the bottom corner on the front side of the direction entity is moving
>tx: tile column
>ty: tile row
>u: tile width
>v: tile height (both u and v are 16 in this case)

They work, for their corresponding sides, and i've been playing around and haven't encountered any problems.

What I would like to do later is center the entity along the slope, so ox would become the entities x + w/2 in both scenarios; it works, but i've encountered an issue where it collides with solid tiles underneath it. The thing I have thought of doing is creating a world box that doesn't sink into the slope, and then its a simple offset from there.

I have two (45 degree) ramps that are descending left or right, and I have yet to find or come up with a formula that works for those. Is there a better formula I can use that applies to all ramps, with all the variables I have so far?

>>182420458
His progress is good if you want something to make you sleepy for bed.

Get it? Because it's BORING

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>>182420940
AOTS maybe, but AOTY is already locked up and it's in this season.

>>182350554
So is_colliding() returns true when the move() doesn't go the full distance, not when a kinematic body is overlapping with another object?

>>182420940
why bother naming anything season's best? it's the best anime to come out in 3 months? not much of an accomplishment really.

>>182350554
>It's for performance reasons. It's expensive to keep an array of all overlapping bodies on every body. So if you need this array you must code it yourself.
Could you could use an Area2D to find this?
http://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_area2d.html#class-area2d-get-overlapping-bodies

>>182421387
why bother ranking anything haha hierarchies are for fascists

>>182393338
>raid controller to mirror 2 drives
>back everything up to 2 different remote servers on different continents daily
Not going to lose more than a day of work even if my apartment burns down.

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>>182421146

Nigga please, I won't deny Kakegurui is good, but it isn't AOTY.

If anything LWA or Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu S2 are AOTY.

>>182421387

But an accomplishment nonetheless.

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pretty depressed that i'll never be a real game dev
i keep trying to learn unity/gamemaker and mess with blender and i just give up everytime
im pretty okay at photoshop though, im not an amazing pixel artist (i dont really draw anything outside of pixel art) but i know how to get around PS pretty well

idk why im typing this just wanted to vent and look through the tools that you guys put up

i hope you guys make awesome games and accomplish your dreams, as i cannot

>>182421690
gamburu or death

>>182421387
because theres like 30+ anime a season.
i dont think even American reality tv puts out that many series a season.

>>182411013
Of all game dev anime you had to chose the worst one

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Enemy sprites I've been working on. Also first time poster hello

>>182422295
Ooh I like them. They're unnerving in a good way

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>>182422295
Did you just post a photo of your screen to show off your sprites?

>>182422295
>taking a screen shot with your phone camera
fucking kids

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>>182422530
Thanks friendo, I'm trying to go for a semi-cute spooky look. Glad ya like it

>>182422602
Mhmm, dats how I do

>>182422791
What the fuck is wrong with you

>>182422830
He's a nigger.

>>182421942
>watching anime
>ever

>>182422663
i've started doing this ironically

>>182420940
Googem's anime taste is one of the shittest I ever saw, dumb nigger.

>>182422663
What's funny is, this makes pixel art more interesting and appealing because it adds back in noise. Indiedevs have add bloom to their pixel games to get that effect.

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Anyone know how I can solve this shit? I line trace down from the actor and get the normal of the hit on the planet for the rotation, but this flips when you get to the top or bottom

I tried tons of iterations of converting from world/local space and vise versa but I can't make any progress

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Say, /agdg/. You have a finite number of currency in a game where making money is pretty hard.
Would you rather risk it all for a low chance of gaining massive power OR steadily but slowly increasing your power ?

>>182423356
sure, i'll reload my save time and again to get that instant powerup.

>>182423356
Savescum it

>>182423356
Nice speedrunning game.

>>182423401
>>182423415
Legit tactics, alright.
>>182423467
Not intentionally but hey, offering variety is good.

>>182423565
I DO really like the idea of a faustian bargain. It's just you need to solve the savescumming problem , and I don't think "just let them savescum" is a valid answer. It's a significant enough powerup that the correct strategy is to savescum, you're wasting players time.

You could solve this a few ways: they roll always happens the same, so you can't savescum. But then you have to decide if the seed is per game that you start, or just based on the time you start the quest. If it's the former, then the correct strat is to reroll saves. If it's the latter, just come back later to get a new seed.

>>182423792
Mmm, good advice. I wanted to ask about it before I implemented it without taking everything into consideration.

Starfox but with cute girl pilots bantering cutely with each other

>>182424024
XCOM 2012 has some good info on how they mitigated their randomness, info on how they combatted savescumming is in there too. It was covered pretty extensively so searching "xcom randomness" should find it.

The most devilish way I can think of is basing the seed on the the player's hardware ID + how many games the player has started. So for user A, they'll get it on playthroughs 1, 4, 7. For player B they'll get it on 2, 3 9.

>>182423057
did i insult your waifu?

Dark Souls but with lolis

>>182424421
lolis but with dark souls

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>>182424678

>>182394761
and I can guarantee you still haven't ever finished a single game.

Why is Unity asset store stuff so cheap i.e. <$5 and can you import it and legally use it in UE4?

>>182425351
>can you import it and legally use it in UE4
As far as I can tell, yes. Most assets are under a generic license, just double check that the asset you want doesn't have a custom one.

>>182413147
nigger wtf is that trigger guard?

>>182425416
Allright thanks, I'll keep an eye on that. Do you know why something like this https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/89622 would be 50 cents? That seems way too cheap

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Logic: reasoning conducted or assessed according to strict principles of validity.

Insight: the capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of someone or something.

Guile: insidious cunning in attaining a goal; crafty or artful deception; duplicity.


Do you think 'guile' would fit accurately between logic and insight on a spectrum?

Post tumblr / twitter / itch.io stats

>>182425876
Amateurs undervaluing their time. Maybe they think many cheap sales is better than a few expensive sales. (When really on asset stores, most people who will buy your asset need it badly enough that they'll buy at any price that's not completely absurd, and even then some will).

One thing I might do is save a copy of the asset at the time you buy or download, so you have proof if the asset is ever removed from the store. And read the license yourself, it's not long and it's in the unity license.

>>182426043
That's a relief, thanks for the help then

>>182425953
>Do you think 'guile' would fit accurately between logic and insight on a spectrum?
what do you call the spectrum?
insert joke here

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we did it lads!

>>182427074
what was the solution?

>>182427074
>massive sphere/planet comes into sight
aaaa

>>182418749
those elephantiasis feet never cease to trigger me

>>182418749
is that controller visualizer an external thing?
mite b neat to have

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>>182428413
Not him, but they're fairly easy to program yourself. Took me less than an hour to make mine.

>>182427074
https://youtu.be/Iq8Qu-owjgQ

Mimecraft. a game where you build structures out of invisible blocks and get trapped inside of them

>>182428828
If you can get this completed in less than 2 months, it would be worth it to put on steam.

>>182427074
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lymP3lshYAU

>>182429068
can I just hack Minecraft and lower the alpha channel on the voxel textures to 0?

>>182429597
use a unity asset
no joke, if you don't have a project right now and you're neeting it up, this will get you a couple grand at least.

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>can't sleep
>fucking around with colors and stuff
Good night agdg

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>>182428461
>>182428413
It's pretty easy. I just did this in fusion after seeing both of your posts.
Thanks for the idea, will help me understand bugs a little more.

Anybody got any ideas for a fun couch coop game?

>>182401502
>he doesn't exclusively write in the lydian mode
look at this pleb

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>>182401502
major keys

>>182431273
>saving images from this horror show

>>182431330
I didn't save it though, notice the [1]? I just pasted the url from google.

>>182401502
>using keys to compose
How are you doing there in XVIII century?

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Here's some progress. Tried a new whip animation, and I added a new visual affect which should be highly versatile. Basically particles where ever I want, meaning I can make things flame or cause little sparks, or make something shine to show it's done charging up. For the whip itself, I added a little spark on the end, which you can see relatively clearly when I whip over the water.

>>182430967
Yeah, it can be pretty darn useful for figuring out bugs. It was also helpful in showing a commenter what they missed exactly after leaving a comment on my demo day 15 page. I also record all my dev sessions, so it's seriously a recording of my exact gamepad inputs to see what I did if I get a bug I can't seem to easily reproduce.

>>182431107
I'm trying to make a multiplayer action RPG. But this may be hard mode for making a fun couch co-op game.