/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

chicken, arise

>Unity is this easy

wtf, I wasn't expecting this.

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>>182514206
buk buk buk

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>>182514098
copying progress from last thread

>>182514230
Yes. All engines are pretty easy. That's sort of the whole point of them.

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fightan-fag here, we were working on a fighting game but we realized we were going for a project that was too large in scope so we're going to switch to a different genre

Our current unity dev is pretty solid working in 2D as evidenced by the about 9-days progress he made on the fighting game movement we accomplished, but he is self-admittedly not the best in 3D

this is kinda important cause one of the genres I was suggesting we switch to was a 3D action platformer in a similar vein to Jet Set Radio Future which I suggested due to our character designs and aesthetic being in similar vein to/inspired by JSRF so existing assets we've already created could be translated into the genre easily

what I wanted to know is if any unity developers who have experience working on 3D games/3D platformers would want to work on a project like that

pic related, the current character designs with completely finished models that would be easily translatable into a 3D skating platformer setting.

I want to know if there's any sort of interest in this type of game because frankly I would LOVE to work on it immediately, and it's much less animation-intensive than the fighting game department is.

Also, we're still looking for a 3D animator if anyone's biting. I'm okay at the task but I have my shortcomings since it was never something I focused on learning, just knowledge I picked up through my 2D and 3D art learning process

sorry if i sound like a faggot, just being an artfag means I don't have total awareness of the development project and it's a bit weird to be the one always talking about our game development when I'm not the one doing the actual programming bits :(

Anyone know a good tutorial for a Unity Inventory system?

>>182514736
can i get a quick rundown on your lighting? looks like cel shading but there is another layer to it

>>182514363
why are its eyes bleeding

>>182514563
That hurt animation is pretty solid.

>>182514869
edgy chicken

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>>182514098

I was thinking of making some sorta Descent or Starfox clone with this procedural tunnel system I got working using raymarching. All my geometry is calculated in the fragment shader for this effect, so I'd need some way to evaluate the surface each frame, maybe using a custom depthbuffer to mix regular polygon graphics with raymarched distance field geometry.

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Trying to fix my exterior handles for the ship so you can put cruise control and still walk over the hull.

There's trigger colliders around the ship that you have to be (1) colliding with and (2) "holding" by pointing a ray cast and holding the mouse button so that you can inherit the ship's velocity and travel with it from the outside.

It works, but the problem is when your head/camera is completely inside the box collider, it won't let you "pickup" the handle again if you stopped holding it for even one frame

There's a few hacks involving reversing the raycast or offsetting the origin but I would rather keep the ray as it is since you also use it to pick up other items in your second hand. Would adding a ton of smaller box colliders achieve the effect (essentially converting the current boxes into thin walled enclosures)?

>>182514736
I like Jet Set Radio

Did this information help you

>>182514912
looks sick
I'm thinking of that game where you fly through a tunnel going faster and faster

>>182515523
ah shit i meant to reply to >>182514983

>>182514842
that's just a dirty blender render, I followed this guide (however for the render of the left girl I forgot to disable the AO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d08WF6sZuQI

>>182515737
ao or some other subtle shading adds to cel shading imo. it's not obvious enough that players can spot, but it adds in some real shading info that's missing from pure cel

>>182513371
interesting. that helped a lot, thanks.

currently the obj_info is already created, its where i store all the relevant information to pass to the script.

using instance_create/destroy is a good idea but not something i can do here without losing the stored data.

so it seems changing "g = obj_info" to "g = obj_info.id" did the trick.

thanks again.

>>182514736
i am not pretty convinced anon. Maybe if you show me more jiggling boobs/ass i might change my mind.

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Has anyone tried Unity's new camera tools yet?

>>182515969

some of the shadows are painted on in the texture, this is the model totally unlit

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>>182516138
yowza, forgot the image. RIP

probably gonna avoid any dynamic AO since it can cause unwanted graininess which would be bad for aesthetics in a JSRF-type game

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grill

>>182516308
is this rigged or just sculpted to this pose
either way p good

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>>182514480
>but it is used for forward attacks
That'll work in 2D games at best.

Let's say you're playing something like dark souls where you can turn to the left or right in the middle of fluid attack chains (you character doesn't return to an idle stance in the middle, nor does the animation reset). Look at how you have to fling the origin about the old hitbox location's point. Imagine this with more attacks, or with a more complicated game. Keeping all three of these things in the same spot is a gorillion times easier, the only exception I'd make is if you're using a hand-drawn 2D game like skullgirls where managing this is easy and you can't just measure the bone's stepping speed in an animator.

>>182514631
nodev

Is there a simple, good, and free 3D modeling program that I can use to make simple low-poly models that isn't Blender or 3DSM?

do unity/gamemaker kiddies actually consider themselves to be real game devs

>>182514983
Damn dude, that's trippy as heck. Could be neat for a game.

Is my son here? I want him to know I didn't give him a thousand dollars to not finish his cute little bunny game so he can make that other gross game. He knows how much I just hate frogs.

Also its time to do the dishes sweety.

GODDAMMIT THEY MOVED THE LUDUM DARE DATE BY A DAY

NOW I NEED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN GRANNY'S BIRTHDAY AND MY SUPREME VICTORY

FUCK MAN

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Working on an asteroids-like game. I'm happy with it so far.

>>182516391
rig

still has some problems with weight and shit but thanks

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Why this nigger piece of code doesn't spawn four regions at the top?

void Random_Room_Seeds(int ix, int iy, int w, int h, int level)
{
TestQuadtree.add(new Rectangle(ix, iy, w, h));
if (level < 3)
{
Random_Room_Seeds(ix, iy, w/2, h/2, ++level);
Random_Room_Seeds(ix+w/2, iy, w/2, h/2, ++level);
Random_Room_Seeds(ix, iy+h/2, w/2, h/2, ++level);
Random_Room_Seeds(ix+w/2, iy+h/2, w/2, h/2, ++level);
}
else
{
int x = random.nextInt(w) + ix;
int y = random.nextInt(h) + iy;

map[x][y].cell_type = Cell.Cell_type.ROOM_START;
return;
}
}

shceme is so shit, what a fucking headache trying write a gimp script

>>182516884
That's not a choice. Granny's birthday. You shouldn't even have to think about it.

>>182516308
Cute. I'd go on a date with her.

>>182516659
>>182515523

I'll probably hook up some sorta system where the cave structure - just 2 sinusoidal tunnels - reacts to different frequencies of music files you load into it. Maybe have n number of audio frequency buckets determine the frequency and amplitude of the tunnels.

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>>182516308
that is actually amazing

>>182517014
granny please get off /agdg/ you don't even have a game

>>182517296
if granny did have a game I'd bet it would be pretty interesting
just kidding it's monopoly

>>182517296
Stop driving so fast. You know I worry about you.

>>182517105
It could be like Audiosurf. Have enemies spawn dynamically with the rhythm of the music.

help
is there a way to run libGDX desktop projects without OpenGL?

Right now I'm stuck with this

>Exception in thread "LWJGL Application" com.badlogic.gdx.utils.GdxRuntimeException: OpenGL is not supported by the video driver.

>>182516646
I'm digging up raw materials to hand craft my own cpu. Do hardware kiddies actually consider themselves to be real gamedevs?

>>182516308
>draw a boy's face, call it a girl

>>182517485
do you have a fucking toaster m8?

your pc still runs opengl 1.4?

get 0.99, last version that works with 1.4.

or install your gpu drivers.

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New since last progress:

-Player bullets create sparks when they hit stuff instead of just vanishing like before.
-Enemies flash when they're hit.
-Enemy bullets have graphics, and there are a few different types instead of everyone shooting the same pink mspaint ball.
-Point pickups have graphics.

>>182517965
too be honest with you I think having the hud attached to the ship looks a little silly

>>182517754
I have a 2007 laptop I bought in highschool because I'm a broke college student that can't afford anything else
It runs with Intel Mobile 4 Express Chipset onboard graphics, whose drivers were discontinued by Intel because of how old it is

so i did a few tests and it looks like root motion attached to the animation actually works. it doesn't fuck with collisions like i thought it would, and it translates in the correct direction so long as you're moving the root bone in the Z axis.

it feels weird having two different systems for controlling translation, since i've now split my movement up between root motion and code, but hey whatever.
i just hope it doesn't horribly conflict in the future.

>>182517965
I like the remaining enemy bullets turning into point pickups after they die. The present graphic looks sort of weird though, like it's a generic clipart image.

>>182518339
get a newer pc from second hand.

you can get a better laptop in 100 bucks.

hell, even phones have better opengl than that.

>>182518384
>it feels weird having two different systems for controlling translation
This is the drawback. The more complicated your game is, the bigger issue it'll be. Technically speaking any method works though.

>>182518486
not where I live, second hand laptops are worth half a standard salary

>>182517965
>background looks like fantasy rpg
>play as shmup with 3d futuristic vehicles
why do you do this?

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>>182518178
Yeah people have said that before and I kind of agree. I just think it's important to do it in a way that you don't have to look away from the ship to see, so maybe when I make real graphics I can make it look cool like the ddpdfk hyper meter (pic related). If not, I'll try to think of something else.

>>182516969
>java

in for a bad time

>>182518595
lol I thought it was Secret of Mana or some shit from the thumbnail

>>182517736
i just didn't want to exaggerate and make her too cutesy and animay, but k

>>182518580
buy them from some chinese online shop.

>>182518595
I was thinking the same shit. now i want a fantasy rpg with that background.

>>182518595
Because the background is still a placeholder ripped from a fantasy shmup. I should have gotten rid of it long ago but I keep doing small things to postpone working on the big things that matter more.

>>182518669
What's wrong with java?

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>>182516884
Is the Ludum Dare compo still 48 hours? Is the LDJam still 72 hours?

Also what theme suggestions are people submitting? I couldn't really think of much, I might change these if I think of anything better.

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>>182518638
Just have it be part of the actual ship. Pic related.

>>182519021
>Armor
Fight knight dev pls

I just finished a two-day job of rewriting enemy movement code to fit a new mechanic. In all honesty, I needed to do that anyway, it was pretty ill-conceived, but I can't help but feel a mix of accomplishment at having made a stronger foundation and that feeling of spinning my wheels cause the enemies are just doing what they did before.

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>>182519021
I won't have time to participate so I'll just suggest stupid shit

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Remember to like your game because games are fun but not as fun as swimming and dabbing grease off pizza with paper towels. But still very fun.

are text adventures retro?

not roguelikes but just like get lamp

>>182519295
stop

What does /agdg/ think of net neutrality?

>>182519837
They already passed the kill law here two weeks ago
That battle's lost

Might make for a nice game though, unless it gets flagged as hate speech

>>182519837
I think its not gamedev.

>>182519721
wow I'm glad you specified

>>182519975
Where's here?

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Some guy in the last thread asked for a video on how I do texturing, so I tried making a little timelapse.
Fucked up something in the settings (first time trying Blender for video editing) and made it way too fast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A-xmR7cIwA

Not sure how useful it is, but I might make a commented video later, and perhaps one on the making of the texture itself.

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>>182521064
o shit

>>182519817
they're better than "one room" at least
lol repeats

>>182518882
I'd like to know what's wrong as well. Literally everyone has told me Java is trash without explaining why.

>>182521429
knock knock

>>182521508
who's there

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>write code
>works as intended
>copy paste it into exact same environment
>doesn't work
>mfw
Just fucking kill family

>>182518882
>>182521429
the only reason that most other programmers will give is that it's 'too verbose'

>>182521064
Now THIS IS WHAT I CALL PROGGRACING

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>>182521542
I fixed it

http://www.zeroequalsfalse.press/2017/07/12/engine/

>what's wrong with Java
Speed and the fact that people have to install the JRE to play your game. Stop asking this question.

>>182521827
and minecraft made two billion dollars of it.

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>>182521816
the amount of time wasted on creating a shit engine compared to free already existing engines is too much

>>182521816
>We began with an idea to create a game engine and a goal to publish a game made with it. With this in mind, our first task was obvious but not simple, create this game engine. Our main consideration at the time was to have the engine support the big three desktop OSes, Windows MacOS and Linux. Our language and OpenGL wrapper of choice ended up being Java/LWGJL (https://www.lwjgl.org/); for reference, this is the same setup which was used by Notch to create Minecraft.
Fuck man, I thought I was getting memed

>>182521387
>>182521698
Yeah, again, sorry about the speed.
Can't see what the fuck is going on, but the basic gist of it is that I have a texture set with many "parts" and that I unwrap one area of the model at a time and simply try to find bits and pieces that go together.
And then I draw in some lights and shadows with vertex paint.

>>182521530
*unzips*

>>182522154
that's not how the java knock knock joke goes you homonculus

>>182521064
tasty

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>>182514736
calling on this post again for anyone who wants to help with this project

>>182521581
that's valid if you have tendonitis or another RSI or just, you know, value your time

What's the consensus on Unity frameworks/APIs?

Are there certain ones that a lot of amateur/indie games use? I tried looking at the Unity store and there seems to be a lot of choice.

I come from a programming background and typically everyone uses the same things so you just follow the crowd.

>>182522281
No, girls are icky

I want to do a manly game with men, their muscles glittering in the sun

>>182522281
dude just having a two man-team is PLENTY to make a game. prove yourselves with a small scope game and then come back and recruit.

your art is fine, just suck it up and learn to animate

>>182522261
Thanks
Happy if it's any use to you

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Aww shet.

>using sprites in the world with 3d objects as well. Looks weird but then its supposed to be weird

>>182514736
those designs are pretty bad, you're far from the first person to make a terry bogard clone

>>182523014
Woah

>>182522805
Generic maybe, but far from "pretty bad".

>>182514736
tell your programmer to suck it up because unity (and unreal) makes 3d babbymode

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>>182523014
good job!

>>182517965
I'm also making a shmup, how do you send the enemies? do you use timer, x amount enemies with interval of y seconds, or do you place them by hand?

>>182520806
Not-so-free-dom land

>>182519497
This post reminds me of mirrors.

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>>182516949

Fuck me.

I saw your first post and wasn't expecting this level of expertise.

Your aesthetic is brilliant. Very well done. It looks solid.

What are your plans gameplay wise? Are you going to shake up the genre or just go with a straight asteroids close?

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I give up

>>182524982
Finally.

>>182514098
Remember to suck up your fee fees about SJWs and watch GDC videos they are the best gamedev videos and discussions.

>>182524982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGRhd_iWuE

>>182525186
What did he meme by this

>>182525270
No, don't. We must let him rest in peace.

>>182525376
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k8craCGpgs

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Damn ambient occlusion is magical, makes my scene look way better for only a small performance hit. Now I won't have to make fake shadows with alpha maps like I was doing before as well, so it's a huge time saver.

>>182519992
until ISPs throttle your game's downloads

>>182525741
>it's still not gamedev
>it's too late to stop
>bitching about it on mongolian throat singing websites is literally pointless
Take your pick, then please go back to whatever board you crawled out from

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Quick! i need help on boss idea for side scrolling shooter 2d games. It must be original.

>>182526651
Fembot with giant tits shooting lazors from her nipples.

>>182522535
UNITY JUST FUCKING WON
EVERY OTHER ENGINE GOT BLOWN THE FUCK OUT

>>182526074
>>it's too late to stop
just like the last nine times they tried it right? it's a good thing people didn't have shitty defeatist attitudes like you all those times or we wouldn't be having this conversation

wait, maybe it's a bad thing, because it would have saved me the trouble of responding to a faggot like you

>>182526845
I second this

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>>182522535

>>182526651
A boss in what theme? You do have a theme/setting, don't you?

>>182526651
a boss that throws health packs at you and shooting it damages the player

>>182527996
the twist is you kill yourself but the boss dies

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>>182526074
> mongolian throat singing websites

Made me chuckle. It's still amazing though. Makes me want to go raid a nearby village.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rmo3fKeveo

>>182522281
God latina chicks look gross, even in 2d.

>>182528691
>Made me chuckle.
>hes unaware of this meme

Please leave my Indonesian sand painting monastery normalfriend.

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>>182528850
That's because you're gay.

>>182525728
Looks better yeah, how much of a performance hit are you getting?

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>>182527249
90% of the world doesn't have net neutrality laws and the scenario where they pretty much cut out everything except a few websites doesn't happen.

I think net neutrality is a good thing but not having it isn't going to cause the nuclear apocalypse scenario the defenders are claiming. And if a company tries to pull something like it off they will immediately lose customers. Heck they lose customers nowadays when they try to throttle torrent speeds and things like that.

>>182530001
>And if a company tries to pull something like it off they will immediately lose customers.

Except when they're literally the only provider of the service you can get.

>>182529595
Haven't done an fps test yet but I don't notice any drop, and the game is running on my old 2012 gaming laptop so it should probably be fine.

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I'm slowly getting there with the combat

>>182530236
That's not a net neutrality problem though, when that happens it usually has to do with legislation preventing smaller companies from competing in the same area.

>>182530408
It's indirectly related nigga.

As you said, without monopolies net neutrality isn't a problem.

>>182530507
>It's indirectly related nigga.
How so?

And I am speaking from experience, I have lived in 4 countries, two of them with absolutely no net neutrality legislation and there's literally no impact on quality of service. Infrastructure however is a massive issue.

>>182530849
Nice anecdotal evidence fag.

>>182531192
Better than no evidence fag.

>>182531481
No, fuck off.

>>182531481
Are you planning on ideaguying on us? Then nah mate
Are you going to post gamedev progress with your stuff? Then we want to see it, it doesn't matter if it's super early or shitty.

>>182531591
>>182531598
Okay, sorry to bother you.

I'm PISSED, because the only thing to eat in this house is frozen bullshit and cereal. FUCK me.

>>182531481
are you on discord i don't want to ideaguy here

>>182531827
go do your groceries

>>182527920
anime girl doing cute things in space.

>>182531938
I wouldn't know what to buy.

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I got all of the sounds in for this guy and he's pretty much done mechanically, all that's left is to add the special death states.
https://my.mixtape.moe/zsxykl.webm

>>182531827
Just like order takeaway.

>>182532026
https://www.google.com/search?q=cheap+foods+by+calorie

How do literallywhos like Yoko taro and hideo Kojima go from being CGI makers and programmers to heads of their own teams? And why does this only happen in Japan? You never hear about some random guy spearheading a big game in the West

>>182532258
>Hideo Kojima
>Programmer

He was hired as an ideaguy.

>>182532258
Sean Murray? Todd?

In the west there's more of an entrepreneurial culture, so if you want to make a game you just fucking make it.

>>182532258
with hard work and dedication and high status in luck

>>182532258
By working their arses off for 10-15 years before getting lead positions.
Yes, you can get such position for your accomplishments in Japan instead only money or acquaintance in the West. But don't you think you'll be given it without proving yourself for a long-long years.

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>>182532340
Kojima became a programmer, baka.

>know how to program
>have plenty of time to spare on gamedev
>can't however into art nor music
>NEET with zero friends and no disposable income to pay someone
This is the worst feeling

>>182532652
You need to find a team of entrepeneurs, put up posters at the local university asking for folks who are in a situation where they can fill those roles for no compensation, and if the game takes off then you can all enjoy success together, but if it doesn't then no harm no foul

You can probably find people like this online and collaborate that way too

>>182532652
yeah FUCK ART

>>182532652
>NEET
you mean you have lots of free time to learn another discipline?

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Just finished this spot.

>>182532652
I hate you lazy fucker. You have all time in the world to learn art and music and you dare to complain! I had to learn art while working fulltime and it took me GODDAMN 5(FIVE!) YEARS before I've reached passable level. I could reach the same level in a mere hafl a year if I didn't have to work my ass off just to survive!
Burn in Hell, you disgusting sloth incarnate! I hate wish burning passion, and every yesdev hate you the same! Even all of the nodevs hate you! Fuck you lazy bastard!

>>182532652
just make noart games like I'm gonig to

>>182532652
Create a schedule to learn a new skill. Get a few dollardoos and go to the bookstore and buy a book about drawing, then practice everyday. Draw your own placeholder graphics and animations. In 2 years if you study almost everyday, you will be a pretty decent artist if you REALLY suck now, but if you only suck now, you will be great in 2 years.

How does one go from being a no-friends ideaguy, to having a presentable game?

>>182532652
Just do what everyone does - trick a desperate amateur musician into working for free because you're giving him "exposure".

Artists are generally more wise to this bullshit so you may wanna learn art yourself.

>>182533369
program it

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>>182532636
>this is too difficult
>it made it even more difficult

If I want to make video games as a hobby (that I will try to turn into a profession), but I have a job that I will likely make more than enough to survive (plumbers in alaska make a lot of dosh), should I continue to work full-time while I go to the local university for a computer science degree?

I know I could TECHNICALLY learn all the skills I need on my free time, but to be honest being a plumber is DANGEROUS and I wouldn't mind getting a degree to do a job that doesn't risk me blowing my fucking fingers off, setting myself on fire, kneeling down on a jagged steel spike (FUCK THAT HURT), or getting tetanus

Will I save a ton of time if I'm driven to learn on my own? Or is the 4 year route through college better? What do you guys think?

>>182533591
Why would you need to go to university to make video games as a hobby?

You can't Work Full Time, Make games as a Hobby, and do a degree at the same time.

>>182533513
That's how real men do it.

>>182530357
looking good

>>182533591
If you want to change career to a programmer study computer science

If it's only game making you want to do then stay home and learn to make games on your own

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>>182533369
1) Create a general design document for the game.
2) Learn enough to create and polish a demo of some kind (this will demonstrate your commitment to show others you are serious, and create a basis for others to work off of, people don't like the idea of building a house from scratch, but have the foundation and they are far more willing)
3) Go to forums online where the types of people you need gather, comission sites, local colleges, anything, and put up posters that you are putting together a start-up gamedev team, and to contact you for more info
4) Don't say on the ad that they won't be paid, instead tell them its a start up project, present it as thus, "Every member of the 10 person team will be pitching in on their own time to contribute, and in the end we'll have a finished product we can put on the market. If it does well, we all just earned a big fat payout! And something we can show off to future employers as a finished (and maybe even successful!) project! Or if its successful enough, we could recruit more people and actually open our own studio! We as the founders of course will continue to lead. Its low-risk, high reward. But it will require consistency and commitment! If you feel that 1-2 hours several days a week is too much for you, then that's fine. I'm looking for a team of people who are hungry for an opportunity, but also wish to have balance in their life. This isn't a job, this is a project we will all work on, and in the end, we will get experience at the very least, and if its a success, we will get so much more. Go ahead and think about it, then let me know your decision."
5) Don't ask too much, keep it slow and steady, keep people on who will see the project to the very end, and if someone quits on you, don't panic, just look for someone new and have them pick up where the last person left off.

This might take a year or two to finish something small, but if you keep things general, you can create something professional-quality.

>>182530357
Isn't a lot of the point behind these stories that the humans cannot fight back?

>>182534106
>1) Create a general design document for the game.

OPINION DISCARDED

>>182533769
Working full time while trying to get a degree is the tricky part. I know some people that have suceed at it but I also know a lot of people that got too tired and stresed trying. If that compute science degree can get you a similar amount of money with less risks, then go for it.

>>182524982
Pretty sure that's an akita.

>>182533769
I'm asking if I want to make games as a hobby that I will try to turn into a career, is it faster to go to uni or to learn on my own while I work full-time? Is what I learn with a BS in CS worth sacrificing 4 years for? Or would that time be better spent teaching myself at home when I'm not working?

>>182533995
I want to make games, but I'd be open to switching careers as well. If I can do them both in one shot, then I'll do the uni UNLESS learning in uni what is relevant to making games could be learned far, far faster on my own while I work full-time.

Is this a good idea?
[SPOILER] SHOOT EM UP RHYTHM GAME [/SPOILER]

>>182534449
Ctrl + S bud

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>>182534449
It doesn't matter.
Just like make game

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>>182534373
and you are a faggot

>>182534443
I just finished a 4 year degree in CS this year, and nothing I learned here would benefit me when it comes to making video games.

Just an anecdote, but my advice, if you want to make indie games, is to just make games, and learn on your own.

If you want a job in game dev company, then yeah, do the degree.

>>182534227
>not looking organized to your rag-tag team of unpaid help
It doesn't even matter if you truly believe in it, you have to have something to present, without some kind of a plan people will think you are wasting their time

>>182534485
like this where's your game?

>>182534609
Computer programming didn't help you at all? None of the math? I hear that you need to be able to work with vectors for 3D games, isn't that something you learn with a CS degree?

>>182534687
nodev life

>>182534726
I knew programming before I even started the course, so yeah, it had no benefit to me, I just did it for the paper.

I'm writing a visual novel.

>>182534726
If you know nothing at all it can help you, if you already know how to write code then you are just doing it for the formality of the degree but nothing else really.

I have a degree, but I learned very little from university to be honest, most of the things I know come from having had to learn and do them for work.

>>182534991
i am drawing visual painting.

>>182534856
I'd do it with the idea that "yeah, doing this is fun and I want to get better at it" but also "if I can turn this into a career, I will" so I see myself pursuing working at a company, or starting my own

I know jack shit about programming, I've been doing code academy for a while but I'm still just an HTML & CSS baby, so the programming classes would be something I'd be extremely interested in learning.

Thanks for the input, I think I'll go with the degree

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>>182534121
You are fighting back against cultists and pawns of the Old Gods and other supernatural beings. You can't even think about fighting truly eldritch stuff
>>182533986
thanks

>>182519497
Hasn't Ullililia become a nodev?
I've heard he likes swimming now.

>>182521816
>if bokube was an enginedev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1C9zmBXtCg

>>182535405
Looks much more fun than bokube

>>182532258
Charisma

>>182535570
tbqh I don't understand how bokube works from watching the videos in these threads. The levels are very busy looking.

I'm also not sure how to say bokube.

>>182535570
its the same shit though, except it has 1 or 2 more gimmicks

>>182535921
bow-queue-bay

>>182535984
But it's a weeb rabbit cube.

Why not bok-oo-bey or bo-kyoob?

I game dev professionally, but I work retail as a hobby.

someone should clone Bokube and replace the rabbit with a Puerto Rican girl and call it Boricube

Someone should clone Bokube and replace nothing and call it Bocuckbe

>>182535921
bo + cube

How do I display text in gamemaker?
I want to display a score on the screen, do I just have to have sprites for 0, 1, ..., 9 and have 4 objects in a row change which current sprite is being displayed on them?
Or is there a simpler way?
Would you do something like a menu that you can navigate up/down with the same technique?

>>182537661
This is mental retardation.
Why the fuck don't you google it? It's one of the most basic things and full of documentation on how to do it.
You will never make a game if you are this lazy, just quit now.

What are some great books on game design aside from the more famous ones. Maybe some more genre specific ones.

>>182537928
You're right[\spoiler]

>>182537928
Hello.
I appreciate your concerns but I have a very good idea about games and I will be very successful.
I don't however appreciate you telling me to google it, if you weren't going to give me a proper and well thought out tutorial as to how to implement scores in gamemaker then you surely shouldn't have responded.
That's just common sense.

>>182538253
I have an idea you'll probably like. I want to help you. pm me if you're interested.

>>182538253
I like this newdev! U don't need any think like that dude, just a simple label who receive a value (from a variable for example). Use the update thing from gms (steps, right?)

>>182538253
Hey I'm great at making games too and I have a great idea, I just can't talk about it here because people will try to steal it.

I'm looking for programmers, artists, writers and musicians to join my team by the way. I'm a project manager and lead game designer.

If anyone is interested just email me your cv and we can set up an interview if I consider your skills adequate.

>>182538495
Forgot to mention, anyone who joins gets to share 15% of the equity with the other team members.

>>182538665
u forgot the email, [/faggot]

>>182530357
still not as good as the old one, the old one explained that on roll fail you'll take the a shown damage, here there's "-1sta" without indicating anything

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>>182538376
>>182538473
>>182538495
welp it was actually very easy I just followed a youtube tutorial.
Sorry for wasting your time.

>>182539019
>youtube tutorial
not gonna make it

i'm trying to do something and i need help, i have a plane in 2d space that can go at variant speed, and i basically want to make an enemy to be able to shoot at the place "where it's supposed to be next", should i use the maximum speed for calculation or the average one? taking that i have the speed of the rocket/bullet, how can i do this?

Fuck sake, now I have to make a website.

>>182539241
take the estimated bullet travel time, then multiply the targets move vector by that amount

>>182539019
How did Undertale sold in Japan? Since there are quite small amount of furfags out there and they are not much liking sjw shit and ugly characters.

How do you deal with the constant realization that you're completely wasting your time?

>>182539406
How would we know that?

>>182539342
Post game

>>182539415
by realizing that creative work isn't a waste of time

>>182539463
Can't, no website. Gotta make one.

I'm an engine dev and I have nothing to show

>>182538253
>I have a very good idea about games and I will be very successful.
This is the funniest sentence I've ever read.

>>182539490
t-thanks, anon.

>>182523014
That small vertical movement of the camera seems a bit bad to me when you do a basic roll. Or perhaps it just shouldn't follow your character instantly, not sure. Anyway looks nice anon!

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>>182539406
>my entire knowledge of the game is based on shitposting

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>>182540503
all jrpgs are shit

>>182539406
japan loves undertale and its characters
also
>quite small amount of furfags out there
holy shit

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>>182514098
You can make it!

>>182540503
I did play it for a hour or two. It was utterly disgusting but quite interesting in the beginning. But it became boring very quick.

>>182514736
>>182522281
I second >>182523320

How the fuck can your programmer fail at 3D in fucking unity??

>>182540720
"Loving cute things" != gay furfag
So yes, amount of japanese furfags in western meaning of this word is close to zero.

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Procedural generation hard at work

what are the most essential accounts to have for marketing? tumblr, twitter, normiebook?

>>182541785
stop embarrassing yourself

>>182523320
>>182541469
I third. I haven't ran into anything I didn't know how to do in Unreal, and my knowlege of 3D is just high school math tier.

>>182542018
I don't know which engine you're using, but you should just make it a spline/curve and place a lot of planks on that. It'll look more natural.

>>182539406
Japan loved it, They also liked life is strange.

>>182542170
>I don't know which engine you're using, but you should just make it a spline/curve and place a lot of planks on that. It'll look more natural.
How would the planks be held together if I'm using a curve to place them? Just floating?

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Guy who asked about Unity multiplayer here, back because i'm still confused.
Unity has a 20 CCU limit for their free license. So if I make a multiplayer game, only 20 people can play at the same time, whether they are in the same lobby or not. But is this true for each game or does it depend on the Unity account?
If I make another multiplayer game, will I have a 20CCU limitation per game (40 CCU total) or still 20 in total, across all games I made?

The alternative would be to use direct p2p, but that would mean that the people playing would have to tell each other their IP address, and I can't see many people doing that.
please don't make me go ask discord, I don't like that place

>>182542462
Just host your own servers?

>>182542452
add some pillars or rope if you're concerned about that.
It doesn't really look like it's held by anything right now either.

>>182542646
If I had the money (or the will to spend money) for that, do you think I'd be asking these questions?

>>182542716
Weow.

It's 20 per game ID, so 40 if you have 2 different games.

>>182542763
Thank you. I looked around a lot and could never find a clear answer on this.
Does this mean I could technically release the same game several times to get virtually unlimited CCU for free?

>>182542854
Yes, but none of the 20 people groups could ever play with each other.

Also you would probably get banned for abuse.

>>182541161
What a cheerful fellow

What if instead of making sprites for every step of my animations, I just passed a single base image through a different convolutional filter for each step, saving me tedious photoshop work?

>>182542924
Fair enough. I didn't plan to do that anyway.

>>182543001
Hand animations is best animation

>>182543106
Are you telling me I can't take a shortcut that cuts out a huge amount of painstaking skilled work without that being reflected in the quality of my game?

>>182543235
Cut corners, that's the only way to finish a game.

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>put image in corner
>this is what it looks like if I translate the image later
well at least I figured out why the alignement was fucked when I was using a square

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Time to implement some text-based bloom

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>>182542686
>It doesn't really look like it's held by anything right now either.
Still trying to tackle that one.

>>182543235
If you don't have a deadline there is no reason to cut corners other than laziness. Avoid being lazy.

>>182524665
Thank you! I'm thinking of doing a roguelite sort of thing. Each level you'll have to destroy all the enemies, maybe some levels where you defend a satellite or something. Then after the level is complete you can upgrade your ship in some way. I'll also want to add tons of different weapons and enemies.

>>182543892
If it's not important to the purpose or feeling the anon is trying to portray it's a waste of development time.

>>182524145
I'd like to know an answer to this as well.
Like what would be the most optimal way to spawn enemies in this type of game?

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>>182543595
>known bug since 4.9
what a load of horseshit

>>182544012
If quality is not important I suggest reevaluating your goals.

>>182544363
Quality is important, that's why the developer should spend more time on the important features of his game.

>>182544447
Do so while not cutting corners, if you can.

Is left-aligned good enough for text? Wondering if I should write a justifying algorithm. Not sure how that'd even work with monospace fonts, I guess randomly double up spaces. Might look weird sometimes...

>>182518743
ignore him.
i don't see the difference between a ghibli girl face and yours.

Writing my my Turn bAsed card game in Golang from scratch
Pretty comfy architecture so far. Still working on game logic and mechanics.

But hey I can cast spells!

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>>182516308
Bretty gud

>>182544240
Enjoy your propriatary engine without support.

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Oh my...

>>182544758
Left aligned is fine. Having extra spaces in places would not look good.

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>>182543681
i made a few improvements to your game

>>182545325
Enjoy his game while you enginedev has no game.

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>>182543898

Sounds good.

I look forward to further progress.

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>>182544169
>>182524145
Sorry for the late reply, I went to bed not too long after posting. The way I'm doing it is I place the enemies on the map but they only start processing when they touch the "playfield" which is that big area around the screen, so they activate gradually as the camera scrolls upwards.

I'm not sure this is the best way to do it, it probably isn't. It can get a bit annoying making enemies behave the way you want to like moving in formation because the ones positioned lower activate and start moving earlier than the ones higher up, so the formation you see while editing the stage is very different from the one that will really happen in the game, also getting enemies to enter the screen from anywhere other than the top needs tricks. There's also the fact that every enemy in the stage is already instanced from the beginning, long before you actually need them, so it takes more memory than it should though I'm hoping that won't be a problem for today's hardware.

So yeah doing it this way kind of sucks but I really wanted to be able to edit the stages visually rather than typing a huge table of spawn times and positions. Hope I don't regret it later.

Why didn't you make any lewd theme suggestion for next LD?

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>>182546370
I see. Thanks a bunch for answering anon!

>>182516958
>still has some problems with weight
Well that's okay, all women generally think that anyways. Have you told her she should try throwing up after she eats?

>>182546709
Why would I make theme suggestions for a jam I have no interest in participating?

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>>182546160
This has everything I like

>>182514563
>multiple hurt animations

real nigga award

>>182514563
>making girls bleed
s-stop it

Do you guys think a point-and-click adventure game that is also a tycoon game would work? Airline Tycoon (the first version) was mildly popular back in the day.
I'm kinda getting tired of working on my other projects right now and just noticed the official unity tutorial on making a point-and-click adventure game.

>>182547623
Could work, depends on the execution.

>>182547623
if you know how to write an engaging story, why not

>>182547708
It's a tycoon game about death row inmates - so there will be plenty of execution.

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Mind if anyone critic my sprite. Started sprite art for a week and got like 6 other pics under my belt.

>>182547804
AYEEEEEEE

>>182547871
I'm so bored I just had to try to post something amusing

>>182547852
Is this a cute monster?

>>182547920
You did well, anon.

>>182547978
Yea pretty much. Based it off a beetle. Maybe want to do a platformer with it

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Small progress here.
Rewriting a lot of code related to the river and the houses to be able to place them anywhere through code, allowing me to have more variation on stages.

>>182548126
Neat idea. You could make it a little beetle knight.

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>>182516949
>those clouds

Beautiful work, anon.

>>182516949
>>182549034
It looks like someone jizzed all over Earth

How do you go about starting a project?

Do you write out exactly what your goals are or just a few bulletpoints of things you might want or an abstract idea? What do you do exactly?

>>182549232
Usually I write something down (or type something up) before I even open up unity. For at least 1 hour a day I lay in bed, high as fuck. If an idea comes to mind, I jot it down in a spiral notebook and go back to enjoying the high.

>>182549232
First I double check to ensure that my game developer's license is still valid or I could face heavy fines for illegal game development. Then I email my local game developers league to ensure that my project is league approved, and pending their permission I can begin purchasing assets from the asset store.

Listen up and I'll tell a story

>>182549447
Dude you forgot about software licenses.
calling fbi on u now

>>182549232
I started my project years ago. And I still have nothing to show for it.

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Gave a facelift to the Striker. Now it looks like something you'd want to pilot.

Gonna add combat-skills next

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>>182549546
Very nice.

>>182549546
Wouldn't a torso shot rip that thing in half?

>>182549710
Sorry I mean a stomach shot; the lower half of the stomach looks really thin

>>182549546
Looks good anon.

>>182549710
*snorts*
Also, bipedal mechs are HIIIIIGHLY impractical. *adjusts glasses*

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>>182549710
>>182549710
Yeah it's supposed to look like that, it's the first mech in the design line and those are usually light-weight units or prototypes. This one is the successor to it and it's already better armored and the next one would be even thicker.

>>182549681
>>182549858
Thanks guys

I'm gonna use a global variable

>>182550065
These mechs - are they remotely controlled or piloted by someone?

>>182549868
Wat. I just think a battle bot should at least look sturdy enough for combat...

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Is there any way I can earn money from making my game free-to-play on Steam without Microtransactions or DLCs? Like ads or something

>>182550237
Piloted of course

>>182550221
Nothing wrong with that

>>182550221
Stop right there, criminal scum! Nobody breaks the law on my watch! I'm confiscating your global variables. Now pay your fine or it's off to jail.

>>182550065
I will never understand why you idiots keep half-ass rendering flat untextured shit like this.
Just take a damn screenshot and avoid the dumb grain.

>>182550286
put a patreon link in it

>>182550419
Shut up the grain rendering looks good.

>>182550286
Fistful of Frags has ads, but I guess it's just to help with coverings server costs.

>>182550286
No one is going to want that, man. People threw a shitfit when Quake Live had a handful of sponsored billboards in the game.

>>182549232
Step 1. Write down the basic idea of what you want. It doesn't have to be detailed, just generally what the game will be.

Step 2. Make a prototype. The prototype should have all of the gameplay you want, just with less overall content. Don't worry about graphics, don't worry about how messy the code is. Just make it work and make sure it's fun. The prototype should take 3 weeks or less to complete, if it takes longer than that your idea is probably too large of scope for you to finish.

Step 3. If the prototype is fun move on to starting the full game. Don't build on the prototype, start a new project and this time make sure the code and structure of everything is clean and easy to expand. Learn from any mistakes you made during the prototype. You can also start making a more detailed design document now, making note of more exact content that you want. Just be careful not to add too many new mechanics, you should already have tested all the mechanics in the prototype, adding more mechanics will create feature creep.

>>182548410
wow i thought you were dead vampiredev

>>182550419
Film grain is aesthetic

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>>182550419
>screenshot
But that looks even worse

My game will have film grain, got any problem with that?

>>182550532
>>182550586

No. Get your shit together.

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how do I make my roofs look better

>>182549232
open up ide and start throwing some code in there and then little by little mold it out so that a game forms.

fuck planning
fuck whiteboards
fuck design documents
fuck brainstorming
fuck research

JUST
DO IT

>>182550650
Look at what you've done >>182550634

>>182550634
Not really, but you could also turn on AA and not crop it so badly.

>>182550650
It's 2vs1 what you're gonna do nerd? It looks good.

>>182550678
That perspective reminds me of notzelda

>>182550791
>samefagging to win an internet argument

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>want to open paint
>type out "pain" in the search bar

>>182550678
Give the shingles more dimension.

>>182550634
I think the point was you shouldn't be worried about how good your screenshots look when your model is untextured.

He was bitching just to be a bitch though, so whatever.