/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

How you doing, /agdg/?
Still making progress?

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How many failed projects do you have? How many is it?

>>183574210
No progress, trying on a new pair of striped programming socks.

>>183574269
show pls

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Good morning, my programmer friends.
I hope you're all well today.

Some progress here.

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These jap high schoolers just made game.
why can't you?

>>183574370
>unity

>can't stop deving.
>because I'm avoiding the rest of the stuff

>>183574228
All of them

>>183574210
Still learning about basic game programming mechanics. I can now implement a state stack, an inheritance based entity system and some other stuff. Currently I'm reading up on simple GUI hierarchies so I can implement an okay menu. Next are shaders and basic OpenGL, after then sound and music, then finally networking.
Made some animated sprites yesterday that just walk around the screen randomly. SFML makes learning the concepts alot easier.

what's the best AI gf or a game that has a lot of gf-related roleplay? surely someone must have made an attempt at making an AI gf even if it's not as good as a human gf

>>183574228
1 but i failed it several times with another on the way

>>183574370
post the game you weeb

15th for programming socks

>>183574560
good job lad, keep it up

>>183574603
There was someone here that was making a VR waifu simulator, not sure what happened to that since I haven't seen them posting lately.

>>183574228
All of them but I'm improving. Im getting a better grasp on code logic even though I can't always figure out what I'm supposed to type or function to call. Im going make it.

>>183574715
Nice try I'll post 15
https://inter-high.unity3d.jp/archive/2016/

>>183575039
what the fuck

>>183574228
1 failed, 1 finished, 1 in the works, 1000 ideas

>>183575039
>>183575151
Oops wrong file

>>183574210
I'm trying to get to setting up the game's database on my laptop, but getting mysql (mariadb) to work is a pain. Mysqld is running, but I keep getting "SQL error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysqld.sock".

>>183575380
use redis, lad
it even has a handy dandy GUI navigator.

>>183575380
Nvm I think I fixed it by making a symbolic link to where the actual mysql.sock lies.

>>183575425
I could maybe, but as far as I know, mysql is sort of the standard and hence probably the easiest to get into, what with all the material around. And from the looks of it, Redis is BSD - my project is GPL so I prefer mariadb for the licensing, too.

>>183575425
Redis and SQL have different purposes. Often they complement each other (or SQL + memcached).

>>183574370
Fuck, I I had a team of 20 nip teenagers programming for me, I would have 'just made a game' too.

>>183575573
Redis has a FOSS windows port.
not sure what its licensed as though.

>>183575645
Alright, well my server mostly runs on Linux and the only reason it runs on Windows is for debugging. Anyway, its good to get to know about different options I suppose, not making any final decisions at this stage but just trying to get something playtestable complete.

>>183575639
If I had a team of at least 2 nip teenagers helping me at least a little I would have made a game too

>pick a random game from steam
>it easily sold about 13k copies and earning about $5 each after steam cut
>it's a easy 65k over a year+ of sales
Is this true?
It might be a shitty earning for a dev team.
but it's good enough for personal profits.
is 1MA the true redpill?

>>183575946
>is 1MA the true redpill?
It always has been.

>>183575946
if you can actually make a decent game on your own sure

>>183575946
Good luck. With how Steam treats new releases now you would be lucky to make 1k off your game unless you have a large external following.

>>183575946
You act as if everyone is capable of being 1MA.

Post progress

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>>183577616
I post progress once a week. There's just not enough interesting changes to post progress all the time. Like wow, I made sure that you can't control affect the game in any way during a pause today. Wow.

>>183577862
Are you trying to be cool for not posting progress?

post ideas

>>183577986
desu, im with him.
People posting marginal variable changes can get monotonous to look at and comment on.

>>183575039
Lmao I feel like she's kinda attractive but that bikini is totally not flattering

>>183578107
posting new mechanic > posting minor polish > not posting > metaposting > shitposting

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Haven't posted progress as its too early and stuck in menu world.

Able to highlight enemies who are within attack range but now need to populate a table with the enemies data so the player can select one to attack.

>>183578183
thanks for the blogpost stacy

>>183578248
Ted, HR needs to see you NOW

>>183578192
Updated some controller compatibility code. Nothing to show unless I film two people using both xbox and ps4 controllers with my 32x32 squares.

>>183576313
>>183576531
Just go to steam now, find a random game that u never even heard of. don't even have to be super good, but must not be buggy and crash all the time.
check the steamspy,
they have atleast a few thousands of copies sold.

I haven't tried walking simulator or text based adventures or RPG maker games yet, so i don't know about those games.

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>>183578192
I made this animation for when you hit a wolf with a stone. The last part will loop while the wolf is stunned.

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Progress!
Though I'm not sure why they don't collide when they are perpendicular to each other. I suppose that's the next thing on the menu.

>>183578192
I'll pick shitposting every day over a 'I made a cube move' post

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>>183578690
I wonder why

>>183578594
keep in mind the sales might be inflated from steam trading cards and things like that which have been fixed and sales/giveaways

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>>183578690
Yeah, it shows.

>>183578748
where's your game

>>183578594
I think you're looking at the new and trending tab, go to new releases and go down a few pages.

Also Steamspy doesn't work very well at low sales numbers.

>>183578767
Ask the question to yourself before asking others.

>>183578625
does it work in game yet?

>>183578629
seems like you're using variable size time steps in your update loop instead of fixed time steps.

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>>183578767
in here

>>183578826
I just find it funny when you accuse people of not having a game when you've got nothing to show yourself

>>183578748
where does that art style come from?

>>183578839
Not yet. I'll implement it today, along with the other animations I made yesterday.

>>183578874
So what will you do if I post my game? Leave? Stop shitposting? Call my game shit? Tell me shitposting is better than my game?

>>183578960
Why the fuck are you responding to him?

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Clarent new demo when?

>>183578854
I indeed am right now but that's not what's causing the problem here.

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>>183579013
i've taken over production of Clarence.
it's going to now be an option dense visual novel with castlevania-like elements.

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>>183579110
>>183578629
Turns out it DOES work when the paths are perpendicular. No idea why it didn't before or what fixed it. But it still behaves in a slightly fucky way that I'm unable to put into words.

>>183579257
Is there a final idea behind the game?

>>183578960
Just post it, if it's anything decent I'll just leave

>>183579336
Yeah, I'm basically stealing Push Push Penguin but making it multiplayer and better.

>>183579396
What engine/language+library?

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Who /ludumdare/ here?

>>183579441
pygame

>>183579539
I want to try, but the themes are usually really bad.

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>>183574228
Probably like 20 in total

what the fuck i just solved a HUGE problem in like a few minutes

i didnt plan to do anything else all day other than try to solve it

what do i do now

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>>183574228
I-I will finish them someday when I get better at gamedev
RIP

>>183578690
speak for yourself, i'd take "heer my cueb do you liek :3" over frogs, anime, """artists""", valve samefag, gogem, enginewars and /r9k/-tier girl posting any time

>>183579539
Not me anymore. It's pretty shitty, you can only rate games if you submitted a game which means that unless you have really good art almost nobody will play your game. I barely got like 5 reviews and 15 plays total. Plus the themes are always boring garbage. Not to mention that even if you get reviews they are useless because this is a throwaway game slapped together in like 48 hours so why the fuck would you even need it reviewed in the first place.

>>183574228
About 6. I finished only 2 games, one of them was for lewd jam and one for ludum dare, both rushed and shitty.

>get a job in programming
>get spoiled by neat codebase at work
>dont want to dev at home anymore because the code i wrote before is ugly

Why can't I make it so that it just werkz anymore?

>>183580176
dont write ugly then you retarded blogposter

Trying my luck with my first one.

To avoid abandoning it, I'm making it very small and a part of a bigger project.

>>183580289
Meant for.
>>183574228

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>>183574228
around 12
Some due to library migrations
Some due to lack of art
Some due to lack of dedication
Mostly due to the games just plain not being fun

But i learned form every mistake. And every failure spawned something worth while.

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https://mega.nz/#F!gIBniSSA!-R2D3mYW5u0N5-3FROZlEg
Repostan my Game Resources folder since I finally finished uploading the latest batch of pics and other stuff in it.
I wish there was a way to create a folder online where other people can add and remove shit from it anonymously.

>>183580683
>remove shit anonymously

>>183580683
>I wish there was a way to create a folder online where other people can add and remove shit from it anonymously.
A Google Drive maybe? I'm not sure what the options are.

>>183580239
dem saggy boobs

>tfw still not tuples in unity
we are on like .net 4.7 now so why the fuck am i still stuck on net 2.5 for fucks sakes they keep adding worthless stupid features like cloud support and don't care about massive existing bugs and hugely outdated core code

>>183520941
>>183520941
>>183520941

>>183581339
this is where someone spouts some enginewar baitpost

>>183581339
Just make your own, it's really short amd you don't need to do any memory management like with other containers

>>183580892
Is it anonymous? I'm pretty sure I can see the name of the guy who posted his porn folder, and he probably can see mine.

>>183580683
>Game Resources
for reference, free assets or is this just other peoples stolen pixel art?

>>183578690
because you can take part on the shitposting but not on making cube move right?

>>183579013
Do we even know if the dev is alive? He stopped posting, he stopped tweeting, and if I recall correctly he stopped answering the other guys working on it too I'm honestly worried for him

>>183578878
Years of practice. Also it's an edit of a comic.

>>183582527
I don't know anon, kinda concerned myself as well, but I want to be optimistic and think that it's just some irl stuff that's preventing him.

>>183580996
Man and they're just a few pixels off from being delicious perky boobs

Why did you retards create a new thread before the previous one hit bump limit?

>>183580683
You could host a FTP

>anonymously
Oh wait you mean you or them?

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i worked on the grass/trees/dirt some more

>>183582835
the back of the horse doesn't move when he walks and it's very disturbing

>>183582919
yeah his eyes are pink too

>>183580683
>I wish there was a way to create a folder online where other people can add and remove shit from it anonymously.
As far as I know you can make shared folders on mega, but I don't think you can upload shit anonymously to them since you need to get an invite.
>>183582032
They can see the names, I got to know that the hard way after uploading something to a /vg/-related drive once. Not sure if there is a way to prevent that, but I guess people who really want to contribute can make a throwaway mail.

This also reminds me, is the fanart Google Drive guy still MIA?

>>183580996
>>183582690
pls someone make a perky edit... I need it

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>cs major with qt artist gf
>decide we should try gamedev
>I tell her about my engine preferences
>now she wants to "have a talk"

>>183583234
Your gf is right, stop using Unity

>>183583234
ebic absolutely eric

>>183574228
5 failed out of 5
Starting 6th now, this time for sure!

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>>183583103
better?

>>183583234
Ah, this is how I broke up with my last gf.
This is the point where you realize your girlfriend is a worthless lazy pile of useless shit. Thats why shes an artist and not actually employed
Then i took up endurance running, and working out. One man army all the way.

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>>183574228
Three. Two are completely dead and I won't touch them again. Pic related is only half dead, I'm just too lazy to make more levels/visuals/juice.
It's probably gonna be four soon and I hate it

>>183583234
What's up with the "le epic artist disapproves your engine meme" posting?

>>183583420
A bit, yeah. Now all we need is a full-on bimbo edit

>>183583523
Get it to an acceptable level and release it free on itchio, it's a good learning experience

>>183583523
Holy shit, is that a E.Y.E. reference my dude?

>have lots of ideas for metroidvania themes with different sets of abilities to explore the levels
>know that metroidvanias are too complex to make for me
fuck

>>183583683
>not even able to make a shitty platformer clone
May as well just KYS.

>>183583743
>platformer clone
you're not very good with words, are you?

>>183583807
youre not very good with gamedev are you lmao

>>183583807
>metroid
>not a platformer
>not shitty

>>183583872
you can't clone a genre, retardino

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>>183574228
;_; doesn't matter anymore, I have given up 3 yeas ago.

>>183583916
Every metroidvania is a metroid clone, retardino.

>>183583683
>a simple platformer with unlockable simple abilities is too complex
just kys

>>183583946
every genre starts by cloning a popular game
that doesn't change the fact that you can't clone a genre

>>183574370
Lucky fucking nips, I bet my childhood would suck a bit less if I had a game dev club in my school.

>>183575042
That test cheating game looks interesting, I'll try it out.

>>183575639
Those are all finalists, they didn't make the same game, most games there 1ma, some with 2-3 devs.

>>183583629
Maybe if I get bored of my current project. The problem is that making levels is a little convoluted since the player has a lot of freedom of movement.
That said I could probably restrict the player movement whenever he's in air.

>>183583682
*tips bearkiller*

>>183584015
post your game and I will kill myself, right now.
I want a progress screenshot.

>>183584038
>The problem is that making levels is a little convoluted since the player has a lot of freedom of movement
That isn't a problem, have you not seen a Super Monkey Ball speedrun?

>>183584038
You're legs are OK

>spent the last hour reading about lebesgue integration
>still don't understand it
>still no game

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Advice on how to make this better?

The functions on the right process the input of clicking a button. They require some common variables and some variables specific to that button.

I'm thinking I should place the non common variables in arrays of each type (And array for the images, an array for the images, an array for the "node type", etc.

Is that correct?

>>183584093
google "monolith"

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I just want frens to make game with :(

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>>183584093
Now KYS.

>>183584375
what's your engine of choice?

>>183584382
I don't see games here

>>183584382
stealing this

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>>183584094
I didn't want to make a 1:1 clone of SMB so I added the possibility for the player to launch himself where the camera is pointing.
The problem with that is that is that it makes anything like walking on small platforms trivial since you can just propel yourself over it, so I have to take extra care when doing levels so that the player can't "skip" the challenge.

>>183584382
heh

>>183584326
>I'm thinking I should place the non common variables in arrays of each type (And array for the images, an array for the images, an array for the "node type", etc.
You what

>>183584414
don't have one, like love2d to train tho

>>183584531
On each function node on the right, check the bottom. There are two variables as inputs. Each "button" (capitol, castle, etc) has some inputs that are specific to the capitol, to the castle, etc.

I was wondering if I should put those in an array, so I would have (for a given input pin), the input of the capitol (0), the input of the castle (1), and so on.

Does it make sense?

I should have said "button" instead of "node" earlier. I'm sorry if it was confusing.

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"P-Please put some clothes on!"

>>183584585
i used love2d at one point but lua can be really shitty once thing grow and get more complex, i love the community tho, they come up with funny names for libraries

>>183584805
>romances confirmed
Sales are gonna spike.

>If bokudev made it I can too.

Is there my logic at fault here?

>>183584825
I really want to like Lua but the syntax is so damn retarded some times. No 0-index, really? 0-index is useful as fuck.

>>183584905
post your game and I'll tell you

>>183584905
If that's your standard for 'making it'

>>183574228
Just one. I exaggerated the scope of the game. I plan to get back to it after I released my current project, so basically when I have more experience.

>>183584825
They are /our/ guys
https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=77129&hilit=vulgar

>>183584949
it's not really an issue, you can make a custom table that use index-1 so it's start with 0, the lack of a good way to debug your code is what killed it for me, it doesn't even care about a variable existing and a typo can cause a lot of headache

>>183583683
Since when are metroidvania complex to make? Well, I mean, there is a level of complexity there, but it is entirely possible for one person to make a good metroidvania. Cave Story and Axiom Verge are good examples of metroidvanias made by one guy each.

>>183584956
I'm still too much of scared cat to do so.

>>183584974
Didn't his game release?

>>183585172
And how many years did those guy take to make them?

>>183585085
>can't use this library because people will think it's unprofessional
What a stupid cunt.

Reminder that if a game of Cave Story's quality came out today, it would largely be ignored. Same goes for Undertale, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Shovel Knight.
Reminder that this is a fun hobby.

>>183585172
>Cave Story is a metroidvania
Really wish this meme would die

>>183585341
It's also a fun job

>>183580683
Neat. Nice amount of porn in the idol anime folder too, thanks.

>>183585341
>Undertale
>Shovel Knight
>Stardew Valley
>ignored
doubt.jalapeno

>>183584326
>>183584531
>>183584703
Bump?

>>183584375
i have friends and all of them are too lazy to work on a game.

that is why i started working solo. plenty of indies out there made by 1 person.

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>>183573881
progress

>>183585574
I have friends who all want to be an ideaguy and not do anything. It's fucking ridiculous.

>>183585172
ignore nodevs, the only thing that is complex is good level design, which concerns every genre not just metroidvania, any tutorial with basic platforming and shooting would be enough for the base game

>>183585669
it's nothing

>>183584825
>>183585085
>>183585314
When I started using LÖVE I used a library called Animation and love (Anal). So I searched "anal love", not getting the results I was hoping for. That was pretty funny.

>>183585556
I just don't really get what's going on.

Are you asking if you should have a bunch of arrays, and all of the [0] entries in each array applies to one type, all the [1] entries apply to another type etc?

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>>183585902
Reminded me of this

I've got a question.

I've been developing software for about 6ish years now, but mostly mobile applications, never any games aside from a cookie clicker clone.

Say I wanted to make a game idea i've got, should I invest the time in making lots of small tutorial level shit to learn the basics or would it be better to just pick the things I need in my game, implement those and learn as I go?

I have no problem picking up programming concepts, but should you take a layered approach to learning game dev so you don't pick up bad habits or should I just get stuck in?

>>183586010
Mobile dev is the same as normal dev at least for small to medium projects.

>>183586262
I meant like, mobile applications, not mobile games, sorry that wasn't clear.

>>183585920
Sorry, I'm being unclear.

On the right we have several copies of the same function. Let's focus on the last pin of each of those copies. In the first one we have "Capitol Bright" as input (A Texture 2D variable). In the one below, we have "Castle bright" as input.

My question is, should I make an array storing "Capitol bright", "Castle bright", and the subsequent ones? That way I would have just one variable and I would feed that input pin just by specifying an index.

Or maybe it's irrelevant and it's ok the way it is. What do you think?

>>183586303
>/agdg/: no game

>>183586010
Definitely make some smaller games first

>>183586010
JLMG some random shit to get used to your tools.

>>183586303
Just learn how to make a basic brickbreaker/snake/thefuckyouwant in pygame or love2d.
Implement a menu, bonus, etc..

There is a fuckton of tutorials out there

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:$

>survey time

what was your first game that you actually finished to some playable extent?

>>183586316
I mean you could, it won't change much.

Depending on exactly what you're doing it might be worth defining a struct with fields for your type, image, button etc.

>>183582835
Looks nice, I remember you posted a while back about the unity terrain grass not going to work for you. What approach did you end up doing for the grass in that webm.?

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What was the site where I can find Godot's latest compiled binary? (not the stable but latest github one)

>>183586965
http://fixnum.org/godot/
Third entry when googling "compiled godot"

>>183583587
Once upon a time there was a programmer who looked for an artist to help in the creation of their game.
One day, there came an individual who, possibly due to lacking the required artistic talent, had no intention in collaborating with them but nevertheless, this individual was intrigued by the work of the programmer so they inquired as to which tools were being used to achieve such a fine result
The programmer, mistaking the question for an offer to collaborate in their game development endeavors, spoke about which tools were used but furthermore asked the person to provide a sample of their artistic abilities.
Realizing the imminent confusion, the indivdual explained that they actually had no interested in joining efforts, but still acknowledged the work was a fine piece so they wished the programmer the best of fortunes in their quest for a partner.
And so, there came the memesters.

The end.

>>183586631
Neat

>>183585675
yeah. relying on other people is just not worth the effort i think.

make a 10 million dollars making a harvest moon clone and then pay people to do the next game.

>>183583587
Pretty sure it's an evolution of canus.jpg

>>183587037
Yeah Ive seen this site as well, but I dont think this was the one Ive seen being posted here occasionally. Whats with the build errors, latest windows binary seems to be from may

>>183586707
Thanks! Looks like structs are what I was looking for.

>>183586965
https://bintray.com/calinou/godot/editor

>>183587093
Sorry not interested

>>183587232
>Whats with the build errors, latest windows binary seems to be from may
June 13 actually.
3.0 is in development, so it is possible that the bug-ridden source won't compile for all platforms.
I recommend using 2.2 legacy if you can't deal with the wait. Except if you want to use 3D.

>>183587539
That's it, thank you

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>wants to make a popeye remake in HD
>It will be an easy project to make as 1MA
>will have to write my own engine on top of libgdx, as a test game for my editors
>several people express an interest on the game being remade on twitter and facebook
>I know I can make something professional
>Sure, I can put on steam
>being scared of putting on steam
>like I feel is not worthy of steam and charging for something so simple is like inmoral
>meanwhile there's literal buggy showelware selling dozen of thousands of copies
>not enough confidence and self steem to make it
I'll never make money off gamedev.
;_;

Nobody knew gamedev could be so complicated.

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Fixed up the rig, it is the time to animate. Wish me luck agdg

progress.

>>183585341
undertale is literally quality of something that would become a game maker freeware cult classic 10 years ago

>>183587683
just make it. as long as its not actually popeye because copyrights will rape you.

there's no excuse to not make a game now because you can literally put out anything on steam now whenever the fuck you want to.

>>183588354
is not about putting on steam, is about your own morals, would you feel ok selling something you consider should be a free game?

Maybe It should have value as a nostalgia simple game, but do people even care about it?

Hell, I see people buy social interaction trainer and that's barelly more complex than popeye.

>>183584326
AGDG Seal of approval.

>>183588578
Why not put it pay what you want on itchio

>>183588647
nobody uses itchio beyond googum and indie hipsters.

Good day fellow /agdg/entlemen, I am an experienced programmer looking to take part in the wonderful journey known as video game development. In this endeavor, I wish to team up with a talented artist who does not believe he is hilarious while just cluttering the thread. For that I have but a simple question to any interested participant, what game engine do I use?

>>183588734
Maybe not many people actively browse it looking for games but you can do just fine if you get youtubers and whatnot.

Give me some low-scope ideas agdg

>>183588890
Tic tac toe

>>183588914
too low

>>183588991
3-dimensional tic tac toe (or pacman)

>>183584805
Is he doing a split?

>>183589562
No that's a table haha

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>>183587692

>>183588623
I'm trying to figure it out how to do it better.

>>183586707
This kind anon suggested creating a struct.

I need to crawl before I can even think about walking.

>>183588578
just sell it super cheap.

you have to look at it like this... your time and effort you put into it has value. so sell it and try to recoup what you put into it. and if you make extra and feel bad about profiting from it just donate it to charity or something.

>>183588890
2D physics puzzle about placing different shapes of varying sizes to make a tower. Lose if the tower collapse. Score based off height. Setup mouse and touch controls and also export to mobile. You should explain what you mean by low scope.

>>183590927
I think the biggest issue here is that he can get in legal trouble if he sells a Popeye HD remake. I think he should put up the game for free but have a donation pool.
I don't know if patreon would allow a guy making remakes of old copyrighted games, but you get the idea.

>>183590383
I don't know how to actually help you anon. I don't use unity i roll my own engine.
It just looks like a clustefuck of bad ideas.

>>183591115
I was planning on making popeye black.

>>183587683
You can't fucking sell a clone of a copyrighted game you mong.

>>183591115
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4017251/Popeyes-copyright-to-expire-in-January.html

Popeye is no longer protected and you can't copyright mechanics, so he should be fine if the assets are original.

>>183591115
Popeye's copyright wore off in 2008. I think he's okay to release a game with the name and characters on Steam. I'm sure if you got in touch with valve and they wanted to add it. They'd help you with the legal part of this and make sure you're okay.

>>183591115
l already brought up the legal troubles, but if he just makes an HD "clone" more or less instead of literally popeye he'll be fine.

Can we organize a hierarchy once and for all?

Something like

enginedev > godot > unreal > unity > gamemaker > rpgmaker

>>183591375
yesdev>jamdev>shit>>>>lazydev and nodev

>>183591375
In order of finishing a game:
(All game engines) > (All frameworks) > enginedev

>>183591230
It's actually Unreal Engine.

What do you mean by that? If you are not more specific I can't get better. Just tell me what's the worst thing and I'll try to fix that.

>>183591375
it depends on what kind of game you are trying to make. engines are good at different things

and in the end its the game that matters, not what it was built with.

>>183587683
Scratch my copyright post. He enters public domain in 2024 in America while being open for use in Europe. If the game is good you could try to get the company who owns it to publish it. But I have no idea how that process works or even how to begin it. Maybe send an Email to valve/humble/gog and they could get someone to talk to you about copyrights on old characters.

>>183591321
Only en EU though, still has copyright in America.

>On January 1, 2009, 70 years since the death of his creator, Segar's character of Popeye (though not the various films, TV shows, theme music and other media based on him) became public domain in most countries, but remains under copyright in the United States. Because Segar was an employee of King Features Syndicate when he created the Popeye character for the company's Thimble Theatre strip, Popeye is treated as a work for hire under U.S. copyright law. Works for hire are protected for 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter. Since Popeye made his first appearance in January 1929, and all U.S. copyrights expire on December 31 of the year that the term ends, Popeye will enter the public domain in the U.S. on January 1, 2025, assuming no amendments to U.S. copyright law before that date.

>>183591823
yeah, I guess I'll make a free remake then seek the copyright holders and send an email.

who knows, maybe kotaku will write a post about me, lmao.

>>183592038
>white """chocolate"""
Disgusting.

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>>183592038

>>183592038
>eating between meals
not going to make it

>>183592038
I don't eat while I dev. I take a break, eat, go back to deving.

>>183592038
I just drink water most of the time.
When I'm in the mood for a snack I eat pistachios or make some edamame.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwmGpWpB2Ic

enginekiddies BTFO.

>>183592427
how much do you weigh?

>>183592502
Wow look at all those generic cubes. Everyone is totaly btfo now.

>>183592673
150, 5'9 in burgerunits

http://kingfeatures.com/contact-us/licensing-contacts/south-america/

oh wow, I can contact popeye copyright holders.

nice

>>183591590
>not what it was built with
What if I'm only interested in enginedev

>>183592502
Absolutely nothing impressive. It's called instanced rendering and every engines use it.

>>183592879
>>>/g/dpt

>>183592996
/dpt/ is as much about programming as PETA is about not killing animals.

>>183592038
Cookies and water

>>183592976
minecraft didn't use an engine though.

look where is minecraft now.

>tfw don't feel like doing ANYTHING
What's wrong with me?
There are some things I wanted to implement in my game, but I don't feel like it
A huge vidya backlog, but I don't feel like playing anything
Lots of anime to watch, but I don't feel like it
I don't even feel like masturbating
I spent the last hour just looking at agdg while doodling random lines on a piece of paper

Somebody help me

>>183593065
As much as this place is about game dev

>>183593096
>minecraft didn't use an engine though
>this is what nodev believes
Lol dude my game just werks out of the box

redpill me on your engine/framework of choice

>>183593237
Fact: Frostbite is the most powerful engine in the world.

>>183593107
To make it quick. Life lacks structure current hobbies don't build skills. Self study new interests or get new hobby you think is good for social conversation. Play shorter games that last 30-60 minutes a session. Eat healthier food go outside for 15-30 minute walk afterward. Join fitness/yoga like group find others interested in self improvement. You'll feel like shit if you choose not to improve and it's entirely your fault if you decide to not do anything.

>>183593181
I think you don't understand. I used to talk about the Pascal compiler I was developing. Everyone ignored it and was too busy with the same retarded memes (Rust shilling/OOP hating/summing all prime numbers under 2 million), I also saw someone else post about his OpenGL project and ask questions, obviously seemed like no one had the skills to answer.

>>183583683
>>know that metroidvanias are too complex to make for me
you're probably not even trying and you're giving up too easily. otherwise if you really are such a brainlet why are you even trying to make games

>>183593743
sounds like /3/

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What are other autism-bait games that spawn entire communities of fanfics, art, porn, theories, cosplay, etc? At the top of my head I can think of Pokemon, Undertale and Sonic.

I wish to borrow some principles from them to apply to my own game.

Doesn't need to be exclusively vidya, for instance the mlp show is another good example.

>>183593237
Unity lets you program in C#, which is like writing pseudocode in C++ and then just not actually writing the real code. It's so easy it's ridiculous.

>>183593943
They all have one thing in common:
Cute characters that are easy to draw.

>>183593943
>pokemon
furry
>undertale
furry
>sonic
furry
>mlp
furry

wow, how hard is to figure out that?

>>183593237
I heard someone is actually making a game in Godot. I doubt it though. Can't fall for those rumors.

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>>183593943

>>183594129
bright colors too

>>183593943
FNAF

>>183594130
yup, even five nights at freddys it's about robot furries

>>183594130
how come animal crossing doesnt have that sort of autistic community?

>>183594371
>he hasn't seen the porn

>>183594371
it absolutely has. simply not as big because the game isnt as popular

>>183594696
>because the game isnt as popular
Are you just pretending?

>>183594817
are you seriously implying that animal crossing is as big as pokemon, undertale or fnaf?

>>183594371
it does, just that most of the villagers are ugly so they only ever porn isabelle

>>183594817
AC is more popular among kids and their parents, not exactly prime autism material.

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Added some stuff to the level, I just need some details and more AI scripting and it should be ready to polish.

>inbetween animations for some torture stuff
>optimized blood and gore
>added more torture devices with different effects
>cultists can now be hostile towards you and attack you with magic projectiles (being damaged doesnt work yet)
>you can free the crocodile that will attack people (damaging doesnt work yet)
>added breakable pots and barrels with random chunks that disappear after a while for performance reasons (there will be many of those)
>added a skeleton that also falls apart, will be kept in cages and is mostly for visuals

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Required reading for /agdg/:

What Makes an Indie Hit?

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RyanClark/20150917/253842/What_Makes_an_Indie_Hit_How_to_Choose_the_Right_Design.php

>>183595193
I know that chick. she has some nice nudes.

>>183595193
Necrodancer sucked so much, playing it feels like shit and I don't get the hype, is it just because of the name?

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More animation work (attacks don't work functionally yet, but i did add a movement burst to the lunge)

>>183595356
The novelty of the concept is enough to leave smallbraineds enamored.

>>183595356
Necrodancer is great, but the alternate characters are either some light fun or completely aimed at hardcore players who want to put 200+ hours into the game.

>>183595356
I didn't get it much either, it was boring both as a rhythm game and a roguelite.
It's probably because the idea had not been done before.

>>183595418
Looks like it feels already better than skyrim. Congratulations.

>>183595418
>Unity
shaking my head. Vine should have kept this in Godot.

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New character.

>>183595626
I mainly looked at Chivalry for the attack animations to get a reference for the timings, except i sped up their swings twice-fold.

Here is a nice document for the timings if anyone is interested https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12DHW01hj-1m8bTdYJT54wPNPluHW2NVh1tfle3dZMcw/edit#gid=102

>>183595672
Why would anyone use GODOT? It's like a less documented and feature-complete unity without the userbase to support you.

>>183595672
fuck off sourcefam

>>183585464
i-it's for reference, okay?

>>183595418
this looks like a VR game, is it?

>>183595687
>ASCII
no offense but just drop this idea. do pixelfaggotry at least

>>183595193
>>183595251
Source, for the love of Voss.

>>183596159
notepad doesn't support pixels

>>183596173
search nina burri nude -> large size

>>183595418
How did you make the fog like that?

>>183596159
But I enjoy making this game, and I'm not very good at pixelart.

>>183595418
nice fight knight clone

>>183596229
alt+219
alt+220
alt+223

>>183586641
A shitty side scroller for AGDG space-jam

>>183596584
█▀█ █▄█ ▀█▀

>>183596651
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9FImc2LOr8

>>183580683
You can allays brew up an SMTP server on some remote server somewhere.
I know companies do server hosting for like 20GB a dollar in some places.
Setting up a server would take minutes.
Its relatively anonymous, completely if you use something in Asia and pay in bitcoin.
Don't ask me how or why i know this.

Thanks for the resources tho anon. They will be put to good use

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What are your ambitions as a game dev?

Mine is to earn enough money to do it full time

>>183596478
It's a special shader that needs a bunch of custom pipeline stuff to make it work.
It's basically remapping light/fog into a custom color LUT that the pixel art uses.

http://brummerke.tumblr.com
/post/162936744596/working-on-some-stylized-pixel-art#notes

>>183596975
Mine is to earn enough money and never dev or work again.

>>183596975
>Mine is to earn enough money to do it full time
Same.

>>183596975
i want to make money but without selling out/lowering quality/using unethical business practices

>>183597071
I disagree with never working again. You will get bored and lonely by doing nothing. Look at Notch. I would rather be like Edmund McMillen or Jonathan Blow. Just shit out a game every 4 years to die hard fans sucking my dick

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>tfw everything is working and you're making extremely fast progress with little time because there aren't any bugs to fix

>>183597364
and yet you posted a gay pic instead of progress

>>183596975
all I want to do by the day i die is

>Work on a spiritual successor/sequel to JSRF, whichever is applicable
>Work on a superhero MMO in a similar vein to city of heroes
>Work on a fighting game

in no particular order, this is all I want

>>183596975
1. Make enough to move back to the city
2. Make enough to own a house
3. Make enough to make a small team for larger projects
4. Be popular enough to have cute girls cosplay my characters

Most of those are fairly out of my reach but that won't stop me from trying for the long term.

>>183597318
oh fuck off how sad is your life that you don't have any idea what to do besides work. There's plenty of things to do to never get bored.

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"""Progress"""

I'm drawing those damn circles and I'm going to draw that fucking owl some day, /agdg/. It's going to be such a nice owl that you'll want to fuck it.

+Cleaned up. Huge pasta mess is now a single function.
+Added money system.
+Can increase army power with money.

-Haven't added the two missing locations, so those lines still look goofy.

How's your weekend been?

If steam sales are under an NDA then why do indies publish their figures all the time?

reminder that if you associate your game with AGDG up to its release it'll be DOA

make sure you leave this place if you know you have something good

>>183596975
>make 90-150k
>invest on bonds or other shit
>be able to make 1-2k montlhy of my investments
>retire early
>fuck bitches on tinder

>>183597481
>There's plenty of things to do to never get bored.
like what, sit on a boat, sit on a beach, sit in a bar, all boring normie shit

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>>183596975
>Make game
>Make game that makes me enough money to just sit at home all day every day and make more games

Comfy

>>183597652
>boring normie shit
I repeat, how sad is your life

>>183596542
nice no game

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>>183597648
Index funds, my friend. Get a broadly diversified (the whole global market), low Total Expense Ratio. Buy & Hold and you're golden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwkjqGd8NC4
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

blaney liberty

>>183596975
The thing is that you don't need gamedev to earn money and retire.

>>183597598
Minecraft had a "hi /v/" message and RoR had an AGDG statue

>>183596975
I'd love to make enough money to be able to hire a small team for larger projects, register a company, maybe rent some proper office space, host some real servers.

It's not THAT unrealistic, since third world and shit is cheap here, so even with very modest sales it would get me started in the right direction.

>>183597751
You are the one with a sad life if you are devving for money.

>>183596975
Earn enough money to have full creative control when I make the game I actually want to make.

>>183597751
you're dreaming, it's like getting hyped for some new game or tech product and when you actually get it it's ok but it's not as good as when you were super hyped for it and after a while you'll get bored with it. the grass is always greener

>>183579834
squaredev, you just need to finish something already

>>183597652
>like what, sit on a boat, sit on a beach, sit in a bar, all boring normie shit
Jon Blow started Braid while sitting around in Thailand.

Every once in a while a brilliant gamedev springs out of the NEET scene because they have so much time to sit around.

any good guides on how to do gui

>>183597598
Reminder that literally no one cares.

>>183597585
You could probably work around it by quoting steamspy figures if they happen to be correct.

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>>183597962
Eric Barone of Stardew Valley was a NEET dev. He couldn't get hired after college so he started making a game instead

>>183579834
you won't get better at gamedev by simply doing the same thing over and over and then giving up when getting to the things that you are bad at

>>183598005
Which engine?

>>183598080
Interesting.

I would like to know if these guys have family money to sit back on while they dev or what.

Although I know Jon Blow was a professional programmer for a number of years with a good salary and could have probably afforded the Thailand vacation himself I suspect he didn't need money.

>>183598173
godot
but can also be some general stuff, what to do, what not to do and so on

>>183598265
He was living with his mom and later his gf during the development

http://www.gamerevolution.com/features/13384-stardew-valleys-single-developer-has-made-over-30-million

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Progress

UI is all done. Writing more in-game stories and developing all the items. Still lots of work to do.

Shortened the announcement trailer down to 50 seconds. Still a teaser, but a shorter one nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjQDuZv6QVM&feature=youtu.be

Composer has been doing some work on the tracks. Here are some previews.

https://soundcloud.com/user-585309841/sets/fleet-tactical-command

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I can think of tons of traits to give male characters, but for women I can only think of the hair, mostly. And hair is in the back so you barely see any of that.
Anyone got some ideas?

Also who's cuter, 1 or 2 (upper, bottom)?

>>183598361
>tfw will never make this much money with gamedev

>>183595672
that's brum, not vine

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UE question.

I want to have a small box in the lower part of the screen to display text in the same way it's shown during dialogues. It could serve as player log.

Any ideas on how to make that? What should I look for?

post your work stations

>>183598634
Widgets

>>183598412
>>183598412
Interesting. Just a tip. You need a shorter domain name that redirects to that long ass domain name. Few people are going to correctly spell "FleetTacticalCommand.com" on their first try. Try having a second domain like ftcgame.com that redirects to your other domain

>>183598623
That's Vine's art though.

i hope none of you are working today. take the weekends off and relax. don't mix life and work or you'll burn out!

>>183598679
I figured it that far, but what next. I know how to show basic text, but I'm wondering how to:
-Store it (imagine a long conversation).
-Update it.
-Display it (how can I make it to appear one letter at a time, instead of the whole text at once).

Can you guide me a little?

>>183598729

Yeah, that's a good idea.

Thanks.

>>183598871
but i have no life...