Why haven't you made your dream game, anon?

Because I'm dumb

I'm working on it. Shit takes time.

It's even harder when you have a full time job. I almost want to make a kickstarter just so I can work on it as much as I can without a job in the way.

Good vidya can't be made on an 'indie' (misnomer: the smaller the finance, the less control/independence you have over the project) budget. Not even mediocre vidya can.

>>378693142
I'm trying.
I'm starting from zero though. I'm binging on Unity and Blender tutorials at the moment.

>>378693142
i've looked into the programming language, did a few tutorials on the basic keyword syntax stuff.
but i have no idea how i can use those things to make something like disgaea

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What the fuck are you talking about? I'm making it

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>>378693142
I have to warm up first

>>378693142
I am. But I'm retarded so it's taking longer.

>>378694290
>his dream game is a mobile app aesthetic
Anon...

>>378694537
implying any of this art is non-placeholder

heh.. jokes on u kid....... i cant make art......................

i want to die

>>378694360
I should update this webm. I've since slowed down the red bullets and halved the number of blue following bullets so the player has more time to dodge.

>>378694667
I'm sorry, I was a bit harsh. I like your flowers anon. What is your game about?

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almost done with my pirate ship. :)

>>378694290
that's cute! what's the premise?

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Working on it

>>378695071
looks more like a galleon rather than a simple ship

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>>378695326
...there's a difference???

>>378695496
if there wasn't, there wouldn't be different words for them

>>378695606
yo I'm just trying to make a game with pirates. I guess I'll call it a galleon from now on.

>>378695749
nah, a ship a fine broski

Made a bunch of spell visual effects, here's one of them, and improved the framerate by 40 fps. Also working on a blog
I'll be tying it the effects to the abilities tomorrow hopefully.

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>>378693142
Because it would take way too fucking long especially with one person.
As well when I attempted to learn coding I found it unenjoyable.

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>>378695809
Shit forgot the webm lol
Unfortunately I just realized that after compressing the video to webm the falling snow makes the screen look like it was smeared with vaseline, I may have to turn that off when recording low quality videos

>>378696053
reminds me of Lothic's annoying spells from DaS3, if you could do cosplays with your game it might be fun

>>378695071
it's animal crossing + harvest moon + very light autism (as an example, you can breed plants to get better quality/yield/flower colors)

goal is to make a hella comfy game

>>378695095
Zeno clash v0.00000001

>>378696386
if anything you should definitely expand the breed->different color idea
people definitely would like to experiment to see what they can get, kind of like powers in kirby 64

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Working on it now. Link to demo if anyone wants it:

https://mega.nz/#!bpom1ARR!5_Kvp5ZRjOAJNgl_vNvmp88-vQi8bHPo8tsdq9T2nBA

>>378696601
i fucking love kirby, it's definitely going to be kind of like that

>>378696625
loving the colors

>>378696250
Dark Souls was definitely an inspiration for the spells, yeah. And what do you mean, like real life cosplay? I fucking wish I could get a girl who looked like my main character to do that

>>378693142
I fucking hate seeing this thread

I'm just busy with another game and my job at the moment, then I have to finish the GDD and learn how to use Unity.

Besides, I imagine I'll be working on the game for years like Toady with Dwarf Fortress. No need to rush anything.

>>378696625
Looks pretty nice thought it was porn from the sprites

Goddamnit

>>378693142
I was going to
But then I realized it would be better off as a novel or comic

>>378693142
still making practice games. My dream game is 5 practice games away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWxjAH_7k2U&t=13s

>>378697716
and how's that going?

>Time
>Complete lack of art/music skills
>Zero chance of anybody else to work on those
>Lack of programming knowledge

>>378697556

At the moment it's just sprite girls getting bustier and losing clothes. No open nudity. I'm thinking of swapping the graphics out for more thematically-appropriate stuff like footballers and robots, and putting a code in the game so people can unlock the original sprites if/when they want.

Anybody got any good resources for putting together good tilesets? There was one website that went through it all but I lost the link.

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took a holiday.
meme game progress is smooth

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Workin' on it. Just completed enemy balancing, event and item placement in the first dungeon, designed the first boss as well but I made it too easy.

>>378698014
please dont try to put your meme game on steam. Please.

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>>378698179
Meme game will be released as a standalone exe

Because I'm not smart and I can't into logic. Same fucking reason I can't make a single level in Little Big Planet.

>>378698160
when I finished my first game I made it way too hard because I had mastered the mechanics and only I could beat it. Make sure you don't make the boss too hard, it may only seem easy to you because you designed it.

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Gotta do some practice games first.

Also, now have Super Authentic Retro Indie Sprite Limit Flicker.

>>378698592
Lol fuck casuals
If Blizzard got away with releasing games with literally no mathematical chance of beating them assuming perfect execution you can get away with releasing hard games

My projects have massive scope and the moment I try to step in the right direction I instantly lose all motivation the moment something comes up.

Start up unity? It asks me to make an account? Welp better jerk off and watch youtube instead. I need to solve this creative depression before I can get anything done.

Finished the Unity rolling ball tutorial last night
Gonna quit my day job and make the next Undertale

I'm working on a episodic adventure.
Trying to get 2 or 3 episodes before getting on a schedule

>>378699014
put this on in the background and just work on your game till the video ends
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E77jmtut1Zc
stop procrastinating and live your dreams

>>378699409

You're right my dude. I'm not even a stranger to working on projects for a long time. I worked on a tabletop RPG homebrew massive rulebook for over an entire year. I could do the same for a game, it's just starting that is the hard part.

The other issue is having never made a game before my first instinct is to want to make my dream game naturally, which is stupid.

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>>378693142
Because it takes a long time.

>>378699014
>massive scope
Then downgrade it. Mozart didn't paint the Sistine Chapel in his teen years, he started small and worked up.

>>378699115
How did you finish it?
I've been working on it for five months and still can't figure out how to make the ball.

>>378698592
I'm gonna have friends playtest. But it really was super easy. I beat them in two turns by using basic attack and one offense spell.

>>378698592
I believe it was the Super Metroid lead developer who suggested that the right way to balance difficulty was that the developer should be able to clear the fight without getting hit once.

Given his mastery of the mechanics and knowledge of the patterns/weaknesses/etc., if he couldn't reliably clear the boss without being hit it meant the boss wasn't a fair challenge for a player who didn't have intimate knowledge of the game.

You balance Hard mode to be an enjoyable challenge for yourself, since it's meant as a skill check for advanced/experienced players.

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Reworking assets. I've show the fox conscript yesterday.

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Added a proper score multiplier. It resets upon death.

I'll get around to adding more important features like new levels eventually.

>>378699936
>I believe it was the Super Metroid lead developer who suggested that the right way to balance difficulty was that the developer should be able to clear the fight without getting hit once.
Not really possible in a turn based rpg unless there's dodge mechanics like Mario and Luigi.

>>378699718
Hhhmmmmm

Because I don't have any music making software. Don't want to even bother until I get something for that.

>>378699963
looks nice so far

>>378700104
Balancing difficulty in a game with level up mechanics is a totally different beast since it's only a question of tuning exp gain.

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>>378700185

Thanks. I have to redo all of the graphics now that I've decided to make the people sprites bigger and the building sprites larger as well. Here's how the old version of buildings looked like

>>378693374
Don't. Keep your job. There is an over-saturation of indie games already. You have to sell a lot of games to be able to quit your full-time job after your e-begging money runs dry.

>>378700179
Then download music making software
are you retarded?

>>378699637
those effects are just so minor it needs to be more intense. Enemies should look like they're having epileptic seizures when they're hit and the effects should cover the entire screen.

>>378699936
That's definitely an interesting insight, but I'm not sure it always applies. Not every dev is a twitch gamer. "Knowledge of the game" can cover for a great deal, but there will absolutely be gamers out there who will crush top scores just on the strength of lightning reflexes.

So, yeah, good advice, but also know your audience. If your aiming at kids and casuals, turn it down; If you want the Dark Souls fanboys, make something even you can't beat.

>>378700491
I genuinely can't tell if this is sarcasm

>>378700179
just use royalty free music, composers release it all the time to try and get their names out there.

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Check out my incredible modelling skills.

>>378700369
Buy FL Studio for me, friendo.

>>378693142
because i'm only one person with no money

>>378700491
>>378700564
he's trolling. honestly put more into the animation and momentum of enemies giving reactions to being hit. the effects right now aren't perfect but you can tell that is all that is what is mainly being focused on. it looks awkward right now because the enemies are basically lifeless and the animations are not fluid enough.

Do you think /v/ or the mods would care if I shill my game upon release? I've been around AGDG for a while.

>>378700942
lol buy? there was this loaded dj making music videos and people caught him using a pirated sylenth or something, aviici too and martin garrix also i believe
just torrent it and buy it if you end up selling something

>>378701257
They probably would care, but who gives a shit?

>>378700179
Famitracker is free, even for a baiting fuck like you.

>>378700564
it isn't. The game doesn't look satisfying right now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88EY6NLBbvs
look at your game, then look at this game that was made by 1 Chinese dude.

>>378699637
I would buy this.

I've been super lazy this week.
Just started to finish up my networking stuff.
Gotta make some simplified Unity object spawning over the network.

Then I'm gonna make a simple FPS to test the whole thing out. I'll post it here if I get it working.

>>378701257

>shill my game

Kill yourself

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>trying to make progress

>>378701527
Worst case I get banned, but then I can't clarify shit if a legit thread pops up without risking permaban

>>378701658
>I don't want anyone to play my game
It's not like one thread ever killed anyone

>>378701558
you

yes you

you are the dumbfuck cancer killing videogames

a shame there isn't something else you could kill

yes

you

>>378700942
Buy it yourself, retard. Or use one of the free music production programs.

>>378701753
not that i disagree with you but you sound like you came straight from reddit

>>378701558
>damage numbers popping out
I can't see anything else.

Fuck I hate that shit.

>>378701817
So, you won't buy it for me?
>>378701316
Are you suggesting thievery? But what if the FBI shoots me for stealing? Then what? That blood would be on your hands, anon. Buy it for me.

>>378699637
this is cool

>>378700942
use reaper, friendo.

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>>378701753
why do you say that? Do you think satisfying visuals are cancer? Are you one of those faggots that promote pixel shit "retro aesthetic" games?

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>>378693142
because I have no money, nor do I have any skills to begin with, I had too many problems to fix so I quit because I'm a quitter.

>>378702202
>Are you one of those faggots that promote pixel shit "retro aesthetic" games?

>>378696625

lol

>>378702538
I live in a cardboard box on the street, and I sing songs of yore for drug money. Sounds to me like you're just a fucking classist.

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My first attempt at making a pig orc style enemy. I'm not sure if I should bother animating this just as practice or if I should just make a new model again later after getting more experience.

>>378697837
I haven't started it yet
Ive got a lot set down and in concept phase, such as premise,character designs, story milestones,direction
But nothing concrete yet

>>378702841
You should learn uv unwrapping before rigging and animating. At least that worked best for me.

>>378702493
And I thanks the lord for that

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I made one this weekend.

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Been trying to work on some new maps so I don't feel so useless since I was stuck in the same 3 maps for over a year

>>378702202
lol

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>>378699637
Gameplay looks fun, I like the combat boost effect when you are using your gun.

>>378693142
Didn't post here for a while but it's still going on after all those years. Made a trailer a few days ago: https://youtu.be/p7lW2larQCc
It's a TC for Amnesia TDD. Feedback always welcome of course.

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i was working on this highscore table recently

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added the ability to place props in my level editor after months of playtesting bare levels

what other props should I model to fit in this sort of environment

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Adding waifu bait

>>378704830
Nice!

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>>378703617

>>378704641
What kind of game is it?

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>so Anon, what do you do outside work?
>I make little video games
>oh that cool, do you make any money from them?

>>378705496
It's a tower defense based on all the ones I loved from warcraft 3

Lots of elements of youtd and such with all the parts of it I didn't quite enjoy tweaked

Fully networked too, supports up to 8 player online coop

So if I want to make a game that's a bit like the Elder Scrolls, should I just stop now?

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My game design degree didn't learn me programming

>>378706050
No, why would you?

>>378693142
Procrastination and masturbation

>>378703754
Looks like fun_.

Yay, this thread!
I decided to follow the advice from here and just get prototyping/planning small projects ASAP.

Got an interface concept that I'm working on literally right now on Photoshop and will probably have a running battle system by tomorrow, which is nice.

GameMaker might not be perfect, but it's a tool to get a basic idea of where I want to go.

>>378705802
Maybe make some statues, stone benches, maybe some sort of magic looking artworks. Like a floating globe or orbs idk

>>378693374

Keep your job.

If for anything else than to not have to tell your employers you are walking out to make video games.

I'm working on a horror game similar to RE or Silent Hill with tank controls and fixed camera angles. I haven't even began to implement the main feature yet, I've been trying to figure that out.

It's a passion project outside of school and work, so it might never get finished, but it's been fun to make. I have no art assets yet, just placeholders from the unity store.

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>>378694290
I'm surprised there aren't more AC games. Looks cute.

>>378694360
Neat theme. I wouldn't bother updating the webm for a minor gameplay change.

>>378696053
Love the colors.

>>378696625
Took me a while to figure out how to start the game. The start level button doesn't change when you hover or click it.
Some neat level ideas though they're pretty difficult for mechanics that only get used once. The squish on the ball when it bounces seems overly excessive.
Also I get this crash trying to continue to the next level.

>>378703814
Last time I saw you, you said you were going through an engine upgrade or something. How's that going?

>>378704440
There's something fucky going on with your shadows. It's like you're trying to fake soft shadows by artificially blurring them.

>>378704470
Reminds me of Dragonball. I don't know if you were going for that.

I have lots of ideas but I don't think I'm talented enough to make them work/create a game at all.

>>378707741

Congrats, you are one of us

>>378707741
talent is a myth.

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>>378707709
>Reminds me of Dragonball. I don't know if you were going for that.
that's good to hear actually, thanks

>>378700020
Looks good senpai. Maybe don't let it pause when the bullet bounces off the shield.

>>378707741
It's all about practice. Games are new to me, but I'm a fairly accomplished musician because after months of telling myself I could never do it I decided to hone my skills.

You're not gonna make something great in a night, but in a few months of work you could be working on your next great passion.

>writing code to sell
>being a good coder
>doing proper error checking
>have to come up with a billion Exception classes to describe everything
This is one thing I wish there was more automation for.
Most end up looking the same. Maybe I should make a VisualStudio extension to generate exception classes

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game is about succubi, but I can't seem to develop my own drawing style because for too many years I've been wanting to draw like Akira Toriyama, but now, it's feels like I can't draw anything else.

>>378693142
Which one would be the best to make a simple, 2D mobile game? I wanna make a top-down shooter style game.

>>378708412
>I've been wanting to draw like Akira Toriyama
Ah I see. Another person who started watching DBZ in middle school and referencing images printed out on your parents' printer wasting all their ink. I too am one such lad.

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>>378708412
Anon. I fucking hate futa, but even so I will tell you this: Develop your own style. You are not Toriyama, you are Anon.

So long as you remain anchored by Toriyama, you will never grow.

>>378708428
Godot. It's the easiest and best for 2D nowadays.

>>378708428
pico 8

https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

>>378708412
what's wrong with that? it looks good although extremely unpolished

>>378708664
lmao plenty of success has came from imitating others

>>378708664

Who said anything about futa

>>378708428
I can't remember if Gamemaker free comes with mobile support but that and Unity will have the most beginner resources.

>>378708654
I'm 26, I started to draw around 11 or 12 years old when I was starting to collect Dragon Ball manga volume, but in a way, it's because Dragon Ball that got me into drawing in the first place, but never improved much at all. I'm retarded I can't visualize mentally how to work in proportion and depth. I'm ashamed of myself. All I wanted was that one day I improve and could start my own comic or something.

>>378708785
>lmao plenty of success has came from imitating others
Such as?

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I'm bored and tired
let's talk, ama

>>378709148
You succubi looks pretty good. I draw dudes with big heads and muscles that looks like a child drew.

>>378709425
Not him, nor am I really suggesting copying is the best way to learn, but Ken Sugimori was definitely heavily influenced by Toriyama in the 90s.

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>>378693142
>Why haven't you made your dream game, anon?

My dream game came to me first, and sucked the John Romero clean out of me.

>>378709482
I think you got the wrong thread buddy, /mu/ is two blocks down

>>378709619
hey don't run musicfags off.
They're an important part of devving as well.

>>378709619
this is actually for a video game.

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>>378709425
>>lmao plenty of success has came from imitating others
>Such as?

ALL ART IS A CALCULATED AMALGAMATION OF 'INFLUENCES', YOU GODDAMN SCRUB

>>378707709
>Took me a while to figure out how to start the game. The start level button doesn't change when you hover or click it.

Sorry to hear that! One of those things you get used to as the developer, especially when most of the other buttons there also change in some noticeable fashion. I added a border-colour change when the player hovers over it.

>Some neat level ideas though they're pretty difficult for mechanics that only get used once.

I don't disagree, but I feel uncomfortable making copies of the level that are deliberately watered-down. That's the level design ideal, introducing the gimmick and then adding to it throughout the game, but when I do it, it seems very inorganic. For me the first two stages of this game should be enough to key the player in on the basic gameplay (bounce, parry, aim your shots), then the rest of the game amps up with surprises.

>Also I get this crash trying to continue to the next level.

I fixed it so it referred to the right variable. Won't be an issue in future. Sorry it bugged your playthrough.

>>378696625

New link here: https://mega.nz/#!e9pkVSCZ!i2Vwcnotm1cZWHWoaZUhloc3pqn_ttPbbzLbZIcSkds

>>378709482
What's your soundcloud?

>>378693142
I've been practicing my art for a long time now and built up a pretty large following
Been kicking around the idea of doing something more productive with my drawing by making games here lately.

>want to make h-games, but that means I can't release on the platforms I want to release on
>want to release games I make on certain platforms, but that means I can't make them h-games

I'm just really conflicted right now as to what I want to do

Daily public service announcement: Game Maker is bad and you should feel bad.

>>378709865
https://soundcloud.com/colin-tremingway
I've been here before

>>378709940
It's the only engine I own though.

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so far I only showed small snippets of gameplay, so here's a webm of the entire first level to give a good idea of how the game is played
will upload a webm of a boss fight I made this week in a bit

>>378709940
Please tell us your patrician tastes as well as give us examples of your work, well-informed faggot.

>>378710019
>artifically restricting yourself to only using software you paid for

>>378710019
Unity and UE4 are free. So are C++ and Python.

>>378706152

Because it's an unrealistic scope of a project?

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>>378710019
""""""""""""""""own""""""""""""""""

>>378710083
Anything is better than GM. Even fucking Unity. But ideally you'd roll your own. Graphics and sound libraries are acceptable.

>>378693142
Dreams are hard to make

>>378710349
It can be done, just have to start small and slowly work up to it.

>>378706050
I have seen you post this ten fucking times in this thread and the /vg/ one
Either do it or shut up
Stop asking people to talk you out of it you fucking coward

>>378709482
Where do I start with musical shit? Everything else has a pretty straightforward path but I don't even know where to begin learning how to deconstruct music like I can games, writing or art.

>>378710349
You could try to make a small scale version of it to develop the skills you'd need to work with a bigger team to realize your dream.

>>378710405
Assuming you have 30 years to spare working on your own.

>>378710460
let's start by picking a track you like, then, and then try to point out what you like about it

>>378709028
I got Gamemaker and the mobile modules from the humble bundle last year, never got around to learning though. Was busy with college but now I got nothing to do this summer, might as well give it a whirl.

>>378708680
Is Godot less clunkier than gamemaker? I'm a poorfag so I'm working on a shitty 2011 laptop (i3 2.1ghz, 4gb ram, 1366x768) that's starting to show it's age, but it works.

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>>378693142
Big ideas, don't know where to start.

>>378710390
>Anything is better than GM. Even fucking Unity.

Even Game Maker doesn't arbitrarily shuffle or outright forget what joypads you connected to your computer like Unity does.

>inb4 "but you can fix that with paid third-party plugins"

>>378710390
>But ideally you'd roll your own
Enginefags are the worst. Making your own engine will only lead to you not making your game.

>>378710556
>Is Godot less clunkier than gamemaker? I'm a poorfag so I'm working on a shitty 2011 laptop (i3 2.1ghz, 4gb ram, 1366x768) that's starting to show it's age, but it works.
Doesn't even compare.
Godot is a modern engine and it's still being actively updated. Gamemaker is a piece of shit. It's only popular because so much people picked it up when there weren't any good options around.

>>378710057
Niceee

>>378710390
Still waiting on seeing what kind of experience you have that validates your opinion.

>>378709425
I've talked to one of Blizzard's 3d modelers, whenever they have to make clothes they literally copy from leyendecker, and I mean it in the literal sense, stroke by stroke although in 3D of course.
Before the 18th century, copying the masters was what everyone was doing. With the Romanticism came the moral concept of plagiarism, but do you really think it's over? WoW is an EQ clone with better graphics, it's not an artistic copy but it's a design copy. And it worked for them.
The cast whole cast from LoL (at least the original one as I am not up to date with their patches) has been copied with their names changed a little.
Don't plagiarize but learn to copy. That dude's art is some of the best on this thread, he should make that style his own.

>>378710486
It may not take thirty years. Besides
>a bit like The Elder Scrolls
Probably doesn't mean as big as an Elder Scrolls game.

>>378710604
Lemme help you
>>178407612

>>378710552
Sure. I can say I like the usage of arpeggios or whatever but I can't tell you why they're effective. I'm not sure how to get to that last bit. Meanwhile in anything else I could at the very least take a good stab at explaining why a particular word choice/mechanic/whatever is effective.

>>378710809
u-uh

>>378710809
sorry I forgot how 4chun crossboard linked
>>>/vg/178407612

>>378710798
All he has to do is make a proof of concept, ie. flesh out the combat system and a level or two, and assuming he does a good job he could easily get funding to make the game. TES is a massive game but the core isn't that big that you can't make a proof of concept.

>>378710882
Here
>>378710871

>>378710057
needs speed boosting desu familia

>>378710657
Literally this, there's no reason to reinvent the wheel
No engine is perfect but it's enough to help you accomplish what you want to do

Make game not engine

>>378710735
Blizzard is notoriously uncreative, everything they make it almost a direct rip of something else

>>378710967
>>378710882
thanks guys
One more question; do you guys have any opinions on the best engine to use for an isometric tycoon game, a la theme hospital/big pharma/openttd/ etc?

>>378710727
I actually have a job and a reputation that I can't afford to tarnish by posting on 4chan

>>378710657
>>378711037
if you're halfway decent at programming making a simple 2D game engine isn't difficult, but if you're using gamemakers in the first place you should probably just stick with them until your ideas outgrow your engine

>>378711089
Godot, especially when 3.0 comes out.

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>>378707709
Rewrote everything from scratch to fix a bunch of bugs because when I started I didn't know some things. The game is smoother now with less glitches but it is still far from done

>>378711082
Ok let's go back a few posts

>lmao plenty of success has came from imitating others
>Such as?
Don't try to move the goalposts, you can be successful copying and if that guy enjoys drawing like Toriyama, he should keep doing it.

>>378711109
Well then shut up and lurk. Otherwise, anything you have to say has not support to stand on.

>>378711089
there aren't any off-the-shelf engines that specialize in strategy games or iso games, you're going to have to customize them a bit to get them to do what you want

>>378711301
I wasn't even reading the arguement thread, but blizzard is a bad example of something an artist should be aspiring to, not that I think there's anything wrong with imitation as a beginner though

>>378711320
>somebody disagrees with me
>post personal proof of who you are or shut up
I think you're missing the spirit of 4chan bro

>>378711498
Why? They have some of the best art currently, they make great looking games that run on toasters with the best waifus and they are filthy successful to boot. And they copy, because copying is not wrong. Plagiarizing and copying are totally different things.
I think you're just jealous of that guy drawing better than you.

>>378711089
>>378711378
If you're looking at UE4 or Unity, then no not really. Both should suffice. Unity has a lot more , and imho better, documentation and larger community (colleges use it with game dev majors).

But making an isometric game is just a matter of moving your game camera. And then pausing gameplay while still selecting options.

>>378711576
arguments presented without evidence can be refuted without evidence, pal.

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Working on it anon.

Finally got the background redrawn and got some 3d effects going.

>>378711282
>fix a bunch of bugs
That seems counter-initiative to the theme, but glad to see you still at it.

>>378711576
>proof of who you are
No, I said show example of your work. Surely you have something that can't currently be directed to you.

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>>378711664

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>>378711749
holy shit

>>378711645
Didnt even look at anyones art in this thread
Their art is technically well made, their style and design are just shit, Blizzard is a great example of why you SHOULDN'T copy, not why you should

>>378710678
Ok, I'll give it a shot and see what I can do.

>>378711883
remember #1 rule in gamedev: dont give up!

>>378708084
Thanks.
>Maybe don't let it pause when the bullet bounces off the shield.
We actually had a discussion about that the other day in /agdg/. Probably what I'll end up doing is removing the hitstop for most bullets, and only using it when the player is fighting a boss.

>>378711732
looks pgud

>>378711732
Ayo can I get the name of that font you're using in the top right?

>>378693142
I don't like coding

>>378701558
This combat system is oddly 1:1 with Dishwasher: Dead Samurai. Like even the sound effects are REALLY similar. This just looks 1000% times more boring and emotionless

>>378706787
Thanks. This was a 3-day project, but I dunno if I should continue it.
It'd be like Terraria with guns and without the mining, and a portable base to never become sedentary. Planets re-regenerate at night and you could visit other planets when you upgrade your balloon enough, i guess.

>>378711749
bullets move to fast on some of them
Need better effects/stretching/interpolation if you want them that fast, or slowem down, or hitscan with impacts and directional indications

>>378711843
Most people would disagree with that statement since Blizzard's designs are insanely popular. People go apeshit over their skins and cosmetics.

And good job focusing on Blizz and ignoring everything else. LoL is also filled to the brim with copies and guess what, normies fucking love their designs.

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>>378710684
thanks
>>378710981
you can dash around like a mad cunt, it's hard to control but if you know the level you can go real fast

here's the boss, it doesn't have art or animations yet but the code is just about complete
probably looks easier than it actually is since I know everything the thing does

>>378710832
you gotta remember that music has a lot to do with emotion. when analyzing a piece, it's important to pinpoint how it makes you feel, what it makes you think, so you can maybe reproduce a similar feeling.

Views are fucking my shit up senpai

>>378712225
LoL artwork is a complete joke, it's not even worth criticizing, anything that applies to criticism of blizzard artwork applies to LoL twice as much seeing they just copy Blizzard and a little bit of Dota2
Also that's and argumentum ad populum, Blizzard games are popular but not because they have good art design. Skins make any game popular, their artistic quality doesn't matter. CS GO became huge because you could buy pink skins for your guns

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>>378712008
Thanks anon!

>>378712143
It's a custom font, sorry. Here's some mroe of it to get you some ideas though.

>>378712584
God damn, that is good. Where'd you learn to make sprites like that?

I'm >>378700020 by the way.

>>378712558
Case closed. In the words of Jay-Z,
>I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars
>They criticized me for it, yet they all yell "holla"
>If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli
>Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
>But I did 5 mill' – I ain't been rhyming like Common since
If you wanna be admired by a few pretentious assholes, don't copy. If you wanna be successful, copy like a motherfucker.

>>378712715
There's plenty of games with great artstyles that are also very popular

>>378711749
...was that supposed to impress us? Because it looks like your shit at your own shit video game

>>378712715
As stubborn as I am, the older I get the more I realize selling out isn't so terrible if you want to live a comfy life without the pain of struggling paycheck to paycheck. Sure, CoD is just one rehash after another, but the lowest common denominator eats that shit up, so why the fuck wouldn't a business exploit the hell out of it.

Most people bitching would do the same in their shoes.

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>>378712145
I can
>pixel art
>Make up a story and dialogue
I can't
>3d model
>code in any language
>draw

>>378712983
not to be a douche, but when you say you can pixel art and make a story, is it good pixel art and good story or is it just something you think you can do because you can open up an image/text editor and bang out something semi-readable?

>>378712851
Sure but I doubt they get even close to the big games who follow well proven formulas for both character design and gameplay.
And we're getting a bit to carried off front the initial point of the discussion, that's it the anon who drew like Toriyama. All I meant tosl say was that if he enjoys drawing like that, and evidently the results are there because his paintings look good, there is no reason for him to change his style

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>>378712686
Self taught? I do some effects, like that intro sequence and the sparks here, but I don't do most of the actual art; It's a group project and I'm the programer / 'everything that's not artistic' guy.

I'm also an ideas guy btw. I wanna make gacha mobile games since that seems to be all the rave today, but I also want there to be good engaging (or at least interesting or thought-provoking) gameplay to it.

I know you people don't like idea guys but anyway just saying

>>378693142
No experience
Very difficult to get the will to even watch tutorials and learn how to do anything
Even if I learned how to do all the necessary shit, I couldn't be fucked

>>378713420
Blizzard games are successful for alot of reasons but art stylr isn't one of them

>>378710019
Don't listen to anons, GM is a fine place to start mucking about in and make Asteroids in literally 3 hours to get a grip on basic concepts, and there's nothing stopping you from downloading UE or Unity and watching some tutorials, the former is especially great with that coupled with blueprints and has good documentation.

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>>378713645
>for alot of reasons but art stylr isn't one of them
Imagine for a second fellow reader that you were this retarded. How do you think this poster managed to get by the captcha?

>>378713645
Dude how delusional can you be? People love blizzards artstyle

>>378713645
their art department has to be one of the best in the industry.

probably the only actual good thing they have going for their games nowadays.

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I made a M&M prototype ( https://hapro.itch.io/newnewsorpigal ) but unless someone sends me like $5 million I can't really do any more by myself.

I'm helping some other people make their game as their programmer but I'm not really too invested.

>>378713887
Taking damage from everything makes a game not fun.

>>378713882
art style is different from the technical quality of their art, which is top notch

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super slow process

I'm stressing too much about things I don't know too well yet, so I've been making music instead.

https://soundcloud.com/untitledyngame/gooddream

>>378714105
ok then, I meant the latter.

>>378714105
Protip: people like both

>>378714237
nobody thinks their formless chunky males with oversized paldrons and chinese toy weapons look cool
maybe if thinks looked like they did in WC3 era cutscenes, but world of warcraft and starcraft 2 are a joke

I'm learning. Started Ben Tristem's Unity/C#
Udemy course after seeing people recommend it here and on a few other sites. I'm feeling kind of good about it so far, only finished the second lesson but it's progress at least.

>>378713448
Are the sprites drawn using code, or are they sprites?

>>378714118
Hyperlight Drifter 2?

>>378714660
>Are the sprites drawn
SPARKS, fuck me.

>>378714660

Those are definitely hand drawn

>>378713887
I've seen this forever ago
Was never a fan of the stop and go aspect in a 3d world, but it's a shame it's over
Good luck on your next project

>>378693142
So I just started working in a game studio as a software engineer and god damn do I miss my own projects.

>Why did I do to deserve working on a daily basis in 3 languages, 2 operating systems, networking and cross process communication, and gameplay.

I just want to be artistic....

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>>378714728
>>378714660
The sparks that constantly hang around the feet are hand drawn, the sparks that get kicked up into the air are code. There more colorful ingame, the webm crushes the color a little bit.

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here's a screen. it's a 3rd person action game prototype i've been working on.

>>378709425
that time notch imitated infiniminer and ended up becoming a millionaire

>>378693142
I need millions of dollars to pull it off.

Do you guys use some sort of format when writing an in-depth story for your game? I'm having a hard time finding a good layout for my story that includes character profiles, enemies, story, etc

>>378716627
start with a basic idea of your story and flesh in the details as you build your game. games with stories written like movie scipts tend to be either bad games, heavily rewritten, or scrapped enitrely

>>378693142
How's GODOT?

>>378716627
I was once told to shut the fuck up and just do it

It didnt help too much but I did make a discord server exclusively to dump all my scrambled ideas into one place

Puts pressure on you to fill channels with SOMETHING

>>378693142
Because I'm retarded and my dreams are way beyond the scope of anything I can make by myself.

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>>378693142
I only work on it during weekends

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I don't really have a dream game I want to make yet, but here's something I'm working on

>>378718704
Oh I love it

>>378703371
Actually, it's probably better to make sure your model deforms properly and make any changes to the mesh before you start unwrapping and texturing.
Otherwise you'll have to redo any bit of your texture/UV map that has been changed.

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>>378718704

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>>378693142

please be patient

>>378693142
Prefer making small, personal mods to change existing games to my tastes. For instance, made a mod for New Vegas that improves poisons.

>>378718704
Looks cool

>>378712283
What's the cute ball animated in? Spine? It looks really unique

>>378717752
Good work, I've been checking out your progress on r/unity3d and here

>>378718704
Good visuals, glad to see it's coming along

>>378719103
Now make it 'steam' worthy and you'll have twitch players all over it

>>378714118
Any more details? Even ideas you're thinking about for it are fine.

>>378715328
What kind of game are you doing? Looks like an ice golem about to go Mike Tyson on you.

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>>378719368
the character animates in-engine
the face is a circular sprite and the body is a separate object that serves as a mask
the face sprite rotates according to the player's horizontal speed, and the body squishes with movement as well

>>378719402

>you'll have twitch players all over it

i have faith in this project, but idk what to expect honestly

>>378719810
that's so cool

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>>378719402
>on r/unity3d
I rarely post there. If you want to see updates, I usually post first on http://hypertensiongamedev.tumblr.com/, and I repost that content in TIGSource and the official Unity forums

>>378720045
nice work anon, will the cape be simulated in unity?

>>378720045
I've seen the visual effect for charge there. Maybe a repost from somewhere else

>>378719850
Good luck, but it looks like a porn game. Most porn games on Steam are typically low effort VNs that are just stories with choices.

>>378720179
it already is. see >>378717752

>>378720216

what kind of gameplay would you like in a porn game?

>>378720236
great stuff, its got potential

>>378702841
You won't be able to animate this model, its topography is all fucked up.

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Working on it, trying to revamp the forest environment

>>378695606
>if there wasn't, there wouldn't be different words for them

That's bullshit and you know it.

>>378720460
I'm not gonna play a porn game

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>>378721260
its ok

I want to make a game based on being a blacksmith, with a semi open world system integrated around it where primarily you can source your own metals or buy them, and inherit your smithery from whomever family. Not sure what the graphics would be, but it'd have an in depth system on making the swords themselves, and your quality of metal is dependent on real world methods back then in the medieval period. Could have special requests at later stages from the king, or rich buyers, or evil antagonists who later use your blade to kill other people like the king. You would be able to upgrade your smithery as time went on, but you begin the game with a worn down one after <family member> is drafted during the large war and it falls into disrepair, which gives you a good incentive to make shitty swords at the beginning as most of the population after the war have a lack of arms. Mite b kool. I'd make sure it's extra comfy, but no idea where I'd start.

>>378721812
the only want to make a game about being a blacksmith interesting is by making it unrealistic, unless you have some crazy gameplay simulation of forging and metal-shaping or something

>>378712283
make sure to have other people test play your levels and get feedback from them, i'm sure you already do but if you're not it will help alot
Looks great btw, have a title name yet?

>>378698669

Is that a fidget spinner in the water?

>>378694752
>casualizing already

tsk tsk

>>378718704
inspired by Klonoa?

>>378722145
That is precisely what I would do, metal shaping, forging. It'd be somewhat simulator-like, even autistic depending on how deep you choose to go into your metal quality. You would work a whole smeltery/smithy for a small town and eventually have money to move to larger towns, a city, etc and I would tailor it specifically for /v/ as far as autism goes. I'd probably die of old age working on it since I want to have slightly good graphics, 3D world, and high immersion. No microtransactions.

I'm having this plan on making simple shit. Like at first, Pong, then maybe space invader and then a platformer, then whatever. But for some reason I'm always afraid of making that step

>>378693142
Among other things, I'm too fuck-everything depressed to do anything at all.

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Trying to, but life is hard. I'm going through a very difficult time in my life

>>378702841
Your pig against my pig(s) against that other low poly guy pig to see who is best pig.

>>378718704
Really nice. It's like a Playstation game, like Strider 2.

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>>378726746
Some memes.
I want to create a pure, 100% carcinogenic meme game. Pepe: Enter the Kek.

>>378699637
I've been following your progress for some time. Your game looks good, but the art needs some work. The colors are weird and the girl looks a bit... off. Like when west tries to do anime.

>>378710017
Do you ever put a limiter on your master track?

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>>378693142
5 more days t b h

>>378727514
Hey I remember you.

It's good to see your game getting finally released.

By the way, do you intend to release it on other platforms besides steam? GOG would be great.

>>378727728
we did get told that gog staff liked the game, but nothing really happened afterwards. so, dunno, maybe later?

>>378727860
ok, i don't care for steam, but I'll buy your game there anyway.

>>378727385
no