How's that game going anon? You ARE working on that game, right?

>>385835849
I made a dating sim proof of concept

>>385835849
What's a good way to get started on learning programming and game design? Preferably for free.

i'm making a game so good that i'm never publishing it online,cuz you don't deserve to witness it

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yes, but you dont deserve to play it

FEED ME IDEAS
I HUNGER

>>385835849
Where could I find codemonkeys to hire?

I want to make a 2d isometric game. How do I do it?

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>>385835849
>2 Minutes before the Bundle

Impressive

>>385836337
tilt it 45 degrees

>>385836196
That looks nice anon, I'd play it

>>385836329
Google.

>>385835849
working on triangulating a point cloud into a triangle mesh, however my delaunay algorithm isn't working

>>385836504
Okay but how do I make a 2d game first? I've never done this shit before

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>making a game
meh, maybe tomorrow, dont really think a timesplitters clone is in demand right now or that people will even buy it, still need to fix the wrists

>>385835849
im pretty much done with everything. I need to finalize the narrative and get game maker so I can actually start producing.

>>385836608
You make a game but it draws pictures onto a screen instead of just outputting text

I want to make FPS with DOOM like Graphics but for engine to have more abilities like being able to look up and down and the ability to make different hitboxes.
Where should I look at?

>>385836847
how do you make a game?

>>385836997
Unreal engine.

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going good, i just came back from showing it off at a con and now im listening to some new track revisions our sound guy made :>

>>385837026
You get bored and ask people for ideas. A cool gimmick gets your idea and several people get excited for it.
You put together a prototype of the gimmick and add a score and player input but when it's time to get feedback it turns out no one knows how to actually make any content.
Then you give up and just stalk 4chan threads helping with programming until the next adventure arrives.

>>385837146
Vids or animations would be nice to see.
Screens are meh

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>Post updates regularly in a chatroom
>No comments, no feedback
>Keep working at it for weeks
>Still nothing
>Finally finish what you're working on
>Suddenly you get so much criticism that you basically have to do the whole thing over
WHY NOT JUST GIVE CRITICISM WHILE I'M ACTUALLY WORKING ON IT

>>385837183
you're not very helpful. I really do need help

>>385837280
>people were interested in your game enough that they played it and gave criticism

>>385837320
What's your idea? The more time you spend worrying about it without some kind of prototype or experiment, the more you'll likely lose inspiration.
Get some boxes or some text in a screen and add a shitty score asap.

I want to make a Visual Novel but I can't draw.

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fixed my window blur shader and tweaked the eel mouth's mesh and texture so it looks less goofy when the mouth is open

>>385837224
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocv11ji1C6Q

>>385838442
What engine do you use?

>>385838862
Thats impressive by the way.
I like how it loos.
Unironically would play it.

>>385837567

Then get someone who can draw nerd, or learn

>>385838862
>>385838987
Thanks! i'm making it in gamemaker. Also there's a free demo on itchio if you want to try it out, since you mentioned you'd play it

>>385839218
Thanks.
I'll play it tomorrow

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>>385835849
Just did a Ludum dare game basically about pic related. It's all about balancing your day until you end up killing yourself.

>>385835849
Hit a brick wall with programing,its not what language I use its simply I dont have the basis for logic and problem solving.
I simply dont know how to approach a problem despite having assets already in processing.
This looks like the end for me.

>>385839307
GIVE ME THAT GAME ANON

>>385839441
Is there a specific brick wall you've hit?
Do you want to talk about it, friend-o?

I wish I had the drive to make a game :(

>>385837280
Because downloading and testing constant updates is fucking tedious nigga. Use your friends for that. And as the other anon said be happy that people care.

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More or less, our coder has been doing a significant progress in implementing the animations of the combat system.

>>385835849
exams are in two weeks so,,, PRETTY SLOW

>>385839625
Just dew it

>>385839538
It's at https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/39/feel-o-clock
No sound, no graphics, restart game button doesn't work, balance is fucked, stuck at 1000x1000 with no scalability, it's a bad game don't play it.

>>385836196
that actually looks like fun

after doing some 2D stuff in unreal I realized how annoying managing actions and animations was.

So currently working on how to manage and update animations for each action, as well as stuff like hey you cant specifically move while doing this attack but u can do other stuff during or after the attack.

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Working on battle stuff
I need to get a better recorder, framerate keep fluctuating while recording

>>385839218
BRING SORCEROBE BACK!!!

as a cameo, at least.

>>385839218
You have/had a kickstarter? Any tips for marketing or getting people to at least look at your game?

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>>385840435
It's pure shit anon, give up on your stupid project, you retard Nintendofag.

>>385840435
That cursor mechanic looks interesting!

>>385840571
damn, I can taste some kind of mixture on the air.... tastes like.... salt. And....... lemons.

Huh, weird.

>>385840571
>sonegros bringing their pathetic attempts at banter into completely unrelated threads

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>>385840710
>>385840967

>NO PLS, I'M MAKING GREAT STUFF

Delusional fags

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Just made a new team yesterday, we've already begun work on a cyberpunk adventure game ala Policenauts and Snatcher.

We're an artist, a writer, a musician and a programmer(me).

There's not much progress yet but I'm working on the game's basic systems right now. Behold my beautiful placeholders!

>>385840435
>Zombie fungus ants

Nice!

>>385841092
>reddit spacing

>>385840435

what are you using to record right now?

>>385840435
What's your game called? I want to keep an eye on it.

>>385841092
kys bro
that bug game is one of the few games i'm following on tumblr.

its gud, kys right now

>>385840967
>Instant Sony deflection
Wew this level of obsession.

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>>385841217
WembCam

>>385841276
For now it's called Paper Bugs but that might change

>>385840571
>>385841092

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>>385841147
>knowing "reddit spacing"

get out fag.

>>385841295
I hope your mother has the recipe; there is nothing we can do about your shit taste anon.

you are going to die in your sleep

>>385837280
who's that cat?

>>385841456

Not sure if It'll help but I use ShareX all the time for webm making and stuff comes out pretty good, and theres things u can adjust in settings and whatnot.

>>385840436
weed shall see

>>385840536
Yeah we just finished the campaign actually! i think the main thing is to start building a fanbase early. like, years in advance. I know that might not be the most useful advice but I really think it's the main reason we succeeded

>>385835849
I keep having issues on my fullscreen script with 1366x768 resolutions for no reason
An anon from /agdg/ told me to move the center of the window to something else but that didn't do shit

>>385836196
Replace the mutant with a qt

>>385839218
Goddamn, your game is oozing with style anon.

> fix bug
> something else breaks

>>385842360
>not making it into a feature

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Real men use ioquake

>>385841892
And the fire breath with a BRAAAP attack, haha.

>>385842458
it's some stupid steam integration thing, so I can't really make it into a feature.

>>385842598
>using someone's else, genre-specific engine
LMAO

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>>385835849
slowly getting there

>>385842997
nigga hit me with the last bitline miami build please
I felt like playing it a while ago and it's gone from the internet

>>385842915
Your mother is genre-specific

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>uninstall steam to help me disassociate my computer with "Playing video games"
>Aw fuck nigga time to work on my own game
>do barely any work on it
>end up reinstalling steam
>repeat ad infinitum
I think being a piece of shit runs in my bloodline

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>>385835849
Anyone looking for a low poly modeler? Not the best, but not the worst either.

>>385842997
this looks fucking dope

>>385843349
I think the grip would look better if it was 1/8th shorter and rectangular not octagonal

>>385843632
Thanks for feedback. I might try seeing how that looks.

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Not really worth posting but eh, I'm bored. Just mapping out a house design. This is all just placeholder junk, while I figure out scale and layout.

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>>385843074
I don't have the portable hard drive with old project with me. Send me a DM through twitter or something and I'll send it to you when I find it.
>>385843525
cheers

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>recently bought 15 courses on udemy focusing on unreal engine 4, unity, c#, c++, python
>also considering buying the 15 buck bundle on humble bundle featuring unreal engine and unity

Hm, not sure how much I can get done in about 6-10 months. I'm thinking about trying to learn a lot and hopefully intern by the end of this year/beginning of the next and maybe apply for a game dev course next year.

Just finished standardising my project to be more inline with UE4 standards. Progress is slow.

easiest engine to make a game in? need something with great physics, weight distribution etc

>>385844154
2D or 3D. For 3D I find UE4 easier to work with.

>>385844154
>easiest engine to make a game in?

Easily Unreal Engine.

>>385843812
Are you the same guy that made that Ito-inspired game with the lady and her apartment? That was really neat, if so.

>>385835960
/agdg/ threads on /vg/. Literally any information you may need

>>385844234
Not him, but what's good for 2D?

>>385838442
What is the platform you plan on releasing this on? Music is great, the way you start dialog with npcs is pretty funny, and the movement is really smooth.

>>385844234
3d.

>>385844252
so unreal would require absolutely ZERO knowledge whatsoever

>>385844582
If you use unreal blueprints, you can get by with minimal knowledge. You'll eventually start needing to code though.

>>385844386
you probably mean SpaceZeta. I'm not them but Junji Ito is following me on twitter and even reposted some of my progress

>>385844545
I've found gamemaker to be pretty easy to get into - once you start getting the handle of things there is a bunch of depth available for you to explore

>>385844582
Blueprint is easy to learn, hard to master. I like blueprint, because unlike coding it feels like I'm playing a puzzle game whilst I'm making a game.

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Almost finished the prototype to try and get some Unreal funds, wondering if I should put in a checkpoint system, but the amount of work is kinda ridiculous for just a demo...

>>385844685
Thanks.

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thoughts?

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>>385845257

The characters are kinda of OK, but the city really looks like shit... I'm not a good concept designer at all and I really struggled with modeling a good environment because of it!

>>385845347
Anon, why you are doing shit we have seen 1000 times in our life ?

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Didn't make much visible progress last night, aside from making a UI icon for pencil marks. I redid the file I/O because my past self somehow didn't think that saving the original grid before it was cut into a puzzle would be important. I'm wondering what to replace the 'P' (number input) with on my UI. Maybe a pen to contrast with the pencils? Or just a number in a square so new players can visualize what it does?

Today I'll probably make my logo, set up my twitter, and replace all the shitty student projects on my website with this game.

>>385845347
i dont hate it desu

>>385845347
Add a success notification. Anything that's a control (Ctrl + c/Ctrl + v) should be in a different color from the rest of the text. You can have the boot menu be that speed the first few times you hack, but it should be faster later in the game.

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>>385845595

Some places fare a bit better than others...

>>385846302
Shit that looks good anon! Are you more worried about the level design than the actual environment? Because I think I can guess the type of theme you were going for

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>>385846302
Put a basic damage system on the zombies...

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>>385839634
but will there be an m/m version of that?

>>385838442

That was fucking amazing.

My only criticism is that King Casket's death was incredibly underwhelming.

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>>385846585

Nah, I'll post some ugly zones, you'll see what I mean.

Sorry for the response time, my sister is trying the demo...

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>>385847636

The monsters of the demo...

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>>385847913

And a close-up of the main character

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>>385835849
>making game for small tight-knit community
>community is turning cancerous and dying faster than i can finish

>>385847636
They look fitting, atleast. What don't you like about them?

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>>385848161
>82 tabs
for what purpose

Does anyone know if the GameMaker code from the latest HumbleBundle is for GameMaker studio 2 or 1.4?

>>385848351
1.4

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>>385848267

Here is the biggest offender, this is supposed to be the central room of the sewers, and it looks like shit, but I don't really know how to enhance it...

>>385848610
Pretty disappointing.

>>385848728
yeah, that took it from a "hmmm, maybe I'll buy this" to "nope" immediately

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>>385848274
that one isn't me, but this is

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No, just working on commissions ;_;

>>385848794
Yeah. I already own 1.4 so there is no need to buy anything. Might get the first level for free just for the source codes.

>>385848728
allegedly you can use it to take advantage of the upgrade discount though

>gamedev threads on /v/ turning into /agdg/ generals
Sad

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>>385848930
If you already own 1.4?
It's still freaking expensive for me.

>>385849093
$60? Why would you buy anything else unless you were successful and wanted to port?

>>385848930
pretty sure gm:s1 owners were only able to get a discount on gm:s2 until the end of april

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>>385835849
Made a cannon enemy and now working on making cannons that shoot the player out as well

>>385849093
Why the fuck are they charging adobe prices for their engine that's arguably shit compared to most of the free engines out there?

>>385848702

Your lighting is terrible in all of your screenshots, the underlying geometry is extremely low resolution and basic, you're UV mapping and texel density is all over the place.

Shit man at the very least read some basic tutorials on how to properly light a scene.

Pro tip, it doesn't involve just dumping a bunch of coloured point lights into the scene.

Alternatively start with just modelling, texturing and lighting a barrel or crate because i'm not even sure you could do that to an acceptable level.

>>385849230
nope, good till the end of this august

>>385849282
Web and desktop seem to be priced about right - no idea what the fuck they're thinking with the rest of the platforms. Do Sony/MS charge an access fee to be a dev on their platforms? That might be included

>>385849282
>other engines
>free
If anything, GM is much cheaper than Unity, UE and Cryengine

>>385839218
wew I didn't know you could make 3d games in GM
impressive.

>>385848861
Looking good. Is it for a fps?

>>385848861
very devil-dagger-esque it's pretty nice anon good job

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>>385849678
Thanks

Yeah, it's for a Quake clone a guy from /AGDG/ is making in his own engine.

>>385837146
Looking good fight knight dev. Congrats on the success so far!

>>385849992
wtf i wanna play this

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>>385849969
Thanks, Anon

Hoping one day to be able to make my own videomatic game

>>385850182
Thanks a lot!
It's for the Quake-like game being made by Coaldev over at AGDG. I think there's an early demo up for one of the demo days (without any of my graphics).

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Is the $15+ bundle worth getting?

I finished making my text CYOA in C# after getting to the end of the Brackeys video series.
Any book/tutorial recommendations on where to go from here? I'm want to better understand how c# works and the branch out into learning how to use something like Unity or Monogame.

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I-I'm doing fine. I swear this was totally intended !
I'm reading some documentation again and I think I just implemented it completely wrong.

>>385835849
>tried unity an year ago
>couldnt make pathfinding even when copying some scripts from a video
>give up

>i've been trying unreal engine blueprints for the last few days
>cant even modify stuff on the sample projects
>mfw no face

>>385850367
For what? Publishing games on android and the shitty windows store? Sure.
For learning? No.

>>385851094
as much as I hate it I could use it to publish shitty shovelware games on mobile to raise money for RPGMaker MV

>>385851273
(Cont.) it could also help familiarize me with the game dev process since im only just starting out

>>385851273
Why would you buy MV if you have GM? You can make games with it out of the box that shit all over the best rpg maker efforts that uses a hundred different plugins.

>>385851273
if you think shitty shovelware is going to get you any money, you're already in a shitty mindset to be doing anything

>>385851821
I've seen it work on the App Store. The large majority of the games on there are either copy-pasted base unity assets, blatant knock-offs of other games, or stupid meme shit and normies eat all of it up.

>>385849478
That's assuming you make any actual money of your shitty games

>>385839441
What are you learning it with? Because I would say that statement is very probably false and possibly the result of some massively deficient learning method/website/book/exercise. I'm not far into chapter 5 of Stroustroup's book (pretty much the beginning) and I've done about as much UE4 tuts as I can for the time and that's gotten me pretty far with at least understanding and making blueprints, enough to start making stuff. I get more frustrated with having proper Blender>UE workflow or advanced gamemode stuff (and I've basically given up on networking and replication for the time being). I think you do have those things and you just need a better method.

>>385849328

While I agree that my scenes have big problems, and that I could light it propely, you can't tell me I need to do some basic Modeling tutorials when I can do characters like that...

I really need to get my hands on an environment artist to help me, I can't pull this off all on my own...

>>385842997
Whats your twitter then?

>>385848964
>more drama and fags complaining
truly we are about to lose the only good dev thread left, all we need now is some discord and tripfags

>>385852801

>you can't tell me I need to do some basic Modeling tutorials when I can do characters like that...

Pull your head out of your ass, your characters are fucking turbosquid tier garbage the likes of which poo in the loo students are churning out within the first month of doing a character modelling courses online.

You haven't even bothered to texture most of them, i'm guessing you can't sculpt worth a shit, you haven't bothered with normal maps, and i'd fucking hate to see your topology, let alone rigging, animation, I can already see that they deform like shit.

Seriously, concentrate on the basics.

I find that I have difficulty translating my thoughts and ideas for game mechanics and story and all that jazz into anything written or typed. I can't tell if its because I'm retarded or not but I become confused when reading my own thoughts, almost like my brain is going "Wait a minute, what's going on here? This is literally what I was thinking about."

Any tips beyond visiting a lobotomist?

>>385853517
Try writing a design document for an existing game first, to help you get in the swing of things.

>>385853517

If you can't even get your thoughts out onto paper, be it written or drawn, let alone verbalizing them.......you are all kinds of fucked.

Try drugs?

>>385853317

I'll do my best next time

>>385853664
This seems like it'll be helpful, I'll try it out. Thanks!
>>385853761
What sort of drugs do you recommend? Keep in mind I don't know any dealers, or know how to find such people.

>>385854104
Caffeine is the best performance enhancing drug

>>385854104
Check out http://stemchallenge.org/resources/game-design-documents/ for some examples

>>385854352
I've built up a mighty resistance to caffeine from years of drinking far too much coffee unfortunately.

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>>385850182
>>385850360
Coaldev here. A build from May is available here: https://rohit.itch.io/coal-demo-day-14

As Theonian mentioned, it doesn't have any of his models. Look for that in the next demo day.

>>385854104

>What sort of drugs do you recommend?

A strict daily regiment of strenuous exercise, furious masturbation, alcoholism and incessant sobbing.

>>385854942

What are the most important aspects of a first person shooter?

I can't believe that when it comes down to it I'm trying to find an ideasguy.
It's probably the only stupid field I suck at.

>>385856061
Fun and shooting

>>385856061
Fun weapons, unique enemies, level design that facilitates interesting encounters

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>>385853517
>written or typed
Why not just draw them? I like to draw ideas for boss fights and other shit occasionally, in a simple style. You don't really need to know how to draw. Also, fuck story. Sure it can /inspire/ mechanics but in my opinion you shouldn't be worried about that until your game is well underway. Focus on pure mechanical shit.

>>385856061
On the topic of enemy design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuOObGjCA7Q
If you dont like eceleb shit just listen to the gdc talk by Harvey smith in the description.

>>385856215
>>385856306

Ding, ding, ding.

Take note of these things Coaldev, in it's current state your game lacks all of them.

Start with putting the player in a room with a gun with something to shoot and have it be awesome, don't bother making anything else until you've done that.

>>385851036
It's almost like it takes more than a few days to make a videogame wooowowowowowowo

>>385856498
My greatest programming tool I have ever used is the pen and paper next to my computer.