/agdg/ FINAL HOURS TO DEMODAY EDITION

first for anubis

DELETE THIS

can someone make a proper OP?

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How old are you, /agdg/?

https://strawpoll.me/5945409/

I just need a good idea so i can make some money and stop being a wage slave

>>121798669
What do you do after you beat that one boss of Clarent?
Is that it or is there more?

>>121799828
I hope you know this is going to be the same age distribution across pretty much all of 4chan.

>>121800424
I hope you know that that is totally false
/b/ is full of 12-year-olds
/g/ is full of 16-year-olds
that fucking trains board is full of 35-yos
/r9k/ is full of suicidal 22-yos
etc.

>>121800507
and /pol/?

>>121800591
same as /agdg/

> tfw none of my game ideas seem interesting

Could it be a problem if I overthink things? I keep thinking okay. You have to do X, but what's the point? what's the drive? And if you do X to progress towards Y, then I instantly say to myself, why would someone want to progress towards Y. After that I just don't see a point in continuing with my game, since it looks empty and shallow. Then I see the same game being made on agdg, or the same mechanics and concept being released on steam and mostly everyone like it. How do I stop being too hard on myself and doing these self critiques that prevent me from progressing?

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>>121800561
what is this
and why am i filling this out

>>121800660
what am I your therapist?

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Would you rather have a low-fidelity character sprite which displays equipment or a high-fidelity character sprite which does not?

https://strawpoll.me/5960550

whats the tier list of artist types when it comes to an action game?

ive figured out so far that people who can animate well are way more valuable than people who do can environments/props well. but what other types of artists are there? like...

animatiors > _____ > _______ > environments/props > __________ or something like that?

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If you ever want to use variadic templates: Args &&... is the answer, not Args...

>>121801008
What you're asking is completely subjective

>>121800660
You don't have enough experience to critique yourself. Just get experience making games you tard.

>>121801056
I don't think it is. Someone who can do animations really well is more valuable than someone who can do environments/props really well when you're making an action game. Why would you say that's subjective?

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>>121801050
...Yes

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~~~* RECAP MONDAY *~~~

game:
dev:
tools:
website:
progress:

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>>121800660
literally just like make game and shut up about it
paths to success:
1) be wealthy and market the shit out of your game / basically absorb costs (big companies and even small studios)
2) be genuinely interested in making games and disciplined enough to finish


this is life 101

>>121801116
Because it is. Different projects will have different needs, ergo there is no objective way to say "Animators are always more valuable".

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>>121800783
that was fun

>>121801116
Because there are so many types of action games, what if my action game is 2d? would you say animations matter more than environmental art 100% of the time?

>>121801359
I'm saying it's an action game. It's a game based around actions of characters. Someone who can do animations of characters well is more valuable than someone who can do environments/props well. What can't you understand about it being an action game?

>>121801398
Show me a 2D action game with poor animations that's fun to play.

>>121801371
>watersports

your taste isn't shit, but its close

>>121801453
nes games

>>121801505
If you release a NES game on Steam today people won't buy it

>>121801536
GUYS I KNOW YOU WANT TO RESPOND TO THIS BUT PLEASE STAY STRONG

>>121801563
It's so fucking hard not to anon, hold me.

>>121801453
I'm not saying poor animations, but I guess you're just putting words at my mouth and at this point it's moot to even argue because you already have your mind made up.

looks like your post's objective isn't even to consider a point of discussion and/or argument.

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>>121800561
hehehe

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>>121801563
>>121801607
>>121801604
I bet you're all environment/props artists who didn't bother to learn animating because it's too hard so you're trying to defend yourself. Pathetic really.

clarent dev if you're listening please please fix the stairs controls!

So is there are tier list for day 5 now or what?

>>121801984
Nah it's all subjective and everyone is a winner

>>121800263
You can go kill the miniboss few times to get to lvl6 and get air dash ability.

>>121801984
deadline's still not up yet anon

>>121801715

>121801604 (You)
I'm an animator and an artist, and I still think you're a fucking moron. You could have an action game with bog standard animations but incredible environments, and if its fun, people will still play it.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/wip-build-alpha-3722539
THE
POWER
OF
UNITYYY

>>121801917
Im at work. What would you want me to do with them?

>>121802079
Kek why are you even replying to me you fucking idiot, please go read my posts before you open your mouth.

>>121802079
Show me some of your animations

>>121802141
I'm not sure if it's a bug but I can't seem to jump when on the stairs it's very hard to dodge enemies since it's hard to maneuver.

Also, I hope you will move the stairs that's beside the pit, pressing right will make you fall instead of going up the stairs. I know it's controls nitpicking but it's just a matter of user experience. I can make a solution diagram if you want the problem is kinda hard to explain.

fuck off furfag

>>121802141
And yeah now that,i'm here, feel free to give some feedback.

>>121802334
>>121802391

Also, when falling, the player goes through stairs, not sure if it's intended but there's no reason not to land on the stairs

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So, today i've made character to speed up properly, on screen speed display (with kind anon's help), and speed up platforms that speed character up only when he's on top of them. That's a lot of speed and progress for today. I am content. My speed run/score attack/FPS is coming along nicely.
>>121802079
Why are you talking to me? I haven't said anything about art.

>>121802459
are you this guy?
>>121801453

>>121802334
My stairs works like in castlevania. It isnt bug. Ill try to improve them.

>>121802562
hmm thought so, however there's absolutely no reason not to make better controls than castlevania! I'm sure you can do it

>>121802559
No.

For the past week I've been writing a GUI system, and for every TODO entry that I complete, I add two more, ugh.

>>121801715
>I bet you're all
Pathetic, really.

>>121802141
>work
Are you russian?

>>121802870
only russians work?

>>121803027
yes

reminder that people will not play indie NES-likes

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>>121800950
>equipment doesn't appear on character
>wear helmet
>still bare head
>get cool looking sword
>standard weapon on sprite

this is my trigger

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I understand what is sen, cos and tan.

how do I code something like this?

do I simply spawn the bullets using cos-sen?
how do I get the bullets to move in an angle?

>>121803328
>character is 4 pixels total
this is my trigger

>>121803243
reminder that there being one successful nes-like indie game doesnt mean people will play all of them

>>121803542
projectileVelocity = vector2(sin(time),cos(time))

>>121800950
I'm all for dynamic equipment and I'm okay with low-fidelity, but 8 pixels is a bit beyond low-fidelity. You need at least 4x that amount of pixels for a small character sprite.

It seems like this poll is just you looking for a way to excuse your poor art ability so you don't have to actually improve.

>>121803637
It's this linear algebra?

how does sin(time) get me an angle?

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>>121803696
I disagree

>>121802870
Close, but no, im not russian. 10 hour work days at construction site.

>>121800950
low fidelity, eq shown but only if you have two equipment sets (one visual, one actual) otherwise idgaf

>>121803770
LOL ITS FUTURAMA

I FOUND THIS ON TUMBLR GUYS LOL ISNT IT COOL

>>121803797
literally what the fuck are you on about
>two equipment sets

>>121803768
>I understand sin/cos/tan
>I don't understand
Read up on it some more :)

>>121803816
no you idiot that's the simpsons

>>121803768
because it returns a value in [-1, 1] range so your velocity will be orbiting

>>121803845
like ever played terraria? you have two slots for each equipment type so you can equip different items that your character uses and different items that your characters wears on the sprite

How do you guys record your game to make it into a webm?

OBS is being a bitch and won't record things at a decent quality.

>>121803696
stop psychoanalyzing me based on a simple 4chan post

>>121803959
webmcam but it's a buggy piece of shit, I'd rather use OBS

>>121803846
>>121803907
ok thanks guys.

Do I simply use that formula on the constructor?

So time simply gets me the nice spiral, right?

>>121803959
my solution was to get a better CPU

>>121803907
>Children don't even have to choose between style and stat anymore, they get both.
Gaming is so dead.

>>121804024
assuming you have good understanding of projectile velocity then yes.

>>121798669
holy shit vine is hot
wud fugg

>>121803770
>reminder that the only people who will immediately recognize this are people who have watched the show, which of course wasn't made with 8-pixel characters

show yourself the door, you dumb motherfucker

>>121804134
>>121804009
Disregard me, I was being retarded, OBS was set to the wrong resolution from when I was recording a different project.

>>121804358
Happens. Make sure your bitrate setting is as high as your computer can handle as well, makes a difference.

>>121803816
>>121804304
> these characters contain enough detail to be recognisable and easily distinguished from each other
> you're still wrong though

>>121802106
why would you pay for that
whyyy
why am i downloading

Anyone remembers that unity game about little girl beating up people? it was in 3D and i forgot the name and cant find it

>>121804476
Cheers anon, it looks bootiful.

>>121804136
Because one indie game did it?

>>121804839
yep

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Is AGDG really this thirsty and beta? I get the impression that there is a lot of fucks here who will praise anything as long as it has cute anime girls in it.

Last thread I reposted an old artwork of an over the top, cliche anime girl from the Russian AGDG that got rightfully criticized there. Sure enough, you fuckers loved it. Pathetic.

Pregnancy Jam when?

>>121804996
>my post is in there
hnnng indeed

Fuck you fag anon.

>>121804996
say it to my face bitch nigger

>>121804996
> people like things I don't like
> fuck those guys they're stupid !!!!!!!!!

>>121804996
>i don't like cute girls
fuck off homo

>>121805049
When ur mum takes the pregnancy test after I fucked her mate

>>121804996
What a faggot. No wonder you use a Mac.

>>121805348
Why would *she* be pregnant if you fucked her mate?

Hopefully future dev here.
Are there any other good engines (3D) besides the ones OP mentioned. Hopefully someone can help.

>>121803907
>like ever played terraria? you have two slots for each equipment type so you can equip different items that your character uses and different items that your characters wears on the sprite
that's dumb
I'm going with this guy >>121804136

>>121805404
I can only recall Ogre, Hero and Irrlicht. Also, CryEngine, I guess.

>>121805404
Tesseract

>>121805404
The ones in the OP have lots of resources to help you learn them and for that reason are the best ones to start with, anon.

>>121805505

Ogre isn't an engine, it doesn't have physics.

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bye

>>121805661
there he goes

>>121805404
too cool for them eh? make your own faggot

>>121805686
>he
wow
WOW

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Do you guys use any time management software?
Hard mode:
for Mac/iOS

right now I'm using Toggl and it's annoying and shitty

>>121805801
For what purpose?

>>121805801
i've been looking for something too

*monitors topic*

>>121805854
Time management

>>121805854
to help me put in a good work day and optimize my time, with the ultimate goal being to avoid wasting time on bullshit (like I am right now)

>inb4 that one crazy guy spergs out and goes off on a tangent about self control

>>121805801
>>121805903
>>121805906
>>121805923
http://alternativeto.net/software/toggl/ try this

>>121805923
I use alarms

>>121805801
I use it at work to personally track what I do because the in-house software is total crap, still got to input the shit back into it once a week though.

Other than that, I don't have enough diligence for using it on my personal progress, I just forget to check in and out or drift into doing unrelated stuff

>>121805404
There's billions of good 3d engines. What are you looking for?

>>121805923
you should learn self control

>>121805923
Use tomighty. You can't expect yourself to work nonstop for hours at a time.

>>121805801
>>121805903
>>121805923
>>121805967
POMODORO
O
M
O
D
O
R
O

>>121805978
I basically just want to track my hours worked and the time it takes me to do various tasks, and I'd like to be able to easily organize it into workable data. Toggl has support for spreadsheet output so it pretty much does what I want--I guess I'm just looking for something less annoying. Their html is a little buggy and their choice of settings/workflow isn't really optimal IMO. Wish Apple just had one included with OSX like Reminders or something (which I use constantly)

>>121803793
It takes hour to get to work and another to get home so 12 hours goes to work and top of this im also homeless. What's your excuse for not having a game, when even i have one?

>>121805404
Whats literally wrong with you?
Seriously, I don't understand why but there are hundreds of people like you and it makes no sense. I want to know what goes through your head when you people ask that

> hey, i know all this engines are industry standards used by professionals for AAA games to absolute beginers. Thoroughly documented, recommended by every single person in the industry.
> But.. Do you have something more obscure?

Do you hate yourself? Are you unbelievably hipster? What is it? WHAT?

>>121805978
Being a dev you could probably easily make it input these values for you.

>>121805735
No, cause my friend cant run Unity for some reason on his pc, his pc isnt good enough for UE4, and he's checking out the others. Im looking for these just in case.
>>121805505
>>121805539
Thx
>>121805553
We would use Unity but it wont run on my friends pc for some reason, he might fix it tho.
>>121806043
Wanna make an Aoe2-type rts game, but with better graphics.

>>121806207
>I basically just want to track my hours worked and the time it takes me to do various tasks, and I'd like to be able to easily organize it into workable data.
Not to sound like a jerk, but why?

>>121806227
Or well "home". Can you call place with no walls a home?

>>121806236
read
>>121806246

>>121806207
I used to use rescuetime, it automatically tracks what you do so you can see all the time spent working on your game or just dicking on /v/, you just install the client.

It has a mac client
I stopped using it because I didn't want it to track my porn

>>121806246
If you don't have proper equipment you can kiss this project goodbye before its even started.

>>121806237
I could but I don't have the time to, also the in-house tracking system is a shitty and old visual basic application, not touching that shit with a pole

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happy birthday nodev foxman

>>121806246
if he cant run unity that thing must be from before the year 2000 so doom engine i guess?

>>121806246
Keep in mind that, in most cases, you're going to lose ease of use in exchange for performance on lower end machines.

Cube and all the engines that derive from it (light tesseract) are super lightweight, but it's probably going to be hard to make anything that isn't a FPS.
Irrlicht is another super optimized engine, I've made games with it and it's nice.

For a bit more user friendliness you can try Urho3D. I hear it's a bitch to setup on windows though.

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>>121806168
>>121806074
is there a completely free pomodoro app on osx/ios? I like Pomodoro One but it has these annoying as shit little ads

[triggered]

>>121806473
>>121806374
He's got GTX670 and AMD A8-5600K APU 3,60 GHz
I dont know why he cant run it, but its not because he cant handle it

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>>121801272
>~~~* RECAP MONDAY *~~~
>game: Heist Night
>dev: 1 month
>tools: Unity, Spriter, Krita
>website: http://straterastudio.com/
>progress: Basic multiplayer matchmaking, new demo animations, reworked shaders, fade timer for objects

>>121806615
>osx stuff
>expecting it to be free
got a bad news for ya bud

>>121806615
Make one yourself. Shouldn't take more than 10 minutes max.

>>121806246
to add to >>121806540

You can also take a look at The Pyrogenesis Engine. It's the one used to develop 0AD and it's gorgeous for a FOSS engine.

There's also FIFE, if you can be convinced to iso instead of go 3d, you can probably run it on a toaster

>>121806636
that should be enough
but then you have to wonder if he cant even figure out why unity wont work on his PC how will he program the game

>>121806615
I don't use ios, so I can't help ya there bruh

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On a scale of 1-10, how bad are singletons, honestly?

>>121806947
dumb dumbposter

Give me games ideas that will make lots of money

>>121806947
If you want to test stuff, then they are pretty terrible

If you don't want to test stuff, then they ok-ish

>>121806463
>imagine being an adult and telling people you make money and probabely masturbate to drawing of anthro animals
kek

Does a not-necessarily-unique-but-usually-only-one manager type class count as singleton?

>>121807128
Crazy game with a lot of controversy, like Hatred. Immigrant Killer or something. Fps where ya shoot immigrants.

>>121806947
they're good for managing state

"Are Women Real People?"
Would that get loads of downloads

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>>121807229
>manager
I've got some bad, bad news for you, friend.

>>121807371
I use singleton managers extensively and I've made more games than you ;)

>>121807250
are you swedish or german

>>121807549
No, but i give you a hint: i used to remove.

>>121807608
>implying serbs did anything lmao
if by remove kebab you mean make faggy music videos and get rekt then yes

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reminder that all engines are built entirely on a singleton

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Will anyone actually play a game that looks like this or should I just kill myself

please be thoughtful and honest with your reply

>>121808043
Zelda-like?
ARPG?

>>121808043
i would
20 years ago
if you payed me for it
with your body

>>121808043
Looks to small

>>121808043
only if you introduced bigger bosses with much more detail later ala titan souls

>>121808043
Personally I really like the colors, but I'd prefer the tiles and sprites to be 16x16, they can still be simple, but I just think it's too small as is.

>>121807747
We fucked shit up, then NATO came.

>>121808317
so youre like 16 maybe 17 right?

>>121808521
close, 18

>>121808101
arpg/hack'n'slash/dungeon crawler with procedurally-generated dungeons interspersed with static dungeons, kinda roguelike

my spells are higiher fidelity and involve particle effects etc
disgusting i know

>>121808973
*wink* *wink*
wanna hang out with an older fat slav?

Who needs their demo critiqued

>>121808995
Keep it simple through, is your gameplay fun?
What are you doing in your game to keep me playing compared to other games?
You got to sell me more anon.

>>121809086
not me

>>121809028
fuck no, you're fat.

>>121809192
>>>/ck/

>>121809086
you :)

>>121809192
first you need to prepare the fields to grown vegetables also you need to have meadows for your animals you cant just make food

>>121808043

If I were you, I'd slightly increase the color contrast between the characters/enemies and the environment. When it's a static screenshot, it takes half a second for my mind to see them pop from the background.

The environment looks fine. I might possibly increase the pixel density of the characters and enemies so you can add more detail, but it's fine as-is.

There's nothing wrong with anything there. Color contrast and increased pixel density (for the characters) are my only recommendations.

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>>121809192
just go to a local butcher or fresh market or something and buy a party plate like this

>>121806615

> Pomodoro app

I just use a free online timer, like the one that comes with my mobile. I don't understand why you'd need to automate that when it takes just a few seconds to go from "25 minutes" to "5 or 10 minutes." That degree of automation borders closer to procrastination than optimization.

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how hard is to make fappable waifu 3D?

>>121809628
about a year of practice with 3D modeling

>>121809097
it's multiplayer
did I mention particles?

are games supposed to be fun?

>>121809628
If you're attractive, find an attractive woman and bang her for a 50/50 chance of getting one in ~17 years

>>121809628

Honestly not that hard. Just have a good understanding of how shapes work in visual art, keep the shapes simple, understand how to use smooth shading, and have lots and lots of patience.

>>121809628
Define fappable. Your pic rel is certainly not.

>>121806636

No offense, but I really question how much progress you're going to make if you can't get a surface-level IDE like Unity to work. Despite all the complaints people shovel at it, Unity's highly portable.

I question how you're going to export your project to a playable state using something strangely obscure, instead of something that thousands of other teams are using.

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>>121808312
obviously it is scaled when you actually play it anon

Holy shit, before diving into multiplayer gamedev I never realised just how simple it is to "hack" a game and how much protection you actually need to hide the basic stuff.
Also, always had the idea that most of the hack prevention is code based, but it seems even actually big multiplayer games rely on reports and manual banning, based on the data collected.

This is fun.

>>121808043
I think it looks good. I'd just be careful about limiting yourself technically by imposing a restrictive grid size. If your game works well within those restrictions then I don't see anything wrong with the style cosmetically. I think I would try to darken the indoor areas so you can't see everything until you walk inside as that would hold more interest.

>>121810204
>This is fun.
You must have some sort of masochistic autist.
Come work for me once you git gud at it

>>121810254
working on a proper lighting system

>>121810204
Yes, it's as simple as never letting the client decide what to do with the data, client is just merely a representation of the data and input states, the server does everything else. If your mp game employes a different model then it's inherently shit.

>>121809628
If you're naturally artistically talented then you can learn to do it with some practice. If you have no artistic talent then you're going to struggle but may be able to pull it off if you study and practice religiously for 10 years.

>>121810080
I dont know for sure why it doesnt work, but we're going with UE 4 now.

>>121810201
You know that's not what I meant. I mean give it more detail.

>>121810027
I think if I had a game that was sufficiently complete to get translated, I'd probably get it translated into languages spoken by people with money as opposed to a language spoken by South-Americans and the Portuguese.

>>121810352
If your game is anymore computationally complex than something like SS13 this isn't affordable at all, although it is admittedly the only secure tactic.

>>121810204
Authoritative servers.
If you don't care about the server usage and costs, always go for authoritative servers. Clients should only be there for input, everything else should be handled by the server. Depending o nthe scope of the game, it's not practical to use it tho. But that's onyl for mmos (which you are doomed to fail if you even attempt). For arena shooters, coop games, hack and slash or whatever games that have a low amount of concurrent players running around, use authoritative servers and you will be golden. You will instantly prevent most of the common hacking attempts that can screw you over (memory based for example). After that, you can focus on implementing server protections to prevent injection.

>>121810678

BR vidya market is BIG

>>121810678
im just gonna use google translate

>>121810678
> If your game is anymore computationally complex than something like SS13 this isn't affordable at all, although it is admittedly the only secure tactic.

You could use it for shooters easy. Well obviously there will be a hit on the server and on your budget, but unless it's an mmo it's worth it. Otherwise hack prevention is a nuisance and you will spend a loooong time writing faulty protections that are prone to fail, where you can spend almost no time and get better results by throwing everything to server side calculations.

>>121810990

Google translate is inaccurate my friend

>>121810970
Big on piracy and F2P, maybe.

>>121810990
You know that will just end up shit.

>>121811184
i know but idc
first i need to finish my game anyway and since i will have to do the music myself since i cant afford musicians the poor translation is the least of my worries

2D isometric game or lowpoly 3D?

Which will work better with grim aesthetics?

>>121811214

Why do you think big companies like Blizzard, Ubisoft and EA always full localize they games these days?

>>121811358
nice darksouls-lite you got there famy

http://chobit.cc/bd18e/59i0x9p1?utm_campaign=embed&utm_source=dlsite&utm_medium=header&utm_content=video

>>121811419
Because mainstream games are mainstream and they've calculated that the cost gets covered by the profit. 2bad we ain't big companies. If you become large enough for people to care, then you consider it.

>>121811419
Because it's profitable for large games. For indie games, translations have a vastly smaller turnover for a cost that's still more or less the same on top of a hassle that's likely not worth it.

>>121811419
well fuck aerannis should have totally had his game translated to portuguese that would have helped

>>121811425
Actually, it's inspired by Command & Conquer.

Now that I think about it, are there any widespread techniques for converting 3D models into 2D sprites? I want to generate loads for the appearance of 360 degree motion.

>>121811732
you make the camera rotate around the model and render it as series of pngs

>>121811434
I'm not clicking on your virus

>>121811628
>>121811696

its profitable for BOTH small and big devs

the average Brazilian game just buys everything off steam cause our internet is shit
to torrent, and its far more convenient

there's 200 mi HUEHUE in Brazil right now, we are not in 90's anymore

>>121810201
i like it. the detail is fine to me, but because a flower or blade of grass can be the same fidelity as a character, you need to employ better handling of contrast and saturation. so shit like grass/flowers should blend in better, making important stuff like collision objects, enemies..etc "pop" more

this lack of detail gives you room for text like resident evil to describe things and imprint on players imagination. sound also can help.

>>121811696
Unless you have an extremely ridiculous amount of dialogue, translating isn't really that hard. There's plenty of people that would help translate for very cheap.

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i wanna make a platform game where levels are doodles and anyone can draw it. so red = hazard, black = ground, blue = water..etc

i can grab pixel color easily, so blue is just any color within an RGB bounds that resembles blue.

how can i get character collisions? i have an idea that checks each pixel on the outline of a player box, like 32x32 but will that be crazy on performance? im using unity, dunno how expensive get pixel is

>>121812038
>the average Brazilian game just buys everything off steam cause our internet is shit
>to torrent
That doesn't make any sense at all because you have to initially download the game in the first place anyway, no matter the source.

>>121812038
Because it makes your code less comprehensible and barely saves any space to begin with. It's a holdover from the K&R days when being ridiculously terse was the norm, readability be damned.

Declaring a bunch of vars of the same type with commas is fine, though.

spic here.

I have friends who buy stuff and import it from japan.

if you seriously think spanish or portuguese isn't huge markets, you're delude.

Spanish is like 500 million speakers.
there's enough in that to make some sells.

>>121812290
approximate the generated shapes with lines and check collision with those

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>>121812337
yeah but imagine the smell
>>121812048
was thinking about going with Mad God-style shaders

y/n?

>>121812598
>implying i dont want to smell that
they probably dont even wipe themselves after taking a shit

>>121812598
Those shaders should look good.
holy shit those rixels and mixels

>>121811434
I don't speak Chinese, what's this meant to be?

>>121812218
Even if my game didn't have ridiculous amounts of text I probably still wouldn't have it translated in all too many languages simply because of the hassle that arranging such a translation would be and how little it would ultimately benefit me.

>>121812571
I'm sure they're large markets but not large enough to justify translating a game that probably won't even break ten thousand sales into it.

>>121812697
if they were clean I totally would
but not wiping after a shit is disgusting

So what exactly is wrong with the singleton pattern?

Why is it bad if you only ever need one instance of something?

>>121812753
i know but i was hoping that asshole monster island dev would provide demo so i went nofap and now everything turns me on

>>121804996
We have /vg/ crossposters browsing agdg, they don't make game but yeah the thirst is real.

>>121812598
dude no
fucking christ man, why are you still worrying about this? Your style is fine already, it could use some improvement but you don't need to add shitty shaders. I personally think you could do with making sprites and tiles larger, but I'd perfer your current style over realm of the mad god.

>>121812773
Why do you take programming advice from a dog

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>>121812710
what's a rixel? rotated pixel?

also I know that the indicator near the top is higher res than the rest but is that the only mixel you're talking about?

is it okay to use off-grid sprites and tiles? like those little shrubs/mushrooms are pretty much randomly placed, is that considered okay (does it look good)?

I'm gonna avoid rixels/mixels but I don't think I can avoid using off-grid details on the upper z layers with such low fidelity graphics
The reason I'm using low fidelity graphics:
1) I'm a shit artist and I want to invest more time in my game engine
2) it looks nice when done right in my humble opinion to be quite honest dear family (pic related)

>>121812598
n

>>121812737
unless you'll make your game 60USD most spics could be able to buy it.

>not large enough
>the third most spoken language is not large enough
is bigger than meme languages like germany or french.

Let's be honest, to cover 95% of humans, you'll only need to hire like 10 translations.

>>121812290
pixel perfect collision are a pain, but here's the "right" algorithm for implementing them
when you load a sprite, generate a pixel bitmap: collidable pixels are 1, uncollidable pixels are 0
then do normal AABB collisions between objects: if two AABBs overlap then AND their two bitmaps together, and if you get any non-zero pixels then they are colliding
it's more expensive than normal AABBs obviously but not prohibitively so, especially if you can use SIMD instructions to do the bitmap intersection

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>>121812848
>so i went nofap and now everything turns me on
me too

it's actually quite nice

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>>121801272
game: Welcome to Hell
dev: anon
tools: C++ and SDL
website: none yet
progress:
+added some new curses
+saving and loading now works
+options save to an .ini file so you don't have to change them every time you turn the game on

>>121813175
more like welcome to whoville amirite fellas?

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Hey kid, you wanna make an engine?

>>121812943
Dude you're 3 years too late for that, nowadays people shit on graphics like that, just look at the new releases on steam.
If it's a free game you might get some underage shitters to play but other than that I would try to get better at art or find an artist because you're putting yourself at a huge disadvantage in an overcrowded market.

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>>121801272
game: pending
dev: White
tools: Unity
website: whitepirateskull.tumblr.com
progress:
-Added Idle animation
-You can chain swings pressing the attack button repeatedly (still needs a bit of work)
-Tweaked around her aura/after-image/we a little

>>121813225
He's been posting here for a while. Stop blaming him for your own shitposting and missing progress.

>>121813317
more like ive been posting here for a while amirite

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>>121812943
They can look ok when done right but if you look at the image you can see what I mean.

The red block is one pixel scale. The bush then has a smaller pixel outline which doesn't really make sense and is a cop out of the artist to add definition.

Then the background is rotated at an odd angle which looks awful.

There's nothing wrong with placing things off grid. Too many uniform items can make a game look too artificial.

>>121813317
Don't reply to mentally ill anime shitposters please

>>121813440
why are you talking to yourself danny

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>>121813287
I'm not trying to get rich, man... I just want to make a good/fun game. I know pixel art is overdone nowadays and I know that low-fi is even tougher to pull off but I want to spend more time making my game and less time jerking off about art. As long as it's fun and looks good on a resume when I apply to a boring dev job I will be happy. I am a simple man with simple desires. Is pic related really not good enough for what I just described?

have a heart

>mfw croteam is hiring programmers
>"interns welcome as well"
i wanna do it but im scared. What is it like working in a serious gamedev company? pun intended

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>>121801272
game: Spacecraft
dev: J3X
tools: Unity 3D
website: http://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-5/rate/25702
progress:
+ Released Demo Day single player demo
+ Added loading screen
+ More readable cards names.
+ Added analytics on ship componets used.
+ Fixed bug with line renderers and object pools causing visual glitches.
+ Fix bug in tutorial where moving a component does not trigger next tutorial state.

>>121813421
thanks for clarifying. How can I add definition without having a solid black line like they have there? I know I can use contrast and stuff (I can post-process this quite easily with any layer I want) but I really like how they pop in that pic. Can I simply use the same sort of shader (slight gradient/shadow) without the black line, or do you think that'll look like shit, too?

>>121813619
do you like sucking dick? but instead of sucking dick you will do menial boring tasks and will have zero input on anything even if you work there for years

>>121813558
If you think ROTMG looks better than this: >>121808043
You've got fucking problems.
Stop worrying about it, you've already got your answer. MAKE THE FUCKING GAME. If anything you should be worried about the fact that you're making an engine.

>>121813619
Go for it. Its hard fucking work, and you better be prepared to:
A) be everyones bitch
B) have good hygiene/presentation
C) work your ass off, go above what is expected of you
D) stick to very difficult deadlines and work under a lot of pressure

>>121813225
Are you saying that because the player's sprite is really small? I tried making it bigger but it just felt weird.

>>121813720
cmon now man, no bully. I'm not really making an engine per se, just making the game using a nice, modular codebase for myself that I can adapt to future projects if necessary
an engine

>>121813558
I'm sorry but that's the reality of the market, I would go for it but not if it would take me more than 6 months to make because you shouldn't expect people to play it in this day and age.
Rotmg was a web-game initially iirc so I hope you're making it available on browsers, a desktop game like in 2015 this would bomb hard.

>>121813801
no
its just derived from "whodev"
its a term used for people that only show up for recap or demoday

>>121813692
Is this your game? >>121808043

If so, it already looks perfectly fine.

Check this out for ideas about adding definition.
>http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/

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>>121813558
too late look at games like that that are released today: http://store.steampowered.com/app/386160
you missed the boat better luck next time, there is still hope for 3d low poly if you cant into art but you better hurry up

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how do I get the angle variable?

>>121814157
thats your input
also youre just pretending to be retarded right?

If you could get any artist to do your art, who would it be?
I'd get Dowman Sayman

>>121814157
jesus fuck stop shitting up agdg and dpt with your stupid basic math, get back to primary school, or learn to use search engines because these things are covered throughoutly

>>121814146
That trailer could've been 10x better if better music and sounds were used

>>121814146
>kinda lame art (not all pixel art is equal)
reviews:
>no weapon choice
>bad controls
>no depth
>too short
>incomplete
>hurr it's da art's fault
also this >>121814343
just some shitter trolling as usual

>>121814245
what do you mean by input?
isn't the size of the circle just radius?

>>121814306
God forbid we discuss and help noobs.
Let's go back to talking about tripfag drama.

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>>121813912
>http://ianstormtaylor.com/design-tip-never-use-black/

>>121814460
with better art people would play it despite the flaws and bugs, with more people playing it the dev would go and fix everything

totalbiscuit talks about it somewhere in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPe-KewvwQ

sorry but generic baby's first pixelshit makes people click next

>>121814508
xD epic

>>121814508
around blacks never relax

>>121814631
>expecting me to listen to this asshat for 15 minutes just to find something you claim exists in the vid
no thanks

sorry but you're a retard and/or nodev tbhsmhfam

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>>121812918
I-I was only pretending

>>121814508
kek

>>121814631
wheres his game?

>>121814721
well you seem quite hysterical, i don't think you're a gamedev but stay deluded i'm sure you're 10min in mspaint pixel art nogame will be successful

>>121814157
It's just the rotation of the object. So an arrow pointing right has an angle of 0 degrees, and an arrow pointing left has an angle of 180 degrees.

>>121814941
I'm sure your life spent making silly posts on 4chan will be successful too comrade

>>121813912
>discoloured washed out >>>/trash/

natural images need to hit true blacks to look good
ESPECIALLY on LCD displays that suck at blacks to begin with, you're making everything light grey

>>121815027
So, it's just the initial orientation?
thanks bro.

Did anyone do any streams or video reviews? Did the tiers get published?

>>121815323
> Submissions due in 14 hours

c o o l y o u r b r a k e s k i d

>>121812918
Am I just supposed to listen to cute anime girls?

>>121815452
fuck off dog kid

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>>121815452
submitting late is the same as not submitting at all

So i've been trying to code in gamemaker a way that, in a 2D sidescroller, when you touch an enemy you get knocked back. This is what I have

switch (state)
{
case e_state.normal:
{
if distance_to_object(obj_courage) = 0 state = e_state.hurt;
}
break;
case e_state.hurt:
{
if alarm[0] = -1 alarm[0] = 15
if obj_player.x < obj_courage.x direction = 170 speed = 7;
if obj_player.x > obj_courage.x direction = 10 speed = 7;
}
break;
}


But the whole direction and speed thing doesnt cut it. What should I do to make the character get knocked back like megaman would?

>>121815961
I-I'm adding a last minute options menu
pls don't go on without me sempai

>>121815556
>dog kid
?

>>121815961
but... you CAN'T submit late
once the deadline has passed, submissions are closed

>>121815556
wat?

>>121816234
>but... you CAN'T submit late
>once the deadline has passed, submissions are closed
late = after the first 12h

>>121816029
Just use the collision events

>play the blizzard hots game
>pay attention to animations
>they often collide and clip into each other in places
how come large AAA companies don't give a shit about stuff like that?

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What do you guys think of this character design?
I got a lot of help from /fa/, pretty awesome board desu.

>>121816525
What game

>>121816475
They also don't care that their pathing/reconnecting/servers are all poo

>>121816525
i don't see any gameplay

>>121816525
proportions are kinda weird but I like the rest of it
good thing you got the not-retarded /fa/ to help you out or they'd be wearing raincoat shoes and metal hats

>>121816475
because their players also don't give a shit

>>121816823
I don't see your game nodev.

>>121816029
does game maker code actually look like that?
C# / Java would not resolve that syntax at all.

>if obj_player.x < obj_courage.x direction = 170 speed = 7;
if (obj_player.x < obj)courage.x){
direction = 170;
speed = 7;
}

direction and speed of what by the way? obj_player.direction? are direction and speed variables that are defined somewhere else? are they a ref that this method is outing? do you go on to apply some kind of movement impulse after this switch?

>>121816525
Looks like something a woman would draw.
It doesn't appeal to me, but it's alright.

>>121816525
>listening to /fa/

would you listen to /v/ for advice on video games?

>>121816525
Good stuff. Go for it.

>>121816525
are all these faces meant to look male? they look male.

dunno why, not /a/ or artist, just sayin

>>121816880
this isn't art critique general smfh

>>121816525
>I got a lot of help from /fa/
It shows, but not in a good way. They all look incredibly mismatched, like they were dressed by their 5 year old sons.
Left is the most consistent but you need to fix the god damned pants+shoes, they look terrible together.

>>121816525
>Asking nodevs and programmers for art and fashion advice

>>121817129
this isn't nodev critique general, kill yourself back to /g/ nerdo

>>121816475
budget. ie: time/money/manpower/skill

every game is 10,000 problems, you solve what matters. the better you are at gamedev the more you see these problems, which is why pros think their work is always lacking

its also why plebs on agdg worry about 1 animation before they worry about pacing or teaching the player the mechanics. you mind a mind of steel to be able to focus on what matters, not the small flaws that bug you

>>121816921
Direction and speed are defined elsewhere, direction is in degrees and speed is in pixels per frame. Using them in relation to the player object.
What the code basically does now is launch the player object at an angle 10 degrees off the ground (in whichever direction is opposite the enemy) at a speed of 7 pixels per frame for 15 frames (when the alarm triggers and resets the state to normal, momentum suddenly stops and the player drops to the ground) and I was looking for a more elegant solution

>>121816576
>>121816823
Video game concept I'm working on, I'm mainly an artist so this is where I have to start.

>>121816846
>>121817008
I got zero shitposting in my thread, I was really surprised to find a board that was very serious about its craft.

>>121816924
Thanks, I've got all kinds of different ideas for the gameplay and genre so I'm hoping I can make it interesting in a mechanical level.

>>121817028
Thank you

>>121817102
I get that a lot, I guess it's part of muh style

>>121817249
>>121817282
They're not the definitive designs so I still have to revise them several times before deciding on a final look but it's mostly about the general consensus on their looks, so I'm just trying to get as many people's opinions as I can before making any changes.

>>121816525
i dont like it because i cant tell their personality from their design

put down the fashion magazines and study pixar instead

>>121817552
So if they're in state normal, set them to hurt, then do nothing. If they're hurt, send them flying.

Doesn't that resolve the exact same way as if you didn't have a check to see what state they were in in the first place? Shouldn't state.hurt be the do nothing case? Damage boosting? Invul frames? The other way makes the state check meaningless, or rather, ensures that if they clip the enemy for only one frame that they turn "hurt" but don't get launched.

>>121817630
What is going to be the genre?

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How do I make shit work baka senpai!!

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>>121817249
>>121817630
In addition, there's no unifying theme in any of their colours or clothes. I know I'm repeating myself here but it does look like a wannabe Street Fashionita's closet exploded and those 3 were caught in ground zero. Again: not in the good way (pic related).

Character designs are not about representing the trendiest modern articles of clothing, they're about showing theme and personality. Think of your character's nature and story, how it would affect their choice of dress, and see if you can represent it in a way that is not only apt, but visually striking, recognizable, and concise as well.

Dear /agdg/,
please keep your retards contained here.

Yours,
/dpt/

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Why does everyone have to be so hard? I just want to make game

>>121818694
b-but muh safe space where I don't have to be constantly reminded that I suck at programming

Dear /dpt/,
please keep your retards contained here.

Yours,
/programming/

>>121818720
>everyone so hard

Making porn games isn't easy.

>>121818694
I use Haskell, I'm cool right?

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>>121818694
/dpt/ contains more retards in 10 posts than /agdg/ attracts all day

When /agdg/ makes a jam for winter ill join.
i promise i won't be a consumer kek and be a creator.

>>121818848
Yes

>>121818904
Where's your game

>>121817642
I'm not gonna hide that I get a lot of inspiration from animoo, which has a lot of the personality signifies on the actual character design, so that's what I'm going for.

>>121818059
I haven't settled down on a genre just yet, I want to see what I could actually accomplish without being overly ambitious.

>>121818139
Thanks anon, you make a lot of good points. I don't have much of the story down just a basic idea of their back stories and the current setting and conflict. I think once I have those down I'll be able to revise them and give them a more "true-to-self" design.
I just needed a visual representation of what the characters would look like to be able to visualize them within the setting of the story.

>>121818694
you keep your language designing spergs who dont have a game in your general

>>121819076
but where's your game?

My cup runneth over with game

my game is better than your game tbqhwy fammo

Did anyone play proxy hack?

Fuck this I'm going to watch Northernlion play Fallout 4

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>>121818848
Someday I will understand lenses and kan extensions

>>121816525
the one on right is a transvestite during hormone therapy wud fugg
all those "designs" will translate very poorly to 3D

>>121819003
I meant December.
Well I'm new to this general.
but i made some scraps of games in unity which is 5%-10% complete and haven't touched them for a long time.
I'm still thinking for a game concept.
Main language is c# cause java is slow.

>>121819680
Start now you fucking nodev

>>121819076
Don't bully

>>121819418
Thanks anon, all I want is to make attractive characters.
>all those "designs" will translate very poorly to 3D
Sadly, I'm aware of that... I'm thinking if there could be any good alternatives like 2D images moving in a 3D plane.

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Damn i really hoped to make the demo day this time, but nope not even close.. hopefully next time then.. uh..

I added the ability to quick shoot the bow while on the move. Normally the player cannot move when shooting the bow. This allows the player to quickly draw and shoot at any time, however he only draws the bow back by about 50% which makes the arrow travel slower and cause less damage and it is also much less precise aiming wise. However it is great when you need to hit slow/big targets on a run.

>>121819680
So you just want to dev so anon can't call you mean words like "consumer kuck"?

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>>121819853
You do know that all people in the world aren't born with fast internet connections.

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game: Project Dungeon
dev: Jack Wabba
tools: UE4
website: http://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-5/rate/42547
progress:
+MainMenu
+Pause Menu
+HUD with Currency and control scheme
+Different control schemes for the HUD

reposting because nodemo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zf8oyJXBVo

start now so you can give up faster