agdg - amateur game devsneig general

Why don't you have a real job, anon? Do you really expect to strike it rich making derivative pixel platformers?

Last thread recap: Gamedev in a van, is it possible or an autistic pipe dream?!

>>122430569
Literally all you need is a solar panel and a cheapass laptop, sounds easy to me.

Where's your vulkan

>>122430361
cute snek anon

>>122432834
hssss

>>122432386
>cheapass laptop
never again

>>122433037
i only say that because solar panels really don't give that much power, and a dinky laptop is probably the only thing you'll be able to run

>>122432386
>devving on a literal potato
sourcefam detected ahahahahaha
just because you can dev on your mom's compaq laptop doesnt mean you should
some of us have self respect
give up now
or maybe just post another 1024px screenshot for us to laugh at

ahahahahahahahahahahaha
lol

Living in a van and spending all your time on a dinky laptop trying to make a game would be such a sad life to live.
I'm so thankful my parents are cool with my living with them still, I can make some money without needing to work full time and I can still dev on my off days.

>>122433763
It sounds sad, but I don't really think it would be.
What are you going to do when your parents kick you out?

living in a van doesn't seem practical

how would one pay for gas and food? how to deal with no having access to a shower, toilet, or internet?

Also no mailing address can make like difficult. Sure you could have a PO box, but that also means you need to stay near that box to check it from time to time.

>>122432420
Soon hopefully pls ;_;

>>122434178
Maybe it's my minor claustrophobia. I wouldn't want to stay in that van for long periods of time.
Honestly I don't think my parents would kick me out. My family is all fairly close. And when I do leave I'd just get a small apartment and find a roommate or gf to help with rent

>>122434509
there certainly must be places where you can pay to shower. like a gym. for toilet there are public ones and also going somewhere where you pay for, like a gym or something similar. internet you can have wifi its 2015 bro. and the po box you can just do what you said and go there periodically to check it.

its possible but yea its not practical. i wouldnt want to do it

>>122434761
just drive it out into the wilderness and chill under the stars
camp out for the rest o f your days, living off the land
build yourself a devcabin while you sleep in your van

>>122434509
>internet
I've been thinking of shutting off my interenet, it's just too much of a distraction.

As far as mail goes, do you really get anything good in the mail anyways?
Being homeless doesn't mean you can't have a job. You can use that to support you. Even a minimum wage job could probably keep you going permanently.

For laundry, dry cleaners

>>122435145
>do you really get anything good in the mail anyways?
my girlfriend sends me letters

>>122435279
>having a girlfriend
>getting real life letters

fucking NORMI

>>122435279
why not emails? Are you a soldier or something

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>ue4 devs

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i guess it's time to stop lurking

today i started replacing placeholders

i think i'll keep the cave story oc though

>>122435850
Man you don't even want to know what happened to the last guy that """borrowed""" cave story assets.

>>122436690
Arikado's still one of the coolest devs here.

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>people actually advising eachother to live in vans because of shitty aggy daggy memes

also for the record, when I was having a bad time with life, I ran the numbers for van living vs getting an apartment. the van is a worse option by far for living on the cheap

if your parents are tired of your neet ways and are kicking you out, just join the military. they even give you an internet connection and you can shitpost all you want from the comfort of a barracks

>>122435850
skin is really close color to the background

>>122437116
>I ran the numbers for van living vs getting an apartment. the van is a worse option by far for living on the cheap
I'd like to see those numbers because that's bullshit.

>>122437116
>joining the military while we're on the cusp of WW3

>>122437116
I went to a military boarding school for a few years, and it thoroughly convinced me that the military life is not one that I'd ever like to endure.

>>122437705
There are posters like him all the time. they just want to get rid of their "competition". it really is disgusting

>>122437901
What didn't you like about it? I've always thought of joining.

>>122437269
start-up costs are in the thousands because of all the shit you have to buy, and if you don't already have a van, that's several Gs right there

insurance and gas cost a few hundred each month, more if you have to run the AC/heater a lot. add on gym membership memes and a bit of extra for maintenance and it gets to be a fair amount

there's also difficulties associated with van living that don't have a dollar value but still manage to be prohibitive, like cooking safely, bathing regularly, not being chased away by cops/security and angry homeowners, etc.

meanwhile, my first lease was a cool 250/mo, utilities included. it also came with a fridge and oven

Trying to pick up C# so I can script in Unity. Looking at the tutorials Unity puts up, and some I've seen on Youtube, the default/go-to environment seems to be Monodevelop but mine defaults to Microsoft Visual Studio. Monodevelop seems more handy because there are shortcuts in the Unity tutorials for looking through documentation within Monodevelop. Is there a default I need to change within Unity, or do I need to download Monodevelop and set is as a default for C# or what?

>>122439640
you should move into a van

>>122439376
>$250/mo
Where do you live? The absolute cheapest place I can find here is $800+

>>122439376
When you're done with whatever you lived in you can resell it to return what you spent. You are also forgetting that living in an apartment, you "usually" have to have a vehicle to drive to work. Therefore, you aren't saving on gas or insurance. Also a pool membership for showers is really cheap. You can buy a camp stove for pretty low as well.

Plus the best bonus is you can travel whenever you want and don't have to deal with slumlords charging you double what places are worth.

>>122439376
in the city I live in the only way to get rent cheaper than 1500 a month is to room with multiple people. Most non-shitholes are 2100+ a month for a studio. My mortgage and HOA combined is less than if I were renting a comparable structure.

As for vans, it really depends how nice a vehicles you want, but any vehicle you buy is going to need modification to be comfortable to live in, and even a very large van will really only be big enough for a bed and some storage. Most of your devving will have to actually take place outside the van.

Now if you could buy an old bus on the other hand...

>>122439376
in aus 250 a week for a shithouse in a shit suburb is cheap. thats 1g a month. and a nissan vannette can be had for 500 bucks. why the fuck would u get a gym membership.

no insurance beyond a car rego. and u dont fucking run ac or heating u eat food and rug up unless its below negative 10. i used to live negative 3 no heating all winter. and 38 to 42 in summer no ac. thats in celcius too. its not uncomfortable so long as u got a breeze spray water and dont wear much and stay in the shade.

>>122439640
honestly, this >>122439727

With the amount of time/dedication it takes, you're going to to want to be doing it full time. Unless, you know, you want to take five years to catch up

>>122440016
>why the fuck would u get a gym membership.
for showering and staying fit. but, aussis don't need to worry about because they never shower

van meme

>>122439775
>>122440001
I live in a big city. I had roommates though to pay that little.
If you're only finding $1500+ apartments with 10 roommates sharing the lease, maybe you're bad at looking?? have you tried craigslist

>>122439936
>I don't understand how auto sales work
very few people want that sort of van with the kinds of modifications you'll have done to it, and it will have depreciated in value a lot just for the van itself, you ruining it aside

alternatively, if living in a van is so nice and so cheap, why aren't you guys already shitposting from an E250?

>>122438190
I had very few freedoms, I had to answer to complete idiots simply because they had higher rank, a few "bad apples" in the platoon always ruined it for everyone (often enjoying it), and contact with my family and the outside world was close to nonexistent. The whole experience was just extremely taxing psychologically.

>>122439775
>>122439936
>>122440001
>>122440016
That's the Source shitposter, anything he says is only part true or is completely out of perspective because he purposefully leaves out a lot of context. Like that $250 is probably his contribution and he had multiple other people contributing more to the rent.

If you see someone mentioning joining the military, shitposting and gym memberships it's better not to reply.

>>122440482
not ten roommates needed, just 2 or 3 for a 1-2 bedroom. And yes I've looked.

I know of some people got a place for less, but their building was literally across the street from a homeless encampment.

>>122440634
yeah I got baited... no more posting for me tonight only dev

>>122440369
/agdg/ gets dumber every day, I sware on me mums tit

>>122440243
nah m8 i have to shower everyday coz u get sweaty but gym membership is too expensive for showering. instead use a camp shower. they use sunlight to make the water hot

>>122440634
>If you see someone mentioning joining the military, shitposting and gym memberships it's better not to reply.
lol

>>122439727
>>122440056
Uh, thanks

>>122440719
>3 people for a 1-2 bedroom
what

what happened to this general

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>>122440634
>it's now trolling to say "don't live in a van; car ownership is more expensive than it seems it is perfectly viable to have an apartment like a normal person"
holy fuck, these threads

fine. whatever. move into a renault hatchback. it's literally the only way to make a game

>>122440954
indie apocalypse. basically, agdg is going homeless

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The cloversdev steam was super helpful for me. It made obvious a lot of ways to improve the game. I liked that he thought it was weird and was a little intrigued by it. Many updates are on the way. Also, some bros in the steam chat suggested increasing the screen size, which makes it play a lot better. Feels less cramped.

>>122440954
Shitposters refusing to acknowledge the glory of van life, instead, choosing a life of wage slavery and decade-old renderers.

The only outdated engine in anyone's life should be the boxer unit installed in their modified Subaru Outback.

>>122441031
home is where your laptop is

>>122441150
what the fuck is a boxer unit

>>122441112
oops, link:

preece.itch.io/Frauki

>>122441150
I can literally see the wage kek's games slipping into the void

>>122441112
>>122441272
love the combat

>>122441112
Did you change the retarded energy/stamina system? I could write an entire essay on why it was godawful.

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>>122441284
this youll never just like make game if youre a wage kek slave or dependent on parents for an address for your neetbux

just act like a schizo and bang you're head on the floor to engage easymore they have to commit you and so you can live like a neet with full room and board

>>122430361
Oh boy a snake pedo thread.

>>122441574
haha no not yet, but im going to. ive experimented with a bunch of systems, most are retarded but im getting closer to something good.

im thinking, the health will be split out as its own thing. then the energy will increase / decrease as you play

>>122440482
>I don't understand how auto sales work
>implying you won't lose more money by lining your landlord's pocket

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>>122441679
>wage slave jealous
Don't stay up too late there Mr. Cuk, it's monday in the morning and you don't wanna be late for work! hahahahahahaha

how easy is it to fake disability?

>living in a van
I don't know if you guys are trolling or not, but this is actually the answer to a lot of my problems. I think I'm actually going to do this...

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>>122441747
This; The cheapest apartment I've ever seen was 4k a month. It would have been 1k each with one roommate per bedroom.

A van is how much, like 300 dollars? maybe an extra 20 for all the camping stuff to sleep comfy if you get it at WalMart? After that, you don't have to pay for anything ever again. Not even internet.

Enjoy lining your local slumlord's pockets, wagekeks! I'll be enjoying the great outdoors and unlimited freedom to dev my dream games.

>>122442083
>A van is how much, like 300 dollars?
What the hell kind of van are you buying for 300 dollars

>>122442028
Given how fucked up the housing situation is in some places, it's a pretty ligitimate choice (although not socially acceptable).

You can get so much further in life if you stop worrying about how other people MIGHT percieve you.

Seriously you have people living in silicon valley and whatnot barely getting by because of how much the rent vampires are draining them. Anywhere else and they'd be goddamn rich.

>>122441862
Just wear a My Little Pony shirt to a psych evaluation and you're golden. Guaranteed neetbux if you live in a western country.

Video games

>>122441862
its not hard at all. you just fill in a form

>>122442235
vans are cheaper than apartments
you absolutely cannot dispute this
fuck off

Guys, I'm just going to make a very wild suggestion here but..
How about posting progress instead of shitposting?

>>122442235
You can get cars for really fucking cheap if you don't care that they're an old death trap. If you're just using it as a box to live in, it matters less how shitty it is.

>>122442304
I would but I don't have any progress. I'm currently scrolling through twitter gamedev tags looking for art styles to rip off.

>>122442284
we can't make video games until we financially secure. funding is part of vid dev

>>122441737
Actually the retarded system I was referring to was from back when your health dictated your max stamina. I just tried the demo and it seems like you changed it.

Now the game is playable. I like it.

>>122442243
>not socially acceptable
my parents would probably not like it. but they're the only people i really know

>>122442529
Thanks :> I still think it can be better. I'll keep experimenting.

>>122442304
Actually, you're the one shitting up this thread by trying to dissuade Yesdevs from living comfortably and cheaply. All you want is to eliminate your competition by sending them to their deaths or robbing them of dev time by making them wage slaves. Stop posting.

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>>122442304
i only have art progress

>>122442691
That looks alright.

>>122442691
how do you define the paths of where the characters can go and can't go and how does the camera follow them?

>>122442379
This. All it needs is a roof, a comfy seat, and enough space to use a laptop. You don't even need a whole van; any cheap coupe would work.

>>122442379
If you're not good with cars, don't buy a cheap piece of shit. You'll spend more keeping it on the road than you would if you just bought something less shitty.

>>122442691
>dropping the game with the qt pirate for this shitty fish throwing game

>>122442690
He probably lives in a van already and is sweating bullets now that we know his secret dev power

>>122442691
what would this look like in Ue4?

>>122442807
>trying to dissuade people from a perfectly viable way of life because he is a jealous nodev
Stop posting.

>>122442774
colliders to block off areas and the camera just lerps to the character's position plus an offset

>>122442814
sorry ;_; that wasn't really a game though but i guess neither is this

>>122442992
i would make it to look exactly the same

>>122443130
>sorry ;_; that wasn't really a game though
Not him but at least keep the qt pirate.

>>122442807
Well, I was more of thinking you just perma-park it somewhere where people won't give you shit, and then perhaps having another car even (!) or taking the bus from there.

I mean I completely don't have to deal with that shit since I own a condominium already, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are huge holes in my thinking.

y/n on attacks that hit all enemies on the screen?

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>this thread
Why does everyone have to hate on lifestyles that enable NEETs? We didn't do anything wrong.

>>122443476
Depends heavily on your game, really. Everything like that should generally have a tradeoff or limitation, though.

If you can attack everything on screen always, and then there are normal attacks that do about the same damage, you'd just always do the attack-everything attack...

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>>122442304
I've never dev'd anything before in my life, but I've wanted to try for a while now. So on friday I tried gamemaker and I am currently doing tutorials. I am going to attempt my first original 'game' more just to practice the basics and am making sprites for the first time.
It will be about an ant who has a jellybean and other ants are trying to get it so he fights them off with his sword.
I may have to scale him up or it will literally be a game for ants.

>>122443726
nah itd be on a reasonable cooldown

Sometimes I think how much I could actually achieve in my life, and it makes me sad because I'll never put in the work to achieve any of it
I'm a lazy sack of shit, and I don't know why

>>122443528
This place is toxic with tallest poppy syndrome nodevs and crabs in the bucket shitposters that are afraid to let us unlock our true dev potential.

>>122443330
I don't know, i find that style a lot more time consuming to do, and it's hard to do male characters because the head proportions are so weird
maybe i haven't tried hard enough

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>>122442304
new text desu senpai

>>122443850
You jerk off too much and sleep in too late.
Try working out and cut back watching porn.

cooldowns or stamina/mana for spell casting?

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>>122443952
i was going to post this too

>>122443952
Oh you're working on the arts? Nevermind then, your game, your artstyle. Thought you were just using placeholders for the time being.

>>122444089
consumable mana

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Any tips on how to make my guy's shimmy look less robotic?

Camera is going to follow him during game.

>>122443467
This.
>park somewhere free like a school parking lot or under the highway
>live for free out of your van indefinitely

>>122443928
It's literally all just the Source poster. He's the source of all our problems.

>>122443747
My hot tip is; don't use actual black and actual white.

>>122444169
>Oh you're working on the arts?
I plan to keep the style they have right now, they are modular and very easy to create variety with, the only thing I was going to add is helmets and possibly different body types for amazons/orcs/etc

>>122444102
Even bald she's still really cute.

>>122444218
always match the speed of the steps to the speed of walking. see how he looks like he is sliding on the ground?

>>122444102
>I can't be doing with this

>>122444218
his knees aren't bending, that's why he seems robotic

>>122444218
It's strange that his legs never cross over, or at least move over/under each other slightly more.

>>122444089
Both but make them feel impactful

>>122444867
they both serve the same purpose it makes no sense from a balancing perspective to have both

i'm gay

>>122445243
post your game so we know who you are

>>122444089
the stamina/mana is often more interesting, because it involves making a choice. how should i use this limited amount of resource? wheras cooldown just means, is it ready yet?

>>122444472
>>122444810
>>122444832
>Source Shitposter shitting out his first year full sail university "Design Advice" yet again
Stop posting.

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>>122445402
nice bait

>>122443850
Try moving out of home, into a van

It worked for the rest of us

>>122444089
What system are you going for?
If its a simple game, a cooldown is good enough.
If there are long charging times, a cooldown is good enough.

If it's more action oriented, have both.
A cooldown to prevent the user from spamming the same spell over and over.
And stamina to limit how many times the user can cast spells one after another before burning out.

>>122445674
im not going to use both since they are the same. if i want to prevent repeated casts ill just say repeated casts it cost double the previous cast's amount of mana for instance. and yea its more action oriented

>>122444042
My initial response to you was an angry shitpost and to mentally validate my actions

Fuck, being the most productive and universally-benefitial (You) possible is the hardest problem ever
I'd wadger if thought were to exist in uncountably infinite forms, no single entity would ever achieve optimality as it would require every other entity to also be optimal
It seems like one of the few states that would cause the universe to throw an exception

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>>122444357
Thank you for the tip. In that case, I will make him a fire ant

>>122442691
cute!

>>122445873
Makes sense, use stamina/mana then. Cooldowns are a pain to deal with in action oriented games. Being forced to wait kills rhythm.

>>122446047
thanks!

>>122442304
get in the van.

Any better places to look for rigged models or animsets for use in UE4 than those in the OP?
There's a few things on Turbosquid but not sure where else to look..

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>>122446498
One day slow is gonna make the best chicken this world has ever seen
You'll see, nodev
You'll all see

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>>122445946
Cool.
Also read this, even if it's just the part about shifting the hue and brightness. I think you'll get a lot out of it.

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10,000 Slavs?

>>122447180
Saw screenshot, thought it was sim loli.

>>122447180
10,000 slaves, or 10,000 slavs? Because I'd love to have 10,000 slaves, but the only time I'd want to see 10,000 slavs is in a casualty report.

>>122447180
>pandering to /pol/

It'll either be a gigantic failure like Aerannis or a goldmine.

>>122447117
Ah, thank you for the image, anon, it is very helpful. I have made the ant swing his sword but now I must go to bed. Hopefully I may make the ant defend his jellybean from other ants tomorrow.
But for now, good night /agdg/.

>>122447475
ow the edge

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>>122444472
Yeah, I see what you're saying. I don't want to change it so that the character is gonna be too slow though. Plus it looks like he's sliding more-so when the camera is static, and it won't be like that in the actual game (for the most part anyway. Still unsure)

>>122444810
Will add more knee bend-age.

>>122444832
I'll make it so that his legs slide back more during the walk-cycle and cross a lil.

I'll post something once I have something nice.

>found a strange glitch
>attack does not launch
>happens if I press an attack button precisely at the end frame of the idle animation
Holy shit, I both love and hate coding because of stuff like that.

>>122447308
nice

Do not wish you were someone you're not
Do all you can to become what everyone thinks you could never be

>>122447887
what program ?

>>122448408
My mom says I can be anything I want to be, so there's nothing everyone things I can't be :(

>>122448662
AESprite.
I can upload it for you if you'd like! :)

>>>122448662
>>122448707

It's aseprite* typo sorry

>>122448706
I always wanted to become a developer. And here I am. On the first step to my career of maybe three whole steps. And a it job.

>>122448869
>not devving from your van
kek @ u wage cuk

>>122449113
Where is your game, vanposter?

>>122448824
>>122448707
yes please it looks really nice

>>122449172
Uguu can't upload zips so this is where I got from.
Here you go :D
https://www.patreon.com/posts/1846240

>>122449208
thx

>>122449208
Thank you anon. I'll give it a try :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gGHjiAjcH4
byotiful

>>122449208
I didn't know aseprite got an update! Cool beans!

>>122449737
i didnt know it started costing money to download

>>122449474
what a handsome and pretty man.
is närcon very big?

>>122450104
god forbid people ask money for the things they make eh nodev?

>>122450104
>10 USD for the "full" version of 1.1
aseprite 0.9.5 was pretty good. shame they never updated after that.

>>122450104
Where is your free2play game?

>>122450104
It's worth $10 easily.

>>122450224
well i know the person who made it in the past but i didnt know it was popular enough fpr anyone to actually pay

So why hasn't anybody made a game similar to ZoE?? Is it really that difficult??

>>122450858
zoe doll games 4 girls?

>>122450858
because the game wasnt as popular as the internet shitposters want you to believe
also
>unironically playing as shitskin

Every person is born with a particular capacity to learn how to make a game, including all elements of it such as programming, art, and music. Nobody can really agree on how to quantify this ability, but rest assured it does exist and varies from person to person. Just like the same way that some people are taller and faster and stronger, or shorter and slower and weaker, there are people who are good devs and bad devs.

This capacity mostly affects the rate at which you can just like make game, not what kind of games you can make. A 10 year old with mastery of gamedev is impressive only because he managed to do what most people could do in 20 years or more.

Sure, this might tempt you to strive to become the next Phil Fish or Notch or whatever. Well you probably CAN do what they can do given enough time. Depending on how good you are you can maybe prove one of their results given 20 years of hard work. But at that point it isn't even worth it since those guys can do what took you 20 years to realize in 5 weeks or so.

In other words, its possible to be a yesdev if you work hard enough. It's also technically possible to dig the Grand Canyon with a spoon. It only makes sense however, to do it if you have the shovel of God which has been given to only a few select people on the planet. So you might as well just walk away and let the specialists handle it and go play video games or jack off.

>>122451573
>nobody can really agree on how to quantify this ability
>So you might as well just walk away
ummm how are you supposed to know without giving it an honest try

>>122451430
What are you even talking about with shit skins...?

>>122451573
stopped reading at "jack off"

>>122451573
>>122451858
same

Fuck off fECstain shitbags

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It's time for PROGRESS guys.

Also a reminder that qt placeholders helps for productivity.

>>122452550
>Prepackaged food
>Poor
??????????

>>122452617
Poor people, not knowing better, leak their money on such things.

>>122452550
god forbid you make that edible right?

>>122452662
True poor people knows how to buy only raw resources and cook.

>>122451573
Are you trolling or is this what you really believe in order to justify being a nodev?
If you can't see yourself being a successful gamedev and prop it up to be some mythical achievement you're going to stay a nodev, like a virgin who has convinced himself getting laid is some grand impossible dream. You'll never pop your cherry and will stay a bitter unfulfilled person until you learn to take life into your own hand and stop visualizing everything like some hollywood movie.

>>122452742
>no true poorsman fallacy

>>122452752
>take life into your own hand
Damnit.

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>Cat headbutts and rubs up against my leg
>feel a powerful jolt of what I take to be the feeling of being loved
I'm so alone

>>122452873
the cat is marking her territory
lmao ur a cats bitch

>>122452873
What's worse about your blog post is cats don't do that because they love you, they're just making sure other cats don't come near you.

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Any better?

>>122453790
I'd say it looks more human.

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Show me
Where is your vulkengine, scriddofam

>>122453790
Kinda looks like they're walking sideways.

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first tiles

any tips?

>>122454276
Pretty solid actually, but a bit saturated.

>>122454207
That's good.

>>122454207
What does that mean?

>>122454426
:)

>>122454426
Just fix it

>>122454426
Huh?

>tfw you werent born with artistic talent
everything i make looks like its been made by 10 year old 20 years ago

>>122454453
Meant to reference >>122453851 for the "That's good" comment sorry

>just fix it
i dont know what you're tryna say in the first place

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>>122454467
I taught myself how to draw 5 months ago and I'd say I've gotten good.

>>122454712
Nice!

>>122454712
im teaching myself how to 3D model for about 4 months
>tfw you werent born with ego so massive you think thats good

How do I learn to make pixel art backgrounds? Should I just steal photos and downscale them and then apply shader and call them OC like r*t*te's artist does?

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>>122454894
Art is subjective, where is your art desu?

>>122454982
Reconsider your life decisions

hahahahahaha

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>Will never create something as revolutionary and thought provoking as Undertale...

I need help with my noose...

>>122442304
I've been too busy trying to heat up water with my cigarette lighter to have a warm shower in my van to make any progress sorry.

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>>122455182
With that attitude of course you do.

>>122455182
Just add furbait into your game

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>>122454990
right here buddy

>>122454712
>>122454990
Stop posting this. It was kind of funny the one time, but meta humor isn't real humor.
It's just dumb now.

>>122455191
you do know that things like this exist, right?

http://www.bcf.com.au/online-store/products/BCF-Solar-Camp-Shower-19L.aspx?pid=130195&menuFrom=571625#Recommendations

Park the van in a sunny spot and put this in the sun behind the window (that will keep the outside wind if any off it, which will help it get even hotter).

So I'm kinda decent at the whole code malarkey and I can do design and writing, but art gets me. I can't sprite for shit. I don't particularly want to rip my art from other places, I want my work to feel unique. Any suggestions?

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>>122455336

>>122455369
where the fuck do you live where there is sunny in autumn and you can live in a wan without cops or thiefs beating you up and stealing your shit?

I'm adding modding support to my game and I'm thinking of how to let people import stuff that can't be serialized in text (like sprites). For an animated sprite, what's better:

a) Each frame is a separate image
b) Spritesheets, but you have to download some proprietary program to specify each frame in text format
c) Spritesheets, but you have to specify each frame in some text format I'll make up

>>122455374
>I want my work to feel unique.
Don't do sprites. Hand drawn is the next big thing.

>>122455384
love this meme

>>122455629
i love THIS meme

>>122455504
a would be best for you

>>122455703
where is your game?

>>122455703
I love your memes

>>122455470
it's actually spring/summer in the southern hemisphere right now

guys quick question here for 3d

is it ok to seperate a plane from an obect because you want to give it an edge loop, but doing so would of otherwise put an edge loop on the entire mesh creating more verts. or will that just be an ngon? seems easier to seperate objects a lot to have less verts even if its the same piece

>>122455831
i dont think theres a single place down there where i would want to live let alone in a van

http://strawpoll.me/6020024

>>122455336
>taking meta dev this seriously.
the one thing I respect about this guy is that he's actually making a game regardless of his shit art.
where's you game anon?

>>122455624
I can draw for shit, is 3d modelling any better? I'm in early days yet and I'm more than willing to learn

>>122455956
see
>>122455384

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Talking about poor art, do you think I could play it off like the animation is like that as a joke?

>>122455996
you need to be born with talent to be good at 2D or 3D

>>122456049
lol nice

>>122456049
lol Nice!

>>122456125
dont fucking copy what i say

>>122456169
sorry

>>122456094
dont fucking copy what i say

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who /overambitiousandburntout/ here?

>>122455996
It's worth a shot. Some people are complete shit at drawing and 3D clicks with them fairly easily, while some talented artists never wrap their heads around 3D.

It might be easier for you since you're starting with a blank slate and have no ingrained idea of how things *should* work.

>>122456215
not me

>>122455956
He's not making a game.

>>122456215
right here

>>122456215
overambitious and barley working. im on the computer i keep doing other things i just cant help it i know its an excuse but fuck me its really hard

just do it

>>122456248
Thanks, any recommendations for software? I've heard good things about blender

>>122436690
holy shit i dont even know what triple nested " " 's mean

>>122456328
blender for life

its free and lots of tutorials. just go for that

>>122456328
Plenty of indie devs use blender. Maya and 3DS are used in the industry, but you can't technically use them for commercial games without paying $2000 or whatever.

i dont understand what makes someone willingly come here to post anything other than progress. no one gives a hoot about your poop posts to be quite honest family.

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>>122447308
Are you the one who didn't know what to do about reloading?

Here's a suggestion.

>>122456682
some people are mentally ill, why do you care?

>>122456682
>family
baka desu senpai

>>122456328
yeah blender is good
but its art just like regular drawing
so pick w/e you want the just keep doing it over and over and over and over again for years

>>122456682
and this is your progress post?
>>122456715
like u for example rofl

>>122456682
>no one gives a hoot about your poop posts to be quite honest family.
>progress posts gets 0 to 2 replies
Unfortunately they give a hoot.

>>122456959
i dont give a fuck about progress i have it filtered since i only reply to shitposters
so yes i do care about your posts

>>122456752
another thing is that making models is only part of the battle. uv's/textures/baking/all the normal maps and materials and shit like that

i give up

post your stockpiled ideas

>>122457498
okay cya

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How can I make my game stand out? How did one guy make his pixel platformer so popular (Cave Story)? How come so many games are doomed to fail from the start?

How do I make it?

>>122457734
start to finish mobile game
from development to packaging and deployment
im serious

>>122456829
getting agitated kiddo? take your pills
>>122457734
just be yourself

>he didn't make a mobile game during the golden age of mobile games
>he still isn't making mobile games
oh wow

>>122457734
>How did one guy make his pixel platformer so popular (Cave Story)
Cave Story came out before the huge influx of indie games, it was also really well made for the time (for an indie game) and it had some new ideas. If Cave Story came out today I doubt it would do as well.

For example go listen to half the Podcasts that were popular 10 years ago, they did really well in a new medium but if they just came out today they wouldn't do very well at all. Everyone has a podcast.

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>>122456682
Because people try to impersonate you, be little you, and doubt your work. Seriously, whoever is posting my game >>122454990
and pretending to be me please stop, I haven't been able to post progress since last week because I work for a living. really, I didn't even draw this >>122454712 Some assholes are just trying to bully me because they hate how I'm actually making a game, and have nothing better to do then stir up drama.

>>122457734
make a game you want to play
look at gogem
he made retarded RPS because he wanted to play it
it wasnt popular because of his autistic decisions
he also didnt put all eggs in same basket since he draws dicks for money

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Took a break from my regular project to do a 24h game jam over the weekend with a bunch of other guys; not really proud of the outcome since the gameplay would've been far too complex for 24h, but i am proud of some of the art me and the other artist ended up doing

>>122458957
Does anyone ever make playable games in 24 hours? I always though those jams were an exercise in disappointment more than anything.

>>122458957
Oh shit, that looks amazing

Please don't stop

>>122458957
The other artist and I

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>>122459049
They did; they just need to have a smaller scope; a different group from my workplace did a one-room 4 player battle arena where you're a rat trying to grab a slice of pizza, and throwing physics objects at eachother. It was hilarious and they all won a samsung vr along with an s6 phone

More art; chunks of the environment model on this one are stolen from sketchup, tho

>>122458957
is that supposed to be eastern yurop? if so the fence would be broken
the bench would be broken
the road would be broken
the chairs would be stolen
etc idk names of the other objects

>>122459190
Everything broken, even the people.

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~~~* RECAP MONDAY *~~~

game:
dev:
tools:
website:
progress:

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game: Towers
dev: velddev
tools: unity2d
website: velddev.tumblr.com
progress: + added npc dialogue
+ dungeon generation
~ reworked tiles

>>122459797
fuck off

>>122459797
whodevs just in time to come out of the woodworks

>>122460026
What's wrong?

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>>122459414
game: Dyson Maintenance Unit
dev: literalcitrus
tools: Unity
website: literalcitrus.tumblr.com
progress: - Begun overhaul of art assets
- Tutorial dialogue boxes
- Trapped player inside play area

>>122460230
I can vouch for Velddev, you might not recognize it from that image, but he's been posting the game over the last few days and he made a game a few weeks back.

>>122460508
my bad sorry f@m

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>>122459414
game: vaporware online
dev: anon
tools: C, SDL2
website: agdg.moe
progress: - fucked around with glade

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>>122460026
>>122460230
>samefag anime nodev
where is your game?
>>122459797
nice progress, do you like unity for pixel art games? heard it has issues with camera, movement and pixel perfect stuff

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>>122459797
game: Traps and Mices
dev: soi
tools: UE4
website: soidev.tumblr.com
progress: - started the game, for one
- networking lobby
- some sounds

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>>122460627
I'm used to the engine, kind of my comfort zone. The camera issues are easily fixed though. And for the movement i tend to add my input in the Update() and physics stuff in the FixedUpdate() to get rid of the "wobbly" collision detection.
>gif related
Yeah. i know it has issues in pixel perfection. but it isn't a big deal once you play it in a build. your screen will have pixels enough for my game.

>>122460926
Almost forgot: I enjoy debugging with the inspector.

cavern kings reminds me of leiro

This general gets weirder and weirder every day

>>122459414
>game: Heroes of Din
>dev: Snow Games
>tools: GM: S, Photoshop CC
>website: snowgames.itch.io
>progress: made movement tastier, better collision detection.

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>>122461265
Forgot my picture

>>122461360
What about Trap Fall?

>>122461396
I'm making decent progress on it but I don't have any art assets at all yet

>get idea for a game
>decide to do 2D sprites instead of full 3D
>want to make 3D models and render animations to sprite sheets
>but then I need a program to manually create metadata for the sprite sheets (set frames and animations, annotate with collision info such as bounding boxes and circles, etc)
>decide to create one myself in C#/WPF
>haven't used C# for like 2 years
>never used WPF
>get stuck immediately
fuck, where do I even begin.
Is WPF a bad choice if I just want to create a program that
>load batches of sprites and place them together in a single sheet
>allows me to create, resize and rotate rectangles and origin points on top of the sprite sheet
>parent/child shapes together in a tree view (x frames per animation, collision boxes per frame) and let me select them from this view
>play preview of selected animation
?
Is there a better alternative to quickly be able to throw a user interface together?

>>122460926
Holy shit that's why my collision is wobbly. I never thought of it being due to Update rather than FixedUpdate.

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>>122459414

game: Clarent
dev: Arikado
tools: GM:S, Paint.Net
website: http://arikado.itch.io/clarent
progress:
+fixed collisions
+PC can now jump off platforms and stairs
+you can now stand on last step of stairs
+added new spell
+added spell charging
+new getting hit effect for armored enemies
+fixed some minor bugs like player getting stuck when dying
+added new enemy
+started remaking tiles and backgrounds for second area
-caught flu, getting a feeling so complicated

>>122461519
Yeah. this saves you alot of raycast checks.

>>122461554
you forgot:

>+plagiarized more BUT I HAVE A GAME YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND

>>122461554
>PC can now jump off platforms and stairs
i chuckled.

>>122461554
can you fall onto stairs now? that shit's infuriating I thought I can land onto the stairs but nope, I go straight and into the pit.

>>122461852
>>122461801
>>122461707
>>122461010
>>122460895
>>122460837
>>122460798

What the fuck is happening to this thread

>>122461801
please don't

>>122461896
shitposters again

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>>122461896
a mentally ill shitposter having a nervous breakdown
>>122461360
i like the character and enemies but the tiles are too muddy and backgrounds colors are meh

What do you think the ideal party/enemy group size is for a turn-based battle game? I'd like to have sizable battles, but not to the point where management becomes of a chore only autists will appreciate.

I'm thinking maybe 4 party members, 6-8 enemies (at one time, at least -- maybe have reinforcement waves like x-com). Opinions?

>>122460627
World Without Sky dev.
>A game about being a mech pilot in a world where humanity migrated beneath the surface to escape nuclear war. Humanity has reached a point where large underground metropolises exist and nations function more like family lead gangs. With the removal of aerial warfare the rise of pedal, tracked, and jump based armored suits has claimed the battlefields.

Just woke up and ate like an hour ago. I have 13 or so hours to dev today and tons of mexican cola. Heres the list right now of things I'm working on. All of these are in an effort to get the first prototype mech design fully operational.

**read code for 30 or so minutes**
+Chassis Class+
-Finish runDiagnostics Method
-Define Internal Components and locations
power wiring for each appendage socket
life support
wiring for internal cockpit
appendage servos location and structure
*Leg Appendage Class*
*Gun Appendage Class*
*Fine Motor Appendage Class*
*Sensor Appendage Class*
*Inventory Storage System*

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>>122462016
Forgot pic. Its text based and I haven't gotten to the point of deciding exactly how exploration and combat will work. I think most exploration/npc interaction will be done out of suit though.

The suits are roughly 2.5 stories tall.

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>>122459414

game: Yer Majesty (Working Title)
dev: batdev
tools: game maker
website: gamedevbat.tumblr.com
progress: +NPC interactions
+ NPC Ledge Detections
+ Fixed a weird bug where jumping near a platform would launch you into the air infinitely
~ Light/Shadow System for cave segments
~ Font

>>122461992
4 is bare minimum in general imo
i hated the tutorial levels in VC where you had alicia and 2 blind fodders while waiting for tank

>>122461621
Salty much, nodev?

>>122462112
Good idea but interesting text based gameplay might be hard to pull for that setup, I think you would gain a lot by going with some graphics even if minimal (look at oregon trail)

>>122462129
I really like your game and your art

>>122457734
marketing
polish
idea

in that order are what is important

>>122462129
nice mario clone

>>122462140
Do you think that's a bad thing? Four characters, that is.

It's definitely the standard. I'm just worried that more than that will only make things tedious, not more enjoyable.

Should probably mention that this is a fantasy game. Half melee, half ranged classes. Defense/healing is going to be untraditional (healer units/only status healing curatives instead of HP/MP potion guzzling).

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>>122459414
Game : idk yet
dev : -
tools : UE4
website : -
progress: -Flying
-Missiles
-Static Targets
-Dynamic Targets
-Camera Controls

>>122462309
Thank you anon!

>>122462490
Looks neat. Blowing shit up is always fun.

>>122462490
nice ace combat clone lol

>>122462490
Those are very sparkly explosions, I like it.

>>122462490
Saw some of your progress yesterday and your game looks really cool.

>>122462591
>>122462420
nice nogame, nodev

>>122462591
That's what I'm aiming to achieve.

>>122462476
no i have 4 chars too

>>122462241
Yeah I'm looking into ways to display a top down map. I'm not very good at math or game design yet since this is my first game. I got a very basic console based menu ui working though. The goal right now is to get a mech made, and then the combat screen so I can actually check how this is going to work.

I want to get a basic prototype working asap before doing any sort of worldbuilding stuff because once that's done I'll actually have a game instead of just as simulation program with a bunch of pre-ordained interacting data.

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>>122459414
game: Rotatevania
dev: Rotatedev, Asarge, Theonian
tools: C, OpenGL
website: http://theonian.tumblr.com/ http://asarge.tumblr.com/
progress:
-lots of progress on gameplay (fighting, spell-casting, death effect particles, etc.)
-new background assets

Is this good pixel art?

https://youtu.be/SPlQpGeTbIE

>>122463394
About as good as the song. Not very.
Kappa

>>122463394
Not this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPZDBF0kei0

>>122463226
more like i stole and pixelated other peoples textures
amirite fellas

>>122463585
pharrell loves big hats and loli's, confirmed

>>122463226
I cannot comprehend why someone would make something look like that and think to themselves: "Yeah, this. This is good."

>>122463845
>>122463649
nodevs please leave, all that salt is bad for your health

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>>122463649
Nope I used my own photo
This is the first time I've tried anything like it, but I'm generally happy with the results.

>>122463926
Man he's good at monsters.

>>122463987
Yeah, Asarge's designs are awesome. It also helps that his animations are smooth and flowy as shit.

>>122463926
post animated version of that monster.

hi devs

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>>122464154
There isn't any yet.
But here, look at this.

>>122464249
Looks pretty, good

>>122464359
man, my brain fucked up writing that
Looks pretty good *

>>122464249
where's the D?

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I added in the second trap, but I didn't think this game through. The only other ideas I have after this are trapdoors and teleporters, so the game's probably only going to have 5 levels or something.

>>122464189
fuck off

>>122464669
You're the guy that was showing the automatic tiling?

Is it okay to be a failure?