AGDG - Amateur Game Development General

Good afternoon agdg
How is your jam game coming along?

This thread is haunted by mothdan.

third for where's you're engine?

>>125372647
no jam just real stuff

>>125372647
Almost done. I'm so gonna win this ludum

Fourth for nodevs should fuck off

>>125372647
good, just got to make the enemies stop acting stupid

>that musicbro shoah last thread
>no new links in OP

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>>125372693
I'll make progress over break, I swear
I can change, Anonymous! Please dont leave me again

>>125372864
desu i'm musically retarded and that site doesn't produce anything good

jukedeck does but it all sounds the same and there's no variety

thought i could escape the hell of having to deal with musicjews but /agdg/ tricked me

>>125373027
>musicjews
where the fuck have you been looking for musicians

Say I have a terrain shader with some textures and I have a per vertex weight for for each.

But in a lot of instances this weight is 1 for 1-2 of these textures and 0 for others. Is the shader smart enough to avoid lookups if it has something like weight * textur2D(blablup, xy) when weight is 0 or do I need to prevent this somehow?

I have some performance issues on things with this shader (ie the terrain) when playing my game on my phone

>>125372864
>http://www.fakemusicgenerator.com
musicbros are extinct

>>125372693
It's not very convincing when you try to impersonate someone smarter than you. Try typing like an adult.

Whatever warpath you're on right now
>>125372663
it's not going to get you anywhere. I told you the same thing months ago and now look where you're at.

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>everything fits
my autism is happy

Hit that report button for great progress!

>>125372531
>no anime in OP

Its fine, I wasnt planning on posting progress anyways ~~

>4 hours to go
Time to grind.

>>125370478
I know people are laughing about Musicfriends killing themselves but if you're serious with your Animal Crossing Type Game you should check out ThleVes his shit would go so well with your theme.

https://soundcloud.com/iamthefourth/sets/summer-skies

>its another one of these 8 hour total meltdowns

for fucks sake

>>125373027
>musicjews
what
aren't musicbros willing to work for free?

>>125371250
What is the game?

>>125373574
this, all musicbros i've encountered have worked for free, and have been bro about it

>>125373148
When will programmers kill artbros as well?
Thats the day I actually get progress done.

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mfw I found Mothdan's youtube channel

mfw he ACTUALLY believes in paranormal shit and that bigfoot actually exists

Is there a more retarded tripfag on agdg?

>>125374374
Is that the yesdev who clucked 4chan for Reddit?

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>>125373027
tell me what you need.
Ive got a couple of hours to work for free
since pic related wont be finished for a while

An strategy game where you work on the self-esteem of the forces of evil to be a bad enough dude.

>>125373805
A witch running a delivery service.

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And it's finally done!

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=46747

>happily devving
>doing good
>get a call
>family member in the hospital, terminal cancer just diagnosed
so what now

>>125374748
Nice
Downloading

>>125374806
>blogging
no wonder you gave him cancer

>>125374374
Post links show us some of his vids.

>>125374806
Keep devving.

Life goes on and losing someone is only as hard as you make it for yourself, often the person dying is more at ease than the relatives.

>>125374806
guess your development has a deadline now

>>125374806
Masturbate furiously.

>>125375089
dude
this is CANCER

>>125375253
... this one goes to the fight against cancer. Fuck you Cancer!

>>125373140
To answer my own question: No its not smart enough. Is there some kind of bit trick to avoid calculation y in x * y if x is 0?
I am currently doing a simple if (x > 0.0) check but I was told I should avoid if statements in fragment shaders.

>>125374374
You gonna show us or not?

>>125373140
>>125375404
I can almost guarantee that doing the texture lookup inside the branch will be slower than just doing the texture lookup. What you need to do is somehow predicate WHICH texture you sample. So use a texture array, and have each vertex have N weights and N indices.

>>125375098
>>125375559
He's scared.

>>125374806
welp good luck anon.
i believe in your ability to handle the situation, even if its not easy.

>>125374748
Played it for 5 minutes, review time.

+ not a clone, somewhat original idea
+ it runs well
+ nice music
+ feels nice, being hit feels really powerful
- bad audio effects for some stuff like that machine gun thing and the radio static type sound
- no tutorial, player has to guess what to do and even why to do it


Overall its pretty good considering its scope and the time limit, I like it. Good job, anon. You should be happy with yourself.

>>125375559
>>125375098

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My3Hp_6cZlk

>>125376053
I like this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svn6D9UsLsQ

>>125374374
Seems okay to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUryllppdy0

>>125375463
Not funny. Are we in the depressive stage now?

>>125377606
I like this. It's unique.
Got someone making music yet?

If I keep posting here will I become a dev?

>>125377606
WHY DOES THE HAND ALWAYS THROW DOWN THE SAME PIECE???????

>>125377606
that hand is trippy af

>>125377606
Love those hands haha. You entering the jam with this?

>>125377771
It worked for me
Look at this beautiful picture of my engine ;^)

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MAJOR demo-related progress today:

Visual options!

We now support a full array of visual options, which is a super-necessary step for releasing a demo since I know some of you guys are playing on toasters.

We support general settings (fullscreen, gamma, etc), allow you to adjust the camera follow distance for normal mode, gun mode, and 2D mode, have a number of scalability settings (draw distance, antialiasing quality, etc., all on a scale from Low to Cuhrayzee, as well as disabling motion blur and bloom, and and over/undersampling slider)

In addition, there are a number of interface settings. You can scale the HUD, disable the various elements, scale the aiming reticle separately, disable pop-up hints and, by popular demand, disable Comic FX (the word-bubble effects that player actions sometimes trigger).

Known issues right now:
- You cannot set the native resolution properly. This is trivial to support but I still need to make a two-field resolution entry box for the menu itself.
- Currently, visual settings and control schema are tied. This is normally not a big deal but if you try to use a control config save, it will carry the visual options with it. I can fix this but it will take some fiddling.
- The gamma setting has no suggestion-slider function for correct placement (i.e. "adjust the slider until the icon is JUST visible")
- Currently I don't have a delayed "Keep these settings?" box, seems like there must be some reason all games include it.

Up next: Pause Menu Move List for reference.

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I actually did it. Completed my first game jam. Thanks for the feedback in steamchat peeps.

http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=63331

>>125377765
not yet!
>>125377793
dunno, random choice
>>125377808
inspired by terry gilliam's monty python animations
>>125377838
hopefully! Not much time left...

>>125377873
what do you mean by we
how many people are actually working on this

>>125377873
>we

Yeah. You can fuck right off

>>125374036
Art bros are more likely to kill you
Engines keep making it easier to make games
Someday code will be sold and open sourced for anyone to use
Meanwhile automatic art progress is 0

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Reposting for new thread.
These are /agdg/'s ludum dare games so far:

Tiny Chase
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=26490
Puzzle Run
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=61846
My Dino
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=61928
BeatMan
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=20857
Bullet Strain
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=62489
Spriggan
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=52719
Super Space HexaGUN
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=46747
Expurget Demo
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=63331

Go play them!
Congratulations to everyone who finished a game!

>>125378057
Just me... I should probably say "I". I just use, like, the Royal We to refer to the development of the game, or something.

IDK, it's a habit I picked up and I never really let it go.

>>125378057
6 full time, and a guy that drops in now and then(he didn't quit his job yet)

>>125378098
glad you like it :^)

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>>125378171
>>125378169

>>125378169
impersonating me again
fuck this place

>>125377974
>not yet!
Do you want some?

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>>125378169
>>125378171
I keep telling people how useful trips are and when they should be used. Keep being impersonated, faggots.

>>125377873
It isn't very obvious that clicking the title bar of the window closes them

>>125378419
Sure! I'd love anything - also if you want to make any sound effects, those are needed too.

0-3 work on art
4-6 change my sleep scheludes so I'm awake when there is no shitpost drama
7-9 look for another hobby

Maybe instead of trying to terrorize agdg some more because things didn't go your way again you could just you know. Leave?

>>125378560
the hands needs the "uurrrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRUNK!" cartoon sound effect
if you don't know the one i'm thinking of i can probably find a clip

>>125378561
Damn it I was hoping for change of hobby or at least less drama

>>125378560
I'm terrible with sound effects, though.

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Do we come up with an idea for a game first? or come up with the art for a game first or an idea for a game first?

>>125378759
3, you can't come up with the art without a theme if you start working on art the idea will pop up

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>>125378878
I can paint, 3d model and program (I've done it for years). Can't come up with ideas for single player games :(

>>125378560
>>125378670
https://youtu.be/gQVr1X8_ps8?t=113
this shit

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>>125379103
Oh shit yes

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>>125329773
game: Rotatevania
dev: Rotatedev, Asarge, Theonian
tools: C, OpenGL
website: http://theonian.tumblr.com/, http://asarge.tumblr.com/

Progress:
-New menu and UI assets
-more work done on gameplay code (spell-system)
-Asarge left us to work on a different project for a while

INCOMING BLOG POST
I just asked my poor mother to pay for my electricity bill because I couldn't afford to and I need it for driving, how do you guys deal with being awful human beings, its killing me

>>125372108

make the word "Loading" spin all the way round after a few sways

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>>125379205
>pay for my electricity bill
>I need it for driving

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>>125378459
You can also use the backspace key, the B button, etc. to close.

Also you can click on a different window to open it and close the current one.

Just playing with a number of different, possibly intuitive, menu approaches.

If the demo reveals it confuses a lot of people I can always do key-prompts as well.

>>125378284
Fun Man Army status 4 life

>>125378325
Classic. You win one (1) give a fuck. Would you like to receive it lump-sum, or to receive annual payments of one-tenth of a given fuck for the next 10 years?

>>125372531

Should add jukedeck to the OP.
Is not better than good musicfags, but it's better than most of them.
https://www.jukedeck.com/

>>125379409
Deving, shit autocorrect

>>125379515
>this delusion
I hope you can find a total bro musicguy that undertands exactly what your game needs.
I did, and everything is bliss.

What animal hasn't been used for a 3D platformer?

Humans are shit

Have bunnies been done?

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>>125379676
>Have bunnies been done

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>>125379676
yes

>>125379515
If jukedeck gets added, fakemusicgenerator should be too. Its actually better because it gives you the source files to edit (midi)

>>125379441
this much effort into resolving my confusion
you're pretty good and so is your game
>>125379626
you're still a piece of shit, go get a job at mcdonalds

>>125379634
>i found one therefore most are good

wow you're literally braindead. Can you even like make game?

>>125379634
I said it wasn't better than good music fags, but those are hard to find.
Certainly better than the shit musicfags that can only make bad chiptunes.

>>125379836
does unreal engine 4 have the tools to make a multiplayer game easily? I have a problem with the server not simlulating the envoirnment in my node.js server

>>125379871
lmao salty nomusic

>>125379940
You underestimate how good having custom music is.

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I want to do a 2D environment that wraps seamlessly in Unity. Is there an obvious way of doing this that I'm missing?

>>125380143
>unity
>2d

we tried to tell you

>>125379868
It must be all that jew guilt. She kicked me out two years ago but she is still my mother. I take advantage of her a little bit because it sounds fair but I feel awful after

>>125379836
Frog is a good idea actually. They hop and shit.

Can use their long tongue also

>>125380217

Not him, but why is Unity so bad for 2D?

Is this just a maymay?

>>125380082
That sites gives you custom music, you can reroll until you get one that fits.

>>125380393
I don't think you understand what custom means

Can I remove instruments from a song that site makes?

>>125380217
I like C#, and I don't trust XNA for particle effects or networking.

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>Have a desktop with a UHD display, i7, 980, the works
>Have a laptop with a 1080p IPS display

>Still do 90% of my development on my T61 from 2007 because the keyboard is so damn comfy.

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>>125381139
>laptop dev

>codemonkeys getting replaced by blueprints and playmaker
>musicfags getting replaced by jukedeck and fakemusicgenerator

Artfags replacement when?

>tfw the ideaguy era is approaching

>>125381139

My comfiest hours of dev were at my campus' cafeteria lounge between classes on my laptop. I don't blame you.

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>>125379829

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>>125381575
They missed a trick by not incorporating any of the medieval rabbit memes

Dunno why the hell rabbits and snails were such big memes in medieval art, but there you go

>>125381442
>artist getting replaced ever
Lol keep dreaming, the future will be ours

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Hello there, I wanted to ask for some advice regarding a certain topic.

I wanted to create a small little game about girls and our relationship with clothes as I make documentary films revolving around this theme. I had this idea for a little free dress up style game where you are presented with an illustration of a little naked person who is very lightly animated. Surrounding this person are these cut outs of clothes that slowly glide and bounce around the screen, and when you click and drag them onto the person, audio plays from various women like in my films, talking about how certain clothes make them feel. Drag the maxi dress onto her and audio will play of a person talking about why they like to wear a maxi dress, blah blah blah. They will be lightly animated to do a pose, maybe smile. You get it.

I was wondering what kind of software I would use to create this little thing, thank you.
Game Maker im assuming.

>>125382940
>girls and our relationship with clothes
LONDON
O
N
D
O
N

Seriously though, GameMaker would work fine. Have fun

>>125382940
>Game Maker im assuming.
Yeah probably

>>125383104
>>125383216
Thanks lads.

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>>125381139
>>125381286

I'm new to Ludum Dare

Is "submission hour" an extra hour after the deadline where you can't continue to work on the game and can only submit it?

I'll probably get it in before, but do I HAVE to have it in by the deadline and then I can just edit the description and shit during the submission hour?

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>>125371913
>>125362173
Progress!

BEHOLD

It is now day eight of my learn2program thing and I have created this masterpiece

>>125383531
You have an extra hour. To package your stuff and shit. Everyone uses it to finish their broken-ass games tho.
So yeah, you effectively have 49 or 73 hours.

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So there is this Unity plugin that turns 2d sprites into 3d objects.

Is this enough to make you shits stop being afraid of 3d?

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>>125383734
Can anyone tell me why it breaks when I comment out the line in pic related?

>>125381864
probably there were lots of those in the crop fields

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>>125383734
>>125383953
pic related is what happens when I comment out that line

It shouldn't be necessary as far as I know but it is :/

anyone know why?

>>125383953
looks like visibleGrid[x][y] would be null if you didn't do that
having it in there is fine what's the prob

>>125383531
Submit your game first and worry about touchups later, there is a clause in the rules that you can fix bugs after submitting but you're supposed to keep a changelog of that.

>>125383946
that looks fucking awful. no thanks

>spend 40 minutes trying to my UI buttons work in unity
>mouse won't trigger the fucking button, everything seems perfect
>the button's background was just flipped around so I wasn't clicking on the right side of it.

I love gamedev!

>>125384087
Nah. Farmers weren't artists, and the artists didn't care about appealing to the farmers.

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>>125381864
>memes in medieval art

>>125383946
is there a plugin that makes it not look like shit?

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>>125384273
It seems like that ought to be populated by the "repeated value" part of the code

>>125381864
who the fuck came up with that writing style it's completely illegible

>>125384490
Not if you were educated

>making music for a dev
>constantly hear about how lame and unreliable music peeps are so i strive to make some dope music and let him know when/if there's gonna be delays
>genuinely excited to hear about progress on his neato lookin game
>he stops talking to me

neato burrito

>>125384273
this guy is right >>125384468

that's why I'm confused. It's only really an issue because I want to learn and understand what I'm doing. I'm happy that it works at all but I don't want to waste time in the future making similarly dumb mistakes

>>125384393
You are the plugin.

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>>125384542
translate it for us then

I'm installing unity. It is taking ages.

What is the best setting in unity for handpainted look?

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>>125372531
Been working on animating this cement mixer for like 7 hours and all the fine detail is bairly noticable at full screen, oh well

hows my art coming along? i know the spikes are off ive not done them properly yet

>>125384606
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbB-mICjkQM

>>125384596
It feels like an issue I had when moving from C++ to python.

It works if you create each object separately - are you sure that the "repeatedValue" creates a new object, which is identical to the copied one rather than just referencing it?

>>125384934
I filled another 2d array like that with bools (false) and it worked just fine, so I.. don't know

I literally just started coding so I really don't know what the fuck I'm doing

>>125384834
The cement mixer looks good
Its oddly specific though, like is it all this effort for a piece that will only appear once in your game?

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now with title screen

>>125384548
>get in contact with musician
Ask for a demo
>no problem bro, I just need an hour
>what
>yeah just an hour
>ok
>sends me song
>doesn't work on song anymore
>wants to make another song since its finished
>don't hear from him ever again

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>>125366757
no i was following a video. idk i think the model is okay i guess for what i need. shes only going to be visible on like 5% of the screen the issue is mostly the weight paints i think. idk whats going on

i mean if theres a better guide somewhere i would appreciate it

>>125382940
So pretty much kisekae?

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>>125384934
>rather than just referencing it?
this anon could be right, the docs make it sound like the repeated value is just pasted in rather than a new one being generated each time.

>>125385045
>I filled another 2d array like that with bools (false) and it worked just fine
That might be because bools are a primitive. Possibly whats going on is all your array elements DO point to a UI element, its just that they all point to the SAME UI element. And the what the line of code is doing is setting each element to a new, distinct one.

>>125385426
There was definitely a problem with the rigging, the arms got flat when bending. You should consider starting over

Did the PS1 do any lighting calculation?

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Got some work done on the reactive soundtrack.
The webm loses sync pretty much immediately but the wub is synced to the missile's engine.
It's pretty fun to just jam with this thing desu

https://streamable.com/p5fq

Barely worked yesterday
Didn't work at all today
I need to get back in the horse

>>125385719
Thank you for the insight

>>125385808
what do you mean the rigging

modelling or weight painting?

>>125385061
No the cement mixer is the checkpoint for one of the teams and will pretty much be in every level so i had to make it look at least half decent, its a multiplayer game im working on, hopefully il get an alpha out to test everything soonish

also can anyone think of a good alternative for the other players team? the cement mixer team are make of concrete and the other team is made of clay

>>125385287
i made and sent a bunch of tracks, and had a few more i was working on, before it hit me that he hadn't talked to me in a month. it's a fucking bummer.

>>125384351
regardless those were the elements of the environment that surrounded them. why would they not draw them?

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Astar with some overlays, area of available movement when you select the guy and then one that follows your mouse.
their movement is affected by the terrain, as an example, the red squares are impassable and the green ones take twice of effort to move across them

>>125386956
This is what I don't get. You still own your music don't you? If a project falls off each person owns what they made so what's the problem?

>>125387927
i'm just a musician, not a dude who specifically makes music for games. i spent a whole shitload of time making energetic videogamey music with context-sensitive variations and layers.

>>125387927
>so what's the problem?
Maybe that they got themselves hyped up and poured their feels into making something they thought would be enjoyed by players and add to the game, but in the dev didn't appreciate their effort enough to even accept something that was basically a gift

just guessing, not a musicbro

>>125388404
>context-sensitive variations
Do many musicians know how to do this? Its such a cool thing when it happens in a game, but it also seems pretty rare

>>125388404
Was the music made according to a story? Was the art pixelshit? Can your music not fit any other game?

>>125388425
Post your music and I will enjoy it. If it can't be enjoyed without a game it wasn't very good to begin with

>>125387927
I'm not even a good musician, but I've made lots of songs for /agdg/ peeps, and believe me when I say that I try my hardest to make something that not only suits the game, but that complements it. If I make a song for your game, it's that game's song. Yeah, I can put it in my portfolio, but no one else can have it.

>>125388587
I love doing this, but sometimes devs will tell me no because of the extra work. and in one case the engine couldn't handle simultaneous streaming sources

>>125388928
whoa

>>125388928
nice shaders

>>125386146
This sounds pretty cool already, just needs more variation

>>125388882
I get that you want to make a good product and stuff but if you want to work with Indies then you need to expect 7 out of 10 projects to fail. If you can't salvage your work then 70% of it is useless

>>125388587
>Do many musicians know how to do this

i feel like it's not a matter of whether the person doing the music knows how to, more along the lines of, does the dev want to go through the trouble of coding it all in or whatever.

>>125388592
it was totally tailored for the game's flow. i'd say yeah, couldn't really fit any other game.

>>125388736
i think you meant to reply to me, but do you mean my own music or the music for the game? because like i said, it's all context-sensitive bits meant to go along with gameplay, not linear songs. can't really just slap it up on soundcloud.

>>125388928
that's not out is it

>>125388928
what the fuck anon
good job

>>125388928

it looked good on the "terminal" text, but actually in a game this looks fucking awful.

You're getting possitive replies though, I guess it's a meme.

>>125389173
But almost every game is just a copy of something else or just following the rules of a genere. I don't see how your music can't fit a similar game unless you got picked to make the shovel knight lost or something

>>125388736
>If it can't be enjoyed without a game it wasn't very good to begin with

If the individual sprites in your game can't be enjoyed as whole and complete works of static art, it's not very good to begin with.

If I can't sit down and read and enjoy your game's source code from beginning to end like a novel, with no knowledge of programming, it's shit code and needs to be rewritten.

>>125389524
>if the art of the game doesn't look good on its own and its something that every other programmer would reject then you did a worthless job. If a project fails the artists gets his art and can use it for something else, the musician gets his music and the programmer gets his code and is free to get another artist and musician and start another project that is it

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Trying primary melee weapons. Would it be too much if hitting it at the right time reflected bullets back?

>>125389505
nah dude, i get what you're saying, but i wanted the music to compliment everything specific about that game. i didn't want to halfass it and end up with generic one-size-fits-all public domain-sounding music. that's always been a pet peeve of mine when it comes to video games.

>>125389751
There is no contract. Anyone can bail at any point and anyone can be replaced. You own what you made

>>125389852
That looks fucking amazing

I-is there any way you could give me a brief timeline of how you learned to dev?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rLma_1RPU8&feature=youtu.be

Why don't you have a gamedev gf?

>>125389751
You think like a fucking robot.

>What is context?

>>125389906
Animaguchi released an album. You should focus on making good music first and not making good music for the game. Other people can't be your ride to success and that's what musicians don't get

>>125390071
As an amateur of overall freelance you should understand that no contract means no obligation. If you think you have the right to someone's art for your game after he told you no you are a scumbag,

>>125390057
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayp7hIoSQZE&list=PLcB8zUSeYq0AjQMI-t8g_0Q-OcsUqqD9h

>>125389852
please tone down the rave flashing

>>125390238
uh, okay? i've put a bunch of albums out already. i just wanted to make music for a game, and then the dev disappeared. you're making lots of weird assumptions and i think you might have wandered into the middle of the conversation without realizing what it was about.

even - dev
odd - fap

>>125390709
I'm giving you general advice that most musicians who wonder here could use. I'm not your mother, I don't have the time to pander to your especial situation

>>125388928
the terminal looks amazing but i cant quite tell whats going on ingame, also what engine is this built with and what is the game about

>>125390040
well first he made risk of rain

>>125390943
i think you should post your game

>>125390762
Rolling

>>125390057
I genuinelly thought that ws a man for 9/10ths of the video

>>125389852
That looks great, only thing I'd say is to tone down the flashing a bit or better yet tone it down and when you reach that room put it back to normal.

>>125391110
I'm not currently working on a game. I don't work alone and I don't trust internet people

>>125390238
>>125390416
>>125390943
Extract the sand from your vagina

>>125390626
>>125391348
Yeah I've been a bit on the fence about that, I have an option to disable flashing but it also disables muzzle flashes too. Maybe more of a smoother flash that matches the down beats on the music or something?

>>125390040
Been kinda deving on and off for a few years now, just a lot of practice I suppose

>>125391365
then post a game you've made

>>125391596
Where do you think you are?

>>125391754
Haven't been able to finish a game since highschool that's why I decided to look for local people for my next project

>>125391664
>Maybe more of a smoother flash that matches the down beats on the music or something?
That would be really neat.

>>125391979
other people can't be your ride to success.

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>>125389852
Looking good hopoo, but would you care to address these background mixels?

>>125392310
I'm getting better to make it on my own, won't need anyone to be able to make it a couple years ffom now, I'm not even planing on making it just by making a game I just want the experience and a finished project under my belt and I know that it will be easier with more people and I know that meeting someone face to face reduces the chance of them bailing marginally

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>>125371250
Did you do these manually or did you use a facecam/kinect or something to mocap/track?

Posted tree growing game to ludum jam:
http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=66284
Not as many features as I had planned
also no sound/music, but it works.
If anyone wants to play it, I'd love feedback!

>>125392686
see, i think it's weird that you're an "idea" guy who hasn't finished a project since he was a child, and needs other people to keep his ass in line, and yet when someone bails on a musician who's produced multiple finished tracks tailored to the game itself it's the musician's fault for somehow thinking the dev was a "ride to success".

>>125392680
No idea, looks like some glitch. Are you on the newest version? Whats your RAM like?

>>125393334
First of all I'm not an ideas guy, second I don't know how it's wierd. Are you implying I don't work? I just my ass

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miPc7av2F6E

Does anyone else think hearbeast is a really cool dude? I wish he was my dev buddy and could just answer all my GM questions on the spot.

>>125394934
*heartbeast

>>125385262
Maybe you should give the BG a paper like texture.

guys how's this for my game's main theme?

(Untitled Song)df-cag-gcQ-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-k,ap-ejf-alm-aoC-ait-ajc-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-i,ak-cbh-ebm-gdJ-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-e,if-ckV-bkI-cll-aiH-alm-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-h

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/525045

I like 3D modeling in my games but unity and unreal both seem like unoptimized shit. Is there any good 3D dev environments that are better for optimizing? Or should I just learn a 2D engine if I want people to be able to reliably play my shit?

>>125395929
make your own engine or learn the engines optimization techniques, dingus

Opinions on this? https://soundcloud.com/sc-frain/overcastride/s-4A9lg

>>125395929
Do you have a toaster or something?

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how do I cash in on this? What should the exact gameplay be like to maximize meme propagation?

The sound of the breeding machine is akin to a grenade launcher.

>>125393563
Yep, 1.2.8. 8 GB of ddr3. I figured it was some sort of bug.

>>125396226
make the cats become retarded insane, like flying or trans-dimensional hipercube cat

>>125396226
Make it buggy as fuck, like goat simulator.

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>>125396226
also progress for the day

>>125396226
T-that's not how breeding works.

>>125396657
>hey everyone look at the fun convos we have in my clubhouse
Yeah nah IRC is a shithole for pedos and faildevs

>>125394934
Yea, he's really cool. Has such a chill voice.

>>125396226
makethem only breed if they are happy
make them needy
make more than one cat at a time hard to handle

>>125397087
>being infested with rapists
>fun
>"fun"

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I made it! My Ludum Dare Jam game is here - http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=2280

>>125397234
Nobody cares about your ic drama

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>>125397213
>>125396512
>>125396447
to sell a cat you put it up the canon in the corner of the room and it shoots it.

I could make it so your receive the newspaper every couple of minutes and the more cats you sell the more news change and talk about kitty overlords unleashing hell on humanity and take over major cities and stuff.

Could go for a specs-op/eversion ripoff that lasts for like an hour.

>>125397639
How about going the cookie clicker route and make the news cats save cancer, demand for cats increase and stuff like that

If you don't dev at least 18 hours per day, then you are a nodev.

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Some last hour feedback before it's too late? You wanna be an anime bat girl growing the world tree with her bat friends, right? https://up1.ca/#W7j1Dh8tXNqVRt1gYoCuKA

>>125396157
no, I just remember in the past playing games like Receiver and being surprised at how poorly optimized they were. Though maybe that's just from being a week-long dev project? I guess I'll take >>125396052 to heart and learn the engine optimization techniques.

Another question, how do I make good loop-de-loops and things in blender? I want to practice modular pieces for a stunt car racing game but I have trouble making loops that don't look weird, and they rarely match up well with other pieces.

>>125391664
Yes, slower flashing.

>>125398216
It's okay to take a break

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

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What's a less-silly way to do a deflection-type animation? This way is a bit too goofy

>>125383946
>125383946
Got a link mate?

>>125398396
splines

>>125398396
Extrude and rotate with proportional editing on

>>125398690
> hot poo

>>125398690
It looks cool but it shouldn't be completely accurate everytime. Like in Star Wars how some shots go off in a random direction.

>>125398687
Im not a fan of gamenificated audio books but wathever rocks your boat

hahahahahahahahaha

>>125398690
Whatever the case, it looks like your weapon is too small when spinning there, and the animation is too long.

I don't know exactly what's going on there, but perhaps a distinct getting-ready hold and then a super quick spin/single slash would look better (though I guess the latter more appropriate for a sword).

Also: Looks like he's holding the scythe out way too far. Kinda hard to have much power when your holding your arm fully extended.

>>125398782
splines, how do apply?

>>125398854
I'll try it


One more thing, how to create and export smoothing groups in blender?

>>125399514
>splines, how do apply?
i dont know, google it. you will get the idea

>>125398318
Took me awhile to get that "shoot bats at things" makes trees grow. "Grow the world trees" is ambiguous as fuck.

Also, why can you shoot when you don't have a bat... if not having a bat means shooting isn't effective?

And why does shooting bats at trees make them grow ? ? ?

>>125396716
beautiful

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>spend a few days planning out a dialog system with html style text formatting
>work on it for 3 days straight and make no progress
>realize it would just be easier to have one simple UI widget control the dialog trees
welp

>>125398690
your first mistake is having the scythe as far away as the arms extend when defending

bend the arms and rotate the scythe slightly so that it isn't completely vertical for a defensive stance

and when reacting to a deflection bend the arms/rotate the scythe to a vital point like the head or upper body, have a few variations of animations so you can cycle through them each time you get hit

>>125398930
>>125399328
What can be gained from hating on someone who you should be looking up to? Not only is it bad for your own psyche because it's subconsciously programming you to be a loser, it's bad karma as well.

>>125400102
Nice fallout 5 clone

>>125400602
how can i clone something that hasnt come out yet?
also most of the game wont look all run down like this, this is just the first level and i havent made the level that this npc monitor thing will be in

>>125400173
>>125398690
here are the witcher 3 animations when geralt deflects arrows with his sword

https://youtu.be/v4VjQBirsOE?t=28

>>125399396
thanks for the feedback anon you are the true hero of our time

>>125401001
fuck off

>>125401001
meant to >>125399926

>>125400873
>he thinks its ok to clone things just because they havent come out yet
you disgust me

>Felix is on the prowl
Eeeehhhhh

>>125401105
why are you so angry?

>>125397528
Downloading now. Congrats anon

>>125393043
Playing this one too.
Congrats anon.

>>125401607
uploaded version is a little janky
trying to fix it now ) :

>>125401771
godspeed

>>125393043
the controls why are they so bad? Its like I'm playing a console game.

>>125389852
That looks neat, how did you do that blood ?

>>125402302
do you mean the fact that there's only two buttons or the responsiveness?
also uploaded a much less buggy version:
http://rainfrogs.itch.io/luxurious-panama-hats

>>125397528
Everyone should be playing this instead of shitposting as usual. It's amazing.

>>125403321
Because I still retain ownership of my immortal soul.

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>>125403321
Extending the time limit for those who need it :)

Every night I go to bed thinking about all the video game(s) I want to make

Every day I wake up to nodev

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>>125403321

>>125397528
pretty rad!
One thing is I couldn't tell when I was losing health, but I love the reload mechanic
very fun

So, if you need music for your game the robots can now do it for you free of charge.
>https://www.jukedeck.com

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>>125403321
You have 20 seconds to explain why you are a faggot.

>>125403609
How many gems to extend it a little more?

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Shit's done. If Gamejolt hadn't fucked up on file processing I could have uploaded it to less dubious servers.

Anyway:

>http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=51350

Also my first Unreal project ever. So it might be bugged in some places.

>>125403609
thanks bro.
I don't have a mobile cellular phone so I can't properly test a game or test how enjoyable it would be.

However if I ever got a phone I would make a mobile game, but mostly for my own entertainment.

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>>125403321

>>125397528
this game is fucking cool and hard and cool

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>>125404331
Also it's a Katamari clone

>>125404331
shiiit I also wanted to make a Katamari-like game for the jam. I didn't manage it though because I completely lack 3D knowledge.

>>125404331
Have I seen those assets before somewhere?

>>125397847
I both like and hate the cookie clicker route. It makes for really addictive games but amassing resources to push the same button faster gets old really quick.

And I can say that after sifting through the app store on this Ipad I got as a gift, downloading, playing for a day and then deleting dozens of incremental games like that with no other purpose than you coming back after a few hours and pressing 5 buttons.

I kind of like the "these aren't really cats" route since you buy them off of this weird Russian website. It sells cats and just because the site is poorly translated you think you're still buying cats when really you're buying some fucked up animal and feeding them mystery meat. I think I'll just try to capitalize on making the game be really original even if nonsensical.

>>125404613
I'm tired as fuck and forgot about the cat game and thought you were using fucked up bootleg Russian cats as a metaphor for cookie clicker games.

Is anyone keeping a list of AGDG Ludum Dare games?
I'd like to play them

>>125396226
>>125397639
>>125404613
hey, uh, do you need/want music for your game?

>>125405480
here:

>>125378157
>>125404331
>>125397528
>>125393043

>>125404585
Unless you secretly watched me in the last three days, I guess not.

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our LD jam game is in

>http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=64633

>>125405931
I know you only come here to shill, but you could at least have posted a screenshot during development.

>>125405510
do you have a page where I can see what's your style?

>>125396093
no

>>125406368
i'll just post my personal one since i don't remember the password for my game music one:
https://soundcloud.com/dj-rozwell/tracks

it's probably weird to say this but i just started making a song based on the gameplay clip you posted

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ld game http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=7173

>>125406947
fuck this was an /agdg/ game all along?
I thought it was just someone shitposting about rixels. Nice

>>125379441
I've wondered for ages, are you colour blind to some degree? Some colours that you picked and their relation to each other seem off and i've seen colour blind people do similiar things.
No offense, just curious.

>>125407103
if you look closely they're actually not rixels

the image is actually being drawn and then scaled properly so it all still fits on a grid

i applaud bat anon

>>125406792
that roygbiv cover

don't work too hard just for me anon, I'd hate to make you work for nothing (I'm kind of picky). I do enjoy your sound though. Pretty good.

>>125406947
>http://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-34/?action=preview&uid=2280
gj gj anon
really good job for 2 days

>>125407807
I know they are't rixels
But some anon got told because he insisted they were
and then he moved goalposts for a while

>>125407963
but that's 3 days

>>125400102
would be cooler if it went to the screen slowly like in fallout or just a fov change.
something to indicate what its doing.
but that switch from dark to bright killed me

>>125385818
Colored light sourcing according to the wiki

i don't know what it meants but i guess its similiar to unreal 1 light handling

>>125406220
i wanted to really, but we really worked up to the deadline. sorry for looking like a shill but, its totally free, i'd rather post something and add to the progress than nothin

>>125403321
>>125403609
but I am making a mobile game.
I'm devving on my PC and playtesting it on my Iconia Tab infront of me

>>125406947
Now post the lewds, lad

>>125405931
FUCKING AMAZING

>>125407819
thanks man, i'll totes make you proud

when i'm done should i email it to you or what

>>125397528
This is fucking spectacular. Not even just the gameplay, but the tone and atmosphere is wildly original. It almost evokes a kind of Middens/Space Funeral vibe of weirdness.

>>125406947
You better make an actual game with that batgirl now
Please

Homph - thanks for playing Frauki. Watching someone play is good feedback. But I have to say, you are perhaps the worst player I have ever seen :P

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>>125408603
i dont want to do anything that looks like fallout, i think im just going to put the dialog screen in the game world like this

So I'm three tutorials in so far in Unity, and I'm just wondering if any of you guys use paper and pen/pencil to write out your ideas first or if you jump straight in to writing codes with placeholder assets?

I've never taken a programming class so I don't have the intuition yet of what exactly I'm writing these scripts for or just what options I have for all of their interactions with each other. But, it feels pretty neat bringing something I made in blender or max over and trying to shoehorn them into the tutorials haha.

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I'm not good of the arts

>>125409243
yes that is way way better

>>125409283
dig your teeth in movement and camera control, when comes the time do gui and mechanics

>>125409243
That is so much better, the other way was super jarring.

Okay so how do I make a 3D RPG as easy as possible. Nothing along the lines of FF or DQ in terms of graphics or anything. Just something simple. Would UE4 be a death sentence in this regard?

>>125409283
write your plans down.
a to-do list is must have if you want to be a yesdev because once you implement a feature or finish an asset you have to know what to do next because you are usually generating more ideas than features/assets.

>>125409464
you need to be a good programmer

>>125409464
>as easy as possible
make a 2d rpg first

>>125409464
choose ue4 or unity
it comes down to your personal preference since, for a full game, you will put in all of your free time anyways.
they both have their own strengths.
go look at youtube videos of both engines, look which one you like more from what you're seeing.
and dont listen to the engine haters.
and theres no easy way to do a 3d rpg

>>125409464
Not more than any other engine. The real challenge about making RPGs is data persistence and proper abstraction. Using your tools should be the smallest problem.

>>125409680
That's nice, thanks for the help I suppose.

>>125409710
I highly doubt there is enough of a difference to really matter in this regard, but thanks for the advice.

>>125409784
I know it's not EASY but I just want it to be as easy as possible. I kinda want to just make some assets, throw some code together and have a shit ton of text boxes.

>>125409964
>I highly doubt there is enough of a difference to really matter in this regard, but thanks for the advice.
how naive
make something manageable first
don't launch into anything big for a first project

>>125409680
No you don't
Unity is built for retards

>>125409026
can you send this shit on tumblr (@neetdev)?
otherwise you can send it to [email protected]

again don't work too hard, I would hate to have to not use it just because I feel it doesn't fit or whatever.

>>125409964
>I highly doubt there is enough of a difference to really matter in this regard

3D is a whole new dimension of problems
yeah that was a pun

If you make a 2D rpg first, you're probaly going to use a simpler engine instead of unity and unreal.
Unity and unreal are amazing, yeah, but once you're good with them you're good at making an unreal/unity game. not a game in general.

So, if you go 2d with a simple 2d engine, you'll focus on learning how to code stuff yourself. After you're done, and once you go 3d, you only need to learn the 3d stuff, cos you aqlready know how games work, how an rpg works, and how to make it

it's literatlly the most solid advice you're gonna get

t. drunkdev

I think I seriously have insomnia. It's 5:30AM and I just turned on my laptop in bed after rolling around trying to sleep for an hour. I just can't fucking keep any thoughts away from my mind as soon as I lie down and close my eyes. I'm only really tired in the morning/afternoon. What the fuck is wrong with my brain aggydaggy?

Can't dev here either because I forgot to commit the last changes from the PC and I have no IDE set up (got Linux here and Windows there). I'm not sure I'm gonna make it in time for the jam's end, I have so much shit to do at the uni I barely got free time. Maybe if I don't let myself play vidya and dev instead...

>>125410150
I'm not. Why do you assume I haven't made other games..? Anyway, I'll keep working at it.

>>125410296
Except I'm really only using Unreal for the render engine. That's it. So what you just said doesn't make sense. Look at Bamham. Rocksteady literally only used Unreal for it's render engine and because it was easily portable. That's it.