/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

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>>126813578
hbhbhbhbhbhbhbhb

>>126813663
hchchchchchchchch

>>126813578
>>126813663
>>126813876
>>126813997
Great start guys. Great start.

Fucking idiots.

>>126813578
>>126813663
>>126813876
>>126813997
This reminds me of when I try to play most AGDG games.

What? No HD?

What are you retards doing?

Metroidvania guy here. Reccomend me some power ups.

>>126814291
What is the setting/theme

>>126814291

Grappling hook, but let the players swing from any ceiling.

>>126814291
Lasers

>>126814291
electric guitar

>>126814427
nice ror clone

>>126814291
glitch from Axiom Verge

whats the game with the most fantastic set of weapons and why is it castlevania course of darkness? why dont more games copy it?
dead rising is a close second

should i continue to nodev?
or should i actually get off my ass, make a coffee, get back onto my ass and just make game?

>>126814335
gnomes, mushrooms and fantasy shit

>>126814561
whats that?

>>126814774
if your making a metroidvania without playing the popular metroidvanias

your doing it wrong

>>126814291
Freezing time.

>>126814679
yes stay nodev, that will be less concurrency for us, yesdev :^)

>Fire up Game Maker for the first time in years
>D&D seems almost identical to what it was in GM6 or 7
>Looks like bashing together a game with D&D tools will be more unwieldy than I remember

So this is why people nodev.

>>126814291
possession (of objects and enemies)

>>126814832
I only played older ones like Super Metroid, SOTN, Wonderboy etc. only a couple of the newer ones.

>>126814968
http://store.steampowered.com/app/332200/

>>126814291
Glitches that allow you to sequence break

>>126814774
It allows you to spam it next to every wall in the game hoping you find a hidden wall.

It's a retarded concept. Secrets where they're literally hidden in a random wall in a random place have no place existing. You need to somehow point the player in the direction of a secret with something subtle like dialogue or text on items and so on.

>>126814561
Axiom Verge was so fucking tedious.

Christ I hated that WALK INTO THE WALL FOR A FEW SECONDS THEN TELEPORT THROUGH IT thing.

>>126815086
>>126815104
this is the first time i heard of someone not liking it

>>126815175
Because you spend your time in hugboxes.

>>126815195
look at its reviews

>>126815175
this is because reddit downvotes unpopular opinions, so you dont get to read them

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>>126815073
oh my shit this game looks honest as fuccccck, should i get it?

>>126813483
>>126813575
No, it was STRAFE.
Basically my game idea amounts to a modded STRAFE.

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>>126815257
im looking

>>126814968
play axiom verge AND Environmental Station Alpha.

ESA is mostly about well timed jumps and learning patterns, it's still a good metroid-like game even if hard as fuck

Axiom verge's grappling hook is complete shit while ESA's is pretty fun

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Progres incoming! Fucking did it. I made a script to curve unity canvas in world space. Will be used in my spaceships game.

There are still some issues to work out with raycaster though.

>>126815434
the second review sounds fine

also i never played it

your critiques could be valid

i wouldnt know

>>126815460
The only metroidvania you need to play in 2015 is ITSP

I bet the people who like Axiom Verge played it with a walkthrough opened because actually searching for the secrets makes you an autis. Oh wait, I forgot where I'm at.

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Added shield for the ship.
I wonder if i should let the player use weapons with the shield up, or make double sided as a trade off.

>>126815556
what's that

>>126815460
>>126815556
Ori and the Blind Forest is the best Metroidvania since DS Castlevania games.

It's also in my top 3 games of the year together with Bloodborne and Undertale.

>>126815589

cool

what engine?

>>126815589
That shield effect is great.

>>126815335

STRAFE is garbage anyways with that whole proc. gen stage bullshit, the guns look cool and I like the concept of swapping out the primary and secondary fires for a unique weapon. But the really shitty thing is how the character's view swings around so sharply when you get hit. it's awful.

>>126815460

Can confirm about ESA, it's fucking great and tough as nails, the hookshot in that one is so much fun

>>126815813
>Which devs to bully and shitpost: The List

Thanks

>>126815704
Unity 5

>>126815765
Thanks, it could be even better if i knew shit about shader coding which i don't

>>126815856
how are you going to bully them if they only show up to post in recap?

>>126816027
;^)

>>126812115
Bah I clicked the .webm expecting that shit in the background to be moving all on separate layers. That would have been dank as fuck.

where can i find a general formula for a car's acceleration?

>>126812115
This literally physically hurts to look at.

>>126816027
You could bully their recap post

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Here's my little progress. My robot dude is slowly taking shape.


And yes I am aware that he probably looks like shit and that I am taking too slow to make a simple sprite, but I am learning and I am proud of him.


Still can't find a god damn name for him.

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Trying to implement explosions.

>>126815813
Yo, friend, can you post December 1 and 2?

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>>126816027
you can't

>>126812115
looks good anon, would be cool if things moved more, like the back ground

>>126816170
Looks like shit.

You'll never be able to animate it.

Just go with simple vector art you'll be able to make progress then.

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>>126814291
A mecha weapon that gradually becomes stronger the further you get through the game, and each powerup is a new additional mecha form/morph like for example a sword, bow or grappling hook form, which then give you the ability to break through barriers you couldn't get through before, allowing you to move to new levels.

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>>126815634
Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet

>>126815175
Even one of the neo-/v/ favorite youtube reviewers disliked it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHnoA9JEIFk

>>126816403
Ah, I might as well try that one, it's 80% off right now

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>>126816259
>You'll never be able to animate it.
Well, this is the kind of sprite I need to animate, because I need this point of view for combat, and I tried to make is so later animation is easier because of pic related.

Though, I'd like to know WHAT is shit though. I just want to get better at it is all.

>>126816170

Friend you're inexperienced with art and drawing characters right? Maybe you should start small scale before doing big stuff like this

>>126816185
>Yet Another SS13 Successor #42,342 god speed.
You're going to fucking fail though. Sorry about your wasted time.

>>126816537
That's why I said you should go with vector art if you're going to do skeletal animation anyway.

And it's obvious why it's shit, it's really rough looking, the colors are flat as fuck, the geometry doesn't look appealing.

>>126814561
>>126815104
>>126815086
>>126815175
I both liked Axoim Verge and hated it. Super tedious indeed. At least the music was swank and the platforming was more or less solid.

It would have been cool if exploring was a constant thing rather than "ok you can explore the whole world now have fun".

>>126816670
It's okay Anon.

>>126816660
Yes that's true. I'm just very impatient with everything is the problem here. I tried to learn to draw, but I am REALLY bad at it. I don't really know how to improve.

>>126816680
I REALLY don't want vector art because I don't like the art style. Moreover I heard that doing vector art requires extreme precision as the type is less mistake forgiving.

>>126816847
>I'm just very impatient with everything is the problem here.

Anon, vidya design requires patience in all fields, graphics, sound, and actual programming, if you want your game to be good, take the time and make it worthwhile.

>>126816773
and if the guy making a metroid vania played it

it would help him for these same realisations

>want to make progress videos on youtube
> have 700kb/s upload and I'm already paying 80$ a month for comcast so I don't even want to ask them how much for a decent upload speed

>>126817336
upload overnight
You don't really need to babysit the process

>>126817336
just make them at 480p, it'll be fine

>>126817336

>comcast

I am so sorry. Is there no other company in your area? If not I highly recommend moving out and going elsewhere

>>126817228
Indeed.

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>>126817490
it's either comcast or some noname broadband company that offers 200kbs download speeds for 30$ a month

at least portland is on the list for google fiber
h-haha

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gotta fix all the projectile skills to work with precision skills, this is going to take a while

>>126816170
decrease the resolution until you get better

Who pycDev here?

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>trying to animate sprites

>>126817590

do you do the art too?

>>126816403
never managed to get past the title screen, it had some weird stutter shit and problems with resolution so I gave up

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>mfw WebGL framerate hovering around 10 fps

I guess I have to do some optimizations.

>>126816773
oh man me and my buddies laughed out loud when we got to that one desert level with the girl singing in the background

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Shield now breaks when damaged too much

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time to dust off the old bamboo

>>126817915
gotta draw them to be animated to begin with mate

>being furry

>>126818280
I feel like the shield should be be made of hexagons, and the impacts should be hexagonal.

Everything should be hexagons

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>>126818421
But the shield is made from hexagons.. sort of

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>>126816027
you can bully me, seriously though i need some feedback on my button sprites, i think they're okay since i was going for a simple and cartoony style

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>>126818280
if you're gonna do it like that take a hint from halo and have it flare up before dissipating

>>126818421
You can't make a sphere only out of hexagons

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Bulletholes , also worked on a synthwave song for the game today

>>126818586
Looks very f2p mobile game

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>paid 200$ for this 3 years ago
>never used it for anything
>never really drew anything before
is this what anons who paid for gamemaker and never did anything with it feel like

>>126818593
i will probably do something like that lately when i'm sure i want to keep it in this form

>>126818672
lmao same story except I bought an Intuous Pro(it was called just Intuos back then)

>>126818672
they don't have to see gamemaker every time they look at their desk

>>126818280
Are you using a shader to make the impact marks?
It looks sort of like you're just creating those effects on the surface of the shield.

Also the explosions looks kinda meh~ I think it goes way to far out for the type of effect you're using and it doesn't seem to line up perfectly with the existing shield. I think it's starting the effect slightly further out

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>>126818670
Close, its a f2p pc game, no microtransaction shit though, i was gonna make a full version if people liked it because i had a tonne of ideas for different multiplayer modes its just making online multiplayer is a complete nightmare sometimes

>>126818657
post fgt

>>126818657
the muzzle flash looks kinda weird

otherwise it's pretty gud

>>126818763
I had it buried under a bunch of crap so I didn't have to be reminded of it

now it's got a 2cm gouge in the drawing space, feels bad

>>126818593
wow, that effect has aged terribly

>>126818657
Those bullet holes look nice, good work.

>>126818784
Like i said above, i don't know shader coding, so i am stuck with workarounds and free shaders. (And i'm not going to use paid ones). The effect isn't actually bending, that would take a specific shader which i don't have, so it's placed there and aligned to look like it is.

>>126818657
is that blitting? careful it wrecks performance on toasters

>people that pronounce wacom "whack-um"

>>126816670
SS13 doesn't even need a successor, it's alive and well.

tfw headache every day

>>126818672
I'm looking to buy one, so on the off chance you're in Norway, I'd be willing to make a deal.

>>126818657
Gonna go ahead and second that "muzzle flash looks weird"

>>126819873
not to alarm you but that could be a tumor, get medical help

>>126818657
do u like Party Hard

reminds me of that game

>200$ for a pen tablet
>700$ for photoshop
>3000$ for a decent mac
is that why good artfags are so rare?

>>126820030
i am now alarmed

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>>126820069
>$700 for Photoshop.
>Mac.

>>126820069
pros use at least 3 different programs

>>126820069
>mac
>3000

holy fuck I'd build the beastiest of beast PC with that much cash

Here's your (You) shitstain.

>>126820069
only fags use any of that shit

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Retard/Newbie reporting in

I'm following this GameMaker guide but running into an error on this step. What'd I do wrong?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB2alpO62GM&t=22m0s

>>126818672
>owning a tablet
>not playing osu! on it
It must be suffering not to be a weeb.

>>126818672
I use mine as a mouse, it's comfy as fuck when you get used to it.

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tfw bad at art
tfw 3 more years till im decent

>>126820729
Learn programming instead

>>126820069
>Paying for photoshop instead of torrenting it.
>Using a mac.

>>126819910
>want to buy a wacom
>just after christmas and black friday deals where wacom tablets were at -50%
dude..

>>126820563
You're using standard edition GM. Box2D physics are only for professional edition, use x or hspeed instead.

>>126820810
i want to learn everything though, including music

gonna make a 1man game cause all my friends are terrible people with no skills (like me)

>>126820841
Oh, you're right

What do you mean "use x or hspeed" doe?

>>126820928
>>126820841
x = x + 1;

Like that?

http://gamedesign.wikidot.com/gamemaker:x

>>126820069
why are fags so common when it costs so much to be one

>>126821018
x += 1;

more efficient

>>126821098
cuter? yes
efficient? naah

>>126819938
thanks for your based advice , I will make it look cooler

>>126821098
>Not x++
Scrub.

did any of you actually sit and read art books instead of whining

>>126821397
>x++
>not ++x
have fun with your additional copy of x baka

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>>126821427

>>126821018
>>126821098
>>126821397
>>126821641
>mutation

>>126820069
photoshop costs something like 9€/month

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>>126821641
>>126821397
>>126821139
>>126821098
>>126821709
Is there any reason I'll want to use these instead of just using GameMakers built in move function if I'm not planning on coding?

>>126821658
>reading programming books

>>126817336
Mate I have like 100 kb/s and I make do.

Sucks that HD's the standard now though. 480p would be way easier.

>>126821804
BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

>>126821802
you can use gimp instead

>>126822203
oh cool i always wanted to use photoshop from 15 years ago

>>126813876
>>126813663
>>126813997
>>126813578
why do only some get deleted but not all of them?

>>126820810
>>126820920
you don't need programming anymore thanks to blueprints

>>126822535
Blueprints are programming.

>>126822526
because the mod is a racist

>>126822379
funnily enough, photoshop CS2 is free and by itself already better than gimp

3D is too hard

ITS TOO HARD!!!!

>>126822526
janny is just trying to set an example

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>need to pay $1500 to remove unity splash screen
>if you dev on mobile you need to pay another $1500 for android and another $1500 for ios to remove the splash there as well

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>>126822578

>>126822671
No it's not

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>>126821804
A-anyone?

unrelated pic of my kitty

>>126822671
If things are too hard use softbodies dingus.
>>126822704
Don't you just need to buy one month of pro for release day? That's only $75.

>>126822704
Congratulations, you have discovered the Unity™ business model

>>126822704
Do people have a problem with an engine splash screen as a concept, or specifically the Unity one?

I think adding the UE4 one to my game will make it look more professional.

>>126822809
Nope, you have to pay for at least 12 months.

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>3DS Max is $%INF/mo
>Photoshop is $Money/mo
please do not arrest me for pirating these things autodesk and adobe I would buy them if I had a patreon

>>126821804
>>126822801

Because eventually its both easier to look at and to write up your own actual movement system.

You really should try to move away from using DnD as much as possible because its limiting, and cumbersome to use when you get past the early stages of a project.

>>126822864
If the splash screen just said "Unity" it wouldn't be a problem. The problem is the splash screen says "PERSONAL EDITION" and you can't release a game with that garbage.

And Unity has a bad reputation unlike UE4.

>>126822891
why would you use 3DS over maya especially if you gonna pirate it

>>126822864
UE4 splashscreen is okay because it's professional and well known, unity is known for garbage greenlight shovelware and meme games

>>126822891
you don't have to pirate 3ds dummy

>>126822864
It looks like you're a shitty basement dev, not a pro

>people are still unironically using closed source programs and engines
sad tbqh

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Dying turns you into a spooky scary skeleton.

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im gonna make a strider clone

>>126823021
Because I started 3D with 3DS Max 6 and if I were to bother learning anything alongside it I'd learn blender, but blender is an almighty clusterfuck of poor application design so I've never bothered.

>>126823021
>Using Maya
>Over 3ds max
>Or anything
I'd rather use Blender than Maya

>>126823137
maya is getting closer to max in terms of modeling
plus you can get it for free with student license for 3 years

>>126823106
they fixed at least half of the poor design choices in blender in the past 2 years

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>>126822535
>blueprints

So I was wondering if you guys could help me organize my code. I want to write a console so I can edit the game as I run it (it'll be an interface for my Lua bindings). I also want to have a logger, so I can print debug information without writing to std::cout (which slows things down), rather write them at close or to a file or something (or hell, just draw it to the screen). And then, coupled with the first one, I want to have a manager class that handles the loading of scripts and manages the Lua state.

How would you split all these up? They seem rather interrelated, so it's hard to come up with the dividing lines.

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>>126823070
gentoo

>>126822891
http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/3ds-max

3ds max you can get full version for free for educational purposes. basically "we know that if you're not already established 3d modeller or a company that needs it you will probably not be able to afford it, so here have it for free, learn it well and make something of yourself"

photoshop just doesn't bother with piracy much, they make all their cash from companies, esp in the gaming and publicity industry.

going after pocket change money and throwing some peasants in jail would just make them look bad and they know it.


as long as you are not obviously making cash off of these programs, they won't bat an eye.

make game
get dosh
buy programs with dosh

>>126822704
I remember there was a way to remove this through some files, also you can pirate the pro version. If you want to remove it legaly, then you have to suck unitys cock, because they created that "personal edition" splashscreen for exactly that reason.

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>>126823248
>mfw casual programming babies can't handle this
git gud

>>126823208
No thanks, I already got 3ds max for free on a 3 year educational license (which is identical to their professional license/product)

>>126823259
Messaging system?

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Welp, it ain't much, but I've finally taken my first steps into shitty placeholder pixel art.

Does anyone else get exhausted from learning stuff?

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>>126823248
reminds me of when /g/ told me to use puredata to generate sound

>>126823450
yes
i downloaded 8 gig tutorial on character creation pipeline production for games
it took him 5 weeks to finish the character, i only took the lessons i needed from it

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>Want to make an RTS like Age of Empires but don't know shit about AI

>>126823514
puredata would be fine if there were an escape hatch to do more mathy/evented stuff in a proper language
like max msp has

>>126822864
>>126822704
I just pirated unity and replaced the unity splashscreen with UE4 splash screen

>>126823568
>5 weeks to finish the character
>creation pipeline production for games
lmao what, was is some digital tutor garbage or what?

>>126823293
Don't you need an edu account for that? Considering I'm 25 I haven't had one of those for years.

>>126823635
which is why I switched to learning nyquist.

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>>126823368
>mad that he isn't smart enough to learn programming
It's alright, everyone has some flaws.

>>126823791
phoenix altier or something
dude teaches in some college, had some many mechanical shit on the character it took him 2 weeks to retopo it

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>>126823883
t. man who think that blueprints are hard

lmaooooooooooo

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>>126823259
Something like this, maybe? If you're really only going to use the logger to print to the console then you might as well combine them, though.

I'd keep the scripting system separate, and have it print things in terms of logging like every other system.

>>126823434
I wouldn't use a messaging system. Lots of overhead, especially if the messages have a specific destination (messaging is good when the messages should be broadcast to anything that wants to listen, though).

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Recommend me a winter jam game I can masturbate to /agdg/

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What would hell shoes look like? They're supposed to be put on the feet of the dead in Nose religion stories. They serve as a ground pound attack in the game.

>>126824273
i really like that polished flash game aesthetics, keep going my dude

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got npc's moving around. Server controls movement. going to add a* pathfinding in a few minutes

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>>126824217
Do not lewd the /agdg/

DO NOT lewd the /agdg/

PLEASE DO NOT

>>126824546
What did you say?
"Do lewd the /agdg/"?
Ok, if you insist...

>>126824540
mirin' that runescape UI

>>126823948
Oh I do like this. I'll just combine the console and logger and dump it to a file at close.

However, I also feel a messaging system would work wonders in other parts of my engine. Any good resources, in C++ or language-agnostic if possible?

Thanks, by the way!

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behold

the final boss

>>126825235
whats her tumblr

>>126824217
y-you can masturbate to my winter jam game, anon.

>>126824540
Isn't A* with nodes? Do float coordinates have nodes?

>>126814961
GML is so easy, though. If you really want to DND, use Construct Classic.

>>126825323
>practice loomis
>turns into tumblrdyke
what does it MEAN

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is this better ?

>>126824753
http://www.randygaul.net/2013/09/02/powerful-c-messaging/
This looks pretty good. Author is a smart guy.

>>126824753
http://www.randygaul.net/2013/09/02/powerful-c-messaging/

Try this slideshow

>>126825468
excessive as fuck
i like it

>>126825468
If it's an RPG, then maybe

>>126825468
Those styles don't mix. Also you're glitching.

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>>126825508
>>126825523

>>126825468
>that fucking muzzle flash
GO
GO
GO
GALO SENGEN

>>126823248
>Not making functions
Well there's your problem.
I bet your code looks like cluttered shit too.

>>126825468
pixel art doesnt mix with what you're doing on the muzzle flash and smoke. look at how games with similar art styles to yours do their effects

In Unity is there a way to designate a particular color of a sprite as transparent? My sprite sheet has a blue background that I don't want to remove because my eyes will explode if I have to draw on a bright white transparent color background.

I can't find a way to do it in the inspector or sprite editor.

>>126822801
that's a pretty cute kitty anon

>>126825753
Just make the file PNG with transparency, you don't need to worry about masking with a colour as alpha when it can take modern file formats. Unity's surprisingly unselective with what it'll take too, even accepts loading in non-power-of-two files, as horrible as that is.

>>126825468
is there a way for you to run that game at native pixel resolution? I bet that would make it a lot more consistent.

Art is not something that can be learned. If you're lucky, you'll be born with it, in which case you can practice and get better. Or if you're less fortunate, you won't be born with it, in which case you will continue to practice all your life and never improve.
Prove me wrong.

which providers offer private git repos for free?

>>126825931
Prove yourself right, faggot.

>>126825857
Was wondering when you were going to get accio into it

>>126825974
bitbucket

>>126825753
I dunno, piskel has a gridded gray and white background for transparent colors. I thought it was pretty common in sprite editors.

>>126825404
You can "discretize" a continuous space first, find a path in discrete space then at runtime the agent can travel "smoothly" between nodes

>>126825857
Still keeps looking slicker and slicker each time you post it. Does need a better transition to broom though, the snapp-y one doesn't look great.

>>126826014
already use it, but i need at least one more so i don't put my eggs into just one remote basket

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>>126825351
Which one is yours?

It better don't be the butt one because I just played it and I'm not into farts.

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>>126826097
>It better don't be

>>126826095
gitgud.io probably has free repos but it also seems to be owned by some 4+4 fags.

>>126825931
unless your visual and/or learning skills are legitimately impaired, you will be able to make art with enough practice.

bitching on /vg/ about not being able to make art gets you nowhere

>>126826067
Neat. I thought it might be something like that.

>>126826219
welp that would be probably too risky

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Almost done with the hub for my Yume Nikki-inspired game. How does it look?

I'm stuck on what to do for the background though. I tried a black background with pixel stars but it looked like shit. Should I just slap a NASA stock image in the back and call it a day?

>>126825857
>that nick-of-time save
that's gonna suck shit if you fall from a smaller height

>>126825404
I plan on converting the current tilesheet which is 50x50 into 5x5 tiles logicaly, then running a* which should give me a path to my destination in x and y C-oordinates.

You are correct in understanding a* requires nodes.

>>126825753
Make an alphamap, or save as imagefile with transparent background.

>>126825989
i already have ;_;

>>126825974
Why free? Open hand from that money, you cheaper.

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How much loomis do I have to do before I can start making sprites

>>126826459
Googum, is that you?

>>126826286
This makes me think of Dragonball for a reason. I like it.

Do people make websites for free?

You can find people to help with any other aspect for free, but I've never seen someone offer to make a site.

>>126826286
personally I'd put a few satellites up there, constellations and maybe an aurora.

>>126826482
not him

I want to make an isometric cRPG. Dear God, this is going to take years. Wish me luck.

>>126826482
>implying idk how much loomis you need before making sprites

>>126826459
zero

>>126826558
A website isn't free baseline. That's why nobody does it for free.

If you search to do a website yourself, look for some basic HTML. It's not hard compared to C, Java and the like. It should be enough to present a downloable game.

>>126826624
It can be done. I'm playing an indie one right now and it's pretty great
I think Underrail took 7 years to develop, according to the release dev log

>>126826459
go on /ic/

>>126826158
Was my post unintelligible or that was actually your game? I clicked in that dev game and the his other games seem a lot better. What he was thinking?

>>126826459
>loomis
Pretty much everyone with a healthy hand has the motoric skills to draw, what you have to learn right now is how to observe things, training your perception of the world around you.

>>126826756
Yeah, and Spiderweb Software is one guy whose wife handles the business side of things. It's just a big, overwhelming project and I'm terrified I'll fuck up in some fundamental way and have to start from scratch.

>>126826624
The shitty part is the spriting. Are you up to it, or do you have an artist at hand?

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>>126825857
this is gonna be so good, are you gonnna add in hands and feet ?

Allright aggydaggy I'll make sprites in that case , no hidef in muh pixols.

>>126825641
check webm

>>126825895
no it has to be done manually so sometimes it can get pretty inconsistent but thats mostly a personal problem for me , I've people seen lots of people do it succesfully.

>>126826459
well looking at your epic art i dont think you even read loomis

>>126826830
Aerannisdev was never the same after his game bombed

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>>126826008
Please it's ~totally~ different

>>126826084
Thanks, I'll probably eventually swap to short animations, I'm not sure though.

>>126826294
You could always just use featherfall if you weren't trying to make hot exciting webms

>>126827012
I want to eventually have full body stuff, probably just a hat for DD6 though.

>>126825857
This might sound premature but yours is the game I want to play the most out of all games in AGDG

>>126826286
Nice to see a realistic deciption of Earth for once.

>>126826981
I have an artist at hand, but I'll probably eventually end up doing sprites myself regardless because unfortunately she has a life and gets paid by other people for art. I may get her to do portraits, background art for transitions, etc., though.

>>126827114
>nodev salty he cant draw

>>126827012
So it's an after image? I dunno, it looks really simple with all of them disappearing at once, and all in the same pose. But I have no idea how it should be done.

>>126824540
If I go into the link can I connect?

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GLSL 1.30 compatibility is so fucking stupid.

>muh sampler arrays indexed with non-constant expressions

>>126823092
Why did the third guy just disappear?

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>>126826974
>mfw there are series of cRPGs still being developed today that I've never heard of
>it's only $10 on Steam for all of them
Thanks a lot m8, looking forward to playing all of this

>>126827264
What happens if you fall on your head?

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it mostly works now
movement is kinda janky
get stuck in blocks a lot

>>126827432
>GLSL 1.30
alri grandad

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>>126827432
wait what are you trying to do

Why aren't you just incrementing the numbers in the square brackets instead of rewriting the same thing but with different numbers?
Why aren't you using a switch statement?
How many if statements are you hiding in the next couple of lines? Are the shadows capped at 3 or something?

>>126827694
Fuck off kid I didn't fight in nam for this shit

>>126827642
Wait, hold! Before you spend that money. Buy Avernum: Escape from the Pit and Avernum 2: Crystal Souls, instead of the full pack. Avernum 1, Avernum 2, Avernum 3, etc., are an older version. SS recreated 1 & 2 from the ground up with better controls and a generally more modern, nicer interface and better graphics than before.

I recommend just getting those two and waiting for the remake of 3 to come out.

And buy Avadon 1 & 2 if you want. Those are modern in themselves.

>>126827774
Did you actually read his post?
Apparently you can't access samplers with runtime values

>>126827818
Meh, I was playing Might and Magic Tome 1 for the first time like 2 months ago, age doesn't matter in games
I'll keep my tradition of playing games as if I was playing them back when they were released

>>126827658
Watching your gifs is like watching gifs off MOBAs you haven't played:
>things running around
>suddenly all of them star emitting dust
>particles, explosions everywhere
>2 seconds later it's all over with few survivors
>no idea who won, why or what happened in general

>>126827553
Not the guy you're replying to, but did you really have to ask that question?

Any person with half a brain would know that it's a glitch.

>>126828032
I get what you're saying, but as someone who's played both, the remakes are genuinely better, and enough better that I don't even consider them lazy cash-ins like I would consider something like BG: Enhanced Edition.

Regardless, your time and your money. And the previous versions are still worth playing.

>>126826286
yes satelites and also a lost ufo with a funny alien in it

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>>126828032
Does that mean he'll have to write that same line over and over for each light?

fuck rendering I'm using gamemaker forever

>>126827774
>Why aren't you just incrementing the numbers in the square brackets instead of rewriting the same thing but with different numbers?

Because that requires a variable. And using a variable index in a sampler array is forbidden in GLSL 1.30 (i.e shitty video cards).

>Why aren't you using a switch statement?
Never bothered. Don't think it will meaningfully reduce typing here, though.

>Are the shadows capped at 3 or something?

For the moment, yes.

>>126828164
:)

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If you're a nu-male, git oot

>>126828280
That's not normal. It's only for supporting old as fuck GPUs (i.e. being a cuck to poorfags).

>>126828338
that feel when balding at 21

>>126828338
beard and glasses combo is the toppest
keep hating

>>126827658
these always confuse the heck out of me but they look an awful lot of fun

>>126828338
> tfw 20-30 y/o with glasses and premature balding
> literally genetically predisposed to be a nu-male, if only physically

>>126828338
>y
>y
>n
>n
>n
>y
>n
>n
>n
>y
>y
>n
>n
>n
>n
>implying

I would have no problems being friends with anybody pictured
you should probably get over yourself anon, not everyone has to agree with you

>>126828338
>have a beard, are 25, and are attempting to be 'indie' dev

Not too bad to be honest. My twitter account is mainly used for following doujin artists anyway.

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Need a simple enemy to model that'd fit the strong and slow archetype.

Currently using slimes for casters and have a mantis model for the agile, low durability monster.

>>126829017
some form of fat ugly guy obviously
a pig man ork man bull man black man etc

>>126829017
There's a ton of bulky animals out there. You don't even have to use animals that are actually slow, just tough ones and people will automatically assume they're slow.

> Rhino
> Elephant
> Gorilla
> Pig
> Tortoise
> Orc
> Golem
> Robot
> Anything with metal components, even armor

>>126829017
M I N O T A U R
I
N
O
T
A
U
R

>>126829150
>black man

Dude, racism much?

>>126829254
numale pls

>>126829150
>black man
>trying to fit in that much
blacks are by far the fastest race in real life

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Is it possible to make a top down view look good. Like directly top down. Or is the slightly tilted view the only way to go.

>>126829361
what if there are is no law enforcer to run away from? check mate negro

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Made some shitty city tiles. On my way to fame and fortune, boys ;3

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>>126829453
>That fucking Kyon.
Generally top downs look like shit.
They work in bullet hell games though.

Is there any decent game dev software that's actually worth paying for, for someone who wants to make an RPG in the vein of the first two Fallout games, Shadowrun Returns/Dragonfall/Hong Kong, Arcanum, and so on?

Graphics don't matter too much to me.

If I already know C# and I want to learn C++ to just like make game, how long can it take me to learn C++ and its mumbojambo?

I could use Unity but C++ looks pretty comfy, with SFML or something like that

>>126829779
wasteland 2/new shadowrun games were made on unity

yes, it was made on unity

>>126829825
Not too long.
http://www.stroustrup.com/Programming/

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>>126829779
If you have to ask a question like this, I don't think you know even the first thing about gamedev.

Just start with gamemaker/unity and work your way from there. If you think you're too good for beginner stuff, skip that and learn pygame.

>>126829779
most engines have free versions that you can just try before you buy anyway, just mess around in gamemaker/unity and see what you like best

>>126829779
>worth paying for
that depends on you

any engine/framework can do that stuff

>>126829943
>pygame
>not beginner stuff

>>126829825
If you actually know C# then it should take you maybe a day to learn C++.
If you know if/else, while/for, recursion, and types, then it doesn't take long to learn most programming languages.
Exceptions may include Chapel

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>>126829631
even more progress! added some enemies :3

>>126829779
If you don't even have any game dev software installed yet, I can tell you that you aren't going to make anything close to something like Fallout or Arcanum.

So give up that idea now cause it ain't gonna happen because that's some expert-tier shit.

GOLDEN RULE OF GAME DEV:
KEEP IT SIMPLE, ASSHOLE
DON'T BE TOO FUCKING AMBITIOUS or you will become very depressed and discouraged and you will get absolutely nowhere

You need to start with Pong just like the rest of us.

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>>126829631
>On my way to fame and fortune, boys ;3
Not with Unity you're not.

>>126830045
Sorry anon, but when I was getting started, making a game directly from shit I wrote in notepad seemed extremely hardcore to me.

>>126828338

>25
>glasses
>shitty goatee because that's all can grow because genetics
>trying to indie dev

>angry, salty bastard
>refuse to support patreons because those are fucking stupid

Okay good. Moving on, this guy >>126830134 speaks truth

Keep it small and simple, dumbasses. Like it's good to have ambition but for christ's sake this is amateur game dev

wheres your anime game

>>126830087
Looks kool
Advance Wars-like?

>>126829879
Cool.
>>126829943
I've made some simple games in Unity before. But people pay for game dev software, so I figured there must be something worthwhile that that software offers, or else they'd just use one of the dozens of free options.
>>126829973
Thanks.
>>126830003
That's true. I suppose I was just curious if there was anything that would make things like pathfinding, isometric layouts, etc., easier.
>>126830134
I made Pong and then Tetris in Unity about a year and a half ago, then life got crazy and I didn't have time for game dev.

Richard Garriot's first game was an RPG.

>>126829897
>>126830084
but what about the finer parts of languages like C/C++, memory management and all that stuff?

>>126830134
>tfw first game was a prototype of the full game I'm making now

Was useful, can repurpose and tune a few of my old functions into Unity which saves a bunch of time.

>>126830420
Read the Stroustrup book and go through this:
https://github.com/isocpp/CppCoreGuidelines
And don't say C/C++. You're learning C++.

>>126830393
>pathfinding
some engines might have that built in, but it's not that hard to implement once you have a grasp on the known algorithms

>isometric layouts
no clue. the unity asset store probably sells something for that.

always start small, anon. learn to program and to mak gam first, then the engine or framework is just a tool, and you can pick the one that suits the job.
go make pong

>>126830579
>go make pong
I already did. And Tetris.

>>126830529
C/++ is a perfectly valid term if you're discussing things they have in common, like null terminated strings though

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> tfw always asking AGDG their secrets to a successful game when I realize they're in the same boat as me.
> tfw always asking /r9k/ their secrets to getting a gf when I realize they're in the same boat as me.
> tfw always asking IRL friends their secrets to a successful life when I realize they're in the same boat as me.

This 2016, I will be breaking the cycle!
Remember AGDG, the answer to success is inside of you! Only you are able to dig yourself out of the nodev hole.

>>126830639
>Tetris
woah there boy
you skipped space invaders, asteroids, and snek

>>126830729
Oops. I guess I can never make games now.