/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General - SYNTHETIC NIGGA HOURS

First for enginedeving.

File: Untitled.png (262KB, 715x447px) Image search: [Google]

262KB, 715x447px

http://strawpoll.me/6436242 Vote pls

3rd 4 fuck u

>>127520205
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaW5cpjBPpWrO1dRq4PAERAnoX2h2QldR
here ya go m8

>source is back in the OP

Did someone post shitfam's bail? A new era of literallyinsane shitposting is upon us.

File: 1435177517708.png (110KB, 379x329px) Image search: [Google]

110KB, 379x329px

Remember to juice your game
http://i.4cdn.org/vg/1451972197997.webm

>>127520389
Thats more motivational and gamedev, I have had people ask for help on many algorithms. I focus on technical and implementation.

>>127520205
>people voting Dungeon Generation and Beginners guide to game dev
There's literally millions of those tutorials already.

Do AI or Event system, it would be more interesting.

File: Fury realises she doesn't have adequate cooling to run that huge command buffer.png (836KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

836KB, 1280x720px

>>127520443
Wrong image FFS

is there a worse meme than Juice?

>>127520389
>says no money in game development
>sells his games at a premium

File: 1447885197331.gif (992KB, 320x240px) Image search: [Google]

992KB, 320x240px

>TFW writing story shit and noticing Undertale inspirations that slipped in without me even realizing it
>feel kind of disappointed with myself
>suddenly a revelation: Undertale is Cave Story
Holy shit, I never thought about it, but it's Cave Story. Everyone compares it to Mother/Earthbound, but the goat characters look just like Mimigas, the whole premise is about humanity venturing into an underground inhabited by monsters, you play the role of a silent youth, arrive after a slew of important events have already happened, and there's weird sci-fi villainy going on with supernatural villainy in the background.
Undertale is Cave Story.
Somehow this revelation makes me feel much better about sharing an element or two with it, knowing that Toby was probably heavily inspired by an older indie legend himself.

>>127520570
>motivation
i dont peddle that crap
>Beginners guide to game dev (covering how to start and where)
is what it is

File: variableSightRange.webm (1MB, 1024x576px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1024x576px

To the anon asking about FOV being different when I get a sprite; this is my plan -- to shift to a larger or smaller radius based on different effects or equipment. But I think I'm going to keep it symmetrical.

>>127520438
Notice a certain G* is posting in this thread.
I think we know why meme shitposts are back in the OP.

>>127520615
You're not the first one to notice this. I don't mean that in a "your opinion is unoriginal" way, I mean that your opinion is perfectly legitimate and others have come to the same conclusion independently. Even the name "Cave Story" is similar to the name "Under Tale," which leads me to believe it's more homage than derivative work.

>>127520604
whats the correlation?

>>127520589
holy shit those breasts.
Hngg

File: gm_4.webm (318KB, 640x360px) Image search: [Google]

318KB, 640x360px

well, this was an unexpected bug

So out of curiosity, have any AGDG devs completed games that became really successful?

>>127520785
Fury is very self conscious about her external cooling!

File: 1436629773950.jpg (282KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

282KB, 1280x720px

>>127520443
Onii-chan where's vulkan

>>127520824
>You got a child

File: MELTDOWN2016.gif (17KB, 300x287px) Image search: [Google]

17KB, 300x287px

>>127520723
>>127520438

>>127520582
Well cast your vote. Ill be doing them all just in vote order.

>>127520641
Exactly and I aim to do algorithms people want implemented

Everything done is most likely already in a tutorial somewhere, I want it to be more for here and I can interact and help.

>>127520824
Spooky

Was an updated Monday recap ever posted?

>>127520824
It's like death himself is trying to tell you the world doesn't need another Yume Nikki clone.

>>127520824
No it's a feature and now your game has a deep story.

>>127520657
I like that idea.
Plus you can have him turn by mouse controls anyway if you wanted which would make sense for field of view.

>>127520740
>Even the name "Cave Story" is similar to the name "Under Tale,"
I can't believe I didn't piece that one together.

>>127520971
>another
I'm sure there's tons, but did any of them ever get successful the same way there were plenty of big-name story-ish action platformers following Cave Story?

>>127520853
Risk of Rain is the most obvious example. He's made several millions from it.
There are others though that haven't made millions.

>>127521112
wHIP THE VOTE NOW FOR 12 DOLLHAIRS

File: line of sight.png (23KB, 1113x368px) Image search: [Google]

23KB, 1113x368px

r8 my line of sight
It takes in two objects, shoots a laser from the first object, then returns true if that laser hits the second object.
Right now it doesn't check for objects in-between the two objects, but I'm working on it.

>>127520641
>>127520959
Also to continue on that, part of my content will be pointers to other peoples useful stuff, like your videos. I am working on a site for everything while I am not home

>>127521192
Isn't that the game that was made by a shill who only comes here to shitpost and never post progress?

>>127521217
>an entire function to get x,y,width,height
>not storing them as points
Shit design

danny's awake. abandon thread

>>127521217
Anon please, use vectors. They exist for a reason.

File: VariantTest.jpg (204KB, 1936x1216px) Image search: [Google]

204KB, 1936x1216px

Reposting from last thread:

Got the variants working reliably, past a few upside-down bones/sockets. I'm fairly satisfied.

>>127521217
Stupid but functional, I guess.

I haven't made any progress today other than tweaking movement.
I spent nearly all day trying to decide on a UI theme for my menus and I still don't have anything picked out. I go back to uni in a week, I only have so much free time left. I can't keep wasting days like this.

Suffering.

>>127520474

This game looks so fucking boring, and they're charging 20 bucks for it.

>>127521336
They might be getters which would indicate he is doing proper encapsulation.

File: 1437725939966.jpg (25KB, 263x263px) Image search: [Google]

25KB, 263x263px

Can someone explain the "danny" meme
It's been months and I still don't get it, yet agdg always brings it up
Who the fuck is danny

>>127521217
To add onto my other post, you should use vectors and maybe consider using cylindrical coordinates instead of cartesian since you're dealing with a lot of angles. It'd probably be faster.

>12 freedom tokens for a flash GUI

has he lost his god damn mind

>>127521756
bbbuT the JUICE dude

File: 1450842451430.png (19KB, 200x200px) Image search: [Google]

19KB, 200x200px

>>127521559
h-how could it be improved
ai, line-of-sight, and pathfinding have always been the hardest parts about game programming for me

>>127521919
Start by actually using vectors, and use references instead of pointers.
Also, it seems a bit fishy that you are supplying a direction AND a game object to look for. Either supply a direction and find the first thing, or supply only the object.

>>127521803
Some schizophrenic from /x/ who pops in from time to time.

>>127521845
That seems like it'd be problematic since you'd have to interface the polar coordinate LOS system with the cartesian grid of the game world. Unless you want to have a bizarre round play space with tiles that get bigger as they go out from the center.

File: mdhsin.jpg (652KB, 1224x1632px) Image search: [Google]

652KB, 1224x1632px

>>127521803
an /x/ poster, pic related

>>127521919
>ai,
Be a little more specific on what you want the AI to do.

>line-of-sight,
I prefer using non-cartesian coordinates for this considering the line of sight is either going to be a sphere, circle, or cone. It really helps make the math easier. But you should be more specific, what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Is your game 3D, 2D, 2.5D, top-down, etc?

>and pathfinding
For most games, you can get away with A*

File: 1451775200855.gif (3MB, 320x291px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 320x291px

>tfw if you took the path of an artist instead of programmer you could at least make some money

>>127522257
Fucking don't it's not worth it
Art makes you want to kill yourself

Unless you were planning on doing furporn, then you don't even need to be good and get a lot of money

File: whipthechode.jpg (31KB, 794x164px) Image search: [Google]

31KB, 794x164px

>>127522203
>>127522203
Reminder Gogem is a literal who 'flash' dev.

STEAM GREENLIGHT HYPE


Ryan doesn't even play games so he knows very little about them. He just cobbles together messy if statements until he essentially has one of those annoying Ad 'games' you get on the sidebar of newgrounds.

Does this ever work for you, Ryan?

>>127522526
Woah dog, these bants are getting personal, love thy neighbor.

>>127522203
>Googum - Chaotic Evil
>Rotate - Neutral Evil
>Mothdan - Lawful Evil
It all makes sense now

>>127522203
27k free money

>>127522151
>That seems like it'd be problematic since you'd have to interface the polar coordinate LOS system with the cartesian grid of the game world.
Cylindrical assuming he's in 2D.
It wouldn't be problematic at all really, it helps draw LoS as a circle or a sphere as it should be in most games. Otherwise you end up with a square like this >>127520657 which doesn't look as good imo.
Converting from cylindrical to cartesian would just be one function since it's already stored as a vector. He could check for collision by sweeping the phi along a constant r. He's already using trigonometric functions, so it wouldn't be slower than what he's currently doing and it'll look much nicer.

>>127522145
I can change it so that it has the start object, then returns the first object that it collides with. Then I'll only have to check if that object is the player, and if so, the enemy can see the player.
And what do I need vectors for, exactly?

>>127522218
>the line of sight is either going to be a sphere, circle, or cone
A straight line is pretty much fine for my game, since it's a sidescrolling 2D platformer.

>>127522203
oh my god rotate i am laffin

>>127522984
If all you're doing is checking if the enemy can see the player, just do a line from the enemy to the player. No direction.

Vectors will clean things up so that you aren't having to deal with X and Y separately.

>>127522428
what is patreon
what is gumroad
what are commissions

the fuck do programmers get? competing with indians for pennies in contracts and the unity asset store?

File: 1363583657282.png (228KB, 304x304px) Image search: [Google]

228KB, 304x304px

>>127522746
[cringes internally]

>>127523150
we get to make a good game

>>127522901
guess I'm making my FOV circular tomorrow

>>127523284
>implying the world wants good games and not simple feel good experiences

>>127523150
>what is patreon
Something that requires you to be decent or do porn
>what is gumroad
You tell me
>what are commissions
Unsustainable unless you're decent and/or do porn

Is there any success stories with a single person making a 3D game?

I have seen a ton of 2D indie games from a single dev get really successful like Undertale, FTL, Risk of Rain, Fez, Cave Story and even aviary attorney. However, I cannot name a single successful 3D game from a single dev.

File: ss+(2015-12-10+at+11.44.40).jpg (55KB, 293x546px) Image search: [Google]

55KB, 293x546px

>use the tag killercurves ironically on a post
>this is now in my suggestions

>>127523468
Banished, and he's an enginedev too

File: 2016-01-04-1457-21.webm (999KB, 576x720px) Image search: [Google]

999KB, 576x720px

Re-posting this because because I really like this fire, he is so friendly.

>>127522257
You say that like some of the most profitable items in Unity's asset store weren't made by programmers.

>>127523468
3D is hard to get right. No one in their right mind would do 3D by themselves with the intention of making money.

My game is 3D, but I'm making it for fun not really to sell.

>>127523468
>Undertale, FTL, Risk of Rain, Fez
these weren't made by one person

and even Pixel who created cave story learned and got help from his programmer friend

>>127523464
But what I think that anon is trying to say is that there's no programmer equivalent, there's no way to make money as a programmer aside from getting a job in which any FOB can steal from you at any moment.

>>127523468
I mean there are a few, just not in AGDG. Definitely not as many big hits as 2d games.
>>127523578
Wasn't banished made in unity?

>>127523636
I'm pretty sure Undertale was at least 95% Toby.
Getting help/inspiration from someone isn't really the same as them working on the game itself

>>127523705
>What engine was used to make this game?
>None, it’s Shining Rock Software's own engine written from scratch using C++.
http://banished-wiki.com/wiki/FAQ#What_engine_was_used_to_make_this_game.3F
"Shining Rock Software" is one dude.

>>127523571
I have probably 50+ transgendered people or "non-binary" people out of ~950 following me
tumblr is a weird place

>>127523756
pretty sure you're a dumb fuck

look up the fucking credits for the game you dumb fuck

File: high powered rifles.png (7KB, 1319x115px) Image search: [Google]

7KB, 1319x115px

>you will never get this upset over aggy daggy

>>127523654
If you have a degree or experience or generally just knowing your shit then getting a job as a programmer is piss easy.

There is way less need for artists and the barrier of entry is also pretty high. It's a popularity game. You have to be top of the top in order to have work come to you nonstop.

>>127523874
everyday i wake up and thank Allah that im not Mothman

>>127523826
admittedly that game looks kind of fugly, so I'd bet most of the programming went towards gameplay logic.
There aren't many successful 3d enginedevs, even the god tier ones go crazy: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joshparnell/limit-theory-an-infinite-procedural-space-game/posts/1122988

>>127523105
>If all you're doing is checking if the enemy can see the player, just do a line from the enemy to the player. No direction.

I'm not sure if I understand. I need to know the direction the enemy is facing, so I can shoot the laser the right way.

>>127523874
is this real

>>127524141
That has nothing to do with determining line of sight.

>>127523874
wew lad

File: _Asenshi_Mezashite__Hello___Kiniro_Mosaic___07v2__9EECC223_.mkv_snapshot_01.41__2016.01.05_02.48.55_.jpg (87KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

87KB, 1280x720px

Thank you for making a Vulkan thread

>>127524141
>>127523105
Why would you do that though?

I feel like due to the nature of OOP you should be able to make stealth/detection relatively easily by not cheating; there won't have to be any references to the player within the AI, it can be perfectly blackboxed. You just do cone raycasts to see if the AI sees an enemy.

>>127524391
Thanks for reminding me I need to watch S2

>>127524442
>due to the nature of OOP
>cone raycasts
Anon what the fuck are you talking about

File: winkwink.png (17KB, 1210x184px) Image search: [Google]

17KB, 1210x184px

>>127524150
>>127524247
yeah it's real as fuck

File: agdg.jpg (25KB, 400x370px) Image search: [Google]

25KB, 400x370px

>>127524501

File: what9.gif (120KB, 295x288px) Image search: [Google]

120KB, 295x288px

game: Dad Project
dev: EyeC
tools: GM:S, GraphicsGale
website: buh
progress: Added battle transition
progress: Added punch attack
progress: Finished dialog system/box
progress: Enemies can be killed
progress: Working on stats

>>127524574
>his mortal threats

How autistic can one person be?

>>127524574
>>127523874
fuck off

>>127524574
>defend self
>while attacker sleeps
is mothfan #Yallquaeda?

File: testknob.png (54KB, 1087x535px) Image search: [Google]

54KB, 1087x535px

test door knob for my door baking normal maps. the one on the left is the low polygon with baked normal maps. what do you guys think of how the normal maps look on it? i thought it looked kinda weird

>>127524442
>>127524501
I mean, if you're that worried about yourself cheating with the enemy logic, just have a "man in the middle" that knows about all enemies and the player and tells each enemy if they can see the player.

>>127524758
Gogem, I like you. I don't care what agdg says about you. I think you're cute.

I still won't buy your game though.

File: result.png (488KB, 1047x493px) Image search: [Google]

488KB, 1047x493px

>>127523874

File: mothdandrawing.png (29KB, 561x151px) Image search: [Google]

29KB, 561x151px

>>127524741
oh man don't talk like that or someone is gonna mail you a bomb or some shit

>>127524896
same but only because im not down to play Liberal Crime Squad II: Conservative Crime Squad

File: ryanjakelamborn_Avatar_UploadThisOneForTwitterx2.png (51KB, 387x385px) Image search: [Google]

51KB, 387x385px

game: Whip the Chode
dev: Googum Produce Aka Ryan aka PIGPEN
tools: Macromedia Flash MX 2000
website: lemonparty.org
progress: Added bungle infection
progress: Bought an Adele CD
progress: Caught ex banging a black guy
progress: While looking through her phone
progress: Downloaded pics, jerked off to them and cried.

>>127524985
>googum
>ex

>>127523874
>>127524060
>>127524574
>>127524728
>>127524758
>>127524896
>>127524940
>>127524964

This has to be samefagging. It just has to be.

>>127524713
>ev: EyeC
The dev of that gif was you?
>yet another game to be dropped after a week

>>127524764
It looks pretty much identical. At first glance I couldn't tell that was low-poly.

>>127524764
looks like they baked perfectly. but shouldn't you put smooth shading on your high poly model before baking, so you don't have that faceted look?

>>127524985
i thought googum was glorious NEET master race how can he have an ex? am i being lied to?

>>127524896
>I still won't buy your game though.
it's fine if you want to pirate it but that means you gotta go shill it for me first so someone will do that

>>127524964
>Liberal Crime Squad II: Conservative Crime Squad
fuck does that even supposed to mean, brother?

File: snapshot556.png (145KB, 1280x720px) Image search: [Google]

145KB, 1280x720px

as I look in the face of death, I decided to remake some assets to pass the time

I think I'm finally finding a direction, a "style" in pixel art.

desu i admire gogem because i don't have the courage to post my game here

>>127525234
why aren't you shilling your game on other sites right now

you could make it big time

File: 1448438832371s.jpg (10KB, 211x249px) Image search: [Google]

10KB, 211x249px

>>127525234
I'm sorry your game isn't working out

File: Capture.jpg (25KB, 377x225px) Image search: [Google]

25KB, 377x225px

>>127525071
you got me

>>127525241
Lets keep it that way, Whodev

File: New Text Document - Copy.png (8KB, 587x135px) Image search: [Google]

8KB, 587x135px

>>127524985
>mothman, once so distressed by "doxxing" that he would make posts about staying up at night with his High Powered Rifles, has resorted to doxxing people who don't actually give a shit

File: 15190648-Portrait-of-an-excited-young-geek-with-mouth-open-pointing-at-you-over-yellow-textured-background-Stock-Photo[1].jpg (152KB, 866x1300px) Image search: [Google]

152KB, 866x1300px

>>127525101
u know it buckaroo

>>127525318
it'll probably die as fast as any other niche shallow retro game

>>127525153
yeah i actually did do smooth shading before the bake

>>127525152
ok thanks

>>127525230
>fuck does that even supposed to mean, brother?
your game seems a lot like Liberal Crime Squad (a political UI widget game) but I didn't personally like LCS so I doubt I'd like your game either

LCS seemed like a good game tho

>>127525318
>>127525321

it's 2 l8 m8s

I'm kill

only a miracle could save me now

>>127525370

>le shallow niche game

I always knew it was a niche game, I just didn't know it would be so hard to raise 6 thousand dollars from that niche

>>127524985
Why is Mothdan picking on gogs again?

>>127525560
there are like three people who ACTUALLY give a shit about wangan maximum tune, and probably fewer /o/ types who would play anything but their favorite Initial D ripoff meme game anyway

>>127525706
Psychosis.

>>127525234
>no more shitty vector UI and smoke
>all pixelated
You did good

>>127525706
he picks on all other namefags, its like he has a mental condition where he has to be the center of attention at all times so he goes after any other namefag like a rabid dog. just look at how he went after rotate

>>127525781
I missed what he did to rotate, enlighten me?

>>127525781
and remember his saga with "reek"? when rotate left and googs was too busy elsewhere, he had to invent characters just to attack.

Am I allowed to namefag if I finish a game and get it greenlit?

When am I allowed to no longer be a whodev?

>>127525856
invent characters? wait what
yo someone explain this mothdan guy to me please I guess I just missed all of that shit.

>>127525518
that game looks to be more of an RPG based around stat accumulations, nothing like Whip the Vote.

>>127522526
I somehow feel its always the same person complaining

>>127526062
we antichamber now

>>127525853
same harassing shit he does to everyone else but rotate is literally a child and had a bit more fun with it

>>127525874
>caring about being a ___dev
literally the cancer that killed these threads

give it to me straight guys

is there a future in gamedev?

>>127526019
Dan Ashley is resentful that people don't like his weird /x/ game cobbled out of Unity Asset Store free content, so he shitposts here constantly.

>>127526694
Theres no future for you

File: 1451696800778.png (491KB, 1832x2366px) Image search: [Google]

491KB, 1832x2366px

>>127526802

>>127526062
I don't have that reaction image of the guy staring at the fork, so instead, fuck you, and looking good.

>>127526694
im gay

>>127526694
not really, it's best kept as a hobby

it's not like it's exactly hard to have a real job and do vidya stuff on the side

>>127526892
shut up Googum

>>127526694
i dont understand you people
if you want a neckbeard robot stay at home computer job become a fucking webdev

games are entertainment. Entertainment is an unreliable source of income.

>>127526694
>is there a future in gamedev?
Want to make a living out of it?
You'll need a great game, a lot of luck, and more time spent marketing than having fun making your game.

Hobbyist master race

File: Series_Tapastic_Comics_-_2015-09-28_08.18.28.png (53KB, 191x228px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 191x228px

>>127527340

best resources to learn how to make your own engine?

>>127527646
K&R

>>127527341
webdev makes you hate your life

File: steven.jpg (53KB, 640x640px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 640x640px

If you don't advertise your kickstarter, it fails.

>>127527646
K&R
Anime

>>127527857
yes, thats why you get a real job
you still are going to make money off webdev (or its possible) compared to game dev

Start a project 2 weeks later want to start a new project.

How do you not burnout?

>>127527418
draw it in your style saying that.

Has anyone made a SFW version of Sengoku Rance yet?

>>127527869
What if I want to use the Kickstarter as the advertisement?
>>127528102
Either stop relying on motivation and use dedication, or do a project that you really want to do, that's been on your mind for ages.

>>127528102
show me your project, you might just not be good enough yet to see something through

Did lolisim get arrested? Or did he move to 8/agdg since his stuff always gets deleted?

>>127528326
He was busy. He posted some screens the other day.

File: testknob3.png (357KB, 1920x1566px) Image search: [Google]

357KB, 1920x1566px

made a better version the one on the left is low polly one

>>127528823
maybe you're spending too much time on things which don't really matter in the grand scheme of things

>>127528951
Maybe he has high integrity for this incredible art form that we attempt to make a meaningful contribution to.

i am a musicbro
any musicbros have any tips for making more upbeat dancy tunes?
i basically suck at drums

File: 299845771d4270284_w.jpg (36KB, 600x337px) Image search: [Google]

36KB, 600x337px

Will I get vulkan before school starts

>>127528102
I bet you cheat on your partners too
>inb4 >partners

bottom-left or top-left alignment for sprites?

>>127526062
No, seriously, how the fuck does one make this?

>>127528102
i do it by only starting projects i can finish in like a week

i've wasted years trying to make big games as a 1MA it just doesn't work

been working at least an hour a day i try to do a lot more but guys for those of you out there just keep doing it least even 15 minutes a day even for the days you dont feel like it. this thing keeps happening where i take a day off then it turns into weeks/ or one time months

never going to happen again though

>>127529252
Middle-bottom

>>127529040
kick + snare is the baseline to most drum rythms. listen to something you like and then steal it.

>>127529265
it's called, i believe, stencil buffering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DKIP9N-OB4

google to learn more

File: haaay.png (78KB, 1004x752px) Image search: [Google]

78KB, 1004x752px

>>127528120

File: teeth.jpg (1B, 486x500px)

1B, 486x500px

why aren't you stealing famous characters and making cheap knock off dental games, agdg? don't you even want to be successful?

File: 1433555727147.png (59KB, 194x186px) Image search: [Google]

59KB, 194x186px

AGDG I need ideas for a simple anime game
Not a platformer since everyone's tired of them

>>127529702
I love you, you stupid faggot.

File: 1443850366390.jpg (173KB, 700x528px) Image search: [Google]

173KB, 700x528px

>>127529830

>>127529830
A game about the trials and tribulations of the Kronos group as they struggle to release the Vulkan API

bomberman but you're killing anime forever

File: 1306399743883.png (654KB, 829x475px) Image search: [Google]

654KB, 829x475px

>>127530024

>>127529674
ya i probably have to just rip stuff off more
ill give er a go

For anyone familiar with cocos2d-x Lua; would you recommend it over Love2D?

>>127530105
>Vulkan
It's time to let go anon
Some things will never be

>>127530301
the game has a sad ending

File: ideaguy with a whiteboard.png (243KB, 1042x619px) Image search: [Google]

243KB, 1042x619px

>>127529830
if you need any more just grab one from the whiteboard.

>>127530348
i think i read somewhere recently that vulkan was performing much worse than the next direct x, doesn't that imply that vulkan is dead from the get-go?

>>127530509
no

>>127530451
>A game based on rock paper scissors
I'll take it

File: RFBl6NU.png (44KB, 127x164px) Image search: [Google]

44KB, 127x164px

If I were to develop a game using an engine that I pirated rather than paid for, what are the legal ramifications for such an act?

>>127529067
End of january at the soonest.

Anyone do ludum dare?

>>127530509
It more likely just means more time has been spent on drivers for DirectX 12 right now, isn't that shit already out?

>>127530659
death

>>127530572

Gogem got a game onto steam that was based on rock paper scissors.

The funny thing about gogem is that he says to be original and not to copy other game ideas yet he copies something out of a manga.

>>127530509
DirectX and OpenGL both exist at the same time.

Someone give me a punny name for my MC's computer's operating system.

>>127530572
I want to make a game based on rps too.
Not literal rps like gogem, something like FE and Pokémon (the starters at least) have.

Anyone have any idea of three things that could fit in a rps system?

>>127529830
Flash porn game.

I'll work on my game tomorrow, I swear.

hahahahahahahaha

>>127530659
If it was Unity they can legally raid your house and gangrape you until you become a cock craving slut.
Read the EULA.

>>127531081
YESTERDAY YOU SAID TOMORROW

DON'T LET YOUR DREAMS BE DREAMS

AND

JUST DO IT

>>127531129
Will they actually gangrape me and force their dicks on me? I'd love that.

>>127531069
Go to bed kreig

>>127531163
You go to bed too, vine

>>127531129
No, I'm referring to GameMaker. However, if that isn't a metaphor and they'll seriously fuck me and make me a cock craving slut, then that sounds great.

File: flappy book.png (45KB, 776x731px) Image search: [Google]

45KB, 776x731px

>>127530732
>yet he copies something out of a manga.
manga arent video games.
tv shows arent video games
movies arent video games
books arent video games
steal all you want, just not from video games.

>>127531360
Because reasons.

>>127531360
Yeah, it's okay to copy books as long as you're not AAdev :)

>>127531360
So if someone posts an idea for a game I'm free to steal it because an idea for a game is not a game? Great logic, goog

>>127529475
Middle-bottom doesn't work that well on pixels with odd numbers though.

>>127531525
im pretty sure AA wrote his book, it's the only thing he had to do.

>>127531492
because copying a videogame to make a videogame is cloning.

>>127531592
>stealing idea
ideaguy please

File: aweaw.jpg (18KB, 395x142px) Image search: [Google]

18KB, 395x142px

can someone please help me out, i'm not too good at this.
i'm tying to write a function in unity which checks if a component i'd like to destroy is attached to the gameobject, is this correct? should i be concerned about object being yellow, the function seems to work.

>>127531660
>>stealing idea
The ironing

>>127531665
Unnecessary gymnastics. Whenever you use a Unity component you can access the GameObject attached with just gameObject.

Anyone have experience with Poser/Marvelous Designer?

I was recommended these programs if I want to jump straight into character/avatar creation. How detailed can you make a character using these?

im doing it guys
i will go big with UE
i will make progress
i will just like make game

File: vulkan.gif (22KB, 500x400px) Image search: [Google]

22KB, 500x400px

>>127529067

>>127531665
I think Unity already does a null check, I just tried to Destroy a non-existent component and didn't get an error.

But anyway, why do you have that random type parameter there?

Generic version:
public void TryDestroy<T>(GameObject go) where T : Component {
T component = go.GetComponent<T>();
if (component != null) {
Destroy(component);
}
}

>>127531964
do you have years of experience in 3D modeling?

>>127532410

No

I tried learning Blender but bleh. Too much to take in at once.

File: ExpwJL9.png (45KB, 894x603px) Image search: [Google]

45KB, 894x603px

>>127531665
>>127532351
Wait nevermind, your code is confusing. Don't name your generic type parameters of other classes.

>>127532524
both of those are advanced programs and you wont make anything good with them if you dont know 3D modeling

>>127531964
>poser
It's ok. I think my dad made porn with it once.

>Marvelous Designer
never heard of it

>>127532673

I don't wanna spend forever trying to get anatomy right when its already done for me for the most part. Thats the thing.

>>127532560
i didn't know that unity checks if something is null before it tries to delete something because i could have sworn i've seen it throw an error before when i tried to delete something that was null. but since it does, i can just use a normal destroy. thanks for your help though.

did you set any gamedev resolutions?

>>127533063
yeah 1920x1080

>>127532687

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1di8iIkDcE

>>127529830
something with cute character models and interaction with other cute characters that follow anime tropes, it doesn't need to be cute or innovative, gameplay is negligible

weebs all want the same thing. just look at yandere simulator

File: life finds a way.jpg (3MB, 5184x3456px) Image search: [Google]

3MB, 5184x3456px

I'm trying to brainstorm some simple but not too abstract/"Gamey" hacking mechanics for a game about basically playing guardian angel for someone from afar. Something more involved than "push buttan 2 deploy skript" but nothing ridiculous like the minigames of DX:HR or any weird tile-matching nonsense that's overtly just a busywork minigame, while still remaining realistic. I can't think of anything that would actually be fun to play with. There's solutions, for sure, but I can't think of anything that's not just busywork.

Are there some movies I should watch with good hollywood hacking to draw inspiration from? Cyberpunk stuff I should go look at? send he;lp

>>127533063
- going to learn pico-8
- release game on android
- finish one of my larger games
- actually market it correctly

>>127533063
Yes
>get my game in playable state
>learn more C# and algorithms and general programming
>get better at modeling and animating
>learn Gamemaker (I want to make a small RPG in it eventually)

>>127533159
this seems neat but it seems more like it's meant for fashion industry stuff where you'd want to churn out patterns for stuff for chinks off of Alibaba.com to sew for you than for real-time rendering environments

>>127533206
>going to learn pico-8
literally why, it's a meme

SDL users, can you clear something up for me.

I'm getting back into C++ after forever (I wouldn't call myself a programmer by any means, I've been struggling to learn for years, along with keeping at it consistently).

Anywho. an SDL Surface is where all the magic happens, right? and SDL Window is just the box containing that screen

>>127533352
it's cute and fun and I'll enjoy it

>>127533286

What should I go for then? I do not want to create characters from the ground up if I don't have to, same goes for their outfits, especially if it's not exactly for game use atm.

LibGDX with Java, Scala or Clojure?

Java is obviously the worst language but probably more mature?

>>127533382
Yep. Or you can use SDL to create an OpenGL context and render everything with that.

>>127533063
well there's "get laid" but i think it counts as gamedev because i met some guy off the internet who is apparently an indie dev and participated in a bunch of Ludum Dares or something

>>127533478
Java, the others are meme languages.

webdev is more rewarding than gamedev

>>127533592
webdev almost made me suicidal, not even kidding

>>127533479

I'm waaay before OpenGL at this point.

For some reason, watching tutorials, I can understand whats going on, but if I go to say, do it myself, I become utterly lost. Some thats thats just me not really knowing wtf I'm doing.

At one point I thought I understood pointers/references, but meh, even then I didn't know when the hell to use them, how to use them, it just seemingly never wants to stick.

>>127533592
webdev is way too easy to be rewarding

>>127533478
>Java is obviously the worst language
Java is only attacked because it's garbage collected and runs in a VM so I don't know why you'd say that.

>>127533592
what's a fun backend to work with?

>>127533648
putting up your wordpress blog and running the server infrastructure for a multi billion dollar company are different things

>>127533721
server infrastructure is sysadmin stuff, not webdev

>>127533684
ASP.NET MVC 5

nothing comes close to it

File: Colored-Pencils.jpg (975KB, 4000x2200px) Image search: [Google]

975KB, 4000x2200px

>>127533474
>especially if it's not exactly for game use atm.
i'd recommend pic related

I recommend C++ for your game. It's a good language.

>>127533865
Okay.

>>127533559
>>127533661
Those things aren't why it's shit. Being verbose as fuck with no type inference is what makes me feel like I'm going to die of old age while writing it. As well as requiring multiple objects just do the simplest of things.

>BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream()));

>>127533721
>implying that's webdev

engineers do that

>>127533838

Yeah no

>>127533838
hey, it works for burrito galaxy

>>127533890
reminder

http://www.javafind.net/gate.jsp?q=/library/36/java6_full_apidocs/com/sun/java/swing/plaf/nimbus/InternalFrameInternalFrameTitlePaneInternalFrameTitlePaneMaximizeButtonWindowNotFocusedState.html

File: excessively round anime being concerned @ ur posting.png (176KB, 872x1000px) Image search: [Google]

176KB, 872x1000px

>>127533921
>IT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO DO CHARACTER DESIGN WITHOUT A FULL 3d CHARACTER POSER SUITE WITH PAGES AND PAGES OF FREE ASSETS
nigga come on

>>127534000
why is stuff like this allowed to exist

>>127534139

....I can make the clothing myself, thats not a problem.

File: arkham-fsm-big.png (19KB, 854x342px) Image search: [Google]

19KB, 854x342px

Anyone have state diagrams for AI in a stealth game?

File: quentin show me your heels and my butthole squeals tarantino.png (444KB, 616x398px) Image search: [Google]

444KB, 616x398px

>>127534000
>Java 6
>Java Swing

This is just off the top of my head at this point, but if I wanted to have my character on the "ground" in a 2D game, aka the bottom of the screen. Wouldn't I have to set the position to like, the negative screen height minus the height of the sprite? If I wanted to move the character?

>>127534249
you forgot the "randomly detect player sometimes when they're not looking so it makes the game harder" state

So I was thinking about stress-testing units.
Is there anything about stress-testing units in the current state of art?

>>127533159
>"now let's look at our fabric from different angles to see how it works"
>turns model 180° to find that there's no fabric, only delicious ass

great fabric

give me some good programming books

>>127534249

You forgot "He's coming to? roger that."

>>127534415
that's awfully broad, what kind of programming?

>>127534410
>>turns model 180° to find that there's no fabric, only delicious ass
2bh a garment would be made of several panels, split up between front and back

>>127534415
SICP

>>127534326
you mean the screen height minus the height of the sprite

this is assuming you don't have any physics or some shit though, are you new to programming/gamedev?

whats a pointer?

>>127534509

I've been off/on programming for like 5 years now, I've watched tons of tutorials, tried figuring things out on my own, and it seems I take 1 small step forward and 20 steps back because shit ends up confusing me more.

I started with C++, then I used C#/XNA for a while, now I am back to C++. And thats what I plan to stick with, C++/SDL

File: gameprogrammingpatterns.jpg (178KB, 1103x1360px) Image search: [Google]

178KB, 1103x1360px

>>127534415
Game Programming Patterns

>>127534578
an address to memory

>>127534415
Loomis

>>127534578
The thing next to your thumb and middle finger, used often in programming for itchy noses

>>127534509

I've even followed the LazyFoo SDL tutorials, and I'd think I'm getting the hang of it, but as he gets into the later chapters, all this code gets thrown at me, that I semi understand what he's doing, but if I go to do it myself, I'm lost.

>>127534371
I mean hitting it until it dies, and then seeing how much damage it made in that mean time and assigning a value to it.

>>127534249
Condition : BATMAN takes out enemy
Next state : "Just run away it's fucking Batman"

>>127534830
>Next state : "Just run away it's fucking Batman"
Wasn't that an actual mechanic? Like, the more varied your takedowns got, the higher chances enemies would get spooked by random shit and distract themselves, or panic when they see you and drop their weapon. I know "Spook a terrified enemy" was a challenge in one of the Arkham City challenge rooms.

Anyway that chart is a way simplified version of what can go down in that game, where did it come from?

>>127534371
>>127534756
what

>>127533173
follow these steps to comeup with a good idea
Takes this idea that you have
Forget it
Come up with something that is way better
Voila

File: Menu.png (1MB, 1920x1080px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1920x1080px

I'm thinking about having my main menus based off the C64 GEOS. When you're actually in game, the menus will be different. This is just when you're outside of hacking missions.

I've finally nailed down a time period. I'm probably going to shoot for 1989.

It took a lot longer than I expected to make this. There aren't any C64 GEOS icons for download so some of them I had to draw by hand and scale up.

File: accident.jpg (47KB, 647x553px) Image search: [Google]

47KB, 647x553px

>>127535250
you forgot the "hit that fuccin blunt" part

>>127535390
Looks fire senpai

>>127535221
Assigning them a value so in my randomly generated areas I can automatically balance them.
Or I can assign a corresponding cost to summoning them.
And a corresponding value in GP to their loot when they die.
Basically making everything proportional more easily.

>>127535390
>999m

quick bro buy some apple stock

>>127535390
Ur making a vaporwave game?

Damn son thats gonna be like the next trend get yung lean on your soundtrack and shits gon be massive

Can anyone recommend a good SDL/C++ combo tutorial that assumes you're an actual beginner? Most of what I come across goes way too fast and don't exactly tell you wtf they do/etc.

And I know theres SDL Documentation, but it's all over the place, and doesn't exactly have a "this is where you must start" in terms of knowing shit.

>>127535250
I can attest to this working for me many times.

>>127535769
Isn't Hotline Miami the first Vaporwave game?

>>127535921
no, its just a call back to Miami Vice style
Vaporwave is Miami Vice like colors mixed with old anime, windows 95, and statues

>>127535921
Vaporwave is a fad so dumb that even the people into it can't describe it beyond self-referential memes.

The main hallmarks are roman busts, pink-teal gradients, out-of-place japanese text, and S A D B O Y S tumblr nonsense.

Hotline Miami is, by comparison, pretty "authentic" Miami Vice kinda throwback. Like if Vice City were made as a top-down GTA instead of a 3d one.

>>127535769
Nah its not a vapor wave game.
It's an fps dungeon crawler. The player is the personification of hacking software from the perspective of a cheesy 80s hacker movie.

so many hacking games coming out of agdg all of a sudden

fukken hivemind

>>127536189
How many hacking games? I've only seen Vestigial's

>>127536189
What are the others? I've only seen one other besides my game.

Tbh I kind of nicked the idea from Black Ice. I liked his concept but I think he implemented it poorly and dont like the direction his game is going. So I'm going to try and expand on his idea a bit.

>>127536362
I'm positive I've heard of at least one or two others being played with, and I've been wanting to do one for a while

There's also that cyberspace-y shooter. Maybe not so much "hacking game" as "hacking mechanics" or "hacker aesthetic" is a better descriptor

>mfw need events and delegates now
Damn those menus got me. Can't get effectively around it.

>>127536525
Cyberspace-y shooter? Are you talking about the one done in UE4? Because that's my game heh. I haven't seen any other games like mine posted yet but I could've missed one.

Outside of missions will have a stark contrast to inside missions.

>>127534000
Yeah let me just go ahead and get booty blasted by some shit no one ever has to use.

>>127535580 here
Does that make sense?

>written an entire game
>seriously down to every encounter
How do I find someone to work with and make this thing happen? I don't know have to develop games.

>>127537026
you already put that much effort into putting your idea into a script, how hard could it be to learn to program?

>>127537026

You sir, are my idol, I WISH I could get THAT far on anything. I don't have the creative drive for some reason, I really want it.

>>127537026
just, like, make game...

>>127536820
not even a little

sounds like you need some brain pills

>>127537026
Ideas are cheap.

Scratch that, they're free.

No, actually, you'd have to PAY someone to realize your ideas, because anyone with the skill to do that already has more ideas of their own than they have time to make.

>>127537184
Yeah, I'm willing to pay some money for it.
>>127537064
Where should I start?

>>127537026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGar7KC6Wiw

>>127537250
That's actually in my liked videos already!

I wrote down my protagonists blood type on a piece of paper

anyone want to make the rest of the game?

>>127537246
1. Make tic tac toe.
2. Make pong.
3. Make tetris.
4. Make 2D sidescroller.
5. Make top-down shooter
6. Make the minimum viable product based on your game - the smallest portion of it that could be called a standalone game. Like if your idea is GTA, you'd make a game where you JUST drive a car around.

>>127537313
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55P-UHdZ7WI

File: angry feel.png (27KB, 400x400px) Image search: [Google]

27KB, 400x400px

>tfw making a game is extremely hard
I can't even make a quality slot machine game. Why do we bother, bros? Wouldn't it be easier if we just freelanced the tasks?

>>127537250
It's amazing that this is still relevant 5 years later.

>>127537332
What if my game is an epic 400 hour adventure with co-op where you can both control the flow of time independently, with an infinite number of solutions and approaches to problems you face in the game?

>>127537439
if anything, it's only gotten more relevant what with the Indiepocalypse and all

>>127537436
slots are shit tho, video poker 4 lyf

>>127537458
then you start with the flow of time mechanic

>>127537458
then give up now

that shit would take years for a team of hundreds

File: disgusting.jpg (77KB, 610x421px) Image search: [Google]

77KB, 610x421px

>>127537458
>ideas guys

>>127537458
This is the main problem with idea guys. Even if they are willing to put a lot of effort into planning, they still have absolutely no clue about scope.

File: 1409713450355.png (17KB, 241x230px) Image search: [Google]

17KB, 241x230px

>>127537458

>tfw the only games you want to make is a miner dig deep clone with some extra modes and items, and two of the modes throw in some monsters to fight
>The other game being a Ys clone

Pretty big in scale admittedly but I'm gonna start with single screen dumb arcade games first.

>>127537771
You're right, but I think he was trying to sound ridiculous.

>>127537332
are you the same guy who tells people to make tables and chairs when their models dont meet your expectations?

Why are 99% of the tutorials I come across that say "beginner" aren't that? They throw a ton of code at you without really explaining wtf they do, etc.

What's a good name for a component that holds weapon objects?

>>127537980
wocholdr

>>127537954
No fundamentals, no dev.

>>127537124
Lol you jest my man.
Procedural shit don't apply only to maps.
Basically you have 3 elements in an RPG: Monsters, Magic Items, and Spells.
Monsters are made of Spells and Magic Items are made of Spells, and Spells are made of effects which are the basic unit. And effects affect hit points and time, which are the basiccest units of all.
So we can reduce Monsters to hit points and time, basically HP x time, and get a good heuristic going, coupled with affinities we can guide their distribution anywhere.
With Spells, again, HP x time will get us their value, so we can stick them in the character progression tree wherever we want.
Magic Items contain spells, basically, (or effects if you want to be more rigorous), and the spells' value can be transformed to GP, so it can be distributed to high-GP loots and shops.
It can all be balanced my man.
Fuck using it only for map generation.
Fuck spending hours testing and balancing some inane shit.
This is the way;

>>127538201
You write like Francis E Dec went into game dev instead of getting spooked by niggers in detroit

>>127537026
If it's a 2D game I can dig up a basic engine for you.

Hi I'm Tyler Tomaseski.

>>127538249
It's called stream of thought. Because I didn't want to write pages about it just to get the point across.

>>127537458
>considers what this actually means for gameplay
>...
yeah i could do this. would take like, 2-3 months.

>>127538546
You reckon you can simulate independent control over the flow of time in 2-3 months?

>>127538692
no, that's finished in the first day or two. im not a nodev.

I feel so retarded when trying to code as a beginner, I keep forgetting simple yet necessary variables that I don't even think of.

Is there a good/efficient way to map out everything I'd need so I know what I'd need to code/not forget anything?

Like, initialize SDL, create window, load image, put image on bottom, it can never be that simple, you have to add like 500 diff things to each thing to get them to work right, and it irritates me to no end.