/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

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>>148957704
nth for /agdg/ event brainstorming

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Particles on movement.
Yay or nay?

Most of you wont make it but i will

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Striving to make arcade games!

Why did it take me 24 hours to discover glDrawArraysInstancedBaseInstance()?
What a fuckin waste of time.

>>148957859
OKよ

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So after Space Jam we're doing Crusade Jam, right?

>>148957838
You usually see clouds of dust from games like donkey kong and yoshi's island...

So maybe. Try clouds of dust. or something once you get some graphics in.

>>148957965
Yo yo! Yo yo yo

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>>148957135
Pachinkos are a fucking hit on japan right now, they are going to control all the market in the next years.
And you are talking more from your nostalgic feelings than other thing, people right now don't want to spend money on only one life in a game when they can play all they want in their homes.

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>Prioritize gameplay over assets: game will be more fun to play but won't get noticed easily

>Prioritize assets over gameplay: game will be less fun but will get noticed more

what do

>>148957838
I would say yes - it makes the movement look a bit more interesting. I figure the dots should have a light blue outline like the hexagon, though.

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>>148958107
There's no skimming anything. You must focus on both. Focus on finish one first if you must.

>>148958107
>games with good gameplay don't get noticed
This meme.

Generic platformers need good art to get noticed, make a fun game and people will care regardless.

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i like when it is so early in a game i can add a fade without worrying about 80 conflicts

>>148958202
this is clever advice
>>148958107
you should start making a game in the first place

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>>148958107
3 asset days and 2 gameplay days, you rest in the weekend.

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>>148958068
Oh... Oh god. Because everyone's old right now and there aren't enough kids.

Damn. It's all making sense now.

>>148958107
just remember that plenty of games with average or less visuals have become hits because the game itself is good. Focus on gameplay and the user experience. Your art should exist primarily to complement gameplay.

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She's now revving up.
Probably poke at her another time, should be good enough for testing purposes now though.

>>148958203
I don't want to be rude so I'm not going to name it, but there was a game I really liked in DD and because it didn't have any graphics it seems like no one really payed attention to it. And I was one of the few ones who give him feedback.
>>148958424
But you can always make your game around arcade mechanics, like make it only with one life, short but difficult, nice art etc.

Programmers have to make systems-based games and artists have to make character-based games.

>>148958704
Maybe you should have a look at the Shantae games.

>>148958050
>once you get some graphics in.
These are my graphics, I'm going for a very minimalist art style.

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>>148958704
That's a little better. Good luck, anon.

>>148958715
I'm still going along with my arcade plans. I'm not doing this for japan. I'm doing it mainly for America.

>>148958829
?

>>148958815
Improving her idle is something that's going on the list of things to do after the rest of the assets that are gameplay related are done.

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>>148958820

>>148958857
Does America even have arcades still? We don't have many compared to Pachinko but I thought we still have more than America?

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>>148955789
>>148955926
Thanks anons, everything works fine

>>148958829
I love it. Is this actually for a game?

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>tfw you have to learn a new skill as a solodev and you're finally getting it.

never in my life have i felt so smug

>>148958829
I really hate style over substance games.
Especially ones that don't have their own style. Even though this seems like a one-off patreon bait thing.

>>148958987
It's from this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tNUur2YoU

>>148959060
What does "style over substance" means?

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(Reposting from the old thread)
Factions are now in: allies and foes. Shared enemies and rogue ships are also supported.

You can also see the player (blue-grey ship) using two weapons at once, the regular peashooter and the bomb-like attack.

Stacking weapons will be the main way to keep up with the red side's ever-increasing firepower. Allies will be occasionally available through calling reinforcements or attacking an enemy ship with a lucky shot of the Point of View Gun.

Does this look too difficult? Simply not fun? Feedback would be welcome.


>>148957838
Y. Though I feel like leaving a glowy blue line behind you would look a lot nicer.

>>148958980
Barcades are starting to become a thing. Most of them are shit though and concentrate more on nostalgia vs having actual good and varied machines.

>>148958762
I make shit-based games

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>>148958950
You got the wrong guy, I'm rpg with minigames and cards dev.

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>>148958980
There's few still around.

>>148959098
>implying consoles having lightgun-like devices means every lightgun arcade game has been ported to consoles

You know nothing.

>>148959145
You know that really generic platformer you played?
Polished to hell and back, had a lot of juice. But for some reason you were bored because it didn't have any actual compelling gameplay?

Or as to the webm, a game with a really flashy style but still boring. Like all those N E O 80s slipstream clones.

>>148959245
>replying to the literally insane shitposter
Anon please

day 1 - sit down and write down ideas endlessly until you find one you want to stick to, flesh it out until you fall asleep
day 2 - read through the idea, find the things wrong with it, repeat day 1 if you realize it's actually a trash idea
day 3 - make prototypes to make sure you know how to do each step of the development and filter out things you realize you'll never figure out how to do (or start over from day 1)
day 4 - start the project from scratch, making sure to rest every 1 or 2 hours
day 7 - realize you need to move on from placeholder assets, make assets
day 12 - start over from day 1
day 45 - finish a demo and shill your game on tumblr
day 102 - start over from day 1
day 120 - start over from day 1
day 278 - emerge with another demo and shill your game on tumblr
day 280 - make a patreon and disappear from agdg
day 301 - start over from day 1

>>148958829
Mannnn I want to do a billboarded pixelshit 3D game.

I wonder how much normies would accept it, given that they dump on pixelshit a lot as is.

nodev here looking to become whodev

whats a good idea for a simple game with cute girls and a space theme

maybe I'm overthinking it but space = zero G so that rules out things like platformers, should I just try for a shmup with cute girls instead of space ships?

>>148959145
"I can't make good graphics so that means games with good graphics MUST be bad"

>>148959436
kill yourself.
I'm not projecting, I love good art when it has the gameplay to go with it.

I hate shameless pandering without any good content.

>>148959098
Jiggling's good enough for testing purposes. Not too sure what a nice idle pose for her would be yet since her current role is just as an info provider.

How easy is to get patreon bux if I don't make a porn game?

arcade games have never had good gameplay. they are nothing but flashy devices designed by jews to steal your quarters. they are shit.

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>>148959447
not really what I'm saying at all anon, sorry if it seemed like it. I've been up for too long.

but there are a lot of arcade-exclusives

>>148958982
Looking good, what is your game about?

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>>148959305
That sounds dangerous, I really need to pay more attention to the gameplay of my project and not just draw assets all the fucking day.

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>>148959546
only the shit ones are.

The ones that you can 1cc or are EXPECTED to 1cc are the good ones.


You need to play them to really understand.

>>148959398
FTL but with cute girls

>>148959683
Yep, geometry wars is probably the pinnacle of balance for indie games.
And Rayman Origins being the AA/A example

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>>148959398
Check out the guardian legend.

>>148959398
I don't know, the shmup genre is oversaturated just like platformer, I highly recommend you to go for something different, like exploration, ship maintenance, terraforming planets, something like that.

>>148958704
Dude, besides the ear and hair, it's painfully obvious that you're just shifting body parts around by 1 or 2 pixels as a substitute for movement. It looks really lazy.

>>148958982
I hope you're keeping this event.

>>148959872
>it's literally a cute girl spaceship
Science has gone too far.

>>148959525
Easy if you target an existing fanbase

Make a soulslike

>>148958992
Whatchu learning?

>>148959967
Not that easy, Necropolis has already gotten backlash for being shit.

>mfw my game has no style and little substance
it's a jam game, so it's ok, r-right?

>>148960072
I knew it would be garbage when they released their first gameplay.

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>>148959897
Now you say that but have you seen how many secondaries there are for pokemon go?

I have never SEEN so many secondaries to such a popular big game name.


And then it hit me that not everyone owns a console. Not everyone thinks it's worth it. No reason not to release the game on both consoles and arcades.

>>148960074
as long as you keep making any games, you'll eventually become a name in the community and get all the bitches
the keyword being "making"

remember to stay away from artists

>>148960410
it's not pixelshit though.

ahhhh, there's no arguing until I get some shit done. Just you wait.

>>148960410
>>148960189


to be fair it's pretty obvious he's not making a pixel platformer based on the images he's posting

but yeah, making a game for the sole purpose of arcade seems silly. Most fighting game players (myself included) just have a stick at home and dont go to arcades because A) there's none around and B) it's pointless because there's no competition

>>148959525
You need good exposure, good art and scope it right so you know that you can finish it without being shit.

>>148957704
Thank you for posting best girl

>>148960731

remember when you threw a fit and left steam chat

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>>148960556
>>148960568
It's not pixelshit! It's gonna be a rail shooter! Like pic related.

>>148959941
>I hope you're keeping this event.
maybe

>>148960851

You should still just target console or PC and worry about the cab much, MUCH later

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>>148960908
I said I will! Geeeeeeeez.

>>148960985

I only just jumped in to this conversation sorry

good luck with your game my friend

>>148961026
You too, friend. I don't mean any ill will either.

>>148960985
tits aren't big enough

>>148958107

if you are better at art do art first for patreon/ kickstarter shekels

otherwise gameplay first

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>>148958704
Man, can you add it a bit more curves in his body an a bit prominent breasts?

>>148961371
>more curves
>a bit prominent breasts
>his

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>>148961147
Iunno man, they're pretty big.
>>148961463
well he SAID it's a girl.

>>148961371
*her sorry i'm the hispanic guy ;)

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>>148961371
>girl (male)

>>148958704
this >>148961371 , it really need it.

>>148961268
a little too slow.

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Reminder that if your GUI breaks after clicking random buttons in quick succession, it is worthless.

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>>148961615

>>148961712
>>148961463

I thought 4chan love the traps.

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I'm thinking about just ditching GM and 2D in general and going with UE4

>>148961575
Marion is cute

>>148961816
That only happens on GUI's based on libraries
since nodev C# shitters dont know how to properly implement the library in to their game

daily reminder that whoever uses anything but C/C++ based languages or engines is a nodev

>>148961978
just make it.

>>148961978
>surely the tiny problems I'm facing now with two dimensions are worse than a much more complicated world with three

ur dumb

>>148962028
post a picture of your game.

>>148959245
Here's a card game idea for you. Got to try this game with my family, pretty fun although it often got us to Monopoly levels of shadenfreude

All players are dealt 5 cards face up from a double deck of standard cards, no jokers
The rest of the deck is left on the table and a card is dealt from it face up in the middle of the table

Players take turns clockwise from the dealer to play their cards
Each turn, a player can either draw a card from the deck, or play a card onto the face up card in the middle of the table. The players aren't required to have 5 cards.

However, if the card that is on the table matches the value of a card the player has, the player has to play a card with the same value.
If the card that forced you to play a card belonged to another player(which will be the case beyond the first card), the matcher "punishes" the player who the card belonged to.
When you punish a player, you choose between 3 actions after playing your card:
>Steal a specific card from the player
>Tell him to play 2 cards(he gets to choose which and in which order)
>Tell him to draw a card from the deck.

If the punished player is the very next player in turn, skip that player.
If you draw a card with the same value as the table card during your turn (not while punished) you have to also play the card and punish.
You do not have to match/punish a card that you yourself placed.

Each player wants to get the sum of their cards to precisely 14.
>Ace=1 or 11, Jack=12, Queen=13, King=14
When a player has precisely 14 in his hand, he puts the cards away in a pile for scoring and draws 5 more cards face up

When the last card is drawn from the deck, whoever drew it adds it to his pile of collected cards and all piles are counted
Whoever has the most cards in his pile wins the round and the next player clockwise deals the next round

>>148961978
make 2d in unreal?

Daily reminder if you never have created a hentai game then you failed as dev and male and also you've failed to the society.

>>148959060
it's a music video

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>>148962080
That's not necessarily true.

Arcade-like games are fun and all but there's also the type of games that take awhile to finish or are more slow-paced but relaxing to play.

Like RPGs. I love Shining force.

Just make sure they're not slow as fuck with unskippable attack animations. I fucking hate skies of arcadia.

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Show me your worst aggydaggers, this is mine.
After using a bit-wise tile method to map tileset, and getting poor results, I manually modified any faulty values as I found them to map them properly, this is the result, there are still some incorrect tiles, but I can't be bothered fixing them with this mess.

I don't think I did the bitwise tile method correctly.

>>148962225
even worse

Daily reminder that if you made a game using a computer and programming language made by someone else you're a nodev

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>>148962163

>>148962207
>too ashamed to use free assets for a simple game
>meanwhile there are games on steam using nothing but kenney's assets

>>148962206
I have. It's a clicker type game, except you get nothing from clicking.

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>>148962271
jesus

>>148962271
Hello, Tobias Vulpes.

>>148962271
what are you even trying to do.
Surely there's a more sane approach

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>Ask one day about what thing I should learn
>"C# is superior, unity uses it and only engidevs losers use c++"
>Ask other day
>"Learn C/C++ or you will never do something by yourself"
Get your shit together aggy.

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>>148962163
>Unity 5.4 was released.

https://unity3d.com/es/unity/beta

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>>148962163
You were saying?

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>>148962385
But I'm the arcade-anon.

>>148962405
or maybe you could do some research and decide for yourself what best meets the demands of your project and your own experience level

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>>148919987
==|AGDG Weekly Recap|==
Game Name: Tripping in space (placeholder title)
Dev Name: EveningDev
Tools Used: JS, HTML, CSS
Website(s): none / yet
Progress:
+added settings
-really low FPS

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I made a model of an asteroids

>>148962428
>sourcefam makes a 2D platformer

>>148962028
I'm pretty sure that all programming languages are shitty for game designers to use.

>>148962564
download OBS and webm for retards and show us MOVING ASTEROIDS

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>>148962207

>>148962428
But you can do that on GM...

>>148962413
>es
Captura de Pantalla (650)

>>148962334
You've been blessed just by seeing this.

>>148962340
Who?

>>148962389
This, essentially.
http://www.saltgames.com/article/awareTiles/
Except using all 9 directions, which would require 81 tiles normally, but by doing it this way you can use the same tiles for multiple situations. I'm sure there is an easier way, I did this a few years back and it works. So I've never tried fixing it.

>>148962564
That shit is waaaaaaaaaaaaay too high poly
If however it only looks that way , good job.

>>148962405
Does NASA use C# in their rovers on Mars?

Then you don't either.

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>>148962271
This is the code for my power up that causes all the enemies to run away from the player.

>>148962405
Does Sony Playstation One use C# in it's games?

Then you don't either.

>>148962405
If it's your first programming language, it doesn't matter, since the basics are all the same. Once you get into coding, the language, once again, won't matter, since you will get into anything easily.

Like the other anon said, try to understand what your game needs if making a game is your priority.

>>148962980
Most IT companies use Java, so you should use that :)

>>148962830
Seems like std::pair would be the perfect tool you're looking for.

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>>148962271

>>148962830
>Who?
Creator of Netherfable

>>148962271
holy shit. and I thought my code was bad.

>>148962271
What are you trying to do, bit wise is very simple to use.

>>148963109
No. Java has no use for PS1 games. You should not learn Java.

>>148963381
Crash Bandicoot was made in LISP so you should use that :)

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shop now works, and you have 4 attachment points for weapons
weapons aren't hardcoded anymore

all in all, progress

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>>148962271
Yeah you are doing something wrong.
Bloody fucking hell m8

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Small progress today. I tried to make the water look good, but it's too hot and my computer is already making weird noises.

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Did not get to reply in the last thread, but there is more concept art stuff for all the characters... including the elemental sex witch.
I have a tumblr for it... just search bandcircleofheroes

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>>148962608
The video is kinda ugly.

>>148962848
The asteroid is only 400 tris.

>>148963493
also holding the fire button makes it so guns fire automatically until you stop pressing it :^)

>>148963551
I'm following your project, more info? there's romantic options?

>>148963493
dude that flight model looks juicy and fun as fuck

you better be adding in some sick top speeds

do you need help with audio?

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>>148962271

>>148963493
what's your reasoning for your ship controlling like that?

>>148963801
its a video game

>>148963698
It's a beat em up with branching story paths similar to D&D or Guardian Heroes. Not many romantic options, unless you count the sex witch using ethereal demons to impregnate her so she can give birth to familiars that help her fight.

Favorite FOV for third person camera games like assassin creed, crash, dark soul, etc?

Anyone have that pastebin with the filter

>>148963447
You would have to have access to the GOOL compiller, or write one yourself. I would not recommend because it's unecesary extra work. Why not use what the official development kit supports?

>>148962185
hey anon, thanks for the input. The game I've been coming up with is something like war, but with a number of variables like placing cards in locations. I want a simple 1v1 game that is pretty quick to play a few rounds of (like pazaak from the kotor games). Reading your post has really interested me though, making card games that actually take skill to win is not easy.

>>148964087
Took you quite a while to Google it and come up with a response, didn't it?

>>148964019
thanks for the info that make the game better.

>>148964148
Not really

Remember to avoid recursive functions in performance critical code. Prefer equivalent iterative methods wherever appropriate.

>>148963290
Never heard of it. Bad dev?

>>148963371
Mapping 81 possible tiles to 49 tiles, and mapping all of them to the top of the spritesheet, instead of spreading them apart across a huge spritesheet or split them into individual files. Couldn't figure out a better way to do it, so I just put it in and mapped them individually.

>>148964389
I don't know what those words mean. Got any examples?

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>>148490607
If you're here, thanks so much for the feedback on Ball Run.
This is why I post here. I would have never thought that using the default cursor would be better because I would have thought moving objects around by mistake would be annoying. But you and the people who made videos both made it clear that I need to make that a priority.
I'm in the process of reworking the entire game but fixing a lot of bugs as I do so. Including the worst one: The simulation doesn't always have the same results.
Also the game will have a goal, but that part is probably a few demodays away.

>>148964054
ill update it for you since i was the one who posted it originally.

http://pastebin.com/1dZBMhPe

>>148964389
Why?

>>148963738
what sort of audio?

>>148963801
with the mouse? idgi famalam

>>148963638
Seemed to be more high tri from the picture

>>148964468
A recursive function is a function that calls itself.

A very basic example would be this:
http://pastebin.com/ZgFiERNG

And the the equivalent iterative method he mentioned would be doing it with the standard for loop.

>>148964683
>The simulation doesn't always have the same results
Does it depend on delta time somewhere? If you're not feeding a psuedo-random number generator with the system clock, that's the most likely source of irregular results.

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>>148965214
>that function

>>148964845
I assume pushing the return address on the stack and the other variables is more time consuming.
Personally i don't really like recursion my self due to the limited stack, if you have a complex function that uses like 200 kB per stack frame you might run out of the stack quite quickly

>>148965318
>>148965214
I goofed it up, cba fixing it, I'm sure he gets the point.

>>148964807
Thanks family
Now I can read AGDG without getting cancer

>>148964389

Isn't recursion the most effective performance wise?

>>148965221
The issue was with Unity's physics engine. They use PhysX which does have some level of randomness to it.
Now I'm using Farseer which delivers the same results every time (as long as you're using the same PC).
Supposedly the difference isn't too big on other computers, but whether or not the user has an Intel or AMD processor can make the difference bigger from what I've read.
Evidently the only way to get perfect determinism is without using floating point numbers.

>>148965468
No, it's only more convenient and intuitive to use in some cases.
>overhead from function calls
>possible stack overflow if you fuck up

>>148965569
or without using cos, tan, or sin. But you need those in a physics engine.

>>148965468
Recursion continuously allocates memory for the next recursive function call on the stack while still executing the calling function, meaning that deallocation doesn't happen for any function call until the recursion has reached its termination criteria and the initial function returns.

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>>148965569
>as long as you're using the same PC

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>>148919987

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There are now two firing modes
>Player locks into the direction they were facing before firing (either left or right) but can move about freely.
>Player stops moving but may change directions including up and down while shooting.
I think this could work well if I design most of the combat to be carried out mainly horizontally and leave the vertical shooting for the odd encounter or player creativity. It reserves two buttons though which I don't like so much.

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>>148965569
OUR SAVIOUR IS HERE!!!!

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/62991

>>148965569
>as long as you're using the same PC

http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/floating-point-determinism/

>>148966021
performance?

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>update unity to new version
>project can no longer open

>>148966108
Ganbare.

>>148966293
i warned you about not making backups bro

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>>148965757
>Dark elf guy isn't there yet
Is he ok?

>>148966293
>Changing major software versions mid-development
you brought this on yourself

>>148964938
just audio. sounds, loops, ambience

i've gotten gud at making looping sounds but need practice with things like nonsynthesized sounds

https://clyp.it/jvuj0il0
https://clyp.it/r02o5ha5

>>148962271

>wtf is a struct

>>148966392
>>148966293
>having to worry about this
Feels good not being an engine baby.

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>>148966293
>unity

I'm so sorry.

>>148966021
Wow that's amazing. Softbody physics are incredible.
Bookmarked.
>>148966172
I read that but a lot of it is beyond my knowledge about computers in general.

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>people actually have trouble making video games

This shit is retardedly easy.

>>148966021
I hope cloth physics, the default unity solution sucks.

>>148962271
>>148966448
Explain how that would help this situation, I don't think the problem is how I am doing it, but what I am doing.

>>148966532

sky sim?

>>148966532
cornflower blue best blue

>>148966483
The point is to not worry and don't update. Or, if you update do worry and backup your shit.

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>>148966532
i know that feel

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>>148966293
>update ANY little thing
>everything brokes

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>>148965757
==|AGDG Weekly Recap|==
Game Name: The good book
Dev Name: Spoopy
Tools Used: UE4 blender photoshop etc
Website(s): N/A
Progress:
+ Models for church, gravestones and rocks
+ Finally figured out UE4 landscapes

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Just how fucked are my future prospects if I make a porn game?

>>148966215
worse

>>148966293
I don't get this gif
She seemed fine to be leaning on him and then shit gets awkward when he moves

>>148966765
They're fine so long as you don't connect the game to your real name.

>>148966765
tout it proudly and wear it like a shirt

if you try to hide the fact that you made a fetish game, you get hit by the streisand effect instead.

>>148966765
You think anyone would care besides internet shitheads?

How many levels of nodev are you on?

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>>148966765
I'll tell you once I'm done with mine.

Probably little to no effect. A few people will google it and be like "whoa this is cool" or be disgusted and that's it.

>>148966765
look here >>148958704

>>148966765
>frogposter
>making game

>>148966765
It's okay if isn't some loli furry game, if that's the case then use a different nickname or something.

>>148958704
Would fuck.

>>148966483
It's really only a Unity problem. I've never seen any engine other than Unity completely break a project to the point of it not opening.
Of course if there's a major engine update you may need to change some code or something, but breaking the project completely is a problem unique to Unity.

>>148966293

unity doesn't delete old versions. the old version would still be on your pc

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>>148957838
yea but change the particle effect itself.

right now it looks like pic related.

maybe try a radiating effect from the entire back half, or a thicker glowing beam that tapers, not these weak little squirts.

>>148967027
Loli AND furry or loli OR furry? What exactly is considered furry?

>>148958958
When does she get sex scenes?

>>148967052
i can't open my UDK Project in UE4 but i can open my unity 4 project in unity 5.

>>148966532
I like your color palette, where can I buy this game?

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>>148966765
I imagine that pretty fucking fucked , if you connect it to your real name.
Then again the patreon bucks you get for such thing are definitely worth the risk

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>>148967123

>>148966765
Who cares
You'll be sitting on 100k a year

>>148958958
the dress was cuter

>>148966636

it would help in reading your spaghetti code that you would not be able to understand in 1 month.

>>148967164
when you loose your health

>>148959098
>the anatomy on her entire left side (her left, not the viewers) looks wrong
>>nothing actually flexes or moves, the arms and legs just jiggle around outside their sockets
>pls stop

Why are you trying to apply real life anatomy and realism to a chibi stylized cartoon furry character in a minimalist style?

Which of these two concepts sounds better for a world theme:

1. The insides of a giant monster
2. A giant house

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>>148967027
I don't think anything's wrong with loli. It's less shameful than furry and no actual person would think of a cartoon as a child unless you try and force them to think about it.

Furry is expected to have porn under their belt I think. That's just the world they live in.

>>148967123
both of them, at the same time or separated
If you are making a porn game then it'll be furry if you can fuck anthropomorphic animals

>>148967185
Will be going up on the Windows 10 store soon.

>>148967337
Is monster girl island furry?

>>148966387
Yes. Unfortunately I made no substatial progress this last week.

Are there any games you consider masterpieces? Even if not perfect. What kind of quality from those games would you try to add to your own games?

>>148967520
My (future) game.

>>148967424
Not really if they are more human than monster, monster musume is okay if you need an example.
>>148967314
There are a lot of overdramatic people on the internet anon, even more if you are talking with canadians.

>>148967520
Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers 2 for the NES.

>>148966293
What's happening in that gif?

>>148967287
That's not an issue though, I know what it does and why it does it. There's nothing accessing or referencing this outside of this one thing, which can't break since the values will always be the same.

If I end up refactoring it at all, I'll do it in a proper way. Even a simple switch would be about 10 times better than this as well, but I am not going to bother since in reality I am just making it slightly more readable.

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>>148967728
it's called rape sweetheart

whats a good starting guide for gamemaker for someone has the intelligence of a senior on a computer for it

>>148966765
imagine if the game didn't work out and you had to find a job like a normie. how are you going to explain the 1-year gap in your resume?

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>>148967947
>implying I'm not already on my 3rd year

>>148967876
Can you explain why she is leaning on him at the start?

>>148967947
>1 year gap

I'm 31 and I've never worked a day in my life.

>>148966848
>women

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>>148967520
LET ME TELL YOU

I love Star fox 64's branching paths and how they work. If you just go through the level without doing much of anything extraordinary besides surviving then you go down the easy path BUT if you manage to fulfill a certain pre-requisite you get a shot at the harder path. A WHOLE NEW LEVEL THAT'S HARDER AND MORE FUN.

Like in Katina, you've gotta destroy the core when it appears. You've only got ONE minute. If you don't destroy it you'll be forced down the easy path instead of losing a life. Which is almost more painful.
Or how you've gotta destroy ALL of the spotlights in zoness. MISS ONE AND YOU'RE OUT.

Fuck I love it so much.

Star fox zero was insanely dissapointing to me in that regard. In a lot of regards actually. It just plain sucked. BUT I did like the one concept it introduced and that's... Taking down bosses in different ways. But only the first boss did this. Literally none of the other bosses have this feature.

So you can either shoot all of the satellites on the boss or After blowing off a quarter of the boss's thing off you fly INTO it and shoot it's core. If you do this the boss won't escape and will instead blow the fuck up. That is really cool.


I also enjoy house of the dead 2's civilian saving mechanic. How if you save someone you get to go down another path. And if you saved enough civilians in a level you get a health bonus.

I also like saving the POWs in metal slug games. Saving people in vidya is fun.

>>148967307
I'd say it depends on your game. What are your previous worlds like?

>>148967314
>no actual person would think of a cartoon as a child
I have bad news for you, anon.

>>148968246
so what you're saying is that battle engine is the ultimate starfox

>>148968407
>I have bad news for you, anon.

Just make them robots like they did in VA11-HALL-A and then you can make lots of lewd stuff involving them and no one will care.

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Who /brainfreeze/ here
I cant code anymore what the hell

>>148968407
I mean sane people that have real life as a priority.

>>148968407
Castle, Underground, Jungle, Desert, Computer, Underwater.

>>148968615
work on art then

>>148968701
the average person is not sane

>>148967520
A lot of games are masterpieces.
But each in their own way.
For instance DeusEx looks like shit but the different approach to a shooter interesting.

But not every game can re invent the wheel
Ori and the blind forest had mediocre gameplay at best. But the visuals are just so beautifully.

Dark souls had a interesting approach to story telling witch is to set up a world and let you discover remnants of it very DnD

Hell even flappy bird was a master peace in it simplicity.

>>148967307
Why not both?
Have the player think he's in a giant house, then dramatically reveal that it was actually a giant mimic and that the player has slowly been getting increasingly digested all along.

>>148968776
>slowly been getting increasingly digested all along.

you would think he would notice that

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Hey, guise, check it out
gitgud.io/stephenlynx/SpaceLynx

endchan.xyz/.media/3e04dbc5bd82cf717c9a15da42338ec3-videowebm

I'd post the webm directly, but first it said only vp8 format is allowed, then the file got too large.

>>148965757
>tfw broke my combo because I misspelled the title of my game last week
FML

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>>148968758
The cup is half full, not half empty.

Streaming Again.
twitch/devmccoy

Building power ups and power downs

>>148967914
psl repsond

>>148966765
Just add some trans and gay characters and you'll be praised instead.

>>148968578
I don't understand. Is it really?

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>>148967947
Claim I was self employed as a freelance programmer.

>>148968246
It's a shit game, but have you ever played Shadow the Hedgehog?

>>148968869
That's kind of cool.

>>148969168
Any work you actually did would still be on your resume though.

>>148968776
It would be more difficult to do conceptually, but combining the two ideas might supply the weirdness factor that the game has been missing so far. Thanks!

>>148968997
Here

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>>148966765
Fuck, I will do that. I already have a 4 year gap and no future, I just want to draw girls being abused and bullied until they break.

>>148969427
with an answer to my question please

>>148968934
Consider turning on dark theme.

>>148968869
>game takes place in a featureless void
That's spoopy as fuck

>>148968751
Art requires more brainpower and concentration than programming.

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>using unity
>camera suddenly doesn't move at all for no reason
>restart unity
>it works
I'm so good.

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>>148967914
The book "game maker for dummies" and then Shaun's tutorials.

>>148968178
heroe

>>148969616
it uses different parts of the brain so it makes a good compliment

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>>148969183
I have. You're right, it's a shit game.

The branching paths system is a system I am absolutely in love with but if the game itself is shit that system will not help it.

The levels were just not very fun to play through I liked some of the ideas like finishing a different objective rather than just going through the ring at the end but ehhhh. It doesn't really work with the objectives they set... Being "kill all of these guys" or "destroy all of these things" and if you manage to miss one you have to take a teleporter back to the beginning of the level. That's just no good. The levels aren't replayable and enjoyable. It's not fun.

>>148968178
How are you doing gogum?

>>148967914
I don't know of any regular guides, though I've heard good things about HeartBeast's tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB2alpO62GM

Game Maker has a few built-in tutorials of its own for making simple stuff, you should check them out.
After you've made Babby's First Apple Clicking Simulator, you should try modifying the example games included with Game Maker to understand how they work.
Next step is cloning a very simple, pre-existing game, then making a simple game of your own design, and finally moving on to a regular project.

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>game runs at 330x440
>minimum framerate is around 650-700
>average framerate is ~1500
This bothers me more than it should.

>>148969704
>>148969878
thank you, though the steam version doesnt have that apple clicker tutorial

>>148968713
I think "tiny house" might fit best if you want to keep things nice and tidy and traditional. Look to Super Mario Land's micro zone for inspiration.

Otherwise, if you're going to shift the tone towards weird after the "inside the monster" level, then go for it.

If you're going to mix the two ideas like the other anon said, you could also have a giant house which turns out to be inside the belly of an even bigger monster.

>>148967947

say you went to school

wow its fucking nothing

>>148970013
What % of time is it spending at minimum framerate? FPS at that point is more likely CPU bottlenecked than GPU, so resolution is kind of irrelevant.

>>148969469
OK
Yes, I will respond to your post.

>>148970768
too LATE bitch im already helped

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I'm using phaser.io with typescript and it's overriding 'this' with the phaser.game variable. Is there a fix to this? Currently using a static reference but it feels dirty.

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>>148970656
It says here you were studying for 4 years... studying what?

>>148970895
If you have to ask simple questions here that you could have easily googled and got the same or better answers for you will never be able to make a game. You aren't even asking specific questions about making games, you're asking how do I learn how to make games. You're a boat of retarded in an ocean of answers. I would feel bad for you, but your attitude is so shitty I just can't.

>>148971112
Medicine.

It didn't pan out.

>>148966293
>>148968102
She's probably just as awkward as he is and thought he wanted to get up to piss or something when he put his feet down and straightened up his posture. I'd do the same thing to be honest.

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>he listens to "devving music" instead of looking for song styles that fit his game and might provide inspiration

>>148966293
she probably was moving because she thought he was trying to get up

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Can I get enough money to sustain myself if I just make a blog with lewd models and a patreon?

>>148971571
Ooo I have dat figure

>>148964019
>>148963551
>it's a beat 'em up
Aw yis.
Have you done anything other than concept art and the pixel art at the top of the tumblr?

Is there any way to set window size independent of back buffer size in XNA/MonoGame so that the back buffer is simply scaled up to fill the window for pixel games?

>>148971046
You might be SOL because Javascript lets you bind 'this' to whatever you want. My guess is phaser is calling your functions this way internally.

>>148971656
I envy you

>>148971434
Any music I listen to while deving is deving music. Aka the things I regularly listen to anyways.

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first attempt at (large) pixel art.

His left arm looks off to me but other then that I'm pretty happy with it.

Are there any good tutorials or rules I should look at/know for a breathing idle?

>>148971157
too late for your tldr rant since im already helped BITCH

sleep tight now that your helpless replies didnt do shit :)

>>148971785
Put everything in a Matrix and use Matrix.CreateScale()

>>148972102
Then you are doing exactly what I told you not to do aka listening to random shit instead of shit you in styles you might use in your game.

>>148971571
too late patreon is starting to fall off now that it's turning stigmatic

you have to make a game to make it

>>148971571
Probably. Endlessillusion does that and gets $660 a month but hit models are all hyper proportions and his payment scheme is crap. I imagine you'd get a fair but more money if you made your models actually hot and didn't gate your content off in weird tiers.

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>The product of one month of 3D work experience right from square one.

There is no hope, no justice and no god. Might as well jump off a cliff.

>>148972241
Not sure what you mean by "put everything in a matrix", but scaling every draw call would be a pain. Thinking I'll just use a separate render texture for rendering my game, then scale that up.

>>148972191
is this your first attempt with pixel art in general, or just large pixel art?

Judging by his feet you took a small sprite and upsized it, adding more details. Generally you can do more if you just draw the sprite to begin with, IMHO.

One thing I might recommend is try this guy again, but don't use outlines. at the very least, don't use black outlines.

>>148972565
Bro, that's pretty great for one month. Just keep at it. you'll get faster.

>>148971434
I keep design music and dev music separate.
Game-appropriate soundtracks and mood music when brainstorming concepts.
Stuff that helps me concentrate or get comfy when doing some actual programming.

Does the trick pretty well.

>>148971434
your words are invalidated by the image you included with your post

>>148972565
New Game is not realistic.

>>148972753
That's anime

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>>148972565
git gud

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>tfw you shit yourself from taco bell diahrea but keep deving anyway

>>148972565

aaah oh god it hurts

>>148972565
at LEAST 2 years in reality
but its dependent on a huge array of factors

>>148972865
>read new game summary
>Hmm, this sounds like Shirobako.
>Watch New Game
>cute girls doing cute things, game dev setting
It's cute, but it's no shirobako.

>>148972565
You have to be an 18 year old anime girl
You never had a chance

>>148972565
Is it a meme or what? That looks perfectly fine and 2D to me.

>>148971434
I keep design music and dev music separate.
Game-appropriate soundtracks and mood music when brainstorming concepts.
Stuff that helps me concentrate or get comfy when doing some actual programming.

Does the trick pretty well.

>>148972565
>That shading
>That stiff expression
>That fucking bow
Looks like shit, m8. Do a retake.

>>148973289
It's a 3D model, and from an anime.

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>>148973193

>>148973490
Stop being autistic, Kou