/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

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Have you ever actually finished a video game?

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What if I'm not smart enough to make game?

>>149383220
I have not. Haven't even finished Pong because it's so boring to make.

>>149383050
Your statement misses the entire fucking point.

Java is not a bad language.

Java is a bad language for teaching programming. It has an obtuse overhead that does not exist in, for example, C++.

>>149383294
Yo me game's out give feedback
http://www.kongregate.com/games/ErikGames/count-the-sheep

can these fucking retards stop making 2 threads every single time

>>149383220
I have finished 3 but they are not available anymore because they died along with yoyogames sandbox. They were completely free though and babby's first game tier.

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your walk cycle will never be this sassy.

gotta start the other directions now.

>>149383398
But yoyogames is not dead.

No posting game dev waifus, it's forbidden.

>>149383451
Sandbox is.

>>149383428
you accidentally(?) implemented the double bounce walk cycle richard williams describes

I love it

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>>149383475
Are you scared of girls, anon?

Anyone else get erect while working with pascal strings?

>>149383428
Looks like robocop

>>149383254
That didnt stop vine

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Shield cancelling during uppercut shoots player upwards at high speed when timed just few frames after launching up in air. A feature or bug?

Reposting because old thread is ded.

>>149383747
I think that's too unintuitive to be a feature but I'd still leave it in

>>149383747
You should leave it in, but only in a post-game speed run mode.

>>149383747
I'd say leave it in, as long as it doesn't enable any severe sequence breaks. Speedrunners love this kind of shit.

first for language wars encourages nodeving

>>149383747
looks way too OP to leave it in unless you redesign the levels

>>149383747
A feature for players hardcore enough to discover it.

>>149383747
If you didn't code it that way, it's a bug. Who's to say there won't be a triple-jump or quad-jump when you add another ability to the game? Find out what the problem is first before making any judgments.

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Running through the gibs from dead skeletons will jostle them around, which actually a bit useful, since unarmed skeletons will grab those bones and throw them at you, if they have no other option for weapons.

>>149384047
the levels in the demo wont be in final game. The layout will be similar but I'll make the stages less cramped. There also will be actual town and shit.

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guys, help me im about to have a stroke.

What i want to do: spawn prefabs to an empty objects origin thats tied to the player, and also have the instentiated prefabs transfom to be the equal of the spawnpoint objects (so pick up and carry stuff basicaly)

How i want to do it: in the script thats on the prefabs, get a reference of the empty object that acts as teh spawnpoint, so i can get its transform.

My problem: the only way io can get a reference to the spawnpoint fi find it on every update call. it wont find it on awake, start (top right on pic), i cant pull it on manually in the inspector (top left), i cant make a "switch" to turn off searching it once its found... (bottom two tries with dfirent methods) , and it it drives me fucking NUTS.

Was anyone at the radius festival today?

>>149384018
As if we do anything other than watch Unity tutorials on Youtube and jerk off. Who the fuck actually devs here?

Is Unity worth learning for 2D games?

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post agdg-tan

>>149383593
i have no clue what that is but it sounds fancy enough to put in the greenlight pitch.

my goal is to a make a somewhat human looking physics based gait.

>>149384281
Why not just make the prefab a child of the transform?

>>149384449
i-i do anon, or at least try my hardest to

>>149384185
this is a very handsome video game

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It's time to finish up half-done squad creation system
>1. leader's (you) background
>2. 5 soldiers
>3. starting bonus

>>149384673
let's be honest here, dev. no one will read the black text

>>149383669
What is the limit that prevents Pascal from being more commonly used, anyway?

>>149384543
because i want to be able to release it, and ultimately i could accomplis it numerous other was, but as far as i know it SHOULD work this way too, but i cant figure out why it isnt and its driving me up a wall.

>>149384765
speak for yourself, I like pointless flavor text

>>149384765
is it because of black text on red background or treated as useless by the gamer?

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>>149383428
>actually using playmaker for something like this

why not just kill yourself now instead of 2 weeks into whatever your doing and save some time.

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>>149381758
>mfw when the engine is drunk too.

>>149384449
Yesterday I implemented about a third of my reload/ammo mechanic.

I say "my", because it sure as fuck isn't standard.

>>149384587
You're handsome

>>149384898
>is it because of black text on red background
This one

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Made Arikado's tree juicy. And trippy.

>>149384898
because if it's not about what makes my numbers go up or down it's just obscuring information about how my numbers are going up and down

>>149385064
okay, thanks - fixing this now

>>149384185
>torch inside the wall
how does this work exactly?

>>149384765
i did though

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>>149385076

>>149385076
Arikado here. Still not my asset, made by my artist. You can follow his twitter @SouthCXC

I'm really digging all this stuff you all guys have made. Really motivates me (and hopefully everyone I'm working with) to work on my game really hard.

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why did this game fail so bad agdg?

>>149385461
>22000 sales
>fail

Huh?

>>149385386
Ah, yeah.
He doesn't have a tumblr?

(Still Theonian, by the way)

>I'm really digging all this stuff you all guys have made. Really motivates me
Thanks, and great!
I'm looking forward to playing the full game some day!

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>>149385076
Please tell me she was turned into a tree.

>>149383747
how long did it take for you to make this?
I really like the dark setting and i wanna make something like that too, is it hard learning to draw if you suck at it?

>>149383747
Teach me your game deving ways

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>>149384281
If i understood correctly you want to spawn something and parent it to the player, so it moves around with him, like in webm releted.

If so, you're using a very roundabout (and expensive) way to do something simple.

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>>149385064
>>149385161
>>149384765
is it better?

>>149386370
No.
Use a saturated red please.

>>149386370
put an almost black background rectangle behind the white text

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any body know of any puzzle games with teleportation as a main game mechanic?
trying to get some ideas

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Who millionaire here?

>>149386178
yea, i wanted to something like that, but i'm only just messing around with no goal and as a side effect figure out how stuff is made. That is why i cant get over as to why it wont work.

>>149386506
the swapper kinda counts.
You know portal.

>>149386507
>~6000 dls
>27 purchases

how does this happen?

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>>149386506

Why doesn't one of the successful devs here actually teach the rest of us how to be good devs?

>>149386695
because bad devs are bad because they don't want to learn

>>149386695
Hoppo isn't a good dev though.

And you can't teach dev, you can only have opinions about why xyz are good/bad.

>>149386695
Step 1: Take the ~80 hours required to learn to make games.
Step 2: Apply your new skills for 900-1500 hours, making your game.
Step 3: Get lucky.

Which part do you want a lesson in?

>>149385461
well memed

>>149386821
What makes a dev good?

>>149386827
If you can teach someone to program you can teach someone to dev

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Finally getting this fucker to swim around.

>>149384185
Damn dude, I really like that.

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>a few days ago, finally get off my ass and start learning how to do game dev and pursue a dream of mine
>learn lua and pick up love
>everything's going smooth, even generate a few new game ideas along the way
>pick up dev again today and get stuck
>can't even figure out how to animate a triangle
i wish i wasn't so stupid

>>149386898
>1500 hours
sure, if you want to make a 2d platformer

>>149386648
>pay what you want
>ppl being cheap

>>149386695
Sometimes we get some anons who claim to be pro devs giving some decent advice, but there's no "global good game rule", it's all just a combination of thousands of little things that can't be taught in just a few posts.

Is there a good reference pic of agdg-tan? I want to try making her 3D model for fun.

>>149387129
1500 hours is one year of dedicated gamedev, though.
Its a perfectly reasonable period to make a game.

>>149386507
We warned you bro.

>>149387116
you're not stupid because you can't figure it out, you're stupid because you thought you could do learn it in a day

>>149386898
>Step 1: Take the ~80 hours required to learn to make games.

I've spent thousands of hours on modeling alone

>>149386695
Look for Mucky foot's interviews. They got only one successful game (startopia), and was a team made with former devs from Bullfrog. They made a lot of mistake during the development of startopia, and tried to warn other devs teams about it.
Cool guys, I hope they still got a job in the game industry.

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>>149387236
Go crazy.

>>149387276
animating basic shapes is elementary level though. it shouldn't a difficult algorithm to breeze through

>>149384185
Walking uphill looks painfully slow.

Daily reminder that the only language you should make your game in is C

>>149386939
>What makes a dev good?
That's a difficult question to answer. I'd say part of it is having a good intuition for what works and what doesn't (in terms of gameplay, scope, aesthetic and general design), as well as an ability to uphold a high standard in one's work rather than just saying "eh, good enough" once the bare minimum has been accomplished for any given task. Commitment and passion are also important.

>>149387278
You greatly overestimate how much time you've spend modeling.
No, watching Youtube videos or browsing 4chan with Blender opened doesn't count.

>>149387575
Yeah, I made it so uphill running is slower, but feedback has been pretty much unanimously that this should not be a thing, so its on my to-do-list to take that out.

>>149386580
This might sound retarded, but I think you are trying to access a local variable from a different method.

top right:
In the Start () method you are creating the local variable Grabcube. Then in the Update() method you are trying to access a variable that doesn't exist in said method.

You already declared the Grabcube variable, change your Start() to

void Start(){
Grabcube = GameObject.Find("grabcube");
}

>>149386898
>take the ~80 hours required to learn to make games
How did you learn that fast?

>>149387830
It should be trig based.
If the character can normally walk 1 meter to the left in 1 second.
If they approach a hill that is at a 30deg angle.
Then they should instead walk left by only .86 meter in 1 second (cos(30)) And up by .5 meter (sin(30)) in 1 second.
So in the end the character can only move, a maximum of 1 meter per second.

>>149387830
>>149387575
I thought it was slower because of the spooky skulls, you might it keep as a catacombs thing but not in every slope.

>>149387732
Nice projecting m8. Some of us can actually stay focused for a couple hours without needing to refresh /v/ or fap.

>>149388028
Genetics. If you can't learn to make games in 80 hours or less, sue your parents.

>>149387493
i don't know who is this guy, it's a smart move to know who is that?

>>149388085
>all that unnecessary math
lmao theres a reason all these physic games are only memes

>>149388085
There's only one type of slope in this game, so I think it'd be simplest just to not affect movement speed. If there were more complex terrain, I'd for sure need to figure something out to calculate slope speed.

>>149388089
Hey thats not a bad idea

>>149388231
Are u trolling or do people actually think like this.

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>>149388180
He is the best selling AGDG poster.

>>149386986
Looks good! Nice whale

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got character clothing system and dialogue box working! have to clean the drawing up a bit and start working on the other UI and the gameplay next (super simple point, click, and drag)

>>149388479
Goo jawb

>>149388479
HNNGH

>>149388393
On this point i agree with him.
But on the other note why does he do what he does ? He does not seem to be THAT retarded.

>>149388323
>Are u trolling
lol are you? do we need to calculate how far the skulls should roll when kicked too? the math behind the character illuminating seems off. whats the calculus derivaty of fantasy lighting in reference of wind resistance?

>>149388694
Why does anyone do anything on the internet?

(you)'s

In GML I know you can substitute true and false with 1 and 0 in conditionals and variables. Does it make a difference though if you say like return 0 instead of return false since you can return lots of different numbers?
Sorry I'm retarded.

>>149388479
Looks neat Anon!

>>149388694
Look up who the man on his avatar is.
He is joking. However, the joke isn't meant for you to laugh at. He is joking at your expense, and he laughs at you.

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Man, I gotta be careful, if I make these skeleboners any more adorable, its going to be hard to want to kill them. Skeletons will throw bones of fallen comrades at you now

>>149388694
he acts like a retard for attention so people will find out about his game and (maybe) buy it.

>>149388479
>All of this time and effort wasted
>On a porn game
I hope that you are only doing it for the money

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>>149388702
>the math behind the character illuminating seems off. whats the calculus derivaty of fantasy lighting in reference of wind resistance?
>tfw I actually research this kind of autistic stuff

>>149388393
anime fans BTFO

>>149388694
it's a fake twitter

Someone teach me to become godlike at game maker studio and then godlike at 2d art for 2d games in gms

>>149388886
>VN
>time and effort

>>149388850
That's amazing, I hope you go a long way.

>>149388869
Yeah, nah people don't buy games from negative attention.

>>149388937
HARD WORK

>>149389142
TEACH ME THAT

>>149388886
>Making the game you want to make
>time and effort wasted

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>>149388932
It actually isn't. He did post that.

>>149389181
WELL YOU SEE
YOU OPEN UP GAYMAKER
LOOK UP THIS FAGGOT SHAUN
COPY HIS SHIT
REALIZE HE DOESNT ACTUALLY TEACH YOU ANYTHING
OPEN UP THE MANUAL
CHECK OUT THE INDEX
THERES THOUSANDS OF SHIT
LEARN THAT
THEN YOU OPEN UP SOME EDITOR
AND MAKE SHIT
UNTIL IT LOOKS GOOD
DONE

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>>149386507
Get on my level

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Wondering if allies should just disappear altogether when one is blocking single-target attacks. Transparent bee looks weird

>>149389142
AND GUTS

>>149389260
You can price your game at anything m8. If it doesn't sell then the freemarket said your game isn't worth it.

If your game has "Simulator" in the title, it's probably shit.

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HARD WORK AND GUTS

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>>149388932
>>149389260
Oh, forgot my link.
twitter.com/PHIL_FISH/status/500321050639364098

>>149388886
I've been seriously considering learning how to draw lewds simply to make a porn game due to the extreme amount of income you can get.

Breeding Season was fucking ridiculous. 3 years of barely any development and the artist walked away with 190k before fucking off to his own project which is already at like 4k/month with as far as I can tell only concept art

I figure learning life drawing or at least drawing lewds will translate into improved art skills across the board.

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>>149387848
Oh my god, thank you.

Guess thats what i get for copy pasting so much.

>>149389425
>shit simulator 2016
what now faggot

>>149389443
>Hard work and guts
>not
>Aim for the top!

>>149388886
i'm just doin it for the love brother

>>149388647
>>149388681
>>149388791
thanks! i'll keep posting here but i started up a nsfw dev blog in the meantime at monsteronsen.tumblr,com if you want to keep updated

Where is your soundcloud?

>quit smoking
>everytime I run into a problem while coding I would take a smokingbreak and think about the problem
>every time I run into a problem I get a huge urge to smoke

>>149389340
FUCK YEA

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>>149389443
Thanks Noriko. I won't forget again.

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On the advice of some anons a couple threads ago, I decided to use low-poly, shadeless 3D models instead of drawing 8 different angles per animation for my top-down game (I'm the snail guy, if anyone remembers).

Installed Blender last night and played with it all of today. Results so far. I have literally never touched a 3D program other than shitty CAD drawings for school in my life.

Waifu model is just playing around with an old character design. This has nothing to do with my game.

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>>149385076
I can see this being an easy way to make pixelhorror.

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>>149389520
speaking as the monster onsen dev:

absolutely start with life drawing. get books on figure, gesture, and anatomy. absolutely do NOT start by drawing anime, you'll stunt your artistic growth like nothing else.

i recommend hampton, bridgman and vilppu books for figure drawing. if you can find a life drawing session with good models in your area that would be the best (ive been to a few with models with really weird bodies who couldnt hold still).the online resource quickposes is good if you can't. also be sure to check out framed ink for composition and 2-tone expression

>>149390241
Why are your censor bars transparent

>>149390289
BARELY-THERE MOSAIC

>>149390289
oops, i was using a brush with transfer to draw those.

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>>149390101
>mfw
Same here

>>149388986
Thanks! I've been thinking about making it so you can jump on bones to crush them, making them unusable as a weapon. So you can kill skeletons then stompstompstompstomp

>>149390101
>>149390424
>Having problems coding
This just in: smoking causes brain problems

Where the fuck is sonix dev

>>149390570
Activision-Blizzard picked him up.

>>149390560

YOU are a brain problem!

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>>149390560
>implying that smoking breaks don't help to solve the problem
Real programming problems are hard kiddo.
>Walk away from PC
>Instantly think of a solution
How does this shit work ?

>>149390570

I am here, I am working on ring health script.

>>149390560
But I've never smoked and I have problems with code all the time

>>149387116
>can't even figure out how to animate a triangle
It's okay, anon: it's been eight years since I began programming and I still have to look up how to initialize an array every once in a while.

>>149390827
You can have short pauses without smoking.

I grab a cup and go to the water dispenser a couple floors down.

>>149390827
http://www.businessnewsdaily.com/6598-spark-creativity-ditch-chair.html

>>149390901
give sonic a powerup that increases his leg length and turns his eyes green

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>>149391156
But the cravings man.

>>149391561
Just fap. Writer/ Artist/ Programmer's block? Just edge on it.

>afraid to post progress because last times I did feedback was bad.
Maybe I'm loosing the touch, agdg?

>>149392143
Even if its bad feedback it'll help you, just post

>>149392143
>loosing
This makes me more mad than it should

>>149392439
Same here.
>loosing the touch
Why don't you just tighten it, then?

>>149392143
Did you fix the problems people pointed out or ignore them like most devs here?

Sometimes feedback is a good thing

>>149391345

If its not too much of a problem to implement it I might implement it.

>when someone does a shit job but everyone is too afraid to tell them

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

>>149388791
Re: 0/false, I think it doesn't matter.

>>149388850
>Skeletons will throw bones of fallen comrades at you now
FUCK. I love this.

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this is driving me nuts

This line:
forwardMovementSwitch.transform.localRotation = forwardMovementSwitchInitRot * Quaternion.AngleAxis(60, controlBoard.transform.right);


Forwardmovementswitch is the purple handle on the gold rectangle. The controlboard is the big silver thing whose "right" axis is the bright red one emerging from the side. The purple handle should then rotate up and down around the right/red axis but it's all fucked up, upside down and over the side.

Pls help.

>>149392665
Tighten up those graphics on level 3

>>149383747
It could've been a cool speedrun trick. But now you have to fix it.

>>149384461
This (you) is just for the effort.

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I decreased screen shake intensity and lowered the opacity on the scanlines so now the game doesn't look like complete ass. I also added a second weapon.

>>149393045

Dont know, but Quaternions are a pain in the ass.

>>149385461
I wish my game would fail this bad. In my third world country I could live on the money this game made for a long ass time.

>>149393245
I know every single fucking "game dev authority" promotes the shit out of screen shake but I fucking hate it.

It's so overused. You can use it reasonably in moderation, just like ambushes, jump scares, and a slew of other stuff that gets used in spades, but it's always so excessive.

It should be reserved for significant things, not when you fire every single shot.

>>149393351
well usually I find a way to make it work but holy hell this one problem is making me go crazy. It's like none of the axis are the good ones. It's a clusterfuck but I don't know why.

>>149393045
cant you just make some animation states for the controls, might be easier

>>149393245
that hud is pretty bad

>>149391038
This.
>tfw you use one of those easy "does everything for you" scripting languages for a while and when you come back to your main language you keep making very stupid mistakes

>>149393245

woah, that swastika is pretty edgy

>>149393572
>it's always so excessive.
Likewise with screen-shaking in movies. Holy shit, I can barely follow modern action sequences these days. And even when characters are just standing around talking, there's jitter cam. Once you notice it you just can't stop seeing it. Drives me crazy.

>>149393245
2 bit enter the gungeon?

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I started something new, what do you think of my procedural floating island?

>>149393849
Looks like Hotline Miami.

>>149388479
I hope you already have a Patreon. You could be getting rich right now.

>>149393245
your screen is shaking for 80% of the gif's duration

I like the aesthetic, although you might want to add some random bricks in the black wall areas so you can tell they're solid

>>149389379
It might look strange on a screenshot, but we don't know how it looks like in movement.
Post webm.

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>Followed another tutorial that explains pathfinding in detail.
>Still fucked it up.

I-I think I'll just go play some games or something.

>>149384862
Then unparent it when you want to release it?

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>>149393779
I would but I want the player to actual move it with his mouse up and down like in this but with a rotation instead of a translation.

Maybe I should just make it an animation. This is taking way too much time. I'd really want it to feel nice and heavy like a plane engine's motor controls but can't find any ressources on the matter and my brain is not enough.

>>149388850
Impeccable progress, as always. Not to put a massive weight on your shoulder, so take this lightly, but I expect great things from you.

>>149386898
>Step 1: Take the ~80 hours required to learn to make games.
u wot
It's taken me months to feel somewhat comfortable with UE and I've actively not used many parts of it yet.

>>149393882
Floating islands are neat.

>>149394048

Just go from point A to B.

>>149377796

ok no, first of all, the calling instance requires a path to work with.

path = path_add();

second you actually need to specify the obstacles for the grid (ignore this if you already did that)

mp_grid_add_instances(grids,obj_obstalce,true);

THEN you can do the mp_grid_path thing.

>>149393572
>>149393993
I could make it a bit more intense for whenever an enemy is killed or a large object is destroyed.
I will definitely being adding more decor to the back walls, though.

>>149393786
Yeah, I'm going to fix that later on. I especially don't like the health counter.

Thanks for the feedback

>>149393882
that's actually pretty nice for being procgen

>>149393045
Why not just transform.rotateAround?

>>149393245
Dunno if in the minority on this, but the colors make me think of Virtual Boy and hurt my eyes a bit.

>>149389379
Sure, as long as you give them a proper fade transition so it doesn't look weird and abrupt.

>>149393882
Smooth it all out. Looks a bit too bumpy.

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>>149388791
This reminds me, back in older versions of GM (RIP when Mark was developing it) you could declare your own constants, so I went out of my way to declare "yeah" and "nope" as true and false, respectively.

Damn I need to start doing this again. I have no idea what I'm doing anymore, though. Had this neato idea for a four-poster beat-em-up in the vein of Final Fight, but with classes and other RPG elements. I'd play the dogshit out of that.

>>149393882
How did you make that?
are you first person witchdev?

>>149394185
I wish it was as simple as
if (see player)
{
fuckinfollowhimretard = 1;
return finishthisfuckingame;
}

>>149394269
I do plan on adding different color palettes you can choose from so people's eyes don't start bleeding mid-game.

>>149394109
You're back to the submarine game? How long until you drop it again?

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>>149383220

yeah. me and bruv finished a small shitty rpg thing a few years ago. it was a good learning experience.

>>149394352
You still can....

You just have to declare it as a macro.

>>149394352
>four-poster

Eat a dick, autocorrect. Four-PLAYER.

>>149393847
>can't follow movie fights because of shakes
>not because of quickly cut scenes that look like strobes
>not because pans are done at speeds that go beyond what 24FPS is capable of rendering without turning everything into fragmented mush

24FPS is as evil as Disney's effect on copyright laws.

>>149387116
>>149387276
This.

>>149387506
It's about learning proper google-fu and knowing what you need to know.

test

>>149394379
It's a bunch of perlin noise on a grid of vertices

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De-cluttered the grass, redid the road and the wall damage. Crater still looks a little off, maybe because of the top down look.

>>149394497
>tfw haven't used GM in almost 10 years and I have no idea what those are

Truth be told, I'm a lazy piece of shit. I nabbed GM: Studio Professional and the Android Export Module like a year ago when they were on Humble Bundle and haven't touched it.

>>149388231
>single trig function
>>all that unnecessary math
are u srs

You might not be cut out for this. Definitely don't try to into 3d.

>>149394191
Thanks for the advice Anon, but I had already done that inside of a separate object. Not sure if that was incorrect to do though. The path worked fine. It just didn't update mid path. The object would follow my last known position until the end of the path and only then would update. Also wouldn't follow the scripts at all, even at the end.

>I already wiped all that code for code that worked even less. Fuck

>>149394245
I need a way to constrain the rotation to the upper and lower bound of the little gold panel so you can't rotate it outside of it. With a position, I'd limit it with a simple clamp on the axis, but with rotation, eulers are all fucked up, going from 360 to -3 and stuff like that, and quaternions can't really be clamped simply from what I read.

My idea was to just set the most up rotation and down rotation in a Quaterion.Slerp(up rotation, down rotation, mouse input); but while this is working, the axis are all wrong and it's always moving sideways no matter which one I pick (up/ right /forward)

>>149394382
It is that simple! But the actual syntax is:

if (SeePlayer()) {
while(FuckingFollowHimRetard());
return finishthisfuckingame();
}

Now go out there and define those functions, anon! I believe in you!!

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>>149394352
>>149394515
A fighting game in which the characters are controlled by posts on 4chan.

What about a multiplayer open world zombie survival game with gameplay stolen from The Last of Us?

>>149394780
This is simultaneously the best and worst idea in this thread.

Let's do it, guys.

>>149394795
Why not a multiplayer open world survival game based on DayZ but with a reset every 6 hours and a score at the end that gets added into a leaderboard?
Also, equipment found is homages to various other games. From nanosuits, over Doom steroids, to gravity guns.

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Ok, here we go again. Concept for new villagers.
They not only look cuter, and have actual detail on their clothing, but the new designs could allow me to have different variations with different hair colors too.
Do your worst.

>>149394548
I mean, I never said that jitter cam is the only thing that makes action sequences awful. You're right: those other things are equal offenders. Also, directors change the perspective of the fights so much that it becomes difficult to figure out who's attack who. I wonder if they teach these things as the "correct" methods for filming action scenes in film school.

>>149395031
Why is she waving her tits at me?

>>149395042
Sometimes I think modern film makers cut their films together at 60FPS, then cut them down to 24 and thus never notice the associated problems.

They also seem to have forgotten that fights are supposed to be follow-able and not just look flashy.
Which reminds me of certain movies that fucking suck at giving you a sense of who's winning a fight. Most of the time it's just BLOW FOR BLOW until DRAMA TRIGGER and someone loses.

>>149395093
She is showing you the dance of her people.

>>149394693
Fuck you obs/webmconverter, quit slapping black bars and blur all over my shitty map making it look even worse

>>149394693
Grass still cluttered as fuck. Remember that these days a lot of people are introduced to indie games via twitch, and that will look like complete ass even with a relatively high bitrate.

>>149394693
still pretty hard to read

>>149394660
how did you make the bottom?

>>149393245
white/red/black OR scanlines
not both you absolute madman

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>>149394048
what are you having trouble with, mio-senpai?

>>149395031
>Do your worst.

I can't, it's great! her feet and arm action should be reversed though, left arm+right leg/right arm+left leg

it should look more like a walk cycle then

So I've started down the UE4 hole and so far it's not as complex as i thought it would be. Blueprints are pretty amazing. Just need to get use to the UIs.

Question: When building a map (I'm doing an arena type thing), should I make everything 1 mesh in blender or break it down into parts and assemble in UE4? or at least as much as I can into 1 mesh?

>>149394960
what about a game where you kill yourself you walking cliche

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>>149383117
Not an actual dev here, but playing an amateur game one is making.

It's a reboot of Realms of Kaos, a gmud. It's similar to nightmist and the like, but has an in-game map.

It's fun to me.

>>149395917
You culling and memory purposes you want everything to be separate meshes. One pillar mesh can be placed around the environment and will only count as a single mesh. Multiple pillars (the same pillar copy pasted) in an fbx file are just needlessly filling the ram and will not be able to be culled.

Unless your game is super small you want it to be modular anyway for your own sanity.

>>149383220
gadget is cute.

>>149390901
>>149391345
no screw that idea
give him little red booties, and make egg man an old guy in an electric skooter that runs sonix over in a bloody pulp

>>149396087
fuck outta here with this neckbeard shit

>>149394048
This helped me a lot.
http://buildnewgames.com/astar/

If you use JS, you can copy paste it to your code and it'll work, but basically you just have to tweak it to mach the syntax of your language.

>>149393572
this. these people equate good game feel to "hurr durrrr shake the camera if something happens XD" just imagine if something like mario was designed by one of these hipsters. it makes me sick

>>149396171
you're cute

>>149396198
fuck that
make him super saiyan super with blue hair and feminine muscles for his feminine penis

>>149395240
I wish there were beta testers for films. Not focus groups or whatever, but a group of non-film makers who sat down, watched, and then commented on the film from a technical viewing perspective. Maybe they already do that. I get the feeling that they'd just be ignored, though, because film makers and directors would just assume they know better because they've studied film more/directed more.

>They also seem to have forgotten that fights are supposed to be follow-able and not just look flashy.
This shit just pisses me off. I just saw Star Trek yesterday and while they seemed to do a lot better in some scenes, they also have the usual problems with fights in others. I bring this up because you mention not knowing who's got the upper hand, and I like how I almost never have to try to figure out who's winning whenever Kirk's in a fight because he always gets the shit kicked out of him.

>>149396371
>feminine penis
include this

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>>149383117
>Apathetic and tired all day
>Getting nothing done

How do I end this?

>>149396513
john wick was so good in this regard, super crisp fights that were still an adrenaline rush. cant wait for the sequel

>>149396626
Go exercise for a half hour.

And stop drinking caffeine.

>>149395240

Theres a balance to be had for sure.

Kung-Fu movies really evolved like this. Early Kung Fu movies had very slow and deliberate moves, usually with very little camerawork, mostly fixed positions. Same with the old Japanese, Spaghetti Westerns, and really any subgenre of action movies.

Then it had to get flashy. Which actually ruined most modern movies. The lightstaber fights in Star Wars were a means to an end. It wasn't about the actual skill of the fighters, it was about the conflict between them. Then George decided it was better to just have the fights be flashy for the sake of being entertaining.

It's lowest common denominator entertainment. It doesn't require thought or investment, it just looks flashy.

And don't get me wrong. I enjoy my fair share of pure-entertainment low on story and low on investment movies when done well. I love Pacific Rim for what it is, but I know deep down it's a by the numbers hollywood summer flick designed to make dosh.

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>>149396626

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>>149396325

>>149394128
Oh yeah totally

*hyperventilating*

>>149396882
The fuck are you doing?

>>149396882
I have no idea what this is doing but there is so much wrong with it.

>>149396882
Never heard of the switch command?

>>149396882
why not using a switch?

>>149396958
picking wall tops
it took me 2 weeks to write it down

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>>149396885
>*actions*

>>149396882
>>149396958
This would probably be better and way more readable as a switch statement:

case 1:
case 2:
case 3:
etc.

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>>149395898
I'm having problems understanding motion planning in Game Maker functionally. For some reason it's not sticking and I'm fucking it up to varying degrees every time I try it.

>>149396234
Thanks Anon. I'll look at this in a minute and will see if it'll help me.

>>149396882
>>149397045
It's suicide to attempt autotiling without splitting each tile into quadrants.

>>149396882
Given the arbitrary looking numbers I want to assume there's a simple algorithm that would reduce this to a single line.

But also
>If statements on a single line

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>>149396882
>5348 lines

>>149397120
is motion planning a game maker feature? or are you rolling your own pathfinding?

>>149396728
Not that guy but I don't do the latter and I've done the former for like a trimester and it changed literally nothing.

>>149397330
It's a bunch of Game Maker commands. Honestly not sure if it exists in other languages because all I know is GML.

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>have problem with code
>about to ask /agdg/
>realize mistake, fix it
>now i have no reason to post on /agdg/

>>149397383
Maybe you don't like game dev then? If you're not feeling motivated to do something then why do it?

inb4 money

>>149397429
I'm not sure what you are saying, post what you got.

>>149397383
go to the doctor

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>>149396882
I noticed this wasn't very optimized so I took the liberty of adding some improvements. you're free to use it if you want

>>149397223
>not onelining as much as possible to save space

>not using
if (bool)
dothing();
else
donothing();

>>149397504
>be shitty artist
>never have reason to post on agdg

>>149386370

don't listen to those philistines, first one was perfect. If someone is enough of a retard to skip all flavour text they aren't your target audience anyway, I mean, flavour text is what differentiates your game from simply rolling a die to determine changes in stats, And I don't mean it in a bad way, resource management games are that, but thanks to flavour text they become interesting.

>>149397539
You have to write the remaining 5000+ lines

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>>149384461
Ok.

>>149397508
I feel like this all the time though. Not only when devving.
>>149397515
I would, but I'd have to ask my parents for money because I'm broke... it's complicated.

>>149397539
Checking if's isn't particularly slow. I agree the else makes it "better" and more optimized but you'd want to arrange it in a way that uses the most common numbers.

Obviously the switch statement is a great candidate for this, since you can just go to your specific case then immediatley break out using the break; keyword.

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>>149396882
>5348 lines

>>149397585
post art

>>149397543
Good to know you just started programming yesterday.

You can use full, verbose names for variables or functions and you should always include curly braces for any operation regardless of line count. Your future self will thank me.

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can somebody please tell me what's wrong with my code?

>>149397836
I started doing braces for everything because it's the only thing I know

now I oneline everything and leave out as many braces as possible, more readable

>>149396882
Not only is this particular code clearly retarded, but 5000 lines is a tad too many, you should aim for at least 4500 less lines than that in one file.

post cute girl sprites

>>149397926
Wasn't some memedev on github actually making an emoji-based programming language? I remember seeing something like that.

>>149397975
>more readable
>bait.png

>>149394269

Reminds me of Downwell. It's a good style but I think it's too simplistic to last a whole game without looking dull.

>>149397976
but it runs faster

>>149397926
that's adorable

it'll print out poop and then each of the fruits except strawberries

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>>149395905
Thanks. I can't believe I didn't notice before I messed up the walking cicle. Fixed it, and as you said, looks way better now.

>make a ball change color depending on the player's position
>feel proud as fuck
It's something so simple but it still took me like 2 hours

>>149397836
>in college
>schoolmates all use variables like x, y, z and stuff thats totally non-descriptive, myVal, etc.
>be one of like 5 people in a 90 person class that uses incredibly specific variable names like
>newSquareArea, resultantVector, etc.
>they all turn out to be garbage programmers and me and the others are the only ones who get offered jobs by the dozens of companies that came to try and poach students

It makes your code way more readable, and when you're working in a company you need it to be readable. Same thing with going back and looking at old code.

If uyou're using variables called shit like fuckfagshiteater you're going to have no idea what it does if you need to come back a year or two after you've completed it.

2ch.tf/gd/res/281661.html#281684
;_;
>tfw your game will never transcend continental boundaries

Reminder to keep your variable names as short as possible to make the code run faster

>>149398354
it would've worked if she was trying to lift her dress in order to walk, but then her hands would need a little fixing

>>149398235
your IDE will run slower, though, so it'll run faster but you'll have less features

that said, if you're doing it in notepad like a true programmer, then it's fine since notepad doesn't waste time parsing anything for garbage programmers who can't remember what they wrote

>>149398582
>notepad
>like a true programmer

You haven't done shit until you code in the shell you fucking loser.

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>AGDG giving programming advice

>>149398662
>code in the shell
Do you use fucking nano you poser?

>>149398569
Damn that's a really nice idea, but the detail would probably be barely noticeable in the actual game
Anyway, will start working on the side and back walkcycles now.

>>149397504
>have problem with code
>about to ask /agdg/
>this is normally the point where I'd realize the mistake and fix it
>it doesn't happen
>go back and look at code
>have no idea how to fix it
>recode the entire thing
>still doesn't work, but now the problems are completely different for some reason
>about to ask /agdg/
repeat for 3 days and you have my life right now

>>149398058
less noise = more readable

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>>149398906
this is true, if you've ever looked at google.com's code it's what they do and they have the most popular website in the world

What do you guys use to gamedev?

How did you learn to gamedev?

is there an agdg approved spaghetti code stamp that I can put in my game?

>>149399071
Google also probably has the best programmers in the world.

And the source for the site doesn't actually look like that. They take out all of the whitespace and line breaks to make it run faster.

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Progress:
+ Added Card graphics to GUI. How do the cards look?

>>149390232
Spooky

>>149399116
UE4, Maya, Substance Painter/Quixel, Photoshop, Blender, Bitmap2material, Substance Designer, Audacity, Celtx, Visual Studio, Nvidia Clothing Tool

>>149399071
The code was minified dummy

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>spent all day playing Pokemon Go instead of devving

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It's uglier now...

>>149399116
>What do you guys use to gamedev?
Java

>How did you learn to gamedev?
Back in like 2010 I started seeing the game dev generals on /v/ and thought to myself "If a bunch of loser anons can make games then I can too" so I brushed up on my high school programming knowledge and made some shitty unfinished games and then became a depressed engine dev and gave up.

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>>149399267
>video games
>playing cards
>literal dice rolls

if your game has any kind of tabletop mechanics you need to end yourself

>>149398906
I get that it's a personal choice, but more structure = more readable IMO

>>149399071
>what is minified code

>>149399116
an ide or just word pad or similar shit, blender, paint, gimp.

first you need to know how to code, then solve the problems along the way, google is your friend.

>>149399243
>They take out all of the whitespace and line breaks to make it run faster.
>run faster
Download faster, not run faster ya dingus.

>>149398404
>mfw GM babydev
>still trying to use variable names that make as much sense as possible
well, i'm trying. it's hard, but it sure feels fucking good to come back to your code and understand what exactly this shit does.

>>149399267
cards are looking pretty! but the text is pretty unreadable. not only is it vertical, which is pretty fucking hard to read (try lining up your cards all at a 45° angle or more!), but the color doesn't contrast with black very much (try making it much lighter).

>>149399359
>its uglier now
>keeping your shitty context instead of going in numerical order

What is even wrong with your brain?

>>149399359
Holy fuck anon. Why is it not even ordered. How is this even supposed to work.

>>149398354
i can barely tell its human

>want to just like make game
>game maker suddenly decides it wants to compile my game, but not open the game window so i can test it
>google this issue
>people have been complaining about it for years
>still no guaranteed fixes
Should I just abandon my game and learn a real language?

>>149399434
All games are just abstractions of tabletop games kiddo

>>149399458
if it fits snugly on one line there isn't a big reason to make it longer. more whitespace tends to run related code apart vertically

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>>149399434
well, shit

>>149399531
>>149399532
It's based on this: http://www.cr31.co.uk/stagecast/wang/blob.html

>>149386079
not hard. but takes lots of time, too long if you really do suck at it.