/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

I will work hard today.

>>149970572
lolidev did literally nothing wrong

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>>149970672

>>149970672
I'll work harder tomorrow

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>Friday
What progress are you planning to make this weekend?

I had a feverish dream about rotate dev being a girl. I was dehydrated and overheating.

>>149970854
I'll try not to kill myself.

>>149970806
whats happened?

>>149970854
Anything is fine. But if I could manage to make the controls feel better I would be happy as fuck.

>>149970854
AI

>>149970854
Finish our team's Space Jam game.
I wonder how many teams will have games when the Jam is over.

>>149970854
I'll finish up the last part of my shitty jam entry

>>149970854
Too anxious about sloppy, shitty, unmaintainable code to bother today

>>149971240
just like code better

I am ok at art but shit at animations.

Are video games animations copyrighted?

Can I steal a walk cycle?

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Who /tokedevving/ here?

>>149970854
Keep working on sword animation

>>149971446
What are you selling something? Just do whatever.

>>149970854
Will work on random weapon generation.
Also, i'll work on a simple modding tool (database editor).

>>149970854
I'll be in a car for 6+ hours and then on a boat for another 14. I probably won't be getting much done. I'll try to finish the battle system in my shitty Pokemon clone, though.

>>149971553
Wait is nobody on agdg selling anything?

>>149971305
just be urslef

>>149971649
No, I am telling you that you are not selling anything.

>>149971719

But I want to make dosh

>>149971482
My state just buttfucked the medical market and I can't afford even the tax-free retail offered to me which is literally 2x as expensive as what I paid before.

>>149970854
Too much for one weekend, probably...

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>>149970572

>>149971868
Damn, which state is this?

>>149971980
Last game I played was Grand Peix Story so I think I'm covered

>>149971980
>make simple game
>play it
>remake it

Am i a dev now?

>>149971980
The last game I played was my game. Guess I am a nodev.

nodev here, what's the purpose of jams?

>>149971980
Do I have to remake all the assets too? Because if not I believe I could do it.

>>149971986
WA, they killed all medical dispensaries that had been running for years to replace them entirely with the new few retailers. Plus a few other changes:

https://www.leafly.com/news/industry/new-licensing-requirements-for-washingtons-medical-marijuana-disp/

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Posting progress. Working on the room for the first boss fight.

>>149972197
Not really but can you recreate the core of what made the game good?

>>149972469
Art and Sounds seem really integral to my enjoyment of that game. So probably not.

Are there any game devs or programming related channels in youtube who are nice to listen to as background noise? I only know of ThinMatrix

Must not have obnoxious voice or ear raping microphone.

>>149972778

heartbeast

he is my husbando

>>149972425
he would be much more menacing if his hands were on his hips and he had a big fat grin

also he should cast his magic by snapping his fingers in a sassy manner

>>149972912
>That jawline

>>149972778
Game maker's toolkit / Mark Brown
Extra Credits and Extra Play
RelaxAlax if you're into nintendoes

>>149973221
>Must not have obnoxious voice or ear raping microphone.
>Extra Credits

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>>149970854
I'm taking a weekend off to recharge my dev batteries

>>149972912
>good morning, afternoon or evening, whoever and wherever you are

Makes my ears bleed every time

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>>149973401
These are the fucks I give to your bad taste.

>>149973221
>Extra Credits
Stoped reading there

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I am maded a animating :)

>>149973678
>Defending Extra Credits

>>149973998
>>149973682
> it's popular therefore it's bad
kys desu lads

>>149973708
:)

>>149973998
>>149973682

lets be honest, extra credits are good at highlighting elements of psychology in games and what makes games good

however migraine inducing the voice is

>>149973221
>Extra Credits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERR1F-zoTVg
What's you're favourite video from them? This is mine, it really made me think.

>>149974140
Give me one (1) good video they made. The last time I checked they just pulled shit out of their arse to justify/explain things that weren't related.

>>149972425
I remember when you posted the model for that boss first. Pretty impressive.

>>149974047
No, it's bad because their content nly focuses on one aspect, they try to be 2deep4you too often, they research is flawed, and taste in videogames is subjective.

>>149973998
I subscribe to them only for Extra History

Does this still make me a bad person?

>>149974047
Nice strawman dipshit

>>149974483
>Extra History
I bet it's biased shit on par with Tom "6 million dicks in my cheerios" Green.

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Is the guy working on this here?
Are you loading OpenGL functions manually?

>>149974416
> opinions
> opinions as absolute
> more opinions

Im the touhou web multiplayer guy. Should I make it a bomber man clone?

Any other ideas that do not need intensive real time precision are welcome too

>>149974140
I watched them for some time then I just simply got bored. However I always thought that they are discussing interesting topics.

Nowadays I just like to check their "Games you might not have tried" series for obscure ideas.

>>149975098
I really dig your game, anon. I didn't get the "skating" game last time thou. Yeah, maybe bomberman would be good, or you could add tab targeting like in most MMOs. So if the player could target another player, and that player would stay in range and in sight for the duration of the casting, the spell would hit him.

do pixel platformers/shooters still sell?

>>149975475
Nothing sells, except AAA. The rest? Feel lucky if you sell 1000 copies.

>>149975475
if they're really fucking good, they do

>>149975098
What was the original idea?
I was makng a smash clone some time ago, but masking the lag in actual character collisions is a pain in the ass, so I decided to make all the attacks, ranged shooter-like attacks, since is way easier that way.

>>149975475
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4F-zdpFb9I

>>149975839
how can we crash the industry with no survivors? it's the only hope of my game ever being sucessful

>>149975973
>generic puzzle platformer that you can find at least 800 equivalents for free in any flash game website
>surprised it won't sell

As with most game types, it needs to be really good in order to sell. Some game types can exploit the market for free sales though, such as let's play bait meme games and survival crafting shit.

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this was way harder than I anticipated

>>149971980
last game i played was pokemon red. YEY IM A DEV !

>>149976504
hahahahaha

oh anon, oh you poor, stupid bastard.

you've got no clue about the insane math those games use.

>>149976667
what insane math ? just a bunch of shitty classes of pokemons and a level progression. also triggers and some events. the hard stuff is just typing that huge ammount of data into tables.

>>149975475
Shovel Shit sold loads

I have no fucking idea why, because it looks and plays like generic pixel platform trash

Right time and place I guess

>>149976454
Sexy as hell

>>149975973
>good isn't good enough

Find me a good game on Steam that hasn't sold thousands of copies

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>>149977000

keep telling yourself that, nodev

>>149977672
I bet you think they intended that also, and didn't throw a bunch of random shit together to give off the illusion of depth

>>149977672
that's like one line of code nigga. you don't even have to understand the formula just copy it

>>149977787
>>149977893

can we have a screencap of this for the next op image?

>>149977672
>insane math
You're a dropout aren't you? That's par for the course, it looks ugly when written in standard math notation. Code monkey math is fucking easy, and I say that as a full-on code monkey.

>>149978112
Kill yourself

>>149977672
It's not even that hard math desu senpai.

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>>149977672

That's not insane math.
That's just random math.

>use divide, multiply, powers and roots on a bunch of random shit, it'll do

>>149977672
>addition, multiplication and roots
>insane math
You have to be 18 or older to post on this website

>>149977672
first dude you replied to : dude thats not even hard. get yourself a calculus or linear algebra book ? this shit you are showing me is basic math.

>>149977672
>a lot of math symbols = insanely difficult
How old are you

>>149970854
Drawing another cute girl because my destruction/construction engine rabbit hole seems to go on forever.

>>149977672
I wish I could do piecewise notation in Google Docs. This'll do for now.

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>50% of your sales will go towards fees and tax

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>>149978945
forgot pic
eventually I'll need to handle all of this in Cg somehow

>>149978970
50% of what?

>>149973062
I have him rigged and animated. I just left him in the T-pose for the pic.

He has plenty of sass. His attack pose is pretty much what you described and his defense pose is him crossing his arms and frowning.

Haven't been able to dev due to major sleeping. Barely have been able to get out of bed to piss, shit, and eat.

Hopefully I get a break from this hell and can get work done today.

>>149977672
>any of that
>insane

tip top kek

just quit now please, you're clearly not dev material

>>149977672
add me to the epic agdg op screencap :)

>>149979145

Who are you, pessimistbro?

>>149979161
excellent

got a screengrab?

If you're doing a simple multiplayer game where the controls are direction+A+B, do you think people would expect to be able to play 2 players on one keyboard?

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Has anyone here done controller support with SDL2? I was wondering what the preferred way is. Use the default joystick interface for everything or generate mappings for controllers that don't have them and use the controller interface?

>>149978970
0/2 is still 0 so you're not losing anything :^)

Building a game with the HTC Vive. Great stuff.

>>149979832
If it's not hard, then do it. It's always nice to handle every possibility with your code.

I'm still working on my input system, and that thought hadn't even occurred to me. But it's a platform fighter, so I want to discourage people from using the keyboard as much as possible anyway.

>>149980056
> so I want to discourage people from using the keyboard as much as possible anyway.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE

How hard would it be to make a game designed for local multiplayer (that's quite far into development) into a online multiplayer game in GMS?

What do you guys use for your 2D animations?

>>149980126
I dare you to play a game like Smash Bros with a keyboard against anyone with half a brain using a controller and win. It can't be done, I've tried. I'm really only keeping it in as a 100% reliable menu navigation system.

>>149980352
Aseprite

>>149980352
Spriter or Aseprite.

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>>149979403

>>149980373
>It can't be done, I've tried.
That's pretty insightful of you.

Keyboard is only problematic for the quarter-circle obsessed type of input. Maybe don't make a garbage input scheme and your fighter will be fine on keyboard.

Forcing an input method onto your players is a good way to alienate part of your audience for no reason whatsoever. You can know what you will use, but it's a good idea to let others make the choice for themselves.

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>>149980983
Is the middle one supposed to be him snapping?
The fact that he has three fingers as well as such long claws makes that hand shape look weird.

I recommend using the standard "cartoon snap" animation, in which the character touches his thumb and pointer finger together and then quickly draws them apart, as though flicking a booger.

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らて

>>149980997
Oh I'm gonna allow people to use it, but it's a really dumb idea to do so. It has a lot of problems, the biggest being that you can't differentiate a "strong" input vs a "weak" input with digital input like keys, which is super important for this kind of game.

>don't make a garbage input scheme and your fighter will be fine on keyboard

It has nothing to do with the input system, the style of game just simply doesn't work well with a keyboard. Just like how racing games suck on keyboards, but are still doable.

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>>149980983

>>149981423
I came.

How can you make something like that?

>>149981790
mspaint.exe

>>149981790
Very carefully.

>>149980997
quarter circles are easy as fuck on keyboard. obviously the keyboard is optimal for charge movesets since it lets you hold down two directions at once, but shoto movesets are also viable with a keyboard. once you get into half-circles and 360s it gets trickier.

>>149981423
Step into the iris/10

>>149982069
hcb+f type is the hardest IMO

Unity problem:
I'm trying to access some variables from a static class, I'm using this line of code to do so 'DreamController dreamController = DreamController.instance;', but the problem is that after I run the code I get an error saying 'Null reference exception: Object reference not set to an instance of an object'. The Dream Controller class is initialized in a game object and the object is active. What went wrong? How to fix it? To anyone wondering, I'm trying to do a game manager sort of thing with this script.

>>149982069
>once you get into half-circles and 360s it gets trickier.
I meant the whole series of that style of input, I don't know a broader term than just referring to quarter-circles. Either way, I it depends on the person and I probably should have just stuck to "let others make the choice for themselves."

>>149982629
It looks like you're using a Singleton? Why are you trying to create a new DreamController object if you already have access to it via the Singleton.instance?

Regardless, it's probably that the instance variable inside the Singleton just isn't being initialized for some reason.

>>149978970
>>sell it on your own store for bitcoins.
>>i know, i know... the wallet is traceable. but there are 10000 cryptocurrencies nowadays. just pick one that is untraceable.
>>transfer the funds from bitcoin to the other untraceable crypto.
>> i know i know new cryptos are shit and devaluate too quick...
>>transfer back to a brand new bitcoin waller.
>>clean profit.

>>149982629
Try messing with the script execution order.

>>149982936
http://pastebin.com/XWMxFqVi Here's the Dream Controller's class code, I don't know if it's a singleton, I just want to access the variables. :( How to fix this?

>>149983213
use Start() instead of Awake() when you are trying to access DreamController.instance

>>149983423
Unfortunately that didn't help, I get the same error.

>>149983213
why are you trying to use singletons and static classes? there are few to none reasons to do it in unity. i mean in my last game i only used a singleton to keep music playing between stages without stopping. just create a normal class and reference it. like so : you create a class (Nodev) make the shit you want to access public like "public static NodevMethod(){doshit};" and then in the other class you do
"Nodev _nodev" and to use the method you do _nodev.NodevMethod. Dont forget to attach both scripts to an object and manually link the nodevscript to the empty fild that will show up under the object on the inspector. if you didnt understand google "how to access variables and methods from another script in unity"

>>149983213
>http://pastebin.com/XWMxFqV

Yeah that looks like some old Singleton code I found a long time ago. Here's some better stuff I'm currently using:
http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/Singleton

Make that a class, then make your DreamController class have this header: "public class MenuSingleton : Singleton<MenuSingleton>".

Then you should be able to shove anything you want into that DreamController and access them from any other script using DreamController.instance.someVariable. But this means that you can only have one DreamController object. I assume this is what you wanted though?

>>149983569
sorry dont make the method static. my mistake "public void(or whatever type you need) NodevMethod(){doshit}"

>>149983471
Try this >>149983063
and put DreamController first then the scripts you want to access DreamController from.

>It's a Unity dev tries to make a game before learning C# episode

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Any game ideas?

inb4
>FPSMMORPG

>>149984270
When isn't it? Unity is to replace GM as the "u can make game without learning a thing" toolkit.

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>>149984317

>>149979110
id say you should use latex, the layout of that right there is horrible

>>149984270
Except that there's no decent, official manual on singletons / statics that isn't outdated.

>>149984374
Based on the video.

>>149984459
Pokémon Go with vector fields

>>149984454
>using singletons
Is this 1994?

Is it always better to use GPU particles over CPU ones?

My UE4 game isn't particularly processor intensive, would I just be better off leaving them CPU?

>>149984624
Yeah I'd say there's very few cases where GPU particles aren't better, but if your game isn't anywhere near being CPU bound anyway it doesn't matter very much.

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>write code
>doesn't work
>start debugging
>fix like 10 bugs
>reach the end of the code, it should work perfectly but it doesn't
>realize the reason it didn't work in the first place was because I set a bool false instead of true

Well I'll be damned.

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>>149970572
Remember 1:11, for every 1 hour of gameplay, you must put 11 hours of polish, balancing, refinement, and juice into the game.
When you're making a prototype you should only take a few weeks to make and test it. Because those few weeks will then take months to polish into a proper game.

>149984747
unsubbed

>>149984809
actually it's 1:14.

for every 1 progress post, there will be 14 shitposts along the line of "here's why you're a nodev and will never make it"

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I don't know how I feel about the zoom yet. I want to keep it simple, but that basic iron-sighting I had when it was only half ready seemed so slick.

>>149984809
i don't do prototypes and there's nothing you can do about it :^)

>>149984906
that makes more sense for a scoped rifle

you could add more weapons and have ones with iron sight do the other thing

also, rifles where the alternate fire isn't sighting in but rather doing some wacky alternate fire mode

>>149984896
The shitposting is what ensures /agdg/ games are high quality, because if your game survives all this shit flinging it must be exceptional. Unless you're someone like Googum who is simply too autistic to take a hint.

>>149984459

Something with wind maybe?

I doubt vector fields are intuitive to most people.

It would probably be a bad idea to have it be the core feature of your game.

>>149984996
homph's page would prove you otherwise.

>>149984317
literally dan-ball's powder game does this

>>149985017
This was actually why the demo was made. To check if vector fields would work for simple wind simulation in games. I'm just not sure how to take it further.

I was hoping for a game idea guy that would deliver everything, so I could just focus on the coding.

>>149984994
Yeah, that's the other side of it. I like that when this one scopes in the gun model is completely gone instead of obstructing a quarter of the screen.

I think I'll just leave the fancy iron-sights for other games down the line.
Because the only other weapon with a scope will be the token sniper rifle, this gun is the shitty starting SMG so it doesn't get a wacky alt-fire

>>149985327
Sailing tycoon. You control a fleet of sailing ships that must ship things around the world. You have to chart courses based on the wind and storms that appear to keep your ships safe and deliver things on time.

have 8 directional movement for a legged character but it doesn't feel good because constant speed

what is the solution here? i've been fucking around with acceleration/deceleration but it feels like trash too

>>149985578
That's a cool idea. Mind saying a bit more about the exact mechanics behind the main game? Like would you just have to plan a course and watch the game, or would it be real time?

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Beginning of a proper Title Screen.

This counts as progress, right?

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>>149984747

at least you're not him

>>149986835
Doesn't matter as long as it werks

Anyone know of any websites with free music, aside from the ones included in the OP? I looked through those already, cant seem to find what Im looking for.

>>149986835

Holy shit he actually uses "X and Y and Z" as a string and compares that. I like the game but that screams for bit flags or something. aaargh

>>149986992
https://soundcloud.com/groups/agdg-audiofriends

>>149986494
It sure does. But I think you could spice it up a little with diagonally flying candies and chocolate bars.

Moreover, if she's already on the title screen and reacts if the player starts the game, why don't you make her the cursor like in Mega Man X?

>>149986494
I think you could find a better title font.

>>149986494
What fond is your Start, Continue, Options etc?

>>149986218
Not completely sure. I think real time would be more fun. You would have a basic map of wind directions, and maybe predictions of future weather. I don't know if the player should be able to directly control the ships, or if the player must plot the course and then AI does the rest.

I think being able to personally control ships would fit better for a game where you are actually sailing a ship. So that would need to be something separate.
There aren't any games where you have to actually control a sailboat yourself, positioning the sails and the hull so you go the direction you want. Maybe a racing sailboat game? Like Hydro Thunder, it can even be 3D, the wind vectors only need to be 2D still because you're sailing on flat water anyways so it wont make a difference.

>>149986494
Please don't make the title that pixelated, it makes no sense

>>149986946

That's not how life works.

What happens when it breaks?
Hint: it's a long bloated clusterfuck and identifying the bug would take ages.

What happens when he wants to add to it?
Hint: it will exponentially grow because of the word "and". If he wants to add a new fail state, he'll have to add like 4 more clauses.


What happens when he takes a 1 year break and comes back to add to it with an expansion pack or DLC? Hint: combo of above

What happens when he either has to optimize to get his game working on lower-end machines or higher resolutions, or wishes to spawn more actors in the scene? Hint: it will run like shit because it's checking 20 strings every update call on potentially tens or hundreds of actors per scene.

And that's why it runs at 17 FPS.

>>149987414
Don't argue with those people. They have no concept of good code &/ are just shitposting.

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>>149986835

Holy shit I didn't know Obama was a game dev?

https://youtu.be/poz6W0znOfk

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>>149970854
Finished my space jam garbage, so going to take the weekend off to plan an actual, large project to keep me busy for the next few months but still scaled to have something be showable by Demo Day 10 next month.

>>149987414
why would you write a serious response to someone who's obviously shitposting/joking
no-one in their right mind would seriously use the word "werks"

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>>149987582

>>149970854

Get Spacejam game to a state where it's submittable.

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Where does AGDG stand on extreme low graphics options?

Are you okay with destroying the look (and potentially tainting the experience) of your game if it means people are able to play it who otherwise wouldn't?

>>149971803

Pick a different career

>>149987870
>do completely optional graphics settings affect you
No, as long as they don't somehow affect others.

Although you have to wonder if destroying most of your game is worth the 3-4 extreme toasters.

it's not

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>pelvic guns
How do I make them not look like penis?

>>149972164

To give people a deadline so they have to plan, schedule and finish something

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>>149987107
This is barebones to get things set up, I plan to have a proper background and some cakies and whatnot chasing her around. Similar to this title from Magical Pop'n.

I just wanted something animated to test it out right now. I thought of making her the cursor but it would be a little odd if she's also being chased by things.

>>149987145
>>149987185
The Title font is my own, the font for the menu is Coder's Crux. I have to change it as it's not free to use.

>>149987357
The Title will be replaced, I still need to design a real title/logo thing that will fall down into place there.

>>149987870
Jokes on you, my game is already low poly and meant to be that way.

But honestly, a game should have graphic options to turn things down as low as they can go without ruining the game. Especially if it's a multiplayer game where graphics don't matter, like TF2. I used to have a toaster computer, so I know how painful it is.

>>149987870
>Where does AGDG stand on extreme low graphics options?
Personally I stand in the position where I can say if you have a PC that can't play my 2D game perhaps you should be focusing on more enjoyable things.

But I think it's a realistic problem for GML people. And if i were forced at gunpoint into an environment like that I'd probably see where I find the experience still enjoyable. For a game like TF2 that's not an issue.

There's really no excuse though, peoples computers are mad strong these days. If you can't run your game passably on a phone (ignoring input issues) then you're a bad programmer.

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>>149986835
>tons of else ifs with constants
>unironically using strings
>hardcoding literals
>explicitly casting to floats

actually writing proper code seems to hinder progress when these kinds of people shit out something like that and have more game than 95% of agdg

>>149970854
I am going to finish my space jam game, balance it, submit it, and cry about the terrible piece of shit I spent the last week making.

"It has been one week, let's see how agdg is doing."
>stupid question gets 13 replies
>progress posts barely get noticed
>rude post gets an average of 5 replies
>memeposting
>shitposting
I know I shouldn't be surprised but still.

>just found the agdg reddit
>2years ago
>3 ded topics
Sasuga.
See you in 2 weeks this time.

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>>149988106
It's impossible.

>>149988317
Oh and I forgot to mention:
Having quality settings in your game which doesn't influence performance in any significant way is simply dumb.
Don't have particle quality options if the rendering portion of your particles is ~5% of the process. Have particle amount settings instead.

If you have settings that make peoples experience shit for no reason other than them trying their best to make it playable you're an awful person.

>>149971980
Last game I played was dark souls. Looks like I'm a nodev. Sad

>>149987980
>agdg
>career
you know what first stands for, right?

>>149987414
Meanwhile Undertale got away with an if-else statement with hundreds of cases.

If it werks then it works, players won't care about what's behind the hood, and the bad performance won't stop them from playing (as seen on Minecraft at release)

Enjoy your no-money.

>>149988342

Only thing you need is motivation. Programming is just the dirty part of making games. No one is going to check what is under the hoof, if it werks.

i love makig game!!!

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I have a been posting on agdg for 5 years now.

Pic related was my first game, if anyone remembers.

Since then, I have only posted half assed embryo prototypes.

I don't think I have really improved.

Anybody else is as much of a nodev as me?

Am I a pleb for making my game in gm:s?

>>149987414
>>149987519
>>149987720
Meanwhile Undertale and RoR got successful with awful code while you pro-coders have no games. Hilarious, isn't it?

>>149988884
Depends on the game.
Yes

>>149988884
yep

>>149988897
>awful code
Oh you've read RoR source and Undertale source?
Interesting. Please link.

>>149975475
no because almost all of them are shit and get core mechanics wrong while having no charm

>>149988831
I've been on the same game for three years and still have nothing playable.

>>149988704
too bad im too ambitious with my game and engine design.
like im working on a coop game and making the server just have 2n threads for IO since n is relatively small, i decided to go for completion ports because reasons, its not like id imagine my game to ever need more than 10 simultaneous clients, yet here i am allowing it to have thousands.
want to have shaders? oh i can avoid hardcoding every shader in the engine and "just" use a data oriented design so i can add any kind of shader i havent though of yet.

falling for the featurebug is suffering.

>>149988884
yes but it doesn't matter
gunpoint was game maker
just make something and get it out there
you can learn something else when you're done

>>149989085
How new are you? Get some agdg culture and read the archives I'm not spoonfeeding you.

>>149989269
No, Gamemaker is shit.

>>149988884
you're pleb until the moment you make game
when that happens, it doesn't matter whether your game was made in gamemaker or programmed in asm - you're no longer pleb because you made game and that sets you above dozen of shitposters in this general

>>149989353
I don't remember hopoo posting all that much code. He mainly asked about pixelart. Well, of course it could be hard to tell what's associated with what game.

So why don't you stop pretending you're not a shitpost-nodev and give some god damned substantiation to your stupid claims.

>>149987870
All is good as long as you have fun

>game is shit
>need to get better at modelling & texturing
>with the first tutorial, immediately understand how fucking shit I am at this
>try for a while
>learn half a thing
>realize I will have forgotten it a week later
>lose all hope
>give up working on my game for months

Rinse and repeat.

>>149989603

3d modelling is really easy. all you need is a week of practice.

>>149990223
>a tf2 map isnt game dev, buddy. :^)
And that's where you're wrong. It needs modelling and level design skills, something that is very much gamedev. Not him tho.

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>>149990275

>all you need is a week of practice

>a week of practice

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Some progress on game

Changed how combat works, puppets now follow and do shit for me, kinda like Alice Margatroid

well of course they cant do shit yet but at least they follow me

>>149990571
what is the name of this lifelike, ordinary platformer?

>>149988884
you are but the player doesn't care

>>149990571

Man how much I hate the default Unity skybox, especially the grey color under the horizon.

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>>149990275
"A week of practice" doesn't sound so bad.
But you also need:
1. Some okay tutorials or documentation(Blenders documents are generally horrible, but they occasionally do the job)
2. Some concept art to start making 3D of
3. A introduction to both extrude modeling and box modeling
4. Realize you are not suppose to touch the sculpt tools until your topology is acceptable
5. Cry a lot once you try to Rig & animation. Both are painful to do

Shit like UV unwrapping(literally creating bear skins or cardboard cut outs), texturing and Quad flow is things you do best as you improve.
Thats easy.
Rigging is okay, once you figure out how to do it. Rigging for IK setups is literally painful.
Animation is the hardest part.

>>149990571
She really looks like quote from Cave Story

>>149990747
"Upwards" or "Cave Story Clone", choose your fave

>>149991257
maybe

>>149990571
Your character is cute do you have any other art of her?

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>>149970854
>What progress are you planning to make this weekend?
A new demo

>>149991409
>Not Subterrane Anecdote
>Not Cavity Chronicle

>>149991925
What engine? How are you doing your slopes?

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do I need to have a demo to get a page on itch.io?

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>>149970854
I need to get this shit demo in a somewhat presentable state and ship it before space jam ends.

>>149992065
> Cavity Chronicle
kek

>>149992205
No.

I ran out of ideas. I think I'm gonna take a break. Need to relax. I haven't played a single game in almost a month now.

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>>149970854
Gonna run with this concept I threw together last night. I have a neat idea for fully customizeable gun building that would translate easily to a mouse/stick aim shooter.

>>149992214
Special bullets that go through blocks. Enemies have a laser that will have your controls all fucked up for a brief period.

>>149992190
My own engine.
Slopes aren't tiles, so they can be any angle and size
Literally y = mx + b anon

>>149992447
Repost. Where is the real progress out? Your game may look great but if you don't post real progress we will call you out.

>>149992563
fake progress is better than no progress desu senpai

>>149992563
I specifically said it was a concept from last night, and the quoted post was asking what plans are for this weekend, which is to expand on the progress from yesterday. Can't really push new webms from my job, m8

>>149992641
No. It's not.
Nodevs get lazy and think passing off old progress is okay, it becomes a circle Jerk of the same material over and over again. Real motivation becomes lost because no one is hounding you to do more. Never settle for mediocre anon.

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Idea guy here.
Make a VR game where you control a Kaiju and destroy cities.

>>149992914
>nodevs
that's not what that means, anonfriend

>85 unique posters
>+-15 projects posted
those 70 posters are nodevs and you are one of them

>>149993060
That's exactly what it means. He doesn't have a game under his belt so he is still a nodev until he finishes

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would u fug me /agdg/

>>149992914
>start a project
>another anon has pretty much same idea
>give my best to beat him
>burnout
>he is just too fast to beat
>other anon is now rich tier
>my project is dead
yep i lost my motivation because no one was hounding on me to do more fuck off anon

>>149993150
Can it be played without the mouse?

>>149993150
I haven't the slightest clue what's going on here but good on you for making progress. Well on your way to being a yesdev

>>149993308
I'd lose motivation too if I had a shit idea that someone else had and did better and no one was telling me to press on.

>>149993376
yes full mouse controls full keyboard controls
ctrl shift 1 2 3 4 5
controls for inventory are kind of convoluted

>>149992214
>This took someone over 5 months to create
wow

>>149993308
Are you that faggot that claims you had the idea for risk of rain but hopoo beat you to it? Lmao stfu nerd.

>>149993150
I really like that windows 98 game art style, but I don't really get what's going on, even with those numbers there. Is this some kind of rogue?

>>149992553
Language?

>>149993540
wrong project anon
>>149993420
i dont anon i gave my 100% for 10 hours a day for months and still couldnt reach his speed/dev skills
i guess i am just bad

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p-progress :^)

Where will you be when eroge gaming becomes the next billion dollar industry?
https://www.lewdgamer.com/2016/07/29/nutaku-2-million-adult-gaming-investment-fund/

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>>149993526
>tfw when this game literally took me less than 10 days to create from start to finish
>meanwhile nodevs cry themselves to sleep into the arms of their anime waifu pillows

>>149993526
make that
>This took a drunk 2 weeks to create

>>149993760
looks like cortex command if it weren't fun or playable

juice doesnt make up for a game not being fun

>>149993760
Sure you did anon

>>149993730
Looks nice, why must we stop?

>>149993009
there's already something like that for HTC Vive

Progress!
The intro scene (and the ending scene as well) work, and with music too!
https://a.uguu.se/1lKqNp0grNct_2016-07-29_18-43-25.mp4

>>149993670
C++

>>149993931
let's not pretend making something like that in 10 days is an impossible feat when you don't spend 90% of time you're supposed to dev shitposting or surfing the internet
this having said, he's probably shitposting

>>149993931
uploaded on 2/28/2013

>>149993760
Could do that in a day with GM

2 days tops

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>>149994338
*image

>>149994102

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progress: camera is working for now

i will probably try to create some more 'graphics' next because i find it hard to be inspired to work on something that looks like total shit

>>149994509
>that game was 3 years ago
I remember when you were posting progress, what the fuck.

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>>149993150

>roguelike played with mouse

>>149994346
so why don't you do it anon

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>>149994810
you don't play many roguelikes do you?

>>149994810
>he thinks the year is till 1980
I have some bad news for you, buddy.

>>149994810
Do you want it to be released on diskettes too?

>>149993780
Drunks are NOT ALLOWED in my general.

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i really wanted it to kinda sound like that vocal-metallic sample when you transform into super sonic in sonic 3. anybody remember that?

>>149994624
yeah and I remember asking you guys to come up with witty 1 liners to put in the news scroll
and out of all the suggestions only one or two were usable

>>149995442
s-sorry sir i promise i wont drink and dev anymore (´･ω･｀)

>>149995530
no but i like your aesthetic

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>>149995442
w-why?

>>149995530
Ah yeah, that's a really difficult sound to explain.

>>149995805
Is she trying to hold in her laughter

>>149995805
>I drink poison because it's cool

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>>149993730
do NOT respond positively to this
do NOT feed the animals

>>149991925
She is cute!

>>149995805
so she just got her as fucked by that dud isnt it ?

>>149995886
So it's just like coke.

>>149995805
damn gurl rickets makes u swag thef fuck out

vitamin d is for plebs

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>>149993734
Is this my chance?
Do I make a demo for an H game and send it to them?

>>149996134
>Some shitspider's venom is as deadly as a Black Widow's venom
Sure

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>>149994087
>tfw no replies to progress

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>Go to Game Maker's subreddit where the average basic question gets 5 or 6 extremely detailed answers within five minutes.
>Figure "why not" and post my question because it would post it here and wait for someone experienced in GM.
>18 hours later no replies
>A question asking for a simple explanation of what a memory leak is an hour ago has 5 replies and counting.

>>149995925
Why not? Is it a meme post? I don't recognize it at all.

>>149996354
Your post had no image so I didn't even notice it
I end up skipping through text posts, include a screenshot when posting progress.

>>149994014
there is a wall there so you should stop before you hit it

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>followed me a while ago
>now they're giving me notes
Are they trying to turn me into their next victim

>>149996354
>Open space
>A meteorite hit my ship

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorite

>>149996354
I agree with the other anon, always include a picture with the post. I did watch it though, but I forgot to reply. 10/10 story

>>149996354
>begging for replies
fuck off

>>149993734
Just fuck my shit up

>>149996449
It's source. All source posts are shitposts. Do NOT feed the animals.

>>149996449
Don't reply to him

>>149996713
Right. I always mix them up. I'll go fix that right away.

>>149996787
I just wanted feedback.

>>149997023
if you want feedback ask for it bro

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>600 years later, people are STILL triggered by source

why

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>>149996354
I don't normally click random links here.
But anyway you should show the meteorite hit at least.

Here is some fanart to help keep you inspired though.

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>>149996698

>>149997250
You're the same guy who did the lewd fanart of my Buny. Stop that.

>>149997438
>It's a pretend to hate lewds to get more lewds and attention gimmick

you can stop

>>149996009
What did he mean by this?

>>149996698

I see this blackshellmedia thing posted here often, what is it about? Why should you worry about them, what do they do to you?

>>149997438
no i am just a humble drunk

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>>149997597
they *shudder* /market/ you

>>149997597
Google their name for reddit posts and complaints.

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>>149994087
>from another galaxy
>in a rocketship

>>149997597
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/43bo19/a_company_called_black_shell_media_is_scamming/

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>>149997740
>reddit
>kotakuinaction

>>149995307

Considering floppies are still used for nuclear launches

yes

>>149997823
floppies are never going to go out of style because magnetic tape has amazing data retention compared to other media.

In fact, most backup and archival services store data on everyday audio cassette tapes.

>>149997787
>>reddit
Don't fall for the 'all of reddit is bad' meme. Their game development boards especially are very helpful.

>>149997597
Ignore the reddit posts. Ask the Vampires in the Sand guy about them instead since he is one of ours they fucked over. They've already put his game on sale 90% off twice now.

>>149997740

>KIA

If you're going to post reddit links, why bother

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/39lqc7/has_anyone_heard_of_black_shell_media/

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>>149997740
> KotakuInAction

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Hey guys, working on a tile-based tactical thing. Having trouble with the pathfinding and whatnot. See pic related; notice how my thing down't take the most efficient path where I wiggle my cursor. How is this kind of stuff usually done?

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>>149998059
> Their game development boards especially are very helpful.

>>149998109
>>149997787
It was the first link on google

>>149998176
A* you shitter

only to be sold as truckload of abacuses.

>>149998176
Use the Unity Asset Store.

>>149986992
Don't listen to:
>>149987071

That is not free music.

>ui fucks up when viewed at different resolutions

Fuck this shit

>>149998586
The number one argument for not having a UI

>>149998586
tthis is why i use Source

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>>149998586
>>149998734
>he makes UI instead of game

what are you, googum?

>>149998586
>tfw 2D game with fixed resolution
Thank god for this, UI work is the worst.

>>149998941
Wanna fight?

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>>149998586
>ui
All you needed to say

>>149971980
Funny im actually doing that

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>>149998941
UI is the most underappreciated part of gamedev. It's extremely important, and yet most people think it's something you just tack on at the end.

I like working on UI.

>>149998975

Enjoy your game being irrelevant in 7-8 years?

Did I do good ah-guh-dag?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJNzA8m4Zpg