/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

1st for learning blender

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Copied from the last thread so it doesnt get buried:

Worked on UI a bit, added edges to the tiles when they're unexplored, improved the camera (like I always do...), removed the fur

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>>150469539
>open Blender for the first time in a while and you've forgotten all the hotkeys

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Well, this "art day" for me is almost over. Finished off with a new rough track. I wish I had money for better soundfonts or plugins for FL Studio, but this will do for now.
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0QwDToARHmD

I couldn't get the Derelict bindings for Allegro 5 working

I am very tempted to go back to C, but I love the unit testing features of D, also GC'd OOP is really convenient even if it is a crutch

>>150469556
Looks neat, but the actions/Inventory/Stats box is angled too steeply imo, it's hard to read.

>>150469791
>not writing all the most common hotkeys down on paper as you learn them
>not using said paper as a cheat sheet

There's also a huge image with all the hotkeys floating around

>>150469939
Oh yeah, I saw that pic floating around a few times. That image didn't have the secret hotkeys on it, though. Which I find incredibly useful for Blender, I can barely use it without them.

>>150469791
The controls are so fucking ridiculously unintuitive. Pretty sad, could've been pretty good.

>>150469835
Look nice, and the music is kinda depressing ;_;
Also how her legs stay in the same position while jumping and falling feels kinda weird for me.

>>150469556

looks good.
I'd ditch the pixel icons though. clean to on icon would fit nicer

How does a know-nothing beginner start on a project like Va-11 hall-a? Something visual novely / gameplay light. Just focus all my efforts on learning to draw and then start making the actual game in a year or two? Or make the game placeholder stick figures or something

>>150470176
>secret hotkeys

What meme magic is this?

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>>150469791

>>150469791

>spend a few hours total diddling around in blender
>take a full semester in maya
>still wonder why maya isn't more like blender

>>150470185
It's even worse when you have to switch between Blender and Unity/Unreal/literally-anything-else and have to unlearn/re-learn everything.

>>150469937
Will fix

>>150470265
Icons are placeholders but what the hell does " clean to on icon" mean?

first for

making a game fun is actually hard work

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>>150469448
>Took me 2 days to get motivated to do any work.
>Took me like 3 damn hours just to get collision to work and a text box to appear.

Still, I'm pretty excited about this project but it's scope keeps getting bigger so I really need to scale down since I still have no clue what it's actually gonna be.

>>150470298
You can always learn the basics of game maker, games like that are more easy to make than the others (when talking about programming) because they barely have any collision thing, so is really hard to get the most common bugs.

>>150469835
cool
but still
>pixel platformer

>>150470298
there are multiple ways you could approach it

no matter what you do, either learn to draw (there are books on this) or find someone who can

then you can approach from the vn perspective, or the code perspective

If you are a total beginner, working with renpy and MS-paint will produce something shitty, but at least you will have made something.

>>150470571
>tfw you put so much thought into assets and UI you forgot to make the game fun

Whoops

>>150470396
I'm not an artist, but if it's anything like the coding side of things, it's because proprietary shitware is shit and open source dominates. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to carry over to the audio guys, sucks for them.

>>150470396
How? Maya doesn't exactly lack any features that Blender has, and has a less fucked up UX.
It's like you want shit UX.

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>>150465439
The player is going to glide and dash a lot but I don't want to make the mech too futuristic(ZoE), which makes jet nozzles kind of required, so I figured I slap a jet-engine in there to make it look more functional.
Arms are going to have more details but this is basically the "naked" player-character. The player will be able to slap different types of armor on(light, med, heavy), like the ab-armor you see.

>>150467095
Still very new to 3D modeling, only completed one model and it looked and moved like shit.

webm related

>>150470547
>Not knowing clean to on icon

I meant Toon*
Something in the style of your buttons

>>150470716
blender's UI/UX was made for crab people
Maya is only a little better

stuff like Wings3D (free as in freedom!) has a great UI but can only do a few things. It is a screwdriver rather than a swiss army knife,

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Reposting cockpit controls with a bunch of useless flickering/moving lights and external view monitor to let you know what’s going on with the robot (and to show the animations). Every button/lever is working except the blue one which will be used to raise the shield. I also need to add a few more levers and cranks. I’m thinking of making this “BOOST” switch that would let you make the next button you press “stronger” (move forward faster, punch harder, shoot faster, etc.).

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>>150470225
Are there any examples where sprites change their leg positioning? This comment seems to be consistent, so it might be a problem.

Sorry for depressing music. It's definitely an atmospheric focused game I'm visualizing. Have some more tracks:
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1DcqxFkFt64
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1cj6Aceu4C5
http://vocaroo.com/i/s0dy0RGMfcJm

>>150470883
Ah haha okay; yeah that's the plan sooner or later. Have a million other things to focus on first.

>>150470716
Blender's UI is so bad it's like they did everything the opposite of Maya just out of spite because they're open-source.

>>150471323
GIMP is the same way

Does photoshop have a bad UI? yes it does

but GIMP... GIMP is worse.

>>150471416
yes, exactly. great comparison

>>150471416
those programs are opensource, you can make them exactly the way you want

Which datatype am I looking for here?

-needs the ability to very quickly add/remove members via an ID
-needs to be editable while iterating over it

Lists are too slow and dictionaries can't be edited while iterating

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>>150471416
Strange, I use GIMP and I seem to be okay with it. Though, I used it first before Photoshop.
Photoshop is more reliable though in my past experiences.

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>>150471000
I think having the legs in front like pic related would look more natural

It's also perfectly okay if sprites don't transition smoothly from one frame to the next. Remember how Megaman's running and jumping sprites weren't completely different with no in-between? Even fighting game sprites like Guilty Gear? Give it a try and see how it looks

>>150471558
This is the worst excuse
>it's shit but you can bust your ass off "fixing" it while other programs are already perfect out of the box

>>150471595
>weren't
were*

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might as well ask in the new thread
>which of these two brick-work textures looks more grimey/dirty/unpleasant to the touch?
>the artifacted one (left)
>or
>the un-artifacted one (right)

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I made another song, this one's the theme for the forest. It's the last song I'm gonna do for now, I gonna buckle down on the level itself after.
https://soundcloud.com/user-143404129/fairy-forest

>>150471558
maya is proprietary closed source

blender's code is a total clusterfuck

I assume GIMP is too or someone would have fixed it already

wings3d has a nice UI already. You could make the argument it needs more features, but I think it is fine as a very purpose driven tool. It does one thing and one thing only, but does it very well.

>>150471561
>dictionaries can't be edited while iterating
unless you're talking about editing the key, that sounds false

if you are, then maybe you should just be storing a list of structs

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>>150471000
You can always search for sprite sheet of games with similar movements in google.
Megaman for example have one leg extended and the other flexed for the impulse, but both are partially extended during the fall trying to get to the floor standing, and that looks a bit more natural.

>>150471778
this sounds nice

>>150471926
I'm removing key/value pairs while iterating over the dictionary

>>150470919
That's pretty cool, make it less wacky and you could turn it into a really unique horror game.
>stuck in a giant mech on an alien planet
>can't get out
>dark as fuck
>eldritch abomination everywhere
>don't want to get out
>co-pilots are dead
>you have to take care of piloting, fighting and recon

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>>150471756
also, completely seperate from my texture query, here's some basic progress.
This some age-old dungeon crawler type shit

>>150472010
can't you just get a list of dictionary keys and iterate over the keys instead of the dictionary itself?

there's also the vector class (in C++, not sure what it's called elsewhere) which is just a list but can also be accessed as an array

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>>150471987
>>150471595
I see.
Thanks for the examples anons. Will work on improving that animation.

>>150472307
Cool blur effect

>>150471756
Left one looks better, but neither looks grimy or dirty, mostly just low-res and poorly-made

>>150472415
Wut u make dis wit?

Unity (4.7.X); Shuriken Particle System.
I have it's emission set to distance based and I have an issue that when I start the system it creates a trail from where object spawned to where it is now. Any ideas on how I can stop that? (I want it to start emitting from scratch)

>>150472457
>Left one looks better, but neither looks grimy or dirty, mostly just low-res and poorly-made
yes, I suppose a better word for it would have been "low-fidelity" rather than dirty

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>>150472307
looks a little too constant, in general, for both of them
it's hard to recommend the blurry one unless you plan to touch it up more somehow and add effects, because that would be hard to look at closeup in a game like DM where you're often 2 feet away from a giant wall

I think hunting for cool fonts is the funnest part of making UI

>>150472397
>which is just a list
C++ vectors are not lists, it's contiguous memory, pretty much a resizable array

>>150472010
make a second container where you add the keys you'd like to remove while you're iterating over your dictionairy and remove them later

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>>150472543
Fusion 2.5.
To let you know what kind of games are possible, Freedom Planet was made with it.

>>150472658
well, I mean how it can be used, not how it works

>>150472185
I could see it happening knowing how I like to make creepy shit and it would transition nicely into the xenophobia theme of "filthy mexicans" to "fucking monsters that feed on corpses".

Space has just as many different races to worry about lol

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dialogue system, mostly complete.

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I think its really going to be the end for me. What can I do?

>>150470827
you seriously need animations
it looks horrible at the moment, no offense.

>>150471558
But do you want to have to change the source code just to get the applications UI to be good? It's not exactly an easy task to change an entire UI.

>>150471563
I mean, if you downloaded Photoshop, you'd probably be inclined to change after using it for a while, I don't think the same thing can be said for the other way around (unless you're actually paying for Photoshop, in which case you probably would be more inclined to change.) I believe GIMP also has a toggle to make it look similar to Photoshop, probably to help Photoshop users to make the change if they want, but I also think that should be the default UI for GIMP.

>>150471869
Blender is a literal blender, they want it to be everything. It has modeling, a game engine and video editing all in one application. It's fucking stupid, just decouple it to make a suite of software instead, jesus christ.

make a gun and shoot yourself

>>150473723
my 3d printer can only print plastic

>>150473591
There's nothing wrong with the two relevant parts of it though.

I don't know why blender causes such ass-pain to people.

In terms of skill necessary to make a game, how hard is it to program a game?

Where do I start if I've never programmed a game before?

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It works! kind of


I don't know anymore.

>>150472849
I like the visuals of the diagonal text.
But i feel like that going to get annoying

>>150473985
Well, for me it's because as soon as I open it and realize that the viewport controls are different from every other 3D app in existence, I close it. I am not an artist though.

>>150474079
we're pretty dialogue light, and you can skip if you don't care, so I think it's fine.

>>150474071
AI?
Whats going on here?

>>150474039
http://www.learncpp.com/
http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/26

Depends what kind of game, regardless, still difficult.

I've been learning GM:S but I want to mess around with some ideas for mobile games. I can't afford the mobile modules though.

What free alternatives would my GM knowledge easily translate to?

>>150474215
I know Java at an intermediate level. Why should I learn C++ for game development?

>>150474330
because there are no good game libraries for java, the strengths of the language are not the types of things that games require, and no one likes having to install java or run .jar files

>>150474290
unity can build straight to android devices with minimal effort.

dont bother though, the mobile market doesn't care about interesting games and you won't make any money solo, so whether you're there to make money or there to be creative your time is wasted.

>>150474039
Shitty programming is invisible from the players perspective.
Shitty art is visible.

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>>150474290
Love2D if you don't mind getting your hands dirty and programming a bit.

>>150474330
>Why should I learn C++ for game development?
It's the most relevant language for game-dev.
Templates are better than generics.
No Gosling absurdity with awful design choices.
Tons and tons of libraries in all spectrums of dev.
Gosling fucked up trying to make his own C++ with it.
UE4 uses it if you ever want to try 3D dev.
As well as many open-source engines if you want to try your hand at that.

There's really no reason not to use C++ for gamedev.

>>150474207
I tried to tackle AI for the first time. I'm just trying to make the red boxes move randomly to an empty spot on the grid. It doesn't really work because it goes through my player object and I messed up the movement (it doesn't stop exactly on a cell on the grid). I know how to fix the movement thing, but I'm actually confused on how I'm going to deal with the player since they all move at the same time. What if they move to the same square?

>>150474603
well they can't move at the exact same time if they're on the same thread, so just check if the square is empty or not

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Currently adding some music controller features requested by my audio man.

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>>150474525
>20fps is invisible
>bugs are invisible
>lagspikes are invisible
>retarded ai is invisible
>not being able to support your game post-release because the codebase is horrible is invisible

i bet you think programmers should work for free but artists should be paid too.

>>150469835
The part that's not stolen from Kiss From a Rose is pretty uninspired. Also there's a shit ton of good and free samples for glocken/marimba/xylophone type instruments, same for strings. Both can also be synthetized with free vsts

>>150474603
are you only running the game when the player moves? because that's a bad way to set it up.

You should always be running the game loop, and when the player makes a move trigger all other entities to make their moves instead, this way you can have idle animations etc. and enemies will always reach their target tile since they aren't tied to the player moving.

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how much post processing is enough ?

>>150474806
leaving aside the whole why do artists get paid debate (it's because programmers are worth more on the open market, among other reasons), as long as the code gets the job done, no one cares if it's beautiful or spaghetti. but since all people have some kind of design sense except bokudev, they will notice badly made art.

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Rotating sprites is hard

Please someone post an image making fun of code monkeys. They always motivate me.

>>150474806
As long as the code works and the game runs fine it doesn't matter how well optimized the code is
Meanwhile shitty art is immediately noticed by everyone.

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So now if you kill or push back your opponent's front line, you can advance and steal that column for your own team. The only real benefit to doing so right now is better range control, but I'll add more incentives eventually.

>>150475123
if the code gets the job done it's not bad code

spaghetti code will objectively slow you the fuck down. you can preach 'dont worry about learning to code' all you want but if you're shit at coding its gonna bottleneck the shit out of your project.

>>150475154
>They always motivate me.
How? You wouldn't even understand it.

>>150475113
Anon your game looks like trash but you keep posting thinking all these shitty effects look good on it...

>>150474812
I don't know what/have never seen Kiss from a Rose before, anon.

>>150475294
its not like anyone would be suprised after all the indie games with unrealistic requirements.

>>150475449
I miss Not Street Fighter

>>150475243
It can also function as a health bar for the game, can't it?

>>150475467
>>150474812
You got to be kidding me, what the fuck.
I have never listen to this song and it is close to it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7y19ED6Vrk

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>>150472008
Thanks anon!

>>150475449
you are implying too much.
thats not a game. its a bunch of boxes organized in a random way by code. a camera rotating and me messing around with some post effects. i just need to know how much is too much. so if you know anything about the subject please enlighten me.

>>150475474
>the river is already polluted what's another piece of trash
off yourself

>>150475623
I mean, I'm sure this happens with other people composing music, but what the fuck.

>>150474913
>are you only running the game when the player moves? because that's a bad way to set it up

I am doing this. I tell the other objects to move only when the player is moving. Thanks for the tip.

Back to gamedev land.

>>150475605
Yeah, I didn't think of that but it would visualize the tide of the battle.

>>150470298
Response is a little late, but I think you'll be much more likely to succeed if you have a completed game with stick figures in six months than if you're six months into learning an entirely new skill with the end game of "one day I will wake up and decide today is the day I know enough, and then I will make a game"

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Yesterday I added water damage when traversing water (though you technically just walk on the water plane, not swim). Today I added a skillcheck for the new swimming skill, and the spell check for the new water walk spell.

With water walk, you never take damage. With swimming skill, each piece of equipment adds to a weight based on its material, which is then reduced by your mastery in swimming (master == 5 plate armor pieces for free). Then, the percentage of your inventory that's filled is calculated, and reduced by 8% for each skill point in swimming. The final damage is EquipBurden + InventoryBurden / 6, plus an extra 5 if you don't have the swimming skill at all. So a knight with 5 pieces of plate armor and 80% inventory full will take 0 damage at lv10 master swimming, but without the swimming skill, he'd take 38. Damage occurs every in-game minute (2.5 seconds).

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>>150474812
>>150475623
This really bummed me out, anon.

>>150474552
I'll take a look. I understand the GML coding as far as game logic goes but I don't know anything about actual technical programming.

>>150474517
How difficult is it to have a mobile and a desktop version of a game? If gamemaker can just export to anything why does something like Fallout Shelter take an entire year to come out on PC?

>>150475952
>though you technically just walk on the water plane, not swim
Stop ruining my immersion.

>>150475872
If capturing rows is a strategic advantage, be careful you don't end up in a situation where whoever captures the first row is always the winner, because 5 rows vs 3 rows is a huge advantage.

If you have adjacency bonuses for units, or effects that only work in certain locations like darkest dungeon, the row capture becomes useful.

>>150476026
>How difficult is it to have a mobile and a desktop version of a game?
don't worry about shit like this until you've made game

every motherfucker their first week here thinking they're going to be notch

look at gogem, been here forever, has nothing

>>150476437
>look at gogem, been here forever, has nothing
Because he's stuck in his delusional snowflake bubble.

>>150476437
>>150476589
>look at gogem, been here forever, has nothing
im not the delusional one here.

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I think I'm going to end making a fangame, what the fuck, there is not a single original idea in my head.

I'm going to make a game and make it the most racist politically incorrect thing ever.

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Day 15 of trying to make video games

After repeatedly trying and failing to figure out a way to determine when the player was about to hit a leader, I accidentally discovered distance_to_object while beginning to name a variable "dist", and using my absolutely baby-tier understanding of the code, I've managed to make something that actually functions for the first time.

Sort of.

It does prevent the player from trading with the leader and dying at the same time they destroy it, but it also just makes the player invincible for no good reason if they happen to hit the magic sweet spot where they're the right distance away but aren't about to destroy it. It also keeps them invincible until they leave the screen, which may or may not be a good idea depending on how I want to do things later.

I also did some really basic GML tutorials and worked on artwork today (I discovered that the difference between my skills in replicating an image and my skills in drawing something from imagination is hilariously vast).

It's not much, but it's a fucking start.

>>150476704
j f c

>>150476026
with unity you can build to either one with like 2 button clicks (setting up android builds does take a few hours though, gotta install and link a bunch of SDKs but once it's done you just press build and you're set)

Porting from PC to mobile in unity is easy, but if you code directly for your platform then you can't port as easily. The tradeoff is unity runs slower than if you code everything from scratch, which IS a concern on mobile (I'm making a shmup and I can handle about 200 bullets, while other games on android I've seen have 400+)

As for fallout shelter, bethesda are fucking retarded thats how.

>>150476437
How is trying to learn about what engines/frameworks to use a bad thing to do before making games?

Like I said, I've made basic stuff in game maker and I want to try new things.

I didn't ask how to become notch, I just want to know why stuff like GM:S and Stencyl advertise building your game and easily exporting it to any device but actual developers have to spend months making ports.

>>150472828
Not him, but this doesn't make it very acceptable to me. Lists don't have random access, that's one of the defining limits. Array is preferable, dynamic array if you're being pedantic or fixed arrays are being discussed as well. You can call me picky, but I think it's important to be clear.

>>150476437

Is this the right way to do it?

I'm making game with the intent of putting it on phones eventually, should I be planning that from the start or just port it after the fact when I know more?

>>150476762
I read your posts, laugh because I remember when I didn't know GML, then I return to Unity where I realize I have no idea what the fuck I'm doing with C#. Just going through the motions.

Press on Anon. You'll get there!

>>150472849
Seconding >>150474079. Don't care if it's dialogue-light, I LIKE to read when it's not a wall of text, and the entire video was slightly irritating.

I touched blender

what the fuck, that thing feels like I am piloting an airplane
what are all these buttons, why are there a billion functions for just the mouse

>>150476762
>I was working on collisions for my game and accidently prove there is no god.

>>150476872
Build to phone early and build to phone regularly.

PC can emulate most behaviours on a phone but there are a shitton of design things that feel fine on PC but feel awful on phone. Not to mention your PC is going to run your game at 2000000 fps, but on phone you might be pulling 12. Plus certain bugs will only manifest on one platform or the other, and you need to test certain functionality (did you know if you release a game on google play it has to have achievements?) that only works on phone.

>>150476872
if your main goal is to be on a phone then yeah you should develop for the phone primarily.

>>150475646
>i just need to know how much is too much.
Everything you presented looks like shit. If you want them to be bright squares blurred together without the individual smaller pieces visible, design it that way in the first place. As for the motion blur, I hope you aren't honestly asking for a comment on that garbage effect which obscures absolutely everything.

>>150476393
Yeah, it's definitely not meant to be an instant-win. Just another reason for the player to interact with the map. Hopefully long fights would have some back and forth capturing.

>>150477001

Thanks! I'm going to keep trying to do at least something every single day, and hopefully this will spontaneously teach me code.

>>150477064

I don't know what you mean by this.

>>150477069
>>150477102

So uh

How do I put/test my game on a phone?

I'm guessing it's not simple

>>150477442
if you're using unity they have a good tutorial
just google that.

it took me the better part of a week to get my game on phone but I did it, so can you.

>>150477281
>and hopefully this will spontaneously teach me code.
There are plenty of recommended books using real languages to teach you some decent technique and practice that you can carry over to GML, you know. You read one book on C because C is a small (yet powerful) language that is easy to cover the whole of, then you get a couple of design patterns books and an algorithms book, and you're pretty much in the top 1% of coders.

Doing something every day is great, and I took your approach to PHP (lol) 15 years ago, but it feels rather pathetic compared to where I really took off when I stopped being afraid of real books. Good luck in any case.

>>150477521

Gamemaker

But I'm sure I can google that too.

>>150477664

I've had that suggested to me before, and I probably will do that when I'm less broke as fuck. For now though, this seems to be slowly teaching me shit.

>>150477796
If you're broke, use en.bookfi.net. But no rush, like I said I took your approach for a while first.

Time for me to sleep. Happy gamedev to all.

>cyberpunk private investigator
>plays like a visual novel with lots of mini games and action sequences to break it up

Is game maker suitable for this

>>150475976
Don't worry it happens sometmes, it's just bad luck, but look on the bright side it means you have the talent to make a song like Kiss from a rose.

>>150477281

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTL0-RH2LfU

>>150478120
Either make a VN with no gimmicks, or make Cyber Noire.

VN gimmicks are rarely fun.

>>150477796
Not him, but in my opinion you should take a few CodeAcademy lessons on Javascript (you don't need to complete the program). The reason I say that is because the syntax and flow are largely the same in GML (the lack of classes, how you declare variables and whether they're public or private by default) and it will help put you into the programming mindset.

Then I'd suggest you follow along with Shaun Spalding's "Your First Game!" tutorial. He does a good job introducing the mechanics of GM:S and is good in my opinion at teaching GML too.

holy fuck I keep trying to implement features that are entirely incompatible with the kind of game I'm making.

but only after one or two MONTHS of poor motivation and struggling to make something work do I realize that it doesn't fucking fit in the first place. im a fucken dumbass

>>150478497
atleast now you know. just keep on anon. gamedev is hard

>>150474552
>>150476026
Love2D is a great and fun way to learn game development.
There's also a Love2D Android branch thats already quite advanced (the iOS and WP branches are not that good yet).
But if you use Love2D there is no handholding.
It will exactly do what you've told it to and not more.
Luckily Lua is easy to learn and quick to understand at the basics

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how does this look?

STEAM achievement when you hit the 2hr 1min playtime mark called WAIFU4LAIFU because now you are stuck with that bitch?

>>150478797
go wider

>>150478797
The animation is neat but I don't like the font for unknot and everything is too close together

>>150478497
you lose nothing by cutting a bad mechanic.
By removing bad features you improve your game, and when you make a new mechanic you learn new techniques and strategies for implementing things. So long as you keep developing you will only improve yourself and your game, whether you keep a feature or not.

>>150478797
animation is neat
everything else is meh, 1 pixel black text is about as lazy as it gets.

>>150478797
You should have the jumble, un-jumble to write the two words instead.
Make it quick though.

>>150478797
more like not games

>>150478903
>you lose nothing by cutting a bad mechanic.
how about the part where I've wasted so much time that I start to forget why I'm even making this crap game in the first place

>>150478823
kill yourself.

>>150477953
>>150478342

I'll check these out tomorrow. Thanks for the guidance!

>>150479010
I love you too, anon <3

>>150478908
You want the knot to uncoil into the words?

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A lot harder to convey jerky movement without hair.

I tried to do a really long neck and head movement.

2+ animations per day is draining. The walk cycle today took me way too long.

>>150478997
like I said you've learned new strategies and techniques.

you'd be really fucking surprised what comes up. I've had lots of really weird stuff I built or put together that I didn't keep, but then it came up another time out of the blue.

For example I used hashmaps to store data on positions, which taught me all about how to use hashmaps which are super useful.

Then 3 years later I built a game where you match tiles to make words, I had to iterate over a dictionary with 55000 words in it every time a player moved any tile, and I had to do this like 5-20 times in a row (since I have to check every column and row that was affected by the switch)

Implementing that the brute force way took over 2 seconds of runtime, after a shitload of attempts I realised I could use a hashmap style hashing function to compare strings rather than do a hard string to string check. Instead of taking 2 seconds, it took 2 frames.

>>150479081
mhm, a cheesy but cute-play on name joke.

>>150479238
if you hadn't put the filename I would had no idea what it is was supposed to be

>>150479238
he dances like drake

>>150479745
But does it get the point across with context?

Since this is only going to play after your character gets hit it should be pretty obvious why the animation is playing.

>>150480057
yeah, but it could be better

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>>150480006

>>150478853
>>150478882
>>150478903
Better

>>150478903
Colour will be integrated later :)

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>>150480361

Forgot image

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>following love tutorial
>cake.jpg is a black fucking square, no matter the actual image used

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>>150480209

>>150480489
you have to lose the pixel shit.
generic tall and quirky letters won't fix it.

>>150479238
you don't need hair. it's too smooth. it should jerk at the moment of impact and then have a slower falloff

>>150480578
Ill try

>>150480489
still dont like

color that shit
tall letters look like ass

>>150480489

It needs to be more detailed I think

The idea is solid, but your actual text is too uninteresting

Single Pixel text looks terrible. You could blow it up, add some colour, add some ZAZZ and then you could maybe incorporate the animation in one of the letters or throughout.

Its just a really boring thing right now. You could do it in the O or something.

>>150479238
What this anon says
>>150480654
You should work on your timing of animation; it needs to be jerkier. You want the act of getting hit itself to be very quick and then a lot of follow through to really sell the impact.

>>150473582
That is very clearly an extreme WIP. Why do people think everything posted here is near completion?

>>150480542
check your file paths
print something for !loaded

>>150481274

Some guys come in and see stuff thats really close to done, or far enough along that it looks finished and think thats how far everyone is.

Most people aren't even close to finished, and will probably never finish.

But then again, most people just shitpost.

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>>150476164
your immersion in the water?
sorry

>>150481274
if you wanted to show off the model, show a render

your movement isn't impressive or interesting and your animations are either not there or bad. what was the video showing off? Because I didn't find anything interesting.

>>150481740
He was showing just implemented movement you /v/ermin.

Fuck off >>>/v/

>>150471778
>https://soundcloud.com/user-143404129/fairy-forest
Comfy as fuck. Would walk in that forest/10.

>>150481740
Have you never played Armored Core before?

>>150476727
Nobody has original ideas. Minecraft stole from Infiniminer and Dwarf Fortress. Undertale stole from Earthbound and a bunch of webcomics. If you do a good enough job, nobody will care if you ripped something off.

>>150481293
file path is fine, i know this because otherwise it unwinds the stack.
>print something for !loaded
what's !loaded?

thanks for replying, btw

>>150481990
not loaded.
Typically for loading assets/etc you set fail messages. for example:

if (not load."picture.png") "hey that picture didn't load"

Makes tracing the problem easier for debugging.

>>150470827
I dub thee ACdev

Do you think making a game like Mario Party but incredibly crude, and vulgar would be sucessful? There would be a huge emphasis on fucking over people and complete randomness (like randomly during peoples turns you'd be forced to answer trivia questions, do math equations, or other stuff)

I guess my idea is that you get streamers and youtube lets players to play it and everyone buys it from there.

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Finished some new planes. How do they look?

>>150482167
sure, if you mean normie vulgar
if you're talking /d/-tier vulgar then no

>>150482167
It probably would be. Especially among dumb teens.
But do you really want to cater to that kind of audience?

>>150482410
money is money.

>>150482429
and you won't make any for trying to pander to a south park audience.

>>150482167
>Designing a game in a way that it will appeal to lets players
This is one of the two game making memes I don't like (the other is making a mobile game with micro transactions).

It could work, but you need to be smart about it. You can be fun vulgar like a Tarantino movie, or you can be annoying vulgar like an Adam Sandler movie. While you are at it, you should fix some of the issues of Mario Party games. I often hated that it takes so long to get to the actual game, and sometimes the time between turns with all the animations and sounds just makes the game tedious to play.

>>150482261
I think they are nice.

>>150482543
retard

>>150482675
???

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>>150480578
>>150480747
>>150480769
How's this?
Ill keep working on it tomorrow

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got an importer now so its much easier & faster to load in 3D stuff.

made a few models and now just need to texture them.

>>150482793
The "Games" looks out of place.
Maybe you should move the animation to the right, and have it roughly spell out "games" or something.

>>150482673
I'd probably let you do menial tasks while everyone is doing their turns, like maybe you do some basic platforming stuff to stay amused while everyone else is doing their thing. Or just general small games that occur concurrently to the game when its not your turn that award a paltry sum of points to give you minor advantages here and there.

>>150482793
i keep wanting to read that as "junknot" and expecting the animated square to spell out a J.

what do you guys use to build your projects? make? maven/gradle?

>>150482829
nice nice keep it going

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>>150482907
>>150482973
?

>>150483213
Lose the black square and make the animation slightly smaller and see how that looks.

>>150483213
better to me

>>150483213
You need to look up logo and brand design theory.

Your calling yourself Unknot, so why is the thing tieing a knot? Shouldnt it be the other way around?

You might also want something more recognizable. Its harrd to tell what your thing is. A celtic knot or something similar might be better.

>>150483213
shouldn't the animation be in reverse?

>>150483213
I thought that it's a game about unknotting that line. I had to read back to understand that you are designing a logo. I would say keep something in there which indicates that it's about a team.

Could anyone recommend a method for serialization in Unity?

I've checked out the default method Unity has, but heard some people dislike it

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>>150481096
Is this better, or worse?

>>150483317
like so?

>>150483359
>>150483382
>>150483417
the loop it draws is an unknot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknot

>>150469448
The ultimate gamedev challenge right now is to make a zombie game that people will care about. Zombies have been overplayed for almost a decade now, so if anyone could make a zombie game that offered something new they would be a king among gamedevs.

/ideaguy

>>150483813
That one's better, it has more impact.
It could use one transitionary frame though. Or maybe a flash or a hit effect but I suppose those come later.

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>>150483829
fuck I did it again

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>>150483813
Try adding a bit of inertia at the end. But it's much better, you don't need frames of him leaning back

Here's my literally five-second attempt

>>150483491
I can if you switch to unreal

>>150483943
I like it.
Though see what being slightly smaller than the letters looks like.

>>150483943
make it undo the animation so that it loops

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who's ready for lewd jam

>>150483943
make the text draw itself too

>>150483998
better if he's getting punched in the face

>>150483998

Teach me your ways Wizard.

What did you do? It looksa lot better.

>>150484092
Only the 3 artists on agdg

>>150484092
>fifty five concurrent threads of
>Tfw no art no lewd jam
blogposts

Can't wait.

Being a lewd dev is like being a drug dealer. You profit from broken souls. You can't be an honorable drug dealer and you don't want anyone to know you're a drug dealer, but it's good business.

>>150484287
Don't forget the
>tfw making lewd art made you fap and no motivation to dev afterwards

>>150484147
That was just adding two frames and using the perspective tool in Gimp, nothing fancy

Basically, almost every quick motion in animation should have a frame or two of inertia. Just take where you want the motion to end (so him fully leaned back), go a little further, and then bring it back on the last frame

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>>150484319
>as profitable as low level drug dealing but legal
sign me up

>>150483923
That's not being an idea guy, an idea guy would actually have ideas for a zombie game

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>>150484037
look good?

>>150484039
>>150484105
Ill work on that tomorrow

>>150484572
Mhm, I personally love it, even if I'm still meh towards your indie-font.

>>150484525
>molyneux.jpg
>a zombie game with a twist
Best I can do

>>150484658
Could you point me in the direction you think the font should be?

>>150484816
Not sure really, I'd personally stay with what you have unless you're literally ready to ship and just need a logo to slap on.

I just feel like too many people use the tall letters. But who knows, I think your thing is unique enough to where it may be fine.

>>150484396
thats a pretty hot tip.

so basically I should just make my basic hit (6 frames) then triple the most extreme one, and in the middle frame of those 3 move everything 1 extra pixel

I'll keep this in mind.

>>150484092
>No comfy forest jam because people are thinking about their dicks and not about their souls.

>>150484716
zombie game where humans bite zombies and then the zombies turn into humans

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>>150485004
>not just making a lewd forest game where you fuck thicc tree girls

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>>150484816
have some style, but something of your preference

>>150485004
It's at times like these you must decide to make the game you want to make and just skip a jam if you really don't like the theme.

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>adding 7 more spells
>have to write 7 more of these shits
on the plus side, once these 7 are done, I only have like... 14 more to go. maybe I don't have to do all of them since it's just a demo

>>150485385
>hardcoded strings
what is your localization strategy>

>>150483923
it's called zombie master

>>150485441
that will be tackled once I finish the demo, write a design doc, and start over from scratch. otherwise I would have fixed it a while ago

>>150485530
>literally creating more work for yourself out of laziness
m8

>>150485385
>casting enum to int
That's redundant

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Not sure how good this idea is, but thought it would be fun to play with it for a while.
Random generated obstacles? Y/N?

a game but ecchi

>>150484572
I help out with making logos often, your font is very hard to read. Consider choosing a fatter font

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>>150485385
what the fuck

>>150485778
Yes!

>>150485778
Only if they contextually made sense. Having lily pads pop up and down or alligators opening or closing there mouths are one thing, but random crates appearing and disappearing into the either would be pretty annoying.

>>150485738
enums are actually a subclass of uint8. compiler doesn't seem to like trying to implicit cast

>>150485704
To make a full game with this engine would be a giant mess. I've gotta figure out all the basics and see if my ideas are even possible before I try to do it for real. Also, right now I'm just cloning a game rather than being inspired and improving on the core features. I need the demo to be able to recruit artists and it's probably a 5-year project.

>>150484716
An RPG where you play as a necromancer. Party members must be recruited from graveyards, skeleton of dead adventurers found in caves, enemies you kill, etc. Multiple story paths allow you to use this power for both good and evil. An King was assassinated by his cousin who wanted the throne for himself? Raise the King back from the dead and give him his rightful place on the throne. A jewish merchant died, saving dozens of debtors from having to pay back their debt to him? Raise him back from the dead and collect the gold for yourself.

A dating-sim where you play as an exchange high school student. You've always loved the occult and decided to join the occult club at your new school. There's only one other member right now, but she's the most beautiful girl you've ever met. Unfortunately, the day after you join, she dies in a car accident. Using a ritual you find in an old book in the club, you find a way to bring her back as a conscious undead. Unfortunately, there's two drawback: First, she has no memory, and second, she can only be brought back alive for 24 hours. Fortunately, you can bring her back alive as many time as you want, but she'll lose her memory each time. The key part of the ritual: If you manage to make her fall in love, she'll stay alive forever. You can't count on her remembering you , but you can remember her, so ask her as many questions as possible to get to know her and get the info necessary to make her fall in love you. You only have 30 days before her body is completely rotten! Can you make her fall in love with you in 24 hours?

>>150485778
Yes.

>>150485986
I think he's just shoving different variations. The obstacles won't appear and disappear when the level is loaded.

>>150485778
>>150485986
Yes, you can have dynamic obstacles, and randomly-placed obstacles, but not randomly-appearing obstacles. If it's a dynamic obstacle, it should have a tell of when it's about to flip states.

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>blender

>>150482829
Your 2D shit all looks great but the textures for the 3D platforms and grass are full JUST

>>150485778
yes, but like the other anons said, it has to make sense contextually; like the lillypad or a stack of boxes falling over

hell, you could even have the hunter set traps for her

>>150486147
how do i into blender?

>>150486249
His 2d stuff doesn't look good either.

>>150474290
>not torrenting gm:s with all the modules.
come on now.

>>150486091
Okay, so which anime did you steal idea # 2 from?

>having to pirate dev tools
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

>>150485986
>>150486121
Exactly what >>150486103 said. I'm just smashing a button there to make the obstacles go to random places, but it would only happen once and off-screen at the beginning of each stage. Again think about Bomberman's randomly generated levels. Stuff like the houses, and the river would always stay in the same place, but things like the barrels, bridges or rocks could change to make it a little bit more interesting.

>>150476762
just think of what you want, and then search for functions on the gms website.

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>>150486927
I didn't steal it

>>150487083
Okay, I believe you.
so where did you steal it from?

>>150487163
I hope lewd wins

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>>150487135
I didn't steal it I don't even watch anime!
Give me another dumb thing to turn into an idea and I'll do it right now! I won't let someone insult my idea guy skills!

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>>150487246
a game where you play as cute girls

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can't think of a goal to base the game around lads

he is so weak

>150487246
>I don't even watch anime!
>posting anime
>idea guy

I honestly don't think you can get any lower.
Stripping you of any further (You)s

>>150487327
find the light source

>>150482829
I think it looks nice. Will you put some texture on the sides of the platforms? May I ask what made you turn from 2D to 2.5D?

>>150487289
That's not an idea it's just a protagonist... I mean you can apply that to almost any game. Like you can just take the previous ideas and say the necromancer is a cute girl or the highschool student is a cute girl.

How would one go about making a shitty pokemon go clone? I have experience with unity and a little bit of google maps api experience.

>>150487053
You've said you want to work on a website for the game. May I ask what do you have in mind? What purpose would the site serve? Would you register your own domain for it?

>>150487463
No the cuteness is related to the gameplay somehow, either you do things that are cute or cuteness is a mechanic or something


you're a shit ideas guy

Would anyone like me to make them a random 2D/3D art asset? Just tell me what you want (maybe with an example)

I'm looking to practice and try out different art styles.

>>150487523
host server -> pokemon location -> client
overlay pokemon on map,
raycast on pokemon to start minigame
get success/fail from server.
save new catch to server.

>>150487543
rekt
>>150487570
make me a dragon dildo with suction cup at the bottom
>>150487625
>>150487523
but seriously, pokemon go was just overhyped, it's implementation is garbage.

>>150487327

What >>150487413 said, but think Journey and Bug's Life.

10/10 Would play it.

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>>150487570
You can make armor for me if you want. The dimensions just have to be multiples of 50 (ie 50x200 for a sword). Things I still need:
- chain helm, leather helm
- chain body, plate body
- chain boots, plate boots

>>150487543
Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side, Style Savvy and Dragon Quest have already all done this

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Anons, vote on the next next jam if you still havent.

http://poal.me/ojtspe
http://poal.me/ojtspe
http://poal.me/ojtspe

>>150470185
>>150469791
hotkeys are total shit
i just use tha spacebar all the time and just type in what i need
i don't regret deciding to learn blender instead of other shit since i actually really like working in it apart from shit menus

>>150487720
>Bug's Life
game was top

>>150488180
>100 people voted
>no more than 10 will make a game
seems legit

>>150488180
I'm hosting a lewd jam regardless of the outcome here.

>>150487413
>>150487720
this is good stuff
thanks buds

>>150488180
see thread edition
>>150469448

>>150487692
Ok Anon, but I won't go 100%~

>>150488405
It will have no games, know this.

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>>150488547
>90 votes for lewd jam
>no games

>>150488405
who

>>150488595
Yes, exactly. Do you think 90 people here can actually make a lewd game? It's just horny nodevs.

>>150487083
Literally Edge of Tomorrow

How do I make a largely narrative driven game without it becoming an example of the "it needs gameplay to be a game" argument?

>>150488761
You write a book instead.

>>150488787
Okay, but there is so much stuff that an interactive medium such as video games has that you can't do in books.

>>150488761
You make the player write the story instead of you doing it

>>150488897
That's called gameplay. If you don't want to have that, you don't want to make a game.

>>150488936
Meant for >>150488890

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Okay, devfriends, I made a legitimate new poll. All meme options are removed. Pick your theme.

http://poal.me/brz6uj
http://poal.me/brz6uj
http://poal.me/brz6uj
http://poal.me/brz6uj

Anime devs can still make their anime games even though there is no option for lewd. Its just that normal devs aren't forced into your degeneracy.

>>150489046
>anime = lewd
>lewd = anime
Fuck off.

>>150474752
game?

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>>150488180
>my shitty pun is climbing the ranks
progress tomorrow i promise /agdg/

>>150489046
how does anyone even get this mad

>>150489081
prove me wrong, you filthy nodev

>>150489201
You made the claim, retard. You prove it.

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>>150489231
no, you prove me wrong

>>150489231
Name one (1) non-lewd anime game

>>150489335
go to bed cristian

>>150489335
>>150489360
>Post non lewd anime game
>"what?? there's a girl in that game, it's totally lewd"
No thanks.

I've finished the gameplay and now I have to work on the UI. But instead I might rewrite the networking. I really don't want to work on UI

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>>150487692
Here's your shitty 5 min dildo anon~
I even censored it for you

>>150489360
touhou

>>150489456
Nice OS

>>150489505
now stick it in your butt.

>>150489395
who is кpиcтиaн?

>>150489635
Ahhhnnnn~

>>150489643
you need to work on your cyka runes, """"vlad"""".

>>150487529
Doubt I'll get a domain, at least for now. Once the game is more polished I will probably make a tumblr to get more more people to play the game, use as a devlog, and show my other work/art too if someone is interested on it.
I have plans to add an online hi-score system to the game too, and would like to have a page where you can see them.

>>150489335
>trying to shift burden of proof

>>150482829
what engine are you using?

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89KB, 256x436px

>>150489586
"anime"

>>150489802
>implying some sort of grand intellectual trick move
no, fag, its easy. YOU prove the statement wrong.

>>150489893
no true scotsman kid

>ah it's 10 pm, better stop devving and get ready for bed
>suddenly it's 5 am

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22KB, 1008x575px

>>150489934
>art
being 1MA is suffering

>>150489896
>"The burden of proof lies with someone who is making a claim, and is not upon anyone else to disprove."

>>150489896
this guy has a giant dragon dildo shoved up his ass.
prove me wrong.

>>150473830
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg-bGyCjwsw
no excuses