/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

>making the thread early so I couldn't get the proper thread made
You can't stop it, it's gonna happen.

>>151925802

>Not being a dev who still plays from time to time
How to get out of touch 101

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Check muh webm pls - http://webmshare.com/axJ9z
Sorry I still can't make a smooth running webm

first for
today i'm gonna implement google play into my first mobile game and then i'm gonna implement unity adds into my first mobile game and then i'm gonna look at some mansions because i'm gonna be sick rich from my first mobile game

>>151926165

>that reload style

I remember you, I'm glad to see you're still running with that novel as hell reload mechanic

>>151926210
Square dev, is that you?

>>151926165

how do you look around in this game?

Newbie here, are those ready-to-go engines well optimized? As in, not resource hogs?

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Basic sliding controls are in. The player can look around and apply movement forces.
The next step is to figure out if the sliding mechanic is fun enough to go on, since the entire game will stand on it, or if it isn't and in that case there would be no point to keep deving the game.

>>151926245
Thanks! Glad someone remembers my old ludum dare game
>>151926456
In Exploration mode you have a full mouse look+WASD controls, in Battle mode you restricted in camera rotation, but still can move with WASD

>>151926581
didnt realise the no mans sky devs frequented here

>>151926662
I haven't played no mans sky, do they use sliding mechanics too?

>>151926705
no
your game just looks like no mans sky, if you were to add some rng geometry and textures

>>151926776
If that's true then they are probably just as lazy as i am since that skybox is a free asset from the unity store and the terrain is from the terrain generator in blender

>>151926581
I'm kinda reminded of Sanicball for some reason.

is there still time for weekly update?

>>151927683
If you want to get into the weekly recap, then yes, there is.

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>>151926850

>>151928117
yeah that terrain is definitely a noise generator

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Sorry for the late responses!

>>151887656
It was a great idea, my dude.
>>151889036
Shoot me an email
[email protected]
>>151889053
Thanks! I'm hoping these new tree shadows add to the comfiness.

why did basement mate die?

>>151928868
Simple: We can't have nice things

>>151879275
Someone got August #1's image?

>>151928863
>those faint leaf shadows
coool

>>151926581
You making a Tribes-like game? Sliding in those games were always fun.

Lets say I want to add particles to my models that move and rotate with them. What would be the best way to do so in Unity? I was thinking of adding special bones to the armature where I can place the particle systems but I wonder if there is a simpler way to do so.

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>>151929241

>>151929559
cheers

>>151929434
sliding will be very similar, except it will be a race to the finish line

>>151929559
>2014
RUDE

>>151929559
>researched loli anatomy
This was the guy that got arrested right

>>151929559
>rotate guy
>pug
>re/make
>robutt game
Where did it all go wrong?

>>151929791
No.

>>151929791

careful anon, you might have the kid diddler defense squad on you.

>>151929791
No.

>>151929803
Did rotate guy ever finish his game? I've been absent

>>151929985
No.

>>151926554
It depends what you make. There will always be overhead and you can't optimize as far as you could with lower-level programming. But if you make something that isn't resource intensive in the engine then it won't be resource intensive.

>>151929985
No, he become a tranny and just shitposts now

>>151928985
>>151928868

His twitter account was suspended by twitter. Which I think is the reason he's posting here again. lmao

>>151929791
>>151929849
>>151929897
>>151930020

Yes. That's the pedo that /agdg/ defends.

>>151930107
You're saying "yes he got arrested".

>>151926165

Looks interresting, I like the reload and the camera.

What's the thing you are shooting at though? I can't make it out.

Also is it some kind of spook game?

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>>151930105
>>151930020
Ok. Can't say I expected much else.

>>151930107
>Yes
Got a link to the rotation game?

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If the player holds the jump button, should the player keep jumping or should the player only jump once?

>>151930465

Depends on the game.

>>151930465
Most games, only once.
Key repeat in general should be used very carefully.

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Redoing Bunny's rig, now with thumbs, index fingers and IK!
That means redoing every animation from scratch though

>>151930465
Repeat jump is really goddamn janky (but like the other Anons said, it has its place in certain games).

>>151930493
It's a pixel platformer.

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>>151930348
It's not a spooky game, more like killer7/rail shooter battle system with enemy encounters+dark souls-like world exploration

>>151930743

one jump and that's it then.

>>151930105

pics

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My first time animating something from scratch. Obviously not finished yet but any tips?

>>151930926

cute but jerky

>>151930926

Damn son, that's a very convincing homerun swing.

>>151930926
You should increase the frames. Scale the animation in the action editor / dope sheet by about three.

>>151930984
>>151931104
It's 21 frames, I was scrubbing through in the webm not looping it so that might have contributed. I was hoping interpolation in UE4 would take care of it because I want it to be a pretty short animation, or is it better practice to have more frames and just up the framerate?

>>151931024
Thanks my man!

>>151930764

Looks pretty spooky to me.

Care to explain what's the story about? I guess you already have some kind of story since the number on the pistol a and the marks on his wrist have some reason right? If you want to kep it a secret that's fine too.

>>151926554
who cares? computers today have power to throw away so any optimizing is a waste of time

>>151930764
>It's not a spooky game
I'm sorry bu you dun goof'd, it IS spooky. Not that that's a bad thing.

spooky=/=jumpscares by the way

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If I release a game for free on the play store, can I also release it on itch.io etc or am I bound by some kind of contract with big G or something?

>>151930926
needs a longer windup and a shorter swing, that will make it look more powerful. Other than that, pretty decent.

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>>151926165
>muh deep and edgy numbers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpA6TCWApfk

>>151931638
You can release it wherever you want

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>>151931638
GabeN will personally knife you if you break the unwritten unspoken contract.

>>151931649

>muh contrarian remarks and smug anime girl faces

where's your game, sugar tits?

How do you manage different versions of your game on Itch, /agdg/?

Like you submit it to multiple Demo Days, then have a final release. Do you just refresh the game's page with the new version and alter the name of the game (I often see naming Demo Day 9 edition, Alpha version etc.), or do you set up a completely new page? I was wandering, because with the latter approach, you lose all your previous statistics, but at least you'll have a clean start and your game won't be connected to any previous jams or feedback you've received during development.

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>>151931398
The story is about a destroyed world and a special portal which can help to rebuild the world. Player character finds special items, use them in the portal and creates a links to the fragments of the world. Different items creates links to different locations, plus you can modify them by adding a special items - to make monsters stronger, but with a better loot, or to visit a location back in time, at the exact time when the world is destroyed, something like that.
The weapons are the main NPCs - you must build a bond with them in order to talk with them. Killing enemy types that the weapon hates builds the amiability with the weapon, missing shots decreases it. The ending is based on what weapon you befriend and listen to in the dialogues.

>>151931492
But there is a cute slug creature in the game, picrelated. Not all the enemies are spooky skellys

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>>151932170
I lied, the cute slug is actually a skellington too

>>151932170

>make friends with your guns

Holy shit, that's awesome, I hope you at least plan to make it so if a player has garbage aim throughout the game they can set things right if they spend some extra time fighting shit accurately.

What other weapons do you have planned?

>>151932170
>that slug creature
>cute
you have the weirdest tastes my man, keep it up

>>151932301
and I thought it couldn't get any worse, fug

>>151932301
>>151932170
>this isn't a horror game
Sure, friend.

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How hard/time intensiv would it be to make a decent RTS game. Compared to other gernes ? (think Red Alert 2 and Warcraft 2)

I know the gerne is dead. It would be nothing but a spare time project.

>>151932362

in his defense, king's field and the souls games have spooky enemies and eerie shit in general, it's not really a horror game.

Killer 7 has invisible enemies that scream and explode in your face, and it's not a horror game

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>>151931847
right here kiddo. is it edgy enough 4 u?

>>151932447

not edgy enough, have the character lamenting about dark and useless the world is.

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>>151932304
>What other weapons do you have planned?

All the weapons are handguns, most of them are based on real guns, but only partially. But there will be a Mauser-K96 gun which speaks German untill you befriend it (because this is my favorite handgun and I already made a small LD game about it)
>>151932438
>Killer 7 has invisible enemies that scream and explode in your face, and it's not a horror game
I actually borrowed this feature from the game - some enemies are invisible untill their first attack, and some weapons can see some types, but can't see others. So you have to equip various scanners to be able to see them and attack first. I plan to add a player character build variety with such devices.

game idea

procedurally generated slice of life visual novel that never ends
its just an endless loop of generic everyday events

>>151932596

so I'm assuming each handgun will reload and fire differently then?

Please tell me we can go dirty harry on a motherfucker.

>>151932597
I'm already playing it.
There's no content
;_;

>>151932597
So, Groundhog Day: The VN?

>>151932041
I haven't updated any of my games like that yet, since they're all jam games.
But I would keep the same page and just update it as I go. You can set your page to have a discussion board instead of having just a comment section, this will allow you to make a new thread for every release you make, so if anyone gives feedback they can post it on the most recent thread. I don't know if there's a way to make it so no one can make threads except for you though.
Updating the names of the downloads is easy. And the name of your project too, although I think if you change the url name it could break any links people have posted, so try to always choose the proper url name from the start.

>>151932597
We already play that everyday, it just has an end.

>>151932665
I'm not sure, most handguns will reload via clip-mechanic. Maybe I will add barrel reload mechanic with the revolvers (and for some guns you will have to cock the hammer before shooting), but for now the weapons will differ by damage, shot speed, magazine capacity, recoil, etc.

free released 2D or 3D music

http://www.estudiocafofo.com/songs-from-cafofo/

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>>151932596
Hey, the C96 is my favorite handgun too! I tend to model my fictional guns off of it if I'm not using it outright.

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>>151932897

Consider one of these, I love when a game gives me the buckshot option

>>151933126

Did you make this?

>>151930465
You can also make it so another jump is initiated if jump is pressed and held during a jump. This makes it a bit more of a conscious decision for the player to do it.

>>151933084
pretty comfy musics. Did you make these?

>>151933126
Is this your game? Looks good! I always love to play a good game with C96

>>151933164
Well, there is already an implementation of a spread shot, so I can make a shotgun-like things, but what about buckshot? I'm not a pro in these things, but isn't buckshot is just a bullet fired from a shotgun with a non-rifled barrel?

>>151931648
Agreed. Was thinking the same thing.

>>151930721
how do prevent your deformation weights for doing whatever they want?

>>151933352

well by buckshot I'm just talking about firing multiple projectiles. If you have a spreadshot, it's all good.

Keep up the good work.

>>151933352
Oh, I messed up my English, it's slug shots I meant, so yeah, I can make a buckshot already, I'm probably will.

>>151933415
I fix them manually after applying the automatic ones.

How do you create 2D levels in Unity? Do you use Tiled or something else?

inb4:
>creating a 2D game in Unity
But Unity is good and I know C#.

>>151933483
How do you do that? I can't seem to fix tiny spots of weight that are always there regardless of how many times i remove them

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>>151933259
>>151933352
Yeah it's an unfinished project I started for Space Jam, but didn't have time to get anywhere near done, so I shelved it until I had more time to give it proper attention.

>>151933575

all of that is looking really slick, so you're coming back to it?

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>>151933575
>shoot space monster
>coins fall out
Really?
jk looks awesome, as do all your games
luv u jasozz

>>151933704
you're a faggot.

>>151933575
This looks great, actually

>>151933704
>shoot space monster
>coins fall out

>implying it was a monster and not a planet's citizen going home from work with hard earned cash

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http://poal.me/y0gpnj

>>151933816
I've always wondered how long it takes to make a character like this, for a CG artist. Several days?

>>151933675
Hopefully. The current gameplan is to get Dungeon Break ready for DD10, then start work on my Halloween Jam project, and hopefully give this some more attention in the winter when I'm less busy.

>>151933704
They're space coins man!

luv u 2 m80

>>151932428
remember that a huge part of the love for those games comes from their assets, music, etc, not the gameplay itself

>>151933891
>Dungeon Break

Tell me more.

>>151933126
>Mauser C96
>COOL below half the bar
>not full

0/10

>>151934039
It's because K96 is hot as fuck

>>151933280
But how does that work with variable jumping?

i rewrote my game fourth time in two weeks and i think i finally have it working properly

remember to plan ahead

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>>151933961
Sure, Dungeon Break is my main project. Randomly-generate platformer, with combat in the same vein as Symphony of the Night.

You can check out the Demo Day 9 demo if you want, although its out of date now, and doesn't include the catacombs.

https://jasozz.itch.io/dungeon-break

>>151934039
It's still COOL, it just hasn't reached its maximum COOL potential. A few COOLING mods and it'll be as COOL as it gets.

>>151934090
Also this

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Demo day is approaching way too fast

>>151925802
UV mapping is so boring

>>151934160
is that you, mothgirl dev?

>>151934260

Oh fuck I remember seeing videos of this, you made this AND that space game? God damn, you're busy.

I really like your art style too.

>>151934276
Are you going to be submitting for Demo Day 10? I'm excited to play this.

>>151934340
Ah thanks! It's a new style for me, doing the whole minimal-shading-no-outline thing, so I'm glad people like it. And yeah I need to slow down and focus on one project at a time, I always shoot myself in the foot this way. :/

>>151934279
no im just a girl dev :3

>>151934508
>girl dev
>doesn't plan ahead
Yup sounds about right.

>>151934260
>almost get a glimpse of the battleaxe's attack
>webm cuts off

fuck you you cockteasing fuck

>>151934478

I'm guilty of that too, I did a side project that was supposed to be something I toy around with and leave it at that, then I spent 6 months finishing THAT.

and now here I am working on overhauling the gameplay mechanics of my main project

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>Demo Day in 3 weeks
>not even halfway through the project
>dad's birthday is Friday so I'll have to leave Thursday to get there, and I'll only come home Saturday night meaning I've already lost 3 days of progress
>have to do UI

Don't cry for me.

>>151934508
more like mentally ill maledev

>>151934567
The little boner wound up hitting me and cancelling my attack so it's a pretty unsatisfying video either way haha

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>>151934567
Here you go, this shows the battleaxe and glitchy firebombs. Only WebM I have handy at work

>>151934607
I can't count how many times I've done this lol. I'm trying to keep my Halloween project super simple so that I don't wind up doing this yet again.

>>151934616
>have to do UI
Don't care what you say, I will cry for you.

>>151934802

what other throwing weapons you got planned?

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>>151934802
>axe cleaves from behind onwards its trajectory
nice

>RESISTRESISTRESISTRESISTRESISTRESISTRESISTRESISTRESIST

oh my fuck

>>151934890
Currently I've only got Oil Bombs and Firebombs for thrown weapons, although I was considering doing a Castlevania esque Holy Water throwable, and some kind of throwable blade, whether that's daggers or shuriken or whatever. The game also has spells and ranged weapons such as the Longbow and Blunderbuss, so there's alot of options for melee or ranged attacks.

All of the ranged/throwable/spells weapons have limited ammo, which you can refill/recharge at any shop.

>>151935050

No plans for a boomerang? Or whips? I always love using the strange and unorthodox weapons in these kinda games

>>151935112
Not currently, but that doesn't mean I can't do those! The weapon system in Dungeon Break is made so it's incredibly easy to add new weapons. It's all essentially stored in a huge table that lists damage, attack windup speed, attack finish speed, weapon sprite, player sprite, pickup icon, cost, rarity, etc. etc.

Whips would be a neat addition especially, thanks for the suggestion!

>>151934276
>>151934478
>Are you going to be submitting for Demo Day 10?
That's the plan, I'm just afraid I won't have enough content for it

>>151935258

coming up with weapon gimmicks and shit is like my favorite thing ever, so glad to give another dev ideas is always good.

The rune/heaven sword from SoTN and Portrait of Ruin is another fun one.

>>151935260
I don't think that's necessarily a huge deal. Unlike Jams, Demo Day is really about showing off progress and getting feedback, as opposed to submitting a completed game.

Hell, my Dungeon Break demo was only one dungeon, which can be pretty short if the RNG is feeling froggy.

>>151928868
huge mistakes were made anons

>>151935458
Yeah, and that's something I've been struggling with a bit. I've got a bunch of swords that all feel pretty similar but have advantages, be it speed, range, damage, or knockback, but I also have weapon subclasses. Like the Estoc is a "thrust" subclass, so when you swing it, the player jumps forward a couple pixels, so it gets a bit of extra range. The Greatswords/Axes are also a subclass of weapons, that have their own animation and such.

>>151935558
what were the mistakes?

share your post-mortem wisdom

>>151926165
fucking scary

>>151934278
I find it rather relaxing. Put on some chill tunes and get them perfect UVs.
It is time consuming though, not sure if that gets easier as I get better at 3D or not.

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>>151925802
i fear you guys get a shitons of despicable people like me but i'm gonna try this anyway

i wanna make a srpg, tactics ogre and fft are some of my favourite games ever, i got some ideas for story and gameplay but i don't know how to code and i'm not that good at pixel art, given i could find someone to do the art would any of you be interested in making something like that with me?

alternatively could someone give me some advice on what software would be ideal to a game like that and how to git gud at it? i would be immensly grateful

sorry if i wrote this in broken english, got people at home and my brain is kinda splitting between this and them

we don't take kindly to idea guys around here

>>151936470
What's your level of experience? Generally Game Maker: Studio is a great starting place for 2D game development, as its one of the best programs for that kind of stuff. Some folks here would recommend Godot as well.

As far as art goes, I'd start off using placeholder art, such as sprites from one of the games you're imitating, just to be sure you can accomplish what you're wanting to accomplish. Otherwise that'd be alot of time spent developing art assets for a game that won't be finished.

>>151936697
Not that guy, but I heard Game Maker's pretty lousy for non-action games.

Not that that's stopping me from trying my hand at a turn-based RPG, but still.

Is it possible to get a MGSV quality character model using strictly box modeling?

>>151936470
Easiest Dev: Gamemaker
Accessible and can literally do anything Dev: Unity
Unique Dev: Godot
everything else is a meme

>>151936470
2d = game maker
3d = give up now

yes you're a despicable person - we call your sort "idea guys" because you don't bring anything tangible to the game except your ideas, which everyone already has

before you try to rope some shmuck in to do your art, just use placeholder sprite rips from other games - you could even edit them enough that you could pretend they're yours

get good at game maker fast because if you want to control this project with your "ideas" you'll need to be the main programmer

/agdg/ collabs are also always doomed, so good luck with that

>>151936470

if you can't code or draw, then you should begin by learning to do one of those.

goddamn idea guys are running rampant on this board.

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>>151933957

I just want to make a rts inspired by mecha/scifi anime. I agree though that the overall vibe needs to be good. I am not really a a fan of rts games trying to be to serious -think grey goo, act of aggression.

Just some campy fun and Itano circus.

I need an idea guy's help.
I want to make a mobile game. I don't care about making money on this game, so it's going to be free, no micro transactions, ads, or anything else. I also don't care about getting a ton of downloads, so this game can be non-casual.
So, what sort of games would you guys REALLY like to see on mobile? What sort of game would you love to play on your commute, or while away from your computer?

>tfw literally just began to learn to code with C# for Unity
This is some heavy shit m8s, but I'm excite. We're all gonna make it, right?

>>151937003
>So, what sort of games would you guys REALLY like to see on mobile?
none
ded platform for quality games

>>151936470

>>151936818
Game Maker isn't necessarily lousy for non-action games, but it doesn't have any built-in functions for buttons or menus or any of that stuff, so that has to all be from scratch, unlike software like RPG Maker that is specifically geared towards those kinds of games, and comes with built-in functions for dialogue and turn-based battle.

>>151937003
Can you fuck off to reddit with your mobiledev shit?

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>>151936697
my level of experience is 0
i would really love to learn but the problem is i wouldn't know where to start, i imagine there are plenty of guides and manuals on how to make platformers or standard rpgs but since srpgs are more of a niche genre i assumed fiding something about how to make one would be kinda difficult
>>151936862
>>151936854
>>151936874
uh thank you everyone (and sorry about the idea guy thing)

anyway, pic related is what i'm going for, so i should start getting good at game maker then i assume?

>>151937175
i want to stay away from rpg maker, every game i see made on that is painfully ugly and generic and i don't know if the fault is of the software or the developers but still i'd prefer to do this on something else

>>151937003
A game that actually lends itself to the limited control schemes of a mobile phone. I personally only play comfy-sim type games on my phone; the kind of thing I can pop into and play for half an hour. Harvest-moon-esque games, kinda like what Frog's Life dev is doing, or just simple sim/management games. If I want to play anything more involved/actiony ,that's what I have a 3DS for.

>>151937359
>0 experience
>Wants to start with a Tactics game

Enjoy failing.

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>>151936854
>Unity
>Limited by engine
>can literally do anything

>>151937359
As much as it sucks to hear it, you really need to start simpler if you have 0 experience. We've all been there, brand new to game dev, and having all these cool ideas, but you'd be betraying your dream game to start on it without any experience. Start with something like Pong, maybe a simple Zelda-esque top-down game to grasp the basics of movement and variables and such.

Myself and several other people I've talked to got started by basically following tutorials, and then expanding upon the tutorial's final product, such as downloading Game Maker's platformer tutorial, then adding a couple new enemies, coding in a double jump, etc.
RPG Maker may produce generic looking games, but if you have 0 experience with development, it might be worthwhile to make a simple game with a couple dungeons to come to grips with things like storytelling, balancing weapons, creating interesting situations, etc.

>>151937615
they made no mans sky in it so yeah. keep posting anime you smug loser

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>>151937689
>No Man Sky
>Literally a game where you can't do anything

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>>151937689

>>151937689
Implying anyone would want to make nu males sky :^)

My spritesheet has about 60 sprites. The total memory of this sprite sheet is about 5 MB. Is that a decent amount for a single character, assuming I have like 20 or so characters (100 MB for just character spritesheets). This isn't even considering the spritesheet for locations and other things.

>>151937783
>>151937757
>>151937754
(you)
oh yes give me more smug animes
yes yes yes
moooooooooooore

>>151937689
>they made no mans sky in it
can you provide source on that claim, please?

>>151937790
exporting the project will make it smaller

>>151937003
Try something experimental. Like a new sort of control scheme that works better than touchswipe shit

>>151937864
yeah, right here
>>151937689

>>151937359
You need to make some simple games first. You don't have to finish them but you absolutely have to get a feeling for scope in game development.

>>151937359
that's 3D.

I'm not sure making a 3D game with Game Maker is easier than with Unity.

Rpg maker games are painfully ugly and generic if the dev didn't move away from standard assets and didn't do any scripting.

>>151937864
it's a /v/ meme

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>>151937856

>>151937938
Oh that makes more sense.

>>151937615
>implying anyone here is good enough to push Unity to its absolute limits
silly anime poster

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>>151937463
i'd have no problem starting with something simple and then build up to what i want to do, but then again if i knew how and where to start i wouldn't be asking here for help
>>151937661
>>151937987
yeah i kind of imagined i just wouldn't be able to do something like that without any experience, still i hoped it would be possible to something like that but extremely basic, and then do the more complex stuff

well i guess i'll just start making something really easy and ugly on gamemaker/unity/whatever and hope i'll be able to do this one day, thanks everyone for the help

>>151937689
>NMS made in unity
this meme again

>>151938098
It's not even about limits, it's about being mandated how to do certain things by the engine.

You are limited, that's the drawback of any engine.

Please watch this video before you start to make a large complex game as your first game ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obglp35I1M8

>>151938206
>It's not even about limits,
>You are limited, that's the drawback of any engine.
Enginedevs, not even once.

>>151937689
>NMS
>Unity
NO.

>>151938373
You do realize in the English language the same words can have different meanings?

>>151937359
You don't have to start with GameMaker as the fags say.

But you do have to start with smaller scope, make 2 or 3 very small, one level games to get a hang of stuff.(Pong, Tetris, Space Invaders, etc.)

If you want something just a bit more advanced that's 2D, a lot of people use C++ with SFML. I recommend first getting accustomed to C++ with "Jumping into C++" ( torrent the PDF), and then just follow the SFML tutorials on how to render sprites and such. From then on the world is your oyster, and remember that google is your best friend, any programming related question you want to ask, 99% of cases someone else already did.

Are object pools worth it in unity?
I'm wondering now before I get heavy into code and have to redo stuff. I'm not well versed enough in unity to know if they save performance.

>>151938531
Unity has nothing to do with it being worth or not.

If your game re-utilizes a lot of things, (ie. bullets in a shmup) go for it; there's even an official tutorial for that.

>>151938586
uh oh

>>151938249
>1 hour long

What the fuck

>>151938713
There is a lot of reusing, I just didn't know hoow unity handles garbage collection. But Ill start implementing it now

>>151937689
>>151936854
nodev spotted

>>151938586
Your code sucks

>>151938763
Ok, spend years making a complex game without proper knowing how to structurize different game design problems my man
It also really interesting to watch - I watchet it in a binge and was surprised that one our was gone so fast

Dabbling with shaders in GM for the first time, anyone know how to make the color opaque? I'm trying for a white silhouette but not only is white not opaque, it doesn't even show up.

Code so far:
void main()
{
vec4 white = vec4(0.5, 1.0, 0.5, 1.0);
gl_FragColor = white * texture2D(gm_BaseTexture, v_vTexcoord);
}

>>151938531
Honestly I'd just let the GC do its thing and if you run into performance issues, then try object pooling.

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>>151938503
ok now i'm confused

a guy before told me that's 3D, you're kind of implying (if i'm not retarded) that that is 2D

is it 2D or 3D? (btw i'll check that out, thanks for the advice)

>>151938586
i'm legitimately scared

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>>151929241

Posting this week's recap soon.

>>151938249
10 seconds in and holy shit these guys are faggots.

>>151938995
shit, the 0.5 in the vec4 should be 1.0, forgot to change those back. Problem persists

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Made some progress on these little tadpoles here.
They're dumb as bricks, but at least they have a pretty neat component based architecture.
Everything is built up from specialized organs, those tadpoles have eyespots for vision, tails for movement and brains that can contain different behaviours.
Right now they have just one behaviour in their brain - Wander Randomly, which contains 3 actions, Move forward, Turn Left and Turn Right.

The green algae cells are essentially the same as the tadpoles, but the only organs they have are chloroplasts.

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>>151939061
>>151938586

>>151939083
>dark elf
>literally nothing but a sprite for 5 weeks
why do you keep adding him?

>>151939216
Thats really neat anon

>>151939095
Ain't nothing bad with being fag my man

>>151939027
Tactics Ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics are 3D games with a fixed isometric camera.

You can do the same in 2D, it's just a little finicky.

>>151938175

You can make an asteroids clone in a day using shaun spalding's game maker tutorial, don't get discouraged.

Gonna start a new project now.
I'm gonna start with writing down a GDD.
I need motivations!!!
help!

>>151939342
Because even small progress is progress, you shitty nodev

>>151939216
Dude, look up boids. Wandering behavior has been done.

>>151939454
>I'm gonna start with writing down a GDD.
How about you start prototyping instead of being a nodev.

>>151938586
MELTDOWN IN PROGRESS BLACK DELTA TANGO ABORT ABORT

>>151939497
It's a meme post you dip.

Whats the best way to pause game in Unity?
I've been using timescale = 0
but someone said thats bad for some reason

>>151939525
>prototyping
the easy step to be a nodev

>>151939027
Learning C++ is also good if you ever want to look for a programmer job, or if you want to switch to UE4 as a 3D engine, or even to C# for Unity.

As for your 3D and 2D question, the answer is "it depends". You can pull off that look with both 2D and 3D.

But since you aim to be the programmer and not the artist, I'd worry about that after you made Pong.

>>151939507
boids are for flocking, though

DUDE NODEV LMAO

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>>151932596
>>151933126
Hello guys :3
Whatcha talkin` about? :3

Is there a more tedious task in gamedev than UV unwrapping?

>>151939804
UI

>>151939783
GO HOME HANDGUN GIRL

danny is in the thread

>>151939758
you're right, I got confused because wander behavior is a fundamental behavior of a boid. it should be steering behavior.

anyway, wandering has been done.
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/steer/Wander.html

>>151939570
Nah timescale is fine

he is reading your posts

>>151940054
Oh no oh no, he's doing it right now, fuck!

>>151939783
Hey baby

I actually saw a Mauser C96 complete with a few strippers and the stock at a gun show once, but since I couldn't part with 3K at the time, I didn't get to make it mine.

>>151939783
cute ! CUTE !

Is it a good idea to first finish a game and put it up on the mobile market?

Want to try and do it simply because I would have a goal I could focus on. Don't care if people play it or not, since mobile is oversaturated to the brim, but I really want to actually finish a game.

>>151940792
>Is it a good idea to first finish a game

Yes.

>>151940792
>but I really want to actually finish a game.
Make a pong and throw on mobile market.
Viola!

>>151940792
Its a great idea. Not only it gives you a goal like you said, but also if you ever want a job in the industry, having a game on the market is a great portfolio buff.

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>>151939027

TacticalRPG dev here, listen to this guy:
>>151939412

Doing an isometric game in complete 2D would be very limiting. If you want to use sprites, make the units 2D billboards, similar to Doom.

Additionally, if this is your first game, I would avoid tackling an RPG. Make Pong, Tetris then Chess. That should give you a lot of the knowledge you need.

>>151940914
i see
then, what engine do i learn? also, should i learn c++ first?

> making a mobile game

>>151941312
Just use Unity, there's no point of reinventing the wheel for something like that.
>also, should i learn c++ first?
You don't need to. It will be more work than necessary to do it yourself in c++/GL but it's not too hard either, just time consuming..

> making no game

>>151940792
There's thousand of indie devs who have never made anything because they're constantly switching between huge projects with no scope.

Don't be one of them. Finish a fucking game.

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>making a game

FOLLOW THEM DREAMS

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WHERE THE DEV STREAMS AT??
I need some chill stream to watch while devvin

>>151942779
Where the dev music at?

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>not being a nodev
>wasting time manipulating ones and zeroes to make a shitty game
lmaoing my ass off at your lives

so. hows everybody doing?

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>>151879275
==|AGDG Weekly Recap|==
Game Name: Super Space Jam Jetpack Robot Turbo
Dev Name: nurikabe
Tools Used: Unity, Tiled, SAI
Website(s): https://nurikabe.itch.io/spacejamrobos
Progress:
+Began making color sprites.
+Fixed camera jitter.
+Changed resolution.
-Broke rendering for a while.

>>151942779
my internet is too shit to stream in a readable quality

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I want to see more retro games with C64 long pixel art style. There's something comfy about those long pixels.

>>151943071
very carefully

>>151942141
>151942141
> There's thousand of indie devs who have never made anything because they're constantly switching between huge projects with no scope.

That's why I want to try and make a very small mobile game. Hell even if it's an endless runner with shapes or something i'm fine. I just want to be able to actuallyhave a project and see the finish/goal in the distance that I can reach.

Making a game for the same of making right now is abit hard, simply because I'm not able to manage my scope or time and I have no goal to focus on.

>>151943071
Trying to excuse my lack of doing any devving today by looking at all these tutorials

>>151937003
chibi-style kart racers with dating sim elements between races, between the racers.

>>151943363
TYPE SOME CODE YOU UTTER FAGGOT

>>151942779
I was dev streaming, but I'm back on professional devving as money ran out.
Can't stream with an NDA

>>151943565
how about you defrag my ass, by putting your dick in it, you gay potato.

>>151943363
Man, I used to do that, but I'm at the point where I've absorbed about all I can from them and now I actually make progress.

>>151943071
Refactoring. It burns so good.

>>151943071
I just spent about 20 minutes trying to understand a flood fill tutorial before realizing I can do it in four lines my own way. Pretty good.

How do I change shader constants in the draw even in GameMaker. I keep looking up tutorials and guides, not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I have a vector3 constant in the shader called color_scheme that holds the rgb of the shader. I use shader_get_uniform to assign it to a variable, then later shader_set_uniform_f to set the values but it never works. Anyone with experience for a beginner? Thanks!

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>>151943071
Despite the typhoon I am feeling comfy and making shitty concept art.

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What re some amazing games that have been made in Game Maker? Not big companies, but what indie titles have really shined with its fundamentals in Gamer Maker? No puzzle shit.

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>>151926115
'Massive difference between being a Gamur and a person that plays games .
Gamers became this retarded culture that obsesses with certain titles to an unhealthy extreme.
I think what they probably meant with 'we are developers not gamers' is that they don't spend 12 hours a day sperging out on details about someone else's games, and they work on their own stuff and play other games casually instead.

>>151944412
spelunky

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okay before you guys rip on me for no collision poly on the roof and the coin not slowing down in the water , I swear I'll fix it right after this.
I want to know whether to pin the control instructions to the player or just have it fixed to the screen somewhere?

>>151944412
Hotline Miami 1-2
Undertale
Risk Of Rain
Hyperlight Drifter
The Midnight Station
Spelunky
...
And maybe yours some day...

>>151943071
I've encountered some design issues with my current project and have put off devving for the past 5 days trying to find solutions but to no avail. So not the best.

twitch/nastyoldwizard
pls no bully. I've never streamed before.

>>151944580
I like having them follow her

>>151944580
It probably needs to follow the player or the intractable object but I also prefer context sensitive prompts to be as unobtrusive as possible.

Also why is that bread following the girl's crotch?

>>151944580
I think pinned to the player looks better, but your example looks a bit off
The art is pretty cute though

Why should I pay taxes for my games sales which are not much and will cut into my profits??

I don't plan to. (taxation is theft anyway)

>>151944580
But that's wrong, the thing behind her should follow above her head

>>151944580
I like how it follows but is that just for the tutorial or will they always be there?

They'd get anything if they're always there.

>>151944841
>>151942779
forgot to quote

>>151944841
can't watch because of shitty internet, but those are cool frogs

>>151944580
NO! Don't do that! Please! We are not idiots! Don't show the buttons! Tell us once what to do and that's it! There's a finite number of buttons an a controller, I don't think it's that hard to remember which do what, and even if it is, you can try it for yourself in half a second.

>>151944841
The stream is very comfy, but it's also buffering a lot. I know it's not a problem on my end because other streams are fine

>>151944974
>Why should I pay taxes
Take that up with your government. Or maybe ask >>>/biz/.

>>151944841
I think Twitch is choking out your stream.

>>151944580
I'd think that pressing the same button to pick up and throw the thing would be more intuitive.

>>151925802
HELLO /agdg/


I'm a modder that has worked on mods for Morrowind, RTW1 and M&B classic/warband/f&s, I still consider myself a novice. I have been itching lately to start a pet project of mine, or that is to say flesh out the possibilities.

I was wondering if any of you had experience with the Real Virtuality 4 engine. The engine's ability to render enormous worlds and the avid modding community coupled with guides and tutorials makes it very attractive, however I'm concerned with the engines limited NPC performance. You see, I'm trying to make a Fallout style RPG, but on a huge 300 sq mile map that neither Gamebryo nor CE can handle but that RV4 seems to have no problem with.

I'd like to know if any of you can answer a few questions, namely, what restrictions there are for NPC placement and dialogue.

>>151945112
my shit internet or yours? because I know mine is garbage.

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>>151944974
are you also mad because you can't have your 9 year old sex slave heroin dealer daughters make your game for you?

>>151945430
No one (who posts) uses it. Our engine """knowledge""" is :
Unreal 4
Unity
Game Maker

use one of those and scope down

>>151945430
>Real Virtuality 4 engine
Isn't that the Arma engine? I think DayZ uses it too and people have been bitching about how shitty everything is since forever.

>>151944974
Sell it somewhere where they don't require you to pay taxes on it?

>>151944841
video wont load, seems like it's only "source" quality (which is the highest possible). I don't know if you can choose qualities, but high should work better for more people.

>>151944974
Dude, seriously. You can fuck over your artist, you can steal music from random SoundCloud accounts, but never fuck with whichever institution is responsible for taxing in your country. Because an indie artist might not have the power the sue the shit out of you, but the office will show you ways of raping you couldn't even imagine before.

>>151945768
>I think DayZ uses it
Didn't they use Arma2? (so the previous iteration)

>>151945802
shit, idk how to change it. I cant find any option for it

Why does gamemaker look like it's a software from 1999?

>>151945512
mine (probably)

>>151946237
because apparently people want to feel like 1337 h4x0r5 while devving

>>151946237
its probably that old.

>>151946237
because it is and they havent updated the UI since forever.

>>151945852
But he is an intellectual who makes his own rules and doesn't need anybody, pssht, kiddo,

dont read this

>>151945889
Yeah, I just looked it up, it did use the previous engine.

>>151944137
please advise. I'm just to trying to gradually increase the saturation of a sprite for a second.

How do I make or define shader constants in a way that I can get and set their uniform handles?

>>151946237
if it aint broke don't fix it

>>151944974
You only need to never make any profit wink wink ;^)

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New animations for grappling hook thing (added frames for when player is launched, still need to edit the "swing" animations)

Added blocks you can push (works on slopes and so on) and animation for pushing.

Added some dust when landing and sliding.

I'll edit the current caster to cast bigger bolt and make it slightly slower so it's easier to see.

Sorry for posting same areas over and over again but I haven't made progress on making actual levels.

>>151945768
The main problem that game has always had is hackers spawning cows, helicopters, jets, tanks, and fucking non-hackers over.

>>151946526
What's your game about, beyond just faster Igavania?

>>151946526
> he has a trench coat so you know he's cool

did you know that people in favelas don't pay taxes but then cry about the govt not helping them

>>151946852
METROIDVANIAMETROIDVANIAMETROIDVANIAMETROIDVANIA

>>151946889
I did know that

>>151946912
You don't have to yell

>>151946889
This is how it always works.

>Poor people don't pay taxes and get the most benefits from government
>Constantly cry about government keeping them down

>>151946526
Why is your game the only one that looks good?

>>151946889
you can't go on disability if you haven't payed taxes. Probably messes up your retirement too. I know a guy who worked under the table most of his life.

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Decided on the format:

Playthrough is n levels/floors. Level is n rooms. rooms are 80% preset parts of the dungeon explored individually. Pic is a single level mockup. Should have the transition between rooms done by today.

>>151947159
he is still working. poor guy.

>>151930926

I have EXACTLY what you need. Even the same animation and all.

https://youtu.be/aiBy4ycqnzY?t=5m1s

>>151946861
cooler than nodevs at least

>>151946526
i think it would be cooler if the grappling hook itself was a chain. like links grapple mechanic in SSB1.

>>151945650
>scope down
If I scope down I'm better off modding Creation Engine to better suit sneaking and stealth, and that's not even considering the fact that I don't want to scope down.

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>>151929559
whoa my game is there.
So i just came back to dev after working on a a fun side project, installed the new unity version and a bunch of my old projects don't import and convert properly, but this one did.

How's Unity for splitscreen multiplayer?

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~~=Early Morning Recap=~~
>>When Did CSS Get Variables!? Edition
We have a total of 37 games, 16 games have returned from previous recaps! All this progress is great! Looking forward to playing these during Demo Day 10, unless you plan on not submitting and being a disappointment to dad. Read >>151879275 if you want to make it in this week's recap!

~~=High Scores=~~
(8) Vampire's Bit
(8) Unnamed Pixel Platformer
(6) Ordinary Platformer Life
(6) Ctesiphon
(5) Knightly Terrors
(5) Clarent
(4) Monolith
(3) Charlotte's Dream
(3) Bloodline of Heroes
(2) Spin/Flip
(2) Skylarks
(2) RadMaze
(2) Moth
(2) Maid Game
(2) Giant Knight
(12) TacticalRPG

(Score is calculated by number of recaps in a row)

~~=Feedback=~~
Think I've missed your game? Notice the scraper has made an error? Ideas or comments? Reply to this and let me know! Include your game name if it's missing.

>>151938175
>>151939436

Shaun's tutorials are the best! specifically the ones where he teaches GMS to make a platformer are really good at equipping you with the most useful skills pretty painleslly. Just pause it and code along with him step by step.

>>151944580
Use the same button for picking up and throwing. Also moving+press is throw, only press while standing is put down. Make the button appear the first time you have to do this, or just in the first level, if you absolutely need to visualize it, you could just make the items you are able to pick up glow yellow when the character stands near them.

>>151946852
It's about doing edgy stuff in celtic setting.

>>151946861
It's supposed to be edgy.

>>151947119
It's not. I think lots of aggydaggy games looks good.

>>151947681
What do you mean by that? You can use the grappling hook to pull enemies towards yourself and also use it to send yourself towards walls.

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With the animation refactoring, multi-hits are now functioning better [and less of a pain to implement], so now some of the physical attacks will be less broken for MP regen. Also only upward physical attacks will cause hitstun now [if the enemy can be launched].

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>watching video
>scroll down
>gogem commented on it

How do I read a value from a shader in GML?

>>151948556
>read a value from a shader
This is most likely not what you want to do

>>151930721
out of the entire 3D workflow, rigging is what I avoid

that shit confuses the fuck out of me

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>>151935112
>>151935458
Alright so I've been doing some thinking on this, and I was thinking what might be neat for whips is that they're pretty low on the damage side, and don't have much of any knockback, so there's not much hope of staggering an enemy out of attacking, but they have the distinct advantage that, on the "attack" frame where the whip is fully extended, it will target the nearest enemy within a 30 degree cone or so. This would be incredibly useful with the pesky flying enemies that can be tough to hit out of the air with smaller swords or ranged attacks.

>>151930721
>not just separating the hands and attaching them in game so you can build a separate skeleton/animations for the hands only and avoid redoing everything

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>Tfw you finally find the resource you need for the missing step to piece together information you know

Feels good man

>>151947974
>2
>2
>12

>tfw your auto recap formats numbers as strings

Excuse me.

Can i really make a simple first person shooter with Play Maker in Unity and is it easier to learn than actual coding?

>>151949196
This

>>151949061
There are some decent web-based solutions from what I've heard. It used to confuse me too, but it's actually pretty simple. All you need to understand is a skeleton = the thing that's gonna be moving. It deforms the mesh based on the skin, from 0-1 based on the amount of 'skin weighting' per vertex (which can be painted onto your mesh).

>>151949061

Just use Rigify for blender and you can rig a character in 3 minutes.

>>151948221
This is going to be really fucking cool when you get all mechanics in and find some good artist.

Making art for that will be hell though considering how many moves you have.

>>151949792
>paying to be lazy
AHAHHAHAHA
just get UE4 and use blueprints if you want to do that

>>151948221

get you some nice crunchy sound effects and hitstop all up in that and you've got a really nice feeling game

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>>151944598
all shit graphics, but catchy aesthetics

I understand my mission now

A E S T H E T I C S

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How do I get my models clothing textures/textures in general looking high quality in Maya?

Looking like the clothes in MGSV, to make it easier