/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

first for waifus

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Guess I'll let the suckers who went to sleep already see this one in the morning.

>>152839340
third for rem

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>>152839209

Third for lewd haters BTFO

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Oh god I literally just did this.

End me now.

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reposting because i made no progress in 3 days and i'm a lazy fuck. i need to stop starting features i don't have the ability to flesh out or finish.

>>152839721
blog?

>>152839209
>>Chats
>https://discord.gg/chquY2e
>http://steamcommunity.com/groups/vgamedevcrew
>http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=vidyadev
>>Engines
>GameMaker: https://www.yoyogames.com/gamemaker
>Godot: https://www.godotengine.org/
>Haxe: http://haxeflixel.com/
>LÖVE: https://love2d.org/
>UE4: https://www.unrealengine.com/what-is-unreal-engine-4
>Unity: https://unity3d.com/
>> Models/art/textures/sprites
>http://opengameart.org/
>http://www.blender-models.com/
>http://www.mayang.com/textures/
>> Free audio
>https://machinimasound.com/
>http://freesound.org/browse/
>http://incompetech.com/music/
>http://freemusicarchive.org/

>>152839441
how much took to draw all that senpai?

>>152839441
>he likes plastic uncanny valley shit

>>152839342
this is the only game on AGDG i would pay actual money for, this looks like it plays tight as fuck and the amount of little details on everything is incredible.

>>152839721
This looks so fucking cool.

>>152839761
don't have one yet sorry. i'm going to have to sit down and make all this social media stuff one day. where do people typically do blogs?

>>>152839195
>Even AAA companies cheat and give enemies more resources because they can't make good enough AI.

That's not necessarily true, but the obvious solution to not being able to construct competitive AI is to not follow the genre trope of making the AI play with the same rules.

Instead of making the AI harvest resources and build units, give it the ability to deploy waves of enemies based on how many resource nodes it owns. When it loses a node, subtract a number of units from the wave or reduce the rate at which it can spawn waves.
Have the AI count the types of units it can see and if the player has 50% rocks and 50% paper, the next wave will be 50% scissors and 50% paper etc.

If you try to design an RTS for both multiplayer and single player, then yes AI will be hard as fuck. Which is why you don't do that.

>>152839342
is every single room going to be a square? would be good if there were larger and more interesting areas to explore

>>152839978
Usually RTS AI is actually just made by training a neural network.

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To PureGuy if he is in this thread.

I sent you an email m8, check your inbox.

>>152840027
A 1MA isn't going to be able to build a neural network by themselves, so it doesn't really matter how AAA construct their AI.

>>152839797

I'd say a day altogether for drawing and redrawing, a day altogether to get it moving in sync without clipping issues

>>152839835

Hell yeah

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Idea.

A an adventure and exploration game where your only item/weapon is a single flip top lighter. You can obvious things with it like light torches and lanterns for light in dark areas, or you can burn ropes and wooden obstructions, set traps by lighting candles and putting them near flammable objects that can catch, burn down whole buildings if you get desperate, or even cobble together makeshift flamethrowers using a can of hair spray or a water gun filled with flammable fluid.

>>152840024
There was a point where it was planned to support various room sizes but we decided it wasn't really worth the effort and that the very big rooms were generally the least fun in similar games.

tl;dr big rooms in isaac suck, we decided not to walk into the same problem

>>152840248
Yes you can. They are not that complicated. You probably don't know how they work judging from your comment.

For example somebody made one to learn to play Mario.

>>152840273
fair enough, I would have thought a larger area would make sense for a boss fight. and it would help just to break up the monotony a bit every now and then.

>>152840389
>For example somebody made one to learn to play Mario.

I take it you don't understand how complex RTS games are.

>>152840263
Looking forward to popping

>>152840269
if i can cobble together hairspray flamethrowers, why wouldn't i just stick some rocks and sticks together and make a bludgeon to beat things to death instead of using nonrenewable, unpredictable fire

>>152839387
emt

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I think this is just practice

not sure where I'm going with this

>>152840690
Why is it so floaty and slow

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nothing i do matters, all my efforts are in vain, my thoughts are meaningless and shitposting is just a way to spend the days away

>>152840414
Depending on how things go there may be a surprise or two in store :)

just breathe

>>152840739
The boobs are obviously flotation balloons.

>>152840690
I dunno where you're going, but I like it and I'll meet you there.

>>152840614
Because fire is more fun.

>>152839859
All of those things are probably definitely true!

>>152839209
no progress today because i went on a date with a girl and our hands touched :)

>>152840690
Did you buy those bub physics on the unity market?

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>>152839706
It happens to all of us.

>>152841097
At least my shitty excuses for nodeving aren't lies.

>>152840498
Again, I don't think you know how a neural network works.

The entire point is it doesn't matter how complicated the problem is, you just need time to solve it. Computer time, not programmer time.

>>152841210
not a lie tho :/

>>152841184
>>152839706
How do I stop this from happening every single day

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What's the best way to have part of a model be a soft body in Unity?
I've been using Unity for a long time and I want to make some VR porn because there is almost NONE for the vive that's any good, but I have 0 experience with organic stuff beyond motion capture

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>>152841270
I don't know, man. If you find out, tell me.

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gotcha!... ready for Ludum Dare anon??

>>152841270
Two things I do:
1. Wake up early and go to bed early. I'm serious, something about it makes you crazy productive.
2. Have a laptop and dev in a coffee shop. I am more productive in public than at home and I've had a couple of people ask about what I'm doing, so that covers social interaction, too.

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>>152841184
>>152839706
Become an enginedev or write some tools to help you make your game

You get to spend hours every day working on your game and still feel like you're making zero progress

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>>152841270
Alcohol

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>>152841424

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>>152841270
I need help

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>>152841424
>that armpit

>>152841424
Is that an underage boy?

>>152841270
Caffeine abuse is real

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How do you update animations in UE4?

I've moved the arm rotation of character but it's not changing it, it shows it is different in the Animation of the skeleton, however when I actually play it's the same as before.

ideas?

>>152841427
>I am more productive in public than at home
I'm actually the opposite. I don't mind talking to people, but I absolutely can't focus if someone is potentially looking over my shoulder. As an aside, I think my new workplace is open-plan, which means I'm probably fucked.

>>152841424

I need an adult

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Been working on making the combat more fluid, made the particles a bit juicier and sorted out some loot drops (2 items!!!). Now for the fun part of actually making enemies.

yes but the chance of it actually happening is really small

>>152842050
nice progress

Can you use a kinect for animation instead of doing it manually?

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I figured out why my level is broke, it came down to how I exported it. See, what I did was export every single face, but the way things work in GTK Radiant is you drag out cubes and cut them up and each time you divide something, new faces are made to fill the space.

So, when I went to export the brushes, everywhere that the different shapes intercepted had its own face, sharing a face with another object.

What I can do instead is first give everything texture A, then select every outward facing face and give it a texture B, then export and ignore faces with texture A so only the visible faces are exported.

This makes me feel so much better. ;_;

>>152842124
The fuck is this? Autocad?

>>152841424
LEWD!!!

>>152842075
whats that, finishing your game?

>>152842118
Anon posted a webm of doing that a year or so ago, but they got outed as a grill and the thread went to shit, so they didnt teach us how to

>>152842228
Brilliant.

>>152842151
It's Blendyourmom

>>152842256
What is it, meme faggot?

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>>152842050

did you use substance painter?

is it even possible to make money off of banner ads
i still don't understand who the people are who click on banners

>>152842151
GTK Radiant. It's an old map maker for Quake 3 and other games of that era, there's modern equivalents but I'm not familiar enough with those to feel comfortable. I might give them a try, though.

>>152842228
>>152842251
A different anon has been posting the last few days with some webms of his animation from Kinect 2. It looks incredibly high quality and I'm considering getting one myself.

As for his workflow, he said it was record>Brecker Pro body to BVH>Blender or something like that. For retargeting BVH animations with Blender in general I've found that MakeHuman skeletons work perfectly.

>tfw just want to create and implement small, neat features and systems (reverse gravity, swinging mechanics, dynamic weather system, etc.) but don't want to actually make and finish a game
>but I need money so I can quit my job

Life is pain.

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>>152842475
wait senpai
i could have just google the question lmao

>>152842475
Ad clicks are the great lie of our generation.

Luckily, we're on the right side of the fence. It's the people paying for ads who really get the raw end of the deal.

That said, you're better of baiting white whales (the errant user willing to spend literally thousands on a single game) than you are trying to get blood from a stone. Most users will stop playing your game the second they're required to put out a penny.

Either that or release on PC where the market hasn't been fucked by underballing.

>>152842475
Same people who respond to deposed Nigerian princes and who believe the spambots who call to say you've won a free cruise to the Bahamas

>>152842658
*lowballing
Oops.

>>152842101
Thank you kindly

>>152842435
Substance Designer for most of the environment and weapon stuff, Photoshop and the UE4 material editor for the rest. I haven't spent much time in Substance Painter yet. Most of the texturing/materials/environment in general were pretty rushed so I need to go back and redo them at some point, the bricks on the wall even run different ways.

>>152842124
>and each time you divide something, new faces are made to fill the space.
I didn't know shit about it back when I used Q3Radiant and GTKRadiant, but I presume it's a fancy BSP editor. If you're unfamiliar, look that up and gain some appreciation for the weirdness.

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>>152842608
addendum

>>152842475
Honestly you get more bang for your buck if people DON'T click your ads.

The absolute main principle of marketing is getting your product known. Just by having people see your banner, even if they don't click on it, can already be considered a huge success from a marketing perspective.

And if you use a system like the 4chan one where your banner is up for 1000 clicks and nobody clicks on it, that means more people are gonna see your product since it won't be taken down anytime soon.

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>>152841361
Anons pls
Softbody physics are a thing in all modern games, surely somebody knows how to hack it

>>152842959
>one strategy is the best strategy because rationalization
Obviously you can't apply the same scheme to all products.

>>152842843
100% of mine. Which has risen drastically since I've been using mobile games to procrastinate more. Full-screen ads that pop up while you're attempting to use the UI are the source of most of mine. It's frustrating because I consider myself relatively careful and precise.

>>152842959
More people are going to see it and maybe buy it later but 0 are going to buy it now
Ads only show a ~3% increase in non-passthrough visits if I remember correctly. MOST sales rely on them clicking it.

>>152843043
>Obviously you can't apply the same scheme to all products.

True I guess. Right now I was mostly talking about video games, since that's what this thread is supposed to be about.

>>152842608
>Ages 55+ are most likely to click
lol

>>152842608
>Facebook IPO
not sure how current this is

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>>152839721
IT'S JUST YOU AND ME JACK

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I give up

>>152843450
Several links in the bottom with /2011/ in the url

>>152842658
I read Steam games have an average of 33,000 sales. At a price point of $4.99/9.99 even a fraction of that would be pretty good right? Even after Steam's cut. That is if you can make a game with the right appeal

>>152843612
Tune this up a little and I think you've got the next Toribash on your hands.

>>152843756
Depends on if that number takes into account things like cs:go and gtaV, 'cause even just those two would massively skew that statistic.

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I will post my game in 31 days!

>>152843220
But it's common for ads to only have a 1% conversion rate or less, so a 3% boost in pseudo-organic traffic is pretty good.

>>152840690
>>152840739
This. Punch it up. Klonoa gives a better example for speed.

>>152843756
Take a look at this list. Your game will likely be on the bottom 1/2.
http://homph.com/steam/

Now divide players number by 2 (Steam Spy way over guesses).

Then remove 30%, then remove taxes, then remove whatever fees you pay for while making the game.

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My friend asked me to make him a pixel art cute anime girl without references, so I did this in 15ish minutes with no pixel art experience aside from bullshitting in paint as a teenager.

thoughts?

>>152843450
it's from 2011

here's my conclusion from reading about banners since i posted that picture:

banner ads are fucking garbage

instead of displaying a useless banner, i'm gonna look for a different approach where i'll reward players with some random shit if they watch a video. that worked very well for some recent games and it's actually less intrusive than displaying a stupid banner.

good talking to you agdg

>>152844102
>without references

Why?

>>152844102
There's just a pixel girl, there's nothing anime about it

>>152844102
>Update
The proportions demand a neck, but there is no neck. Even at this resolution, you have to consider proportion - look at how short her arms are, then look at how high up on her face her eyes are.

It's not horrible by any means, a good first attempt, but learn a bit about shading and keep at it.

>>152844102
alien pretending to be a cashier at the super market

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>>152844102
Welcome to the world of pixel art
Get out before it's too late

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>>152844102
fuck that's the version where her arm is too far to the left

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>>152844102
Way too generic.
Make her a cute robot.

>>152844130
I'm bad at not relying on references, I always end up copying to a degree that I don't learn any of the nuances. I think it's better to draw, sleep on it, come back and then the flaws become clearer.

>>152844196
ayy

>>152844181
Thanks!

>>152844221
You're right she's too generic I should've given her a schoolgirl outfit and big ol moe blob eyes

>>152843935
So 10,000 sales*$8 average sale price for instance, -30% from Steam, -5% from Epic and an allowance of $2000 for subscription software is $50,000 USD. Let's say the sales are over 24 months. In Aus the tax-free threshold is $18,200/year so there wouldn't be much tax to pay, and being a 1MA there aren't too many overheads except for time. I'd be quite content if I could spend a year+ making a game that made that much.

So, a low fantasy setting in a might and magic type academy, a new student graduates into the world where fighting is pretty obsolete and only some people still go to learn how to slash/burn things just for fun to go to the futuristic simulation dungeons to have fun (satire of videogames).
Standard DnD class system upon start - split battle skill/ability system and gameplay divided into TBS and side-scroller beat em' up a' la densetsu series.
You earn skills to use in TBS sections by doing beat em' up stages and get abilities(jump, dash, different attacks) for beat em' up stages by doing TBS parts.

After the prologue where you have fun with your friends/classmates in the arcade and get to the tutorial boss, the setting shifts into sci fi as you find out a govermental ploy matrix style that the arcades and the world are controlled by the higher ups as you witness a glitch in the system.

You're the only one who notices it and you delve into a paranoid stage where you try to either skip the game parts by shutting yourself in your home or still playing being afraind that they will find out and go for you.

Eventually you realize that you need to do something and acquire new comrades in the gameplay stages all the while grinding to a higher level.
When you form something akin to a guild you decide to tell them about it and with some time they agree to help.

You start to gather your own army of people who learned how to fight instead of living in their modern society forgetting their roots. And find out more about how Goverment was afraid that people would turn against them if they could still use their past-days magic and might knowledge that's why they brainwashed everyone into abandoning it and shamed it.

Midway through the gameplay adds a new Langrisser like massive battles into the mix.

In the end everything was a simulation to test how this revolution would go, everyones memories is erased and you start a NG+ in the first level of dungeon again.

Yay/nay?

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>>152844524
Considering the designs in most pixel art games that would actually be way less generic.
If you're making an anime though then sure go right ahead and keep your current design.

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For those who wanted the video

>>152762856

Branching Paths Playism 1080p

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:de1fd4b56b622813900ce072527ad9e3e7c4c6ed

>>152844979
Does it mention Pixel and Cave Story at all?

>>152844651
I'm not reading all this shit, idea guy

>>152844979
This looks hipster as shit.

>>152845048
It's a game about me banging your mom every night

>>152844979
>A journey through Japan's indie game scene

>Guys look like white hipsters instead of Japanese otakus

>>152845191
Just wanted to share, took me 20 minutes to find this magnet.. I take a look and report about the content in an hour

>>152844651

nay.

what kind of game can I feasibly make if I'm good at art but only just learning to code? besides walking sim

My idea was a JRPG called "Captains Log", a Star-Trek inspired game where you build a team of people to explore planets and complete missions, where your party construction depending on the environment and situation can lead to bonuses and better endings for each chapter.

For example, packing a scout, medical officer, and biologist in a forest setting has your Scout find an unconscious local, your medical officer find that she's poisoned, and the biologist isolate the poison and find a nearby herb that cures it. (A less proper party construction, such as packing a Security Officer or Anthropologist might have a more tedious or less positive outcome)

It would also have fun justifying some tropes such as arbitrary party size (Only 4 transporter spots, and they want to be able to perform an evac in one go).

Tons of exotic exploration, fun sci-fi banter, and a few overarcing stories with everything fun about JRPGs in a futuristic setting.

And Reed Short, a generic trooper who, like Onion Knight, has shit stats until the very highest levels.

>>152845458
A point and click

>>152845458
the nodev game

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thinking about...
leaving......
how i should say....
good. bye..

>>152844651
>>152845490
>>>/v/

>>152844651
Post your game instead of all this text, nodev

>>152845490

too big for an indie game

>>152845490
you are only posting the theme, background and environment. Where's the gameplay?

>>152845836
Kawaii/10

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>>152845836

>>152845527
By making a good game instead of whatever that shit is.

>>152844651
>>152845490

Can't read this stupid shit. >>>/v/ is that way

>>152845740
It's a JRPG with an emphasis on exploration. You captain a starship, traveling from planet to planet with each place having a unique story and evironment with an episodic feel, though an overarcing plot would also exist. It would have more emphasis on exploration, rather than combat, so it's more like Star Trek than Mass Effect.

As the Captain, you are tasked with building the best group to explore an environment or handle a situation. Gameplay is otherwise pretty straightforward for a JRPG, with turn-based combat and exploration. Different crewmates have different abilities whose usefulness becomes apparent depending on the environment.

>>152845458
Any.
Just use a premade engine instead of making your own like an idiot.

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>>152845527
drink some bepis that'll get the dev juices flowing

>>152846268
>It's jrpg.
Nope, i still don't get it. Where's the fucking gameplay? is it turn based? Is it in 3d? Is it like the new ff with action turn based shit or whatever they call it?

Now fuck off to /v/

>>152846268
kill yourself

>>152846410
You first.

>>152846268
>It's a JRPG
>The creator isn't from Japan
>Doesn't live in Japan
No it isn't.

>>152846390
>is it turn based?

>>152846268
>turn-based combat and exploration

2d. Hell, I could probably make in RPG Maker.

Who let the idea guys in

>>152846575
steamchat

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A game in which you have an all out death match in a relatively large apartment with Molyneux. But it turns out you two were friends and you do this all the time.

>>152846693
>Sean Murray and Peter throwing lies at each other, turns out they are cousins

>>152846941
It was a dream I had.

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anyone up for a beta test of a combat engine?

i have no idea if it should be turn based or real time so i've added a shitty stamina bar for now.
if possible post screenshots in fullscreen so i can see how the resolution works out for the majority.

arrows to move the cursor
z and x are action buttons
crouch then shoot to reload (it's wonky but it's gonna be fixed at a later date)
P changes the encounter
enter changes weapons (goes from 0-6)

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/k7t0d6ghainwlvw/AAD7AgwwtQrsG89QlNgV0r2aa?dl=0

>>152847028
Aiming close up or the the player's left feels suuuper weird

>>152847028
just make it turn based

>>152847028
Make Wild guns instead

>>152847235
that sucks, i was thinking that i should reposition the enemies to be more far-off to un-fuck the perspective

>>152847405
>>152847430

i might try to do both at the same time?

>>152847743
I really wouldn't.
Just from the picture I can tell it has no place being real time.

>Mothdev shilling his non game on /v/
wew

>>152847028
I missed you, anon, where have you been?

>>152848168
Where?
I don't seen the usual "how's the game coming along" thread

>>152848496
>>>/v/349587709

when are we gonna see the moth girl's ass, mothdev.

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>>152848554
his name is weaver and he's never going to finish it

>>152848703
>says the dogposter
the irony

>>152848703

I'm sticking with addressing him as Mothdev.

and yeah, I figured

>>152848703
eat the moth! eat the moth!

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A funny horror game

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>>152848364
here and there, started working on the game again, here are some guns i made in the meantime

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>>152849125
yeah its called spookys horror house or some shit

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>>152849125
A scary comedy game.

In the last thread, someone mentioned they have a game out on the Google Play store. I was just wondering, how long does it take to see revenue from that? Is there a hold period, do they keep it until you pass a threshold, or does it pay out your cut every time someone buys it?

>>152849125
>>152849329
A comical spook game?

>>152840690
This need to speed up a little. And the boobs aren't supposed to be made out of helium

>>152841424
I'm ready, but I bet my game will be shitty

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>>152841270
Pic related

>>152841424
I tend to fall more easily into a crush when I can't tell easily if it's a boy or a girl, and I need to know who's that.

Ho and no, not ready at all

>>152841659
Have a strict schedule, and force yourself to respect it. At first it won't work, but that'll get better over time.
The more you force you to achieve, the more easily you'll achieve.

>>152849329
RPG satire featuring only placeholder art.

POST PROGRESS
please

>>152850458
>progress
lol what are you, a fag?

>>152850549
No, I'm a nodev

i think i found a way to inject code into the brain by lerping between colors
you should make a game about that

>>152850793
lerp is such a stupid word

it sounds like derp and slurp and larp

0 use SDL
1 use GLFW
2 use SFML
3 use Allegro
4 use Ogre
5 use Unity
6 use UE4
7 use Source
8 use Goldsrc
9 use Godot

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learning female anatomy %%by MMD R18%%

>>152851224

what the fuck is ogre

>>152851651
open source renderer for 3d

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waifu added a feature to her game as per my request

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>>152850458
here you go

>>152851764
Thats pretty cool, must have been difficult when its spread over two different models

>>152851224
roll

>>152843612
nice thumbnail

you're a salty little bitch

If I want to make an object that spirals into another object GML, I should be using a constantly increasing or decreasing lengthdir, right?

>>152852334
lengthdir is read only
you're going to have to make it move yourself

>>152852334
Easy way might be just have it orbit, but at a steadily decreasing distance

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Good night /agdg/

>>152844651
Nay

I can't even figure out what the actual gameplay would be but I can't see it being fun nor really fitting the story concept. It's like the story isn't driving the gameplay, the gameplay is tacked on to the story. Scrap and revise.

>>152849125
>>152849329
Grim Fandango already exists.

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This is probably pointless, but I just wanted to really thank you agdg people for helping me out with my silly questions yesterday. Whoever told me about Twinery basically gave me the exact tool I needed to approach my game development dream. I can finally write out the "proof of concept" storyboard/interactive novel to see if I have it in me or if I shall be eternal nodev shitter. Thanks guys, I would of never found that shit without y'all, and it's absolutely perfect for what I need.

>>152854446
it wellcome. i cant wait to tell you how much your game suck.

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Alright Doot Anon, gimme your address so I can come over and shit on your doorstop.

>Learning about Voxels
This is dark magic

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>>152854625
Only if I get to rate your spelling afterwards

>>152854726
I'm always watching you lil fuck

Is that some fresh progress?

>>152854939

Yes, subweapon ammunition now replenishes after a set delay once you run out. You'll be able to get extra ammo from picking up duplicate subweapons and other sources, but this is mainly to encourage players to use their damn sword without completely restricting subweapons.

>>152855014
I like it

I can't get unreal blueprints to function in ways I expect them to

Should I go GameMaker or RPGMaker tbqh?

>>152855340
What you need? I'm a blueprint wizard

>>152855340
What are you trying to achieve and do you mix with C++ or just use the presets?

>>152855340
You should go Godot

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>>152855385

Well, for example, how would you get an inventory system to work without errors?

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Posting again before I make my choice
>small metroidvania with lewd costumes that give you different abilities
>super small fighting game with skimpy outfits and clothing damage
I want to make one for lewd jam and the other for halloween jam, which one should I do first?

http://www.strawpoll.me/11075640
http://www.strawpoll.me/11075640
http://www.strawpoll.me/11075640
http://www.strawpoll.me/11075640

>>152855853
There's a lewd jam?

>>152855853
I don't care which one you make first, but make this one
>small metroidvania with lewd costumes that give you different abilities
better. Idea is GOAT

>>152855604
With a shitload of work. Widgets and complex menus in it are a fucking pain and it's going to take a while. I'd try to keep it as simple as possible.

Cast to masteritem? You can store such variables in the playercontroller for instance, or the player pawn, or the gamestate

Still plenty doable though. What are you trying to do and what isn't working?

>>152844979
let's see if I can finally download this shit

>>152855853
Metroidvania. Lewd fightining games are overdone.

>>152844979
>Subtitle file is some vtt shit that my MPC can't see

?!?!?!?

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>>152856052
When I pickup an item, I add it to my inventory and destroy the one in the world. To get information from it I need to cast to it. For some reason, a lot of circumstances cause the game to look at the thing in the inventory array at a certain index and then reference the thing that was in the world and got destroyed instead of the thing that's in the inventory, and it gives an error because the thing is supposed to be gone, but only some things do this, and I can't understand why it behaves this way only in some circumstances and not in others.

Meanwhile, the inventory tutorial UMG tutorial starter thing made by Unreal circumvents this problem by not actually destroying the object in the world, just hiding it. Which seems like a really bad way of handling it.

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Making some more ordnance.

>>152856052
Looks like he's working on stacking items in one inventory slot. For a lot of pending kill stuff it comes down to setting variables throughout the execution chain and checking them just before the kill usually.

Btw can anyone tell me how much of a game I need to have to submit to demo day? At the moment my prediction is that I will have about 5 minutes of gameplay and -maybe- placeholder sounds. Is that gonna be good enough?

>>152839441
I could fap to that

>>152856395
>I add it to my inventory and destroy the one in the world

This is why you need OOP.

>>152856471
>At the moment my prediction is that I will have about 5 minutes of gameplay and -maybe- placeholder sounds. Is that gonna be good enough?

Yes.

>>152856395
Band-aid fix : Hide the object and set its lifespan to 3 seconds instead of destroying it.
In the 3 seconds it'll finish getting picked up and then destroy and clean itself automatically.

Long methods:
- Use interfaces, which allows you to get info out of an actor directly, circumventing the need to cast it into other objects.
- Have an "world items manager"

>>152856665

>- Have an "world items manager"

If you have a link about this I'd love to read more info

>>152839721
Do you still have the midget on ball?

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>>152856395
I'd condense that blueprint a bit just in case of errors. I've had some bullshit with array indexes before

>a lot of circumstances cause the game to look at the thing in the inventory array at a certain index and then reference the thing that was in the world and got destroyed instead of the thing that's in the inventory
I'm thinking you're referencing a specific instance of an object (ie. SwordBlueprint_25) and sometimes those match up and sometimes they don't or something

But it's hard to guess without the full picture

You call the master class, ask it about it's class (master class), you get the defaults of master class. Doesn't that make the 'Item to Condense' always the default? Then you get the default item count, and you add the default count to the default count, meaning you always end up with the default count added to the default count, so the actual count never changes.

You also get the class of the object, and set that to the item to add, but that isn't really used again so it's the only thing that actually changes every time that function is called but it isn't actually used for anything

>>152856949
Perhaps use a list with all items that exist in the world.

A physical item in the world would just be a game object that points to the item in this List. If you pick it up you add a reference to the world item list to your player inventory list, the actual meshed object would only ever serve as a pointer back to the "real" object in the global item list.

So
>mob dies, drops item.
>item is added to globalItemList
>item in globalitemlist is told to spawn a loot bag at position x,y,z where monster died
>picking up a loot bag to slot 4 in the inventoryList takes the reference to the item in globalItemList, adds it to inventoryList and then calls the item to destroy the lootbag.
>the original item never moved from its invisible origin in globalItemList

>>152839441
I have fapped to this

>>152856208
Lewd sidescrollers are overdone

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Arikado (Clarentdev) is ill. If anyone wants to make him a get well soon card or something I will make sure he sees it.

In the meantime here's one of many early WIP tracks. https://clyp.it/wcfdfj00

>>152839950
tumblr, twitter. You can link your tumblr to twitter so you only need to post at one place.

>>152858318
working on something for him

>>152858318
>Arikado (Clarentdev) is ill
Like dying of cancer ill?

>>152841424
why is that image making me feel all warm inside?

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Indexing Tris randomly created tris. Anyone got a pointer towards a tutorial for that?

>>152858795
Because it's the closest you've ever got to having a cute look you in the eyes.

I think ill do a placeholder only lewd game a la placeholder title

>Ludum Dare themes are almost all shallow gameplay gimmicks, aesthetic bullshit, absurdly specific story ideas, or old theme copycats, when they are themes at all
>Ratings are gone
>Feedback Friends is probably going to generate a lot of shallow and vapid "Looks nice! (Now pls check out my game)" type comments

Anybody thinks this one is going to be worth it?

>>152859000
It's not placeholders if you don't intend to change it.

So just find some lewd cute art from some artist o other game.

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and now I have a HUD element showing you gotta wait before you can throw more subweapons.

>>152859065
You should do the jams for yourself as a mini portofolio and creative exercise.

If you want to get patted on your back then just make something ultra generic with everything foused on the art with cutes and tits on the splash screen and thumbnails.

>>152859295
the hourglass looks complete separate from the subweapon at first sight, why not just overlay it on top of the weapon?

or if you can't do transparency, use a dither pattern

>>152859456

I don't want to put it over the subweapon, the icon changes when you power your sword up to indicate you can use a unique attack, which works independent of subweapon ammo.

Do you think a Hearthstone-style CCG could work as a near-perfect information game if the branching factor was big enough? e.g. Each player has a hand of 9 cards arranged in 3 rows. Each player can see the other player's hand. Playing a card in a given row discards the rest of the cards in that row. A new row is drawn for each discarded row at the end of the turn. If a player didn't play anything in a given turn they can still discard a row of their choice. Mana is carried over from turn to turn.

Chess has a branching factor of 32. Is there any reason this type of game just wouldn't work with a similar or higher branching factor?

>>152859323
If I was looking for meaningless approval I'd have fucked off to /r/gamedev a long time ago.

But you're right, it's not really a good idea to look to LD for constructive criticism. I've considered doing a 48h game on my own schedule later. I think I'll settle for that.

>>152859614
see: worker placement boardgames with no hidden information

>>152859089
Thats not fun

>>152859456
Alternative, fill the ammo counter with yellow behind the text then 'empty' it out as the cooldown

It's completely fine as is though, player would figure it out quickly

Or do both

>>152859000
Oh look
Trips

>>152859702
That's an apt comparison.

>>152859660
>it's not really a good idea to look to LD for constructive criticism.

I have got quite good feedback previously, particularly regarding unclear gameplay instructions or controls, bugs and excessive difficulty/lack of hints. It makes you aware of fundamental problems that people get stuck on yet is extremely hard to discover by playtesting yourself. That have been immensely helpful in keeping the scope of gameplay complexity in check.

If your game is a basic and linear platformer and you expect an in depth review of the art and story then well, no.

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What am I doing wrong here? The array has 1024 entries but this spawns only one of the selected actors.

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>>152858318
>>152858642
Done. Hope I don't kill him with this.

>>152860174
>array index == 1

why do you think?

>>152860174
>if array index is 1 then spawn an actor
And it won't spawn any more after that

>>152860174
I'm a moron that's what I'm doing wrong. Put Index into the branch -.-

>>152860276
>>152860278
Sometimes I just feel like a complete retard. This is one of those times. I hate that feeling when the obvious escapes you for so long and you just wasted time checking everything but the right place.

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>Fernbus simulator currently outselling No Man's Sky on Steam
What area still needs a serious simulator?

>>152860620
Sooner or later you get used to occam

>>152860250
You are a very kind person.

>>152860848
Thank you
>>152860838
Sewage treatment simulator

Tunnel building simulator

Balkan politics simulator

>>152860250
Brilliant

>>152861139
>Sewage treatment simulator
>Balkan politics simulator
I got you senpai
http://store.steampowered.com/app/448370/

>>152858318
As my greatest competitor, I hope he kicks the bucket.
But I also hope it's painless.

>>152861370
You already lost the competition.

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I'm trying to add specular to my custom shader.
Anyone have some info about specular formulas (phong, blin phong, etc)?
I'm currently using this from Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinn%E2%80%93Phong_shading_model

>>152861334
kek
Balkan is more than just Serbia though.

>>152861370
Are you making a metroidvania?

>>152861334
psychiatric simulator, something like hospital tycoon, the original. That was a pretty good game.
'
your welcome.

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>you must have all these skills
>but we want you to work for free

nodevs I swear


>>152861334
nurse simulator. deal with crying children, cleaning up shit and dispensing pills while everyone else in the hospital disrespects and insults you.

>>152861139
I work sewage treatment. Its no game.

>>152861431
M7+1 stop wasting time and just look up gpu gems already

>>152862212
Never in my life would I volunteer my time to someone who can't even fuckin' proofread. baka rn senpai

>>152862212
arr, me wants a cut of the booty.

>>152862212
>It's not even a fixed percentage, they'll decide how much they give you based on how much of your work they accepted and refused

This isn't a fishy or shady deal. This is a plain fucking retarded con attempt.

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>IsLeftShiftDown
>function requires input event
>recognizes no form of input event

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>>152862212
That piece of text is retarded enough as it is, but how does one sign a contract online?

>>152862257
Neither is farming, driving a bus, being an EMT, a Surgeon or a soldier, but you can make it a game.

>>152862685
eh

>>152862702
Echosign

remember restriction causes game play fellas.

>>152862212
Sounds promising when you can already taste the abuse in the advertisement. I bet the idea guy will be the one responsible in calculating the percentages.

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>be 1MA master race
>learned how to art by myself and have CS degree
>arguing with programmer about something art related
>show him drawings to illustrate my point better
>"lol enjoy ur mcdonalds job with that useless art degree faggot"
>show him that I can also code
>silence

>arguing with artist about something technical related
>start telling him about certain formulas and programming concepts
>"lol ur just a useless code-monkey"
>show him that I can also draw
>silence

Feels fantastic man.

Still no game because I can never get past the last 10% of development and also have no idea where I would even start with sound effects.

>>152862885
Explain No Man's Sky then

>>152862802
Interesting, are there other alternatives, how does it work? Do you lay out all the terms yourself or are there "presets" or help?

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>>152863049

There were no restrictions. Hence why there's no gameplay

>>152863037
The last 10% is the hardest part. For sounds you just need to find a sound bro or hack something together yourself or use free sounds.

>>152863037
And then you woke up.

>>152863049
you mean, why it's not much of a game?

>>152863049
It tried unrestricted gameplay and managed to fail at everything it attempted instead.

Predictably. Elite dangerous should've been a lesson to not buy into the hype.

Sure you can have a galaxy full of planets, but no you cannot populate it in a manner that gives deep and meaningful gameplay in any normal development timeline.

>>152863120
There are, but I forget their names. Generally, it's playing on the fact that a fax is legally binding but an Email isn't in all countries, so it uses a faxing framework as far as I understand.

eachosign has some tools for signing and reading, but in general you set up the contract yourself as a PDF. Templates for those have existed on the web forever.

>>152863037
>feels fantastic being mediocre at two things and not being able to finish anything

>>152863316
procedural generation is a tool. not a game.

>>152863389
Thank you, that's very useful.

>>152863397
Hey now Pixel finished Cave Story in 5 years, I can afford to take it easy when I have to do literally everything for my game.

>>152863335
>normies are too retarded to realize that a game can't be an infinite do-everything supergame
We don't deserve Nintendo

They made a procedural game with very little asset variation except for Flora and Fauna. Flora and Fauna however they did not add logical restrictions to the results so you get watermelon Trex.

>>152863571
They also forgot to add fun gameplay

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>>152863556
>tfw you understand scope

>>152863613
That too, yeah. Seriously, restricting the scope of the game for more variation is the way to go when you only have a small team. Gameplay always comes before scope, which is why Fable turned out to still be a good game even though it didn't deliver on it's promises.

>>152863443
not played it, because 60$. But uh if it allowed populating planets with lifeforms, and building, mining. It might be ok. couple mini games maybe.

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>>152863643

Feels good.

going to tim hortons

anyone want anything?

Have you guys seen this? http://youtu.be/yINb5Huh0C4

It's great. I also recommens the other post-mortems, but this one is the most interesting so far (alongside Yar's Revenge)

>>152863969
That's a breakfast thing, right? Do they sell waffles?

>>152863787
I would have you drop of people, who start building houses and killing everything for food. Like a huge populous game.

>>152863969
a cup of coffee and some tendies. I need some cholesterol to start my morning.

>>152864062
lol, shit.

>>152863397
it actually does feel fantastic to be slightly above mediocre at everything

>Your game has music, sound effects and gamepad support

Starting to feel like a real game desu.

>>152863502
you are not pixel

>>152864409
But can you rebind the gamepad buttons

>>152863787
That game is a Kaleidoscope.

You can have almost endless shapes/motifs, but there's really nothing to do and after a bit you just put it down and do something else.

>>152864409
But does it have gameplay

>>152864434
Yeah, 100% rebindable.

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I'm writing the story for my RPG but my villain's motivations make more sense than the heroes. Should I leave it that way or is that bad?

>>152864563
>I'm writing the story for my RPG but my villain's motivations make more sense than the heroes. Should I leave it that way or is that bad?
Doesn't matter, you will never finish the game anyway

>>152864616
>only finished games matter
you are like a baby

>>152864563
post the story here, i want to laugh

Hey guys im new can i make minecraft in unreal blueprints????

I bought this package of burgers for 6-7 freedom eagle screams. And it's never ending. And I got my mocha. :P

>>152864690
you play as a hero who wants to save the world but the bad guy wants to destroy it because the world is poopy

>>152864947
is it possible? sure
can you? no

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>>152864563
If your heroes are classic heroes, that's pretty regular

Villains drive the plot in those circumstances. Heroes stop them.

This is why games featuring evil protagonists are the best

>>152864947
Yes. Unreal features atom-to-atom physics.

>>152865110
>games featuring evil protagonists are the best
that sounds edgy

>>152864431
And I'm not gonna finish my game in 5 years either, I'm aiming for 3 or 4, why does it matter though? I'm not in any rush since I already have a job and I'm devving as a hobby.

>>152865110
>Villains drive the plot in those circumstances.

Yeah. An ancient evil awakens, it's your duty to stop it from destroying the world for the 59th time for whatever reason.

I guess it's true that it "drives it" in the sense that the action of the game wouldn't exist if the villain wasn't there.

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>>152865067

>>152865173
I got bills guy, buddy, pal.

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What are some games where I can escape the cycle of failure and actually make something of myself?

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Added a rebound off the floor.
Now to add an enemy.

>>152865438
Monopoly

How do I go about getting some actors to use their likeness in my game? I want to photoscan their heads

>CryEngine finally supports FBX fully

It's finally a usable game engine.

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>>152865294
You awaken as an ancient evil. It's your duty to destroy this world before it's inhabitants seal you away again. They know you are coming, and they have prepared for you. Their weapons have improved over the centuries, yours have not. It took the greatest empire in existence and all the legionnaires, ballistas and trebuchets they could muster last time. Now they have invented cannons.

The game is on.

>>152865785
that's one half of Breath of Fire 4 desu

Idea guy here, I have a fantastic idea!

Go make something you lazy nodevs