/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

>>153211067
Reminder not to encourage namefag drama.
We do not want to become /feg/

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I'll do my best!

>>153211067
rotate is hotter than vine

>>153211138
post pics

>>153210870
Real AGDG jam:
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-lewd-jam

>>153211291
>>153211067
real spicy

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>>153211291

>3 joined

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>>153210870
nth for blocks with curves xxx

I need an artist

>>153211119
You'll have to fix your brain damage first, pedoposter.

>>153211387
rotate's disco has more joined lmao

>>153211387
Make it 4 anon.

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>finally able to do things without a tutorial
heh, get ready guys. Phil Phish 2.0 coming in no time!

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Hurray for auto-map progress. Now with walls.

>>153211523
anon you're making it hard for me to do nofap

>>153211523
I have a serious question. Obviously, not everyone is the same, but...

How come so many game developers are numales and tumblrinas? It's always colored hair and stupid shit. Is it just because of them being out more and verbal or what?

When I see dev diaries of AAA studios they seem to look normal.

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>>153211291

>>153211987
Popular indie devs often let the attention get to their head

>>153211523
Is this a trap


Anyway guys, is it worth to use those Aseprite "effects"?

>>153212098
>>153211987

I think you've got the causality in the wrong direction. Indie devs have to show off and attention whore because they have to do marketing for themselves.

>>153211987
It's a fairly easy hobby to get started in. All you need is a computer and (arguably) an internet connection.

No equipment, talent or friends required.

>>153211987
There are tons of indie devs, most of them don't actually complete them, but there IS a sizeable number of them. The issue is that most of them aren't very vocal or show themselves much. The kind of person that needs this attention and has to constantly talk about stuff as if everything they say is gospel and everyone should feel enlightened just to hear them say it are numales and tumblrinas.

>>153211987
I'm a white anglo-saxon heterosexual male from a middle class nuclear family background with healthy body weight, no body modifications, college degree, moderate social beliefs and make games with no political considerations

do you feel triggered yet?

I need some advice on the optimal way to do something.

I've got my sql server and login etc working. I've worked with networking a lot before but never in conjunction with anything persistent. I'm working on an online demo, for mobile, with persistence. This is not, obviously, a mmorpg and it's not an action game so I'm not particularly concerned with latency.

For load, as well as being optimal for mobile, I'm thinking about dividing the world into small chunks, that are 'teleported' between rather than contiguous. When teleporting to a new chunk, it searches for a room or makes one, depending on the status and existence of other rooms of that chunk. You load it from game data and the server just stores any important modifications.

Does this sound like a good way to do it? I don't need more than a handful of people available together at once, and want the burden of internet to be as low as possible. Also, I want users to be able to, per chunk, decide if they want to run locally and not open a room at all.

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Rate my shader please.

>>153212909
Looks like he's wrapped in plastic

>>153212909

>toon
>hdr
>bloom

default unreal settings/10

>>153213034
It's oil

>>153212458
>The kind of person that needs this attention and has to constantly talk about stuff as if everything they say is gospel and everyone should feel enlightened just to hear them say it are numales and tumblrinas.
This. I couldn't even hold a blog if I tried. I can't imagine anyone would give a fuck. And no one does.

I should color my hair and get a gay accent before releasing my game, maybe some tattoo stars on my face, just to score them points.

Hell I know. Rainbow fucking beard. Yeah.

>>153212682
are you me?

>>153213049
It's unity.

Woah Catmouth Island re-enabled Steam Spy stats.

And he's higher on the list now

http://homph.com/steam/

>>153213049
That's unity

look at the grass

>>153212909
dota 2/10

>>153212682
>anglo-saxon
>not an anglo-pianist

>Indie devs

is anybody making a non-game game?

>want to make a casual action rpg game first
>want to make a more open world game later on with racial conflict etc
>actually scared it doesn't sell well because some LGBT might get triggered
what a shit year we are in

>>153213662
Technically they're all non-games because you ain't making any progress

>>153213662
Googum

>>153213806
oh right lol.

>>153213762
Controversy sells games. There are almost no examples of controversy not selling games. Even Hatred sold well because it was all over the media, even when it was a shit game.

>>153213762
You should wish some SJW got triggered. Remember Hatred. Barely anyone noticed that game until people started crying about it and no one who mattered cared.

>>153213856
loli sim hasn't sold. what went wrong?

>>153213949
He didn't finish the game.

>>153211067
Basically spam. Reported.

>>153213856
>>153213908
well, I have the plot and character all set, I bet if I ever get to release it there will be that retarded that will compare somehow to TW3 society even though it has nothing to do with it

I guess I should just try it and regret if it doesn't sell

shit, out of wings, it might be a burger night. :P

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preparing early level boss for coloring/animation.

>>153214813
>shit diet
>no clue why getting fat / feeling demotivated
>better eat more feel-good-food to bring mood back to just below healthy human baseline

Going through Unity 2D tutorials and all of them are using things like rigidbody2d for physics and a lot of built-in components. How much of this crap am I actually going to have to implement myself to make a real game?

>>153214884
did you use inkscape or photoshop?

>>153214813
I feel fine, I just eat mostly wings and burgers.

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>tfw quit your job for dev

Final day was today
Finally free to dev

>>153193976

Way late, but I actually own the EastWest Complete Composer's Collection. Like, paid for with real money and everything.

>>153215649
what will you do for money anon

wat do?
1-2 AI work
3-4 Animations
5-6 Misc Art
7-8 Bugfixing
9-0 New stuff

>>153215693
I'll make a kickstarter or patreon eventually

>>153215587
did I tell you about that bug. It felt like this when I finally sorted it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6tIf8ZWSFc

>>153215649
you'll regret it after your first game is a flop if you even manage to make one

>>153215802
DROPPED

>>153215649
godspeed anon
make sure to keep up your social ties

>>153215889
don't be such a negative nancy, it'll work out in the end

>>153216080
>it'll work out
just be urself ;)

where should i put my dev blog until i can afford my own domain?

>>153216587
Hosting or just URL?

>>153216587
Twitter

>>153215485
just photoshop

>>153216080
>It'll work out in the end
You are the type of person that struggles with crippling debt.

>>153216627
twitter is really bad for game dev stuff unless you're already famous

>>153216617
either

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Fuck, how can I be so bad at making sprites?

>>153216587
in /agdg/

:^)

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>>153213806

>>153215729
1) jerk off
2) watch youtube
3) eat something
repeat

>>153216865
So is literally every other social website. And making a blog will probably get you less views than posting on Twitter.

>>153216587
Tumblr

I'm sorry anon, it's the only relevant blogging platform today

Someone suggest me a short and simple game for me to make that must have a waifu

>>153217054
No it won't. You can only do short posts on twitter anyway. Not useful for any sort of logging. Besides, posting dev on tumblr and I get 1k followers. Only have 400 on twitter.

>>153217178
arkenoid, but a girl takes off clothes as you destroy more blocks.

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>>153216906
Fucking why does it look so bad.

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>>153217416
Ok, maybe this looks slightly better

>>153217217
Unless you're posting a tutorial or some technical info that can help other devs, no one wants to read more than 140 characters anyways.

So Ludum dare compo is over.
How many of you decided to go for the Ludum dare jam instead?

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>>153217604
Ok, number 4

>>153216972
sounds like my workflow

>>153215729
1-9 - figure out how I want to parse this data
0 - jack it to pixels.

>>153217830
>>153217604
>>153217416
>>153216906
What are you even trying to do

>>153216906
>>153217416
>>153217604
>>153217830
please. please stop.
Just gotta post him once my man.
Also don't scale it up and then add mixels to it. Keep the pixels consistent.

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>>153217830

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>>153215729
1-3 draw cute
4-6 draw porn
7-9 draw dev
0 animate

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>Make a thread asking for help on something
>Get two pretty convincing answer, go with the one I'm able to understand more.
>Come back a few days later, there is a storm of responses with the two arguing which of the methods proposed is better.
>The scope of the conversation has become so large I could no longer follow it. They're literally talking about how much machine code each function generates.
Sometimes you do something and think, hey you're pretty good at this programming stuff. Then people come along and make you realize how incredibly unknowledgeable about anything you are.

>>153213662
I had an idea for one, I might make it after I get done with what I'm currently doing. (not a walking simulator, something else)

>>153215649
>tfw finally got a job
>tfw hoping it doesn't eat too much into my dev time
>tfw I stopped feeling intermittently guilty for devving instead of job hunting

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uidev

>>153218831
Of course it's going to eat your dev time anon. It's a real fucking pain and unless your job is pure fucking pleasure, you're gonna want some downtime, developing is not downtime unless again you're doing something that is pure pleasure, and eventually you're going to run out of those things and need to do some hard work

So bunker down sweet tits and realize you need to work hard and double to achieve your shit

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>>153218895
hello andre

your game is looking good keep it up

>>153218895

nicee

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Last bit of progress for today. Got some basic patterns down for the first phase of this boss fight.

Also reposting the boss theme I put together this afternoon

https://soundcloud.com/jasozz/dungeon-break-boss-01

One step closer to Demo Day X!

>>153218895
very nice.
the game I am starting now has a similar system where you equip abilities into slots in a weapon but the slots have a certain 'type' of ability that can be assigned to it.

Just found a sweet collection of 10 gigs of premium free game audio if anyone is looking. https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/2ynqyo/10gb_of_highquality_game_audio_free_download/

>inb4 leddit

>>153218895

Reminder: A user's interface is the single most important thing about a vidya gaem

>>153219429
tell me more so i can draw inspiration from it

>>153219553
i already added something to the gameplay that i feel has substantially increased the fun factor, don't worry

Anyone have any ideas for a 2D lewd game?

Anyone know of any games where you play as a snake?

I just watched all the Anaconda movies, and a first person game similar to the early AvP games (the xeno campaign) where you play as a giant anaconda could be fun.

>>153219728
maze of galious
except you get lewd scenes when you beat a boss

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How do I make a simple mecha game?
Something with graphics like pic related

does anybody know if there's a limit to how many coroutines you can have running at the same time in unity

>>153220076
Until the project crashes itself

>>153219557
my game is a top down action rpg. The plan is for each weapon to have 4 slots in it of varying types that you assign abilities to
so the one weapon I have created now is a sword that has
physical (could be stab, jump slash, etc)
movement(dash, teleport, roll, etc)
misc( used for outier skills)
magic(any magic damage spell)
the other types I have in mind are utility, projectile, restoration. I am in the process of getting the first few skills scripted. I am using an array to organize the weapon slot type and what ability is in the slot.

>>153220076
There shouldn't be, given that """coroutines""" (they're actually weaker generators) are concurrent but not parallel.

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need help here.
I'm trying to make tilemaps like pic related
is there a software to do it?
or is there a way to approach it?

Right now, i'm just using aseprite to draw a single tiles out.
And i wanted to make the tiles into pic related.

Do i just put it tiles by tiles manually?
Or is there any software that can handle it automatically?

>>153219978
>Build framework
>Build models
>Build world
>Add Gameplay
I don't really know what you're asking for here.

>>153219353
I'm so excited for this. Wish I had the talent (through hard work and practice of course) to do pixel art as well as you could. It's always beautiful.

>>153220198
Tiled

>>153220198
Assuming you have the talent to actually make the tiles, with Tile Studio being one of the more popular for making a tilesheet, and TileD being one of the most popular for putting them in your game. Several engines support TileD maptypes out of the box, but it can also export to other easier types to use yourself.

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What's the point of a Player Controller? Why shouldn't you throw everything into the Player Blueprint instead?

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So a question to you all:

How long did it take each of you individually to get to the point where you felt comfortable enough to begin designing a game? In terms of your coding knowledge being good enough to work out most problems on your own.

What resources did you make use of to learn?

>>153220198
I make my tilesheets in pyxeledit

>>153219167
Well actually I do a lot of my development at night and the latest this job can keep me is 10:00, and developing has helped my mood and attitude massively, about as much as medication does. It *is* downtime for me, unless some problem is being really stubborn, or I'm doing something really tedious, like formatting text.

>>153220169
ooooooh yeah i've been planning to do something like that too!

>>153220629
Messed with RPG Maker for years

>>153219978
is that... a cupholder tachikoma?

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is there a way to have graphicsgale display the current frame with the previous frame behind it?
its very easy and comfy to draw frames out in .sai but lining up the graphics so that they dont jitter all over the place is cancer. preliminary google searches have yeilded nothing

>>153220629
I started my current project with little more than understanding high school math, how logic statements work together, and how to compare numbers.

I learned everything else as I went along. If I had waiting until I felt like I knew all the things I needed to know along the way, I would have never started, and I wouldn't have actually learned as quickly.

Just get started bro. Tackle one problem at a time.

>>153220463
Thanks anon! I've been doing pixel stuff for less than 2 years, and I've got alot to learn still.

>>153219978
If you have to ask that question then you are a long way off being able to even attempt it. Have you actually booted up an engine or 3d program yet? You should probably start by learning the basics of both of those first.

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Take time to empty your mind pre and post game development, don't create new ideas during production, instead let these ideas come to you during other activities and leisure time, your mind creates the most wonderful things when you don't stress it.

>>153220998
It's called onion skinning, there should be an option in graphics gale to enable it.

>>153221106
>>153220413
I actually have a game in the works on unity but I am kinda burned out and busy with life issues so I'm taking a break by working on a smaller game.
And I meant to ask more what to do in terms of gameplay. I want something easy to do so I don't have to invest too much time into it.

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>>153220629
3 years in and that's pretty much now.

Unreal community

>>153221236
>actual term for it
thank you blessed anon

>>153220629
I was programming long before I started this so... years? I did try to make a version of chess when I was younger and I was in way over my head, and I realized it about when it came time to actually move the pieces (which isn't as early as it sounds because I was using QBASIC). My other foray into gaming was working out the algorithm to never lose at tic-tac-toe about two years later, which I never ended up implementing.

If you mean designing as in level design...I still don't know how to do that. I've been hoping I would get some ideas or a tutorial or other help. Does anyone have anything that will help with that?

>>153220612
Player controller is the player, player blueprint is the pawn the controller controls, which you may want to destroy or switch from

Respawn would be unpossess - destroy "player blueprint"/pawn - delay - recreate pawn - possess it

>>153220629
google searches, a fucking shit load of google searches.

Started off with some really generic arcade game everyone has played. Something like brick break, pong, pacman, etc...

Then I made a pretty low scope game, stuff you would submit to ludum dare or a jam within a week. (My first ludum dare was the one about, "all on one screen", which is a pretty good theme since having one screen is a nice limiting factor for beginners. Made a game about breaking the screen and pushing people in it).

Programming is essentially problem solving, once you figure out how to solve it, it won't be an issue when it pops up later. So if you just make tons of shit, you'll be very knowledgeable. The caveat is when you learn something new that makes your original solution look really silly in return, which is okay, that is even more progress.

The biggest thing to take away is don't get discouraged when you can't get something to work, even if you can't wrap your head around it for like a week. I've taken several month breaks several times just because I got frustrated and turned my sights else where (usually art kills me). I have literally spent more time not developing than I have developing. I've buckled down pretty hard the last 5 months but I imagine how far I could've been if I didn't give up like a little bitch. My biggest motivation so far is seeing how much time I wasted.

tl;dr:
Just like make game
Don't give up for months at a time

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Kinda liking the wall (top right, specifically).

My floor sucks dicks. Can't find any examples on the internet that don't look like ass either...

>>153221770
.png for ants

>>153221251
I dunno if anything 3d is necessarily easy or time-cheap friend. That said, there's not really any difference between mech gameplay types in terms of difficulty.
Western mechs are tanks on legs with lots of weapons.
Jap mechs gotta go fast with jet packs and big guns.

There's almost no difference in complexity between the two.

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>>153221770
This reminds me of D/Generation

If you want to be boss, study board games. Their light years ahead. And I've been at this 5-10 years on and off. One tool after another. I think I can read any language now though. But I stay in xna for now.

>>153216587
>>>/vg/agdg
That's where my blog is

>>153222161
Is English not your first language? I can tell.

>>153222161
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-gyZ35074k

>>153222258
only for 40 yrs so.

>>153222094
It doesn't have to be great, I just want to make something simple and fun because coding is my hobby. I have shit imagination though

>>153218895
Looks great.
I want something similar for my game. Did you follow any UMG guide in particular or did you just learn from the wiki/official tutorial?

>>153222496
It's the 31st century and mech gladiators are the hotest new sport. People pay top dollar to watch mechs duke it out in massive arenas dressed up to look like real world environments.
Now pick whether you want your mechs to go fast or be tanks.

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when you hate whites but ya gotta share a chan with em in order ta dev
:/

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yo senpaitachi, i updated spacekujo with the changes from these last few days.

• i tweaked the AI so it feels a bit more fair.
• added BoostRolling™, but it has no cooldown right now. press LeftCtrl or Space Bar to BoostRoll.
• changed the number of enemy waves to 4 before it changes into a **NEW!!!** level
• revamped shop ui

there's a bunch of debug features on but don't worry about it.

what i want to know is if it feels better overall. gameplay ideas and suggestions are VERY welcome. i want to make this a fun game but i'm not sure what would be cool. leaning towards making it into a roguelite with FTL progression (move between sectors etc)

note that:
• music has been disabled for this build because i haven't bothered fixing it :^)
• you start with a fuckton of money
• you can open the shop whenever you want if you figure out the MYSTERY SHOP DEBUG KEY

download at: https://inacio.itch.io/spacekujo

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>>153222598
i really just went by trial and error and googling individual things. if you need help hit me up at discord

>>153222810
also i tweaked the space dust particles for hopefully a better sense of speed

>>153222925
Alright. I'll disturb you when I get to work on my interface but this isn't my priority yet.

>>153222810
>https://inacio.itch.io/spacekujo
I'll play this when I get back from work.

>>153223042
sounds good!

>>153223064
thanks, i appreciate it

>>153222925
>discord
new or old?

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>>153223169
this one

Why didn't agdg choose a free software alternative? Why discord?

>>153223643
Because it's low effort and easily works across devices.

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>>153223643
t. pic related

>>153223643
fuck off with your stallman memes

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>>153221365
>that pic

>>153223643
there are a steam chat and an irc chat too.
They are equally cancerous though.

>>153223643
It is free unless you mean free as in freedom but that doesn't exist if you're connected to the internet.

>>153224153
>more cancerous than 4chan

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Too big? You think it's too big?! Those are the words of a man who fears progress!

>>153222147
oh shit someone else has played this

>>153211956
Corners would be nice, but it looks great!
Do maps ever have 2x2 "rooms", or is it corridors?

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Marmoreal's tumblr was finally updated for the first time in years.

He said before he'd never update it unless he made progress. He quit using AGDG for months and cut off contact with most people on here.

Is he finally ready to release his game?

>>153225328
>What is dead may never die

WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THIS?

I thought he was dead.

>>153225459
He's a skeleton now

>tfw you first start using debugging tools in visual studio instead of printing out variables
woow

GameMaker is for _____________.

>>153225642
they're going to have an orgy and create an FMV game from it for the lewd jam that's totally an AGDG event?

>>153224283

your webms make me feel claustrophobic

>>153225328
OUR SAVIOR HAS RETURNED

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>>153222739
same

>>153220808
it is a good system. maybe one day I will make matchmaking or something. it seems perfect for multiplayer, being able to create your own custom move set.

>>153224208
At least most people here remain anon.

Is there an interest in traditional roguelikes or ascii games in general?

>>153225941
GameMaking

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So I finally stopped running away from one manning, and am going to make a game by myself. The working title right now is Witch's Brew.

Because art is my weakest point that is where I am starting. The game all takes place on one screen.

You're a witch living outside of a village. People come to you asking for advice, favors, spells, and more. You can choose to help them, refuse to help, or "make a mistake". Depending on what spell you cast it effects the village, causing the rise and fall of organizations (churches, merchants, governments, and more).

Most events either have a success or failure if you give the right thing, but some will have special effects if you give a different potion/cast a different spell. An example of this would being give a boy seeking a love potion a poison instead, it kills the girl he has a crush on.

Over time you upgrade your hut, getting new ingredients for spells. The image included with this is the unupgraded hut.

The goal is to keep upgrading your hut, get new ingredients for spells, and survive as long as possible. Fuck up enough and the mob/church/merchants/military/etc are coming for you. It's a story based resource management rogue like.

So the picture is terrible, but that's about what I am capable of producing. May as well give it a shot. Hell, this image took me the last three hours for just half of a shitty background. I'm going to put in more detail as I continue.

So, how fucked am I?

how do I join discord

>>153226306
yes, make me ADOM but with lovecraft theme

>>153226393
read the op

>>153225328
Does this prove that bullying doesn't actually work or that it does indeed work?

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So what's the best operating system...

...To dev on?

...To make games natively for?

...To port to?

>>153226482
it proves marmo has bad taste in tv shows

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Hmm. Alternate tiles really spice shit up.

Time to start working on the engine

>>153225909
What do you do now?

>>153226601
>...To dev on?
Depends on your engine.
Windows is still the standard (UE runs pretty well on Linux now, still has a few visual bugs and no VS integration obviously)

>>153226306
>ascii games
Honestly, other than a few diehard autists, no. You pretty much have to have graphics of some sort if you want people to play your game.
You could always make a faux-ascii rogue-like with a mixture of 'proper' graphics and sprited ascii characters if you're interested in the art style of ascii games though.

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>>153226601

>>153225941
sexual

>>153226654
I would have suggested something like a metallic blue or grey for your tiles. Green tiles in a room that is made of reflective metal is pretty strange.

>Time to start working on the engine
See you in 10 years. :^)--|---<

>>153227053
>see you in 10 years
Eh, my last game (on steam!!!) only took a few months. This should be easier to dev, too.

>>153227053
Oh right, yeah, green is kinda strange perhaps. Was going to use different colorful colors to demark different sorts of areas.

Should we have a "dev it again" meme where we remake our first/favorite games we have made?

>>153227319
>looking back instead of looking ahead
ishiggydontdothat

>>153227458
>still working on rpps

>>153227319
How can we remake a game we never finished?

>>153227458
>a jam where you make the game you were going to make anyhow and see it to completion

Actually Finish A Game Jam?

>>153227525
>progressing on something in progress is the same as remaking something finished
nodev nologic

>>153227458
>going back to apply our expanded knowledge and skills of game design.
>getting a remastered/new game out of it
ok buddy.

>>153220198
>Continuous from this question
How do i create a prefab of a tile with maptile in Unity?

previously, i'm using texture for single tiles, which is a problem when there's too much tiles.

I wanted to do something like this via code
>instantiate a game object from the prefab(with maptile texture)
>change the texture uv
>the gameobject created is now the correct tile
is this way correct?
if so, how should i do this in Unity?

I created the gameobject,
but no idea how to change the uv~

>>153227319
give me an 3d artist that can into anime and i can do that

craving for caffine

>>153227758
DO IT

>>153227654
your first game ideas werent even good.
your finished one was probably the 3rd-5th iteration anyways.
why would you go back to do it yet again?
if you're not growing, you're dying.

Progress I guess. I finally have procedural terrain generation that doesn't look like shit and gives me all the necessary data points to mess with it at runtime. Still trying to figure out how to turn this into irregular islands though.

>>153227319
>remake the unity tutorial
hmm...

>>153226839
Fine, not ascii, but basic tiles?

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>>153227843
Forgot pic again.

>>153227635
it's the same sunk cost fallacy

>>153226376
And, a semi-finished version one of the background. Honestly it looks terrible, but it is enough to work off of I think.

>>153228019
nice fallacy fallacy

>>153227740
Look for the tiling settings in whatever shader you're using.

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this took me all day to implement because I'm dumb but finally its working. Hopefully can build an ok amount of levels before LD ends

>>153228092
nice having an opinion falacy

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We need to have a talk /agdg/

http://www.strawpoll.me/11105403

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>>153228049
God fucking dammit. Ok, here it is. Fucking hell looking at it a second time just shows me how garbage it looks.

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>>153228019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMQL9BcZmGo

>>153227879
>Fine, not ascii, but basic tiles?
Depends on how well you use them, I guess. If you want people to play your game, you need to keep in mind that there are a million, billion rogue-likes and rogue-likes in the wild now, so if you want to grab someone's attention you have to either have a striking artstyle or a gameplay gimmick so novel and fun that people look past the art.
If you're approaching your game with the attitude of "how do I do this key aspect of my game with the least effort possible" then the end result may well be that your game gets the least attention possible.

>>153228182
>this and nodev

but im making game

>>153227791
of course your first game ideas weren't good.
that's the whole point of going back and changing things with your newfound gamedev abilities.

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Hi, first time contributor here. I'm making a twin-stick arena shooter and I'm excited because I just got wave-based enemy spawners working. There's not much to my game right now but I'm going to add more enemy types and power-up item pickups next. When it's all finished it'll be sort of like a more open-ended Smash TV.

>>153228376
If you unironically think agdg really is agdg then the likelihood you're a nodev is 100%

>>153228294

let's talk about marketing your game and selling your game pham, since it's already out.

have you considered doing a free weekend on steam? perhaps as a free inclusive in a humble bundle?

why did I say free? because it will get some amount of people on the servers to keep the multiplayer aspect going for sometime, to actually get buzz about it. of course, this would require you to have whatever servers you have in order to handle the incoming traffic from such a thing.

>>153228410
that doesnt make any sense, you can go back and remake a game with different ideas, that's not a remake at all, a remake is literally that the ideas stay the same only the execution changes.

>>153228525
the client is free, isnt it?

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>>153228195
Free-hand drawing in paint seems like a really bad idea for your skillset.
Do minimalist pixel art like everyone else who can't draw.

>>153228582
>>153228525
Yeah the client is already free. Only server runners need to buy it.

>>153228582

it's not enough to get people to start hosting, right?

>>153228657
how long does a full game take to play

>>153228594
I've only been at it for three hours. about 10-15 and it may look fine. The entire game hinges on this one screen, I'll put as much time into it as need be.

>>153228525
>steam free weekend
steam will not do that for me, steam will not do that for you, steam does not care about us.

>>153228707
You can set however many players you want. ~15 people takes maybe 30 minutes? Depends on how defensive people are playing.

It could end in a couple minutes if everyone's being retardedly suicidal.

I am very glad to join you all here as a first-time game dev.
I've got programming experience and I am the ripe old age of 25, but I want to see if I can make an RPG. Just a very basic one to test my ability, after which I want to make a more complex kind of game.
Wish me luck!

>>153228820
Good luck!
hello newfag

>>153228792

then you should seriously consider humble bundle.

Unity, Game Maker, or a lower level framework for a simple 2d game?

>>153228990
UE4

>>153228990
Godot

>>153228820
rpg maker
you are in the wrong thread senpai
>>153228990
gamemaker

>>153228820
Welcome. Keep us posted on progress and/or suicide.

>>153228990

2d? Cryengine.

>>153227319
I liked the idea. Could be a theme for a Jam.
Dev again the first thing you made from scratch. Without counting tutorials of course.

>>153228898
humble bundle purchasers dont care about my game, they dont care about your game, all humble bundle purchasers care about is the year old well known game they didnt buy earlier because they're cheap. they already have a pile of games they got for free that they're not going to touch.

>>153228990
>>153229037
>>153229058
>>153229106
ignore them.
godot is an adequate alternative if gamemaker is too expensive or you don't feel comfortable torrenting it.

>>153229129
>>153227319

do clones count? my first game was a clone.

>>153229129
>first thing you made from scratch
I tried to impress a gril in school with a racing game made in Turbopascal. It didn't work.

>>153229231
Why not? It could be a good way to give it your own original spin.

>>153229209

Just try it dude. It doesn't hurt to try. Maybe like 80% of the keys will end up as waste, but it'll be worth it for the 20%. They'll give you good reviews, and keep the multiplayer aspect humming along.

>>153228147
It's sprites - default
but i'm not trying to do tiling
I'm trying to set the 4 point of uv of a texture

>>153229296
girls don't give a shit about games.

>>153227319
I WOULD LOVE THIS

>>153228473
Looks cool. Did you make that death animation shader?

>>153229432
They do now.

It's just mostly shitty mobile games.

>>153229432
My now wife does. But back in school nothing I did could change that I was a nerd doing nerd stuff.

>>153229374
>It doesn't hurt to give away keys
i know better now. giving away keys is the dangerzone.

>>153229494
Thanks! And re: the death animation, It's not a shader or really much of an animation, I just doodled on the sprite with the eraser tool for a couple frames. The walking E's are just the enemy hitbox sprite since I don't have any real sprites yet.

>>153229617

Cool n/m good luck!

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New Game is now fully working. I abandoned custom-selected skills for the demo since it would have been a lot of extra work for little benefit - so now you just get 4 skills depending on your class. For stats, you can + or - up to 5 from each stat, but not beyond 5 or 20, and each character gets 10 bonus points to allocate wherever they want. Characters also get a number of starting items based on the skills they start with - so start with sword and you get a sword, etc.

But now you can launch to the main menu, pick new game, choose your party, and start playing.

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I started working on new tiles to replace my old ones. How does this style look?

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thinking about making a circuit game/ non-game.

>>153230131
looks noisy as fuck senpai

>>153230131
I like the grass, the dirt looks a bit flat

>>153230181
make a game that teaches v=ir, resistor color codes, capacitors, etc. and sell it to schools

>>153230131
What's old style?

>>153230309
I'm sure they already have electrical engineering simulators at schools.

>>153230405
yeah, but are they fun?

>>153230181
make up your own laws for how the systems work and create fun puzzles and things with your ownsystem

>>153230441
yeah curcuitlab.com already has something like this. so I'll just have to make it game-ey?

how do you make electronics fun.

>>153230519
Make it so that cool mechs turn on when you complete a circuit

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>>153230372
Like this.

>>153230295
Yeah I noticed that myself, I could add one more shade to the dirt to add depth, or rather use the border color between the grass and dirt for that, but I'm afraid it'll turn out too noisy, or the grid might become too obvious.

>>153230294
I think it's less noisy than the old tiles, though adding depth to the grass might've made it harder to read. I'll see what I can do.

I <3 Yukizini

>>153230886
I like the grass on this one better imo, but the rocks look like cocoa pebbles.

>>153230886
So noisy...

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>>153230886

sorry about making your image ugly. but you should do something about the area in yellow. it contributes nothing to the scene and makes it look bland.

>>153231168
how i add your mom in there huh? Will it be better?

>>153230131
Love the new grass looks really impressive.
Rocks need more shading, and maybe a adding a couple of new tiles to get a little bit of variation would make wonders for it too.

>>153231168
>>153230886
the way many pixel platformers solve this is to fade to black (or the darkest shade in the palette) in the deeper parts of the rock.

You can also center the camera a little higher and fix the vertical problem

>>153230987
>I like the grass on this one better
Interesting, can you pinpoint the reason?

>>153231030
That is why I'm currently reworking my tiles.

>>153231168
I'm going to add some different types of tiles to make large wall sections more interesting, once I've nailed the overall style for my tiles. I'm not a fan of fading to solid colors for walls, so I'll try to avoid that if at all possible.

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OUTTA MY WAY, ORIGINAL GAMEPLAY MECHANIC COMING THROUGH

>>153231520
FUND IT!

>>153227986
submerge it in water

>>153231520

holy shit this suddenly went from an unreal joke to actually looking like a contender

>>153231520
>ORIGINAL GAMEPLAY MECHANIC COMING THROUGH
where?

>>153231690
Kinda want floating islands though, so I'm playing around with yaw around 000

>>153231520

>big hookshot fat guy boss

FUCK YEAH

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>>153231507
>>153231486

this is an example from megaman. it's not quite owlboy, but it works I guess.

>>153231906
>boss
thats not his boss
thats his dad

>>153231507
grass: it gives a clearer representation of where the ground position is, the blades of grass are comfy.
the new rocks and grass look good, but the loss of the position and blades of grass is a decent loss.

Unity question here.
If i'm generating a 2D tilemap world,
do i generate them as gameobject?

I tried to instantiate a 20x20 map and it already take quite some time to generate.
Am i doing something wrong?

also,
still not able to solve
>>153227740
yet.

How do i show a single tile from the texture of a tilemap?

>>153231946

You know what I meant you cheeky bastard.

Unless it's just a regular enemy you beat up

>>153230131
Looks great.

How do I use transform.up without rigidbody2d? I'm making a simple game and I don't want the physics that comes with rigidbody but I need a way to make an object move forward depending on it's rotation.

Do you thank your players on credit roll?

>>153232107
Unity seems kind of shitty for tile-based 2D games, from what I've seen.

you're a big guy xD

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>>153228195
>>153226376
>>153228049
>>153228594
>>153228725
Ok, I need some more advice. I tried shading one of the two pillars. I honestly don't know how shading is supposed to work and can't tell if it got better or worse. Comparison image included.

>>153231661
>>153231815
Th-thanks I think, contender for what exactly though?

>>153231867
That's the joke though googs

>>153231906
>>153232150
Yeah he's a boss, working on a few different mechanics for him and the fight for demo day. He's gonna be surrounded by his Triad henchmen

>>153232438
this is adventure game studio tier

Guys i need sandnigger music for my desert level! HALP!!!!

>subtle agdg shilling in other threads
glad someone caught on

>>153232578
what thread? link?

>>153232531
>adventure game studio
I am literally incapable of art. I am trying to improve.

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>started working on a game
>decided to make it on Construct2
>everything seem to work perfectly
>out of money
>can't even afford full version of Construct2 and continue working on a game
mfw this life...
PS:
>inb4 construct2 is shit
it is but it fits nicely to my simple game that should win mostly by graphics and animation

>>153232660
>>153232531
Actually I just looked up Adventure Game Studio in google images. I am no longer sure what you mean by this. I assume it was to insult my art, but some of the art doesn't look bad for the games? I don't know any longer.

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>>153232438
Your light source is badly defined and the stone has a complete lack of depth

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>>153214884
finished. (talking anim.that will show up during dialogues)

>>153232864
The light source is supposed to be fire in the center of the room. I can see what you mean, it should be coming from below. I'll try and fix it now.

I don't know how to fix the lack of depth however.

>>153232660
indies use pixel art because it constrains the ways that you can fuck up.

Your style is in a bad place because it's naively bad. It's what someone with no knowledge of art makes. That said, there are a few other styles that you can try. You can still use MSpaint but be a little more stylized, look at Breeding Season's old style, MSPA, and Prequel.

Or go full pixel.

>>153232292
>Do you thank your players on credit roll?
why would you do that?

>>153211407
can do, do you have concepts?

>>153231998
Yeah, I'll try to make the transition between foreground and background more obvious. I still prefer the added depth of the new tiles, which will allow me to more easily tell the players whether objects are parts of the level or background decoration (trees, rocks and other foresty stuff, once I get around to drawing those).

>>153231920
My levels have quite a bit of verticality, doing foreground decoration like that would only work on the lowest points of the level. I'll keep it in mind though.

>>153232921
Saturday morning cartoons/10

>>153226393
https://discord.gg/dwYym

>>153212909
That could work but you need to bring me a character that's fully equipped with a full scene to be able to tell properly.

>>153232637
I'm not gonna let you ruin it for that dev, they work hard and post progress.

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Question about Blueprints.
When creating an Array to use later on, I want the first X Indexes to have a value of y and every x indexes have a value of y*increment. How do I achieve this?

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>>153232242
Please help. I've been stuck for hours. I promise I won't bother you guys again.

>>153233127
Got me at a bad time, going to sleep soon. Do you have an email? I can email you them when I wake up.

If you don't want to post your email publicly you can also just email me at [email protected]

Also heads up that my concept images are literally ms paint + text.

>>153233256
fyi Vine banned all discussion of yr disco in the other disco, so you have to spam that link here

try messaging hentai writer too he'll defect for a mod position

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>>153233012
I tried to define the light source better?

>>153233743
it looks like tits pressed against glass

>>153233054
I'm actually using GIMP, not paint. I can see possibly moving away from pixel art and going full stylized drawing, but I don't have a drawing pad or anything (I have been working from my mouse thus far). Would you recommend purchasing one?

>>153232637
>>>/v/350042774

>>153233886
>it looks like tits pressed against glass
Well at least I might qualify for lewd jam then.

http://www.onemanslie.info/the-original-reddit-post/

>>153233898
I'm just a programmer bruh
try /ic/, they have a sequence of books for learning drawing.

>>153232242
>I need a way to make an object move forward depending on it's rotation
Is it top down? If so, it's just a matter of using sin and cos on your movement step interval. i.e.
player.x += math.cos(player.angle) * speed
player.y += math.sin(player.angle) * speed

>>153233958
I'll never understand the appeal of insect/arachnid girls

>>153233525
iterate over it

>>153234313
8 arms to stroke your...... one cock?

>>153234349
Blueprints sadly don't have Iterators.

So I'm the terrible drawing guy. I need some advice. I think I'm just going to abandon pixel art entirely and go for just drawing everything (might not be a bad idea considering there aren't that many things that change anyway (four fence upgrade, 2 building upgrades, and a bunch of small objects in the room)). However I am not experienced in this kind of art either besides a few art courses I took in college. I've never done digital. Should I stick with my mouse or get a drawing pad?

Honestly I would prefer collaborating, but I'm new and have no idea how to find an artist to collab with. Plus I'm a whodev.

>>153234313
fuzzy & soft
being wrapped up in web
cozy cocoon.
being hugged by 8 arms.

>>153234489
pretty sure it has a for loop and you can have it go from 0, arrayLength.

>>153234532
if your pixel art sucks your hand-drawn art is going to suck aswell
probably more so in fact seeing pixel art is probably the easiest style to do games in

>>153234532
Draw on paper
If it's very noticeably better than your mouse drawings get a tablet, if not keep drawing on paper until you stop being shit.

>>153234489
like two seconds of google-fu

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/109618/loop-through-an-array-of-actor-blueprints-set-a-va.html

>>153234532
if you can program you can find an artist if you collab for lewdjam

get a drawing tablet if you are doing full art. but, full art is at least a year of solid practice to git gud.

>>153232921

very cool.

>>153234704
or this
https://wiki.unrealengine.com/Blueprint_Essentials_-_12_-_For_Each_Loop

>>153234676
I mean, just giving up isn't an option really. I don't exactly have an art guy to fall back on.

I guess I could just keep trying to improve the pixel art.

>>153234690
Fair point. May as well. I don't have a scanner however, which means the only way I can get a judgement is with a shitty phone picture. I am very poor at evaluating art, almost as bad as I am at producing it.