/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

I feel like trying to make assets for my game even though I haven't coded anything yet. What should I do?

Oh thank god, you made a proper thread instead of "le forcing maymay" thread.

Does anyone even give a shit about art progress?

>>154374378
As long as there is a related game

>>154374337
naked grill

Jetpack Robot Turbo dev did you get more downloads after changing your cover?

>>154374378
only if it has this
>>154374423

>>154374357

Canus was a legit meme before LIS jumped on the bandwagon. I'm not going to apologise for it.

>>154374378
Yes

>>154374471
Naked girls is all I do!
Too bad I have no related game yet ;_;

>>154374532
>legit meme
>implying

>>154374609
But you don't need more for a successful game
just give them some thong textures put them in unity and you are good to go
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=735346310

>10 posters
>zero games

>>154374791
I-i'm sure everyone's busy working on it!

>>154374791
there are 56 different games in the op

>>154374742
my fucking sides

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trying to get character movement down, pretty much same as i had it before, had an anon yesterday tried to give me some advice, told me to use one controller and use an array of characters to make them move together but didn't work. Pretty sure UE4 only lets a controller possess one pawn at a time. Still dont know how to get control rotation working so that characters turn in the direction they are moving, seems that anything on the character blueprint itself just doesn't work. Also need a way to limit the individual character movement a bit as atm the characters fly off the screen and its quite hard to control all three at once.

I'm starting on a four swords clone more or less currently

so far, I've got movement, gamepad support, and the character can roll.
My next goal is fleshing out combat

what are you working on?

What are good pixel art resolutions? Individual tile and whole screen

>>154374958
Is there a reason you're doing this in UE4?

>>154374983
4k, 1080p respectively

>>154374970
Massive 3-dimensional procedural dungeon generation. I don't even have any gameplay after a couple of months work.

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We're drowning in new features over here

>>154374970
The same thing but without the other people

>>154375090
Doesn't look to me like you're drowning in fun

>>154375090
makes no sense perspective-wise, dropped

>>154375030
i realise its not the best engine for the game but im not a programmer, i just know how blueprints work. I do plan to learn some code eventually but i wanted to make this game because i was quite excited about the idea

>>154375127
Oh there's plenty of fun to go around.
>>154375127
Physics abuse is a hell of a drug

>>154375090
>mfw It wasn't a top down shooter

>>154374958
Does the controller actually need to possess more than one character?

Can't you just possess one, and then call equivalent functions on the other characters with each input?

>>154375090

it doesn't make any sense. even the level change animations show the plane going downwards, so this water appears to be hanging sideways.

>>154375081
Procedural generation is such a far off dream for me, good luck man.

>>154375090
I like it. The style you've got going on is really strong, and even illogically nice.

>>154375153
What was the concept of your game again? I know you mentioned it when you posted the art of the blue cultist, but I can't recall. It was... RPS fighting style game?

>>154375090
Oh fug, your game is side view? I thought it was top-down all this time...

>>154374983

screen size 640 x 360 (because this allows you to scale to 1280x720 x2 and 1080p x3 easily)

tile size 24 x 24 (which is a neat compromise between too much detail 32 and not enough detail 12).

>>154375090
>>154375136
>>154375253
>>154375301
>>154375308
Maybe it's a vertical spaceship

>>154375420

a what?

>>154375090
so this is like 2d descent?

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>>154375467

>>154375136
>>154375253
>>154375301
>>154375305
>>154375308
>>154375420

>mfw the best way to get (yous) is to abuse perspective

did you guys just notice that the perspective is all over the place? there are candles and shit sitting around the rooms

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>>154375561
Ordinary Platfformer Waifu dev, are you here?

>>154375305
Thanks mate. I hope to be posting progress here in another couple of months heh.

>>154375606

Candles are acceptable, because they're treated as just placeholder icons. This is altogether different, since this affects gameplay.

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>>154375270
not quite sure what you mean but this is how its set up atm, i spawn in the extra characters and controllers from the first one and then possess them with the movement on the original controller as it wasnt working on the character BPs
>>154375305
the concept is a 1v1 arena style multiplayer game where each player has a set of three characters that they can swap out, each with a different ability

>>154375672
Gay indeed.

Worst shitposter in AGDG, IRC and Discord.

>>154375570
no, it's to post game

>154375672
>who
>who
>dogposter
>shitposter
>who

>>154375672
>Roko <- guy.
what did he mean by this?

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>>154375672

Bad handwriting sorry, it says gay.

>>154375752
I think it's
>goy

>>154375698
Honestly, GameMaker is pretty much perfect for what you want to make.

I'd help if I knew UE4 though. Sorry mate.
Do keep updating us though, I like your style.

>>154375698
What I mean is that you have the main character.
You have MoveRight() in the main character which is triggered by the controller, with the subsequent code to move right.
At the end of that code, you call MoveRight(axis) on each of the other characters too, that way they all move right but only the main character has any direct relation to the controller.

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>>154375672
bork bork bork

>>154375698

Unity has something similar for 45 bucks

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/368

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>>154372128
Are you Unomoralez?

>>154376049
So your advice is for him to go from one unsuited engine to another unsuited engine, but this time he has to buy a $45 unofficial alternative

>>154376112

Nah, just saying if he ever actually goes to unity there's shit out there for him.

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I gave up guys

So who won DDX?

>>154376221
steamchat

>>154376221
Algeria

>>154376220
You can done it

>>154376221
Define winning, just by sheer view/downloads it's most likely Sanix.

>>154375897
i think i get what you mean, you saying that the move right for the 2nd and 3rd characters should be on their own controller BPs?
>>154375872
yeah i bought gamemaker in the humble bundle, might have a look at it at some point
>>154376180
thanks but atm ill stick with UE4, if i feel like it wont work at all with the engine then might try gamemaker

>>154376221
I did

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>>154376053
bootleg uno moralez

>>154376298

If sanixdev is here, I'd like to see his stats. Please.

>>154376379
>no canus
DROPPED

>>154376345

Remember to set roomspeed to 60 fps in GMS. Those Vlambeer guys still think running all their games at 30fps is a good thing.

>>154376446
can't live with them, can't live without them

These are the kinds of games I expected /agdg/ to make. Instead what I got was more pixelshit platformers.

>>154375509
Eerily similar, but not intentional.

>>154376616
You expect us to make games like yours then

>>154376616

fuck forgot link
http://store.steampowered.com/app/518670/

>>154376438
Seconding this notion

>>154376682

> moe lester

Neat

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>>154376221
Whoever made this won all Demo Days to me Will he become the candy princess someday?

>>154376345
Why wouldn't you make them inherit from a single controller and then do the character specific movement/abilities in the character BPs? Then when you want to possess or de-possess/destroy/whatever you can just do it from character BPs. No point having multiple controllers

Game Maker
vs
Multimedia Fusion 2

which should I learn?

Are there any standards to loading tilemaps and shit? I'm using SFML and I'm just wondering the best way if I had layers and stuff. If I had a map I made in Tiled or something. I feel like rendering the whole map every frame would be dumb, as well as other things. I'm not sure if theres anything I can read up on about this or if I should just try things.

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>>154373703
>66 games submitted
>only includes 56 in the OP
disgraceful. Here's the real DDX image

>>154376926
desu I really liked the art style for charlottes dream like way more than I think I should

>>154376926

OP here. I make games. I prefer aesthetics over accuracy.

>tfw your game gets called bad

>>154376803
>microwave
>cat
Fuck, that's funny

>>154376840

Game maker. Get it in the humble bundle for 15 bucks and be able to export to everything.

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>>154377007
Is this you?

>>154377007
It probably is. Now go make it better. Make it the best game ever made

>>154376828
last time i tried with just one controller, could only get one of the characters to move but i didnt have the movement and possesion on character blueprints, ill have another go at it and post progress later, thanks

Game Maker question,

if i have multiple object stacked together,
how can my click register only on the topmost object?

>>154377153

Haven't done game maker in a while but isn't that already the case for objects on different plane levels?

>>154377062
the response is correct. people cant be taking jimmy sterling reviews seriously.

>>154377153
>how can my click register only on the topmost object?
I thought you wrote dick

>>154377280
Nope, seems like I will still be able to click objects behind an object.

>>154377062
>>154377297

British people inherently hate absolutely everything. Unfortunately the British game cynics are all the rage right now because British accents make everything sound more refined to a ton of people.

>>154376616
>nothing

pretty accurate though

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>>154376803
>nobody will make a meme reaction video to your game
Why even carry on

Networking sure is complex

>>154376979
THANKS FOR NOT INCLUDING MY GAME, FAGGOT

>>154377314
You should make a loop checking if another object close to it has a smaller y/depth and then run the code if it returns none.

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OK... templating done I think. Now to go and noodle all the detail.

Fuck. Tiling.

>>154377007
At least you have a game
>tfw no game

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DDX is over.
Lets see 'em, /agdg/.

>>154377821
> Fuck. Tiling.
I hope you're using Layer Cake

>>154377906

> tfw my game is almost entirely text and dialogue

People still play those right?

>>154378001
Well I played CoC and 2 VNs

>>154377062
i never understood the whole asshole critic thing, it just comes off as obnoxious to me.

i'm all for critique and reviews, but there's no reason to shit all over a game in order to add entertainment value.

>>154378001

Yeah. I do. I played that 80s thing they made for Ludum Dare, and I play VNs all the time.

>>154375308

What, and those monks or some shit that shoot electricity were floating on their backs? It's obviously side view, though that does make level transitions and some bosses look wrong

>>154378092
"Angry" reviewers such as Yahtzee aren't reviewers at all; they're comedians.

>>154377464

Everyone so far as only brought up British reviewers and critics so you may be on to something.

>>154378092
Maybe the game is just bad

>>154378108
Not him, but I thought the monks and candles were drawn like your tipcal rpg characters.

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>>154377934
More than I expected

pls no bully, i want to change a sprite's color in XNA game 4.0 with a button press.

if (GamePad.GetState(PlayerIndex.One).Buttons.A == ButtonState.Pressed)

what do i do after this ? Ive already drawn the image and all that stuff.

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>>154377934
Game was nowhere near ready tho

>>154377964
Don't really need it for this

>>154377062
>>154377464
>>154378092
>>154378151
reminder that jim sterling has a playlist of 249 videos of him shitting on greenlight pages/trailers

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>>154377934
Comparison shot

>>154378487
That's why I think he's okay

They shit on games because it gets views.

"It's good" as it turns out, makes for a really goddamn boring review.

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>tfw should be deving but instead I'm writing a script for Gelbooru to optimize one-handed browsing experience
I am the bone of my dick

>>154378487
Playing bad games is like watching bad movies. It helps you appreciate better movies. Plus with any medium there is a surface layer of the Same Old Shit™, B scene, indie scene and that indie scene is 90% garbage, but somebody needs to shift through it to find the gems.

>>154369824
Got something working, attack feels 1000x better now. Sweet.

Went from "meh" to wanting to attack just because it feels strong.

>>154378691
why do you use browsers to browse booru instead of ahoviewer?

>>154377475
You just have to be a terrible programmer, and you too can get meme reaction videos.

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>>154377934
Really happy with my results

>>154378857
Because it crashes with a memory leak

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>>154378520
>fat fuck
>spends his time picking the worst looking games he can find to pretend to be mad about
>doesnt want the trouble of playing them so he "reviews" trailers and images and writing
>"he's okay"

>>154378754
>Playing bad games is like watching bad movies.
does he ever actually play anything?

>>154378560
I think its just like the lets players and their screaming. People want to inject some excitement into their otherwise incredibly dull and empty lives and this kind of self righteous rage is just the ticket for these kind of people. Just look at game forums: "I'm quitting if you dont change the game!" "This is a slap in the face to the community!"

Also the creators want to be funny and the basis of humor is pretty much putting things down so its hard to be funny while you're talking about how good something is.

>>154378937
fix it instead of writing a script

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>>154377934

5 views
0 downloads

thanks

>>154378970
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRceUcRZcK0zAt8sV33ZsMCVlOgWjVoy
First 3 are bad

>>154379195
What did anon mean by this?

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Finally working on some content again

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Its a stupid question but I must know.

What is the use of this huge blank space?

>>154379292
at first I was like "meh"

But then rainbow mega spam, and now I like it.

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>>154375639
Yes, how can I help you

>>154379310
its just there for nothing

>>154375639
>waifu
fuck off

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>>154379439

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>>154377110
had a go at using just one controller but it just doesn't work, only 1 character can be possessed by a controller at any given time. Ive nearly got it working here with multiple controllers but what happens is that the second character spawns and is possessed but no input comes out of the second characters BP

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>>154379484
>butchers the word waifu
>posts an anime style image

>that one guy that keeps saying your game will be horrible as if he's sure of it
>always goes out of his way to say so
>tfw you haven't even released a demo

>>154379392
Found out how that bug where the girl doesn't appear anymore after dying works.
Seems it happens when you keep pressing buttons after the camera starts moving back to the checkpoint.
Wrote it on the game's submissin page too anyway.

>>154379439
We already had this discussion back in july, tale your alzheimer pills grandpa

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>>154379762
>that one guy who says he likes your game and he has some suggestions on how to improve it and it's basically "change everything"

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>>154379370
it's all about the rainbow mega spam

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>>154377934
I'm sorry to those 38 people who might have thought my game had any gameplay
I'm surprised that some other people got fewer than I did

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>>154378420
Just a head's up, this is terrible code. But you sound like a beginner, so this should at least do what you want.

>>154379816
fapfapfap

>>154380084
but he's dead.

>>154380276
fapfapfapfapfap

>>154379013

Is this Sanix or in the top 5?

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post weeb music

>>154379053
127,228 views
0 dollars

>>154379840
Sweet, thank you, I really need to work on fixing that thing.

>>154379053
See
>>154377906

how much coffee would it take to kill you

>>154379053
Were your game only playable on linux?

>>154379195
Just checked, the time is wrong, it's actually 2:46:50. And they are kinda up their own asses about it.

>>154379053
When did you upload your game? Pretty sure on the first day a bunch of anons downloaded every single game to review them

>>154380551
I think you can drink about 50 cups in a day and nothing major will happen.

>>154380615
>trying to sell rock paper scissor game stolen from an anime
completely justified

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>tfw nobody will ever argue over the internet about how to play your game

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>>154377934

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Nodev here.

Why is this 13€ humbun almost 640€ on Steam?

What am I missing here?

>>154380551
I used to drink around 8 cups per day. I'm still alive but the gastritis destroyed my stomach and now I have to be careful with the shit I eat or drink.

>>154379505
Nice Restricted RPS clone

>>154380370
I am also interested in anime dev music

>>154380882
Nobody's using GM anymore
They are trying to cash in one last time

>>154376220
your going up to the front, the front!

>>154380551
4 tablespoons of caffeine powder and you will drop dead, 1 cup of coffee has about 1/16th of a teaspoon

>>154379964
i think those are just nodevs that wish they could be making what you're making

>>154379195
>>154380615
Holy shit that's fucking beautiful thank you

>>154380359
...top 5

>>154380551
one with enough laxative, youd wish you were dead?

>>154381092
>4 tablespoons
If you're 200kg, sure

>>154374520
Kill yourself gogem.
You got proved wrong.

>>154381306
sweet 1306 dubs.

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>glitch only occurs when i'm not trying to fix it

>>154380370
>>154380987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pCS44qrJkY

>>154381471
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenbug

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>>154377934
This is for Ball Run.
Not bad, got more last year but that's ok. Nothing really new in this demo other than using a different engine.

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>>154377934

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this reads properly right?

>>154380370
>>154380987
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py8Me9rgpsE

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>>154376379
I love that visual style. Can't wait for Return of the Obra Dinn and I hope you finish your game too.

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>>154381874
holy fuck, I'm too jealous now

Should we make that demo day /v/ thread again?

2D C#

Unity or Monogame?

>>154378890
if you are a terrible programmer without cute loli grill in your game, you're just a terrible programmer and collective "shit demoday games go straight to trash" memes is the best you can count for

>>154382019
With Unity, you're not using C#, you're using Unity and incidentally scripting with C#.

>>154382019
Monogame for freedom, Unity or Gamemaker for speed

>>154382065
not that anon, but you are using C#, it just gets turned into bytecode or IL2CPP was it? anyway the application itself when built isn't C#

>>154382065

You've probably never created a game with Unity.

>>154382003
That's a shader though

Use Unity if you want your game to be unoptimized, ugly, buggy shit.

>>154379505
Bumping my post for some advice

>>154382152
C# is turned into bytecode and executed through a VM that might do JIT compilation.

>>154382170
Am I wrong?

>>154382328
Your entire set up confuses me.

Are the three characters totally different blueprints?
Why is there a separate Control blueprint for each?
I presume you googled the issue and have seen the solutions for controlling multiple characters?

>geat a great idea for a game mechanic
>spend today by prototyping it
>turns out it's boring as shit
fuck

>>154382637
what mechanic?

>>154382701
not going to risk that someone gets a better idea on how to implement it and makes the money meant for me
i don't think so son

>>154382003
>Make some pretty alright 3D models and visuals
>Fuck it all up by adding a two color meme shader

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>writing engine
>windows forms c# shit
>hear wpf is better
>gpu rendering and shit
>spend week porting to wpf
>runs like shit

>>154382867
>writing engine
>C#
You fucked up

>>154382867
>What is XNA

anyone know where i can find "meme shaders" to try out?

>>154382867
What the fuck are you using either of those for?

>>154382473
At first all three characters were going to be on the same blueprint and I was just going to switch out the sprites but that wouldn't allow for individual character collision. Now each character has their own bp and controller, I have tried with just one but UE4 doesn't let me control all 3 at once with just one. From what I've seen a controller can only possess one pawn at a time

>>154382920
you need a game to use shaders

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>it's another enginedevs bait newfags with shitty advice on purpose episode

>>154382918
Bloated, in my opinion

>>154382867
no wonder it runs like shit you are using a tool meant for making forms and windows for making games

>>154382978
>that wouldn't allow for individual character collision
?

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>>154383041
>Thin wrapper over DX
>Bloated

>>154382917
What would you use?
>inb4 gamemaker

I broke everything again.

>>154383153
C++ like any non-retarded person.

Right now I'm using SDL2's renderer. My game runs at 60 FPS, no slowdowns ever (unless my laptop is on power saver mode).
Is it worth it to switch over to OpenGL instead? I know it's faster but it's just so fuggin complicated. SDL is so easy, all you have to do is load a texture and render it.

>>154382867
I went through the same thing anon but when I was done porting to wpf it ran WAY better. I'm making a small thing though, not making an engine.

>>154383183
C++ is too hard only expert programmers should use it

>>154383172
ctrl+z
rebuild

Is there a guide covering from a bird's eye all topics related to game developing, even if it's in a shallow way? I'm talking about programming, art, sound creation, motivation, and all the things that I still don't know that belong in game development?

I am a newborn GM baby. Please, no bully

>>154383153
MMF2 like any enlightened person

>>154383183
Can you give me 3 valid reasons to use C++ over C# for a 2D game?

>>154383081
I want each of the three characters to have their own collision

>>154383343
>runs like shit
>runs like shit
>runs like shit

Why do people here dev engines? I mean, I've build an engine in raw directx just to see how it works, it was interesting. But I only spend a couple hours playing around with it.

To actually write a fully functional game engine is an immense amount of work to duplicate massive amount of tedious, technical features that are freely available in tons of free engines which have been optimized much better than you can unless you are very technical and spend even more time developing.

Even if you have some interesting gameplay mechanics, you can hash them out in any engine easily. It might not be 100% as efficient as a custom game engine, but its good enough and saves literally multiple man-years of work to build a complete engine.

>>154383235
Did you use DrawingVisuals or a Canvas? I've been working with DrawingVisuals since they're supposedly more lightweight but it still runs like shit

Created the /v/ demo day thread again. Perhaps there'll be more people to try out demos during the weekend.

>>>/v/351381428

>mfw not getting anywhere because worrying about the best way to structure my code and the architecture of my game

>>154383426

C# is just as fast as C++ unless you are heavily optimizing the hardware layout like taking into account memory nodes, CPU cache, or taking advantage of specific CPU instructions. In a real time application like a game, you can never really make good use of those optimizations.

Assuming a good design, C# is going to be about the same speed as C++ unless you of course have a bad design. The more abstraction in a language, the easier it is to accidentally introduce very inefficient code paths.

>>154383426
>i don't know what structs are
>i don't know what collections to use
>i don't know what unsafe code is

>>154383649
>worrying about code and architecture
>when Game Maker exists

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So, did anything come out of the idea of buying a stand at PAX and showing select /agdg/ games?

>>154374460
I got more downloads but I don't if changing the picture really had an effect. But as long as it communicates Hachiko's intended design better I'm happy.

>>154383458
Yeah I'm definitely not using DrawingVisuals. All I've done so far is put a single animation in an Image, But that alone stuttered and looked like ass in winforms unless you use a .gif

>>154383343
yeah, c++ is much better.

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rate my xml-equivalent markup language

isn't it dank as fuck?
look at that elegance, look at how neat it is

i made an half-assed parser to convert it in xml

God damn, I wish I could finish a project. I've started and stopped over 10 projects now.

>>154383434
If you're writting frameworks or engine they'll be shit for sure. But with some they'll get better and it's obvious that as a indie you won't do good engine and you won't need any. You should be doing it if your target is being programmer in some gamedev studio. If you want implement gameplay, graphics, sound or just be designer, you need no knowledge about making engines. I think you should know a bit about every branch of gamedev to be the most efficient but ultimately you should choose one branch.
>>154383343
As an amateur I think C# isn't much more easier than C++ but object-oriented languages are currently in use in engines so it's up to you. If you want to write something in SDL or SMFL you can do it, but think about if you want to learn doing something from scrap or making good, playable game in smaller amount of time.

Is there any good 2D slashers in DMC/Darksiders style?

>>154383214
I'm thinking about the same. SDL2 is max comfy. It's just a bunch of extra functions to render and handle input, and that's it. I can have all my focus on figuring out the code. However maiden dev said that OpenGL is also easy, and sometimes even easier to use than SDL. I highly doubt that anything could be easier to use than SDL, but I personally would like to check it out for the 3D part.

Have you found any good tutorials yet, by the way? Right now that's my biggest concern. I would like to follow these when I have the time:
http://www.opengl-tutorial.org/
https://www.opengl.org/archives/resources/code/samples/glut_examples/examples/examples.html

Another big question is: which version of OpenGL would be the best to use? Even if I go 3D, I would like my game to run on toasters, but I don't know if it is a good idea to go for a previous version. I'm not sure about going with the newest either, since all the tutorials must be outdated compared to that.

>>154383863
Github that shit

>LOVE2D

What an abortion. Anybody who thinks this can make anything other than shitty prototypes is insane.

>>154383832
I mean sure, if you want slower compile times, worse debugging, more verbose code, more boilerplate, harder to extend and to script.

Your 2D game will take 4ms per frame instead of 4.5ms, but it sure was worth it in the end.

>>154383941
listen to this guy, he is wise one.

>>154383950
You can use pure OpenGL, or you can use SDL's built-in OpenGL functions. I'm not entirely sure what the difference between them is.

>>154384060
Can I add this to my game?

>>154384016
cool

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Look at this flier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL22VFISsJI

What happened to the dev making God is a Cube? His game got greenlit and then he stopped posting, it seems.

>>154383023
>it's another "Unity users get triggered when somebody suggests anything else" episode

>>154384130
no

>>154384171
Neat

>>154382918
obsolete.

>>154384204
it's a joke, relax. relax your body.

>>154384127
You can't use "pure OpenGL"; you need something like SDL to set up a window and context for you.

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>>154384171
>agdg.co
>it's fucking real
>mfw

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>not using email for multiplayer

>>154384236
Stress and anxiety and depression. Or something. Whatever. Expect a kickstarter soon.

>>154384353
I heard they came up with that color from the color of blood when they eat your ass.

>>154384294
what does that even mean

>>154384171
>Levitated Toy Factory
wat
>google
>"We use complex emergent phenomena to craft bits & atoms into toys & games from an infinite Universe of possibilities. Through the power of custom software, nature inspired algorithms and digital fabrication tools, we transform natural materials into beautiful artifacts of computation."

HAHAHAHA

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>>154380370
>he doesn't dev to 2hu music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lPEjlmRsWw&list=PL_I1U99bY0kBIygDdG7prgtFBbteqy35r

>>154384530
Then they 3D print a bunch of cubes with holes them. These are toys and games, apparently.

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>>154384530
If I didn't know, I'd say they were based in San Francisco

>>154384530
They don't meet at the toy factory anymore. Now it's at a microbrewery.

>>154384353
It's mostly hipster mobiledevs though.

>>154384576
I exclusively dev to 2hu when it's not that MIDI shit.

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

Eurobeat 2hu BEST 2hu.

>>154384060
cool dog, are you looking for a programmer?

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Comfy?

>>154384696
Eurobeat is, indeed, the best.

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

>>154384749
Literally the opposite.

>>154383950
Using shaders and that kind of shit is the big advantage of OpenGL even in 2D games I think. SDL isn't built for that so you have to bolt it on top of it (at that point you might as well just use OpenGL to begin with). And when it comes to 2D in OGL all you're basically doing is putting squares with different textures and shaders on the screen, so it ends up being pretty simple.

http://learnopengl.com is the best tutorial I know, goes all the way from hello triangle to instancing, shadow maps, all that good stuff. Once you get to the advanced parts you can probably start looking at siggraph/GDC/whatever for features to add.

As for version you definitely want to use version 3 or higher. I believe OSX supports 4.1 nowadays, it used to be stuck on 3.3. 4.3 added compute shaders which can simplify a lot of stuff and is all around a baller feature.

So if you want to support the most platforms, 4.1. If you want to use cool features, use the newest you can. Using 4.5 isn't really a problem if you only target Windows.

I have no idea about how GL ES and phone support works though.

>>154384749
quite opposite

>>154384749
No, that's pretty creepy actually.

>>154384749
Unrealistic shadow from the grate due to modeling the fire as a point light.

not sure if this is the right place to ask, but what language or engine did zun used to create touhou games?

>>154383963
i'm glad you are interested enough to post that

parser is buggy as shit now and i'm not the best coder, i need a bit of time to make it decent for anybody other than me

>>154384787
My dark-skinned brethren.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crQxy_o-jSk

>>154374532
>others are calling him "LIS" now
Nothing more satisfying than successfully making memes about a meme shitter. Yeah this wouldn't be the first time LIS has strangled a meme to death by co-opting it. He's that kid who nobody wants to share toys with because he's disgusting and was raised by pigs, hands all sticky with his own snot, doesn't know how to play right, thinks breaking the toys is fun, etc.

>>154384749
less ambient, more light sources, I'd say.

Looks great tho, good job!

>>154383863
How does multi-line content work?

>>154384894
He uses c++ and direct x to make games, he also made his own scripting language to make bullet patterns.

>>154384749
Sexy texturing.

>>154382270
Making a shader like that work nicely isn't exactly easy.

>>154384749
Having everything with a grunge effect and red lights make it look creepy.
It's not a bad work tho.

>>154383879
Jam games are good for fixing this. If you finish a game in 2 days you can get out of the rut.

>>154384964
>tfw turns out you're pretty good at emulating LIS
not too hard though really

>>154385020
\n right now
maybe i'll think about something else

>>154385083
What's your game senpai

>>154385135
>finishing a jam game
That's what like 3 of my unfinished projects are, though... I just give up halfway through. Do I need adderall or something?

>>154384387
This. Every single turn based game should have an option to use emails for multiplayer. There's a library for email functionality in almost every language so it's not hard to implement and it eliminates the need for dedicated game servers.

>>154385147
If you emulate LIS you are LIS, after a full year of him shitposting the same thing everyday he became a spirit of nodev. But everyone else can just stop pretending to be him and go back to making games. He can never stop being himself.

>>154385219
what if each turn takes less than 60 seconds?

I'm going to make a fun video game!

>>154385263
>>154385147
>>154384964
>LIS

I'm glad I have no idea what you guys are talking about.

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>>154385083
>it's an anon post sad pics talking about how he wants more downloads but he don't say what's his game episode
You need to promote your shit if you want people to play it, be a man already

>>154385218
>That's what like 3 of my unfinished projects are, though... I just give up halfway through.
That must be a horrible feeling.
>Do I need adderall or something?
I think you just need to care more. If you are fully focused during a jam and still can't finish a game then you might not be cut out for it, if you can't stay fully focused (outside of taking a few short breaks) the same thing applies. I haven't seen any devs with ADD successfully make a game. And drugs won't help, all they do is multiply your lack of direction.

>>154385217
https://kusanagi.itch.io/planar-shift

The game's not really interesting or attention grabbing in its current state I suppose.

Its something to work on moving forward.

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>>154385349
>I'm glad I have no idea what you guys are talking about.
You should be. You SHOULD be.

>>154380052
yes thats around my shitty code but i want to change the color of one image in particular. any idea ? sorry i totally forgot i asked but thanks for the response.

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Progress :)

Reminder, if you want your crappy platformer to make money like Shovel Knight:

>clone retro game
>make character control like character from different retro game
>pay meme musician to write uninspired soundtrack in Famitracker that all sounds the same
>throw in unfunny puns that only tumblr would laugh at
>your game is now "genre-defining" and "an instant classic"

>>154385535
I think your cover image that looks like an rpg maker game didn't help either anon

>>154385535
Hey, that's weird, I did download and play it yesterday, was pretty fun!

>>154384749
good looking house but no comfy at all
i feel like that's where a murderer would put me up a few hours before stabbing me 40 times

I thought Knights of Pen and Paper was fun

>>154385919
That's pretty sad.

>>154384749
Creepy. Go more towards orange with the lighting, red is scary. The fireplace looks like a fucking furnace, it's creepy a more regular fireplace would be better for comfy. There are no windows, normal rooms have windows otherwise it looks like a cell, a nice soft rug or something would also help that tiled floor since it looks really cold.The textures and models look really nice.

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>>154377934
Not bad.

What's your opinion on 4chan advertising? Anyone here try it

>>154384236
I was wondering the same about the slipstream dev.
Why do devs keep disappearing after starting a greenlight?

Just curious to ask.

When your character falls into a bottomless pit to their death, which of these happens?

>His health points are instantly set to zero
or
>An "I'm dead" True/False boolean is set to True

or maybe something else. Tell me. It's all effectively the same result. I'm just curious how you do it.

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>>154385416
You're right. Can't just assume the game will magically advertise itself just by existing.

>>154385669
I guess not, heh. I'm terrible at visual design, but that should've been obvious from the start.

>>154385682
Oh, thanks anon. Glad you enjoyed it!

>>154385565
The image I've posted literally shows you have to modify the color of a texture you want, when it's being drawn.

I don't know if it's even possible to spoon feed more than this.

You could post your code, and I'll tell you what to modify.

>>154385636
The salt is real

>>154385636
Don't forget
>get amiibo deal with Nintendo
>lock your console exclusive content behind that $15 piece of plastic that is sold out everywhere
>while PS4 and Xbone owners gets their exclusives for free
>oh by the way, the console exclusive content is co-op mode
>a feature literally everyone wanted
>but only Nintendobabbies get
>and only if they shill out, at minimum, an extra 15 bucks
Yacht Club quickly turned into a shit developer.

>>154386221
set to true the i'm dead

>>154386167
Well if your game is completed I don't know what other thing you can post, and he is probably doing some legal stuff with valve to get the game in too.

>only half of ddx entrants submitted

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>>154377934
My understanding is that this is pretty good

is goog really this shitposting asshole?
his yesdev videos were actually pretty entertaining

>>154386221
Make them take damage so the health bar effects still work.

> Quest 1
> Talk to cook who needs eggs and shrimp to make some shrimp fritatas
> Buy a cast net and go shrimping
> Buy some eggs from the local farmer
> Go back to the cook who want you to cook them first
> Get ingredients ready by peeling shrimp and cracking eggs into a glass
> Put ingredients together and cook on a stove
> Give cook fritatas
> Quest Complete

This started as a visual novel.

>>154386360
Slipstream was greenlit a long time ago though (a year maybe?)
A lot of non-agdg people were looking forward to it too

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@154385636

>>154386470

Yeah, that puts you in the range of the other top 5 poster.

But I really wish more people played these demos. Which is why I've been shilling this on /v/.

besides GMS, what are some good engine to make 2D games?

>>154386714
MMF2 > GM

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>small musicial ear-rape idea
https://clyp.it/bv0qyawr

What creepy things can happen in metro?
if you pitch an idea you can post a nick too to be forever remembered on the card

>>154386714
XNA/Monogame
Some others listed in the OP

>>154386593
What happens if I crack the eggs and peel the shrimps as soon as I get them?

>>154386713
That's for Monolith, which means Sanix should be the only one above me.

I'm very curious by how much.

>>154386826

It's part of the cooking minigame, so it's not possible unless you're already cooking.

>>154386796
Lights turn off for a second and someone disappears or appears.

>>154386796

https://vimeo.com/117515059

>>154386796
Being completely alone in an otherwise normal, moving metro.

>>154386353
>understanding the markets and using them properly
>shit

you probably liked SEGA back in the genesis era