/agdg/ - Amateur Game Design General

>C++
>not Rust

a community full of nodevs
me included

>ah yes let's have a language that only focuses on its rigid memory management """solution""" and forget about the rest
rust is the biggest meme language in years.

nth for if you dont make as much money as Hopppooop u r a winrar

>>156900859
im working on a game

Katamari style tank controls on PC:
WASD + arrows?
WASD + IJKL?
IJKL + arrows?

Everything feels so awkward, but I don't want to make my game require a controller.

>>156900575
Where's your game?

>>156901247
WASD + arrows/mouse is alright

>Creating my first potentially amazing game
>Been stuck for 2 weeks on one problem
>I can't write a single line of code until I've edited these libraries
>Losing motivation

Help me keep going please

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>trying to art with a fucked-up wrist

>>156900894
It just focuses on memory safety. It does a really good job of that, but also does everything else better than most languages and especially better than C++.

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>>156901518
>trying to art in general

>>156901686
>also does everything else better than most languages
it's meta game is S H I T
>better than C++.
well that's not hard

>>156901832
>complaining about Rust being a one trick pony as a Lispfag

>>156901518
Last year I broke my hand playing football and was unable to dev for 2 months

>>156900575
>> AGDG Chats
>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/
>https://www.blender-models.com/
>http://www.mayang.com/textures/
>> Free audio
>https://freesound.org/browse/
>https://incompetech.com/music/
>https://freemusicarchive.org/
Looks ugly and makes the OP cluttered

>>156901934
>as a Lispfag
you're pretty far off

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I'm coming to the difficult decision of "what needs to be displayed on screen, and what doesn't."

I don't usually go for a "minimalist" approach to HUDs, but for this game, I think I need to. Anything cluttering the screen space would be bad.

So, for a game like this, is it necessary to display every little cost/revenue as it appears? Every time the player places a road, I do want it to display that it cost him $50. I don't want to put it down on the grid (e.g. Roller-Coaster Tycoon style), as I feel like it will clutter it. But, the issue is that there will be other costs (e.g. a "maintenance" fee that gets applied at the end of a longer interval), and also little bits of profit for when each car reaches the destination. I feel like that's a lot of info to have up at once, but I also don't want the player to miss important information (e.g. when this maintenance fee comes).

>>156901395
>2 weeks
Welcome to gamedev! Easy garbage to the left, hard but worth it on the right

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>>156900859
Speak for yourself. I'm doing alright so far. Though, I admit, I am constantly tempted to go 'fuck it' and switch back to first person again.

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Working on a grazing mechanic right now. Successful grazing will build up Risk Points which player character can use to perform special actions in battle. RP is also can be gained via shot parrying and evading melee attacks (when player character is dashing with the invincibility frames and his hit box connects to the attack hitbox)

>>156902023
Then what did you mean by "meta"?

>>156902292
Thats pretty significant

>>156902409
meta-programming.
templates,generics, that jazz

Rust falls to the age-old obsession pit. Its blinded by its ridiculous red-tape obsession that actually writing Rust is a pain.

>>156902292
thats an interesting mechanic

>>156902628
Well Rust has generics so I don't know what you're on about.

Have you ever used Rust? It's not a pain unless you're unwilling to learn its unique features like borrow checking.

>>156901957
Are you 15?

>>156902292
Aree u goin o use nicup?

>>156902774
Whot ar er talkin about my man

>>156902750
>Well Rust has generics
Yeah, not very good ones.

And yeah I briefly spent a weekend with it, wasn't enthralled.
I'm happy with D

>>156902750
y would i learn a ded lang?

>>156902958
How are they not very good?

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Implementing some cheat codes for fun. Active here are big bullet mode, big hitbox mode, and ludicrous speed. If you've got any good ideas, post em.

Mirror mode breaks backgrounds for some reason and there's barely any heads in the game to be made big

>>156903023
In C++ I can just import and use generics, in rust I need to deserialize them before using,

>>156903023
Limited compared to C++ and D.

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Try my 2d wave based shooter. Shoot with X jump with Z. Start by pressing X by the pyramid.

Survive a wave, get an upgrade and survive again. I think this link will work

https://zip2kx.itch.io/ystw

>>156903213
Because...

>>156903213
ou say you have been working on this game in your free time. How many hours a week on average would you say you have put into this game over the past three years? I'm assuming you are attending a university of some sort?

>>156903086
Why "dodge" meter is decreasing?

>>156903332
I won't bother discussing with a rust autist, if your language was good it would have users, also please do dev a game in rust ;)

>>156903484
>I have no argument and I must scream

>tfw you can program all the mechanics and systems but lose motivation when actually making the game

>>156903086
mario star mode.
>>156903332
You have to deal with macro bullshit which will remind you of the good old days of reinventing the wheel with C. And traits just feel like another hack on top of another hack.

>>156903631
>I would rather rely on old "working" code

Millennials like you should be killed.

>>156903631
also syntax extensions even being a thing makes me vomit.

>>156903631
>You have to deal with macro bullshit which will remind you of the good old days of reinventing the wheel with C.
Like?

>And traits just feel like another hack on top of another hack.
Traits are like type classes. They combine static dispatch with dynamic dispatch in a single interface as opposed to e.g. C++ which has a separate thing for both (concepts, classes).

>>156903759
>also syntax extensions even being a thing makes me vomit.
Like?

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>>156903395
When you dodge, that ship does a roll and you gain iframes for ~8 frames. The other one has more traditional bombs instead.

>>156903631
As in invincibility? Already in there.

>>156902770
26

>>156903809
what i the speed thing on the right? looks kool

>>156903809
That's a great bossfight

Idea for Halloween Jam that I might not use so here goes
>Rhythm Heaven like rhythm game based on carving pumpkins
>by pressing buttons to the beat you carve out the eyes, nose and teeth holes on the pumpkin
>different faces have different rhythms
>additional phase where you cut the top and insert the candle?

This could be part of a series of Halloween themed minigames like recomposing skeletons, making potions as a witch or putting zombies back underground to the beat of the music.

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>>156903781
>Like?
#derive for one thing.
it's hacky as shit

>>156904290
Whatever this is, I want to try it.

>>156904290
i forgot to record cursor btw

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Post whatever dev music you've got on RIGHT NOW

https://youtu.be/jY7H2PU2G2k

>>156904358
It's really not, and it's neither a macro nor a syntax extension.

>>156904358
>>156904529
Like, do you really want to have to write out testing equality componentwise? No, you just derive it. Why complain about the ability to do that?

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>>156904050
How fast your going. You can change between speeds 1 though 3 at any time.

>>156904086
Thanks anon.

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>>156904446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xtLlTfhEV8

>>156904446
http://picosong.com/T9U7/

>>156904446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RFunvF0mDw

>>156904446
https://youtu.be/Qc8BUigzhRM

>>156903809
>>156904689
Your game is super fucking rad anon. I don't even like those types of games but I want to play it.
Keep it up.

>>156904446
https://soundcloud.com/driptothedrop/nerv-after-hours-mecha-dreams-ep
https://soundcloud.com/gentle-rec/drip-drop-rx-mecha-dreams-ep
https://soundcloud.com/futuregirlfriendmusic/future-girlfriend-x-android-apartment

Before I spend the rest of the night still working on this run cycle

Should my mage player run more in a confident, regal way like alucard from symphony of the night or in a dainty way like the sorceress from dragon's crown

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Some more progress on the Tom Cruise machine.

is there a market for a star wars battlefront ripoff game?

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What do I do when my musician is both extremely gay but also kind of cute

I need that music finished

>>156905383
Make it with meme.

>>156905276
>Should my mage(aka male wizard) run like alucard(a male "magic" user) or like dainty( a female wizard)

>>156905539
Promise him cummies for every track he finishes.
Or promise to remove the cummies from him with your mouth for every song.

>>156905685
He said he just wants to be friends :(

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I designed a zombie that'll be something more than this visually, this base could be a good 1 hp outfit kinda like Sir Arthur in Super Ghouls n' Ghosts.

maybe he'll be a knight
maybe he'll be a rapper????

>>156905383
There's a market for nearly every game imaginable, the size is what varies though. A lot of people seem to have been burnt by that last one, but I don't know how big the "not starwars: battlefront" market is.

>>156905286
this is fulfilling one of my needs

>>156905950
>not having sex with your teammates for morale purposes

What a fag, you should fire him

>>156905286
are you slapping extra fuel tanks on these babies

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>>156901771

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uh oh. will skater kid survive?

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Made some more portals!

>>156906606
I hope it's good, we've had this gimmick forever and no one has managed to do something decent with it.

>>156906567
>Using that shitty mistranslation
>Not asking a real chinese dude to help you do it

>>156906719
You don't think Portal is decent?

>>156906606
That looks unintuitive as fuck

>>156906606
so how'd you do it?
what's the technology behind this?

>>156906719
The only thing it will have in common with Portal is the portals, the game is going to be about manipulating the portals aka making items go away, increase/decrease in size, enter in pocket dimensions, my portals are more like dimensions with alternate physics/etc than mere teleportation thingies.

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Where did the model guy for webm related go? I'm not working on this anymore until I have someone to make models.

>>156906789
As a game, I enjoyed both, but I never felt like it captured the depth you could go with the system. Granted it was an inherit design decision for the I/O gun. Instead of allowing for more.
>>156906879
Sounds like what I want, looking forward to the progress.

>>156906938
Just made a fresh model for you friend.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3300

>>156902292
This looks fun

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>>156907185

>>156907387
>AGDG gets left in the dust of reddit

>>156907387
So this... is the power... of Unity...
Whoa..

*bows graciously*

>>156905276
Regal, definitely.

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The business model for this game is basically complete, but without a shitton of models there's no point in working on it.

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Looks too much like a bathroom?

>>156907804
Make them less glossy

>>156907162
>more than two portals
Yeah dude... makes perfect sense.

>>156907732
>Go on google download pixel objects
>Get the free extrude addon on the asset store
>Free objects

>>156907804
>bathroom floating in void space

>>156907953
Even fucking Halo made a multi-portal system trivial, fuck off.

>>156907953
>Enter portal A that goes to portal B that goes to portal C

WOW MIND FUCKING BLOWN

>tfw your game seemed good on paper but kind of sucks in practice

Do I finish it or drop it?

>This is an ai trailer for my game which is like Skyrim meets Minecraft
>it's a fucking navmesh agent simply following the player

the Unity reddit is a fucking gold mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo2NOh9Ok0c

>>156908309
The guy who made stardew valley said he hated his game for years because it wasn't fun but he kept pushing on until it became enjoyable

>>156908079
The Guttural Void™

>>156908432
that's just the nature of harvest moon games, though
the basic mechanics of it are NOT fun, it's the immersion and depth that makes it fun eventually
I would suggest workshopping it for a while, but if you think it's fundamentally flawed, switch to something else

>>156908085
>>156908129
>having no idea how portals work
>being mad about it

>>156908606
>thinking he knows how portals work
>portals don't even exist in real life aside from assumed wormholes.

>>156908606
>his universe is limited to binary IO

>>156904529
>>156904672
>no reply
:^)

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>>156907889
Gloss removed. Indeed it looks a lot better but I'm not quite happy with it yet, maybe gonna try that usual offset tiling pattern

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>Be Unity "dev"
>Purchase full game from asset store

>>156904446
Pic related

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>>156909543
>mfw Unity devs pay monthly to get cucked by losing their revenue from game sales to the very people they pay monthly

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wow. so much progress right here. making video games is so amazing........

oh boy here we go

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>MFW i posted this >>156909724 in the wrong board

maybe i really should get some sleep

>>156910847
>board

>>156910932
yea i think i'm doine for today.

>>156910504
How is this not terrorism, again?

>>156910847
>not posting language
>or code
kill yourself

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I finally made a thing guys.

Good path finding is hard.

>>156910504
literally what the fuck

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>tfw no idea how to render cloth
help

>>156911169
looks cute

RTS?
What are you using?

>>156911287
Unity

And yes it's an RTS. I wanted to implement squads similar to CoH. I'm pretty happy with the result. Took a while though.

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>>156908432
>it wasn't fun
Well, he was also aping off of Harvest Moon, so it being "not fun" is a personal failing, not a general design error, since it's demonstrable that harvest moon is fun and even ripoffs of it are still fun.

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disclaimer: ideaguy/nodev here

Unreal developers.... do I need to be able to actually code in C++ to make a serious game? I've been eating through the official tutorials at a rapid pace but suddenly have gotten to the C++ ones and have spent hours trying to figure out basic stuff because epic keeps changing the API

am I delusional if I think I can make a quality game using only blueprint and the other functions inside the editor?

>>156911772
No, you can definitely make a good game with only blueprints.

>>156910103
But you only need to pay if your game makes more than 100k per year which will never happen

>>156911772
mayhem league is all in blueprints.
But keep in mind.
Learning C++ has the initial time investment, but blueprints will cost you more in the long-run.

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>>156910504

>>156911772
the blueprint system is very very good, so you don't need to know c++... but once you've learned how the logic of it all works, you'll be in a much better position to learn c++

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>>156910504
fuckking call the mods
fuckingn delete this

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Fuck, I feel sick but I want to dev more.
Have some prostrats before I go to sleep

>>156912286
Love it.


https://youtu.be/brSsTm_yz0U?t=7s

>>156911841
thank you

>>156911986
>>156912229
can you explain a bit further why learning C++ will help my productivity in the long run? I need to really believe it if I'm going to put hundreds of hours into learning

>>156911169
Units in an RTS should never, ever, ever split up and take different paths. Still a ways to go mate but great job so far!

>>156910504
mods

MOOOOOOOOODS

>>156911772
It's only superficially different for the most part. IMO to be the most productive you should be using a mix of both, each when appropriate. For example, you wouldn't implement a data structure or whatever using Blueprint but you wouldn't script a cutscene using C++.

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>>156912286
Gonna be honest, I thought the gun icon was a dick and balls.

>>156912384
This always amazes me, I don't even know what is happening most of the time.

>>156904379
there's already completed game.
go play super monkey balls.
it's the exact same game, and super monkey balls did it better.

>>156912526
I kinda wanted that the individual units figure out the best way for them since they can be separated around an area. I could make a "follow the leader" style of movement and see if I like that better. Otherwise, thanks!

>>156912501
Using both together is definitely the best way to use UE4.

I recommend you start with BPs, learn UE4 and how it works that way, and then move on to C++ when necessary. If nothing else they are great because they can't crash the engine like C++ can.
You might also find that you don't actually need any C++ for your game.

Just to be clear you don't know any programming currently?

>>156912716
It's fine in limited distances and open spaces, but don't ever let 3 units go left around a building and 3 units go right around the same building.

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>>156912672

>>156912501
>why learning C++ will help my productivity
You have an entire 3D engine at your disposal.
Learning C++ (and subsequently UE's api) will have you be able to skip the abstracted layer that is Blueprints and go directly inside the engine to do virtually whatever you want.

I would imagine you could even be able to strip away all the bloat you don't need for a more minimal engine.

>>156910504
FUCKING GET RID OF THIS

>>156912794
basically, no. I did AP Computer Programming in HS and aced (5/5) but since then I'm pretty sure it's been nothing. programming comes pretty naturally to me though, I understand all of the concepts that have been introduced through the BP tuts quickly.

I was following the C# tutorials by the guy who made Ant Sim and I was SO ready to jump into C#, seemed so easy and natural. then I looked at the incredible power of UE4 and couldn't say no.

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First time trying to make anything so here's my attack prototype.
Can adjust the length and the attack with the alarms i created.
Also has cooldown, in case i need it later on.
Am i a dev yet?

>>156912840
Good point. Ill add it to the bucket.

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this has taken me all day and its still has some bugs but here's my auto-tile system. At the end you see what it looks like in the editor

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>>156913182

>>156913193
already ahead of 90% of posters here anon, welcome to the club

>>156913547
what a warm welcome, thanks anon.
although i've been in this thread for like half a month before i had the courage to try game deving myself, you guys are pretty cool.

>>156913182
where's the game? i only see art.

>>156913657
>you guys are pretty cool.
>bunches of nodevs shitposters are pretty cool.
how long before you break down and posting same post in every single thread like this retards over here?
>>156901971

>>156913975
>I like bloat

who owns the rights to awesome possum

>>156913975
man i'm super chill and i like the occasional keks so they can shitpost all they want i don't mind.
And i'm not the type to shitpost in every thread.

>>156914171
>i'm super chill
translation: i'm not chill at all

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>>156913182

>>156914238
i don't know man, i'm the chillest dude i know and i've been told many times that i don't freak out at all.

Nice shitposting tho, keep it comming

>>156914101
Anon don't
Please don't do whatever you're thinking about
Just let it stay dead

>>156914171
>they can shitpost all they want i don't mind.
>reply to shitposts

I give this new guy 3 weeks before he break down and bring us a new meme.

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Hey guys I'm new to pixel art. Could I get some feedback on this sword? Thanks

>>156913975
Hello, MothDan.

So I followed a tutorial and got text to show up finally, but I'm getting sporadic errors. When I generate the text, it usually works fine, it pulls a random planet name from a short list, and if you click it again, it will generate a new one, but sometimes it just crashes with an error pointing at the "varname" place holder.

http://pastebin.com/CzHd6AL1

Any help is appreciated.

@156914607
Should probably change the 4chan filename first m8

>>156914486
i like replying to shitposts cus they think they're trolling me, when in reality i don't really mind having an autistic conversation.

>>156914607
It's literally perfect

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Added cracks, offset tiles and changed the hue. Looks better than before but not worthy of being the final texture.

>>156914607
you mean sord?

>>156913182
WHY IS THIS FUCKING HERE FUCKING REPORT THIS YOU COWARDS

>>156914654
the doc says irandom generates a number from 0 to n, so irandom(4) generates 5 numbers and you're missing case 0

I dunno if that would cause it to crash

>>156915609
You're the stupid one. This is day one programming stuff too.

Num 1: 0
Num 2: 1
Num 3: 2
Num 4: 3
Num 5: 4

>>156915485
Nailed it. I was using irandom_range(1,x) but as long as add in a case 0 it seems to work fine. Thanks.

>>156915861
Ignore the bait.
Don't you realize he's shitposting when he's posting shit images?

>>156916108
I don't come to the thread that often. Is this the new spam image?

>making fun of this real gamedev just because he's using the source engine
where is your game danny?

weird issue, but can someone give me a mega/some other kind of link to webMCam?

I literally can not download the 16 MB release from Github for some fucking reason.
Every time it starts to download, then like 10 seconds in it drops to 0 kb/s and never starts up again.

>>156916185
you can filter the word "progress" and you won't miss any posts containing actual progress

>>156916479
do yourself a favor and use obs/webm for retards, unless you know how to configure webmcam properly. it's default encoding options are complete trash

>random number generating functions with side effects
No thanks.

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>Having to manually select and import 350 meshes into 3dsmax because the import folder option doesn't work to get a ripped model that I probably won't be able to use because the textures are all grey
Meanwhile I'm still full NEET and haven't looked for a job in weeks. Money running out in 2 months. Nice to know I have my priorities straight

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Does your game have jiggle armor?

>>156916693
No but now it will
I N N O V A T I V E

Best web framework right now? I wanna make something 2D with multiple scenes that can be explored.

>>156917803
idk man id guess the internet is where its at rn

Now I'm trying to wrap my head around how to use Instance IDs to keep the generated information consistent.

I have a star map where you can click on planets. When you click a planet it takes you to a new room with the planet, and options to Scan it, Send your ship there, Return to star map, etc.

What I want is to have the star map show the planet's name, and IF it was scanned, display the same information that you would get on the the other screen, just smaller or something. Pseudo-code wise, what would be the best way to go about this?

Currently I have the Scan button generating the info, but I'm guessing I should have it generated from the star map, and just have the Scan button display it.

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>>156917217

An I doing something wrong, or is rendering text using SDL2 by rendering character glyphs onto a texture really slow?

>>156918042
He means best engine I think

>>156916812
I'm using UE4. Are you a shill? I've tried unity many times and even doing the most basic things confuses it.

>>156918403
SDL2's built-in rendering is really slow.

How do I make a chromatic aberration shader in game maker?

>>156918490
Damn, I thought SDL_Texture was supposed to use the graphics card? How can I make my stuff faster?

>>156918143
Maybe something like a global ds_grid.

Do you need to be switching rooms here, though?

>>156918761
by switching to SFML

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>>156916693

>>156918896
You're making me sad man, but thanks.

>>156918828
I.... don't know. Probably not, actually. It just made sense to me from an organizational perspective. I've only been at this a few days, so I'm basically just trying to figure shit out as I chug along.

Are you suggesting that I just create objects and shit on top of each other? Would that make it easier somehow?

>>156919114
damn, sorry. I'm sure you can find a better performance solution with SDL2, chill.

>>156919335
I'll give SFML a try in my next project, so thanks for pointing me to it! I'm restricting myself to C with this one just to see if I can do it. I'm already regretting that decision.

>>156919226
It's just if you do it all in one room, you won't need to store the global.

Instead of switching rooms, you could just disable the map objects and create the menu objects, then to switch back you just destroy the menu objects and re-enable the map.

>>156912286
reskinned metroid?

I have a question regarding JRPG battle systems.

Is there any way to have characters move in a jrpg without breaking apart the cohesiveness of the party and relegating the player's total control power the members?

I've been working on developing a battle system that allows for the free movement and responsiveness of an action combat system, but the party control and tactical input of a traditional turn-based system
But I can't figure out how to balance and combine these elements properly.

At first I thought of something like the Tales of series, but that doesn't give you enough control.
Now I'm looking at xenoblade, and although it meets some of my criteria, it looks like you're not really controlling your team, but rather giving out commands

Valkyria chronicles was another game I looked into,but it doesn't feel as real-time as the others mentioned above.

>>156919740
I think I understand what you're saying. Would that \work with what I'm trying to do, random star map, random planets etc? I guess if I used parent objs and disabled those, the children would also be disabled, right?

>>156919759
If you're destroying the Dragon Quest formula then you don't need to call it a jRPG anymore. You can look at western games too, they've been dealing with this problem for decades.

>>156919759
i don't get it

you want to be able to control a whole party of characters in real time?

>>156919934
Yeah. When I do something like this I create a parent object for the sole purpose of polymorphism.
You could do something like,
with(obj_parent){enabled = false;}
Just have child objects include an enabled variable and not update or draw themselves when that variable is false.

You could use Game Maker's built-in disable if you want, but it has some annoying quirks.

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Is this spooky enough for halloween?

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>>156916583
Alright. I got tired of struggling to use Ice Screen Recorder and online converters.
This takes a bit longer, but is definitely worth it.

Anywho, this is what progress I got done today.

It's looking alright overall. Probably need to polish the animations later.

Anyone have any idea why Gloombob's leg is trying to escape his body only when he jumps while rotated 180?
Jumping to the left looks fine, but if he's facing right it keeps dropping the leg so it looks like he's kicking in the air or something.

Seriously what's going on with all the Reddit reposts (mainly from r/unity3d)? It's been like this for a week?

>>156920467
Cool, needs some polish but it's nice to see it coming along

>>156920502
shitposter trying to start a new meme

>>156920305
You might have to handhold me a bit on this, but it seems like if I make a parent object that generates planets, I have it create instances of itself as children. When I want to zoom into a specific planet or whatever, I would do something like set the parent planet obj's "enable = false", and all of the children would gain that too right?

I think I know how to exclude the selected planet, I just want to know if that first part is correct.

>>156904446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wzSETmvLrA

>>156919759
you're almost in RTS territory here, you might have to see what can be combined from that genre and RPGs,

you might have to show the action menu constantly as characters get their "turn" you can give a new action, or just select an action to spam,

or you could try queuing commands so you have time to manage where you characters are moving

like choose the next 3 moves for each character but you can intervene if something happens

actually you could give a cost to changing actions in a command queue

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> come back to thread after a couple of hours of rest
> all i see is a sea of nothingness

i take it we're going through Hurricane Shitposter right now?

>>156920959
I don't get why you masochists keep stubs turned on.

>>156921118
honestly for me it's this waning feeling that someone may have accidentally triggered my filter and got auto-hid. i never really check anyway so i don't know why i even care.

but it's useful to know when not to post progress

>>156921241
>not explicitly filtering to avoid these kinds of things
>the one thing /agdg/ loves, and literally can derail a derail back on track
>b-but what if no (You)s
kill yourself.

What's AGDG's 2D engine of choice these days?

>>156921365
no, mainly because i don't want the shitposter to respond to my progress, since its not as easy to filter and i get confused as to whats genuine criticism/feedback and what is just shitposting.

>kill yourself.
whew, nice buzzphrase anon

>>156921573
literally just post it.
if you're unsure there's this magic concept of "ignoring".

I'm a 2D animator, I'd like to learn to program to get started on making my own games. What's the most relevant program to learn? Something that won't become obsolete in a few years, and can use higher res drawings?

>>156920657
Fist off, you make an object resource for your parent.
In these cases I use ab_ instead of obj_, because I'm pretending it's an abstract object from real programming languages.
You never need to create any instances of this object directly and it can be empty.

Then you make the real objects you want to work with and give them all an enabled instance variable. Then set their parent to the first object.

I don't have the full idea here, but I'm thinking something like ab_mapObject and obj_planet.
Then when you want to disable the planets, you'd write
with(ab_mapObject){enabled = false;}
Then every instance of obj_planet will set enabled to false.

>>156920959
What are you using for those? the images? or did you actually go absolute madman and filtered "progress"? I had to hide them manually and it was a pain in the ass.
>>156921241
>but it's useful to know when not to post progress
That's a good point, they look so ugly and out of place though. A simple counter of filtered posts at the bottom of the page would work great.

>>156921645
but anon.
thats too logical.
how do you expect me to be logical?

>>156921646
If you're doing 2d you don't have to worry about chasing the cutting edge because you're already working on the obsolete side of things.

>>156921701
I gotcha, that makes sense to me. Thanks dude.

>>156921739
>What are you using for those?
i have the image md5s filtered. he usually posts the exact same images, and if a new one pops up, i just filter the md5 for that one too. that along with all replies being filtered, it's pretty automatic.

Lolisim was the best concept created in this nodev hole.

>>156921798
What makes the most diverse types of games? Sidescrollers, sim, multiplayer card battles, etc.

>>156922012
Fuck off retard.

>>156921921
Good luck.
You're doing some pretty interesting projects for someone I assume is just starting out.

>>156922060
Why?

>>156921798
And also, something that can work with 3d modelling I suppose. I should get into working with skin mapping for my job.

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>GameMaker:Studio is not responding

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woops

>>156922060
>stop liking the things I don't like

The best concept ever posted in agdg also had a working prototype, it was knightdev or whatever I believe and the gameplay was based on cardboard cutout characters on a string existing in a kid's imaginary playworld.

>>156920034
it sounds crazy but essentially yes, I'm willing to compromise though.

>>156920838
Initial concepts included a more action oriented system where the MC would have normal attacks in real time that build up a "limit break" meter,
but casting magic would use a variant of the ATB system that cycles through the different party members.

Now in this system the other characters would've been able to be controlled as well, but I was never too sure how I'd get that done.

An idea I had was having seperate ATB timer that would automatically switch you to moving another character, but I feel like that may be too jarring.

If I don't figure this out, I might just work on A.I. for the other two members on the field, but I really want to see if I can come up with something interesting

>>156922220
Sounds boring, where is the gameplay?

>>156922137
>>156922219
To even imply that the concept was good is retarded enough but to say it was the best... that's zika baby level retarded.

Lolisim rape dev is a homosexual.

>>156922220
Wait that one """Game""" where he made a few gifs of him manually dragging the characters to fight? And it had ms paint stuff for blood/attacks

>>156922303
>>156922439
You clearly remember and are suffering from salt over it. Where's your game?

>>156922513
No I liked the actual concept if he would have put work in to make the actual game. I was making sure I was remembering the right one you dumb faggot

>>156922614
You like concepts to which you sarcastically refer to as """game"""s? Suck a dick salty bitch fag lmao. Outta my face.

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>>156918403
Are you using TTF_RenderText_Solid? That's the fastest one.
I can get 60 fps with even if i'm recreating the texture every frame. Maybe you haven't passed SDL_RENDERER_ACCELERATED to your renderer?

>>156922374
>Lolisim rape dev is a homosexual.
So it's just a personal thing?
You are the reason why the video game industry is dead, the concept is pretty good and controversial enough to become popular.
Please kill yourself normalfag.

>>156922614
not the shitposter, you're remembering a different thing
the one brought up originally was in unity(?) and all the models were almost-flat cardboard with crayon drawing texture

>>156922728
>the concept is pretty good
There you go again acting retarded. Are you maybe actually retarded?

>>156922942
Mad as fuck, are you angry because no one likes your generic platform game?
Grow up.

I heard lolism dev made it

Does his employer know his power levels?

>>156922513
But where is the gameplay?

Is it worth putting ads in your game?

I've made 3 games so far but the 50/50 cut for ad revenue just seems way too Jewish for me so I've skipped it.

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>have the willing and drive to make something but I have literally no ideas that would fit my scope and are interesting to me

>>156923043
>a retarded homosexual canadian man who wants to touch children made a pathetic 2d topdown 'simulator' as a way to spend his endless free time 'programming'
>such an original conceptual genius

>>156923238
make the 37572937th 2d platformer here.
everyone's doing it.

remember to abandon it after a short while.
that's what everyone's doing too~

>>156923229
Well what are you making without the ads? If they get you more publicity, that's good. 50 is pretty high but it's better than nothing.

>>156923163
Stay mad ideaguy.

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>>156922374
>retarded
>retarded
>homosexual
he mad

>>156923445
>le pedo meme is so fresh and threatening to normies I am so le edge right now
Sounds like rotate. We warned him.

>>156923316
Your sassy use of ad hominem shows that you only hate lolisim because it doesn't follows your morals.
The concept of a loli abduction and rape simulator with the ability of building your own dungeons is a pretty novel idea.

>>156923418
>they get you more publicity, that's good.

Huh? I was talking about in-game banner advertisements. I'm getting $1-5 a day without ads right now

Is it easy to get into game deving without any single will to do art (2D or 3D)?
I know some C++ and been working on backend dev with php, node.js, angular, go, databases etc for some 2 years in my company but literally cannot do css or touch photoshop/illustrator for any design
it takes forever to even get started on a design, I have no art direction much less any skills at art

are there assets/kits out there to just practice my C++??

regardless of your personal feelings about lolisim dev and his game, it remains the ultimate example of why to not be an enginedev

there's hour-one unity projects here that look more fun than his "game" and lolisim has been here for like fucking years at this point?

>>156923826
>there's hour-one unity projects here that look more fun than his "game"
lolisim is the only game i have downloaded from here desu, unity games looks too generic "It's like X mixed with Y"

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>>156923759
if you want to release something, then you'll need an artist at some point

but just grabbing random crap online and throwing it together is more than enough for me to put systems together and see how they work

>>156923702
it's p fucked up anon. whatever your stance on lolis is, I think we can all agree that kidnapping sucks.

>>156923826
He's the original meme dev. Just wants to be known as a gamedev without that pesky requirement of actually finishing games or making a good game. Best to make something that is le shocking meme for maximum long term attention seeking.

>>156919759
Radiata Stories has a battle system that sounds like it has pieces of what you want.

Whoever you are defending lolisim memedev if you're not actually him - you should kys. Why are you white knighting a fake dev namedev fag who doesn't even post progress here? Why do we have to keep hearing about this faggot who once posted "progress" that was going nowhere over the course of years about a pedo game?

>>156924149
Killing sucks but literally half of the games are about it. Your argument was?

>>156924149
It's just a game, priest, you have thousands of war, murder and killing simulators but having one kidnap or rape simulator is "p fucked up" and forbidden.
BRB i need to kill some people.

>>156904446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyQ9UHPwW4g

i am mad, mad about engies

>>156919759
Take out the free movement. FF12 had that and it only served to remind the player that it wasn't an action game. Either go full menu controls or go direct controls, None of that hybrid crap.

Mind you there are ways to have full menu controls and still make it feel like an action game. You'd have to have real time combat for that though.

>>156924292
Not defending anyone, it just makes me angry that game devs are such a bunch of normalfag SJWs even in 4chan.
I bet you fags think princess maker is a fucked up game.

>>156924359
>It's just a game
It's made by a legit criminal degenerate scumbag though. He just thinks because being a pedo is a meme on 4chan that it's actually cool and edgy to be one openly.

>>156924108
I actually don't know the direction I want to go, for now just as a hobby and later want to team with others in a project or mod hentai games

>>156924357
>>156924359
Shitty excuse, still Gregor-level shit.

>you will never trigger normie redditors this hard
If only we could harness this power.

someone make me some fucking chiptunes

>>156924604
Nothing wrong with being a pedophile, you can think about killing people and not kill anyone, you can have sexual thoughts about children and not rape any.
If he is a real criminal call the police.

>>156924702
Just like the excuses for not admitting that lolisim is a novel concept.

>>156924786
>If he is a real criminal call the police.
He's a leaf they're pretty much lawless faggot degenerates so that's pointless.

>>156924786
>Nothing wrong with being a pedophile
That's neat.

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>>156923759
you can make roguelikes which are always fun to do.
you can pirate models from cgpeers and use those. i once did that and made pic related.

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>>156924894
> Just like the excuses for not admitting that lolisim is a novel concept.

Are you literally retarded. I'm not even the anon you talked to. I don't care how novel it is, I'm saying it's fucked up. Those two things are not co-related.

>>156925302
>I don't care how novel it is, I'm saying it's fucked up
wee look at me i act outraged via text infront of a screen

>>156925302
Nice backpedaling faggot, if you want to talk about morals you can just fuck off, we talk about video games here.

>>156925302
But being fucked up means it's actually cool. Because we're retards who were raised by tv screens and 4chan is le shitposting place mirite

t. pedo retard fag dinosaur

>>156924784
make some for me too please

>>156922203
t-that's some lewd juices!

>>156925550
no just me
you probably don't even have a game

>>156925471
>>156925491
>>156925512
> t. assblasted pedophiles

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>>156918403
>>156922709
Even with using TTF_RenderText_Blended and sending it to the card per frame, you can get good speeds on SDL2. Just have to open an openGL context and manage all the textures and VBOs manually. There are even more savings if you just create a texture atlas of all the characters in a font and deal with the kernings yourself. Bit of a premature optimization though.

There is a bit of a learning curve with the openGL API if you've never worked with something like it before but the performance you can squeeze out for a specialized renderer is worth it. On screen I'm pushing 48,000 vertexes along with per vertex color and it's barely even reaching 1ms. It will probably get a little slower with more texture binds and draw calls but it's not a bad start.

>>156925752
My post was sarcasm you retard.

Everyone here is retarded except me.

>It's another sourcetate baits the thread into pedo argument #234242342349234923482348238482381

>>156925752
No more arguments kid?
Just admit that lolisim concept is good or go back to make your generic platform and killing simulator.

>>156920467
No reason to post your webm's in 1080p. Downscale to 720p or something.

What would be the easiest way in GM to sequentially spawn a random number of planets in orbit around a sun at random angles and random distances from that sun?

I'm thinking of something along the lines of "if planets are too close, destroy this one and try again", but that could still leave me with planets that would collide with each other in orbit...

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>12 hours later
Spooky run cycle is complete. Or good enough, at least.

Can't believe people are arguing about fictional stuffs.

Before we knew it, there will be thought polices arresting us for thought crimes.
>"That bigots is fantasy raping me! He imagined me naked! Arrests him!"

>>156925898
Always was and is the same argument, that a game about kidnapping people for a sex dungeon is fucked up.

By all means I don't care if it exists or not, just that it is completely degenerate.

Also, I guess:

> People managing game is novel

Nope. Literally a managing game. Not even novel as far as porn games go.

>>156926456
>just that it is completely degenerate.
You're on 4chan, fuck off with this buzzword.

>>156926324
something roughly like this

var distance = min_distance_from_sun;
for i = 1 to random(max_planets) {
distance += random_range(minDistance, maxDistance);
var angle = random_range(0, 360);
createPlanet(distance, angle);
}

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>>156926369
> being this new and redpilled
what reddit colony are you from?

>>156924704
This, so fucking much. We should all start collaborating with lolisimdev in some way or start making our own loligames, that way we would get rid of all the redditors and tumblrites that are infecting this general

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>>156924704
I miss it when 4chan was full of the scum of the internet.

Guys
Guysguysguys

Dark Souls... but with Wind Waker graphics.

>>156926039
yeah, I realized that after posting it.
I just messed up the recording since I didn't get OBS's settings. I'll do it proper when I next post progress.

>>156926815
That's 8ch now.

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>>156925785
>There is a bit of a learning curve with the openGL API
Yeah well that's an understatement.
I'm personally just focusing on learning C++ atm.

>>156927078
Do they have a /vg/ yet?
I honestly wouldn't mind a change from $chan Gold™.
Cannot do the /agdg/ board as it was awful and unneeded.

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I'm getting pretty good at this.

>>156927064
You can downscale in webm for bakas too baka. Doesn't matter what resolution you record at.

>>156927224
Looks good friendo

>>156926456
>Muh morals
You are killing videogame industry
>>>/t/umblr

lmao the difference between /dpt/ and /agdg/, this place is a cesspool of nodevs always off topic

like me

/agndg/

>>156926591
Got it sort of working, but they seem to all group up in one area.

>>156927637
> "how dare you imply my loli rape simulator is not perfectly fine and acceptable, fuck you"
Fuck off you little faggot. You're the last person I wanna be consulting on morals in video games.

>>156928339
first, explain this.
Why is loli rape simulator not morally acceptable
but a killing simulator is morally and widely accepted?

>>156928441
because killing isn't always morally reprehensible
there is justified killing
raping children can never be justified in any scenario

>>156927637
There are literally people in sex dungeons on tumblr.

>>156926326
12 hours left for what?

>>156928527
I would rather get raped than killed as a child

after all there is no afterlife and we only live once

>>156928527
>There's justified killing exists
>So, all form of killing including unjustified killing is now legit

Do you have an extra chromosome?

>>156924894
It's not a novel concept. Managing the wants and needs of different people and what they can do for you has been done a lot, the only twists are that the traits are random to a certain degree and you kidnap them to make part of your group.

>>156926326
>>156928738
oh wait I'm bad at reading. It's a good animation though.

>>156928527
>raping children can never be justified in any scenario
Why?

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>>156922728
>>156923702
>>156924359
>>156924598 > "I bet you fags think princess maker is a fucked up game.", -Absolute retard
>>156924786
>>156924894
>>156925898
>>156926369
>>156926641
>>156927637
>>156928441

I have all reasons to believe that you're samefagging, in some madcap absurd belief that if you shitpost enough, people will somehow regress to your level of degeneracy.

>>156928764
>>156928813

Seriously, if you want to be a fucking human waste, fuck off to /b/ where you belong.

>>156928893
The genetic heritage is simulated and the kidnapping part is a big part of the game so it is not just a managing game, it has stealth, strategy and action.
>>156929056
I can post how many times i want, fag, is this your first time here?

*unzips dev-device*

>shit talking one of the hardest working devs in this general
shame on you all

>>156929304
*unzips .rar*

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>>156929254
> admitting to samefagging
Wew, I don't think you of all people get to call anybody new now, friendo. Congrats on going full retard.

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>>156929056
>I have all reasons to believe that you're samefagging
typical counter argument when SJW have no more argument
>You're samefagging
>You're a troll
>gr8 b8, i r8 8/8

e.g.
No argument to >>156928813
So, just gotta get mad and point fingers at others before getting finger pointed at.

here's another (You) as a consolation prize.

Also, now that you know it's not samefagging.
Can you start providing valid arguments?

Stop doing mental Gymnastic, you sick SJW.

Here's 2 more (You) (You).
I hope you grab all of your (You)s and go back to your safe space tumblr.
faggot