/agdg/ - Amateur Games Developer General

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> trans "devs"

Anyone wants to collab?

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Are there any good resources for learning Multimedia Fusion/Clickteam Fusion?

I'm sure more than a few people have posted this shit since that Humble Bundle's been going on, but thought I'd ask.

uv mapping is the comfiest part of the pipeline

>don't want to be bullied by the LP League
>don't want to fork over 50/mo to not be blacklisted/bullied
I didn't realize that the amateur gamedev world was so cut-throat

>>156957815
its a doggy dog world

Procedural generated maps for a survival/strategy/moba game or a standard 1 map and then space to create more in the future?

>>156957815
>LP League
>don't want to fork over 50/mo to not be blacklisted/bullied
explain

>>156957354
isn't that using haxe? just learn haxeflixel there are tons of resources

>>156957969
depends on what CORE EXPERIENCE you're looking for in your gam

>>156957987
they have been shaking down amateur devs from AGDG, if you don't pay up then they either blacklist you or make LPs completely shitting on your game

>proc gen
[Not interested] √
[Interested]

>>156957969
>procedural levels
>remotely acceptable in a moba type game
It's like you want your game to have no depth

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Rate.

>>156958058
I want the main thing to be exploring and finding stuff to survive and craft and i think for that its better to have a procedural generated map but im not sure.

>>156958121
Not exactly a moba more of an rpg tactics kind of game

>>156958173
Kinda generic but cute/10. Would fap to rule 34 of her.

>>156958173
pixel shit / 10

>>156958173
will always awkwardly blend in with the background no matter what the background is/10

>>156958173
cute/10

2d pixel platformer with female MC

>>156958206
depends on what kind of metagame you want
A game that's focussed on optimization and being more efficient than the enemy (like dota, league, starcraft, etc.) should not have a procgen map because there is no way to have that gameplay if you don't know where things are (and games will be decided on who finds the best resource spawns first).
A game that's centered around surviving in the wilderness and trying to make the most out what you scavenge should have a procgen map since the challenge vanishes when you realize where to find the best items and follow the optimal route.

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>>156958173
I like it

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First miniboss for ZAMG:

The Hack-o-lantern

>>156958547
how original

>>156958583
how original

>>156958608
how original

>>156958608
how original

I managed to blend the mechanics of two different games perfectly.

But I'm afraid it's still to similar to both of them, and diehard fans of both games will notice. On a scale of 1 to 10 how much will people call me a fraud? How much will it affect me?

>>156958670
ya done goofed

>>156958173
Would fuck/10. Have a nice day.

>>156958173
is this a lewd game? pls say yes

where's other place to post progress and discuss / asks question like /agdg/ ?
there's too many shitposting around.

>>156958173
Wait a second, that shirt...

>>156958993
8c/agdg
it's ded though

>>156959029
agdg threads on 8v are more active, vm is accepted in them though. Seems like the best choice to me.

Which game title sounds better?
The god of many names
Or
The many named god
?

https://www.gimp.org/unix/howtos/gimp-midi.html

>>156958993
/v/'s devthreads

>>156959291
both are awful.

>>156958458
Yes i agree with you. Ill go with the procgen ones since it suits better for the thing im going for. Thank you

>>156958993
Sure, but before I tell you, where's your game?

>>156959276
Are they on the same tier as /v/'s?
I want more gamedev, and less starry eye'd posts about basic things.

>>156959486
/v/ thread is shilling central, there is no real progressposting

HOW THE FUCK DO I DO SLOPE COLLISIONS

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>>156959771
also interested in this because I have no fuckin clue

>ever using trig when you could be using linear algebra

>>156959771
I used a similar method as tile based collisions, expect when the character was on a slope, I checkhed for every pixel.

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Surprisingly easily set up a system for computer to play for the player. This just sends random actions atm.

Can anyone link me a tutorial on how to make procedural generated terrain in unity?

>>156958736
How original

>>156959771
either this >>156960090 or you use some actual math to find the slope and resolve the y value for the collision on the x which the collision should happen

>>156960136
Joocy

>>156959486
nope there is way more dev than modding, but there seems to be little posters, so you get a lot of small progress posts by the same devs very often.
Honestly I'm thinking I would move there if a lot of people does too. Either that or will make a blog to post all the small progress there. Would keep lurking here, though.

>>156959486
wrong /v/

>>156959771
in what kind of geometry? tiles?

>>156960168
seems like a lot of logic to write
I guess that's why we have computers though to do the heavy lifting

>>156960321
not at all. Assuming your slope has defined points of start and finish, calculating the slope value is trivial. Then you can find the offset of the y collision by simply knowing the x of where the collision happens. And I can assure you this is much computationally easier than checking every god damn pixel.

>>156959347
why? it's a game about a god who has a lot of names.

>>156959771
A really cheap way? Define slope top and slope botton as two objects. When player colisions with one them enters on a slope state, turn normal physics off, and calculate the movement based on the player's position at the slope. When you reach the other side and you collision with the other object it deactivates the slope state and everything goes back to normal.
Worked great for me to emulate Castlevania's stairs, that are basically an slope that you can also avoid by walking through them.

>>156960583
The first is just bland.
The second isn't even grammatically correct.

>>156960473
well I'm not the other guy but I don't have fixed slopes in 3d environments so more precision is necessary

not every pixel of course but you need to conform your feet to the environment

>>156960670
oh, yea my native language isn't english.
What would you name it then?

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>>156958246
>>156958257
>>156958270
>>156958467
>>156958785

All good feedback, appreciated.

>>156958268

Well, she's blonde now.

>>156958932

No, but it's spooky.

>>156959027

Atleast someone noticed.

>>156960728
>What would you name it then?
Not sure considering I don't know the lore.

Titles should elude to/imply things, not hit you over the head with facts.

>>156960690
ah, sure, definitely. But I was also talking more on the 2D front, don't know how it applies in 3D, to be quite honest.

>>156960795
it's about odin, but odin had a lot of names(titles really) so i wanna name it somehow. Can't name the game Odin, that's.... stupid.

>>156960771
>All good feedback, appreciated.
And yet she still has pixel-shit and uneven limbs.

>>156960771
You are talented in the loli arts

>>156960920
I really wouldn't worry about the title right now. Get the game made and something will pop into your head eventually.

>>156960920
How much effort have you put into making the game vs thinking about the title?

>>156960771
I agree 100% with >>156960953

>>156960771
Do you have a step by step for how you make the loli?

>>156960920
Name it after some norse mythological event or place that has relevence to odin.

>>156960313
>tiles?
Yes.

>>156961040
Title - thought about it for 5 mins.
Game - devved it for 5 hours.

>>156961245
that's actually a pretty good idea, thanks i think i will do that.

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>>156961552
Good, now go forth and make game. Don't be like me...

so is the /vip/ agdg happening or not? and how come /vip/ers get 2 board tans?

>>156962546
please don't, we really don't need another splinter.

>>156962546
>Paying to shitpost
Lmao

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Finished up world space tooltips just about!

>>156962691
>he didn't get a free pass for making sick banners

>>156962546
>/vip/ agdg
Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if it gets more full of shitposters that devs.

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Now rocks deal damage depending on speed and mass. You can get killed by falling and rolling boulders and similarly you can throw smaller stones instead of wasting ammo.

>>156963035
/vip/ is literally just a payed version of s4s.

>>156957187
why are you bullying me

>>156963443
>make /vip/ agdg
>namefags and dramadevs go there because "muh vip"
>shitposters follow them
>only progress posters stay here
Sounds good to me

>>156963748
we should just move to 8c/agdg honestly.
I'm getting sick of $chan.

>>156963841
Thing is only a small number of people would go there. So it will keep being dead as fuck. And there is also a chance that shitposters follow us there too. Is not like they haven't been there before.

>>156963969
Well I guess time will tell.
I can only see the non-pass users continually getting treated like second-class users though.

>>156963969
That's the problem. I've tried to leave this place before but it's so empty on other chans.

>>156963038
I love games that have off-kilter ways to attack
Keep up the good work!

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Progress
I made some graphics for the controller interaction
while I'm working on the character gameplay elements. When the player presses a button it makes the action appear as a word in pixel art. Next I'll also put the playable character sprite in there to do the action when each action word appears.

>>>156957447
Thanks for explaining this.

So the game maker engine user has to work out his game concept with documentations better. To gain the trust of most artists, I guess.

Nobody wants to waist their time.
And when game maker makes the deving part easier, then the art is the much more worthwhile content being created in this gathering, isn't it?

Graphics, dialogue and music. That's the heart of a game. The code is "bones, nerves and muscles".

>>156963443
wtf i want a 4chan pass now

>>156964247
>>156963038
This. I love being able to throw shit at enemies and such things

>wanted to dev
>get ill
goddamn.

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>>156964247
>>156964470
How about throwing enemies at enemies?

>>156964592
I've been ill for years and that never stopped me

>>156963038
>>156964609
when are you going to actually make a game instead of just bloating the fuck out of your project with features constantly?

>>156964423
The right engine does ensure the baste use of your time, and allows you to make sure the rest of the game isn't shin on content yeah.

>>156964681
where is your game?

>>156964681
It's still pretty modest for a metroidvania. In the end I can weed out less fun features and upgrades anyway, but now it's still time to try out some gimmicks.

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>>156963553
thanks for the (You)!

What are the most oversaturated/overdone 2D genres in indie gaming? Ones that are so abundant that it'd be smart to avoid?

Call the game The Nomina God

>>156964681
Post your game

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>>156965228
Nuclear Throne-style WASD+mouse roguelite with upgrades at the end of each floor

>>156964921
left it at your moms

>>156959291
>>156965261
Replying to this nigga

The Nomina (do dooo do do do)
The Nomina (do do-do do)
The Nomina (do dooo do do do, do do do, do do do do do doot doot doo-doo doot)

>>156964083
>I can only see the non-pass users continually getting treated like second-class users though.
Not really a lot of difference with how people at steamchat used to threat us.

>>156964609
Are you a solo dev? I remember seeing some .webms of your game over a year ago and it looks almost exactly the same. Either way - keep going man, game looks real neat.

>>156965635
or how people at discord currently treat us

>>156964681
Having tons of features makes any game more fun to play in the long run.

>>156964423
Don't bite the bait, that well anon. Game Maker or Unity are just engines, shitty devs exist for both of them and shitty dev will drop their projects no matter what engine they are using. The same way good devs exist for both Game Maker and Unity too.

>>156965228
Overdone:
>Management
>FPS with a gimmick where you don't S, like puzzles (even if not 2D)
>ewww creeby scarey horrer gaem XD
>What >>156965316 said
Underdone:
>Racing
>Multiplayer
>Platformer
But be careful on the last one: even if there's barely any platformer indies, they're all almost top-notch status. When you compete with Risk of Rain, Ori and the likes, you need to have something good to catch people's eyes.

Then not a proper genre, but I'd put "extreme talking and walking simulators" in a category of theirs. Basically 50% memes and talking with NPCs, 25% of walking and 25% of actual gameplay. Or just downright repetitive. Think about Undertale, The Witness, Abzu, even damn NMS.

How about a game where you're a custodian at a fairly boring hotel and just tidy up the place a bit.

>>156966028
>Platformer indie games are underdone
Are you daft, anon? Platformer games are without a doubt the most over-saturated Indie genre.

>>156965878
yeah dude GTA5 is the best game ever made because I can do yoga and shit lol really, really happy they made heists so shallow so that I can play 18 holes of golf in a GTA game my dude lmao us gamers eh?

>>156966028
>Overdone:
>Management
shit

>>156966187
there's already a game where you clean up FPS levels and wipe all the blood down

>>156966330
Do you get rewards for maintaining OSHA compliance?

>>156963038
Damn, I remember your eraly stage progress from earlier this year. I'm glad you are still on it. Very nice work, keep it up!

>>156965763
Thanks.
Yeah, I'm doing everything alone, and I didn't produce any actual assets for a long time.

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>>156962740
use something like ffmpeg to convert your captured footage to a more appropriate format

>>156966248
If you search on Steam for indie games and then look up the tags, platform has the third-lowest number of games. RPGs, Strategy and Simulation take the first three spots.

>>156966028
what do you mean by management?

I like colony simulators, like rimworld. Are there tons of those that I'm missing? (good ones)

>>156966593
No it doesn't. I'm looking at it right now and there are a ton of tags that have less games.

we should have one jam every weekend for simple games like pong breakout tetris and shit. whos with me?

>>156966593
What about sidescroller?

>>156962740
is that the mtg font? i love it

>>156966812
take it up with discord (formerly steamchat) they run the thread, they choose the events and they decide who's games do or don't make it

>>156966271
Ayylmao

Srsly though adding features to a gameplay system works as I described, the more the better. Putting tons of separate minigames in your game can also be fun but is most likely time best spent elsewhere.

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this halloween

pumpkin carves you

>>156965316
What? I never see those. Metroidvanias are way more abundant.

>>156966028
Platformers are not underdone.

If I want the sprites scaled up, should I make the sprites bigger (like make each pixel 4 pixels) or use views to scale them up

>>156966969
make it about clowns and you'll put your game in the news and get tons of downloads and millions of dollars

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>>156966969
>those zombies

>>156967140
If you're using gamemaker - you can safely scale up sprites using image_xscale and image_yscale, as long as you don't use decimals in the scale values.

>>156966969
Focus more on the spookies smooching

>mindless zombie passion
spooks my dick off t b h

>>156967472
>>156967257
Yeah those guys are really going at it

>>156967246
But then someone will shoot me :(

if I have 2 vectors, a start and an end point, how can I move them closer together by like 10 units?

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I'm working on my first game, how do I know how big the MC sprite should be?

I would like it to be along the lines of the MC in pic related.

How big is that boss?

>>156967872
subtract the vectors and you have the distance vector. Normalize it, apply that times 5 to one vector, apply the opposite to the other.

>>156967872
change of basis

>>156966796
>>156966028
I don't think "management" is over-done at all. Do you really mean all those meme "simulators?" I can't think of any popular, recent indie management games other than Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, and Factorio.

Hell, we need more good management games.

>>156967872
select a coarser topology on your metric space

>>156968470
Ha

If I make a text file to define a tilemap, should I use raw character data and build my own parser, or should I use something like JSON, to make it easier developerwise, but more difficult map making wise?

>>156968082
consider the base resolution you'll work in for your game and how much space your character should take up

>>156968586
I don't understand your problem. JSON is perfect for storing tilemap data. The most used tile map editor, Tiled, even exports your maps to JSON.

>>156968838
>there's one premade for JSON
making my own map editor was actually the only reservation I had.

Nice!

Cap the frame rate, don't cap he frame rate, or let the player decide if he wants vsync or not (but even if we let that happen, which one to use by default)?

>>156969030
I use LibGDX which has vsync on by default.
In doing so, the game uses 1 or 2% cpu, and gives me 60fps because of my 60hz refresh rate.
I can turn it off, and get 3000fps, but for what purpose?
Having that said, let the player decide. Players like options.

Has there ever been a Congressman simulator game?

Like you have to balance things like fundraising, campaigning in your district, voting on bills, authoring bills, keeping your party and consitutents happy, etc...

>>156969030
cap the framerate at 300 or something

vsync and frame cap serve different purposes

>>156967314
Just put that in the creation code for the object?

Won't that make placing the object in a room a bitch

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Unreal folks,

I was posting yesterday about my difficulty learning the API syntax and I have a request for you:

Do you know of a video tutorial series that takes into account the new API changes (I'm using 4.12 but anything more recent than the official battery grab tutorial would be amazing)?

I understand the basic concepts of coding but would appreciate a tutorial that explains the syntax of C++ and in particular the Unreal API.

Thanks

>>156968393
>Do you really mean all those meme "simulators?"
will you guys shut the fuck up already holy shit, I hate this place

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Is Halloween Jam dead? Why is nobody joining?

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Is this an alright size for a spellbook? I'm going for a Morrowind-style inventory screen with movable windows.

>>156969901
There's no point in joining till your game is finished.

>>156969657
this is pretty solid:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Introduction/index.html

I would also take a look at this:
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Programming/Development/CodingStandard/index.html

There aren't really many tutorials in C++, just little code snippets on UnrealAnswers. There aren't many breaking API changes though. You can check out these if you get stuck on something that won't compile (AttachToComponent() is the big one that changed):
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?112644-4-12-Transition-Guide
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?121685-4-13-Transition-Guide

>>156970204
This feels like it's over 2000 years out of date.

It's the current year. Can't you come up with a more modern inventory paradigm?

>>156969657
this thread on the unreal forums helped me on some of my errors relating to the new changes
https://forums.unrealengine.com/showthread.php?112644-4-12-Transition-Guide

>>156970815
any suggestions?

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still early world building stages. everything besides the buildings are placeholder. Props and details to setdress everything come next week / building lighting later. Any composition recommendations / crits? Really my first foray in maya and unreal. Going to zbrush the canyon walls / rock elements. Mostly just a little area for some cool shots.

http://m.imgur.com/6wnUg44

why am I getting 404's on a bunch of images here?

>>156971021
well the book is potentially good, maybe expand on that so that every inventory you open is kinda like the thing, so if you open the chest it's an open chest that appears on the screen... or something

dunno, can't grok things right now, I just know I got real depressed looking at that UI

>>156970204
I guess I'm not too impressed with the inventory either, but I'm not sure what would be better. But you asked about your spellbook size. I think the icon and text and number of entries per page is just fine. Presumably I could get more details in a tooltip or by clicking.

But it bothers me a bit that the text doesn't follow the shape of the page it's resting on.

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>>156971074
dang I wish I had you to make me stuff

that looks kind of the style I had in mind as far as someone making a lot of assets quickly that are good enough, rather than spending weeks on 1 thing to look amazing

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--->>> P R O G R E S S <<<---

>Level generator now supports premade "platforms" instead of just rectangles
>Damage system implemented for both player and enemies
>Skellingtons now target the player precisely

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>>156970710
>>156970954

thanks for your help. posting the rest of this oc. this one is the worst.

>>156971459
Im really busy with classes but id totally be down to work with you for fun whenever i have time. [email protected]

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are CS shits paid more if they make their shit sound as convoluted as possible?

posted my game to the GBJam
luckily nobody knows who I am, because it's probably one of the top 10 worst games in there

>>156969720
Okay, that sentence was a little condescending, but the other points in my post were conducive to discussion.

Seriously, I don't think "management" games are "over-done."

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>>156971804

>>156971918
neat. at this point I'm just gonna use what I have and release a demo, but once I finish that up and am looking to rebuild/expand on the project I'll look you up and see if you're interested

anyone got a sketchfab?

>>156972179
you mostly see this in academic papers, not too much in the wild, unless it's an older guy

>>156972179
Yes actually.

It's a trade skill you pick up as you go.

You learn that the more convoluted your code becomes, the more valuable you become to the company since nobody else can read and handle it without scrapping everything and starting from scratch.

So if you want to keep your position when billion indians come knocking and offering work at half the salary, you better take some courses in riddles and cryptography.

>>156969350
No, use the Create event. Generally speaking - putting code directly into the specific instance's creation event is bad coding practice.

>>156972986
Er, that's what I meant. the create event for the object. I'm not at my computer right now so I can't open game maker at the moment.

Does anyone have a good link for the explanations of OpenGL Mathematics functions? FireFox for some reason blocks half the pages on the site, and the only docs I've found is this PDF, which is very good, lists all the functions, but does not really talk about them.
http://glm.g-truc.net/0.9.8/glm-0.9.8.pdf

>>156972982
>how to get fired

>>156973204
If you tell me what exactly you want to accomplish, I'll be able to explain better.

>>156973480
I want my sprites to be at 2x scale in the game. When I use view to follow the player and make the view twice the size of the screen (to zoom in 2x) i run into issues like the sprite flickering sometimes or looking off, presumably because of it being at like decimal positions on the grid.

If i'm not making any sense it's because I barely understand what the fuck I'm doing

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>>156970204
Don't know about the inventory but here's a quick mock-up how the spell book could be more interesting.

A game where you "let" the player draw their own art. Then when it inevitably looks like shit you show it to them and say "See? Not so fucking easy is it"

>>156970204
It depends on how you handle spells

If your game has 8-12 spells that scale with the player then its fine, if its like a Elder Scrolls or Final Fantasy where every spell has 4-6 different variations then I would advise you increase the amount of icons on the screen.

>>156973758
oh man, that is so much better
>>156974025
I was planning on doing some paging

>>156973683
How I would do it:
Add a Draw event to the object and draw the object's sprite through the draw_sprite_ext function. And regulate the sprite scale through here.

The initial sprite scale would be 2 variables (in this case xscale = 2, yscale = 2), defined in the object's (not instance's) Create Event.

I don't know what causes the flickering, the sprites visibility shouldn't be affected by view scaling. It's most likely something else. But the "looking off" part is, like you said, probably caused by the decimal zoom increments when zooming in and out.

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Still have no idea what I'm doing but the model is almost put together. Still having some problems with getting a piece of hair to align correctly, as well as the head aligning to the neck.

Hopefully when I'm done I'll be able to import in UE4 and add textures there. Would need to learn how to make textures though. After that I have a model I feel happy with to try and make animations.

>>156971790
lookin good anon, keep it up!

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>>156970204
I always liked M&M's spellbook

im gonna make a dark souls game!

>>156971790
cool game, a fan.

>>156971790
Cool, I love downwell.

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Come on fags I don't want to make a survival FPS for halloween jam
Give me a fun idea where I can have a cute girl as MC

>>156973758
Considering how large the inventory is, the book should be almost twice as big, horizontally and around four times as long - vertically.

Why not go for a landscape layout of the book and the inventory, instead?

>>156973758
Here's an idea.
If you can only access it while inside your room, make the character look out of the window into the stars and all of your spells are in the stars you know, cool stuff.
If not just make the book bigger lel.

>>156974913
>You can only see the stars from your window
That makes absolutely no sense, anon.

The Unity reddit is pretty fucking hilarious if you ever feel bad about your progress, go read some threads there.

>How do I make a planet that I can land and walk around on, with a full day night cycle.

>>156974617
I think I allotted too much space for the inventory, so I'm going to scale that down considerably
would that make a difference?
>>156974913
the spellbook will be accessible from anywhere

>>156974585
penguin rancher. You're a cute girl who ranches penguins, lots of different shapes and sizes, maybe some procedural penguins if you're feeling up for it.

>>156975425
That's cute but not very halloween related I'm afraid

>>156975257
I think the core issue is that there's a lot of unused space caused by the size discrepancy between the two "windows".
Forcing the player to flip through a shitload of pages instead of making the spell-book bigger (especially when there's so much space left) just doesn't seem like a good idea to me, personally.

>>156975515
>implying penguins aren't the scariest animal

It could always be something else. Crows maybe?

>>156975689
well the space will be filled up with other windows
minimap (paper map)
villager relationships (address book)
others?

>>156974226
Did you make the human model, or did you rip it from somewhere? Looks great.

>>156975050
>sense
>in a game
See what skyrim did with the skill trees, something like that.

Is JRPG type of turned based combat played out or should I go with more or a fallout where positioning matters?

>>156976505
Fuck jrpg. Dont do it. Go fallout

>>156976505
Both are played out. Go with the one that you prefer and believe you can pull off.

tfw when 18 people played your html5 game.

Feels good ^___^

>>156976505
RPGs where "position matters" are often called tactics.

There are examples where it barely matters, like in FallOut or Trails in the Sky, and where it really matters, like Final Fantasy Tactics.

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Uploaded my GBJam game! https://cowthing.itch.io/tank-gb

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Anyone knows why UE4's navmesh fucks up with procedural meshes? Apparently they should work just fine but I have a terrain generated from a 512x512 heightmap and it needs some hacky solutions to work:
>start in simulate
>select the procedural mesh
>flip "use complex as simple"
>doesn't matter if true or false, just flip it
>starts generating
>try anything else
>"lol fuk u" t.UE4
>stuck on "Building Navigation" forever

Why? Literally the only thing that works is to do that shit while it's running. I understand that I need to trigger a runtime rebuild of the navmesh since the procedural mesh doesn't exist before I run the scene, but there seems to be nothing that works apart from flipping that bool in the editor.

Anyone worked with procmesh terrains in UE4 before?

>>156976505
make it real time like the best Fallout game Tactics

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>core gameplay is done
>Still needs to be balanced but have to focus on other aspects of the game first
>'ill work on the menus'
>mfw

this is my purgataory

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Just posted my GBJam game.

https://squiddingme.itch.io/love-march

Can't believe I actually managed to finish it in time.

>>156977004

Fuck, this is cool. This is Godot, right?

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Daily inspiration:

Today's cool thing: Codex Seraphinianus

> an illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, created by the Italian artist, architect, and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978. The book is approximately 360 pages long (depending on edition), and written in a cipher alphabet in an imaginary language.

https://agencespatiale.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/luigi-serafini_codex_seraphinianus_1978.pdf

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First pass generates connections. Second pass purges overlapping connections. Need to add a third pass that destroys connections that overlap a planet's gravity well and then I'm done.

I'll probably fiddle with the way the connections are generated or destroyed to get a less interconnected "web like" result.

>>156977683
Thanks! yeah it's Godot.
I like your colors, gonna play it now.

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>>156977691
>all those pages of imaginary writing
>I can't be arsed to finish 10 pages for my game's story and dialogue

>>156977683
this is not a place for free advertisement.
IF you do not post progress here, fuck off.

>>156977923
I was actually semi-inspired to go with a blue-ish color palette by seeing screenshots of your game early on. I'm glad I did.

Welp, looks like I'm switching to Godot from now on. I sure learned to hate GameMaker during the GBJam. Godot seems to handle pixel-perfect scaling really well.

>>156978195
He did post progress once or twice though.

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>>156977989
this is literally you

>all those gameplay ideas

>>156978195
>>156978268
I should've posted more progress while I was working on it. I didn't feel like I had anything substantial to show most of the time.

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Is there a way to mod or make games without having to learn how to code? Cause I tried learning coding and I honestly cannot be bothered. Specifically, I want to learn how to make models, path ai, and set up a combat system.

>>156978636
>substantial
do you know where you are?

>>156978791
what you're describing is art,coding and coding respectively

>>156978791
Yeah, you can do path ai without coding. Just speak loudly at the computer in vague terms of how you want it to work.

>>156978895
Good point.

>>156978791
Blueprints but spoiler:visual coding, though cut-down and shallow, is still coding nonetheless.

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>>156978791
Have you checked Game Maker?
You need little to no coding for that shit. Made a few games as a kid with that thing.

>>156977691
Gotta catch 'em all!

>>156978936
>>156979031
>>156979087
Fuck. Well then I give up. Or is there an easy way to learn how to code for people? I haven't done any coding since high School and my final grade for that class was either a D or an F. I learned how to make make some basic shapes, do movement on a 2d plane, and make a game over screen and that's pretty much it.

All I want to do is try and mod Morrowind so that it'll have work schedules for NPC ai, and they can also walk through doors. Literally all I want to do.

>>156978267
Yeah Godot handles pixel art well. I just uploaded the source project for the game, if you want to check it out. The code is really messy though.

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>>156977026
>navmesh on a heightmap

>>156979696
You can't do anything unless you want to put some work into it.
Programming could be hard to get into, but if you spend enough time with it you can.
I even made a game in JAVA in middle-school! I'm pretty sure you can do it...

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>>156974585
>>156974585
>>156974585
>>156974585
>>156974585
Please respond

>>156979696
https://openmw.org/faq/
Time to learn c++ and a few other libs.

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>>156979909
Make a game where you play as a female ghost that goes around haunting/killing people.

>>156979831
I'm not afraid of putting time into it. But it's just coding can be hard for me because it was like trying to learn a whole nother complicated language. lie false=red and true=green, but that's only an example. Also I'm pretty sure the coding tool I used was c++ or something like that, or maybe we didn't and it was just mentioned. Anyway, or there any easy ways to get started?

How do i learn backend dev?

>>156979909
ghost rancher. You're a cute girl who ranches ghosts, lots of different shapes and sizes, maybe some procedural ghosts if you're feeling up for it.

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>>156980143

>>156980230
Oh fuck. I literally had that exact same book in Highschool. Should I even bother? Would this just be a waste of time and possibly money?

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>>156977004
just saw this. pretty neat anon. was this the last level btw? i cleared all the objectives and nothing really happened past this point.

>>156980365
Yeah that was the last level.

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>>156980143
Watch a few youtube tutorials or read through a textbook. The best way to learn programming is programming code. I recommend JAVA since it already has a graphics library that you could make games with. Python by far is the easiest to get into. C++ is somewhat intermediate but when you get used to JAVA you should be able to transfer over easy.

https://clyp.it/jw05vyvz

I'm making some menu music sketches right now
Do any of you anons need music done?

>>156980465
Stop recoomending JAVA in 2016.

>>156977683
This game is really cute, I'm enjoying it!

>>156980593
Is it outdated now?

>>156980680
it is

>>156980738
What happened to it?

>>156980874
Ryan Gosling.
But C++ is always the better choice. Especially if you like templates vs generics.

>>156980143
>>156979696
>>156978791
>Morrowind
>path ai, and set up a combat system

depends on what you mean by that, but Morrowind modding doesn't let you alter the combat system (incl. combat AI) other than tweaking stats

your best bet is OpenMW, and learning to tweak it is learning to code, you'll have to put some effort into it

coding can feel overwhelming to learn, but all one needs is a little perseverance and you'll get through

>>156968082
>>156968735

Thanks.


Does it matter how big the room the player is in? As in, im making a sidescroller-kinda game can I make a room always lets say 720 high but for example 9000 long?

>>156980974
wew
James*

>>156979776
W-what should I use? I only use the heightmap general outline, some vertices are generated in-between pixels so I don't need massively high res maps so I'm not sure I could just use the heightmap for navigation, not to mention issues with obstacles like placed buildings, which don't show up on the heightmap.

>>156959760
>>156957137
>>156957187
Forced memer continues to force memes, still no game to be found.

>>156980974
>says Java is outdated
>recommends C++ instead
Use C, Rust or C#. But there is literally no reason to use C++ in 2016 (unless you're developing a legacy application).

>>156981242
>C
>Rust
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

>>156981121
use a grid, the grid can be interpolated just as the "inbetween vertices" are

you can mark obstacles such as buildings on the grid, you can mark any steep slope as blocked or have a more detailed slope map

you can have "portal" cells that link to other navigation structures such as a navmesh edge

>>156980593
but libgdx is one of the best frameworks out there right now

>>156981053
Goddamn it. Well luckily I had a 3rd edition of C++ for Dummies just lying around. How should I get started in the learning process? How long do you think it'll take before I'm able to do the things I talked about earlier with Morrowind?

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we're starting to look like an actual game now

>>156981843
1. Download Code Blocks
2. Download GCC
3. start learning

>>156981318
C++ is such a clusterfuck of a language. They added waaay too much to the spec since 2011. Also, C code is more portable since obscure devices are more likely to have a C90 compiler than a C++ compiler.
Use C90 or use a memory safe language. Rust can be used with C code (like C++ can) so C++ is obsolete.

>he's a loli rape sim dev fanboy faggot

>>156982029
>C++ is outdated
>n-no wait it's bloated

>use fucking c90 instead because you might want to run your game on an obscure ARM device!

Rust fags actually are the new insane c luddites.

>>156977683
Love the concept. What'd you use to build it?

Also, any guidelines/guides for GB colour schemes?

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>>156981919
I just downloaded Code Blocks and wtf is ths? Keep in mind I don't know what any of this means.

>>156981905
Looks good but why is the jumping animation so much smaller?

>>156981905
Looks fun

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>>156982145
>not using C11

now who's the luddite

>>156982154
GameMaker. Never again.

Just pick four colors that look good. I use GraphicsGale, so its easy to restrict the palette and change it if I want. Change the hue slightly as the palette gets darker so it looks nice. Like going from red-to-magenta, or green-to-blue, instead of darkening the same color.

>>156982371
It's a useless thing you don't need, exit out.
Settings->compiler->toolchain exe and get gcc linked first.

why is my mask check not working?

if ( Mask.value == -1 || ( 1<<other.gameObject.layer & Mask.value) > 0)

>>156982535
not me m8

>>156981905
c-can you make a tutorial on making/coding tiles that go around corners like that? Your environment tiles always look nice.

>>156982535
>1970
>he's into grandmas

>>156982560
What kind of cygwin should I download? 32 or 64 bit? I'm on a Windows 10 btw

>>156982862
>Windows 10
Install linux if you want to make games.

>>156982862
If you're using CodeBlocks you'll want MinGW, not Cygwin. You probably want the 32-bit version of MinGW so that you will compile for 32 bit PCs

>>156982862
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/
For right now don't worry about what version to get. But if you ever decide you want to use a library, you'll have to go back and redownload or build the library yourself.

->change arch to X86_64
->threads: posix
->change exception to seh if not marked

>>156982862
I'm using MinGW and G++ and i'm running on Windows 8.
But are you a complete beginner to programming? I'd recommend learning something else like C# (unity) or javascript (Phaser) or Game Maker (with GML scripting). C++ is not for beginners.

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I'm probably over thinking this, but I'm not sure where to proceed with this. Game is 3D and played in first person, whenever the player is within a certain distance of any interactable item such as a door that can be opened/closed, an item that can be picked up, an NPC that can be interacted with, etc. I'm not sure if I should be writing a script that is placed on the interactable item that prompts the player, or if it should be vice versa.

In the former, my thought is it would bog down the system with multiple items all around checking if the player is in range every frame.

but with the latter, the only reasonable thing I can think of is a constant spherecast from the player outward and then check to see if the items should be within the field of view, but then I would either need one massive script of all possible interactions, of multiple scripts with overlapping spherecasts.

How do I even make game?

>>156982385
its the old sprite. haven't finished the animations on the new bigger sprite.

>>156982420
thx

>>156982737
thanks but I'm not sure what you mean. I just check on the first and last tile of the ground object if there's a tile underneath, if so I place the corner tile sprite

>>156982862
>current year
>32 bit

>>156974258
1. Blessing
2. Light
3. Heal
4. Slay dead
5. Ressuraction

I don't really get the right side, but i assume the face phasing is some sort of dispel, and the wand breaking a form of Silence/Magic immunity?

>>156983449
I tried Unity, and I was doing okay until I got to the actual coding bit of the learning process. It just didn't explain very well how to use it.

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Very, very happy with this. Good interconnectivity without extreme webbing. Just need to tidy up lanes overlapping sectors and start randomizing the actual planets.

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>>156981905

>>156983128
Alright, I installed CodeBlocks and MinGW. What else should I do?

>>156984167
Install Unity now and use it instead of those.

>>156983689
32-bit on Windows is kinda the most universal right now, there's little difference on performance too.

32-bit on Linux though is almost totally gone. xp

>>156983536
just like make game man

>>156982835
>doesn't like hot 46 year old milfs
i bet you whack it to lolis

>>156984261
But I want to mod Morrowind. Unity won't let me do that.

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New dev here. I've got the beginnings of a game, but I don't know where to take it.

I originally wanted to make something like The Sims Bustin' Out, a comfy little life sim with mini-games for jobs, but I could see myself bolting on a combat system and making this more like Rune Factory or Persona.

I don't have an interesting setting or theme in mind. Any suggestions?

>>156984167
see>>156982560
if you didn't do a custom directory then just hit auto-detect and it should do the work for you, then you're ready to test a hello world. Else, you'll have to go into the mingw64/bin and specify each part.

>>156984375
Stop being a weeb.

What do i make pixel art with?
Need layers obv.
Fee stuff only i guess.
or stuff i can pirate

>>156983536
I'm going to assume Unity because using any other engine is dumb.

Attach interactable component to all interactable objects that describes how the interactable identifier is shown (name? different colour box?) .
Make sure all interactable objects are on an interactable physics layer.
Trigger collider around the player that only collides on the interactable layer so you don't waste processing time on non-interactable objects. Discard anything not in your FOV (easy Vector3.angle math).
Whatever's left, throw up the interactable UI based on the interactable component data.

ez pz

>>156984353
This general is for gamedev. If you want to mod an Elder Scrolls game try >>>/vg/tesg

>>156983536
have you considering making a script that calls a different function based on checking what kind of object is detected?

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S Y K A, FUCKING SHIT!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixlszwKVVP0

>>156984449
Aseprite is the best pixel art program and it's completely free if you know how to compile from source

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>>156981905
RibbertDev don't be mad but I used your mockup as inspiration.

I'll change the palette later on

But yeah, backgrounds are looking a bit better

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>>156984445
Stop being.

>that capcha

>>156984520
I have to learn how to code though. So I need to start by actually learning how to develop a game by myself.

>>156984438
Where's auto detect? Is it in Code Blocks?

>>156984834
Then you download an engine and start making a game.

>>156982554
Haha, what problems did you have with GM? I tried it out once a few years back and decided I would be better off learning Unity if I was going to put that much effort into something proprietary.

>>156985163
But Morrowind uses C++. So obviously it's better to start learning there.

>>156984806
hey! haven't seen you in a while, hope everything's well.

>>156984624
>mafia 2
>made by some czechs in 3 years
>small budget, yet done well enough to compete with a gta title
>great story

>mafia 3
>made by a new team in 5 years
>new self-made engine which runs like shit because despite being backed by one of the richest game publishers in the world they didn't want to work under LICENSES
>shit story

In short, if your tech team is shit, buy an engine. Same goes for your indie game.

>>156985086
Main code blocks window
From the left
File-Edit-View-Search[...]-Settings
compiler
from inside there
you should be on "Compiler Settings"
Go over three tabs to "Toolchain Executable"
Where you'll be linking the compiler to actually make shit work.

After that I advise you go into
Settings->Editor
Keyboard Shortcuts and set your own. specifically for
Build -> builds everything and gets your program ready to run
Default code:blocks binds are pretty meh.
Set them to whatever you want, but you'll be hitting them alot.

>unity supports Live2D
I hope you're ready for big-breasted girls.
What should the game be about?

>>156984351
If we chose programming languages based on our fetishes, I would be coding on a stacked blonde girl with baby-face and some form of autism.

Actually, this would be a great characterization for C#.

Why the fuck is baking in unity per scene and not per prefab
Litelly fucking why

>>156983856
Bless
Detect Life
Fate
Turn Undead
Heroism
Preservation
Remove Curse
Raise Dead
Shared Life
Spirit Lash
Ressurection

I think the middle left is preservation maybe? The middle right is probably removed curse. It's been a while.

>>156985292
You're talking about OpenMW, right?
It's not easier to learn that way. Every single engine in the OP has tutorials for a beginner to learn gamedev. And they're a million times easier to use than making a game from scratch.

>>156971074
could you give a fly through of the area, or some shots from different angles

>>156985468
I felt mafia 2 was a little barren, but it was impressive technically speaking

>>156985447
It's all good, haven't been posting much progress because school started, and I've not had much time to dev. Since DDX I've mostly been doing some art stuff and cleaning up code, so nothing significant to post

>>156985470
So I did the auto detect but it said it "could not auto-detect the installation path of MinGW"

>>156984824
How do I get those options on my file bar? What extension is that?

>>156986121
4chanX

>>156986202
Thanks anon.

>>156984670
even tpb doesn't have aserite and i'm not a real dev so i can't compile from source.
I can barely into gamemaker.

What about GraphicsGale?

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>>156985917
For what it was, it was more than anyone could've expected. I also loved that ending, unlike many others. Pretty symbolic.
By the way, adding to >>156985468 - if you make your own engine with your dev knowledge to tinker a lot with it and work better it's ok, but if you have to learn something that an engine with a 150$ licence could let you easily develop in 1/3 of the time (like GM for a shitty platform game), and you haven't even learned any languages, it's better to let it go. Just some of my philosophy.

>>156986092
Then in the directory chooser, navigate to where you installed Mingw64.

Then after that for each compiler you have to go to mingw64/bin and specify each one.
It will go
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe
x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++.exe
x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++.exe
x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-ar.exe
then for resource you want: windres.exe

Then after that, you should be ready for a hello world test assuming you linked everything properly. If not Code::Blocks will complain with a pop-up message in the bottom right.

>>156985917
I agree. The mafia did not have enough freedom of action, NPCs, casino and saturation. However, it was much more interesting and better than the third part. The plot of the second mafia is a masterpiece. The ending was great.

>>156984806
not mad at all! keep working anon. Really cool to hear I inspire someone

Why do i wanna kill myself when i touch art?
i don't have a single sprite and i never will.

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What should I fucking do? I have only enough for one type of art(paying an artist), realistic low poly(pic), flat/cartoon low poly(minecraft style), cartoon low poly(like pic but with cartoon shaders)?

>>156986485
Here's what I have

C Compiler: mingw32-gcc.exe
C++ Compiler: mingw32-g++.exe
Linker for dynamic libs: mingw32-g++.exe
Linker for Static libs: x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc-ar.exe
Resource Compiler: windres.exe
Make Program: mingw32-make.exe

How is that?