/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

Back from the dead.
Spooky zombie thread.

too soon i didn't get anything done

gimme ideas for wacky fantasy weapons. like a bard guitar that shoots soundwaves at people and shit

including primitive firearms like cannons or whatever. I guess warcraft level tech.

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WHAT IS HAPPENING. STOP. THIS IS NOT WHATS SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN.

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>tfw wasted time making pic related and I missed my chance to make the new thread

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working on an old victorian building, but don't know if my proptions are correct.

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>>157770105

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My games won't matter, noone is going to remember them and they are going to be forgotten and irrelevant like a drop in the sea.

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Someone let me work as a level designer on their game

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>>157770472
Neat picture, anon. Don't worry, I'm sure someone will use it eventually.

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For the anon that wanted all the gogem posts of the thread, i did all i could, i know it's shit but dunno how it turned out.

>>157770768
ah yeah i wanted to say.
Gogem is going to feel proud, he got another screencap of his shit.
And i wasted so much time for something so useless, god what a shitty live.

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>>157770569
Design the topology and layout of a forest stage for a tactical RPG that mimics FFT.

>>157770105
Fixed a skill animation bug that was causing a crash. It's a goofy one caused by some goofy code.

>>157770569
Help me design levels for my 3D platformer

>>157770973
It didn't seem like you were going to do anything else, so I guess this is all you'll amount to.
But that can change of course

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dog can now poo. lol

Any progress is good progress

>>157771036
Like, just one or procedurally generated? Also it's gonna be shitty without knowing how the game plays. If it's like Tactics then that's easy but I'm sure there are some changes.

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>>157770501
>>157771036

>>157770324
A cannon that shoots progress, the enemies are shitposters and the ammo is ideas.

>>157771207
Yeah, cleaned all my pc of shit, videos, games, pics, just got gm and unity so im going to start again like a new man and after some time maybe il use unity.

>>157771132
What are thr game mechanics?

>>157771698
For now just jumping but climbing certain kind of walls, gliding and double jumps are planned abilities.

>>157769984
>blender-models.com
Why is this even on here? It doesn't work

>>157771797
What kind of setting or environment?

>>157771861
It's supposed to be for halloween jam, so it's set in some kind of spooky forest with tombs and pumpkins laying around.

>>157771815
Yes it does.

>>157771959
Only one stage?

>>157772087
I wanted to make 3 but I guess one can be enough.

>>157772080
Whenever I try to download something I just get redirected to a page that says "thanks"

>>157772145
Well we should avoid sticky spots and spider webs as it would just take away the only thing the charafter has, jumping. So it would be best to focus on more difficult things you can do with jumping. Wall jumping is always nice as a small challenge. What is the goal? To get to a certain point or collectathon?

This general is still alive? Did you guys finally chase off the trailer tractor kid who kept posting the stupid pictures? What about the rotation man who wanted to start his own chan? The fuccboi who can't draw is still here too, I'm guessing?

>>157772271
>an entire website just to "nvm good luck with your game" people
Genius

>>157772475
I'm still here too, though you didn't ask.

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How much should I be expecting to pay for this kind of character?

>>157771224
>poo comes from nipples

>>157772474
I was thinking about a simple 'reach the goal (a big lollipop) to complete the level' maybe having a timer. Also have collectibles (candy) laying around.

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>>157769984
Broom Broom

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Desert bandit

>>157770510
you could just make a meme game thats ''whacky''

>>157770105
sugar dev what are you doing

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Took me some tries to get right but I now have working bullet holes.
Tomorrow I'll work a bit on the actual shooting, with fire rate, reloading and finite bullets.

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>12 days left
>still haven't implemented any code to anything

>>157773290
At its very basic core if a 3D platformer is not a collectathon, it's a gauntlet made fun by the ability of the main character to do something that normal humans cannot (double jump for instance).

As far as spooky or Halloween themed gauntlet arenas go, the best one I think is anot old castle, either inside or on the ramparts. If you decide on inside that removes the need for a skybox as well.

Of course the typical "person goes through gauntlet" thing is spinning blades and swinging sharp pendulums. But this removes the ability to jump on top of the items to add more platforming. So I say we use blocks that will push the character into a kill zone rather than objects that kill them on contact.

If we do it in this way we could have rotating cylinders as the main thing the player stands on. Add in some blocks to knock them off and you've already got a pretty challenging set up. It's basically too and shouldn't be very hard to program. If we keep the theme as Halloween we could make the blocks several things from coffins to tombstones. Pumpkins could work ad a cylindrical bullet like hazard was well. What do you think?

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>>157773371
>thought it was mode 7
>just another unity game
Looks fun at least

>>157770472
>bilinear sharper

>>157773137
99.99 holla dolla

>>157773897
that's like saying "just another c++ game"
what difference does it make

>>157773371
The leaning looks silly unless you plan to make your car into either a motorcycle or a hovercar.

>ideas pouring faster than i can realize them

fucking help
this is some crazy traffic jam

>>157773137
100 dollaridoos rigged

>>157774024
Nope. I just imported the pic from google, applied a slight Surface Blur. I have to say the original pic's quality was pretty bad, it was full of artifacts. But I was kind of in a rush so I didn't care.

>>157773897
It was supposed to be mode 7.
Then I realized I was incompetent. Then it wasn't mode 7 any more.

>>157774149
You think? I'm was going for toy/bouncy looking motions, I thought it looked nice. Maybe if the camera didn't lean so much with the car?

>>157773876
>tfw spent the last 3 days playing with camera controls
>haven't implemented a single piece of gameplay

>>157774195
Write them down and concentrate on the task at hand, if you have time after that then add those ideas as little expansions to the main game?
Nigga idk, every time i have an idea i just let it there, if i like it i know il remember it and add it later on.

>>157774471
>Maybe if the camera didn't lean so much with the car?
It would be better if only the camera leaned imo.

>>157774471
A car would actually lean in the opposite direction, just usually not much.

>>157774064
>what difference does it make
It's cool to see devs implement actual mode 7
Nothing interesting if it's just plain 3D

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>>157773791
I'm not her, anon.

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i dont know how yall can be routinely surprised that im a cold nigga with hot opinions. that's how it always been.

to the guy from dead thread that asked me what fucking even a game is....
it's when mechanics are used in the service of trying to achieve a goal.
using my game SIT as an example (since it's pure enough to make a good example) the eyes following the mouse is the players interacting mechanic, in of itself some might consider it """"fun"""" but that's not relevant to gameplay and by itself there is no gameplay since it is just a mechanic, the gameplay comes from the scenario the character is put in which sets some goal (look at X, dont look at Y, etc) the goal is what makes a mechanic gameplay.
i would also argue that the goals/gameplay is more important than any one mechanic or how people enjoy or dont enjoy those mechanics because gameplay gives those mechanics greater meaning.

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>tfw stealing the floor map of a random building and using it in my game

>>157775017
>a building designed for efficiency and fire safety compliance
>fun for a video game
Pick one

>>157775476
>fill it with zombies
>block off half of the paths
>????
>profit!!

>>157775606
don't forget to break some walls

existing buildings are a good starting point

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Been trying to come up with a logo for like 3 days now and they've all been trash. This is the best one i got so far.

Opinions pls

Is Clarent the best game in AGDG now?

>>157776045
I prefer mine

>>157776035
Your game has pixel graphics, so the logo should use a pixel font as well

>>157776045
No, mine is.

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>>157776045
i cant think of ten games in AGDG right now but even so it's not in the top 10
though it is number 1 in gogem titties

>>157776045
Mine has better graphics

>>157776045
I think Sorcerobe is better, but it's up there. At least it's better than any gogem shit.

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>>157776191
I agree for the in-game logo. But this is just for promo stuff. Like social media.

Here's a more pixely version.

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Did a new skin for the desert bandit, including death animation.

(yes i know bullets dont register on the player yet)

>>157776703
I could make it a little more pixelly withe photoshop if you want.

>>157776703
That just looks like you cut it out poorly

>>157776703
turning the anti-alias off is not "pixely"

>>157776408
why don't you post your actual art on discord instead of the fucking memes dude

>>157776810
That'd be cool if you want to.

My usual method of converting smooth art into pixels is to save it as a gif but with a color limit. 4Chan seems to have messed it up when i uploaded though.

>>157777114
you keep trying to get me to join discord but it's still discord so no

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Last progress for today, did a new dig animation for Dog.

Fun day. I still dont know know what to do with the game, it's becoming more of a tamagotchi than a shooter atm.

>>157777442
Go all the way with it
Play with your dog, train it, when you're not playing the dog needs to fend for itself. When you quit the game, write somewhere the time, when you get back, take that time frame and do some calculations. If you've went away for too long your pupper is kill.
Add more stuff obviously.

>>157776035
It looks a bit like "End Rous".

>>157776045
Monolith has most consistent progress and seems like it most actually be finished some day

>>157777774
Endskullrous

EndBondBurgerrous

>>157777701
>If you've went away for too long your pupper is kill.
absentee mechanic is cool but dont go killing puppers with it, that aint right

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>>157777215
Here

>>157777908
might*

>>157777974
Not only your pupper is kill, but it's killed for eternity, you can't reinstall the game and get pupper back, it's gone, it's dead, no pupper for you, ever.

You have to go kill bandits yourself.

>>157778048
you set off to make it "pixely" like pixelart
you came back with it "pixely" like JAV genitals

>>157778253
I don't know what either of those things are.

>>157777701
Nice thanks for the tip.
I was thinking of implementing something training system where e.g. when u kill enough enemies he learns that they are bad and will start attacking, pick up enough items he starts bringing them too you etc. Might be too advanced for me but we'll see.

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>>157778110
if it's killed for an eternity than i will wait for an eternity

>>157778307
dont fucking listen to googem, you dork

>>157778253
shut up gogem. we know about your crooked wang.

Oh my god would you fucks stop replying to G*?
All he does is give bad advice, we get it, stop taking his bait.

>>157773137
what do you mean? just character design?

i'd say like 30-50 bucks.

pugdev

God's Gift

;)

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>>157776045
I don't know. I really want to love Clarent, but it just doesn't feel fun to play. It's really hard to explain why. It's like it's very stiff like the very first Castlevania.

My vote would go for Ctesiphon and You are a torpedo ai.

You are a torpedo ai is a game everyone should make if they are really serious about being a game designer. It's just a few simple mechanics and a very easy to understand basic idea. It's a goldmine for level design exercises.

Ctesiphon might not have these attributes. It doesn't even have any great or even interesting ideas behind it to make you interested. However this was the /agdg/ game which actually made me have pure fun. I wasn't like "oh, I like it for the character, oh, I like it because it reminds me of a game I liked". I liked it for itself. Even after I pressed the button I liked walking around and discovering new areas, shooting stuff etc. When I started the game, looked at the gun and heard that kick ass beat, I said to myself: "now we are fucking talking". Being fun is a subjective thing, of course, but this just became one of my favorites.

Runner ups would be:
Tender Arms - Amazing sound design, excellent writing. It's far from complete, but every single pixel shows that the dev takes the project seriously and will polish it to the very end.
Unnamed Pixel Platformer - The guy is an engine dev and does amazing things. The game is nothing special, but its technical design which makes it stand out for me.
Vampire Bit - Much like with You are a torpedo ai, this is a very good example of what games an amateur dev should be working on. One single game play mechanic polished till perfection.
Pantsu Harvest - Same category as Vampire and Torpedo: a shit ton of well designed levels build around a few simple mechanics. The level editor is a huge plus.

>>157780151
>The guy is an engine dev and does amazing things.
What did he do exactly

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Shaping up

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Why is null checking generating such a massive overhead in my code?
I have a few thousand instances of a class in "grid", and I iterate over the array once per frame.
null checking them like this takes 16 ms per frame, which is insane.
I think I must be hitting the reflection/LINQ code paths somehow, but how do I check for nulls correctly?

>>157780819
Why are you iterating over a few thousand instances of a class every frame?

>>157780672
I find the way he generates, loads and handles his maps interesting. His collision detection is just perfect. He once posted a video where he tweaked the running speed and went so fast you could barely see anything, yet his collision detection never broke. The AIs were nothing special first, but then he implemented those fucking mosquitoes. Not to mention I really loved how their "bzzzz" sound changes depending where they are on the screen and how far away they are. I love when someone have this much attention to detail.

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Enabled the use of the auto-revive item. When you die you get a prompt if you want to use it or not. You can only carry one at a time.

Wanting to start a card game with game maker, what would be the best way to store all the information for the cards? Should I store them all in a script?

>>157780819
>iterating a grid
it's quite beautiful to see someone who learned how to code but not how to program.

>>157781107
It's a grid-based world that needs dynamics and other logic applied to each "atom" on every frame.

>>157780696
gorgeous tessellation. can't wait to mess around with that stuff.

>>157780819
>null checking them like this takes 16 ms per frame, which is insane.
How big is your grid? Are you sure it's this exact code section that is taking 16ms?

>>157781340
That would be fine if you want the game self-contained (ie doesn't load external files)

>>157781410
you should be able to know which atoms need updating and only check those

>>157781367
It's a conceptual 2d grid that's unrolled to a 1-dimensional array for performance.
What are you even trying to imply here?

>>157781474
It's relatively tiny, 512x512.
The issue is definitely the null check, if I remove it, the iteration takes less than a millisecond.

>>157781787
>The issue is definitely the null check, if I remove it
Are you running in debug or release?
Run your program outside the IDE and check the numbers.

>>157770324
a Y shaped fishing rod where one of the 2 upper ends of the Y is attached to the player's head and the other is held with 2 hands. The long part of the Y sticks out and has a line with a hook to it that can hit enemies. Shit can be spinned around and act as a helicopter or spy climbing gear.

Wacky enough? no?

the 3 parts can be disconnected from eachother and become a 3 part nunchuck with the hook at one end for GET OVER HERE moves and swinging from places.

>>157781253
Other than the AI there is really nothing technically impressive about that, it's a tile based platformer which is basic to do in any language.

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>>157773371
dat sum mode7 ?

Post dev music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyG6YMLEWus

>>157782436
leet hax programming music

>>157781942
No difference.

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>>157781787
>What are you even trying to imply here?


>1 dimensional arrays with set size
>iterating over empty areas and checking for nulls

l2stacks

>>157782487
For some reason, this is a soundtrack to which I can focus on dev incredibly well. I did not choose it for the trenchcoaty memes.

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Gonna change the lighting soon, spent most of today doodling round on this dam map I made

>>157782436
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8MWKsheHxk

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I'm gonna make a game in a week!

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Vampiredev here. Is there any anon that had this issue here? I'm trying to fix it but I need to make you a question to get on the right path since I can't replicate the bug at all.

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>>157782815
Your game looks quite..

>>157782436
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqBIob4LFmQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3N0JGfIsrU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfGTAe3RNPg

>>157782535
Are you just spouting vaguely CS-ish terms?
I don't need a stack here, I need to process the array in a specific order, line by line, in an interlaced fashion.
The design of the algo is fine, I just wanted to know why a simple operation takes massive amounts of processing time.

>>157783334
Not a single one available to me.

>>157783404
Are you that unfamiliar with CS? You always have a stack. He's telling you to try recursion instead of loops.

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Anyone learning Fusion 2.5? Can we add this to the general for discussion?

>>157783551
Recursion would be even slower because of the overhead, why is he spouting random shit

>>157782815
Journey 2?

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>>157783551
All right.
How do I update something like Game of Life on every frame recursively, without loops?

>>157783404
Is there any specific reason they need to be in order?
you could just hold location of each tile in structure and use dynamic memory.
>The design of the algo is fine
I won't argue opinions.

>>157783551
No, no I'm not.

>>157784076
Anything that you can do with iteration can be done with recursion and vice versa

>>157783904
So he can sound smart I guess. I didn't say recursion was better.

>>157784241
Any place reachable with car is also reachable by pogo stick.

>>157784356
Yes and? I'm not the guy that suggested recursion, just explaining how you could do it without loops.

>>157784447
You didn't explain it though

>>157769984
>>157753490
setting random colors on instantiation is an easy way to check if tiles are flowing together neatly

>>157753496

the beauty is that it's a generic object, so I can replace it with whatever I want

3D is what I'm comfortable with, plus it's more flexible if I decide to change something along the way.

>>157784529
Use recursion to do the same as loops, if you don't know how you could do that then learn recursion.

>>157784703
Why, though?

>>157784824
Like I said I'm not the guy that told you to use recursion, you asked how to do it without loops and I said you can use recursion. I'm not telling you that you should use it.

>>157784529
Jumping into the conversation as new party:
A cell checks its 8 neighbours to evaluate its new state. Couldn't you when you create the level and assign the initial states register the enabled cells and their respective 8 neighbours to a new, smaller array (checking for duplicates beforehand)? Then if you change a state you reregister affected cells. That way you would only need to iterate over a smaller number of cells, at worst all cells.

>>157783551
>He's telling you to try recursion instead of loops.
And where the fuck did you pull that from my post?

>>157785141
Then what the fuck were you saying? Because it sounds like you're spouting random shit.

>>157785286
To try dynamic memory.

It's nice that you can hear my posts, I hope your eyes get well soon.

>>157785046
OP here, this makes sense on the Game of Life example I posted, but not in my real use case.
I need to propagate temperatures and other properties of the cells constantly, so it'd always hit the worst-case, even with "empty" cells.
...I don't know how me asking about null checks devolved into a slapfight about recursion, I'm gonna make some progress now instead.

>>157785492
Haven't participated in this conversation up to this point, just popping in to tell you you're a fucking autist.

>>157785492
Dynamic memory doesn't go on the stack though. It goes on the heap.

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Lads...

PROGRESS

>>157785665
What was I supposed to do? call him a nigger?

>>157785702
Yup I fucked up there.

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Made some fixes to the shooting and also started working on UI.
I'm not sure how to make the shooting feel more satisfying, though I guess sfx will help a lot.

>>157785731
Unlockable character: fat asian scoutboy?

>>157785871
That's not shooting, that's low-tickrate decal painting.

>>157785871
Really fancy impact particles everywhere

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Darkest Dungeon with Paper Mario interaction.

Could it work? Or would having two (fairly minor) tactical concepts at once be a burden?

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Castlevania look-alike dev are you here?

What method did you use to have damage text float off enemies?

>>157786167
No reason why it wouldn't

>>157785635
Is there only one area in your 512x512 or can you form zones / clusters?
What do you need that model for anyway, if ya don't mind me asking?

>>157786192
Here's simple method:
>create object called obj_numbers
Creation code:
value = 0; //doesnt matter now

Step event:
y -= 1; //or whatever speed you want them to move up

//the 0.1 here is the speed the number fades away
if image_alpha > 0 {image_alpha -= 0.1;} else {instance_destroy();}

Draw event:
>draw_text(x,y,string(value));


then use this wherever you do collision checks with hitboxes with damage values (like collision event):

var ii = instance_create(x,y,obj_number)
ii.value = other.damage; //checks other's "damage" value and adds it to obj_number's "value"

Should work. I do recommend drawing them to surface if there will be lots of numbers but I assume you are not familiar with them.

>>157785871
'muzzle flash' that makes screen go white for a split second.

So are you making Castle Master for the new age or something?

Shame you can't put it on something that supports a light gun

>>157785731
>Up Alternate Ending

>>157780151
Is that Bob Ross? Did he not always have a caucasiafro?

>>157780151
>I don't know. I really want to love Clarent, but it just doesn't feel fun to play. It's really hard to explain why. It's like it's very stiff like the very first Castlevania.
PHI here. You'll probably like the next demo.

If you played the older demos, it basically was old-school Castlevania. The last couple demos are much more fluid, and now we're re-re-revamping the combat to be even faster and more responsive. Tons of polishing left to do but the game is moving forward.

Also there's a whole ton of core gameplay stuff planned that nobody has even seen yet. Should be a ride.

>>157787141
That's his son.

is there any function on gamemaker to pause all instances until i press a button?

>>157786192
Kek hadn't noticed the Yaranaika enemy placeholder.

>>157787141
That's his son. Bob's afro wasn't natural anyway. That's probably what his hair looked like when he didn't get a perm.

>>157786192
>doesn't know how to make numbers go up

jesus fuck
i dont belong in the same boat as these type of devs

Ideas to revitalize old RPGs for today's market?

>>157787309
>I literally cannot use google

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>>157780113

>>157786950
>>157787742
I didn't mean exactly how the numbers went up, I meant what parenting/instantiation scheme did you use? (assuming this is in unity)

>>157775476
>He never played Slient Hill

>>157780819
Only thing I can think of without seeing more code is that the objects in your array are scattered in memory. Worst case scenario would cause a cache miss per object, if this is true then you should create an array of objects before hand and put in the objects later. Try an array of pointers and see how that works.

>>157787959
Not unity. Using piece of shit GM:S is.

Using:

var ii = instance_create(x,y,obj_number)
ii.value = other.damage; //checks other's "damage" value and adds it to obj_number's "value"

to have numbers inherit the damage value from hitboxes. Can't help you with Unity.

>>157787959
Could be Game Maker.

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>>157780819
Sorry I'm late.

>>157787890
That was kickstarter 4 years ago, anon. Most of the RPGs that came out were mediocre at best. Gamers were reminded that they like the nostalgia and the idea of old RPGs, but they aren't actually crazy about the games themselves.

So you should probably wait 5 years or so, then people will forget about RPGs again and want a virtual reality 'old school RPG' revival or something.

>>157788408
god's work

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>>157788408

>>157775476
Why? It's pretty normal to do this in a modern setting.

The fun also comes from the emersion into a realistically designed location.

You don't have to make houses "weird" and unnatural, just because it makes a better game map.

like >>157775606 said. There are other ways to do that.

>>157788497
It's not like I believed I was to be THE ONE to save the genre or anything, I just wanted to experiment a little, taking the frame of an old rpg and creating something new out of it.

A business management game that runs on a local web server, serving the game content as web pages to the user's browser of choice, mimicking the look and feel of e.g. bank websites, news sites, etc.

>>157787890
Make a good one. That's all. No tricks.

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Progress

The catgirl can walk or use aim action button to aim

>>157788987
So basically a completely local browser game? I could do that, except the web design itself.

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>>157789270
how do enemies die from a super soaker?

>>157789546
bonus points for fucking with the hosts file while it's running so that e.g. google.com goes to your in-game search function

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>>157782815
That's a blue dick

>>157789594
From jealousy

>>157789594
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzZNk3gd1Kg

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Fixed more skill issues. Everything appears to be working as it should. Added some more placeholder sounds to a few skills. Going to try and at least have something simple for all of them before Demo Day.

>>157771252
Gameplay is almost duplicated. I really liked Tactics and there aren't many TRPGs I've gotten to play that feel as good. Out of boredom, I decided to make my own.

I should release after achieving
a) basic functionality
b) feature completion

The answer may surprise you!

>>157790182
yeah, I guess that works..

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So this... is the power of C++.

>>157790653
Just use auto

>>157790653
You can make any language with templates ugly as fuck if you try.

>>157790653
this makes me want to vomit

>>157790528
anything but b and I skip your game.

So I'm creating a fantasy game with fantasy races and I'm allowed ONE (ONE) cute creature as a race.

So which should it be?
>Cute Rat People
>Cute Sheep People
>Cute Fox People
>Cute Weasel People

>>157791410
Sheep or weasel. Rats are overplayed and foxes are furfag shit.

>>157791410
None of those if it's furry.
If it's just ears and tails, then fox people

>>157791410
Is this going to be closer to humanoid cross-breeds, or just fantasy <species> that can talk and shit?

>>157791410
Sheep

>>157791578

>>157791578
>this furry creature isn't furfag, but THIS one is

???

Anyone in need of a programmer? I just want to make game but I have no assets or ideas

>>157792396
are you good with shaders?
pathfinding algos/navmeshes?
trigonometry?
do you use C#/Unity

>>157792396
Can you make beat em ups?

can you have a roguelite without exploration?

like if it's just a linear platformer or something

>>157793382
Is the word you are looking for infinirunner?

I just wanted to continue working an old unity project and it is horrible. So much spaghetti code and intertangled objects and the files in the project are not ordered in any way. The scene works if I don't change a thing though.

I guess I'll have to start totally anew.

>>157793382
what aspect of roguelike are you talking about?

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>>157793382
while you can implement elements of Rogue, exploration is arguably the largest element.

>>157793382
So a platformer?

>>157793382
hello
http://store.steampowered.com/app/210870/

>>157793113
I've never done shaders/pathfinding and I don't think it would be that hard to learn, but I do know my math. Most of my programming experience comes from making a hacked client in minecraft.

I know C#

>>157791578
>>157791603

>Humanoid animal races, a staple of fantasy, are LE FURR SHIT

Cool meme.

>>157791625

Elder Scrolls Style.

>>157793920
Can't stand that art holy shit

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"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
I have started too many projects and gave up after building an editor and loadable level data. Sometimes with random world generation, too.

It will not happen this time. This time, I will stay focussed.

>>157794001
Furry is furry, staple or not.

>>157793726
neat, though i cant really say im impressed until i see the ai in action

who else watches letsplays to steal inspiration?

>>157794090
...what?

is there anyone here working with a team?
how do you manage the stuff?

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I think I had a comment saying // push them back
that went unimplemented for like 3 years...

>>157793726
What kind of stuff is this for, mind spillin' the beany weenies?

>>157795131
AI pathfinding in 3D space. Used in my game for flying enemies.

The next goal is to have the tree update when objects move in it.

>start day with the intention to work on assets for my game
>end up learning OpenOffice macrolanguage to make editing the localisation file editing bearable

Sometimes I wonder why I bother.

>>157794518
I dunno by a manager

>>157794894
whats with that terrible camera

GUYS
So I am an artist who wants to try his hand at modeling and texturing characters and not cars/objects n shit like you can do in 3ds max.
what program is good for that? Blender? Mudbox?

>>157795735
3dsmax if you hate yourself
Maya if you don't
Blender if you want to be different

>>157795735
Listen here you little NIGGER you think you can walk up in here and FUCK my mother? You god dammed hippes can't get away with it any longer.

>>157794497
I'm not sure what you're whatting

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A tower defense game where you play as a store manager on Black Friday.

Slash prices and place merchandise out on the sales floor to ensure that you and your employees survive the onslaught of ravenous shoppers.

>>157796282
Nice idea.
>last wave is 60'' 4k TV's being 70% off
>last boss is gang of nigs that try to shoot up the place

>>157796282
I am 100% certain that there is a shitty realisation out there.

>>157795813
I got a college class that teaches 3DSMax and I hate it and I'm not too big on assets
Maya I will check out, haven't heard of it. Only like once or twice but never checked it.
Blender is what exactly, why would it be different?
>>157795876
...

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?

>>157797145
Don't think I don't know what you're up to.
I see you with your frogs and your tadpoles.

hey guys give me a feature to add to my game, it's a jrpg.

>>157797332
sphere grid

>>157797145
>haven't heard of it
>college class that teaches 3DSMax
>haven't heard of Maya
What, it's practically industry standard and has been for YEARS

>>157797405
final fantasy 10 clone

/agdg/
any reasons you are not putting your game on steam greenlight?
why do you only put them in itch.io?
is it incomplete?
is it too short?

>>157796282
Man thank god I live in canada where it's not a complete chimp out
>>157796728
>last boss is gang of nigs that try to shoot up the place
Man thank god I live in canada where it was just white meth head who tried to hold me up with a bb gun


While I think playing a game about my job would be boring, I loved recettear.

>>157797332
More lewd. Never hurt anything.

>>157797654
>>any reasons you are not putting your game on steam greenlight?
It's very lewd.

>>157796728
>lvl 60 niggas
>will rapidly carry out smaller items alone, or bring in a crew of 6 to take something big like a tv
>can block/slow them with job application forms and chicken
This idea could be something good if pulled off and advertised right t.black guy

>>157797254
YOU FUCK I KNEW IT WAS YOU ONLY YOU WOULD SAY
OH FUCK LOL
FUCK I SWEAR I HAD A FEELING IT WAS YOU I WAS ABOUT TO BE LIKE
"Dusty is that you?"
you got me sweating hard now
yeah the tadpoles and frogs were to send to that girl showcasing how different we are in stages of life

>>157797919
>Black Friday game
>Filled with upstanding urbanised gentlemen attempting to make off with your consumer goods without purchasing them

>>157797654
I-I don't how to sell my game on steam...

>>157797654
Can't make an LLC in my country and other options are expensive/not safe enough

is it normal to spend an entire trying to fix 1 bug

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>>157798961
yes

>>157798961
I sometimes spend an entire with my bugs.

>>157798961
Only when you accidentally the whole game.

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I might need to dial back on my games spookiness.

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who /blender/ here?

>>157799156
typical halloween jam game right here folks

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How does a code monkey retard into model making?
I'm just trying to make some simple low poly assets for practice, but no matter how much time I spend on tutorials and websites nothing sticks.

>>157799628
Time, anon. Time, always.

>>157799628
More practice, and try to keep yourself right on the edge of what's comfortable so you're always having to learn something new.

>>157799521
Me
And those tris are unnecessary there.

>>157799741
>>157799747
Either of you have any recommended tutorials to go through? Most of what I find is shit, and then I just give up entirely for the day. Pretty much where I'm at right now.

>>157799934
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLda3VoSoc_TR7X7wfblBGiRz-bvhKpGkS

This is more for learning Blender though, so not much use unless you're using that.

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>>157799591
Why you gotta bully?

>>157799521
>dem hips
she's hot!

>>157800061
Yeah, thanks, I'm using blender. Really not sure if it matters, just decided to go with that one.

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

>>157799156
Is the player a werebear?

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>tfw you accidentally modeled a downs syndrome kid

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>>157800279
It's placeholder werewolf art, but a bear would be neater.

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>>157800230
That guy is annoying and talks for way too long.
But that game looks nice, the sprites are real good. Here's an animation I saved from their blog, cause it's pretty nice.

>>157800416
How inclusive of you anon.

What tutorials should I be reading or watching for game maker? It seems like everything I find is for some completely unrelated genre

>>157797654
Too short and simple.

>>157800512
Sorcerobe?

>>157800416
This is in orthographic mode though, right?
Right?

I was learning unreal then i discovered it can't do orthographic cameras right, holy shit im losing my time. Sadly i'll need to go back to unity, unless one of you anons have a workaround

>>157800416
god damn thats creepy

>>157800545
Without knowing your genre we don't have much ability to give you tutorials specific to it, but I'll give you my catch-all "getting started" GM tutorial that I always post:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN6dZWXUEzA&list=PLUtKzyIe0aB2HjpmBhnsHpK7ig0z7ohWw
From the Gunpoint guy, who sucks at programming but made a pretty damn decent game IMO.

>>157800512
Why?
They don't even make sense?
Why is his body flubber?

>>157800545
Stop looking for tutorials that specifically cater to your game.

You learn how to use the engine and then you can make game

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i just lost $4.50 playing poker

>>157797145
Blender is free but it's not that great

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>>157800609
Oh yeah that's right
Perspective mode doesn't look too much better though. I'll just call it practice and start over. My topology is apparently not very good anyway.

>>157800783
i think hes just really bouncy or happy

>>157800783
Because it's supposed to be cute. And bouncy stuff is cute.

>>157800512
Yeah, I just stumbled upon the game and played the arcade mode for a while. I thought I would share it with you guys, because it looks and plays really nice.

>>157773371
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E

Should I just give up now or keep pushing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r30CIneO534&ab_channel=GDC

>>157800958
Make a good game and people will buy it

>dev time so far
>6 weeks
>New ideas count
>14
Christ, stop giving me interesting new idea to distract me from my current project!!

>>157800958
If you're making games to make money you're doing it wrong.

You should make games because you want to make games.

>>157800958
>bad games made by lazy uneducated people or literal modern artists aren't economically sustainable after the gimmick bubble has popped
at last

>>157800804
This is stacked 2D right?
Can you tell me why you're using this method instead of real 3D? I feel like you're doing way more work for the same result

>he wants to 3D model AND program
each takes an entire career to be good at, why do both if you will be shit a both when you can choose one and be decent at it?

is it okay to do art before code?

>>157795654

What should I do? Average the car's speed over like 30 frames and use that as the offset it should drift to? Or median? Or max?

>>157797654

Pretty sure it's against their ToC.

>>157797332

Status Effects that are actually useful.

>>157801523
Final art? Only if you are experienced enough to 100% predict what size and framenumber you need for absolutely everything in your game.
Programmer sketches? Make them as you go along with your code.

>>157801442
>you can only learn one skill
It worked for monster girl island dev.
ZUN knows how to program, design and make music, just not so good at art.
3D or not, it all depends on scope.
You can make a small game on your own, just not an AAA 3D game.

>want to make a game based on/heavily inspired by my favorite game and the reason I love it so much
>the game would get killed by critics and players because it's technically a ripoff
fug

>>157801442
>an entire career to be good at
no, it takes an entire career to reach master tier.

I did art from 14~19
then did programming from 19~23

It's now very easy for me to 1ma dev.

>>157800880
it's not cute, it just looks bad.

>>157802034
Hey are you me

>>157802034
>>157802163
show game or never happened

heres mine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5El-yYNUwU

>>157800787
That's why I'm just looking for the best tutorials and stuff right now so I can do shit without having to rely on specific ones.
>>157800697
Thanks I'll look into them.

>>157801210
>You should make games because you want to make games.
enough of this shitty meme.

believe it or not, you can actually do both at the same time.
Everybody have to make money to live anyway,
so if i wanted to make money by making games because i wanted to make games, it's not wrong.

>>157802034
Game?
There's not 1ma's on agdg that can do both decently

>>157802010
Remember that time a good game got crucified because it was a clone

Me neither

>>157802010
>Spiritual successors
>Ripped apart
I don't know what genre you are looking at, but the scenes around SimCity, RollerCoasterTycoon and DungeonKeeper were so fucking relieved someone made a competent copy+minor features after they were hit by cashgrab mobile idle games.

>>157801552
>Pretty sure it's against their ToC.
who's ToC?
steam?
on what?
games that's too short?
but there's already those.
game's that's incomplete?
early access exists.

>>157802306
>i wanted to make money by making games because i wanted to make games
That's fine, but >>157800958 was sounding like he wouldn't bother trying if there wasn't going to be a boatload of cash in it for him, which would be a bad way of going about it.

>>157802446
that's lolidev you're replying to anon
do you think steam would like his game

>>157802480
>do you think steam would like his game
If he took out all the pedo content he'd make a hit 2D GTA driving sim.

>>157802660
>took out all the pedo content
That's the point though. It is after all a loli abduction and rape simulator. To remove the lolis would mean to disintegrate everything. It is the core mechanic.

>>157802285
If that tutorial series ends up working for you then great, but I just wanna say that the approach that was most successful for me was simply looking up examples on the GMC for any ol' thing I couldn't manage on my own. This was when I didn't know shit, so it'd just do a site-specific search on google throughout the game maker community for something like "2D topdown collision code" or "finding the nearest instance in a cone" or whatever, 'cause that community has an example for pretty much anything. After downloading it, I wouldn't put it in my game until I understood it, and in that way I organically absorbed knowledge as I needed it, which worked way better for me than some series that might be making an entirely different game from what I was interested in making at the time. Do that for long enough and you'll gradually be able to apply your preexisting knowledge in novel ways, and you'll stop needing examples as frequently, and then you'll be on your way.

Just my two cents. Don't underestimate the GMC, it's a valuable resource if you're willing to tap into it. The old GMC, which should still be archived, has so much info that I've never had to ask a question myself; I was always able to get what I needed by finding something similar to what I was looking for and apply it myself.

>>157800615
>unreal can't do orthographic cameras right
I've never had any problems with them. What can't they do?

>>157803262
Are you using ortho cameras? for a 3d game? The preview don't work and i got some strange artifacts

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>>157802660
Maybe: Instead of Lolis he is stealing Santa Clause's dwarfs and holds them as prisoner so they make toys for him.

And Santa Clause is a man working at the super market, and the dwarfs are midgets who volunteers from the midget community who organized themselves to collect donations for a good cause.

>>157803489
*volunteer

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>>157803392
I just use one for my minimap. The water material I found online is weird but everything else is good.

Is there any way I can express my hatred of cis white people in my game without saying "I hate cis white people"?

>>157797767
http://store.steampowered.com/app/459550/

Unless you're lolisimdev I think you're fine.

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blinddev here,

im too lazy to learn javascript
but i need to learn it to work on my game

send help
btw the pic is some unused sprite art

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>>157803635
>>157803392
that wasn't the picture I wanted

>>157803671
I don't think steam is that open to allow orc rape and violent semen infernos.

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>>157803392
>>157803635
>>157803808
other than fixing the clipping planes which I didn't adjust it seems to more or less work, though it doesn't really make sense in this context so it looks weird

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>>157803808
Im asking because i was doing webm related in unity but i wanted to move to unreal ,i got some weird graphical glitches but maybe if i try a newer version of unreal it'll be fixed?

>>157803974
I think you're seeing it like that because the actual camera is positioned at that point - you can't observe the world from behind your head, only from what's in front of your eyes.
It needs to be not so close to the player.

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I added a new power-up: the vacuum tube. This used to be what restored your power, but since I replaced those with blue music notes now it instead increases your max power. To compensate you now have a tiny ass starting power meter, which I had always intended but never got around to changing. Right now it's not very juicy but I'll make picking it up a lot flashier later.
Also, if you go backwards from the start of a level you leave the level and go back to the world map. That's what happened at the end there: I'll probably add a transition screen since it's a bit jarring.

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who /slowlybutsurelylearningblender/ here?

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>Momodora, over 50,000 copies sold
>Aviary Attorney, roughly 20,000 copies sold
>Vagante, roughly 50,000 copies sold
>Dreaming Sarah, roughly 80,000 copies sold
>mfw

Holy shit, the source to success is being bullied out of AGDG. You can check steamspy if you don't believe me. I might stop posting here after seeing this, tbqh.

>>157801249
>literal modern artists aren't economically sustainable after the gimmick bubble has popped
not sure what you mean, but judging by his presentation, that seems the opposite.

The guy put MORE effort into his sequel and made significantly less money.

The goat dev mentioned that people only care about trying new concepts(let's play youtube audience)

good thing im a hobbyist and not doing this for the money. i just want to make a pretty game that runs well.

>>157804014
I dunno if this helps but it seems to be like what you want

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEn7USk54p4

>>157804271
really interesting anon, i'll try that! thanks!

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I done did the thing.

>>157804181
>Dreaming Sarah
>80k sold
>Release date: Mar 12, 2015

>Aerannis
>only 18k sold
>Release date: Sep 15, 2015

Damn, how did it do so bad?
But I thought engine dev was superior to GameMaker?

>>157804181
If you leave voluntarily it won't work. You have to trick people into bullying you off /agdg/ if you want your game to succeed.