AGDG - Amateur Game Development General

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Real Talk I'm so happy I got the bulk of my game done now. From here on out it's nothing but polish

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Someone give me cool methods of 2D terrain and level generation. Don't care if they're practical or not I'll try and make do with whatever.

3rd for fuck Unity jews

How do you create LORE for your game?

Is there any way to replicate 868-HACK's oscillating lines graphical effect without shaders? I don't know DirectX/OpenGL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0DjjAwlCKo

>>158099964
>I got the bulk of my game done now
doesn't look like it

>>158100784
might have something to do with only having 4 seconds to look at it

>>158100851
hes right
must be a simple game or something

>>158100427
> without shaders
no.

> I don't know DirectX/OpenGL
it's time to learn then.

if you know the math behind it, then using openGL/DirectX to interpret it is simple.

Whenever I see progress I enjoy telling the person that it's bad. That he made a bad decision, that he wont succeed. I honestly want to demotivate people who do progress, so they look at their project and lose hope. Most of the time I actually like the game I see, but I want the person to feel like he wasted time on it.

>>158101668
>being envious of others
wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

>>158102106
Im not envious. I just think people need to get used to it. If you drop a project because someone told you it's shit, then I did you a huge favor. If you do not have resolve, you will never make it and will just waste time.

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Practice hard every day!

>>158102238
oh you're that type of bully.
I approve then.

>>158101668
I get it, so people feel as bad inside as you do.
That sounds like a big waste of time though.

Whenever I see progress I enjoy telling the person that it's good. That's it.

i want to dev but i dont want to do programming stuff

helpm e

>>158102238
It'd be better to offer genuine criticism rather than just saying "it's bad progress", because most people here would just assume you're a shitposter and we already have plenty of those and no one will even think of it.

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>>158102258

~Spoopy Witch Brooms~

Before and after dusting for cobwebs.

What ever happened to the kobold devs?

>>158102238
>tfw no-one told me my game is shit yet
i'm starting to get worried

>>158102725
? Then just partner with someone. Unless you' re a leech(idea guy). You' re not a leech are you?

>>158102883
>hating on idea friends
why

>>158102631
Youre the one projecting here friend.

>>158102736
Maybe so, and there will be those that give criticism. I want to see if the person gives up.

Sure they can ignore it, but they will read it first. I wish I had the image where it shows all the people praising the person, but only one saying that the work done was bad and it sticks throughout the day. Later resonating the loudest after some time.

>>158102746
Change the texturw of the handle. Make it different from the actual broom end.

tell me about your game's witches

>>158103183
She's the cutest. No other witch on AGDG can even come close.

real time debugging is so fucking fun in java

>>158103183
She's the only thing there is as the rest of the game is nonexistent

>>158103000
Because they don't do any of the work?

>>158103389
technically anyone that isn't working on your game also doesn't do any of the work. do you hate on every person that isn't working on your game? is your mom working on your game? do you hate your own mother?

>>158103183
She turns the player into a young girl so he can be her apprentice.

>>158103534
how come he cant be a male witch?

>>158103514
My mother wouldn't leech credit for the work she didn't do.

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So I decided to go with click to move shit

>>158103560
i have never seen an idea guy asking to be credited, specially for assets or code he didn't do

>>158103389
So an Idea guy is different than a designer/director?

>>158103560
look at this guy for instance? did he ever ask to be credited? no. he just wanted to dev.
>>158102725

I'm trying to make interactable objects that do different things when the player interacts with them.
Should I use inheritance or events? I'm not really familiar with inheritance but I've used events and I have an idea on how to use them here but I'm not sure if that's the most efficient way to go.

>>158103790
>my face when doing a game and having no clue what an even or inheritance is
>have no clue of what 80% technical words told here

>>158104139
Don't worry, I was the same as you just 2-3 months ago. This is the best part because you learn new stuff everyday.

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>>158103094

I actually thought I did but I guess you're right, they did look too similar in color. Here's a fix.

>>158104205
Much better

>>158103687
Nice anecdotal evidence you got there

>>158103716
Yes

>>158103750
You actually retarded or double Jew bluffing me with that implication?

>>158104370
the "evidence" is not required and is provided merely for illustrative purposes. it's a fact that being an "idea guy" does not imply "in asking for credit" so it's irrational to hate all idea guys on this basis.

>>158104730
I concede the point

>queue up
>timer stops
>booted back to login
>deserter for 1 min
o-okay

>>158101038
If you're curious I just figured out a way. Make a sprite with the colors along the desired gradient then color cycle via color modulation at runtime. This will create the illusion of the movement.

>>158105053
1 minute of progress

>>158103716
A designer takes loose ideas and turns them into working mechanics, themes, etc. and makes them play nice with all the other elements. An idea guy doesn't go beyond "wouldn't it be cool if there was _____".

>>158106094
r.i.p. poor koreans that died of boredom while animating this

>>158103716
Yes.

>designer
usually part of whatever team he's designing shit for, and should have the most technical knowledge/experience of the crew. ex: a sound designer should know the most about how to actually generate sound effects or have intimate knowledge of their audio engine, a level designer should actually be a 3d modeller or able to program/script 2d levels, a combat designer is basically just a senior programmer focusing on control schemes, etc.

>director
directors are just glorified project managers. their job is to keep the work cohesive and, well, directed properly to make the game good.

Why is it so hard to get progress when the main part of the engine is done.

maybe i should switch to word building or something

Post your dev music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xu2pESvXcmM

hey guys hows Source for making games?? i just noticed it's free on steam.

>>158106706
fucking delete this

>>158106657
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQYN2P3E06s

>>158106706
The physics engine is not free

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Added some basic NPC movement and nigga car

>>158106985
whats a nigga car

>>158106793
but its free if i dont charge for my game

>2 hardcode port blogs started following my tumblr
Uh... Thanks?

>>158107054
Car that belongs to main character

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Late night Candlestick-making.

>>158106985
I like the style but please make the car turn smoothly

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r8 my bone setting

seriously is this good? I think it is

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Added a damage and feeding system to the dog.

Damage is currently shown by making the dog more and more transparant. You can now sacrifice your rations to help your dog or heal yourself.

The dog currently can't die, he only walks slower (thus finding ammo slower and not being able to keep up) and "fades away". I don't know if i should make him able to die or keep it at the players will to take care of this pixel dog.

>>158107718
>gun turns upside down

dude what

>>158107718
Maybe make the dog run away instead of dying and come back after a couple of minutes? That way you punish the player but don't break the game by removing the feature.

>>158103251
Post

>>158107718
One thing I missed in mgsv is that you couldn't reward and punish your dog for doing a good job.
I'm not sure how your dog AI works, but maybe you can find a way to implement such a system easily by saving the last performed states your dog went through programming wise, and give that state a point when the player pets the dog. Then make a priority list that orders actions with the most points will to get executed more often.

>>158107790
it will be fixed, right now it's just rotating the sprite.

>>158107937
Sort of like Black and White or dragons dogma? If he finds ammo, you pet it, he finds ammo faster?

I will save this idea, currently he don't have that many actions but it's a good idea. Shouldn't be hard either. e.g. you pet him within 10 sec he found ammo, you add to an invisible counter which subtracts the base waiting time for him to dig for ammo.

>>158107869
Great! I think im going with this for now.

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>>158108080
Yes quite like dragon's dogma. Although dragon's dogma doesn't give the player a tool to reward and punish which makes it hard to get the pawn to do things that you like.

>>158108226
Been a while since i played it, but i thought you could applaud them or something when they did an action. Eitherway, thanks for the feedback.

>>158108515
You could talk to them, but that had no effect. The only way to influence their general style of fighting was through potions you could get at one certain shop. You couldn't make it unlearn certain actions, or teach it to use a certain action more.

Building a huge card-game minigame inside your primary game that can be used to defeat bosses if you are good enough instead of doing regular combat yes or no?

>>158108226
>>158108515
>>158108943
name ONE (1) game with such a mechanic (praising/punishing a pet to make it learn or unlearn tricks)

>>158109126
Black and white

>>158109123
Yes? Is the main game finished already? Creating a card game is basically creating an entire second game. I like the idea but make sure the foundation is done before the breakfast nook yo.

>>158109126
Black & White 2

what is the best engine for fighting games?

>>158109126
I don't know if it exists but it doesn't seem unrealistic

>>158109389
Very easy: FM2ND
Easy: MUGEN
Normal:Game Maker
Hard: Unity

>>158109389
Your own

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>>158109123
sure, i loved ff8

>>158109123
can u even make one game let alone 2 at the same time?

>>158109609
Where is your game, literally insane shitposter?

How do I make a 2D platformer on the same level as Cave Story?

>>158109123
>Can I subvert my shitty combat with even shittier combat
go ahead you hack

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Is anyone here using the Godot engine? What's your opinion on it?

>>158109701
I've been posting progress regulary. but im genuinly asking. making one game alone is big enough, are you gonna make 2 at the same time..?

>>158109734
I didn't think it was that good. In my opinion it's a very normal platformer with 4 directional shooting, and different types of shots that have special effects upon use.

>>158109906
So you have no game then, literally insane shitposter.
>he couldn't even make a map in garry's mod!
Hahahahahahahahaha. Literally lmaoing at your life. :)

>>158109906
Implementing another combat system that is a card game so mostly based on copy pasting various cards and changing their values is hardly making another game at the same time. Well, it depends on how complex your game is in the first place.

>>158109891
ts shit

evens put on a diaper to act as a chastity device
odds just fap and probably fall asleep after
0 or dubs break out the butt toys

>>158109891
Its like gimp. Its OK but you are going to wish you had an acquired copy of Photoshop.

>>158109891
Not worth using unless you really love Python.

>>158110010
wow so sensitive. foh

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>>158107680
Throw me a bone here guys

>>158107680
>created and ripped assets

You wouldn't have plagiarized your models now anon, would you?

>>158109891
I've been using it. For 2D it's great, I would recommend it. For 3D it's okay but other 3D engines are better.

>>158107680
show it animating

How do I get rid of mixels in Gamemaker? There are none in my art, but my window is twice the size of my view and it makes some mixels

>>158110448
>For 3D it's okay but other 3D engines are better
Would you say it's sufficient for something simple, say, a Crash Bandicoot clone with 64-tier graphics?

Also, can you show what projects you've made with it? Just curious

>>158110512
Where is your game, literally insane shitposter?

I've solved the "stare at the minimap while moving" problem that plagues a lot of open world games. The solution is to have a less informative map. Simple really.

Minimaps that give you too much information like enemy radar and "quickest route" lines are playing the game for you. Something barebones like castlevania/metroid works a lot better because it doesn't help you traverse.

>>158110484
I didn't link them to the mesh yet, and blender just had a fuck up that displaced the bones on both arms when I clicked on a part of the model, messing up half an hour of progress. ctrl+z apparently does not work on bones. When it is ready to animate I will post it.

>>158110553
Yeah for old school 3D games it can work. It just can't do any fancy modern stuff yet. The 3.0 update is focusing on updating the 3D side.

Here's stuff I've made https://cowthing.itch.io/

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>>158110646
I posted progress yesterday, but here's a new webm.

I don't think there's mixels here, but I've been having issues of coming misaligned with the grid

>>158110746
>ctrl+z apparently does not work on bones.

considering its blender they probably have a different hotkey for undoing each individual operation

>>158110809
Well I'm trying it now and if I move a bone and change my mind I can just ctrl+z without problems.

For some reason clicking the object in the object list displaced the bones and it was not an action that was in the undo list. I even have it set to like 80 undo steps just in case. I reloaded an old save and will save like every 5 minutes.

>>158110512
make sure your window size ("Port on Screen" in view settings I think, I do it in GML) is a perfect multiple of your view size

going fullscreen is going to affect your pixel size if your computer's resolution doesn't divide correctly into your view size. (this is the reason you make an options menu)

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Need to finish up skill tree for the pre-alpha gameplay demo.

These are the core nodes (like PoE keystone passives).

good morning aggowaggo

>>158110808
>misaligned with the grid
I hope you're drawing your art at 1x1, then scaling it up with the view. You're not scaling your art while creating sprites, right..?

>>158110512
port on screen must be 2 times view in room minus 1 (eg: 320x240 view in room = 639x479 port on screen)

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>>158111062
And a good morning to you too snippodoggo

>>158111149
why exactly are you doing that? it fixes your mixels or something? wut

>>158111210
i don't know, gamemaker magic. had the same question some time ago and somebody told me to do that and it worked.

>>158110951
It definitely was a perfect interval, though perhaps >>158111149 was the problem

>>158111114
Not sure if you mean creating sprites in game or when actually drawing them. I draw them 1x of course, but my initial room was drawn at 2x. I just tried drawing it at 1x and scaling it up to fullscreen (5x) and I had no problem, so that's probably it. I'll just have to initally call it at 1x and then give the option to increase. I am curious about >>158111149 though

>>158111392
disclaimer, that works on GM8, not sure if it works on game maker studio if you're working in that.

>>158109126
Sonic Adventure 2

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Finished the towers. From left to right, short range shooter, long range shooter, poison AOE, slow AOE, and a wall (it does nothing but it's cheap and blocks movement).

Now on to making more enemies and waves.

>>158109891
Breddy gud for 2D. GUI coding is less of a nightmare as in other engines. If someone offered me to choose between Godot and GameMaker for free, I'd still choose Godot.

>>158109891
It's nodev filth. Unity is the only way to make a game.

>>158111615
It looks really nice anon

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>>158103183
made one, how'd I do?

>>158111392
i don't know if it'll help but you can try out surface_resize(application_surface,width,height) for scaling. that's how i do it.
application_surface is a built in variable for the game's main drawing surface

>>158111615
is that a tower defense game?

>>158111818
This. THIS!
Buy Unity Assets from the Unity Asset Store to make the best game ever!

>>158111537
Just tried it, seemed to eliminate mixels but my PC was misaligned. Drawing it at 1x does the job

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>>158111840
Maybe I'll just squish her down a bit...

>>158111959
Uhhh thiccccccer

Guys, when i save a game.
Do i delete previous save then create a new save and proceed to save?
or do i check and delete data (e.g. inventory slot#10's items) that don't exists anymore?

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>>158111838
Thanks

>>158111874
Yeah it's tower defense, you can control the flow of enemies with the tower placement.

Also it's for Halloween jam.

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been working on this for some time. got much some more sprites if you guys wanna see them

>>158112157

>DO THE MONKEY WITH ME, COME ON NOW

>>158112157
Looks like he's running from something but he's exhausted.

>>158112079
i like it.
it's for Android? i want it on my phone
for some reason i want this tiny td-game... not those big ones with tons of details.

>>158112010
Both can work.

DON'T delete the old save until the new one is completely finished though, and some back ups can help.

>>158112010
one is probably more optimal than the other

>>158112010
you replace every single value.
my save system saves 60 values to an ini. that's 60 lines of code for saving and 60 for loading. it's silly but it works.

>>158112157
Want to see more. But it's hard to see what the soldier is doing because there's not enough frames.

>>158112306
For now it's just for PC. But I am enjoying making it. After the jam I might expand it into a full game.

>>158112374
>>158112416

alright, so here's the plan.
>Create temp_sav
>save all the shit in.
>delete save1
>rename temp_sav to save1

>>158112441
sometimes there's extra values that don't exists anymore.
for example, an object that's created and dropped on floor.
you wanted to save the object and able to load it next time.
But once the character destroyed the object or picked it up, the save file shouldn't have the data of the dropped object anymore.

using methods 1 shud solve the problem.
but using methods 2 will require me to recheck every single values to see if they still exists in the game and delete them accordingly...

>>158111869
It seems to work for mixels, but I still get misaligned sprites. The only thing that has worked for me is window_set_fullscreen after drawing at 1x, and that only works for fullscreen obviously, nothing between

>>158112738
>misaligned sprites
screenshot it

>>158112157
i like it, i'd like to see the rest

>>158112648
sounds like you might want to create two save files and use separate saving code. one for your static options and stats, and the other being for your list of potential objects that may or may not be saved.

>>158112976
it doesn't matter.
they still come back to the same problem.

do i override the save files?
or do i go through the save file and remove whichever data that don't exists anymore.

from other anons,
the first method works better.
so that's what i'm going to do as well.
which make senses too.

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commencing small dump

>>158113228
fuck that shit all i need to do is steal someone's tweening script

>>158112079
Need some music for it?

>>158113214
cute

>>158113370
Sure if you want to making a little looping tune.

>>158109734
1. Make a platformer
2. Polish

Basically, like any other game. You make the game, then spend the other 3/4 of the time making it great.

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That's it for now. sorry for baby sized images, its just how aseprite exports them.
currently struggeling with learning c# for unity.
OC DONUT STEEL

>>158113228
Nice webm, gonna keep it.

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>>158112784
Here

dance competition game
tickle wrestling game
a game like advance wars
a game like jagged alliance
a game like meteos
a game like rune factory 4

https://a.uguu.se/FPiS7b8tsDls_torpedoai-2016-10-22.webm

Changed the background color. It was impossible to see the bubbles otherwise.

Need another 11 levels to finish the game.

>>158114171
*steals all of those ideas*
thanks ;^)

>>158114207
>https://a.uguu.se/FPiS7b8tsDls_torpedoai-2016-10-22.webm
Fucking lord those levels get long. I like how tight this game is, what are you gonna charge for it?

>>158113654
>DONUT STEEL
Someone should make this into a transformation for a power rangers thing.
>Ready to morph! DONUT STEEL!!
>fwoooouuuup
>"Huah, Huh, That's just how I roll"
>"Uuwrooow... Round Pound!"
>"Right through the middle, hyuh!"
>"wriiiiiii, eye of the storm""
>"suck on theeese donuts, hah!
>"donut formation alpha, time for the finishing blow!"
>"CHOCOLATE STAR SPRINKLES~"

Funny how simple things can give you inspiration

>>158114319
i'm not really sure. is 5 bucks a fair price?

>>158114171
>>158114310
When will these games be released?

If you're not coming up with 8-10 GOOD ideas a day, you have no right to call yourself a gamedev.

>>158113561
How's this?
https://soundcloud.com/dr-doomsday/fabric

>>158114731
Can you give me 10 of yours so I can use it as a baseline for how good my ideas have to be?

>>158114812
Nice try, butt-master

>>158114731

>8-10 GOOD ideas
>not 8-10 GOOD games a day

You're basically an nodev, you have no right to call yourself a yesdev.

>>158114731
>8-10
Please. I'm an idea factory. I'm the king of imagination. I go beyond what is known as being a gamedev. I am an idea guy

>>158114850
C'mon, your lifespan is limited and there's no way you can make every good idea you have on your own. I'm sure you have some expendable ideas you don't believe you'll ever get to.

>>158114562
Sounds fair, with sales occasionally. I think your biggest hurdle is that these kinds of games have been thought of as flash games for a decade, so anything more than ~5 will be a harder sell

getting my game ready to be played by my friend :)

>>158114001
you might want the port and view settings to be the same values at 1x1, then use window_set_size and the surface_resize code i mentioned

>>158114773
I like it. You made this?

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>>158115142
Game starts with port and view the same size, this code is in the main menu and triggers whenever you press the resize button

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Why can't I find any good resources on 3D modeling? I want to learn the general techniques, not a specific software guide or blindly follow a character tutorial; every tutorial I find seems to be one of those two.

Last year's Halloween Jam had 19 entries, how many will this year's Jam have?

>>158114956
Idea-Man

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Horizontal platforms now work.

>>158116226
Now he's stuck on that platform for the rest of his life. The poor fellow.

>>158115161
Yeah. Thanks!

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It's like QWOP except you're controlling a mech

>nodev
>wants to learn unity
where to go to learn unity?

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>>158099757
>WHY IS NO ONE ATTACKING ME WHEN RANDOMLY SPAWNED
>WHY DO THEY ALL DIE WHEN I KILL JUST ONE INSTANCE

I'm scared guys.

>>158115550
You can't model without software, so tutorials are about tools, but when you learn techniques in one, there shouldn't be probmes besides different GUI, to do same thing in something else.
Also, if you are beginner do at least one tutorial where you follow by hand.

>>158115390
christ i wish unity had simple shit like that for pixel perfect scaling instead of having to use a billion cameras and renders

>>158116363
don't watch tutorials or read books on it

>>158116338
Armored Core (PSX)

>>158116363
internet

>>158116363
https://unity3d.com/learn

>>158116389
>WHY DO THEY ALL DIE WHEN I KILL JUST ONE INSTANCE
One would have to guess that your instancing code is not working correctly.

>>158116389
are you doing something crazy like making their health a global variable and checking its value in the step?

>>158116389
I can only guess what your problem is but I bet you'll feel like an idiot when you figure it out.

>>158113228
I dig those type of gif/webm

>>158115390
>>158115142
Let me just make it clear that this code gives misalignment

I'll be back when there's less OOP
Good luck with your game

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New ammo pickup: shotgun shells

>>158116963
>Let's store our shells in tupper ware.
>But let's make sure to leave holes in the lid.
>So the head and primer can catch some fresh air.

>>158116389
God this game is so cheeky I love it

Quick Halloween Jam game idea. Mineweeper with zombies.
You're a gravedigger
Dig up all the graves, if you dig up a zombie you lose

Actually I might try making this myself.

>>158116337
Awesome! Would it be alright if I used Fabric in the game? I'll give credit and a link to your soundcloud of course. Or did you want to make something new?

>>158117148
It's hot out, wouldn't want them to suffocate!

>>158116473
This is the main reason I never played any Armored Core games. PS1/2 AC games had the most frustrating controls. And I never got a console past PS2, so I never played the more recent ones.

>>158117334
That actually sounds pretty dang fun. You should do it!

Any girls here?

>>158117608
I love the controls and if I ever make an mecha game I will be sure to make my controls every bit as clunky

>>158116602
That's what I'm trying to mess with, I might have to rebuild the enemy objects again.
>>158116701
It's declared in the create event, I'm not all that skilled with GM so if that makes it global or local or not, I'm not too sure.
>>158116792
Probably, it's the main thing holding off my progress right now.
>>158117198
It's spooky!

>>158117729
ya, what engine you use? =)

I wish you could use some of GM:S's built in functions without using the build in variables, like move_towards_point without using something like speed.

>>158117729
>Any Girls Developing Games?

>>158117729
We are all girls, no man would have such retarded hobby.

>>158118140
I'm not looking for devs, I'm looking for girls. :)

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>>158118259

>>158118259
Please do voice acting for my lewd game

>tfw the idea fairy is going all out

>>158117493
Go right ahead! Excited to see it finished.

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more or less finished with these textures, i think making the props will be more fun

>>158118259
This. Guys are all out knocking trees over and beating up alligators. That kind of man-thing.

>>158118985
Looks like that wii thing.

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9000 hours in GML

>>158109123
Card games are just another form of combat.

>>158117493
Here's another song you might like as well:
https://soundcloud.com/dr-doomsday/itty-bitty

>>158119156
Pft, nice MSPaint clone game

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>>158118259

>>158119310
dustforcy, I like it

>>158119156
>snowballs don't bounce off text

>>158118024
i've literally never used move_towards_point so i had to check the help file for what it even does.
it seems to be exactly the same as:
x+=lengthdir_x(len,dir)
y+=lengthdir_y(len,dir)

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>>158119156
if anyone's interested in what's going on here, i stored the last frame's mouse position, and i used pythagoras' triangle thingy to see how much distance the mouse has traveled since the last frame. with this and a for loop i was able to draw lines between the position of the mouse now and the last position to fill in the gaps, will be pretty useful when making maps for the game. without this code, it would look like pic related.

>>158119609
I've never used lengthdir. Looks really useful- thank for pointing it out to me anon.
There's so many functions in GM, I'm still trying to memorize them.

>>158119385
thank you man someday i will be as good as photoshop

>>158119606
because the things i'm creating right now when clicking left-click are background tiles and not instances, i'm not sure but it probably takes more cpu to create instances every frame rather than tiles, meaning that i could make the balls bounce but i'd rather not right now, because i still want to allign the tiles to a 4x4 grid and then with that information transform it into map data and AFTER that load it as instances.

>>158119581
Here's another that's similar.
https://soundcloud.com/dr-doomsday/thinkin-music

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>>158119606
>>158119892
proof

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Still working on that kings field clone

First half of the combat system is coming along well.

>>158120149
dang thats alot of progress

>>158120083
Now we're talking

I'm using a pirated copy of illustrator. Can the Adobe figure out I exported stuff with the pirated copy? Will they send me to jail? Should I just use gimp? Is there another, better, free alternative?

>>158120371
you must be 18 years or older to post on this site, friend

>>158120371
>Can the Adobe
I just hit Peak Russian comrades.

>>158120371
Krita's pretty good. It's free and better optimised for creating stuff than GIMP.

>>158120149
Oblivion clone? Looks good. Personal tip: I'm tired of waiting/running away in games where you lose stamina for every attack. To make some change, you should implement a fatigue effect, where the attacks are carried more slowly if the stamina goes negative. That'd be more pleasant and realistic.

>>158121001
>king's field clone
>Oblivion clone? Looks good.
Fuck I'm dumb. But you got the bars down there from Oblivion, don't lie.

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Asset creation is such a tedious, time-consuming process relative to systems design.

There's so little room for creativity. You just sort of do the thing until it's done, then do the next thing. It's all detail design and I hate it.

Once the assets are built, the actual process of legoing together levels around the main greyboxed path is sorta fun, but making the assets suuuuuucks. It doesn't help that, unlike the first level (which was more park-oriented and didn't really need a shitload of extraneous details), this one is supposed to be like a downtown area, which means I need to add superfluous shit to make it actually FEEL like a downtown area.

For example, why do buildings need windows if they can't be jumped through? I have to put them there anyway or the level looks like shit, but they serve no purpose.

I sometimes think I should have just done a VR Mission type aesthetic for this game. All yellow grid shit. God, that would have been a breeze.

At any rate, I stopped by to let the five or six interested people know that I AM still working on Mayhem League.

>>158120042
Very good

>>158121161
Thank you. Feel free to look at my work, I've got over 130 tracks on SC alone. If you find something you want to use, or want to commission, feel free to send an email.

>>158121120
Nah those are standard unreal progress bars. But the UI will be reworked anyway.

Not sure in which direciton I should take it. On the one side I really like the UI in KF4, on the other hand something minimalistic like Dark Messiah wouldn't clutter the view so much.

>>158121149
It can be annoying yeah but at least you've got them once they're made and can use them across your whole game (if they're applicable).

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I finally figured out 3D!

It's an extremely simple model, but I think it looks kind of nice textured.

And now I know the basics, so I can make something more complicated next time

The Blender UI is still the work of Satan, although it gets a lot better once you learn the hotkeys.

>>158121686
looks good to me anon

>>158121820
Nice! Thanks!

>>158121686
Great textures, senpai. I like it. I like the ones down more though, they fight with the blue cockpit more.

>>158121686
Now rig and animate the fucker

>>158121686
I like your texture, metal looks like metal, even with such small size.

>>158121576
It's worse because many of them aren't. I'm not sure how much use I'll have for a downtown level's bits and pieces again (I guess some of the generic stuff, but like, a desk? And even worse, a computer on a desk? That sort of thing).

You start making the game and you promise yourself "I won't make one of those games where every level is the same goddamn space station/temple/field/cavern arranged slightly differently, I'm going to have actual variety!" because you liked Banjo Kazooie too much as a kid... and then you realize Banjo Kazooie could do it because it didn't have anything IN it, it was all floor/wall textures and like 6 big assets per level chunked together with BSP brushes in the vague shape of the thing.

But, oh well. The end result matters more than the journey and the game is more fun with unique environments, even if it means a lot of unique little assets. It doesn't help (or does, depending) that the art style demands a somewhat cartoony set of assets which makes it difficult to find some asset pack on the marketplace you can use as a shortcut.

>>158121897
Thanks!

And yeah, I guess I agree.
It's "simpler", but it looks cleaner.

>>158122019
I'd rather kill myself.

Enough learning for today - Will probably try animating it once I'm done with some commission work.

>>158122036
Thanks, Anon!

I find it helps to use a lot of gradient transitions on pixel rows, and to shine up the edges.

>>158122114
Well you can shove an upside down desk in the park area you said you had, with some trash around it, like a dilapidated little area that looks a bit shitty. Get creative with that shit.

>>158121686
>The Blender UI is still the work of Satan, although it gets a lot better once you learn the hotkeys.

Wait till you get to animation anon.
I got over a thousand hours in blender and everything about it pissed me off so bad I was already looking for alternatives

You get used to it though... it is retarded though

>>158121149
sounds like you dislike architecture. no one is forcing you to design boring buildings.

>>158122338
Oh god,
That settles it - I'm not trying animation today.

Im gonna make a game for the Switch!

>>158121001
Stamina bars are retarded as it is. It's a concept that has been in games for a long time and as soon as they age too much the stamina bars are just too slow. in 15 years we'll look back at dork souls and say that stamina bar shit is stupid. It makes the game so slow.

>>158122338
what is so bad about it?

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>>158121686
c-c-c-cute!!!

Also yes. Blender can be a total cunt. It seems like good software but there's these little things that make you explode sometimes.

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because fuck me im having the exacly OPOSITE PROBLEM i was having last week

instead of the client not doing the comand is the server that is not doing it now

>>158122737
Haha, thanks

And yeah, Blender seems very powerful, but it's so obscure and convoluted that sometimes I wonder if it was even made by humans.

>>158122503
Exporting animation is the main bitch here.
Be sure to create a user for every animation (that little F next to the animation selection in dope sheet/action editor).
Otherwise it will fuck with you big time and not export properly. Especially if you are using FBX (which i would otherwise recommend).

Data management and linking is an absolute mess in blender. If you don't exactly do it the way blender wants you to there is no way to be sure whether an animation is saved or deleted or deleted on closing the file etc etc.

It's ridiculous, but I'm afraid it's deeply rooted in the very core of blenders programming.

>>158122648
see
>>158123108

>>158119508
Wtf I hate men now

>>158122889
>but it's so obscure and convoluted that sometimes I wonder if it was even made by humans.
I worked tech support for dell and they have this logging software that is the most convoluted shit. Blender doesn't even come close. It just requires a manual, lots of google-fu, and saving every 5 minutes and you're good.

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>>158099757
>44 joined
Only a few people posting spooky progress.

Where it at my dudes?

>>158123346
ctrl+sing every 5 minutes won't save you from the memory management

>>158123501
>memory management
I've not gotten that deep yet.

>>158123467
I heard the halloween jam was cursed by the ghost of the anon that died before submitting his game to last year's hallowen jam and now every person that joins the jam dies

>idea for a cool ender's game aesthethic
>no artistic talent

life is suffering

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Quick, tell me how ready you are for demo day or I'll do it!

>>158123789
Time to start working on building your artistic skill then.

>>158123789
I wonder what's the wose.

Being bad at art,
or
being bad at making game mechanics.

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>>158124008

>>158123467
I don't post progress if my last progress doesn't get recognition

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>>158124201

>>158115390
How do you know its the view screen and not the sprite movement that causes the issues?

Let's say I have a game where a tedious activity on the player's end can yield significant advantages in the game. Basically farming.

I'm of two minds about this. Some players enjoy farming and don't mind spending hours grinding away for sometimes little overall benefit. Some players hate grinding, but do it anyway, because they enjoy having significant gameplay advantages as a result. Some players hate grinding and therefore don't grind unless they feel they have to to progress.

Removing the ability to 'farm' would be trivial but it also removes a feature from the game, a feature that is entire optional since this is a singleplayer game. As long as there is never a need to grind (basically as long as the levels are well designed), there shouldn't be any issue with having a farming mechanic in the game, right?

>>158124467
>As long as there is never a need to grind (basically as long as the levels are well designed), there shouldn't be any issue with having a farming mechanic in the game, right?
No problem, leave it in.

>>158118985
legs are still too fat

>>158099757
Which game is that witch from?

>>158124467
Some people are just bad at games and will be okay with grinding/farming to get over that hump. I agree - as long as it's possible to win without farming you'll be fine.

>>158124467
It only becomes a problem when players feel compelled to do something that isn't fun because it is the optimal way to achieve something (get levels, get loot, get currency etc.). As long as that doesn't happen you should be fine.

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>>158121149
>I AM still working on Mayhem League

Good to know, it's my most anticipated /v/ game

>>158124467
if you balance the experience rate properly in order to avoid grinding for necessity, you're fine.
think about chrono trigger. you never need to grind because the exp curve is just fine, but if you want to be much stronger, you have the option

>>158124467
It depends on what is gained through grinding. If you get additional gear that gives you alternate ways to win- YES. If you just get more powerful (hp, atk, def, etc) then NO.

>>158124438
I don't know for sure, but if it's scaling up nicely from 1x, then it should operate with 1x logic, meaning everything is calculated with integer pixel values. Also, whether it's scaled at 2x or fullscreen, it always gets misaligned by half a "pixel". If it were a movement thing, than fullscreen should have way more misalignment

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Am I correct in assuming I need to scale the rig to the same size as the bones?

I have this tutorial but it's very vague about what I should do. It shows a picture and says: "Switch to Pose mode and do the following"
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/BlenderAndRigify.html

>>158123108
Hot dam'

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I'm gonna finish this city in 20 years, and probably realise the game is not fun.

Oh well we'll see

Can I get a direct link to the previous thread?

The archive is offline.

>>158122784
online is hard
It's still scares me

>>158123467
My artist died so I don't think I'm going to make it.
He didn't die but he has't responded to my messages in almost a week

>>158125132
are you using delta time with your movement? If not, any frame fluctuation would cause this problem

>>158124467
If it's optional, do what you want.
Most side objectives, quests, minigames are pure grinding and it's fine.

>>158125832
>>158038431

>>158125832
>>158038431
That's all I'm willing to give.

>>158124683
Looks like dungeon travelers 2

>>158125747
Why everything is separate?

>>158125917
>tfw your musicbro is alive
>but he's just started doing cocaine
Well, better than... I don't really know...

>>158126294
It's hard for better motivation.

>>158126150
It's a sort of board game where some cases will have events such has minigames

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>>158126048
>>158126060
Thanks!

I'm making a first person game with lots of medieval style weapons; swords, bows and arrows, magic staff, etc.

The question is, would it be so bad to simply animate the weapons on their own in front of the character? Like have the weapon swipe as if it was attacking but don't bother actually animating a fist/hand using them?

It would save a lot of work and avoid the arm/hand animations and up close textures from looking too shit, but I can also see why people would think it looks bad or lazy. Does it look bad, or do you think it would look alright?

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>>158126791
you got it babe

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>well made asset using all kinds of maps and technologies to actually make the thing look good
>4 mentions/retweets

>shitty low poly character with half a texture looking like something from steven's universe
>40151k retweets/mentions

>>158127224
Of course it's bad. Just make the character low-poly if you think it is otherwise too hard. Try to stand out from the fucking crowd.

Just look at this guy: http://goblinuzi.tumblr.com/

>>158127684
how do you even build a community around your games?
I've been posting shit on twitter for a good 2 years now and I got like 50 followers.

>>158127684
This is because all the people who respect good work are very busy doing real work themselves, instead of circle-jerking about muh indie aesthetic

>>158127684
There's nothing wrong with SU, it's a good show
But yeah it sucks when better things get no attention

>>158127830
make a good game, pay off a few journalists

>>158127828
>Try to stand out from the fucking crowd.

Wouldn't making floating weapons be pretty stand out though? I don't think it's done very often.

>>158127912
>good show

Not as amazing as everyone praises it. Seriously, when did the standards for writing get so low? A lot of the important scenes are too melodramatic and "on the nose", the writers have no sense of subtlety.

i guess if you compare it to shit like Adventure Time it's fucking amazing though.

>>158127850
Yeah keep telling that to yourself anon.

Reality is that people aren't graphic whores but massive aesthetic whores. If your aesthetics are already known from something popular that was pushed through classic media you will have a way easier time to get your stuff out there.

Just look at undertale. Or anyone mimicing some modern day cartoon style like Adventure Time.

>not talented enough to make assets

Should I just keep making progress with default Unity Cube as the protagonist? It feels bad because nobody cares about your game until you have a wacky (or lewd) main character.

>>158128223
Floating weapons are made by every indie dev and even most AAA ones.

>>158128536

Are you... retarded? Do you not see the hands in most AAA and indie games FPS screens when you shoot the gun?

>>158128517
grab something from fucking sketchfab or the asset store

>>158128517
just roll with it or add memes if you really need (you)s
cute anime girl protag is literally "btw i'm a girl don't hit on me silly boys :** ^__^" of agdg

>>158128665

>grab your original main character from the asset store
>grab your entire game from the asset store

Unityfags are so fucking retarded sometimes

>>158128653
Are you retarded? I didn't say recent AAA (meaning the latest CoD imitations).

>>158128814
they are the ones selling the assets. don't buy into that overpriced shit

Is being fat healthy for gamedev? I guess so, the fatter you are the less time you spend eating instead of devving.

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its really inefficient, but stairs work when entering from the bottom. havent done the top yet.
properly snaps in 8 pixel increments like the classic games.

>>158129323
Unity is better.

>>158129323
Is this a castlevania fangame?

>>158129323
Is this just a test? You could easily mod a castlevania rom if that is the goal.

>>158129454
>comparing unity to castlevania
what did he mean by this

>>158129015
This is actually incorrect. If you're fat, odds are you have high leptin resistance. If you have high leptin resistance, you feel full for shorter periods of time. If you feel full for shorter periods of time, you're going to eat more.

post dev music
bonus points for no anime or koreans.

post anime dev music only

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>>158125436
It's easier if you just apply the metarig's scale before generating the rigify rig. You do this by being in Object Mode, selecting the metarig, Ctrl A, Apply Scale.
That should make the rigify rig generate as the same scale as the metarig.

Also your Rigify rig is all jacked up. This might be because you don't have Python Scripts set to auto run.
You can change this by going to File, User Preferences, go to the File tab and click the "Auto Run Python Scripts" check box.

>>158129621
>>158129660
Kill yourselves

>>158129469
>>158129527
sorta. i'm just using castlevania assets until i get all the systems working. the goal is to make a game that plays a lot like the classic castlevania games but is its own thing. i just figured if i get everything exact, itll be easier down the road to tweak things to how i want them.
i guess i want it to be like how shovel knight is to classic megaman though it'll never be anywhere near as good of course
plus its my first platformer so im getting a lot of good practice

>>158129621
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H-g0IcKSGY
Not anime or korean

>>158129701
I already enabled python scripts but it didn't seem to do anything. Will redo the metarig like you said even if I did rescale it already, there are a few bones that are out of alignment so I want to go back anyway. Thanks for the confirmation.

>>158129621
Speaking of music and devs, this got posted on the AGDG discord yesterday and it's quite impressive.

https://soundcloud.com/lemmyrodul/april