/AGDG/ Amateur Gamedev General

>>158527765
You will get patent trolled.

If anyone wants to try it

http://pastebin.com/Tj2pGmF7

Maybe you'll get faster compile times.

>>158528313
Dare you nodev.

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with SIT press bullshit mostly out of the way im gearing up to start work on my Whip the Vote sequel/spiritual successor. in this one you play as the president (and potentially any leader of a nation).
still havent decided on a title, been kicking around keeping Whip the Vote as part of it like
>Whip the Vote: Republic
>Whip the Vote, Mr. President
or a completely new title like
>For Which It Stands
ideas? opinions?

>>158528473
>For Which It Stands

Really good name here. Memorable, evocative, relatively short. Conveys the political nature of the game with its title.

Name 4 things that are still happening now that were happening this time last year.

>>158527108
>> Engines
>GameMaker: yoyogames.com/gamemaker
>Godot: godotengine.org
>Haxe: haxeflixel.com
>LÖVE: love2d.org
>UE4: unrealengine.com
>Unity: unity3d.com
If someone is too retarded to google, they're too amateur for AGDG

>>158528473
It's bad, you should go for something that fit an image macro.

>>158529342
Where's your game engine?

>>158528473
>Whip the Vote sequel/spiritual successor.
Please be an impersonator. This is RRPS all over again. Why must you always try to squeeze blood from a stone?

>>158528852
yeah, one problem with it though is how american-centric it is.
the power of the title is that you have the speech burnt into you and know innately that those words are bordered by "republic" and "one nation".
probably less powerful to anyone who wasnt raised on shitty american education.

>>158528473
>For Which It Stands
This is better

The president would be too busy to whip the congressmen into line

>>158529454
>shitty american education.
You never even graduated high school you enormous faggot.

>>158529309
The Earth is spinning
The Earth is orbiting the Sun
The Moon is spinning
The Moon is orbiting the Earth

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Anyone got any interesting ideas for props to place around a game's town or village? Something to make the world feel more lived in an lively?

>>158529309
recap
halloween jam
gogem being shit
shitposting

>>158529597
I meant agdg related things. Like gogem being a retard.

>>158529485
yeah thats not part of the players works.

>>158529569
i didnt even graduate middle school, surely that's proof of shitty american education.

>>158529597
>The Moon is spinning
more proof

>>158529721
What, do you think the Moon is tidally locked or something?

The bitch precesses.

>>158529721
>>158529828
Fuck, I meant that bitch librates. Still kind of applicable though since tidal locking would be a bit awkward with precession.

But you knew that since you're clearly smarter than me.

>>158529679
poo

>>158529828
i assume this is a joke but i dont get it

>>158529679
you posted these like 3 days ago

>>158529679
Gonna need some more info. What's the theme of the town? What sorts of people live there?

>>158530227
>the year is 2016
>"educated" americans still prescribing to social darwinism
yet more proof

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I'm fairly shit at anatomy.
Does this look very jarring to you guys?

Also, is 936 tris a reasonable amount for this?

>>158530658
adequately modeled columbine shooter

>>158530658
yare yare daze

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>>158530658
>that hat

>>158530780
>>158531134
>>158531235
Three comments and none of them were "It's shit"?
I'll take that as a "Yes, it's okay, now go kill yourself over UVs".

>>158530658
I wouldn't worry about tri count unless you're targeting portable platforms. Modern characters easily have several hundred thousand. Just do what you're comfortable with and think looks good.

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its my first time dealing with enemy spawning (ever) so things might be a little hectic until i figure out what the hell im doing.
but it works

>>158531779
I'm trying to build a low-poly set, which would sort of kind of be on PS1 level.

But I worded the question badly - Does 936 look like too much, compared to the low level of detail?
Does it seem wasteful?

I spent a few extra edge-loops to ensure that animation won't break the model completely, but maybe it is overkill.

>>158532004
God, the first Castlevanias were hideous.

Can't you at least steal art assets from the good ones?

If you must have very low res stuff, you should use the Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge (GB) grapics.

>>158532290
placeholders
game is gonna be its own ip once im done making it in 50 years

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How har is it going to be for an absolute begginer to modeling to make a 3d model out of this?

>>158532851
You won't / 10

>>158532902
if i do i'll post results here.

Wish me luck

>>158531563
It IS shit, but its britty gud for a first go around. Do it again. Then do the UVs.

>>158532851
Rigging it to move with the radius and ulna might be hard if you have no idea what you're doing and the program you use doesn't hold your hand enough

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>>158532851
>how hard
Yes.

>>158527108
>full time job kills the dev
It's not a meme. Anyone who has been a gamedev while working full time or going to school is super human and deserves the utmost respect.

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I literally cannot stop myself from making dumb space things when I start thinking too much about dumb space things. This isn't even going to go anywhere, it's just another screwing around project while trying random things that have been floating around my head for the past few months.

In the past 4 hours I ended up writing the absolute basics of space fighter physics and control. There’s no drag, so any straight flying is achieved by firing thrusters. There are more thrusters pointing up/down so it straightens out quicker in the vertical versus horizontal.

The flight control logic is at its most absolute basic right now. I’ll probably experiment later to get something that feels nicer and not as rigid. I’ve had a couple shower thoughts about how to make this kind of thing feel more natural. Especially when you fly backwards you get unintuitive movements that don’t feel like what you were expecting. I suspect that if you progressively relax the straightening behavior as the backwards component of your velocity vector increases, it’ll feel smoother.

Something else I’m very curious to experiment with is modeling suspension of landing struts/gear. I think I know how it’s done, but I’ve never actually done it myself.

>>158534074
Looks nice and fluid anon

>>158534074
In all my time here I have only ever seen creative devs work with Unity. It's simply the best engine for creative next gen devs.

>>158529454
>literally rip off HoC
>complain a name is too "american"
you are so delusional googum.

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>>158534074
But will it have building?

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How do you get this kind of look? It looks so gentle and warm.

>>158529454
>yeah, one problem with it though is how american-centric it is.
That's because Americans made it, which is why it's the best, kind of like this website, hint hint foreign fags get out.

>>158534753
Excessive amounts of post-proc

>>158534753
Color pallet, my dude.

>>158534753
really powerful electron microscope

>>158534783
>>158534685
>they want to shit on me so badly that they try to stop me from being self-critical
love yall too

>>158534753
You can tweak shaders to achieve the effect, I think through Fresnel but I've never really looked to deep into it

And like
>>158534820
said, a good sense of color theory

>>158532004

It's so weird to see classic Simon have a jump animation that isn't him just crouching in the air.

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>>158534074

Will your game have realistic pregnancy?

what to do first?

>body animation
>body modeling
>level modeling
>level physics (dealing with vertical slopes and sorting out the triangle optimization)

the last two I've done very roughly so that they are workable, the other two I haven't attempted

I'll need to do all of them eventually but they each take a few days

>>158536601
Well

You shouldn't do body animation before body modeling

>>158536686
well I'm just doing arms and legs so it'd be testing with just sticks first

The modeling part would be making the actual thing

>>158534753
strong subsurface scattering

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Really makes you think...

>>158538384
Damn what is it even rendering?

>>158538579
Nothing I was just importing a FBX file, worse part is that the memory won't get cleaned up when it finishes so I have to start the engine again

:')

I'm writing a server for a multiplayer game.

Should I go with Node.JS (javascript), Java, or .NET Core (C#)
Keep in mind there will be plenty of socket usage and database interaction.

>>158538384
hi Hitch

>>158538623
well nothing is preventing you from writing your own importer

>>158538643
>Keep in mind there will be plenty of socket usage and database interaction.
from my experience there wont actually be that much usage of anything. use what you feel comfortable with.

>>158530658
You need to find a button that says recalculate normals and press it.

>>158530658
You need to find a nice train track and lay over it.

>>158538643
Go for java it's extremely decent when used server side and most of the tools you need are already in the api, .net core isn't mature yet on linux but MS is working hard at fixing the various problems so give it a bit more time.
However if you want to shit out a prototype fast consider node, it does a good enough job until you want to get serious.

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I shouldn't have wasted this much time on modeling but at least now I can finally start animating. I'll make a proper texture some other time.

>>158532004
Too many fps you stupid.

>>158540220
threw up in my mouth, thanks a lot.

>>158538643
don't listen to >>158540123, go either C# or NodeJS, Java fucking sucks

>>158540360
>Java fucking sucks
>recommend node
Explain yourself.

>>158540123
.NET Core isn't mature on Windows either. Q1-Q2 2017 will be the time when it takes the throne.

That being said I would take it over anything else any day after using it in a few projects.

>>158538643
Go with .NET Core, you won't regret it. Javascript sucks.

>>158540220
Nice boobs.
Now tell me what the hell happened to that ass?

Anyone know if this game has already been done (other than warioware)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW_vjGSZWv0

>>158540360
>Java sucks
>Use NodeJS

Certifiable proof that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.

>>158540797
a generic infinirunner?
Yeah m8, they were pretty popular a few years ago

>>158541190
what's popular now

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>>158540645
Thanks and yeah butts are really hard to rig! They deform so poorly when the thighs move around. I tweaked the correction bones a little, is this a better at all?

>>158541326
go check the appstore.

>>158532004
Makes me want to boot up my NES and play some Castlevania again.

>>158541339
You are not getting any better than that, it's fine like that.

>>158541339
Better. Butt I believe that anon meant it should be bigger.
I second his opinion.

How do you viral a game on 4chan?

>>158540220
Pharah clone?

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Man
VR is pretty fun

>>158538643
node for web games
java for not web games

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mfw every 'game' i ever make ends up being a simulation of some sort in which you are basically just a viewer

>>158542231
Please be the first one to make it a real first-person game.
Work around the awkward arms and make a ridiculous protag or something.
hover arms are holding back VR games.

>>158542605
This is a magic dueling game, I don't have the budget/time/skills to make a fullblown RPG.

>>158542673
>a magic dueling game,
No one said a full RPG.
That sounds fun

>>158542723
Ah, yeah. Thanks!
I'm considering having floating hands, or just using some sort of other thing to explain away the dual casting... objects, whatever they end up being.

>>158542110
post in /v/ threads and hope people respond.
But don't spam.

>>158542841
Any /v/ threads you recommend? Or just shotgun method

>>158540220
JUSTICE RAINS FROM ABOVE

>>158542970
the gamedev threads.
people might also ask for a way to follow you, so have that prepared as well.

Just treat /v/ like /agdg/ and keep up progress posts, become a friendly "face" so to speak and hope people care enough to follow and post about your game themselves.

/v/ still plays RoR, so that says something.

>>158543076
>one person asks me for how to follow my game every thread
>I only post updates on /v/ and /vg/
oh well, maybe they will remember to check me out on demo day

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Hmm, is this too hard to see? It's supposed to be a scavenger hunt thing so I want it to be kind-of hidden.

If you cast wizard's eye it will appear as a blue dot on the map so it should be easy to find that way.

>>158543398
got some morrowind about it

>>158543398
haha what the fuck, i would have never spotted that in a million years

Is it possible to code a game using Unreal 4's blueprints or are you always going to need to go into the written code to optimize at some point?

>>158543398
not much of a hunt if you have a map leading right to it

>>158543834
You can absolutely just use blueprints
however, I have knowledge of C++ which makes blueprints a lot more straight forward
my suggestion is to get familiar with programming concepts, such as for-loobs, if statements, and so on
and then aply that to blueprints.
People may say it's not good enough biut I promise you it's a far better tool than people give credit

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Hey guys, I'm the guy working on the retro zombie game, just made progress what do you guys think?

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>>158543890
Here's what it looks like with wizard's eye. You know that there's an item somewhere around there, but you don't know it's the key and you don't know it's on top of that thing. Also, you need to be expert level air magic to see items with wizard's eye.

>>158544084
pretty damn nice.
you sure this isn't a ps1 game?

best gamedev framework?
I only know Python 3.

pygame = slow as a motherfuck
pyglet = looks ok i guess?
others = ????????????????

>>158544230
>>158527108

>>158544230
Not python.

>>158544360
Why doesn't the OP list libgdx?

>>158544360
doesn't mention anything about python
>>158544430
it's the only language i know dude

>>158544230
well if you don't want to use those then you should consider learning a different language

>>158544498
>it's the only language i know dude
Well you better learn a new one, or I guess there's godot which basically uses Not_Python

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>>158542605
>hover arms are holding back VR games
Do you even have a VR headset? They don't break the immersion.

Also, arms have already been done - go watch Raw Data gameplay videos. That movement lag did not let me enjoy the game though (they need to implement late update).

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Anon pointed out on a previous thread he wanted to see windows on my ships.

Here is an updated version of the model.

>>158532851
if you drew that, then it's not completely impossible

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Ok, so I'm trying to get the FPSController to work with Unity's networking features.
I searched for solutions online but I just found a single like minded person who got ignored.
https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/fpscontroller-enabling-for-network.382024/

Has anyone tried this?
I thought it was easy as well but it seems the isLocalPlayer variable doesn't really work with this script.
It's just giving me false everytime, for the local player and the incoming connections.

Help.

>>158545629
Buy photon.

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interesting agdg games are few and far between, and if they aren't dropped early, the devs move on to greener pastures

>>158544084
Pretty great

>>158545742
It's a uni project. I'm not gonna buy assets for that.

>>158546024
You ever think that the cancerous nature of the userbase has something to do with that? Most people don't want to put up with the shit that goes on here. But not us, we're the cream of the crop.

>>158546024
I blame the bullies

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Haven't posted in a while, going with a more dank background than the ship outline. It has enough so the trailer could actually be made, but its so easy to get sidetracked

I'm making my first adventure game!
But I've been asking myself what's make a good adventure game, and I basically have no ideas...
Can you help me?

>>158547086
A main character,
a clear objective,
and a twist.

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>>158547041
This is where the game was at about a year ago

>>158547086
going fast

>>158547204
Well thanks but I know this. I meant to ask what's makes the gameplay good?

>>158547229
Just that?

>>158547086
Are you using an adventure game engine? Adventure like point and click?

>>158547041

>>158528313

>>158547329
Sort of a zelda-like.
I'm making the engine myself, but just imagine something close to Zelda for the basics of the gameplay (so 4-directionnal movement and attacks directly on the map).

I'm learninggraphics programming and none of you can stop me!

>>158547447
>I'm making the engine myself,
well you probably don't have to worry about what makes a good game since you'll never get to the point where you're actually making one

>>158547491
Your spacebar seems to try to interrupt you.

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>>158547447
>I'm making the engine myself
RIP

>>158547516
>>158547550
That's not an answer...
If I decide to do the same with game maker, I would ask myself the exact same question...

>>158547491
Shaders is the elephant in the room that I need to learn but its going to be a rabbit hole that will consume me for six months, i can tell

>>158547041
Looks great. I was thinking about where you have been recently. I'm glad that you are back on it.

>>158547582
>If I decide to do the same with game maker
but you're not.
you're making your own engine.
which mean you're gonna be like all the enginedevs here,
giving up half way before the game is barely started.

>>158547582
Just don't make your own engine if you're not even clear on what exactly you want to make

>>158547693
Well, I'm making it on game maker.
Happy?
Now I'm having the exact same problem.
How can I make an adventure game like zelda have a fun basic gameplay?

>>158547640
Thanks, I'm hoping to do greenlight within a week or two.

>>158543398

I think it's a great secret as long as you don't make it necessary to complete the game or anything.

Not only is it really well hidden and cool, but since I remember you having flying/jumping powers in your game those are easy ways to potential spot it if players fuck around. AND you have the air magic power to see it, which is a great bonus for anyone who specializes into the useful powers like that that usually aren't very useful in games.

I personally think it's really cool, but once again only if optional secret.

why are game maker users so rabid?

>>158547764
why are you here?
you don't seems to know what you wanted to make.

perhaps you should find an idea guy to help you.

>>158547764
Why not start by remaking Zelda
only put a twist on it, like to be current you could make Zelda a girl this time

>>158541441
>>158541482
Oh I get ya. Didn't want to go too big with this character, though.
>>158542119
>>158542974
Well I was going more for a Samus kind of character but I guess Pharah's also a Samus clone so yeah?

>>158543398
Thats extremely barely noticeable.. but also how it got up there in the first place?

>>158530207

So? I didn't get any interesting responses then either.

>>158530432

Any town really, trying to create Assets for my game world. I wasn't sure if I was gonna go with a different painted pot per town or just use multiple in each town.

Medieval fantasy is the idea though. Actually medieval though, not this capitalist progressive Americans but in fantasy world nonsense like Elder Scrolls.

>>158547693
This is a weird thing to say. Most of the devs here give up on their games whether they're making the engine or not.

>>158547726
>load png
>move it around the screen
>include Box2D if you can not get into physics
Damn, that was hard.

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I went through and fixed up all the quests, including rewriting the dialog (which is still bad, but it's better than "kill the troll king"). Except I broke the Scavenger Hunt quests somehow so the "you finished" text is showing up no matter what. So now I'm trying to fix that.

>>158547847
Yeah, these keys are totally optional. Only the quest to inspect the angel statues is required to move on to the dungeon.

>>158547869
I do know what I want to make.
My first adventure game.
I have a scenario ready, a universe, and I had a gameplay. But the basic gameplay doesn't feel fun, so I'm trying to ask people what do they like in the gameplay of zelda's.
Is it the smoothness?
Is it the speed?
Is it the feeling of being free?
Is it just that the music makes it feel good?
What part of the basis of gameplay makes an adventure game feels good?

>>158547693
>all the enginedevs here
Ctesiphon seem pretty far along with gameplay
Coaldev hasn't given up and its been like two years?

>>158548001
>Most of the devs here give up
yes, very very less of them but there's still devs that actually made it out of this shit hole.
but no enginedevs ever made it out. none.
1MA enginedevs is destined to fail miserably.

>>158548038
Some wind that blew leaves/branches a little would be cool

I love engine devs because they don't abandon AGDG

>>158548136
aerannis used love2d and made it out. their game sold poorly but they finished it

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>>158548038
also, 6 months as of today

it will be my 174th commit

>>158548092
You really need to figure that out on your own, Anon. You need to study games and figure out why you like them, and then experiment. Nothing anyone tells you is going to click. Trust me.
>>158548136
Nah. Vagante started here and it's on early access on steam with a shit ton of content. It's made in C++ with SDL.

redpill me on löve2D

>>158548116
Add Tender Arms to the list along with Unnamed Pixel Platformer.

>>158548280
Okay. Thanks.
Let's go back to those a-rpg...
Damn I just can't take it anymore, most of them are just dumb...

>wake up with an itchy butthole
>scratch that shit
>get a finger full of pudding
>too lazy to go to the bathroom
>wipe asshole with underwear
>phunpost on 4chan
So how is everyone else's night?

>>158548306
FuccboiGDX

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>>158548310
>2D
>enginedev

>>158548116
Chickendev here. I haven''t given up, although I doubt anyone remembers me anymore. I don't blame them. I haven't posted progress in months. But my engine is done and I'm working on content now. Just looks ugly as hell since I'm using placeholders to speed things along. After I remake player animations I'm going to return for real.

>>158548306
Simplest way to make 2D games that doesn't involve a WYSIWYG editor.

>>158548374
I still don't know why he choose such a stupid fucking name for his framework

>>158548310
And the Maid game.

>>158548306
It's okay. Two problems:
Lua isn't suited for gamedev, and AFAIK unless they made one, literally no debug tools

>>158548524
lol give me a break. If your comment said "it's still a hostile environment for people who feel offended by the word fuccboi to get in to" you'd have a point, but now you're just treating women like they're children. That's literally what your comment did. Why don't you respect women like you respect men? Somehow women can't deal with the word "fuccboi" because they're women and therefore are more mentally fragile? That's demeaning as hell. You know what keeps women out of communities? When people keep treating us like children. You people are so shallow that you'll choose to focus so much on a simple name instead of the actual contribution and then you come complain about diversity and inclusion, give me a fucking break and spare me the always present guilt trip "why won't you think of the children/women?!?!?" bullshit

>>158548413
You're remembered, its a catchy art style.

>>158540645
>>158541482
>caring about size instead of shape

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>>158540220
are you this dev?

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Can we all just take a moment and acknowledge that we love each other? Yesdevs, nodevs, you're all beautiful and I'm so glad you're here and a part of this.

>>158548306
It's basically enginedev on easy mode. Great if you don't want everything done for you like GM but still want a similar level of productivity.

>>158549048
sounds alright, GM is shit
I don't feel exactly comfortable with lua though but I guess I'll learn. How's its performance?

>>158549186
lua has shit performance so dont use it for things like physics and pathfinding

>>158549238
well fuck
I just wanted to make a simple cave story-ish platformer and since there's going to be lots of shit flinging around all the time when you're in a battle/whatever, what choice do I have?

>>158549374
if you just do aabb tests and forgo physics simulations or shapecasting you will probably still be fine

>>158548850
Shape is perfect already. The size is the only thing that could have some improvement in my opinion.

>>158549186
It uses LuaJIT so it's quite fast. The other anon is probably forgetting about LuaJIT. With smart programming you're very unlikely to meet its limits, especially given what you're describing here >>158549374 LOVE would be perfectly capable for a cave story-like.

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>>158549025
You've said what I'm feeling, anon. I don't know, maybe I have been too obsessed with this place recently, but I think all of you are beautiful people. You dedicate your free time to create fun, you work so our life could be a little bit less miserable. This is a nice thing. Keep it up, and never let anyone let you down.

>>158546024
name them

>>158549025
what about insane source poster?
is he beautiful?
are you glad he's here and a part of this?

if yes, you should leave agdg before you shit this place like him.

>>158551430
he is beautiful when he isn't shitposting

>>158551505
so, never?

>>158551678
is he shitposting now?

>make all assets and build your game
>build your game with temp surfaces and then draw the assets and finally import all
which way

>>158551776
we will never know.
i could be him.
you could be him.
he could be shitposting in /v/ again.
he might even be shitposting in his dream at this very moment.
we will never know.

>>158551848
so we can't know whether he is shitposting or not, so the answer to >>158551678 is undefined

>UI/minimal resolution constraints mean I need to fit card art in a 75x120 px space
How do you make something that looks good in such a small space? Jesus.

>>158551910
Pixel art

>>158548908
Yes >:(

>find tutorial for turn based combat
>ui is done an extremely weird way
> trying to rebuild it without redoing all the code

i'm too new for this.

>>158551905
it doesn't matter.
we have you here to replace him on shitposting.
isn't it wonderful?

>>158552521
but who am i?

I just want to finish a game. I just want to make one from start to finish

>>158552635
S C O P E
C
O
P
E

>>158540220
Any way to follow your progress, senpai ?

>>158551905
>so we can't know whether he is shitposting
Thanks to 4chanX and filter's we can't.

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What about a Jam... A random game jam...

Where you make the game that this generator will give you.

https://videogamena.me/

>>158553127
>Magnetic Mummy Knights
You are tomb robber and you got inside a pyramid to steal shit, but you got trapped inside. Mummy Knights try to kill you and the only way you can defeat them is solving a puzzle that will activate an ancient junk magnet to catch the knigths and open the pyramid's door.

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Only need 8 more. This level ended up being a lot shorter than the previous ones, but it is really fun.

>>158553127
>World of Piano Connection
I can't even do this.
Can anybody help?

Rerolled to this
>Heavy Metal Bazooka Onslaught
2d pixels meme game.
you're a heavy metal guitarist.
and when you play the guitar, a giant note fly out like a bazooka and kill people.
the people will explode into bloods particles when hit.

anyone use imgui?

>>158553127
>Grimy Midget Wasteland

Isn't that just DF?

>>158553676
>>World of Piano Connection
Multiplayer Piano guitar-hero clone.
One guy plays left hand, other guy plays right hand.
Score of the song is based on both of them, so there must be great teamwork there, but the one that played better has a higher rank.
Imagine the tournaments you could organize for this shit.

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Hold unto your butts cause I'm about to ask a pretty retarded question.

Is this how collision is done in 2D games like Hyper Light Drifter and the such? There's a grid and only the bottom of the sprite has collision? How is this view point actually called, 'cause it can't be Top Down since that's more like Hotline Miami.

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>>158554091
It is top down.

>>158554091
changing the collision of the sprite doesn't change what type of game it is. If he was only 1 block high instead of 2 its the same style of game, its just depending on how you do the art.

>>158554091
Still top down. Just the way the sprites are drawn is different.
And yeah, it's done exactly like that. Only half of the sprite has a hitbox.

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>>158554259
>>158554482
The last question was just a side mention, it wasn't anything important that I needed to know.

I was asking how exactly is collision done for this, is there a rule of thumb or do I just go with whatever? Like I couldn't figure out where the collision box is in this image just by looking at it.

>>158553127
>Mechanized Sumo Rider
I'd play it.

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>>158554685
Best way to understand it, is picturing everything as boxes on your head.

what type of racing game is achievable by indie devs?
Do racing games have a small scope relative to a platformer for example?

>>158555247
Mode7 and Lowpoly racing games are achievable. I hope you are planning to make arcade style racing game, because there's huge lack of them on market. Make something like Drift Stage.

>>158534074
but that's from that guy making those tutorials

>>158555361
I had forgotten about that game
I know a guy who has made cars in 3D before, so that's not a problem (the vehicle itself at least)
the problem is creating the circuits.

City-style circuits are not too great, require lots of assets probably.
Maybe in the long run it's better to create pieces of circuit, like trackmania, and let users create better circuits.

I'm still thinking of ideas that can make a racing game unique. But I think that the scope can be achievable

>>158533413
Game dev at night invigorates me and gets me through the work day because it gives me something to look forward to when work is over.

>>158555390
Link? That looks really cool.

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Hey /agdg/ I 'm looking for a good book on c# any recommendations?

>>158555390
Who making what? I'm actually curious to see how others might approach this if there are actually tutorials floating around.

>>158555626
Make stages be touge stages. All assets you need are trees, some ground textures, sky texture and guardrails. Shit's easy yo and people want initial d game.

>>158555758
www.nothingexistsyet.com

unless you meant trackmania?
http://store.steampowered.com/app/11020/
this is the free one, and it has "multiplayer"
I really recommend it if you haven't played it. Also try the single player/tutorial thing, to actually learn how to take turns that are efficient and don't make you lose speed. And try to get away from the super crazy multiplayer circuits

>>158555847
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tB4SKTy5mA

this guy is making literally that same "game" while teaching.
So I'm assuming you're just copying him

>>158555853
leave me alone, I have no idea what to do yet

>>158553127
Holy shit yes please. This is golden! I'm gonna shill the fuck out of this Jam idea.

How do you protect your ideas?

I'm currently working on a game right now, that I think would be quite fun for the audience who grew up at the same time as me, and played the same type of games that I did, but I'm afraid someone else will steal the idea if I post details here (or anywhere else for that matter).

I'm currently working on the engine (yup, I'm one of those), so I don't have anything to show on my website yet. Should I wait to reveal anything until alpha/beta, or should I post simple things, such as my level editor and whatnot during the process? If so, there's at least some sort of evidence that I'm the original creator (even though the idea isn't revolutionary).

>>158556242
A lot of work goes into games you know, it's not really easy for someone to steal your idea. It does happen though. Personally, I decided to just not show small shit. It was mostly after it got little responses, but sometimes I have something cool and I don't want anyone to borrow the idea either. Big updates every once in a while are fine in my opinion.

>>158555972
I just skimmed a few of his videos. Pretty funny that his placeholder happens to look almost identical to mine. He seems to be doing "physics" by just translating a thing and rotating it though, whereas I'm using a rigidbody with forces applied to it.

I did what's in that webm all last night with a handful of code snippets as reference from my previous projects.

>>158544230
Try Godot. It's a proper engine, and the language is similar to Python.

>>158556831
I'm betting a gorillion dollars that 90% of the people who got the GameMaker bundle will switch to Godot as soon as GMS2 comes out, with it either being monthly payment garbage or coming with an expensive upgrade fee.

>>158556567
>A lot of work goes into games you know, it's not really easy for someone to steal your idea.
While that is true, a small indie team may implement my game in a few weeks, using an already finished engine, while it's going to take me a couple of months (already spent a few on the engine).

>Personally, I decided to just not show small shit. It was mostly after it got little responses, but sometimes I have something cool and I don't want anyone to borrow the idea either. Big updates every once in a while are fine in my opinion.
This is what I'm leaning against at the moment. My game isn't technically difficult to implement, even though there's not a single one out there that implements the concept. Probably going to postpone anouncing it until late alpha/early beta.

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FINALLY made the dialogue system work with input axes. Put in a parallax scroller for backgrounds, combat system is done, stealth mechanics are done.

Just gotta put in my upgrade system and all the core gameplay mechanics are done.

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>tfw 100% views to downloads ratio
fug this feels good, my dudes. I'm a real gamedev now.

>>158543398
Your game mechanics and style don't seem to fit this kind of gameplay.

Is it ever worth it to do the UI through gui scripts in unity over using the canvas ui element thing?

I have a script using gui codes atm but I'm thinking about changing it because the canvas system seems better.

>>158534753
Loads of dof

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>>158557337
Here is a screenshot of an area with art, in case anybody cares.

>>158554853
Alright thanks.

For reference, should the damage hitbox also be the same as the movement one, or the whole sprite? What do players find more intuitive?

Hi /agdg/

I'm a physics grad student, and I'm going to start working on a scientific visualization in project in Unreal 4. Am I allowed to post progress here, or will people get pissy because it technically isn't a game?

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>>158552225
ok im glad to see you posting more

>>158557817
Lul physics

>>158557337
>NPC
>press E to talk
>displayed over dialogue box

This is shit.

Also
>press E to talk

Unless it changes for some reason, don't remind me what button to press constantly.

>>158557739
The same as the movement. Since you would mess up up with the perspective if you don't. Don't forget the point of the half of the sprite hitbox is so things can hide behind other things before coliding to fake the perspective.

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Did something with the water.
yay or may?

I'm somewhat split on it.
It's kinda nice, but in this are kills pixel perfectness.

>>158557817
Sounds fascinating anon.

>>158557739
There is no perfect solution but probably having hitboxes generally based on the position on the floor (shadows) would work out well.

>>158558059
>yay or may?
I need to wake up first...
yay or *nay?

>>158557118
>switch to Godot as soon as GMS2 comes out
What does he mean by this?

>>158558059
>but in this are kills pixel perfectness
Then just render your shit at the correct resolution and then scale up at the end.

>>158558059
Maybe some sort of ripple or splash effect where things cut through the water in the foregrounds to break up the hard line. Like your character, ramp, and blue crystal need some splashes or foam around them.

>>158558059
I kinda dig it, but I'm not one of the people who complains about pixel perfection.

Would probably look better if you followed this guy's advice, though:
>>158558217

>>158544084
Look amazing, except the those glare effects that dynamic and not baked. Watching the glare shift with the camera kills the nostalgia factor. Also, less shadows, more ambient occlusion.

>>158558217
>Then just render your shit at the correct resolution and then scale up at the end.
I think it's quite difficult in this case with a distortion shader. (in my case using a normal map)
To have it move pixels around the right amount and also have a flow to it seems a nasty thing to figure out.

Maybe I'll find another solution some time.

>>158558396
>Maybe some sort of ripple or splash effect where things cut through the water in the foregrounds to break up the hard line.
hm yeah, will probably need to figure out somethign for that.

The level itself is just a debug room. It won't end up in the final game like this.
But thanks and will see what effects i can add to stuff underwater.

>>158558428
Thanks for your opinion on it! (unironically)

What's the time period called between Medieval and Modern? I mean around ~1800.

>>158557916
you got it. Just testing things. I might set it as a tutorial prompt on first use and then never have it appear again.
Thanks for the feedback hombre.

Anyone using PhyreEngine? Opinions?

>>158558696
Depends what country/style you want.

Industrial/Victorian I guess.

>>158558858
> I might set it as a tutorial prompt on first use and then never have it appear again.

That works, but make sure to have it change it if you have keys rebindable. Nothing screams more amateur than hardwiring button prompts that end up wrong if the user changes the controls.

>>158558957
I'm using the listener pattern and have confirm and cancel set up in the input manager, it should be as simple as passing the positive button for each into the string that displays in the prompt. Good shout!

>>158558696
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_periods#Europe

>>158558892
>>158559271
Industrial it is then, thanks.

im on a progress spree
how long until depression sinks in again

>>158559637
once u sleep
or
once u met a problem u can't solve in progress.

if u have depression,
this progress spree will probably backfire and causes u to be in a slump in the next few days.

>>158559707

I know that feeling, I've been in a slump for weeks.

>>158559707
>once u met a problem u can't solve in progress.
there's no such thing
stop procrastinating

> want to practice drawing
> decide to draw MC in a style i'm not comfortable with
> give myself 30 min to quckly sketch some scene
> end up doing her being pinned down by an alien creature about to do lewd things to her


I'll never do any progress because I keep editing the concept art and sketches to be porn.

I know you will say post it http://i.imgur.com/7q4SLhL.png

>>158560317
>there's no such thing
Yeah,
people that couldn't solve something at the moment but for some reason woke up to the solution is fairy tales.
am i right?
Am i cool yet?

>>158560384
...well

KEEP GOING, THEN

>>158560384
Oh baby

Why not make a hentai game?

If you practiced anatomy and perspective drawing for a couple months you could pull of some sick drawings.

>>158560384
Why not..

..make a porn game?

>>158560384
There are plenty mistakes in your drawing but if you actually bothered to study abit you could make porn games. Porn games are a very rich niche market if you put atleast some effort and quality into it.

>>158560938
And also if you put no effort of quality into it

im getting some deja vu in this thread

>>158560384
oh my

>>158561023
Well sure but if you put those two things your game will instantly stand out. Getting a porn game page kicking on patreon with some semi quality work is extremely profitable right now if youre into that kind of thing.

>>158557337

>>158557916
^^^ Ignore this idiot ^^^

You need to keep the press E to talk overlay so that players know which NPCs can be talked to. However, the prompt should hover over the NPC's head, not be on the player .

>>158557691
Interesting artstyle and use of colour, but the player character is practically invisible on the background. You need to differentiate the character with sharper colours or make the colours less similar to your background ones or something.

>>158560507
>>158560761
>>158560789
>>158560938

I don't normally draw in that style, I prefer to draw in a more cartoony and anime look.

Porn games sound bad. I dont have the talent to do 3d porn game, I don't like 2d platformers with porn backgrounds or snippets. Never played a good one. The lewd stuff always felt forced. And I don't have the talent for a VN.

>>158561389
> I don't like 2d platformers with porn backgrounds or snippets

It doesn't have to be a platformer you know. RPGs, action games, rhythm games, clicker games, people aren't exactly picky about porn games gameplay, but they'll be pleasantly surprised when it's good.

>>158561164
I'm thinking of different ways I can approach this. There should be some kind of indication, but I don't know if a recurring prompt is the way to go.

Thanks for the feedback re: the artwork, it's worth mentioning this is just a vista in the hub area (which consists of the player's apartment and the street right outside), it's somewhere you go back to after each level so I think we get away with being a bit more outlandish with the visuals. In the levels themselves the backgrounds are much more simple.

>>158561616
>I'm thinking of different ways I can approach this. There should be some kind of indication, but I don't know if a recurring prompt is the way to go.

Why not give the NPC a thick outline when the player is over him?

>>158561389
Bruhhh

There are so so so many different genres you can do thats not a platformer. Trust me on this. Draw every day and practice some ANATOMY and PERSPECTIVE. Its very easy to see you have a hard time with it, but it also looks like youve been drawing for awhile. Do it till january and you will be surprised. I can guarantee you will be able to do a porn game.

Make sure to do some research, there are many genres. Fuck any genre can be a porn game. Do a dungeon crawler. Rpg. Tetris. Anything.

People don't care in the end. A good simple FUNCTIONING porn game with good quality art can make you extremely successful.

>>158560384
I know that feel. I can't remember the last time I made art without eventually making a lewd version of it

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>>158561389
play this game and you will feel inspired i guarantee it

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Need some advice from artist.
I wanna do a effect like pic related
but the light won't make sense if the sword behind have a light source that goes from right to left.

so, is there a way to do it so the symmetry looks good?

or is pic related's left/right side is good enough for the effect and won't look too weird?

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>>158561971
I'm not an artist but here's how I'd do it, with yellow representing the shine.

Basically just follows along (on the edge) with the same direction as the other one.

>>158561971
after the shine finishes on the first sword make it shine on the second and follow its own blade

UNITY IS SHIT

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>>158561971
The light on the right side should run around the edge of the blade on the back sword, not straight across. If you wanted it to go straight across the blade it should look like a fat bar of light that changes shape with the shape of the blade.

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>>158562214
here's the result.
issit good?

>>158562291
but the second blade is mostly behind the first blade.
do i start the shine from the base like the first sword?
or do i only shine the top visible part of second sword?

>>158562346
Depend on needs.

>>158544230
python is poop sorry

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A shortcoming of my current moving platform code.

>>158562409
Looks great mang, though you might want to make the shine of the second sword start when the first sword's shine is halfway through.

But it'd still be good either way.

>>158562409
id just start it from the base but i dont think it matters as much as the timing

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>>158561971

>>158562485
The need to do anything without being jewed

Don't get me wrong fa m, I used to use and love Unity, but they've strayed

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>>158562494
>dat reticle
i hope this is going to be a spiritual successor to the original dues ex

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>>158562540
here it is.
i feel like having them both shine together would look better.

>>158562673
>You can use only the simple one if you want
and so i did.

>>158562773
looks gay tbqh

>>158562773
okay i think probably better if its from the intersection point instead since it looks kind of delayed this way

>>158562729
Sadly no, but Deus Ex's focus reticle was actually on my mind when I made this one.

>>158562718
what problem are you having, specifically

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>>158562820
no, THIS look gay as fuck.
yeah, making them both shine together won't work.
the brain will tell you something is wrong with the lighting.

>>158562835
i will try it now.

I'm currently leaning towards
>>158562409
it looks decent enough.

>>158562882
segmenting of features across different licences for unity

>>158561971
you could do a quick mockup in blender to simulate the lighting

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>>158562835
doesn't look too good to me.
the second flash looks slower due to the short distance.

i will uses
>>158562409
then

>>158542506
Elaborate.

>>158544726
>Do you even have a VR headset? They don't break the immersion.
what this guy said.

From my experience with the HTC Vive, mobility is the big hurdle, not hand perception. Stationary games like Job Simulator work very well, but anything with player movement like The Lab(via teleporting) or the Brookhaven zombie game where you stand in a field and wait for zombies to come at you show that player movement is a huge problem. Your hands are already occupied, the controllers don't have buttons to spare, you only have an 8 foot physical space to work with. I'm guessing first person movement is going to start with "on-rails" and step off with subtle head movements controlling strafe, forward motion, etc. Going to be tough for devs to make it intuitive, not exhausting, and fun.

>>158563193
what about imitating the extra shine from >>158562673 but only on the second sword?

>it's another artist spends 10 days iterating a single sprite episode

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Main goal for today achieved.
Moving platforms that respawn when out of view.

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>>158563450
i basically did that as a 1ma and then didnt even use the sprites yet

>>158563508
are these animations rough? I can tell just from looking that some of your pivot points are fucked up.

Also the camera is a nightmare. I get the visual style you're going for but do you also have to carry over everything that made these games age poorly?

>>158563508
is this actually 3D or 2D?

>>158563508
Well done, nice DKC style.

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>>158563379
was gonna call it a day.
but saw ur reply.
so i draw one last time just for you.

i think it doesn't look good.

>>158563651
>are these animations rough? I can tell just from looking that some of your pivot points are fucked up.
huh? As far as i know the sprite stays inside it's collider all the time so the pivot should be correct.

>Also the camera is a nightmare.
how so?

>>158563769
These are pre rendered sprites.
So 3d models rendered into 2d sprites that are then used in the game.

>>158563787
thanks!

>>158563508
Is camera setting final? Because he is out of the screen quite often. Gonna be annoying.

>>158563886
yeah you are right

>>158563934
you can jump enough to be outside the camera's field of view. It follows the player with some kinda delay which lends a really floaty feel. If this was the intention then forgive me but personally I think it looks bad to play.

maybe that's not my issue with the animations then, they're just kinda unappealing to me and I think the idle animation (the weird little dance) happens much too often.

>>158563508
this game would be much more enjoyable with a cute female protagonist

>out of ideas
>browsing google play store
>all these crap is making money

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>>158563769
oh well, the water is actually 3d, but ground, platforms, objects are 2D.

>>158563998
Camera behaviour wuite final, but it has settings to make for each level.
It has a camera bounds system fo adjust vertical limits along the level to kinda guide the players view.
In this demo room i just slapped in the platforms without adjusting the upper limit in this place.

>>158564062
> It follows the player with some kinda delay which lends a really floaty feel
maybe i can tighten that a bit it's a relict from when i tried to fix the rope climbing camera issues.

>I think the idle animation (the weird little dance) happens much too often.
Yeah, i kinda think that too.
Haven't found the right balance for idle animations yet.

>>158564387
>wuite final
>fo adjust

Oh god, I think i have to attend a typing course..

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Second playable faction for Fleet Tactical Command, Al'Makhtar - the Chosen.

Al'Makhtar are like Genetically Engineered Arab Nazi Space Elves. The warriors and workers are grown in vats and are genderless. The maharib (warriors) are grown into their exosuits and live to fight and defend. The eamil, workers, live to serve and work. The malika (queens) take the female form and reproduce asexually to clones with genetic memory of the previous mother, handing down knowledge and experience (though they are able to give birth to eamil if necessary).

Al'Makhtar society functions like a bee hive or ant colony. Each malika governs a khalia which can range from a few hundred to thousands, and is responsible for the genetic evolution of her subjects.

In game terms a malika will captain a ship and maharib or eamil can act as officers, soldiers or crewman.

>>158564387
why not just have the camera follow the player exactly at an anchor point? What's wrong with that? It's how every decent side scroller plays.

>>158564559
>It's how every decent side scroller plays.
And that is where you are wrong.
That's how every bad platformer does it.
smw has it centered with offsets in each direction.
I analyzed DKC 2s' camera system.
And there are 3 settings.
For left to right stages
box stages where you move left right up down
and bottom to top stages.
each with different leading offsets.

>>158564558
>zero gameplay
>hiring concept artists

what the fuck dude

>>158564558
Malika porn when