AGDG - Amateur Game Development General

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What are you working on tonight, anon?

>>158676478
My dick

>>158676478
Can't think of anything. Give ideas.

>>158676478
Planning out boss attacks, then making the next attack after I finish.

Anyone need music? Looking for a project, I'm well versed in alot of styles. Something I finished recently:
https://soundcloud.com/soravme/city-smirk

>>158676478
Just finished my Halloween game. The only thing that makes it Halloween is its skellies.
Finished it in less than 48 hours but I'm sure some of you could have finished it in less than 10.

>>158677079
Are you uploading it?

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>want to dev
>need to study

>end up doing neither

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What's your dev music tonite, boys?
https://clyp.it/2akno5zg
>158676478
Planning a level.

>>158676478
I got a haircut and I may have gotten a part time job, not sure how the fuck that happened
Anyways I hope the pay is good because I have no fucking idea what that is or where I'm supposed to work or how many hours it is but if it is enough maybe I can buy some software and pay for more classes

>>158676478
Writing more of my spooky story, hoping to have three chapters ready to go on Halloween

Maybe fucking around a little more with Blender

>>158677350
Just did

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>>158677409
Boss music, as it puts me in the mood for when I'm working on bosses.

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Hey /gdg/. I was directed here form /v/. I 'm working on a crazy arcade style game mixing pinball and twin stick shooters. I"m using Gamesalad because I'm a scrub. Here's a gif of my latest progress. and if you want to play the pre-pre alpha demo it's here: http://arcade.gamesalad.com/games/139001

Let me know what you guys think. I could use the feedback! Especially on the art. I'm a terrible artist.

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>>158676478
Working on some neat effects for lighting

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>>158676478
Started working on a code input box.
I'm planning on using it to unlock some stuff, like opening a safe deposit box or something like that.
Still have to figure out exactly how to make the object and the UI interact but it should be trivial.

>>158677409
https://www.youtube.com/user/Krelez/videos
Every random chiptune mix on this channel.

>>158677961
Cool genre fusion my man

>>158677961
I sat here watching this for about three minutes and occasionally saying "what the fuck"

This could be pretty rad, anon

>>158677961

That's a novel genre mashup but holy shit the current control config you got going on is awful.

>>158677961
Pretty neat idea.
It needs an absolute ton of juice though, once you finish all the mechanics of course.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=216_5nu4aVQ
https://youtu.be/AJdEqssNZ-U?t=420
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0aCDmgnxg

>>158678197
Thanks!

>>158678264
I do the same. I think "am I crazy"? but playing the preview build is a lot of fun.

>>158678396
Yeah I really need to map it to a gamepad. That's the best way to pay this, for sure.

>>158678674
Oh yeah. Screen shake, progressive sound, all that schtuff

>>158676478
muh engine

>have a pretty neat story idea for a game
>don't know how to do anything more advanced than Chonotrigger style combat or old school Zelda combat
>story is literally all about combat
i'll go kill myself then

>>158679301
>don't know how to do anything more advanced than Chonotrigger style combat or old school Zelda combat

yes you do

>>158679301
Story isn't game.
What kind of combat anon... let's figure out how to make your story playable and fun.

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>>158676478
Cleaning up and creating better previews for cards. Also gonna look at finishing up everything needed for the round system/state machine.

>>158679320
Neat

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Not gonna finish in time for Halloween jam

>>158676478
It's getting really hard to work on my shit because I try to finish my schoolwork before doing anything else, but I procrastinate the schoolwork so hard that by the time I'm done, its too late to get any dev work done.
If I get this awful fucking assignment done, I'll be working on some animations tonight.

>>158677961
If I was going to make something like this I would ditch the shooting, but it's a cool idea.

>>158679740
Just do as much as possible. It doesn't need to be complete.

>>158679301
Chrono Trigger combat is awesome though?

>>158679740
What kind of game is it?

>>158680085
I like the combat style of Chrono Trigger too but so few people would enjoy that style of game nowdays idk if its worth even trying to make
>>158679439
I do?
>>158679481
It's mostly sword based combat because it's supposed to take place in a super militaristic totalitarian government who won't allow anyone except super high officials to have guns.

>>158678080
mousewheel to spin the numbers

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>when you haven't worked on your game in weeks because you're trying to learn to draw

>>158680340
>so few people would enjoy that style of game nowdays

fr*g you

>>158680957
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5FFDj7vH6E

>>158676478
working on 3d models in blender

>>158677961
>watching webm, thinking oh it's just split screen
>pinball machine fucking MOVES
whoa

>>158680957
Am I wrong or did I miss the last big release of a game with somewhat close to that combat style? No one uses it anymore because not enough people like it I'd assume?

>>158680932
That feel si just too familiar, anon. I really don't know how artists do it. I think it would be easier if I would have a passion for drawing right from childhood. Just think about it. As a kid, you can enjoy things without any self critique. You just love what you are doing. Even if you start to be judgemental at one point, you already have enough experience to work with. Starting it now, however. It's just painful. And it feels like gambling. I know that if I google hard enough, and read the article for some time, I'll understand the algorithm and I'll be able to implement it. But how does it work with art? I just don't see the light at the end of the tunnel, I can not measure the amount of work needed for getting some basic skills, thus I just get unmotivated just by looking at the pencil.

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>>158675928
Uploaded my Halloween jam game. Check it out.
https://cowthing.itch.io/mushroom-towers

Thanks again to Dr.Doomsday for the music!

>>158680932
>tfw draw half decent on pen/pencil and paper
>tfw can't draw for shit using a mouse on a computer
>tfw I know I'll have to buy either a scanner to scan my drawings to my computer or one of those expensive artist tablets that connects to the computer

>>158681731
I did have a passion for drawing as a kid, I drew every day. That's not enough, I was only drawing for my own personal enjoyment and to express my imagination, I never once stopped to think how I could actually improve my art. I had the mindset of a person who drew just to draw, not a person who drew to be better at drawing. It's only now after examining myself in adulthood that I realize that I wasted my potential.

>>158681731
Art is a form of problem solving as well, draw things in your head before you put them on paper/image.

>>158682323
You have to buy a tablet, with a scanner you'll still have to do a bunch of editing that will also be ass on the mouse.

>>158681352
I am Setsuna. Sold enough to warrant an indie doing it, but not a major studio.

>>158680168
pixelshit

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>>158676478
Finally starting to see results of putting hundreds of work into training.

>>158682323
Intuos Small is cheap. You don't need anything more expensive. Yet.

>>158681731
No. You are wrong. All the shit I drew as a kid meant nothing when I actually cared how it looked and being an artist never gets easy. If anybody says it does they are a liar. You just have to want to do it.

>>158682323
Just buy a small cheap tablet to start.

>>158682908
Intous small is trash. I hate tablets, but the smaller ones are even more difficult than the larger ones. I cannot even use them though. I had to get a cintiq to make even decent drawings that were not just painting over scanned drawings.

>buy My Summer Car
>Unity splash screen
>made with Unity: Personal Edition
>car colour picker oscillates if you select it below where it pops up to show it's been selected
>text input is completely broken
Thanks.

>>158683098
You certainly get what you pay for. Then again, one has to start from somewhere - no point in getting expensive equipment when your skills aren't on par. Anon didn't sound like he was too confident in his art.

>>158683414
Are you even allowed to sell Personal Edition games?

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Added control indicators, changed the fall animation and found a weird bug

>>158679320
I like this

>>158679740
>sidescroller with top down map?
Make it go

>>158681789
Cute son

>>158683098
Sounds like an excuse to me, anon

>>158683893
Yes there is. Because using a intuous small, you might never get good. At least get a medium.

>>158684048
I make money for a living doing art, what excuse do I need? I've already paid back the price of the Cintiq with contract work. Some people just cannot use tablets effectively.

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Some portraits, new NPC on right and rework on Liath (left).

I'll never learn to draw.

>>158685014
These are actually really good anon keep it up

>>158682579

You might be able to get away with using a digital camera (instead of a scanner), especially if you're only using the original piece as a rough sketch for the final artwork.

>>158682323
Go for a 40$ no-name drawing tablet on which you can recover scanned drawings or buy an inexpensive cintiq rip-off (basically secondary touch screens on which you use a pen).

>>158684018
yep
you only pay unity some money if you make over $100,000

I once saw this documentary on this guy who had a major head injury and suddenly could draw and paint like an expert. So some of you might try that.

one thing though, the guy was also severly retarded as a result of said injury. so it's something to think about

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>>158685751
Thanks. Faces feels fucking impossible to draw. Takes forever to even make them look like faces.

Anyways, tweaked some colors on ice sword. Now it's less like absolutely disgusting cyan and more nice blue. Also fixed issue with player's projectiles not applying status effect when enemy dies (couldn't freeze enemy if it's hp went below 0).

I'm slightly drunk so can't code -> I just make assets and tweak small things to not fuck up anything.

When is a fantasy race copywritted or trademarked?

For example, I'm sure my game could have elves and orcs, but what about Hobbits, Twileks, or Saiyans?

>>158688194
elves are from mythologies. Those cannot be copyrighted. Orcs I'm not sure about.

100% sure Hobbits, Twileks and Saiyans are copyrighted.

>>158688173
I think the animation framerate is too low for the kind of fast movement you got going on in your game. By which I mean it needs more frames.

1-5-7 Code useless tools
2-4 Code useless games
6-8 Ideasmanning
3-9 "Art"
0 Autism

>>158688173
Well it looks less saturated now. Color isn't a bad thing you know. Otherwise looks sweet.

>>158676478
I've been working on stairs and then getting distracted and fixing up old shit and then going back to stairs. I'm done for tonight though, next up is dinner and then social stuff.

>>158688469
I'm so sorry

1-4 - keep working on combat
5-9 - play bioshock
0 - watch movie

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>>158689464
>1-4 - keep working on combat

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To do list for tonight
Hopefully posting it publicly will make me work on it more

1-3 watch tv series
4-6 read book
7-9 dev
0 = fap

1-3 keep on toiling away in blender
4-0 make a coffee and then go back to blender

>>158689794
See you in forever

>>158688173
Why does the sword disappear when he stops swinging it

1-9 nodev
0 yesdev

I'm making a command line text adventure for shits and giggles

Should I kill myself
0-5 yes
6-9 no

>>158690106
No change there then

>>158690214
Welp

>>158688424
Hobbits are in like every traditional roguelike.

>>158688469
I guess I'll roll on this too.

>>158690352
Every traditional roguelike is also freeware, but yeah, even if the name Hobbit is copyrighted I'm sure you can get away with calling them halflings like everyone else that's not Tolkien does.

>>158690010
This >>158690568

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added acceleration on hills

https://www.google.com/search?q=are+hobbits+copyrighted&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
durrr

>>158690715
What if the cart decelerates too much on a hill? WHAT THEN, HUH?

>>158690682

Did you fuck up in quoting or something because how does roguelikes and hobbit talk pertain to the sword vanishing when not attacking.

and to answer that guy, hammer space, duh, the protag has a pocket dimension in his pockets

>>158690568
Yeah you're right, most games call them halflings, I forgot about that.

>>158690852
it has a minimum speed cap

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>>158690010
Well does this look good to you? I tried this before and looks kinda off.

And yeah he has like mystical pockets in his jackets where he carries other coats, weapons, all kinds of fucked up relics and stuff.

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I think I'm doing something wrong, angle is always set to 90:

RaycastHit2D hit = Physics2D.Raycast(transform.position, transform.forward, 10f);
Vector2 normal = hit.normal;
float angle = Vector2.Angle(body.velocity.normalized, normal.normalized)

>>158691225 i think the magic pockets version is better

>>158691225
I never even questioned it, personally, but maybe I've played too many post SoTN CV's.

>>158691225
I think it would be better if he's just holding the sword. Make him grab ledges with one hand and pull himself up while still holding sword maybe?

>>158691338
>>158691340
I agree the pockets version is better.

>>158691363
That could either work or not and not sure if worth redoing tons of animations for that.

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>>158691225
This looks good, except he should strap it in a way the sword wouldn't be clipping through the floor like it is.

Do you count thinking about / writing / designing / general self-ideaguying as progress

How long you should spend designing something before attempting to implement it

Anyone know of any games like FF:Tactics/Disgaea that don't use a grid system?

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How the hell does one install Visual Studio? It takes long as shit and it keeps hanging and crashing, I've literally been trying for nearly a week now. I hate Microsoft software so damn much.

>>158691580
Implement first, then think what you've just done and redo it forever. This is only right way to do things.

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>>158691642
Arc the Lad 4.

Making content is hard.

>>158691672
It's def a pain. You can do it anon. Go the library if you need better wifi.

>>158691708
Thanks anon! Exactly the kinda shit I've been looking for. Have wanted to create a battle system kinda like this and wanted to see if it has been done before.

>>158691672
It is a hefty thing, but its worth it

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>>158676478

>>158691265
hit.normal is always the same unless the surface rotates -- you probably want to use Vector2.Reflect to create a vector that would "bounce" off of the surface first?

Not really sure what your exact issue is.

>>158690568
I think the hobbits were refered to as being halflings in the books once or twice. Hobbit is like a regional Halfling, like wood elf etc. Sméagol was a Halfling, but not a hobbit.

>>158691580
Yes

From a couple of days to a couple of weeks

>>158691225
Magic sword out of nowhere is much better.

has anyone reverse engineered Street Fight V yet? would love to see how they handled input and hitboxes in unreal.

>>158693473
why do you think it's anything special?

>>158691672
VS2010 is the last good one

>Your game will never reach a big number of people if it isn't played by literally retarded Let's-Players.
Do you think you'll be able to handle seeing your game abused by someone whose skilllevel is even below that of a Valve playtester?

>>158694797
>below that of a Valve playtester
Easy now, lets not say things we can't take back.

>>158694797
You don't watch their videos
You throw them the game and the money (assuming you're smart and do a paid promotion to get them to make multiple videos on your game and/or live stream it for a few hours) and then go back to nodev'ing while sales go up

>>158694797
I'd love to see dummies playing my game

>>158695048
what, your computer room doesn't have a mirror?

OH SICK BURN

>>>/sci/8441211
Saw this game posted on /sci/, thought I'd check here for any progress or new information

>>158694797
Upon hypothetical completion my game would be multiplayer and also have pretty tough PvP. Yeah I'd love to see them get destroyed by randoms.

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>have cool, well fleshed out idea for story and gameplay
>better physics system than ever
>realize you have to turn ideas into actual content
>hit a wall

>>158693473
If you want some good analysis of Street Fighter, and fighting games in general, check out the Aztez devblog:
https://aztez.com/blog/

>>158695786
He recently implemented traffic simulation with emergency service cars. And his dungeon builder is more advanced now. He's still alive and updating; he's still hated but somehow tolerated in this general. Probably because he constantly posts progress, for which many here envy him.

>>158695786
That guy is literally insane but damn this is impressive. I'm pretty sure that guy is on some watch list.

How do you animate shooting and moving like in megaman

>>158695786
What's his endgame?

>>158695524
I'd love to see you playing my game

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>>158692482
I've got a thing to calculate damage based on the angle of impact and the target's armor. If the projectile doesn't impact correctly, it bounces off using reflect like you said, but I need to know the angle of impact to decide whether to reflect or not.

>>158696748
calculate the difference in angle between the inverse of the reflection vector and the normal

>>158675928
Would creating a company who ghost develops your games be a good idea?
Plenty of rich asshole hipsters trying to make it into the industry with 0 knowledge of anything, if I get two other people on board we could shit out those crappy indie platformers fast

where do I find all the game programming gems books for download?

t. enginedev

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>>158696748
>>158697380

>>158697589
The same place as all those amazing blender books I guess

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>>158697619
But then how do I get these angles?

>>158697647
>amazing blender books
never occurred to me that these things might exist
any recommendations?

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>>158697403
I could do that, do you have any clients? I've already registered a llc

Is it ok to make extensive use of NVidia's GameWorks in Unreal? I want next-gen cloth and fluid physics badly but that will mean a big fuck you to all poor AMD users.

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What should I work on next?

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>>158699315
By using Gameworks you're hurting AMD users but Nvidia users without a card from the latest lineup even more. Planned obsolescence.

>>158699315
Program cloth yourself.

Good luck with fluids.

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>>158698126
I can only show you the path anon.

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>>158699597
Using tech only for visuals and spending valuable dev time on fallbacks it is then. I'm getting webdev flashbacks.

>>158699908
I'll leave that to enginedevs, thanks.

>I'd be really happy if some of you guys were willing to help me test out the first beta versions so I can iron out any issues.
>I'd be really happy if some of you guys were willing to pay me $5 a month before it's even done
FTFY

>>158701174
I'll give it out here for free

>>158691225
maybe the sword should be a little smaller?

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>>158677361
You just described the past year of my life.

>>158677361
Are you me

>>158692197
getting low or no replies after posting progress is the worst

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I dunno if it's fine to list the potion colors here if I should use the actual potion names. I still kinda want people to try it out and see what they get instead of only making certain things. On the other hand, the colors make it easier to understand which potions to mix together to make a new one.

>>158688194
Games Workshop basically went and renamed all of their races when they moved on from the old Warhammer Fantasy Battles to the new Age of Sigmar just so that they could have copyrights on those race names.

Bethesda does a similar thing with TES.

Elves, Dwarfs, Orcs, Trolls and Halflings would probably work for your basic fantasy races. The more "special" ones that you find in only one franchise would be the ones you can't use because they are under copyright.

Though there are probably cases where the copyrights haven't been enforced and you could actually use them because of that.

>>158688469
roll

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When is Anno going to sue the hack that made hyper light drifter?

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Not my greatest art for this game yet (dialogue is temp text I just drew) but at least the introduction sequence is coming along now. Got some more pics I'll post along with this one since it's been a while since I posted progress.

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almost done, just need to create a nice diffuse texture.

also, does anyone want this when I'm done with it?

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>>158677361
>tfw too tired to dev but not enough to sleep

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>>158703902
This is from later in the game when the player's moving about town. Red eyes in window won't always be there and probably won't be prominently displayed. They're just a little accent.

>>158704061
And this piece of bleh is from the earliest part of the introduction sequence. Really want to go back and polish this before I launch it - it works but it's not really that great. Her face reads less 'semi-solid flameish/decaying energy' and more 'red skull gets smashed into a vacuum sealer after his eyes got gouged out'.

Anyway, that's my progress dump.

>people don't know the difference between trademark and copyright

baka

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>>158704203
Forgot to attach image.

>>158704291
nothing that a quick Google search won't fix

I'm going to make a game tomorrow!

>>158705010
No. You open whatever fuck you are using and start now.

1-4 porn
4-5 player animations
7-9 boss designs
0 shitpost on agdg

who's ready to collab

>>158703912
How many tris are on that thing?

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Bunny-hopping across desert

>>158705847
You are going to make an animation for the bunny jumping right?

>>158706040
there is an animation, his legs stretch out. but ill probably make it a little different over time

>>158705838
Around 5k, so really low poly for a gun

>i know how ik works, how hard could be to rig one up for some struts?
>never actually done IK before in any program
>how does anything work?
>now watching videos on trying to rig mechanical parts
Man I thought I could have this little thing done in like an hour tops but then I realized I have no idea what I'm doing.

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Tomorrow is Blender day, what a shitty day.

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Working on the sectors around planets generator and this looked kinda cool so here's a satisfying loop.

>screwed the last one up by 1 frame

Shit, I just had my first skype call with someone I'm collaborating with. I was nervous as fuck. How do I not screw this up?

>>158708042
Anon, you're not dating this person, chill out.

>>158708042
ask him out for dinner

>>158699918
Hmm how did you do this?

I can think of a few ways but none of them are very good unless you already know the target vector

I know how to find an angle ofc but against a thousand tris dunno how you would to that without a lot of computation

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>>158708042

>collaborating with a girl
>she says "you sound shy"

fucking worst feel man

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>>158708042
By using non-proprietary software.

>>158708848
It's a raycast in Unity.

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>>158706508
Hooray.

>>158710009
Good work anon

>>158710009
Looks good anon but I think the magenta part isn't averaged between the two arms, it seems to be lining up more with one arm than the other.

>>158710257
Yeah it's not. It's just following the top arm movement. I'm not sure how to restrict it so that it doesn't do that.

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Going to tackle generating planet sectors the same way I tackled generating the planetary system itself:

>generate too many objects
>delete some at random
>delete any too close to any single one
>delete any with too high of a neighbour count
>reduce the count until you get the target amount of sectors

Fingers crossed it works just as well.

>>158709493
>s-sorry I don't usually talk to girls that I jack off to

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>>158676478
I uhh... things...

>>158711431
How can anyone enjoy that game for that long?

>>158711324
That's usually how generation goes

>>158705847
silicon valley clone?

>>158705847
>resolution for ants
>what looks like ludicrously high bitrate
>still below size limit
...

>>158711592
Oh yeah? I've never done much procedural generation so I just assumed you tried to get it mostly right the first time, then fudged it a bit from there if it needed. I didn't know the goal was always to over-generate and then make cuts. It definitely solved my Sins style map generator.

>>158700668
>Engine devs are such fags and can't do anything!
>I don't know how to do it, I'm sure some engine dev will do it for me someday.
AGDG in a nutshell

>>158711534
When I first bought it I only played for like, 8-10 hours and thought it was alright but really shallow. Then I tried it again and actually realized there is a lot you can do in regards to actually manipulating how you play to alter how successful you are. Like the scripted events are the same every single time. But there is actually a lot of depth in regards to how you spend your research points, what types of games you make, and who you decide to hire that alters the game a lot. Right now I'm trying to do an Everquest run where I release a PC MMO by 1999 and try and keep it running until the game ends. It might actually just be impossible though because some of the mechanics are very poorly/shoddily implemented.

For example if you make a console and you have like... 2 million sales of the console, and then you release a title ONLY for that console, it DOES increase the sales of the console, but only by an arbitrary equation, it doesn't actually seem to check or verify anything. So for example I'll sell 10 million copies of an RPG that I released for my console that only has 2 million sales, each person buying 5 copies because ITS JUST THAT GOOD.

Another problem is that it checks THE LAST game you made but it doesn't check anything past that in regards to lowering your score on your game for releasing repetitive games. This means you can release a fantasy RPG, then a Sci-fi RPG, then a fantasy RPG, then a Sci-fi RPG back and forth forever and have no penalties. Not that there should even be penalties, it doesn't really make sense that you can't just be a dedicated studio that does one thing.

I've been doing significantly better each playthrough so it isn't random rng bullshit that it first appeared to be.

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>>158710009
Welp, for some reason I thought that Unity's wheel collider had hooks that allowed you to hook them up to animations for suspension. It doesn't. I'm kind of at a loss for how to do this now.

>>158712614
Buy an asset :^)

>>158712515
I also released a cconsole called the "GoyBox" which the only feature it had was 2D graphics from the 80's and the worst design quality possible. It was so bad when I released it that literally no one bought the console. Through sheer advertising campaigns and featuring the console at conference booths I got 300,000 people to buy the GoyBox, because they're good goys. The quality of the console was so bad that even with $3,000,000 a month going into my tech lab I couldnt replace the broken consoles fast enough.

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>>158676478
Quadruped animations

>>158703902
>>158704061
>>158704353
Good work :)

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Here's a quick example of swapping between animals. The screen/particle FX let you know that you are in range, they are not final
>>158711635
best way to sum it up is silicon valley + mario 64 + banjo
there's a hub world, and the levels each have 6 main goals + 100 smaller collectables.
you can freely swap between animals in the Hub world or each level, but you will take the place of a specific animal once you enter the level from the HUB

>>158711934
yea, i suck at making webm's. ill figure it out soon

>>158712614
There isn't even a clean way to get how far down the wheel has traveled on the suspension. At least if I had that I could extrapolate that into something useful. I have some thoughts on how to do this, but none of them are pretty.

Maybe a wheel is a bad way to do this.

>>158712280
Definitely, generation almost always take multiple passes and culling. As long as it scales nicely or at least fits your purpose you should be just fine.

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Well that was fairly harmless but the amount of sectors to generate appears linked to the scale I'm going to use for the planets, as you can see in the second half of the webm the same amount of sectors feels a lot more spacious.

I guess I'll have to tweak how I generate the planetary system first, and get that scale nailed down, before I tidy this up.

Good night AGDG. I love you all.

Why do maintstream games have such lifeless characters and animations? Is it because they are that difficult to create or is it honestly the result of laziness and not needing to?

>>158713406
That's very vague. Give examples?

>>158713406
"Realistic" is the easiest way to translate money into a good product (if you're measuring by how realistic something is)

So you don't want to make a stylized animation, because no matter how much money you put into it, it might be bad. Its a risk-aversion thing.

>>158713016
Now glue rockets and treads to those animals and give us the Spacestation Silicon Valley sequel that Rockstar will never make

>>158684019
Too much bounce, they clip.

>>158713406
Overwatch is a shit game imo, but one thing I honestly cant say is that the characters and animations are lifeless. Practically every character in that game comes to life just through their animations alone.

Niggas wanna fuck me 'cause look like Mick Jagger

>>158712962
add shadows, or ambient occlusion

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>>158713852
You are right, how's this.

>>158714298
A little too stiff, but better. Can you add JUST a little bounce?

>>158714298
>left click moves it right
>right click moves it left

that feels off

>>158714162
That'll come later. Not happy with the colors as is right now anyways.

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>>158712515
>>158712862

you're fucking evil man

>>158714368
Thanks, I'll keep testing it.
>>158714681
Left mouse rotating clockwise feels a lot better to me, but I'll give an option to switch controls

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Almost done with this.

Colours are hard, so I'll try redoing those tomorrow, before rigging.

>>158715503
I feel like you potentially have a nice texturing style developing but at the same time you're failing at representing things with your textures. They seem to me like most of the texture is just noise. And it's not just this model but others too.

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>trying Dwarf Fortress
>a giant capybara is terrorizing my fisherdwarfs
>make a militia squad to kill it
>go to equip them with weapons
>there are like a thousand pages and keys in the game regarding squad management
>check the wiki
>have to read a 10 page essay on how to give your dudes weapons

It's like the Blender of videogames. I hope your controls are a lot more intuitive, anon.

What happened to the anon that was making the silly game where all movement and animation was exclusively physics? I remember some climbing and kicking the player could do and all the models were textureless humanoid boxes (i think. i don't remember too well).

>>158715503
Is this a JoJo character?

>>158716458
No. Is it the hat?
I've never seen any JoJo.

>>158716519
the hat and coat. I haven't seen any JoJo either, but it reminds me of that. I think it looks pretty good tho.

>>158717068
Oh, okay.
Thanks!

>>158691225
Abstracting the sword away when not using it is better and perfectly acceptable. Now it's just distracting and I have to worry about the sword getting stuck on a platform or something.

Your game looks really great btw.

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Started adding some sound effects and placeholder music, as you can obviously tell from this gif.

Anybody know of a good way to make water gushing out of a fountain in Unreal 4? I was thinking of using the particle system but I'm not sure how to make that look the way i want it.

>been learning make game for almost a year
>one man army
>so much time failing to art, the quality I want is years and years away and nothing even feels worthy of placeholder
>simply can't enjoy what I'm working on if it doesn't look good
>so many wasted small projects that I lose confidence in
>inability to art is crippling me
>so many days where I open sai, graphicsgale, or just a sketchbook and stare for hours or start something and delete it immediately

It hurts

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>>158715503
>>158716519
bro that's just straight up jotaro

>>158718274
I don't really like platformers but I'm really digging the art style here.

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>>158718351
art is a struggle for everyone anon, don't give up

>>158718523
Normal people have this weird idea that some people are just born with their talents because nobody ever sees your huge pile of failure

I try to explain this over and over but there's always that "Yeah but some people are just naturally already good at things and I'm not good at anything"

It's maddening

>>158703083
this

>>158719348
getting 1 reply that only says
>unreal motion blur
is worse

>>158677361
today i finally finished a report i had to do more than a month ago...
i can finally dev...
tomorrow

>>158718274
Ever since I saw Konjak try it I've been wanting to do a thick outline style. Maybe I will.

>>158712979
Thank you anon. It's nice to be noticed.

>>158718274
I really love the look of how those enemies fight! Looks really fun. But why does the character slow down so much when going uphill? I feel like that'd be annoying and wouldn't really benefit the gameplay.

Also blog?

>>158720145
When did he ever do thick outlines? I've only played the noito games.

>>158720320
The uphill thing is a glitch that im not 100% sure why it happens yet, just that it only happens when you are going slower when you start moving up the 45 degree slopes, like by stopping or running up the 20 degree slope first.

Blog is http://scarfdev.tumblr.com/

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>>158712614
I honestly don't even understand half the things I did because I still find Unity's animation system confusing as hell and overly complicated for what I tend to use it for but God damn is that good shit. This made my Friday night.

You can get the suspension travel by finding the distance from the wheel collider to its transform node. Using that, and by carefully lining things up, you can determine the percentage of suspension travel and then play the appropriate frame of an animation to get the correct suspension travel.

Webm in slow motion because it's easier to see and looks cool.

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>>158720796
More straightforward drop test.

>>158720796
>>158721030
This is pretty fucking dope. Is it for that fighter plane game?

https://clyp.it/u3jnbiix

where wud u see this in

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>>158721424
The Ace Combat one? No, this something else. It's mostly just me trying something I've always wanted to try, but I do want to incorporate this into what I'm working on eventually.

Fresh memes boiiiis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK0SJVUVMr0

>>158688469
Rolling

>finally try to fully playtest game
>so many little bugs
>slightly dizzying to stare at the screen in fullscreen
well shit. I tried with motion blur on and off. maybe it's just too bright or something

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I just woke up and felt like doing something. Does this look aesthetic?? Also what kind of controls would be good for something like this?

>>158723638
intro is too long. Start it at 0:05

>>158694797
I have a secret concept that will help me promote my game in the correct way if it is played by an idiot.

During the tutorial where most of the controls are locked it will test them and if they fail the simple shit it will disable the contols completely

I'm gonna be honest guys, I don't think my demo is very fun, but I'll do as much as I can before demo day. It's not very surprising since it was mostly a tech experiment. I'd probably need a full-on idea guy to make the full project while I just focus on implementing things.

>>158724162
Be the idea guy yourself. Think up the most retarded ideas and make a list. After one day of idea guying you take a look at the list and just fucking do it.

Guys does anyone have good pixel art tutorials?

Or just game maker tutorials in general?

I look and look and look and it's so much fucking garbage.

>>158724236
I have tons of features, the problem is things like level design, balancing, user interaction, etc.

>>158724369
just go apeshit. It always works. You're thinking too hard and trying too hard. Just do what makes you have a lil giggle m8.

>>158724327
It's pretty hard to find good stuff. As far as I can tell the only way is to just try them and see for yourself what's good and what is not. Alternatively just googling the answer you need also sort of works.

>add a material to the leg parts of my character in UE4
>the same material is also added to one piece of the hair
>wtf?
>try to remove it from the hair
>it also removes it from the legs

I can't even begin to imagine how this would be a feature.

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>not reaping twitter followers from the trump train

these cucks are all over the site, easy to get eyes on your gayme as long as you retweet stuff from the news and alt right blogs

your real political affliation doesn't matter remember this is all for the money

>>158724659
are you sure the the feature isn't an incorrectly-made model?

>>158711635
>>158713792
Looks more like zoo race imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1VTYiEs7EE

>>158724723
Very possible. But I still don't understand why that would happen. It means the 2 parts would need to be linked somehow, but they weren't grouped together in blender. I just don't see a logical reason for it.

>>158720705
That project he was working on with the black female protag. It was a side thing, but he stopped for now. You can find it on his tumblr.

>Made some progress
>No idea how to make a webm

Kill me

>>158724713
It's even easier to shill your shit on /b/ tbqh

All you gotta do is post a "post your favorite game" thread or something like that then samefag asking "what game is that" then post the link.
After that just post a porn roll and use airplane mode on your phone replying to it so it has a reason to get constantly get bumped.

>>158725194
i dont know, that might come back to bite you later

>>158725305
how so? it's anonymous

>>158725305
samefagging to boost your popularity seems shitty and desperate imo.

I think ladybug dev was most notorious for same fagging the fuck out of his game.

>>158725160
OBS for recording
WEBM converter for converting to webm

>>158725412
I'm not obvious when I do it though. I'm a mobilefag dev so I usually start a "post your homescreen" thread then ask what the game is 5-20 posts in the thread.

After this I just post a porn roll. Nobody is really suspicious of a thread getting constantly bumped because of a porn roll because it's /b/. After that it snowballs until real users reply to the pornroll.

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>>158720796
>>158721030
>>158722205
This is so cool man. I've been thinking of a system like this but its really far back in the backburner.

i need to get better trees and ground

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Progress

im so motivated to spend 4 years working on kusoge that no one will buy bros

what motivates you

>>158725837
>what motivates you

Money, which is why i make shit games for normies

>>158725837
The only time I really feel happy is when the things I make start to come together.

Everything else feels superficial. I just really like creating things.

>>158725837
how much does someone have to hate game dev to make a post like this

>>158725967
people who work on art themselves

>>158725796
If you make the sprite for the nudiemon extend into the ground it will fill up the space if she's walking up slopes.

>>158726352
otherwise, I came.

>>158726352
Don't have to, actual levels will hide that with foreground elements. These are just test blocks I made.

Daily reminder that art is NOT progress.

>>158725837
Show me how your kusoge looks and I'll tell you if people would buy it.

>>158726463
You mean you will put something in the foreground at every slope?

>>158726549
No, not every slope, it will only be used in rooms where the angled walking of the characters bothers me.

Also, in some rooms I will make characters walk "in" slopes to minimize the effect.

In most rooms this slime girl thing will not even be present so I don't think it's an issue warranting more complexity beyond that.

>>158726503
Daily reminder that some anons post shit like this in an attempt to overcome the regret they still feel over all those missed dev hours.

Get to work anon.

>>158726763
p-pretty efficient anon. sorry i doubted you ;_;

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I made a spooky ghost! I don't think I like animating the particles in manually though. Probably better of using a particle effect in the engine if at all.

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>>158726503
Yes it is silly.

>>158727156
you can't play art silly.

>>158727221
you cant play progress

>>158727058
what program you usin

>>158727306
of course you can, a game without textures, art and sound might not be 100% playable but you can at least test it.

>>158704353
>DIE DIE DIE

epiccccccccccc

>>158727431

I tend to test my games more intensively when they have graphics, sound effects and things like that tho

>>158727431
by all means post your webm of a black screen.
very playable progress.

>>158727342
Using a program called Pyxel. Paid a couple of bucks for it, but I think there's a free version with limited features though.

>>158727598
what are placeholders?

>>158727342
>>158727971
*Pyxel Edit

>>158728031
not progress since unlike doing art does not actually make the game any closer to the finished product.

>>158728081
Sure, being able to practically finish a game leaving the art for last is totally not progress. Guess that's why this general has so little progress.

>>158725007
Unreal assigns material per import. Linked or unlinked its all one mesh.

Just pick either the hair or leg and assign it to a new material.

Extra info:

If you want them separate you'll have to import each part individually, this will separate the material ids.

Just attach the parts together by making a socket on the part you consider the "core" mesh. This is the ideal way to do hair and clothing.

If it's a character, it will still animate correctly as long as they are using the same skeleton and you refer the separate meshes to the same anim instance.

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>>158727156

>>158728231
leaving the art for last is a good way to fuck up most games.

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>>158728341
Not bad, close to how i use to topo all my character faces.

Also: my waifu can beat up your waifu.

>>158728407
how so? all you'd have to do is tweak a few things and play around with juice since you've already finished the engine/game

no dev uses finalized art when the core game isnt even done

>>158729217
>all you'd have to do
said like a true never finished a game nodev

>>158729593
coming from someone who made a dating sim with flash tier vector art

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Doing an intro thing

>>158729042
not if she turns into a wolf!

>>158729737
restricted-rps is not a dating sim

>>158730206
It's not a game either

>>158730271
nodev lashing out in the most typical way possible. sad.

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>>158730206
i wasnt even talking about that poor excuse of a 'game'

>>158730434
also not a dating sim, ive never made a dating sim you poor excuse of a 'dev'.

>posts game they made in an attempt to prove they are a nodev
what the actual fuck?

>>158730539
nodevs are as great at debate as they are at gamedev.

>>158730539
>prove they are a nodev
who's trying to prove this?

>>158730712
me

>gogem is the only active poster right now
someone kill me
please

>>158730802
does that.... does that mean you are gogem?

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>>158728341
>>158729042

>>158730802
>relying on other people to do everything for you
this is why you have no games

>>158730856
wheres your waifu

>>158729042
kyutee

>>158728341
that nose looks's a tad sharp

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>>158730892
in real life somewhere nerd

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>>158730939
its holo (the anime version)

>>158730995
yes i could recognize her
that's good

>>158729787
It's too high up.

Have it at the center and if you have a menu coming there move it up and reveal the menu after.

>>158730995
>not naming it korbo.jpg

the model is actually for a waifu simulator I've started working on. I can tell more about it if anyone is interested

>>158730995
the anime version is horo u new fag

>haven't dev'd in 4 years
>want to make my simple, 2d top down co-op dream project
>never learned networking or making not shit netcode

How fucked am I?

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>>158732217
You've piqued my interest. Go on.

>>158732480
http://www.thewaifuproject.com/