AGDG - Autistic Game Development General

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> Models/art/textures/sprites
>opengameart.org
>blender-models.com
>mayang.com/textures

Add turbosquid, blendswap and cgtextures to the fucking list.

How do you clear your mind when deving depresses you

>it's an argue over what does and what does not constitute pixel art episode

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>>158854718
It's textures.com now anon

>>158854687
>I've heard this argument before so you're wrong

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Tell me, anon, what are you doing instead of working on your game?

>>158854907
Watching youtube videos and crying

>>158854907
Doing homework and shitposting.

>>158854765
Play some vidya on the console, or take a hot bath wile listening to the Hotline Miami OST.

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Does anybody else feel like a hack?

I got into game making to make games I would enjoy playing, or making things to imitate my favorite style or evens series of games.

Then I see these actual successful and famous game developers talk about the systematic themes and elements they add into their games to make everything redress the central point they are going for.

I feel like a hack- imitation without understand. I don't know how to create high concept original ideas, and I feel ashamed.

>>158854907
watching a vidya stream while thinking how to redesign one of the systems in my game to avoid spaghettification

>>158855127
Those big game devs talking about shit generally didn't come up with those things alone instantly.

They likely had a team coming up with a bunch of ideas and they iterated on them until they got what they wanted. There's a shitload of stuff that didn't work they often don't talk about, don't just assume they hit the jackpot on the first thing they tried.

>>158855127
Think about it this way. If you're feeling like a hack you're probably past Mount Stupid. That's a good thing.

>>158854169
Input manager is the perfect place to use a manager-like structure though. In the manager you check for each input once per update and scripts that need to do shit with input subscribe to the relevant events.

It encapsulates the checking of input into one place making it much easier to modify input related code and alter it to support different kinds of input for example.

>>158854907
bullying VN "devs" in the discord

>>158855669
We have VN devs? Post

>>158854907
trying to convince myself to continue enginedev

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>>158855880
Hi

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>>158854907
I made a pumpkin for kids and this https://soundcloud.com/lemmyrodul/ed3/s-yKgx4

>>158856031
Isn't that a point and click?

the next themed game jam had better be dinosaurs

>>158856031
Your art is bretty gud btw

>>158856080
If it's mostly puzzle and dialogue and less a collect-a-thon mix-and-combine - isn't it more a VN than an Adventure game?

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>>158856036
Fuck me that's rad anon

>>158856240
I guess

>>158856036
Very good! Try to make the synth louder and turn up the bass on that, it should sound even cooler.

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Don't forget to vote for the next game jam.

http://poal.me/33ujzy

Hey anons please help me out with some math/logic.

In GM, 60 steps are 1 second.

If every step I do irandom(59) (chooses random number from 0 to 59), I will have 1 in 60 chance each step for that to return 1. What is that in % chance? So every second what is the chance of returning 1? By that logic the chances are very high, like almost 100%. (I'm a stupid fuck who didn't pay attention in school)

How can I control this more? Say I want every step (or second) to have N% chance of something happening, how can I do that most simply without me having to calculate the chance every time? (which I don't even know how)

While AI is casting a spell over say 20-120 steps, it checks every step if conditions for that spell are still met, like whether the target is still in line of sight. That's why I'm checking this every step. I could potentially check it every 5 steps or so, but I still need to understand what irandom(N) need I put to get the desired percentage. I could say make a function that intakes % of something happening in that 1 step or over 1 second, but I don't know how.

>>158856036
When are showing the Killing Floor track you shared on the Discord?

>>158856727
It's actually only a 64% chance.
I don't know why you'd do something so convoluted or what its for but its not 100% at all.

>>158856664
>VN
Why

if you're making sprites that get flipped during the game (rather than drawing separate left and right facing sprites), how do you decide to put the sprite's light source? do you just put it in a neutral spot like above or pillow shade or something?

>>158856727
>I will have 1 in 60 chance each step for that to return 1. What is that in % chance?
For every frame the % chance is the same. What you're looking for is probability. The probability to get 1 goes up the more frames you go through but it will never reach a 100% chance to get 1.

>>158855127
most successful devs can't replicate their success

>>158857039
I actually had an idea for a kinetic novel. My idea was a black comedy/mystery about a rookie detective investigating a murder. I jotted a few ideas down, but then I realized it was just another Ace Attorney case, except without the puzzles. Also I have 0 art skill.
I dunno, would anyone actually want to play it if I made it?

>>158856727
If you want it to happen once every second, you could instead just roll for a random number between one and sixty and have whatever you want to happen happen that many steps since the start of a second.

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followed Shaun Spauldings platformer tutorial.
I know its babies first game, but Im gonna try to make the enemy animate.

>>158856575
I'll sure do anon!

>>158856794
It's finished but I'm not super satisfied with it. I'll post it one time to not spam. I'm making a youtube account with all my music, but it'll be on my soundcloud too. It's cool you remember it man!

Will I get caught using pirated software?

>>158858405
no

>>158857391
Story can be as equally appealing as actual game play.

However I probably wouldn't play it if were a long title and I'd appreciate some eye-candy while I'm clicking/mashing through the dialog.

I guess it's about presentation.

>>158856969
>>158857082
>>158857435
I just want to have arbitrary N% chance of something happening, but because I'm checking this every step I don't know what numbers to input to get desired percentage overall.

Say AI has a spell that takes 120 steps to cast. Each step it checks whether its target is still in line of sight and if it isn't it stops casting the spell. But it also has a chance to cast it anyway, even if target isn't in line of sight. So every step I have to do a check like "if irandom(N) { }", but since it is in steps and since in this case this check will be made 120 times over 120 steps (2 secs) I'm not at all sure what N should be to get the arbitrary desired percentage/chance. I could do this check say every 5-10 steps instead, but then the N needs to be different.

>>158858405
Only if you actually make money.

>>158858721
Like one of those anon said, why do you need to do it every step?
Why not just roll once at your desired odds, as and when you need it?

In your example you're constantly rolling for whether the spell is cast after the target is lost, without even knowing if that will happen. Seems silly.

>>158859120
How do they catch you if you do make money?

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>yfw the programming switch finally turns on and you start having fun

>>158858721
why not do a single line-of-sight check at the halfway point with a 50% chance of failure, or something

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>can't decide on a dev name
>never able to show progress on other boards than 4chan/agdg

I feel like a complete retard. I can produce the finest progress but no name with a ring to it.

h-helb

>>158859489
you are now called froggey blue

>>158859489
"[name of thing/word you like]dev"

>>158859489
You like frogs eh? Why not Keroppi?

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>>158859489
Or rather Keroppepe. It's Keroppi + Pepe. Double the frogs.

>>158859840
>MasturbateToChineseCartoonGirlsdev

that's too complicated anon.

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im not sure if i should ditch the chaps.
this is my protagonist and his concept art as well. ive learned its very difficult to translate a full drawing to 32x16 pixels.
im not very good at art, but like programming and music im sure ill grow better as i do more of it

>>158859489
don't post your game, keep blogposting tho

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>tfw to intelligent to collab with anyone

>>158859176
By auditing your ass

>>158860164
Ok, how about OnanimeDev
オナニ + アニメ + Dev

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>>158860339
>but like programming and music im sure ill grow better as i do more of it

i'm sorry m8

Any ideaguy can help me for the plot of my game?
An A-RPG...

>>158860339
Take advantage of stylization to better represent the important elements of the design. For instance I would make his head big so it can read better as a skull.

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>>158860759
i think i made it worst
im already falling down the rabbit hole. send help

>>158860718

>A-RPG

what's the point if you're never going to finish it?

>>158861620
That's pretty fun that most of the time when you ask for help here, instead of answering, people say "whatever you're not going to finish it. It's useless to help you..."

>>158861774
you picked one of the hardest genres to nodev, i hope you have a team of nodevs to help you otherwise you won't finish it.

>>158860531
What is the likelihood of that happening?

>>158854907
Woke up and modeled on blender for about 2 hours on a new character
Then my friend woke up and we bought some chicken to make curry, we cooked and woke up second friend to eat
Now I'm hanging with second friend and about to start modeling again

>>158861774
dont mind the resident shitposter, please

How do I make a Morrowind clone?

>>158862068
Depends how much you make. If you make fuck all you won't be worth the effort.

>>158862098

>new character

well where is it? all talk no show like a true nodev

>>158861947
The difference is that I'm a dev. I've already finished a project, and I'm not only determined but I've also worked my project to make it doable and not overly complex. The only thing I lack is a story...

>>158862125
I do know that, but I'm sad that a full year later, shitposter are still the first to answer...

>>158862231
a story? do you already have characters as a basis or are you starting from scratch here? story wise not gameplay wise.

>you starving to death
>person gives you whole turkey
>you cant eat it all because youre not joey
>starve to death because there is no point in start eating since not gonna finish

i really like bunnydev and want to be his friend

>>158860339
1px outline at that resolution isn't a very good idea

>>158862231
There is a bad guy, doing something bad. Perhaps he is installing smoke detectors without wiring them up correctly.

You, the good guy, have to stop him.

>>158862202
It's not finished yet
It's missing both are and legs and has no textures
I'm kind of modeling and designing it at the same time too so I'm not sure what to do with the face either
It usually takes me at least 6 hours

>>158862202
Your anger is not welcome here.

>>158862434
the sprite will blend in if it doesn't have an outline at that resolution

>>158862428
i used to like him but after the third autism fit i stopped

>>158862390
Story wise, basically I have the main character being half scorpion half human...
That's it.
And the world is sort of a fantasy world, but not a tolkien fantasy world.

>tfw google used you game idea

fug

>>158862183
You take a first person camera, add some wonky physics and basic controls and then proceed to add dozens of work years worth of 3d models and writing and systems to it.

>>158862538
Not if you don't suck at colors.

RoR for example.

>>158862428
did you just assume my gender???

>>158862427
>gamedev is life

>>158862943
i don't see what your gender has to do with being friends

>>158862427
>youre not joey
what did he mean by this?

>>158862098
Dude what the fuck you ate your second friend in a curry?

>>158856969
>>158857082
>>158857435
>>158858721
>>158859131
>>158859487
>>158859131
I'm going to go a bit more in depth as to how my AI spell casting and selecting system works. It is very possible I am doing it completely wrong.

When AI is not casting and if it has a target, it is checking every step for every spell it has whether it can cast that spell. So for every spell it goes through a list of conditions, like is the target in line of sight, is no ally affront of me, is ally near me, does that ally have low life, etc. Then it adds all the applicable spells to a list and then randomly selects one to cast (with some bias too but that's irrelevant). After it casts a spell it takes a short break before going through every spell again to see if they're castable, choosing one of them and casting it. This is just the spell selection part, but while it seems like there's way too much computing going on, especially with many AI instances holding many different spells, I don't know how else I can do this? For example one way I could think of is selecting a spell at random first, then afterwards checking its casting conditions and if they're not met selecting a different spell again. But what if AI has a healing spell that needs to check whether ally is low life? Then that approach doesn't work as what if AI chooses a different spell than a healing spell. There need to be casting conditions and priorities for all sorts of different spells and situations.
...
Continued in next post

>>158863196
After the AI has selected its spell it begins casting it over 20-200 steps, or however long the casting time of the spell is. Then a step before it is finished casting the spell, it checks all the casting conditions of the spell again, because things could have changed, like an ally walking affront or the target hiding behind a wall. Here I want to have say 20% chance that the AI casts the spell regardless if it meets the casting conditions. Here I can do that by simply doing "irandom(4)", which equals 20% chance. The problem is that the AI is running the same casting conditions checks code every step while not casting for spell selection. This means that that "irandom(4)" is now 20% chance per step, so the chance of AI casting this spell regardless of the conditions is no longer 20% chance but much higher, practically 100% chance over the time it takes him to cast the spell. Instead of having 2 different conditions checks that take this into account, I perhaps stupidly decided to go with irandom() suitable for being run every step and change the conditions check to not only happen just before finishing casting a spell but also every step during casting. Now using this system, how can I correctly use irandom() to get the desired arbitrary percentage/chance? Or should I just have 2 separate conditions scripts, but that sounds impractical. I should probably just handle casting condition checking better, but I don't know how. Any ideas?

>>158862854
RoR has a very simple artstyle that cannot afford an outline or even detail at all (at least on the main player)

>>158863020
its not about my gender its about you assuming things you uncultured cis nigger *unsheates 1000 katanas*

>>158854907
I've been wathing same KotH YTPs everyday for 2 months now.

>>158863443
*teleports behind you*

>>158863085
could have at least eaten him in his sleep, waking him up first is just too cruel

>>158863196
why not
>when aggro is gained
>choose between cast/wait
>when cast/wait time is up, repeat

So can someone help me finding a story? I can't find anything...

>>158863913
An ancient evil awakens

>>158863913
Baby shoes for sale never worn

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>>158863913

>>158864002
Well, that's still better than anything I could think of...

>>158863913
Once upon a time a cuck ate a burger. He sued the evil cheesburger corporation for making him fat, but in a twist of fate he dies and the lawsuit is dropped. As this cuck's cute imouto, you must avenge your brothers death by killing the 9 corporate bosses of cheeseburger co.

>>158863913
Read some mythology m8

>>158863913
tvtropes.com, create random

>>158863913

How can you be such a boring person that you don't have any ideas or storys to commuicate with people? You don't ever think about a re-visioned world, interesting concepts from religious texts and mythology that you would put in your game? Also, don't you have a character? Build a story around him, it's brain dead easy

>>158863913
An ancient evil has gone back to sleep

>>158863605
*stands on his ass so there is no behind*
heh.....

>>158863913
Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down and I'd like to take a minute just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-Air

>>158863913
Just rip off something you like, but gender swap the characters and change the setting.

>>158864452
I have ideas, but they are way to complex for a first real game. I'm not incapable of writing a story, I'm incapable of writing a story that's not too big...

>>158864405
>>158864319
>>158864628
>>158864313
>>158864529
>>158864073
>>158864094
>>158864002
Thank you all for answering

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>looking into getting Photoshop legally
>Adobe won't let me proceed because it thinks I am in Afghanistan
Back to piracy it is

can a gamemaker bro help me?

I'm trying to have the enemy play a death animation when it gets jumped on but it will not play.

here's my code

//Enemy Collision
if (place_meeting(x,y,obj_player))
{
if (obj_player.y < y-16)
{
with (obj_player) vsp = -jumpspeed;
sprite_index = spr_enemy_death;
alarm[0] = 30;
}

else
{
game_restart()
}
}

after the alarm ends in another event the enemy dies so that works.

>>158863913
What kind of game are you making?

>>158864804
An A-RPG in a sort of fantasy world.
But I'm trying to make it simple

>>158864751
Well? Are you actually in Afghanistan?

>>158864781
sorry the braces got fucked up

>>158864919
_No

>>158863368
I don't know if this helps at all but in my game (which has pretty basic AI) doesn't randomly pick if this frame should cast a spell, but instead randomly picks a time to next cast a spell. So I start a timer and when the timer runs out, I set canCastSpell = true. If canCastSpell = true, I loop through all the spells, calculate which are castable, and pick one at random. You could probably do some weighting and stuff here to make the AI smarter. After they cast a spell, I pick a new random time and start the timer again.

>>158864781
can you throw the code into a pastebin or hastebin? im on mobile so the formatting is fucked

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>Going through old files
>Find old folder with progress webms
Damnit...why did I give up!?

>>158865743
here ya go
http://pastebin.com/ZxCzAU33

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>>158865880
I remember your game. It was neat.

I gave up because I couldn't figure out how to do targeting 5 years ago.

>>158865920
and whats in alarm[0]?

>>158866151
just instance_destroy() in the alarm event

>>158864497
*stares and shudders in disgust*

>>158866273
add some kind of debug message in the conditional and tell me if it triggers.

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>>158865880
I reached a point where I realized that I was in over my head though and my progress just dropped off. It's a shame too, because everything was built in such a way that it could actually be expanded into a real game. To this day I still reference code from this because it worked so well and was organized in a very robust and expandable way.

>its so dense, every single frame has so much going on

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Hour and a half left to the jam and I just completed a file format for parsing and creating game objects to complement the tile map file format. Now I just need to create a demo level in 90 minutes.

>>158866401
*absorbs itself through his ass so it appears behind you through a vortex full of shit*
You let your guard down!!

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>>158865880
>>158866042
And I am disappoint in both. Keep on pushing. Wallow is for nodevs.

I don't have Windows Movie Maker, what should I use for my trailer? Vegas? I don't need anything fancy but I made some videos before with avidemux and it was a nightmare.

>>158864751
>default country is set to afghanistan
>it means they think i'm in afghanistan, it can't be that it's just on the top of the country list!
dumbass

>>158866438
it triggers

>>158867226
is the sprite changing? is the alarm triggering?

Not many sounds in yet, but im working on sound effects for the first time so any critiques or suggestions appreciated. Especially for the dash sound.

https://webmshare.com/play/QxQ3R

>>158866802
You've still got over 3 hours to submit a game for the Halloween jam.

>>158867552
the sprite doesn't change but the alarm works because the enemy eventually dies.

>>158865880
Shit, senpai, I was worrying about you, since I haven't seen you for some time. Even if you are not on it, I'm happy that you are still around here.

What are you working on now? As I remember, you've mentioned some sort of merchant game?

How do I stop the desire to stop working on one game and start prototyping something else?

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why isn't your halloween jam game as good as this one??

>>158868280
You realize that anything you prototype will end up half finished just like the game you're working on now, so you decide to stick with it and actually finish a game.

>>158868347
>your halloween jam game
?

>>158867719
This isn't for the AGDG jam. This is for a jam my university's game dev club is hosting.

Unitybros what's your level design workflow like? Do you make your levels in blender and import it in the engine or are you making them in Unity?

>>158868494
that's my game btw

>>158868159
Just the aggydaggy site, and I'm starting to collab with an artist to work on a shmup in unity. I'm not used to Unity at all because I've only used Monogame and SFML, so it's been slow goin.

My dream game is still roguelike with shop simultation/ shop building elements, though.

>>158868280
Set the scope next time smaller. I usually start to lose interest when I don't see when will I finish it. Set up a small goal, estimate the maximum amount of time it could take, and tell yourself that you'll commit yourself to this project for this amount of time and/or until every part on your checklist is ticked out.

>>158868495
Ah, okay. Good luck anon.

>>158867883
is the image speed at 0?

>>158866829
*punches out own eyes*

>>158868280
remember that in a years time you may have a game or a dozen unfinished prototypes depending on your actions today

So would a Mario party Roguelike game sell well? My newest concept.

whats so bad about subdivisions?

>>158869515
In what context?

>>158869646
for modeling

>>158869703
More context, because subdiv modelling is how you make highpoly stuff.

>>158869515
>>158869703
nothing?

>>158869515
>>158869703

While I'm a blender nooblet- seems to me subdivide makes a lot of unnecessary vertices especially if you only need a pair on one axis.

Anyone know what tool I should use to write a program that makes animation files? My animation files are basically CSVs that box values, with animation box, hitbox and hurtbox. Basically, I want to make a tool where I select the box outlines for each frame and it generates a CSV for me. I was thinking about using Javascript and canvas.

>>158869238
never mind created a new object to handle death animations.

>>158857896
easy way to have the enemy face in the correct direction is to set it's image_xscale to be the sign of their horizontal momentum. also increase the strength of your gravity and increase the power of your jump, its insanely floaty right now

Does your VR game have personal space bubbles to prevent rape?

>>158871375
wtf?

Has anyone here ever made money off their games?

>>158872061
Hopoo
Gogem
Homph
Catmouth Dev
Vine

https://youtu.be/4qIGctGFoyU
skooma

>>158872153
Does Hopoo still post here?

>>158868595
build pretty much the entire level in blender then i separate some parts that may have special properties.

E.g. I might have a couple of slopes that I want to be treated differently even though they're at the same angle. One might be made out of ice, the other is dirt, naturally the dirt one is easier to climb and i don't use rigidbodies and physics materials, I got my own character controller to handle collisions, slopes, ledge detection etc.

>>158872720
he probably shitposts every once in a while but otherwise why would he

>>158868595
levels constructed and layed out in blender provided I'm not using kits,

Then imported into blender for adding clutter and objects etc.

What happens if our game isn't ready by the due date, are we disqualified?

>>158873767
it means no one will ever play your game

not that anyone plays game jam games anyway

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A lil bit more progress on the main menu and stuff

>>158873767
I didn't finish my jam game, it can be completed very quickly. I submitted it anyways, though.

>>158873992

good juice, just need to work on the background and it'll great.

http://www.strawpoll.me/11539904

>>158874816
That's a stupid question. If the game gives player control priority then that opens up the game to cheating.

>>158874816
Both

>>158874816
Here's a scenario to make this a little easier:

In a player control priority scenario:
Player presses attack button, attack animation plays instantly on client but the server might not play the animation for 100+ ms later. Hitboxes on the server are taken as the authority on whether there is a hit or not. (so it may appear you hit but did not)

In a game fairness scenario:
Player presses attack button but does not play animation until server relays "play attack animation" back to player. (so there would be a noticeable time difference between pressing button and actually getting a visual response) this would allow events to line up with the server better.

>>158874816
Both

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>>158856664
>dinosaurs is winning

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>>158854594
So, Im going to learn basics of UE4, since I may need that knowledge in work, any good tutorials explaining basics (for game designers) fast enough (Im kinda in hurry)?

>>158875959
https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/GettingStarted/index.html

>>158875959
>learning UE4 in a hurry
>not even a programmer
typical "game designer"

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Got options FOV. I dunno why anyone would go below 90, but it's there. 120 looks really high but in full-screen at native res it's not bad.

>>158855121
>hot bath wile listening to the Hotline Miami OST

Wowsers, anon, that sounds like a recipe for suicide.

I'm thinking of doing a beat em up, similar to Splatterhouse 3, but I'd liie more tactical combat. Are there any gsmes in thst style with good combat? I was thinking along the lines of having Heavy/Light attacks (Dark Souls), or High/Low attacks, with different enemies blocking in different ways etc.

>>158855073
A-are you me? This is uncanny.

>>158855127
Hacks never feel like hacks, yes they can factually know they are hacks just like retarded people can know they're retarded, but they never feel bad about it.

This doesn't mean you're some kind of genius either, but at least you're not a hack if you're having those feelings,

>>158855127
Anybody can talk a load of bullshit about their product once it's finished. It reminds me of actor's being forced to market their shitty movies by talking about how deep they are.

>>158874816
That really depends on whether it is a competitive game or mode

>>158854907
Pretending I know javascript

>>158854907
watching the latest jon tron

>>158855127
the stage that you are at right now is a critical part of becoming a deeply creative person in the way that these famous developers are. nobody is born understanding the best way to implement a thematic relationship between gameplay and story, nobody is born with the ability to write strong systematic elements to tie into the greater moral of the game. These are things that take an in-depth knowledge of a lot of working parts. You have to be comfortable enough in writing stories to implement them into your gameplay, you have to be comfortable enough creating gameplay to implement it into your story, and you have to have played hundreds of games and made dozens of games before you will see that marriage clearly and understand how to do it well. The fact that you are aware of your own (current) creative limitations, and are questioning whether you are cut from the same cloth as these famous and successful game developers, means that you have the ability to get better and create the kinds of ideas that you want to.

>>158854907
Self pitying over the fact that I don't know how to focus on something and that I get demotivated and tired easily.

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Now when discovering secret area, the previous room "blends" into new area, making the entrance to secret room more clear.

>>158878525
maybe you could overlay a treasure chest on the map for the hidden rooms. helps players feel like they accomplished something

ok, i'm back working on game. does good to take a little time off.

>>158878693
This is a good idea you should do this. It seems like the room is green already but showing the treasure chest would reinforce it.

>>158878693
Yeah I could do that later in development. I'd probably have to make another ds_grid to keep count of chests.

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Someday I will be the proud creator of my very own shitty text adventure!

>>158879000
I'd play this

What was Google's Halloween 2016 doodle made with?
Is it Unity3d version 5 Pro?

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Is my randomly generated hillside with placeholder colors comfy?

Too bad I fuck up somewhere in the normal calculation process, and for some reason I have to place the light source under the terrain.

>>158878693
Please make the treasure icon closed then change it to an open chest icon when the player loots it so they can tell whether they got the loot or not

Anyone ever found a download for

GameMaker Language: An In-Depth Guide
by Benjamin Anderson

google and torrent sites arent helping

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>>158879221
This is the first positive thing anybody has said about my game
Feels rad man

>>158879476

>comfy
>those colors

no

>>158879698
>not being a zombie mutant

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>>158879603

>needing an entire fucking book to learn GML

>>158867647
B-bump

>deving while wearing headphone for 12 hours
>ears hurt
>realize I'm not/never was even listening to anything so there's no reason for me to be wearing a headphone
>post on agdg

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added some gun mechanics and some kind of aim assist (?) till needs to ironing out to do

>>158879649
you needa 'look' or 'examine' command though

>>158880089
welp time to put headphone again

>>158879937
id like to have one reference instead of having to google for every little thing

>>158880281
Pimpbot takes no shit

>>158880089
I think they're close but maybe a little too high-pitched. Harsh on the ears.

>>158854907
Drawing monsters for my game.

>>158880281

holy kek his walk is hilarious. Nigga don't give a fuck god damn what a player

>>158880089
opinion is same as
>>158880449
especially bomb sound, is too sharp.

>>158880304
>>158880141
i like this new headphone autist meme

*puts on headphones*

>>158880281
Drop whatever idea you have and do a 3D re-imagining of the first Toejam and Earl

>>158880540
my life is not meme

>>158880393
the manual has literally everything you need, and i actually mean "literally" without memeing
use it

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>>158854594
What's the sauce on OP's picture?

>>158880702
*takes off headphones*
....excuse me?

GameMaker problem here

I have a state machine for playing music. It's in silent mode until spacebar is pressed, which then goes to the song play state. The state checks if it's the first time it has been entered and then does this

audio_play_sound(snd_Drum_Loop_60BPM, 10, true);

However, it doesn't loop. What gives?

>>158879343
>>158879343
also interested in this.

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>>158880302
That's what I'm doing right now, actually
It's a lot of writing, but that's the price I pay for choosing this format I suppose

>>158880536
>>158880449
Alright thanks anons.

What're the best practices for how to deal with unity prefabs for 2d games? All the tutorials I read are really basic and don't seem to go into detail about anything past "here's how you put something on the screen immediately" with no thought for expanding the scope of the project beyond player movement.

Is it best to just rely on unity's built in stuff as much as possible?

>>158881208
yeah, it's rough. you can use it for more gameplay stuff though, like finding a key taped to the back of the book or something, then take key from book

>>158880447
>>158880524
>tfw I'm the only one that doesnt see it

>>158880610
the game im planning on making will be vaguely similar to toejam

Slack > Discord

>>158881612
neat, just make sure the MC stays funky

>>158881671
i unironically agree but there is no agdg slack as far as i know

>>158881939
There used to be, but I believe it was deleted since no one used it.

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>>158879000

>>158854907
Today I spent all day pressure washing my driveway and painting one wall of my neighbors house.
Made $100 though so I guess that's alright.

>>158878693
>>158878847
>>158879508

Well Metroid just uses a dot, right? We don't have pixels to create an icon.

>>158882028
what a shame

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Spiked Sheld.

>Open unity
>play game as I left it yesterday
>ok everything works
>close unity
>rinse and repeat the day after
Help.

How hard is it to modify animations from an incorrectly set bone-rig to a correctly set one?

I'm working on weighting bones now but most likely it will not be as perfect now as I will be able to do it a year from now. However I do want to start animating. Will I still be able to use animations I make now on a differently rigged model?

Would it make sense to use a correctly rigged model for animation so my animations aren't tailored toward a badly rigged model?

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got some more basic stuff working.

>>158880281
This shit has a lot of character.

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Does anybody need some horrifying monster sprites? I need some practice and I'm not quite ready to start on my own game yet.

Pic is last thing I finished before months of crippling depression set in.

>>158883094
looks good. ditch that depression.

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>>158880281

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You can play my barely functional "game" for the fishing jam if you want to here:

https://virtuawave.itch.io/akmi-lake

>>158883242
>ditch that depression.
Wow now I feel better!

>>158883094
That looks good. Maybe Arikado would use you.

>>158883552
just trying to help, buddy, guy, pal

>>158883651
maybe you can turn it into motivation. our get mad, our hyped our something.

>>158883552
Thanks, I wanted to make a gory monster killing game, but I realized I really just want to do some sprites.

>>158883470

>someone donated to my game

t-thanks, you are going to be disapointed though

>>158884067
We're doing low-res but drop a line to https://twitter.com/ArikadoDev if you're interested.

>>158883470
Is it actually going to be about fishing?

>>158883094
tumblr?

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More progress, controller support(!), ship scaling, camera movement. This gif is 2x speed for some reason

>>158884574
No. I'm on DeviantArt, but I post pretty infrequently.

>>158884619
I like this

>>158884365

At the moment you can just drive around with the snow mobile and fish salmon(without any resistance and real gameplay involved) but I the idea was you can find pieces like keys and story relevant pieces in the lake (if you know the locations to fish for them in the lake) while some kind of moster or killer is chasing you, especially during the night, that's why there is a day night cycle.

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>>158883094

Yeah, i need monsters for my game.

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>>158884067
>>158884309
Oh and FYI it's a metroidvania about blood magic.

>>158885587

The portrait of the player in the bottom left looks more spoopy than the monsters.

>>158885587
Looks cool, I was messing with DOOM sprites not too along ago. Let me know what type of stuff you're looking for.

>>158885604
Looks good so far. I'm not even sure if I could do sprites that lo-res though. All the sprites I've done I do in PS and then just shrink it down.

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tokoloshe

>>158883094
Shit, senpai, I thought I was looking at a D3 concept art. It's pretty damn good!

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>>158885898

I need concept art which i can base my 3D models on. Any type of none generic demon or Lovecraftian monster would be great. I can't think of any creative monsters.

>>158885898
>I'm not even sure if I could do sprites that lo-res though.
It's fun. You should give it a shot sometime. It's cool if that's not what you're looking for though. You've got some nice work!

>>158868280
You don't. You just learn from years of self disappointment in dropping shit that it will lead to nothing and force yourself to push through it. One thing that helps is to take a day MAX to write down all the cool little things/ideas you have for the new game in a text doc or a notepad and then you put that shit away and refocus on the main game.

>>158884619
Wow. You're advancing the genre anon. No one has done this. Please keep adding stuff.

>>158886002
L-Lewd

>>158884619
what the FUCk is this shut up and finish this madness

>>158885604
roflmao yeah okay Aria of Sorrow

>>158886098
I'm actually in the same boat. If I had more ideas, I'd have more finished artwork. That's why I'm trying to do sprites for other people's shit.

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>>158885885

Yeah, it's not very spooky.

>>158886848
idk irl one of the scariest things is a naked dude runnin full speed at you

write down all your ideas, and save all your work somewhere. I got about 100 games that I have no record of anymore.

>>158887038
i've swapped between the same 6 or so projects for the last 10 years.

>>158886795
Is that supposed to be an insult?

>>158887363
sounds like you need to join a jam and finish something, its really helpful

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>you have to actually design an engaging level that teaches players to use their abilities wisely, be non linear, encourage exploration, and fair spots for enemy encounters.

What the fuck? I don't know where to start.

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>>158885604

Hmmm. I have seen this game before...

>>158887562
If it was he is a dumb motherfucker. Aria wasn't perfect but it was goddamn fun as fuck.

FOUR MINUTES LEFT TO HALLOWEEN JAM

SUBMIT YOUR SPOOKY GAMES

>>158887835
That screenshot is an insult to 2D games.
Clarent at least has a consistent art style.

>>158887835
What the fuck is wrong with those graphics?

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There. I submitted my project. I want to sleep.

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>>158887929

You were saying?

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>>158887835
This shitting on Clarent meme has to die.

>>158888086
Nice motion but the art style is garbage.
Mess of colors, blurry effects on what's supposed to be a pixel art game. Literally shit art direction.

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>>158888086
>>158887835
What the hell is up with the scaling in this game? Why does this look like these kind of reaction pics? Are those mixels or what the fuck?

>>158887823
I did that but forgot the part where you make it engaging and fun

at least I tried

>>158887823
Come on, anon! Entitled indie developers and major software houses are too COOL for actual gameplay. Step it up!

>just like make game on AGDG
>promotion, new job, lots of job offers
>hit $50k/year with benefits
>stop just like make game
>GeekSquad within a year

It's time to just like make game again. That or kill myself

>>158887823
Doesn't always have to be non-linear, sometimes more focused linear levels are better for engaging the player

>>158888514
dont do this to yourself.
MAEK GAEM :D XD

>>158888198
Incorrect opinion.

>>158888086
Don't listen to them, it is looking great. They are just jealous of you.

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What are some genre combinations that would make for interesting mechanics?

>>158888698

Thanks :)

turn based rhythm game

>>158888795
necrodancer is old

>>158888725
turn based stealth bullethell mmo rythm game

>>158888725
Like Skyrim but Minecraft the MMO with guns

>>158888086
looks p good, senpai

>>158888873
>necrodancer

I never realized just how much a shitty story can ruin an otherwise good game

>>158889089
are you suggesting you played necrodancer for the plot?

>>158888725
Open world hunting sim fantasy rpg. Imagine creating and playing as The Predator and going around hunting species in open hunting grounds and shit.

>>158888725
Horror RTS

>>158889270
Not at all, I wasn't expecting it to have one. The cut scenes are so fucking cringe and shitty and they feel so incredibly out of place in the game, they completely contrast the feel of the gameplay.

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> Halloween Jam 2016
> only two games for Linux
> only one for macOS

>>158887823
honestly, copy levels from games you like until you understand exactly what it is you like about them

>>158888725
Stealth racing.

>>158889691
>expecting amateur game developers to spend time porting to niche operating systems within their own community
lmao

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>>158889992
Going faster makes you less visible

It'll be like the opening of Drive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdqbdEKeJ_4

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>>158888514
>work 6 years in high paying job as a mechanical engineer
>lose job to recession
>"time to make game!"
>enjoy NEET life, take it easy learning programming, practicing art, making game
>fast forward a few months, get a call offering job back
>refuse in favor of keep making game
>know better than anyone that you'll never make a living out of game

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>>158889992
>giant monsters looking for you in a city
>they peak into buildings as you drive around
>start smashing shit and chasing you once spotted

>>158887562
>it's a metroidvania about blood magic
it's literally Aria of Sorrow, not "a metroidvania about blood magic"

>>158890193
what the fuck are you doing nigga

>>158888514
>GeekSquad
enjoy your meme """""career""""

>>158890193
i respect that desu

>>158890313
But, anon, Aria of Sorrow is a "a metroidvania about blood magic", thus Clarent is also "a metroidvania about blood magic".

Ya' know. If A=B, and B=C, then A=C.

>>158889691
jokes on them, im making a game for the chip 8
i hear its gonna be the next hot thing

>>158888725
Competitive MMO dating simulator.

>>158890559
yes
thank you for repeating what i said, for the retards that cant into reading comprehension, redundancy is a must

>>158890481
Who the fuck considers GS a career

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New status ailment: Wet

Cannot use items while wet, jumping helps shake it off

>>158890820
dweebs who work at geeksquad

>>158889691
OS X one is mine!

>>158890908
you noscoped that bitch

>>158885587
those sprites look awesome nice damage

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And the jam (my university's jam, not the AGDG jam) is over. I didn't quite get in as many features as I wanted, but it was only 48 hours... I can only do so much.

Here's the entire demo level.

>>158890990
Please don't impersonate me like that.

>>158890908
Why the fuck would being wet prevent you from using items?

>>158891234
because it's his game and he wants to invoke a penalty for being on water you bitch

>>158891234
Because clothing is heavy.

too much fighting
*puts on headphones*

>>158891234

Character's hands are slippery.

>>158888041
>tfw I will never gamedev as a cute girl

>>158891206
Says there's 7 for OS X
https://itch.io/jam/halloween-jam-2016

>>158891652
I was talking about agdg's. I guess I should submit mine in the big one too.

>>158891234
>Why the fuck would a white box with a red cross on it give you full health after being hit by 3 rockets and 2 grenades
>Why the fuck would being shot in the foot kill you
>Why the fuck would waving a stick generate a giant fireball

Anyone else want to make a village/town manager similar to Prison Architect

>>158889691
I'll be honest, I'd love to export to linux and OSX. I have GameMaker Studio and already have the OSX export, but Apple makes you jump through a million fucking hoops to port to OSX that in the end it isn't worth the trouble. And YoYoGames has the linux export priced at a hundred motherfucking dollars which is way too much to pay for such a niche market.
I feel like the linux export should be free since Linux is fucking free.

>>158890193
years in slave jobs. join huge multinational. laugh at how bad/inefficient other workers are. make major bank. bout it.

>>158892339
whats a prison architect