/agdg/ - Amateur Game Devving General

1st for Dinosaur jam.

http://poal.me/33ujzy

Rust!

Reposting link to Uplink source code that a generous anon uploaded:
http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/8RYHWKUe/file.html

I really recommend you check out the \other folder, it contains pictures of project books with the vision for the game and so on.

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I made a title screen, sort of
>tfw all the core programming is done and all that is left is (((((content)))))
I didn't realize how much making a text adventure would make me resent writing

>>159084460
>Everyone collab on the same game jam
how the fuck would that work

>>159084737
it wouldn't

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>>159084650
You can do it anon

if even i managed to do it you sure can do it

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Trying to see if cubes would do it for the distant mountains. Looks like garbage. Moreso without grass or rocks in the scene.

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Made some solid progress on the terrain today, but god know I'm not an 3d artist.

>>159085141
I love that indie games now have several styles that I can instantly see to skip over.

>>159085141

I think it looks okay? What type of game? infinite runner?

>>159085141
I don't know I think it work, even more so if you get more stuff in there.

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I put Newton's laws into Unity and got these objects going in elliptical orbits around their barycentre, I think.

The orbit certainly looks right but the only way I'd know for certain is to place an ellipse in the scene that is exactly on the path where the planet should be and look to see if the planet does follow that ellipse.
I know enough maths to know how to describe the ellipse given the starting parameters of the planet but I have no idea how I would place said ellipse into the game without tailor making it in blender and then importing it in for those specific starting conditions. Obviously if I change the starting conditions I'd have to make a new ellipse so I'd rather not do it that way.

Anyone have ideas about how I could plot the ellipse into the scene given the starting parameters?

p.s.
No I'm not making a KSP clone, I have an idea for something MUCH worse

>>159085141
Just use pyramids?

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>>159084325
>> AGDG Chats
>steamcommunity.com/groups/vgamedevcrew
>webchat.freenode.net/?channels=vidyadev
Delete these

>>159085837
Look into editor Gizmos, maybe it will help you

>>159085417
Yes. I'll make some simple cone shapes with fake shadows, that should look nice

for(int i = length; i > 0; i--)
{
// How do I calculate a value from i that will start from 0 and increase by one each for-cycle?
// No creating a variable outside the loop
}

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What do you guys think of GameMaker Studio 2?

I hope it won't be too expensive.

>was about to give up fixing a bug today
>last attempt finally worked
>going to bed with relief

No greater feeling on earth.

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>>159086263

>>159084951
Thanks anon
Terminaldevs have to stick together in this cold place

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How does this look? I'm mimicing Nexus the Jupiter Incident here.

Also, I asked this in the old thread but no one responded so I'll try again:

I'm thinking of extending my game to an entire solar system instead of a single planet-moon combination -- but I think it might be a bit of a usability nightmare.

To move ships from one planet to another, you'd have to:
>select the ships in the current sector you want to move
>zoom out from the sector to the planet view
>zoom out from the planet view to the solar system view
>zoom in on the planet you want to move to
>click the sector you want to move the ships to

Moving between different sectors around the same planet would just be one click -- so only moving across the solar system would really be "annoying". I think it might be okay because it's more 4X than RTS but what do you guys think?

>>159086448
bet it felt greater when i was fucking you're mum LOL

>>159085837
>>159086046
Having had a harder think I could probably just import a slightly thick annulus from Blender, use the component x,y,z scales to make it the right shape and then move it to where it should be

>>159086603
Looks good. Can you make it more realistic?

>>159086476
>Girls who code
What am I looking at?

>>159086263
length - i - 1

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>>159086828
the oposite of this.

>>159086828
Gamebryo's source code

>>159087016
HAH

>>159086978
Is it meant to be an insult or is it one of those things where it's unintentionally proving the point they're arguing?

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>>159086603
>tfw that webm made me have a vision of a space-travel simulator
>first-person "metagame" where you spend time in the ship, chatting with other players through the monitors, playing minigames, etc.
>occasional stop at a distant planet, after hours of traveling
>maybe take a friend with you, and fuck around in 0-gravity with the objects that you have in your spaceship
;_;

>>159086263
>>159086904
Never mind, it's actually just length - i.

>>159087151
is just a nice gif i found and needed a excuse to post

>>159086804
Eccentric orbits rather than circles? Definitely on the todo.

>>159087359
When it comes to it, this website is the Holy Bible

http://www.braeunig.us/space/orbmech.htm

>>159087195
>born too early to explore space

I feel you anon

>>159087359
Is it me or the ranges and sizes aren't really realistic? Also the smaller bodies should influence each-other, no?

What kind of food would a nuke eat?

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>>159087515
how does this make me so sad

>>159087714
Oh yeah, the scale is absurd. Just working on drawing the paths.

People with real life experience, I need advice.

College student, eventually want to dev for my own studio full time, enjoying the life.

I have a couple internship offeres for next year.

Main one is Google, I'll make about 8k a month as an intern, and more as a full time employee. This is prestigious and will make me some decent money.

Second I have couple from game dev companies (think Epic, 2k, etc).

None of them make my favorite genera (GS) but still make great games and would provide experience.

Which path would lead to me having the easiest time making my own studio? Professional experience? Prestige and moeny?

>>159087731
the evaporated souls of the japanese

>>159086341
>GameMaker Studio 2
>expensive
unless they wanna kill themselves,
they won't require people to pay to use.
there will be at the very least a free version that have mostly everything with some limits.

>>159087805
Sounds good. Keep it up.

>>159087731
Uranium?

>>159087864
Nigger don't be a retard. Go work at google, I don't give a fuck what you want to do with your life.

>>159087864
Google intern, working in a AAA game studio will end up with you being overworked and underpaid.

>>159088008
I hope so. I've heard some rumors about a paid subscription.

I knew they'd do something like this after the humble bundle.

>>159087864
Make money.

It will look so good on your resume when you say you quit your job at Google to work on your passion.

>>159088087
>>159088125

Yeah I figured, but maybe funding would be easier if you were a dev? Or a host of other things I had not considered, but thanks

>>159087714
>Also the smaller bodies should influence each-other, no?

They should but making systems of more than 2 planets would become an absolute nightmare since most of them behave chaotically, it took nature eons to form our solar system where everything isn't crashing into each other all the time. Much much much easier to have the smaller bodies ignore each other.

>>159088125
>Google intern
>underpaid
What?
You make like 6k+ a month.

>>159088429
Read that post again.

>>159088501
Working in an AAA studio is going to make you at minimum 6k+ a month. definitely not underpaid

>>159087714
Check out Children of a Dead Earth for N-body physics. Great for autism, not so great for gameplay.

>>159088076
yea that makes sense

>>159086603
One solution could be to handle the planetary and sector travel separately e.g.

>One click zoom out to the solar map (e.g. a solar system map button or something).
>Click the planet you want to go to.
>Your ship takes off and slingshots around the planet and heads for the target.
>On arriving it begins a high orbit of the planet, still in the solar map.
>From that orbit the player can either degrade into a sector (a 'land' button could work well) or slingshot again to a different planet.

You could also allow clicking through to the sector map from the solar map via a clickbox around the planet.

Aspiring 2d dev here.

Left unity. Just downloaded, properly linked and tested sfml is properly running.

Mistake, or best decision for make games?

>>159088807
For the amount of work you might end up doing, it very well could be. AAA studios are still largely soul destroying crunch machines where its employees are just entities to be consumed, spat out and replaced.

>>159089027
Mistake or best decision depending on how much effort you're willing to put.

SFML isn't a framework or engine.
You'll have to handle everything from your main loop to things like animation, tile maps or whatever else you need.

That said if you put in the time to do that work your self, it's much better than using a bloated engine and you don't have to deal with the retarded GCs of managed languages.
Don't be dumb and allocate things on the heap constantly during gameplay though.

>>159087864
College student, finished all levels of foobar (full clear, including the after where you redo all old problems)

Would kill for an intern position at Google. You literally would have time and money for dev if you had a job there. Great company.

Do it and don't look back. Make dev your hobby. If it becomes profitable from your own work someday, then consider making it your job. Not before then.

>>159089027
Love2d would be easier.

>>159089079
>For the amount of work you might end up doing
They have the money to fund huge teams. I doubt it's anything comparable to being a 1ma and handling an entire game on your own.

Most 1mas here spend 10hours+ a day on their games.

>AAA studios are still largely soul destroying crunch machines where its employees are just entities to be consumed, spat out and replaced.
How would working at Google be any different? And that's not the experience my friend who worked at an AAA studio said. In fact it was the polar opposite.

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PROGRESS!!!!
Oh lord what a day. Sometimes the simplest things are the worst. I spent 3 hours trying to get a background to school, then change position. anyway I redesigned the enemies, added transparencies, and Lots of sounds and music. Too bad 4chan has silent webms.

Working on that multiplier feature! feedback welcome.

>>159089232
In honest enough to say that I don't know what you mean by allocating on the heap while typing this post, and that I'm looking it up now. Thanks for the advice.

I know it's a learning process, but it's like learning math to me. I would rather learn how my identities are derived, and leave with a better understanding of them (and more likely to remember them.) I know I have a lot to learn about things I take for granted (display, collision, audio, etc) and am ready to pretty much start from scratch.

>>159089636
You have a lot to learn but if it's just 2D then it's not hard, learn how memory works properly before starting your engine.
Use modern c++ with smart pointers, it will make your life easier.

>>159089369
What he's saying is that a 1MA can make a game within their scope and spend 5 hours a week on it. Working for a triple A as a programmer will often lock you in for 60+ hours a week during crunch time and you could end up sleeping at work.

However, the most important thing is that 1MA and small indies have full creative control; at AAA's you're just a worker drone building pieces of a product that you have no meaningful input into.

even i'm gonna try and do a low poly model of whatever is first to reply to this

odds i'm gonna make a video compilation of particular scenes in movies i like masturbating to.

>>159089771
Appreciate it. I never thought about it like that. Even if you don't make an "engine" you still are pretty much going to. Might as well keep up with what you learn, and eventually you keep reusing a lot of similar functions and classes.

>>159089930
Teapot

>>159089930
Huh. Zero is of even parity by the way

>>159089930
Monkey head

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>>159090079
done

>>159090379
Now make it a cube

>>159090379
what a waste

>>159090553
They look better than the cubes you had before.

>>159090553
Looks good to me.

>>159089391
background is a lot easier to see stuff on now

>>159090553
I'd recommend a mix between what you had before and what you've got now, because I actually live in the desert and I thought the plateaus looked fine.

>>159089930
casset recorder

>>159088915
Quick UI buttons is definitely a solution but I'm not sure it's perfect.

For gameplay reasons, ships can't maintain orbits outside of "control" sectors around the planet, which is honestly the core of the issue but it'd be like if you could float ships outside of gravity wells in Sins of a Solar Empire -- pretty silly.

>>159090553
love your pallette anon

>>159091215
Yeah sure. If it takes more than 30 minutes I'll consider it a failure and stop.

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>>159091109
Yeah... I had this before I made the mountains. I like the plateaus quite a bit.
>>159091502
Thank you. It's gonna look very rich with actual traffic as well as more environmental assets.

>>159089391
shit, this looks fun

>>159091631
>>159090553
Where have you placed the mountains?
Are they giant things far out on the horizon?

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Progress. Party management screen done!

>>159091898
>Those ugly dark-skinned characters and names

Dead on arrival.

>>159089391
I like this.
>>159091768
They will render far out. They will pop up on either side of the road in front of the player, travel around the player depending on the player speed and then disappear down just as they appeared.

>>159092034
nah that guy's game was pretty cool last demo day

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>>159089391
>>159090913
>>159091681
Thanks! that was actually a completely wrong webm. this is the right one

>>159092276
>all this progress
Good lord dude

>>159092493
Yeah well I lost my job and a lot of other stuff so I am filling a hole with learning how to dev.

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>>159092705
Keep it up

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Apologies to anyone who had a heart attack upon seeing their score reset. I forgot to add the old ones in. I will do that next week.

>>159092276
Isn't the ball a little overpowered? It can shoot enemies and destroy them on contact... maybe adding a little penalty when you destroy an enemy on contact or maybe having limited ammunition. I don't know...

So if I wanted to create 3d game with different outfits and character heads, I'm guessing you should model the head and outfits separately or?

>>159093132
Hi!

>>159093467
Ah okay well you see when an enemy reaches the bottom it removes health as well as when the red enemy bullets reach the bottom. You can only destroy the blue enemies by colliding and the red enemies by shooting. So there is quite a hit of management going on.

Here's one fun combo:
Red bullets mover faster than blue enemies but blue enemies move faster than red ships so - block the red bullets with the ship (the ship and ball absorb bullets without penalty) while you tackle the blue enemy, then shoot the red enemy.

>>159093393
Let them die of a heart attack, scores shouldn't matter, the progress is what matters.

>>159094148
Score is fun and not an issue.
It was only a problem when your score determined your position on the image, so all the whodevs and lolsim would just post on mondays to keep their combo and stay at the top row of recaps.

>>159093393
Wait we get scored on this? We gonna have letter grades too?

>>159094501
it was number of consecutive submissions

it was also dumb

>>159093662
or selective submeshes you toggle on / off, but yes just don't end up with big ugly neck seams like Fallout

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>>159093393
What is this? I want to play. Also r8 each other's dev logos

>>159093393
>pumpkin still is the best in term of color
sweet

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Which one of these looks best and most like a typical "potion" in a game?

I'm trying to think of what the healing potions are gonna look like and I need a little guidance.

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>>159094586
looks pretty.
how about mine?

>>159094703
1

>>159094706
Yours is more appropriate for what you produce than "bee and pinecone guy".

>>159094787
but im making a game

>>159094787
Pincone is the metaphor for ideas or (THOTH) The Egyptian god of ideas. The bee is a symbol of success and workmanship.

>>159094889
where's your game

>>159094996
okay bee and pinecone guy

>>159095161
There's your answer fishbulb

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Anyone have any tips or tricks for creating sound effects? ive been using bfxr and its okay but I need something less chippy. Downloading other premade ones dont seem to cut it.

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>>159091215
>>159091592
i failed it

the model was really bad and it felt like a waste of time.

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>>159095049

>>159095292
Sound design is sound design. You will want a DAW with synths and effects. You can also process downloaded samples with the latter.

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Made some muzak for the SFW Visual Scenes.

https://clyp.it/uatholp0
https://clyp.it/uatholp0
https://clyp.it/uatholp0

>>159095530

Nice to see you're working on this again.

>>159095530
!!!
This is your game? I like the Mc.

>go through a programming tutorial
>it teaches me how to do some calculator shit and how to triforce using loops
>"now you know everything you need to create any program ever :) the end"
>go through game programming tutorial
>it teaches me to move a square and shoot a bullet at other squares
>"now you know everything you need to create any game ever :) the end"
I still have zero idea how to make game, am I retarded?

>>159095641
>hey what's up everybody!

>>159095641
that's because you're trying to take the easy way

>>159095698
howling

>>159095641
You're doing it the easy way. Read actual text books and do some lynda.com stuff

>>159095641
Yes, you are retarded.
>create square that shoots bullets at other squares
>do some calulator shit for scores/lives/deaths/penalties/etc.
Literally a game

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>200 people online in discord
>thread moving extremely slow
>someone posts something retarded
>4 responses in under 1 minute
everyone's hard at work and that makes me happy

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>>159095350
Now you have a logo.

>>159096135
those 205 people? all me

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func_buttons that require a certain key now properly gate the player if they don't have the right one.

>>159095465
Thanks, that helps.

I really want to try and make a character model but I'm really scared. This would be my first time trying to 3d model a living thing.

>>159096143
its beautiful.
im saving it

>>159096294
I've got an easy solution. Model a corpse instead!

>>159095350
that's pretty cool will you be able to do that on bosses?

>>159096384
if you're skilled, then yeah probably. it gets pretty fast though and i think the bosses are gonna have designated weakpoints so you'll need to time jump attacks to keep the boomerang going.

>>159095805
I'm trying whatever comes up in google
>Read actual text books
Can you recommend some? Not the meme lisp one.

>>159095818
Yeah, I can even make some semblance of turn based combat with the calculator shit I learned but what about the hard stuff? Like menus, inventory management, saving the fucking game, thinking how to make all that makes my head hurt.

>>159096886
Not really. You should ask someone that's actually qualified. I'm a basic bitch when it comes to coding.

>>159096886
I repeat, you are retarded.

https://tfetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Beginning_Cpp_Through_Game_Programming.pdf

>what about the hard stuff? Like menus, inventory management, saving the fucking game
That's not the hard stuff.
Also literally every single one of those problems are explained in the first 5 results on google for the search "*your language* game *the hard stuff*".

This shit becomes even easier with OOP, when you can have actual semantic relationships between the parts of your code, instead of just line after line.

>>159097713
>This shit becomes even easier with OOP, when you can have actual semantic relationships between the parts of your code, instead of just line after line.
(You)

Owlboy might be the epitome of indie games.

Playing it, it feels like I'm playing a good Zelda game again, but it's also distinctly it's own thing. This is amazing.

>>159097982
That's a shitty "meme" and you must be a filthy newfag for using it.
Fuck (You)

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>a game that I won't drop in three weeks

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It climbs ledges now. It's alittle iffy because I don't quite understand apply root motion and it broke everything else when I had it one so I didn't bother. so it manually moves the position. the smoothing of the camera's rotation helps hide it a little but there is a clear jump. The jump animation after climbing up is just something not yet fixed.

>>159098146
Nah

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>>159098146
>Owlboy might be the epitome of indie games.
Sure guy

>>159093393
Can you repost October 1/2/3 please?

>>159098437
He already tried this on /v/. Same Zelda schtick and everything.

opinions on unity 5.5?

>>159098750
They still added nothing important because of asset store sales.

>>159098325
>requires lots of pre-planning yet produces brittle code
>rarely fits the problem, leading to "design patterns" and other bloated constructs that mimic ordinary non-OO (typically FP) features
>is completely orthogonal to how the cache wants your code and data
>is implemented poorly in most languages
>its good parts aren't specific to it at all

>>159098437
>dat anterior pelvic tilt

sit up straight everybody

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ALRIGHT I actually like this. Was nervous about the orange but I think it complements nicely.

I would love feedback

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We poorly drawn programmer icons now.

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>>159099348
Shading looks wonky and blocky in some areas (circled).

Also, the font rendering sucks.

>>159099609
Thanks for pointing out the shading, I'll fix that up by DD11. And yeah, I have yet to make a font so I'm working with some garbage placeholder. The buttons overall don't match with the screen but they're functional so that's enough for right now

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This is when the dream of making a game comes tumbling down.

Tumbling down
down
down

>>159099879
FUNDAMENTALS

>>159099348
I don't have any real meaningful critique but I don't really like it. The hard black outline is too much - maybe try just a darker brown?

>>159099879
*three minutes of clapping*

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Any ideas on what I should add next?

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>>159099879
try to make pong before jumping straight into 3D jesus christ

>>159098348
you can actually enabled and disable "applyrootmotion" in script, so it doesn't interfere with other parts of your controller.

its funny because I just got done doing the same sort of ledge thing a couple weeks ago

how did you do ledge detection? I use a sphere collider trigger (you are up against a wall) to start the checking function, then start a downwards raycast from forward and up of the character to find where the ledge is. It works pretty good, even at high falling speeds.

good luck

>>159098734
The only thread I posted in on /v/ today was a Doom thread. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody else compared it to zelda, because it really feels that way.

Just go torrent it or something and stop being so cynical for 5 minutes. It's a really refreshing game, and not like those other fucking hurr I'm deep indie games that try to avoid characters doing any actual confrontation and making everything a metaphor for something.

It's really some quality that we should all strive for

>>159100139
He won't learn to 3d model by making pong

>>159099985
Add more chaika

>>159100376
he won't learn how to do games by starting with 3D modeling

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>>159100139

>how do I draw images to screen?

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>>159099980
Is this better? I think it certainly clashes less, thanks for pointing that out.

I also made some of the changes >>159099609 pointed out

>>159100942
Looks much better. Just noticed now that the h is significantly shorter than the other letters and leaves that big space.

>>159100942
I think that's 100x better

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>>159093393
>Only person who picked zombie
Choosing the one the same colour as my game turned out well.

>>159101105
Thanks, looking at them side by side I'm amazed I didn't see it sooner

>>159101013
I see that too, but I don't think it stands out too much. I'll try to raise it, but I'm worried that if it gets too high, with the stylization, it will look like a shitty R

>>159101380
now do the outline thing with your main character

How retarded am I for thinking TheHappieCat is a good game dev youtuber?

>>159098348
for the camera snapping problem, you can try having the camera follow the head or body bone of the rig instead of the root object transform or whatever

>>159101553
no

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>>159101513
Bam

>>159098348
>laggy camera in 3D
It's easy as fuck anon. Position of the camera lags, but it always points at the character.

>>159100257

Mine are two raycasts that shoot forward from the character where it checks if the bottom one hits and if the top one doesn't hit then it acknowledges that there is a ledge due to the difference.

I tried the apply root motion in the script but I am using a generic rig and I'd need to set the root motion to maybe a bone (and I don't actually have a root bone. I could add one I suppose if it works) <root transform> did nothing so I am left to assume that's the parent transform so of course it wont move.

I might try to play around with it more. I dunno how my raycast system works at speeds but the thing you described sounds like you could grab a ledge even if you fall off it backwards which would be nice.

the death sound effects for my player that I found sound disturbingly like orgasms, but what can you do

>>159086476
I mean, I'd like to imagine the only operators they had were = and +. Then this solution may be acceptable.

>>159102209
root bones are useful for many things, and even if you don't end up using root motion its still helpful

one problem with yours would be steps, wouldn't a knee/waist/chest high step in front of the character trigger it? Even if you only check when the character is in midair. I tried something similar and switched to the raycast down approach because it gave me problems, but I still don't have it perfect.

>>159090379
HURR DURR THAT'S THE JOKE

>>159102489
True, Presburger arithmetic doesn't admit multiplication by a non-constant.

>>159102542

My raycasts for ledges use a layermask so only things specified as ledges would trigger it. I will eventually have it so environments are split into two main objects: grounds, things you walk on and walls, which if the raycast hits you hang on to.


I might try the rootbone method for now. That's just as easy as rigging all my IK's to a root and then adding its keyframes to the climb state.

>>159102647
>Presburger arithmetic
BUT if they had for loops, we could make it a lot prettier and scalable.

>>159102950
Undecidable.

>>159102919
ah yes, layermasks would solve that

I remember that I was trying to have it a bit more dynamic so I wouldn't have to worry about flagging everything, but that opens up some seriously shitty cases.

I would suggest testing your method at higher speeds or lower framerates for fun, you'd be surprised how shit can fall apart. Or you can worry about that later

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this is shaping up to be 'walking through autumn coloured forests- the game'

>trying to learn glsl with only gml experience
is it normal for me to be this confused or am i just retarded?

>>159103731
GLSL is really simple. What are you having trouble with?

>>159103705
that's actually okay, but you need to have SUPER comfy music

>>159103808
everything.
i have absolutely no idea how this works
do you know any recommended reading an idiot like me can understand to learn?

>>159093393
Appreciate that you're making OC for the recap, recapanon

Would you consider dropping the tools entry?

>>159103969
GLSL is basically C without pointers and some different built-in types and functions.

>>159102023
>literally 100% identical

>>159104089
only language i know is gml which is closer to javascript than c
tomorrow ill read into the basics of c and glsl
thanks anon

now i sleep

>>159099985
Environmental hazards
Duskers is fun

>>159104108
Nah, changed the remaining black outlines on the W to brown, and made the main character outline a dark dark blue. It's subtle, and hard to see when not told, but it is different

>>159104352
>Environmental hazards

Good idea. I was already planning on them playing a major role in gameplay since a lot of levels will be on a spaceship.

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>no screenshots
Fuck you I'm not trying your fucking game holy fucking shit I fucking hate retards like you

>>159084737
every aspect of the game would be determined by a web of straw polls

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>>159099484
>>159086603
I've been picking up and dropping ideas for orbit-based games for years. You just can't have even semi-realistic physics and good gameplay too.

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>>159105508
>that one planet wiggling furiously around that sun

>>159105248
shieeet nigga his game is like 12mb just try it out

you should be complaining about the spook2 107mb computer restarter

>>159096193
oh no key finding, please make them reasonable to find

>>159103235

the root bone broke all my animations and stuff. I guess unity has to make a whole new avatar thing for it. the new bone moves the model but I think my point of origin or something in blender is all wonky because instead of going up and then forward it seems to go backwards.

I may need to figure this out before I worry about ledges...

>>159103705
Needs big piles of leaves and yellower grass

>>159106365
somtimes reconfiguring the avatar fixes things
otherwise you have to go through all the animations and play with the root rotation, position etc. on import because by default it may base the initial position on the root bone

I recently added a root bone to one of my models and managed to re-import it without too much hassle

did you say you switched to humanoid instead of generic?

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I know these all look like shit, but which one is the best?

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>>159106623
>>159106365
in here i mean, after setting your root bone in the "rig" tab

>>159106789
just let the player switch between them

>>159106623

I have to use generic because I have the feet set up in a way that unity doesn't understand.

yesterday I wrote my own hashtable implementation and started working on a unit testing framework

not sure when I am going to start making a game

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Ok, I got the character voice system set up. it's pretty bad, both in terms of how it works and the random voice clips I found online. Here is what it sounds like:
https://webmshare.com/play/RAxPq

I added a way to pick your voice from the party creation menu, too. Now I have to go and find attack/damage/death sounds for each of the 5 monster families so... 15 more sounds to go (actually there are like 30 more, but one thing at at time).

>>159106904

Oh I see. I had to set the root in the rig menu. I was trying to set it in the 'motion' section of the animation tab. The root works right but I dunno if it's gonna work with my old avatar. I'll have to check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgIYpe4dPWo

>>159107768
yea I've never had to touch that motion section yet

good luck, hope to see more progress

>>159087195
this is why you become a developer

to not feel so alone and make the impossible things you'd never be able to do happen

now get out there and make it!

>>159106789
mix C with D

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>>159107289
oh hey progress... sort of?

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'bout to embark on the biggest waste of time ever
going to attempt to recreate the night sky using the luminosity/distance of all the stars in the visible universe

>>159109717
I like this kind of autism.
It's something I could imagine myself doing, sometimes.
If Google didn't have hi-res images of the night sky already.

>tfw adgd is better than the GameDev website
I really enjoy to read about your miceprogresses. Hopefully I'll have time to continue working on my own game, now that my engine is nearing feature completion for this game. Only the GUI remaining now.

>>159109792
but it's not much help when you're trying to make a seamless skybox eh. Haven't found any programs that allow you to lock axes and FOV and the stuff necessary to do that

>>159107983

Would you know why the root motion moves up on the Y axis perfectly fine but wont on the XZ?

>>159074078
XenoRaptor is a more niche genre and mostly a skill based shooter instead of a casual platformer trying to tell a story. The latter appeals to a much wider audience. I think Dreaming Sarah might've been part of a bundle and probably got more coverage by the press.

Selling games isn't as simple as just making sure they look good.

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i did a sketch for greedy graveyard

>>159085837
>>159086742
https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/5141

These are old as fuck but there's the example of extruding a mesh which might give you some idea how to draw the ellipse at runtime. Also like the other anon said, Gizmos and possibly other Draw functions might also work.

>>159085251
I don't know, anon. Other than the vibrating colors, that's a pretty comfy terrain for me.

>>159093393
>No report in from Vampire-dev this week
I hope you are well, anon.

>>159105753
If he doesn't even take the time to upload a screenshot the game is probably not worth testing.

>>159110119
I've always been able to fix mine with a combination of those 'bake in pose', 'offset', 'based on' etc., even the stepping up onto ledge animation

>>159110653
Nothing is worth a nodev's time, and a nodev's time is worth nothing

but seriously you can probably download and play all those games within 20-30 minutes, then leave them all a nice comment.

>>159110934
>implying I'm a nodev
>implying I didn't play the other games
That's my feedback for that game. Stop being lazy, take a fucking screenshot. Making people want to test your game is part of the deal, a big one actually.

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>>159110776

I had fears the rigibody somehow was disrupting my XZ movement and by changing the rigibody to kinematic I was able to confirm it. Fortunately changing to and from kinematic during the climbing up ledge time is unnoticeable. Now I need to work on climbing cylinder stuff like trees and poles.

>>159095292
DAW is good to have but u also need a good recording device for field.
U edit what u record and voila

>>159110934
I don't know, anon, I think he is right. I mean, I don't know if Itch has any sort of virus scanner in the background, but it looks like a gamble: since you can put there anything, there should be some indications about the content of those files. If there's not even a decent screenshot about the game, then sorry, but I rather just skip it.

>demo day one week away

time to panic haha

>>159110354
Nice!

I'm not the dev, but thanks for drawing these sketches.

>>159111772
>mfw today is exactly the 500th day of no pogress because no art

>>159111418
looking pretty solid, I'll have to remember that because I think I've had that issue sometime in the past

>>159111727
good point

i thought i would be ready a few weeks ago. everything was going well. now im panicking. i wont make it to DD in time. im about to start crying

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>>159109376
Is that really better? Maybe if I tone down the C part some more it'll be better.

>>159112243
TOO MUCH NOISE ON THE SQUARESTORM, BRO

KICK THE CONTRAST OF THAT NOISE BACK, BRO

ESPECIALLY IF YOU NEED THAT CENTER TURRET THING TO READ, BRO

>>159112243
I didn't mean blend them. I mean make like the base section like C and the other parts like D.

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how should a scroll of mapping work
square
square rotated 45*
or
circle

>>159112587
100 random tiles anywhere on the map (excluding empty tiles)

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>>159112519
>>159112556
Too late, I already reduced the C part and it looks decent.

>>159112936
>it looks decent
No it doesn't.

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>>159112676
>>159112676
>>159112676
>>159112676
>>159112676
if by empty you mean not-wall then its ugly
and otherwise its pretty dumb
its magic mapping not magic find items and enemies

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>>159113163
it's how adom works. uncursed scrolls uncover random tiles, which is useful for uncovering hidden rooms

blessed scrolls uncover the whole map, which is incredibly valuable

>>159113080
Well yeah it looks like something I'd have made before I learned to draw. But everyone's gotta start somewhere

>>159111772
I have way too much to do to realistically make it in time for the demo day but I'm still holding a bit of hope.

>>159114005
I think I will finish but there are some serious pacing/balancing issues and it's like 1 hour to play through if I rush it, so I dunno how much testing I can do.

>>159112587
Circle

Getting ready to post my first game to greenlight.

If you're oma, what do you put where companies normally put developer/publishing studio info?

I don't want to put my name (boring name), but I would want to be connected to future games I release.

>>159114732
>not having a developer name or a "studio" name
Are you even a real dev?

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>>159094703
3 is similar to a certain space potion

>>159114865
Sorry. Making a game was higher on the list.

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>>159084325
not dead, just busy

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>trying to write system that can automatically reset all the serialized fields on a prefab after it is spawned from a pool
>c# refuses to have any non-convoluted way to do it without making an allocation for every field or doing it manually

>>159115115

>dat rat man

Hell yeah, looks really nice.

>>159115080
show your game

>>159087864
Google

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>>159115286
its ra'at ma'an

>>159091898
Idea: how about clicking on a portrait on the left puts it back in the right window, and vice versa? Would be quicker than having to drag imo.

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>>159110635
I'm alive, well, as alive as a vampire can be.. Sorry to worry you. I just was buried under work stuff, so I didn't had any time to dev, and barely lurked here, but now I have more free time to go back to the game again.
Hopefully I'll be able to upload a small update focused on bugfixing soon. I specially want to get rid of game breaking bugs and really weird issues (pic related) a couple of people reported, before I start adding the new content.

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>>159093393
>finished
>but not sure how to make his game into an installer
OH LAWD

>all those devs with cute girls
>mfw can't art
Should have been born an artist srly

>>159115962
this is a good time to say that if your game runs an installer, I'm not gonna play it or record a video for it

>>159115541
I thought about that but then you can't easily choose what position to put the character in, or have characters in the party switch positions.

>>159116010
you only need one good picture of the character in your titlescreen and then it doesnt matter if ingame she is just a tiny mass of pixels

>>159116159
and how then, do you expect them to run?

>>159116428
an executable in a zip file

>>159116495
ah yes, just like every notable game in history...oh wait

Which is better

Armor deducts a flat amount from damage
OR
Armor reduces a percentage of all damage taken?

>>159116782
armor reduces physical damage taken by a % for each point of armor

>>159116782
Option 1 if the player can see the numbers

Otherwise either works

>>159116782
>x is better for all situations
We should ban anyone who thinks this way. NOTHING is "best", there's no mechanic that you should always have, because everything has it's own pros and cons.

>>159116782
Since I'm in a very good mood I'll allow you to steal my idea : Why not both?

>Raw armor deducts a flat amount
>Additional bonus/buff/enchant/whatever reduces a percentage on top

Best engine to throw out a mobile game as quickly as possible?

Language doesn't matter, just needs to be able to export to Android and easily implement micro transactions.
I only need about 300 a month to leave this job and change my mind about suicide being a viable alternative to living like this

>>159116964
>ban

>>159116970
>Steal my idea
Hello dark souls, being the first to come to mind.

Is it wrong to steal devs game mechanic?

>>159117076
Uh as someone who has failed at mobile games, I got $8 in a year for a single shit game I made in a weekend. If you're really cranking em out that might be viable (esp if you get lucky with one and know how to take advantage).

Game Maker seems like a decent route. If you're thinking of churning shit out (and can already program) maybe LibGDX+Java might be better. In any case, I had decent enough of a time with both of those.

I need to implement a diablolike stat system. Probably a 4 base stat system and then 'advanced' stats like armor, accuracy etc. on top of that.

I looked at a couple examples of what people had done but somehow everything seemed so complex and I'm not really sure where I'd start of what sort of programming structure would I use for it.

I need a way to easily define a lot of different stats and they need to share the same functionality so being able to add and multiply them based on bonuses from items. Defining what the stats actually do would probably make sense to be done separately in the actual mechanic calculations.

Do you guys have any ideas where I should get started?

What are the pros/cons of using Unity to make a game versus a simple coding framework?

>>159116782
Ragnarok Online did it so that armor from equipment gave you a % based reduction and Vit stat added a flat reduction on top of that. You could only spend 99 points in a stat but gear bonuses could push you over that.

>>159117232
I just have a function called GetStat() and an array called BaseStats. When you level up and stuff, BaseStats increases. When you need to get the value of something, you call GetStat(), which is BaseStat + modifiers.

>>159117269
Unity

Pros: Easy to get into, fast/easy to make early progress

Cons: When there's a feature you need but not possible, you're fucked. If there's a bug (there are bugs) you're at the mercy of the Unity team getting around to fixing it. There are certain things that are impossible because they never implemented/fixed certain things.

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What's a cool mathematical thing, I could make a game around?

>>159117446
>When there's a feature you need but not possible, you're fucked
Only if you're a shit programmer.

For example, currently NavMesh cannot be changed at runtime but that doesn't stop you from writing your own pathfinding implementation.

>>159117536
alternatively, just use unreal which does have navmesh rebuilding at runtime and is also completely open source

>>159117536
There are a lot of things you can't do using Unity components but you could techincally just write the same functionality yourself and make the engine useless. At this point I am using Unity just as a data editor and for rendering, the former is not working out well though so I am considering exporting my data to xml or json and using monogame for the runtime.

>>159117593
>use the chinese bloatware

>>159117446

yeah well Unity doesn't have a fur shader either but it isn't so bad. I'm hoping to get more familiar with shaderlab so I Can try something like viva pinata where they had fur that was paper pieces.

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wizards are so powerful they can wear potions as armor

Anyone ever had their game on steam, I have couple question. Can you set the price of your game? Do you have the option to enable pre orders. Is there a max prixe or min price a game has to be? Can I release free dlc or expansions?

>>159118050
please make this a feature
maybe the mana potion would increase mana regeneration for a bit until it wears or washes off

>>159118092
youre so dumb i really doubt you will ever get something on steam

>>159118138
regardless I would still like answers

>>159118169
I have worked on steam games before but I did technical integration and not store related things but anyway:
>yes
>yes but might require your rep to approve it
>technically yes but practically no
>yes

Okay, serious question. Hopefully I can get an honest answer.

I don't care about making huge money, or anything like that. I just want to make enough to continue going to school and leave my shit job and find something part time. I don't need 'passive income' or the other bullshit excuses people use to try and justify how they imagine sitting on their ass while their game makes thousands every month.

Would I be better off releasing a complete mobile game with microtransactions, or a few smaller single player PC games that are at least a little unique?

I have the capability to finish both in the next month, but I won't have another chance for a long while after that.

>>159118749
>finishing multiple small PC games that people would pay for in a month
good luck

even mobile games these days need marketing and a bit of luck

>>159118749
You would be better off getting a job, faggot.

Game dev is ridiculously unpredictable and unreliable for making money, you should under no circumstances rely anything on it.

>>159118828
I wasn't implying that I was making them from scratch. I'm talking about several past projects that could be polished to releasable content.

>>159118847
I literally have a job. Literally 1800 a month. Not great, but above average.

This job still makes me literally want to die every day I go.

I am finishing my degree, and would have a very wide variety of technical jobs available to me, but I cannot do that while I stay at this job. Lack of time and lack of sleep have already proven this in the past couple semesters. Barely scraping by this semester, literally failing last semester.

>>159118943
Your sob story doesn't change the fact that game dev is a shit idea if you need to make money.

You should only switch to game dev when it's already making you enough profit to sustain your lifestyle.

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>>159118749
You can make small shekels fast if you know how to make cute shit. You don't even need gameplay.

>>159119047
That's just amazing to me.

I cannot imagine someone working a full time job and managing to release content profitable enough to make a living wage in the US.

If you want to eventually participate in game development, it looks to me like you're planning on years of development and praying that your idea is even remotely relevant at the time around its release.

Even as a hobby, you still give up basically all other time outside of your job for a fruitless effort.

Does that sound about right?

>>159093393
Why is my game not here?
I've posted it as an answer monday!

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I found sounds for trolls, goblins, and vampires. I still need to find dragonflies and spiders. I'm thinking about getting rid of the attack sounds though. They don't really fit cause I'm using grunt sounds for attack instead of swinging-type sounds. There is already a sound when a player gets hit, so maybe if I also add a sound for evasion, that'll be good enough.

I also added crappy blood particles, as seen in the webm. Since enemies don't play an animation when taking damage, this helps a bit with visual feedback.

>>159119894
I have no clue what's going on in your battle system, but your game always looks nice

>>159103705
>someone is making the dream game I got into devving to make
F-Fuck. Great job though.

>>159119947
it's a lot simpler than whatever you think. it's basically ATB, but it's first-person so you can't see your 4 party members

someone should make a game where you can fuck a large female spider and impregnate it

the idea of a spider gf is just really cool I think

>>159120048
I feel the same. I was taking photos about the nice yellow leaves on the ground recently for reference. I was planning my nice autumn hillside forest, and then he showed up with that glorious landscape. I am jelly, but at the same time, I'm happy for him.

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>tfw your todo list of consists of nearly everything in the game

>>159120336
Spider as in:
Human with spider features (like Muffet) or something like a centaur but with a spider as a lower body? How do spiders even mate? Most of the times they eat the males, wouldn't that worry you?

Other than that, spiders are the best, so I'm seconding your idea.

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>>159120435
mine used to look like that 5 months ago

>>159119894
your bolgins remind me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsXtU0rZkAQ

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>>159099879
Dear young 3d artist, your method was not entirely wrong.

In this image I demonstrate your potential. I modeled this quick torso in a similar fashion so you can see.

I used subdivision twice in the process.

I know it's not the best torso ever, but I'm showing you your method was in no way wrong.

When you do it this way you will 100% have to retopo before you skin/uv it btw.

Better learn topology in your spare time.

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didn't turn out th eway i wanted but i leraned something

>>159120590
>step 1: add a cube
>step 2: model the rest of the fucking body

>>159119195
it depends on your game development skills.
and obviously art and sound which gonna require you to put some money into it.

to the point of making money of course, you need your game to be presentable as possible

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>>159120492
no just a spider like a human-sized shelob
with all the legs wrapping around you
I don't know if spiders have vaginas though

btw quelaag fits your centaur description

>>159099879
Nigger just download a model rip from a game or get a basemesh from any forum like polycount. These are made by pros and are therefore already very well done. Then just learn from and reproduce their work and then start optimizing your mesh from there however you need. No need to reinvent the wheel every time you make a new model.

Here, just download any of these free basemeshes and you are good to go:
http://wiki.polycount.com/wiki/BaseMesh

>>159120809
>I don't know if spiders have vaginas though

Yes, but it's a bit different. Called a epigyne.

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>>159120809
>When wasp spiders mate they create a dramatic spectacle.
The very much smaller unprepossessing male (4 to 6mm) approaches the plump female (15 to 20mm), moving jerkily. The female lifts up the front part of her body so the male can insert his sexual organ, which is situated on his head, into the female's abdomen. That is the moment depicted by the models.
Generally, the male is cocooned, killed and eaten by the female during mating. However, a split second before this, the male breaks off his sexual organ so it remains in the female and prevents entry by potential competitors.

>>159121493
Jesus that's horrifying

>>159121493
Literally fucking to death.

>>159120651
I don't think your model isn't simplified enough to match well with the texture.

>>159121584
>>159121797
It's pretty common in nature. I believe the mantis also eats the male alive during sex.

>women are literal youkai succubus
I'm trying to warn people but nobody ever listen to me.

>>159121892
>>159121584
>he doesn't want to be eaten alive just after ejaculating in a matter of seconds

It's not really that bad of a deal I think