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who wants a review of their game? link it fags

>>159895783
Just review all of the demos

any devs here have a positive experience with itch.io?

How can I reinvent the courtroom drama videogame? I don't want a Phoenix wright clone

>>159895783
Review my game please.
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-11

>>159895783
>>159895879
I would say do it in reverse order, but I can't figure out how this page is sorted.

>>159895994
>>159895957
>>159895879
fuck you all

>>159895783
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-11/rate/94542

>>159895783
fuck my shit up, my dude
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-11/rate/96202

>>159895953
Phoenix Wright is all about collecting wacky evidence for wacky crimes to sate a wacky court system, so I'd go the other direction and make it about misrepresenting/obfuscating/forging evidence and testimony as well as manipulative cross examinations designed to hide the truth and influence the jury. Maybe the Edgeworth game plays this way? I dunno, I've only played a couple cases of one phoenix wright.

>>159895934
Yeah, it's the best place for indie devs to host and sell their games. A typical strategy is to sell your game on itch to make $100 for a steam greenlight. And if you want you could sell your game for a discount on itch, since they take a smaller cut than Steam does.

>>159893564
>Unity project file
That's what I get for writing [engine]. I expected something like a link to someone who's done it with about 200 pageviews total on his tutorial. Guess I gotta install Unity now.

>>159895783
sure, go ahead.
>https://monolithdevs.itch.io/monolith

>>159896175
No that sounds kind of cool. My hope is to make it nonlinear and present multiple ways to win a case. Like, instead of going down a single path to win a case, maybe you have a score value invisible to the player that is how much each juror agrees with you. And you can do shady things (or not) to win each juror by appealing to both logic and emotion. Or maybe my dream courtroom videogame is impossible/overly complicated to make it the way I want to.

>>159895994
It's at least partly based on popularity, judging by who's currently in the top 5. I know that I have a ton of hits, and Anubis, Clarent and Monolith all have hits from past jams. Bottom up is the way to be most fair.
>>159896084
already did
>>159896138
I tried, but I couldn't figure out the first wall. When I hold an object, I can't move. Is that intentional? I downloaded V2.
>>159896398
Sure. If you feel this is good enough for the world to see, try tweeting at some games writers. It certainly looks good enough to me as is

>>159896495
Sounds fun to me. Won't know until you try.

>>159895869
Yeah, itch has been steadily growing as the place to buy indie games and indie game accessories.

>>159896529
dont feel we're quite there yet. will need a few layers of polish and config rewrites.

i also have no clue how to approach anyone like that without looking like a jackass.

>>159896660
I literally tweeted "check out my game" to a certain RPS columnist, and he did, and I got in RPS. Attach a gif to the tweet so it catches their attention

>>159895783
Feedback appreciated.
https://rb-d2.itch.io/wingman

you need 7zip to extract it, sorry

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>>159896642
>indie games and indie game accessories

>>159896529
I've got a lot of feedback on it, so i am trying out carrying objects, but yes stopping is intentional in the demo. You can dash in the air, and in 8 directions, so you gotta do that to get up, or use a thrown objects momentum.

>>159895783
Yes please
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-11/rate/96201

>>159897017
Why would you upload in a compression format not supported by default windows software? 7zip is one of the first things I install on a reformat so I don't give a shit, but still.

>tfw your game can be finished in 20 minutes if the player knows what to do, if they don't it takes 2 hours and 1 minute

>>159897254
>tfw your game can be finished in 47 seconds if the player knows what they are doing

>>159897254
You're gonna have the speedrunning community.

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>>159895783
do mine pls
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-11/rate/96395

>>159897254
>and 1 minute
I'm taking the bait. Why the minute?

>>159897381
To get around Steam's refund policy anon.

>>159897335
Did you purposely try to make the ugliest logo?

>>159897161
Had to split the file because itch still hasn't removed my 500mb restriction.

Noted the default windows thing though, Is zip the only thing windows recognizes? I might just reupload using split zip files.

>>159897439
DUDE VAPORWARE LMAO

>>159897435
Well, that's the motive. I was asking about the method. Why will it take players 121 minutes exactly to finish, what must they do that takes this exact amount of time to complete?

>>159897510
Oh nevermind, its actually already a split zip file. Can't do anything about it I guess. Sorry.

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>>159896642
Nice

>>159897603
The game is text heavy, the text dialogs last longer if you're closer to finishing game and you aren't at the 2 hour mark.

The last one lasts the amount of time needed for 2 hour and 1 minute time.

You can beat the game in 20 minutes because you can skip all dialog by avoiding entering the dialog collision boxes.

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Any good guides on real time Perlin Noise?

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>>159897439
you don't like it? i put so much effort in though...

>>159897996
>skip all text boxes except the last one
>have to wait 1 hour and 41 minutes
Wew

>>159898070
Not even close to the audacity The Stanly Parable and Desert Bus show towards their players.

>>159896398
OK this hooked me this time, more than the last demo.
You just changed the firing angles in response to feedback from DD11, right? Good choice, it feels more fluid now.
The destructible element at the end of the tutorial should maybe stand out from the background.
I love the room that's half full of blocks, in a diagonal shape. Nothing clever about it, but it's a nice break and I appreciate the extreme level design.

Regarding sending it to journalists, it depends on how much longer you are developing this for. If you think it's 6 months out or less, consider starting to build a fanbase now. And having more playtesters wouldn't hurt. This definitely feels polished enough to me already

Anubisdev, you bastard. Post more often/frequently with progress (not just the one or two times in the past few weeks) and I'll vote for your furry shit that's on Greenlight atm. Don't be a faggot.

>>159898690
>I'll vote for your furry shit that's on Greenlight atm
Did he remove the actual yiff? I thought that wasn't a thing Valve wanted to get involved with?

What agdg games are you most excited for?
I'm asking because I'm a vain person and I'm hoping someone mentions me

>>159898056
change the orange to green

>>159898807

He's gonna have two versions most likely, a lewd version with the cutscenes, and a SFW version with only suggestive remarks but no porn.

>>159898869
I'm looking forward to My Game coming out in 2019

>>159898869
(You)rs.

>>159898690
I've seen him post more in /v/'s gamedev threads

>>159898807
the yaff is only in the form of post boss cutscenes afaik, so he just cuts those out.

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Back to doing environment art for a while. Finally gave up on my own water shader and just played around with untys.

>>159899113
What's your game? I'm having a hard time associating that gif with a title.

>>159899113
>tfw 2.34mb gif

webm pls, it will show your work so much better
https://gitgud.io/nixx/WebMConverter

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>>159899229
I only post on here once every month or two.

>>159899513
I dig your aesthetics. What's your game about?

>>159899686
You're a costumed crusader in a furry suit cleaning up the city of degenerates. Very tongue in cheek.

>>159899686
Think top down twin stick, but rather then linear shooting galleries its a interconnected world with some exploration, puzzles, light platforming, enemies, optional bosses, little npc quest lines, etc.

Basically a twin stick adventure/variety game.

Also has a 60+ track darksynth OST
https://soundcloud.com/user-326390451/radium-radium

>>159898409
One joke achievement/branch in Stanley Parable is not even remotely comparable to Desert Bus, and neither are comparable to misleading your consumer deliberately (Desert Bus wasn't a bait and switch).

>>159899513
>gifs for video and pngs for noisy screenshots

I don't mean to be nitpicky, but learn your appropriate compression

pretty game though

>>159900320
What would you prefer he use rather than .png for "noisy screenshots"?

>>159900320
>>159899349

PNG is auto generated by our screenshot tool, because that how unity handles that shit.

When it goes up it gets compressed but I pulled it right out of the build, I also hate gifs, but twitter and our website don't support them and they are taken for their rather then here.

https://monchop.itch.io/rune-revolver

Just changed some very minor shit but I still updated it for whatever reason

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Made another build, fixed some shit resetting when switching scenes, also added a value readout of your currently used modifiers (and whether or not you're using default modifiers)
Current record is 77kills.
WIN: http://justletit.be/~brum/GunMetal_Build0-45-1110_WIN.zip
WEB: https://brum.itch.io/gunmetal

>>159895783
try mine i guess
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-11/rate/96210

>>159900418
jpg at 90-100% quality

>>159900501
understandable

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Now we are talking!

>>159900156
>Also has a 60+ track darksynth OST
I'm spotchecking through your soundcloud and I like what I'm hearing. Theme especially kinda reminds me of the beginning of Carpenter Brut's "L.A. Venice Bitch 80's", which doesn't say much since its not overly complex. Digging it though. Your overall style's pretty dope.

>Basically a twin stick adventure/variety game.
Interesting choice. I hope you finish your game.

>>159900984
>Interesting choice. I hope you finish your game.
Considering how much time we have put into it at this point and how close we are to finishing it will get done.

tfw when we turned down a buy out because of the artistic integrity meme.

With 8 directional sprites, I have a problem where if one direction is let up a split second after the second, then the character is facing the second direction. It means that a character rarely stands diagonally, which, I guess isn't a huge deal, but it's a little annoying. Is there any way to fix that? Is it even worth fixing?

>>159901449
>someone made a buy out offer for an unreleased indie game

yeah okay

What is video game fog made out of?

>>159901614
Thats what we thought. But the guy had thrown money at tones of retarded shit in the past, made his money in real estate but wanted to desperately get into tech but kept failing.

It was the RNG jackpot thought, the guy was hitting on one of his employees who was evaluating the house I am renting, so he came along with her and stumbled across us all working in the garage, which landed us an interview, he wanted majority though.

>>159897335
>>159896138
>>159900779
check your itch pages

>>159901812
Depth buffer

>>159901485
>Is it even worth fixing?
Depends on your game. If it's only visuals, fuck it. If the player can only shoot in the direction he's facing, you gotta fix it.

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>>159901912
Thanks! Most of your comments are things I want to change, I rushed it a bit for demo day

>>159901812
There is more than one method to do this.
What are your specifications?
If you just want some simple distance fog then >>159901949 is right.

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Working on adding more ice death for the monsters here. Originally the skeletons used to slide forward punching at you but I realized how annoying that is if you're trying to juke them and they can always slide forward and wallop you.

Though in my defense someone else programmed these guys for me

>>159895783
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-11/rate/96203

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>>159901912
your feedback is appreciated

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>>159895783
Could you review my game? http://zillo7.itch.io/tier-1

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>>159902597

I'm waiting for you to do something like this

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reposting: (forgot image)

I DID IT

I MAKED GAME

>https://wanderfall.itch.io/phantoma

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>>159902695
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

If googum hates rng does that mean googum hates procedural generation?

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>My original pure idea slowly became corrupted into simpler, more casualized and more marketable until now its like every other game out there

I feel empty inside.

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some art progress. Also we changed the boss to have 4 legs now

>>159903260
neat

>>159903260
CUTE

>>159903260
What's up with the slowmo

>>159901912
That was a very concise review, and you touched on most of the things i feel that definitely can be improved, too. So thanks a bunch, dude!

>>159903201
>using randomness in your procedural procedures
wtf are you doing?

>>159903223
isnt that a good thing? you've discovered what the core of your "idea" actually was. you can move on to something better without guilt.

>>159903349
what slowmo?

>Try to make music for game
>It always sounds like I'm stealing song from another game

Literally never going to make it.

Making a Classicvania clone, anyone have tips on level design?

>>159903594
The webm looks really slow

>>159903594
Looks slow to me too

>>159903817
just steal levels from the original

>All my co-workers left early
>I still have 1 more hour
Heh heh heh... Time to work on my game

>>159897153
>>159902497
check your pages!
>>159902695
I tried it for space jam, and didn't really care for it. Has much changed since then? I can give it another shot.
>>159903362
>>159902398
lmao i have no idea who's who

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>>159902736
have this lousy approximation

typically, how do indie multiplayer-only games fare?

to me it seems like indie games tend to have a small user base and a brief shelf life. this would make me wary of buying a multiplayer only game, and I'm guessing most people feel the same.

>>159904179
they never work, ever

>>159904179
There is a reason they usually focus on local multiplayer

>>159903260
something something frog shrinks

>>159904179
There's couple that are popular and still played, Duck Game for example.

But if you're making multiplayer only indie game you're making your chances of succeeding even lower than they are normally.

If you think your chances of "making it" as an indie dev are 1/100, making a multiplayer only game makes them 1/1000.

Good luck.

>>159904179
It's either everyone plays it and you make shitloads of money (RoR, Lethal League, that car soccer game), or literally nobody plays it (every other indie multiplayer)
It's like mobile games where you're very unlikely to make it, but if you do you're set for life

>>159904179
>how do indie multiplayer-only games fare?
Survival lies in free to download and community participation. See SS13, which is as thriving as it can get for multi only. Maybe 500 - 1k core players.

If you don't create a cult following your game, it's already dead.

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>>159904163
Most of the changes are in the AI; it plays like an actual game now!

>>159904163
Our comments are basically the same but >>159903362 is for throbot

>>159904380
What do you actually DO in your game anon? Do you just jump from sector to sector picking fights or is there more to it?

>>159904380
>fire torpedo
>gun turret shoots torpedo
Truly next level, enemy won't see it coming.

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>>159904176

MADMAN

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>>159904597
You control a single ship and you destroy the enemy team. Think of it as war thunder/world of tanks in space.

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>try to code something complicated
>it doesnt work
Back to the drawing board

>>159904163
Mine was >>159902398 shooty wizards

Would I run into legal trouble if I made my game's story based off an existing novel?

>>159904687
>Not writing documentation before code

DESS

>>159904714
How based off?

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>>159904716
I did, but I think my idea just isn't gonna work

>>159904714
If you change names of everything then you are free to do whatever.

You can make a game about a wizard named Barry who goes to school for magic called Mogwarts.

You can't hold story elements as your own IP.

>>159904714
Only if it was written after 1923. If so, you have two options: Get permission from the author, or change all the names so they don't have as strong a case against you.

Though, really, you can be sued by anyone who thinks they can get money out of you, even if their claims are all bullshit.

>>159904714
If you don't use the names occuring in the novel, you could call it an hommage or inspired by, but i doubt you are ripping off a narrative so unique it can be traced back.

I'm making a fighting game in Gamemaker and I'm unsure of how to implement the state machine for attacking. Something tells me I don't need individual states for every attack for each character.

Is the answer to my question using ds_map?

>>159903705
>try to make music for game
>manage to make it sound alright but never fits intended purpose

>>159904367
>>159904343
>>159904328
>>159904257

pretty much what I thought. but fuck it. I may as well throw together a dirty prototype anyway. I mean, you guys would test it out, right? If even just to call me a fag and point out how terrible of a dev I am?

If it's good I could make a single player campaign, or get really good at AI (not likely).

>>159895783
Give this a shot? https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-11/rate/96397

Need a bigger to-do list of shit to improve, besides optimization and sound effects.

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>>159904176

>>159905231
What's your genre anyhow?

>>159905231
We'll call you a fag because we only care about financial success in this thread.

>>159904176
Literally the best dev on AGDG

>>159904714
what novel

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>>159903705
>can't make music
>put in temp music until you can get a composer on
>end up hating the composer's music because the temp music works much better

Fug

>>159905420
Literally Stockholm Syndrome

>>159905420
It doesn't work better, it just seems correct because you got used to it.

I had the same problem when I replaced my placeholder protagonist but now I much prefer the new one.

>>159905290
2d team attrition shooter in a nutshell.

>>159905698
>not just multiplayer
>TEAM multiplayer

the one place where games like this can be successful is online, on a meme .io domain. even then you're living on ads

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This game is super fun. Modifiers, powerups and more weapon types when?

>>159906023
>not using standard values
I N V A L I D
more stuff soon(tm). I'll have to refactor a bunch of shit and work on level generation.

>>159906402
I totally used standard values. Messed around with them a bit to see what they did but clicked reset afterwards. Looking forward to more content :^)

>>159896495
If you make this game and it's good I will give you money.

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>Been working on my game for 6 months
>Feel like a failure for taking this long on a simple concept
>Play and finish Owlboy
>Read that it took 9 years to make
>Suddenly realize I'm not that bad and get motivated

Feels goodman.

>>159906510
Ah, you seem to have max monsters per wave at 15. default is 14, so your game was a tiny bit more difficult.
It doesn't do a check whether or not the values match, just detects if you've moved sliders at all. Pressing reset turns it back to untouched default values.

Need some military sounding buzzwords for how to subdivide an area.

Region -> Zone -> Sector.

Something like that.

>>159906712
>Read that it took 9 years to make
Anything below 12 years in the making isn't worth shit. It's why Boyhood is the best film this and last millenium.

>>159906842
Yeah I know, did you know it took 12 years to make?

>>159906842
>9 years
geez. What were they doing for the majority of that time? Stroking their dicks?

>>159906835
>Region -> Zone -> Sector
I'll be expecting my cheque within a week.

>>159906938
Art/programming/music

>>159906887
Oh, it took 12 years to make? That certainly shows! I felt like I was watching the boy grow up before my very own eyes!

At first I thought 12 Years A Slave was good, but I found out that, despite the title, it did in fact NOT take 12 years to make, which put a bit of a dent in the opinion I had of it. Not so Boyhood however, which may be the greatest cultural achievement humanity will bring forth,

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I feel like my game is too difficult for new people to play with all of the keyboard controls. I can't test usability properly because I'm the developer but if you've played my game, what should I do to improve usability?

>>159906938
>2d pixel platformer took 9 years
>wasn't even 1ma

so basically im fucked.

>>159906842
meh, 12 years. Try 49.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series

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>>159907324
>Linklatter nowhere on the page
Come on now.

>>159895783
i always appreciate honest feedback if you have time
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-11/rate/96586

forgot my goddamn pen at home, now I can't dev

fuck

am i going to have to start paying people to use my music for games? am i really THAT bad?

>>159907727
>Implying there aren't at least 4 people in this thread ready to suck a bag of dicks to have their music featured in a game with 500+ downloads

>>159907818
k

how do you set the window on top the taskbar in openGL

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>that feel when your code works in the first try and you manage to fix another bug by mistake

looks like i gonna have a playable mode working for my 4 months birthday in 4 days

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>>159898869

That date sim one.

>>159907934
>He thinks the code works

Enjoy it not working next week faggot.

>>159907979
furries look almost normal from this angle

>>159898869
Your game!

>>159908065
>furries look almost normal from this angle
>almost normal
>furries
>normal
Do you need help?

state endorsed murder

>>159895783
its pretty rough, but if you have the time
https://kada.itch.io/crystal-chrysalis-dd11

people who are doing the videos have like quadrupled my bug log, its gold

>>159908267
The frame before the smear doesn't really fit with the arc that is created, and perhaps the smear should continue following the sword in the 7th frame.

Also if you overshoot the sword on the 7th frame and pull it back on the 8th, that would illustrate more strength used.

Pretty good animation tbqh desu.

>>159895783
c
>>159902957

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>>159908065

It's an anime trick where the base color is flat like cell shading but the mouth is actually heavily inset on the model making it an upsidedown L shape. That and the flat face and lips, which triggers some faggots for some reason.

The demo is neat but you're pretty much done in 5 minutes.

>>159908201
blame bronies for normalizing furries

So in a game where the player is expected to die a lot and start over, is it a bad idea to just let them pick some of their gear to start with and not let them switch during the game until they die again?

I'm debating if people can switch in safe areas or they are just stuck with what they chose.

>>159908701

Bronies took the cancer out of furries. They were always the faggots, but becoming bronies identified them as the bad ones.

>>159908882
If only. Take a look at the three furry threads continuously up on /b/. The cancer is still there.

>>159908693
dude go drop this link into /b/ reap the views

I can do a few more videos tonight if anyone wants one
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTNB11KbDROyD9cQLNEkvrkkbrMrNNJuJ

>>159909381
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-11/rate/95974
I'm curious what a first time player does

>>159908693
I would her, not even a furry

>>159909381
you should make one big video of all the demos that are very short or are tech proofs of some sort

>>159908882
nah man, what I'm saying is with bronies furries suddenly don't look so bad. I mean, they at least get laid. they meet up and have gigantic orgies. bronies meet up and watch a cartoon for 6 year old girls together telling each other how much they love and cherish each other's friendship and other rainbow vomit inducing behavior.

they should really just start sucking each other's dicks, then maybe we could begin to make heads or tails of the whole thing.

>>159909501
I figured out what the space bar does, where the boundaries of the map where, what the stars looked like, and that was about it

not the other guy though

>>159909608
yeah this pls
we still want to hear feedback even if our game isn't that complete

>>159909608
I generally play all the demos of games that I see repeated progress from over the months (but I will sometimes skip games I played last demo day). After that, I ask for people to submit. Don't really want to waste time on games from people I've never even seen before.

>>159909728
>Don't really want to waste time on games from people I've never even seen before.

ain't that the point?

>>159909798
i assume he's saying he doesn't want to play whodevs' games

>>159909890
I agree with that in principle, but if he plays all the demos of games he's seen repeated progress of then who would be left to submit to him other than whodevs?

>>159909701
I did add a new build that fixed some issues and made the whole game more concise.

But yeah, there probably isn't more gameplay for you to find. Depending on when you stopped, there are some more changes to discover. I get that the experience won't connect with everyone.

What I was curious about was the exact movement patterns of a first time player, who has no idea what the game is.

>>159905239
Really rough.
Pressing left/right when wall climbing should get you off the wall.
I actually like the very narrow red line of death, if the rest of the graphics were sleeker.
Nice death animation.
I stopped pretty early on, so if I missed something unique, sorry.

Tips for prototyping graphics, and this goes for a lot of games here:
that midtone gray looks like SHIT. Go to any color scheme generator, smash that randomize button until something good shows up, and use only that 5 or 6-color scheme for your game. It will improve the graphics immensely.
https://coolors.co/

How hard would it be to make a roguelike dark souls pixelated platformer?

Give something to listen to fellers

>>159910864
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUJQx_JmtVA

I ironically love listening to this type of music while proramming

>>159910723
>https://coolors.co/

That's an awesome site. Thanks for that.

I was being lazy with graphics because I'll eventually have to hire an artist, but I may as well pretty things up for demoing. Would help me think about art direction too. Noted.

Anything else stick out about the platforming physics?

>>159910952
For real anon? I don't judge but

J-List is back yay!

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>>159908375
pic related
>>159910987
>stick out
more like sticking to walls ayyyy

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I can't decide on an MC

>>159909501
It will be uploaded in about an hour. Be warned that your shader totally killed OBS's performance. It couldn't handle the sheer amount of pixels changing values every single frame.

I have no idea what it will look like on Youtube.

>>159910864
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1whb0NdE3Tw

>>159911214
Thanks man! Yeah that shader removes any possibilty of lets plays. I kind of shot myself in the foot there.

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>>159911207

>>159903223
you dont have a game

>>159911598
who cares

>>159895783
https://chaikadev.itch.io/spaceship-crew-self-defense-simulator

>everything's coming up aces with the latest feature/mechanic
>suddenly, using it one way is fine, but the other way has you like 60 pixels left of where you should be
fuck

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>>159909381
see
>>159911850

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Fresh progresso. I guess I'll call it "kitty biscuit simulator"

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Should I make a Trump Game? It might ruin my nonexistent reputation, but I would like the moneys and I have the 3d models to do so.

http://webm.land/media/79Jd.webm

>>159912090
just take the concept and make your own character

>>159912090
>pros
get some ez attention

>cons
get killed by the secret police

>>159912090
Do it I want to see how many unpopular trump games agdg can make

breaking news
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-12

weekee leeks

>>159911850
whoever called this a flawed hotline miami that missed what made HM good was right

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>>159912090
Considering Trump is an anti-war isolationist with a focus on economic growth and infrastructure, a proper Trump game would be more like SimCity or Civ than Douk.

>>159912081
Hi Fredrick

>>159912364
>https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-12
these gifs are getting too sexual

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How's that side project coming along?

>>159912520
Who the fuck is Fredrick?

>>159912046
it will be up about an hour after the other video

>>159912559
Fuck off nodev

>>159912081
Hey look its Frederick!

What are some games with lots of heart put into them that I can take inspiration from?

>>159912007
>adding the wrong thing
go me

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>>159912559
>recursion

>>159912808
Undertale

>>159912464
we talking about hotline miami 2?

>>159912559
I gave up because I couldn't decide on interactions and secondarily created things (if any)\
fortunately it wasn't really a game

>>159912081
Freddy, boy! How are you doing?

>>159912967
well I say "gave up", I kept the files; I'd like to go back to it at some point

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>>159912364
>january
Another year wasted

Unreal 4

I'm trying to spawn items in a grid. I was doing this by putting a set actor location function in the construction script of the object and basically:

Dividing X by 100 (so it snaps in a meter sized grid)
Getting only the value and discarding the remainder
Multiplying that value by 100 again

Now it works fine unless the object has a translation value like 199 and it goes to 100 instead of 200

How can I get it so that it rounds to 100 or 200 depending on which is closer?

>>159913291
round the divided value instead of discarding the remainder

>>159913291
use X / 100f or your languages equivelant. Dividing an int by an int truncates the remainder. Dividing an int by a float is a float

>>159913372
I didn't even know there was a round function, goddamnit.

I even looked this time

>>159913525
It was a float (100.0). I was using a function that returns the value and remainder and just ignoring the remainder

>>159913665
there is floor (always round down), round (round to nearest), and ceil (always round up)

why dont you just create a variable with the size of each grid square and then make a array to make the grid


then put each item in PositionX += PositionX + Size , PositionY += PositionY + Size

>>159913741
Awesome, thanks

Needless to say I'm new to everything but the most basic of programming and forgot a great deal of my learned math. I never have an issue picking it up, but anything beyond the basics evaporates after a few months.

>>159913815
Because I"m too stupid to understand how to implement what you said

I understand what you're saying but now how the array would make the grid

>>159914060
>>159913815

Like I would need one array for X and as many Y arrays as needed to make a grid the correct size?

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3d platformer - rabbit swaps body with turtle in order to explore underwater

This is the 2nd or 3rd world btw

>>159914297
Dude that FOV is making me sick

How would you guys start a project that is future proof to port to switch? Make it for mobiles/using mobile presets and specs? Which specs? NVidia Shield?

>>159914297
Game's lookin' good.

>>159914421
How come?

Is there a way in C# I can give a base class a function, and override the function in a derived class, such that even if an object looks like its the base class, the derived function is still what'll be called?

like

(instance as BaseClass).myFunction()
prints out "run by DerivedClass"

>>159914770
I dunno

It just is

>>159914853
you can't make it not do that

that's what polymorphism is

>>159914297
what engine?

how many polygons to have in a level mesh that are visible to the player?

I have no fucking clue how much a low-end pc can be expected to see

The current model I have is about 5 million verts but clearly no program can have that on one mesh anyways

Does anyone have any information that might help me with this?

>>159915001
Godot

>>159914423
best to get a game down which can have scalability, worry more about core mechanics

I'm gonna do a full playthrough video of my demo tonight (about ~2 hours long). Should I do developer commentary during it, explaining how things work and why I'm doing what I'm doing? Or should it just be in-game sounds the whole time.

>>159903260
man that frog is just so fucking cute man

Anyone else here trying out the Gaymaker Studio 2 beta? What are your thoughts on it so far?

>>159915158
If you have interesting things to say and can say them in a way that won't be unappealing, the former, otherwise, the latter.

>>159914853
>>159914947
nvm fixed it
override is what I needed, not new
it was probably misleading that I used the casting parens, in reality it was actually a List<BaseType>

>>159914947
You can in C++ if the base function isn't virtual.

>>159908826
Depends on the kind of stuff and how much of it there is.

>>159915527
Technically yes. But that's dumb and you generally shouldn't.

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>>159914421
probably also the shitty webm quality. but ill probably add a FOV slider
>>159914497
thanks
>>159915001
UE4

>>159912475
nice game progress there

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I'm bad at everything

>>159916013
I'm bad at art, but that's the only thing that matters so I may as well be bad at everything.

>>159912475
I agree with this. Make it a whole map of America that you build up. Including the ability to build walls.

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>>159916049
>Tfw you're a 3D artist and Unreal 4 has blueprint so you barely have to learn how to code

>>159916316
If you want to make an incredibly simple, small-scoped game, sure.

>>159915601
>UE4
you using a custom post-process/shader or default?

is this the nodev general?

>>159916013
Me too (almost). Let's keep at it

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Anyone know a good resource for learning how to do "tag loading"? Trying to do some HTML5 development and I'm having a lot of trouble with preload.js

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>>159916547

>>159916674
I try. It's hard when every step you take forward feels like you haven't moved at all.

>>159895783
https://mountainousdevelopment.itch.io/rem-project

>>159915598
I only know that because it accidentally happened to me, caused quite the headache.

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Hey Aggy Daggy, I feel like trying to maek game in "Superpowers" for no good reason.

Anyone else?

>>159917252
Do it! You'll easy be able to get on their "Games" page since there's nothing good there right now

>>159914297
its a little confusing, how do you know to get the turtle, but looks fun/good

im bored and have a few minutes to kill.

anybody want some honest feedback on for their demo? preferably something that only takes a few minutes to play.

i know i could just go through all the entries and i will later but just wanted to know if anyone in particular would like some feedback right now

How do I become a dev without being bullied? I have more mental problems than rotate so I'm worried people won't accept me once they learn who I really am.

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Need some advice and help, I'm making Whimp the Bold.

Would a player prefer smaller enemies that give simple powers, like early kirby, when absorbed? Or enemies that provide more completes movesets, like recent kirby, that might be harder to teach.

And with that in mind, if movesets are more varied, should certain levels require certain enemies to be used, or should everything be designed so that you can use anyone?

For those who don't know the main mechanic is controlling enemies and using their powers

>>159898013
The...same way you'd do any Perlin noise.

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I just wanted to say that I love you guys.
Never stop trying. One day, you'll make it.

I'm going to better place soon
Goodbye

>>159917623
>I'm going to better place soon
>Goodbye
bb hf

>>159917521
Make your game and don't bring your personal life into it.

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>>159917623
Don't go anon. We love you too. I love you too. It won't be the same without you.

Don't go

>>159917541
I think absorbing movesets rather than moves is a more interesting permutation of the formula.

If you can design levels such that they can be solved multiple ways without being too easy then that'd probably be ideal, but if that's too difficult or takes to much time then it's a place where you might opt to compromise.

>>159917521
Don't ever say anything under your developer name that doesn't have to do with developer activities.

Seriously. Act like an apathetic AAA company and nobody will know what your personality this therefor no bullying.

>>159917623
Do as you must.

>>159917623
Don't worry m8, I'll be meeting you there.

>>159917541
I'm going to avoid the actual question and just say that I genuinely think it's in your best interest to simply absorb moves a la early Kirby. I think absorbing entire movesets and designing levels around that is too complex and outside of your scope and abilities as a developer.

I mean no malice when I say that. I think you should just keep it simple for now.

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>>159917623
Oh are you moving to a new town or something anon?

A-anon?

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>>159914297
FYI.

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>tfw you reduce the amount of draw calls by implementing LOD.

>>159918063
I 100% understand this. And I'm shit at level design as it is, so I'm not doing any favors by being over ambitious

It's just so fun to try and make cool characters with cool moves

Then there's the issue of having minibosses thatyou can absorb, should they only have one move too?

>>159917773
I just want a game that feels open-ended gameplay wise, while grappling with not wanting the player to feel like some choices are better than others if some movesets are bettere

>>159917541
depends on how good you are at design, one of those ideas will be much harder to implement or make fully useful

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>>159917623

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>>159918313
>reduce amount of draw calls
>increase the amount of nodev

>>159918381
>should they only have one move too?
Yes. You'll also find that players will appreciate the powers too if they're simple and just one or two moves max.

>I just want a game that feels open-ended gameplay wise, while grappling with not wanting the player to feel like some choices are better than others if some movesets are bettere
Save this idea for when you have more experience under your belt. Honestly, you won't regret it because it'll make your scope more managable for your current game and it'll actually come out rather than being over ambitious and dropping the project (I know I've done that too many times).
Save it for the sequel, Anon.

>>159918313
Wouldn't draw calls be the same? Unless you have some models that disappear completely at a distance.

I don't really know anything about draw calls or 3D.

>>159916451
pls respond

>>159918730
Maybe the simpler LOD models have fewer different textures to switch between

>>159918730
Draw calls depend on materials/shaders/other render states and vertex count, so if the LOD mesh uses the same materials when rendering instead of switching through many you can reduce calls a lot.

If for example the normal mesh and LOD one use the same materials and shaders and say only reduced # of vertices by a certain amount, there wouldn't really be decrease in calls.

>>159918702
thanks, i think my path is more clear now. Besides, I can distinguish enemies with their different aspects like
>movement
>attacks
>midair attacks

It should be good, thanks a lot everyone

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>>159914297
you monster

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continuing mapping efforts tonight

will have roughly 1m verts, which is enough to be getting on I think

>>159919107
>using Submeme editor
I hope you didn't buy it.

>>159919049
There ya go! That sounds like a much more realistic plan than entirely new movesets.

Good luck anon. I'm gonna play your demo next after I finish Anubis and leave you some feedback!

>>159917623
Don't leave now, there's cool shit here.
>rumania more
You could go to Romania! They have nice architecture.

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>>159916451
custom post process, and fuzzy shading for animal fur (kind of hard to tell from these images)

>>159917441
when you get close enough to another animal, you will glow, then you just press the swap button. the player will take control of the new animal, and your previous animal will revert back to AI

>>159919485
oh that's cool

>>159919107
hacker level: Neo%

Anyone have a good article or tutorial on how to have a good project start and good practices in UE4? Im completely lost, in unity you just start doing stuff, in UE4 looks like you have to think 300x times before doing anything.

>>159917623
See you soon.

>>159919485
I'm surprised by how cool that reflection looks juxtaposed to all the low poly stuff. Along with the depth of field I'm getting some bizarre sense that I'm either looking at a claymation animation or early 90s CGI even though neither of those things look like what I'm seeing.

>>159919769
>>159918005
>>159917623
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cidFq2xlvow

>>159917623
call the help line, do it now. don't question it.

>>159919745
it's the same thing. you just start doing tutorials and piecing things together

>>159919181
Thanks anon, for the demo-ing and the advice!

Trying to recreate a new blueprint under a new parent in Unreal 4 I duplicated everything and it works, now I want to rename the old blueprint and give its name to the new one. Renaming went fine, but it absolutely refuses to let me use the old name. I even deleted the old blueprint and it still won't let me use the old name

Wat do?

>>159914297
>>159919485
Do you build your maps in a 3d program or in the engine editor?

>>159896495
Make it, man. Won't know unless you try.

>>159920882
right-click on the folder where the old file used to be and Fix Up Redirectors

>>159905631
I have a bad feeling this is happening with my game.

>>159921103
Awesome! Thanks anon.

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>>159920554
I tried to break your game.
You knew exactly what I would try to do.

And yes, it was.

What's something that really annoys you in games?

For me it's when there's multiple paths in a level but I don't know which path is just a secret bonus path and which is the main path. So I end up back tracking to each path making sure I get all the collectables.
For an open dungeon this isn't bad, but for a level that's generally linear this is really annoying.

>>159921313
the disillusioned blinking at the end sells it

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>>159908620
Maybe now?

Is there someone making a hotline miami spinoff using a synthwave OST? I've seen someone mention "Wizardline" but I can't find anything.

>>159921353
That, and if you go down the main path something prevents you from backtracking.

>>159920554
>>159921313
Also if I have FRAPS recording or OBS running, the game maintains 60fps, but if I don't, the framerate fluctuates between 50 and 51, causing a lot of timing related bugs and issues. Unfortunately I can't show you because if I record, the framerate goes back up to 60 and the problems are fixed.

>>159921353
>Lots of boring piecemeal pickups and looting that you MUST do to be able to buy upgrades (dishonored and the bioshocks were especially terrible for this).
>Enemies that drop artificially low amounts of ammo or loot e.g. 7 rounds from a 30 round mag.
>Lots of forced exploring in fast paced games e.g. new doom.
>Items or encounters that can be lost forever if you leave the level, especially if the transition isn't obvious.
>Giving you some sort of mechanic that is only used in one sequence and then never again.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

>>159918212
that picture makes me want to go to a better place

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>>159921774

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I don't know how to art.

Revisited one of the stages. I think the current state is better, but still far from acceptable. Need to break all the 90 degree angles up.

>>159921774
Not that dev but now I'm curious. How does that even happen?

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>try GLSL
>fragment shader
>cannot convert from 'float' to '2-component vector of float'"

What went wrong

>>159921985
>>159922042
I honestly don't have even slightest clue. I've never seen Game Maker do that (the fluctuation framerate part).

>>159922189
I believe what went wrong was you being dropped on the head as a child

>>159919745
what I did was read the entire documentation and watch every official video and training stream while at my wagecuck job.

if you just want to get right into it and worry about best practices, and the nuances of the framework later, I would suggest watching the blueprint videos and the twin stick shooter tutorials.

>>159921774
As the dev, that's weird as fuck. I honestly don't know how to deal with this. I have delta timing going, but it's not particularly helpful in some cases because if the timing is not a perfect divisor of 60, things like the image_index won't become round numbers, and certain events won't get triggered.

I'll work on it, but it's hard because it runs fine on my laptop

>>159921313
Glad you liked it You can float after each time you slam into the wall. The other wall has one too

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>>159919852
thanks. ive been trying to make the style more like that actually. It looked too clean sterile before (ive attached a picture to show what i mean). Still have to work on a lot of that stuff tho
>>159920895
in the editor. I cant imagine having to keep testing and tweaking a map when its not made in the engine itself