/agdg/ - Amateur Game Developer General

>>160628183
So, continuing. C++ or Java?

I am asking this having written code for 6 years but with little knowledge of game writing resources for each.

>>160628295
Whichever you are more comfortable with.

first for gms

>>160628465
I mean, that's the obvious answer, but I was hoping for something more in depth.


Which has faster libraries, in terms of development speed and running speed?
Which is compatible with more platforms with said good libraries?
Which one has libraries with the greatest array of features which are the most easily accessible?

>at home on a Saturday night working on your game instead of smashing prime pussy and feeling their soft, delicate bodies pressed up against yours afterwards

proud of you anons, sacrifices must be made if we're going to make it

>>160628295
c++ for 3d. java for 2d

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How did you guys come up with the design for the main character of your game?

>>160629163
Witches are CUTE

>>160628993
Why that distinction?

>>160628967
yyeaaah... that's why I don't have a girlfriend, it's because of "sacrifices" for my "game"

>>160629163
same way Nioh did, I just copied Geralt.

>>160629163
inspiration from sex dolls

>>160629163
I showed the guy my placeholder model and he made a different one

>>160629261
because c++ for 2d is overkill

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>>160629163 i just played around

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>>160628295
unity/unreal for 3d gamemaker for 2d

>>160629163
i made something that looked like it fit with the main gimmick of my game and then i put a scarf on it

>>160629957
I was thinking about putting a scarf on my character as well. It is just such a cool accessory.

>>160628619
C++ runs faster, but you'll develop faster with Java because you don't need to manage memory. Java is compatible with more platforms because of its JVM. C++ has more libraries.

I don't believe you have six years of experience with C++/Java if you're asking these questions.

If the goal is to make a game, then you should probably get Unity and learn C#. The language is very similar to Java and it only took me a few days to learn it. Making video games is already a colossal task, so it would be reasonable to do whatever you can to save time.

>>160628967
This game isn't going to make itself
Besides once people see how I can make game they'll be impressed and want to be my friend for sure

>>160630326
yeah, all the cool kids wear scarfs, and not in just Old Navy commercials

>>160629924
godot and construct2 for mememaking?

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So I've finally decided on my game concept. I really want to make a Diablo/GrimDawn/PathOfExile clone.

Any tricks to get this baby rolling? I can already do some 3d modelling, but I need to know where to start on the programming. Unity and C# is my best tools right now.

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>mfw an 18 year old girl is really into me and thinks it's awesome that I make games for a 'living'

>>160631676
They're not that hard in concept, from a programming point of view, minus the deterministic lockstep required for multiplayer.

Making them fun is the whole challenge.

I am maken a Roguelite Breakout.

You start with 4 balls, and the levels get progressively harder. On mobile, tap and you place a platform. Platform length and duration is a stat. Balls bounce around hitting blocks, or walls on the side/top. There is no wall on the bottom so you must place a platform to bounce it back up.

Lose all your balls, the game starts over with just 5 balls. Otherwise you keep going and it keeps getting harder.

Also, each block gives XP. XP can be used to purchase talents that are persistent between runs, like +1 starting ball, or +1 active balls, or +1 platforms, or +%platform width etc.

There will also be chest blocks that if you hit them, release a thing you can tap (I'm making it for tablet). It can contain a random buff, debuff or modifier.

Like releasing more balls, or increasing all ball speed for a few seconds, etc.

It's so stupid but it's kind of becoming a little bit fun.

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>>160632106
>when you tell girls you make games for a living when you only make $1 a week from it

>>160632106
>>160632662
>communicating with female s
normues ree

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>>160632106
>I make games for a 'living'

>>160632467
So spiritual successor to sorcerer's maze (PS1)?

>>160632662
where do you get the 1$ from? currently making 0

>>160632790
I get my 2.33 a week from sellfy and itch.io

Gmod is a treasure trove of interesting game ideas ripe for the stealing

>>160632776
Never saw that before now but yeah kinda.

>>160632790
ios app store

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The Donald will be on sale on the asset store sometime towmorrow,

>>160633020
you better have a similarly misleading cover/title screen

>>160633150
>The Donald

Literally who?

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oi aggy
I'm going to spend the night making music for practice, if any of you want some free custom tunes for dino jam, hit me up.

>>160616192
That's looking awesome. I love the new color scheme for the fire when killing the bat, never liked the red one used in the nes castlevanias for that.
I would suggest that the bats die when the boss dies too, Since you weren't forced to kill all of them while the boss was alive you should be forced to kill them after he dies to open the door.

Reminder not to let your dreams be dreams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-sfG8BV8wU

>spending the week refactoring and now having doubts about your new systems

>>160634679
This is why you wont make it, you get stuck with trivial things.

>>160634679
Thats what version control is for. Just rollback.

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>>160623318

Adding more rays doesn't seem to change the fact that when one ray (or multiple) hits a different face on alternating frames, it's going to align to a different (albeit marginally less different, due to the average) angle on alternating frames.

I might be doing it entirely wrong, of course.

>>160629163
One time I was fiddling around a game's character creator out of boredom until I ended up creating a character who design resonated with me so much that I wanted to recreate them on paper, in my own way.
Enamered with the results, I begged the question, What If I could make a story with this character? So after that I continued to tweek said character further to something ideal and I was also thinking up a story that would be best for this character. And so on and so forth, the rest was history. My memory is a bit fuzzy but that was the broad strokes at least.

This was 5 years ago.

>>160635076
smooth between the current rotation and the target rotation, rather than instantly setting it

>>160635378

Won't that just delay the problem?

Let's see...

>>160635076
What are you trying to do?

Do you have to plan your game ahead of time to make multiplayer? I'm guessing you can't just throw it in later or anything?

How much does it increase the difficulty and time-cost of making a game?

>>160635660
Exactly five months.

>>160635660
what platform

>>160635660
if you want online multiplayer, you need to design your game around easy implementation of onilne multiplayer, otherwise you're setting yourself up for hell
turn-based games and delayed inputs based shit are an exception i guess

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>>160634226
Last call before I leave this taiwanese duck preparation BBS

>>160636021
You didn't even post a sample

>>160635076
What are you trying to accomplish? Faux gravity? Ground clamping?

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>>160635564
>>160636175

Faux gravity, yes.


>>160635378

Seems to have the same effect, just happens slower.

>>160636109
You didn't post a game either

>>160634360
thanks anon! i appreciate the kind words

>I would suggest that the bats die when the boss dies too, Since you weren't forced to kill all of them while the boss was alive you should be forced to kill them after he dies to open the door.
i dont think this is a good idea. it would be really frustrating if you barely managed to kill the boss with a point of health remaining and get killed by a bat. plus it would tedious to make the player kill them even though post-boss-death is usually a universal breathing time.

i want the game to be difficult, but not frustrating. still appreciate the input though, anon, so thank you.

>>160636639
Sorry, I fucked up my post, I need to proofread before hitting the submit button.
>Since you weren't forced to kill all of them while the boss was alive you SHOULDN'T be forced to kill them after he dies to open the door.
That's what I meant, so yeah, seems we were thinking about the same thing after all.
Again, great work, this is one of my favorites agdg games right now.

>>160636285
That's actually really easy to implement, you're hacking at this the wrong way.

The only thing you need to do is rotate gravity to push you toward the planet center. PlanetPos - YourPos to rotation

lookDirection = Quaternion.FromToRotation(transform.up, (planet - you).normalized) * lookDirection

look rotation is controller by your horizontal mouse input and by this line above, if you apply gravity like velocity += transform.up * -gravity * Time.deltaTime, gravity will always be applied relative to your lookDirection.

then to rotate your actual transform you do the same thing but transform.rotation = Quaternion.FromToRotation() * transform.rotation

>>160636285
Are you using the normal of the point of collision as your rotation and gravity?

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>>160637106
oh, gotcha. yeah, now i see what you mean. i guess that final bat could possibly kill the player. however i did make it so that the bat physically cannot kill you unless you jump into it, and you dont need to kill it anyway. itll just fly away with the rest of them. its still something that requires more consideration on my part though. thanks for bringing that to my attention.

>Again, great work, this is one of my favorites agdg games right now.
d'aaww

>>160637180
although I might add if you have a really really small planet, this solution won't work very well. If your planet is rather sizable you'll have a desired result walking over sharp edges and what not.

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>>160637204

Yes. The (literal) edge case is that when standing on an edge between two faces with different normal directions, aligning to one normal can make the ray collide with the other normal, which then keeps alternating between aligning to the two normals.

Admittedly, with the lerping, the shaking isn't so bad.

>>160637807
>Heroin withdrawal simulator

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Ei guys, how hard it is to make a fun turn based battle system? I'd like to make a game like Child of Light (platformer/RPG).

>>160637912
>hey guys how hard is it to make a thing
very hard

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Check my 17

>>160638042
Aw man!

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Finally got my hex grid working for my tactical cyberpunk game

Need some ideas for unit abilities both passive and active, or any cool ideas for a grid based tactical game in general

Never played Xcom before either. I''m basing my game more on Fire Emblem


Each faction has a warleader and the first one i am working on has a cute android girl with a flat chest whose faction focuses on hacking

Of all 3D genres, which is arguably the easiest to create? Platformers? RTS?

>>160638306
check my 8

>>160638524
check my 5

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>>160637759

Aligning to the center is a good method for the "special" case of a convex planet. But my approach is for arbitrary meshes as gravity normals.

>>160638421
If the regular units something like robots, something could be converting certain units to your side using hacking Lololol style, or possibly something along the lines of disabling ranged units for a turn.

>>160637807
You're using rays to detect collision?

>>160638540
>>160638524
ok check my 8

>>160638421
Go play xcom you shit
You can't make a cyberpunk game while ignoring one of the biggest cyberpunk games for fucks sake
You better have played shadowrun too

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>done with dynamic configurable state machine
>done with battle base mechanics
>time to add more stuff
>.....

What now? I always get stuck at that content part.
Also how do you feel about the Ecclesia left-right battle?

>>160638718
keep going anon!

>>160638428
>RTS
>Easiest in any dimension
RTS is super difficult in every dimension. If you want to produce anything just above of "too shit to downvote", steer clear off RTS.

Easiest definitely walking simulator. Include some half-assed story about lesbian rice farmers in the 1870s and vomit out some generic assets and you'll be rolling in cash and fame.

>>160638718
>dynamic configurable state machine
As in "has its own scripting language so adding new states is easy" or "new states added at runtime"?

tfw you have all of your game systems in place but you can't draw for shit :(

>>160638718
I keep telling you people to just become engine devs and pray to the rng gods your patreon gets noticed.

>>160628183
>daiz in charge of making OP

>>160638962
Time to learn draw

>>160638962
>not hiring an androgynous fuccboi from deviantArt to make your sprites for 50$ per pixel

>>160638561
That's really cool. I think a much higher polygon mesh would make the snapping to different faces less jarring.

This might be oversimplifying it, but what if you kept your downwards ray, but instead of immediately snapping to the rotation beneath you, you lerped to that new direction? If nothing else that would smooth it out.

As for standing ON THE EDGE, what about averaging the normals of 3-4 raycasts below you and slightly offset? Somebody must have said that already. Is there a reason that wouldn't work?

>>160639220
tfw also being a student so can't afford to hire artists

>>160639220
Per pixel in terms of what? A single sprite, animated sprite, a tilesheet?

>>160638962
Tell me about it. Started thinking about protag design and I can't draw for shit. Hopefully I'll be able to make something atleast readble at one point so I can give it to some cute artsy girl and she can turn it into something cool.

I'm thinking about darkbasic to make a game
someone stop me before i hurt meself

>Girl has joined my group

Shit, what do I do?
Is this going to be one of those things where guys start competing for the girl and the whole group just falls apart?

>>160639323
Per pixel as in a single pixel.

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>>160639343
>>160638962
Woops forgot to attach my
shitty WIP

>>160638710
>X-Com
>one of the biggest cyberpunk games
ツ
>You better have played shadowrun too
Those were among the shallowest "tactical" games I've ever played.

>>160639485
>group
That's where you fucked up.

>>160639512
Hopefully those are some CPS2 quality sprites you're paying for.

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>>160629163
By deciding I would make a character that is
un-fapable, and completely not attractive sexually that could be just cute, and fit as a main character in a charming puzzle game.

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>>160638779
Yeah... I think I'll just add random stuff I want for the time being and see how it goes.

>>160638938
A bit of both.
Kind of hard to explain but I've technically removed the dependence between states that you can find in a real state machine.
Right now each state can just exist independently, I just have to either plug-in/out new transitions either by dragging them in edit mode or create a new one at runtime.

Could probably be simplified but since I'm using Unity I've made it so that I can debug everything visually... Actually now that you talk about it I could probably even drag stuff at runtime, though I don't see the point for now.

Don't mind the weird naming and temporary variables, it's for debugging.

>>160639684
I'm actually thinking about quitting because they just keep adding more people. It's becoming more and more like a corporation than just a few friends having some and messing around with stuff.

>>160639767
>timer
>timerr

That's not a good way of naming variables

>Don't mind the weird naming and temporary variables, it's for debugging.

Still...

>>160639767
>States are literal GameObjects

what the fug anon

>>160638653

Yes. See:

>>160636285
>>160635076

As for
>>160639224

>I think a much higher polygon mesh would make the snapping to different faces less jarring.
You're absolutely right, the low poly mesh really amplifies the problem, and I'll make better meshes eventually. But for testing purposes, amplifying the problem seems like the best way to weed out edge cases.

And yes, somebody said all that already, and that's how it's implemented now. But thanks!

Anyway, the wiggling is pretty minimal with the average and the smoothing, so I might just move on to the next headache.

>>160639950
why is that chimera moving backwards?

>>160639920
Joke :
Timer, which is in code [public int timer] is the timer configurable through the editor.
Timerr, which is in code the internal [private m_timer] is the variable doing the count but for some reason Unity just shows [m_Something] as [Something] in the editor so I've added a r to differentiate them for debugging. I'm not going to keep that obviously.

>>160639980
..? I've just explained that they are not. The GameObject equivalent is just here for me to visually see it. Too lazy to make a custom editor for the time being.

>>160638617
Sounds like a great idea and would be simple enough to implement

>>160640275
70's roller skating my dude.

enginedevs, im curious to how you all handle terrain LODs.
personally im using a quadtree of a instanced regular grid with a VTF offset. each patch then has a row in the VTF texture corresponding to its instance id, my current "problem" is that i need to specify different index buffers depending on its neighbors to avoid cracks. how would you go about efficiently assigning these? right now im thinking of using a hash table of the patches morton number and then bit the apple and go from O(1) to O(log n) since the patches at the same level of detail may not exist so the patches of lod - 1 need to be looked up for matches

>>160640405
Well that would certainty make his game 100% better.

>>160628967
I've been a kissless virgin for 24 years. At this point I've just accepted it.

>>160639717
>a character that is un-fapable

Challenge accepted.

>>160639717
Streisand Effect m8.
nice strat for asking for lewd fan art though

How do I make my game highly moddable similar to games like Skyrim.

I need the modding demographic.

>>160641162
You need a solid game for anyone to want to mod it first.

>>160641013
Who the fuck faps to a bunny cube though in all seriousness? Thats like fapping for a brick wall.

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webm show a few things
- new enemies (theyll have better ai to maintain a distance at some point rather than just stand there)
- attacking projectiles
- ducking under projectiles
- reminder that i need to rework how attacking while on stairs works (was one of the first systems i implemented so its due for an update)
- confirms (which has been nagging at me) that the recovery system is not nearly as broken/OP as it was thought to be at first. while it can save your life, if you dont use it right you can still die/lose a ton of health super easy
- rooms that need to be taken a little more slowly (need to be conservative with this so i dont hurt pacing)

>>160629163
i drew and i drew and i drew. the character has gone through a ton of redesigns. at one point he was modern ninja/samurai type of deal with a ball and chain and a staff on his back, but i thought he looked too anime so i looked towards the western theme.

>>160641264
You do realize people and animals as cubes is a fetish right?

>>160641162
Learn how to load external files and scripts
Make as much content for your game as possible that uses these external files
Keep a full set of the files inside the game to use as "default", but use ones the player adds on top or instead of the default ones

>>160641332
>332 ▶
>>>160641264 (You)
>You do realize people and animals as cubes is a fetish right?
More like a meme nobody SERIOUSLY like 100% gets turned on by cubes.

>>160641239
I know. I want to plan ahead though so I don't have to do a lot of refactoring later.

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>>160641289
oh and enemies that have more than 1 hp.
knew i forgot something

>>160641553
0/10 no game

>>160639767
Have you heard of GOAP?
https://github.com/sploreg/goap
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jorkin/goap.html

>>160641406
>what is petrification
>what is inanimate transformation
>what is forniphilia
>who is tile-wanker

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>>160641264

>>160642096
See everyone look at this? Look at how unfappable this is. Who would ejaculate to this?

>>160642096
Is boku dev a girl or boy? Anyway I would do him.

>>160642096
>french cubes
So, metric?

>>160642089
>>who is tile-wanker
I want him to come back and tell us how things have escalated.

>>160642176
>implying this isn't in the upper 80th percentile of deviantArt quality
People have yanked it to the curvature of ceiling lamps.

>>160642187
A girl, I'd fuck her too desu.

>>160641710
No. Looks like I borrowed a bit of the concept though.

>>160642571
Well, the tech is at least a dozen years old. It's not surprising to see people vomit when thinking of large-scale FSM maintainability and getting on the same track as those guys.

>>160642187
A boy I'd fuck his boy pussy up though.

>>160639717
>I would make a character that is un-fapable and completely not attractive sexually
You really understimate how the internet is. Furries are all the proof you need.

At what age did you start gamedeving?

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>>160642812
26

>>160641406
>More like a meme nobody SERIOUSLY like 100% gets turned on by cubes.
How new? Never forget that the tile rapist is an actual human being that posted in 4chan.

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>>160642812
12 using rpg maker, still haven't made anything worth a damn though

>>160642812
13 for programming
16 when i released my first game on app store

>>160642812
16-17
And I'm still a hack who hasn't progressed much.

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>>160628183
Still making interior stuff for my airship.
It's slow stuff, but pretty comfortable.

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New shadows, no more ellipses

>>160642812
I was modding at 13.
But I didn't do real gamedev until I was 22.

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>>160643108

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>>160642812
12, father brough home what he thought was software to create games for little anon the future computer guy, little did he know, it was a curse
it was a DOS program fuck me i'm old all my good years are gone and besides working for some big vidya companies i've never done anything vidyadev related worth mentioning

>>160642812
Dabbled with modding and mapping since 12. Actually making a game took me until I was 18, and I haven't produced anything worth mentioning until today.
But that is bound to change. I hope.

>>160642812
Modding/level designing in in-game level editors since I was 6. Didnt start seriously learning how to gamedev till I was 17 though, and I could never get to the point where I could make a polished product in development till I was 20.

>>160642812
I started hacking games and making mugen characters around 13. Tried to make my own games at 16-17, but not much came out of it. Got into coding and pixel art recently at 25.

>>160643251
Most of your pieces look very good (the table is great), but that ladder is a real mess. It's way too thick

>>160643449
Yeah, I might make the ladder steps thinner. Thanks
Running out of texture space

For your current project, rate the quality/potential of the following given what you have so far and the skills of you (and your group if you have one):

Audio
Graphics
Gameplay

>>160643638
3/10
8/10
0/10
I wish I knew how to cooperate with people.

>>160643638
Audio : 7
Graphics : 8.5
Gameplay : 9

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>>160643638
Graphics: 3/10
Gameplay: 7/10
This is just for me though, not the musicbro and artbro who worked on frost for a bit

>>160643638
2/10
8/10
7/10
I wish I could get better at music.

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>>160643638
Audio: 9/10
Graphics: 5/10
Gameplay: 7/10

my friend has made a killer soundtrack in famitracker for this game. it's easily the best part of the entire thing

neither of us are artists but I think we have done a serviceable job given the theme we're going for

I think the game's kinda fun if you're into this kind of thing. I don't think it'll have a big appeal but whatever

>>160643638
0/10
0/10
9/10

Its just me and I cant make art

>>160643930
how's frost going? the other gb zelda clone I liked died, and I totally forgot about this when you left for pedochan

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I'm pretty disappointed. I spent most of the week trying to get an Amiga 3.X version of my game working and I just can't. It compiles fine, the thing just won't run, saying "bad loadfile hunk". Anyway, I won't focus on that right now - I'm going to shoot for a demo day 12 (whenever that is) demo, so I don't have time to make an Amiga 3.x port.

I made quite a few optimizations, so the speed is a bit better on DOS. Note that sound is OFF. When it's playing MOD music, it is basically unplayable. According to DOSBOX, this would be about how fast it would be if it were a 386 running at 33 MHz (which is still pretty slow, but it's not unplayable).

I also re-worked the back-end so that you can edit a config file to play MOD music (the preferred way), play MIDI music (the not preferred way) or turn sound off alltogether.

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Looking for some constructive criticism. What can I do to improve this piece?

I have an idea for the game I want to make. I know the genre, theme, and some basic gameplay elements.
What do I do next?
With the last few games I've made, the code base was horrible, I think because I just started coding without really having a plan for how the games would work. For this game, I want to make a new engine.
Should I start with the engine? Or should I write the story, design all the levels, work on the art, or do something else first?

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>>160644104
I never left, I just crossposted for a bit, although I haven't posted there in like a year
Frost is going well, on the home stretch now if I can stop adding bosses for fucks sake

>>160644232
1. drums are too loud and obnoxious
2. drums sound unnatural and robotic
3. it doesn't really have much going for it

>>160644230
>DOSdev
my negro
how do you plan to distribute? I've made a great installer for dosbox bundles if you're insterested. It's not as good as, let's say GOG's, but it gets the job done minimal hassle

>>160644294
>on the home stretch now
great to hear

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>>160643930
>Gameplay: 7/10

>>160643638
>Current quality
0/10
0/10
0/10
There's nothing yet playable.
>Potential
2/10
3/10
5/10
I haven't lost faith in myself completely.

>>160644447
>t. no game

>>160644394
>how do you plan to distribute?
I'm not 100% sure, although most people will probably be playing the Windows/Mac/Linux version. I've considered making the DOS version free to download for enthusiasts.

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I'VE GOT A JOB

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>>160643638
>Audio 10/10
>Graphics 10/10
>Gameplay -0/10

>>160644903
What?
And HOW?

>>160644232
you should probably hit the quantize button until you get good at playing whatever it is you're playing
most songs have more than one "line" of notes to them
to keep things simple try taking the first note every bar and and copying it down an octave

thanks for trying tho <3

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Does NES dev count as game dev or engine dev?

>>160644903
Nice! What's your job?

>>160645178
Depends on whether or not you can play it.

>>160644232
Step sequencer / 10

>>160645031
>>160645183
IT'S ENVIRONMENT ARTIST
AT A MAJOR STUDIO

>>160645178
both, once you actually start having a game

>>160645259
have fun anon
make the prettiest fucken rocks the world has ever seen

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>>160645259
Congrats, anon!

>>160645259
Pretty impressive. Although I am under the impression that it's a stressful job, given that MAJOR STUDIOS operate on harsh deadlines. But as long as it makes you happy and pays enough, I'm glad for you.

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>>160645298
>>160645343
>>160645365
WE'RE ALL GONNA MAKE IT LADS

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>>160645259
Wow, congratz anon!
Have fun making ENVIROMENT ART

>>160636285
you could try adding a collusion mesh with rounded edges, sort of bevel down the sharp parts there,

but it would probably be easier to mess with transforms

maybe you can clamp the maximum speed of rotation per frame, and scale to the min(max_rotation, current_rotation)

I'm using Unreal 4. I want to make a loop that will return a true value if any of the contents of the classes in the array have one variable larger than the other. I know I can use an OR gate for this if I had all the elements laid out in the blueprint, but how do I do it when the loop only provides one value at a time?

>>160638561
I like this concept

>>160645443
fuck you, no I won't

>>160643145
looking good man

>>160643251
cant wait to play this,does play within the ship happen with cut away interiors

>>160645630
your wording is a little confusing. are you expecting all values to be the same, and you want to know if one of them is larger than all the others?

you should store the value of the first element in the array and then just compare the others to that.

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Some UI updates and missile tracking.

Going to be doing a major feature/gamemode of the game in the next few weeks/months now that I've got the gameplay loop all fine and dandy.

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>>160645938
>cant wait to play this
Thanks, Anon!
There's no gameplay at all yet, though

>does play within the ship happen with cut away interiors
Yeah, the idea is that you view the outside of the ship when you travel the world map, and whilst traveling you can switch to the interior view at any point to engage with characters you've brought on-board.
When switching to the interior view, a completely different mesh will load, which is supposed to represent a side-view "slice" of the ship. You will be able to walk around on a 3D surface inside the ship, but the camera will be locked to a 2D sidescrolling point of view.

Or, that's the idea, anyway. Still have a lot of work to do.

>>160645950
Nah I'm looking through an array of blueprints. Each has two values. One represents the maximum stack size and the other is the current stack size

I need to see if there's one object that still has a stack size below maximum size and return a boolean value that reflects this as true

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>>160645973
Damn son, that is looking great.

>>160646473
you can return in the middle of a loop. the loop just stops executing. so if you detect one just return true immediately, otherwise return false

>>160646705
Be gone, demon

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>>160642096

>>160645973
>missile misses target
>keeps flying forever
>the fighter has crashed hours ago
>still watching missile approaching sun

>>160646643
Thanks. My brain isn't working right now I guess because I feel like an idiot

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>>160645672

It might be alright, once I get some proper meshes and a proper character controller that doesn't spaz out.

>>160645178
Hey anon! I hope you make it! NES dev is very cool! Just look up all the limitations so you can make certain you're okay with them.

>>160646705
Nope. There are no enginedevs on /agdg/. Not a single one. Why do you need validation anon?

>>160645259
Congrats, anon!
Don't forget to hide an agdg logo or a sord somewhere

>>160628295
As with other things you've written, it depends on the project. 2D or 3D? Action-intensive or not? Big or small? Multi-plat or single?
The answers to those questions will let people point you to an engine or framework, or several of them, which will narrow down the choice of language considerably.

>>160647773
2D
Not very action intensive
Medium sized project
Single plat (PC)

So?

>>160629163
I haven't yet. I'm using something I drew in high school as a placeholder.

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>he uses Windows for his game dev

>>160644287
Any advice?
It may be worth noting that I suck at art, and I can't really afford to hire someone. Either I'll have to convince a friend to help, or spend many years practicing.

>>160644287
ofc you should start with the engine

>>160647832
Is your emphasis on making a game or just experimenting with code and possibly building a portfolio?
If you want to make a game then you'll want to pick an engine. Since you're going 2d Gamemaker Studio is the best option at the moment, although with your background in coding you'll find their custom language incredibly easy.
Grab GMS, check out some tutorials, make pong and snake to get the hang of GMS, then jump into whatever your dream game is

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>>160642089

>that bug that haunts your dreams
What is it?

>>160642812
27, I'm 28 now
I did try to write a chess game in QBASIC when I was like 13 though, and the following year I spent a summer working out on paper how to always win or tie at tic-tac-toe, but I never got around to implementing it

>>160648418
I don't write software with bugs.

>>160642812
Around 10 with Blitz Basic.
never finished a game thouhg

>>160644287
Do you want to make a game or an engine? You can only pick one or the other unless you're some kind of yesdev god (which you're probably not if you're posting here instead of deving)

If you want to make a game, do this:
>write down all the features you want in the game (including menus, saving/loading, player mechanics, etc)
>that list is almost certainly too big so cut everything that's not essential and don't add anymore
>take the core mechanics (what the player will actually do during the game, like jumping, attacking, etc) then try to make that in as short a period as possible, like a week or two, without regard to keeping the code clean. This is called rapid prototyping, and it'll help you realise if your mechanics are shit
>if the mechanics are fun enough, start the code from scratch and keep it clean this time
>every day work on your game.
>literally every day, this isn't a euphemism
>keep a task list for your current day, and keep a list of all the features you've completed
>repeat until game is finished
There, you've made it

>>160648517
So you don't code software, got it

>>160648609
>>every day work on your game.
>>literally every day, this isn't a euphemism
Wrong

take weekends off or something or you'll get burned out. it's better to be eager to get back to working on it than it is to dread working on it. plus cool off time lets your mind solve all the problems rattling around in your head, gym is a good time for this.

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Is it possible to make good games if you don't even like games anymore?

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>>160648418
>player wobbles noticeably sometimes when walking diagonally but not on cardinal directions
>it's do to the pixel perfect snapping, so there's a good chance it won't be fixable

>>160648720
No, I know how to program. I can tell if something will work when I write it. The last time I had a bug that I couldn't explain was years ago.

>>160648750
The fact that most games suck now-a-days is exactly why I want to make a good game.

>>160648807
So you have had bugs, they were just explainable.

>>160647961
I am struggling to keep deving my game before I can define the main character ><

>>160648418
There was one where I would randomly get stuck, and I think once I mysteriously fell through the map. Every few weeks I momentarily freak out that those or something I've forgotten is still hiding in the thousand-plus lines of code I have now and I won't find out until people want their money back.

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>>160646875
Well, it only tracks the missile when you're holding the missile button.

>>160646483
Thanks anon.

>>160648750
m8 i actively hate most games I play, and the games I do like I still have a laundry list of shit I hate about it
you're not a good creator unless you can tear apart existing works

>>160648730
It depends what kind of person you are. If you have an obsessive streak, making game is a great way to let your mind get way too focus for a while every day without ill effects. Well... you need to remember to eat. Obsessives know what I mean.

>>160648854
A bug doesn't haunt you if it's solved instantly.

You're supposed to test your code every few lines. This is pretty easy with Java or Python, but does this mean you're constantly compiling with languages like c++? Or is it IDE/debugger stuff?

>>160649627
Why would you test your code every few lines?

>>160649713
It was explained to me that that was a best practice.

>>160649765
By who? I'm currently getting my java oca cert and never have heard of this

Working on my last track of my game and damn it's getting me emotional.

>>160649627
Compiling doesn't take very long.

>>160649765
as with everything, it depends. but the more experienced you are the more you can write before testing. generally you can take big tasks and split them into subtasks, and test at the completion of subtasks

>>160649939
You aren't using templates, I take it?

>check youtube video analytics
>34 views from somewhere I've never heard of
>average viewing time is twice as long as from every other source
>browse the site until I find the post
thanks, poles. you da real mvps
http://www.forum.acidcave.net/topic.php?TID=729&pid=132257&page=7#132257

>>160648889
That's way better for selecting and seeing weapons.

>>160648609
I have an engine already made, it's probably enough to make my idea with. The problem is that it's using SDL's renderer, which means it's slow and missing a bunch of necessary features. I'm currently learning OpenGL, if I can get it to work I can switch renderers and use all sorts of cool features like lighting, shadows, etc.
Apart from that, the only thing I'm worried about is slopes. I literally cannot even into slope collisions.

>>160650089
I use the STL.

just kys if your game is just a shitty clone of someone else's with a few minor changes

>>160651490
This is literally what I do except I remake the game then just put it on the app store for normie consumption

just kys if you're a nodev

>>160651613
I can't I'm not strong enough

>spend $$$ on an asset in the asset store
>its broken and clearly didn't go through testing on the latest update
h-hooray supporting bedroom programmers

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I think I'm actually the worst dev.
its a tough job, but someone's gotta do it

>>160648903
this
also, do any of you guys get completely de-immersed when playing a game because you can see right through all the design elements?

>>160652213
>tfw i take assets from free places like opengameart and stackoverflow and post them on the unity store
made $500 already lol

>>160652584
Yeah
The autist in me gets furious at how lazy modern devs are, and how I "should" be able to do something in the game

>>160652584
>when u were a kid you were battling a dragon to save your village and protect ur waifu
>now u just see a mesh of vertices being animated around the screen following a set list of transformations

>>160648889
>>160650783
Agree

Fuck, I'm actually considering leaving the group I'm part of.
They don't need me.
All I am is a writer and idea guy
Everyone else seems so well connected except for me

/endblog

>>160653410
Can I have your job?

>>160653410
>All I am is a writer and idea guy
Useless. Just be an artist instead and everyone will need you.

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I'm not sure why this isn't working; I'd like to limit the rotation of an object to a certain range, but this doesn't work at all. Is anyone here good at math?

public static bool PointAt(GameObject obj, Vector3 Target, float MaxTurningSpeed, float minAngle, float maxAngle)
{
float currentAngle = obj.transform.rotation.eulerAngles.z;

Vector3 dir = Target - obj.transform.position;
float desiredAngle = ((Mathf.Atan2(dir.y, dir.x) * Mathf.Rad2Deg) + 270f);
desiredAngle = Mathf.Clamp(desiredAngle, minAngle, maxAngle);
float setAngle = Mathf.MoveTowardsAngle(currentAngle, desiredAngle, MaxTurningSpeed);

float difference = (Math.Max(desiredAngle, setAngle) % 360) - (Math.Min(desiredAngle, setAngle) % 360);

obj.transform.rotation = Quaternion.AngleAxis(setAngle, Vector3.forward);
return difference < 1f;
}

>>160653410
Work harder?

>>160651708
He's football team

>>160652926
yeah, or i become really aware of the few things that I can do in the game. the limitations in options are always really jarring.
>>160652930
all I see are collision triggers when I play a bethesda game

>fix a bug by changing a major component in my engine
>another one pops up in its place

basically my past week tbqh

>>160654228
all I see is horrible animation whenever I play a Bethesda game

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Lol haha heres my ""progress"" hahahaha :^)

Every reply to the above post is a samefag

>>160654464
Can you please delete this? It's sickening...

>>160654490
Even yours?

>>160628183
>shill OP picture
>Construct 2 added to the list of engines
I wonder who is behind this post.

>>160654464
So this.......... Is the power............... Of Construct2.............................

>>160654464
why does garbo like this even exist

>>160654464
Search the archives for this image. See how people REALLY feel about it. :^)

>>160654125
I'm sorry?

>>160653549
sorta drunk but where does the desired angle have a frame of reference?

try printing out desired angle and difference and see if they are what you expect

because an object can't use itself as a reference for an angle difference when you change its own direction, I've always had to use a parent object's rotation as the checker

>last night i decided to not drink for a week to see if i'm addicted or not
>caught myself pouring scotch just now
welp

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>>160645443

>>160629163
i googled similar characters and ripped them off

>>160655195
:O

>tfw someone is making a game in the same niche genre as you are
i hope they die ;_;

>>160655372
What genre?

>>160655372
>oh no someone is making the same cake as me

TWO CAKES NICCA

plus yours might be better

>>160655372
is your genre metroidvania? because you just hoped for a massacre

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>The animation isn't the same in ue4 as it is in Bender
WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN!? Why can't Blender just export correctly for once!?

>>160638561
I guess you could use a spherecast / overlap sphere followed by 2 rayasts.

The overlap/cast will give you an interpolated normal should it hit several faces where the raycasts gives you the actual normals.

Good grounding makes all the difference. You could look up the SuperCharacterController and see how they implemented its the ground probing, i think it solves the issue you're having if i'm not mistaken, although it handles its own collision(no rigidbody).

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i'm not making anything

>>160655587
use the Better Collada Exporter

>>160655587
differences can be caused by:

bones per vertice: UE4 has 4 max, blender lets you do as many as you want
import compression/error: check import settings

what exactly isn't the same though? And are you using fbx or what?

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>>160655114
Right now I'm trying to limit the angle in worldspace, but if the object has a parent object I'll use the localspace instead.

>>160655771
when in doubt use Debug.raycast on every part, and print out all the angle values as well.

and also be advised that using eulerAngles for any calculation can eventually give you gimbal lock issues

>>160655470

2D retro inspired platformer.

>>160655741
Righto I'll give that a look, thanks.
>>160655763
I use fbx and for the most part it's fine and I don't have any errors but when it comes to splines for iks, it's slightly off. Right now I'm trying to see if I can use animation baking to get rid of the spline but have my animation intact.

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hey agdg who made this?

>>160656613
edmund mcmillen

>>160656393
better hope for a shoah then

>>160656613

Literally a better version of no mans sky.

>>160656613
there was a guy in here not too long ago making something with the sprites from that game

>>160656613
a frenchie, did he stop posting?

>>160655482
>wow i just ate this big delicious cake and i am so stuffed i can't even look at another cake, let alone one less shiny and delicious or i'm gonna puke

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Made a special attack that causes "Tinnitus" status effect - player starts hearing high pitched noise that prevents hearing UI and battle sounds.

http://webmshare.com/JerK7

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Any thoughts on this guy's sprite before I continue?

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Progress update for today: Not much, I'm bummed about a college course project so I didn't get very much done.

The player can roll now! When I eventually implement health for the player (and damage), enemies will do a little bit on contact and bump you back so you can't walk through them. But when you roll, you are invincible and don't get bumped back! The rolling animation looks silly right now because I have no idea how to draw my bobble-headed dudes rolling just yet.

Also, right now there are no particle effects; but when I do put some in the player will kick up dust when they're rolling, just so the player knows how long they're invincible for.

>>160657314
Oops, just noticed that I accidentally changed the z-order and now the player is in front of the weapon/shield. I'll fix that.

>>160657314
nice 2d dark souls clone

>tfw you realise you should have done a bunch of subclasses that extend off one instead of thowing it into the one, slowly starting to spaghetti
also its so hot it's hard to concerntrate
>>160657241
reminds me of the fat black guy from hotline miami

>>160657241
Full honestly?
Shading on the arms and legs isn't the best (you're dangerously close to pillow shading), and your choice of shades isn't so great either (harsh outline around the torso, lighting lacks a distinct direction or tint).

But you can always come back to it. Focus on the meat of the programming first.

>>160657241
your outlines are pretty inconsistent in width

the perspective on the shoes makes it look like he's floating above the air

I can't tell where the arms part of the jacket and the body part begins or ends

colorscheme feels dull and desaturated but that might just be this shite monitor

99% of the detail is on his crotch area, just so you know

>>160657057
Speaking of frenchies that stopped posting, I miss watching GodIsACube-dev get attack literally every time he spoke

>>160657580
>>160657597
Thanks. Art is something I really, really struggle with (yet my art style I have in mind requires a lot of it, so I kind of fucked myself) so your feedback is appreciated. I knew something was wrong with it, but it's like the longer I look at what I draw, the more I accept it looks fine to my eyes, even though it doesn't.

>you're dangerously close to pillow shading
You know, I just read about pillow shading a couple hours ago. I thought I was avoiding it, but I guess I fell into the trap anyway.

>99% of the detail is on his crotch area, just so you know
O-oh you're right

>>160657241

His face looks like tfw

>>160657314
Looking good as usual!

>>160657094
yeah, you might not want more cake right afterwards, but if you like cake, you'll want more cake

just make sure you're cake is baked first. failing that, bide your time and make your cake even more delicious while you wait for all the cake eaters to get hungry again. not doing this is why Battleborn failed.

My trail renders show in Scene view but not game view, not being culled, whats up?

>>160657314

You still have yet to fix that weird delay in the slash wave of your sword man

>>160657094
>wow I ate once guess I'm never gonna get hungry ever again and this cake I ate will last me a lifetime

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hi im back more progress in a bit
somebody mentioned something about "how it looks like that fucking papyrus" and im curious what he meant so im reposting my last one
enjoy

>>160658094
white == skeleman
red cape == meme skeleman

>>160657831
think he stopped posting now that his gl came though.

>>160658146
oh the cape
yeah thats pretty much the only thing i changed from the original sprite other than upping the resolution

>>160642812
When I was 9 and discovered The Games Factory.

Me and my friends had already made our own card games (eg. we made our own Pokemon card game clone because real Pokemon cards were just too expensive for us to get any real games going), board games, yard games etc before that though, so creating games had already been a thing at that point.

>>160657972
Thank you.

>>160658028
Yeahhh, sorry, I keep saying I'll do it before I work on the game... and then forgetting. I'll write it down under my 'stuff to do' list so I don't forget.

>>160658224

Other than that I think this is looking good.

I suggest looking into making genuine gameboy tier sound effects, don't you dare just use Bfxr and call it a day.

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>>160642812
23, I'm 25 now
Learned a lot of stuff but still nor good enough to work on my dream games

>>160642812
9. My elementary school had this special afterschool class where they taught you game maker back when it was on version 6 I think.
11 years later and I still haven't done anything worthwhile with it.

Anyways, what's a good way to go about limiting the players ability to move back and forth in the air? I figured changing friction between ground and air might help, but to no avail.

>>160642812
18, i'm 21 now and only made a game and a half

>>160658284
I was thinking about that the other day. I might see about emulating a gameboy to make real gameboy chiptune sounds!

>>160658478

That's the spirit. I wonder if there's documentation or non-garbage tools to make good older vidya sound effects?

>>160657919
He's sad that he's fat.

>>160642812
14 havent made any good games but now im doing a degree in software engineering im 18 now

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>>160658524
Well, what I could do is get a program like LSDJ like so:

http://www.littlesounddj.com/lsd/

Then I could make single-bar "songs" to make noises/sound effects, and make music using it too. It's compatible with gameboy emulators so I wouldn't have to use my own real gameboy unless I wanted to go the crazy extra mile. So it is possible! Thanks for the suggestion anon.

>>160658319
What kind of dream games are yours?

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How do you animate a character holding a two handed weapon in 3D?
For a one handed one, you just parent the weapon to the hand bone, but this can't work for a two handed weapon. Do you just manually move the bone of the second hand to match the position of the weapon?

>>160658745
make hand 2 IK'd to the weapon? I don't do 3d, iunno

>>160658745
In blender, using IK I just add an empty to the weapon's handle and make it the parent of the left hand controller. (While the weapon itself is child of right hand)

I'm sure it's not the proper way, cause my animations end up looking shitty and you still have to do some adjustments, but it's something at least.

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added mp bar

>>160658904
Never make important stat bars on the opposite sides of the screen my dude-man

>>160658798
>>160658859
Yeah I figured it would have something to do with IK. The two times I tried to add arm IK to my models it ended badly so i hoped there would be another way. Off to watch some more tuts.

>>160658939
can i put the score/exp bar on the other side

>>160658724
One is a comfy game kind of like AC
One is an (A)RPG with lots of playable characters
One is a mecha game with lots of customization and online battles

So yeah I'm fucked.