/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

>>161280771
You fuckers always make me almost double post new threads.

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LDJAM soon, fellow devs!

>>161281586
>new website
>have to make another new account
eh, I don't like having to make a new account

>>161281067
What's the theme of the RPG? What kind of combat system are you going to implement?

>>161281586
Yep yep. Going to be my 4th and I'm glad it will be scored unlike that hippie love fest bullshit last time. When there's no scoring you end up with a race for (You)s instead of a competition with metrics of your performance.

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You see that mountain? You can climb it.

>>161282180
>see that tree?
>you can spend thirty seconds holding down a mouse button to collect a trivially important resource from it

>>161281906
That's the spirit

>>161282080
At it's base, it plays roughly like a jrpg more than something like baldur's gate. Classes basically just manage the level to which you can increase certain skills, but multiple classes can share multiple skills. Like all fighters can learn sword fighting, but maybe only Knights can reach the highest levels and archers can only be novice swordfighters.

So what's the deal with Sim Loli? I've only ever heard about it and the creator seems like a creep, but the concept is interesting in a purely fictional context.

If I can't talk about this here, sorry for sounding like a retard.

>>161282180
That's a pretty bitching mountain how'd you make it?

>>161282347
>excelling in one area means players will be forced to make compromises in other areas
yup it's a leveling system

>>161282347
>jrpg
Dropped.

Has anyone tried developing with a Vive in UE4? I just opened up an old project I was working on and my right lense is all fucky. The lower half of it is black and the upper half has black lines drawn along the lines of the lenses. I'm wondering if I have some post-processing effect that's not rendering correctly, but it's been a while since I worked on this.

It works fine in other games and in new UE projects so it's not that the head set is busted, it's just this project. Anyone seen it before?

>>161282328
Pfft, it's only like 5 seconds.
>>161282457
Thanks, it's just heightmap data applied to the terrain.

>>161282446
His game is about raping kids and not everyone can look past that making it feel like you're posting your game next to a pic of someone's dick out or something. Nobody wants to share their work in an environment like that, even if all other people see is a game, which in all fairness was an autism simulator and not really a game anyway.

>>161282446
its a surprisingly detailed simulator type game about a very controversial subject

in the end its a game, and yesdevs are welcome here

>>161282446
someone post link to this

>>161282615
>in the end its a game
in the end its a game
>yesdevs are welcome here
how many years has he been posting that game? he's not going anywhere with it. more like a plebdev.

>>161282446
>If I can't talk about this here
You fucking double nigger, this is 4chan, we BETTER be able to talk about it here or else the numales have won

>>161282750
>>161282593
it also attracts shitposters en masse sadly due to it being argument fuel

>>161282815
hi /pol/

>>161252987
I don't mind if people talk crap about Clarent. It's nice seeing people care enough to discuss the game. Whether or not they say good or bad things has no bearing on our ability to make the game we want to make. :^)

0-3: Stealth with unnecessary puzzle elements with too much scope
4-8: Horror survival rogue-lite in spess with way too much scope
9: Techdev

>>161281607
I'm assuming because we're posting in /agdg/ that we're talking about the single player side of a game, and actually making playstyles that people bring in from other games viable is an important part of that

When I'm talking about Dks1 I'm specifically thinking about the launch experience, when stacking vit and using flash sweat and such was an easy route to cheese the game, and not the PvP variant with pursuers and whatnot

and its not just about nebulous role-playing feel, but about keeping your game from being about some boring detail and focus it on the things you actually want it to be about. I'd actually argue that segregating your builds with a class/skill tree makes it more likely that different builds emerge because they can't all use the same broken thing.

whatcha working on, agg dag?

>>161283598
Learning stuff

>>161283598
Research for
>Horror survival rogue-lite in spess with way too much scope
by watching Event Horizon for the fifth time.

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>>161281586
Here's mine

>>161283598
Writing callback functions that play sound effects at certain points/frames of an animation.

Seems like it could get messy later, but it looks like the most sensible way to handle sound effects at the moment.

>>161283598
Trying to learn how to setup a project correctly and when to use blueprints and c++ in unreal 4

>>161283598
What are YOU working on?

>>161283598
just working on some sprites
also working on getting better at drawing anatomy and and structures

>>161283907
that's a bit easy to do

a bit too easy

>>161283402
>I'd actually argue that segregating your builds with a class/skill tree makes it more likely that different builds emerge because they can't all use the same broken thing.
That argument doesn't make the slightest bit of sense. If people are going to all naturally gravitate towards a particular build in a flexible system, they're just as likely to gravitate towards a particular build in an inflexible system. Creating strict divisions in class in no way prevents people from finding the exploitable class/build/setup, which is once again not a question of the relative merit of either system, but rather of the developer's ability to balance within the confines of those systems. I can name two games with much stricter class systems than PvE Dark Souls (Valdis Story and Dragon's Dogma) which both still have extremely exploitable setups that players who have no taste for variety gravitate towards. Your argument has no legs.

As for "keeping the game from being about some boring detail", that's some subjective vague bullshit I can't begin to address. In any game with builds, flexible point investment or strict class trees or otherwise, players are going to be putting consideration into how they build their character. For a significant portion of RPG players, that is very much the point.

>>161247280
stage 1 is cave and stage 2 is hell. rather than drawn text, the stage names are all subimages of a sprite and are drawn depending on the current stage value. since the test room i have doesnt have a stage value, the ui freaks out a littlea

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>>161283598
Trying to learn how to 3D model. Organic models are still really hard, but I feel like I'm getting better at mechanical things.

>>161284125
Themes aren't really about difficulty though they're for fun, in the end no matter what the theme is the best dev wins, whether the theme is easy or difficult to pull off.

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>>161283598
Making some adjustments to the engine geometry of my space fighter model so that it fits the effect better.

>>161284226
neat design

>>161284386
neat *tachikoma

>>161284208
fuck, meant to reply to
>>161263841

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>>161284226

>>161284683
>every mech and robot must follow my 2016 robot design standards
dude seriously fuck off with that shit

>>161284683
>how to flyingdebris
This is such a great reference image.

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Is this suitable for a basic main character model?

>>161284882
If the camera is topdown and the gameplay is really good

>>161284763
You mean mecha design that has been standard for 20+ years?
It's just a reference guide on how to make generally nice looking mecha, not a "you must follow these designs exactly" guide.

>>161284882
if anything call it a placeholder and continue with the rest of the game

>>161283598
Trying to find where downloaded fonts go in Ubuntu.

>>161284125
i mean that in as like in design not exactly in programming

>>161285125
>It's just a reference guide on how to make generally nice looking mecha, not a "you must follow these designs exactly" guide.
No, its a "you didn't incorporate my 'acceptable mecha features' checklist, so correct yourself by following my guide" guide.

>>161285454
autism.

>>161285454
What is wrong with you

Does having a gf increase or decrease productivity? Right now I am so lonely i nodev out of despair. But I wonder if a gf would actually be any better

>>161285541
Yeah, posting it in response to every single robot that gets posted here is pretty fucking autistic.

>>161285618
It doesn't get posted every time a robot gets posted. You're just being extremely triggered for no reason.

>>161285832
>It doesn't get posted every time a robot gets posted.
It absolutely does.

>>161285601
Feeling lonely makes you more productive than having a gf you have to invest in. Basically you want a gf for the companionship but you have to nurture that so it becomes a hassle.

>>161285601
>Letting a succubus steal your mana

Goodluck not having the energy to dev anymore.

>>161285601
Decrease, big time. I didn't do anything productive for weeks when I was with my last girl.

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I'm happy with this. Looks so much better than my original placeholder. I had to turn off the engine trail because it looked really bad with this new effect and need to figure out a new way to do a trail.

>>161287046
the top of the ship needs a little something to break up the large surface but the backside looks 10/10 especially the area around the jet

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Here, have some of your own medicine.

>>161288228
I hate this style of game. That whole Isaac, Nuclear Throne, etc style.

This may not be the same, but it looks the same.

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>>161288297
Damn dude, this an ignorant-ass post. I don't even know where to begin.

>>161288297
what do you have against A Link To The Past romhacks

>>161288297
There's no permadeath if that's your worry.
Progress is saved as you advance through.

>>161288297
That's just like, your opinion man

>>161284882
How the hell are you going to animate that?

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>>161288128
Yeah. If I think of something, or somebody has any good ideas, I'll throw something on next time I'm messing with the model.

I've been playing with the idea in my head of attaching "packs" to the back of the ship for extra thruster power, weapons, fuel, sensors, etc. The game has absolutely no support for anything like that at all right now, but it's fun to think about.

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Trying to get a Vector graphics with foil screen overlay look.

>>161288842
The horizon line cutting through everything is a little annoying

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>>161288842
Do vector graphics even have scanlines? I don't know if those monitors even work that way. Looks really cool though, anon.

>>161282815
I'm only asking because the dude was banned and I've heard some unsavory things about his behavior.

The game's concept and apparent quality strikes my morbid curiosity but I'm afraid just downloading it will get me put on some list.

>>161288842
if you were really clever you'd find a way to get the vertex glow kinda effect, where the corners of polygons were brighter because of how they were drawn >>161288981

you could definitely get a good aesthetic going

>>161289094
>and I've heard some unsavory things about his behavior.
...Oh golly, some people who object to the treatment of some pixels in a video game told you that the creator was a bad man because reasons. That's certainly something to put some stock in.

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Is it natural for a compeltly dark level to be 50k tris even though if I had a directional light its like 100k-300k tris?

Why does unity lighting use so much performance?

>>161290345
Because unity fucking sucks how many times do I tell you people to stop memeing it.

>>161290345
Unity sucks at optimization, you have to do all the work by yourself.

>>161290345
have you baked occlusion data yet?

lighting in general takes up a ton of performance, which is why most modern engines really lean towards as much baked lighting as possible.

>>161290345
https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/why-does-light-add-verts-and-tris.291872/

Basically, Unity rerenders a triangle per light in scene? or that touches it I think?

But baked lighting and setting static lighting of objects I guess help a bunch.

>>161291137
>From what I understand it's because it has to do another pass for each light.
Holy shit is it 2005?

>>161288128
disagree. It looks like a core booster from Gundam and that's pretty cool.

>>161288787
sky grasper style? Fit a sword to it so it can do fly by ship kills.

>>161290345
Why would having lighting increase number of tris?

>>161291181
unity supports vertex lit, forward, and deferred rendering
what else is there?

>>161285601
Decrease for the first few months. Possibly increase after that.

>>161291395
Forward rendering doesn't mean you have to have a pass per light. There are lots of ways to have multiple lights in a single pass.

>>161291510
that's sorta what deferred is for

in forward, unity has a threshold for lights, after so many it switches to a cheaper estimation
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/RenderTech-ForwardRendering.html

back to >>161290345
if you want a bunch of dynamic lights, use deferred lighting. You should probably just bake your shit though

>>161291510
You can have multiple lights in one scene in Unity with one pass . So you can have different objects each lit by a different light in the same frame with a single pass, but when you want one object lit by multible light sources you need an extra pass per light source.

>>161291980
Yeah, well there's been advancements in forward rendering since Doom 3 came out so it's kind of pathetic that if you want many dynamic lights you have to eat all the drawbacks of deferred.

>>161292078
That's still not acceptable for a modern engine.

>>161292112
unreal 4 uses deferred
they recently shoved in some forward support for VR though

what engine should us modern devs be using?

>>161292204
nothing is more modern than the engine I am developing right now

>>161292204
Well the state of the art is clustered rendering which works both forward and deferred, although I'm not sure why you'd continue using deferred. It's forward rendering, which means MSAA, transparency, etc. yet you can have tons of lights as well. It also works with reflections and portals unlike tiled rendering, and it can be used to accelerate the lighting of volumetrics and particles as well. It's pretty fucking good.

>>161290746
Where's your game retard?

>>161292521
Yea but we're too amateur to implement that, so we gotta take what we got. Unity is also made to support a bunch of different platforms with radically different hardware, so it has to stay somewhat simple and compatible.

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new to pixel art, this is supposed to be a base character for a game I'm working on

do any of you guys have any advice to give me regarding how to make the sideways views of this character?

(ignore the locker, its just a placeholder)

>>161293420
put a dick on it

>>161293420
i love it, reminds me of this fat store clerk

>>161293420
It'sa me Wankio!

Said Wario as he jumped out of his locker naked at an innocent little boy undressing.

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damn, godot is way better than I expected, quite eazy and fun.

I will seriously try to use this.

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- implemented stairs
- redid movement, and ensured rendering still looks good with it
- added proper background support
- made collision detection slightly more verbose and flexible
- fixed many bugs and flaws
- updated documentation for old and new code
- redid player character
- tweaked other visuals

I was inspired to do stairs because of the trouble classicvania-like dev had with them, I didn't think they were going to take me 5 weeks
also I fixed up so many fucking things in my avoidance of actually working on stairs, it's crazy, but it's good in the long run

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I haven't posted gameplay in ages. Here's what I've actually been working on.

Coding a scroll bar.

GMS needs some local menu functions god dammit so I don't need to make my own.

Black number is the actual variable being edited, red number is the y of the red line.

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I was going to make a dragon but then it's foot turned into a warthog thing and well here I am.. I really like the abstract nature of large voxels. It reminds me of Pokemon Red/Blue where you knew the shape of a creature but had to imagine it yourself to a degree. I want to try and tap into that.

I was thinking of naming all of the monsters after European mythology but Hogshi felt like a fitting name for him.

>>161294501
it lacks a snout

I'm working on a networking package for people to use open source once I get it running.

When someone connects, they are assigned an ID by the server.
Should I let that ID be an int for performance, or should I generate a complex string?

I don't see much security issues unless people spoof other players IDs, but even then I can just assign random integers for ids which makes that pretty difficult

>>161294745
I'm going with random integers for now because I only actually need the IDs for UDP messages

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>>161294606
I thought that after I posted, it got a face redesign.

>>161278449
Would hug/10

Should I do it?

https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/landscape-auto-material

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hello agdg

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>>161295239
no

>>161296228
minecraft ripoff?

>>161296441
yes i bought a license from Microsoft

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>>161294953
And we have it's second stage of evolution. It's mohawk became a full mane, it's tusks are larger and it's more pig shaped now. Not sure where to take it's third form, it feels pretty complete as an evolution line and I don't mind having uneven evolution lines (some go to 4, some go to 2)

>>161296441
But is has way better graphics than Minecraft. They actually have shoulders and hands!!!

>>161296441
They are voxels, anon. Even if Minecraft is seemingly the only game with this stlye, it's not a ripoff.

Seriously, I'm also wondering why didn't it become a trend like 2D pixels among indie devs. As far as I know there are even nice voxel editors. Not to mention Skeletal Dance Simulator is a lot of fun.

>>161294501
May I ask what software do you use?

>>161297101
Magicavoxel.

>doing anything other than pixel graphics

Why? You're game is going to scale like shit otherwise

What happened to moxeldev?

>>161297162
Sweet, thanks!

May I ask how animation works with voxels? Is it supposed to be "voxel perfect", or is the voxel equivalent of mixels allowed here?

>>161297025
I've tried voxels and it's surprisingly harder than what you expect.

This is literally making pixel art in 3D, so if you suck at pixel art to begin with there's no way you can hope to make voxels.

>>161297771
you can rotate voxels because they're just 3d objects in a world. they have no correlation to pixels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhuhdw_9Hnk

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>>161294185
Was there a documention/tutorial/video you watched to learn the basics? I'm really struggling with the Godot official docs

>>161297025
the problem is that they look like shit
when its 2d its easy to imagine big blocky pixels as not looking like shit but not so much with 3d

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>>161297771
I'm just learning that, you can use them as just a standard model or render them as sprites basically.

Doom + Power rangers + Zeta Gundam = this abomination.

>>161298347
that is indeed the struggle. Godot documentation suck.

Maybe if I become proficient enough I'll make some tutorials/doc.

Meanwhile the gamefromscratch tutorials and the godot documentation are the only kindofdecentbutnotreally sources.

>>161297971
but the whole point of voxels is using it for performant dynamic collision
you don't get that when rotating them so its just using a shitty art style without the redeemable part of it

>>161298547
3D dot game heroes looks great. You have to embrace the pixel nature and make something that works as a 2D sprite as well as a 3D model.

>>161298783
>3D dot game heroes looks great.
I disagree but since this is preference there isn't much point arguing about it. If they didn't rotate or translate blocks between the voxel grid I could maybe appreciate it but they don't even try that much.

yeah, this guy is on point >>161298783

>>161296228 is doing good, I like that he realised he can't really animate voxels without looking like shit so he separated the arms completely, which allows for nice juice

Dear simloli dev,

DELETE YOUR GAME AND THEN KILL YOURSELF!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>161299062
Ok.

>>161299062
Where's your game?

>use unity
>game works perfectly fine on my machine
>other players will get weird specific errors that only happen to them
>can never replicate them
>have no idea what's going on

were engines a mistake?

>>161299186
Works on your machine.

>>161299253
that's not really helpful though, if it behaves differently in other environments then it fails as an engine

how is a dev suppose to cover every case like that?

>>161299330
by writing their own engine where they actually know how it works under the hood and can track the bug down

>>161299186
no my friend, its Unity that is the mistake

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How is your shilling going?

>>161299186
what game?

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it's so hard to struggle between game dev and crippling chronic depression
Imagine deving while your brains constantly screams "your game looks like shit, you are just wasting you time you massive loser, you will never be happy, enjoy being trapped in this shitty boring 21st century society, you will be miserable for the rest of your life"
what the fuck brain, why can't you be more like a normalfag brain and let me live in blissful ignorance and just let me enjoy the moment
fuck.. this just.. sucks

>>161299456
Twitter keeps asking me for a phone number when I send frog pictures to niggers and then my accounts dead.

I've considered starting a Tumblr to post my progress.

>>161299330
it is pretty hellish to fix those problems but you should start by collecting dxdiags and logs to search for patterns

you can also guess at ways that could go wrong that would cause a bug and try to replicate it on your system artificially and use that to figure out a workaround

>>161299610
if the problem affects less than 1% of the players then it is not worth fixing

>>161299471
take some acid

>>161299682
Depends on how severe it is and what attention it gets. If 1% of your playbase is having their save files deleted randomly then you have to fix it.

>>161299682
i agree, but if its rather a significant amount of players thats how you can go about it
>>161299767
this is a pretty good point though since that could easily panic the rest of the playerbase

>>161288842
how do you do this? how to learn to make nice vector graphics?

>>161299456
how?

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okay senpai, why in the actual fuck is this while loop getting called?
(strcmp returns an int, if that wasn't obvious)

int x = strcmp(cur->key, k);
while( strcmp(cur->key, k) != x);
{
cur = cur->next;
}

>>161300140
spam daily and don't follow anyone to get pity likes

>>161299062
>plenty of gore games
>plenty of shooting games
>plenty of hentai games
>plenty of monster tentacles rape games
>gets triggered by a badly drawn rpgmaker loli in a badly made game

There's tumblr, reddit or any #sjw twitters for you.

>>161299456
not nearly as good but i'm slowly starting to get what seems to be actual followers rather than just bots and follow hoarders

>>161300214
>cur->key
Are you sure you perfectly know what this does?

>>161300214
well for starters you should stop using C

I don't think there's enough information to answer whatever your question was trying to get at

>>161300417
his question is basically why the loop is getting called at all if x is basically equal to the return value of strcmp inside the while loop on the first iteration

i've no answer for this though

>>161300473
>>161300214

wait i actually see your problem
you've added a semicolon after the while line
so the cur = cur->next always executes in its own scope

>joined discordd
>get kicked by a guy named keeps
What the fuck is this shit?

>>161300214
from what I can see, that just means that the strcmp call is returning different things when its called in those two locations

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/cstring/strcmp/

note the values are <0 and >0 as well, possibly undefined?

also semicolon after while line: is that in your code as well? That would cause some issues

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>>161300542
fucking thank you
i've been losing my marbles over this for like an hour and a half hahaha

>>161300551
What did you expect after joining a circlejerking chat moderated by circlejerkers?

I need a dick so badly.

>>161300756
You already have one.

Why aren't you working on an edgy shitty game?

http://store.steampowered.com/app/469820/

>>161300848
I need big black dick. The one that will make a white boy sing when you ram it in.

>>161300862
because i have dignity unlike certain devs.

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>>161288842

idea guy here

if u die in the game u die irl

What will be the next jam? dino jam is not really interesting to me

>>161301161
super idea guy here

if you destroy a building, it get destroyed in real life.

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>>161301161
WOW THAT GIMMICK'S TOTALLY NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE

>>161301234
Who comes up witch such boring jam ideas anyway? I mean only like 11 people entered and we will see 2 games tops that nobody will play. Look at what a huge success the lewd jam was by compariosn. I mean someone even wrote a a short mention about my game from there, that made me feel great.

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>>161301161
>would download the game and purposely die at the first chance I get

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>>161301161
If you die irl do your MMO characters die in game?

>>161301234
winter jam famalam

fucked up my quote

Big cock jam when.
From my brief visit to discordd, they apparently all love dicks so much.

>>161301328
no you cant die irl until you die in the game you fucking imbecile

>>161301310
>Look at what a huge success the lewd jam was by compariosn.
Again?
>not limited to AGDG
>shilled on twitter and other sites
>200+ entries
>35 submissions
>only 5-6 were from AGDG

>success

>>161301363
What about if you die in one game and your characters die in another game?

>>161301363
I broke my gaming pc. Does it mean i will never die?
please someone end my suffering
;_:

>>161301379
It just shows that pure agdg jams are a mistake because they go completely ignored, but collab jams like this are a win for everyone

>>161301446
>collab jams
??

So just join a non-AGDG jam, retard. Just don't pretend you're part of this community.

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>>161301414
no you arent allowed to play other games until you died otherwise it wouldnt work what the fuck retard

>>161301417
dont worry a griefer might kill your character while you are logged off or before you create your account

>>161301379
>>161301485
how are you still so butthurt about a jam? Are you even a dev?

just make games and quit with the secret club bullshit

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>>161301501
if u die in the game ur characters die irl

>>161301501
fuck off smug anime girl. I will tear your ass apart.

>>161301518
I made a game for Lewd Jam, so you can shut up. I jut don't like lies.
>Lewd Jam is an AGDG jam
>it's not
>Lewd Jam was successful
>it wasn't

multiverse idea guy here

a game within a game

>there will never be african-american peanut butter & jam

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what am i even doing anymore

>>161301597
you still haven't defined what makes a jam a "disaster" or "success"

I'd say that any jam that gets at least 1 entry is a success.

>>161301639
Making a really generic but fun looking game.

Remove the screen shake when an enemy dies, it makes it look like a cheap flash game. You can do better.

>>161301659
It only counts as a success if it gets canceled so you can host your own by being the biggest slut in the games industry.

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>>161301618
meta idea guy here

you were playing a game all along

can we do the comfy jam right now

>>161301659
Then Dino Jam is already a success.

In my opinion a Jam is successful if
>many people (from the community) participate
>the participants/submissions ratio is high
A Jam with 10 participants and 2 games is more successful than a Jam with 200 participants and 30 submissions imo.

ASSEMBLY JAM

ONLY GAMES PROGRAMMED ENTIRELY IN X86 ASSEMBLY ALLOWED

>>161301752
Are you going to make a game for it?

>>161301752
You can do it right now and save it for later, it will be our little secret

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>>161301827
git gut

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>>161301827
>writing windows application startup code in assembly
>writing graphics and sound engines and handling input and file systems and calling system C functions from assembly

Pretty sure I'd rather play this guy's game than do that >>161301161

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>200 replies
>37 images
>62 posters

>Ctrl+F+"progress" => 3

not looking good, mates

here's some progress

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>>161299456

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>>161301715
>Remove the screen shake when an enemy dies, it makes it look like a cheap flash game. You can do better.
I haven't played flash games in 10 years so I don't know what they are like these days. What I remember is they lacked gameplay feedback and used silly vector art and tweens. Things changed much?

>>161294198
hey, I remember you
good to see that your PC movements have gotten way less awkward compared the last time I saw your progresss

How do I make an object search for the nearest tree in the room?
I'm still trying to wrap my head around GML.

>>161292291
because you'll never finish it and therefore it will forever remain the engine of the future?

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>>161280771
tfw i will never be this good at making vidya

>>161302597

That's just a cutscene anon

>>161301161
jus like 80's dream movies

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>duplicate an enemy in the scene
>the copy cannot move
>turn off the movement script
>it starts moving
>unity calls the script update when and only when it is disabled

>>161302732
Where the fuck can I find a torrent for Maruko-chan? I can only find the movies. I can't even find the raws anywhere.

>>161302732
>doesn't understand how the tool works
>blames the tool

/thread

>>161302685
>summons arent gameplay anymore

>>161302790
Maybe prefect dark? I'd just go to tsutaya.

>>161302852
I'm sure the functionality doing exactly the opposite of what it normally does and the documentation says it should do is expected behavior.

>>161301752
there is not much point when you end up wwith 5 ewntries and each entry gets like 5 downloads tops, jam games are only good to get yourself some exporsure and agdg dams are getting you pretty much none.
and no jams aren't good for honing skills, you can do that while progressing on your main project

>>161303020
Objectively wrong on all points.

Holy shit i literally just came back with my doge 20 minutes ago and then suddenly i hear a loud bang and there are two crashed cars standing at that very same sidewalk i use to enter out building with my doge
if i wasn't all hyped for going home and getting back to shitposting on agdg and been outside longer with my doge we could by possibly both dead by now
shitposting just saved my life, holy shit

>>161304080
This, or you Doggo tried to kill you by making you go outside with him

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>>161304146
thats racist
a doggo would never do that

>>161304325
this, only cats would do such thing

By what can we replace the old forest and plain to avoid being too cliche?

>>161304642
You are miscroscopit organism standing on a pussy of a qt grill the the trees are her pubes and plains are the shaved parts

>>161304849
That would still look like a forest.
And I need something the is the same width and height than a forest. I basically have the universe and the map, but I want to avoid the "tutorial forest zone" if you see what I mean.
So I'd like to make the first town not being surrounded by a plain, a forest or a desert.

>>161304849
Nice virgin post

>>161288228
Attack system looks pretty neat.

>>161305019
then why don't you go and enjoy nice clean missionary sex with your uggly middle aged wife gramps

>>161304642
A canyon
A movie scenario prop forest which initially looks like a regular forest
Ruins of a castle city
A stadium/arena

>>161305462
The canyon seems like it would fit.
Thank you!

>>161299471
consider this: normalfags don't create anything

>>161305654
Actually, they create lots of mobile and facebook games.

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I tried having this guy chase the player, and so he'll enter the new map with a delay. Eventually, I'll create a graph with all the connected maps in the level for the AI to traverse, but right now, it just goes to whatever map the player is currently on. We'll see.

The only problem is, I found out that I never disabled the functionality for him to change the map that is shown to the player, and his hitbox is so fat that he'll trigger the change map functionality the instant he enters the new room. His hitbox also is so fat, he'll get stuck, too.

>>161288546
There's too few of them, that's what's wrong with them. Zelda3C hasn't had a progress update since 2014. :(

>>161300417
Don't discourage another dev from using C. There aren't enough of us.

>>161302084
Not everybody types out "progress" when they have progress.

>>161305654
i would rather be a happily oblivious normalfag than a depressed redpilled game dev shell of a man

>>161305654
It doesn't matter because that does not affect them. Go ahead and tell a normalfag "you don't create anything!" and watch their reaction, they won't give a shit.

>>161305876
Are you making a rapist evasion simulator? kek

>>161299471
how do you have depression if you're a gamedev
like i dont even
youre wizard tier if you're a yesdev, normies cant even into zip files and you're making computers bend to your will

if you have a problem with self doubt, that is outside vidyadev. Yesdev is objectively a superior state of being, if you still have problems with self esteem it must be from something else

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>>161306489
cannot unsee

I managed to get my little lumberjack to go towards a tree and return to the sawmill. Took me forever since I'm stupid and winging it.

There are a few problems though. I want him to pause at the tree for a few seconds before returning, and if there's more than 1 tree or sawmill, he will go back and forth a few times before zipping off into the void. No idea what could be causing this.

Sorry for the blog.

>>161306707
Pastebin code, obviously

>>161306489
Ew, no. I haven't really come up with the "why" for my game yet though. I don't know why he is chasing the player yet. It's not going to be that though.

>>161306707
what engine?

>>161306825
Never used pastebin before, hope this works http://pastebin.com/cZ45rnfR

>>161306841
Gamemaker

>>161299471
iktf

>>161305964
well, they should
I have a script that makes "ding" sound whenever someone posts progress in this thread so that I am never late for progress posts

>>161306707
Post something visual to turn your blog into a pure progress post.

progress

>>161307045
ding

mental progress

>>161307113
a.k.a shitpost

>>161306707
>I want him to pause at the tree for a few seconds before returning
add a third state automatically changing into I want him to pause at the tree for a few seconds before returning after few seconds (through alarm or a custom variable having -=1 in step event

>>161307190
well fuck, wrong thing pasted
>add a third state automatically changing into stateCurrent.mined after few seconds (through alarm or a custom variable having -=1 in step event

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>>161307037
It makes me incredibly sad after I spent so much time on it and thought it would work.

>>161306958
I've never used GameMaker, but are you sure instance_nearest and instance_place are returning the same instance? It could be that they are returning two different instances, and so it's checking collision on instance A and moving toward instance B.

>>161307025
Looks like you'll have to get creative with your script.

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>>161305261
Had to redo it three times, but I'm finally happy enough with how modular it is to start making enemies and movesets.

But right now I'm taking a little detour through xp system town.

>>161306590
>be a worm
>compare myself to worms better than i
>be a stinky human
>compare myself to humans better than i
>become a god
>still unhappy, compare myself to gods better than myself
it never ends because it's impossible for a normal human to become #1 in anything
it's specially bad when you are only average at the thing you want to do such as game devs and have the works of your betters constantly shoe their throbbing cocks down your mediocre throat

>>161307358
I also wing stuff a lot
what always helps me is deleting that part of the code and redoing it

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progress, fixed the horrible item card bug with items being unusable and passed the magic point of 60 cards in-game, not counting spells and items (pre-alpha had less than half of it)

>>161307025
Make your script "ding" when someone posts a webm. Nobody posts non-progress webms on here.

>>161307514
except
>>161307509

>>161307472
>Looks like you'll have to get creative with your script.
I wish I could - but Dino Jam is breathing on my back

>>161307514
screenshots are also a valuable part of progress

>>161307551
You don't understand what I said. I said: "every webm posted is progress" not "every progress post is a webm"

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Got blocks in that you can push once you get an item that allows you to do so.

>>161299471
then work hard to make it not look like shit?

>>161307601
anyways, my "ding" machine stays as it is for now
sorry in advance for non-dinger progress posters

>>161307481
this is just a test xp gain not real, rite?

>>161307509
don't forget about your cursor, m8

>>161307764
anubisdev, what happened to your sweet-sweet UI?

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>tfw implementing inheritance for the first time

>>161301161
>what is russian roulette?
been there done that

>>161307358
It should not make you sad. It's the programming equivalent of drawing horrible circles and boxes before they resemble something. You are doing good.

What usually helps me is the duck debugging method.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

>>161307824
>don't forget about your cursor, m8
What do you mean?

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>>161307847

>>161302084
LMAO you'll never get anywhere with a UI like that kid, into the shitpile it goes
>>161305876
>nigger protagonist
SJW detected,
>>>/tumblr/
>>161307358
Lmao wtf is this shit nobody wants to play a game with circles and squares lmao looks like shit
>>161307481
Literally a cookie cutter game kill yourself
>>161307509
You literally cannot draw, and you are too lazy to color. Lmao!!!
>>161307764
Fucking furfag yiff in hell!!!!

LOLISIM DEV IF YOU STILL HAVENT KILLED YOURSELF THEN I HAVE A QUESTION: WHY? NOBODY LIKES YOU, NOBODY LIKES YOUR GAME, YOURE A FUCKING DEGENERATE PEDO

>>161307764
Jesus put some underpants on that boy it's indecent

>>161307824
Yeah it's just to check if it's drawing and updating fine.

>>161307880
it looks like vanilla microsoft cursor at the moment

if it has been like that for your entire development process, it is easy to get used to it and in the end forget giving it a new look

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mTkcOlaUUc

>351 days in
>still no gameplay

for what purpose

Bronze Sword, Iron Sword, Steel Sword, Mithril Sword

or

Cracked Sword, Squire's Sword, Knight's Sword, Enchanted Sword

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>>161307824
UI? The stuff from this?

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>>161308001
got it

>>161307962
no need to sperg out m8

>>161308037

Cracked, squire, knight, enchanted.

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>>161308002
It's actually based on Macintosh cursor for that extra 1bit feel

>>161308037
Crunk, Squirtle, Night, Enchantress

>>161308037
Cracked Bronze Sword of the Eagle, Squire's Iron Sword of the Whale, Knight's Steel Sword of the Lion, Enchanted Mithril Sword of Wisdom

>>161308150
prefixes and suffixes will be there, but that's a different thing entirely

>>161307314
I'll keep note of that, I'm going to try to fix this weird AI problem first though, thanks heaps.

>>161307472
To be honest I have no idea, I've tried setting the obj target in instance_place to the inst variable but I don't know if that does anything and doesn't seem to change the interaction.

>>161307493
If I did that I probably wouldn't remember what I did. I have about 15 tabs open on the Gamemaker website on all the different commands and stuff because I'm still learning the language.

>>161307875
Thanks, that made me feel better. I've been trying to do a similar thing with my girlfriend. Helped me a few times while writing up this code but now I'm really stuck haha.


Appreciate the helps guys.

>>161288462

> Wow dude this post sucks and I have reasons to why I think this way
> But I refuse to give them

Discarded.

>>161308080
yea
if I remember correctly, your black jackal version also had that UI a few months back

>>161308112
okay
it triggered me because modern day windows also uses that same cursor in some special circumstances in fullscreen applications with dark background

>>161308004
Those tatistics are so cool

How do I make a game if I cant into art?

>>161308331
make a roguelike

>>161308310
>tatistics
statistics

>>161308369
Would anyone play a roguelike in 2016?

>>161308331
You learn how to art.

>>161308396

No.

>>161308396
Not normal people, but the genre is still doing fine. Cataclysm: DDA, Infra Arcana, Caves of Qud, and Brogue are all relatively 'recent' ASCII-based roguelikes that are doing fairly well. ToME, ADoM, etc. still have decent fanbases.

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>>161308185
Found this neat little feature. Made me laugh when I saw it and then cry. /

>>161308610

Looks like shit.

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>>161308331
>can't into art
Programmer art

>>161308695
It is.

>>161308331

You don't.

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>melee fighting game
>devs use several linetraces/raycasts for weapon collision
>don't use hitboxes

Is there a reason for this? Strictly speaking of UE4 (in which Mordhau and others use traces), why not use collision shapes with Continuous Collision Detection? CCD should handle all issues with precision at higher velocities, and seems a lot more accurate/practical than a lot of traces (especially when the weapon may be a polearm or something similarily complex rather than a sword).

>>161308791

>Why don't people do what I do

>>161308791
Because weapons may move too fast for collisions depending on how fast-paced your game is.

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>>161308331
make a game that is completely composed of UI
pic related

>>161308791
Depending on the speed and precision you want, traces can be perfectly fine. A sword might as well be a line when moving at certain speeds, and you may not really care for each part of a polearm having it's own collision (e.g. you just wanna know if the head of it hit, you don't care if it was the point of the flat).

Not sure why a game like Mordhau uses traces considering it's not that fast all things considered and they do care about what part of the weapon actually hit. That said both systems work fine, but like you said I think collision shapes would be more painless than traces.

>>161308913
CCD takes care of that, or at least should.

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Dumb idea: reverse esport: pick esport game character, then pick the RL "eAthlete" to play as, amusement for hrs

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how do you motivate yourself

>>161309180

By working. Waiting for motivation makes you a cuckold.

>>161309180
Delusion is my tool

What's the best rate at which the exp you need to level up should increase? I haven't started testing things, but for now I'm going with a 1.5 ratio, is it okay?
>lvl 1 to lvl 2 -> 100 exp
>lvl2 to lvl 3 -> 150 exp
>lvl3 to lvl 2 -> 225 exp
Etc.

Is there a general rule of thumb for implementing dialogue systems? More notably I would like to understand how to make it so that the text boxes show the most amount of text without it spilling over (a.k.a how to handle overflow). Do I manually add breaks, where the text needs to be advanced by pressing a button or are these breaks calculated automatically?

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>>161308080
>great looking title screen
>lovely flashyness
>its furshit

into the trash it goes

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>>161308921
(cont)
>>161308331
pic related is what happened to me last time I forgot why I won't make any pixel platformers
left most one is my "art" and other are memes that is spawned

>>161307823
it doesn't work that way
>be crippled
>what the fuck son, just try harder and win the marathon

>>161309437
i think it should really depend on how your game is.

what does leveling up unlock?

>>161309437
I'm really not sure but don't most games make it exponential?

>>161307481
I love how your game looks, keep it up.

>>161309437
depends entirely on what you want your level cap to be at

and it also depends on how your monsters are scaled
but you can scale them both ways - levels after monsters and monsters after levels

but I would personally go for something exponential - which you seem to already have

>>161309534
i actually like the girl pixel art but it does need more work

is that hard man?

>>161309534

What the fuck

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New idea: Level exit only works if you press up at it. Useful to avoid going out of the level accidentaly before you caught more villagers to inflate your score and get those precious 1ups
Y/N?

>>161309090
>CCD takes care of that, or at least should.
Not necessarily.

Have you look at real fast weapon attacks? Most of the time they weapon doesn't even have a middle frame, it just goes from start point to end point in a single frame and the swing effect, lasting for 6-8 frames is the thing giving the illusion of movement.
You can't put a hitbox on that, unless you use a predefined area hitbox in front of the character but you will have to modify it each time you make changes to the animation so it's not really efficient.

>>161309581
Yeah I forgot to mention it. It's an ARPG, for now leveling up will just increase the stats, but I guess in the future it will also unlock new skills and techniques.

>>161309617
>>161309636
Thanks. I really need to think up this kind of stuff before I set up the code.

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I wonder if the two cakes analogy is a total bullshit
>eat delicious cake
>be so full that even thinking about eating the crappy cake makes me sick
>after some time get hungry again
>why eat the ugly cake tho when i can eat the delicious one again or pick another delicious cake
>the bad cake and all of its hopes and dreams eventually spoils and gets thrown out because nobody wants it or cares about it

>>161309697

Fat No. Use a normal interaction button like E or SPACE.

>>161309638
it requires applied autism in a certain direction
and I don't like that direction - I like to apply my autism into other things
so in the end I decided that pixel art is not my thing

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>>161309697
Glad to see you're still working on that little slut game.

Y to answer, I don't really like having to push a button for a direction unlike >>161309754

>>161309754
this

>>161309636
>but I would personally go for something exponential - which you seem to already have
>OP says hes using 1.5 ratio

Either you didn't read his post or are bad at math

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>>161309802

> Create abstract controls
> A good thing

>>161308265
Nah, the Anubis thing never had anything like that. I don't think those shaders are even compiled in the Anubis game.

>>161309790
i can bet you that you will come back to pixel art

>>161309754

Arcade games have exits that have that, you know. You walk into the exit to leave, I don't see what's so confusing about that.

It'd be weirder if you had to approach it and THEN hit a button to leave.

Play more arcade games.

>>161309924

So? He asked for a yes or no. I gave him a no with a reason why.

> You're wrong because [...]

This isn't a wrong or right scenario.

>>161309723
Isn't CCD basically tracing the path of the collision shape between frames though?

>>161309838
>1 = x
>2 = (x * 1,5)
>3 = ((x * 1,5) * 1,5)
>4 = (((x * 1,5) * 1,5) * 1,5)
>5 = ((((x * 1,5) * 1,5) * 1,5) * 1,5)

i am not much of a mathematic pro, but that seems to increase exponentially

>>161309890
i think that by that time I will have a dedicated pixel artist for that

at least I hope

>>161309965
Oh god, I'm the one that looks like an idiot. Sorry about that, I'm not normally up this early .

>>161310045

Glad we agree anon