/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

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How do I low poly

my progress isnt good enough

DROPPED OUT FIRST DAY O SCHOOL

CUZ NIGGAS GOT COCAINE TO MOVE

>>161669630
This is the babby pit bro. There's a reason why it's called amature.

>>161669871
be good at modelling

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I made my first game for Space Jam a few months ago, and after a lot of dicking around I want to make another game. Its gonna be a short platformer, since that seems like the next logical step in terms of complexity.

What should it be about?

>>161669871
>>161670064
>at modelling
at texturing. Low poly is all about texturing.

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so, what do you guys do besides game deving?

college? NEETs?

>>161670201
web deving for college final

>tfw had to drop my gamedev for a 3 weeks now

>>161670135
Square jumps on other squares.

>>161670194
This

Is coding hard to learn?

>>161670201
NEET. The freedom feels good, man.

>>161670393
thenewboston on youtube

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>>161670201
I work retail for minimum wage.

>>161670393
Don't listen to >>161670498, whatever you do.

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getting some tiling set up. im aware it looks horrid right now and the assets are mis matched and just overall bad, but i really wanted to stop seeing F F F F everywhere.

>>161670201
PHP web dev. though I just quit my job and have money in the bank so might just dev full time for a while

>>161670895
fuck off. thenewboston is fine for absolute beginners but make sure to read a book afterward.

>>161671497
No, he's garbage. Go straight to a book.

>>161671276
Nice stolen assets, thief.

>>161671276
You are right, but sprites/tiles alone are looking climatic. Nice.

>>161669965
i also feel strong kinship with dope pushing songs
its pretty much gamedev

>>161671583
yeah, im using castlevania 1 sprites and castlevania 2 tiles as placeholders until i get my own made. thats what i meant by mis matched.

>>161671605
thank you

>>161671660
your """"games"""" = dirt weed

>>161671660
whicha working on googs?

>>161671867
yeah sorry im not into making LSD games. they're just not interesting, whiteboi.

>>161672105
He's in his friend simulator chatroom looking to be coddled. He doesn't actually gamedev.

>>161670201
engineering degree at college

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>>161672105
new government simulator.

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literally all he wants to do is play, guys

>>161670201
gamedev 10-12 hours a day for money

Started sleeping more to compensate and now I'm on an irregular 28 hour rotating schedule rather than 24 hour.

>LSD games

?

>Watch every single movie with May

God I'm so lonely.

>>161672405
Having finally experienced the ultimate game of catch, skeleton returns to the earth at peace.

>>161669871
find rips of models from games on low-end systems, either old or handhelds, and take notes on how they have approached various things

is there a decompiler for gm8

amadeus amadeus
amadeus amadeus
amadeus
oh oh oh oh amadeus
amadeus amadeus
amadeus amadeus
amadeus

>>161672425
another tryhard comeback that made no sense
he's good at that

>>161672725
This post is making fun of us because Mozart made so much at such a young age.

>>161669871
I'm a low-poly artist working right now and I usually explain it to be like this:
Imagine you have paper, scissors, tape, and paint or something.

Imagine cutting out shapes making a little doll figure in 3d and then painting on the details.

It's up to you how far you want to go, and how far you have to go with the shape. You could make 5 boxes (one for head, one for torso, 4 for limbs.) You could make the limbs each actually have 2 boxes (so for joints), you could make another box for hands... etc etc. And then you just attach them all.

So if you want an elbow to be pointy or an inner-elbow to have a flat - if you want fingers to exist, or the implication of a nose, or a curve toward the hips or whatever. You do what you want.

But it'll look super vague and then you paint it to look good! Look at old videogames and try to ignore the textures if you can - notice how cheap the shapes are and how most of the environment is pretty cuboidal most of the time.

Then, turn on the textures (hopefully with nearest texture render modes enabled) and then realize how they accent edges and do their brights and darks. Is it a cartoon like Megaman Legends? Or is it something super detailed like Metroid:Hunters (Metroid hunters looks fantastic by the way if you ever see it up close - the rendering style is pretty perfect for a semi-realistic lowpoly game)

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>>161673207
>You could make 5 boxes (one for head, one for torso, 4 for limbs.)

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>>161669772
guys help. I'm making a game concept with a friend right now and we're discussing ideas and concepts but there's a huge problem.
He thinks the story is the most important part of the game
how do i tell him hes wrong without sounding like a dick?

>>161673304
You can't tell him he's wrong because he's not wrong. It's called an opinion anon. Some people want to make "games" that are all about story. Some people want to make actually good games. You each want different things.

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Am I the only non white gamedev in this general

>>161673271
Okay you /could/. The point is its up to them how they define their own models features - and you start to understand more why certain low poly models ended up the way they did back in the day using this kind of logic. What do you need? What don't you need? You probably need knees and elbows.

You probably don't need lips ever.

>>161673304
be open minded, hear him out all the way.
once he's done ask him where's the fucking game you piece of shit? and then make a game on your own.

>>161673480
How could you tell? Was it the fact that everyone's posting anonymously?

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>>161673480

>>161673513
>>You could make 5 boxes (one for head, one for torso, 4 for limbs.)

>5 boxes
>1 (head) + 1 (torso) + 4 (limbs)
>1 + 1 + 4 = 5
>6 = 5

>>161673691
focusing on the crucial details. you'll go far

>>161673807
i was just making fun of your post as i was skimming past it. you didn't understand my post so i explained.

relax, anon.

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Got mouse support mostly working for the pause menu. On a side note, I think I finally know what I want to do with the accessories, but I'll save that for later. Back to fun things.

>>161672405
Nice, keep it if you weren't planning to do so, it's cool.

How do I make a dedicated server webpage that my game can retrieve/update a list from?

>>161673480
feel free to leave

>>161674178
Thanks! Yeah, I'm gonna keep it. I love little easter eggs so doing this kind of stuff is my jam.

>>161672405
what's up with that stage?
>HELL
>CAVE
>HELL
>CAVE

>>161672405
WHAT A HORRIBLE THREAD TO HAVE PROGRESS

Keep it up.

>>161674438
the ui retrieves the stage number which is a global variable that is set at the first section of every stage. since i jumped right to this section and bypassed it, the ui bug a little.

>>161674528
thank you!

>>161673304

Depends entirely on the game. Story can be pretty important for making your first game stand out if you don't plan on implementing truly unique mechanics.

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>>161669772
Don't forget to vote!

http://poal.me/k7h7ow

>>161671554
I learnt C++ from the new boston. It was shit. But it was what I needed to get started programming and I've now been doing it for years.

Just make sure he isn't your only source of learning. Look at good practices for your language, read books, keep up to date with some kind of community (e.g. cplusplus forums) where you can ask newbie questions and more importantly read other newbie questions.

>>161670393 You'll be fine. It's just going to take a while.

>>161673207
Not him, but thanks for the advice!

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Is there a way to get a variable from an Unreal 4 blueprint by using a string?

See, I gotta set 12 text objects with the name of the items in the player's inventory. I did this before, but to do it I needed to make a branch node for every fucking text object and it got really huge and obnoxious and I'm going to need to expand to 36 once I get stuff to work properly. I was hoping that I could use the text object's basic name with an appended string that uses the index of the inventory items to come out with the name of the right text object

So: "TextObject_0" is formed by appending "TextObject_" with the first index and I want to use that to get the TextObject_0 variable in the blueprint

If there's an even better way to do this that doesn't involve a shitload of branches or a possibly costly search for the variable using nothing but a string, please tell me

>>161672405
I love everything about this.

>just seen the imgur about rotatedev

And to think at start he was just posting that simplistic game about rotating guy and actually made some progress.
Cannot find his Youtube channel nor blog and I think he deleted those, otherwise a guy doing the falseflag would be even more insane.

Is his pic at the top real?
he could be a nice trap

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>>161670201
Software engineering in college. Currently also kinda sorta looking for a job, don't need one too badly but I want experience so I'm responding only to postings that would actually give me experience in what I'm interested in doing even though they are kinda sparse.

>>161675573
Couldn't you just add them to an array and get them like that?

>>161675573
Array.

>Android studios is heavy as fuck
>Eclipse no longer supported for Android development
Wtf am I supposed to do? Android studios lags my entire computer, it's a 4 years old laptop but still...

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Some anon said I should add trails. So I added trails.

>>161670201
So far NEET, I help out father at work sometimes.
I used to be mechatronics student, but mechanics wrecked my ass at second semester

>>161675680
thank you

>>161676213
>>161676127
Oh yeahhhhhhhhh

I shouldn't have looked at my old blueprint before doing this. I should have started fresh

Thanks

>>161670201
I write erotica novels and sell them.

I'm learning deving so I can make a porn game but art is hard.

>>161676378
Link?

>>161676378
whats sales like in erolit?

>>161676378
>somebody actually buys erotic novels where there is lotsa free porn around
You're writing about niche fetishes, aren't you?

Started a new background track, feeling it for a boss maybe. Would love thoughts on it

https://clyp.it/x1t0hjgx

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>>161676681
Well I would buy some if it had cute sneks that didn't have snake heads or end with someone getting eaten alive. Oh and were actually written well

Can you believe that last one is the hardest part?

>>161676813
Sounds good, man.

>>161676485
Used to be on Amazon but when they changed the payment system my stuff became almost worthless so I pulled them, do mostly commision work with the weirder clients now. No site but here is a paste bin of a chapter of greek themed novel: http://pastebin.com/35dyXaSc

>>161676497
Shit, used to be better but amazon killed most of the market. I make money mostly from being willing to do whatever works offered.

>>161676681
Very niche, wrote a story for a guy last week about a dude being turned into a balloon and then sat on and popped while the witch masturbated on top of him/it.

But they pay and I don't care so what the hell. I just wish I could do art, furrys have the big disposable bucks but they don't care about written stuff.

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I'm having a gay old time getting this grapple hook to work

>>161676940
Probably because most people with skill for writing aren't writing erotic fiction about snake ladies.

>>161676940
The well written part?
I believe so.

>>161677134
>Very niche, wrote a story for a guy last week about a dude being turned into a balloon and then sat on and popped while the witch masturbated on top of him/it.

Weeelll... I have seen a Deviantart drawing of mexican being turned into diaper, so I'm not much surprised.


And I thought about learning drawing, too. Furries seem to have crazy amount of free cash.

>>161677134
>dude being turned into a balloon and then sat on and popped while the witch masturbated on top of him/it

Wut

>>161677134
>amazon killing honest hardworking erotica small businesses
monsters. how exactly are they killing it?

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>>161677459
WELL WHY THE FUCK NOT

>>161677459
in japan they are. cant get enough of Lamias.

>>161676095
>simplistic game about rotating guy
He should have finished that before moving onto rotatevania. His constant shitposting and attention whoring could be possibly excused if he had actually made a game. And maybe he would develop the gumption to stick with a project, then rotatevania wouldn't have been dropped. Instead he did everything wrong and blammed danny.

>>161676940
Most of the good writers for snek porn are ERPing. And even then a lot of them still suck.

>>161677780
Through no fault of their own really, most erotica sold there was <10k pieces and some people were gaming the old system they had to get a larger chunk of the amazon prime money for 'views of works' rather than buying them.

When you have amazon prime you can look at a book for free basically and then the author gets paid a bit if you read over x amount, with a 10k novel that's easy as shit to get to and people were gaming the system.

It had to be done but the new system pays you by page your book has when it's been read and erotica is never long so it has hurt the long form erotica people a bit.

My income went from £3k a month to £700 a month, was better for me to pull and go commission since the exclusivity to the reader ups the price.

>>161678127
>His constant shitposting and attention whoring could be possibly excused if he had actually made a game.
didn't work for googum who has at least 2 games behind his belt now

if I posted my progress, iid just get mocked because it's not up to standard

>>161677594
It's an odd but not tottally uncommon fetish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRLQobZZOT0

There are a bunch on youtube since it's not exactly that adult looking.

>>161678273
>2
>not putting 15 quotes around "games"
if you're going to shitpost at least do it right

>>161678273
It might seem that way but in reality there are plenty of anons here who make excuses for gogem mainly because he has actually made games before.

Nobody has ever bothered trying to defend rotate as there's nothing to defend.

>>161678445
there isn't a single word in this post that is not true gugom and you know it

>>161678152
whats stopping you from just selling at a better price?

>>161676940
As someone in the industry you'd be a terribly niche find, most people into human sized snake people are exclusively vore people.

>>161678281
the only people that mock progress are nodev shitposters

cmon and post bro

>>161678445
[increasingly paranoid reaction]
Deep breaths gogem.

Whys Daniel the mothman hate googum so much

>>161676323
It's coming along nicely, anon.

>>161678281
that's hilariously sad considering how low the bar is here

>>161678603
Well they're faggots

Why can't we just hugfug?

>>161678572
The fact that no one really actually BUYS erotica. My novels were £1.99 which is the minimum they can be and still get the 70% cut.

People just pay £30 a month for prime and get as much free erotica as they want instead of paying £30 and only getting 15 erotica.

I can't beat free.

>>161678725
don't act like "the bar" here doesn't vary wildly depending on the mood of the thread and the people who happen to be looking at any given moment

>reee danny
And we're back

>>161676095
link?

The onl person who he hates more than googum is himself it seems, as he always gets so angry when anonymous posts his name...

>>161679014
http://imgur.com/a/3Yl07

>>161674101
>placeholder title actually has some sprites now

i'm ready

>>161677448
man that's pretty aggressive

>>161678838
>which is the minimum they can be and still get the 70% cut.
what does this mean? they'll charge even more than a ridiculous 30% if you go lower?
btw anyone know what these shit digital stores obsession with 30% is?
you could go off-amazon to somewhere more reasonable or like patreon... try to foster a community that actually cares about you as an author. amazon/apple/steam all have the same race to the bottom mentality which is great for them but no one but media factories will be able to live on in the longrun.

>>161679165
>this person is considered a dev
Gross

>>161679548
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""dev""""""""""""""""""""""""""""

how about a circumcision jam

>>161679548
>"""person""""
dannyposters are not human

>>161679548
No he's not
Just lime danny he quit and moved on to shitposting full time :(

>>161679757
ok dannyposter

>>161678721
Thanks!

>>161679490
If you sell for more than £1.99 you get 70% of the money, if it's below you get 40% of the money. They say it's because of the cost to host the files and stuff, if you're cheap you ain't worth hosting.

I have been looking into patreon lately, but also into improving my art skills and maybe getting into some game dev things since I'm already an ok-ish programmer.

Basically I just want to avoid my current group of commissions becoming my patreon people because I don't want to be writing the same ten or so fetishes for the rest of my life.

I'd also really like to make an atelier type game that doesn't have a little girl as the protag, so that's always good motivation.

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>>161680115
>If you sell for more than £1.99 you get 70% of the money, if it's below you get 40% of the money.

>>161679107
without a trip this is guaranteed to happen

>>161680304
Why is it so difficult for you to make sense? Is it something in the water down there?

>>161680115
would just like to point out that even your £700 a month you complained about is probably more than most middling eroge devs get. probably because theres no big userbase stores that will take em. gaming is still the most puritanical medium.

>>161678281
Standard is pretty low here, no worries.
Practically anything will pass.

Unless you made Rage Pig, then people will wonder how the fuck you managed to push that game onto Steam and make money

What's the point of interfaces in Unreal 4?

Can't I just create the function in a blueprint and call it rather than trying to use an interface to link them together?

>>161680478
True but that £700 would not have sustained, it had been steadily dropping and that was just where it evened out for two months. Friends still attempting to make a living in that market had their income just keep going down since then.

Right now I make enough from commissions and they take little enough of my time that it's the perfect time to diversify my talent pool so I don't get royally fucked in the ass should my clients go somewhere else or just stop buying from me.

Games and art are something I'd like to do anyway and if my games never make much money the art hole is a deep and terrible place full of furry bucks.

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Hi m8s, yesterday I downloaded the UE4 and done some of the tutorials at that day, today I started Blender and I never ever had anything to do with modelling before, but with a couple of tutorials I managed to do this prop, and shiet bros it feels so good, I feel like I can create any kind of scenario I want, I can create whatever object, person, or situation I want, I feel like some kind of God or Lain, and the best of all, this is just the begining bois. i know it's pretty shit, but it's just my second day devving with artsy things (I programed a lot more before, but mostly C#, so the biggest difficult will be the jump from this to C++, but hey it's not Assembly).

>>161680864
ride that dev high as long as you can
C++ from C# shouldn't be too bad at all

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Recently I've been working on ways to prevent certain variables from being edited by CheatEngine. This isn't meant to be a end all solution to cheating, just a way to prevent the vast majority of attacks on certain key variables.

Some /agdg/folk think that it's an impossible and stupid thing to even attempt because it'll be cracked in 30 seconds,

So I made this Challenge.
Using CheatEngine, try to edit the displayed text values in the game.
If you are successful, post a picture of your changes and your CheatEngine.
We'll know you're successful if you change the Int or Float to a value that isn't a multiple of 100, or if you change the string from one of the 3 displayed values.
If you aren't successful, say so, I'm interested to see that as well.

Here is the game
>Unity game build: https://mega.nz/#!qJpSEASa!2SW4N6zYxoaB_5ULPfRL3EcZeSdmZu5ulP9A94gp3Ew
And here is the code/implementation of the protected fields (pretty simple)
>Implementations for the Protected variables: http://pastebin.com/zBf5FG54
>Implementation of how the values are set/updated : http://pastebin.com/g55q5z5v
Every update, the text is updated to the stored value (which is stored in those 'ProtectedInt/Float/String' classes).
The functions on the "Control" class are fired via Unity's UI buttons.

Good luck, happy hacking

>>161680807
The simple answer is yes, interfaces don't really allow any extra functionality, but they make things cleaner.

For example I have an 'enemy' interface which all of my different enemy classes implement. It has functions for becoming aggro'd by the player, taking damage etc
This means I can call these indiscriminately without having to check which type of enemy it is first

Knightdev, do you use draw_self(); anywhere in your code? If so how do you get it to play nicely with using surfaces?

>>161681251
Ok, I think I get it now. So if I have three objects: one explodes, one shatters, and one falls over when shot, it lets the player just call the one function while the actors themselves take that and fire off their own reactions without needing to look at what function it's supposed to be doing

Alright thanks. I was just worried there was extra functionality I wasn't aware of

>>161681497
Exactly.

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>>161681179
Thx random anon, I'll dev as much as I can, I have lots of ideas and two cool guys to start working with
One is like the genius programmer who teached me C# before and the other is a cool dude who draws like pretty fking well, so luckily I'm not a 1MA, but right now they are studying rather than deving and I should study too, but I just want to dev, so on breaks I do a little bit

also the image is the same model rendered on blender Cycles, and the missing textures (that I added after this render) are not good at all, but the fact of working with UV was already a good experience.

>>161681497
An interface is a way to make something between different things 'common'

For instance, a List and Array are both Enumerable
This means that you can walk through their elements
While both of them serve different purposes and are built differently, they both have the shared functionality of being Enumerable (the ability to walk through their elements)

If you have a "DoDamage(Character enemy)", you could implement it in different ways for an Ogre than you could a Sand Wurm. Maybe Ogres do 1 hit while Sand Wurms wrap around their target and do hits over time

>>161681497
Well there's a 'Get all actors with interface' node which I guess technically adds functionality.

>>161677448
For the first second I thought that was going to be a hang yourself simulator

>>161681863
YOU COULD ALSO HAVE A MESSAGE CALLED DO_DAMAGE THAT YOU SEND TO ALL OBJECTS AND THE ONES THAT ARE INTERESTED WILL RESPOND

THIS REDUCES COUPLING BUT I DON'T REALLY KNOW HOW

>>161682087
calm down there buddo, I'm just giving examples

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I'm going to add some block colour mountains to my game like in pic related.

Can anyone post examples or guides to help me with the paralax

Thank you

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Did a changelog video based on the feedback people gave me for Demo Day 11.

Mostly addressing combat related things but other fixes/changes will come eventually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ3dQYJsazs

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Little progress:
- main character has now casting animation (and he can cast fireballs)
- player can make single shots with bow or keep on shooting continuously (as some anon suggested me yesteday)
- also did minor upgrades in some sprites and resolved some bugs.

>>161682515
I'm going to miss you when you're a millionaire anon.

>>161683650

don't worry he won't be lol

>>161683723
time will tell

>>161683723
Fuck off blake.

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progress

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

Is exec() the dumbest method of making a game engine possible?

I'm going to implement it so that scene files look something like this:

http://pastebin.com/fBnSz1YR

>>161683723
>>161683650
He could be one right now and we wouldn't know
pls gibe money

>>161680449
what's not to make sense?

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>>161683975
I came

>was going to start on a new platformer
>start looking at escorts on backpage instead
>text a couple and my heart starts racing
>3 hours later the thrill is over and im just sitting here watching tv.

fml

>>161684151
Just because your name was mentioned doesn't mean the post was about you, hard for you to understand I know.

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>>161679165
damn I didn't realise it was that bad.

>>161681250
I couldn't edit the other strings but this one was fine. Are you sure it's protected? Couldn't figure out ints and didn't try floats. That said someone with more experience with memory editors would be able to do that easily with the assembly code.

>>161684404
>>was going to start on a new pla
stopped reading right there

>>161682087
someone has ptsd from earlier on

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>>161683941
I like it.
Make a WW2 game, with tanks and plane battles, with an 80's futuristic art style.

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A professional artist at electronic arts designed these dinner trays. A professional lead designer approved these dinner trays.

>>161683650
Thanks anon.

i wish

>>161684762
What's wrong with them?

And before you complain about them not being space efficient, you should remember that this is a futuristic society that we will never fully understand. Their tech is so advanced it might seem silly or unlikely to us.

>>161684795

how does a one hundred thousandaire sound? I'm sure if you release a polished combat flight game it will reach that level of popularity.

>>161684483
>damn I didn't realise it was that bad.
he became an apocalyptic shitter of a nodev
obsessing about mothdan and being an attentionwhore. he still does
https://boards.fireden.net/vg/search/tripcode/!ROtaTe.Z.Q/

>>161684762
I wish I was a little more surprised.

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>>161684762

>Bioware
>professional

>>161684978
>https://boards.fireden.net/vg/search/tripcode/!ROtaTe.Z.Q/
holy shit

>>161684762
More realistically, a professional artist at electronic arts was given 50 models to make that day. A professional lead designer assumed they were good enough.

if the guy with the UI dino game is around your zipped folder doesn't come with pygame

>>161684915
>having a seven sided main portion that is elongated

And yeah they aren't space efficient. The technology isn't that advanced though in regards to that type of stuff. They look like solid objects that don't fold or anything. Another problem I saw on the ship is that the Bunks weren't being slept in by any of the crew. Any military vessel I can think of has a rotating crew in order to save space. It doesn't make any sense not to even with an AI. Also on the Normandy II the AI doesn't have any control of the navigation or direct ship control because Cerberus doesn't trust AI.

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>>161684978
Dark times to be a potato. Can't believe this is the same person who was working on this

>>161685250
I'm sure they are putting the little brain power they do have into cramming as much virtue signaling into the game as possible

>>161685401
>Can't believe this is the same person who was working on this
much easier to believe when you consider 99% of what's there was made by theonian

Writing this just hurts me on a deep level.

scene1 = "print('Hello World') \nNEXT = scene2"
scene2 = "print('Goodbye World') \nNEXT = scene1"

NEXT = scene1
while True:
exec(NEXT)

>>161685587
The hell am I looking at?

>>161685401
>>161685580
what a waste of beautiful art

>>161685587
You need first class functions and lambdas.

>>161685580
>99% by theonian
Anon....

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>>161679165
>>161684978
you guys realize you can ban tripcodes right?

>>161685401
Was a demo ever released, or was the art ever released? The rest can be recreated quite easily and I bet there are plenty of devs who would love to finish that game.

>>161685862
>i have a boyfriend
>i wish i had a boyfriend :(
>danny danny mothdan danny
>i like drugs
Why would we get rid of such quality bants and gamedev?

>>161685401
i can
if you take a closer look (that is one that lasts longer than 2 nanoseconds), you'll notice that the only thing about this webm that is impressive in any remote way is the spritework
the programming and juice are either botched or in very unfinished state - bars are not animated and just kind of blink when the mana is reduced, the effect of the attack is not lined up properly with the character's shooting animation (the only startup there is is in it - the attacks appear right away as it starts, instead of when they should), skeletons' animations are shakily positioned and shift visibly when sprites change, protagonist suffers the same issue to lesser degree (shifting is exclusively horizontal and one pixel wide) skeleton's falling apart animation is barely stitched together and particles' starting position don't really match the sprites, smoke disappear in a fully linear fashion, skeleton's thrown projectile appears way after the projectile disappears from the animation, doors animate nonstop for no reason, the game utilizes what is iirc default allegro library font (though this particular point is justifiable by the early development state)
i don't think much more can be said about this

tl;dr the coding part is a hackjob

>>161685587
>>161685689
Actually, no lambdas needed.

def scene1():
..print("Hello World")
..return scene2

def scene2():
..print("Goodbye World")
..return scene1

current = scene1
while current != null:
..current = current()

R.I.Potate

>>161685668
>beautiful art
ironic shitposting is still shitposting

>>161685689
>>161686132

I've heard stories about the special layer of hell that is python lambda.

In case you are wondering what i'm doing, my plan is to load external user-created scene files. See this post
>>161684030

Does this actually require lambda? I mean, the prototype here runs.

>>161686218
>ironic shitposting is still shitposting
ironic shitposting is still shitposting

>>161685101
>>161685401
I thought it was someone impersonating him for a long time
Then again I thought the whole tranny thing with him was just a meme too

>>161686271
Unless there's a way to sandbox Python, this is a poor idea. I'm assuming this is for mods and such, yeah? Like, people making scenes and sharing them? Well, simply interpreting arbitrary Python code if you can't sandbox it is incredibly unsafe.

>>161686218
First you shitpost Arikado now Theonian? Where is your game sir?

>>161683975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyfdcoocex8

Friendly reminder that you'll never make progress if you waste time giving attention to attention whores

>>161686443
I am already well aware of the security issues of mods that run arbitrary code.

It's not for modding though. It's a mini game engine. If the game programmer fucks over their own PC with their own code, that's not my problem. If the game programmer puts malicious code in their own game, that's not my problem either.

>>161686706
Then you should just make it a library.

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>>161686041
Excuse me but I don't think you realize how awesome he was for copy pasting those sprites into his game.

Look how amazed we all were with him and what a hero he was.
https://boards.fireden.net/vg/thread/125087160/#125105149

Post #125105149

He was still "king of the enginedevs" back then, that's what we called him. Because he really was the king. Not yet the queen.

>>161686731
I did consider this but I have my reasons for not doing so.

1. Can libraries call functions that have only been defined in the main.py ?

2. Is there a reason to use libraries if I don't need "Scene" files to ever implement their own functions

are you making an rpg

blind rage
-90% hit chance
7x damage per hit

the player thinks that this is garbage but then

(item of) firsthit
your first attack is guaranteed to hit


no need to thank me, you're welcome

>>161686902
>1. Can libraries call functions that have only been defined in the main.py ?
Yes. If it's just like your example (well, my reimplementation), you only need to pass in the first scene function to the engine and the rest will follow.

>2. Is there a reason to use libraries if I don't need "Scene" files to ever implement their own functions
They are functions, though.

>>161686785
>"king of the enginedevs"
He was the one being the loudest about his clunky engine. This door animation will always gets me.

I can think of at least 5 enginedevs that were far better than him by a miles, like the ant dev or even the strategyInJava dev.

Why is dan so angry at rotate :/

>talking bad about me?
>DANNY REEEE
All day everyday.

>>161687164
Yeah he was a phony.

>I can think of at least 5 enginedevs that were far better than him by a miles, like the ant dev or even the strategyInJava dev.

Slipstream too, only because he got far enough to be kickstarted.

>>161686785
i can't really make any accurate judgments from this since while i usually approve of upbeat responses to progress, it looks like these archived posts happened when the whole masquerade was already ongoing and this guy already put on his whole superstar persona even though he's done nothing to earn it

Sorry for say your name I just wanna know :(

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Not really sure what flight model to use. I like the simplicity of Fractured Space and Dreadnought, but I think I need full Newtonian style ala Nexus:TJI or EVE since engagements are relatively small in size.

>>161687018
Ok. I'll experiment with test cases with libraries too. Presumably it looks something like

scene1

print('Hello World')
NEXT = scene2

scene2

print('Goodbye World')
NEXT = scene1

main

import scene1 scene2

NEXT = scene1
while True:
eval(NEXT+'()')

Can I see your re-implementation? Not entirely sure about best methods for running the module when the module names are variable.

----

Also since my code isn't bad enough already, have this real special kind of stupid.

scene1 = "print('Hello World') \nplayscene(scene2)"
scene2 = "print('Goodbye World') \nplayscene(scene1)"

def playscene(scene):
exec(scene)

playscene(scene1)


----

Produces an error message about 1,500 lines long that ends with "RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded" so I definitely won't be running the new scene function inside scenes.

I don't know why he replys to himself on agdg :o

>>161687478
pastebin motherfucker

>>161670194
Man this is so true, anyone trying to get into lowpoly REALLY should work on texturing, that was the hardest part for me, and I'm still trying to better myself

>>161687478
It looks something like this.
>>161686132
The bottom bit would be in the engine (along with other stuff, of course) and when invoking the engine you would tell it to start with a particular scene by somehow passing in a particular function.

You could use generators to good effect here, same way Unity does (though it calls them coroutines).

>>161683975
for a second I thought she was gigantic

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>>161686218
Gogem, your art has and will always be disgusting to look at and a disgrace to the word "art".

In other words, please don't act like a critic for art, because you have no standards by design.

hey can we talk about danny, rotate, and googem some more? because that's why I come to an anonymous board, to discuss people who are known by name

>>161688023
Only one of those people dev... (googum)

How is your game going to advance the medium?

In my game there are no enemies, only friends. And there are no big meany bosses waiting at the end of each level, only Life Coaches, who congratulate you on your success while also advising you on how to proceed with the following level.

>>161688023
>hey can we talk about danny, rotate, and googem some more?
Probably.
We can just wait for another source.jpeg shitposting spree though.
>spam spam spam
>wow danny sure is mad today right everyone? :)

It's never going to stop. False flags forever.

>>161688516
I'm taking non-linear plots to the next level.

Danny thinks you can false flag someone who is anonymoius?!

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>>161688516
It's not. I'm a hack fraud that only copies things that he likes.

>>161688516
if you specifically aim at advancing the medium you will fail at advancing the medium

>>161682515
Holy shit that's impressive!

>>161688516
>advance
I want to go in the opposite direction of that.

>>161672405
This has slowly turned into my favorite agdg game.

>>161687210
>>161687407
>>161687407
>>161687558
>>161688673
What's wrong with you?

for sprites in ue4, is it better to add more vertices to the render geometry to reduce overdrawing transparent areas, or are those extra vertices more costly than drawing those blank pixels?

You're more important than you think you are. Only you can make your game.

>>161685250
That's nothing. What about the people that where stranded for a decade having weapons with thermal clips when the that technology is only a few years old.

>>161689659
With deferred rendering the transparency will always be more expensive. Check out Epic's grass meshes or particle cutouts for example.

>>161689659
My guess would be that it's cheaper to have the same simple geometry for all sprites.

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>>161689439
its comments like these that make it all worth it

>>161686902
After testing I have determined that your first deduction is incorrect.


---scene1.py---

def scene1():
story("Hello World")

---main.py---

def story(string):
print(string)

from scene1 import scene1
scene1()

GameMaker : LÖVE :: Unity : ?

What is the 3D equivalent of LÖVE? What I mean is a game engine that's easy to get started with but encourages a code-driven development process by default (like LÖVE) instead of a designer UI-driven one (like GM:S, Unity).

how did you pick your company name?

>>161691725
I don't even have a game name

>>161691615
XNA/Monogame
Irrlicht
Blitz3d/DarkBasic

They're all kind of outdated now though. WYSIWYG editors have driven out code based engines.

I hate trying to implement networking, why is it so hard

>>161692010
Even in my fantasies where I am a successful, established developer, I am still afraid of netcode.

>>161691840
A modern Blitz3D would be fucking cool.

>>161691615
Unity is the only way to make a game.

>>161692010
because it takes all the nice reliable coding connections inside your game and suddenly shoves it into a narrow, unreliable, several of orders of magnitude slower and less responsive tube.

>>161692321
The best maybe. Not the only.

>>161692010
Networking over websockets is the worst. Are there quality frameworks that handle it yet?

>>161692321
I bet your custom engine is better :^)

>thread shuts down

>>161693571
We're busy yesdevving!
Let's see that progress from the downtime!

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>>161693678
I attempted to make a lowpoly tank based on: >>161669871

Also thanks >>161673207 for the info, I can see how textures are important in low poly. Next I'm going to try texturing this thing.

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>>161693571
I've been putting together a Youtube video of all my recent progress.

>>161693571
Found out my priority queue does not actually have two operating modes, which somehow slipped through testing the queue and never made an appearance until I tried creating a new example project. Feeling like a dumbass.

did weaverdev give up on moth girl?

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UE4 better watch the fuck out, Godot is coming through

>>161695385
Which build are you using and what's the performance?

>>161695504
I didn't make that picture. It was posted by one of the main Godot devs, he's been working on improving the 3D renderer. Including modern rendering stuff like PBR.

https://twitter.com/reduzio/status/804825035210977284

>>161695664
Juan is a fucking beast. I am glad he exists.

My sawmill, warehouse and farm all have the same create code where they're supposed to reduce global.lumber by 50. The warehouse is the only one coming up with an error saying it doesn't know what global.lumber is.

Pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/uvJvjkBt

>>161695664
I'm surprised it didn't have that to begin with

>>161695854
Do you have a warehouse placed from the beginning perhaps? Could be it tries to spawn before that global is set.

>>161696038
Well Godot is pretty old. Something like 10 years old I think. Plus it was mainly focused on mobile, so for that purpose the 3D is has now is already good.

>>161696190
All of the buildings are already placed, I'll try getting rid of them.

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I probably should have asked earlier BEFORE I did this but whatever

Is this REALLY the only way there is to get different buttons in a widget to react only when you mouse on and off of them? It seems so... stupid to need to manually set all these events and I have to do 24 more of these at some point

>>161696306
Buttons have a Hovered section in their style options

>>161696306
Does Blueprint not have arrays?

What site should I use to stream my devving?
Twitch is exclusively gameplay so I think it's out of the question.

>>161696534
How would an array help all the damn events? I mean I could put the buttons in an array but what's the point?

>>161696472
Well shit.

Still doesn't help me when I have to do the clicking events though.

>>161696746
So that you can write the logic once instead of duplicating it over every button?

>>161696703
Twitch.

>>161696746
What do you want, the buttons to magically know what to do when they are clicked?

Welcome to UI design, where everything is fucking gay.

>>161696703
twitch

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>>161691840
>>161692081
I have fond memories of using Dark Basic but even back then I realized that its dialect of Basic kind of sucked. Now I realize it really, really sucked. Same for the "IDE".

On the other hand, Blitz was pretty good. It had a better editor (I think it even had a debugger with breakpoints) and it compiled down to native machine code.

Does anyone here know if Monkey X (the new thing by from Blitz guy) is any good for 3D?

>>161696703
Twitch literally has a gamedev category

>>161696913
>Welcome to UI design, where everything is fucking gay.
I'm really starting to get that impression

I mean even more than I already had from my initial "How the fuck do I get a UI to update" phase and then my "Oh god why is it constantly creating more and more UI objects all the time someone stop this"

>>161696806
>Write
You think too much of me.

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>>161684218
>>161686612
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eshq61iUfjU

Updated it

https://clyp.it/wvg3qtr1

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>>161696913
>Welcome to UI design, where everything is fucking gay.
Now you know why it's gogem's favorite thing

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>>161697792
kek
g1 dogposter

>>161697968
That gradient on the face is triggering me.

>>161697792
>>161697968
fucking lol

>>161697968
Question for googs: Why did you make the main title graphics for your eroge newgrounds game a man with a blushing face instead of tits or ass? Interesting uhh... "design decision".

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just gonna leave this here...

>>161670201
stealin yo girl

Don't bully googum, please, "D"!

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>>161698804
notice the goog's affinity for pink and stripes

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>>161698938
truly a study in the color pink

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>>161699078
it goes on and on this pathos for the color pink
quite fascinating

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>>161699192
aaaand

M___D__...
googum is probably not online!

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>>161698804
now some might say
>surely this is not gogem's work, those hands are drawn well
perhaps you're right

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interesting...

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>>161698804
>>161699493
>now some might say surely this is not gogem's work, those hands are drawn well
Although...

Stop it!
Please danny..
Googum doesn't deserve this..

As if there were people here not knowing about Goog's artstyle and controversial history. You can't drag him down, he's already at the bottom, he has embraced it. And he will forever have my respect for it, no matter how hard you try to defame him.

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VERY interesting...

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>>161699996

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>Tfw posting on /agdg/ for over a month and still have no idea what people are talking about when it comes to tripfags

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>>161700123
he loves his noses

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>>161699996
and finally we can see the classic flash artist outlining which while not exactly a signature is yet another sign that...

>>161700446
About 90% of them are faggotry, with the possible exception of those that only use trips for progress updates.

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>>161700637
...the eroge king...

>>161700446
Don't worry about it. Just keep up the work on your own game anon and make us proud.

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>>161700805
I'm going to retire off the money my first game makes!

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>>161700784
... is among us ...

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the end

Is it too much to expect my first game, if not a piece of shit, and being a sidescroller puzzle/platformer, to make atleast some money on steam?

>>161700637
>>161700784
>those neck shadows

>>161699405
>he attempted to justify the game as 'art'
Makes me laugh everytime.

>>161699405
>>161701594
>he attempted to justify the """game""" as """"""art""""""
fixed

>>161685862
>ban
rip english

>>161701924
Tripcodes can literally be banned. It happened to Zyzz. Not a huge deal since you can just make a new trip but yeah.

>>161701318
It's certainly not out of the realm of possibility if it's really something special, but I wouldn't get your hopes up. Just think of it as a victory if your game reaches an audience and you get feedback. Your next project can feed off that feedback and you can improve to a point where you will start making money.

>>161702207
Those the actual devs for Kirby?

>>161702334
Yeah. Drawings are from memory.

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Implemented forward/backward air dashing. You can only air dash once until you land, but if you land a successful jump kick on something or hug a wall, your air dash count resets.

>>161684483
Thanks, I had an idea that the text was easy.
My guess is the numbers and floats are going to be just as easy since they're stored in the same way

I'm gonna try to crack the int/float and see if I can make it harder

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Put together a video compilation of landing my silly space ship on stuff. This is an indirect recap the most interesting progress I've made over the week. I have enough footage left over to make a whole separate video that's just a recap of the actual changes that have been made, but landing on weird things makes for better video.

Video editing always takes so much longer than I expect.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A54gZF6cKZw

>>161702893
But then I realized I uploaded an older version so whatever.

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>>161669772
a game where the enemies are lolis and shotas.
but your main character and party is just normal characters,

a game that implements ideas that aren't good

>>161703191
define normal shitlord

a hyper-realistic fps

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I finally figured you out marching cubes. Not only that, but I optimized the shit out of of you. Fucking finally

>>161703191
boypussy

>>161703368
white
straight
male

>last post
>30 mins ago
>"boypussy"
cya agdg...

amateur """""""""" """""""""" """"""""""game""""""""""""" """""""""" """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" """"""""""""""""""""""development"""""""""""""""""""
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>>161706170

>>161704091
What are you using it for?

>>161706603
recreate zbrush in unity

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Shill time:
I uploaded a new build:
https://jcs.itch.io/vampires-bit-demo
No new features on it besides having a 4x resolution option, and F12 to take screenshots, since I have been working on optimizing things and getting rid of all the game breaking bugs before adding the new content.

If you still have that bug with the vampire not appearing at all at the start of the level, wait for the timer to be between 50 and 30 seconds and press T to get an error code I need to fix it, since I could never replicate that bug.
Also, if you can check the FPS at any time by pressing F.

>>161704091
Very cool, I'm excited to see further work with it.

>>161706603
Gonna do some sort of mesh deformation shit in a VR game. Just making interesting mechanics right now before I turn it into a game

>>161707183
Thank you!

>>161685216
i am reuploading it with the pygame included, now

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My PC is currently too mediocre to efficiently create a large game in Unreal Engine 4. Would Unity be my next best bet for creating a Open World SURVIVAL ZOMBIES CRAFTING PROCEDURALLY GENERATED game? I don't plan to sell it or anything, just learn how to make one. I'll be upgrading my computer next year anyway, but for now what should I do?


The parts in spoilers aren't serious, but I do want to try open world

I want to create a blog for my gamedev. Any recommendations regarding how to start one and which site to pick as host?

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in spite of already having finished my continue and game over screens, i have just now actually made it so the player can die
truly, i am making progress in a logical order

>>161708354
>My PC is currently too mediocre to efficiently create a large game in Unreal Engine 4. Would Unity be my next best bet for creating a Open World SURVIVAL ZOMBIES CRAFTING PROCEDURALLY GENERATED game? I don't plan to sell it or anything, just learn how to make one. I'll be upgrading my computer next year anyway, but for now what should I do?

Is this your first game? Start smaller.