/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

Post audio progress.
https://clyp.it/hx4htz1f

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeAU0H-ks2A

What music you deving to?

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>>162169770
That, now.

Is there a good way to handle a lives system in a game, or should the idea be dropped completely? I'm aware it's a dated mechanic but it legitimately increased difficulty and made up for easier level design. Can it be improved or is it useless?

>>162169770
NeoTokyo OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=408tWOubRDM

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>>162169770

>70 minutes of comfy nintendo winter music

>>162169770
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfxDIyYU9nM

>>162169852
Just copy the lives system of your favorite game with lives, baka

>>162169852

The real question is: What's the punishment of running out of lives? I think interesting gimmicks can come from running out of lives if the lives system is implemented. Tell me more about your game

>>162169770
Toumei Shelter

>>162169852
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WyalnKQIpg

>>162169852
Lives are just one way to create a punishment to death which can persist between attempts.

If you respawn at a close checkpoint after dying, and keep dying over and over, you can become numb to it.
If you die 4 times and know that on your next death you'll game over and get sent further back, it's motivation.

You can do that with other stuff instead if it makes sense.

>>162169852
>but it legitimately increased difficulty and made up for easier level design.
So compensating for your bad design?

>>162169852
Lives just make a game more annoying to play. It forces you to replay earlier parts of the game just because a later part might be hard.

I like having occasional checkpoints in a level. Shovel Knight and Dark Souls do this well. There's usually a checkpoint after a big difficult challenge, then you move on to the next big challenge. Of course don't have the checkpoints too close. If the player dies they still need to be sent back a ways. Having another punishment for death is good as well, like the dropping of treasure in Shovel Knight.

>>162169770
the horst wessel

>>162165109
For >>162164412 about 9 months. Though it was on 700 dl's before the latest demoday.

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>>162169852
I personally believe that the concept of secret curves and variables handling game difficulty and other aspects are the fuuuture.
>difficulty (number of enemies and environmental hazards) = 1
>more deaths during part x (with a part being an enemy encounter or boss fight) = game difficulty toned down by .1
>winning the shit out of part x while having lost not so many items and health = difficulty rises by .2
>surviving part x with your ass almost getting handed to you on a silver plate = difficulty rises by a lower value between .1 and .2
>after each part, every next part esponentially increments difficulty both to an external value and to a customized one
This is called dynamic difficulty, you've already seen it either like this or in more plain and basic aspects (the chicken hat in MGSV for example).
With the right data collected, a malleable task automatically given to the player for maximum enjoyment and challenge according to their skill level is way better and more satisfying.
Infinite or finite lives by themselves can make games too much of a cakewalk or too frustrating. This is a potential fix.

>>162170419
>It forces you to replay earlier parts of the game just because a later part might be hard.
You mean exactly like areas in Dark Souls? You're the one assuming that he's talking about a system where running out of lives means restarting the entire game, when running out of lives could simply mean restarting a level or segment.

>>162170419
It's only annoying if you're bad

>>162169978

synthwave, it's so bad.

but it's so damn good.

>>162170419
Wtf are you talking about dark souls forces you to replay earlier parts of many sections if you die BECAUSE your saving at checkpoints and have to travel away from them.

>>162171338
Oh that's really good.

>>162171376
How is this better than allowing the player to choose their difficulty level?

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Done with the healing items for the moment.
Mana potions are Syringes
Stamina potions are pills
And health potions are surgical field kits

Maybe going to use this thing as a high tier med kit instead of the regular healing potion, but for the moment I'll probably work on the torch/lamp system.

>fixed op
absolutely based

>>162171914
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFv6KAdQ5SE

>>162169852
I still hold my position that lives and continues are great for level based games, sprinkle some checkpoints through the level for respawning when dying, but when you're out of lives, tough luck, back to the start.

>>162172059
Quality stuff.

>>162168578
>>162163974
Good god, how are you so bad at this?
Also, why are you using those lines, instead of animation cones?

>>162172131
tl;dr

>>162172059
Looks great!
How did you learn to do materials?
Any good tutorial?

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>>162172287

>reading a video

>>162171914
Theoretically:
>adjusts the whole game to a single, universal setting, fit for the player
>makes the experience smoother
>saves the shitty player from throwing his controller through the wall because the game's too hard
>greets the good player with a higher level of challenge than harder modes could've ever done and satisfies him
Pratically:
>saves you time from having to "design" other difficulties
>the first stage can act as an universal litmus test without having the tutorial, judging each player blindly and justly
>doesn't have the shitty player frantically have to restart or constantly change from difficulty x to y in the menus
Cons:
>may take more time to design what's going behind the screen
>>162172059
Looks very good, anon, althought the leather strips holding the objects look too smooth IMHO.

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>>162172131

>>162172487
Dynamic Difficulty is fucking stupid.

I always feel like I'm getting punished for doing well.

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Multiplayer Home Alone

One player sets traps, others try to break in and catch him

>>162172487
I could get behind this if it meant that enemies would up their tactics and learn from what I do. Fuck it if it just gives them more health and makes them hit harder.

>>162173060
How about you take a look at Castledoctrine?

>>162172379
>How did you learn to do materials?

I'm mostly using substance painter these days, smashing together masks and smart materials.
But I guess what it really comes down to is having a defined high poly mesh for the normals (multiresolution with edge crease is often enough for that, don't need any kinds of sculpts - maybe some displacement mapping for detail like in the middle part of the leather) and the rest is pretty much procedural masking via curvature maps.
Substance is particularly good for that, because not only does it all of this relatively fast and automatically, but looking at the maps it bakes it actually becomes clear how to do these things manually, if you really wanted that.

Substance designer (which is actually the more powerful of the two programms) plus its tutorials also give you a lot of information on how to do these things. Most materials are basically just Grunge Maps + a couple of relatively well known image processing filters (blur, histogram etc) and layering techniques (addition, multiplication etc). SD is just a node editing tool to put these things together.

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>>162171376
>punishing the player for doing well
>rewarding the player for doing poorly
>not allowing the player the chance to naturally improve, rather insulting them by forcing them to continue to play through a worse version of the game instead of overcoming a hurdle that would have made the rest of the game more enjoyable for them
>player forced to always perform to spec all the time or watch their gameplay experience be ruined automagically
>implying you can balance "fun" around variable game difficulty correctly while AAA devs are constantly ruining their game designs with Hard mode
Anon I'm sorry but no.

>>162172059
Hi res into low poly + normals into substance painter? Looks good.

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>>162173147
What about that, but not 2D and with mixed reviews

>>162173060
duuude outer kevin lmao

>not spending 7 years on parallax code

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

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>>162173253
A game, where the players can interact with everything. Like Bad Neighbours, but with multiple orders of magnitude greater player freedom.

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VERY exciting animation here.

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When someone Molyneux posts, do you imagine the game is 2D or 3D?

I always go 3D because I usually don't care for making nor playing 2D games.

>>162173610
always 2d because I assume every 3d indie game looks like shit. The worst are the non-stylized indie 3d games.

>>162173610
Whatever Pete posts, I always see Godus.

>>162173610
Depends on the game

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>>162173194

>>162174060
pussy destroyer

>>162174201
he looks more like a ball gargler

>>162173380
That's pretty impressive.

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Made a following illusion effect, but something feels off.

Sorry, was away from the computer.

>>162169986
I feel like that's a cheap cop-out, honestly.

>>162170062
That's a good question. The punishment definitely wouldn't be restarting the whole game like Mario Bros 1. Maybe restart the stage like in the original castlevania? My game takes heavy inspiration from classic castlevania. But I don't want to just copy the system used.

>>162170075
Love me some Mark Brown. I'm pretty sure I've seen this a while ago but I'll definitely rewatch this as he usually has good analysis.

>>162170123
That is a very good point. I think spaced out checkpoints might be a good way to go about it to or have optional checkpoints a la Shovel Knight. That game had a wonderful death system.

>>162170285
No yes, that was just an example even though I'm not good at level design. I just feel like without some sort of punishment, a game could become too easy.

>>162170419
Good points, but I don't think Dark Souls did this will either as if you die before finding a bonfire, you need to retrek and it's even more annoying considering the game's difficulty.

>>162171376
I'm not a fan of dynamic difficulty as it rewards you for playing poorly and punishes for playing well.

>>162172212
I think that's gonna be my way to go, but not going back to the start of the game though. That's just frustrating.

>>162175148
all me

>>162175148
>My game takes heavy inspiration from classic castlevania

Heleton dev? Consider this: Game overing not only sends you back to the beginning of a stage, but takes your subweapon too, you could inflict some sort of other penalty as well if you really want to put the pressure on the player for fucking up, maybe make some monsters stronger or some shit.

>>162175148
If you want to do it that way, you should; it's your game. But the idea that you need to impose limited lives on the player to make the game more difficult instead of actually making your game's intended challenge more difficult is not a good one.

If the mercenary dev is here, I messaged you on reddit about your post plz respond

>>162175005

it might have something to do with the fact that the globes of the eyes are flat instead of spherical

How about a game that rewards you no matter what !

you play bad - you get rewarded

play good ? - rewarded

>>162175319
thank you for all your replies anon

>>162175334
>Heleton dev?
Yep!
Maybe I'll also make them play the stage upside down and backwards if they die too much, and also disable the jump button.

>>162175768
I agree with what you're saying. I'm just not sure how challenging is too challenging, or even how to successfully design legitimately challenging sections without just throwing too much shit at the player and frustrating them. Castlevania was brilliant (outside of medusa head spam) with how it handled difficulty and I'm having a difficult time dissecting it.

>>162176392
thats overwatch

>>162176489

Maybe not take it to such extremes, it could be something simple too, like your Skeleton guy loses his hat and can't upgrade to the bone fist until he gets it back because video games. Something like that.

Then again there's nothing wrong with just simply kicking the player back to the beginning of a stage.

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fresh progress, hot off the press.

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>>162176154
making them spherical made it worse

>>162176789
Maybe the depth is the issue, everything should be flat

>>162176789

make them convex not concave and make the irises concave.

>>162173203
>Hi res into low poly + normals into substance painter?
yep

>>162176670
>>162176489
The way Westerado handled it was pretty good. You have three hats. When you get hit, you lose your hat. If you have no hat left and get hit, you die (respawning at set location with loss of some $). You can buy new hats or shoot a hat off an enemy's head, then picking up that shot hat. This rewards you with extra lives when you show special accuracy and skill.

Of course that and your game's genre have little overlap, but I think it's a good alternative to be inspected.

>>162176758

indiana jones ?

>>162176789
Well for one thing there should be no shading and there should be no dots on the front of them.

>>162176758
risk of rain?

>tfw still no idea how to make a fucking inventory
send help

What's the right way of lumping all collidable static objects (with the player in this case) under a single identifier in Game Maker? Don't want to type if (colliding with a wall or a slope or a blah blah) every single time.

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>>162176559

and yet for some reason i keep getting closer and closer to that silver bracket.

I guess I suck at games.

>>162177310
Technical or design issue?

>>162177310
It's just...like...put the objects in a container man.

>>162176758
Is it just me or is the sprite flipped off-center?

>>162176670
>>162177004
Alright, I think some ideas are finally beginning to flow.
Thank you very much for the insight. Hopefully I'll be able to implement death in a way that isn't just frustrating.

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>>162177171
>>162177026
nah
>>162177460
it's not

>>162177367
Technical, I don't know how to store the reference to the item after it gets picked up and destroyed from the world. Maybe I should not destroy them and just disable them.

>>162177681
Yeah, just disable it.

>>162177348
You have two practical choices: make them solid (broken) or give them all the same parent (which locks you out of this doing this for anything else). Otherwise you can give every single object a custom marker variable like solid but then you're checking every object for collision and you could run into performance issues.

Have fun :)

>>162178846
Yeah, I was specifically trying to avoid using the Solid property. I'll look into Game Maker inheritance then, thanks. Just one thing, I won't have any problems with different collision masks for every child object will I?

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Progress!

Added a new monster, spiders. They are faster and more chaotic. Improved monster script system a bit, it is easier to add monsters now.

Added a stun/slow to monsters you hit.

Bullet trail improvements and a few other things.

Will try to release a demo next week.

>>162179032
No, that's fine.

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Will this LD have a good theme?

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>>162176876
that didn't work
>>162176893
thanks
>>162177120
I don't how to turn off shading

>>162177632
Reminds me of this
https://youtu.be/eRhuy7AECMQ?t=165

>>162175334
>maybe make some monsters stronger or some shit.

I played a fetish game like that, it's very good for the mazo feel

Does someone need a programmer? I'm just trying to get my name on something

>>162179446
>lone programmer in vidya dev
you should probably kill yourself

>>162179446
Sure, but you're gonna be the Florian Himsl and I'm gonna be the Edmund McMillen.

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>>162179527

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post best world stage selection map screens

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>>162179625
no contest

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>>162179625

>>162179590
If you're going to do all the art that's fine with me

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Rate my door.

>>162179798
Looks flat in the in between frame.

>>162179775
>He agreed to be the Florian Himsl.
It's in writing, that makes it a binding contract.

>>162179594
Ignore that guy.
Why not go the placeholder dev route and start putting your own idea together without art?

>>162179896
What is this himsl meme

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>hitlag
feels good man

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>>162179880
How aboot now?

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>>162180536
It still looks like it gets thinner. Also halfway through the rotation it should be taking up more than half of the space. sin(45 degrees) = sqrt(2) which is greater than 1/2.

>>162180427
Love your game

Everytime I watched the webm, I losttrack of the MC when the dogs were flooding out the window. Just something to be aware of

What engine?

>>162180427
what is hitlag?

In Game Maker, is there a way to "draw" collision masks with math, for performance reasons?
I'm scared even a simple collision mask for a slope will cause a huge performance hit.

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>>162180703
thanks, i'll look into recoloring the dogs and consider other tweaks
engine is gm:studio
>>162180837
synonym for hitstop, objects freeze when they get hit and hit something
boomerang was unaffected by it before

>>162181150
>huge
Nah. If you wanted to do it analytically instead of "pixel perfect" it would be for precision and not performance.

>>162180698
It's simulating background tiles which are 8x8 pixels. So it goes from being 1x3 to 2x3 and then 3x3 tiles wide.

>>162181150
I haven't found a wayto draw actual masks, but you can draw collision lines and store the value of anything they collide with. But that's imprecise.

Slopes really shouldn't hurt your game's performance at all, plenty of GM games use them

>>162181253
Well it doesn't look very good. Can you not make the in between frame 3x3 but with the right edge cut off?

>>162181150
You're talking about creating collision masks via code, not debugging existing collision masks, right?

>>162181375
If I filled in the rest of that 8 pixel wide margin with black, sure. Gonna see how the current door looks in-game for now.

>>162181248
Yes, analytically, that's the word I was looking for. Anyway, I believe it will be a huge performance hit when I have 200 entities on screen instead of 2. Just looking for something that scales well.

>>162181260
You mean like invisible lines as platforms? Wouldn't that be calculated for every pixel, defeating the purpose?

>>162181409
Yes, I'm talking about defining collision areas analytically.

I just thought of something. Can I just use a square mask and rotate the sprite sideways in any angle I want? It's kind of a dirty solution but it would get the job done for basic platforms. Of course, this wouldn't work if the mask doesn't rotate along with the sprite.

>>162181693
try these things and benchmark the results

Hey /agdg/ your boy escaped to /vr/ again. Send help. >>>/vr/3665067

>>162181879
>shilling on /vr/
kind of a waste of time, no?

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>>162182236
Probably going for the "retro" angle to make sales before christmas. Anyone got the screencap of him trying to shill his shit game under the guise of sticking it to the steam reviews changes?

>>162182236
/vr/ is easier to bait because you need to hit a certain sweetspot on /v/ to reach any higher amount of posts otherwise your thread will die in minutes
on /vr/ it will sit in the catalog for at least a full day

>>162181813
Eh right now I'm pretty new to GM and am just trying to get a basic game going, but if I ever go deeper into that, I'll let you guys know.

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Hey, 3D engine devs, in what format do you store your models?

I see that collada is the most recommended, but as I know most of you use your own formats or IQM.

>>162182409
A straight binary dump that I can load directly into VRAM. Collada et al. shouldn't be used for distribution, only internally. It's like shipping a .psd instead of a .png.

>>162182563
I'll take a big straight binary dump on you anon ;)

>>162182563
Same goes for animation information, bones etc. I assume. Right?

>>162179038
that actually looks kinda fun

>>162182409
FBX sometimes OBJ. And of course I always keep the Maya / Blender scence file just in case.

>>162182689
That's a little different because you're doing some calculations first. Store it in whatever format makes most sense for how it will be used. Even textures are ideally DDS so they can be used directly even when they're compressed. Small sound bites might benefit from being straight PCM data.

It's different for e.g. streaming audio and FMV but those are exceptions.

>>162179446
This guy needs a programmer:

http://edenbluethegame.com/Contact.html

>>162182409
FBX from blender to unity

>>162182860
>engine dev
>FBX
Really?

>>162183059
>engine dev
>Unity

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>>162181879
also
>shopped the reviews

you wouldnt get "overwhelmingly positive" with only 20 reviews, it would only be "mostly positive"

>>162183087
You just be happy it's not OGEX.

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>>162183087
whoops

ive been eating lots of garbage i feel off, sorry anon

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>>162183010
Someone using this as a headline is not someone with whom I would associate.

>>162183236
Why subject yourself to it?

>>162183453
well, now we're getting picky

>>162182904
>>162182860
Thanks for the tips!

>>162183010
>>162183685
The guy's you, isn't it.

>>162179446
I could be looking for a programmer, got a discord so we can chat?

>>162183939
KurtDee#5580

>>162183771
no. but I know that this guy is looking for one.
I have a full time job and not enough time for this.

>>162184056
sure you do. You keep posting, you clearly have the time.

>>162184105
do you know how easy it is to shitpost at work?

>>162184056
You are either a liar or a nodev. Both do not have my pity.

dan. ashley.

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grappling hooks are easier to make than i thought.

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>>162184620
>not a new IP

>>162184814
There's a reason that a lot of beginners working on platformers include grappling hooks.

>>162184814
>freezes in mid-air

>>162184814
Is it supposed to stop in mid-air?

>>162184215
the point is, you shouldn't be shitposting at all

if you posted progress while at work, THEN I'd be impressed

>>162184814
freezing in midair is easier than i thought

>>162184992

What if we want to include them because they're fucking cool

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>>162184882
yes it is??

>>162185365
They're not cool if you don't conserve momentum and swing around them.

>>162185365
Then implement it correctly.

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>>162185381
>trip or name = IP

would you put this in your game?
https://instaud.io/EwX

>>162185426
>>162185436

I ain't that guy, but yeah, I'd implement a swinging grappling hook.

Or just go full Zelda and make a hookshot.

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>>162182369
here you go brotha

>>162185381
I forgot to refresh the page after enabling it again today.

>>162184814
Look for Worms ninja rope and ignore the medical images

>>162185695
how about I just google "tapeworm" and be done with it?

>>162185548
That's nice, I'd probably use it if I was making a shooter with humor bits (since it has this funky-ish flavor).

>>162185548
The composition is good but it doesn't sound good.

>>162185842
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-SYkQkTO-k

>>162186136
p-purely coincedental!

>>162185941
that's because it's almost entirely stock MIDI, except the battletoads guitars of course

>>162185814
thanks <3

>>162185565
lol

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>>162185267
>>162185096
>>162185054
happy?

>>162187871
That's pretty good.

>>162187871
Until the next thing

>>162187871
yes its a genuine improvement. no need to be butt strafed

>>162187871
hey nice

>>162180427
Looks like frame drops.

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>>162187871
*steps out of the shadows slowly clapping* Heh.. Well done kiddo.. However.. nah I'm just kidding, looks fine now.

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>>162187871

Your guy looks really silly when he clings to the wall.

>>162188834
lmfao! its the second frame from the roll animation re-purposed

>>162188524
focus on the objects further away from the boomerang then

>>162181225
Are you using the 3D functions?

>>162189091
>here's this new visual effect
>but don't look at it

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>>162189598
yes, i avoid default primitives like blocks though
>>162189972
you got me, i thought he was talking about the webm overall

I'm making a sort of zombie apocalypse survival game.
But it feels like I'm just implementing stuff without any goal in mind.
What is the bare minimum of planning that I need to do to make this game a success?
I've made like 16 tasks, and I've done like 10 already.
I add tasks as I think about them.

sometimes I think it would be great to have 100s of tasks, and a clear goal of "playable build", "beta", "release candidate" with the features required for it.

but I don't even know what I will end up implementing or not

>>162190284
propulsion via selfie stick?

I wish my phone had that good of zoom

>>162190950
>zombie apocalypse survival game
>this game
>a success
Finish it 5 years ago.

>>162190950
Figure out what features are necessary for your game to be "a complete game", and do those first.

I have a "player" script in unity, attached to a character. I want to drive a car. How do I change the player to be in a car, and have like a car behaviour instead?

>>162191156

I guess I should stop adding features and focus on some sort of planning.

>>162191171
attach a car control script to the car

disable player controls, enable car controls

you can parent the player to the car seat, and the car controls should probably edit the camera controls/zoom

>>162191171

Have a bool ifDirectlyControlled and put it in front of your player controls.

Have a bool, ifEntityInCar and ifEntityIsPlayer for the car controls

Hey guys, are there any actual artfags in this thread?

A hypothetical question for you.
If someone with a lot of code progress asked you to do art for his game, would you?
Yes/No/When yes/When no.

>>162191794
theonian is always looking for someone to work with it. Not sure about anyone else.

>>162191957
The fuck happened here, i left this thread for 2 months and everyone knows each other?
Back in my days, namefagging wasn't cool

>>162191441
>>162191398

ok, I come from a UE background and they have character controllers, pawns, and a lot of shit.
So I was wondering if there was something like that in Unity, but I guess I can just roll my own like that. Thanks

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AND IM BACK TO SAVE THE DAY, got my monitor back from the mechanic yesterday, so i went one week whitout working on my game
at least i saw a shit ton of bad anime while i was on "vacation"

I did some shit yestarday, but it was only some new perks so i decided not to post it here.
Today however. I"VE FINALY MADE IT. a bazooka that shots a water ball that sticks to the player

One of my earliest ideas from guns in my game. never actualy had idea how to make it, but today i had a epiphany to just make a pool with the format of a ball

>>162192107
I follow his tumblr of course I know his name

>>162192107
>Back in my days, namefagging wasn't cool
Yeah but theonian has a bretty cool style and kept getting screwed over by programmers that ditched them. Plus one of them was Rotate, so you know.

>>162192107
do you also avoid names when working with people?

>>162192107
I don't know how was it "back then", but if someone is as based as he is, and hangs around for more than half a year, yes, you'll remember his name eventually.

But if he would have a game going on, he would probably be called XY-dev like most /agdg/ers.

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>>162192240

>>162192972
you don't? i can't even remember the name of people irl

>>162192240
Why does water stick to people in this world?
Why do they need sunglasses in the dark?
Why doesn't the bazooka take any knockback?

>>162192107
I wanted to dogpile on in making sure you know your post was bad.

>>162192107
They're one of the few people that we let get away with it

We even let him shill his patreon here without jumping down his throat, its really weird. Compare it to god-is-a-cube-dev who gets attacked literally every time he posts

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>rotating a 2D vector by 180 degrees or PI radians does not invert it
What am I getting wrong here?

>>162191794
depends

2D is automatic disqualification

>>162192972
who said i work with people?
i do
>>162193051
back then was two months ago i'm new to this board, still can't make up my mind if i should or shouldn't start coding
>>162193268
way to go man

>>162192107
but marmo xenon googum joeinky honk vine ng rotate

>>162193320
>corey_hart.mp3

>>162193425
post code

>>162193451
oh
oh....
oooooh.......
i'm fucked for life then

>>162192107
oh and hopoo

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>>162193240
Thanks.

>>162193320
>Why does water stick to people in this world?
Water normaly sticks to people in the real world
that is a weapon that shoots a water ball, like it was in space, the ball sticks to players to drown then.

>Why do they need sunglasses in the dark?
Because they look cool

>Why doesn't the bazooka take any knockback?
Because there isnt any gunpowder explosion in a water based gun?

>>162191794
Depends on how much money is being offered.

>>162193660
Kuroyukihime is CUTE

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>>162193774
Lewd face hime is best hime

>>162193663
like, literally 0
50% of salary if we like just make game man

>>162193902
50% of 'salary' doesn't mean anything. If you meant royalties, you don't need to correct yourself; it's literally 0.

At that point it depends on how strong I felt your project was, how much work/time it'd take to get it to sell, and how much it'd sell.

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>>162193605
>>162193425
Yes, that if statement does get called. Both prints show the same and the effects of the vector are the same as well. I also tried 180 and deg2rad(180).

>>162194281
sooooo it's possible?

>>162194324
Are you sure .rotated() sets the new value into the variable? Or just returns a new one that reflects the new value?

Has the shitstorm subsided?

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>>162194410

>>162194410
Possible. Note that '0.001%' is still "possible".

>>162194324
try printing out offset.rotated(PI)

rotated might not actually change offset

or try offset = offset.rotated(PI)

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>>162194512
>>162194702

Fuck.

Yeah, you're right. Feeling very retarded right now.

>>162194786
code is like that sometimes

you just needed to print more stuff out lolz

>>162194324
>>162194786
>expecting "rotated" to mutate the object
I could understand if it was called "rotate", but...

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>>162194983
heyoo!

>>162194983
The 'Vector2' in the documentation actually denotes the return type. I didn't even notice while making the screenshots. In the heat of the moment I just let myself get confused by 'Rotates the vector by "phi" radians.'

>>162194983
to be fair, the function description says "rotates the vector" rather than the less ambiguous "returns a rotated vector", even if the return type is there

>>162191794
If the game was actually fun and i got something out of it, yes

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>>162194410
Mind that part of what'd hamper my desire to jump aboard your project is that I've got a project of my own that I'm going to be launching hopefully inside a month or two.

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>java

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Doors seem to work alright.

>tfw want to look for a coderbro to help me make my game since I'm bad at programming
>know for sure that he would do something in a way I don't like and we'd end up fighting over it
Help me

>>162196658
cute bees

>>162196686
You will never become FTL devs if you don't take the risk.

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oops

>>162196658
why does he look sexually pleased from having low health?

>>162196773
Emergent gaemplae.

>>162196869
Because it's a furry porn game.

>>162196773
>Be outsmarted by your enemies!

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>>162196773

>watch the panther jump off your head
>assume that's the weird thing
>"Well that wasn't so ba-"
>BAT SINE WAVE

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>tfw I submitted an issue that helped make GLFW better

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>>162197225

>>162197282
>vulkan using opengl
wat

>>162197440
http://www.glfw.org/docs/latest/vulkan_guide.html

>>162169770
pretty good choice anon

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nergh

>>162197565
JoJo reference?

>>162175148
Lives system sucks. Stop.

>>162197290
>quantum stage

>>162197934
Did you remove the pointer?

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Last week I started a new project.
I used a lot of things from my previous game, so the development has been pretty easy and quick.

What I have implemented so far:
-Character movement
-Particles
-Pretty much all menus the game will have
-Save system with multiple files
-Gamepad support
-Basic obstacle

Is it possible to write custom shaders in bledner?

What is the absolute worst engine?

Is it possible to write?

>>162198209
Torpedo AI dev right? Looks good and juicy.
It's a shame that people on steam didn't give your game the appreciation it deserves.

>>162197282
Wow, that's nice. What did you submit?

>>162198419
It wasn't a pull request but rather an issue with the documentation that led to some clarification.

>>162198265
Mine

Is it possible to die?

>>162198265
The one that's not built to handle your sort of game.

>>162197565
what game
there are surprisingly few P&Cs in agdg

>>162198543
Make a game with the primary goal of it becoming an esport, you'll see what death truly means.

>>162198572
>there are surprisingly few P&Cs in agdg
'cause they're rightfully met with apathy and antipathy

>>162198251
Once I followed
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GLSL_Programming/Blender/Minimal_Shader
I didn't like it because I had to run the game engine to see it

>>162198131
Yes

>>162197247
>bats
I thought at first it's some flying worm or something.

>>162198628
I'mma make the next StarCraft.

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>>162198265
i know there are worse but this one was pretty awful

>>162198720
How come? Though I actually never understood what it was for.

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>>162198773

>>162198572
i made a shitty game about a ghost
then i got an artfriend
i'm making a game about a ghost again

Ghost Train was a good demo

Will I eventually get faster at making 3D?
Right now it feels like every model takes forever to make, UV, and texture. And it takes even longer if I have to rig and animate it.
Then I think of all the models I'll need for my game and it seems like it will be impossible.

>>162199362
>how do i get better at something?
No one knows

>>162199362
Yes

>>162197734
what about a dies system? instead of lives, you get a number of dies and when you lose all your dies you can no longer die.

you can gain extra dies, but these are of course to be avoided.

>>162198375
thanks anon

Torpedo AI is a very fun game when you're playing it, but it doesn't really look fun in videos or pictures. And my poor art skills didn't make it any favors.

Well, the greelight page is still up. I'll try to promote it together with my new game. Who knows what will happen

>>162199527
That's just stupid enough to be a good idea.

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>>162199362
Everyone gets faster the more they do something. You'll find shortcuts, start planning out in advance, and maybe even discover/create better tools as you go. Gotta put in the time.

Also, more progress on the title screen art.
>>162196476

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>>162199527
this nigga

>>162198795
Exactly

>>162198773
It's okay for learning

>>162196482
What's the big problem with using Java?
I'm trying to learn programming and I was thinking of using it because any programming jobs I've seen want people who are proficient in Java. Is Java not even worth considering for gamedev or can I kill two birds with one stone?

>>162197934
i like the fisher-price vomit aesthetic

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>>162197734
but how can i stop what i have not begun?

>>162199527
this is a beautiful great idea and will put into game asap

>>162197934
>Background isn't a beautiful field of stars

Bro

>>162200664
Oh.

>>162200747
Java is a horrible language that people are forced into using for enterprise work.

If you can avoid it, it's in your best interests to do so.

>>162193663
Not the guy you're replying too, but that makes me curious. How much do you typically charge to do art for vidya?

>>162200856
when you're in space you don't see the stars

>>162200837
nice work but that transition is painfully slow

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>>162199527

This is fucking retarded. So obviously it needs to be done

>>162201064
But you're clearly on a structure. And even then your game is about sentient cubes, an aesthetic thing like that ties it together so well

>>162201013
Depends on what's needed, how complex it is, and how long it'd take me.

>>162201080
literally castlevania ripooff lel

>>162201064
Space is also black, not purple.

>>162201169
i don't even type like boku t b h f a m

>>162201202
you so smart
you just described EVERY service iin life.
nigger

>>162199362
3D has a steep learning curve but its very satisfying. you will get faster if you make sure you understand the how and why you are doing things

>>162201064
...what?

Is this some stupid popsci bullshit that's been making the rounds?

>>162201284
I think the fact that it's widescreen makes the scrolling worse than the original desu

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Are your ready for the upcoming Ludum Dare, AGDG?

>>162201850
Never was, never will.

>>162200747
only acceptable time to use java in gamedev is for android games. java sucks for everything else because it needs to run in a virtual machine, and it uses garbage collection, both of which annihilate performance on any machine. look around-- nobody uses java for games

java is super easy to learn. because of this you might think "oh its a great language to start with", but this is not the case. learning java for an experienced programmer takes only a couple of days, however you will be trying to learn java along with the overarching basic principles of programming. this is a problem because while you were learning java, you could have been learning C or c++, which teach much more broad and useful concepts, and going from java to c will be confusing because you will be used to java's easy-mode features, such as garbage collection.

go c -> c++ -> whatever language you want. java blows dick but yes a lot of companies use it, but you want to make games, not be an office slave, right? if you really want to, like i said earlier, if you know c++ first, java takes days to learn

>>162201850
Unity?

>>162200910
Cool thanks. I guess I'll get back to learning C# then.
One more question though, is C++ better than C# or are they even different enough to bother?

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>>162201080
>>162201284
>>162201764
it was a joke from october 28th. scrolling is not actually that slow and speed simon doesn't actually show up

>>162200837
a true classic

>>162201938
But it's fun
>>162202057
Yes

>>162202108
yeah, in retrospect I should've noticed the date in the filename, oops

shit's lookin good tho mang, keep it up

>>162201850
I wonder when I stopped caring about hi-fi graphics and started liking ugly retro shit instead. I love this retro psx stuff

>>162201850
epic shaders breh

>>162202348
haha it's no biggie anon. and thank you!

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Would anyone know why this bone moves the character despite all the weights being blue?

>>162202540
inb4 people refusing to help you because undertale

>>162202540
I think you're gonna have a bad time

>>162202540
The bone clearly has children, check if one of them is making the mesh fully red

Console.Writeline("I fukin hate niggers");
Console.Writeline("What about you?");
string response = Console.Readline();

>>162203118
you forgot to attach a frog picture to your post

>>162203118
Ayo hol up

>>162202096
They are significantly different but similar enough that you can learn one from the other fairly easily.

>>162203118
>racism
>on agdg

fuck off /pol/

our hobby has no biases

>>162203260
>No biases
>Constant shit-talking of nodevs

K

How does Godot compare to Unity?

>>162203118
main = do
..putStrLn "I fukin hate nodevs"
..putStrLn "What about you?"
..response <- getLine
..-- do thing
..return () -- for if thing isn't IO ()

>>162202001
Unity runs on a virtual machine, and both it and Unreal use garbage collection. And until Blueprint Nativization is out of Experimental, UE4 also uses a virtual machine.

>>162203260
Except for source

>>162202001
The JVM's performance isn't actually too terrible. It's the language itself that's abhorrent.

>>162202540
I agree with this: >>162202807

I actually had that very same problem today. I accidentally had part of my model weighted to the feet bones, when they weren't supposed to be.

>>162203330
*no biases against race and LGTBQLMNOP

source sucks

>>162203431
Unreal is mostly implemented in C++ though, and I assume the same is true of Unity. There's a big difference between using a VM to run game logic and running the entire engine in a VM.