AGDG - Amateur Game Development General

>>162250970
Quality OP good job

>>162251043
Me on the left.

>>162250970
A link to the previous thread:
>>162169558

>>162250970

No shitty engines this time. Good

Webdev > gamedev

>>162251859
in your dreams, pleb

>>162251763
Where's your game?

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I stayed awake.
Lets make progress today boys.

>>162251908
HERP DERP

>>162250970
>random unrelated anime pic
not nearly as bad as some """gems""" that people shat out lately but it's bad

What are some good gamedev-related books to read?
I have loomis, animator survival kit and a C# book.

>>162252069
>he didn't notice the agdg logo
Shameful display to be honest.

I know you guys probably get this every day but where do I start?

In short, I'm educated in film faggery but I realised through the course of my studies film wasn't my passion. Games were.

I know nothing about games design, programming or anything beyond very base level mods(Literally changing damage values).

I'm thinking of just picking up a game engine, setting out a goal to make a very basic turn based shooter and going about it by running head long through the walls and walls of tutorials I'll no doubt need.

How to you make velocity change with direction in Unity? I don't like this keep-sliding-in-old-direction thing that happens. I want it to feel like changing with transform.Translate, but with the bonus physics stuff.

>>162252139
i could scribble agdg on a turd with a toothpick, take a pic of it and send it as the op
it would be equally related

>new thread
>same guy complaining about engines in OP
>same guy complaining about anime in OP
Don't you ever get tired? How about getting a life?

>>162252463
jokes on you op, i'm a different guy

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So how about that Unity, huh? Isn't it just the worst? Am I right?

>>162252495
joke's on you, I'm op not the guy you're replying to

>>162252423
DO IT
OR SHUT THE FUCK UP FOREVER

>>162252763
joke's on you, I'm someone else completely

>>162252423
Do it faggot

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Darker waves yes no ? ???

>>162252084
game design patterns.
gems of game design or gems of game programming or whatever it's called.
Those should keep you busy for the next 5 years

reminder to all who are participating in Ludum Dare, to test a web build (even with just the default empty project) and where to upload it and everything.

>>162252375
that sounds like a decent start. I know there are youtube videos specifically on gamedev, maybe someone can recommend them to you

yourengine + tutorial on google is probably good enough, as you learn you'll be able to google the more specific things

>>162252892
Why don't you make them move to the left?

>>162252375
If you want to make 3D games then either Unreal Engine 4 (Blueprints are good for beginners) or Unity are good enough choices.

If you want to make 2D then you can try GameMaker and some people also recommend Unity but I've never used it myself for 2D so take that as you will.

Once you choose an engine just stick with it for a couple of months and google beginner tutorials for it, all 3 of those should have plenty of documentation and tutorials by this point. Remember that small scope is super important, and that it's better to dish out several one-level small games (Tetris, Space Invaders, generic platformer) than working on one large game. (At the beginning)

>>162252994
I plan to make them flow.

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take me to the internet, i wish to shitpost /agdg/

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I've implemented the basic controls, and started working on the camera of the game. is this good or should I scale the character down a bit?

background is a placeholder

>>162252936
>>162253232
Alright, so I want to make 3D games in future, so Unity 3d would be the one to go for, right?

As for small scope, I'm literally just thinking Chess with guns.

I also assume making your own engine is for people with 4-5+ plus experience and something I, for now, shouldn't even be thinking about. Right?

>>162253345
what about two feet for the little guys? it's a bit hard to read

throne looks good though

>>162253345
why wont pug dev give himself and his baby bleach yet?

nigra

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okay, I need common items and useless items ideas

>>162253564
empty bag of cat food.

when i turned on my computer it was to grind away at some bullshit game but i smashed that /vg/ button and saw this thread

its thanks to you guys that I will dev this morning

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Changed the town to be about cube chickens, added a new enemy that is a cowboy chicken, it spins in a circle and if its sight bounds catch you it will shoot at you.

I added a tumble weed enemy as well, its just a tumble weed with eyes. My next goal with this level is not only to add the puzzle cubes with their goals but to make the insides of the buildings (will have a couple NPC's relating to each building) and hide a switch in each building once you hit all 3 switches the wood floor/street outside opens up and you enter a small underground cut out section that ends the level.

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Man, I've always assumed doing cinematic animations is extremely difficult, and I was right.

>>162253449
>Alright, so I want to make 3D games in future, so Unity 3d would be the one to go for, right?

Unity or UE4, yes.

>I also assume making your own engine is for people with 4-5+ plus experience and something I, for now, shouldn't even be thinking about. Right?

Of course, assuming your goal is to make games. Plenty of people just want to learn coding better and they pick up enginedeving by themselves, but for them making games is a means not an end. They won't care if 2 or 3 years later they have no game made.

>>162253620
>>162251923
Every morning every day you need your cadence

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

>>162253439
you should make the character cuter

>>162253939
And last question, big thanks for your answers.

Should I do anything in regards to C#/C++ or should I just learn it through learning to make games?

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>>162253475

better when its moving?

>>162254632
yeah, it's better

>>162254630
Learning to program is a feat in of itself.

I'd personally say that trying to learn:
>coding fundamentals
>game coding concepts
>a 3D engine
all simultaneously, it'll be a hell of a task.

Not to mention that a UE4 tutorial probably won't explain core coding concepts as well as a tutorial specifically about them would.

>>162255439
Hmm, okay. So I'll stick to the last two in your list.

>>162255439
Programming is not that hard to learn.
Art is the whole issue.

>>162252896
>design patterns

>>162253903
Are you not using the game logic?

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Threadly reminder that Justin Trudeau has made, completed and released a game while you still haven't

https://archive.fo/38wda

>>162255786
First you think that programming is about learning a language, I, too, fell for this. However programming is algorithmic thinking. As with poetry you can describe a feeling or an emotion, with a program you basically describe a set of events. Like you can not just say "walk on the ground" to the computer, but you have to define walking, you have to define what does it mean to touch the ground, you have to find an efficient way to check this in your code etc. Some like to use the recipe metaphor, as in programming is just like that: you write a cookbook.

There are games which can help you get into this (https://lightbot.com/hocflash.html), or there's a pretty good book called the Art of Programming.

After a while, the language won't matter.

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>>162253601
added

>>162256414
That guy is either the biggest bullshitter ever lived, or the most based leader there ever was.

>>162256260
No, I'm not. I just wanted to see how the Matinee performs before I bother wasting time on my own cutscene maker with in game logic.

I don't know how to use game logic in matinee though if there is a way.

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I'm pretty sure all the people who say programming is "easy" don't really know how to program.

The fact that you made babby's first platforming collisions in GameMaker doesn't make programming easy.

>>162256537
programming is easy

>>162256537
>ctrl+f
>easy

No one said it is easy, anon.

What's a good frame rate for animations? 60 frames of animation per second isn't really practical for a lot of reasons...

>>162256867
2D animations?

>>162256537
Programming is not hard =/= Programming is easy.
Everything is not just black or white.

And you'd be surprised to know that not everyone can make the babby's first platforming collisions in GameMaker, this is an achievement. A small one, but one nonetheless.

>>162256898
Yes, 2d 3retro5u pixel sprites

>>162256537
You're not writing an operating system or enterprise grade software here, anon. If you're doing something where programming it is hard, you're either retarded or doing something way out of the scope of a typical indie game, or probably both.

>>162256537
Programming is fucking hard

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Anyone got tips on "comfy" ? Looking for anything on google to get the brain juices flowing but it seems comfy is just a meme word and I can't use it to find answers.

Guess I can only use what I know...

>>162256910
Right but his point was that making babbys first platforming collisions isn't actually learning to code

youtubing and googling how to do specific things and copying that isn't actually understanding programming.

It's a decent enough way to learn, it's basically how I did, but there's a difference. You should absolutely also do programming tutorials that teach theory from the ground up.

I only use BP in UE4 because I'm a joke, but that knowledge is invaluable. Even thinks like pointers which I'll never use. Understanding programming requires a lot of things to come together, a lot of knowledge and understanding.

How much resource management is too much? I was thinking of making a mage class which generates unaspected mana through one set of spells, aspects that mana to an element through a spell or an action, and consuming that aspected mana through higher grade spells. There is a maximum of 9 orbs total and this would be on top of managing traditional mana costs. I'm afraid it might be too clunky, but I suppose I can see for myself after I implement it, probably?

>>162257123
Comfy is entirely subjective so yeah.

>>162256960
Those are usually just 8-16 frames, and each frame is displayed for enough ms to make it look good and smooth. Sometimes it's even fewer, like in old RPG maker games a walk is just like 4-4 in each direction.

>>162257113
This is one of the many things that make programming hard. You have to know so much just to understand scope properly.

>>162257123
>go to marketplace for your respective engine
>find comfy scene
>base game around it

You can invest in your game anon, you're going to complete it, aren't you?

If not

>go on cgpeers and download asset pack for free
>if you actually complete your game then buy it for the license

:^)

>>162257123
There are different forms of comfy

>>162257123
Roaches are gross

>>162257338
Gameplay can be more important for comfy than the environment

e.g. Euro truck sim

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>>162253903
The planes instead of having this "swing" motion should shake very tightly IMHO, the air at that speed doesn't make you wobble slowly.
In the cutscene the moving plane stays almost still, rolls 70 degrees to the right and flies off only afterwards. The maneuver should involve both of these motions at once. It starts rolling while soaring and stops just as it adjusts.
I made a little scheme here for a one-cut cutscene. Some motion blur and slight shaking could make it juicier.

>>162257123
I wish I had 4 hands :(

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>>162256910
>Programming is not hard =/= Programming is easy.

>>162257619
>IMHO, the air at that speed doesn't make you wobble slowly.
It's the pilots correcting trajectory. Have you ever driven a car before?

>>162254630
Honestly if you're planning on doing this for long term and don't want to just mess around, I'd recommend at least reading a programming book, or doing some programming tutorials before picking either Unity or UE4. You need C# for Unity and C++ for UE4.

As the other guy mentioned, the language itself is not really relevant, it's the "programmer mindset" or "programmer logic" that you need to grasp, so you really don't "waste" any time even if you decide switching to another language later on. For C++ I recommend "Jumping into C++" , just torrent the PDF or something. It's a lot more beginner friendly than Stroustrup's books.

Haven't read C# books so can't recommend any on that part, if any kind anon would be willing to give their 2 cents it would be nice.

>>162257914
Have you ever driven an aircar before?

how do you even make a game without programming? you are not gonna get to a finished game without programming at all I wager its impossible

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>>162253439
Programming with GML seems to be a 2 steps forward 1 step back type thing

I made it so when you are damaging an enemy the animation changes to be slower to show a registered hit, I want it to cancel after a few seconds so you can't be constantly attacking. but alarms in GML kind of suck.

learning how to over come this.

>>162258036
What's the point of asking yourself such questions?

>>162258178
I'm asking the thread

>>162258036
There are plenty of games on Greenlight where the submitter didn't even do any game development, let alone programming

>>162258036
https://scratch.mit.edu/

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>>162257123
Don't be silly, comfy was made from "cozy + comfortable", it's not some alien word that spawned itself from a void.

And it means exactly that, though some people misuse it because "comfy" is a "good feeling" so they use it to describe any "good feeling" even though it's incorrect or inappropriate. If you ever see someone say "yeah went to beach with all my bros and there were people everywhere, shit was comfy as fuck" then kick him in the baboons cause dozens of sweaty people together in the sun is neither cozy nor comfortable.

>>162257123
The only thing comfy requires is a dangerous or inhospitable environment for contrast. Example: cold outside, warm inside.

>>162257914
You don't know what you are referring to lad, that's done at a much slower pace and with more than a motion on the side, in anon's cinematic it's like they're floating on water and they don't even slow down while rising. Look at 5:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa3s5lVI_YI

>>162258223
Are you stupid? It's obviously possible all you have to do is pay someone to program for you.

>>162258352
That's programming, anon, hid behind cute colorful boxes.

Yall know any other idea what to call accessories (items with effects you can equip only 2 of) other than accessories

>>162258036
With RPG Maker

>>162258958
Artifacts. Talismans. Depends on the setting, really.

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hes a bastard, that fireball sun thing
i like it.

might need to remove a skelly though, since there's a little too much shit going on

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why do the Ludum Dare themes suck so bad? 33 and 36 were outright terrible, and 34 was one vote away from being unsalvageable.

if we end up with shit like "wait are we the bad guys?" i'll still join, of course.
but I'll pick a different theme for my entry, scoring be damned. i'm here to make games, not write stories about the nature of morality. fuck that pretentious shit.

>>162259659
just wait for comfy jam

>>162259330
Modern day setting

>>162258394
what if he took some sort of inflatable sofa thing and laid there on the warm sand, covered by a parasol thingy.

>>162259659
>i'm here to make games
Are you making a demo for Demo Day 12?

>>162258958
trinkets, baubles, jewelry, relic, curio, bibelot

>>162258394
It's just an abbreviation of comfortable, actually.

>>162259876
Thank you, though it doesn't have to be physical objects

>So many fun ideas for locatins in game
>No ideas for level design
>Have to somehow tie these places together

Fun, but daunting, especially knowing that wherever you choose you'll have to make assets for

>>162259935
Parents. You can only have 2 and they give you nice perks

>>162259659
>i'm here to make games
How about working on your main game instead of fooling around in jams and LDs?

>not write stories about the nature of morality.
Welcome to 2016. The current trend is to make games about acceptance, morality, #blacklivesmatters, #strongwomen, #genderlessprotag, ###

>>162253345
Looks fantastic as usual. What's the timeline for the game look like?

>>162258138
Your problem is that you have a massive misunderstanding of how alarms work in Game Maker and also GML as a whole. Alarms don't suck (well they do once you get into delta_time but don't mind that for the time being). Lemme explain.

Alarms are set in number of steps. So if you set say, alarm[0] = 60, alarm[0] will count down from 60 until it reaches -1 and will then trigger. You need to set the alarm's functions in the corresponding alarm event, not in any other event like create, step, etc.
sprite_index also holds the Index ID of the sprite asset, so multiplying an index by an arbitrary number will not produce any useful results.
Also I legitimately don't understand what you're trying to achieve with "alarm = x = y * z". You're trying to set a function to equal to an Index ID equal to an Index ID multiplied by 3?

I strongly STRONGLY recommend that you refer to the official documentation (F1 to bring it up or middle click on any function in the script editor to jump to it's entry) and read up on anything that you may not fully understand. The documentation is very good and extremely in depth. Then if you have more questions, come back and feel free to ask.

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>>162259905
Yes, using cozy as a base/parallel. Otherwise it could've just been named "comfo", and people wouldn't have used "cozy" images like this to describe it.

>>162259810
Then it's comfortable but not cozy. To me cozy means "snug", "homely", like the feeling of being covered by a blanket while outside there's cold. You need a contrast between cold and warmth or harshness and safety like this anon mentioned >>162258615
Which is pretty damn hard to get on the beach during summer.

>>162259459
Your game took a massive leap from looking very early to looking pretty far into development, nice work!

>>162260224
You could be on a tiny island surrounded by sharks

>>162259935
I just used an online thesaurus. Just find a word you like and keep clicking words that sound better till you you're satisfied or give up.

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/talent
http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/enhance

>>162260224
https://www.google.com/search?q=etymology+comfy&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

What are some locations for platformer levels that you don't see very often and would like to see more of?

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>>162259659
>into the unknown
>generic

Nobody pulls this shit off good and discouraging the attempt makes you my enemy.

>>162260398
food

>>162260076
>current trend
I might be living under a rock, but I have never met any games with said themes. Maybe I'm not digging deep enough in the indie market.

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>>162260129
I've been reading them, they are a great help
I think ive misunderstood the one about alarms.
Ill reread and see if I can correct the error.

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>>162260398
something like pic related, but more exaggerated and precarious

>>162260497
Maybe you're just an oblivious cunt.

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Anyone have any experience with randomly generating city streets? I have no idea how to make this kind of algorithm

>>162255439
For some people learning c# by following trough tutorials for pong/spac invaders/mario tutorials for unity might be the best way. My main concern is you wouldn't learn good practices (game tutorials seem to have a hard on for monolithic updates and a lack of smart relationships between scripts)

>>162251179
did you ever figure this out?

you should be subtracting the two transforms' positions (vector3s) and using the magnitude

(position - past position).magnitude / time.deltatime

>>162260497
or maybe you're just not sensitive to those kinds of themes. Some of the stuff these guy get triggered by, they're crazy.

>>162260240
thank you! its getting there!

>>162260642
i think the issue is the lack of fundamental understanding of game logic in general, no offense. The lack of proper syntax and trying to set an alarm to equal a sprite_index = another sprite_index * 3 is concerning to see. Perhaps you would benefit from reading/watching some introductory tutorials/guides into GML or programming logic in general? I think that would genuinely help you.

>>162260062
This one is interesting, though I'd have to change some stuff to let it make sense

>>162260316
Thanks, this may be the way I might go

>>162260743
https://www.google.com/search?q=city+street+generation+algorithm&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

>>162260491
I feel like I've seen this done often enough. Like it's certiainly no forest or desert, but I'm never fully surprised to see it

>>162260690
Wow this is awesome!

>>162260436
>Sprites from from bla bla
>By bla bla
>Give credit if used. No permission necessary

I've never understood this. Why the fuck should you give credit to the person who ripped the sprites? Yeah obviously your permission isn't necessary you pretentious asshole. Maybe if you edited/altered them but literally all you did was rip them. Give credit to the artist/company where it's due, not the person who ripped them.

>>162261110
self esteem issues

>>162261110
everybody feels like whatever work they've done is valuable
welcome to agdg

>>162259659
>limitating
beside your repeated horrible spelling, that's not a fair criticism when the entire point is to provide a limitation.

>>162261110
Ripping something from a game properly and putting it neatly together in a pack takes effort and time.
Rip them yourself from the game if you don't like it, faggot.

On a related note, what are the core/most common video game levels?

Is it
>forest/plains
>desert
>island/water
>jungle
>mountain
>Snow
>Volcano

>>162261346
I did, where's your proof I didn't? Don't give me that guilty until proven innocent shit

>>162261530
Sewers

>>162261530
Castle

>>162261530
>castle
>laboratory
>theme park
>ruins

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>>162256414
I think i broke his game somehow.... HAH nice QA there JUSTIN

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>>162261735
ohhhhh fuuuck fuckfuck

>>162261346
>putting it neatly together in a pack
Not him but as someone who's been using ripped arts for ages let me tell you that it's bullshit.
99.99% of the time you have to rearrange the sprites properly in a good format if you seriously plan to make a fan-game with them.

>>162261884
this guy is right.
it's neatly packed for looking at it maybe, but not for using it on a game.
NEVER

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>>162261880
hhoooly shit

>>162261561
Easy, show me the spritesheet you used.

Also
>implying it's hard to watermark some pixels if someone felt super jewish about his sprite rips

>>162261735
>>162261880
>>162262021
still looks better made than GWYN

>>162257619
Yeah it was just a test, I've never tried animating in the matinee before but I think the next ones should look more authentic.

>>162261271
>filtered stub
>oh, it's gogem. you know, i'll give him a chance and see if he actually has something constructive to say
>just insulting and shitposting like always

It's odd that sometimes I wonder why I filter you.

>>162259817
>>162260076
>How about working on your main game instead of fooling around in jams and LDs?
i've been swamped with work lately, so working on my main project has been difficult, but i do plan to release a demo.
to me, game jams that don't require long term involvement are easier and pretty gratifying. plus, more experience and more finished games are always good.

>Welcome to 2016. The current trend is to make games about acceptance, morality, #blacklivesmatters, #strongwomen, #genderlessprotag, ###
frankly, i couldn't care less about games with moral, social, personal or political themes, and small game jams based around those. post your pro-trump RTS on itch.io. organize a game jam about lgbt awareness. make a game about your personal experience with depression or death threats from rabid SJ activists. do whatever.

but international game jams? the kind that's meant to be open to as many people as possible? those shouldn't force specific narratives. never.
people need to come up with their own stories, stories they believe in, and get to decide whether they want to tell a story at all.
answering that question for them will just result in incredibly insipid, forgettable games, and that's terrible.

rant over. will post progress when i get home.

>>162261346
So what? Literally all you're doing is taking sprites and arranging them. Big fucking whoop. Now you want people that you should actually credit and respect? People that make MIDIs from existing game music for production. That shit is HARD and you need to make it completely from scratch using your ears, unlike grabbing an existing art asset and throwing it onto a sheet and demanding credit. Fuck that. And you can't prove that I used "your" sheet anyway.

>>162261110
from experience: people who ACTUALLY use sprite rips (in e.g. comics, romhacks...) are part of tiny communities (they can't afford to get too much publicity because what they're doing is in a grey area legally speaking, at best). they tend to value credit a lot, since this kind of work is in heavy demand and well-recognized within those very small spheres.

>>162260436
fair point. exploration is my all-time favorite genre, so i'd love for that theme to drop, and thinking about it "discovery" and "exploration" were a while ago.

>>162261271
i'm tired and not a native speaker. and i gotta disagree: if the theme is too strict, you'll end up hurting people's creativity. everything would be similar. who wants a jam where every game lasts 10 seconds?
well okay, maybe you do. tastes and all that.

how else can you command an army other than just select an unit and right click on target

>>162258625
>you're wrong because the animation isn't 100% realistic
It's not realistic because he doesn't know how to animate them realistically as he pretty clearly implied.

>>162263629
Mountain Blade's unit command system is a little looser.

>>162263401
when people think the themes are limiting, they actually are not.
I remember "tiny world"
well, now everyone will make a small planet and jump around like mario galaxy
but there were literally 100s of variations of the theme.

>>162263401
>if the theme is too strict, you'll end up hurting people's creativity.
yes because as everyone knows, the greatest threat to creativity is limitations. thats why jams always last for a couple of years and have no themes.

Hello AGDG

I haven't been in these threads for almost 3 years. What did I miss? I really used to enjoy them, the atmosphere, the nice people, the GIFs (now certainly webms). I feel I want to get back into basement game development to distract from crippling depression and NEETdom.

Is Unity still the way to go for something quite simple and 2D? I see jam in the OP. Is this where I get an idea to start doing something? Love you all

>>162264820
ludum dare starts in a few hours!

>>162264820
>Is Unity still the way to go for something quite simple and 2D?
>still
It definitely wasn't that three years ago, shitposter.

>>162264820
use gamemaker for 'simple' and '2d'

>>162264820
You didn't miss much. Devs have come and gone. There's a couple /agdg/ games on Steam Greenlight, but I'm too lazy to look for them.

We have Demo Days every 2 months, devs can submit work in progress demos of their game to get feedback. We occasionally have themed jams, the next one will probably be winter jam.

If you want to make a 2D game try GameMaker or Godot. If you want to make a 3D game try Unity or Unreal.

Ludum Dare starts in 8 hours, that could be a fun way to get back into the groove of gamedev https://ldjam.com/

>>162264820
Thread is not as nice as it was 3 years ago.

>>162264624
t. gog "lol I'll enter Lewd Jam but I'll start late because 2 weeks is too long, oops I started too late, I can't finish in time, I'll go back to shitposting" em

>>162264820

dont ask about pugdev

>>162264820
nowadays the thread is bombarded daily by 2 or so complete nutters

>>162265770
Luckily they get banned as long as people report them.
The other day around 150 posts were deleted because they were all from the shitposter spamming the thread.

>>162253564
plastic cutlery

SDL, SFML, or GLFW?

>>162265116
Thanks, sounds like a great option. I will look into it

>>162265184
>>162265210
I used to do both 2D and 3D things in Unity. That was just before Unity added native 2D stuff, before that it was all 2D Toolkit. From my experience, Unity is much more advanced in terms of coding than Gamemaker and I never did find so much pleasure with GM and its weird interface and limitations.

>>162265320
Thanks for the update. I never heard of Godot, I reckon it must be fairly new. I will look into it.

>>162265365
Sad

>>162265770
Do they also have games? Mentally ill people may produce some interesting games I reckon.

>>162266170
>Do they also have games? Mentally ill people may produce some interesting games I reckon.
no, neither of them do
i don't know, one of them used to trip and dropped his game as he never bothers to even pretend to post progress anymore, and i doubt the other one does

>>162264820
>to distract from crippling depression and NEETdom.
/agdg/ is not your blog

>>162266170
Yeah Godot is fairly new. About 2 years old. It's open source with MIT license. So you can do whatever you want with the engine without ever paying the developers.
It's very good for 2D, it's only okay for 3D as of now, but it should be better at 3D in a few months, when a large update is coming.

>>162266170
>Do they also have games? Mentally ill people may produce some interesting games I reckon.
Usually these people have nothing to show and just want to drag down others into their own misery. It's easier to shitpost than to be productive.

>tried messing with unity's LoadScene additive mode
>nothing works like I expected it to
fuck, any codebro want to help me make my game since I must be retarded?

>>162267426
explain your problem, fag.
There is nothing complicated about it.

>>162267493
Okay
I want to load a scene while keeping the old one, but disabling it (I put everything in the scene inside an empty gameobject, and I'm setting it to setActive(false) when I load the new scene)
Then I want to unload the new scene and go back to the old one after reactivating it.
When I do, for some reason the scene that gets unloaded is the old one and not the new one.

Also I'm using navmeshes and when I load the new scene, Unity can't use the new navmesh and instead uses the old one.

>>162267690
>(I put everything in the scene inside an empty gameobject, and I'm setting it to setActive(false)

all you're doing, and specially this part, sounds ridiculous. What's the goal here?
why are you doing all this?

>>162267836
I'm making an RPG and I want to switch between overworld and battle scenes but without destroying the overworld scene so I can keep references to things inside of it during and after the battle.
Can you explain what's so stupid and ridiculous about what I'm doing?

>>162268014
I didn't say stupid, I said ridiculous. I meant it in a "overdoing it" way. Not meant as an insult.

You can just make some of the gameobjects to have the "don't destroy on unload" or whatever property.

And then just do a regular scene load / unload.
You can load it in the background too, to have the transition be more seamless.

This is how I think should be the right way to do it. Yours is a creative way, but I think that like you said, it's giving you more trouble than it's worth.

having 2 scenes loaded at the same time should only be used when those scenes are mostly just different scenery, like to have a huge map, but you divide it into different scenes, then you have your previous map part, current one, and the next map part, but the first map part, if you're not near it anymore, you unload it completely.

>>162268636
>I didn't say stupid, I used the word that means "worthy of ridicule"
lol

>>162268636
Oh ok, sorry I misunderstood. You make a good point.
I'm already using DontDestroyOnLoad for a couple of objects to keep reference to data pertaining to the player or to the game in general, I guess I could use it for every object that I need to reference between scenes.

>>162260881
>no offense,
Its fine anon, you gave actually input on my work, instead of calling me a nondev shitposter

>>162268756
>muh feefees

Dwarf Fortress iterates through the entire fucking map every frame

How the hell does it do that?

>>162269165
it doesn't do everything for every unit every frame.
pathfinding updates for some units now, for other units later for example

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Some more progress on the title screen. Did some blending and am starting to finalize parts of the piece.

>>162269165
This >>162269493 and there's literally nothing to render but strings on the screen so it can get away with that.

>>162269517
nice

How do you properly mix all of your background music/sound effects? Do you just go into Audacity and force everything to have the same peak amplitude?

That doesn't really seem correct, does it?

>>162269165
by looking like shit

>>162269656
"mastering" = tweak shit till it sounds good

>>162266000
They're all pretty different so you're gonna have to give some more information on what you're looking for.

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I was asked to make the MC Cuter. here's an attempt at that.

The rock arms are optional btw.
she a magic rock lady.

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>hit important milestone
>motivation gone

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More PROGRESS
Now I can have the AI run circuits between space stations and dock with them. The next thing to do is generate missions for them to deliver resources.

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I've doubled the amount of working items, feels good indeed

>>162271853
Potential recognized

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>>162271793
you can do it anon!
neon believes in you.

>>162271981
For her opinion to matter, neon needs to be a lot sluttier.

Give me a simple object to model in Blender.

>>162272239
A cock

>>162272289
This is a blue board anon. Try again.

>>162272289
Feathers aren't that easy

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>>162271959
thanks :3

>>162272239
a porcupine

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>>162272182
leaving soon
check file name.
GO ANON!

>>162271793
ritualize the process, you need to keep doing it even when you hate it

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>visual studio not responding

>>162272239
a pet rock with fur

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>>162272667
>visual studio shows syntax error even after I fixed it
>points to an empty line

>>162253345
How much do you cost?

>>162272667
>>162272952
>falling for the VS meme

>>162273008
I'm starting to believe that going back to Momdevelop would be better. VS auto completion sucks nigger dick.

>>162273008
I dont have a problem with it.
It was not responding a minute ago but it just needed to be restarted. It's not a common occurance.

>>162271945
>using grey
dropped

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>spending most time reworking on assets because they're actually not properly set for gamedev
>character was not aligned, also missing one keyframe I had to frankensprite
>some tiles are actually not smoothing out properly on repetition
>have no idea how the backgrounds are supposed to work, assuming they can actually work, there are no valid mockups
>most items actually don't fit in the provided hud
I feel like I got meme'd here because it was "free"...

Nvm I'll just drop this project too.

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>>162271853
>>162272525
Nice game you got there

Let's both make progress from now on

>>162253232

True dat, every time I work on my game i realise that even though it's a fairly simple small game it starts getting bigger and bigger as you come into an understanding more and more what work needs to be done for your game to become the final product.
Even small games are huge.

>>162273715
So you bought an asset pack and you're whining, is that what I'm meant to get out of this?

>>162274080
>bought an asset
Have you read my post?

But yeah just wanted to /rant.

Is the person who wanted to make the conspiracy GSG still here? I'm interested in helping you develop the base of the game

>>162273083
you mean for C#?

>>162274467
Yeah. C# and Unity

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>>162272581

>>162273083

Yeah, Mono is simple and clean, just too bad you can't get a dark skin for it.

>>162271945
The screen looks really busy.

>>162274529
C# works perfectly on visual studio.
That said, I also use resharper. indispensable tool that saves me so much time.

maybe it's not that one...
when right clicking on something in the code, I get a "quick actions and refactoring" option
is this from resharper? someone knows?

Video Games : the only thing that's real.

>>162272581
f-fuc
I just masturbated!

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>>162250970
Neurhh part two
repeating functions get on my tits.

>>162264624
quit being a cunt gogem

>>162275183
how can video games be real if progress isn't

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>>162269517
>>162269585
Feels like I'm close now.

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>>162275353

progress is real i'm just unable to make a webm since my windows 10 is fucked so Alt-G doesn't which means i can't make a webm.
Also I can't be bothered to download another screen capturing software.
Guess it's time to roll back to a restore point ...

>>162275494
>the work of one who does not consort with LOOMIS

Alright, I am ready to participate in Ludum Dare to get back into gamedev.

I wish to work in 2D or 2.5D (I have some experience using shaders for 2D). Is Godot the way the way to go nowadays? Is it reasonable to learn Godot at the same time as making a basic game in a few days?

This is probably a long shot, but since this is an amateur game dev general has anyone been using Udemy.com for tutorial/learning and such? I have recently started the /learn coding by making games in unity course/ and I'm wondering if other people know about it/taken it. Or know of any other good paid unity/coding stuff.

>tfw you have a tough time being motivated and tend to drop all projects & ideas you have for games

https://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL/videos

>>162276638
>Is it reasonable to learn Godot at the same time as making a basic game in a few days?
no
to make a game in a few days, it's a VERY good idea to know your tools.
You should start learning NOW, before the jam starts, and then you might be ok. But if you start to learn during the JAM, you're going to have trouble.

Does Godot do any type of online build?
If not, I know that in LD most people don't download binaries

>>162277181
What's good web engine?

>>162277258
I mean, Unity can output a webgl build, and most people will play and rate that.

>>162269517
Much, much better font than the previous. Nice work.

For some reason, I always want to read "our bros"

What do you guys think about Scratch?

>>162271605
Isn't she a little bit, well, ticher?

>>162277365
>For some reason, I always want to read "our bros"
'cause ouroboros is too big and foreign a word for your atrophied brain

>>162272581
Now that's some motivation! Agdg-chan should learn from her.

>>162277181
It does HTML5 according to sources. That should work, right?

Thanks for the hint, you are probably right. I am starting learning Godot right now. I have experience with Unity but that's a couple years back so it's probably no difference whether I use one or the other. I don't know what I'm doing, worst case scenario I can't finish on time but still got back into gamedev

>>162277445
It's a good tool to get people into algorithmic thinking, and a very creative tool for kids to play around with.

>>162277672
then that's good, I would recommend you build it once, before the Jam, to make sure it doesn't give you trouble later.
If you have to install that emscript thingy and all that it could take more than a few minutes

>>162277550
>ouroboros
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
>οὐροβόρος

Now I see.

>>162277915
lmfo what langauge is that

>>162278107
There's the link right there. How much spoonfeeding do you need? Ancient Greek, by the way.

>>162278107
Your ignorance disgusts me.

>>162278107
>american education

>>162278107
Mr. Saturn

>>162268906
Look into prefabs and instantiation it might help.

>>162279193
I already know about that, but how does that help exactly
Like let's say the player picks up an item from the overworld, then goes to battle, then back to the overworld. How do I tell that item not to spawn again? For now I'm using static variables to tell the enemy that started the battle to not respawn when the player goes back to the overworld, but that's not the right way, and I can't do this for every single item the player might pick up,

>>162279828
The easiest way would be to use a boolean in an item manager script. If the book is false then instantiate the item for the player to pick up.

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Had to stop for a few months on my game, was busy with my job and other crap. I've gone down to part time now though so I have a lot more free time to work on my game.

Not sure if many remember it, I didn't change the style or character, but over the past few months I did decide to change it to more of a puzzle game rather than hack&slash. Got rid of the sword having the powers and put them on the main character directly instead. Still early, I've only started working on it again a few days ago. Feels good to be back working on it again though.

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Redid a lamp from earlier this year. Hopefully I can get a system for player light sources up and running this weekend.

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sorry for necro but
>>162255617

who fucking cares you dumb faggot

"oh no, i can't watch star wars. they have noise in space" - no one

>>162280840
I thought so too but wouldn't that get messy and slow if the number of things to check at start gets bigger and bigger?

>>162280948
Probably and there's probably a better way to do it too. Don't know that much about programming. I guess you could put them into an array and use a for loop at the start and check if they're active or something, make them inactive after being picked up.

>>162250970
Do you guys think there's a market for iOS adult games?
where you use your finger to get a girl off or something and splooge all over her face?

>>162280940
It's also incorrect on its face. All the ships would need to do is retrofire; all that's needed to do that is to turn around and burn along their prograde vector. Boom - single-engine accel and decel.

>>162281597
No, iOS doesn't allow it on their store, dummy.

>>162281654
But they allow stuff like grindr and ashley madison?
I don't get it

>Unity in charge of anything other than the most simple control flow

>>162281748
Because those aren't explicit porn, they're for hookups and shit like that.

>>162281841
So would a visual novel with adult themes work?
They wouldn't actually show the sex, but there'd be lewd noises and blushing

>>162281960
That would be perfectly fine, I think.

>>162281960
It'd fall into a dubious territory. Only way to prevent it from getting easily taken down is to 'curtains' the sex scenes and just do 'the following morning' skips.

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>tfw nice cold day
>bundled up, drinking hot chocolate, and devving
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeAU0H-ks2A

Best feel in the world.

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Progress~<3

>>162282028
>>162282019
Do you think I could show a cumshot, assuming that no penor or tiddy was shown?

>>162282673
No.

>>162282673
You might get away with a suggestive yoghurt explosion, but actual cum? No

>>162282774
>>162282758
Alright, so I'm thinking an extremely suggestive warioware styled game is totally acceptable
As long as the busty women are at least wearing crop tops and none of the sex things are actual

>>162281654
Would he not be able to host the game on something like itch.io, which does allow adult games?

Of course people would have to download from itch.io themselves instead of through the store, but would that affect anything?

>>162282515
Can you refrain from posting that tHANKS

>>162282938
Good luck. Your enemy will be soccer moms mashing the report button with the fury of a thousand unsatisfied vaginas.

>>162280948
It's unlikely that you would have so many things that it has noticeable latency. You can probably do tens of thousands of item checks without it being significant, as long as you are only doing it once in a while and not during gameplay

>>162282938
I think you'd have better luck on android.

Don't you have to have the app visible on your list on iOS? That could be awkward.
And I'd question whether nerds own iphones.

What's the state of browser-based games on Apple devices?
That would get around both lewd restrictions and what I mentioned.

>GUYS HOW DO I GET AROUND THE TOS ON ALL THESE SITES FOR MY SEX GAME

why not just offer it as a direct download on your tumblr or something

you werent gonna make money off it anyway

>>162282515
reminder to filter this image

>>162283276
>you werent gonna make money off it anyway
:(

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>>162282515
Thread's over, pack it in everyone, reek is off the leash again!

>>162283276
>you werent gonna make money off it anyway
STOP KILLING MY DREAMS

>>162283460
I report every time I see it. It worked with the circumcision poster before, but it seems to be ineffective now.

heres one of those daily meltdowns i was talking about

remember not to say his name or he'll REALLY go off the deep end

>>162283276
But sex games are the only games that make money.
Just put it on Patreon.

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>>162283957
Here's a helpful tutorial.

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>>162283957
Keep mewling that name, retard. :)

>>162283973
We all know it's you. Stop posting.

>>162253345
That looks great. Love the pixeling style.

Hey senpaitachi, is there some program that lets me keep track of tasks and shit? Like a checklist or something.

>>162257123
From trying to find a definition for comfy a while ago, I found these common elements:
1. A somewhat uncomfortable to hostile environment contrasted with the warmth, light and safety of civilization.
2. A setting that'd have muffled sound also seems common, especially snow, rain, or heavy fog.
3. Solitude seems to be a requirement as well, either through a degree of separation from others through the stuff in (2), separation through space (lonely mountain cabin for example), or separation through walls (empty city streets).

>>162282515
>his constant bomb threats got fireden and 4plebs taken down
>just like archive.moe

How many sites will this asshole kill? The feds need to take him away already.

>>162284415
Trello

>>162284415
Trello if you're into browser/phone apps.

>>162283938
I did too so know that you're not alone. If more people do it then he'll hopefully get banned faster.

>>162284415
Trello, Excel, or Notepad

>>162284464
No one cares about your Full Sail ""design advice"", retard. Shouldn't you be spamming GDC with your hammer screenshots? Retard.

>>162284415
Redmine if you want to blow it out of proportion or distract yourself by setting up a large tool.
(Its available as an docker container too if you really have that much time)

I never used it to get into docker and burn some hours I swear!

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>>162284017
hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

dayz devs could have just used unity or ue4

don't repeat their mistake

don't write your own engine

>>162284415
brain

>>162286426
doesnt it use arma2's assets

>>162250970
Does somebody have an idea how to make rotation direction detection in GM:S?
Kinda planning to make combat system similat to that of Mount&Blade.

>>162286426
they're just incompetent fuckheads

there is no other explanation for the game making almost no progress in 3 years

>>162286426
But I want freedom

I'm trying out Blender. What's this whole quads vs tris thing about?

>>162286870
Quads are easier to work with is basically what it boils down to. You can use tris if you want but don't be surprised if there is some weird deforming or shading issues on animated meshes. Environments don't really matter either way.

>>162286870
Topology. Avoid tris (even though quads are actually 2 tris)

>>162286870
>>162287108
and tris are what you want to know the count of for hardware limitation reasons

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>>162275494
Now on the polish stage for this thing.

>>162287364
>bonfire

Get ready for your millions

>>162286870
It's best to use quads as much as possible because they're just easier to work with. Quads also generally deform better on a mesh that will have deforming.

Tris are okay occasionally if you absolutely need it. Anything with more than 4 edges should be avoided, unless it's a face that is perfectly flat and will never deform.

To be honest I'm just parroting what I learned from modeling.

>>162286426
The "DayZ devs" are the ARMA devs. Their capability to enginedev is not really in question here.

>>162287479
>>162287196
>>162287138
>>162287108
So why is it that all 3D artists put how many tris their models are made up of, if people seem to all recommend using quads wherever possible?

>>162287585
Did you not read my posts? Quad are 2 tris arranged in a specific manner

>>162287585
Because tris are what your game engine is going to render and ultimately what matters for performance. (as well as textures and shading)

>>162287556
With a mod developer as the project lead, lol.

>>162287429
It's an adventure/puzzle game, sadly. I'm expecting all of $100-500.

>>162287942
What's your point? He probably has nothing to do with the actual engine development, which is modification of the ARMA engine in the first place.

>>162287707
I read, just making sure it was really that simple. Thanks!
>>162287764
i c i c

>>162288173
>>162287942
dean hall ran away months ago and started a new company to build a new shitty early access game

>>162288173
>>162287556
Honestly I always felt the arma engine is shit, altleast from a player perspective.
Also NPC were a mess.
The only point that was good was custom maps and modes.
It maybe was the best available engine but hell it wants a smooth experience

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https://clyp.it/lxyocgbb

im gonna do some silly christmas stuff with my game this year because comfy winter

how about any of you guys? you gonna do anything special for christmas with your game?

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>that feel when you start to realize you're just not good enough for 1MA
>you keep pushing those thoughts away
>you keep struggling
>you barely make any progress
>deep down you know you're never going to make it alone
>at the same time, you know nobody is going to want to work with you

>>162289351
>implying I have a main game
But I will be making a wintery jam game.
Also that music is pretty nice.

>>162289351
Maybe next year! My game is too underdeveloped right now, so there is no point yet.

>>162289351
Yeah. Hopefully release it.

So with a 3D model I have a few thrusters on the model that I want to emit effects from, and a gun I want to fire the bullets from/emit shooting effects.

How do I tell where those positions are on a moving model? Should I put bones at those spots? Because I can get a bone's transform. Is that how all games do it?

>>162289554
sounds like you have confidence issues

if gogem can find a partner then you shouldn't have an issue

>>162289941
create an empty
move it into position
parent empty to model so that it moves with model
use a script to spawn particles and bullets from that empty's position

i believe that's the most common way to do it

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okay, all new items are tested and have upgraded art
>steak knife
>camera
>steel pipe
>kendo helmet
>sewing kit
>cigarettes
>carpenter hammer
>flashlight
>backpack

>>162289941
If you're using Unity or UE4, you can attach objects to other objects, to bones etc and add an offset

UE4 also has sockets which you can position yourself.

>>162290140
let's not get ahead of ourselves, googum isn't worse than a random dumb feelsposter

>>162290463
He's a namefag shitposter, so I'd say he is.

>>162289581
looking forward to it, anon. and thank you.

>>162289669
which game?

>>162289725
you can do it anon!

>>162289351
I'll make sure I finish the Winter weather effects by the time Christmas comes.

>>162289351
>post gets 0 replies
>next post gets 2 hate replies
>next post gets 0 replies
>next post gets 3 hate replies
I'm going to work on something I want but I won't post here anymore. Reddit has been far more positive about my posts.

>>162291403
>no game
Hmm

>>162291403
At least tell us which posts were yours.