AGDG - Amateur Game Development General

If I'm doing a game with low-poly PS1 graphics, what should my approach for natural terrain be?

gib good productive music

>>162340810
wow, another bestiality thread.

>Ludum Dare
Should I stick to the genres of games I'm good at making, or try out something new?

>>162341554
it doesn't matter

you should just make a smaller game if its an unfamiliar genre

>>162341554
If you try something new there is a chance you will get stuck and be unable to finish in time. It's happened to me before as well.

But, it can be a very good way to work in a jam, you'll likely learn new things about the engine you're using, things that you may have not learned from the genre you usually make.

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quick, post your shill status

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post your game and your mbti

>>162341689
where is this from?

>>162341803
4chan gold account

Need name ideas for single-equipable accessories, the setting doesn't matter

I just realized , the best way to make games is using a framework that does the heavy lifting and build your game on top of that, full blown engines are too heavy and hard to optmize.

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what do I replace the hammer hands with? they are too difficult to animate and keep consistent sizes.

they also just dont look right.

>>162340949
pls

>>162341908
It should be blocky I guess. I don't understand the question

Unity question:

I am trying to make items for my game, some items will be interactive, some items will be items that can be in the inventory.

like a door, it will be interactive, but can't put it in the inventory.

and then a flashlight, it's both interactive, and inventory. Maybe even another "equipable" or "usable" things will be in there.

Anyways, my question is about how to structure this.

I can create a door class, which inherits from IInteractable, and IIDestructible (for example)

or I can have a door prefab, with "iteractable", and "destructible" scripts.
But then, the "interactable" part needs to have its own "doAction" function.

or maybe make a door class, which inherits from object, and an object can have all those things in booleans...

The question is, if I make a door class which inherits from those other interfaces, how can I test for that?

collide with item -> check if it's interactable
this part is easy with GetComponent<interactiveScript>()

or it can be GetComponent<item>()
(in this case, door, which inherits from item)
And then what? how do I know that it inherited from interactable?

>>162341781
>mbti
hwat?

>>162341850
another anon has seen the light
praise the lord

>>162341830
joking aside, I should pay for a 4chan account again, I hate the fucking captchas

>>162341896
Those are hammers? I thought they were spades of fans. What about pillars? Cylinders should be easy to animate, yeah?

>anime OP thread
>virtually no shitpost

>anti anime OP thread
>99% shitposting
hmmm

>>162342186
Only non shitposting until you decided to do it.

>>162342186
you're literally the only one shitposting here

>>162342037
like enfp/intj/etc

>>162342265

That guy below your post and linked to the reply chain is shitposting too. Numbnuts

>>162342746
and so are (you)!

>>162342795

Then that also makes you guilty as well.

>>162342186
falseflagging animeposters who no longer can defend their anime ops through saying they drew "agdg" on top of them

>>162342835
I wonder who's behind this post

>>162342909
me

>>162342027
I've never used unity but I'll try to help anyway.

In my game I have a class called items.
Anything that can be placed into an inventory is considered an item. Therefore all the code under the item class refers to things like picking something up, stacking items ect.

Sub classes of item includes: container, edibles, weapons, ect.

A door in my game is considered a machine. All machines have a use function that must be overridden by the actual object.

Hopefully that helps?

I have a cube made out of smaller cubes. Each small cube has x y z coordinates. How do i check if the given coordinate, for example 2,5,6 belongs to a cube which is a part of the outer wall? (as in a cube which has at least one of its walls exposed to the outside world)

>>162343031
I guess doors can be machines, but all of those types of objects also have a "use" function. Or they can use it.

Anyways, when you encounter an object, do you do a cast to know which type of object it is?
And then call the appropriate function?

I still have to think a lot about this. But thank you for your example

>>162342037
google it

>>162342835
>no longer can defend their anime ops through saying they drew "agdg" on top of them
Actually this thread is living proof of the opposite.

>>162343387
aside from the fact you conveniently skipped the first part of my post, there would be no issue whatsoever if the ops were related either to game engines people around here actually use, /agdg/ memes or /agdg/ games
neither a dog shitting out an anime or a random anime are these

>>162343562
because the first part of your post isn't true? do you have any proof otherwise?
again if there was anything wrong the either ops you could report them to the moderation and they would delete the picture. you don't see that happening do you?

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What do I need to make the furies like/have appeal for my bunny girl?

and before you think anything disgusting shes sitting on a ball.

>>162343562
Being a general on 4chan already makes it anime related.

>>162343709
>diapered latex furry inflation fetish
looks like you've nailed it

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>>162341896
my friend suggested giant Iron balls instead.

>>162343709

That's a bunny?

>>162343783
she's 2 phat

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>>162343783
anything to not draw hands huh?

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>>162343962

>getting owned by Googs

>>162343962
Still better than drawing gogem hands.

>>162343734
False

4chan has many dedicated generals and boards for anime stuff. Thus, you have plenty of places to post your anime OP's to.

There was a good reason why anime VN development was banned from non-anime boards.

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>sign up for data mining challenge hosted by Ubisoft.
>receive an email saying that there's meeting for the challenge.
>show up.
>about 30 seconds in I realise that this is for a completely different challenge.
>it's a semester long game development challenge.
>play along because I don't want to look retarded.
>I know dick-all about game dev.

>get placed on team.
>Team leader: "so we're all committed to the game, right? I can send our emails to Ubisoft?"
>stay silent.
>now I can't back down.
>tfw I have to learn Unity and C# over the winter break.
>tfw I might have to drop a class for the Winter semester to accommodate the project.

Goddammit.

Well, it's looks like I'll be making my home here. I think the worst part of all of this is that I have to install Windows again. I don't want to go back to that hell-hole...

>>162343962
Its more of wanting to be creative with animations.
instead of the character swinging a sword or something, why not have something more fun?

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>>162343962
anything to not draw eyes huh?

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>>162344025
whats wrong with gogem hands?

>>162344072
SAVAGE

>>162344072
nothing wrong with this though

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>>162344072

ALSO GOOD.

>>162344072
>>162344087
kek

>>162344072
JoJo reference?

>>162344034
Of all things, Windows is what you're struggling with?

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>>162343709
Made Improvements.

Perhaps jiggle physics?

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>>162344067
sure i get that, but hammer hands or ball hands are just pleb versions of popeye proportions.

>>162344315
Why are you doing this to yourself

>>162344067
if you are new here, remember to ignore goog's advice. This is the only place they can't ban his virgin 30yo salty ass

>>162343709
>>162344315
add more actual anatomy

>>162344385
Have you forgotten about the untold agdg rule?

10% of real dev time
90% of doing shit to meme or impress agdg

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Slash/Stab mode transitions

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>>162344604
Done.

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Where do you go for inspirations?
This thread is pretty cool so far >>360229237

>>162344767
neato

So is it gonna end up being a Condemned-like, or what? What are you going for?

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>>162344881
We're going for Red Orchestra 2-like gunplay but obviously we'll have some differences

>>162344861
Beksinski, anon. Always Beksinski.

>>162344943
Can you post anything about the game apart from these animations?

>>162341896
Looks like some blue hair town center fat bird carrying her fucking shopping

>>162344072
got em

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>>162345060
The game is called "Our Ghosts of War." Anything I can talk about is posted on Polycount and Twitter.

Here's an animation they haven't shown yet publicly (have posted it here before, though). Need to re-key these at 60FPS

>>162344853
look up some references or something, so far even your bokube mc is sexier
start with fixing these tits and head shape

>>162345168
What you see is pretty much all I have done. I started relatively recently and I've wasted sometime trying to figure out what I need to do (quests, dialog system, inventory, battle system, equipment, etc) and how to manage everything in a way that works. It's hasn't been going very well but I'll try to find the right way.

No idea when I'll get something playable, I wish I had something for DD12 but it's not likely at this point.

>>162336570
You need to stop using multidimensional arrays. I'm serious when I say you need to learn what a struct/class is before going any further. You are making things more difficult for yourself and for anyone who tries to help you this way.

>tfw no inspiration for this LD
fug :DDDD

>>162345165
Stop putting us to shame, man, this is an amateur general after all

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In normal games you can only wear one coat. Can the Homeless Simulator guy allow equipping multiple coats?

So as a beginner working alone am I supposed to do the LD Jam or the Compo? I figure the Jam is the correct choice if I haven't participated before?

>>162346149
Do both

>>162346149
the only correct answer is demo day

>>162345667
I set myself a to do list.
1. Pump all the very few planned features out in current understanding of language.
2. Once game is finished - refactor the code to include classes and structs and vectors any other advanced C++ features that apply and I have knowledge of.

And its not like my game is anything difficult. Its on a similar tier like the "Quess the number" Command Prompt game. This warscore calculation mechanic is most complicated thing in it. Once I figure that out, everything else will just be about wrapping things up.

------------------
Also, question about C++. Can I make vectors of dynamically generated structs with C++? What about instances/objects?

>>162343242
i did, nothing related to game dev came up, just some dumb psych shit, surely you wouldn't be posting non-game dev setuff, would you anon?

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>>162345165
>has a C96
take my money

>>162346496
>tfw all waifu games are dead

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>>162344853
We Better noW?

>>162347274
Not this one.

>>162347298
I'm not furry tho

>>162346443
>Also, question about C++. Can I make vectors of dynamically generated structs with C++? What about instances/objects?

Depends on what you mean. A vector can only be of a single type, that must be known at compile time, but that type can be polymorphic.

>>162341040
I've had a crunchyroll sub for like 8 months now and the only thing i watched was a couple episodes of jojo.
Any recs for non-moeblob animus?

>>162347486
>A vector can only be of a single type, that must be known at compile time, but that type can be polymorphic.
I don't follow - I lost you at
>vector can only be of a single type, except that it doesn't need to be of single type

>>162347793
I guess "a single BASE type" would make more sense?

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Improved my smoke jitter thing so that it's not as predictable looking.

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Hows this?

>>162347960
Neat, what is this for?

>>162346443
>Also, question about C++. Can I make vectors of dynamically generated structs with C++? What about instances/objects?

What do you mean by "dynamically generated"? Do you mean dynamically allocated?

>>162347852
can a base type of a vector be "struct" or "object" then?
or is there a different way to keep track of your structs and objects?

>>162347978
not funny

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>>162347960
Another view

>>162348004
Meant to be used for a missile effect later on.

>>162348113
>Do you mean dynamically allocated?
Yea, I think I meant "dynamically allocated".

>>162348264
Then sure, just declare your vector as std::vector<Foo*>. Better yet, use smart pointers: std::vector<std::unique_ptr<Foo>>.

>>162348125
I'm not sure what was the original question since I just replied along but I guess you want to store multiple types in the same vector? In which case you will need a base struct like "Entity" then you can store derived entities in there.

>>162347793
A polymorphic type, while sounding scary, just means a type that has inherited another type, or is inherited by another type. A quick example:

class animal
{
};

class dog : public animal
{
};

std::vector<animal*> animals;
animals.push_back(new dog);

The vector only holds a single type. In this case, each element of the vector will be a pointer to an animal. But each instance being pointed to could be anything that has inherited from animal. But the animal* will only know about the animal part. it doesn't know the data for dog exists so you will need virtual functions or dynamic_casts to access it. Here's an example of that.

class Vec2
{
public:

int x;
int y;

virtual int total()
{ return x+y; }
};

class Vec3 : public Vec2
{
public:

int z;

virtual int total()
{return x+y+z;}
};

std::vector<Vec2*> whatever;
whatever.push_back(new Vec 2{3,5});
whatever.push_back(new Vec3{6,1,4});

std::cout<<whatever[0]->total()<<std::endl;
std::cout<<whatever[1]->total()<<std::endl;

Output:

8
11

>>162348815
So I guess we just don't use pastebin, period, around here any more?

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>>162348152
Umm

>>162348997
Not using pastebin is an act of protest to get [code] tags.

Anybody remember that game where you're in a maze and a monster chases after you?

>>162348815
Thanks, I think I get it now.

>>162348436
Original question was actually about something entirely different.
I asked if anyone knows some sort of exponential growth sum, series or sequence function that would achieve my needs

>>162349257
You will not get code tags

>>162348815
This leaks memory. Do

std::vector<std::unique_ptr<animal>> animals;
animals.push_back(std::make_unique(dog));

instead.

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>>162311559
thepiratebay until i can gather up a few hundred dollars to buy it
the sleigh bell was a free sample

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Never again

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>>162345064
Progress report.
got movement completed.
added dashing.
added gameboy type text scrolling.
now working on adding timer to spin attack.

progress is nice.

>>162350209
>boomsandwhich
more like turd sandwich xD

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I'm still not fully satisfied with it -- but I suppose it's good enough to move on from now. Hopefully I'll have time to come back later and polish this more. Posted here because post too old to delete in old thread -- but old thread is about to die anyway.

>>162351781
>i j k are imaginary units that satisfy certain conditions
how very helpful

>>162351781
>enginedeving is easy they said

>>162351892
I think the subtitle really takes away from it. One word in the title makes a good statement, but adding a subtitle makes it less impacting, especially since the title is so bold and up front and center.

>>162351892
REMOVE SUBTITLE remove subtitle

>>162351892
what the hell is journey, and retire?

>>162352869
>>162352976
>Remove subtitle, directly compete with...
http://www.pcgamesn.com/ouroboros/ed-mcmillen-next-game

www.oaplus.co

>Don't remove title, remain consistent with the game's actual title which existed before either of those games...

Hmmmm.

>>162351892
>No contrast makes text nearly illegible
>Hard edges of vector text conflict with softness of drawing
>Mountain and left tree shadowing is inconsistent with rest of scene

Needs a lot of work. But if you can't see it now, just move on to the actual game and come back to this later.

>>162353232
You're still in direct competition, especially since it's the same main name. Drop the subtitle and change the name, or drop the subtitle and keep the name. "The Sacrifice" is dumb and cheesy. I like the look of your title screen, but come on. That's up there in the cheesy and overused subtitles next to "The Reckoning" and "The Return of"

>>162353232
You did trademark your name, right? Could probably send a cnd to those guys.

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Got inherited knockback and damage numbers working! Not sure where that ghost zombie came from though

>>162353551
I'm pretty sure Ed McMillen can afford better lawyers than I can. No, I didn't trademark it. I did consider trademarking it but it's a name that's in the public domain and it'd cost me something like $300 to do so.

Didn't have the time to find out if I could register it, didn't have the money to register it. All I've got is the argument that mine was first, which it was.

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>>162341689

>>162353759
Good start.

>>162353759
What are you using to make this?

>>162354070
Thanks! After years and years of 2D, this is my first venture in 3D. Just trying to get to grips with modelling and coding in...

>>162354253
Unity

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Does anyone know where to get a obj of a bust of david for none vaporwave related reasons?

>>162353793
>No, I didn't trademark it. I did consider trademarking it but it's a name that's in the public domain and it'd cost me something like $300 to do so.

Being public domain doesn't matter. You don't really trademark the name so much as you trademark the context. Like, Razer has a trademark for calling a computer mouse Ouroboros, which is distinct from the Ouroboros media distributor, etc. Being first also doesn't matter because a trademark is not a copyright. I recommend getting a trademark before anyone else does.

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>>162341689

>>162355269
Even if I did get a trademark for it, that only gives me more of a grounds to sue -- I'd still have to sue. And I'd bet he could easily outspend and out-talent me. Besides, he didn't TM Super Meat Boy -- so he's probably not going to TM Ouroboros.

Seeing as I'm living off my savings right now, $350 is a huge cut from that. I'm not sure I could even afford to sue him.

>>162341803
itch.io

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>>162356270
oh well in that case

>>162356350

>3 sales
>9 bucks earned

NICE.

>>162355871
Like literally all he'd have to do is wait me out for about 5 months and my savings would be entirely exhausted. And then he could sue me, now that I'm out of money, win, and take the trademark.

>>162356565
Note: This five month estimate assumes filing the lawsuit and et cetera costs me no money. I doubt that'll be the case.

>>162356565
Sue you over what? Quit being a fuckin paranoid crybaby.

>>162356762
Over the trademark. Over which I'd already threatened to sue him by CnDing (which is a fancy way of saying 'stop using my stuff or i'll sue').

I'm sure in the wide world of legal fun, they could find grounds to bring the case to court. Reminder: Anyone can sue anyone for anything. Piss off or pay a lawyer enough and he'll find a way to sue a ham sandwich.

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>>162341689
>made a game especially for Dino Jam
>7 downloads

So in Gamemaker, I gotta use input buffers if I want to be able to read things like a quarter circle + punch and etc, right?

>>162356972
Why the fuck do you want to sue him?

Just make your fucking game already and quit acting like a little bitch.

>>162357105
I don't. >>162353551 suggested it; I'm saying that it wouldn't be useful, would just cost me money, and might result in me losing the very thing I'm trying to keep him from using.

Better to let sleeping dogs lie in my mind or, as you put it, make my fucking game already. (Which I have already done, it was finished a year ago; I'm just polishing it up for Steam right now because I don't feel like it's got enough quality in the art to get past greenlight in less than a year's worth of time right now.)

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>tfw you're still sitting on a pile of placeholder effects and you have to present a "finished" thing by the 14th

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>>162356270
Actually it looks like tumblr, except mine looks like this

>>162357307
Replace the bullets and you're fine. I could see this being sold right now as long as you fixed that. Anything on top of that would just be gravy.

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>>162356350

>>162357494
Anon you replied to: Nice. How long have you been active on itch?

>>162357305
Oh, gotcha. Didn't see that you were refering to another anon's post.

>>162353551 is wrong because 1 unless you're a large corporation like Bethesda, nobody will take you seriously, 2 you would have no grounds to sue, C&D, or DMCA at all other than "I-I had the name first", and 3 nobody cares if the name is the same. If they send you a C&D, then change the name, simple and easy.

Also drop the subtitle. It is bad anon

>>162348815
why the fuck would you make your vector classes polymorphic theres literally no point

>>162357553
2 months maybe

>>162357661
Good job. I've been up for about a year and a half now. Keep doin' whatever you're doin'.

>>162357307
Anon, you still have the problem of enemies spawning on screen from DD11. This is a problem and a simple fix!

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>play ranked online
>your partner can't hang
>do all the work
>get demoted when you lose
Why is every single game developer retarded?

>>162357379
post tumblr

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>>162357820
Huh, you're right
It's a dumb fix and I hadn't really paid attention to it

>>162352694
just copy a tutorial code XD

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What do you guys use to make webms? Maybe it's just not configured right, but OBS is butchering muh quality.

>>162357648
To demonstrate how it works.

>>162348815
ML and Haskell would like to tell you that subclass polymorphism isn't the only form of polymorphism. Even Java and C++ support parametric polymorphism (through generics and templates, respectively)

>>162358254
fraps and adobe premiere

>>162345165
I know i'd buy your game only from this gif alone

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more things that put the smackdown.

>>162357825
It sounds to me like you need to get good and carry harder if anything.

>>162358254
ffmpeg

>>162357825
All about the money. If shitters were only placed with other shitters instead of at least one non-retard to carry them, they would stop playing and, more importantly, stop buying microtransaction shit.

>>162358254
Replace SEGA with AGDG

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Any critique? Gif from a campfire type dialog scene in my rpg.

>>162359036
>friendship is the real treasure
Fuck off with that bullshit.

>>162359036
You're mixing future tense with past tense. When people speak, they generally use contractions. You make friends, you don't gain friends.

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>>162356350
>>162357494
are we posting itch stats too

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>>162359207
It's just a convo bro, that's not the theme of the game
>>162359268
Thanks for pointing that out, my english can be pretty shit. I'll change it and I'll be sure to have people read over my dialog before release.

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>>162359326
Post game.

>>162359458
loli rape sim

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>>162359613
>>162359458
close

>>162359763
Ah, it's the furry demo. Of course it was. They're always one of the most enthusiastic and fast embracers of new stuff when stuff targets them.

I'm a little envious.

>>162359326
how much money did you make tho

>>162360043
payments disabled

>>162360076
>throwing away the furry demo's money
I have moved from a little envious to a little mad.

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purchases are donations

>>162351781
>Wait a minute, that card

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idk if i should give up or shill harder

>>162360172
Don't worry, judging by the dev's art skills he could probably make some major $$$ by doing furry commissions on the side. Donations for Anubis would be worthless in comparison.

>>162354879
Is that Laughing Octopus?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVb5py7QL3Q
>Game Maker Studio 2 is a thing
Huh. I'm glad I got Studio 1 Pro and its addons through a Humble Bundle sale.
I wouldn't want to be one of the poor motherfuckers who paid upwards of $100 and who will have to purchase everything all over again when YoYoGames inevitably decides Studio 2 is a standalone product and thus not covered in Studio 1's """"Lifetime Upgrades"""" policy.

>>162360172
Less people would've played the demo if there was payment pop-up. The playtesting feedback was worth more than whatever money would've been donated.

>>162361506
Plus who the fuck would want to use GMS2 until a year or two after release when they've fixed a lot of the bugs? GMS1 is buggy and weird now, imagine how shit GMS2 will be upon release.

I'm actually a GMS fan so even though I'm shit talking, it's out of love.

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>>162361529

2D continuous dashing bullethell/platformer

>>162361626
I understand the logic but can only see the lost money.

>>162361506
They already released their business model for GMS2.
Yes you have to pay for all the modules again but they had(have?) a promotion where you could upgrade your shit for a fee if you already had certain parts already.

>>162361780
Shiiiit, this is some Metroidvania Fighting Game Dev level of juicy placeholders.

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>>162361506
Will be picking up the desktop module probably a little before the official release or after it goes on sale again

>$400 for mobile export
pls

>>162362018
We're working on it but our artist kinda went to the hospital because of Venezuela rioting

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I've componentized the thruster physics component better so that it no longer requires a ship to work correctly. It can now be thrown on anything, although something has to direct it of course. In the ship's case, the Ship component is now the one that handles the talking between the flight computer and thrusters. Which is maybe how it should have been?

Though, I made a bit of a mistake. I've been putting together a generic flight computer that can in theory be shared between the ship and missile, and now that I've got to the point where the missile is "flyable" I've come to realization that is obvious in hindsight. A missile's flight computer wouldn't think the same way a ship's would.

Whereas the ship thinks in terms of rotation rates and speeds, a missile instead thinks in terms of relative rotations and stuff like that. In practice, this means I'm putting a PID on top of a PID which is kind of silly and I should just skip the middle man and have the guidance directly control the thrusters.

Webm related is a missile that's being driven by physics and a flight computer but all it's being told to do is spin at 5 degrees per second.

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If you have the ability to go anywhere how do you hide secrets the best?

>>162362652
>Area doesn't look like you could go there
>You actually can
Why is this hard?

>>162362749
Yeah but there's a difference between hiding stuff in the background and zelda cdi levels of shitty background/foreground art combos. Trying to think about how not to do the later.

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tfw too quick.

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Quick Unity2D question from a newbie retard.
I want to make it so when I click once, a Raycast happens and once it collides with the ground it nets me the position of the ground element and then it assigns the y coordinate of it to a Float which I eventually use in a different vector.
It works fine and dandy at first however when i try different altitudes it takes two clicks for the changes to the Float to occur. How do I make it so it only takes one click?

I need a lore for why people can change skillsets without changing their character

pls help

>>162363809
They're changing strategies or have multiple personalities/souls.

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How much コーヒー have you had today, devs?

>>162362598
I'm starting to question the value in fully simulating missiles to the same extent that I do the ship to begin with.

>>162363930
I don't usually drink コーヘー

>>162363930
None, I drink お茶

>>162364008
>へ
oops

>>162363930
I had a cup of ちんぽ汁

>>162361780
Looks juicy but you can't see crap in front of you.

>>162364183
H

Where do I start with game development for the Raspberry Pi?

>>162364519
Do you own a Raspbery Pie?

>>162364609
Maybe

>>162364668
Start by ascertaining you own a Raspberry Pi

>>162364769
Stole one from my school, as in they never asked for it back

>>162358254
shadowplay and webmconverter

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This card will replace the "you rest at home" message at the top of the screen from pre-alpha

Is it comfy enough?

>>162351781
Do you really need to know how it works if you can make it work? All I care to understand about quaternions is that they're a generalization of complex numbers where instead of 1 real and 1 imaginary component (for 2 degrees of freedom including magnitude), you have 1 real and 3 imaginary components (for 4 degrees of freedom including magnitude).

>>162364405
the view is something we need to work on. essentially since the game has so much freedom of movement we might need to adjust how it works...

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how do I get a publisher for my game if it has bad grafixs?

>>162366389
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAI5W7Y5H28

>>162366389
put a bunch of screenshake and explosions and pitch it to devolver

BUT!! you gotta remember to make all the colours neon and also make it have a synthpop soundtrack, thats the most important part

I'm tired of doing art. God damn, let me program some cool shit or something.

>>162366389
Screenshake and filters.

>>162365621
It's not bad. Pretty orderly but some people like to keep things in order. Looks like whoever lives here was an orderly person but recently has started to let things slip.

>>162365969
Zooooooooooom out

>>162366480
thanks dude.

>>162367640
>>162366675
what if I'm a smart guy and only make the GUI shake rather than the entire screen causing people to vomit uncontrollably?

>Monogame/XNA
>GameMaker: Studio
>Unity

I want to make a 2d shop simulator what should I use

>>162347793
Understand the difference between type and class. The type of something dictates what you are allowed to do with it. An interface (in C++, a class with all pure virtual methods) is purely a type, but as soon as you add constructors, implementations, statics, etc. you now have a class and more than a type. In the same way that you can subclass, you can subtype, and so an object can have more than one type. All of the objects have to have the same type in some way, but you can have objects of different class in the same generic container (assuming it's a homogeneous container in the first place, but this is almost always the case).

Also what >>162348815
is saying about polymorphism: that's subtype polymorphism specifically. There's also parametric polymorphism, which is how generics work (std::vector is for all intents and purposes parametrically polymorphic over the element type), and ad hoc polymorphism, which is exhibited by function overloading and template specialization.

>>162368157
>2d
Not Unity.

>>162368123
if you really want people to vomit, make the whole window shake around

>>162368239
stop the meme
Unity is good for 2D, just not for pixel games

>>162368157
for your own good if you want to make a game gamemaker

>>162368308
So use Monogame, got it.
I'm more interested in engine-devving because I have no art.

>>162368157
Depends on what you already know, what platforms you're targeting, and if you're going pixel or vector?

If you have no experience, game maker because it's simple.

If experience, I'd recommend Monogame or Unity as you have a bit more control.

If pixel, game maker as it handles pixel perfect collision a lot easier than the other choices with less headache unless you specifically want to use mono/unity.

If you're targeting multiple platforms, unity would be a much cheaper option than game maker as the modules are extremely expensive.

I'd put my money on game maker.

>>162368308
>gamemaker for a game almost entirely about menus

That is a horrible suggestion. Use Unity, anon. The timesaving built-in UI scaling etc features will prevent you from committing suicide.

>>162368157
>menus and more menus
Godot.

>>162362886
Except people buy generic games all the time?

>>162368691
generic games with bad graphics?

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>>162368473
Gamemaker is okay for games like that though

>>162368778
That's a whole different matter

>>162368427
>Monogame or Unity as you have a bit more control.
Don't imply that you don't have orders of magnitude more still with MonoGame.

>>162368820
As someone who's built menu-centric game maker games and menu-centric unity games, GM:S will smash you upside the damn face if you want to make such a game in it.

Unity welcomes you in and gives you the tools you need to do it quickly.

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how do you write a game story?

do you guys have it all written down?

do i need to write like a movie script?

>>162369164
Just do what seems fun

>>162369164
Depends on how big an element you want the story to be. Some games need lots of attention, time, and structure-solving to have a good companion script. Other games just need a quick excuse and you're off to the races.

Don't feel the need to write a movie script if all you're making is a peggle clone. On the flipside, if you're making an Adventure game, you best approach it like you're writing a novel.

>>162368297
It does the job but it's not optimized as well as something like monogame

>>162357018
i told you retards not to waste time on a dead jam that nobody wanted and only had 11 entered people with like 5 submissions

>>162365621
nice cassette player

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>>162369164
>>162369297
Also, if you're having trouble getting inspired, don't feel bad about picking up resources like this thing http://www.enginepublishing.com/eureka-501-adventure-plots-to-inspire-game-masters

It's saved my bacon more than once when I just needed a plot I could riff off of and mutate that was already mostly figured out and interesting.

The next game I'm making is built off this example story.

>>162369164
Any story of worth needs to at least have events and character interactions worked out on paper before even trying to implement any of it.

Unless you're AAA in which case you're being paid too much to bother with stupid bullshit like story and character motivation

>>162369164
Just write it like you're writing a script, yes. Because you need to have the camera positioning, the actual dialogue, the lighting, the scene itself and the character's movements all outlined and planned out to make it all work together in conjunction.

>>162368051
Working on a way to pan the camera

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Got player damage implemented! Unityfriends, do you have any idea how you go about making instantaneous animation transitions happen? Basically, I have the player's two damage animations tied to the "Any State" event in the Animator, with no Exit Time, and this works 90% of the time. However, if the player is in the middle of an animation transition, such as if the player is transitioning from walking back into idling after the player releases a movement key, and the player is hit, that transition will finish before the player transitions to the damage animation.

I tried doing some Google-fu and reading up on Interruption Order and such, but it didn't really get me anywhere.

>>162369491
Where is your game?

>>162369164
Leave it out. Just make your game without tacking on a story. You don't need it.

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>>162363980
Missile guidance in zero G is weird.

I was thinking I might be able to just have the missile turn and vector itself in with the main rocket, but that doesn't work because then the missile will have to start flying perpendicular and will eventually even start flying backwards to try and get the vectors it needs.

To prevent it from flipping over on itself and slowing itself down dramatically, I added a seeker gimbal limit which has the missile trying to keep the target within that limit. It's set to 30 degrees in this webm.

I added a small amount of linear and angular drag to make the calculations simpler while working on it, but I think I'm definitely going to need to have lateral thrusters firing to help straighten out the velocity a bit. It seems unworkable without it. I was hoping that I could save lateral thrusters to only be used after the main engine burns out.

>>162370328
What an enormous presumption.

>>162370376
It's the truth you pretentious dick disease.

>>162362886
Because a lot of AGDG devs are doing it purely as a hobby.
Also, generic games are always good practice.

>>162362891
How does player mobility stop you from hiding secrets the traditional way?

>Want to start back up on my game
>Remember that I am not an artist and suck at art and will never be able to do anything but ascii
Help
How do I learn to pixel art

>>162370682
Same way you learn regular art

it's time to give up anon

>>162370909
>tfw want to give up but past the give up line

>>162370464
>vns don't need story guise

>>162370957
never too late to give up

>>162370850
w-what's that

>>162370909
I give up every day

>>162342835
>>162342186
>my gamedev unrelated image is better than your gamedev unrelated image
Fucking retards, both sides of the discussion.
How about using any of the ton of agdg related pics we have on dropbox? no? never thought about that?

>>162370682
>Not making a roguelike
>Nor recognizing the POWER OF PLACEHOLDERS

>>162370963
A VN is a story instead of a game.

>>162371063
loomis
Through practice and looking up techs on YouTube.

>>162371108
Which happens to be equivalent to never giving up when you think about it. , Just a little more depressive.

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>>162371129
Like this one?

>>162368882
I did not imply anything, Anon.
Don't imply that I was making implications.

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>>162371135
I was working on a roguelike a long time ago and I quit because I got a job

>>162371173
What about those LEARN TO DRAW PIXEL ART shit on like heartbeast studios and other sites?

Is it safe to post progress in our shitty games here even if we just lurked for a long time? Obviously it's not Shill tier progress, but I've never posted progress here before.

>>162371147
>instead of a game
opinion discarded

>>162371291
More tech. knowledge -> generally better than less tech. knowledge

>>162371319
Post progress.

>>162371063
Study fundamentals and practice

>>162371291
I miss your game even though I don't play roguelikes I liked seeing your progress.

>>162371263
Use this for the next OP

>>162370909
>give up on the slim chance that my game earn me enough money so that I dont have to work a monotonous job
Never

>>162371319
Hell yeah AGDG loves new dev's

The longer you stay the worse the comments get unless you choose to pander to their autistic needs

>>162371461
t-thanks...
I'm keeping my codebase and changing it into a shop simulator...but I need fucking art.....

>>162371351
>>162371509
I will remember this for when I post then, thank you! I always see literallywhos showing up and getting shitposted for it, so I don't want to seem like I was one of them.

>>162371509
>The longer you stay the worse the comments get unless you choose to pander to their autistic needs
Actually pandering devs get shit on more. Devs that just do their thing like mayhem league, that cat game and that maid game rarely get shit on.

>>162371351
>More tech. knowledge -> generally better than less tech. knowledge
I'm not sure what you mean by that senpai.

>>162371263
dumb animeposter

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>>162371494
I don't get why people complained about this one. It's subtle but it has everything
>coder
>artist
>musicbro
>agdg logo
>winter theme

>>162371613
The people shitposting shouldn't concern you. Discard their opinions. They want you to not make game because they don't make game. Don't let their jelly be the reason you don't post.

>>162371708
The more techniques you know, the more stuff you can do. Generally. But don't go around learning how to do specific stuff until you've gotten yourself what feels like a decent solid base.

>>162371592
So... Can I still marry her?

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Now in 3D. Maybe this'll work better when I get a leading solution. It's still "cheating" with simulated drag as well.

>>162371814
Literally yes.

>>162371759
It's just the anti anime shitposters who got doubly butthurt because they're too dumb to notice the logo. There's literally nothing wrong with it.

>>162370525
lots of secrets are hidden in out of the way places

>>162371759
except it's just 3 generic anime blobs in winter
your only proper point is agdg logo, but that's a very fickle link that can be added to literally anything

>>162371883
Niiice

>>162347298
I want to fuck this rabbit.

>>162372162
You can't fuck the rabbit.

>>162372109
But not if I don't learn how to make fucking art.

My tablet has lasted me about 3 years, but has just now died.
Any recommendations for a good inexpensive tablet for gamedev, and where to buy it?

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I've been working on this game for 3 years and still not even near a playable demo.

>>162372364
Anything wacom

What do you do when you realize you're shit and can't get better?
Nothing worse than having a problem that you think you can solve but when you try you realize you actually can't.

Where is the best place to learn Unity

what would be easier to make for somebody new to gamedev.

a metroidvania or a roguelite.

Metroidvania seems simple to code but huge scope, though it may just seem that way.
I know nobody would recommend somebody to make a metroidvania for their first game but if you keep it simple
like Cave Story maybe it's possible...idk.

Roguelite feels like it's small scope but hard to code.

>>162372364
Huion's not bad. If you're dirt poor and not on Win10: Monoprice.

>>162372654
Consult with folks who can or who do know. Or walk away for a while because the reason why you're unable to think of a way to solve it is that you're stuck on a particular approach to it.

You can also try the Rubber Ducky method, explaining the problem to some inanimate object -- the solution might come to you.

>>162372713
Youtube and doing it yourself.

>>162372754
Roguelite. Metroidvania requires a whole lot more combat planning, unless you mean the really early Metroid/Castlevanias that are too old to have the depth of fighting that later games had. Then either or works.

>>162372913
castlevania, yeah, but metroid hardly evolved combat wise from the original all the way to zero mission

>>162373057
Unreal or Unity /agdg/?

>>162373138
?

>>162373138
Either or would be fine for that type of game. Unreal probably has blueprints for it, though.

>>162373138
2D or 3D?

>>162372754
>Cave Story
i think pixel is/was a software developer, and cave story took him 5 years to make. just because something looks simple, doesn't mean it is simple.

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>>162373138
unreal is owned by the chinese

the choice is clear

>>162372510
>>162372780
Thanks

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R8 my player character

Okay aggydaggy, how can I make the AI understand bouncing creatures to the opponent's hand is far less good than removing them if the way it calculates the value of a move is tallying up the board state?

>>162373989
Ayy Lmao

>>162372754
Roguelite's are popular among indie devs because they make saving/loading much simpler.

For that reason, I think they're actually much simpler to code.

>>162373989
Furry/10

>>162373989
boobeyes

>>162372029
But they don't have to. You can block secrets with suspicious scenery or hazards.
Consider pic related. This grey buzzsaw follows a horizontal path between two openings in a vertical shaft.
A normal player would jump down the shaft when the buzzsaw's out of the way. A curious player would notice the suspicious extra space in the left opening, large enough for the stickman to stand in without getting hit, and drop there to find out it leads to a hidden passage.

>>162372754
I'm doing a Metroidvania as one of my first real projects. It's a nightmare. You need to think small to make it work. I mean REALLY small. Scale down scale down scale down scale down. Then scale down some more because it's always 'still too big'. Cut out the superfluous until you've got the bare minimum of your idea.

Also Cave Story is a gigantic, complex game. If you're looking for simple Metroidvanias check out, I dunno, Within a Deep Forest. It's not overly ambitious and gets everything right.

>>162374024
Assign weight to actions?

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>>162374303
(Forgot pic, obviously)

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Alchemy Game

>>162374094
I think there's another, far more clever, reason.
In a capitalist market game design is restricted by a product's commercial viability. Arcade devs made games difficult so that the player had to spend more quarters to beat them, and short because it was impractical for one person to stay by the machine for a few hours. Likewise the indie roguelite is intended to make a very short game commercially viable by tapping into the myth of the roguelike, where being short and hard and requiring you to start over every time is accepted by the consumers. You can spread very little content over dozens of hours by making the player accept repeating the same few bits over and over again. This is why I favor the format myself.

There are many other advantages: the format is typically system-focused so you can skimp on expensive things like narrative. There are only a few stages so you don't need as many graphical or musical assets. Procedural generation lends itself to streaming, which is a good form of free advertising.

>>162374072
>>162374238
Are the eyes too big?

>>162374314
I supose that's the right answer. It is just that as of now value is measured by consequences, not the actions themselves. Weighting the action itself properly is bound to be very hard since bouncing some things is way better than bouncing others in a way that is not necessarily related to killing some things being way better than killing others.

>>162374743
If they're going to be that big, they should be a little less uh... baggy. That's why they look like jellyboobs -- they're folded over the skull.

>>162374396
thanks doc

>>162372370
I've always liked your game though. maybe set yourself a goal to have something ready for dd12