/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

>>163329314
Thanks.

>>163329317
No, but I'm trying.

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I decided to change how entering and exiting the hovercraft works, and that made it easy to add multiple vehicles so I did. Now you can drive this pink cube car and these hovercrafts that look suspiciously like f35s.

>>163329653
>suspiciously f35-esque hovercar leaves the screen
Probably not the best way to leave the player feeling in control.

>>163329761
There will be boundaries in actual levels to keep that from happening. They're just set not to draw outside of the camera view and room boundaries.

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>>163329653
People are cosplaying him already

>>163329483
What project are you going to use Aseprite for anyway?

>have to download and install two other programs to install aesprite
Is there a compiled version out already?

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Reposting:

Is the anon who said they were going to make music for pic related in this thread? I just want to make sure I didn't miss it

>>163330223
If you pay the stupid tax.

>>163330223
Yeah. You can get it by donating some bucks to a good cause.

>>163330252
[sweats nervously]

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>>163330115
Oh wow my first fan-art! I'm flattered.

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>>163297381
this might be my demo boss, but I hooked up the player controller to it just for fun.
might have a weird void/dark/null themed level, I got some good ideas.

you ever make a character you don't wanna see get hurt though?

shitty motion blur is for dramatic effect, won't have it in game

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>Spend two hours making a somewhat okay animation for the title screen when it's clicked
>Can't figure out how to make it stop playing even when it's not clicked

Should I just not use sub images in game maker?

>>163330910
I think the better solution is to work on the basic mechanics of playing animations before the animations themselves

So in unity does gameobject.find and getcomponentinchildren not work on UI/Canvas objects?

>>163331047
It does work. What are you trying to do?

>>163331031
I'm trying but I'm better at the art than the actual programming.

>>163331179
git gud

>>163330910
>Should I just not use sub images in game maker?
Oh boy.
image_speed = 0

>>163330815
creepy af

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Screw this, need to tweak that a bit but I'm making the game for myself to begin with so I'm keeping this.

Shit's too funny.

>>163331161
Basically I have a UI in scene that has info for the player. I want to find the input field first of all.

Next I have a canvas where one of the children is a text object with a script attached that changes the text of it.

So in the Start() function of the player I find the canvas element, disable it, and re-enable it when a button is pressed, get the input and then send it to my text element. Which will then change the text and after a certain amount of time fade the text and turn it off.

Problem is when I type gameobject.find("inputfield") it doesn't find it. I've copied and pasted the name of the input field, and it's never disabled before the initial disable (but it never finds the object so it doesn't work) And in hierarchy it's enabled when the null error comes.

The same with getcomponent in child. I'm looking for that script I mentioned earlier to send the text to. But it never finds it. The structure is player->playerCanvas->text and GetComponentInChildren won't return the component despite it being there and it being recursive.

>>163331623
Upload an image of your canvas and its children.

>>163331506
>I'm making the game for myself
love this meme

i don't love any of these games i'm making so i can't ever finish what i start. what drug alleviates this problem?

>>163332172
inspiration and creativity

>>163332172
Cocaine so you finish them before you have time to grow bored of them.

>>163331980
What's so meme about it?

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>>163332172
watching Heat over and over

>>163332347
you're make it to eventually sell.

>>163332356
Actually I don't for this one.

>>163332604
alri m8

>>163332172
Sounds like ADHD. Imageboards are ADHD magnets too. So Ritalin/Adderall alleviate the problem, at least that what they're designed to do and do do in most cases.

>tfw dev 12 hours day
>progress is still slow as fuck even though my scope ain't that big
this is just depressing, i literally dev all day and it's moving this slowly, so when i have to find a job 3 months from now and will be able to dev like 2 - 3 hours/day i will be pretty much fucked and never finish

>>163334036
Its strange how little progress happens for hours of effort

If its asset creation I can understand art taking a long time, but why does programming take forever?

>>163334108
I don't know.
Like I have this idea of what I want to code and it sounds so simple in my head like 30 minutes of work at most.. and then it's suddenly midnight 10 hours latter and only then i finally finish.. and looking back the code wasn't that complicated or huge but it still took so long to make..

>>163334257
>>163334036
Yeah it's the same for me, really frustrating, but it does get a little better as you gain more experience. Depending on the case though, quite some time can be saved by first trying to find the most efficient design possible (but you're probably already doing that). I mean sometimes I just start programming but it really only serves to clarify what I'm trying to do and what is needed and then I start fresh with a new approach and it is a lot faster

I've been coding nonstop for like 48 hours and my code is a mess

It was just for fun and learning anyway, so I'm planning to rewrite all of it so its more manageable

Does anyone have any tips for making manageable code?

>>163331506
Is this some kind of MMetroidvania? Looks cool

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>Try to get collision detection all evening
>Spatial partitioning improves the performance slightly
>Performance improved slightly more by only checking collisions during second pass if there's a "reactor" collision object
>Still chugs down from thousands to < 100 if there's a couple dozen items clustered together
Why god, why

>>163334590
>Does anyone have any tips for making manageable code?
Don't stay up for 48 hours

>>163334590
Just the normal advice I guess, try to keep different elements of the system separated and make them agnostic about what's going on in the larger picture. And be very precise about who knows what and who manages what. Often in games programming you to make some decisions about gameplay as well in order to be able to do that, and have some idea about how extensible certain systems need to be

>>163334770
You should measure frame time instead of FPS, and then implement some profiling for your functions or parts of it, or use something that does it for you, if available in your IDE. In the grand scheme of things it's pretty helpful if you have some system where you can simply "mark" a function or segment of code and it will automatically give you debug and performance information somewhere without having to rewrite or insert it at each point

>>163335131
Im pretty sure visual studio give timing info as part of its debugger

>>163335312
Yeah the VS profiler is great but I'm not sure whether the dev uses VS. The VS profiler gives a list of incoming and outgoing calls from each function and how much time is spent in these various levels of the call stacks

What program are you guys using for screen recording?

>>163335560
I am the dev. I'm using vs community right now so I'm not sure what the limitations are since I'm used to just using enterprise, but still...somethings very wrong when it just immediately plummets exponentially like that.

Holy shit not being able to use 2D vectors as a self-contained structure in Game Maker and instead having to split every fucking vector operation into x1, y1 , x2 , y2, etc. is driving me fucking insane. It's already nearly 2017 why is something like this allowed?

>>163335765
Fraps

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Too epileptic?

>>163335875
I mean I don't know what your algorithm looks like. It looks like you have a lot of stuff there. 50 items = 2500 checks? 300 fps means you're spending 3 ms, whereas previously you were at 0.5 or so doing essentially nothing. Even if you did the collisions in 1 ms you'd still be below 1000 fps from that baseline. That's why fps is a deceiving

>>163336186
I wouldnt call it epileptic, but it does hurt my eyes after a couple seconds.

POST PROGRESS

>>163336290
Well since i want the game to focus on wading through pools of loot drops ill need to efficiently deal with clusters. If i spread out my test drops across thr map the frame rate is in the hundreds even with hundreds and thousands of objects

>>163336186
this is me typing from the hospital following an epilepsy attack cause by your gif, you will be hearing from my lawyers soon

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>>163336339
I'm still merely following this beginner tutorial though

>>163337578
It's okay anon. You have to start somewhere.

>>163336339
I added 26 palettes to the game. Now I just have to apply them to the color keyed sprites ingame.

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Got the thrusters hooked up to the engine, so now they fire corrently based on how the ships turns and moves. Now I just have to hook the two big thrustets too and that will be it. The next to make will be probably some weapons for the ship like missiles or machine guns

its christmas break
why are you all sleeping
get to work

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>>163336339
new skills

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>>163336339
fixed ass

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>>163336339
I made two bosses today, Brain Knight and Radical Rex(working titles).

>>163340206
[faps monochromatically]

>>163340206
Hawt

>>163340195
why does this look like chinese mobile game?

>>163341354
>half the world is chinese
>they all have phones
good idea

>>163332356
that's just a bonus

>an editor class
>holding a definition of scriptable object classes
>hoding the static methods making menus to instantiate them

I know what I'm doin'

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dumping

>tfw want to update my 7 year old pc for my deving tools to run better
>tfw too scared it will tempt the to waste time by playing games instead

>>163342592
Just to let you know: I'm saving it. Thanks for sharing!

>>163342637
That's a real fear, my dear anon. You've got to stay strong, man!

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>>163342642
No prob bob.

>>163336186
neato burrito

>>163340175
Some of us are AT work (or for me rather 8 hours a day of on site training and 2 hours of paid exercise).

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easing function not working properly

>>163329412
>> Engines
>tools.aggydaggy.com/engines
>
>> Helpful links
>Website: tools.aggydaggy.com
Why should their be two links to the same website?

>>163343483
Once a guy couldn't open a link to a Demo Day to find out when will it occur because of reasons, so I think there's a need for spoon feeding.

>>163342248
>>163342336
>>163342489
>>163342592
>>163342684
>>163342796
>>163342901
>not linking your posts together so one can quickly save/open them all

>>163343601
>responding to op shitposting

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>>163336339
My file is too big for 4chan
https://youtu.be/G_zanhgugRM

>>163342637
The guild of not deving won't make you play games long trust me.

>>163344529
>the guild of nodevs
Where can I join this cult?

>>163344625
You're already here

Do any of you fags even use version control?

>>163344687
if you don't use it, you're bound to fail

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>>163342914
okay screw easing, it is linear and working now


i still havent made the actual game! i have to deliver this by the 24th!

>>163344687
i used to (usually svn but also git) now i only use github for free static file sharing (as a kind of free CDN) and I use dropbox / syncthing.

sometimes i have actually wanted to go back to previous versions though, but whatever, idgaf about anything at all anymore

you waste too much time dealing and caring with / about things.

just type. no time for bullshit.

>>163340464
Reminds me of those old DOS shareware games I'd play as a kid for some reason.

>>163344625
>how do I join

No anon, the question you need to ask is how do I leave?

>>163344782
Is this for winter jam?

>>163344687
I wish there was a local version control system that made a commit every time any file was changed/added/removed automatically.

So if you use notepad, just saving the file would trigger a commit.

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>>163344785

>>163344865
when you have thousands of commits, without actual comments, then you have no idea where you want to go back to.
Better to manually commit things when they are in a state that you like

>>163344930
You have timestamps though.

>>163344852
yes

>>163344785
Damn, Metroid got SWOLE

>>163344865
There is git annex assistant, I don't know how well it works with windows though

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>>163344869

>>163344687
Yeah. There was a gap where I didn't, but then an anon suggested using SourceTree and it makes my dick rock hard. It's relatively easy to set up, and it's compatible with all version controls. I'm using it with gitgut.io at the moment.

>>163344965
so?
are you going to check all commits made a week ago?
every time you save it creates a commit, then you got like what? 500 commits?
are you insane?
disorganised information is just as bad as no information at all

>>163344865
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18862?locale=en_US

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17128/windows-8-file-history

>>163345037
that armor looks bad and out of place.

>>163345045
>SourceTree
Mmm nice. Thanks anon.

>>163344785
>>163344869
>>163345037
The real beauty of those are in the textures. If you can't draw then you're still fucked.

I should've learned to draw when I had the chance, now I barely even have enough free time for game dev, let alone learning another skill on top of that.

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>>163345087
You're mom looks bad and out of place.

>>163345048
no he means like you are just typing and coding for hours, and end up in a dead end, with a heavily fucked up code base, now you just want to cut your losses, you call it quits on this endevaour and would be happy merely to just go back to the last working state
of course you never checked in any in-betweens or did the crazy shit in a branch or anything, you just fucking did it

and now you just wish you could teleport back in time, you'd check 30 mins ago, 1 hour ago, 1 1/2 hour ago, and get the most recent version that was the least fucked up, and resume from there

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>>163345201

>>163345226
or just use version control the way it's supposed to be used?

or I don't know CTRL + Z?!?!

>>163345349
>?!?!
nice

>>163345324
what's with the dumpy face though

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>>163345324

>>163345349
what if you dont want to? what if you forget? dont feel like it? what if your power goes out?

or just have the computer with 2tb per $90 hdd do everything in case you decide to want it

human time > invisible computer background work

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>>163345454
One day I will make a low poly mecha game. One day.

>>163345324
This is bad

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.

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>>163345616

>>163345605
what?

>>163345662
Overly detailed mecha best mecha

>spend hours working on stuff
>load it up the next day
>none of it is there
>it's not in the version I backed up to dropbox
>not in the version I saved to a usb
I have no idea what happened, but I think I'm going to just quit now. It's instantly destroyed any desire I have to keep working on this project.

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>>163345695

>>163345774
Don't give up, anon. It's a test. Life is testing if you truly want to game dev or not. Don't let it win. Punch back and make it your bitch.

>>163345774
Why aren't you working direclty in the dropbox version? Dropbox keeps track of old versions of the files doesn't it?

>>163345774
if you're giving up after the first setback you weren't going to make it very far anyway

get angry and make it again, iteration is important

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>>163345778

>ah yes i will restrict myself to artificial limits not found on the nostalgia system I've never played
>I can't wait to see how good this looks on my 1080+ monitor

>>163345774
now post what you had of your game

>>163345774
It's happened to me before. Just gotta make it again. It sucks, but that's how it goes.

>>163344687
Sort of. I don't use it properly by any means.

>>163345978
You do know that all games use low poly models, right? It's just that modern models use normal maps and bump maps and all that sort of stuff to emulate a high resolution model.

>>163346059
Bokube doesn't

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>>163345978
Who are you quoting?

What is the best way to learn C# for Unity?
Following the tutorial doesn't really help me. I still have no idea how to code. There are just so many weird terms and it's all so complicated.

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>>163346161

Currently I have a single class that represents all enemy types, with just a Move() and Attack() method that calls different behaviours based on an enum that I set. What's the proper way to do this? Should it be a different script for each enemy type that just inherits the base one, should I be using switches, or what?

>>163346114
I hope he at least uses LODs. Most of his game the characters are tiny as hell, and wouldn't need many faces to make look good.

>>163346278
nightmarefuel.gif

>>163346059
No you nigger, AAA games use medium/high poly models together with normal maps.

Yes, they had an even HIGHER poly model to base that map off, but that doesn't make a 50k poly model into "low poly" as far as video games are concerned. (Since Low/High poly means different things for movies and games.)

>>163345616
Is your pic even low poly? It looks real fucking good.

Also I like how the bottom right tank looks like a Pokemon evolution of the center right tank.

>>163346278
use a name when dumping those for the 100th time so I can hide your posts

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Gonna viral for a bit.

If you need music for you game, we do that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpZoH41PIos

Contact me at : [email protected]

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>>163346278

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>>163346568
Sure. After you post your game

>>163346571
Not going to lie, that's the dumbest fucking video I've ever seen. What the fuck do you hope to promote with that?

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>>163346619
thanks

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>>163346619

>>163346203
https://www.amazon.com/C-Players-Guide-2nd/dp/0985580127
I learned with this book. It's really nice and up-to-date.

>>163346324
polymorphism of the enemy class
polymorphic behaviors
DFAs
etc. lots of options

>>163346578
disgusting

>>163346571
>>163346656

Why are you swearing, son?

>>163330815
my dick
post more

>>163330815
why are you trying to make everything in your game sexual

>>163346571
well, the video was meh, but i loved the music. you have my attention anon. now keep it

>>163346817
Because the ignorance is astounding to the point where they really need to rethink their marketing strategy.

>we make music
>let's post an example of one song
>let's use boring text
>let's not show any success stories

Like seriously, Alaicc is fucking retarded if that's the strategy for their trailers they're going with. It ain't going to bring anyone in. And I say this being part of their target audience too. Do it over, seriously. It's not that I want them to fail, I'm not so mean-spirited as to want them to fail, but that video is not helping much. They need to step it up.

Also the other part of the cussing is slight exaggerations. It's bad, but it really isn't THAT bad.

In GM, is it possible to make a stage that seamlessly wraps around? Like, if I made a level in a 2D platformer that was a giant tree, the player could walk to the right and eventually come back to their starting point.

>>163346991
it really was though.
>no sample reel in the video
>hurr durr here's the definition of music for five hours
>more WE CAN DO IT rhetoric
>let's waste your time and attention by linking instead to a playlist

Scream amateurs trying to look """professional"""

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How do you manage to keep going even when everything is so bad and wrong

I just want to end my existence

>>163347259
this is why you make asteroids first.
>>163347313
the day dreams will kill me if i don't get it out

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>>163347313

>>163346571


>>163346974
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLJSIHOjitQ&list=PL_v9tJP-ndj8XW35kIXRFkmIIQtX1VbeZ

Check the showcase, it will further your interest m8

>>163346991
The video is supposed to be one song, its thematic. Videos where they show a random selection are not cohesive, and I did not want that.

That is what the showcase is for, it has categorised examples, so everyone can get a good idea about the variety.

It did bring people in, but if you have any actual suggestions besides "boring text" , I am all ears.

>>163347423
>posts actual suggestions
>I don't want that so they don't count
>that's what the showcase is for

And this is why you're still an amateur. Do you understand that by the end of the video, you will have typically made or lost your customers based on the content on it? Especially if that's what you're showing off as the face of your label. If you really think you can afford to have users move away from the page the video is on to even get an idea of whether or not they CAN use your services is going to bring in a ton of people, you're fucking insane and need to rethink everything. That is, unless you don't actually WANT to make money, then, you know, whatever right? Because all I know about that video is that you can make techno. What else can you make? Are you good at working with developers? What's your process of working with us like? You have failed in that video and you need to rethink things. I wish you success though.

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What's the proper way to be doing this?

>>163347827
S W I T C H
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>>163346571

>>163347631

I was going to address all your points, but

> know about that video is that you can make techno

What video did you even watch?

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>>163347857

>>163347827
switch (enemyType)
{
case EnemyType.Patrol:
PatrolMovement();
break;
//etc
}

>>163347857

Anon how can anyone be developing for that right now? It's not even out yet, you stop being silly.

>>163347892
pomf shotgun when

>>163347892
>>163347857

didn't mean to reply mb

>>163347892
No problem m8.
Also if you only have a function call, you don't need the braces.
Put that shit on the same line.

>>163347889
>>163346571 this one. But I think I'm wrong at labeling it as techno. My bad. My ears are unfortunately not good, so it is hard to tell between that sort of style and techno. My apologies. But that error also is not relevant to any of the things I said though.

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Why did a game like this take 3 years to make? With the size of the team they had it looks like it should have taken a month at most.

>>163347827
enemy->movement();

>>163348110
Game had some troubled development. I agree it shouldn't have been a 3 year job but certainly longer than a month.

>>163346991


>>163348106
See, this is a problem, because the video is designed to be a musical experience, since we are a music label, the song being a carrier for the information in the video.

I agree that it is not very informative, but the thought process behind it is that people go, 'that song is great, I will listen to their other songs and contact them.

However, you provided some very important bussiness related information that should be included, I will keep the video, but improve the description and our website so that everything is perfectly clear.

Can you give me a list of the most important pieces of info, you as a customer, would need?

>>163348110
Because you have no grasp of what it takes to develop a game.

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>>163348110
Tendo devs spent most of that time fapping over midna.

>>163348515
>IT'S ART DON'T YOU SEE ITS SUPPOSED TO BE LIKE THIS

Just awful. You know those movie or game trailers that are so generic it hurts, and you wonder why people ever thought they were good or attention grabbing?

That's your video.

>>163348592
Midna is such a slut. Link should just dump zelda for her since it's not like she's going to give him any.

>>163348271
That was a bit of a hyperbole, 6 months to a year more likely

>>163348538
Pretty sure I do.

>>163348515
idk, im not entirely convinced that providing a sample video is a bad idea, personally i think this one, e.g., is a good example of one that doesnt seem like a train wreck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-i7xQqQ8eA&t=33

but i get where you are coming from

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hey senpai.

I apologize this never became more lewd.
Haven't been here in a while. Don't think I will make DD12 but figured I would post all the powers I have so far...

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I think since this is like razor leaf when you throw it at a fire enemy then it won't be effective and just burst into flames

>>163348515
I think firstly would be to show what kind of styles you can do (or say that you can do anything if you don't want to do that, but you best be prepared to back up that ANYTHING, otherwise you need to inform the user what your musical limitations are. You need to hook your users fast with a "good lord I'd love this in my game!" and you have to hit them hard. This will probably be the biggest chunk of the video.

Then you need to go into how it's like to work with you. You don't really need anything too detailed, but you should show a bit of the process. There's different kinds of musicians, those who work directly with their end users, and those that receive an order, make it, and drop it off. At the very least you need to identify which of those you are. This shouldn't be very long.

Then you need to promote some of your end users, show off your credentials. What games or projects have you worked on? Some encouraging comments would be good.

Lastly, a call to action of some sort. Hopefully you have a motto that works well with this, you'd use it then.

That's a basic breakdown of what you'd need. I can't think of anything else. Perhaps watch some informercials, they're typically very good at such breakdowns. Also looking into how to give a good proposal speech is a good thing, the breakdown for good marketing videos is very similar.

I hope that's been helpful.

>>163348762
Pretty sure you don't. Also increased size doesn't "directly" correlate with decreased development time.There are certain slopes and diminishing returns. The bigger the team, the more time you have to spend fitting together the pieces of various programmers. I'd even go as far as to say that for small or medium sized games, having more than 3-5 programmers would make the development time slower. Too many chefs in the kitchen and all that.

>>163348906
>>163349021

Oh wow, this is cool.

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I don't know if I should do the same with this sword since it kinda looks like a grass blade

Also those damage numbers are just temporary I don't think I will keep them they're there for bebuggin

>>163349075
That is very helpful.

Thank you for not just pointlessly hating on the internet like its usual here, and actually being constructive.

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For this power I was thinking it would be really powerful but only if you are standing in the sun, like a solar beam or something.... so if you are in a shady spot it won't be as effective and if you are in a dungeon you can't do it at all.

>>163349194
Ahh, I don't like to shitpost in here. I may be wrong sometimes when I argue, and may be rude, but I feel like these threads are our holy land, so to speak. I don't like shitting them up at all. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get on getting to yesdevving.

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mandatory spike attack

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This hammer attack is wip. I still need to add a charging animation. It won't always send a shockwave bullet like this. When you release right mouse button you attack and the longer you hold it down the more powerful it is.

>gif

nah m8

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finally the classic suck and blow mechanic. I think I am going to need to nerf this somehow.

>>163349415
>Play as peach. Can morph into different fruits. >Here you see the peach become durian.
>14.99usd on Steam now
>1 million sales

>>163349739
I think enough was taken from Nintendo without Peach getting involved

>>163349598

thanks for you input

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>>163347313
I must do it. There isn't a day I don't want to give up but I must go on, for the sake of lovely bidimensional girls. My feelings of despair are just one of the many obstacles to overcome.

>>163348592
I can see that happening and I can't blame them

>>163347398
Yeah, but Asteroids wraps around the screen in a Pac-Man kind of way. I'm talking about having a room that tiles with itself to the left or right infinitely

>>163350474
It's literally just a matter of your camera perspective.

>>163350474
the trick is draw event shenanigans combined with standard pac-man/asteroids wrap plus accounting for collisions near the wrap area so you don't end up with shit that flies under the radar just because it went through the wrap boundary in a very specific way

>>163350474
It's piss easy if you have control of what you're drawing on the screen. If you don't, then, well, that's a problem.

>>163349667
I love your walls and floor. How'd you do them?

>>163349667
Wow, I thought you were just memeing back then. I'm happy that you are keep on going. Keep it up, nice progress!

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>>163344782
okay it is 1:43am i should try to sleep

but tomorrow i start on the actual gameplay, i will have only 1 day to make it playable

>>163347827
I don't understand why you would ever use a single class for all your enemy types. It's going against OOP.

Make a parent class with all the shared functionality and then make child classes for Patrol, Chaser, Random and Rooted.

>go to post programming problem in thread
>figure it out immediately after typing it

wow, so rubber duck programming really does work.

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I decided to say fuck it and figure out the full function of the downward moves later, during creation of the next boss, so for now they are kind of barebones in terms of utility. Although the ground version is probably your best crouching attack so there is that.

Down fire on the ground is a crouching spin attack. You can use this while dashing/sliding to keep your speed for the attack until it ends or you cancel it in various ways. Down Fire in the air is also a spin attack. Holding down the attack button will continue the spin. The hitbox is rather large.

One left to go, but I actually know what I want it to do this time.

>>163351837
What language is that?

>>163352253
Yeah, it's why I talk to myself when I'm programming.

>>163352565
>Yeah, it's why I talk to myself when I'm programming.
yeah... sure, that's why

>>163352457
C

>>163352695
Believe it or not, it is. I can work out the solutions easier when I'm talking to myself.

It might be some sort of mild schizophrenia but who cares, I program better this way.

>>163352826
I do the same when I'm facing a more complex algorithm.

I guess: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging

fuck that weeb shit

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>>163352385
I genuinely hope you get an artist fit for the level of polish you're putting into the gameplay mechanics anon. You're a fuckin inspiration.

But leave the classic placeholder box character as a secret unlockable

https://kenney.itch.io/kenney-donation
How good is this pack? Is it worth it?

>>163353435
no
you will end up needing to make more art anyways.
It's just good for prototypes, that's all.
and even then, >>163352385
doesn't look too bad either

>>163353435
Isn't all of his stuff free?
It's fine for prototyping, but I don't think it would make for a good full game.

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>>163353223
Thanks anon. Yes placeholder shape graphics will be in the game in some form, or at the very least as an easter egg.

>>163352385
You are a better human being than I am or can ever hope to be.

>>163353964
that's the attitude!

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>>163351247

hey thanks.

literally like this

>>163354136
I hate being an artless pleb :(

>>163338512
Looking good. I check /agdg/ during the day so I can keep up with your project.

>>163352385
I want an in depth guide on how you handle all your combat system.

>>163354136
Looks cool, what software is it?

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>search for video tutorial on thing I want to do
>cute female voice starts speaking

>>163354494
You know, you can do it easily in Paint.NET or the Gimp if you wanted.

What you need for serious pixel art work is a graphics tablet and practice.

>>163354616
>practice
where can I download this?

should i mod minecraft or make my own minecraft in unity?

>>163354809
No

>>163354809
Minecraft is built on the foundations of Notch's lazy, incompetent coding. If you think you can do better, remake it.

>>163354494

It's TVPaint. What I like about it particularly is that it's streamlined for animating. It's not the best for pixel work. The reason I zoom so much is my wacom is really old and I don't feel like I have good control over it unless I'm zoomed in

>>163354346
thanks, so far things are going as planned

>>163354964
it looks like you have parkinsons

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>>163354471
I wouldn't know where to begin, and I'm sure my method could be way better, like how my old debug code for printing states was handled.

>>163355089
Aww

Is there anything inherently wrong with working with vectors in GM?

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how do I become the taco brown version of ZUN?

simply making small games with cute anime girls?

how much money does he makes per game?

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>>163355070

ur just jelous

>>163355231
Why would you want to be someone else? Do you hate yourself?

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Animation is hard.

I'm gonna make the big beam split in half and melt away to reveal the sword soon, maybe make the beam blink rapidly to give the illusion of transparency

>>163355231
One of the reasons touhou is so popular is because of the fanart. Japanese would never do fanart of your games since you are not japanese.

>>163355462
Almost there. Keep going.

>>163355720
reminder that there is high probability that half of posts like >>163354602 are written unironically

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>>163355918
Nah, I was totally being ironic.

>>163355462
May I ask what software is that?

>>163356772

Scroll up to his other reply anon. Come on now

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Importing from Game Maker 8 to Studio is bullshit.
>durr obsolete function
>durr compilation error
>durr variable not set even though it is
fucking idiots get your shit together

>>163356947
Ah, you are right. Sorry about that.

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rate.

ded thred

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>>163357085
>custom scripting languages

not even once

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>>163355231
>drink a lot of beer
>join a game circle at your japanese university and release several games while in it
>after graduating stop for a while so you can concentrate on your professional video game career
>make your big doujin comeback while still working as lead developer on two different games
>drink even more beer

>>163336186
yes, red is pulsing to brightly/darkly too quickly. Should be a softer ambience

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Happy Holidays to all the people of the world.

>>163357409
That's some slick as fuck animation on the cthulu bastard

>>163357182
Black Popeye?

>>163340206
this is quite a thorough composition. I'm going to share it on /pol/

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>>163357182
black Nigel Thornberry?

>>163349667
What engine?

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I've been considering replacing my sword combat with something else. It was always swords just by default because I started this for Zelda jam, but I'm doing experiments.

Honest opinions on boxing?
Didn't make the animations, they'll be replaced, just wondering as a concept.
Do you think this sort of thing would turn off Zelda fans? To me it seems more aggressive, even though it shouldn't compared to blades.

Any alternative ideas? Can be with/without a weapon.

>>163357493
yes.

>>163357606
no.

>>163357527
what

>>163358331
Impregnate

>>163358331
Reread/rewatch some my favorite hentai

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>>163346913
>>163346853
I didn't really intend for it to be sexual, but I suppose that's a good thing.

I was going for cute at most, hopefully a little scary in the context of the level

also blendshapes/shapekeys are fun and I'm glad unity supports their import from blender

>>163357630

construct 2

I really love it.

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Just finished reworking the garage, it's a lot less shit then before but still not there. Anyway, that's for later now back to upgrades and tuning

I miss working on gameplay

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Finalized this one

>>163358915
Heck yeah, I love seeing progress on this game.

>>163357670
Why not both?

>>163358783
>didn't intend for it to be sexual
>latex suit
Anon....

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>>163358331
abandon all hope

>>163354809
>>163354865
I feel like making it in Unity would be missing out on mods, without a lot of effort going into working around Unity itself.

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Which of these looks the best?

>>163357085

Agree. I just imported an old project and jesus fucking christ.

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>>163358783
Doesn't look sexual to me. Looks similar to Ghost of Starman. I like it.

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>>163360054
Its actually supposed to just be dark featureless voidy skin. maybe I should write a custom shader for it, but I kinda like the shiny.

>>163360360
4

>>163360360
3 or 4

>>163360726
Would it look better if I managed to trim the stroke of the top and bottom bits so they don't show up underneath the middle hexagons?

>>163360360
3

>>163360862
Maybe make them the darker orange colour instead of black.

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>havent devved in over a month because my main project is way too ambitious
>ready to give it up and move on to something more realistic, but i have no good ideas
>cant stop thinking about all the time and effort i put into my overly-ambitious main project
>know it will literally never be finished if i keep working on it, even though i want to so bad

Vidya dev is suffering. I'm walking this fine line between working on something I want to work on and something new that I actually might have a chance at finishing and even making money from.

>>163360862
I think 4 with the underneath lines trimmed would look best.

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>>163360927
That's what the original was (pic related), but I'm trying to have a consistent style for all of my assets, so that black outline is a must.

>>163360932
Use assets/ideas you've made from your old project, recycle it for a scaled down project anon. It only goes to waste if you allow it.

>>163361081
I mean just the outlines that are partially obscured.

>>163360932
>work on big project
>get a team when you finally have some awesome to show to people

That's my plan at least. I want a solid proof of concept demo and then I'll find a few people willing to profit share on the project.

>>163360490
god damn, that is similar. I suppose you can't escape that sort of thing though.

>>163360932
I started doing jam games for fun and it really helped. It helps you get a sense of doing games from start to finish, and It really helped trim my scope for my main game to something I know I can finish without cutting out the "dream" features. keep at it senpai

>>163361114
Oh, then yeah I can do that. Thanks for the input everyone!

>>163359575
Fuck you that looks so good. Did you make all of that?

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I'm a slow, procrastinating worker

>>163361109
>>163360932
you can also use jam games as a way to prototype some of your ambitious ideas/mechanics one by one

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>>163361378
Made the animation, different modeller made the gun and hands.

>>163348906
>>163349021


is it just me or for thast looks like kirby ?

>>163361602
the previous footage had the character inhaling the tops of mushroom enemies off to leave a bare mushroom stalk enemy, so it's safe to say that the similarity is intentional

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I refactored the physics in my simulation, now everything moves according to applied forces and collisions.
It doesn't make much sense that animals can just push plants around, but its cool that this just works without any special effort - if the collision is forceful enough and the plant has a small enough mass, it'll move.

>>163362094
but what is going to be about ? some sorta of kirby but in a "camera from the above" enviroment ?

>poonity

>>163362356
I dunno but I'd play that. The sequel to Wizard's Lizard has a similar thing going on with enemy possession and looks to be less mediocre than the first game.

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>>163361214
Starmen had a dull polish, no mouth, different shape, and insignias. You're good.

>>163348110
Hmmm why did a massive 40 hour game with massive areas, tons of intricately designed dungeons and complex, highly polished gameplay mechanisms that was being developed for two different consoles and utilizing brand-new controller technology while pushing the old hardware to the limit with visual effects take a slightly longer than average time in development?

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>>163349080
>Too many chefs in the kitchen and all that.

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How do these look?

>>163363210
left

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>>163359954
Man, I wish I could post a bit more progress but I've been working on almost nothing but menus and systems for the last few weeks so usually there isn't much to show off.

Pic semi-related, early stage heavy unit. Head looks a bit too gundam-y but I think the finished set is going to look baller

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Imagine a sword in her hand. How's this for a victory animation?

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>>163267075
I added a tile-based map system and a simple camera system so I can move around the map
webm came out pretty low quality and choppy, though

>>163363329
way too modest

>>163363210
preddy gud. can't go wrong with either one.

>>163363329
Could you make her jump?

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>>163364295
Like this?

>>163363715
What do you mean?

>>163364470
Yeah, but also doing the hand raising like in the first one.

>>163357670
>Do you think this sort of thing would turn off Zelda fans?
Last I heard Zelda fans were just gamers that liked cool games in general but if you're in a jam about making Zeldas you'll probably get one or two 14 year olds whining about how your Zelda isn't identical enough to Zelda.

>>163360932
>haven't done in one year and half since I got a job

>>163364649
But the hand raising is supposed to be her putting her weapon back in the imaginary sheathe on her back. Doing that while jumping sounds dangerous.

>>163363329
So she just stabs it into her head?

>>163357409
Now he has no children to carry him.

>>163364835
Yeah, the battle is over so she has no reason to go on living.

>>163364835
Harder to lose it that way.

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>>163364825
Ah, I'm sorry. I just thought it's a hand raising as in "yey, I did it!", and imagined that it could be accompanied by a jump.

>>163346278
That looks like garbage anon.

>>163365128
Oh yeah, I plan to make an animation like that too.