/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

What are some unique mechanics for a tower defense game?

>>163772095
Nice art! If that was a page of code I wouldn't have bothered to reply.

>>163772095
ugly waifu

>>163772134
you play as the waves of enemies

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Would you play a porn game with this fucking character?

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>>163772260

>>163772272
Don't bully that pixelated piece of perfection.

>>163772134
Unlocking powerful abilities on a tower once it's fully upgraded

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>he makes progress posts that have no art and expects replies

>>163772095
Just making sprites endlessly. Action RPGs are fun to make.

>>163772134
PvP like Wintermaul Wars + you control a MOBA champion while building

Basically, an actual RTS. What a novel idea.

>>163772134
you can zoom into towers and manually aim them in 1st person view and you get a damage bonus while doing so

>>163772272
No, I only play games with rapist MCs and when there's a large cast of victims,
Seeing the ame girl being brutally raped is boring.

>>163772134
You can select the towers, make them sprout legs and you control them while the others still automatically shoot, give the player an increased rate of fire and full access to special abilities when controlling towers.

Encourage them to switch between towers.

Any good guides on how to get SDL2 working with OpenGL 3.3 properly? I want to use a library which makes it easy to port to mobile and sadly, GFLW is not one of them, but the descriptions I found so far are targeted towards earlier versions.

>>163772490
Are you the ARPG dev with the blond knights?

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Cleaned up the camera work for the powershot. Rangers speed was set to 100 for this video, which is why the turn order at the bottom is all fucked up.

Either way, attacks that hit multiple tiles in multiple places now have a code base for integration. Now just to do the sprite work on all the mage-like abilities

>>163772272
I would.
Why not?

>>163771985
...I can hear the 80's jingle

>>163772571
I use SDL2 and GLEW to run OpenGL 4.5. It's actually really easy, the only thing I do with SDL aside from the usual CreateWindow mumbo jumbo is:

(before creating the window)

SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_MASK, SDL_GL_CONTEXT_PROFILE_CORE);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MAJOR_VERSION, 4);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_CONTEXT_MINOR_VERSION, 5);
SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_STENCIL_SIZE, 8);

And after creating the window:

SDL_GL_CreateContext(window);

After that I do glewInit and from then on OpenGL just works as it should. You also need to include SDL_opengl.h in addition to SDL.h

>>163772848
Thanks for the help! I'll save this for future reference.

Im DONE engine devving. Unreal or Godot, which is more fun to use

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what have i become

>>163772543
Probably the best idea

>>163773095
Both are good. I'd recommend Godot for 2D, and Unreal for 3D.

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>>163772442

>>163772134
Programmable towers?

>>163772134
actually being fun to play

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Might as well post it here - added some juice to enemy hp bar

>0 reply again
ok bye

>>163773879
Wheres your post senpai, I'll give you that precious (you)

>>163773670
But how

>>163773095
Godot can do entity-component just as well, you just add components as children. But due to unlimited instancing depth, you could even have components composed of components added to components

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>>163772095
Adding cards so you can discover new stuff even after completing a few runs of the game

>>163774083
ECS is shit though if the components are not pure data with functions operating on them (typically multiple at once). Can Godot do that?

>>163773758
Shaping up nicely, anon.

>>163774083
Then again...if owlboy can be made in xna theres no reason I cant keep using monogame..... UGHHH I should stop fretting and make game. Monogame has a problem with retina displays and scaled resolutions (tried running it on my surface to confirm) that is making me rethink using it.

>>163774187
I don't know what you're asking. Data with associated functions is known to me as classes

I have a bit of experience making simple shit and even put a game up for demo day once (13 downloads!) but wanted to do that cool kid thing I see other people do and have a game that runs right out of the browser.

So I figured I'd google HTML5 stuff and learn that. Couldn't be any harder than learning java or python or C or anything else I was able to pick up quickly, right?

While it's really cool to be able to debug right in my browser jesus christ is coding for it a pain. HTML+javascript feels so counter intuitive to how I've learned to code. I'm just too used to premade libraries made for idiots like me, I guess.

>how to make button in basically any game engine ever
var butt1 = new Button(x,y,method to run when pressed);
>how to make button in HTML5 game engine
EZGUI.components.gameBtn1.on('click', function() { var dlg = EZGUI.components.dialog1;
dlg.visible = true;
dlg.position.x = (gameWidth - dlg.settings.width) / 2;
dlg.position.y = -20 - dlg.settings.height;
var targetY = (gameHeight - dlg.settings.height) / 2;dlg.animatePosTo(dlg.position.x, targetY, 800, EZGUI.Easing.Back.Out);});

>>163757008
I got you family
https://notehub.org/doeru

>>163774180
what is the cassette tape trying to say?

>>163774456
Unity uses "ecs" but the components have more than pure data. Does Godot do the same?

>>163772713
Is this fantasy football?

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>>163772704
Yeah I am. Doing some create a character work before I get down into the nitty gritty of gameplay.

Anyone fuck with leadwerks or is it trash?

>>163774456
Methods are bound to a single object.

I mean like you have a position component, a velocity component, and a function that operates on both at once and doesn't privilege either of them.

>>163774501
The closest I could get to "Dunwich Horror"

>>163774501
That your're a faggot lmao!

>>163773095
How far did you get?

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>>163774803

>>163774867
Welp

>>163774867
You did get it to spin, right?

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always avoided modeling human faces, practicing to get better

>>163774768
thought it was some clever pun involving 小
チ and ホ are missing their horizontal strokes

>>163775161
fix the nose and you've got yourself waifu material

>>163775161
7/10 would touch hair

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>>163775240
oh fuck, thanks

where should I look for a concept artist for 3d references?

>>163774539
Yup

>>163775502
>>>/3/ lol

>>163774504
>>163774565
Godot doesn't have an explicit ECS but you could get that kind of system if you wanted to. The default approach is a little different. But if you were to do an ECS approach yes you would have functions. The scripting in Godot has no access restrictions whatsoever, but fully dynamic typing, so as a "component" you would simply have nodes with scripts that modify their parent and siblings. ECS is just a glorified way to say you have several functionally separate objects that you treat as one. Whether you call components children or components is just semantics/marketing

>>163774504
why would you want your components to be pure data?
you wouldn't have an entity component system anymore at that point, you just have an object with different groupings of data

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>>163774803
I got collision detection working to a performance I found acceptable in 2d..

>>163775609
>so as a "component" you would simply have nodes with scripts that modify their parent and siblings
So spaghetti.

>Whether you call components children or components is just semantics/marketing
>it's just semantics
Well, yes. A child is something that can act independently, a component is a part of a whole.

>>163775617
Because otherwise you end up with spaghetti.

please no more ECS discussion/shitposting, just make game

or just look in the archives for all the arguments about it

>>163775760
>Because otherwise you end up with spaghetti.
ECS is just not for you, then

>>163775617
because pure data means exponentially better performance, which is the reason you should be wanting to use ECS in first place. doing it for any other reason is just a waste of time for no gain.

>>163775780
I use a ECS in my system with enemy AI simulating keypresses so that I can have monsters being playable.

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enemy AI is working
gonna try to have a demo ready for the next demo day, just need killing working and some visuals like health bars

>>163775867
ECS isn't spaghetti if you components are pure data, that's what I'm trying to say.

>>163775904
Eh, ECS is a lot better for code reuse as well.

>>163775919
That has nothing to do with ECS.

>>163775957
how is your tavern game?

>>163775904
that's nonsense
I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about, man

>>163776096
ECS does have massive performance benefits because you can use it easily with cache-friendly memory layouts. But he's wrong that it's the only benefit.

>>163776002
on hold, scope too big for now

>>163775959
>ECS is a lot better for code reuse as well.
Only if you are trying to make a very specific type of game, like say a dungeon crawler where you have a hundred different ways of interacting with a thousand different items with a million different modifiers.

Problem with ECS is that many devs who use it only make simple platformers that could just as well be coded using traditional paradigms.

Not looking to shit the thread up with further posting on the subject, but you should seriously think over whether using ECS really benefits you in any way. Don't waste time trying to solve problems in a "creative" way because all your players care about is that you have a game and they couldn't care less how fancily implemented everything was.

>>163775760
A script in Godot is a derived class with its own data fields and methods, either of which are optional. Whether you end up with spaghetti depends on the programmer, but that is almost inherent to dynamically typed languages without access modifiers.

If anything dynamic/duck typing is more suitable for ECS because you don't have to care about the specifics of how other "components" are implemented. Lack of access restrictions just means you have to have your own system so you don't end up with chaos

>>163775957
very cute art

>>163776381
>Only if you are trying to make a very specific type of game, like say a dungeon crawler where you have a hundred different ways of interacting with a thousand different items with a million different modifiers.
This is obviously the extreme example where it works best but I can't see why you would ever prefer inheritance.

>Problem with ECS is that many devs who use it only make simple platformers that could just as well be coded using traditional paradigms.
How is this a problem?

>>163776425
As long as you can have free functions I suppose it's not a big deal.

>>163776682
thanks!

>>163776848
>How is this a problem?
Coding in a way that's good for reusing code only to never reuse code.

Anyway, do whatever makes you just like make game

>team uo with programmer
>he ends up making art while I keep programming, which I'm pretty bad at
Oh come on.

>>163777037
Nothing in that statement says you shouldn't do things in a way you find enjoyable

>>163777037
>I have decided my first post of the thread is going to be inciting engine shitposting

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Post songs that motivate you to keep going.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mntv1rWi2hA

>>163777343
>This is the 37th IP in the thread.

>>163777437
>I have decided my first post of the thread is going to be completely off-topic "post dev music"

>>163777257
It's better than
>>163774479

>>163777437
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzjWIxXBs_s

>>163777437
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI_IJkJMk4M

I'm a sucker for stupid remixes and mashups.

>>163777437
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miSShXMP9es

>>163776848
If someone felt they had to do an ECS in Godot, one way to do it would be having child nodes as components. These components could do their own thing as well as communicating with and modifying their parent and other components. The components would be saved as scenes and then instanced as they are added in order to compose objects.
But this is really just a way to think about things rather than anything hardcoded.

So the goal of my project is to make money to make my parents proud of me

Should I post progress here or go elsewhere, and if so, where?

>>163775161
Its good, but eyes are generally textures. Saves lots of pain.

>>163777437
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y21m1p-5d24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2KV8ulwMgc

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>>163777437
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sIKYlxDxwE

godot 3.0 when

>>163777437
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FASUZRYs0fM

>polycode is still in beta

Need some Unity help please. So I have an object with the class "Unit" and another game object acting as a game controller called "Combat Manager." In combat manager, there's a public list of units. For some reason, one of my game objects, which has the Unit class attached to it, isn't showing up as a possible choice for the list of units in the combat manager object. I'm trying to add the object to the list of units through the inspector, but Unity won't allow it. Anyone has an idea as to why?

>>163778223
That's pretty metal dude

>>163777872
You can post progress here if you like. You can make it a game of sorts, say you want to accomplish "this" by the end of the week or make "that" by the end of the month. It's good to set deadlines for yourself or else you'll just keep pushing shit to some other day that never comes. At the same time don't fall into the trap of constantly trying to post progress of every little thing and end up making "progress" for (You)s instead of towards some actual tangible goal.

>>163777437
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrjondjCLEc

>>163778345
sounds like a meme framework to me

>>163778431
is the unit script directly on the unit object, or on a child or the unit object?

>>163778596
directly on the unit object, not on a child

>>163773758
That looks like house of the dead had free movement
I would play the shit out of house of the dead with free movement

>>163773758
oh hey it's been a while

>>163779138
I beat house of the dead in an arcade with my brother, those were good times

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>>163779138
It is like house of the dead with free movement and bullet hell elements (older webm)

>>163779424
>first person bullet hell
disgusting

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Hey, if you're a Sound Effects or GUI artist looking for paid work, please read this post;

http://hentaiwriter.tumblr.com/post/154955300694/seeking-sfx-and-gui-artists

The tl;dr is that I'm looking for a SFX artist to cover the three games I'm working on, and a GUI artist to cover the game that the attached picture comes from (Reclaim Reality).

The prices we'd pay for both are in the Tumblr post, along with a lot more information as well, and you can contact me at [email protected] if you're interested in either of the jobs :)

>>163779848
Actually I think it's pretty cool.

>>163779848
Get with the times grandpa

>>163779908
>>163779927
If you can't tell if the bullet is going to hit you or how big it actually is, that's bad design

>>163779850
Does this game contain mecha?

>>163780027
K your opinions on the supposedly objective valuation of design are noted but I still think it looks cool and don't care what you think.

>>163779424
>Can't tell if you're going to hit a bullet or not because of the first person view

Ehhhhhh.......

>>163780187
>trial and error is a good thing
yeah, fuck off

>>163780027
>>163780261
>give the bullet or something on your hud a shine so you have as much time as a usual BH to dodge

OH GOD GAME DESIGN IS HARD WE SHOULD PROBABLY NOT TRY TO GO BEYOND THE NORMS

>>163780027
>>163780261
You can, actually, player learn the feel of the collider really fast. Also there is an equipment system, and you can equip a special radar for bullets, radar is shown in the center of the screen, so you can see every bullet in radius

>>163780493
What about spatial awareness though, and being able to tell where your body is exactly in a first person perspective.

>>163780590
>trial and error

>>163780467
>trial and error is bad
what the fuck am i reading

>>163780493
Why the fuck are you freaking out so hard?

>>163780590
Radar might be cool, but I have a feeling it'd be required. First-person spatial awareness is a thing even AAA games struggle with, sayign "the player will learn it" I think is naive, honestly. I don't think a player would have the patience.

>>163780613
Add the ability to look down at the model.
After that you'll just get a feel for it.

Really, you people who shoot something down immediately because it's un-common are disgusting.

Games need to grow and progress, not stagnate with the same old shit.

>>163780590
Hm... The radar might be cool. But you should make it a default thing rather than an equipment item. Just remember not to make the player juggle too much shit at once, between your gun relationship management, unique control scheme, active reloads and shit.

IMGUI

>>163780772
>Legitimate criticism and concerns are disgusting

>>163780590
Please remember players are idiots and something that is natural after hours of playtesting to you, would be frustrating black magic for first time players

>>163780861
criticism without solutions are just baseless assumptions that need to be corrected or disputed.

>>163780590
Your concept is fine. agdg assumes that every player is clinically retarded and shits on any game not developed for the absolute lowest common denominator.

>>163780949
Hey, cool. I mean, you're wrong, but you can get defensive if you want.

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Oh bb the day went well.

>>163780739
>honestly. I don't think a player would have the patience
He's not naive, you're pessimistic.

ok i finished the twin stick ue4 tutorial can i make games now

>>163780648
>>163780739
>>163780774
>>163780870
>>163781017

I have a set of features in the game about the bullets, don't worry, it won't be that hard to learn to dodge, and even if you hit some bullets it won't be that fatal for the player. Though if the player fucks up a lot, there will by consequences.
Not all enemies uses bullets, and the equipment system is a must - if your build isn't based on using Risk Points, the accurate grazing isn't for you, so you don't need the radar - just dodge through the bullets using the i-frames

>>163781031
>IT'S BAD BECAUSE [...]
>HERE'S THE SOLUTION
>N-NO YOU'RE WRONG

alright

you're supposed to be a game-dev, i.e a designer.
Design around the problem, don't just say you don't like it.

Just spent $15 to download an engine off of the unity store and honestly this was the wisest thing I've done in the entirety of my gamedevving. I've always been a very DIY and start-from-scratch kind of person, but man, there's no reason to reinvent the wheel. If you want to make a game as a 1MA, I highly suggest looking at other's projects, obviously go with free stuff first, but you will obviously get more advanced and better code with projects that cost money.

>>163781186
Good luck and disregard posters afraid of breaking the mould.

>>163781178
I'm thinking about all my normie friends that don't even have the patience to read the tutorial for Magicka when we try and play couch co-op games. I don't think it's unnecessarily pessimistic.

>>163781186
That's fine, but I'm just saying from looking at that webm that it seems like it would be tough and unrewarding. When I think of a bullet hell game where grazing is an important mechanic, part of the fun of the game comes from watching your character makes those near-misses and feeling very agile. When I picture the same thing in first person, it doesn't give that same sense of agility and split-second reactivity, it seems more like it'd be mostly guesswork and if you get good with it there's not enough payoff -- like fumbling around in the dark for something in a dresser drawer.

>>163781458
$0.50 has been deposited to your Unity Store account.

>haven't made game for weeks because I spend all my free time playing games instead

How do I fix this

>>163781539
Does unity even get money from others selling projects on the asset store?

>>163781547
Ritalin/Adderall ofc
2 hours after I'm in dev mood

>>163781697
There must be something in it for them, as there are lots of paid assets providing what you would expect should be base functionality yet it never gets added.

>>163781547
Balance mang, all or nothing will kill you.

why do all unity games look ugly

are shaders and materials difficult to do properly in unity or some shit

>>163782043
Unity's shaders are Cg with some horrible Unity FX framework on top. So yes, actually.

>people keep trying to throw money at you in exchange for drawings

>all you want to do is work on your game

life is suffering

>>163781504
>guesswork
Even from a single webm I can tell that the game has live feedback telling you when you're close enough to receive the risk bonus, so no, it's really not guesswork. Also, you're an idiot if you think every game should be developed for people who are mouthbreathing retards like your friends. Furthermore, you're an idiot if you think a few schmucks being overeager to skip past a tutorial when they're hangin' with tha buddz is the same way they'd act playing games on their own; some of them, maybe, but certainly not all of them.

>>163776848
Inheritance is how you get polymorphism, anon.

>>163781134
Is your rogue-like generating random rooms or is it premade?

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How does my death/gameover look now agdg?

>>163781504
>it seems more like it'd be mostly guesswork and if you get good with it there's not enough payoff -- like fumbling around in the dark for something in a dresser drawer.

For the first time - yes, I tested on some friends, and they say that at first it's hard to dodge the bullets, but after some practice you start to feel the colliders and it becomes easier. I have some solution to help to feel the player character collider - maybe to draw something on the floor, where collider is, so the player can easily know the boundaries of the collider. Though it's not that easy with 3d and perspective and other shit like that, so for now I"m developing the main system and will work on grazing and risk points systems later

>>163782212
>you're an idiot you're an idiot you're an idiot
>getting this defensive about someone else's game getting very mild criticism
Hooooly shit anon. I have no idea what to say to you. I think your behavior is just bizarre.

>tfw I was just diagnosed with autism

>>163782327
Like the look of the game. Very sega.

>>163782292
All preset at the moment with some non-significant variations.

>>163782264
Subtyping is how you get subtype polymorphism. Inheritance involves subtyping.

In ECS, entities are polymorphic in the sense that all behaviour is defined on components and some entity types may have the same components. If you want to have the same behaviour for different entity types, it's just kinda there by default.

>>163782327
make sure to test it on the proper type of phone it'll eventually be on
gotta make sure it's readable on those five inch screens

>>163782327
That's the happiest death-screen I have ever seen

>>163782393
>tfw no matter how hard I try I don't get diagnosed with autism

>>163782473
This is a PC game

>>163782043
People are too lazy to not use defaults.

>>163782440
Oh I see, because that was the part I wanted to know how it exactly works

how do i come up with a title

>>163782365
Anyone who wants to argue that a game like Magicka is too complex for the average player deserves to have it hammered into their head that they have no business coming anywhere near deciding what is or isn't too demanding of a player but of course you whine about my diction because you have no counterpoints, idiot.

>making games for the average player
howling

>>163782760
I don't think you've ever done any professional software development in your life and you're an irrationally angry person.

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Little friendo came here to say 'hello'.

>>163782651
Use the central idea of your text to look for related words and terms or maybe coin a new word with the help of an etymological dictionary. Alternatively use an excerpt from the text itself, maybe one line of dialogue.

>>163782913
sweet but doesn't fit the wall/floor shading-wise

>>163782327
That font looks like fucking shit, the text coming after death is awful. Its way to bright and happy for death, and you need to stop.

>>163782846
And I think you're a limpwristed little bitch who passively encourages a full lobotomy of the medium through his own cowardice. Glad we've cleared the air, expect my reply next time you say some dumb shit.

>>163783017
Tiles will get upgrade

What's the best way to get precise frame perfect timing in Unity? For example, something like a fighting game that needs to activate a hitbox at precisely X frames from inputting the command. I can't count Update() calls, because it seems like even if I set the framerate to a static 60, it can be anywhere from 55 to 65 FPS. I don't mind dropping graphical frames as long as the timing is always computed at 60FPS

>>163780046
It contains robots, yeah, but not Gundam-style mecha.

>>163782327
from the cons it's too slow, needs less linear motion and 2d element design needs a lot of work

>>163782327
Where is the player?

>>163783527
FixedUpdate

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>>163783050
Would you prefer something like this?

>>163783136
https://youtu.be/x6LovY_DdEE

>>163783604
hey he's spent half a year or a year or something like that ignoring that question
don't start trying to ask it again

>>163783607
Does fixedUpdate always obey the application's target framerate? If not, how can I set it to always call every 60th of a second?

>>163783980
That's the whole point of it. No matter the actual frame rate, it always runs at a specified rate.

>>163782327
Have the "Too Bad" screen fully complete before sliding in the "Press R to restart" text comes in. It's a bit messy to have them both overlapping for a while there.

I have a weird thing with a belief curve where I can't get it to finish at the target. It ends when a timer reaches 1 in a fixedupdate, but for some reason it ends up very slightly off the correct height.

New unity user here.
Im trying to make a game with Tank controls but the Unity tutorials they give you seem like a bit "much". Should I just stick with it or do you guys know a good tutorial for tank controls but for people?

>>163784128
How can I specify that rate, though? It seems to be slightly off from 60FPS

>>163784460
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-TimeManager.html

>>163783842
>
more like avoiding nodev troll shitposts that are clearly baiting him.

Does anyone perhaps know a place for good fog/cloud textures? Or perhaps volumetric fog?

>>163783604
>can't even tell the player is the character that fell off the level to show us that death animation/going into angel state.

How the fuck did you miss that with the description, and barely anything moving on screen aside from clouds and that flower enemy that clearly isnt a player?

Bait is real.

>>163783604
>>163783842
Oh look the autistic fags are back, better to look at static paintings then play games since you fags cant handle more than 2 objects moving at once.

>Unity crashes
>Try to load the scene I was working on
>It causes unity to freeze

lmao!

>>163784609
>>163784948
:^)

>>163785151
>>163784948
implying thats the dev.

>>163782327
You should make the text a little smaller, and then make the too-bad part appear fully before the restart text like >>163784220
suggested

I think its a cute font and fits the nintendo clone you're going for.

>>163775240
>>163775450
NERDS

>>163772848
>OpenGL 4.5

I'm a little nervous about this. From what I've seen a lot of popular cards/drivers still don't support more than 3.3 Core profile, so I've been using that and it seems to work okay on most systems I've tried it on. I can live without DSA and tessellation... but not having compute shaders is a real bummer.

>GLEW

I have had problems getting this to work with the Core profile. For some reason it refuses to load certain extensions. But it works fine for you? Did you have to do anything special?

>>163785357
I don't get the aversion to D3D. It's a better-designed API than OpenGL, if you need e.g. compute shaders it runs on more hardware, the drivers are WAY better, etc.

As for cross-platform support, you've already lost OS X if you want compute shaders and Linux is a bitch to support with only a tiny number of users who would play your game who don't also run Windows to play other games already.

>>163782327
Whatcha using for texturing stuff?

>>163785687
>It's a better-designed API than OpenGL
Those are some hot opinions right there

>>163785871
GIMP because im a fucking amateur

>>163786002
It's not very good compared to Vulkan, but it's heaps better than the binding point global state half deprecated mess of OpenGL.

>>163786134
We can at least agree that Vulkan is better than both

>>163786201
Vulkan > D3D12 > D3D11 > OpenGL

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It's a slashing animation thing.

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I love Godot's animation system.

>>163786443
Edgy.

I may sound like an idiot, but I don't get this.

I have these two different cubes in Unity right..

One of them has the coordinates of X = 0, and y = 0. So I try to make a duplicate cube with the same coordinates, using copy and paste yet the cube appears very far away? I even manually enter the position for the cube to be the same as the other and appears far away still?

>>163786752
I know the answer to this but it's too long to explain I think. I can't think of how to explain it anyways. Look up world position vs local position.

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>>163786863

>>163787035
I'm sorry bro, but it's like something like a parental mismatch or something causing the world coordinates to be different even though the local coordinates are the same or something. I'm sorry.

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some menu stuff

>>163787152
I like the idea of it, but it needs more polish. But I'm sure you don't need me to say that.

>>163786752
Probably something to do with its local position in the prefab

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PSA to avoid accidentally dragging Assets into Assets in unity

>>163787252
>But I'm sure you don't need me to say that.
indeed, I'm not proud of how it looks but I'm happy to get it started.

>>163787441
>>163787145
>>163786863
I really don't get it. I'm just going to manually move them and try align them. I'll just roll with it.

>>163787593
But how

>>163785032
This is the bug that caused me to quit game making six years ago. I hope you have version control.

>>163787875
I don't know

I can't delete it

>>163785032
That's some fucked up shit man. Hope you made a backup very recently.

>>163788436
I'm scrapping it and moving to Unreal.

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I added more frames in between the two frames where the hand goes crazy, when I move the tracker manually it looks fine but playing the animation the hand goes nuts. Any Godot users run into this issue before?

>>163788683
I take that as a no..

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Making a textbox is a lot harder than I expected. At least it pretty much works for every type of text I throw at it...

>>163788934
Let's just say I learned a valuable lessons today.

boys what do you do when you need a non office tier font but cant do fonts?

>>163789039
I hope that lesson was source control.

>>163788947
That's cool i've made something similar. How did you make the the little arrow?

>>163772704
Speaking on this note, what other ARPGs do we have in here besides mine?

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I'm thinking of porting my game to Android and putting it in the store for free because I deemed it to be too low quality for Steam and it's quite short.
So how do ads work for mobile games? Do you get revenue based on how many ads the players have seen or is it based on clicks? Should you put an ad between all levels or something?

>>163789058
dafont

>>163789216
its a triangle

>>163789329
thanks

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>>163781134
blue is superior

>>163789357
i figured as much. is it in the textbox? i can't wrap my head around how you spawn it and make it move around

>>163789320
>too low quality for steam
>put it on android

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.usaya.prince.en&hl=en

You sure you want to share space with THIS?

>>163789058
related fun facts: bitmap fonts can't be copyrighted. you can steal literally any font as long as it's used as a bitmap font in your exported game with no repercussions.

>>163790007
Completely untrue.

>>163789548
The blue burns my eyes. You're also the 4th person to say that, which makes me doubt the quality of my screen.

>>163790081
>>163790007
have you got a filter for "that guy"?
could you post it pls

>>163789320
>Do you get revenue based on how many ads the players have seen or is it based on clicks?
The first, ad shown to player = revenue. It works with Google's advertising API, AdSense/AdWords.
Usually ads are shown on the bottom of the screen or after going back to the menu (they take up the whole display and have an X button to close them).
Many (shitty) games on mobiles have a "You can get more in-game credits if you watch our sponsor message!" thing popping up too, to back up what I'm saying.
>Should you put an ad between all levels or something?
No, only when going back to the menu or losing, plus if you manage to have a particularly dead zone on the screen or an empty space in a status bar that takes up the whole display lenght on the bottom or the upper side of the screen, you could have a permanent ad on it.
Flappy Bird had an HUD on the top (how many tubes passed) and a permanent ad on the bottom or the top - it changed only when going back to the menu or when the game started.

>>163790081
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_typefaces Sorry, he's right. As long as you're in the USA.
I don't feel like googling up proper sources, so have a wiki link.

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>>163790174
someone posted this last thread

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In Unity, how can I make the space between seconds smaller in the animation view?

Like in the pic, the space between 0:0 and and 1:0 is so huge, it always takes ages to scroll between the animation steps.

>>163775161
looks nice dood

>>163790338
>being too lazy to read a wikipedia page

>>163790451
I am. The page doesn't mention bitmaps anywhere. What am I meant to be seeing?

>>163788858
I haven't tried animating with 2D bones before in Godot, so I don't know for sure. You may get an answer faster on the Godot QA site though.

>>163790457
he's one of THESE furfags, he uses a good bit of shit like that

>>163790508
I'm not spoonfeeding you

>>163790338
if you google "bitmap fonts copyright" or something along those lines you should find reliable sources explaining why, but the gist of it is that fonts cant be copyrighted, only the "instructions" for how to render them on screen (vector fonts). by distributing pre-rendered fonts you are not distributing those instructions, therefore you are safe.

>>163790267
>filtering our lord and saviour of all art andrew l.
literally lacking sanity

>>163790267
thanks

>>163790747
>I don't think you understand how citations work
Why the fuck did you get that from my post?

>>163790930
I did not post that link. you conveniently quoted the parts that said exactly what I said though.

Working on writing a plot for my game right now. Do you guys have any opinions on endings that aren't totally happy endings? Specifically, would you find it frustrating if you played an rpg that forced you to make a big choice at the end that would result in the death/erasure of one of two groups of people? I'd still be trying to write both endings to be satisfying in their own ways but would really love to get some feedback on this before spending a bunch of time getting all the plot details down. Also if you know any examples of stuff that does this well, I would love to hear about it. Thanks!!

>>163791215
I said bitmap fonts can't be copyrighted. Vector fonts, aka instructions on how to reproduce typefaces, can be protected by copyright law.

>>163791353
"kill faction A or kill faction B"-type endings usually feel cheap

>>163791215
man you really misunderstood everything
even after quoting it

people like you are a good reminder of the futility of trying to clear up how copyright works for others on the internet

>>163791215
please tell me you are just trolling and not actually that stupid

>>163791353
>Making a big choice at the end
>Ending a story at the climax
Learn basic story structure you fuck

>>163791353
It depends entirely on the writing. I'd hate the entire game if I thought the deaths were unjustified or cheap though. Not a great way to end a game either way.

>>163791353
I'd say give the shin megami tensei games a run. They tend to have faction kill endings, but they way it turns out is pretty wild between the endings.

>>163791691
did you miss the part you quoted that said typefaces can't be protected?

>>163791889
>>163792006
time for me to leave the thread for a while

I can't take this amount of cringe

>there are people in this thread that don't know the difference between copyright and patent

>>163791353
Having alternate endings can be a neat way to increase replay value. I'm doing a storyline where you can be The Hero The World Needs and crush your enemies in a massive bloodbath, or you can marry your love interest and run off to be good parents while your enemies pathetically self-destruct. Each ending contains twists you wouldn't even suspect if you only played the other one. I guess we'll see if I can make the storytelling work.

>>163792006
the design patent is to prevent others from creating vector fonts with the same mathemathical properties of your font and won't mean shit against people using bitmap representations of your font

how is it possible to be this dense?

>>163792217
now im sure you're trolling

>>163790126
new macbook w/ very highly rated screen

>>163785687
>>163786134

I don't use Windows. I literally don't own a copy of it and haven't used it in years. The only reason I use OpenGL is for compatibility. It's the only option there is on any non-Windows device. I will probably be making the switch to Vulkan in the next year or two when mobile supports it better, but right now my application doesn't have enough performance issues for it to be necessary. I still can get away with doing a lot of pre-processing on the CPU.

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Get fucking boned yourself with these fucking bones. This is driving me insane.

>>163792623
All of this points to it being the vectors in question and not the bitmaps.

>>163786635
The fuck is that arm doing?

>>163792507
just stop, before you hurt yourself

their "technology" is a fucking instruction manual. they are giving you a cookbook for how to bake glyphs. once you've baked them, they are yours to do whatever you want with.

>>163792824
>SWFTE was using special computer programs to take other type founders' fonts, convert them and give them new names.
>They assumed safety from prosecution because, though they had directly copied the points that define the shapes from Adobe's fonts, they had made slight adjustments to all the points so they were not technically identical.
And a Flash animated cartoon is not going to use bitmap fonts.

>>163792824
>>163792935
the first two literally explain to you with no ambiguity at all that it was the programs themselves that were copied.

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Everything is so smooooth now.

>>163792625
That's an interesting hairstyle desu

>>163793140
That still requires the vectors in the first place.

>>163790267
That first half is eerily close to my filters. Meaning their order. I don't remember posting my filters though.

>>163790457
There was a period this year where the shitstorm included posts like
>Get back into your den, reek! HISS HISS go back!
or some shit like that, I don't remember exactly.

>>163790747
>cursie
I once posted in agdg about cursor design and if I should bother. I got memed with
>YOU CURSIES ARE WORSE THAN ENGIES! GET OUT YOU KEKS!
so I figured adding it can't do harm.

>>163792625
holy shit hair ribbon BTFO

this will be my final post on the subject, at this point i'm just suspecting you're being intentionally intellectually dishonest to derail the thread

the aspects of fonts that can be protected by copyright or patent are the programmatic instructions on how to render it at any dimension and with any modifiers. the bezier curve that says that that particular stroke on that particular glyph should look just like that - THAT's what's copyrightable.

if you use those instructions to, say, create a character map of all alphanumeric characters at 24px, and then distribute that map with your work, you are not violating any of those protections as you are not distributing any instructions or are creating new instructions.

>>163793275
Can you find a case where it is specifically the bitmaps that are involved and not the vector sources?

>>163792182
Exactly according to keikaku. Big business doesn't want people to know how "intellectual property" works. They just want people to be afraid so they never become creators and that way there's no competition for their cash cows.

>>163793147
cool looking game anon, would play
if the main character isn't a pyro-monk i'm disappoint son

>>163793147
>barely touched walls are crumbling to dust
>floors good as new with a spitshine
Immersioon = ruined.

In GMS, how do I make my game turn based, like a Roguelike? I have some of the systems in place, but right now everything is live action. I'd at least like to implement the ability to Pause and Examine things in the game world. How should I do that?

>>163793665
They're not distributing the vector.

>>163793908
player moves > everything else moves
repeat.

>>163793908
pausing is just disabling variables

>>163793637
It looks like complete shit. Why are you lying?

>>163793908
You could put all the processing code into a custom event. Then when the player commits their turn, you call event[0] on the relevant instances.

>>163794006
I was thinking that, Superhot Mode. What about when the player Shoots though? I guess allow everything to have a limited time to move or whatever?

Still, I'm wondering how I could implement that. I guess with a globalvar, but I feel like it could fuck up the enemy's actions somehow.

>>163794079
i'm not, i like the style
and besides, i know i couldn't do bettter, is encouragement wrong?

>>163793908
Only run the main game loop if the player moved that frame.

>>163793665
The MLP case is also the one that clearly isn't settled or at least wasn't settled at the time of writing.

>>163794194
Encouraging incompetence is wrong.

>>163794196
How exactly would I do that?

>>163794174
He wasn't describing a "Superhot mode".

>>163793637
>>163794194
Thanks anon.
Yup, that character is kinda pyro monk - he is a member of cult of fire, so I guess you won't be dissapointed.

>>163793908
if (keyboard_press)
room_speed == 1
else
room_speed == 0

>>163792773
It's moving 360 back to the same postion

>>163794194
Don't bother replying to people who try to shit on everything. That guy is simply mad that someone is making a game while he does nothing but roll around in his own shit.

>>163794857
but i do that too, i haven't devved in 2 days now :S

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been a while since I have posted progress here. Just working on spell effects.

>>163794985
why does your game have zubats?

>>163794985
I'm not super big on those smears, but nonetheless, that's looking really really good.

>>163794985
Glad to see this is still alive. It's looking good.

>>163794985
your protags look like they'd make really good super saiyans

>>163791521
>>163791713
>>163791758
>>163791875
>>163792238
Thanks for the feedback, dudes. I always appreciate how people on 4chan give unbiased opinions. I started thinking about different ways I could go about it and figured out a solution that I think will work much better. :)

>>163795098
Thats Cattie.

>>163795145
I need to go back an touch up the smears a bit, they are pretty dirty.

>>163795151
Thank you! We are working pretty hard, though slowed because Christmas.

>>163795161
hehe yeah

I WANNA SHIT I WANNA DEV I WANNA SLEEP I GOT WORK IN 4 HOURS FUCK ME

>>163796049
Call in and dev on a laptop while taking a shit.

>>163796091
HA HA HA
I'M IRREPLACABLE AT THE MOMENT

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>>163796049
That's why I live in my parents' basement.

>>163794663
That doesn't really work. It lags the input.

>>163796271
But anon. If everyone is a NEET, then everything falls apart.

>>163796271
wish i could too man but my mom is dead and my father is an alcoholic cunt
can't be a neet no more

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>>163794985
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EKTw50Uf8M

>people that have nothing nice to say still say things

stop hurting my feelings

wagie wagie
lives in cagie
works for daddy
like a baby

why did the wagie laern to fly?
his boss told him a promotion was up in the air

>>163772272
Yes, I'd love fucking that character.

>>163773758
Nice nice nice, I've been on a retro fps binge lately and I'd love to play this.

>>163798672
It reminds me of those old arcade on-rails shooters. Also it would be a nice transition for me from what I'm playing right now.

How do i make my child object change the variable of my parent object in gamemaker?

>>163774542
this looks the same it did 4 months ago.

>>163799048
That's a webm from like 7 months ago.

>>163794985
Oh hey, I see your progress on twitter all the time! Good stuff!

>write some code
>it works flawlessly
Feels good. It will probably break for no reason tomorrow, wont it?

>>163799919
Code never breaks for no reason.

>>163800016
It does when using Unity Engine™!

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>>163799919
>spend hours fixing a bug
>it finally works
>can't understand my code anymore

>>163799370
post one from now

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>>163800330
I haven't made any webms lately, but most of my work has been in the menu, hud, and in netcode. I haven't touched the exploration stuff much since, other than to ensure everything works with the netcode. Here's a picture of the menu though.

>>163800443
clap

Reminder incase you forgot, MothDan ( he's making paranormal patrol), hates steamchat because he had a meltdown in it and exposed himself a the shitposter, that's why h shits up the thread and blames discord

Don't let him change history, dint listen to him, filter and ignore

You can't shitpost the exposure away sweetie, scram

>browsing agdg devolves into filtering the newest post every two minutes
It's like a game in itself.

>>163802849
if they are then they had better post proof if danny gets swatted

I'm not asking them to swat him since that's against the rules, just asking that they post proof if they do

>no, stop exposing me!

>>163800580
That's like, a genuinely good menu
gj, you've joined the company of like sorcerobe and nobody else

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I made the random color generator faster and (hopefully) crushed a level chunk breaking bug.
Is the spin too slow or should I speed it up?

>>163803582
that actually looks pretty fun, I thought some gumballs would drop down to chase the player though

reminder to look at all the deleted posts and be able to recognize the shitposter better

like the font copyright shit, code comments shit, etc

>>163803392
Those are comments I did not expect to ever hear. I will take them as sarcasm and continue putting myself down to push forward.

LOVE dev here, can I find guidelines somewhere on taking what I've built and turning it into a proper engine, something data and scripting can sit on top of?

>>163804026
>something data and scripting can sit on top of?
So...what LOVE already is?

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For anyone who's new, THIS is the person who's about to get what's coming to them for what they've done. :o)

>>163793735
can't unsee
the ceiling is pristine too

I've been wanting to do low-key music production for indie games for a while, but I suck ass at piano. I'm relearning a lot, but I wanted to see what you guys thought of this small bit I'm thinking of developing:

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0Cf6fCt6sBI

>>163788427
fucking kek
you should start up mingw and cd to where the insanity starts and remove it there

>>163804589
The one actually ruining this thread is you. The people you talk about are long gone. As is your mind.

Y'all pay too much attention to these shitposters. Which is why they continue to shitpost.

Literally worst general