/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

you will never make game general haha :D

>>164560426
stop it! stop it!
its not true!

The development of video games desu

>>164560426
Nice emoticon! May I download it?

the unity engine is cancer

>>164560383
>> Engines
>GameMaker: yoyogames.com/gamemaker
>Godot: godotengine.org
>Haxe: haxeflixel.com
>LÖVE: love2d.org
>UE4: unrealengine.com
>Unity: unity3d.com
>> Models/art/textures/sprites
>opengameart.org
>blender-models.com
>mayang.com/textures
>> Free audio
>freesound.org/browse
>incompetech.com/music
>freemusicarchive.org
ugh we're back to this?

Amateur Game Dev Graveyard

>>164560502
Thank god

>>164560502
i missed you sempai

>>164560502
>>>164560383(OP)
>>> Engines
>>GameMaker: yoyogames.com/gamemaker
>>Godot: godotengine.org
>>Haxe: haxeflixel.com
>>LÖVE: love2d.org
>>UE4: unrealengine.com
>>Unity: unity3d.com
>>> Models/art/textures/sprites
>>opengameart.org
>>blender-models.com
>>mayang.com/textures
>>> Free audio
>>freesound.org/browse
>>incompetech.com/music
>>freemusicarchive.org
>ugh we're back to this?
ugh we're back to this?

demo day is in 2 days and i still have not enough to show HELP

I want to be a real dev!
What tools & skillsets do I need to become a real 1ma dev?

>>164560593
>2 days
Stop that bullshit, you're giving me a heart attack. It's on Sunday.

>>164560502
>>164560589
can you post it again? i didn't hear it first two times sorry

>>164560589
>>>164560502
>>>>164560383 (OP)(OP)
>>>> Engines
>>>GameMaker: yoyogames.com/gamemaker
>>>Godot: godotengine.org
>>>Haxe: haxeflixel.com
>>>LÖVE: love2d.org
>>>UE4: unrealengine.com
>>>Unity: unity3d.com
>>>> Models/art/textures/sprites
>>>opengameart.org
>>>blender-models.com
>>>mayang.com/textures
>>>> Free audio
>>>freesound.org/browse
>>>incompetech.com/music
>>>freemusicarchive.org
>>ugh we're back to this?
>ugh we're back to this?
ugh we're back to this?

>>164560593
>me: okay body, don't fuck up now, DD12 is close
>body: SAY NO MORE SENPAI
>get the worst flu in the last 5 years, fever. cough, cold, the whole package
>can barely do anything
Thanks body.

>>164560656
You gotta be designer, programmer, artist, and musicbro.
Also you must mine your own ores and minerals to construct your own circuitboards, write your own OS and of course dev environment. Not to forget the image manipulation and music workshop programs.

>>164560589
>>164560757
I appreciate this but its a bad meme and not what was intended

>>164560775
>caring this much about an internet contest

>>164560775
I think I've just caught a cold myself, also generally feeling pretty shitty

that means it's itme to work even harder

>>164560383
Japanese gamedevs have it better, don't they? Hell, 3D Modelers like Yoko Taro can go on to make five+ games, yet we western indie devs struggle to make even one.

you can't appreciate how useful an engine like unity's editor is until you try to make something like a particle system with code

>>164560881
>not appreciating the process of doing the research and looking at different ways to do particle systems and programming your own particle system to fit your specific needs

>>164560859
idk anon demoday is more about a dev and your ability to produce something working, its not really a contest since the tierposter left

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>day 4 of nofap

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>>164560998

>>164560969
>since the tierposter left
im still here and you better fucking believe I'm going to rip into these games.

agdg has been lacking some harsh criticism lately.

>>164560969
it's a contest more brutal than ever since all that matters now is the very arbitrarily picked game order on itch.io's jam page and anons reccing the page will only say "lol just play 3 first games rest are steamy shit"

>>164560963
>doing that without being paid big bucks to do it
classic no game shitter XD

>>164560963
>hmm, I need to light a fire or I'm going to freeze to death
>should I use this lighter?
>nah, where's the fun?
>I'll spend some months researching how combustion works, how fire works, how to make fire myself! much better use of my time
>whoops I'm dead

Demo day is whenever you release a demo, stop with this herd mentality.

>>164560963
that's cute but some devs here want to actually you know, finish a game.

>>164561062
>>164561102
>>164561154
>i don't know how to program
>maybe if i use this babby engine i will just liek maek game and become successful like notch

>>164560656
Learn to art and how to use GM. There.

>>164561139
>not acknowledging that some people need a deadline to make huge progress

>>164560872
>Japanese gamedevs have it better, don't they?
No?
I rarely hear about japanese indie devs making it big.

>>164561139
but MUH HYPE
more gets done in the five days before a demoday than the rest of the previous two months

>>164561226
Great argument. Now you should deal the finishing blow by posting the game you made in your own engine!

>>164561226
>I don't know how to make game, so maybe if I bury my head in reinventing the wheel I'll become successful like notch

>>164561139
Some people like the community. It's fun to get together for a couple days and play everyone's demos. Some people like having a "hard" deadline to finish a batch of progress.

It's fine if you don't want to participate, but that doesn't mean everyone should stop.

>>164561139
>not just finishing your demo 2 months in advance and just polishing it for demo day

>>164561226
>in order to code gameplay one must know how to create bareboned rendering code, deal with manual memory allocation, and make the cd drive open / close with precise timing to generate sound

>>164561431
>and make the cd drive open / close with precise timing to generate sound
muh sides

Is SFML still a thing for make gaem?

>>164561139
Sure that's a good way to get zero people to play your demo.

I'm a lesbian who got invited here from LGBT. I have worked in Dark Basic (years ago lol), Flash (ActionScript), GameMaker Pro, and most recently Unreal Engine.

No idea what this thread is really about desu, just seems fun.

>>164561747
alright but why did you have to introduce yourself

>>164560872
>>164561297
They certainly have a better work ethic but lack the market

>>164561780
Idk, cause I was invited here. I'll just lurk for now.

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>>164561747
>i'm so quirky lol
Do yourself a favour and fuck off with that shit.

>>164561780
>>164561838
these

>>164561747
Would you be open to experimentation. They say sexuality is a gradient

>>164561747
This thread is about game development. Discuss gamedev related things, discuss game design related things, post progress of your own game, give feedback to other people's games.

>>164561747
What do you sound like? Do you want to voice porn games?

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>>164561886
anon you're a fucking faggot

>early morning
>no one home
>raining
>have coffee
>chill music on
>gamedevvin
This is the comfiest I've been in a long time.

>>164562035
You stopped to post and now that's destroyed your focus and your progress.

>>164562060
T H I S
H
I
S

>>164561941
>crossdressing animeposter
>calling someone else a faggot

>>164562060
Unity has built-in pauses whenever you change code, its like 8 seconds, just long enough to think "Ill just see what agdg has said"

>>164562156
>Unity has built-in pauses whenever you change code, its like 8 seconds
wait what, are you talking about compilation time? yours is 8 fucking seconds?

I press F5 in VS and it compiles in like 3 seconds.

>>164562156
Unity doesn't fit my comfy morning, sorry anon.

>>164561747
Usually it's a nice community, especially around Demo Days when we show each other the current state of our games and share feedback. Sometimes artists show up to create fan art for games, which is huge motivation fuel. If you need help with anything, you usually get your answer.

However, deep down it's a /vg/ board after all, so shit posting is sometimes at maximum, like it is now.

>tfw you havent worked on shit in months

fuck

>>164562156
those 8 seconds are horrible if you stop what you're doing
when you change code, activate unity (so it compiles), then quickly go back and review the code that you just wrote.

8 seconds is too long though, I guess you were just estimating it.

In any case, it's the switch from "work" to "entertainment" that destroys focus.
Stay focused on the code

>>164562218
> so shit posting is sometimes at maximum, like it is now
no, this is nothing.
source dev isnt even here

>>164562268
>months
and I thought I was bad for taking a 1 week break.

damn anon get your shit together.

>>164562202
I'm talking about when switching focus back to the unity editor, it spins for 8-10 seconds for me, but VS compilation is quick, I dont think Unity uses compiled files however

>>164562335
>1 week break
fuck me dude

if you are a dirty neet dont ever get your shit together and start looking good

fucking cute girls literally drains your life away

at the core of a games design is something that makes them unique/original and perhaps successful, what are your best things to do in games?
>defeat mechanically varied bosses ( dark souls)
>get immersed in an array of LOD smoke and mirrors city (GTA5)
>the team equipment dance ( battle field)
>the team combat dance (TFC / TF2)
>build a city / society (SWG)
>master yourself, environment and enemies(dark messiah)
>face consistent challenge with oppressive odds through rigged MM (WoT)
>spend real money for brainless RNG pvp success (hearthstone)
>wile away the hours in kit bashed dungeons and things on the heightmap (FO4)

>>164562429
>cute girls literally drains your life away
my job doesnt have cute girls, and i dont go anywhere aside from work/grocery store, so i guess i'll never have to worry about that.

>>164562269
I just timed it, its actually 15 seconds. But the project is probably >20k lines, so maybe its that. I wonder if turning some of this into a DLL would help

>>164562489
you think im going to just tell you all my original™ ideas so you can profit off them?

>Almost done
>Can't bring myself to do the last few bits
>Fucking paralyzed
Why???? What's wrong with me?

>>164562618
i asked about existing games, not your own multi billion $ genius idea on the cusp of being released

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>>164562218
>shit posting is sometimes at maximum, like it is now
I thought this was the best start to a thread in a while

>>164562693
Push. Puuuuuush.

>>164562268
>>164562693
low effort bait

>>164562609
I have 46k LOC and it's no where near 15 seconds. I just tested it and its about 2 seconds.

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>tfw website anon never delivered
>all those godly collabs that will never happen
F

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>>164562824
I tried it in an empty scene and it didn't seem to make a difference. So maybe I'm structuring my code in a way that hammers on some intensive analysis thing Unity does

>>164563273
collabs don't work anyway

>>164563196
cute
you should add a heat distortion pixel shader in the background to give it that desert feel. maybe a waterfall of sand

actually why the fuck am i giving you my original™ ideas. you heard nothing

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Are Pyxel Edit's tile/level editing features useful at all for working in GMS?

>>164563539
nice icon

new to unity here, what's the difference in function between an interface for two classes or having them inherit from another class?

>>164563637
Interface only has functions, no properties
Also you can implement as many interfaces as you want for your class, but your class can only inherit from one other class.

IMO Inheritance for hierarchy type things, interface for behaviours

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>>164563280
Maybe I'm getting confused on what you mean.

I'm talking about when you change a line of code, save & refresh.(in my case I just hit 'build solution' in VS). It should not take 15 seconds in an empty project.

As for the profiler, perhaps I'm using it wrong.

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Game Design question here:

Thinking of making a Ninja Gaiden style game, with the ability to choose certain moves before you play (think choosing guns and playstyle in Gunstar Heroes). For example, Down + A could be:
slide ( from castlevanias )
OR
handstand -> high jump ( from Donkey Kong GB )
OR
dodge ( Zero Suit Samu's Down+B from Smash )

Of course, these are just examples and will need to be balanced appropiately if actually put into the game.
The aim here is to give the player a number of unique ways of playing - however, I want to avoid the player feeling like they've missed out on a path because they've picked one powerup over another. I want the player to feel fucking awesome whatever they pick because it fits their playstyle, not because a certain powerup lets them do certain things better.
That means that a coin or 1-up or whatever that's high up needs to be accessible by 3 separate means, for example.

Here's the question : will this negatively effect my level design to the point that I might as well not include them? Should I just stick with the basics like wall jumping and sliding and parrying, which should lead to tighter level design as I know what the player can do at any one point?

Sorry for the long post xx

>>164563273
More like all those "gimme free work plz" ads by people who have never made game before

>>164563637
It can be cleaner when the two classes obviously shouldn't inherit from the same parent.

You could have an interface for taking damage, and you might want both enemies and objects in the map to implement this interface.

>>164563637
learn to program

>>164563818
>will this negatively effect my level design to the point that I might as well not include them?
Don't make levels that require certain abilities to get to places and it won't.

>>164563785
>>164563854
thanks, I think I understand now.

>>164563898
that's what I'm trying to do.

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Witness the birthing cries of an object-lighting system. Basic phong diffuse for now, I'll add emissives soon and maybe some tasteful bloom later. First I still need to write in detection of the four nearest 'most affecting' lights for each object.

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>>164563801
I had the "profile editor" and "deep profile" options on, and those were the stats just after Unity started responding again after it loaded a code change.

I tried building in VS (~3 seconds) before switching focus back to Unity, and in that case it only took ~6 additional seconds while it loaded. So maybe pre-building VS does something? I appreciate your thoughts but I think it could be a rabbit hole of magical thinking I could get lost in since I don't know much about how Unity loads or compiles things. I'll probably just deal w/ it until after demo day

Progress- got tutorials set up for making content later

>>164564172
wow looks good man

>>164564172
you mad man just use a game engine

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>>164564172
Good job. As described in our unwritten agreement, here is a photo of cat paws as your payment.

>>164564278
Post your PC specs

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Fucking piece of shit Unity. Now it crashes when i hit play in the editor. How the fuck am i supposed to make a game with this piece of shit Engine when it crashes when i have 4 objects in the scene.

>inb4 shit computer

i7 and 1080.

>>164564172
That looks... really good and videogamey without being intrusive the way AAA does lighting now

>>164564334
Maybe you just, like, don't know how to code dude

>>164564408

I literally have no code in my Scene.

>>164564334
>>164564452
Record a webm of you entering play mode and unity crashing.

>>164564331
SSD, 24 gigs ram, quad core etc.. Ill test it out with an empty project later some time. I bet its going to be something like too many custom attributes

>>164564334
is that bird fucking a dead bird or is that his loved one that died and hes crying?

>>164564571
Both

>>164564571

its crieing its babby is dead

>>164564172
At least it's not nothing.

>>164564172
Hey, I like your drawings. Hope you'll post more. Keep it up!

>>164563539
Aseprite's the best pixel art program at the moment.

>>164564563
To be clear theres multiple anons posting about unity, and the one having long load times is going to bed at 8am on a wednesday, neet4lyfe

>>164564807
That isn't what I asked though.

>>164564740
Cool.

>>164564172
Is the player a midget

>>164564359
AAA go so far to be realistic that it all blurs together and becomes indistinct, making all their effort meaningless.

Simple diffuse lighting like this is simplistic, but I think it's very striking. It just looks crap when things get too dark, that's when glowy emissive bits on the textures do their work

>>164564313
Never!

>>164564327
I told you not in public, my cat could be watching...

>>164564752
>>164564282
Thanks! I might make some fanart sometime and post it here as well

>>164564738
Yep, unlit objects and flat AO was boring and annoying

>>164564936
The world is just huge! My sense of perspective is off, it looks better when there are enemies around

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What do you think of this as a style for a new game?

>>164565086
CUTE
Not sure about the nose though

>>164565086
Cute. Keep it.

>>164565086
Needs more expressive eyes but otherwise fine

>>164565086
ree tublr

>>164562269
Hey kid, wanna know some basics about UX?
Wait times shorter than 2 Seconds = You're fine without anything
Wait times 2-10 seconds = Visual representation of loading, user can remain in train of thought.
Wait times >10 seconds = Visual representation of loading (best with estimate how long remaining), user will likely lose train of thought

Comes up more often in web development but a useful thing to know imo

>>164564807
asesprite used to be free, when did the dev become a jew?

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>>164565086
new game?!

>>164565086
It is kawaii and shekel worthy

How do I JUICE UP my main menu buttons? I've been avoiding UI dev like the plague and now I need to seriously consider it.

>>164565450
when highlighting an option it should light up, spin around non stop, play a loud sound effect non stop, and a black man should should rap about the selection "options psh psh tsh options"

>>164565450
give it a poit noise, highlight or scale it (or both) when you cursor over it, and have it "press" appropriately when you use it. pair with a nice transition to whatever it takes you to (like going from the base menu to the options menu) and you should be fine.

>>164565450
>>164565604
Also SCREENSHAKE THE FUCK OUT OF IT

>>164565604
Amazing. Let me write this down

>>164565168
ok

I am trying out multithreading at the moment and what do I do when my worker thread is too slow to consume the objects produced by the other thread?

In other words, one thread is producing for example 20000 objects per second, but the worker thread can only remove 10000 per second from the queue. After a while the object crashes because the queue explodes

>>164565604
when done right this could be a great gimmick, think Stamper

>>164565125
Thanks. Yeah that nose was a last minute change from what I had before (a triangle) but I think its p. cute.

>>164565135
thx lad

>>164565151
how do I make the eyes more expressive? I'm no good at faces desu

>>164565162
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>164565214
my new games gonna be the hottest meme of 2017 so watch this space kiddo

>>164565224
Thx

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How do you remove the dark under your eyes? I stay in front of a screen all day every day.

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>>164565086
didn't know raggedy ann became it's own style.

>>164565667
Thx sounds good

>>164565871
Get a tan

>>164565851
you haven't posted 3 times and I already wish I could filter you, good job

>>164565194
It's still free.
https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite

>>164565194
It's free as in beer but not as in FREEDOM

>when you think someone is cool but they're actually pretty shit

>>164566389
Nice blog

>>164566389
>tfw you're shit

>>164566542
goes without saying

>>164566561
why?

>>164566631
so it goes

So why does Unity crash when i hit play in editor? I have no scripting in the scene what so ever, just sprites.

>>164566754
you obviously fucked something up.
reinstall it.

Working on music after neglecting it for months is suffering.

>>164566754
Welcome to Unity, you'll have unexplainable errors and crashes very often.

>>164565586
Nice. Which game?

>>164563818
Consider allowing the player to reselect their moves at the beginning of each level. This would allow them to try them all out and decide what they like.

Then you could even purposely gate things away with certain move requirements, allowing a degree of replayability that might otherwise not exist.

>>164567176
I've only had one so far, when i accidentally had a script with an infinite loop

>>164567316
>responding to bait

>>164566754
i have version 5.3.2 and it never crashes

How is gms2 compared to gms 8.1 /agdg/? Im a bit of a novice to gms so I was wondering if I should make the jump or not

my game's dark setting would make a great use of bonfire checkpoints/savepoints but if i do that it will automatically be a "copy" of dark souls
fuck me
Also, i just woke up from 16 hours of sleep

>>164567408
improvements of gms2 over gms are mainly gui things but gms is an upgrade over gm8.1 as is after it stopped being a shitty bugfest
if you somehow never made the transition from 8.1 to studio 1, just go straight to gms2

>>164567807
If you are stealing from Dark Souls might as well go all the way

>>164567807
Don't shy away, use the bonfire mechanic but with a different skin.

Pick something else that suits your world other than a shit campfire with a fucking sword sticking out of it and bam - you're good to go.

>>164567807
No it wont. Obviously people will see that it's got a similar saving mechanic, but unless your entire game is a copy of dark souls no one is going to think that.
Also 16 hours is way too long to sleep.

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wiz MUD

>>164563196
looks wild dude

>>164567408
>8.1
nigger what are you doing

>>164567807
dont be an uncreative shit

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more tweaks.

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WE AKIMBO NOW

>>164567970
>>164568061
>>164568089
TOO MANY GAMES

>>164568061
I can actually see what's going on here so that's good.

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>>164567229
this thingy

>>164568089
i hate it when games show the objective at all times in the corner of the screen

time to become a 3d dev

>>164568627
Don't do it anon. I'm warning you now! You'll never be able to look back to 2D. You'll be stuck in the purgatory of making 3D models and working with 3D maths forever.

>>164565604
i'm unironically stealing this idea for my next game

>>164568627
Do it if you can but I will warn you now 3D is really fucking hard

>>164569435
>>164569356
>t. enginedevs

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>couldn't even make a garry's mod map
>couldn't even make a garry's mod posing

Sad. Good thing the cops are coming for him soon. :)

>>164567279
I remember playing 3D world a while back, and there was this big red button with an M on it, meaning only mario could stomp on it. it fucking sucked that i had to be a certain character to do something that anyone else could've done.
super mario bros 2 did it right at least

>>164567970
fishing lvl?

>>164569474
I'm not talking about programming you doofus

>>164565871
sleep 8+ hours a day for a few months.

>>164569521
why is that table made of fucking bricks?

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>>164568061
>when you're looking at the next guy who'll get rich but you can never match him

>>164569474
Did you quote the wrong people or are you actually retarded?

>>164570301
less looking more acting

>play salt and sanctuary
>literally 2d dark souls yet worse somehow

please stop making 2d games

>>164570676
I know who you are. Stop.

>>164570301
p sure we're not getting rich.

>>164570728
who am i

>>164570738
dont say that anon!
all we need as a good idea!

>>164570676
You know what they say about 3D....

>>164570773
You know who you are.

My bad, the other one was a mess, I moved a few things.

>>164570794
nah man, memes aside, even if your game is good, you gotta strike out a lucky jackpot to get a sudden hit off of that, or at least I think that's how it works?
it's just very easy to get overlooked. we've made a press kit and hit up a dozen small magazines with a review request. not a single one replied.

>http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/147043/is-md5-a-good-option-for-verifying-game-scores-or-should-i-replace-it-with-some

fucking idiotic unity devs

>>164570995
thats not how it works and youre retarded for thinking like this

>>164571068
Rude.

>>164570995
Why I am I not surprised that the soulless game has a soulless dev.

>>164571125
at least im not giving myself excuses like luck so i dont have to try harder. faggot

>>164570738
You literally have the next Downwell in your hands. All the elements are there. Name one of those highly-replayable indie games with rogue elements and good production value that didn't make it big?

I know you're probably trying to be humble about it but that's just the simple truth, out of all projects on AGDG right now yours is the one most likely to make a lot of money. Also I guess Anubis does too.

>>164568061

So when exactly will I be able to give you my money ?

>>164571187
You're giving yourself excuses to be rude instead

>>164569892
theres no fishing in this game.

>>164571068
>>164571130
>>164571238
iunno. i guess this is what happens when you're forced to handle PR, it's p jading and I can barely handle it desu. i also think its sensible to not make big assumptions, saves me the trouble of getting way fucking jaded from potential disappointment.

>>164571238
Cavern Kings

>>164571423
There's fishing for replies. Thanks for the (You)

>>164571429
>saves me the trouble of getting way fucking jaded from potential disappointment.

That's like saying you should never fall in love because it feels terrible when it's over. It's no surprise your game is going to fail. You're not giving your 100% because you're afraid. Sad!

>>164571238
his game is nothing like downwell. my game is like downwell!!

Friendly reminder that 3D games are easier to make than 2D games if you're using an engine and don't need heavily animated humanoid models

>>164571429
Just remember your most important PR is the trailer you make
and make fucking sure its no longer than a minute long, don't bore people

>>164571440
A game that Vine never finished but still released and moved on to other things. Yes, great production values.

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>>164571550
BRWAKING NEW: trump memeposter is incredibly naive
News at 11.

>>164571550
i mean, im trying as hard as i can, i just dont want that to let that get to my head. i'll brag about being a succesful yesdev only if that actually happens.

>>164571676
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3SWxUC4VME
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

>>164570956
This looks better. I'm not sure I'm sold on the animation itself though.

>>164565086
It's guuuuuuud
>>164565586
artblog, please
>>164571676
No, it can be a bit over a minute. Just not stupidly long, say over 3 minutes.

>>164571782
>>164571846
There's nothing about Steam market that points to good games making below 100k in gross revenue. So if you're fine with at least 100k (or 10k copies at $10) you don't need to worry about anything.

>>164571846
music is bad, zoom is on the screen at various parts instead of showing the whole game all the time. zoomed in pixel art looks better

can someone give me a use case scenario were using delegates would be required in unity?

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>>164572301

>>164572301
Events or something? That's the only thing I ever used them for.
>>164572427
DANAHLD

>>164572427
skelegates, if you will

>>164571676
the key is not to spoil your whole game in the trailer. find a nice balance between the best aspects of your game without showing too much.

>see trailer
>looks good
>play game
>literally the only good parts of the game were already shown in the trailer
>rest of game feels like filler

dont do this

>>164572301
they are useful if you want some class to be notified of a change in state without actively checking for the state changing in some kind of asynchronous loop (Update)

Unity's APIs tend to avoid them, probably so novice programmers dont have to understand them. instead they tend to either require that you use interfaces, or if its a monobehaviour just define a function and they go and do some stuff during complilation to make it basically an interface anyway

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----[ Recap Complete ]----

-------- SCORES
25 ... Monolith
23 ... Skylarks
15 ... Crystal Chrysalis
13 ... Clarent
13 ... Throbot
7 ... Saigo No Shinwa
6 ... Not a School Shooter
5 ... VikinGirl RPG
5 ... 23/Prometheus
5 ... Helleton
5 ... [Placeholder Title]
5 ... Super Space Jam Jetpack Robot Turbo
3 ... card tactix
3 ... Ancient Saga
3 ... Space Carrier Ops
3 ... RAD Ross
2 ... Kairo The Gryphon
2 ... Whimp the Bold
1 ... Source
1 ... Locked Masts
1 ... Sword Collector
1 ... Cybership
1 ... Mech Game
1 ... Sim Loli
1 ... Maid Game
1 ... Project M
1 ... Ctesiphon
1 ... Vampire's Bit
1 ... New Grounds Rpg with Life/Date Sim but Improved
1 ... Autumn’s Gesture
1 ... Tyranny 3000
1 ... Elemental Knight
1 ... Gumball Spiral
1 ... Scavenge
1 ... BONELORD
1 ... Bout O' Wizards
1 ... unnamed

-------- FEEDBACK
Notice something wrong with your entry, score, or anything else? Let me know and I'll look into it.

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I've finally added a spell limit

>>164564334
>there are people that still believe animals don't have emotions or souls
>there are people that believe animals were made for us to slaughter and eat

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>>164573368
>SOURCE
Absolute Madman

>>164573762
These people are called "religious".

>>164573762
>there are people that still believe animals don't have emotions or souls

>implying humans have souls

>>164573368
>only 2 Unreal games
What now Unreal fags.

>>164574112
>only 0 games
What now, you.

GOD DAMNIT UNITY RAPED MY CAT AGAIN
I knew I should have never installed this shitty shit engine for babbys

>>164565086
pretty cringy

>>164574310
I better go, my engine needs me.

So I'm basically a neat with a small bit of experience in programming, and I'm interested in making a game. I've always been extremely passionate about design in general and video games, but I thought trying to get into indie game development was just hopeful dreaming.

Although, I've decided to give it a shit recently and completed a super simple game in Unity with the help of a tutorial, but with me own touches on it.

I liked working with 3D in Unity, but it was so overwhelming. For those of you who have experience with 3D in Unity, what would you recommend for me based on what little I've said about my situation?

I was thinking about switching to Game Maker: Studio or Love2D and trying 2D instead because I've heard it's easier, but then I feel like I'm just pussying out on something I started learning. At the same time, I don't want this anxiety I'm getting from how overwhelming I find working with 3D shit to get me burnt out on game development not long after just getting started.

Maybe I'm just being a huge pussy. It sure feels like it after typing this out, but I'm still not sure what to do next, now that I finished my simple Unity game.

>>164574930
kek

>>164574961
stick with unity

>>164574796
how do you know it was rape?

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>>164575097
The cat was drunk.

>>164574961
Personally I started with 2D even though I generally don't like 2D games and never wanted to make them, like you said it's much easier to get going.
After making pong, tetris & breakout in LWJGL I started with Unity. Though I guess you could always just make those in Unity.

Definitely don't start with properly 3D games, it's good experience to "finish" something and those games above are a good way to do it.

>>164565871
makeup

>>164575093
>>164575518
I think I'll stick with Unity and avoid proper 3D games. I like fixed camera 3rd person 3D games, so that shouldn't be nearly as difficult as first person or 3rd person with a controllable camera.

>>164575097
My cat would never lay with a fat ugly shitty engine like SCREWNITY she has standards

Should have known better than to leave her alone with that drag and drop meme engine

>>164575892
>drag and drop
are you sure you're not thinking of UE?

whatta buncha nerds

>>164565871
hemmeroid cream, it's an astringent and will constrict the blood vessels stopping the colour.

>>164575659
eeeh
The difficulty of 3D games is level design, asset creation, 3D mechanics, you still have all that with a fixed camera game.

People recommend things like pong and breakout because they are good short throwaway projects which give you experience with fundamentals.
The throwaway nature is important, what you don't want to be doing is building a substantial project on the shaky foundations of your first ever go at video game development.

I went:
Pong > Breakout > endless runner > FZero clone > game I care about

>>164572301
onClick listeners for buttons.

>>164573738
>THE ROCK
I can smell what the rock is cooking already

>>164574961
>I'm basically a neat
I think you're neat too anon.
Set small manageable goals and take baby steps.
>a super simple game in Unity with the help of a tutorial, but with me own touches on it
Pretty baby steps like this.

I'm not sure there's any other way to do it in any engine. The most problematic aspect of 3D is probably the character models, and shit gets really complex if you're pulling rendering tricks.

This is the actual choice you're facing, not just 2D or 3D. You're gonna need to learn yourself a good fucking skillset if you go with 3D, not just the engine, I don't think 2D requires as large a set.

Am I missing something or Irrlicht still lacks ability to find animation by name?

>>164576621
>Irrlicht
Isn't that like an engine from the stone age?

>>164576621
havent heard that name in a decade

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anyone experienced with ue4 here? I need some answers.

>>164577506
What's up

>>164563818
Unless you're making a deliberately casual/simplistic game, your game will be more entertaining if players have access to all moves at all times, or at the very least earn them throughout a playthrough and then have access to them in new game plus. Very, very few games benefit from the "select your moves!" gimmick, which actually serves to limit the amount of interaction between moves that players can explore at any given time (selecting moves A B and C and finding that they work well in concert, but knowing that move D would also work well in concert with these moves yet being unable to access it does not increase player enjoyment). This is even more-so true when certain moves are required to get the most out of a level, unless you're really good at level design and can meaningfully integrate features that make entertaining use of every selectable move (but then you might as well give the player every move anyway, since it'll still increase the depth of the gameplay).

>>164577589
Nothing much, hbu

>>164576724
>>164576846
Last version was released at July 9, 2016, so initially it looked like not so stone age and I liked its simplicity. However it seems I'm wrong.

Fuck. Godot crashes in its own examples. Unity (development) doesn't work in linux,
UE4 seems too heavy-weight.

Oh well, it seems it's time to either find a hammer and make irrlicht into something usable or try libgdx and hope that I don't hit some stupid limit like 32k verticies max.

>>164577506
Hi, I'm Steve, the UE4 guy.

I want to get into this kinda stuff but I have no idea where to even start.

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>>164577589
>>164577939
if I want to make a non-human like character steered by the player I need to use pawn with a playercontroller interface?
how does collision exactly work? is the physics asset actually used when not running a simulation? is it only collision by bounding volume? I dont really understand how everything fits together

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>>164576562
>mfw

>>164577987
If it controls like a normal character then you can start with a Character. If you need something more unique I think they'd recommend starting with a Pawn

Both of these use a capsule collider. Physics assets are only for physics simulation (and capsule shadows if you set that)

>>164577987
Pawn should work. Characters are just pawns with the 'character' module set. Player controller interface? Player controller 'is' an interface. Make it possess the pawn, pawn needs input logic. Physic asset isn't used unless the asset is activated, you can set it yourself. Collision can be defined.

Look at the examples and try to find something close to what you're doing for examples.

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>>164578216
Nice.

>>164565871
Less coffee, more sleep and sun exposure. Exercise helps too.

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I started working on the gun shop. It previews the weapon you're highlighting.

Test

>>164577931
>seems
That thing is a massive beast, it is not toaster friendly, especially not for the the editor.

>>164565086
Needs shorter arms to be truly kawaii, but could be good for an Animal Crossing sort of game.

>>164578936
No offense, but this reminds me of Action 52

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>>164578936
>should I buy the tennis ball, the yoga ball or the frisbee

>>164579228
Frisbeefags get out.

>>164579228
Frisbee is top tier

>>164578394
I like the character thingy. I only started 2 days ago and not ready yet to write my own implementation. my question boils down if its possible to add a more sophisticated bounding volume decomposition than a simple capsule.

>>164578506
I will stick to the character for now.

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>>164579368
Only people with sub-optimal IQ would ever go with the frisbee.

I'm playing around with Clickteam Fusion free, I saw the other day lurking here that I guess alot of you look down on it, but I was wondering if you could help me with something.

I want to know if it can be done in this, or if it's not possible/need third party shit to work. I want a game window that is 640x480, and a frame that is 320x240, so that I can scale the game up 2x. I've done that but the problem I have run into is if something is outside of the frame but within the virtual frame the collision wont work.

AAAAND I just discovered right as I finished typing that paragraph that if I uncheck the "handle background collisions even out of the window" it works. Well that seems the opposite of what it is but I guess that did it.

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rarest

>>164579527
wew thats sexy

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>>164560383
tfw made no progress
tfw i have still have to post progress
im sorry :(
https://youtu.be/sdqfZgMkRsc

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>>164579513
>he doesn't know about frisbee-jump, fast 3x frisbee combo and other high skill frisbee techniques

>>164579527
Groovy.

>>164565086
It's going to be a horror exploration game right?

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>>164579750
That's it. Hopefully that should be enough to deal with people like you.

>>164580098
You need help

>>164580098
I don't recognize that game ;-P

I started taking creatine so that my progress has higher quality. Can't wait for it to kick in so i can get rid of this stupid brain fog.

>>164580098
>being this triggered
lmao, go back to tumblr you little bitch.

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finally got around to making a new videogame music

https://soundcloud.com/shavebeard/yikeserey

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>>164580154
when was the last time when you've seen a post of actual value in this thread that had one of these dumb emoticons
>>164580252
>triggered meme
i used to be like you and avoided filters like plague thinking they're for pussies, but after a while i realized that i was gaining absolutely nothing subjecting myself to all the shit that can be easily ridden of, so i put them on
this general became a lot more bearable since

>>164580448
I use filters too, except I only filter you-know-who, not smiley faces or other completely normal words. You and everyone else who flips out whenever someone types ":)" have caused more shitposting than anyone who uses a smiley face.

>>164580448
Okay but could you filter your own posts by not responding to dumb faggots or posting to tell people that you've filtered them, which is equally useless noise on par with all the shit that you've filtered?

>>164580689
i can't really get behind filtering desu or senpai since both of these can accidentally appear in posts that aren't specifically designed to be shit, but emoticons are only used by newfags, trolls and unstable cunts, so i understand that
>>164580783
i'm not the original fag.jpg poster

>>164579000
You know you can check if you're banned by going to 4chan.org/banned

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I made a little animation system in GMS. Recording came out a little crap though...

>>164580689
>unironically still refers to his boogeyman as "you-know-who"
You're a faggot. Just thought you should know.

>>164581028
welcome to Don't Starve™!

joking aside, what stuff are you looking to have in your game?

>>164581028
Your character reminds me of Putin

>>164581195
Same here.

>tfw you are a cuck because you are making a game for OTHER PEOPLE to enjoy

Rate the start of this atmospheric chiptune:

https://clyp.it/breaw4fz

>>164581181
I don't care if it's one person or multiple people who shitpost, they all use the same name in the shitposts, so that's the only name that needs to be filtered.

>>164580098
>filtering desu
some ppl just use T B H and it automatically turns into desu, so you should really not filter desu

Fuck, if he filtered desu he won't see me

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>>164581185
Zombie killing.

Every time I try and make a game I always blow the scope up so much that it falls apart or I lose interest. This time I'm starting a project and I want to plan exactly what it's going to have in it and then limit it to only that so I have a plan to work toward. What are the best tools that I can use to write a design document and keep track of development tasks?

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>>164581383
Are chiptunes the 'retro' thing that deserves to die off the most?

>>164581607
notepad

I don't fucking know why your retards need something to cross out words

>>164581607
notepad
trello
mspaint

>>164581671
does that mean you like it

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>>164581726
>tfw someone listens to anons 10 second chiptune intro but not to my link

>>164580380
Cute

>>164581607, don't listen to >>164581690 or >>164581710, who are actually Microsoft goons sent to coerce you into sacrificing your freedoms via proprietary software. Instead use software that respects your freedoms like Notepad++.

>>164581862
thanks pal

>>164581836
send it i'll listen to it

>>164581383
Pretty good. I'd increase the volume of the melody a bit maybe. Make it more pronounced.

Kinda reminds me of Sushi Box

>>164580380
sounds kinda gay senpai desu

>>164581607
Programming scope isn't an issue. Art is.

>it doesn't work
>try to fix it
>it works even less

Should I just give up now?

>>164582104
They both are DESU, but moreso art. I've decided for my next project I'm going to use the oryx art pack. A few other games use it and it's more than adequate.

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Added some animations. Opinions?

>>164582343
ragdoll sandbox youtuber bait

>>164582343
If you make the fish sing when you interact with it, I'll love you forever

>>164582343
when you make graphics like this or like that uncanny valley thing you did, it's simply because a game needs graphics and you don't want help right

>>164582041
this one
>>164580380

but someone did listen already

feel free to as well though

>>164582402
Thanks, but this is getting old.

>>164582502
That's the plan. It attracts people to it.

>>164582536
Yes, of course.

>>164582536
Not him but how do you expect programmers to finish their games if they're not even allowed to have minimalist graphics?

>>164582636
how is it not a youtuber bait?

>>164582816
Whatever I say, your mind is set. I don't need to argue with you. If you don't like the game and you don't have any proper constructive criticism, please try to refrain from commenting.

>>164582636
youtube letsplay kickstarter hipster documentary cuck sjw socialism

>>164579750
lmao the top row of teeth don't articulate, they are attached to the skull, jesus

your daily reminder to use monogame instead of unity for 2d games

>>164572301
everything should use delegates, I hope you're not just checking for everything in the update to see if something is changed, or to activate an event, right?

>>164582816
>>164582919
not that anon, btw

>>164582803
This is a bad argument because he's implied that minimalist graphics are inherently bad, which you've failed to address and have instead asked why, according to the implication he's made, programmers should not be allowed to release games with bad graphics.

The better argument would be that minimalist graphics are not inherently bad. Then you two could hit the logical endpoint of every agdg argument, whose subjective opinion is superior.

>>164582803
it ain't minimalist
I'm just always curious how such things end up coming into existence, like with that one dream king guy who made an entire game filled with shitty sprite edits because he thought that was legit the only way to make something look "retro"

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>>164582941
Great post!

>>164575217
but HE was also drunk, wtf america?

>>164583045
Have you considered the fact that he used shitty art because that's the only art he can make?

You're free to want good art but who's going to make or buy them? You?

>>164583045
>>164583024

That wasn't me. Pixel art is used because it's easier to make than 3d or proper 2d animations, obviously. There is only one artist. If I wanted proper 2d animations I would need either a good team or take forever (Skullgirls, Owlboy both took so much time). I'm not doing it to pander to retro aesthetics, I really don't care about that or the pixel fad we had a few years ago.

I still think the game has enough style and personality where people tend to enjoy it (most people said Uncanny Valley looked good, even though I think it could be vastly improved but we did what we could).

>>164582237
Just take a break. Quitter.

I just wasted another hour because of bullshit

In GDScript:

var x = ["hello"]
x[0].erase(2, 2)
print(x[0])

prints "hello"

From source
void String::erase(int p_pos, int p_chars) {
*this=left(p_pos)+substr( p_pos + p_chars , length() - ( (p_pos+p_chars) ) );
}

Why even have a function that only works from plain variables?

x[0] copies the string so it's
"hello".erase(2, 2)

What a waste of time

And the best thing, this is the only function is the String class that assigns to *this, everything else returns a value that you can then assign yourself, as is necessary for value types
Why does this one function reassign *this instead of returning the modified string? I will rewrite it and recompile the engine, this is unacceptable