/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

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>>165156740
Great post!

>>165156776
gracias

>>165156615
Wow what is that girl with the furry boobs?
That looks soooo good ^_^

>>165156615
the good games are at the top and bad at the bottom, right?

>>165157034
They are in order from worst to best.

>>165157034
Nope, it's in reverse order, worst to best.

>>165156615
>clarent in the second row
>dinodev in the last row
>icebossplatformerdev in the last spot
>furry dating sim in the first place
WHAT WENT WRONG

>>165157034
Of course. Everyone knows Popularity = Quality.

>>165157067
>>165157094
you can tell this is true because it has furries at the start and scalies at the end

listen kids. if you want cheap success, make a japanese cartoon porn game. you know those are way more popular than any furry shit could ever be.
you not making a japanese cartoon porn game means that you actually care more about someones elses success than your own. really makes u think.

>>165157151
this
furry is the plebeian fetish

>>165157151
>scalies claiming placeholder boxes
nothing is sacred

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>junji ito horror game
Binged through Tomie last week. I'm ready for spooks.

>>165157225
nice ruse but we all know you're only doing it so that local weeb nodevs can get their own fapbait without having to make it on their own because they can't get off their lazy asses and are too busy watching anime

>>165157264
>I'm ready for spooks.
Move to Detroit then.

>>165156615
>my pile of fucking garbage beat dino dev
What the fuck

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>>165156615
REAL TOP TEN HERE

>>165157559
you spent too much time on this

>>165157559
tender arms, bonelord and ctesiphon are also steamchat clique

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>>165157382
My wife is from there. I'm good.

>>165157834
What about her son?

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>>165157559
no need for top, however these are the 'real' agdg games here

>>165157870
>'real' agdg games
What constitutes realness?

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>>165157559
>cliques are bad
>whodevs are also bad
pick a side homo

>>165157559
>marks Rune Revolve as whodev
>marks Elemental Knight as whodev
I'm surprised you didn't mark REM as a whodev, even though he posts less than the ones you have marked as whodevs.

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>>165157851
Well we don't have kids yet, together or separate.

>>165157870
in all fairness the no 1 furry game also gets posted from time to time since dd11

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Hitch your 'Metanoia: The Sacrifice was bad and you should feel bad' and/or whatever other feedback you'd like to pass on to me to this post.

>>165157964
posting in these threads on a consistent basis.

>>165157994
Don't pass your weak beta genes on, get her bull to impregnate her.

>>165158025
So why did you block out all the games that post in these threads on a consistent basis?

Hey guys, haven't been here in a while. Does the Devil May cry-esque U4 dev still dev that shit? it looked promising.

>>165158089
because they dont post in these threads on a consistent basis. one literally said they only post on discord

>>165158019
heh, nice art kid

come work for me. you can make cash. four figures a year salary, how's that sound?

>>165158025
Then why is mine hidden? I've been posting my progress on it for like a month now. Do I need to spam my game for it to be 'consistently posted'?

>>165158170
> expecting people who make images like this to have any sense at all

it's arbitrary bullshit

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>mfw no DDXII group art
let's try to fix it, post your game

>>165158019
if you're trying to make it that there looks like blood on the corners, they don't, they look more like veins

>>165158151
Yeah, one. Why don't you just say it how it is? You blocked the games you don't like and claimed all the other ones were the only real /agdg/ games.
Unfortunately your opinion doesn't matter, no matter how much you dislike those games doesn't change the fact that they post here consistently.

Batch when?

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>>165158285
I think I did kind of both. I intend to go back and redo all the BGs that I've mounted all the transparent scenery onto before I launch. I can do a lot better these days, I feel.

>>165157264
>tfw no Tomie gf

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>bunch of faggot neets sitting around making shitty games

Have you idiots made even 5 grand off your crap yet? Probably not. Kill yourselves tbqh.

>not being an artist and making 70k this year because you signed multiple licensing deals with advertising entertainment agencies

shiggy

>>165157559
>>165157870
>t. nodevs salty that yesdevs have been making games

>>165158636
You gon get guillotined boy

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>check steamspy
>find the shittiest looking garbage game
>it sold thousands of copies
...and you fuckers are still struggling when something that can barely be considered a game made by some poo in loo is selling?

>>165157559
>>165157870
>newfag nodevs in charge of who is and isn't a whodev

lul

>>165158706
If it has trading cards and is cheap, then it's part of Valve's racket and doesn't really count

>>165158424
ok. it's just that, unless there's some deep significance about blood veins in the game, I feel like it's out of place

>>165158772
It doesn't have huge significance, no. Just horror-themed dressing - which I felt was an appropriate set of things to put in given the game's set in a dark fantasy world.

>>165158607
i'll give you credit for at least reading the thread title in the last moment and quickly switching to the wojak image to write a more suitable shitpost
but the fact still stands, you got lost on your way. fuck off back to your biyearly speedrunning autism container

>>165158017

Actually the dev posts here alot, he just doesn't post screenshots often because it triggers some anons.

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>tfw working on throwaway projects to learn things and only dreaming about your game

Pico-8 is in humble bundle. Is it worth getting?
I'm kinda tempted but I don't really like paying for shit without testing it first.

>>165158931
that's what i meant

>>165158706
1000 copies is like a big mac with no soda

>>165158706
Because I want to put it in my portfolio to make it easier to hire me, yes, that's why I'm struggling to make a high quality game before I put something up on Steam.

>>165159047
For those of us not living in burgerland, what are you trying to say?

>>165157559
>literally never been to steamchat
>STEAMCHAT CLIQUE

>>165159047
are you from switzerland or something

>>165158706

What is the game? I want to know if I own it!

>>165159173
1000 copies is like a nacho with no guacamole

>>165159186
if you switch out "steamchat" for "discord" it becomes accurate

>>165156615
Mine will come with the next demo day.

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>>165158260

>>165159328
and who are you?

>>165156615

That minion shooter game, I'm afraid to download it. I've never seen anything posted for it and the title sounds like one of those Games for Girls horror shows.

Has anyone given that thing a try?

>>165159274
For those of us not living in the land that always sleeps, what are you trying to say?

>>165159454
Trapdev.
I'm working on saigo no shinwa.

>>165159328

Do you have something or are you working on something?

>>165159490

That 1000 copies over steam is not an outstanding profit when considering cuts, mark downs, etc?

That's danger thoughts, though. Imagine how many devs would drop out if they considered how much they are losing in opportunity profit doing this game dev indie thing!

>>165159490
1000 copies is like fish with no chips

>>165157870
>>165158025

Yeah, cause Helleton dev is not posting there on regular basis.

I'm not even mad that you hid my game, cause it's not "shiny" enough to be recognized, but dude, seriously? Hiding helleton?

>>165159480
I've never seen progress by this guy even though he submitted 2 games to DD12 and one to DD11. Could be timezones but haven't seen them on any reacaps either.

>>165159797
For those of us not literate, what are you trying to say?

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>>165159861
Jesus Christ!

>waste 2 hours tracking down a bug
>it was && instead of ||
seriously 50% of dev time is wasted on fixing trivial typos

>>165160178
1000 copies is like a bucket with no chicken

>>165160302
For those of us on the moon, what are you trying to say?

1000 copies is like AGDG with no one posting progress

>>165156615
When is the next demo day?

>>165160408
1000 copies is like doujin with no sex

>>165160507
Never. This was the last one.

>>165160507
in a 1000 copies

How the fuck do I draw my game title for the titlescreen

>>165161186
Have you ever tried to just ... do it?

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>>165158260
reporting in

>>165161271
go away nike shill

Submitted this at like 1am last night so not sure if anyone noticed it , would like to get some plays if possible so I know if to drop it or not

https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-12/rate/110772

>>165161461
>unity web player
>install now!

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>>165161186
Do what any typographist/logo maker would do. Make a bunch of mockups in black/white and play with ideas/typesets until you find the one that makes you go 'aha, that one'. Then you modify the typeface and turn it into more of a symbol/piece of art - and then you polish polish polish.

I wonder with all the high end shit like that apple mixed reality crap and ms hololens and other vr, it's still even worth it to try and go the OMA indie route.
I mean games today basically already look like reality, and with that new tech they will play like reality too, and players expect them to look the part. So in a market like that, how can your shitty pixels compete?

>>165161768
By being actually fun to play and not being a gimmick.

>>165161768
>and players expect them to look the part (iow to like reality).
I'll just point out that this statement on its own shows you haven't done your research.

I have put a download on there as well, idk why the web player doesn't work

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>>165158260
I hope there's a place for me.

>>165161710
what did he mean by this

>>165161768
VR games are often graphically simple, they need the performance.

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Well, the bad news is (if anyone still cares), I'm cancelling Mayhem League. It's gotten to the point where the amount of effort required to finish it, due to poor initial decisions in how animations and the rig would be handled (leading to an ENORMOUS amount of work manually keying blends and transitions, resheaths and draws, aim-offset poses, etc) is insurmountable for me, or at the very least for my ability to devote my time to the game daily.

Especially since it wasn't fun. DMC-meets-THPS is a clever idea in theory but in practice the pacing is all wrong; melee combos aren't skateboarding combos. You have to react and take time, it's more about what enemies do than what you do. You can't be stylish when the clock is counting against you and it's not really feasible to "keep a combo going" much as it seems like it should be. Removing the health bar and making a combined style-meter/ability-list was also interesting, but in practice it made the game frustrating because the worse you did, the worse your ability set would become, and it was mostly "oops, you got shot from offscreen, now you can't double-jump".

Really, it was a mess of a core gameplay loop, that just had some solid combat mechanics.

So, I'm transplanting most of those combat mechanics into a new game, one that's more along the lines of the action-adventure-platformer type game my Mayhem League levels kept veering towards anyway.

>>165161902
Nice style but the platforms/walls look like they are painted onto the background

>>165162072
F
I'm really sorry to read this. I hope your next game will go well.

>>165162072
That's a shame.

I warned you about adding mechanics from literally every game you happened to play that week

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Which do you like better?

>>165162072
Man that sucks, your game kinda reminded me of S4 League and I was really looking forward to it.

>due to poor initial decisions in how animations and the rig would be handled
I am so afraid this happening to me.

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>furry
>fuck
>simulator
Who thought this would be a good idea?
On the secound thought, who are all those tards playing it unironically?

>>165160178

1000 copies is like fish and chips with no fries.

You know on the news when they say $X amount lost? It's not really any money lost its money that could have been made. It's called opportunity cost and profit. When you dev you are essentially working for yourself and because of terrible negotiation you have managed to pay yourself a rate of jack squat per hour.

Opportunity cost can become even more maddening when factoring health. Then it becomes that you are incurring a negative value because something you do now will cause medical costs in the future. No excersicing now means a 10k baboon pancreas operation in the future thus your lifestyle has given you a 10k debt right now but only payable in the future, for example.

>>165162302
Left.

>>165162302
right

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>>165162072

I've been following this for a long ass time. I trust that you know what you're doing, looking forward to whatever is next.

RIP

>>165161985
That is completely wrong. They are simple because no big companies are jumping on the VR train yet, they are waiting for the VR to go mainstream, which it will pretty soon and then the flood of AAA games will begin. THe current vr games look like shit because they are usualy demo projects or some small start up company shit.

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>>165158260

>>165162150
Do you think that platforms casting shadows on the wall would fix that?

>>165162302
Left's outlines look bad, but you could make them work, so I'm gonna go with Right in their current state

>>165162353
Agreed, but where is your game?

>>165162302
Right

How can I put bosses in my game without making it feel too "gamey"? I am hoping for my game to be in a real world setting and I don't want it to feel campy

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>>165158260
Sure.

>>165162302
Honestly, both can work. Do you have a background from your game so we can see how it looks over that background?

Personally I prefer the first, though. Just cuz I like having darker outlines.

>>165162490
indev

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>>165162072
So, this is my new game. Right now I'm calling it "Dixie", after the main character, but I may not keep that.

It's like Banjo Kazooie, but if Banjo Kazooie had Mayhem League's combat mechanics.

Basically, you run around levels collecting macguffins (sort of like Mayhem League), most of which are found by platforming and by clearing arenas of enemies, but some of which are found by completing tasks or unlocking secrets. Your ability to progress is limited by the moves you've unlocked; if you want to jump to the ledge that's too high to reach, you need to find the guy who teaches you to backflip.

Only in this game, the backflip is also a rising launcher that lifts enemies into the air. That sort of thing.

The biggest advantage (pic related) is it's MUCH, MUCH easier to churn out content. This Dixie rig was cobbled together over the course of a few HOURS, and I can spit out probably 500 melee attack animations and let an intelligent dynamic blending system transform them into unique combos and finishers with very little work. The "extra floating hands" design lets me do aim-and-shoot and other interactions without having to worry about endless combinations of blend poses and aim offsets. I can make assets in like, a fucking second because the whole thing is 15-poly 128x128 single-texture N64 art and I don't give a shit.

Also I can disentangle my spaghetti when it comes to the blueprints that control this shit since I have a clear picture of not just WHAT the MC can do, but HOW to achieve that at a program level.

Will it look as "polished" as ML did (or could have, since ML didn't really look great?) No. But I can do it quickly, meaning I spend less time doing "homework" and more time actually making levels and having fun, and maybe I can actually pump the game out in a year's time.

tl;dr I got bored of Mayhem League, am rebooting it as a cuhrayzee N64 collectathon.

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was just doodling an APC sprite for my game. The first one was awful, at which point I drew the larger image at the bottom, to decide what I actually wanted.
Then I drew the other three sprites at the top, and I'm pretty happy with the top right.

>>165162353

Not counting yourself?

>>165162448
VR has an overhead and are unplayable at low framerates, even cinematic Sony say they will reject VR titles which run sub 60fps

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>>165158260
o-okay

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>>165158260

>>165162072
This is good to hear. First project always dies, now you can start clean and keep it clean and avoid the big mistakes. From following your progress it was very obvious the game core was spaghetti, so i was wondering how long will it take you to finally drop it.
You made the right choice. Just don't get lazy with your next project and don't fall into the same hole and DON'T use blueprints.

>>165162302

Left. No outlines are for commies

>>165162661
I sure hope you don't plan to use the one on the bottom anywhere.

>>165162353
I'd play it
If I had a windows computer that is

>>165162660
I like her! Looking forward to seeing ML's daughter come to life.

Added screenshots to my entry of Metanoia: The Sacrifice on DD12 as requested last thread, along with the short blurb to describe it and whatnot.

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>>165162778
STRONGER, YOU SAY?

>>165162727
There is literally no overhead in VR games. Do you even into computers?

The VR headset literally does the same thing as the mouse and keyboard do in any computer game, it tells it to "move here and look there".
VR is like a different kind of mouse/keyboard at it requires no additional resources.

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>>165162484
Main problem is the lack of contrast on the vertical edges, it looks like the same brick continues in a different color. On the horizontal edges it looks good because there is a clearly defined edge.

>>165162871
It's very placeholdery, much like everything else in the game so far.
The map sprites are the only thing I expect to keep so far.

>>165160507

About two months.

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>Trying to get a RayCast deadcenter in firstperson in godot.
>Bind ray to camera so it moves all together
>After movement its always somewhat off
>Try moving around the ray, making it worse.
>Reset to initial state and rescale the whole model
>It works like intended

Im happy that its fixed but that was weird

>>165162072
Ffffffuck. I was really, really looking forward to your game.

Please please please upload whatever the most recent version is, I don't care how janky it might be,

>>165163017
Fuck man. That is so simple thing to see, yet I somehow have overlooked that. Thanks for help.

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>>165162916

how do you make a dating sim that is more than just a visual novel? Are there any examples i can look at?

>mad about furry game.
>analytics show most downloads are referred from furry game's itch.io page

>>165163287
Newgrounds flash games? I think some of them had RPG elements in it.

>>165162580
Haven't made any backgruonds yet, just starting to do some art here and there.

Thanks all for the feedback.

>>165163287
Pretend your game uses advanced AI to interpret and respond to typed input

It's actually secretly multiplayer, and your date is another person

>>165163140
If I can actually get it to compile (it's always a headache and a half to do), I'll post it to the ML itch.io

I'd like to think Dixie will be fun for the same reasons ML ever would have been, but I guess removing the flying "dash" thing will be sort of a bummer.

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>>165163287

>>165163362
it's actually one of my bigger view providers

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>>165156615
I'm having problems running Monolith. Any advice?

>>165163287
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect_2

>>165163362
In other news: Water not as dry as we thought.

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IT KEEPS HAPPENING

To be fair, "elder-tart" has to be the best name I've ever seen

>>165163287
how involved would you be looking to go?

Most dating sims are just VNs with boolean flags, and hidden stats to see who likes you more.

For all of that stuff Renpy does it well enough.
You can even shoehorn minigames into renpy, using pygame.

>>165163287
combine it with a rape sim

What exactly makes gamemaker easier than say Unreal or Unity?

>>165163714
2D

>>165163510
>Games
>shmups
>fraxy_20150606beta
>try
>Monolith Demo - Windows
I don't get it.

>>165163780
But you can do 2d in unreal or unity

>>165163460
Maybe just some easy interaction like in
[game]
with a set timeout.

Would be a fun gimmick

[game]http://steamcommunity.com/app/496920
When you go into the cave you can decide if you let the adventurer live that goes in before you

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>>165163826

>>165163840
You can also use a blimp to navigate a rally stage

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>>165158260
why not

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>>165163840

wouldn't it be neat if someone made a video of them playing through all the demo day 12 games?

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Gonna work on swimming frames today.

>>165164063
Sure, but that's not going to happen unless Jupiter H. has nothing to do this week.

>>165164063
I would be okay with them splitting it up in one video per game.

>>165163287

I imagine some level of interactivity than moving down conversation trees. Maybe have things like win/lose states, minigames, that sort of thing.

There is the usual bizarre stuff like Katherine, segoku Rance, or Killer is Dead. Those combine a game with the whole dating aspect.

That is unless your balls drag and you think to make some complex system that generates arcing events by compiling a matrix of different factors in some godforsaken tungian story generator.

>>165163973
>>165163986
So literally there's nothing more user friendly or more friendly for someone who doesn't know coding it just doesn't have a 3d element to worry about?

>>165164317
Correct.

>>165164317
The more money you pay with Unity, the less code you have to write is the rule of thumb. That it has a 3rd axis when you're working in 2D mode shouldn't really concern you.

>>165164317
>user friendly
GM is literally made for babby's first 2d game. That's their target audience.

>>165164317
Everything is simpler when it is 2D, including the editor.

2D in UE4 is just making a 3D game with sprites.

>>165163510
did you try working the shaft?

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>>165158260

>>165164092
I love how this game looks

>>165164063

Actually, afew people on YouTube have been hitting the agdg jams.

>>165164063
I tried but my voice is totally fucked from a cold and I think I was a bit unnecessarily mean to certain games
I'll try to record some more later today but /shrug

>>165162778
I enjoyed your gameyour game, anon.

>>165162660
uh..

>>165164613
Those are actually good looking place holders.

>>165162072
damn man you were like agdg's flagship UE4 game.
better luck to your new project then

>>165164308
Catherine is what i was thinking about but it really is a puzzle game with light dating VN novels stapled on.

Im trying to think about a game where the mechanics are valuable parts of the dating aspect

>>165164670
I don't care how rough you treat my game. I just want videos about demo day.

>>165165091
so, uh
huniepop?

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>>165164970
just a free model from the asset store actually, then I made a paperbag for it

>>165165284
The paper bags definitely have more charme.

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So have you made any progress today, random citizen?

>>165165402
0 (Zero)

>>165165402
im in a constant state of making progress. just not worth showing

>>165165402
Why does he write like a teenage girl?

>>165165402
Yep. Have to - I'm banking on this game bringing in at least a little money just so that I don't have to McJob. Most of it's not worth showing off though - minor changes to dialogue, some framework set up for the wayfinding system, etc.

>>165165517
it's the typical twitter speech
gender doesn't matter

>>165165402
I made a shitty character controller to learn how to setup xbox input. It's only like half done and has like 5 bugs already

>>165162875
wow, you disgust me on multiple layers. You're like a diarrhea lasagna.

What's troubling you, /agdg/?

>>165166123
Rude.

>>165164614
what if Zelda was a Kirby, but instead a turnip

>>165157559
>paper bugs dev not a steamchat clique
Actually I guess that's correct.

Paper bugs dev is cool.

>>165166247
the nature of your game

>>165163057
Thanks.

>>165164890
"uh" what?

>>165162353
>Who thought this would be a good idea?
Anyone that wants easy money.
>spoiler
90% furries. 10% people from agdg that care about giving the guy feedback

>>165166247
My savings versus my monthly expenses versus my game's production speed.

>>165166247
I had a week off, and devved nothing. But I hate working and the commute. I might need to work in order to hate my job enough to dev. I will never be free.

>>165166247
I have all the time for gamedev I need right now, but I keep switching between ideas I want to do next. Instead of actually prototyping one, I keep thinking about how I would approach this or that detail.

>>165166472
pretty much this desu. also my family not finding out that that I gamedev.

>>165166247
Art and social network matters.

>>165165517
it's who he is on the inside, just like moot

just isn't brave enough to take the hormone therapy

can anyone give a list of SFW demos from demo day 12 that have a fully playable demo ( not just a walking simulator or a demo with no real gameplay). I'm gonna do some let's plays when I get home , maybe about 10 or so games

>>165164092
Really cute anon

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>>165161461
defense of the beacon 3 dev

personally not a fan of this kind of gameplay mode unless it has more mechanics to make it interesting like raising workers whose nutrition you must watch carefully and they have jobs and can get pregnant, etc. maybe they defend the rocket ship from goblin wizards and skeletons

the art style is suitable for a 3d game made by a single developer. needs some kind of shadows on characters to make it clearer when on the ground (probably round shadows are okay)

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>>165162072
>I'm cancelling Mayhem League.
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

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>>165162353

>>165163840
You can also code a game on mirc.
The fact you can do it doesn't mean is the best approach for doing it.

>>165166247
all those fast (You)s, aggy daggy needs therapy

>>165166408
I'm gonna be honest, I'm really proud of this post and disappointed I don't have a billion (You)s

>>165166679
One of those things in the spoiler is not like the others.

If I make a devblog to shill my game how often should I post?

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>>165162072
>bad news
>I'm cancelling Mayhem League

>>165166776
I need funds and people interested in my game more than I need therapy.

>>165166910
Weekly.

>>165166910
Whenever you have something relevant to post

>>165163840
you can if you are FUCKING INSANE
its me im the lunatic using a 3d engine for 2d

>>165166910
literally every time you can. the question is how quickly you can make something you can show off.

>>165166247
Nodeving too much latelly.

@165166829

enjoy this firm denial, scrub

I'm actually pirating your post thru a VPN and preventing you from accumulating revenue

>>165162660
>drop a game that took years of dedication to make a game that will hopefully take less time
In the end it really does come down to time management. Nobody has forever to make a game. I understand that I guess.

>>165166834
he knows what he did

>>165166959
I don't even know which one is yours, you turd-slinger. It helps if you draw attention to it.

>>165166679

Dev here, thanks for playing if you did. I kind of figured it would get this response. I wanted to add more weapons and stuff for player to do during day (like build static defense, gather resources). I like the suggestion for having workers or minions . How was the actual gameplay? everything feel right to you?

>>165166910
Even if you did nothing, find something to post once a week so your project won't at least seem ded

>>165167203
Isn't that I'm not drawing attention to it. Is that I don't have the right tools to reach the target audience for it.

>>165166776
I don't need therapy I need to practice more and better

>>165166910
enjoy being your own marketing firm. If it isn't coming naturally, devblogging is a huge drain on your attention and mental resources, as well as time. It can bring hype if you find loyal followers who share for you and you're delivering content, but it's tough to keep up on and satisfying your follower's reading needs. Just try to find some successful blogs and copy their content cadence and update patterns, and hope the pageviews come later

>>165166662
you can find out pretty early which games actually have gameplay by playing them
I've literally just been using a random number generator to pick which ones to play

>tfw no corgi shmup demo
I miss that game.

>>165167328
>still don't know which game I'm supposed to be paying attention to
my pity is rapidly evaporating.

>>165167505
i remember that
what happened to it?

>>165164467
>The more money you pay with Unity, the less code you have to write is the rule of thumb.
For people who have never used Unity or made a game with it maybe.

"Devs" who simply keep dragging asset packages into a project to avoid coding never actually make a game. They rarely even come close.

Why didn't you submit a demo?

>>165167109
If it was really just time I'd keep going... it's a combination of time and "I don't really like the game"

If it was mediocre but 2 months from done I'd churn it out and just chalk it up to burnout.

If it was perfection but 3 years away I'd keep chugging along.

It's the fact that it's not only going to be nigh impossible to finish, but even when it is I won't be happy with the finished product because the fundamental gameplay structure didn't pan out.

I said I wanted to make Mayhem League because I had an idea for a game and I wanted to see it made. I maybe didn't finish the game, but I got far enough to "see it get made" and I didn't like it. My imagination made it more fun than it actually was at a core level.

The best thing about Mayhem League was the combat mechanics, and I'm gonna carry those over more or less intact (probably streamlined a little bit, and with an emphasis on "found weapons" in Dixie rather than Bayonetta-style unlocks). It was the "everything else about it" that sucked.

I was working on the downtown level and I kept getting frustrated because the conceits of gameplay (enemies appear as part of arena-clearing challenges, arena-clearing opens new arenas, fight against the clock) prevented me from doing good level design. Filling long stretches with unique encounters or hiding secrets that took time and backtracking was counter to the game's core design. It couldn't be fun with a 2-minute clock.. and without that clock, what the fuck even WAS Mayhem League?

I set out to make THPS with fighting and wound up making Banjo Kazooie with fighting anyway so I went "fuck it, let's just make Banjo Kazooie with fighting, and be done with it"

Shit this looks amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNFl0u0tl90
But developing for it will be a pain in the ass.
It's hard enough already to do it on a flat monitor and now to test your game you will have to look around and walk and shit phew

>>165166776
hormone therapy? :3

>>165167524
My goal isn't to generate artificial interest. If you're not interested in the game I've put up (it didn't catch your eye or you decided to pass on playing it) then I don't think there's much point in trying to get your interest.

Trying to build an audience that might buy the game. Building that audience out of people who're only passingly interested would be a bad idea. Similarly, if my marketing stuff is bad enough that it's not catching interest then that needs to be fixed more than doing a pity dance and hoping for sympathy.

>>165167730
Reworked my gameplay over Christmas and didn't get it to a suitable state in time

@165167810
die in a ditch

>>165167730
wouldve been at the bottom of the list with "No comments yet"

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>>165153530
That you for reporting that bug. We haven't found that one yet. If you can possibly give any information about how to recreate it or what circumstances may have caused it that would be helpful.

>>165153839
Sometimes it takes me over half an hour to record one video with feedback (and that's usually not playing the demo to death). It takes hours to upload each to Youtube because my connection is slow. So I only grab certain games that interest me and try them out. It's probably not even "worth my time" to do so as it is as nobody really cares to sit there and listen to an unedited vidieo of someone babbling and and dissecting minute details about some amature dev's early alpha project except the dev himself. But I kind of enjoy it and hopefully it is helpful to the devs.


Here's some Let's Plays:

Umbrella Warriors part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WC-VpxIRfE&list=PLQOFZ7Uvt6WxxHirNVAJWIgo6Gxp1vNst

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJtxKjUU6c8&index=2&list=PLQOFZ7Uvt6WxxHirNVAJWIgo6Gxp1vNst

GunMetal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oInRD3JyPs4&list=PLQOFZ7Uvt6WxxHirNVAJWIgo6Gxp1vNst&index=3

Space Carrier Ops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpZhCrExS1g&index=4&list=PLQOFZ7Uvt6WxxHirNVAJWIgo6Gxp1vNst

Project M: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zrvszV4kkg&list=PLQOFZ7Uvt6WxxHirNVAJWIgo6Gxp1vNst&index=5

>>165167810
probably, there's a weird overlap of game devs and trannies, like how there's overlap between Sonic fandom and real autism.

>>165167756
A good learning experience then. It is nice to have a war chest full of gameplay mechanics and scripts to work with even after the game dies, many aspects of it will live on in the next.

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>>165167730
>submit a demo
>get 5 downloads and barely any feedback

ok

no I'm not telling what's my game

>>165168070
Post game and I'll make a video of it right now.

>>165167926
>1950's prop robot gets lost in a modern mech game.webm

>>165167872
so aggressive
someone needs to take their esties!

>>165168070
Don't feel bad anon. I'm right up there with you with 6 downloads (3 of those being redownloads).

>>165168137
You could just look at the bottom of the list of demos submitted. Those are the ones getting the least attention.

>>165168070
I don't understand your post. Are you stating what happend or what you think would have happened?

>>165168070
second worst-downloaded game (Mechjumping DD12) got 14 downloads

>>165167756
I think you're making the right choice. Actual experiential knowledge of game design is a difficult thing to obtain. It sounds like you got quite a lot of it from your project, and are ready to apply it to a project that isn't bogged down with bad early choices.

And from everything you're describing, I think you are making good early choices this time. Just make sure you find and implement the core gameplay loop up front. Without getting bogged down in polish hoping that it appears later.

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>>165168070
>he literally doesn't want feedback!

what is with these whodevs with their asshurt egos over low downloads, when they refuse to plug their game or shill features in this thread and instead only want people to randomly discover it out of the blue and shill for them?

YOU WANT PLAYS? FIGHT FOR THEM! MAKE ME WANT YOUR GAME!

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I've got bad news /AGDG/.
Unfortunately this demo day didn't reach projected sales this quarter. I've regret to inform you that /AGDG/ will be shut down.

>>165168356
thank G-d

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>>165168356

>>165167252
i basically couldnt aim the gun but i think it was on my end where my drivers that convert ps4 controller input to something sane were not working properly

jetpack fuel needs some kind of indicator how much there is
i personally like a particle trail from the jetpack and slowly decaying the speed and sound but you could just use a meter or something too

player might benifit from using character controller instead of forces unless you want physics for the jetpack or something

would be cool to see the player also capable of swimming, grabbing, throwing, and rolling. would help the rogue deal with the beetles and slimes better, especially when he is only grounded 3 times instead of 4

>>165167756
I'm AOK with deciding the game needs to be scrapped, but it feels like a waste of effort not to make a quick win-condition and ship it as a kind of abandonware
I just want to play your game senpai

>>165168070
don't post alcooholic dad type pictures it trigggers some people

>>165157225
>you know those are way more popular than any furry shit could ever be.

https://www.patreon.com/monstergirlisland

Not if it includes both.

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post stats

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Hey anons,

I want to have a rotating object with a gem eye thingy that needs to be shot in order to kill it. The main object is indestructible and unhurt by bullets.

The object rotates and the gem is attached on one side also rotating.

How can I keep the gem attached to the same position as it rotates along with the object?

Or should I do this better and not use 2 objects but use code hitboxes?

>>165168337
>>165168405
samefag

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>>165168273
>second worst-downloaded game (Mechjumping DD12) got 14 downloads

>tfw worst downloaded game

this just killed my motivation

>>165157225
I can't match my standards for japanese cartoon porn which makes devving them depressing

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>>165168273
>2nd worst

It's above mine and I have 6. I guess it's got more interest in views than mine then?

>>165168476

>>165168549
incorrect, many different people are rude, crude, and crass.

>>165168452
This sounds good to me, just make a single mission type which is freeform and lets the player mess around for a bit.

Dev is most likely going to cold turkey this game though. Maybe it's for the best.

>>165168458
>whining about triggers in a dev thread
get out, Zoe

>>165168753
I guess the whodev post was a little more sensical than anything sourceposter has ever posted.
Still... I'm watching you

>>165162072
Damn, you helped me a lot in determining how I wanted to do combat in my game a few times in the past. Sad to see this go, good luck with your new game, though!

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>>165168902
>... I'm watching you
here, let me give you something worthwhile to watch

Yo Cash_Out dev, you should release your game on itch.io or humble when it comes out, I wanna buy that shit but I don't use steam.

>>165162660
>>165162072
Speaking of, do you have any tips or info about what would be a good way to set up any combos to blend together into each other? Or would I actually have to set up each individual combination kind manually?

>>165168356
I have kids who need my insurance coverage to get doctor visits! You can't shut us down now! You will regret this!

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>>165168612
>>165168476
I think that demo day listings have some weird unknowable "interest" score attached
for comparison I'm listed a lot higher (row 5) with only a few extra downloads

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>>165169109
>I don't use steam
there are still people whining about steam as a client, lmao

>>165169235
I'm row 10 (this anon >>165168612)

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>>165169235
>furry game is #1

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hey panstas, this keeps happening when I try the athlete character

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>>165162353
>thinks making games for children is a good idea.

>>165169235
more people view your page because of the thumbnail, then decide not to download, then there are people who visit the page and download. It's probably based of of those two figures.

>>165169336
The best part about not using steam is that mentioning it in any context always brings the butthurt kids out of the woodwork.

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I want to give up

>>165167505
>>165167623
i follow the dev, it's still being developed, but slowly
last update on his youtube channel was about powerup bar a few days ago

>>165169514
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9F5p1_hR2Ws

>>165169514
what will you do if you give up? play video games all day? watch anime all day? how can you live with yourself for being so unproductive?

>>165169514
hah, that flag

>>165169631
>watch anime all day

wouldn't mind desu

to ctesiphon dev,

Decrease the smg's recoil and increase shotgun's bullet spread.

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alright, think I got all the feedback notes down. gonna upload the post-dd version soon.

>>165167926
>36 minute review

Holy shit man, thanks a lot.

>those animations
uhh really have to add proper IK

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>>165157505
don't worry about it, there is no "beating" anyone in demo days and I don't mind that I'm last row at all

actually that's not true the winner is TENDER ARMS I love it

>>165158260
gemu

>New Unity Project(83)
you don't do this do you?

>>165170292
I did my part, anon. Sorry, you deserve to be above mine.

>tfw you make just enough money to not need a job to survive, but not enough to live comfortably

>>165169547
Ah that's good. What's his youtube?

>>165170385
from your games? what kind of games are they?

>>165170385
>>>/biz/
Not that it will help

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>>165158260
I suspect one of my characters wouldn't take mushroom.

>>165170430
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9dtX3mpLHsnitcn-gWmKlQ

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thank you for believing

http://store.steampowered.com/app/387100/

https://www.humblebundle.com/overwhelmingly-positive-bundle
>VA-11HALL-A on a higher tier than Deadbolt
Those beautiful bastsrds did it, they bested Hopoo

>>165169631
this would be fine if it had the money for it, but if my future ends when they cut my welfare then i have to force myself to dev for the .1% chance of my game being able to sustain me ;_;

>>165170668
>http://store.steampowered.com/app/387100/
literally who

>>165169385
So what youre saying is i should make an ascii roguelike with my biggest fetish, inanimate tf, and put it on patreon...

>>165170348
I've stuck with my project since I first started using Unity, so no.

>>165170668
Omedetou senpai.

>>165170060
How do you get vsync working with game maker, isn't everything tied to room speed

>>165170348
Currently at number 8
kill me

>>165170668
I wouldn't know whether this game was ever posted on agdg because it's exactly the type of game I'd scroll past and forget immediately.

>>165170168
>those animations
I like them though.

You're welcome. Hit me up if you have any other questions or anything. I'm on the Discord.

>>165168229
>You could just look at the bottom of the list of demos submitted. Those are the ones getting the least attention.
Is that how it's sorted? By popularity?
I find it hard to believe that Placeholder Title is the least popular demo.

>>165171351
By some combination of views and downloads, yes. It likely hurts your position if someone views your page and doesn't download your game.

>>165171085
i'm not sure I do desu. gms has terrible fucking vsync.

>you have to reset the display when switching vsync, no way around it
>if you do it while the game is unfocused, it will literally lock your display
>it may potentially reset itself, or straight up not work
>it will literally slow the game down to 30 or 45 fps if it feels like it

>>165170348
I've started doing agame/bgame/cgame so I can autocomplete the one I want

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>>165170668
>>165170936
>dig up random game on steam
>grab an image from the developer's tumblr
>post in agdg "we made it agdg"

>>165168229
>You could just look at the bottom of the list of demos submitted. Those are the ones getting the least attention
Furry garbage once again is too popular.

>>165171351
it's the newest meme
no-one knows how the fuck itch's algorithms work and i find it hard to believe people wouldn't download the dino game after every progress post got a dozen (you)s
we can only guess

>>165170668
Keys when?

How should I handle skills in gamemaker? Make each skill an object? Some fucked up 2d array mess?

what should my first post to my first update to my first game on /agdg/ look like? Should it be in the recap format, or design sticky notes, or have a first blog page up? I don't want to be a whodev shill T_T

>>165171694
Just post and act naturally

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>>165171603
these are my downloads if you're interested

granted I didn't post it to twitter or tumblr, my demo is too rough and I don't want to give a bad impression

>>165171694
>recap format
high whodev risk
>or design sticky notes
i have no idea what you're talking about
>first blog page up
infinite whodev risk

note: whodev risk doesn't apply if your game is one big placeholder or you're shit at it
just post game

>>165171694
>T_T

Whatever you do don't post emojis please.

>>165171694
>Should it be in the recap format
No, then you will be a whodev shil

Just post a webm with some words

>>165171639
what fucking genre

>>165171694
Everyone starts as a whodev, anon. Don't stress about it.

>>165171694
Just like make game, post progress whenever you want.

>>165171884
turnbased rpg

>>165171694
>>165171865
We don't take emojis lightly around here :D

>>165171820
very solid view/download ratio

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>>165171820
ok that graph is a little confusing let me try again

>>165171694
You're not a whodev unless you already have a half finished game and post once a month in an attempt to get an extra tens of thousands of views from us without paying your secret club fee

>>165169385
Why furries spend so much money on patreons ? Are they literally retarded ?