/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

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Let me open this thread with low meme iso poly.

>>165326372
at least you didn't start with some dumb meme.

whats a good name for a robot protaganist?

>>165326627
What's a good answer to a vague question missing context?

>>165326627

robatnix

>>165326627
Millie

>>165326627
Robot Jones

>>165326627
Android Hardshaft

>>165326627
Mr.Robot

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>>165326627
the answer is obvious

>>165326372

This is procedural I take it? What's the gameplay?

>>165326627
1. Select robot's personality/role

2a. Type the main defining word of that personality/role into an online thesaurus

2b. Type the main defining word of that personality/role into google translate and choose a cool language

>>165326259
I think you accidentally mixed up Engine Tier 1 and 2.

>>165327159
i was kind of thinking of doing that.

right now its either Kludge or Pivot

>>165326627
I like serial numbers.

Not even ones that spell out shit like how Finn in Star Wars was F1 NN or whatever. Just a random serial number.

Lets you know that he really is just a robot.

>>165327304
thats cruel and inhumane

>>165326627
Row Bot A.

>>165327304
i'll make it a 27 digit number that every character spells out every time.

>>165327432
Doesn't have to be that long, just like 5-10 characters is more than enough.

Its like how Robo is R-66Y in Chrono Trigger.

>>165326627
beep boop
boop be bop
boop bot
beep boop bobbity beep

>>165326627
Mighty Number 9

>>165326627
Beep Boop

His catch phrase: BeepBoop, Motherfucker, that's my name.

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i do mostly orchestral if anyone is looking for this style.

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/apotheosis

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/the-grand-walk

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/spets-suoiretsym

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/c-sharp-minor-stuff-2

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/improv-on-june-5th-2013

willing to work fee/cheap.

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>>165327581
>its not shit
hm...

>>165326627
Ivanna Hugh Dong

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>>165327654
i would hope so.

>>165326259
>godot in tier1
Put xenko there you retard it doesn't use a custom scripting language that you can't transfer knowledge in.

>>165327581

sounds bretty good, not bad m7.

>>165327823
>>165327258
tier 1 = 3d/2d engines

tier 2 = 2d

also nobody on agdg uses xenko, so no reason to put it there

>>165327581
Shit man, that's impressive. However, you'll probably have a hard time finding someone here who would use that kind of music.

>>165327897
what are the tier twos anyway
i only recognise construct

>>165327581
How much is cheap?

>>165327990
game maker

> tfw the pixel art guy never returned

>>165327581
This is way too good for us, what the hell dude.

>>165327990
game maker
construct2
haxe(probably should be replaced with love2D)

cant think of any other 2d engine agdg uses

>>165327897
It obviously isn't, it's just the creator put what they wanted.

game maker has 3D functionality and source isn't on there (Do you remember sourcedev?)

>>165328018
willing to work for free if the project seems interesting enough. im pretty negotiable.

>>165327581
>Tfw you would love this kind of music for your game, but don't have enough of it to show or money right now.
You guys always show up when I can't afford it...

>>165327581
is this some sort of troll? that's unbelievably good. what the fuck man. you could do the OST for a civilization 6 expansion or something.

>>165328108
>it's just the creator put what they wanted.
No, I didn't.

>game maker has 3D functionality
Doesn't mean it's at all viable to use it for 3D.

>source isn't on there
Stop.

>>165327581
interesting

>>165328116
if you're really tight on budget i can work out possibly doing it for free. really depends on the kind of atmosphere you want for the piece and the length.

>>165327137
>What's the gameplay?
Zelda + Minecraft light versionTM because I want to have a demo at the end of this month.

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>>165327581
This can't be for real...The fuck do you mean working for cheap/free with music like this? We're all amateurs here, your works seems professional.

daily reminder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpAWqmA8Mzs

>>165328161
i'm a music theory major, i'm hoping to get into the game industry.

>>165328254
While it sounds like a gracious offer, I don't even have enough to show for it right now anyway. I'm still in early development with not much aside from placeholders and shitty art and almost no actual gameplay. For music like that, I'd feel awful if I couldn't pay you decently for your work, really, either way.

>>165328076
RPG Maker VX Ace I'm sure somebody somewhere is using

>>165328303
Pussy ass dog

>>165328183
>No, I didn't.
Yes. You did.

>Doesn't mean it's at all viable to use it for 3D.
It's completely viable, depending on your game and skill set.

>Stop.
No need to get defensive, just fix you stupidity.

>>165328325
Assuming that you really are the composer and not a troll, agdg is a bad place to ask.

With that quality, just go straight to either reddit, tigsource or even indiedev. You're definitely going to find people willing to buy your music.

>>165327581

nice but sad

How do i input geometric sequence into wolfram alpha? like i know a6 = 900 and the coef. is 5, how do i let wolfram calculate for example a3?
i need to check some of my shit in there, but i can't figure out of to input it

>>165328421
honestly i prefer this community. i've been lurking for a while and i have some major projects coming up soon and i could use the practice. i've made pieces for my friends games.

insulting your player is the single worst thing a dev can do

>>165328325
youre really good

my stuff is junk in comparison

any tips?

https://soundcloud.com/cyclophobia/basilisk-dunes

https://soundcloud.com/cyclophobia/bear-of-the-frozen-swamp

https://soundcloud.com/cyclophobia/tales-of-the-kraken

>>165328591
what game did you just play?

>>165328420
You mentioned source.No need to read your comment another further.

>>165328626
honestly its really not as bad you think. i think you're on the right track with the general atmosphere. it kind of reminds me of pietnatska or chu ishikawa


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-1k3xR08-g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z10AlFDQfY

>>165328648
yours
oh wait

>>165326259
terrible OP

>>165328871
feels ba'ad ma'an

>>165328965
This thread is for yes devs only

fighting game like sf2 with 2 characters and extra mechanics and programmer art only

how long should it take for an intermediate

>>165328839
>mad

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>>165327581
>>165327654
>>165327838
>>165327980
>>165328018
>>165328075
>>165328116
>>165328161
>>165328268

original composer here, honestly i wasn't expecting this kind of response. i posted a bit past when i usually go to bed so i'm off now.

anyone who wants work together can reach me here, i'm negotiable, honestly.

[email protected]

look forward to seeing your games.

see ya

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>Was about to come into the thread and ask if anybody wanted some of my pixelshit music
>Motherfuckin' music masters having a discussion in here

who fucking said talented people were allowed here

god damn it

>>165329134
Very easy.

The difficulty will come once you need to add more characters.

>>165329139
>source shitposter

>>165328997
>>>/tumblr/

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>>165328997
this thread is comfy as fuck.

who comfy here?

also was that guy still working on that gondola game?

Post dev playlists :

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOeSfDpTW8iVDgj2xwPRIA2o4pKgI6adp

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>>165329295
>anime music

>>165329295
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tgd9ajyAiIs

>>165329349
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0D514FA360F68689

>>165329295
https://www.youtube.com/user/juscallmeskip/videos

>>165329295

Don't judge me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7gOqqbBW6w&list=PLNSKpl7JCPswwj_fWkfixq5L7QeZJA4Ot

>>165329295
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuJZlnFok6U

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>>165329295
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWIIPX_5rbM&list=RDUWIIPX_5rbM#t=7

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Well now that we're on the topic of music anyway: what kind of music are you looking for? Examples would be great.

>>165329608

donk

>>165329295
Amazing.

I've already got up to 100 filters and it still is going up for this general.

>>165329608
Different kinds, but mostly chill/relaxing/atomospheric stuff, orchestral stuff, some jazz, Nujabes style and music very similar to this OST.

https://youtu.be/2Gz_O3jLGDw?t=89

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has this guy posted recently?

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I want to implement alpha shadows in a flexible way. I see two works to base ideas of off:

http://amd-dev.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/S2008-Filion-McNaughton-StarCraftII.pdf
and
http://www.crytek.com/download/Playing%20with%20Real-Time%20Shadows.pdf

Mostly looking at the crytek side using a shadow map and an alpha map, it makes sense but it doesn't handle the case of casting shadows onto the translucent occluders themselves which I have tried to explain with the image. So you can either have the translucent objects appear full bright in the directional light, or have the first occluders become dark which is also wrong.

Are there examples of systems that have solved this? I can imagine do many passes after sorting the translucent objects, or even crazy things like depth peeling. Maybe you could do (very) sparse voxel ray tracing? It would at least remove the worst artifacts at the cost of resolution.

Please help.

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>>165323612
>We live in a time where people will throw hundreds of dollars at guys playing video games on twitch, but won't shell out 5 dollars for a video game on steam.

for them, seeing a guy fuck around in a game is immediate gratification

but paying for a game that may or may not come out is not

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>>165329608
the kind that I can't afford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tjt2EZA_Yg

but just playing it side-by-side while testing my game feels so good

>>165330329
>3D game
>Cloth physics
>Doesn't look like ass

holy shit I was gone for a while, when did agdg git gud?

AGDG Souls when?

>>165330574
you must have been gone for like 6 months plus senpai

>>165330624
More like two years

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>>165330574
I don't post all the time since I can work on this pet project only during weekends. it's in the demo day, look for Ghost Knight Victis

Hey guys, i'm a few months into a rather big unity project.

I used some free assets on the unity store along with a package or two I purchased.

If I were to commercialize the product, I wouldn't owe these asset creators any more additional money yeah?
Just want to confirm.

>>165330329
i was actually thinking of your game when this guy
>>165327581
>>165329143
offered to make music. you should contact him, maybe?

>>165330694
Correct. But also learn to read.

>>165330694
not at all. but obviously you can't resell their stuff in the asset store (even if you modify them a bit). that's about the only restriction I know of.

>>165330678
how do draw like you

>>165330807
Graphics tablet and a drawing program.

>>165330831
how long til get that good

>>165330874
6 months if you know how to practice properly.

>>165330956
what is proper practice

>>165330956

How to practice correctly? I only know how to practice incorrectly

>>165330807
>>165330874

I've been drawing since I was a kid. obviously my first drawings suck, but I was never allowed to go outside the house so I had time to practice even though I wasn't intending to be good, I just wanted to waste time and distract myself.

my point is your first drawings will always suck but that shouldn't discourage you because that happens to everyone who starts out.

>>165331079
in one of the older agdg threads, someone posted a lot of pdfs on how to draw, I'd start there

>>165331139
not to sound douchey but how on god's green earth am I going to find the specific pdf you're talking about

Is there a downside to having every Unity asset in its own assetbundle? That way you could only ever load what you needed and nothing more.

>>165331079
>>165331098
You only draw photographic reproductions from photographs or from life. You render them completely and accurately as you can including the backgrounds.

Start with tones only at first and then after a while mix in color works as well. Do a mix of all the things you eventually want to draw plus humans, animals and hard shapes.

Over time also mix in doing fast images as well as long, rigorous images.

Try to do minimum 2 complete images daily.

Never draw cartoon or styles while you are learning. Especially not anime. Even if these things are your goal.

6 months and you will be at a level where you can produce things you image or need and move into other areas. Beyond that it is just searching for the next thing to improve. There are ways you can tweak this to work with the issues you are having, but it is a sort of basic 'can't go wrong' way.

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Are you talking about this?

https://streamable.com/ix081

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>>165331213
sorry, I just thought there might be some search page to go through past threads... here's some of the links I downloaded, though there were a lot more:

Muybridge - The Human Figure In Motion
https://mega.nz/#!xh4SAaZL!7tHxNc4jAHSgxx0MHbVKKbh3HRVyD5cDQ3ctqKNezU0

(Bert Dodson) Keys to Drawing.pdf
https://mega.co.nz/#!LZsVXTjJ!t5W4mBq9v2iBbJWxvHM04rrMtA4wV7d3ZqX4daJowL4

(Richard Schmid) Alla Prima - Everything I Know About Painting.pdf
http://www.mediafire.com/download/l5eatwcpn8w7la8/%28Richard+Schmid%29+Alla+Prima+-+Everything+I+Know+About+Painting.pdf

(Ernest R. Norling) Perspective Made Easy.pdf
https://mega.co.nz/#!yEVH0RzI!hExkmbL9WTEV20aI10De7q9J4rf3t3A6uluz4cT9FbM

(Richard Williams) The Animator's Survival Kit.pdf
https://mega.co.nz/#!bFchmCAZ!papybufoEqDH8Vn19hVk8zxohaYOB5XjLM2U-EZT8Js

seems to me all of the links are still up

>>165330678
Who's the qt grill with the axe?
Neat take on the rat king idea, too

>>165331221
iirc it keeps one file open per asset bundle. some platforms might have a restrictive file limit, like 256 on iOS

>>165331498
Welcome to overcomplicating and failure.

>>165331221
also iirc loading an asset bundle does not drop all the contents into memory it just opens the file and the index so you can choose to load the contents whenever you want

>>165331561
What?
http://pastebin.com/38STpqa5

So a month ago someone was talking to me about GOAP, I ended up developing it in Unity for a school project.

What's the best way to set this up for a game like Rimworld/DF?

I thought about a basic class that would have the actions "GoTo, OpenDoorLvL1, Consume, Wander, Flee, etc" just basic things.

But I'm having trouble figuring out a good Goal system. For example if I want someone to work for a couple hours then entertain themsevles. Should I just drop the goals of working out and add in the entertainment goals? Or should I just decrease the priority of working? And increase priority of sleeping when nigh time?

Also as an example, how would you handle having a job "Wood worker" which can collect wood, or manufacture wood into lumber. You have 2 workers, and 2 work stations. You obviously want one to get wood while another turns it into lumber, so you do you just calculate

Priority for Lumber: numberOfLogsInStorage * .1 + numberOfWoodCutters * 5 + 20 - numberOfLumberInStorage

Priority for WoodCutting: -numberOfLogsInStorage * .1 - numberOfLumberers * 10 + 30 + numberOFLumberInStorage * 2

Assuming you have infinite trees and 0 wood or lumber.

The first guy gets a priority of 20 for cutting lumber and 30 for chopping wood. The 2nd guy gets 25 for Lumber and 20 for chopping wood.

Is this reasonable? Is this overly complicated or will I be happy I did this in the long run?

>>165331589
Yeah I was just reading about asset bundle compression, apparently LZMA bundles you have to load and decompress the whole bundle to get something from it, but LZ4 (new in 5.3) you can just read the specific chunks for the asset you want. I was upset to learn that everything in /resources is loaded at runtime, I thought it would be smarter than that and only load when you called Resources.Load()

>>165331640
"Color and Light - A Guide for the Realist Painter" by James Gurney (HIGH quality scan)
Oh, man. I really liked this book.

Anyway, I still mean it. Drawing is how you get better. Drawing the things you need to to progress forward without drawing the things that will set you back. You can, of course, read, but it in no way should impact Practice Practice Practice. You will pick up more of the little skills you need to draw far faster by proper practice than a million books.

Even in your first few pictures you will finish it and go "oh, I could make it more accurate by doing this and this" and you will apply these to the next drawings. Unlike going with these books where you see people become bogged down in detail and in comparing themselves to a master.

>>165331695
if you're going for a DF clone overcomplicated is the only answer

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>>165331498
>>165330678
answer me >>165331524

>>165331494
he's using his tongue to pole vault forward? i mean it works, but it just seems weird

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>>165331524
>>165331920

>qt grill
old character concept I had in a different game I wanted to make
basically, an undead girl whose limbs were taken from different girls. Frankenstein-monster style

>rat king
it's gonna be a boss fight


>>165331832
I can agree with that. I only started mentioning the pdfs cause the guy sounded completely clueless and had nowhere to start with.

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>>165331695
you posted this with good timing

It is usually better to adjust the priorities. I would only explicitly set a priority to zero if it becomes impossible or something the character would not logically have any desire to do. One way to do this is based on moods, etc. Working and sleeping is something where there are some interesting developments that can happen, like maybe you have a guy who needs money really badly and is working so much he barely ever sleeps.

For now I would recommend avoiding complex calculations for the priorities until after you have enough in place to have a good feel for the system. They can easily become hell to keep sorted logically.

>>165331757
>I was upset to learn that everything in /resources is loaded at runtime, I thought it would be smarter than that and only load when you called Resources.Load()
now i know for certain this is not true
do you have serialized references them somewhere in your scripts or something?

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I don't get what this wants from the first object input. Is it the parent class it's asking for? But I don't have access to that from this class which is why I am casting. Why am I so dumb.

>>165331494
i like it. how much control do you have over the trajectory?

I'd simplify it with states for more unusual events, like putting out a fire. Trying to balance a bunch of needs + take into account edge case, extreme circumstances sounds difficult. Things like, if you are in combat, probably don't even worry about stuff like how much lumber is needed at the moment.

>>165331757
>>165332105
or alternatively are you memory profiling in the editor instead of on a build?

>>165331832
Oh, and this: http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ZM5S-NKMR/

Best resource. Nothing to worry about immediately, but it will help immensely later on.

>>165332042
Are you the one that originally pointing me to this when I was working on my other game? If so thanks, I enjoyed this way more and was less tedious.

Right now that AI just goes to various bushes, collects foods, and sleeps, but I want to expand it.

I want to avoid a really complicated mood system because I want to have higher number of population than RW with a the focus being a little higher level.

But I can do a light implementation. When you say moods to you mean "happy sad depressed distressed lonely ecstatic" or "wants money, stressed from work, hates elves, etc".

So basically more similar to RW mood +- system, or DF's thought system?

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>>165332105
Maybe I misunderstood this post
https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/very-slow-app-startup-time.282226/

>>165331695
>>165332042

How do you set up GOAP?

>>165332120

You need an "options" object to cast to

>>165330003
plz hlp

>>165332568
See this is what I am confused about. So cast to options is a unique thing, so it's clearly doing something with the options class right. I want to put references to options variables in set target widget, which it's doing, right? But then I need to put an additional options thing into the object? Or there needs to be like, literally an invisible actor or something with the options class in it.

>>165332247
i guess by moods i basically just meant meters like
>hungry
>sleepy
>almost dead
but if you want to get more complicated you can. sounds like you might not need it

>>165332401
he is just saying that the guy is experiencing a slowdown because the resources is indexing on load and there was a bug in it in that version. i can say with certainty based on hundreds of memory profiles over several years that resources do not all get loaded at all times

>>165332496
write it yourself or find some open source repository. its a complicated system so you should start by reading orkin's document and then if you are ever wondering how to do something try checking what fear does

>>165332701

I've read Monolith's little dissertation on FEAR's GOAP.

>>165332678

>cast to options is a unique thing

No blueprint is unique

>>165332768
What I meant by unique thing is that it's referencing the options class, right? Casting is suppose to let me have access to that class and its variables.

When is comfy jam starting? How long is it?

>>165332701
>wondering how to do something try checking what fear does

Hey, that is where I learned about it.

>>165332701
>resources do not all get loaded at all times
Thanks, I was hoping that was an easy solution for my standalone load time (20+ sec) but guess I will keep looking

>>165332496

Basically I have a Goal, Action, and Condition base class. As well as a master planner class (this pretty complicated generally.
Goals have priority's (how much they want this be done) and Actions have Costs.
So if you're goal is to get food you would have these actions with these costs:
Walk 0
Kill animal 2
Cut up animal 2
Pick berry bush 3
Cook Animal 1
Get food from fridge 1
Eat Food (varying)

So he would naturally try to use fridge but fridge has a precondition of (isWithinRange) and Walk has a POST-Condition of (isWithinRange) so the AI would go Walk -> Fridge.

The fridge also has the preconditions (fridgeExists, isReachable, hasFoodInFridge) that the AI would check.

If these weren't satisfied he would go to a berry bush (Walk -> pickBush) if there were berry bushes that existed, reachable, had berries to pick, etc.

Finally he would just hunt an animal and cook the food if that had it's preconditions matched too.
The reason eat has varying is you could base it off his hunger level. Eating raw food has a cost of 10, so it would be better to just cook it which would have a total cost of 5 instead of 14. But if you're starving, maybe rawfood only has a cost of .5, so now you're villager would rather eat the raw food now rather than wait and cook it.

My preconditions/postconditions are just string the planner tries to match and the condition class is a just a holder of the string and a type. So in unity I can have the condition (DoesExist, GameObject) and (InRange, True), etc.

even convert my things to inherit from a baseclass so they're easier to work with

odd fuck it

>>165333104
DO IT

How bad of an idea is it to create an alpha map in photoshop of a shadow, throw that on a plane, and line it up with the object so it looks like that object is casting a really nice shadow on the ground?. Now what if I did that for everything? That won't cause any kind of problem, right?

>>165333101

Cool.

>>165332864

Okay, so you have a base class cube. You can have specific cubes in the world. To find out a cube's position or volume, you need to cast to it, because these are properties of a cube. When you cast to cube, you need to tell it which cube specifically you want to reference to because each cube can have a different volume or position.

So you have a base class options. You can have specific configurations in your game. To find out a configuration's screen resolution, you need to cast to it, because these are properties of the options. When you cast to options, you need to tell it which settings specifically you want to reference to because options can be saved with multiple configurations.

>>165333368
I don't know if you're cool is serious or not, was there something else you wanted to know?

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>>165330874
>>165331079
>>165331098

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_zcux6Eneo

Guy takes too long to get to his points, so here's my summary:

1. Don't follow a "just keep practicing everyday" mantra. It's too nebulous and vague to help you out.

2. Set a goal so you have a yardstick for progress.

3. Get feedback. Take it in stride. Some people are very colorful with giving negative feedback. Read between the lines. Find some takeaway with what people say, good or bad.
Don't fall in love with your work too much. Acknowledge the flaws and move on.

4. Don't stay in your comfort zone but don't jump off too far either. Stay just a little bit outside to compel yourself to improve.

5. Find a forum that matches your skill level. Participate in their contests/competitions. The competitive nature can help you improve. When you've outgrown them, find another forum that now matches your new skill level. Then join their competitions. Be the very best that no one ever was.

6. Go at it by small increments. Break down your shortcomings to their individual parts so you can easily improve them. The video mentions 6: color, anatomy, perspective, composition, design, and storytelling.

For example, if you have a problem with anatomy, work on it in isolation. Practice with making art that doesn't have an odd perspective, in grayscale so you don't have to worry about color, etc. and just work on the anatomy. If you have a problem with drawing fingers, then just draw lots of fingers in different poses until you're used to it. etc.

>>165333472

No, it's interesting. I'm thinking about it. I don't have anything specific to say. Except maybe ask if it wouldn't try to kill an animal before picking a berry bush?

bout to run this 2d rectangle-based collision implementation, wish me luck, my brothers in Islam

>>165333567
hope it doesn't work infidel scum

>>165331139
>I was never allowed to go outside the house so I had time to practice
I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

>>165333559
just photo copy, steal and trace as much as you can without being too obvious about
voila, you are now an artist!

>>165333517
Because It takes the whole path not he individual actions.

Basically the path for berry bush is
Walk -> pickBerryBush -> Eat -> goalSatisfied (2) while animals is
Walk -> killAnimal -> cutAnimalUp -> cookFood -> Eat -> goalSatisfied (5)

Each action has preconditions like killAnimal has inRange and produces corpse cutAnimalUp needs a corpse and produces rawFood cookFood needs rawFood and produces edibleFood and Eat needs edible food.

I hope that helps and glad to help out

>>165331981
>an undead girl whose limbs were taken from different girls. Frankenstein-monster style
That's genius.
The perfect girl made with the best features of different girls.

>>165332241
>website in japanese

The fuck am I supposed to do with this you weeb?

>>165333368
>>165332864

Probably the easiest way to get what you want is to right click on the circly next to object and click promote to variable. Set the variable to public and compile your blueprint.Then you can set the Options Blueprint Class as the default.

>>165333714
can odourfags handle the smell of corpserot?

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>>165333753
Damn
>>165333368
Okay, I get it. But in this instance I don't want to have multiple.. instances of options, I just want to be able to modify the MAIN options class from another class. I mean that must not be something people usually do I guess so it's likely not the best way, but I don't see a need to make a copy and then modify and use that copy, because the parent class is all I need to work with. Especially if I am going to be saving and loading options and using it over several levels where it needs to be consistent, doesn't that make the most sense?

>>165333928

what type is "Options"?

Is this the best way to map a boolean value to -1 for false and 1 for true, without using if? Or am I retarded and there is a simper way?
fn(x): return (-1*(!int(x))) + int(x)

>>165334029
It's a class. That's a type, right? I mean it has variables in it.

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Posting progress

art is placeholder

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>>165333493
one last thing, I could never draw properly when someone is watching me. make sure you're working on an environment that is distraction-free as much as possible

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>>165334138

>>165334118

There's lots of object types. Your circly is a wildcard so it accepts lots of object types. Unfortunately this means promote to variable has too many options to choose from so it won't do it automatically. Did you make it an actor? A struct? Enumeration?

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>>165334367
It's literally just a class right now, that exists in the files. Does it... does it have to be an actor or something to be worked with?

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>>165334367
>>165334118

nevermind I'm dumb you can make a simple "object reference" variable

>>165332241
>tfw have to learn japanese so you can learn how to draw so you can learn how to 3d model so you can learn how to make a game

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>>165333714
it was supposed to work as side-quests. each limb was from a girl who was violated or had deep resentment, and each was a side-quest to resolve those unfinished businesses, with her unlocking a special ability or attack as a reward.

>>165334295
Keep up the good work, anon!

>>165334507
>>165334462

You can also do the purple circle which is a class reference. I honestly don't know exactly what you need because I don't know how/what you're referencing to in the class

>>165334180
That only happens to me if i'm drawing from imagination. Whenever i went out and painted studies it was fine, and otherwise there is no reason to paint in public anyway.

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>GOAP is a topic again
Perfect time for me to shill my approach in Godot again.
https://hamfistedgamedev.blogspot.de/p/blog-page_3.html

>>165334180
Requesting a goog edit.

>>165334672
So the class is a widget and I want to set it to visible through another widget. But the other widget can't see it, so I am casting to the first widget to set its visibility.

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>tfw can't get a good looking drawn shader
rip

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>>165326259

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>>165334805

Wait wait wait wait.

Are you trying to do something like this?

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>>165326259
This fucking /g/-tier epeen bullshit belongs in /g/

>git

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>>165335013
Yes, and I know how to do it like that. I have that in the level blueprint. Wouldn't it be better to create the widgets at level load and have them hidden then creating them every single time you click the options button?

Plus wouldn't it be good to just learn how the sweet fuck casting works?

>>165335135
>t. nodev

>>165335135
>getting triggered by inane shit

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>>165335135

>>165332906
It's not happening, is it?

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Not a very good demonstration, but skinned meshes now have lighting too. I'm going to take this opportunity to change the hit flash to actually light up the enemies instead of just tinting them.

>>165335189
fuck off

anyone going to tumblr should fuck off

>>165335146

>Wouldn't it be better to create the widgets at level load and have them hidden then creating them every single time you click the options button?

I have no idea.

>>165335191
Anonymous posters are susceptible to a crowd mentality and it is possible that they will legitimately start to care about inane shit.

It just needs "VIRGIN", "GOOD SENSOR MOUSE" and "USES AUDIOPHILE HEADPHONES" and it'll be fine.

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>>165335618

>>165333493
Disagree. There are some good points, but too many that will take you down the path of stunted growth and roadblocks. Over-complicating learning drawing is a crime.

Save worrying about specificity for when you are at a good level of drawing. Your own skill will reveal most of the paths you have to take.

>>165335498
pretty snazzy anon
speaking of, did you see this error I got when I was playing it:

> 0:1(10): error: GLSL 1.40 is not supported. Supported versions are:
> 1.10, 1.20, 1.30, 1.00 ES, and 3.00 ES

I'm not shouting for tech support but I thought it might help with the weird graphics issues

>>165335546
>anyone going to tumblr should fuck off
And how the fuck do you expect to develop any type of following? Just by posting it on 4chan? Not going to do shit.

You need to get your name out there if you want to make it. It's not that complicated. Just post progress on it every now, answer a few questions and then and it'll build itself.

Stop being an edgy little manchild.

>>165335675

I had the exact same feeling when I was trying to make an inventory system

>>165333751
Click around, it isn't complicated. Or do a google translate obviously

>>165335774
There seems to be some pretty decent documentation on inventories and drag and drop stuff, but every blueprint tutorial I look at for menus is "basic menu tutorial" "Very simple main menu tutorial", but if your game needs more than that there's nothing really to look at so I am just winging it.

Yo mechjumping dev, your game is unresponsive to any KBM input. Input manager says axis can be controlled by WASD though. Ain't happening.

i dont understand twitches ordering in jams
>two games made by the same dev
>the one with half as many downloads and views is higher

>>165335695
>Save worrying about specificity for when you are at a good level of drawing

to be fair, the video is about how to improve one's art, not how to start with learning it, but like you said, there were some good points so I thought of sharing it

>>165334518
It is pictographic.

>>165335940
>i dont understand twitches ordering in jams
nobody does,but there's clearly some type of formula going on else the same demo day games wouldnt be at the top every time

>>165335730
Yeah I know exactly what that error is, I've gone back to using GLSL 1.20 which is much, much more widely supported, the problem shouldn't come up anymore.

I was going to try out a feature from 1.40 but it turned out to be crap, but I then forgot to change everything back.

>>165335992
maybe it actually is based on global download counts.

however it'll pick 1 random game new to the jam and put it at the top so it can get more downloads.

>>165336082
noice

>>165335942
Sorry.

I am just trying to stress these points because I hate to see people go down the wrong paths. I hear stories of people taking years to get to competent level of drawing messing about with books and things while seeing so many others progress in short times when they just practice practice practice (properly). It is just not complicated, only time consuming.

Your friendly reminder to make a game that could sell itself based on user-created <30sec webms to rake in the cash (see physics games).

>>165336082
You can mix shader versions, so there shouldn't have been a need to change everything to one version and the next.

>>165336292
Easier said than done

>>165336292
what's that lassie? make a heavily text-based game with no fancy graphics and a dorf forts UI?

u got it!!

>>165336292
Your friendly reminder that once you make out a pattern in what currently sells, you're too late to cash in.

>>165336498
how well organised is your code?

>>165336292
Your friendly reminder to make a game

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>>165335498
i just tried your demo so heres feedback
>java
>i like the player controls and the gun recoil
>get some non-hitscan enemies in there shit dude
>why is there no signature melee attack what the fuck man seriously?

>>165336292
No no no

You need a game that can sell itself on STORIES

>>165336498
this might be the most newgrounds game i have ever seen

Cooking with Tracy! feedback
http://pastebin.com/JrHWfuMb

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>>165336567

>>165334905
are you writing it yourself?

>>165336567
Thanks anon

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>>165336708

>java
We all have regrets

>i like the player controls and the gun recoil
I'm very fussy about controls, I'm really glad so many people appreciate it.

>get some non-hitscan enemies in there shit dude
All in time, these guys were always just meant to be for testing

>why is there no signature melee attack what the fuck man seriously?
I have a plan, pic related

BomberFiend dev, there isn't a "Start" button on my keyboard. Can't play your game.

>>165336845
what the hell is that?

Cybership dev, if you want people to play your demo, let them download something.

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>>165337262
CONSTRUCT 2 BOYS

>>165337265
is this really the first post pointing out that guy doesnt even have a download for his demo? holy shit haha

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>>165337262
The power of clickteam fusion.

>>165337350
Hacking the game executable out of his account is the first stage

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>>165335757
>manchild

You reek tumblr.

>>165337350
He had something up but took it down because it was the wrong version. Said he'd upload the correct one on tuesday later.

>>165337262
Construct 2

Who coded the itch comment field. They should be shot.

>>165337808
Send a complaint to itch. Do it faggot

>>165337813
I want to make more than just one game.

>>165337861
you got me good anon

>https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-12/topic/48632/hehe
Why is discord like this?

Whens the next Demo Day?

>>165337937
mothdude got on a bit too many layers of irony

>>165337937
So GunMetal dev is a stupid cunt, got it.

>>165337992
DD is about every two months.

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quick, post curses ideas

>>165338085
Never able to find a matching pair of socks.

I want to make a turn based strategy game, something (or basically exactly) like final fantasy tactics and ogre battle, you know the like of them.
I know the genre is dead and nobody in the world cares about them anymore and yadda yadda but I don't care about actually selling it or appealing to anyone.

But I'm a little bit retarded.
Are they actually 2D or 3D?
I could never tell, they use sprites, but on sort of a 3 dimensional plane or something, or at least that's how it looks.
Also could I get away with just watching the tutorials on "how to just like make game" or do I need to know programming to make something like this?
I can't imagine this being a difficult genre, all you need is just a basic level line up and you've pretty much made the entire game, just switch the terrain and units. (or maybe I have no idea what I'm talking about, which is quite possible.)

Dig dev, your game isn't playable.

>>165338085
Tell me what any of those are supposed to be in the first place, curses like what?

>>165337813
What does it do that anything else doesn't again

>>165338128
>Are they actually 2D or 3D?
>I could never tell, they use sprites, but on sort of a 3 dimensional plane or something, or at least that's how it looks.
Isometric? As long as you keep the logic to a basic 2D grid you can draw it however you want with no real issues.

>>165338128

FFT is totally 3D with sprites.

The levels are 3d Models and you can rotate them just like you'd expect to be able to in 3D space.

Something like Tactics Ogre or FFTA is completely 2D. The levels and viewpoint are fixed to accomodate this.

Both can work. There are benefits to doing it 3D.

>>165338085
Male animals (not humans) get erections at the sight of you. This includes hermaphroditic animals like snails and flatworms.

>>165338085
You become a poor drawing version of yourself
oh wait

>>165338128
>>165338218
Well, logic doesn't have to be 2D, either, say if you wanted varying terrain heights or whatever. Just don't try to do logic outside of a Cartesian coordinate system.

>>165338085
every time you watch tv, you gain weight

>>165338253
>wherever I go, snails lose their ability to move because they are stiff as a rod

>>165338218
>Isometric? As long as you keep the logic to a basic 2D grid you can draw it however you want with no real issues.
That's what I thought, but when you rotate the plane it doesn't just shift from 1 angle perspective to another, it sort of like "smudges" into it in a really weird way.

>>165338226
I see.
So, the level itself is 3d space.
But are the grids that make the plane also 3d objects or just sprites?

>>165338173
that's helpful
why isn't it playable

>>165338435
Wrote on itch that love.dll is missing in your .exe

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>>165338473
>love is missing
damn....

>want to enter comfy jam
>can't think of an idea for a game that's both comfy and actually a game
Help

>>165338596
I don't think there is a comfy jam >>165335420

>>165338640
O-oh...

>>165338596
you fell for a meme
comfy jam is an yet another elaborate plot to give random animeposting and loliposting a better context so that no-one can call it out because it's "related to the subject"

OKAY SO I THINK I FINALLY GET CASTING

It's like a pointer, to an object, right?!

>>165338683
Where is your game?

>>165338683
>loliposting
Is that a thing?
Have I been missing out?
I thought I was the only lolicon on this board and everyone else here was an SJW.

>>165338721
Casting is compile-time

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send help

how would i do this? or do i have to write a function somewhere?

>>165338683
https://youtu.be/d696t3yALAY?t=40s

>>165338756
So it is a pointer to something but it happens as soon as the code is compiled as opposed to not?

>>165338771
forgot to mention it's c# if that matters

>>165338596
>want to make comfy game
>"comfy" feeling is 90% done by art/atmosphere and barely has anything to do with code

Day of the rope for artists when?

>>165338847
Programmer Art Jam when?

>>165338192
>What does it do that anything else doesn't again
you can use c# and it's not unity

Ghostman / Polter and Guist feedback
http://pastebin.com/7jUuWqTX

>>165338085
Having to remember her everyday.

>>165339052
Who?

>>165338085
building a house of cards in a hurricane

How would you check for the 2nd nearest instance in gamemaker?

I know instance_nearest() exists but I don't think it would help.

>>165338085
A curse where every time you sit down to dev you just shitpost instead

>>165338794
What is the problem?
Casting simply converts between types. This isn't compile time

>>165338875
>Programmer Art Jam
I actually love this idea

>>165338842
figured it out, need to write () instead of void

>>165338085
your lips get dry, your saliva is replaced by sand.

>>165338771
try
>SleepEvent+= () => gameObject.layer = Hero.INACTIVE;

>>165338721
A cast is a conversion. Usually in your managed languages casting most often happens between references, in which case all you're really doing is "changing" the type of the reference (and the cast will fail if you do it incorrectly). Casting can also be between number types.

You should avoid casting between reference types because that means you're not doing subtyping correctly, you're breaking Liskov substitution and thus invalidating the entire reason subtyping exists. Casting from a type to its supertype is generally implicit and it's okay, but going the other way is bad.

is lowpoly modelling harder than doing it properly or a viable shortcut

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>>165339274
WHAT

>>165339356
int > real
bool > int
right?

>>165339470
Those are usually implicit because you're not losing information.

>>165339423
Who the fuck are these guys? I've been seeing the on /v/ for years. Some kind of eceleb? What do they do and why are they so famous?

>>165339530
Redlettermedia, they did those memey videos about the star wars prequels.

>>165339530
mike and jay work at a VCR repair shop and make videos about it

>>165339356
So why do you use it then to get access to classes if it's a conversion?

>>165339619
You shouldn't use it that way. If you need to do something different depending on the concrete class, you override a method. Reason being, if you have downcasts you are now closing off the system to anything other than a few subclasses of the superclass which makes no sense as far as subtyping goes.

NOVIDEO feedback
http://pastebin.com/RWVxGZcU

how do people do non-repeating collisions for an attack animation? so for example, if an attack sweeps over 2 enemies, it can hit them and counts only once each

im thinking you'd have another temporary structure to check for collisions that have already occurred in this instance of attack...

>>165338749
Lolis are love, lolis are life

if ur not using rpgmaker the kys

>>165339831
I think usually the enemies get a few invincibility frames where nothing hurts them after getting hurt.

>>165339303
What if you're an artist
Do we have to find a programmer and have him do the art for the game?

>>165339973
You punch the wall with your drawing hand until it breaks. Then you make the art for the game.

>>165339831
If you apply damage only on colliders entering each other instead of applying it as long as colliders overlap you should be fine. Else give them i-frames.

>>165339932
>>165340045

so many possibilities...

so much to learn...

who here is determined to do the whole 10000 hours mastery rule with their gamedev?

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>>165338683
Loli Jam fucking when?

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>>165338085
you can only pronounce the words "omelette au fromage"

>>165340202
When you gather enough people wanting participate in one and just do it

>>165340271
>implying that's a curse

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>>165339831
I keep dictionaries that tick down

depends on your game, if you can just give them pain iframes that's probably ideal

>>165338085
You will feel sharp pain in your whole body whenever you are sitting or laying down.

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>>165326627
Kibou

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>>165338085
Wizard eyes

>>165338085
You can only sleep while partially submerged in water

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>an hour of this

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>>165338085
whenever you want to use your right hand, you end up using your left, and vice-versa

>>165340571
nasty

>>165339973
>What if you're an artist
Then it's an opportunity to learn how to program.

>>165340584
Of what?

>>165339973
>>165340704
>>165338875
Artist Code Jam when?

>>165340357
pain iframes which wont interfere with physics

thanks everyone

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>>165338085
you lose the ability to close your eyes or blink, this includes being unable to sleep

you always end your sentences in inappropriate curse words

>>165338085
>nightmares
>the twisting visions of the waking world begin to intrude on your downtime
>resting can randomly take longer, and may fail to recover reason

>>165340584
STOP POSTING TIM OUTSIDE OF /BRIT/

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Caveman...?

What did speedrunning do to you???

>>165340202
Did you... Did you google loli and post one of the first pics? Do you even like lolis?

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>>165340584
Ha caught you.

>>165340790
>you always end your sentences in inappropriate curse words

>implying that's a curse, niggers.

>>165340584
Uhmm...What are you doing?

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>plan to spend day doing gamedev
>wake up with a disgusting cold

>>165340832
I would really prefer if you'd be posting in the correct thread.

>>165340832
Why do people do this?
>look for "agd" on catalog
>don't look at the OP pic
>don't look at the OP post
>don't even look at the thread's posts
>just post your stupid shit
Why? How even?

>>165340929
they're doing it to fuck with you and it's working

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>>165340867
it's a pun, faggot

>>165340867
It's an illness actually. Called tourette syndrome.

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>>165338085
you get the uncontrollable urge to spend your money at the earliest possible moment, making you lose all of your funds (and being unable to gain any, even if the event card gives you some)

How would you go about animating a turn based game in Unity? Moving a character to attack one of multiple units somewhere on screen, attacking, then moving back. Would you make different "run to" animations for each potential enemy position? Would you move a character to position via script, play the attack animation, then move them back?

Trying to think of the best way to approach this.

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>>165341132
>Would you make different "run to" animations for each potential enemy position?
What?

>>165341132
>Would you move a character to position via script, play the attack animation, then move them back?

you just answered your own question. you just need ways to check if they arrived at their movement destination, so you can start playing the attack animation at the right moment, then checking when the animation has finished so you could start moving them back to their original position

>>165340884
>wake up to a cold pizza
>in your battle armor
Seems like the start of a good day to me.

Why is the thread being spammed with random reaction images?

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Another job interview and I don't get a job.

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