/agdg/ - Another Game Doing Good

ENGINEDEV BEST DEV

>>165368374
>average sales
>blown the fucc out

So this is what it means to be AGDG.

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>tfw bought dream king to give it a shit review
>steam won't let you give a review without playing for at least 5 minutes
>game crashes on launch

it isn't

>can't copy the OP like a non-retard
>begins the thread with Endica shitposting
Off to a great start.

>>165368692
We can save this thread. All that's necessary is to post progress.

Post progress.

>>165368763
But I have no visual progress to show!

>>165368763
old progress is still progress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I2RLUQaZfA

but today i finished the code to the ghost mode. before, when the game restarted there was a chance of deleated the camera with the fucking ghost.
and i finaly fixed a bug were itens kept on the player after he droped then

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>>165368763
I'll post mine again since I fucked up and posted just as the last thread died anyway.
+ Robot friendo
+ Buff timers
+ Damage Numbers
+ More movement

>>165368374
>Players Total: 2,292 +- 3,175

what does this mean? two thousand players give or take three thousand? how does that work

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how much does long, boring data entry work bother you anons?
i actually find it pretty comfy

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>>165369139
USE XML OR SOME OTHER SHIT HOLY FUCK

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>>165368864
That's a damn shame. Alright, I'll post progress.

Field navigation's framework has been set up now and flags are appearing like they should. All that's left to do before this whole system's up and running is to determine the rules for flag facing depending on your destination and to hook all that back in to the Adventure Creator plugin. Then, just as soon as I get the item code working for it, you'll be able to navigate back to the Camp/Village or the Scar depending on which Wayfinding Crystal you're using.

>>165369043
It sure is. Looking alright though the sudden transition between alive/dead is a little rough. Looking good overall.

>>165369093
Nice. I like the subtle camera movements going on here.

>>165369139
Though I've spent a lot of money to avoid doing such work, I have on occasion done a lot worse than that.

>>165368374
>still obsessing over some whodev who dropped by and posted his game in 2015 and triggered you
This isn't a meme kiddo it's just you being a nodev and a fag.

>>165369139
Isn't there code in GML that lets you create arrays automatically instead of having to type out 'name_array[#]=' every single time?

Then all you'd need to do is type out the sprite names while still being able to add comments next to each name.

>everything about this thread
Oh well, guess I'll wait til tomorrow to post progress

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>>165369139

>>165369093
Your graphics do not blend together at all. Find a pixel size and stick to it. Your sprites have different pixel sizes and not to mention the camera not aligning to pixel movement.

>>165368374
>>165369145
>>165369337
>sourceposter is so mentally owned by nick ridgeway he had to create the new thread in dedication to him
Is there anything that doesn't throw you into a shitposting panic, sourceposter?
Please stop making new threads. When the janitor inevitably deletes all your shitposts they can't delete the OP. But they should.

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>>165369603
Not really, no. You could make a script that does that heavy lifting for you though, sure. I did that for my GMS Exterminator prototype because it had a lot of databasing in it. Doing this with a singular array assignment per individual index/action would've been madness.

>>165369820
Have you heard of .csv? Why aren't you storing that data in an external file?

Anyone spanish here?

>>165369135

It means the sample size is so tiny you can't really get a fair picture.

>>165369820
it's like i'm modding darkest dungeon again!

>>165369982
I hate file operations. I hate every aspect of it. So if I can avoid it, I do.

>>165369745
>things nobody cares about, the post

officer pixel laying down the pixel law

>>165370140
not that anon, but it does make it look a little thrown-together (the cloaked figure looks damn blurry compared to the others, for example).

>>165370132
This kind of thing is exactly what they're for though. File operations are literally 8 lines of code to loop through a file of indefinite length in GMS. Plus you get to have a neatly formatted sheet document that you can modify even while your game is running, reload the values and keep testing the balance. Don't even need to stop your game.

>>165369715
oh cmon man, it's just a name table.

>>165369603
sure, you can just for x array[x] = thing, but then you have to go down and change x anyway, so whats the point.

>>165370441
The game dev equivalent of sewage. The "man" who made it posts it and then bullies himself everyday for 8 hours. He's been doing it for 2 years.

>>165370586
>here's my token mention of danny my boogeyman!
>see all my shitposting? danny all along :^)
Are you not aware of how many times you've done this song and dance? End your life.

I'm gonna make a tropico-inspired game but it's gonna be text-based because I'm shit at graphics and art. Will post progress in x hours.

>>165370406
>you can modify even while your game is running

That's a whole bunch of extra code unless everything is constantly opening the file, looking for a block or 10, reading that entry, and then closing that file after copying the value to its internals.

Also it's another thing I have to have open when I could just have it open in GMS. And even though it's '8 lines', the edge cases that need to be accounted for are numerous.

Much like people asking why I refuse to make my own conversation system or why I refuse to use regular expressions, I'll just have to refer you to my default answer: I'm not doing what doesn't need doing when doing it would make me lose time for relatively little gain.

>>165370454
we have enough autism in our general as it is thanks

>>165370586
>>165370747
Tell us more about how much more money you make than Endica dev :^)

>>165370742
Good luck, anon!

>>165371037
Fuck you.

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>>165369745
The enemies aren't the same size as the player characters, you're right, but I just drew them up in 5 minutes when I started the project to have some enemies to look at. Background is a placeholder, UI is just for devving.

I'm not sure what you mean by the camera not aligning to pixel movement?

>>165370401
It could just be the low resolution I was having to record in combined with the dark background. Does this look better? Also, that's not me. I appreciate the feedback.

>>165370772
>That's a whole bunch of extra code
It's one script with < 50 lines of code and a way to call it. Just reload the whole thing, done.

>doing it would make me lose time for relatively little gain
That's the wrongest assumption I've encountered this week.

>>165371119
Not those anons but I think they'd still be mad about how the interface PPI doesn't match the character PPI.

>>165371119
yeah, much better.

>>165370886
Drunk on failure.

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Does anybody know why Unity does this to culling matrices? Everything is totally fucked in regards to occlusion culling when you start dealing with custom matrices. Hell, this on just has a farther away near clipping plane and it's still super jacked up.

>>165371532
>that post was him talking about himself
Jesus Christ sourcefag really is mentally ill.

>>165371208
Time to edit an entry in GM:S: A couple seconds
Time to edit an entry in an external XML/CSV DB: More than a couple seconds if not open. A couple seconds if open.

Time saved by making notes and then implementing changes later vs. doing hot-reloads on a live file: Significant.

Amount of time it'll take me to figure out how to create such a system and implement it properly in such a way that it works properly: Longer than its taken me to program the rest of the game at that point.

>wrongest assumption I've encountered this week.

Then you assume wrongly. I tried to do an external CSV and called it quits after a week of it refusing to work perfectly. I was making a prototype for a game -- not a prototype for database management.

>>165368374

so the guy made $9,000?
oh wait, after steam and taxes, unless he made the game in 3 months, many people make more than that in a regular job.

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YOU CAN DO IT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFnCWyXyEk&t=911s

>>165371679
The meager success of endica destroyed an already devastated mind. Our boy soresfag may never level design again.

>>165371119
It's fine for placeholder art, but just be aware when you're make the game's final art, it's best to have a consistent style. And for pixel art a consistent style means having an aligned pixel grid.

>>165369093
>>165369183

Will I get in trouble if I put in underaged sex in my game? It's purely text-based so technically it shouldn't be illegal, right? I don't care if people will hate it because of that, but I just don't wanna get in legal trouble. There's also gonna be underaged guro sex, but it's completely optional for the player.

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Is there any DDD fanart yet?

>>165372243
Depends on where you release the game I guess but I don't know shit about laws so yeah

>>165372243
Nobody cares about text. You're good.

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Reminder to follow the best video game design philosophy.

>>165372382
>>165372410
Alright, thanks. I'm also just gonna be using an alias anyway. Wouldn't want anyone in real life to know what I made aside from my girlfriend whose completely fine with it.

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>render huge landscape
>+500FPS

>render text from sprites
>~100 FPS

The shaders themselves are nothing special, really just puts everything into position. Could it be the amount of draw calls? When I had my terrain, I rendered that with one call, yet I draw every letter individually.

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>>165372243

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Hey senpai,
I got my swimmy frames done.

Next step I don't know at what point I have enough tiles for a whole level to not seem redundant.

>>165372619
>Could it be the amount of draw calls? When I had my terrain, I rendered that with one call, yet I draw every letter individually.
Yes.

>>165372619
>I draw every letter individually
nigger what are you doing

>>165372619
>Could it be the amount of draw calls? When I had my terrain, I rendered that with one call, yet I draw every letter individually.
Superyes.

>>165372615
Dang I wish I had a loli loving gf

>>165372634
Literally one of my favorite books. The story's actually good.

>>165372768
Well she's not loli-loving but she's fine with me being attracted to underaged girls. She doesn't care.

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>>165371980
I'll admit I don't know too much about the finer aspects of pixel art, so thanks. I'll keep that in mind.

>>165372134
Oh, I didn't see your post! I've only been working on this for about a week, so it's mostly just getting the combat functional right now. I do plan on adding animations for when characters are damaged.

Also thank you!

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>>165372748
>>165372717
>>165372705
We have a winner, I guess. Thank you for the assistance!

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>>165368763
Buttons!
Look will change though.

>>165372834
I lol'd when the Charlotte thing happened I wasn't expecting it at all

>>165372834
Other anon here. I've read it too, but somehow I didn't find it good. Can you tell me what you liked about it? I'm hoping that maybe different view will change my opinion, cause maybe I'm missing something.

>>165373035
are you going to make a vaporwave shmup?

>>165373195
This is AGDG not Amateur book review club

>>165372243
its legal in america, but certainly illegal in other countries

>>165371119
is the background for FF3?

>>165373246
Trying, yes.
It'll be something very small though. First game.

>>165372904
Well that's the next best thing

>>165373279
fuck off vine your game is shit and you're a woman that means you're inferior to us men

>>165373279
B-b-but that's just inspiration!

Just joking. Sorry for making you angry.

>>165369093
Make the shadows transparent.

>>165373350
FFVI

>>165373657
Probably a good idea. I actually don't know why the cloaked characters shadow was appearing on top of them. Just a bug.

>>165372951
really anon i want to help you out because i think i might know what you're dealing with

are you trying to make a typing animation text by drawing each letter?

find me one normal person who plays video games who can even see mixels, i dare you

>>165369093
You'll want to make those shadows under the fireballs to move away when they float "up." Right now it looks weird as fuck

>>165373491
vagina > penis

>>165374294
>normal
Nice to see you've left some room for backpaddeling later.

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Reminder that this was one of the best selling games of 2015 and it looks like shit

Normies don't care about visuals.

>have vagina
>can't code
haha

>>165374332
A vagina can be penetrated by a phallus.
A phallus can penetrate any orifice it wants.
Phallus > vagina.

>>165374294
Why defend this garbage?

>>165374143
>FFVI

what country you from? unless it's Japan than it's FF3. you wouldn't say your favorite western was Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo, you'd say The good, the bad and the ugly.

>>165374393
normal in this case just means anybody who plays video games and has nothing to do with gamedev

>>165374453
you don't have charming characters, good story, good gimmick and, most importantly, preexisting fanbase
you need these visuals you lazy fuck get back to grinding art

>>165374453
Strange considering how often people tend to call next gen games "Ps2 games" in terms of graphics.

>>165374453
>homosuck fans are normies
Far off.

>>165374191
Yes, exactly.

It's quite interesting because without OpenGL I experience no FPS drop. I wouldn't thought that sending draw calls to the GPU is really this resource heavy.

>>165374453
But normies don't even know this game.
Only my autistic and socially-outcast classmates have played Undershit. My normie classmates have never even heard of it.

>>165374689
If you think that a vast part of the fanbase aren't normies then you're insane.

>>165374605
>>165374689
you spend too much time on /v/

>>165374780
Draw calls aren't insignificant. Though I would guess that, because you are doing separate calls, you are also changing the texture between each character? That will hurt a lot more than just having that many draw calls.

>>165374453
99.99% of this game's fans have autism.
Literal Fact.

WORLD OF HORROR ANON I'M SO PROUD OF YOU YOU'RE ON KILLSCREEN AAAH

>>165374890
really explains the state of this general

>>165374294
it's like with movies and cinematography. unless it's complete and utter garbage, nobody cares and nobody notices except other cinematographers.

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>>165374323
Yeah, I just made them really quick and animated them in Unity. The shadow is part of their sprite. I'll get around to it eventually.

>>165374562
http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/File:FFVIA_Narshe_BG.PNG

anyone used either imgui or nuklear?

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Spent maybe 10 hours last week reading about Shader Forge, Photoshop blends, sprite filter modes, and probably more, just for this fucker.

Worth it for the knowledge is what I tell myself.

>>165374780
The way I do typing animation (and I figure it's the way most people do it) is to have two strings: one that contains your whole phrase, and one that you'll display on screen

then you make a loop with a counter variable that reads your whole string and adds the character in the counter position to the display string

so if you have "whole_string = BINGUS DINGUS" and you loop all the way to 8, your display string will be "BINGUS D", with each letter drawn one at a time but in a single, whole string

>>165374929
Well, I have one texture, and I tell each character which part of that texture to draw. Something like a tile map.

Even if I bind the texture only once (and not for each letter), I only gain a slight performance change, but nothing worth mentioning.

Maybe instancing is the thing which could help me? Or should I create an FBO with each iteration of the text and then draw that?

>>165374562
>There are actually people that think that a localization error means you don't call a game by its actual name.

>>165374562
this might blow your mind but ive played 2,3,4 and 6.

>>165375397
Nah, just put it all in one vertex buffer. Then you can do typewriter text by drawing as many vertices as you need, if you want.

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

daily reminder that "believe in yourself"

>>165374562
Are you serious?

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>>165375741

>>165375741
>no apostrophe after "lookin"

dropped

>>165375358
I use IMGUI the concept but not IMGUI the library.

>>165375386
i don't know what it is but i like it. some sort of pillar of light? teleporter pad?

>>165375741
Your game might be great, anon, and I hope it does well for you. But fuck that's one awful trailer.

>>165375392
Yes, mine method works also like that. My problem is that I'm trying to figure out how to draw the whole string ("BINGUS D"), instead of drawing each letter individually ("B", "I", "N"… etc.).

>>165375715
What do you mean by putting it all into one vertex buffer? Doesn't that mean that then I would need a dynamic buffer? Doesn't that also cost a lot of performance?

>>165374497
hahaha

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>>165375741

>>165374497
for how many hours have you been triggered?

>>165375741
How good did it do?

>>165376135
>>165375741

i get that art takes a long time to produce. but wasnt this kickstarted two years ago?

how long does it take to draw some backgrounds and characters

>>165376135
>Make a _video_game
>Describe visuals

>>165376051
>What do you mean by putting it all into one vertex buffer? Doesn't that mean that then I would need a dynamic buffer? Doesn't that also cost a lot of performance?
You'd put the geometry for the entire string in a buffer, once.

In general, batching stuff into larger buffers every frame to reduce draw calls is a payoff, though typically you do it with instancing so you upload less data (basically flyweight pattern). In your case, though, instancing will probably be slower since you only have a few vertices per letter anyways and instancing isn't free.

>>165376258
>visual novel
>video game

>>165376135
that's some pretty art

>>165376135
the very first word that came to my mind when I saw the pic:

monoboob

shouldn't there be some sort of crease or cloth fold to account for the cleavage?

>>165376580
have you never seen a girl wear a dress that does this?

i get laid prett much every week. see a lot of dresses that dont show the cleavage

>>165376715
reeee

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Here's the latest progress, lads. I gave up on this project almost a year ago and decided to come back to it on a whim last week.

Made lots of progress on the map editor. I can now save and load maps to the hard drive, along with its unit placements. I'll be making all maps in my own editor and also letting users make them with the same editor. Map files can be shared too.

Finally implemented some pathfinding. Next I'll be working on making units able to move and attack. I'll start making more units and map tiles only after I get some core gameplay down.

>>165376715
>he's bragging about banging his mom again

>>165376580
I think it depends on how tight the dress iss

Whats the best way to do backgrounds in Gamemaker?

Tile it? Or hand draw it?

>>165376580
It's quite possible for clothing not to cling to boobs like a second layer of skin.

>>165376715
no sorry, not about the cleavage, but the cloth folds suggest it's like one horizontal capsule

>>165376320
So you say it will be cheaper to update both the vertex buffer and the tex coord buffer, I assume, every frame, and then have one draw call?

I'll give it a try then. Thank you for your help!

>>165376883
No, you don't need to update them at all, but it would still be cheaper. Make one for the whole string and control how many characters are printed by changing the vertex count of the draw call.

>>165376870
yeah that happens sometimes depending on the dress material

i talk to a lot of girls irl. trust me

>>165376773
The hell are those squares in the selection texture?

>>165376834
That's not what anime taught me

Guys how do I stop accidentally staring at young girls when I go to the mall?
I go to this mall everyday and the guards are starting to get suspicious. One parent has already complained about me about staring at her child.

>>165376968
Entrance to the shadow realm.

There's no difference between

for i < x:
do y()
for i < x:
do z()

and

for i<x:
do y()
do z()

right?

>don't know what to make

fug

give me ideas for a game with an anime art style

>>165377074
apply an axe to forehead

>>165377114
The first will look like:
y() y() y() y() y() ...
z() z() z() z() z() ...

The second will look like:
y() z()
y() z()
y() z()
y() z()
y() z()
...

>>165377120
fucc sim

>>165376953
>Make one for the whole string and control how many characters are printed by changing the vertex count of the draw call.

That is genius. Thank you, again!

>>165376980
>It's Collision.collider.gameobject or collision.gameobject
And where do I have to write this?

>>165377120
Post you're art

>>165377120
2 dog boy puppies, called strawberry and lemoncake, move in with their new owner jennifer aniston.

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Small progress update. I added a thing so enemies will automatically attack player units that are within a certain range and within line of sight.

>>165377120
Contact free cities dev and collab

>>165377120
comfy/horror mix about a NEET struggling to stave off boredom/depression

>>165375947
Basically a teleporter, yeah. Made two wave-like textures in gimp, panned one left and the other right, and lerped them together with a triangle wave.

>>165377408
Check the docs

>>165377449
The quality of what I've just watched leads me to believe that you are a professional.
This thread is for amateurs only.

>>165368590
not that guy but I'd love to have average sales instead of selling 4 copies and then none ever again
I mean I haven't even tried selling my game yet but I expect to maybe break double digits and that's about it

>>165377120
some guy finds a book. to his surprise, if he writes down the name of a person in that book, his doorbell rings and it's that person horny as fuck and wearing skimpy clothes.

>>165377449
Nice
But when I played the demo it was hard as fuck, I kept dying to the large doge and I felt like killing myself out of shame

>>165377623
I did. Didn't help me.

>>165377408
I haven't seen all your code, but assuming you have everything setup right you would put it in the object that's hittting the object you have want to enable.

So if you have a block with a script that you want to enable, and a bullet that hits that block and turns on the script you would put something like
void OnCollisionEnter(Collision col) {
if (col.collider.gameObject.GetComponent<myscript>()) {
col.collider.gameObject.GetComponent<myscript>().enabled = true;
}
}

>>165377449
>RTS dungeon crawler
Interesting idea but probably too niche for today

>>165377702
>professional
I wish. I'm a NEET that can't find a job :(

>>165377901
Yeah, I think the demo was a bit overtuned. Hopefully for the next demo day I'll have more content and a better progression of difficulty.

>>165369139
depends on my mindset
if I don't have anything else to do or I don't want a challenge in any way it can be pretty comfy
that ends as soon as my wrist cramps up though

>>165377114
>>165377197
and the amount of increment-operations will double with two loops, which by itself wont cost much though

>>165377408
>>165377974

But imo you should just use ontriggerenter instead of on collision enter

>>165377449
COOOOOOL

>>165377974
This is what feminine coding looks like, people.

>>165378095
Talking about performance characteristics isn't really relevant if they do completely different things.

do you guys think this is a good idea? i'm probably gonna prototype it

a stealth game where you're a poor little boy and you need to break into peoples' houses and steal their valuables. since you're a kid, combat is a no go but you can still escape if you're fast

outside of the burglaries, you need to maintain enough money to keep your siblings alive (like papers please).

>>165377878
>Fuck Note.

Fund it.

>>165377449
flip that dog upside down to show death. Also does multiple enemy combat feel good?

>>165377823
Who wouldn't? But what I'm saying isn't about how it's nice to have sales. What I'm talking about is refuting that that is 'amazing'.

Feeling amazing is a very different beast than doing amazing.

>>165377974
JFC. Put that in a variable you fuck.

Too bad Unity doesn't support new C# where you have (?.).

>>165378170
Don't give a shit about the story. Good stealth gameplay is all that matters.

>>165378291
i dont think i would bother with a story (i am a bad writer). let the "story" tell itself through gameplay like papers please maybe. that game is excellent at getting a story across without narrative.

>>165377120
sailormoon but the transformations are uncensored

>>165378053
Well despite being very difficult (to me), the quality of the demo was really promising and it was great fun in terms of the mechanics. Will it be like Diablo or something where you explore an area along a story and fight lots of mobs, or more like a JRPG or certain MMOs with fewer enemies in hand-crafted maps?

>>165378261
In my testing the combat feels the best with 2-3 medium strength enemies at most, or 1 really strong enemy with up to 5 weak adds.

I still can't make animations work. I wish I was coding still, but Unitycubes can only go so far.

>>165378208
I could turn that into a really fun story too; a book where whoever you write in it has sex in the way you've described it. Dude writes down the name of a diplomatic dignitary and the above situation happens - but she forgets it happened when she gets home.

Dignitary's wife finds out she's having sex with the dude - but she doesn't remember anything. Dude continues to up his game, fucking all the people who he feels are being 'frigid bitches' and that their lack of sex is fucking up the world. Political intrigue, mystery, and supernatural fuckery.

You're welcome.

>>165378170
Shit idea dude. Revise it and start from scratch, or you could just give up game dev altogether since you're already failing at the first stage.

>>165378170
>you need to maintain enough money to keep your siblings alive
Sounds like Grave of the Fireflies, what if you go hard on the violins?

>>165377974
>you would put it in the object that's hittting the object you have want to enable
So you mean I have to put it in the object which does NOT have the script which gets enabled? Sry I dont understand this sentence.

>>165375489
it's not a localization error. if you played it on a Super Nintendo and not a Super Famicom it's FF3.

as you can see, I have autism.

>>165378663
oh ok (you)

>>165378682
sorry i haven't watched grave of the fireflies (looks depressing and i'm already depressed enough as is).

>>165378170
this is basically what you do in that war refugee simulator that I can't remember the name of. This war of mine I think?

>>165375682
it blows my mind that you didn't play 1 anon.

>>165378919
not him but i dont think 1 has aged very well

>>165378281
>Too bad Unity doesn't support new C# where you have (?.).

they got that in preview release right now: https://forum.unity3d.com/threads/upgraded-mono-net-in-editor-on-5-5-0b9.438359/

>>165377974
Also doesnt work for me...

Where can i find good sound effects for my game?

>>165379372
outside

do most devs do their own writing for the vidya as well? I don't think I've ever seen anyone ask for a writer for their game compared to stuff like art and music.

I want to make fantasy xcom. Should I use Godot, Unity, or something else?

>>165379372
www.gamesounds.xyz

>>165379649
Godot for 2D
Godot 3.0 for 3D

>>165379478
unless your making a VN, there's really no call for it. it's not like any of us can make Baldur's Gate or the Witcher 3 in mom's basement.

>>165379478
I don't really care about story

>>165379667
>www.gamesounds.xyz

Woah, thank.

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>>165369139
It's a pain in the ass but necessary. Gotta just burn through it.

>>165379667
skip the www
kek
>>165379649
For 2D Godot
For 3D Unity
And for Godot I recommend C++ for any kind of more complex data processing

>>165372689
I really like this aesthetic.
Pls post more.

So agdg will you make games for the Switch? Only 5 and a half hours left!

>>165380050
If monogame gets portability for it, sure.

>>165380050
Aren't Nintendo consoles historically much more difficult to get on to?

>>165380050
If Godot is supported, absolutely.

>>165379478
Yeah and I think it's because most people don't really have a good idea of writing quality. Even most VNs I've seen have some really awful writing, but the audience isn't discerning and neither are the writers or devs so it doesn't matter.

>>165379478
most devs have games with zero story, so no writing is necessary

>>165379478
Indeed, most do. Good game writing is still in its infancy. We've yet to had our "Distribution of the Monomyth to the Hollywood Movie Industry" moment yet and 'til then, we're having to rely on what we know.

Besides, it's not exactly like the gaming public at large is particularly picky about the writing. A few good twists, some half-decent characters even if they're mostly just archetypes, and a little conflict goes a long way in game-standards for writing.

Not to say folks haven't hired real writers to work on game scripts -- but since it is a different medium they usually struggle more than the folks who attempt it ignorantly. So, yes, most devs do their own writing -- it's cheaper and the public doesn't demand it very hard. Though, as time wears on, the standards are slowly raising.

>>165380213
lol

I think you could maybe get on the ps3

>>165380223
>it's okay to have shit art, normies still buy the games!
>it's okay to have shit writing, normies still buy the games!
>anyone can make a successful game!
This really needs to stop. Those games only sold well because of luck. If a dev wants to actually have a better chance at being successful they need to have good art and good writing. Good music and sound too.

>>165380050
the what?

>>165380050
making games for consoles that aren't just homebrew requires actual budget and is a mere dream for majority of indie developers assuming we are not talking about homebrew
meme run is an unexplainable exception to the rule

>>165380620
Let's be honest. Being successful in the games industry will always involve luck, even if you have good art, writing, sound, gameplay, etc.

Luck -- or a very princely sum of money.

>>165380743
>requires actual budget
Why?

>>165380489
Back when Godot was an in-house engine it did have Nintendo DS support. So it's not like it's impossible for them to have Nintendo support. It's just that getting console support is harder than PC and mobile.

>>165380620
>anyone can make a successful game!

Anyone can make a successful game - just as anyone can become a good writer, a good artist, a doctor, et cetera.

It's mostly down to practice, observation, and doggedness whether you make a successful game or not.

>>165380802
Certification, devkit

>>165372689
kyooooooot

>>165381061
They may be willing to furnish those if you show a good proof of concept off.

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>>165380050
No, me and Kada have signed up for 3DS-dev and are looking into limitations now!

For n3DS we can (probably) have about 50 texture maps at 256x256p, and a lot more polygons than first anticipated (no actual numbers on this, but certainly several tens of thousands of tris).
I feel confident that I can keep all characters below 1000 tris, with 64x64p texture maps, and maps can vary between 2000 and 8000 tris with one or two 256x256p tilemaps (tiles at 32x32p - half of the standard Spyro size).
We're considering a (simple) shader for the gems, but pretty much everything else will be "unlit" textures with vertex colour for fake light and shadows.

So fucking excited!

>>165381142
that seems pretty unlikely, friend

>>165380620
It's not just luck though. Games which sell well have at least one or two good things going for them, and standards are low enough at this point that games don't have to be strong in every aspect. Undertale was brought up earlier. It had pretty good writing and interesting gameplay even if the art sucked.

There's a lot of luck that goes into success, but there aren't many indie games which just overall suck and/or are bland which still do well. The ones that do well are strong in a couple of categories.

>>165381142
Lolno. At best, they may just buy those off of you for dirt cheap and develop it themselves.

>>165381172
Do you have any gameplay yet? All I've seen so far are models...

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hmm

>>165380904
there is no one working on getting Godot on current consoles. hell, I don't think you could build for the PS3 or the DS with the current engine.

if you seriously want your game on consoles, drop Godot.

>>165381172

Those texture are a bit too high res for that filtering method.

>>165379649
You should use a knife and stab yourself in the neck.

>>165377449
Nice mouse dexterity simulator.

>>165381269
Yeah, we have the gryphon colliding, walking, jumping, attacking and gliding around on a map with vertex colours.
We also have working vertex snapping and dithering shaders.
It still looks pretty bad, though, so I haven't posted any of it (the animations aren't stringed together properly and stuff).

>>165381430
What do you mean?
It's 64x64 and unfiltered

>>165381409
I don't seriously want my game on consoles, it would just be a very nice bonus.
They do have various exports for consoles, but they vary in completeness. The problem is those things need licenses and shit, so it's not really something they can open source. They have enough funding to focus fully on PC and mobile for now. Maybe in the future the engine will have more funding to work on console exports.

>not getting rich from steam and getting a shit studio to do a console port for you

>>165376773
What is the node highlight algorithm that you're using?
I remember a long time ago trying to implement it when I first started deving and it was one of the things I failed. Might return to that project one day.

>>165381269
its better than anime

>>165376580
please never draw women

>>165382053
>letting shitters handle your game
"no"

>>165377120
PONG RPG WITH LOLIS

trying to understand dark souls gameplay but wtf i can't even beat the gargoyles

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>>165383464

>i can't even beat the gargoyles

>>165383464
did you decide you were making a dark souls clone before even playing it?

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>>165383464

>>165383464
>trying to understand dark souls gameplay
its slow and clunky with terrible hitboxes

>>165383464
>trying to understand dark souls gameplay but wtf i can't even beat the gargoyles

Allow me to enlighten you on the core principle that drives Dark Souls' gameplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvS6zMThiZU

>>165383696
>>165383782
>>165383872
thanks for the (you)'s, boys

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>>165369139
It's actually more efficient in gamemaker to start from the maximum array size and work your way to zero because that way gamemaker doesn't have to allocate more and more memory again.

sorry

>>165380050
>>165383464
i want /v/ to leave this place, we have enough of our own cancer as is

>>165384004
>new ip
Stop claiming (You)s you didn't do anything for.

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>>165383872

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>>165383464
shockwaves

>>165383464
Souls gameplay loop:
>Enter area and start bonfire
>Basic enemy should die within 2-3 hits, hard enemies 7-8, player should die in 3-4 hits (if not player is over/underleveled)
>progress through area (vertically either ascending or descending) opening various shortcuts back to the opening bonfire in the form of ladders or stairways
>basic enemies will grow in numbers and a new one will be introduced about half way through the area
>eventually open final shortcut right before boss that allows for a boss run
>boss run should take about 15-30 seconds and allow player to avoid enemies

>>165384063
it's a cropped shot, he could be setting something on the last position somewhere before it and then set everything in order instead of counterintuitively going backwards

>>165384315
Dark souls 2 was a man trying to tell you he was your dad and knowing everything about your dad, but he was surely not your dad.

>This is now a dark souls thread
guys can you get back to gamedev?

>>165384580
i can post shit hitboxes about DS, DS2 , DS3 and bloodborn

they are the same shit, i seriously dont see why people hate DS2 so much, is just as bad as the other 500 games in the series

>>165384580
>implying 1 didn't have the same shit

das2 naysayers are fucking delusional

will people get mad at me if i put a hidden stat on female characters with -20 str and -10 int and a +5 str on male characters? it's not gonna be shown in the character creation but it'll be in the code.

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Well, at least I got something done today.

>>165384891
Yes.

>>165384891
Any hidden stats are bullshit

dead by daylight but with xenomorphs

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Coded a system allowing for models with an unlimited number of bones. Even added animation support with frame interpolation. It's been run relearning the trigonometry necessary for 3d transformations and collisions.

>>165384891
The sexism I don't care about but dicking over a player with this hidden shit ain't right.

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>>165384802
DS fags are the MLP of vidya, they shit on every board

>>165384891
I'd be pretty pissed if I wanted to play a female character in a fictional videogame and the faggot dev hindered me because he's triggered at the fact that women exist

>>165384891
I once played a homebrew pnp game with a DM who insisted that women get a bonus to intelligence. He turned out to be a tranny.

>>165384893
>passing parameters
>new rectangle()
>new vector2()
can someone explain to me why garbage collected languages make you do this?
why cant it just be
>rectangle()
>vector2()
?

>>165385060
It just means that playing a woman would be hardmode, just like real life.

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Are some anons still doing reviews of demoday 12?

I'm still waiting for mine.

>>165384893
Good job anon.

>>165385069
There's arguments to be given about boys having higher base lifting capacity and women having better balance -- but sex-based intelligence/charisma-boosts for humans is dumb.

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>>165385060
>not enjoying hard mode for your waifu

>>165385115
So that they know you aren't referencing an existing rectangle ()? I don't know, I never formally learned CS

>>165385205
link, I'll play it now

>>165385205
Still waiting for mine too, anon. Thankfully, a few kind folks in the thread have done a total of two little blurbs about the game and I did manage a comment on the itch page for it so I've at least gotten something back.

What's your game's name? I'll try and pay their generosity forward.

>>165385375
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-12/rate/110400

thanks

if you're not making a dark souls clone you should kill yourself, nothing better than dark souls can be made , at least try copying it.

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>>165385002
>dead by daylight

>>165385479
Even in trying to help people out, it seems I'm >>165385384 invisible at times. Grabbed your build, playing it now. Any particular sorts of feedback you're looking for?

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>realize that my scaling settings in gms don't work properly
>try to use something taken off of a tutorial
>while it works, i can't control it to the extent i want and it doesn't work properly for fullscreen

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Treasure golems are friendly robots that hold your loot

>>165385197
this triggered me

>>165385717

golems are cute! cute!

>>165369240
>XML

>>165385717
nice job stealing concepts from dota

>>165384869
>>165384887
DaS2 has a fucked up roll hitbox so literally every enemy attack can be fucked. The other games have infrequent bad hitboxes for the enemies themselves.

>>165384891
dude epic! absolutely epic!

>>165385831
Which concepts? I've barely played dota; dgaf about stealing it but im interested

>>165385749
thx

>>165384891
female already get a bonus in games for having a smaller hitbox, seems fair to me.

In regards to what >>165384891 was talking about earlier, do you feel that characters in RPGs should be the same regardless of genders? I've been considering giving males a 5% boost to STR and DEF and females a 5% boost to INT and RES, but how would you guys feel about that?

>>165386087
You should, but give the 5% int boost to males so it'd be more realistic.

>>165386087
Totally okay with it. Sexual dimorphism is a thing.

>>165385384
Feedback so far:
- If you want to keep the present mechanic of seeing further by holding control, I'd recommend just making that part of the mouse moving towards the edge of the screen. IIRC, Hotline Miami does this to pretty nice effect. Alternatively, a passive radar might be handy -- just to show the rough direction of oncoming enemies if not their exact position.
- No lag/stutters I've seen so far.
- Shadows are alright, no glitches that I saw.
- Would recommend your magazine count be displayed somewhere you can see it. It's not even presently labeled to show that's what it is.
- Assuming the using scrollwheel to change weapons and having all weapons at start is a debug feature and in the actual game you'll have to go hunting for weapon upgrades, it feels a bit hardcore that enemies start out with big guns. If it's meant to be 'everybody has a wide range of weapons to start', I'd recommend letting the player choose what weapon they want to start with before the play begins - saving their selection for later.
- Controls feel very slidey/unresponsive. With this sort of game, that makes it a lot less fun because you feel much less in control of the character. I'd recommend improving them before most other things.
- Unsure if you've got controller support. If you don't, I'd recommend grabbing some as your target audience will definitely appreciate it.

And that's the feedback I've got for you. Hopefully it helps out!

>>165386087
It's fine, plenty of RPGs have different stats for males and females.

>>165386087
That limits the type of character the player can make for no good reason.

It's an even worse variation on players being forced to wear armour with shit stats because they like how it looks.

>post progress
>zero replies
>shitpost has 10 replies in 5 minutes
And you faggots wonder why no one talks about game dev here.

>>165386087
Males - STR AND DEF
Females DEX AND CHR or if your game doesn't have charisma - LUCK

This way noone can talk shit about gender equality because realistically, high percentage of males are stronger than females and while in real life women aren't really that quick or anything, dex can be counted for flexibility or something, and charisma/luck cus there are less females on earth so naturally they are more wanted and some bullcrap about "woman intuition"

plenty of exuses to go this way

>>165386616
Posting progress to agdg is a meme. Like most memes there's no guarantee of any benefit to the memer.

>>165386616
But you haven't posted progress in this thread?

>>165385979
the concept of having a friendly guy who can hold your items

>>165386616
you should think very carefully about your game if a shitpost can gather more replies than your progress

>>165386661
>>165386087
I have a game where you can choose to be female but if you do, others will have less Respect for you. Also the game's about slaves and only females can be slaves. (Though there's an option to add dicks to these slave girls)

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>>165386459
>Hopefully it helps out!

It does, thank you very much! I save all the feedback on a special document so I can make appropriate changes.

>>165386616
Sorry, do you want me to say "nice progress!" every time progress is posted?
I look at every progress post but I don't always have something to say about it, and I'd rather not just say "nice progress!" every time.

>>165386726
your mom is a meme
>>165386732
if he just linked his progress in that post instead of calling out the usual unchangable bullshit, he'd probably get called an attention whore

>>165386807
It's from DnD you fuck

>>165386087
I'd go for boosting secondary stats/skills rather than boosting primary attribs. We're not super-dimorphic but there are noticeable differences between our sexes.

Also making it % based is very weird. I'd make it a small, fixed, number. To add flavor and variety -- not change the gameplay. Girls I'd give higher DEF and boys I'd give higher weight limits or more stamina -- not a huge amount in either case.

>>165386616, if you're >>165385028: Sorry. There's just not a lot to comment about on that post.

>>165386661
If it's a stat-buying game I'd scrap giving bonuses and such and just make it cheaper for males to buy attribs that boost what they can carry/how long they can run and more expensive to buy stuff like balance and dodge. Girls, vice/versa. No hard limits -- just makes it a little more expensive to deny the usual dimorphism.

>>165386715
Well, I hope I wasn't too harsh. Didn't have much to talk about with performance [was smooth the whole time] but did post my thoughts here >>165386459

>>165386921
It was a post from a new IP though.

>>165386880
get the fuck out of my thread you sexist scum.
I know women are below men but there's no need to degrade them, they're at a disadvantage all ready

>play new game
>suddenly want to work on a different project inspired by said game

what do?

>>165386616
It's a good thing you decided to shitpost instead of being the change you want in this world. You could have replied to other progress posts that have no replies.

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Guys is it possible to make a high poly game on my toaster of a computer
And no GPU

>>165386873
only people with lewd characters can gather more than 7 (you)s with one post, which is an upper average of a meatier shitpost
this comparison means nothing

>>165387041
You don't own this thread dumbass. I don't even post that game here, I only posted about it now because you guys are talking about genders in games.

What made shovel knight not so boring?
Interesting levels?
Good enemy placement?
Different enemies?
Nice art?if you say nice art i'm gonna kill you, even though it's true

I'm gonna create something similar and i need to know.

>>165386197
plz

>>165386246
That it is.

>>165386484
Yeah that's what I was thinking.

>>165386512
Well, to be fair, you get more stats from gear if you have lower base stats, so that makes up for it. So females get more STR bonuses from the same gear as compared to males equipping it.

>>165386661
I don't have DEX (ACC functions as DEX when it comes to ranged weaponry) or CHR, but LUK feels somewhat sexist doesn't it? INT/RES involves being more in tune with your soul, which in general females definitely are IRL. Either way, all classes use STR, DEF, INT, and RES in some fashion, even Berserkers.

>>165386969
I don't have any secondary attributes. I have a lot of primary attributes instead. As for the % thing, all characters stats are calculated by first calculating what the stat should be for that level, then multiplying it by the % gain you get for race, and the % gain you get from your class. Gender would work in the same way. So if you went male fire race berserker...

Base stat: 100 STR
Race multiplier: 130% (130 STR)
Class multiplier: 130% (169 STR)
Gender multiplier: 105% (177 STR)

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>>165387245

>>165387176
I usually get a good number and my stuff is shit

>>165387164
make yes play no

>>165387275
Overall polish and brevity - it gets right into it and keeps things rolling.

>>165386087
It depends entirely on the game and what you want to do with it as a developer. In a linear story you might let them be male/female and essentially the same. In something much more open and "do what you want" you should give them as much freedom as possible. Maybe they want to be a big nosed black dickless midget-man at 5' 11" with super strength who has a vendetta against shoes. It's also FANTASY so maybe in your magical world men and women are the same.

I personally like 2 ideas:
Stat growth differing but no specific bonuses, so for example men would tend to have more strength over time, but you could put extra work into making the girl just as strong via outside boosts.
Stats depending on character build, so a tall burly character has better strength growth, and someone who wants a woman as strong as a man can make their character BIG HELGA, NORTHERN WIND AND CRUSHER OF LITTLE MEN if they so choose, rather than just making everyone the same.

Any reason to use gamemaker studio over godot?

>>165387345
oh but i wasn't baiting
there's no reason to shit on women just cus they were born women, just like nothing wrong with being gay.
Faggots and furries tho should be killed.

>>165387275
Basically it took all of the fun things from various old NES games, and replaced all the tedious things with better more modern design. The game has good pacing too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHhX5GtWNr8

>>165387565
no
dont use game maker
at all, for anything

>>165387565
If you're new to programming or prefer learning from good documentation and plenty tutorials over teaching yourself and abstracting from tuts for other languages.

>>165387729
Please let this meme die.

>>165387565
Yes. You'll make progress quicker and use much less effort to achieve the same results. Godot is kind of this pretentious niche tool for people that want to use an engine without feeling like the engine is taking care of the boilerplate for them.

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>>165387792
>he unironically uses game maker

>>165387354
i'd ask you to post game, but everybody who has been in this thread for more than 3 seconds knows this question is completely pointless because 95% of time when it's asked it doesn't get answered
progress posts with like 8 (you)s or more without sexy character designs AND without questions are few and far between, with the last notable example being that rts/rpg game concept
most progress posts get from 1 to 5 (you)s depending on their representative quality. this is much fewer than many of the shitposts that get a fuckload of attention in this thread and everywhere else in the internet, because when people see a retard, they're compelled to set him straight, or are just bored
>>165386873 is right, but the problem is completely unfixable and there isn't anything to do but to ignore it

>>165387081
stop playing games?

>>165386087
Just don't. Let gender be a cosmetic thing only, so you can focus on the aesthetic of your character (which is definitely a thing in RPGs) and not have it affect your stats.

>>165387565
If you like code duplication and boilerplate, sure.

>>165388020
linked wrong post but you catch my drift

>>165388020
Well i was gonna post my game but you seem like a jackass so idk, enjoy being mad i guess.

>>165387492
Right, I use the first option. STR boosts from gear are modified by 2- stat boost %, so if your base stats are 150% STR, you only get 50% STR from your gear, but if your base stats are 50% STR, you'd get 150%. So it's easier to make up for flaws than it is to accentuate boosts, and because females have lower STR, they'd get more from gear than men, so it more or less evens out.

>>165388073
I've also considered this. That's why I'm trying to gather opinions on pros and cons of it. Aesthetic is definitely a powerful factor in RPGs so I really gotta consider that, but I don't know if that's even an issue with how the gear thing works.

>>165388382
nice name calling

>>165387565
Gamemaker has more documentation. But overall Godot already does nearly everything that GM does, plus Godot has an actual real 3D engine.

>>165387275
I think the spell variety goes a long way. Spells and upgrades. Upgrades automatically make a game less boring. I don't think the level design did anything particular special (but I haven't played the whole thing).

If you're not going in the spell variety direction with your game, take a look at Volgarr. In that game it's all about the potential for mastery and the fun controls.

>>165388452
Not him, but "where is your game" is always something shitposters say around here to give reason to shitpost whenever you post your game, so it's unsurprisingly why "where is your game" largely gets ignored. The name calling thing definitely is uncalled for though.

you know, as shitty as Ass Creed is, the idea of a discrete spring loaded dagger extends from your wrist is pretty badass.

Did Ubisoft copyright/patent/whatever that weapon?

>>165388863
probably not but I don't think ripping off the most iconic part of AC is a good idea

all your comments will be, "nice AC clone lol"

>>165388863
assassin's creed isn't shitty you're just a shitty hipster /v/irgin faggot who doesn't like it because it's popular.

>>165388645
ACCKKSHHTUUALYYY

WIYG is a rhetorical question meant to remind nodevs of the fact that they don't even have a game and are expecting their opinions to be listened to. It infuriates them.

>>165388997
jej