/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

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First for you're not going to make it.

>tfw you're making a high octane TURN BASED game
they'll never see me coming

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNzYIEY-CcM

find me better video game music

>>165674369
metanoiadev please settle down

How do animation events work in Unity? I have a function that works fine if I set it to be called on a key press or something, but if I set it to be called in an animation event it fucks up.

>>165674442
Taste is subjective. However, I feel this is superior.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PbAebwc2zE

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I wanna look at some shit game dev code

no, I haven't made anything yet

>>165674359
I'm gonna learn Japanese

>>165674636
>Metanoia
>Turn-based anything

Someone's telling lies on the internet. It's a point and click adventure game, not a TBRPG or whatever.

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>>165674718

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--> P R O G R E S S <---
Reposting from ded thread

>ADDED JUICE

>"Dynamic" camera, looks a bit in the directon the player is aiming
>Enemies drop exp orbs
>Crates can drop hp

>Locked door & key, locked room is hidden

>>165674783
>telling lies
no papa

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>>165674758

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>>165674923
Show me where on the screenshot the high octane turn based whatever touched you

>>165674818
Anyone have that yanderedev (i think) picture with all the strings instead of enums

>>165674663
no remix allowed. only original music, must have shipped on the original cartridge/disc.

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>>165674718

>>165674369
necrodancer

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>>165674718

>>165675027
Take your pick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IEbfDtDaUc

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

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>>165674718

>>165674279
Why was the light that none of deserve ?

>>165675048
>an obvious exercise to use the for loop
>make a fucking huge if-else
>it doesnt even go for all numbers, only up to 10

I would give it a 0.

>>165675179
What did he mean by this?

>>165674663
>>165674442

>taste is subjective

Yes, however Chrono Trigger objectively has the best OST. It's a fact.

Yet, if I would really have to post something:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbreFmRDN3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sySkD2Nfwok

>>165675260
Phrase your fucking quesiton better. Her answer qualifies.

So... what should I do if I want to become a vidya music composer?

I mean, I'm working on kinda songs to showcase what I can do to put on soundcloud, but I mean... if you devs were looking for music for your game, what criterias would you use to pick this guy over this other guy?

Should I first make a few songs for free just to have something to show people, or never ever work for free?

>>165675176
this isn't bad code, it's just really hard to read
though i guess its possible that it really is bad code because to be fair i cant read it

>>165675048
This person wouldn't know about throwing exceptions

>>165674189
what's the best free software for pixel/sprite art and animation?

>>165675408
Too many game composers have nothing but chiptune on their profiles.

If that's all you want to make then fine, but don't assure people you can make other stuff and expect them to believe you

>>165675545
MS paint

>>165675150
wow i love grandma
what language is that tho? is it made up?

>>165675545
Microsoft Paint

>>165675337
Just going off the fact that Nier, to date, still has taken home the most awards from its soundtrack that I'm aware of I think it's got the 'critically best' OST. I dunno how we'd measure objectiveness on the matter of subjective taste though.

>>165675176
why would anyone do this to themselves

>>165675408
http://www.pcgamer.com/behind-the-music-interview-with-super-meat-boy-composer-danny-baranowsky/

>>165675545
Aseprite if you know how to compile software

>>165675585
There's a bunch of made up languages in Nier, yeah. It's all gibberish except for the very rare actually english track.

Part of the game's themes is lost civilizations, and so lost languages. So we get tracks that have vocals for languages that are meant to sound like languages that exist in the world -- but which we can't understand.

>>165675062
8 second turns son no better way to get the andrenaline pumping

>>165674983
Just you wait

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>>165674718

>>165674442
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGmhtFgoAGA

>>165675742
Thats seriously my favorite reaction image and it sucks its hard to use.

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Here's how I do trains in my game

>>165675965
reminds me of pyramid head

>>165674885
hey jw how is it going

>>165674718
Line 1300

https://github.com/CRYTEK-CRYENGINE/CRYENGINE/blob/release/Code/CryEngine/CryPhysics/livingentity.cpp#L1300

>>165676126
>\n
fucking disgusting

>>165675731
Actually, better put, one of the game's major themes is miscommunication and the inability to understand other people's points of view.

>>165676126
thank god i'm not an engine dev

>>165676126
step function is 800 lines long..

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created the first special attack for the game

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>>165675545
actually MS Paint

>>165675965
I feel like this is somehow profound.

>Xenko STILL not listed under engines in OP

baka desu

>>165674442
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0x4Kw_y4fg

>>165675545
MS Paint

Alternatively MS Paint with layers, aka Paint.net

>>165676323
This is sick as all hell.

COMFY GAME IDEAS

GO!!

>>165675746
this is like someone writing Java with C++ syntax

>>165676583
A sailing management game where you navigate the world discovering new frontiers

A game that makes you captain cook basically

>>165675660
The take away from that article is "be a part of the San Francisco indie circlejerk".

>>165676583
A game where you just get off school for winter vacation and have to manage your comfort level while playing games, and maximize your time while wrapped up all snug as a bug in a rug

>>165676323
So is the sound effect I'm supposed to be imagining "ORAORAORAORAORAORAORA" or is it "ATATATATATATATA"?

>>165676323
damn son, \looks exciting and unique.

>>165676323
you did this son? you made this?

>>165676725
Looks more like the second because he does a lot of rearing back to do the "WUTAAH" big punch.

>python 2.7 doesn't have enums
that's what I get for using a beginner language to try and gamedev

how much performance is lost doing string lookups as opposed to enums? If you're doing a couple thousand string lookups is the performance difference important?

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>using a game engine to make a "game"
Ahahaha how is that mod going?

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slowly getting there.

>>165676673
Stealing this

>>165676937
Profile it yourself.

>>165676948
How's that language you're using which is just a way to let babbies avoid having to code in assembly?

>>165676937
>python for game programming
don't do it.

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>>165676937
>the state of Python

>>165677082
Hey lets just skip to the butterflies alright?

>>165676937
Python isn't designed with performance as a primary concern in mind.

>>165674189
>tfw learnt blender
>tfw every AAA company wants maya experience
looks like im an indy dev now

https://www.artstation.com/jobs/jmgo

>>165676972
You give me too much credit, this idea is way too basic for using it to consider it stealing

Good luck though

>>165676770
>>165676508
thanks guyz

>>165676725
why not both

>>165676786
ya

>>165677170
Job doesn't require maya specific knowledge. Just requires you to have the ability to do the job - which means you'd just have to demonstrate that you can make tools for the modeling software you're using right now.

Maya experience's not a hard requirement, as outlined below.

>>165677170
Just like programming languages, once you learn 3D modelling as a concept, switching between software doesn't take much time

>>165676937
Why don't you just, you know, use integers instead of strings?

Should I buy Hexels or Aseprite?

(Hexels: A E S T H E T I C S
Aseprite: Functionality)

>>165677523
Hexels are a meme. Better give your money to a good cause, which is Aseprite.

>>165677523
Hexels looks EXTREMELY limited in application. I understand why it's tempting, but I really do think it'd be a waste of money. Aesprite I don't know anything about.

>>165677523
>paying for an MS paint skin

Just download GIMP (Green Is My Pepper)

>>165677438
ill be sure to write that on my resume ;)

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>Get bored of main project
>Make shitty shooter prototype in a day
>It's already more fun to work on than main project
>Have to get to content creation, refactoring, and polish
>Bored
I think making shitty prototypes is just more fun than working on something for real because I'm lazy.
:thinking:

>>165677624
MSPaint can't do 80% of what Aseprite can.

>>165676948
Honestly this book is pretty disappointing. It's way too high level in some parts where you want more in depth stuff, and then it goes super in depth and even gives code samples for shit like how to swap endianness or read from a high resolution clock.

>>165677413
When im in the interview ill be sure to let them know that their job opening doesnt require maya experience ;)

>>165677809
Have you ever interviewed for a job before..?

>>165677656
Yup, it's a well tread behavior pattern at this point. Making a prototype, going "welp, I've proven the concept, now comes all the work and fine tuning", and moving on to the next prototype. That's why the meme of "oh he's working on a side project his main project is dead" exists and is more often than not correct.

>>165677809
>I'm just going to walk in assuming I know everything about the job from the job posting, including how important some parts of it are compared to other parts

You haven't landed many jobs have you?

>>165677845
yeh and they almost never hire people if they arent comfortable with the tools and workflow of their studio

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Should I make my sprite animation in Photoshop first, then upload them into GameMaker, or just make the sprite animation in GameMaker?

>>165677925
Whichever you prefer.

I personally hate Gamemakers sprite editor, and find photoshop/aseprite much better.

Im ditching aseprite in favor of photoshop now though, just because I find it easier to work in.

>>165677925
GMS1's sprite editor ain't exactly fully featured. Can't speak for GMS2's. Do as you see fit.

>>165677921
"Spin up" is real. It's accounted for when you're bringing in someone new into any job in the industry. Everyone needs time to acclimatize in some fashion or another because every studio works differently than every other studio. If in that time you can figure out how to code for Maya that'd be fine.

What they're looking for is that you can deliver results - that's their highest priority. If you look like you do good work, have evidence that you've done work like what they're looking for, and are 'for sale at the right price' and interview well - you're probably going to get the job.

>>165677915
>The job listing is for enviromental artist
>Prefers maya experience
I wonder what they could possibly expect me to do

>>165676583
you're a video game and your developer loves you

>>165678103
What they want you to do is make environment art and be able to make tools to make making that art faster/better is my reading of their listing.

If you want to shoot yourself in the foot and assume that the requirement is that you're Mr Maya Ubermensch when experience with Maya isn't even *listed* in the job requirements, that's on you.

>>165675965
>>165676018
>>165676365
if anyone doesn't know what the train thing is :
It's fallout 3 and maybe new vegas trains.

>>165678079
they dont want to have to train you, they want you to take the initiative, they will not give you the job if you cant already do it unless theyre desperate

>>165676948
Is this book good?

>>165678220
Hey guys

Yeh im just going to be over here writing mel scripts for maya

Ive never done it before

And im not going to use any of them

I prefer blender because its free ;)

>>165678264
Depends on how senior the position is, how bad they're hurting for that role to be filled, and how their other candidates are looking.

They'll take someone who'll take a little time to become proficient but has a proven record otherwise over leaving a seat empty if they're hurting enough.

If they're that uncertain how well you'd do for the job they'd just ask if you're comfortable starting out on contract.

>>165678378
its 2017

theres more people who think they are game devs then there are jobs

they can be as picky as they like

especially if the studio has a reputation

>>165675354
like shit it does, the simple fact that it doesn't go on indefinitely surely means that person failed. The question is "get the product of A and B", not "get the product of A and B but only if B is 10 or lower lol"

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(reposting since old thread died)
Todays --Progress--

Replaced my launch menu with a Spaceship (that has no textures, shut up) where you make your choices and launch the levels.

It also shows the game loop, you buy upgrades, roll bonuses for the level (damage & enemy bonuses/penalties) and then selects the level and drops into the world.
With that said, the game is actually at an alpha state and i just need to add sound effects. Would you assholes be interested in testing it or should just keep it for myself until i eventually give up?

Unless your time is really that precious you should take a crack at the interview and if you're super duper not what they want then I assure you they won't be too polite to end the interview quickly.

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When I call this on something like a key press, it works fine. When I call it via an animation event, and there is only one enemy, it works fine. When there are two enemies, the first if statement will not work, but the second will. Only when using the animation event though, otherwise they both work fine in every scenario. Anyone know why?

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>finally get your first game on steam
>reviews roll in

*whoops*

>>165678373
What the job winds up actually being:
- We need someone to take pressure off our senior environment artist. What we're using is this plugin toolset in Maya, learn it.
- Your job will be to polish assets in these maps. Here's your first one, here's the ASG, and here's the senior EA.
- Deadline is next week and you'll be presenting a progress report on what you've done so far in two days at a meeting so be ready.

>>165678510
>they can be as picky as they like

Spoken like a real not-game-industry-dev. I promise you there are many studios out there who can't be picky because they've got deadlines to meet.

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>>165677616
I'll buy Aseprite then

thanks

>>165678713
I would die happy knowing I made someone actually shit on themselves because of my game

>>165678671
>anim.SetBool ("reel", true);
That seems unnecessarily verbose.

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I can't stop thinking of things to implement into my game and I keep extending the dev time.
Why can't I just have no standards like most devs???

>>165679080
Is there another way to set a bool in the animator?

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Is platform masters ever gonna see the light of day?

>>165678332
I didn't read all of it but it's an okay-good read if you have good programming knowledge

>>165679348
Can't you just do
anim.reel = true
?

>>165678671
show me how you call this via an animation event

>Low mana cards are immaculately designed
>As you go up the mana curve you can see I gave less and less of a fuck as time went on

Hey guys, van GMS2 handle large texture files?

GMS1 not being good for high resolutions is kind of a kick in the nuts.

>>165676323
I will never understand why people like this.
It looks like complete eye-cancer to me.
It also looks like a boring game.

Please abandon it and go back to working on the robed mage platformer.

>>165679298
Having less stuff in your game doesn't mean you have no standard. In fact in many cases it's good to remove things that don't enhance your game, because sometimes those things just add bloat.

So, you need to learn to not get attached to an idea or mechanic. Think about if you really need that thing in the game for your game to be good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmSBIyT0ih0

>>165679474
>if you have good programming knowledge
Fuck

>>165680060
People like it because it looks like fun. People like fun. It looks boring to you because you don't like that kind of gameplay. That's fine.

>>165680201
It's still objectively fucking ugly.

>>165680264
your mom's objectively fucking ugly, doesn't mean I didn't nut all over her chest 15 times

>BE posters

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>>165679485
No, you can't..

>>165679497
enemyReel just calls that first coroutine.

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>>165680264
>Stop liking things I don't like.

>>165680264
>Good color contrasts
>Colors are just psychadelic

Nothing objective about you not liking psychadelic color schemes at all. That's entirely to the person's taste in art.

>>165680264
>objectively
zzz

>>165675671
I remember getting Aseprite before they added new features, and made slapped a price tag on it.

Any links about making water with actual waves that displace boats? I'm talking big tidal waves.

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Working on a gravity-gun-type-thing.

>>165677925
Did you up prefering gamemaker to flash?

>>165680348
rewrite it to this

anime.bool.. true
camera.enabled true
wait 0.5f seconds
camera.enabled false
anim.bool false

if(condition for canreel)
canreel = false

and then reprot back what happens

>>165652091
>>Tumblr sprites

what did he mean by this?

>>165676323
Juicy. This better be synced up to music or something. It looks almost like a rhythm game.

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>>165677656
>>165677882
Yep. Welcome to side project hell.

>>165680943
>gravity gun cooking game
cant wait to kill zombies with ketchup

>>165681328
he means a style he doesn't like or is jealous he can't pull off

>>165681552
oh
right, i forgot some people just shitpost to get their opinions across

How do you get yourself to do something if you feel like it'll be futile in the end? What if you think you're too old and that is whats stopping you?

There's the argument, "If you truly enjoy it then you will get good and achieve some kind of success." But what if you really don't enjoy doing anything productive or cool? What if your main hobby is keeping your brain empty or filled with grey matter with trash tv/anime, fast paced image boards, and pornography when you get home from a wage slave job?

>>165678713
Why are diarrhea stories always so funny?

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>>165680264
>>165680060
if that's what you think I can't change it and thats alright, i'm curious though, what do you think would help the visuals?

this is what the stage looks like when its not being compressed to hell in a video just so we're all on the same page

>>165681687
Because you're American and influenced by your surrounding "culture"

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>>165681687
Poop is generally funny
Embarrassment is generally funny
Put them together

>>165681676
you should try quitting compulsive masturbation and taking up exercise

>>165681758
I literally feel pain in my eyes lookinga t your graphics.
Just choosing better and less extreme colours would go a long way.
The mage game's palette, for example, looks very pleasing

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>>165681801
Errado!
>>165681861
This one always makes me laugh.

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How about comfy sailing + some kind of minigame for reeling up treasure? though I'm not sure what you'd do after you get the treasure.

>>165674718
https://github.com/Deathmax/TerrariaAPI-Server/blob/master/Terraria/Projectile.cs

>>165682062
I'm Norwegian, chucklefuck.
Shit is not "funny".

Also, is it true that you Americans "shart" on a regular basis? We don't even have a word for that, and I've never heard of it happening to anyone before I met Americans online.
What the fuck do you eat?

>>165681676
Ultimately all the art, games, et cetera we make will vanish. The universe will run out of heat - our works will collapse into ever expanding and collapsing black holes. Everything we do or will have ever done will be disassembled on the subatomic level and scattered to the ether.

What we do we do for those around us who are living now, or will be living soon. We don't do it to survive the inevitable death of our sun or planet; we don't do it to survive for millenia - we do it for the now and the soon to come. If there's any good to us being sapient and being able to live in a world we can actually comprehend, it's for us to observe and appreciate it. Making games lets us appreciate that fleeting life.

If you need a better argument for making games than survival (via making money to live off it), then I welcome you to consider that in making art you elevate the world by elevating people's awareness of the world. Men who live a thousand lives in games get to live beyond what they would otherwise be able to. People who will never be able to live to see another galaxy you may transport so that they can. You bring purpose to those who want it and new and exciting lives to those who dream them.

Consider that all those things you consume in your hobby people made for you to enjoy as you did. If you're enjoying what they're making, what they've done wasn't futile. If the world was appreciated in some fashion, even the world's existence wasn't futile for that moment. So, in short: Whatever you do, it's only futile if nobody appreciates what you've done.

By making games and making art, you give the world the ability to appreciate itself in ways it might not've otherwise been appreciated. Just like make game.

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ooooh hell yeah gale finally got a DPI (enlarged UI) update. it was fukken tiny before.

ps not my gaem

>>165678713
reviews on my game were brutal
I haven't even done game dev since demo day even though I know exactly what I have to do to fix everything

>>165682304
Industrial waste, I suspect.

>>165682304
>NORWEGIANS BE LIKE DIS
>BUT AMERICANS BE LIKE DIS
Go to pol for your nationality shitflinging please.

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>>165682304
I'm not American, you somali dick loving fuck.

>>165677762
It's about architecture primarily, so it kind of glosses over the details of subsystems since they're so well-documented already. Then it goes into detail about the glue code and other little things that are important but overlooked.

>>165682304
>meanwhile in norgetråden its a commonality to post vocaroos of yourself shitting on the toilet and to post "*fart*"

>trying to think up names for lore
>Argus Surveillance Systems
>literally ASS
Why are these acronyms always the first thing coming to my mind? The long version is pretty good even.

>>165680996
I'm trying GameMaker (standard edition), but I think I'd be more comfortable with Flash.

>>165682532
You began the shitflinging, Anon.
Take your shit-based culture and leave.

>>165682570
Then what are you?

>>165682649
Norgetråden are literal retards. They adore the two most hated people in Norway (Varg and Breivik). And also wheelchair-girls.

>>165682503
Not that person but damn, well said!

>>165681676
Pretty much the main problem with life.

At some point you just have to align your habits in such a way that you stop fucking around, otherwise your life never amounts to anything

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Can almost save and load the current level/room state.

>>165682815
>Then what are you?
Google Translate is your friend, or can you not do anything by yourself?

>>165682504
do you have the source of that image, by any chance?

>>165682970
that specific image or the game? the game got posted on indiegames.com recently

>>165682945
The only non-english word you used was "errado", which made me assume you implied I was Mexican.
Are you Mexican? Because then you're American, dumbo.

>>165682970
https://twitter.com/qapitan/status/815976540861300736

>dev
>go check something on the internet
>30 minutes later remember I'm deving
>dev

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>>165678713
>put a game on steam
>reviews roll in

*whoops*

>>165682823
Thanks. I try to keep things short because I tend to prattle on. I've been doing nothing but short dialog blurbs for my game in the past hour so I felt it was a good time to let all that verbosity rage outwards.

>>165683187
>>165682970
thanks!

>>165683083
As much as you're Swedish. Sure.

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>>165681965
what about something like this? the game is gonna have lots of different palettes so the colors are still v much in the works

>>165683285
baby's first rant about finding meaning in a meaningless universe

4.5/10

>>165683395
You know some extremely educated babies.

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>>165682931
Nice.

Your code also looks nice.

However, is it really necessary? I thought you'll just let the player always start from that comfy room with all the stuff he collected, and the rest is random generated, much like Diablo.

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>>165683187
>Enrique Cabeza
What a name, reminds me of Richard Cabesa, aka Dick Head, aka Tito Dick, aka Dickman.

>>165683187
how the hell do you even make those kind of levels?
Do they draw the entire level or something? They can't be using the simple square sprite tile method, right? Jesus I hate my game now.

>>165683352
Better, but still bad.

The backgrounds shouldn't take so much of the visual attention.
The sprites are probably fine, if you make the background less saturated and/or darker.

>>165681861
>>165682062
>>165682570
I got cholera once.

It isn't painful, doesn't smell like anything, doesn't even have color, but you become strongly aware of your own mortality because you'd die with 90% probability if it weren't for the fizzy orange salt water.

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>>165678713
>put your first game on itch.io
>reviews roll in

*whoops*

>>165683395
Build up, don't tear down.

>>165677762
It points you at other resources for more in depth learning

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>>165683568
I dunno. Even my snowy similar paletted environments don't come out as nice. I think it's just because he's using more symbols and is trying less to represent an actual place.

>>165683551
That's right - still need to save whatever you leave in that room. But since the functionality is going to almost be the same, you should be able to quit whenever and resume from the same point.

>>165683568
It's definitely modular pieces put together. They're just not itty bitty tiles.

>>165683630
D-did the fame go to your head?

>>165683630
>tfw Japan-senpai will never notice you

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>>165683851
Stop.

>>165683568
Obviously it's not tiled. It's just a pixel art painting, might have been taken apart a bit for parallax/depth in-game. The pixel art itself is most likely created starting with a real painting, rather than starting at the target resolution

>>165683568
I think they draw the whole thing and make the collision separately once they put it in the engine... almost like pre-rendered backgrounds.

>>165683837
I promise you will get nothing but honest progress posts from me starting tomorrow

Should I begin work on my second game with placeholders, or should I try and spend the next month or two learning how to create pixel art

>>165682503
>Ultimately all the art, games, et cetera we make will vanish. The universe will run out of heat
let me stop you right there Gary Johnson.
does all art require heat/light/movement? arguably you could say art requires an observer which will no longer exist but objectively (and for the purpose of art as immortality) then the art which requires no work of physics to exist (static objects) lives on immortal (if it survives without physical destruction before heat death secures it's safety).

and i might add that the heat death of the universe isn't actually a given thing that has been proved, we don't actually know that entropy is all one way.

i didnt finish reading your post

>>165684279
Are you really desertdev?

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I'm working on my first few sprite animation. I can't tell what is too fast or too slow.

>>165683732
that doesn't really look that good tbqh. the snow desperately needs more shading. as does everything else in that picture but i assume we're only talking snow.

>>165684607
what the fuck happened here

>>165684607
Come on let's twist again

>>165684607
WAY TOO FAST!!

>>165684607
Is she tap dancing?
H-Hayai

>>165684446
Art requires some form of energy or mass, yes. Otherwise it's not observable. If the energy/mass used to make that art is scattered and decomposes into its base elements, it's no longer what it was. If any observer that happened by they couldn't know what it was to begin with and so couldn't feasibly put it back together to appreciate what it was.

No bonds are permanent. Any complex matter arrangements will eventually decay into their base components. Everything decays. Heat death is likely from what we know though sure, it's not been proven. But even if it isn't - whatever you use to fashion your art together will eventually decompose into electrons, protons, and so forth over a large enough span of time.

I know you didn't because my point wasn't about how as we understand it anything we make now will not survive indefinitely, so sayeth physics.

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Not as good as cloak-and-dagger-anon's C96, but I'm pretty happy with this so far. First time doing a hand rig, and first time messing with bump-mapping

>>165682786
Argus Surveillance Incorporated could be pretty neat.

>>165683248
Why the fuck would anyone put a flash minigame on Steam

>>165683568
>>165684032
It's not fully painted. You've got pre-existing assets (a lot of them unique) arranged without respecting a grid. Notice how the trees are actually the same sprite, or how the rock formation between the right tree and the protagonist actually appears about seven times.

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>>165684686
What I tried to do is pose with pixels in motion. I don't know how many seconds I should set them.

>>165684986
What shader is that?

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speaking of how the fuck do they do it, how the fuck does dustforce generate maps? I know they have a level editor where you position small tiles, but it seems like the platform textures are all unique.

>>165685114
That's not how anyone or anything walks, like not even close. Anon, are you even trying? Be honest.

>>165684982
>If the energy/mass used to make that art is scattered and decomposes into its base elements
thats not what the (proposed) heat death of the universe is like.
it's the equilibrium state of energy, objects wouldnt combust if that state is the most stable.
it's like a dark museum.

>>165682068
just collecting the treasure would be rewarding! Maybe have a screen showing everything you've gotten.

>>165685145
>what are layers

>>165685116
Toony Colors Pro 2. I had no idea where to start with shaders and my illustration style really only works as toon, so I picked it up, and I've been really happy with it.

>>165685114
That succubus has a massive dick packed inside those panties?

>>165685114
smear for a walk? i dont do 2D much but I dunno man

>>165685114
Don't be lazy with animation. If you want stuff to move properly you have to redraw. Try to feel do motion

>>165682304
dane here, poop is super funny

too busy drinking your life out to have a sense of humour?

>>165685214
I'm complete amateur, I don't even know what I'm doing.

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>>165685114
Whatever you were using as a reference for that walksheet, it is failing you magnificently. I recommend the attached image instead.

>>165685250
I didn't say the decomposition of complex matter into its basic forms was heat death. That's a separate thing. I'm saying that everything has a half life if you look at it over a long enough period of time.

A complex object with absolutely perfect bonds that never decay is an object that never loses energy. As far as we know, no such object can exist. Eventually, it will decay so long as it does not live in an entirely empty universe devoid of any other source of energy or mass.

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>>165684032
>>165684248
I just had an idea.

https://deepart.io/

>>165685327
>feel do motion
feel the motion

It's not actually possible to nail the tight controls in a driving game by yourself, is it? I'm on the verge of giving up

>>165685114
animation doesnt seem to be your thing,
probably should just make her wings flap and fly her everywhere.

>>165685114
Is that succubus wearing diapers?

>>165685026
Yeah I did notice that, but there is no indication that these are placed within the engine, rather than being part of a composed image. So you are just making random guesses.

>>165685535
no, just panties with a bulge

>>165685114
That is a lot of replies

>>165685448
Go forth, you madman. I was certain this was going to be used in a game eventually.

Meanwhile I'll be doing my next project in latte art. Maybe

>>165685507
Tweak them as you go

>>165685754
That's what happens when you post progress nodev

>>165685754
For you

>>165685953
>That's what happens when you post horrible shit

FTFY my friend

>>165685362
>Danes like poop
No big surprise there

>Dane thinks Norwegians drink more than Danes
U wot m8?
You are known to be only second to Germans in beer consumption, and we have extreme taxes on alcohol.

Opening a keygen and hearing great music is always a great feeling and confirmation that it's legit.

>>165685953
Yes, that's what happens when I post progress.

>>165685445
>Eventually, it will decay so long as it does not live in an entirely empty universe devoid of any other source of energy or mass.
right but my art is an iron sphere called "Ryan's Iron Sphere" and it will exist until a new universe is formed, fuck you.

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Hey, is this guy here? I want to know how he got people to cover his game.

>>165686384
Some game magazine or thing saw his game on itch.io and contacted him about making an article, which triggered a chain reaction

>>165686384
By basing it on someone else's famous IP

For jams, can I use game-agnostic libs that I've previously made?

>>165686384
step 1: have a game

>>165686618
step 2: have a game without programmer art

how performant are playerprefs in unity? there's no way that a couple hundred entires could slow down my game, right?

>>165686594
Jams have different rules some allow you to use anything you want other only allow publicly available libraries and tools

>>165686384
by having a game that actually stands out at a glance and makes for a good viraling material, which is more than can be said for 90% of aggydaggy games even though they may look good
easier said than done

>>165685327
As a wise afrikaans once told me during my excursion into the dark continent, "try to feel do motion".

>>165686735
probably not, in windows, they are stored in windows registry, but couple hundred sounds like it's better saved to a .txt file. you could encode it into xml or json or what-have-you

this thread is bad

delete it and delete yourselves

OK, I'm killing myself. Thanks Aggydag.

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>>165686942
>>165685327

>>165687036
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tdsL4kvp_I

>>165686993
Stop recommending XML.

>>165687036
Don't kill yourself pls you're the only one that can buy my game

>>165686594
For /agdg/ jams it's fine, our jams are casual, you can use anything you want, and do anything you want, the only thing that matters is the game having the theme. You could even start right now.

For other jams it differs, some are more strict about making everything within the time limit.

>>165687036
stream it maybe people will care for once

>>165687139
I was pointing out examples so he could get the idea. You guys can use whatever you want. it would probably help the anon who asked if you explained your case why it's bad.

>>165687425
More difficult to read and write as a human than JSON and other formats (YAML, TOML, etc.) Redundancy in closing tags. Ambiguity over whether something should be content or an attribute.

>>165687648
i don't want people to edit shit, i'm gonna hash everything, turn it to binary and store the keys in the cloud

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so I change the style a bit

>>165688035
ugly

>>165688035
Better.

>>165684607
Better dancing than Googum could ever animate.

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>>165684607
is she tap dancing?

how to create homing lasers???
whatever i try, it looks like shit

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>>165674189
Worked a bit on spoopy environment. Almost done, need some lighting improvements and some effects/animations (thunder lighting, wind blowing, etc.)

>>165688434
it's just a trail

>>165688035
The texture doesn't look good. Keep the UVs as square as possible with the pixel grid so you don't get diagonal pixel when you're trying to have a straight line.

>>165688035
much better

What will next jam be

Want to get started early so that I will win

When doing a 2D game, how do you handle different resolutions? Do you have to provide all sprites for the largest possible resolution? I mean you can't just show more of the game, and you can't just stretch it like a flat image, so you have to show the same but at a higher resolution, correct? What if somebody has 4K?

>>165687036
>>165687137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ESgWlzQQag

>>165688629
do what lazy people do and force them to play with a certain resolution or windowed mode

I want to make a game, but I only speak a little English. What should I do?

>>165688507
no, its not
it looks shit if you just use a trail

1. the homing laser from the player shouldnt go straight to the target. it should should make turns to look more wild
2. the homing laser should come out of the weapon while still being long enough. if you just use a trail, the trail will not come out of the weapon at some point if you are moving, it just stands still
3. the trail just disappears if the laser hits its target. it should slowly fade away though

>>165688629
>you can't just show more of the game, and you can't just stretch it like a flat image

that's where you're wrong kiddo

>>165688871
Make a game in your language and drop the international market. Alternatively set up your game with localisation possibilities and get someone to translate for you later.

>>165688893
are you retarded?

>>165688602
Check itch.io jams page there you can see many current and future jams

>>165688972
Thanks, those are good suggestions.

>>165688893
>the homing laser from the player shouldnt go straight to the target. it should should make turns to look more wild
That's writing an interesting homing component
>the homing laser should come out of the weapon while still being long enough. if you just use a trail, the trail will not come out of the weapon at some point if you are moving, it just stands still
What did he mean by this?
>the trail just disappears if the laser hits its target. it should slowly fade away though
Just before the laser object dies and takes everything with it, detach the trail and then set it to autodestruct so that it deletes itself when it's done.

At it's heart though, it is really just a trail. I might write something up ultra quick.

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>>165685448

I think I've got a contender here

>>165688629
Use viewports.

>>165689313
UFFF...

T H I CC

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>>165688216
>he wants the troll game gif
loud and clear

>>165674189
Anyone have a good crack for Game Maker 8.1?
I keep getting errors with this one I'm on.

>>165689313
something tells me that the original artist isn't going to be satisfied by the fact that your photoshop filter is actually a deep AI when it comes to steal his IP.

>>165689413
teach me sensei

>>165689413
This is good in a really demented way.

>>165689327
What do you mean

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NOISE

>>165689621
>original artist
That's a Skyrim character you retard

>>165689413
what was the purpose of showing him scratch his leg?

>>165689709
hue

>>165688629
>I mean you can't just show more of the game, and you can't just stretch it like a flat image

...these are the two most common solutions though...

>>165689709
Ative o antivírus GRÁTIS por 1 ano!

>>165689280
>What did he mean by this?
Watch this vid here for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OcjY01lmUQ

His homing lasers are not bad. They look wild (make a huge turn before homing in), and they fade out and not just disappear.

However, they do not come out of the ship really. Only at the very beginning do they actually come out of the ship. After this they just stand still and get "detached" from the ship. That's pretty cheap.

>>165682270
i'm a fucking game maker dev and yet this is enough to horrify me

>>165689631
learn the basic seed of the thing that makes it possible. (object structures are constructed of geometric shapes, motion of objects through time are seen less when moving faster and the inverse) then put into practice until you're dead.

>>165679406
kek that's a great one of lord Uli.

And the answer to your question is no. Like all engine devs Uli was just fucking around.

>>165688629
Typically a game will keep a fixed vertical size, and allow more or less visibility horizontally. If you're using high resolution art for the game then there wont be a problem scaling it up or down a bit, it wont be too noticeably different. If you're making a pixel art game then scaling it up can cause some artifacts if it's not an integer scale. But you could just round it to the nearest integer scale lower than the screen size, and fill any extra space with black, or a simple background pattern.
If it's important that the player doesn't see any more than you designed them to see, then you'll need to have letterboxing and pillarboxing.

>>165685114
>>165685516
Googz actually has a point here

>>165689913
They literally do come out of the ship. If you want to make them act like a weird rope thing that stays connected to you then that's on you.

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Got a gui screen system working, meaning to say it keeps track of previous screens you went to, so clicking on the back button will bring you back to the proper screen.

You guys got any preferences or recommendations on the in-game menu for this (layout, appearance, whatever)?

I kept the menu at the left side so that when you're changing graphics options like bloom, anti-alias, etc. you can see the changes in real-time.

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>>165689771
it's a grab not a scratch. he saggin.

>>165690227
I've seen someone give a game on Steam a negative review because pressing escape didn't go back in the menu.

So do that

>>165690259

gogem was your intent to have art so bad it loops around to being good?

>>165690194
>weird rope thing
It would be how a laser behaves. A laser doesn't just get detached from the ship. It will always come out of the weapon, no matter if you move.

>>165690259
Those arms. There's just no excuse googem. Flashes drawing tools clearly mangled the fingers but the arms are just sheer lazyness.

>>165690497
TOSHINO KYOKO!

>>165690531
You're going to have to start explaining how you think homing lasers should work.

>>165690425
googs has a good working knowledge of proportions, perspective, anatomy, and colors, but his problem is he thinks '5-minute sketch' is appropriate for a video game. Show me a piece of his art that he's spent more than 5 hours on.
in b4 'time spent doesn't mean higher quality' my point is he doesn't follow through on his art with polish and if he does he doesn't post it often

>>165690425
He's clearly a good artist. You can't just draw good 'bad' art if you're bad at art. It's like Picasso said: “It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”.

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>>165689743
i dont get why you're calling me a retard.
you're either implying that skyrim characters dont have artists (wrong) or that it being from a big name game makes it less likely that the IP will be enforced (wrong).

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>mfw gogem was a newgrounds eroge game dev
http://onehandgames.newgrounds.com/

>>165682270
>24 thousand lines worth of if statements

>>165690531
lasers don't bend without some sort of refraction

>>165690639
they should come of the weapon, thats for sure
thats also why homing lasers in games are mostly very fast at first and shorter, so that you cant see if they get detached from the weapon they came out

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>>165690767

>>165688492
This is going to be a really short game unless you either have a ton of different houses and families or you make a lot of per-requisite stuff necessary in order to build up to the kill payout

Sad!

I'm thinking of getting a cheap samsung vr or google cardboard headset and making a vr mobile game...is that a meme market?

>>165690847
what do you mean by this?

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PROGRESS

What is your favorite color? A, B, C? Something in-between?

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>>165690926

>>165690639
Not anon, but maybe he wants the whole trail to move with the ship?
As in, not just the end. The entire curving trail from beginning to end, adjusting its x/y position to fit the ship's, so you're effectively moving the homing end of the laser as the same time it seeks an enemy.

>>165690991
Yes, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't

>>165690497
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt6ePwOPsoA

>>165691074
B

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>>165689709
Ameliorado

>>165691292
Bacana

>>165690978
It's time to go to bed, trump.

>>165691074
C, because the background is so dark.

>>165691187
...Doesn't it?