AGDG Amateur Game Dev General

I find this useful.
http://videogameinterfaces.com/

How do you design your UI for your game?

There's no reason to make a game in C.

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to the guy who posted this what kind of game are you making. i was planning on a similiar artstyle.

>>167124281
Rust is much better in every way.

>>167124385
Agreed.

>>167124349
nice machinarium clone

>>167059518
Well, did you do it?

How long or short does an rpg need to be to be comfy?

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Someone, quick, put me out of my misery.

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Repost. By nature, grids are constrictive so the more basic a grid's shape is the more it serves its purpose. for example, every shaped grid over squares is going to lose out on the benefits of the strategies of a grid based game.

>>167124506
I think total lenght itself doesn't really matter, but you need to accomplish goals in shorts amount of time so it feels comfy.

>>167124506
I think the best length should be on average somewhere between 15 and 30 hours. Most RPG's I've played that are longer than that just feel dragged out.

>>167124657
Consult the OP image.

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how long should an agdg demo be

>A game that's a series of minigames ala mario party but there are 3 winners and 1 loser

Thoughts?

Why do we even dev? Just to suffer?

>>167124867
true, but an all-text shitpost is more elegant.

>>167124867
Long enough to not be broken.

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So how's... how's the progress going, anon?

>>167124919
>Making a game about ganging up and bullying people

Could work desu

>>167124925
The poon

When you work on a sprite under 100x100 px, do you bother detailing toes on feet?

>>167124919
What's the point of only having one loser

>>167125067
a good shitpost

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mml clone dev here, thinking of abandoning game maker and going back to Unity. there are just too many things I have to do/work around just to get the game to function. In the long run, making a game with my """engine""" would be far too time consuming/difficult.

>>167124571
Are you trying to do orbits? How can you be failing?

>>167125203
Just like MonoGame.

>>167125253
I don't recall which one MonoGame was.

>>167124919
Does the loser have to suck the winner's dicks?

>>167125310
MonoGame is a framework in C#.

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>>167125231
Nah, the orbits are working just fine. I'm just trying to draw the planets in 3d using game maker with no prior experience using game maker's 3d functions. I'm getting closer though.

>>167125334
No but the game would track how many times you were the loser

So retards would be encouarged to make a new account to play again.

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>>167125461
Here it is in 2d working as intended.

>>167124698
So little to no grinding then.
>>167124732
A lot of quests? Better detailed quests I guess?


How does agdg feel about crafting?

Anyone have some reading on how farming works

t. thinking about making a farming simulator

>>167125828
Til soil
Fertilize
Plant
Water
Care / Sun
Harvest
Crossbreed

Woah....

>>167125828
Make a farming simulator where you grow babies by jizzing in the ground

Need some opinions on this forest theme.

https://clyp.it/5x5adaqo

>>167125989
too fast. reverb

>>167125203
no really?

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guys I need suggestion for arms' position., I'm currently doing pixel by pixel with black color sprites like some gb/nes game in black/white, but I plan to add color later on.

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creation myth simulator where you play as zeus / odin / yahweh / etc etc and fuck everything into existence

>>167126184
>26 bugs reported in one week
so this... is the power... of ideas....

>>167125919
Was hoping for a bit more, on specific soil and weather conditions for certain crops

And things like how much certain livestock need to eat and how much food they can produce

>>167126129
that head is off center, there's no spine.

>>167125989
I don't know if it needs reverb specifically, but the notes definitely need to flow more. There's no way a person could play that melody on a flute with a new note every time - they'd keep blowing and change the pitch.

>>167126304
Or he's just a prolific programmer and leaves bugs for the peons to clean up while he powers on to the next thing

>>167124579
HoMM's battle mode was made better by choosing hex over square.
>the benefits of the strategies of a grid based game
Mind explaining yourself there, fella? What are the "strategies of a grid based game"? What are the "benefits" a hex-grid would lose compared to a square-grid?

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I did it. I don't want to die anymore.

>>167127025
Here's betting he hasn't considered hexes

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TFW girl I am seeing wont stop texting me with her bullshit trivial problems and I am getting no work done.

>>167127383
Did you tell her you are a gamedev?

>>167127383
Ignore her and she'll respect you more in return.

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Made the HUD less intrusive and generally more readable

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i think this really puts into perspective just how big the universe really is.

>>167127383
>not burning all bridges
Solitude and crippling depression are the only way to make game.

>>167127647
did that for two years
>>167127604
I will do this

>>167127570
>worst
RIP English

You're gonna have fun animating that bro.

>>167126120
I mean, it would be A.O.K. if I limited my vision to simple environments like ruins and noncomplex towns but I don't want to let that stunt my vision.

>>167128185
Never finishing will also stunt your vision.

>>167125705
is the problem that they're not matching the orbit lines? because they look like they're moving as they should be and your camera's just at a weird angle

>>167128328
>>167127189

nevermind i scrolled down and saw you figured it out \o/

>>167128328
Yeah, that's essentially what the problem was (just instead of the camera being in the wrong position, I was rotating the 3D models incorrectly). Got it fixed now, though: >>167127189
Thanks

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>solution to a problem i started 7 months ago dropped imedietly because it seemed completely ridiculous and not worth doing

>totally out of ideas

>decide to open up old version and try it anyway

>it works perfectly

>wasted 7 months with stupid duct tape work around solutions because i didn't believe the 10 minutes or so of messing around was worth it.

>>167123968
Show me ONE (1) example of a good game made by a single person with Unity 3D.

>>167128156
well I'm a dirty leaf frog

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>>167128798
guy who is making this started it out in cry engine then moved to unity

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incremental zbrush progress

So I want to maybe make a classic FPS like Doom with sprites and pixel walls n shit.

What's a good engine for that that I can use and someday publish with? Like I want it to be a game, not a .wad file or a Doom Modification.

>>167129582
Unity.

About 3 years back I watched a livestream of someone making exactly what you're talking about. Which was neat as fuck because that was the first time I got to see that you can manipulate your .psd files mid game test and it would take immediate effect after hitting save.

Name a gimmicky idea for a game to make quick cash.

>>167130060
make a block pushing type game for mobile

>>167130153
Block pushing?

>>167130192
sokoban

>>167130153
>Is an ideaguy
>His ideas are trash

lmao

>>167130268
>sokoban
Oh hahahaha, no I meant like a gimmicky PC game.

>>167130313
You play Mad Libs to discover your sexual identity

>>167130060
something about trump since he's the talk of town right now

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Half assed an ambient track out of a two second chord strum. Does it almost kind of work?
https://clyp.it/2oe4xcsi

>>167130313
That won't make money, sorry to say

>>167126184
>>167126304
Well Peter is honestly a brilliant idea guy, he probably codes fast and sloppy because he's always trying to do so much. If he had somebody capable of keeping his head out of his own ass, I bet he'd still be making great games.

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Made a 100% original inventory screen. I definitely didn't rip off parts of the diablo 3 inventory screen, so don't even bother checking.

>>167130746
At least steal from good games you retarded nigger.

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where's recap guy?

>>167130851
I've never played diablo 3, but Blizzard make some good UIs. I'm not copying gameplay off them.

>>167128973
>CryEngine
And I thought Unreal's UI looked clunky and retarded.

>>167130746
>Mixes a photo-realistic frame with cartoon-y icons
Please have a consistent style by the time you ship.

Godot game jam just finished by the way, and there are lots of submissions with source provided since it's a FLOSS engine. Could be useful if anyone is using / is thinking of using Godot: https://itch.io/jam/godotjam122016/entries

>>167125008
It's going well, I'm doing small stuff after the three long hauls I did over the last several months, and it's stuff that needed to get done eventually.

>>167127383

It only gets worse, anon. Without booze or drugs, women are incapable of relaxing. They always have to be doing something, and they usually want to drag you into it. They """relax""" by pretending they want to relax, when in reality they are just making up tasks for themselves under the guise of relaxing.

>I want to relax tonight, maybe I'll make me and anon some nice drinks and we can watch a movie together :)
>but I'll need to go to the store to get the ingredients
>and I'll probably need a new blender, too
>look at all this old stuff in the refrigerator, I have get rid this
>actually, the whole kitchen should be organized

Then you go to the kitchen to see what she is doing, and she is scrubbing the floor or some shit. Strange fucking creatures, RIP your progress.

>>167130953
dead
like crystal gun girl
like charlotte
like fruitdev
like sugar
like any waifu games
they're all dead
DEAD

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Made a transition effect between screens.
Now I'll start testing how big should the forest be.

>Want to mix two very different battle systems
>No clue what the hell to do with the UI

>>167130953

what an interesting creature

http://i.imgur.com/wKEQkRp.png
gosh it's taking way too much time on a single sprite

>>167130529
Hair Groomer (title not final)
You need to keep Commissar Frump's hairdo under control, lest he get too mad and start WWIII!

>>167131508
>LITERAL forced loading screens

>>167130667
not unless you can be the next Farmville or similar

>>167131595
I should add a fake loading bar too. A really slow moving one.

>>167131438
>like charlotte
would you a dead charlotte agdg?

>>167131172
I was gonna enter that but my idea was too big for me to finish in time. But I'll be checking out some of those.

I am entering comfy jam with Godot, though.

>>167131712
With loading messages like:
"Pasteurizing milk..."
and
"Transmogrifying pixels into creatures..."

>>167130538
I like it
the parts where it drops off need some work, maybe make the drop-off less severe or slower or make the build-up less pronounced, possibly something else
otherwise it's good, it feels oppressive and sci-fi, a little "how Blade Runner feels" meets "ambient tracks in Portal 1" maybe

>>167131676
I've played several Farmville versions and they're not even properly coded and balanced.

If I had a bunch of artists like them I'd be swimming in money.

>>167131989
Maybe 6 years ago.

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made an incredibly stupid AI. now this is "playable"

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Not exactly game development, but does anybody here have experience working on Ragnarok Online private servers?

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>be artist
>make half-assed lewd game on patreon
>make 80k a year starting, even if your game and art is shit
>make a five minute update every other month and the money keeps coming in and growing steadily

Why didn't I learn to draw, anons. This isn't fair.

>>167132525
YAMERO

>>167131892
When the bar reaches the end another bar of different color appears over it

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>>167126371
There is massive amounts of information on this topic. I'm sitting in front of a pretty detailed book just about roots, tubers, and the like.

Might try asking in >>>/out/927684 sorry if I fucked that up, search Home Growmen in /out/ for ... I guess, a summary of agriculture?

>>167132378
Yes, I ran an eAthena server a decade ago.
Still, this is not the place to ask about that, make a thread somewhere else and crosslink it.

>>167132378
No, but let me know if you get one working, I haven't played in ages and would like to do it again.

>>167132691
I don't think there's any place in this website that's more suitable than this thread. I mostly wanted to hear from people who have experience both from a player's perspective, as well as a developer.

>>167132746
It's the second time I make one, it's releasing tomorrow. It's different from an usual server, though. Players start at max level, get equipment and levels for free, including consumables and supplies. Then they can engage in small scale PvP within a number of pre-determined war-zones, or play one of our modifier game-modes.

The central idea is to completely drop time wasting and solo content in favor of game modes in which you have to directly compete for everything.

>>167132525
>mfw everyone told me not to bother with art since there's no money in it

>>167131508
Are you going to have a multiplayer chat so we can talk about our gamedev woes and sad life?
Damn, I'm getting a cozy feeling just watching this gif

>>167133137
>MMO
>Without the grind

You're retarded.

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Cybership
Dev: @vestigialdev
Tools: Unity
Web: vestigialdevelopment.com
Progress:
+ Lots of localization infrastructure progress
+ Learning how to livestream dev
- Thinking about kickstarter

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>>167132667
>citing a classic statistic test case for gardening cred

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I want to make a game like this. Where's a good place to start?

>>167134327
Definitely not Asia.

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>Tfw progress makes you horny as hell

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>>167133414

>>167133590
I love MMOs and I love grinding, but sometimes you want to scratch that RO itch but you don't want to grind for a week to get to the fun part.

>>167127025
Sure, you can occupy crucial squares, similar to chess. You can block very easily with squares as in placing game pieces in the way of the line of fire or pinning opponents against a wall or surrounding. I know you can do all this with other grids, but when was the last time you were blocked in on a hex based grid? or the amount of extra routes you can take on a path without being intercepted?

I've never played HoMM, but I'll check it out. Which ones use hex grids?

>>167127202
I have

>>167134327
South America.

I like to start in Japan just to make fun of the resident weeb in our group though.

>>167134327
Risk is fucking dogshit, and if you want to copy Risk all I can tell you is to go play some actually good board games and develop some taste.

>>167134470
>>167134384

Funny.

>>167134395
>tfw rotate finally got long hair and grew a pair

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>>167133314
>mfw everyone told me not to bother with art since there's no money in it

>>167134468
>I've never played HoMM
How do you live with yourself?
3 is without a doubt the highlight of the series, but 2 holds a special place in my heart. Both have hex-grids in battle mode.

>when was the last time you were blocked in on a hex based grid? or the amount of extra routes you can take on a path without being intercepted?
Regularly in Civ V and HoMM.

>I know you can do all this with other grids
Then what is your point? You said any non-square grid is for plebs and objectively inferior.
I still don't see it.

>>167133314

There's no money in art unless you sell your soul for pornbux

>>167134815
No need for soul selling, I'm an unredeemable pervert already!

>>167134815
>There's no money in art unless you treat it like an actual job instead of being some unique snowflake faggot that ignores market demand
Either way when most people say there's no money in art, it's because real artists get bunched up with art college graduates that can't even draw

>>167134731
My point is, with a hex or higher grid you are better off going grid less. Is HoMM using prerendered sprites?

>>167134993
drawing porn is the "job" version of art in the same way actual porn is the "job" version of acting

ie: it fucking isn't at all

>>167134993

>art college graduates that can't even draw

I am one of those people

>>167135117
>Drawing porn is the same as being in porn
U srs?
It's different in pretty much every aspect.

who's keen for comfy jam?

>>167135214
try actually looking at the words on your screen

>>167135214
>p-porn is art guys, I'm an art enthusiast

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Each planet generates a heightmap using perlin noise and uses this heightmap to create a texture for itself. For whatever reason, though, the texture only applies to certain instances, despite the fact that all instances are using the exact same code. 3D is incredibly frustrating.

>>167135350
I did, the analogy is total shit and doesn't work.

>>167135406
>Perlin noise instead of Simplex

Yare yare

>>167135756
Anon, I'm too dumb for simplex noise.

>>167125008
I did an open source simple AI system for C# games today. Fun stuff, it only took an hour and a half to code and document.

>>167135697
> you said "apples are to watermelons as motorbikes are to cars," that means you think apples and motorbikes are the same thing

i understand now. the problem was not reading comprehension, but brain problems.

>His game doesn't play itself

Wew

>>167136020
Hmm, good point actually

>>167136020
>tfw will never be able to recreate Tome 4

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>>167136020
That guy that was making that Hunger Games type game that was automated (?) stopped coming here. He had persona / etc placeholder images for the characters.

Looked neat, kinda want to steal his idea No idea what it actually was, though...

tfw relearning unity. cant give up cant give up

>>167135981
>Say retarded shit that makes no actual sense
>Get told
>Takes it as a literal interpretation like a retard
>No, you are the retard!
Kill yourself

>>167136182
Pretty sure that was released.
IIRC it had Momiji and Trump emotes before it was cool.

>free not too shabby vehicle, .fbx
>free not too shabby environement, .fbx
>free cute girl, .fbx

I've totally forgotten about all of the free existing available .fbx models. Too bad blender can't open them 90% of the time.

>just pirate 3dsma..
You can't anymore.

>>167136853
Huh neat, guess I'll go hunting for it.

Here's hoping it was featured on one of the Recaps.

Did Tier 1 dev release their game or what?

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>tfw something complicated works perfectly the first time

>>167136929
>>just pirate 3dsma..
>You can't anymore.

Why not?

For an RPG how would you have lots of enemies and fights in a city? Like the player is there to help the city with a murder case, but there are no zombies attacking or evil empire taking over

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What's up with the light shining through cracks that don't exist?

>>167137889
wat? lmao

>>167137935
Use a different shader or make sure nothing is missing cast/receive shadows.

>>167137889
Politics. Civil war, riots, someone gets voted in, BLM

help, i'm triggered

>>167137889
the homeless, personal demons
stray dogs

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My bully bone is twitching. All 2D devs step forward please.

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>>167138469
Rate my texture googs.

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>>167138469

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>>167138565
looks super yummy my favorite color how did you guess?

Can anyone offer examples of games made with C++?

I need motivation to learn that language and regular projects aren't doing it lately.

>>167138816
>examples
>of games made with C++
Not a single one. C++ is completely unusable for gamedev.

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>>167123968
I still can't tell if Sam Hyde liked my game or not ;_;
https://youtu.be/FaQaQR4LNe8?t=5m41s

>Think catlikecoding is a meme
>Go through some of it
>What the fuck...

>>167131364
I second this. If you look at them as children, it'll be much easier to deal with them in the long run.

>>167139386
ha. you must be a mansplainer

>>167131508
Damn, anon, your progress always encourages me to work.

>>167139365
Nobody can ever explain why it's good including yourself just now so yeah it's a meme.

>>167139513
>I didn't try to explain why it's good
>Some retard who knows that I made no such attempt disingenuously claims I therefore cannot, and thus it's a useless source of info
Hey, cool. But fuck you.

>>167139457
I'm happy that I could learn a new word on /agdg/ every day.

>>167139571
There's maybe 1 tutorial out of the 100 listed that I would find useful as a gamedev. Everything else is just dinking around to create neat visual effects. It's possibly the most autistic tutorial base for Unity I've ever seen.

Am I a fraud if I engine dev but don't follow/know any design patterns?

>>167139830
devving italian style

>>167139760
It's good for understanding what's going on behind the hood of not just unity, but 3d structures in general. I had no clue what meshes were, how unity renders a 3d object, etc. I'm glad I've gone through a lot of these. I'm trying to create a hex grid for my game and it's not particularly useful in that regard -- even the hex grid tutorial on the site isn't what I'm specifically looking for -- but as a general repository of knowledge it's very good, and it does a good job of directing me to resources and ways of thinking I didn't know I had to know, especially with regards to optimization.

I still don't know what the best way to make an interactive hex grid would be. Something tells me that making every tile a blender mesh gameobject would be incredibly bad, but...

>>167140014
>devving italian style
i am entrigued how that works

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>>167140163

>>167139340
Ironic shitposting is still shitposting

>>167136664
> reading what you wrote and interpreting it as what you wrote is retarded

I GUESS
THE JOKE
IS ON ME

>>167124268
>No good RPGs there
Useless.

It really hurts when I struggle with math that most people seem to get so easily.

>>167140309
Your life is shitposting.

>>167131508
>aggydagger
based

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>>167140163
>>167140219
>mfw Italian
>my code is mostly spaghetti
POTTERY

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>>167131438
>like crystal gun girl

I forgot this was dead until just now, fuck

>>167141565
Spaghetti code is fine. Give me art instead.

I HATE AGDG MEMES

>>167141565
>mfw Italian
whats your game is about mio italico fratello?

>>167141402
It really hurts when I struggle with art most people seem to get so easily.

>>167141402
>>167141843
It really hurts when I struggle with my abusive father's hands around my neck.

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>>167141837
My game is about una ragazza pirata che cerca tesori

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>>167139474
And your words do the same for me.
I'll work hard to encourage more people to make progress too. Have a title screen prototype.

>>167141843
yeah well, I can't do math or art

I think if I devote an hour a day to studying I can figure out what I am stuck on by the summer, but that is a lot of commitment

watch out fuckers, comfy jam actually finally started

> tfw every submission started before this

>>167141905

nice model my dude, who made it? i might need some work done.

>>167124268
>How do you design your UI for your game?
Awfully.
The only thing I've learned so far is that putting info on hoover text is valid.

>>167142208
I did, I'm 1MA'ing this. What kind of models do you need? I might give it a try one of these days if it's not too urgent.

>>167124268
black screen and text

>tfw coded a thing for a friend and made it open source
>tfw no one will ever use it

It's the thought that counts, right?

>>167131438
Didn't crystal gun girl dev post last month?

>>167142342
Upload it to git, somewhere in the world there is a guy that is lokking exactly for that, and also is another addition to your portfolio.

>>167141905
uno dei pochi giochi di cui seguo interessato i progressi,buono a sapersi

>>167142436
I did so already. It's not really open source if you don't make it available somewhere, right?

>>167142563
>Not making your source code open exclusively as a series of blurry jpgs that randomly alternate fonts

>>167142698
Do you think I'm loli rape sim dev or something?

>>167141905
>>167141565
>>167141837
Even if I'm not an Italian, the fact that there are Eurofags in the thread right now makes me feel less lonely for some reason.

We was in Venice last year. Nice country you got there. The wife got so hyped she even started to learn Italian.

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>>167142797
>wife

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Thanks for Calvino and Fellini, Italy bros

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>>167142797
>mfw I actually live in Venice

>>167142118
It can help, yes. I really recommend Khan Academy. It also helped me that I picked specific subjects. Like I understood that I really need to get my head around trigonometry, so I've jumped into that, and then into vectors. The exercises are very good and the instructor is easy to follow.

You got me on the art part tough. That shit is black magic. I guess it would be doable, but from ground zero, I should completely give up on everything else for years to have enough time to practice. And that's a pretty big gambling there, since there's a chance that you've just wasted years on nothing.

AGDG meetup, spring 2017, Venice

>>167143113
If you treat art as a technical skill, which in many ways it is (at least, you're not getting far anyhow without it), you can make significant progress with determination and consistent practice, just like anything.

>>167142978
Jap porn has this weird thing about women licking guys' nipples. I'm not complaining, it feels good, but it's strange that western porn doesn't do it. Is it seen as immasculating or some shit?

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I tried to make more smooth walking animations for mecha. Does this look "too" smooth? Opinions?

>>167143264
A bit too smooth... or maybe that's not exactly it. I don't believe it's the locomotive movements that are causing it to move. Like it's displacing too much per each leg movement.

Really enjoy your style in general though as an aside.

>>167143264
Looks perfect to me.

>>167143124
Everyone has to go dressed as their game's MC.

>>167143447
>on that day, Venice got filled with naked nodevs

>>167143447
i dont have a female succubus costume sadly

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>>167143506

>>167143558
Don't worry, Notch will pay for that too.

>>167143264
The animation is nice, but the leg speed does not sync with its movement speed.

>>167143124
Seconding this

>>167143447
Wouldn't that mean that everyone will be CDing?

what is a comfy game idea

>>167143783
A game idea that is comfy

>>167143740
I want to see this, not because I'm gay or anything.

Friendly reminder to backup your work! My computer was shutting off at the windows screen this morning, and after 5 resets and a quick prayer, it finally worked. Immediately backed up everything important.

>>167143841
Thanks anon, I hadn't saved my work in a while.

>>167143841
But I regularly push my commits?

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>>167143841
thanks anon!

>>167143815
>>167143740
Imagine it, at least 10 guys trying to look like 15 years old girls. A guy with a red wig and a sword so big and heavy he barely can move it and a couple of guys with cardboard boxes with numbers drawn on them on their heads. It would be fucking hilarious.

>>167143783
I can't wait for the jam to end so that your fucking comfy jam idea shitposting fucking stops already.

>>167143783
Work at a gardening center and nursery

deal with customers, care for plants, do orders, present and care for the plants and trees and bushes, look at pictures of gardens that satisfied regulars might bring in, expand to multiple locations, make friends with your co-workers (highschooler summer job, retired old lady, 9th year student working on his """""botany""""" degree)

>>167143447
But where would I get that many pauldrons?

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>>167144065

cute

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>>167143971
I wouldn't mind

>>167143971
would remind me of the prisoners that dress up as the powerpuff girls in that one episode.

>>167143978
Same, then we won't feel so ashamed of being nodevs, right? Fuck people who want to make games!

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Got the camera to instantly snap to infront of the player view area when you press the right mouse button. Was expecting a lot of conflicting issues actually when doing it but it went extremely smooth. As of now the camera is almost an exact copy of the zelda64 camera (still have to add in the 1st person look-around view)

>>167144292

Looks really good so far. Keep it up.

>>167144292
How does it work? I've been thinking of implementing something like this in my game but managing rotations and quaternions always fucks me up.

I don't have a game, but I come here to feel inspired. THANKS agdg.

>>167144825
What do you do with that inspiration?

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>>167143971
>A guy with a red wig and a sword so big and heavy he barely can move it

>>167145029
>vampiredev stalking charlottedev
>charlottedev stalking clarentdev
>clarentdev just wants to kill birds with his cardboard sword

humans should live underwater so humans could fly

>>167144360
Thanks!

>>167144496
Well I have a cube(cube1) that gets the position of my main character every frame, and I set those coordinates onto that same cube1 every frame, so it tracks it perfectly (only position, not rotation). I then have the camera follow cube1. I then place a cube(cube2) infront of the main player a few feet, and attach it as a child to the main character. Then I make it so when you press the middle mouse, cube1 "looks towards" cube 2. Because cube1 is now rotating, the camera rotates at the same time, until the camera is now effectively looking at cube2, which is always infront of the player.

I'm terrible at explaining things but I hope that helps.

>>167143247
Probably, fetish porn aside, most of the time the girl just has to sit there getting fucked ruthlessly, without touching anything of the man other than his dick.

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>tfw several abandoned projects because they were either shit or too big scope
>tfw neet time slowly running out, only months left before i have to find a job and stop deving
>tfw unless i can come up with some simple to make cash cow mechanic like cut the rope or flappy bird, then i'm pretty much fucked
Everyone shits on idea guys, but a skill without ideas is useless
God damn it, come on brain, give me something, i'm running out of time here

Construct 3 announcement coming in next few hours, anyone else waiting for it?
Gonna be a disappointment anyway.

>>167144283
Ideaguying is not game dev, it's just shitposting

>>167145639
rollercoaster tycoon was made in assembly you lazy incompetent fuck

>>167145639

I'm waiting for Construct 4

>>167145676
Context?

>>167145713
Revv up that *custom_engine

>>167145397
You forgot the bunny. My sides are on orbit, nevertheless.

>>167145572
I had the exact same problem.

What I did was I laid out all my previous project infront of me (in my head anyway, prob easier if you do it on paper), and took a good hard look at each one, and tried to think if there was some way I could make it work. Maybe if I change this, or change that. Cut this, expand this, etc. etc. I did that and it worked, I made and published a game in the end, finally. I mean, it was barely downloaded so it was an absolute failure...but it got good reviews( 2/2 5 stars)

I find it's a lot more easier to work with a past idea than to try to come up with something completely new. And I doubt all your idea's were shit. Theres probably a gem in there waiting to be uncovered.

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>>167145572
Just do a puzzle platformer or something.

>>167145572
If you think that those games are popular because of the idea only you are insane, cut the rope came in when the AppStore was not yet flooded with shitty games and clones and had pretty good graphics, animations, etc.
Flappy bird was a massive marketing op disguised as a lucky happenstance, read the story and nothing adds up.
If angry birds hadn't existed and was launched in 2017 with no marketing budget it wouldn't get more than a couple hundred downloads a month

Start looking for a job now, and keep devving on weekends and free time while you save some money.

>>167145806
Someone has to draw that shit.

>>167144937
Work on programming/math skills mostly but also just feel good about life and laugh and enjoy watching the progress

>>167134432
compute your string before you show it

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"making a game" is the new "writing a novel"

>>167146195
>tfw trying to both
>tfw achieving neither

>>167131438
Waifu jam draws near

>>167146195
not yet, making games is still nowhere near as easy as taking a pen and writing but we're getting there

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>>167145572
>abandoned projects
Don't talk about it m8

>>167146457
You can pretty much shit out a game in Game Maker/Unity, and in less time than a novel would take, writing at a 1 penny per word breakneck rate.

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https://clyp.it/lihwzd3u

I have done it. Floor 4 theme for Monolith.
What do you think?

>>167146481
that looks really nice, why did you abandon it?

>>167145936
>If angry birds hadn't existed and was launched in 2017 with no marketing budget it wouldn't get more than a couple hundred downloads a month
thats bullshit, it's actually a fun game and good looking too, even with no marketing it would get big just on word of mouth
it wouldn't be as big as it is now, but it would be still huge with downloads in millions after a while

>>167146519
Shovel Knight / 10
It's breddy good, despite my shitposting

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Somehow progress for my comfy game jam.

First: the game project started (yay), it'll be a point and click game about an haunted house!

"But, how is that gonna be comfy?"
It's gonna be comfy because haunted doesn't mean scary, so cute ghost, "cute" ugly and old house, and cookies!

Second: the main gameplay is basically done (more or less). Basically, I can click on object, make them interact with the girl easily, and the girl won't go to something she can't easily reach (basically where she can't see).

"But that's sexist! You call a girl by snapping fingers!"
Yes.
Not only it is sexist, but also I wanted at first to put sex scenes in it (which I can't for the jam). And I assume, because that's how this game is supposed to be.

Third: the graphism are... Started. Well only the girl took me two full days...
That's basically gonna be the hard part. And not only it's gonna be hard, but I also have a ton of work to do that's not this jam...
But I'll do my best!

"But! That's ugly!"
You too, anon, you too.

Good luck to everyone doing the jam, and have fun!

>>167146573
too generic, it was done many times before
also the scope was too big to handle as oma

>>167146519
That's good. Now the problem is "will it work with the game?"

>>167139340
Did Sam Hyde really lose his mind after AS kicked him out? It seems so.

>>167146573
Considering the awful look of the tree, I was probably just learning low poly and modeling and gave up because it was time to model more stuff and also because >no cute grill

Maybe I should try to put the girlie cube I have in that? I'll need to make more animations though.

>>167146691
Nah, I can do the coding fine, just can't do the art.

>>167146506
you can shit out shit at record speeds, good on you for understanding this basic principle of life

>>167146958
One can also make a decent game in the same, in about the same time or less as it takes to make a novel too.

Woah!

>>167145975
Or imagine a short animation where they run around in circles chasing each other to the Benny Hill theme song.

All these fun ideas, but no art skill. ;_;

>>167146620
100s a month is what good games with no marketing get nowadays. There's so much crap up there it's impossible to survive without spending money on marketing.
Plus, every game out there that is decent enough gets cloned overnight by chinese shitters, they even copy the name of the game to catch confused users. Even seen people complaining about their games being downloaded, decompiled, rebuilt in the exact same way (code and assets) and published under a different package name.


I talked to a guy who had released a mobile game last year, it was a strategy game with amazing graphics and pretty good gameplay. They didn't spend enough on marketing and the game was stuck under a piles of shitty games that were older so it failed. He told me he was taking a sabbatical because it gets so depressing when that happens that there's no way to continue devving.

Mobile game development after 2013 is just for companies with decent budgets. Sure, you might get lucky and release a hit, but chances of that happening are about the same as winning the lottery, and you don't have to put any effort on the lottery so you might as well just do that.

Until properly curated marketplaces show up on mobile it will continue to be a sea of urine and shit for indie devs.

>>167147079
Your idea of fun sounds cringeworthy to me desu, perhaps it's for the best that most people are incapable of picking up art.

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>>167146134
Yeah, I need to fix that, because It looks awful.
Meanwhile a little bit of fun with the lights based on how far away you are from the fire.

>>167147003
where are your novels?

you know nothing about writing novels and you know nothing about making decent games. you've never done either and you never will. why do you feel like you have the authority to make a statement like that i wonder?

stop looking for excuses for why you can't find success with the mediocre garbage you make. it's not because the market is flooded.

Is there a way to disable and enable a staticbody's collision from the script on godot

>>167147564
Check the goddamn documentation of your meme engine.

>>167147536
Haven't seen this much projection since Freud.

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>ForceMode2D.Force works but not ForceMode2D.Impulse

They both use the same components. How did I manage to fuck it up?

>>167147886
where are your novels? where are your decent games? where is your degree in psychology?

please don't reply to me unless your reply contains a link to a novel you wrote, a link to a decent game you made and, a link to a certificate certifying that you know what projection means.

thank you for understanding.

>>167147564
As a general guide, this type of question is easily answered by looking up the node you want to use in the help file and work your way up the inheritance tree.
The answer to your specific question is definitely in there.

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describe your game with a simpson gif

>>167148217
Well i only see options to fuck around with layer masks or removing and readding the collision shapes as a solution. I was expecting an easier solution. Am I blind? is there a easier answer?

>>167148093

Games are easier to make and publish in a major marketplace for games than a novel is to write and publish in a major marketplace for books.

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>>167148380

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>>167148380

describe your game as a set of real-valued matrices

>>167148467
Godot's collision works only between objects that have the same collision mask / layer enabled. If object A has masks 1 and 2 enabled, object B mask 2, and object C mask 3, object A and B will collide with each other, but C will be ignored by both.

>>167148561
But there is no way to burn the soup in Tracy's pot?

>>167148583
Yes I know that. I want a swords collider to just not work while not attacking so I don't need to tinker with layers and waste a layer just for an inactive sword. I there isn't a way I will do that tough.

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>>167148380

>>167148726
>waste a layer just for an inactive sword.
What?

>I want a swords collider to just not work while not attacking
So just set all collision layers for the sword to false?

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>>167148792
Fucking hell sorry, for some reason I thought it had to have at least one layer and one mask. Thank you for bearing with me

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>>167148570

>Start working on gore with lots of permanence, after killing some enemies there is enough blood to fill the floor of most areas and it never despawns
>Start feeling like if I release my game I'll just be seen as a psycho.

Feels bad. Am I just overthinking this?

>>167149027
You'll offend the same people as Quentin Tarantino. Fuck those people. Embrace the gore.

>>167149027
Just by thinking this way means that you is a good person, not a psycho. Don't worry about and release your game, anon.

>>167149027
>ugh I don't like how blood goes out when I strike the enemy

.t no one who enjoys video games. I just played the For Honor beta with some normie friends and they all commented on how well done the blood and execution effects were.

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>>167148570
(1,1) is win, (n,n) is lose

>>167147123
>>Until properly curated marketplaces
This was supposed to be greenlight.
IT failed. Any garbage gets through, the any way to do is is to hire like a large panel of experience people to hand pick the games for the market place and of course the biggest problem is to make that marketplace popular which is very hard and takes basically a google sized company to do (by abusing monopoly)

Realistically is it a good idea to release a couple games on the mobile market and expect some revenue? Hell, making anywhere between 20-50 dollars / month would be absolutely perfect.

Im really itching to try it, since it seems like a good way to actually finally finish a game and see it somewhere.

>>167124268
Ratchet and clank objectively has the best UI so I just copy it
Right down to the way money is added to your money counter by both showing the total of how much is being added while the number scrolls up to approach the total

>>167125008
Only really shitty code can have errors like this

>>167147123
>He told me he was taking a sabbatical because it gets so depressing when that happens that there's no way to continue devving.
Thats pretty normal with any kind of failure where you put lots of efforts into something and it fails. But in game dev this is multiplied by the fact that the effort placed into a thing is MASSIVE often months if not years of ¨full time work in cases
I agree with most points you said, but the chances are much higher than winning the lottery to be honest. Yes even a good game can fail but your chances aren't one in a billion, it's like one in a thousand (this number is pretty hard to get correct), even with marketing the success isn't guaranteed. So it's mostly down to luck in the end. You can affect luck alot by making a quality product and by some shilling too, but a big part of it is still just a luck nonetheless.

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>>167124349
A platformer with shooting elements. Less Ratchet & Clank and more Jak 3.

Basically a project to teach myself animation and 3rd person gameplay mechanics.

How many of you are "remake a game from my childhood but change a thing" devs?

Do you actually expect it to sell?

>>167149960
I'm gonna make my waifu game then remake my childhood favourite. Just you watch ;_;

Does it make any difference if I submit a game 'for' comfy jam, or upload a game generally to itchio and then submit it?

They're both publicly visible/findable right?

>>167149960
I guess I can consider myself a part of that group.

I can only hope. Market isn't super-saturated with TBS, but I don't have a lot of graphics going on.

>agdg is talking about 1ma and originality
>I see everywhere not too bad looking simple pixel platformer games
>nothing special but their creator are making a bit of money with them
Just ask to be reborn as an artist next time seriously.

>val1 = Mathf.Lerp(val1, val2, Time.deltaTime)
don't do that

>keep track of a timer that goes between 0 and 1
>val = Mathf.Lerp(startVal, goalVal, time)
do do that

>>167149960
I'm making a games that feels fun to me. I don't really care if my games sell. I just have too much time and I find game dev fun hobby.

Currently working on one commercial product and one that will probably be free.

>>167150132
>measuring success as money
>on an amateur thread
shiggydiggydoo

>>167149770
I honestly couldn't tell whether or not this is actually realistic.

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>>167149960
Well, my robot game is kind of a "practice run", or one of many, on the way to that thing you said.

It would be really really cool to have a remake of this. It would be even better if I got to make it.

>>167149770
Only if you put ads in the menus and implement a premium currency

>>167150132
I haven't got any money nor spent any money on my game. I have over 3000 downloads on my demo so I feel that my game is successful.

>>167150182
>val1 = Mathf.Lerp(val1, val2, Time.deltaTime)
That's some Zeno's paradox type shit right there.

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>>167150207
>the hole in the broken planks makes a gaping mouth on the shadow

20 years. 20 fucking years I've had that case sitting in my vidya shelf without noticing.

>>167150000
Post waifu game

>>167150291
I'm in the concept phase so stay tuned™

>>167150000
Trips speaks the truth, congratulations. Who is you're waifu?

>>167150317
Post concept

I need a place holder sprite while i'm coding my main guys combat. Anybody know a pixel art character that uses both swords and spears? If not I can look for two separate characters and mix them together I guess

>>167150356
Good game, but with waifus

>>167150379
Maybe I could make you some art? What engine