agdg - Amateur game development general

Artist available here, looking for a game to work on. Interested to hear about your game!

>>168922415
Just hit me up, can't wait to get started!

Why not have both?

Is it possible to make realtime lighting in Unity look good, or should I just stick to baked?

>>168922415
Sent ;)

hi, there havent been any update from me for a very, and i mean very long time but today i post gameplay of pre-alpha version of ranDungeon. its public for download too with debug commands.

gameplay here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpFgH4_S2Yk&t=1s

what's working and implemented?
-character stats
-leveling up and improving skills
-equipment
-items system
-skills for use in combat
-monsters scaling
-item randomization (with textures)
-game saving and loading
-drawing custom textures directly in game
-levels generating

and lots lots more, if anyone has any questions im willing to chit chat.

>>168922415
how about working on ranDungeon? i really could use help of an pixel-art artist.

I would like to make a Castlevania 2d game cross over puzzle game

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Don't really know where I'm going with this yet but first person driving.

Grabbed a free car from the asset store and so far this seems to work a lot better on my current wheel settings compared to the last one.

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combo system, how can I improve this? I'm really not satisfied with it

>>168950474
first person car demolition derby.

>>168950281
I don't understand, why not move the door to the right spot? Not making your level a non-euclidean nightmare is just basic level design.

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Can I get a quick rundown on argiedev?

>>168950538
https://www.google.com/search?q=iasa+frames&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

Let the player chain attacks together more quickly by allowing them to interrupt the ending of previous attacks in the combo.

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>>168950538
The animations are too smoothly transitioned to be impactful.

Wind up / wind down can be slower if you want, but the actual stab has to be instantaneous/very fast to feel impactful.

>>168950735
good idea, thanks!

>>168950538
Your character returns to neutral position after every hit. You need to go directly into the next attack instead.

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Thanks erryone who gave me useful feedback on my trailer last thread, just what I needed

Also if anybody wants to fill me in on this recent drama feel free, I'm out of the loop and could use a kek when I get back from the gym

>>168950842
what is a frame?

>>168951141
In 2D, one single image. Dunno what 3D tools would call it, I thought it'd be "keyframe" and then you set tween durations or something.

>>168951141
the f in fps

Someone on /agdg/ just asked what a frame is.

And someone answered seriously.

I'm stupefied.

>>168951536
A brief moment of purity in an endless sea of bloodshed. The culmination of man's history.

>>168950676
Foxdev hasn't been around in ages. I follow him on tumblr but he hasn't posted gamedev progress in a while.
Archerdev is usually around, but he's not working on a game as far as I know.
Blancodev left /agdg/, he's usually found in /v/'s gamedev threads.

I don't know any other argie devs

>>168951536
i tried to think of a bantz response first but it was too stupid/deep

>>168948018
thanks man.

>>168951536
Too bad G* is still shitting it up.

post game progress guys

>>168951918
Real life got in the way so I didn't get much done and now it's too late.

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forgot webm

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>>168950657
Yeah that could totally be done, although I was hoping there'd be a solution that didn't require it. I was hoping to find a way to freely change camera angles without awkward player confusion

>>168950596
I was thinking something along the lines of the Interstate games.

Stick a few guns to the car and shoot other cars up. So kinda like a demolition derby but with guns!

>>168952079
Make it so that the input the player used to enter the room is temporarily relegated to moving their character in the direction they entered the room from. Once they release that key, reset directional inputs to their proper directions.

It might seem counterintuitive at first, but it's a trick that a lot of oldish games with fixed camera angles used. It becomes perfectly intuitive after a relatively short time, if the player even notices it at all.

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----[ Recap ]----
Game:Elemental Knight
Dev:anon
Tools:Unity
Web:http://jasonpkgames.tumblr.com/
Progress:
+ Finished the overall layout for the tutorial
+ Started work on the cutscenes for the area
- Nothing, surprisingly

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Anyone have some logo design protips? Here's the old one for reference

>>168951849
did you get it to work?

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New dev here.

I got from zero to this today (I don't feel like downloading webmcam tonight but it procedurally generates huge caverns, places the player object within them, and allows for grid-based movement that currently uses the arrow keys but could easily be extended to be mappable). Right now the camera follows the character perfectly, keeping them in the middle of the screen, but that's easy to fix.

The main problem is I don't know if I want to make a game with grid-based movement or procedurally generated caverns. It was just something to do.

>>168952316
Thanks, this sounds like a good solution!

>>168952982
Welcome, dont let any nodevs ruin your fun

>>168950639
So you only get the money back if your game does well? Isn't that backwards?

How do I even decide what kind of game to make? There's a whole world of options out there. I feel overwhelmed.

>>168952982
I got no advice but welcome to the chain gang.

I thought about it and if we all collab on one game we could make a pretty large game very fast

>>168953573
I'm making the game that I'm making because I'm unsatisfied with the other entries into the genre of late.

>>168953689
What genre is that? Just curious. Please say 3d platformer, arcade racing game, or western style RPG.

inb4 bullet hell roguelite hybrid

>>168953573
How many other games of this type exist?
How would my game stand out against similar competitor?
How popular could this be?
How feasable is it for me to make this with the manpower/budget I have?
These kind of questions can help you choose

>>168953831
wow this guy
zero artistic integrity

>>168954004
Games are not art.

>>168952772
try /gd/?

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>lurk for years
>no team
>only shitposting and falseflagging

You know what? fuck it, here I go with my Don't Starve but in Space. I guess shitty rehash game is better than no game.

of course im going smaller scope and singleplayer for now, i'm not that retarded.

>>168954141
Nice!

>>168953681
The problem is most of us use different engines or languages. So there's not really any way for us all to work together.
It would be cool if it worked though.

>>168954141
captain condom's looking good mate, keep it up

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>>168953825
>inb4 bullet hell roguelite hybrid
I fucking wish I were one of the people responsible for monolith.

I'm making a 2.5D beat 'em up, I haven't posted progress because it's not to a point worth showing.

>>168954141
>wildly different line widths
reeeeeeee

>>168954320
I thought most of the devs here use Unity or Game Maker

>>168954141
I have a soft spot for survivally games like this. I'm looking forward to seeing the progress.
Make sure you add animal and plant farming, that's the best stuff in survival games.

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>>168891905
----[ Recap ]----
Game: jamos
Dev: anon
Tools: C, SDL, Allegro
Web: N/A

Progress:
+ Added syntax error message so I can fix my scripts easier
- Old car died (1994 Ford Fiesta)
+ Got a new car (GM Spark, white paint)
+ Refactored some of the code
+ Have a good idea and registered domain name for it
- Made a HTML5 game launcher thingo with save files (https://agdgminicollab.neocities.org/)

>>168954396
>filename
>inaugural progress wow look at that ball
You could say it's an... inaugural ball?

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>>168952772
Depends on the focus you want to give it. After the EVERYTHING MUST BE FLAT trend people are going back to negative space, like pic related.

If you truly want to embrace the old-school look, focus on recognizable silhouettes and be creative with your dithering. Design-wise, maybe an icicle behind the words would be better than a spear.

>>168954087
Games without art are not successful.

>inb4 muh dwarf fortress or minecraft shit
After 6 years you still can't think of anything else than them, which further proves my point. They're just exceptions played by autists.

>>168954495
>C, SDL, Allegro
are you me

>>168954603
There's a difference between having art assets and being art. Do you say video games are "music" for having music tracks?

>>168953681
That's not how it works anon.

>>168954320
>Not being able to pick any language or engine in a week
Do you even code?

>>168954603
Choice of Robots is a choose-your-own-adventure with stats. It has literally zero graphics and 40k sales on Steam alone and is also available on Android and Apple devices.

>>168954904
I think the problem is people not compromising because of lack of monetary or sentimental insentive.

I've seen groups in this general disband after a whole year of work literally because "he never logged in again" or "he's busy with life"

>>168954495
again, the game launcher isn't actually html5 it is just .hta (vbscript + javascript in ie6 app frame), I integrated it with newgrounds highscores system

>>168954674
You from a different dimension? I don't know, I put allegro to run on top of SDL so I use the allegro API but it has only SDL build deps.

Hey niggers, I try to use texture paint in Blender and it just doesn't work.
I've followed a tutorial and set up my windows and nodes exactly the same as they have, yet when I try to paint in the 3D window, nothing on the texture will change.

Is there a setting my retarded ass has changed that has stopped this working or what?

Are engines useful for small games if I know how to code? I know big devs use them to reduce development cost, and some indie devs use them because they can't code, but what if I want to make small games and know how to code, what would be the pros and cons of using one?

>>168954760
Music is art as well.
2D drawings are art.
3D models are art.
Video games are art.

A video game is something created by a human with their creativity and imagination. So it is art.
Even the shitty little mobile games, they're like MS Paint drawings made by a child, or a child playing a recorder.

>>168955028
There's a wide variety of problems regarding working together for no money. They are really too many to list here.
The few instances where it works, may it be foss or small companies, is because a variety of factors are just right.

>>168955043
Ah, I'm using Allegro 4.x, SDL 1.2 and SDL 2.0 for different builds of my game. I wrote an API to work with each of them. I was just surprised, I've never seen anyone else put those 3 tools in their recap besides me.

>>168955146
You'll spend more time in theory making your game with something that definitely works, but perhaps not in a way you find intuitive in every aspect.

If you decide to make your game engine yourself then you have something that would presumably look impressive to any future employers, you might learn something, but you might also spend so much time enginedevving that you get bored halfway through and never implement your game.

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>>168954534

>>168955616
Glad to see you're making progress.

I suck at beat-em-ups but I wish you success.

Here's a pretty big compilation of stuff that would be useful for gamedev I found.
http://xen-dance.tumblr.com/post/157456280372/xens-game-dev-resource-compilation

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>>168955527
Oh right,

I used allegro 4.x but then I had a problem debugging it on windows it would freeze the keyboard and the mouse whenever I hit a breakpoint.

So I looked at how allegro implements platform drivers and then wrote a version that used sdl 1.2 to implement the allegro functions such as install_keyboard, set_gfx_mode, etc.

The game itself just uses the allegro API directly.

>>168955724
Thanks, we'll find out whether I suck at making them.

>>168955146
Pros of using an engine:
It's still faster than making the game yourself, even if it's a small game. Many tedious things are already done in the engine. It's easy to export to multiple operating systems and devices without worrying about having to code for differences yourself. It's also usually easier to incorporate multiple input methods.

Cons of using an engine:
You have to learn the engine and how it works. Not all engines will fit your workflow or how you like to structure a game. Engines are made to be general purpose, so if you have mechanics that are highly specialized and need to be deeply ingrained in the game, it might be harder to do in an engine, and may end up needing a hacky solution (although this is a very rare problem to run into).

>>168955146
Really depends on the game.

>>168955857
Wow, that's real neat. If it mainly uses allegro 4.x, have you considered building your game for DOS? People tend to think I'm crazy but it's the main reason I'm using Allegro 4

Still messing around with this idea. Slum town music for a fantasy western RPG https://clyp.it/ucdqdchz

>>168956532
I like it, the melody reminds me of Chrono Trigger, although the pizzicato on the strings make me think of The Sims.

Why isn't Source in the OP? Is Source not suitable for making indie games?

Which dev has the best female mc?

>>168956685

>the melody reminds me of Chrono Trigger

Wow, thanks.

>The Sims

The story isn't very serious in tone at this point. It's more that the main character has no business being where they are.

>>168956513
Hmm, it might not be possible anymore because I've changed some of the allegro 4.x source code to fix some issues, and to put my engine callback inside of do_dialog so that the filechooser doesn't hang my program and stuff. So I can't really use stock allegro anymore, and I removed the DOS stuff, so I'd have to add it back in. But the DOS stuff used assembly directly which I don't really understand.

So basically I could do it but it wouldn't be as full featured as it used to be because I'd have to follow some tutorials to do VGA in djgpp and stuff like that. That said my game uses 40megs of RAM so far so the dos computer would have to have lots of RAM.

>>168956715
yes, only professional game developers use Source™ Engine

What do you all think of the idea of a colony management game a la Dorf Fort or RimWorld, but with heavy horror tones and an even greater emphasis on the characters' psychology?

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Item pickup dialog is working. However the inventory code is pretty lazy at the moment and it just places the item in the first available slot, not rotating it or checking its width/height, so it will often overlap items. That code has a long ways to go, as I'd like it to automatically check rotations and find the best fit for the item

>>168956532
I like it, but I can't picture it being slum town background music. its too upbeat mood. sounds more like a comfy and bustling merchant town, or port, or something

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>>168956532
>>168956685
oh god damn yes

>Only play games of genre X, Y and Z
>Only want to make games of genre A, B and C
Anyone else know this feel

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>>168950538
Are you animating these yourself?
The movement needs to be more dynamic. Study fight scenes. Even stand up in your room and act the movements out yourself.

>>168951401
lol

>>168951536
Atleast he knows now.

>>168952027
This unity asset store stuff? If you made it from scratch, solid work.

>>168952650
Good art style, reminds me of Mario Galaxy graphics. Add a 'mid air animation', as his legs still look like they are running.

>>168952772
Really depends entirely on the look and feel of your game. Can you post a screenshot?

>>168952982
I think you are on the right track. Keep developing your random ideas. Do whats fun. Eventually you will stumble on some cool game mechanics etc that you can build on.

>>168957132
Solid work. That looks dope. Are you a full time game dev?


I'm working on a handful of game projects atm.
One is a Grand Theft Auto type game, but rated G/PG. I still want violence, drugs and hookers in it, but spin it in such a way that kids could play it.

>>168957228

> its too upbeat mood. sounds more like a comfy and bustling merchant town, or port, or something

The character has been there for three years and has just learned of an opportunity that might lead them out of what they feel is their own personal hell. They're earning their keep in a shitty bar, and have to find ways to steal enough money to make it to the opportunity.

>>168956532
I really like it.

>>168957131
I can see that being a good game. Although I'm not a fan of horror, so I wouldn't play it.

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How's this?

>>168957453
>Solid work.
Thanks anon
> Are you a full time dev?

At the moment yeah, but only since I just moved and am job hunting. Got a call back for an interview today though so hurraaaay

Can someone link the YouTube video of the fiverr bitches string agdg stuff

>>168957132
I will play literally anything with an Attache Case inventory. I would play an Attache Case Simulator.

>I still want violence, drugs and hookers in it, but spin it in such a way that kids could play it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1WSH0VzoaM

>>168957582
Easily t he worst thing I've ever seen in my entire life.

Whatever happened to knightdev?

He would post cool progress of his game all the time

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>>168957582

>>168957439
Yeah, it's weird. I've been getting a lot of urges to make a tower defense game, and a shoot em up. Even though I've only ever played like one game of each genre.

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Clarent
Dev: Arikado, PHI
Tools: GMS, Aseprite, FL Studio
Web: https://twitter.com/ArikadoDev
Progress:
+ Animations
+ Started considering thinking about planning some things
- Literally never getting done at this pace

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Here's an easy way to make pixelart with aseprite

Need lots of advice or speculation; how should I plan out and create a city environment in Unity?

How much of it should be models, how these models should be planned out, and whether or not they should all be exported together from Blender or made piece-wise for placement in Unity.

Take an underground scene, for instance. That's mostly gonna be hallways and rooms with detail coming from props and negative space. However, how would I model and import the various pieces? Room by room and hallway by hallway, or wall by wall? Is it better to do everything at once if I've already blocked out the level and playtested?

What about above-ground environments, where I really start with nothing and have to build up? Do I make it building by building, street by street, or all at once? Do I split it into chunks and stitch it together?

Also, how do I manage scale between Unity and Blender? It seems assets import in at various sizes.

>>168957907
do people who do that even know that it's obvious how they got their graphics
or are they like people who put paint filters over photos in photoshop and think that nobody knows

>>168957557
>>168957228
>>168956685

Here's another: https://clyp.it/p0mtxrup

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He can't keep getting away with this.

>>168958069
Does it matter? Imo all that matters is that it looks good and if you can spend less time making a sprite that looks good you can get more deving done

>>168958123
>listens to ennio morricone once

jokes aside you're pretty good at music
of course, being good at making music isn't all that matters in a video game.. the music has to fit the aesthetics and the mood of the game not just stand up on its own

>>168958069
You can clean it up dude.

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I'm trying to add a dash length hint here, but it just looks terrible. Not sure how to fix this or make it better.

>>168957608
>only since I just moved and am job hunting
I couldn't comprehend moving before having a job already lined up. I guess I've just been unemployed too many times for too long a time to consider going anywhere without an offer already signed. Good luck on your interview, I hope you get the job.

>>168957132
Aw yiss, can't wait for a demo.

>>168957907
does this even work or is this a meme?

>>168957276
As a freelance artist who has done a few commissions I can dump my online persona and start over from scratch if I get drunk and say something stupid one day, all I need is a new portfolio and an email address and switch up my art style. I don't even need to show customers my face. I just give them results.

You can't do that with crowdfunding gamedev. Your face, your name, your family members/address are out there now, and you can't stop anyone from harassing them just to make your day bad. Look at those devs/youtubers who get SWATed and shit. And it's not even guaranteed income. You can change your persona and art style, but you can't change your face or your real name. People will find ways to fuck with you even if you didn't do anything to anyone. Shit, now they know your ethnicity and skin color too. You don't have to worry about that when you're freelancing art, I never have.

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My girlfriend keeps telling me to stop deving and to help her out with her dumb engineering project. What do I do? Why can't she just fuck off?

>>168958350
Maybe there's something inspired you could come up with, but I don't think it would be at all unreasonable to expect a player to simple be able to tell where their dash might leave them.

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>>168957907
Woah that's pretty impressive desu. You could touch up the final sprite and save a lot of time using this method.

>>168957582
Keep trying bb

>>168957608
Good luck. Its tough juggling paying work with game development.

Anyone here release a game and make some decent money?
If so please share you wisdom.

>>168958506
do both. set a timer, 1 hour for you and then one hour for her. fair

better yet, help her, then have her help you on your game

>>168958313
It's also illegal. You don't own that picture.

>>168958376
Oh no worries, we moved here for my girlfriend's new job as a fancy chemist, so we're in the clear. There's no way we'd have moved 12 hours away if we had no income! Thanks for the well-wishes, I'll try not to flub the interview

>>168958398
I'm going to try to have something for Demo Day. Hopefully I can get something thrown together before I start work again

>>168957582
Literally the worst thing I have ever seen in my entire life.

And I had the misfortune of playing GTA:SA.

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>>168958038
I'm not expert on this stuff, but first consider how much of your city can be done with a terrain generator, and how much is props/buildings/set pieces. Then think about how you can make these things modular to reuse pieces. Then consider whether whichever engine you're using supports occlusion culling. Unity only did that in Pro last time I checked, but the last time I checked was years ago so it might have changed. Occlusion culling allows the engine to avoid rendering anything that is not seen on camera. However (and feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, AGDG), this doesn't work if your environment is all one mesh.

Sorry, I don't know about specifics beyond those smaller details.

>>168958513
I dunno. Sorta bothering me. I guess I just can't design levels with any sort of obstacle remotely close behind something you're required to dash through.

>>168958318

>ennio morricone

Who?

I'm kidding, but yeah I know what you mean. I'll work to get it right.

>>168957582
What's that fucking random could in the upper right?

>>168918781
>cancerous namefag in the OP
delet

>>168957725
Which knight game? There have been several

>>168958987
Wouldn't doing just that present a challenge for timing when to dash so you get through and don't hit the obstacle?

Seems like the kind of thing you want to introduce later on so people have to be more careful.

You could also allow jumping mid-dash to add a twist.

>>168958987
Instead of doing a low-alpha-value copy of the bunny sprite, you might try a low alpha dotted outline instead (either in the same shape of the bunny sprite or just a simple circle). I think that could look good.

>>168957582

is this early ravenholm?

>>168958313
that's the thing
it doesn't look good

>>168958506
are you me?

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>>168951536

>>168958990
post your game here when you get the music in btw, your music is really nice and I hope to hear it put to good use.

>>168958476
Thankfully I don't have any family left

>>168959080
The topdown game with a 45 degree field of view. Knightdev.

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>>168957582
>1024x768

>>168958697
Well good luck, even a hallway sim with a nice atmosphere would be a fun demo.

>>168951536
everyone was a beginner once

>>168959291
I'm pretty sure he's still working on it, but might just be keeping to his tumblr. I see him post some cool stuff every now and again.

>>168959335
Thanks, I'll see what I can get accomplished by then!

>>168957582
what the fuck is up with that aliasing?

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Hang in there people and remember to use the right tools for the job.

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>>168953825
yo is someone talking shit

>>168959501
Nah, man. I was just making a joke about the "unsatisfied with the other entries in the genre of late" to which I was responding, since there are really only three well-known entries into the genre at all and two are quite recent.

Your game looks cool.

i see many survival games suffer from too many people dropping them after early hype due to two things:

1. offline raiding. you are sleeping or at work and some neet or some guy from several time zones away logs in and takes your shit
2. no endgame. you gather shit, build up, get max lvl and then what? raid others? you have everything already. to grief and troll? that gets old fast.

how would you solve these issues creatively?

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>>168951141
>>168951318
>>168951401
>>168951536
And yet they still provided an inadequate answer that doesn't answer what a frame actually is.

>>168959626
The best part is desu that is a big part of why Monolith is being made kek

>>168959679
Googleable questions are for either ignoring or memes.

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>>168957453
>Really depends entirely on the look and feel of your game. Can you post a screenshot?

So, I have a random function.
It returns a value between 0 and 1.
How can I hook it up in a function so that the function gives me a number between 0 and 255?

>>168958416
It will work for some things.Mostly square/angular things that don't have a lot of fine details.

>>168960019
Why don't you ditch the first one and just make a function that gives you a random number between 0 and 255?

>>168959881
I thought that as much had been stated before and that's what he was referring to with his joke.

Oh well whatever.

>>168959975
Wow I remember you! Glad you're still kicking

>>168959675
Not make another fucking survival game

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>>168957907
This is the actual result of the shown method. From here you could touch it up to resemble what's in the gif.

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>>168960148
not dead yet senpai
working on boring shit lately that hasn't been worth posting
here's one of the few things I've done over the past couple of months that's actually visually interesting

>>168959975
take the link's awakening logo and edit it
that will it'll fit with the knocked off graphics of your game as well

>>168957582
>1024x768
wtf

>>168960019
Multiply the output of your first function by 255 and round?

>>168958907
I hope he wasn't going for low poly as well as low texture size because there's a shitload of wasted polys there
just those grid doors alone would be an entire n64 level's worth

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>>168960408
>LE JUST MULTIPLY IT LE BRO
Oh sourcefam. Do you even understand math? Like, at all? Fucking lol. :)

>>168960103
Maybe? Hell if I know

>>168960372
i'm genuinely curious, why do you do this?

>>168960408
It's a meme shitpost, ignore it.

>>168960490
please, for everyone sake, think before you post.

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: wizMUD
Dev: virtual buddies
Tools:Unity, Blender, Photoshop, HTML
Web:https://twitter.com/wiz_mud
Progress:
+ Fixed bugs
+ Tested server
- Still bugs

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Can we get a Tumblr/Twitter roll-call up in here so I can make sure I'm not missing anyone

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Working on overhauling my bomber knight enemy. I'm making it so their bombs can be destroyed harmlessly, which means fighting in melee won't be a complete clusterfuck, and originally the pull of gravity affected their small bombs they throw at range, now they just fly towards you like a misisle because at REALLY long ranges these guys were useless. Though I might swap the little bomb out for an axe because axes are cool.

They no longer drop a bomb on death because that was really fucking annoying and I question why the fuck did I ever think that was a good idea.

>>168960490
Where is your game?

>>168960408
Where is your game?

>>168960627
Where is your game?

>>168960641
Oh, I haven't been here for a while, didn't recognize it as one. Thanks.

>>168960731
?

>>168960781
this is the designated shitposting hour, wait until he gets tired of resetting his router to ask

What are some game genres a no-art dev can do

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>>168960781
https://twitter.com/MonolithDevs
monolithdevs.tumblr.com

>>168960408
>Multiply the output
Are you stupid or something?

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>>168961153
Puzzle game.

Pretty much anything if you know how to swing it.

>>168960781
>Hm maybe I should give my info
>Look at my tumblr
>2 posts in the last year
>Look at my twitter
>A bunch of "Gonna try to get some work done this month"
Fug, maybe I am a nodev

>>168961153
Obligatory roguelike suggestion

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>>168961153
Roguelike
Puzzle game
Text porn game
Menu-based sim games

>>168959975
Woah cool. How long till this game is launched?

There are a lot of logo/title screens that you could reference from super nintendo.

>>168960351
Good suggestion.

>>168959679
my answer was in fact correct.
it could be reworded as "a slice of time as defined by frames per second" but you dont need me spelling all of that out to you when it's obvious the second i point you to fps.

>>168961886
thats actually incorrect

a frame, in the context of computing, is a single full execution of a script/program

>>168962045
>thats actually incorrect
>in the context of computing
not the context

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>>168960801
An anon gave me a good idea for the knight's long range bomb

>>168958350
Since it seems to be the middle of the screen, how about having the bunny dash automatically as an intro animation at the start of each level?

What is the best free program to make pixel art? I am going to work on making a character tomorrow with a walk and attack animation.

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>>168960408
>Multiply the output of your first function by 255 and round?

>>168962336
reee just post the latest build.

I wanna play New Gothic Movement with this

>>168962150
>not the context
the context is animation frames of a vidcon, which have associated scripts to them

even if its just "the f of fps", that phrase doesnt explain much. at the very least, a frame in the context of animation should be any fully rendered subsequently and published-to-display-device image

>>168962792
Soon friend. I'm running out of shit to do/fix. All that's left is to tweak a few more monsters, overhaul Blaz's arm cannon, add the final few monster replacements, get sprites for the cyberdemon replacer (Got something in mind), and implement the new item/ammo systems.

>>168960801
>>168962336
I haven't seen your game before but this looks fun

>>168960408
>Multiply the output of your first function by 255 and round?
m8 are you stupid
where is your game

>>168962996
please post your game so we can play it since it looks like fun and test it for bugs for you also

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>>168962981
>>168962981
>a frame in the context of animation should be any fully rendered subsequently and published-to-display-device image
as an animator i have no idea what the fuck you just wrote

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>>168963465
It's not ready for bugtesting yet. Not until I get these monsters and the arm cannon overhaul in.

>>168963494
Whatever shows up on the screen as a finalised image.

>>168963705
uh huh, but that doesnt even explain what a frame is because in the context of animation a frame only makes sense as a partition of time because animation is completely about time.

What is the best video game that you guys have played before and after becoming game devs?

>>168922205
thx bb

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>>168891905
----[ Recap ]----
Game: Locked Masts
Dev: IceDev
Tools: Unreal
Web: N/A
Progress:
+Reworked the player island a bit. Larger now, more room for expansion. Thinking it more like the Heroes of MM cities.
+Working on the characters still, trying to put what I learned together.
+Scientist developed a bit, made him a tesla gun for stunning and vaporizing if you're determined enough.
-Main screen and backup failed. Down to a hilariously small screen I found in storage.

>>168963895
>>168963705
>>168963494
>>168962981
>>168962150
>>168962045
>>168961886
Can you just agree to disagree and move on?

>>168953573
How do you know you even want to make a game if you don't know what kind you want?

>>168963705
>>168962981
>>168964008
>>168964108
Where is your game

>>168954603
Minecraft is played by kids more than anyone

>>168964521
this, minecraft literally has childrens books centered on it

>>168962551
That's true. If I'm gonna bank on that, I should probably make the dash distance directly to the center.

>>168964521
Kids play videogames more than anyone.

>>168958506
>>168959178
>engineering gfs
I-I'll take them off your hands. desu.

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Through stallwart resolve I have become yesdev

>>168965485
I like it, anon. Really great start!

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>>168954495

>>168965485
God speed anon, don't let your dreams be dreams!

>>168965485
Hey this looks grea--
>Yellowman.cs
>darkman.cs
>payer.cs

I>>168965485
if I made a high quality game out of /v/ and /vg/ memes. would anyone play it?

What would be the best premise?

>>168965963
Memes in games are an instant red flag, hell no I wouldn't play it.

>>168965963
they're doing that over in /r9k/ already
no, no one will play it unless you have good art or porn

>>168952772
>logo design
For a videogame, all you need is something legible, pleasing to the eye, and conveys a feeling of your game or its themes, whatever you want to get across.

Honestly >>168960351 isn't bad advice, just it obviously wouldn't come across as original (and you don't want to overstep copyright). But just the idea that it's a Zelda-esque game can be put across with a Zelda-esque logo.

>>168966034
what about memes as easter eggs? what if they are obvious as to what they are?

>>168966639
*what if they aren't

>>168966639
They are still shit
How about you make your own jokes?

>>168966292
That wizard...!!!!!!!!!

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Pew pew

>>168966810
>How about you make your own jokes?
I like this meme. Can I use it in my game?

>>168966964
It's all yours my friend :)

>>168966889
Twisted Metal? I loved Twisted Metal 2


Goodluck to you, anon! It looks interesting already!

>>168960781
please follow me! (I'll follow you)
https://twitter.com/wild8900
hope noone minds that I shill my twitter as often as possible

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>>168965856
>>168965667

DREAMS?

>>168965485
Suggestion, turn all your "BORDER_SELECTED" references into a static string variable, so you don't have to change it in a million places

batch.Draw(Game1.textureLib[Strings.BORDER_SELECTED], destionationblahblah..)

>>168967023
Main inspiration was Interstate 76 but Twisted Metal is another good one.

I might make a quick multiplayer arena just so that people can drive around and shoot shit up. And to avoid coding AI because fuck coding AI

>>168960781
@realsweetboys

>>168960781
I already follow most of the devs here. You can follow #agdg #progress on tumblr and see the same 3 post regularly.

What does everyone use in their demos if they don't have any project music assets yet? Do you just throw in copyrighted songs from other games/bands and put a disclaimer? (I imagine you would absolutely have to turn off donations to stay safe).

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>>168967017
Thanks my buddy

Does any one here develop for mobile?

>>168967201
Alright thats a good idea.

Also tfw you want to rip a soundclip from an old popeye cartoon for a death sound.

"and so a big can of gasorine and many firecrwackas so I LOSE MY FACE"

https://youtu.be/sOmkvEMLIT0?t=332

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>>168967386
http://soundimage.com/
http://freemusicarchive.org/
And also pic related.

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Cybership
Dev: vestigialdev
Tools: Unity
Web: @vestigialdev

Progress:
+ Working on turning Cybership and HACK the F.B.I. into two content packs for the same base game versus separate codebases
- VestigialDevelopment.com expires soon :(

>>168965856
oh no its almost like he is trying to make a game instead of an engine nobody will use

I think you should call up the Menz & Mollyz. The resident literally insane shitposter is at it again, posting from his phone and trying to ruin /agdg/ with his sourceshit......

>>168941538
Yey, you are here! I've just wondered if you are still around.

>>168967901
??? It's just racist.

>>168967386
I use royalty free music. Also an /agdg/ music bro let me use a song for free. Of course I also give credit to the musicians.
Using music from other games or bands is honestly just tacky, it's worse than having no music.

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>>168963895
>>168964108
>gogem has been arguing posting and damage controlling in agdg for 20 hours
>no mistaking it for anyone impersonating if you know him so it's even more cringe to watch
This has been a painful week for poor gogem. Fucking hell.

>>168968125
oh i thought you were complaining that its not component and data based

>>168965963
I would, but the nods to the memes should be subtle so the game is interesting on its own, and even people that don't care about the memes can enjoy it.
For example, as a fantasy rpg:
>main party is made of faceless knights and cute witches
>all swords are wide and short
>dogs are never friendly
>a couple of kingdoms keep fighting about the best approach to do stuff instead of doing that stuff
>there is a crazy guy in the town that claims to be the king of dreams
>there is another crazy guy that beleves moths are chasing him

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>Fuck with Unity UI bullshit all evening
>Finally it starts to kinda click
Wow this is bad

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Why don't we collab and make Broquest?

wuh oh looks like a certain someone is here to have a meltdown about googs continuing to exist

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i was sick of hand placing 2x2 wide tiles for the rocks in tiled editor so i wrote a shader that would just base the texture uvs on the world space coordinate

then i realized that i could also add an offset based on the camera position and it gave me a parallax effect shader to use for the background too

>>168968517
It's a cursed project

>>168965963
>not making a shitty/siimple RPG of small scale and laughable quality
>not adding to it as foppery and whim dictates
>not progressively making the game more complex and fun through actually playing it yourself.

How far away is demo day?

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>cute girl on the cover looks nothing like the sprite in-game

I fucking hope that you don't do this.

>>168968217
you dont dev for 20 hour blocks d4?

>>168969085
Is the pink ball the girl?
But yeah I've noticed this happen pretty often

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Don't do this

>>168969226
Why not? It's true

>>168969085
Jokes on you. I'm saving up money just to commission someone to do exactly that.

There's nothing you can stop me with!

>>168969308
>its true

Why does being big mean your slow?

>>168969226
Even worse
>lore: this demon is incredibly powerful! He will destroy the entire city!
>game: can be comfortably killed at low levels

>lore: ah, there are some goblins around this area, they have been causing trouble harassing travelers
>game: because they are in a later-game or higher-level area they have 10 times the HP and attack damage of the previously mentioned demon

Shouldn't having big muscles mean you can move them more quickly because they are that much stronger and better developed?

>>168969382
it shouldn't
example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaHrdK6XNW0&t=1m10s

>>168968517
>>168968584
What is it?

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>>168969532
>random encounters in the lategame have more HP, defensive skills, move faster, and are generally harder to defeat than the final boss

the wizmud.

>>168969532
I don't know. That sort of unrealism doesn't bother me that much, even though I know it triggers some true RPG fans (especially those who come from the tabletop scene). I just find it funny.

However what usually unsettles me, or more even, triggers me, is to see cute lolis or teenage girls with guns or simply fighting in general, like this >>168968380. Other than that, max hype, canon holder girl makes my heart beat. Keep it up!

So in a fantasy world, where women can bear swords with the size twice of hers, while being extremely skinny yet having extreme size breasts which in no way cause her trouble in fighting, the last thing which will break my immersion is if the goblin in the next area could beat the demon lord in the previous or not.

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>>168969895
>>168969532
>shooting the same cartridge out of a different gun with higher rate of fire does less damage for balancing reasons

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>>168970047
Anon these are heavy duty soldiers. They fight for our freedom.

The enemies are carrot jellies.

>>168970051
relative force differential, m8

>>168970284
They protect us from getting fat and seeing in the dark?

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>>168969895
>final boss have a variety of attacks
>you need to plan a strategy to win

>random encounter weak monster randomly cast DEATH spell on you

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>>168970481
to be honest we haven't decided yet. It's all just placeholder stuff right now. Practice for the shopkeeper game we're going to make next. But here's a placeholder enemy.
Get it??? Get itttt?

>>168970653
Damn, I totally dig this style.

>>168970653
N-no?
Broccoli and children hate eating their vegetables?

>>168970653
>>168970653
>Le Broccoli man

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>>168970792
Yes.

>>168970791
I really love the work of the artist I'm collabing with. They have a great sense of aesthetic.

>>168970890
I did it, I'm the smartiest!
I'm not that interested in this game but I hope it goes well and you two move on to the shopkeeper.

>>168971019
>I'm not that interested in this game
FUCK you!
That's ok anon, this is just a small practice game so we jump into the shopkeeper game prepared, with experience in making a full game, and with a stable collab workflow. That's the prize.
Are you interested in a shopkeeper game?

Can Photon do direct IP connection? I was deciding between Photon and UNET and both have a 20 player limit if you use their servers, but this limit can be bypassed by UNET if you do a direct IP connection. Is this true for Photon as well?

>>168970890
Does your collab pal has a place where I could follow his (her?) work? I'm already stalking you, but there's never enough people for me to keep track of.

>I really love the work of the artist I'm collabing with.
For some reason that line broke my heart a little. I loved the work of my collab buddy so much. It was like seeing my inner visions come to life, you know. But hey, I'm sure he will be back in any minute!

But seriously, I'm not jelly. Sorry for the blog post. Best of luck for both of you!

>>168971075
Yeah I am, I love comfy games that focus more on atmosphere.
What kind of gameplay are you planning on?
I mean beyond the obvious, like funding trade caravans or something.

>>168969104
so much dev in only 24 hours :)

https://boards.fireden.net/vg/search/username/gogem/page/1/

https://boards.fireden.net/vg/search/username/gogem/page/3/

>>168971301
>not a single progress post
Tell me again why this guy posts here with a name?

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wasted yesterday on this shadow crap (which i might not even want to use in the end.

first i popped a self made sprite onto it as a shadow (would look good if i made it at the right size and without the mixels)

somebody here told me "use shaders dumbass" so i tried that, but fuck having anything vertex manipulated in unity staying on a pixelgrid did not want to work.

Also it is just a shearing shader to fake shadows, which is wrong anyway

what i got now is a script i plop onto a sprite and it generates a sheared pixelperfect shadow sprite automatically.

It's still just shearing, but i think that is good enough for now.

But hey, now i know shaders are pretty cool and useful (duh)

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crab with backpack now moves around and follows player

>>168971259
As far as I'm aware, they only have a website -- which contains their real name, so I'm not going to share it without their permission. We'll be setting up a devblog for this project and for the shopkeep game when we have enough of a game for it to be appropriate to do so.

>>168971283
We have an entire design fleshed out for the shopkeep game but we've kept it "small scale", so instead of the dungeon-diving minigame like recettear, we're going to focus primarily on the shop. Running the shop, upgrading the shop, and crafting inventory for the shop. We want to make the game atmospheric, focusing on a nice cast of characters and personalities. A mixture of management, strategy, and crafting. I'd go into more detail but it would just sound like idea guying until we have a demo.

>>168971661
looks much better
one trick that is worth looking into is rendering the game at a pixel perfect size then scaling up to the screen size. Pixels can't go out of line if it's rendered 1:1. I don't know how to do it in Unity though

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>>168971661
i guess if the shape is irregular, the "just shearing" is not too bad

>>168971710
I'm happy you haven't dropped this project after the jam. Keep it up!

>>168971082
im not sure the answer to this but ive heard that photon is so shit that its only usable if you basically rewrite the entire thing

>>168971871
oh i got the pixel perfect thing working now, but the problem with the shader was that it shears the pixels, since for unity this is just a texture on a quad. which means you get edges diagonal to the axis.

It is the same with rotation a sprite in unity, which i guess i will also have to do via script to make it pixel rotate.

>>168971956
it's more of a fuckaround testbed for me atm. I've got no idea where to take it and only work on it as a break from my two other projects
it'll probably end up as some kind of animal crossing comfy town sim with actual fun things to do if it goes anywhere

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: BLOODRUSH
Dev: Liar-bird
Tools: GM:S, Paint
Web: no

Progress:
+ Created some basic assets for acts two and three (most ground tiles)
+ Got real time reflections working for any surface angle
+ Made the player's scarf all dynamic and flowy and nice looking
+ Started work on a few super simple starter levels to ease players into things
+ Posted on /aggydaggy/ for the first time in about a year

>>168956532
hhhnnnngghh

This is making me hate Bethesda knowing that we'll never get a Fallout: New Vegas 2.

It's so comfy, reminds me of the NCR areas in that game. What did you make this in? Do you happen to know the names of the instruments/sounds? All my music has this flat tone for each note, I don't even know what it's called when I want to make a sound go up and down as it's playing, I can only make separate noises. I want it to sound like t....iiiiiiiiiiiIIIIIIIIING, but it sounds like ting ting ting TING TING TING!!

>>168958123
>https://clyp.it/p0mtxrup
fug

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>tfat feel when some Let's Player makes a video of your comfy jam game

>>168972336
I am absolutely terrified of this and this is why I don't want to participate in the game jams

>>168971661
Man it takes a special kind of determination to do pixel-perfect anything in Unity, I commend you

>>168972130
Post some webms, man. I haven't seen your game in action for a while.

>>168971402
you dont make progress with progress posts

>>168972336
Mind to share the link?

http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1022094/JPS-Over-100x-Faster-than
why are you still using A* anon?

>>168972459
i'm still baffled the unity people did not build that stuff into the engine, since it is the trendy thing to do pixel stuff.

Go from watching C++ and Visual Studio tutorials to Top 10 courtroom outbursts and then end up watching documentaries about foreign maximum security prisons. Hey, at least Visual Studio finished installing.

Now to wait for Unreal download/installation.

Progress is progress!

>>168972527
https://youtu.be/xY4TWkBaSeg
I haven't watched it myself yet.

>>168972465
Don't have anything recent recorded, sorry.
Will see if I can get something whipped up for tomorrow though.

>>168971661
it's always painful to see shit like this
people who don't understand how shadows work making these godawful attempts at them in games
it's like with that fucking titan souls game or hyper light drifter, wanted to tear out my fucking eyes going through those pieces of shit

>>168972902
gratz buddy u deserve it

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>>168972902
I just watched the first minute, I'm not fimialer with let's players but this guy kinda sucks.
Sorry man, your game is cool though.

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closer to getting this stupid fucking affine shader working. I hate GM:S's shaders. No clue how to fix the vertexes flipping out.

>>168972778
>Go from watching C++ and Visual Studio tutorials to Top 10 courtroom outbursts and then end up watching documentaries about foreign maximum security prisons
Gotta love the internet

>>168971661
Well done

>>168973015
t. shitty artist

>>168972613
>can't change map
>nodes have uniform cost
>only half works on non-grids
well they're pretty big downsides. Pretty cool though

>>168973089
>>168973104
Thanks. I'm not a fan of LPs because they're usually really really bad at games, which kind of makes me feel bad about not making my games retard-proof.

>>168973015
well realism isn't the goal, the goal is to make something feel less flat, and adding shadows, even shitty ones makes a huge difference.

also, there is no mathematically perfect way to do this, since you got flat sprites of fake 3d objects, so you are missing the information to make a "real" shadow and even if you could, you would not since that is just an unnecessary drain of computing resources.

draw me a crude picture in paint of how it should look, maybe i can improve my thingy.

>>168972902
Noice.

Also, I always wanted to ask this, but you don't have to answer if it's too private or something. You usually set up your games with "Pay what you want". Have you received any cash with it so far?

>>168973532
Nope, but I've never really hoped of making anything with them so it's cool.

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New enemy

>other aggydaggy devs have itch pages full of demos and games
>I struggle to start one game and I wonder if I'll ever finish
Fuck.

>>168973716
It's okay, anon, we all started from where you are now. Just don't ever give up.

>>168973716
demo days and jams are your friend

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>>168973716
Get the dev train rolling and just pump dat shit out son. Soon you'll be having fun. Literally just make something that you know is fucking garbage but you know that you can do.

Just take a big steaming game shit. Polishing turds is fun and make it your goal to end up with something thats playable and that you are proud of. I've started and quit projects for almost two years before reaching the stage of "Fun things are fun"

pic related.

>>168973457
Who are you? You're too smart for /agdg/.

>>168973716
Just like me, but that's because I'm never satisfied with my work and can't art.

>>168973530
>well realism isn't the goal,
>also, there is no mathematically perfect way to do this, since you got flat sprites of fake 3d objects

That's some of the stupidest shit you could've said. I'll draw something up for your sorry ass.

how should it be done fellows?

thing{

}

or

thing
{

}

>>168974271
thanks

>>168974279
whatever your team uses
whatever is easiest in your ide / editor
whatever, as long as it's consistent
always newline

>>168972613
but I do use jump search anon