/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

Post concept art

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>>169286714

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I figured out how to fix /4gdg/

I can now find all the progress in just a few minutes, and dev without being distracted by shitposting.

Use this as custom CSS:
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How do you actually set up to make your first thing?
Farthest I got in observing people discussing this was either people recommending an engine or just a language and then telling people to download a bunch of libraries about which I have no goddamn clue what they are or do.

>>169286714
Do spritesi not yet being used count as concept art?

>>169287172
No, only if you're not going to use them.

>>169287137
What do you even want to make?
If it's a game then literally just download an engine, if you want to jerk off over muh coding experience then pick a language.

>>169287137
Install Unity and just go

>>169287323
In the final game that is. Some use concept art as placeholders.

>>169286934
You can put 4chanX on fap mode. It will only show posts with images.

>>169287402
fuck myself?
you realize this is the crucial part nobody ever explains and one of the biggest reasons people stop dead after installing?

>>169287782
wha

>>169287137
It will always depends on what you want. There is no universal engine and libraries that works on any kind of game you will ever want.

If you don't even know what you want to make, then start by doing tutorials.

>>169287782
Dude. Watch some bullshit inspiration stuff. You are clearly empty of ideas. Once you have inspiration you can atleast start.

>>169287137
define "thing"
first game?
first engine?
first program?

>>169287782
literally just read the fucking manual

>>169287137
Download Godot, download the demo projects, check them out. Read the docs. Watch tutorials.

today i'm gonna add fuckload of interesting items to my borderlands clone and make the crafting system better.

now i just need some place i can rip some cool 3d models off.

enjoy your pedo-pig jam degenerates

>>169286714
i would, but i'm stuck at the point where i realize i need loomis yet i can't find the discipline to grind

>>169289041
91% toxic

How do you guys keep up with code when it gets longer? I've studied programming for a few years already and I have no idea how people do it. When I have a thousand lines of code, I'm already completely lost.

>>169289338
Separate it into multiple files. Don't Repeat Yourself. Make functions of things you do often. Use classes. Use comments.

>>169289041
There is no need to be upset

>>169289440
All of these except for the last one.

>>169289338
Better organization.
Good comments.
Thoughtful naming.
If you're too busy to keep it in your head... a chart of how shit connects might help. I've never needed that though, with my ~20k LOC codebase.

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>>169289507

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>>169289041
thanks I will!

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Tell me the secret to a successful Kikestarter campaign!

>>169290467
This is a gamedev general, not a scam artist general

>>169290467
GOOD graphics

>>169290467
pre-existing fan base

>>169290676
like Undertale?

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Reminder that the RUSH HOUR JAM page is live
https://itch.io/jam/rush-hour-jam

>>169290740
for undertale >>169290717 applies instead

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what do you guys think of my new game

>>169290740
Fuck man, don't be such a basic bitch. Obviously there are different paths to get there.

>undertale was kickstarted
what das fuck

>>169290836
But that is old

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I want to make a 2D shooter, but I keep bouncing back and forth between different types of 2D shooters.

Which sort of shooter should I make?

http://poal.me/ibpc7j

>>169291561
If you can't decide on your own you'll never make it

How often does Valve pick games to greenlight?

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I'm struggling with art block and obsessing over how the visuals must be perfect even though I'm not a triple A studio.

How do I convince myself to just do it?
For christ's sake it's going to be free but I still feel pressured somehow.

>>169292009
Literally never.

>>169292085
>How do I convince myself to just do it?
Tell yourself you're going to make it intentionally bad.

>>169292009
Once every couple weeks or so.

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Started working on an abstract dungeon crawler.

I want to experiment with procedural dungeon layout generation, without the hassle of generating concrete tile maps, puzzles, enemy placement, and so on. So I'm making a simple game that doesn't have any of those details, where you can play through an abstract dungeon layout directly.

So far:
> rooms
> doors
> windows - let you see what's in an adjacent room, but don't let you go there directly
> secret passages - one side is invisible until you've entered the passage from the other side

Remaining:
> chests & inventory system
> keys & locked doors
> obstacles - puzzles, enemies, etc
> minimap

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>>169286714
My game's protagonist

>>169292584
Neato

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>>169292584
nice shadowverse reference

>>169292452
What are you going to do to make it marketeable?

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>>169286714
One of the main antagonists.

What should I model

>>169294081
is she like, wearing a spine and a ribcage of something much bigger on her back as an accessory?

>>169294702
A cassette tape.

>>169286714
I would but it's so hilariously bad that I would be bullied.

>>169294814
Yep. Show her connection to death/the dead.
Note that it's being held on by the spirits surrounding her so it's also a show of force and control.

>>169290836
Wow, I've never had someone impersonate me before, I feel like I've hit a big milestone today.

Whats the best game ever made with Unity?

>>169295296
undertale

>>169294937
if you didn't pay money for it to someone with YEARS OF EXPERIENCE, no, you won't

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>>169286714
Moths have feelings too

>>169295475
I've posted it before. Yes I will, on the concept of the attempted art style alone.

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Got energy packets working and polished resource generation and storage.

Next up is optimizing it a little bit and making it so that packets that lose track of their destinies go to the nearest storage instead (when transmission poles are destroyed for example), then probably some super basic enemy AI.

I'm open to suggestions for units, I'm planning on doing lasers, mirrors that reflect lasers and lasers.

>>169295296
Ori and the blind forest

>>169295621
Is that the moth shmup?

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>>169286714
I maek sprite

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>>169286714
I did this a while back, the lazy mage girl that joins you on your journey. Also >HANDS

>>169295761
What about lasers?

>>169295761
I'm imagining programming this and it's heinously tedious. Looking cool tho.

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So I wanna use existing games sprites as placeholder art. Googled for some ripped spritesheets and maybe I am stupid but how exactly am I supposed to use these sheets when the sprites have different sizes and are placed at arbitrary locations?

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>>169295852
Yes!

>>169296042
So is she a monkey girl?

>>169296101
You align them yourself.

>>169295852
Is that a rhetorical question? Is there someone else on agdg who constantly posts tittymoths? No shit it's the moth shmup.

>>169296167
Nah I was trying for a sort of "falling through the sky" sort of thing. That's the ass flap on her tunic.

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>>169296176
All of them? One by one? By hand? By myself?

>>169296259
Oh sorry I meant you're supposed to enter them into a magical program that aligns them all automatically and at no cost of effort for the user.

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>>169295761
And a bigger map for good measure.

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Someone made an AUR package for my last game. Now I'm feeling self-conscious and want to fix all the problems with it.

>>169296101

What engine are you using?

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Put navmesh on a separate layer, gives me much higher flexibility and accuracy.

Been working on an idea for an SRPG with resource management mechanics, but I'm afraid it'll be too much like The Banner Saga.

>You play as a group of knights caught up in a political power play; you are the fall guys basically and have to be eliminated
>Get hounded around the kingdom until there's nowhere left to run
>Game themes are free will vs. determinism, the nature of history, the pitfalls of honor, etc. but that's not important
>World map screen is for foraging for food and water, crafting, alchemy, bartering for materials and information with villagers, conversing with your party, etc.
>Notoriety meter affects difficulty level of battles, frequency of military checkpoints, search parties, traps, etc.
>Towns and shops can only be visited a certain number of times without attracting the eye of local authorities
>Fixed number of party members (no recruitment like some SRPGs), and at a certain point in the story you have to let one of them die
>Difficulty and scarcity of resources gradually ramps up (obviously), to create an atmosphere of hopelessness and inevitability
>Varied class system, multiple endings, and NG+ make for high replayability
>FF Tactics/Tactics Ogre style gameplay (still deciding how to flesh this out a bit)
>Hand-drawn watercolor graphics (already have the writer on clutch for this)

Would you play?

are minecraft graphics, ok?

>>169296396
Realistically it shouldn't be hard to actually make such a program. Maybe that's a coding project for next weekend.

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hey /agdg/,
I'm gonna post two pics.

What look do you prefer?
(1/2)

>>169296841
NO

>>169296841
ok

>>169296396
Oh good, I mean what sort of world would that be where people take the time to rip sprites but instead of putting them at an equal distance between each other to make them easier to use, they just dump them as close as possible.

>>169296629
Sorry but I'm not interested. Good luck though.

How long do y'all usually spend in your planning phase? I'm talking purely paper.

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>>169296961
or this?
(2/2)

>>169297125
>>169296961
Neither kys hurf durf I have no penis

>>169296841
define minecraft graphics

If you mean pseudoretro square shit with 4x4 textures then yeah it's pretty horrible, but low-poly can look good if done right.

>>169297125
this

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>>169297190

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>>169294081

>>169297125
This one if you can improve the textures.

>>169297110
Till about 2000 lines and then I'm good.

>>169297125
This one

>>169297297
yo that first one looks like some cool steampunk mask shit.

>>169297417
>>169297306
>>169297287
hm, okay, so more work it is.

Thanks guys.

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>>169297297

Gotta say, never really been here before and I'm super impressed by the amount of work evidently getting done. Like, this has to be the most productive corner of 4chan. I cane here thinking about talking about twine and see 3D, good art assets, and pretty impressive programming.

Anyway, carry on.

>>169297297
>no matter how you put it, your mom still shouldn't have slept with her father

>>169296961
this

>>169297125
This one, but pipe down the brightness a bit.

>>169297523
Just because it exists doesn't mean it doesn't look buttfuck retarded.

>>169297531
There's nothing wrong with twine if you're writing interactive fiction though.

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Sketch from two days ago, current version of character. Keep her booties or replace them with other footware, yay or nay?

Reminder that if you can't get any good idea on your own, you should just concede that you'll forever be a code monkey for someone else's dream.

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>>169297728

>>169297838
Post your game.

>>169297531
stay and make twine games, anon
you're way more likely to finish

>>169297828
Booties are fine.
I really like this redesign, keep it up.

>>169297954
not that guy but there is only one piece of east asian clothing that doesn't look weird as fuck and that would be the chinese hooker uniform

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>>169297954

>>169297728 With that said, there's a lot of pretty funny things to be drawn from that culture's history as >>169298232 implies and as file attached demonstrates.

>>169296961
This one, except less thick fog, and slightly more blue, not pure white.

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>>169298232
>chinese hooker uniform

notice these
>>169297954
>>169297523
have two strings, one closer to the face and one behind the ear
>>169294081
doesn't, maybe that's why anon finds it weird.

>>169298427
Maybe anon is just a big bitch

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>>169297295
>not posting the real version

>>169298343
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheongsam

>>169298341
that makes it 2 : 4 now.

>>169298343
qipao

>>169298427
Let me assure you, the second strap improves it, but it doesn't make it not retarded.

>>169298536
I keep reading it as Chen-o-gasm

>>169298479
saved for next time.

>>169296808
Sounds like typical ideaguying. "We're gonna have these billion features and they're all gonna be awesome!"

Yes of course I would play a game with a billion awesome features. But I don't think you're capable of making such a game. Your proposal is massively over-scoped, which suggests you don't have the experience to realize how hard this stuff is.

I accepted the reality of gamedev and I am going to make a small 3d game with 5 levels that has a few features of puzzle solving

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Okay, any unityfags, can you help me with a problem? I have a lock on mechanic in my game sorta working, but I need it to center the camera's view on the middle of what it's locked on to without adjusting the camera's actual rotation or position (it's a locked 3rd person camera position).

How do I get a Vector3 in worldspace to translate to a screen position coordinate? If I can get that I can force inputs to move the camera into its correct position, but otherwise I'll have to find another solution.

Before anyone suggests it LookAt() will fuck up the camera's rotation.

I sketched this up to illustrate the problem.

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guys I've been away for longer than I bother recalling, what happened to the guy who endlessly posted webm's of a little girl and a bear?

>>169299497
Sounds good man, I'm looking forward to playing this in 2 years.

How the fuck do I pick an engine without knowing how to dev?

>>169299570
There is a function in camera like WorldToScreenSpace or something.

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>>169299809

>>169299945
Download game maker. Learn to dev in that engine. Problem solved.

>>169297789
Still feels a bit out of place when most everyone else here has marketable skills.
>>169298167
It's also light erotica right now depending on your choices, I havent decided whether to take the plunge into it being outright pornographic or keep it clean. Not sure if there is a general on 4chan that seems appropriate really, all the actual porn game generals are either specific to particular games or ultra autistic, or both.

>>169299945
2D: Game Maker
3D: Unity or Unreal

>>169300000
CHECKED

>>169299945
I'm working up my basic mechanics in Python since Python is piss easy to code. When i come up with a solid concept, I'll port it to the appropriate engine, and half the work will already be done.

>>169299945
Just pick one and start learning about it. If you like it then make game. If you hate it then you have information that will help you on your next decision.

I want to put anime girls in my game

>>169299945
It depends on what you want to do, GameMaker for 2D and Unity for 3D are the most popular ones.

>>169299945
Learn to dev first

>>169300053
>>169300190

is unity not good for a 2D gemu?

>>169300236
Unity is fine for 2D.

I'm learning racket in school.

what games can I make with racket?

>>169300236
Unity isn't good at 2D. It's also not good at 3D, but people use it anyways.

>>169300236
GM would be better for 2D.

>>169300236
Is not bad, but since it's not focused on that you have to do some extra work. No the best idea dor someone new to dev.

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>>169300294
>>169300342
>>169300406
>>169300421

I'm getting mixed messages here...

>>169300236
BROWSER GAMES!

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>>169300236
As far as I know I am the only dev here to try to use Unity for 2D and I am probably fucking insane for trying it. The editor is nice to have but most of the engine features are either not usable with 2D or don't work well with it. I've been porting over code that I originally wrote for XNA and I would say I've basically spent enough time writing basic systems an engine is expected to have that I might as well be engine deving.

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>>169286714

>>169300484
can you believe people have different opinions?

>>169300484
2D: GM
3d: Unity or Unreal

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>>169300598
Not the only dev here.

Game Maker Or Unity for 2d game making?

Vote now!

http://www.strawpoll.me/12408413

I should add to >>169300598 that it is useful if you want to use some 3D features while making a majorly 2D game. The best example if is you want to use lighting and shadows (in which case you are actually modeling your sprites in 3D but as sort of weird shapes to trick shadows into working and rendering them through an orthographic camera).

>pixel graphics is the only kind of 2D
WEW
LADS

>>169300901
Why not both? Which one's best for your particular project depends on what your project needs.

>>169300994
Who are you quoting

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>>169300838
>narrator

>tfw nobody cares about your game

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>>169301397
i care anon

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>>169301397

my game will be unlike any game you've ever played

Show me some 2d games that ARENT pixel art (hand drawn etc)

>>169301770
I dunno, kid. I've played a lot of games. Games from around the world. Games you couldn't even dream of.

>>169301770
If you say so. Post progress.

>>169300161
DO IT DO DO IT

>>169301353
I'm OK with the Iron Giant telling this story.

>>169301849
>many men have tired, son. many men and things so far beyond men, you cannot even begin to comprehend them

>>169300617
Trippy. I like it

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>>169300161
is there something stopping you?

give me the overall price in dollars of diferent genres.

like a basic platformer how much will it cost to program, a jrpg, a FPS and so on.

>>169300000
Those are some remarkable digits

>>169302336
platformer: $5k
fps: $7.5k
jrpg: $3k

>>169302336
that's an outrageous request

>>169302336

It depends on a number of different factors. Why do you ask?

>tfw UE4 takes 55 years to install

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>>169302481

>>169302336
platformer $5000
jrpg $2500
fps $9000

>>169302841
dont worry your game will take 55 years to compile every time as well

>>169297125
Textured

>>169303028
ughhhhh i'm about to install Unity

>>169303148
same shit
you are better off trying 55 years to build your own engine and then finding some really tall building to jump from

>>169302336
One billion dollars should cover all your bases.

>>169303285
Pffft. Not nearly the same shit. Unity's leaps and bounds faster to work with if you're short on time.

>>169302336
S C O P E
C
O
P
E

YOU FUCKING RETARD

WHAT'S MORE EXPENSIVE, WINE OR SHOTS?
THAT'S HOW FUCKING STUPID YOU SOUND

>>169303451
I just want to release a small 3d game in a few weeks in Unity

>>169302951
ask a retarded question get a retarded answer

>>169289507
Comments are useful for complex stuff like calculations. And to help other people understand your code

>>169296808
Damn right I'd play. But I agree with the other guy. Sounds like too much for you to handle alone...

>>169303559
Alright, sure, just be ready to shell out some cash unless you want to make something really basic or unless you're a pretty competent programmer that can very quickly get the grasp of a new API/structure.

If it's just something like an arkanoid or a ball-roller game you should be fine.

>>169303680
I was thinking a small 3d puzzle game where you can move pieces around

>>169303570
Clearly this question was asked by a small child, or an extremely uninformed adult. Considering the amount of shitposting ITT, the least you can do is try and give a coherent answer, or at least point out why the question was a bad one. You can either start fires, or put them out my dude.

>>169303642
>>169298762
Should have mentioned I guess that I'm not working on this alone. Already have a team of two artists, two coders, and a composer. I'm the scenario/dialogue writer and director. Still I do agree that the scope is quite large. I doubt we'll be able to implement all of the mechanics; it'll be a delicate balancing act of finding what's too much, especially with the overworld mechanics.

>>169303892
Yep. Good luck, have fun. That's achievable in a few short weeks so long as you keep your art-needs down and your code simple and perfunctory.

Make sure you go through the tutorials.

>>169304026
then I will post it here so you can all play!

>>169303548
shots

>>169303963
Have you considered episodic development, rather than trying to shit out something cohesive in one go?

is super male vitality pro good for game dev

>>169304202
yes. and beef jerky

>>169304202
If you wanna get fat yeah

>>169304194
Potentially, yes. Although I would prefer something cohesive (I don't like all of this Early Access indieshit), if it helped to facilitate development then sure.

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>>169286714

>>169304484
Having a polished product - even if it's only a fraction of the whole - can help in a ton of ways. Helps you catch problems that might have only cropped up when you were "finished". Gives you an excellent sense of accomplishment that you can crush up and snort to give you the juice to keep going. I'm not going to tell you your business, but it also might help if you have cohesion issues with the team (or even the clouds indicating a storm is coming). Having something done invests people.

>>169304697
I'll definitely keep that in mind for the future. Thanks for the advice!

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>>169304818
Not a problem my dude, good luck and god speed.

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You can rearrange stuff now, huzzah!

Next up is being able to rotate stuff, and probably an overflow grid for when you've got a full inventory and want to move stuff.

I'm in this for the money. I can't get attached.

>>169305042
>I'll never forget it
>The game that started as a job
>And ended up the love of my life

>>169304980
Nice, that system worked really well with the survival/horror theme of RE4. Wish there were more horror game with a serious survival aspect.

>>169305042
>>169305219
this is the same way guys get addicted to loving traps

>>169305396
I just fap to traps every once in a while, I'm not addicted.

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>>169305396
fuck traps
gender bender is better
just finished Boku Girl today
greatest love story ever told
though the ending felt weak, whole manga was pretty much no fucks given softcore porn, but in the end they don't even show them living together, just going on a first date ;_;

>>169300039
Most twine games ive ever seen have been porn, itll probably tap a greater community that way. And if the writings actually good maybe itll spread word-of-mouth afterwords.

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are you guys shitting me or did everyone seriously went to read this >>169305754

>>169306793
...?

>>169305754
>liking literal gay manga
Bleah

>>169306793
Someone >>169305936 mentioned twine porn games and everyone had to go research.

>>169305754
gas weebs

I want to make a game based around all cats

I would like to hear some ideas about cats

>>169307160
Infecting your owner with an incurable brain parasite.

>>169307160
Every texture is a cat, even if heavily modulated.
Subtle cat takeover of human domicile. Features to throw off human suspicion.

>>169307160
pissing and meowing.

>>169307160
I abuse my cat on a daily basis and he is terrified of me, ask me anything

>>169307478
Why do you abuse catto?

>>169307160
フリッキー

>>169307589
It's just fun

>>169307160
Neko Atsume

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>>169307160

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>>169307642

>>169307478
if that's true then you must be a miserable person

>>169307160
If you can't get any good idea on your own, you should just concede that you'll forever be a code monkey for someone else's dream.

>>169307751
Did you know cats scream? They do.

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>>169306935
>>169307032
your loss

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>>169307863

>>169307339
I like this idea it can be a cat zombie game where you go around infecting as many people as possible

>>169307441
go on..

>>169307749
wtf so a creepy horror cat game?

BOOOOORING

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>unity does some retarded shit with structs in particle systems where they all reflect objects and throw exceptions in their public constructors
>they also modify null reference exceptions to add the completely unrelated message:
>Do not create your own module instances, get them from a ParticleSystem instance

>>169308186
thanks OOP

>>169308267
there is literally nothing wrong with OOP

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>>169297828
You know what to do.

>>169308186
thanks Unity

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>>169308186
>Unity

>>169308116
>go on..
Setting up elaborate chain reactions to murder your owner or to let other cats into the house.

The challenge is that you don't have opposable thumbs. Early-level human will overtly mock you for this. Oh, sure, you started off an innocent enough kitten - but a cat can only take so much.

As you progress through the game, the cat textures become increasingly less modulated, until everything is cats on the last level.

>>169304636
>brick chimney on a caravan
dealbreaker on an otherwise nice design.

>>169308320
except you being born

>>169308267
its just them being idiots and breaking as many c# standards as they can think of

>>169308116
Designated meow button

>>169308419
impressive

10/10 idea guy would hire

>>169287137
>>169287782
If the scope of your game is very limited and specific, you can likely find a rapid development tool which will allow you to quickly get going within a rigid framework. Maybe it's a point-n-click adventure, in which case I'd point you to good old AGS... or maybe RPG Maker would be of interest.

But in the general case, there is no simple way to make an interesting game. It's complicated and time consuming.

0) Go 2D for your first game.
1) Watch some video tutorials for a tool such as Game Maker until you have a general clue what's going on with them, what different parts of it are called, and how things are supposed to be put together.
2) Think of a very small but interesting game idea. It can be heavily derived from an existing simple game like Pong or Breakout but I suggest putting at least a slight spin on it. Give you more motivation since you end up with something unique instead of an exact clone.
3) Using your basic knowledge from 1), and learning as you go, program a version of that game. Use placeholder graphics, like boxes and lines.
4) Create some graphics or use existing free-to-use images
5) Polish things and release.

>>169308186
Where's your fully featured engine with particle system wizards?

>>169291561
I find that asking the internet what to make never works. The idea has to be yours and it has to take seed... you have to actually be interested in it. /Your/ idea is far more powerful than anyone else's.

Unity fingered my girlfriend.

>>169308803
Are you working on anything anon? Happy to drop some thoughts on you.

Please hire me

>>169308843
thanks
Is there some general golden mean for structuring the code?
I mean, putting things in different sections and different files so that you don't get lost.

I mean, what's the very first thing you write?

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>>169308320
It objectifies female characters

>>169297125
2, but
* Texture everything
* Use a higher quality grass texture, it's too blurry relative to the ball. It needs a sense of depth too, use a normal map or something
* Are you happy with the contrast between the perfectly smooth ball and the lowpoly environment?

>>169309257
!!!

>>169296841
I'm not a huge fan but it must be doing something right. The user count doesn't lie.

>>169309257
It also perpetuates a class-based society.

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Unity asked to borrow one of my systems and I said okay but only if he didn't change it so he takes it and removes all the components and clicks apply to prefab.
I hate him.

Unity will bring about the master race.

>>169299570
I don't follow. Why can't you move the camera? Keep track of where it /would/ be if you weren't locked on and use that for the third person follow mechanic, and store the actual position of the camera separately (maybe have the actual camera object the child of a dummy object?) so it can be shifted and rotated as needed.

I wouldn't suggest trying to shift the camera after you're already in eye/view/screen/whateverspace... that's just asking for a headache. Get the camera in place before you transform anything.

>>169300598
why wouldn't you just use Monogame if you wrote you code in XNA?

wtf why would you try to shoehorn 2D XNA code into Unity??

>writing code for saving and loading game data for PC

>make it so game outputs visible data to the user's desktop as .fuck files

I love game dev

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>>169309154
I'm not the anon you asked, but:

If you're writing your own engine what you usually do is write the bare minimum program that renders a triangle in a window, then you expand from there, moving things into different files once it gets too unwieldy.

If you're using a third party engine you read the documentation and do whatever they tell you to do to get something basic running.

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>>169309313
>* Texture everything
Yeah, before doing that i wanted a general opinion. So i don't go over 100+ objects and people like the other more.

>* Use a higher quality grass texture, it's too blurry relative to the ball. It needs a sense of depth too, use a normal map or something
Right now it's basically shader green color a grey multiplied-in noise texture and a normal map generated from that noise texture.

>* Are you happy with the contrast between the perfectly smooth ball and the lowpoly environment?
I still wanna change the ball to something.
Probably comic-like heads that can talk.

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>>169307160
You're a tiny kitten and you have a short timeframe to cause as much havoc as possible. You can sprint at ridiculous speeds, knock things over, scratch people, claw your way up curtains and destroy them in the process, etc. Goal is to fill up your chaos meter as much as possible before running out of time, and avoid being captured and put in the carrier.

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>>169309990
>If you're using a third party engine you read the documentation and do whatever they tell you to do to get something basic running.

guess I have no other choice
fuck I loathe things which aren't at least a bit intuitive

>>169309810
because i wanted to use the unity editor and the code is extremely portable

I was just painting my warhammer pieces and Unity walked by and looked super interested and I was excited for a moment because I thought maybe he was going to ask me questions and I could share my hobby with someone new and he was leaning in super close looking at it and I was about to ask if he would like to paint his own but then he flicked it out of my hand super hard and it flew across the room and into the heating vent and he walked out whistling the theme song to SeaQuest because he knows it's my favorite show.

>>169299570
>I want to rotate my camera and position it to look at something,without actually rotating and positioning it
you what?

>>169310123
>Catlateral Damage

>>169309729
I'm not sure if I've made my problem clear. The third person camera currently follows the player nicely, what I want it to do though is when the player locks on to something, move the crosshair centered to the target (via hijacking the existing camera controls) so that the player's view is locked to the center of their target.

If I simply instruct the camera to look at the target, I will change the angle of the camera relative to the player.

As a result, what I need it to do is get the position of the center of the object in world or local space and rotate the player (to which the camera's X axis is locked) and tilt the camera (which rotates up and down freely) so that the center of the screen is centered on the locked on target.

Unity is a chad engine for chads.

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You merely adopted the autism. I was born in it, molded by it.

>leave rigidbody in scene
>it just starts spinning faster and faster
>begins to spins so fast that it will appear frozen for several seconds before flipping to another orientation
UNITTYYYYYYYYYYY

>>169310250
I would tell you how stupid that is, but you'll figure thatout on your own if you haven't already

>>169310584
im not sure what you are getting at? there are a bunch of downsides to unity for 2d which i am well aware of
an example of the code i ported is my collision code because unity only supports floaty physics shit natively

>>169310123
I unironically like this idea. I would probably make it if I wasn't so in deep on my current project.

>>169310318
Okay. Let me explain one more time. The camera is rotated via existing joystick axis controls and I don't want to shift them off-center, so I want the crosshair (middle of the screen) to turn so that the target is centered without having the camera change its relative position to the player.

If I were to try and do this manually, I would only have to move the sticks to put the crosshair on the center of the target, but I want that to happen automatically when the player locks on.

>>169309154
Basically what >>169309990 said. I usually do my own engine and everything stays in main.cpp for quite a while. Then it gets split up when it gets sizable, but only in reasonably big chunks. I have Renderer.cpp and Mesh.cpp, but I don't have an elaborate OOP hierarchy or a strict one-class-per-CU restriction.

Basically: I only carve something out if it's big enough to actually get in my way. I kind of feel that if you spend significant time planning a codebase, and you aren't working on a serious commercial project, you're just wasting time and avoiding writing actual code that does stuff.

>>169310117
That grass is normal mapped? It doesn't really look like it from the screen, I guess it's more obvious in motion?

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>>169310438
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km-ui2qtH4g

REEEEE

>>169310521
2nd row, columns 2 and 3.
What in the fuck is happening?
It that what happens when his engine idles? Or is he like super constipated or something?

>>169311183
>switches genders between every speaker
>starts with female

HMM

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>>169311183
Jealous that we have all the cool devs?
You should be

>>169311102
it would probably only be noticable with moving lights.

>>169310521
Giving the 2D, framed-in-profile nature of your sprites, I feel like you could've automated a lot of these by setting up a skeleton / inverse kinematics system.

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>>169311183
>>169311343
>>169311462
we all know unity is a meme engine developers of which actively participate in feminism stuff, this is not a new thing
this is the engine you chose and associate yourself with

>>169310972
I don't want to say I'm an autist, who can't live without everything being neatly organized, down to the tiniest thing, because I'm not, I just want to keep track of things to save me a headache.

>>169310426
Should the position of the cursor on the screen change? Does the position (not rotation) of the player change?

>>169311462
I guarantee that chick got railed by a UnityChad™ at that con

>>169311270
the animations aren't meant to all loop, they're just being displayed that way
thats just a brief 3 frame animation where he lowers himself a few pixels before he jumps, it only takes a few frames ingame so it loops super fast

>>169311507
or I could use a skeleton/inverse kinematics system to generate the 2d sprites and export them, which is what I did

>>169311578
Not using something purely because you don't like the majority of other users is stupid.
Just make games. What the fuck does any of this bullshit matter?

>>169311578
more like UNITREEEE am i right? :^)

>>169311741
>which is what I did
Really? Seems like you would've gotten smoother results.

>>169311578
Hope you don't breathe anon, because I've heard Hitler used to do that shit as well.

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>>169311858
if you rotate sprites you either get aliasing or blurred anti aliasing, you need to draw each direction of rotation for each component or draw each frame from scratch

>>169311875
Not the person you replied to, but this is a really stupid argument.
We have the ability to choose which engine we use but do not have a choice on whether we breathe normal air (composed mostly of nitrogen & oxygen) or some entirely different composition.
That being said, refer to >>169311770

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>>169311578
And yet this is an official promotional art for Unity
Really makes you think...

>>169304636
That's looking cool. Reminds me of the house/car in tales from the borderlands.

>>169312194
>We have the ability to choose which engine
Based on whether or not feminists have used it or not?

>>169311578
SJW shitgames are almost always either visual novels or 2D pixel games

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>>169312208
>dat gratuitous legspread for no reason
>can see her clit slit
>can see her ass cheeks
>dat groin muscle

>>169312208
If that really makes you think, you may want to take a trip to a beach sometime.

>>169312308
That has nothing to do with what you posted. You can't make a comparison between hitler breathing air and using a game engine because it implies we can breathe in a different kind of air to set ourselves apart from hitler. That is impossible. It IS possible to set yourself apart from the unity crowd by not using unity, but a different engine. Stupid, yes...but possible.
That being said, I don't agree with his post. It's idiotic to not use an engine based mostly on the majority of its users.
Just. Make. Games.

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>>169312194
I could have picked anything, his fondness of dogs, or painting among others.

>>169311654
No, the cursor should remain centered and the only thing that should happen is the player rotates x-wise to face the target (and center the cursor) and the camera rotates y-wise, tilting to center the cursor, both as if the player themselves were adjusting it.

Plugging in the inputs is easy, getting them is what's the trouble. I've been fucking around with Vector3s and Quaterions for the past two hours and I haven't gotten the right idea yet. I was getting the most success out of worldToScreenSpace, but it didn't seem to be getting me the right numbers, so the cursor would swim on and off the object depending on where in the world the player and camera was.

>>169311578
The only thing that annoys me about Unity is that gogem uses it to make menu simulators. That shouldn't be allowed.

>>169312608
Yet you choose one of the things which presents no possible alternative choice. Maybe try not doing that.

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>>169286714
I'm not an artist, but I recently started using proportion lines and all that jazz and it's way improved.

I'm fairly new to concept art but I feel this kind of stuff is enough for my modelling guy to work with as reference (along with a few photos from the internet). This one has low details on the arms because they're in another sketch, but here's a character.

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>>169312587
>>169312756

is this what actual sperging out looks like?

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>>169312608
>his fondness of dogs
This maniac doesn't like dogs! EVERYONE JUMP HIM

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>>169311578
Dude, I hate the left and feminism and i think it's ridiculous and hurts the general population, yes I also browse /pol/ and I use Unity, because it's stable, it performs well and is easy to use, this is what i want when making a game.
If you bash an engine do it with a post of your project in another one.
Otherwise it's just shitposting.

>>169312587
>If that really makes you think, you may want to take a trip to a beach sometime.
The point is that despite Unity's feminist and liberal agenda they have no problem sexualizing an underage female mascot if it can make them money, showing that money will always trump politics, a good thing to keep in mind for all gamedevs using unity.

Remember everyone, sex appeal is a balance, but too much sex appeal will always outsell not enough sex appeal.

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>>169312798
Concept art doesn't have to look good, anon. It just needs to represent what it's supposed to. You did a fine job with that.

>>169313156
>a good thing to keep in mind for all gamedevs using unity.

Sounds like bullshit I don't give two flying fucks about. What I care about is the pipeline, what new features they're working on, how upcoming patches affect my project, and what's new on the asset store.

I'm not buying Unity stock. I'm making a game using their engine. I don't care how they run their company or what policies they hold so long as they're not child-raping pedarasts who want to literally set the world on fire with the money they make.

>>169313104
>weebs use Unity too
WELP time to uninstall

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Guess it's worth trying one more time:

I'm looking for a musicfag for this game, which got most (at least the core) of the mechanics implemented already, just lacks menus + more levels.

Some anon suggested Dungeon Synth, which I think would work great, both for this and the main game.

>posting this on a DJ night

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>>169312627
Do you mean you want the camera to look at a point in 3D space without changing the roll of the camera?

>>169312485
Or even Twine games. They aren't even proper interactive fiction, because even Inform 7 (far inferior to Inform 6) is too much for these people. Instead they make choose-your-own-adventure webpages and call themselves gamedevs.

Case in point: I was looking through Gamasutra's highest rated videos. I found this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg_fU_S26NA
>Gamasutra does a live #gamedev session
Ohh, nice!
>with RPG designer
Cool!
>Tanya Short
Remind myself that the sex of the developer is irrelevant, a world editor does not require its user to be a specific gender after all. I wonder if this is going to be a AAA-ish title, or maybe something more like Bastion?
>she's just making a shitty Twine game by dragging option boxes around
Fuck this shit.

>>169313327
You missed the entire point. "A good thing to keep in mind" was referencing that you too can put sex appeal in your game, not caring about Unity's policy.

>>169313493
>>169313327
This argument you two are heading down is a rabbit hole of autism. Pull up.

>>169313493
>showing that money will always trump politics

And I don't give a shit about politics. Sexual appeal has nothing to do with politics. It has to do with taste and your target audience.

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>>169313386
take a look at
>>169312208

also throw your pc away.
weebs are using all operating systems.
weebs are using the internet, smartphones, they breathe air.

I could go on, but you're not worth the time.

>>169312627
I think I know what you mean. You can treat the rotation of the player and the pitch separately, deal with the rotation first. If I had this problem I would break out some paper, break the problem down into triangles, and figure out the transforms needed.

It will probably be easier if you can assume the player and target will be on the same plane.

>>169313407
If you're serious about releasing and looking for a musician for hire, I'd recommend checking bandcamp. There is a fair amount of VG musicians on there.
Be advised that most of them are looking for actual work, meaning it's not some buddy buddy team up where they make tunes for the fun of it. Expect actual price talk, which you might be able to shave down by offering some% sales revenue.

>>169313778
lol

Why not use UE4

>>169296108
I don't know why I suddenly started to love your game so much.

Could you post moar?

>>169314041
It's only for large teams making large games.

>>169313998
While I do intend to release the game, it's going to happen either I find a willing musician working on this out of interest as I am or I make the bad tunes myself.

I realize the unlikelihood of the situation.

>>169314041
Many do

>>169314041
If I were bothered with the Unity splash screen and wanted my game to be the highest possible graphics I would use UE4. For now I have my Unity workflow in such a tight comfy spot that nothing would make me trade. Unity (corporate) would need to fuck up immensely for me to switch engines and so far every piece of negative news about Unity has always been fake (rumors like "Unity is dying next year because ____")

>>169313413
No. Think about it this way; the way the camera is currently controlled is with the right stick of the controller. It's on an inverted Y axis, but that is largely unimportant. The point is that I have controls mapped to point the camera in any direction.

Now, when the lock on is active, I disable these controls for the player, because I want the character's crosshair to line up with the target they're locked on to and change their motion so it rotates relative to the target instead of moving in cardinal directions.

The current problem is that when I disable these controls (when the lock on button and lock on ray-cast detects a lock-on collider) the view is not always centered in the middle of the collider, so sometimes when rotating off axis, the center will slip off the target. This is especially problematic when the player moves closer or further away, as the perspective results in the crosshair sliding upward relative to the target and slipping off its shrinking form.

What I need, then, is to find in screen space how far and in what direction the crosshair is off of the center of the target every frame so I can feed it a value to incline or decline the y axis and rotate the character. If the character centers to the middle of the target and the y axis is being adjusted automatically, it should be impossible for the crosshair to slip off the target.

The important thing is that these adjustments must come in the form of hijacking the existing camera controls, so that when lock on is released the camera remains in the same position and the relative angle compared to the character does not change.

>>169314551
>>169313407
I'm interested, email me with what you have in mind for the game and I will whip out something.

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wtf i love unity now

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>>169314256
1/3

I'm always sketching out how I want to do things with a pen and notepad. I probably should be more organized and neat with my stuff but I just feel more comfortable doing things this way.