/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

32 days until loli jam

*scrambles your code*

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>>169690198
It's already scrambled.

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>signed zero

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>>169690105
>shitters in the thread are more excited about the prospect of lolijam, which might or might not happen in a month, than demoday, which is literally a few days away and will give us an opportunity to play what actually productive members of this community have been working on for months, then help them out with feedback
this is completely disgusting

>>169690198
The term is "obfuscate"

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Reminder to dev 70h a week.

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How big is your game, /agdg/?

I love big games.

>>169689945
Not that anon, but when I want to make straight UVs I use the "follow active quad" unwrap. I learned it from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiQOHSzyooc

Then I fix up the UVs from there. Also remember to turn on pixel snapping in the UV editor, that will make it a lot easier.

>>169690307
I can guarantee you 100% that I am more interested in loli jam than in playing video games

>>169690407
i figured

>>169690307
The poultry's right.

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*flies into your IDE tonight and makes a mess of your function declarations*

>>169690360
What do you mean by big? Playtime? World size/level count? Depth of story? Filesize?

>>169690613
load times

>>169690613
he meant to type cock instead of game and made this mistake twice

A game where the loading screen is the real game

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>>169690321
Reminder to sit up straight

>>169690791
patenting this

>>169690613
girth

>>169690321

A handsome video game developer? That's a first.

>>169691108
the man behind lisa was praised by /v/ as a handsome aryan half god half man who 1mas games and is a certified martial fighter, then they found out he was sjw

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more stuff.

You're all a bunch of niggers

Report submitted! This window will close in etc etc etc

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----[ Recap ]----
Game:Slimepix
Dev:Marmot
Tools:Unity, GraphicsGale
Web:None
Progress:
+ Speech
+ Enemy moves

>Working on game
>Artists don't want to work on it cause its still a blank wasteland
>It still looks like a wasteland because they don't want to work
>Meanwhile game still needs polish to look presentable but works
>Keep building in a blank wasteland because why not

So should I take some textures off the unity asset store, slap em on, and call it a day? Cause that's what i'm gonna do

>>169692663
If its 3d slap some free stuff in. If 2d rip out sprites as replacement.

Proof of concept is a thing for a reason.

>>169692663
Your artists are shit, find someone else or 1MA it.

>>169691785
what happens if you're standing on the changeable tiles when the switch is hit?

>>169692663
Artist here, I could be interested. What engine?

>>169693163
epic

>>169693245
Sorry, I don't collab with devs using Epic Games' engine.

What became of the official AGDG collab project?

>>169690360
impractically large for a one man project

>>169692962
you take damage. you can walk through switch tiles while damaged (same applies to moveblocks if you get crushed against the wall)

Step 0 of game development:
Establish an LLC to protect your personal assets from being seized in costly patent litigation

>>169694156
cull some shit

Thanks for all the games

>>169693903
you forgot to wish him good luck in all his future endeavors, shitter

>>169691785
It should spin just a bit whenever it's hit, and then do a full turn after the damage treshold is reached.

post character design

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>>169695427

>>169695921
jesus christ what a beautiful trainwreck

>>169695921
patreon please

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>>169695427

>>169695921
>Okay, lets take Sniper Wolf
>But give her earrings
>And a big smile
>And fetal alcohol syndrome

>>169690476
Don't you dare touch my UFUNTION macros.


In other news, the login system to my "mmo" style sandbox game is up and running, character data is persisting, glory is upon us.

Combat mechanics next.

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Rate these asssssssssssets kkthx

>>169696603
I like that you didn't violate the geneva conventions. That's what I like msot.

Also they look good. I'm not sure 100% what the top four are supposed to be though I'm afraid. A pill top right? A floppy disc top left?

>>169696603
>Game cartridge
>Bullet casing
>Big bullet casing or some kind of baked good
>Potion/juice
>Crate
>Medkit, or briefcase full of peas.

>>169696603
Thanks for the free assets

>>169696603
If you're going for a green cross, it shouldn't be embossed, it's reads like some sort of poorly drawn orb instead of a cross.

>>169696737
thought they were mostly asssssss/assets

they're bullet casings that get ejected from the players gun. including the pill. eh. needs work.

>>169696753
np bro. id be really upset if you showed your game with these assets in it.

>>169696890
i guess.

Hi. I know nothing about being a gamedev. Next year i'm gonna get in a uni and i want to know something beforehand. What should i learn before getting in there?

>>169697482
Learn to meditate.

You'll need to be able to focus your thoughts, self reflect and look at your inner self after the soulcrushing experience that is university.

Also practice safe sex.

>>169697482
You're not gonna cut it and give up on your vidya dev dreams right now while you still got your sensibilities intact

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>>169690198
noooo

>>169697482
Learn programming. Best case you make your first year a lot easier. Worst case you learn programming isn't for you without wasting a year.

Get Java Headfirst, read through it in a week or two, go to projecteuler and solve some simple problems.

>>169697482
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ0e3QUADw8

>>169690307
13 is bad luck

>>169698014
>implying people wouldn't hype up lolijam over any demoday

>>169698063
It feels like Jams get more attention than Demo Days to me in general, but maybe I'm wrong.

>>169697840
no fuck off gogem

hold on a sec

Stardew works on Linux? Somebody told me that xna is shit because microsoft

>>169698243
Microsoft had a change of heart when Nadella took the wheel. It's run by engineers now. They want their code to work, instead of wanting it to not work. It's refreshing.

>>169698168
you can't expect people to be excited every time for something that happens every 2 months. just look at how uninspired the demo day 13 page is

>>169698168
i blame steamchat/discord clique giving up on demodays and 2-3 people obsessed with anime girls taking steer of the thread and jam related stuff

>>169698457
>just look at how uninspired the demo day 13 page is
I want another DD9 ;__;

Anyone else get significantly less game dev work done for the day when they visit agdg?
It's like a curse or something...

>>169698896
It's almost like fucking around instead of working is unproductive.

>>169698852
YOU'RE MAKING A 2D GAME IN UNITY

UH, UH - SHOULDA USED GAME MAKER

>>169699005
what did he mean by this

What's the verdict on Scirra construct?

>>169699064
what did he mean by this?

>>169698896
Stop screwing around

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>>169699005
>you're demo

guys i want to dev but i don't have any money

how do i make money without actually working

>>169699660
you don't need money to dev

>>169699660
man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

>>169699660
What do you need money for?

>>169690476

...Yes, the stork did it.

Yes.

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>>169697626
I've been in a uni, i had the experience. Meditating would be really helpful but for now i have some meds.
>Also practice safe sex
>practice sex
Funny.
>>169697632
You could say something like that about everything.
>>169697802
I have some experience with matlab... i know how the logic behind programming works but i will read that. Noted.
>>169697840
That was interesting but the message at the end was kinda funny tho.
Pic related.

>>169699660

Become a hooker?

>>169700004
If you don't know programming and don't have money to pay programmers, you will not make a successful game.
It will take you years to learn programming well enough to make a good game. There are some extremely rare exceptions to this, but based on your post you aren't going to be one of them.
If you're prepared to spend actual years learning and practicing, then by all means. Otherwise, just stop.

>>169698613
>i blame(...)2-3 people obsessed with anime girls
Anime did nothing wrong

>>169700451
What if you're a good enough artist that you may be able to attract coders based on the art alone? (To work pro bono of course)

>>169695921

hahah god

> mfw I realize I can't even animate a simple running stickman, let alone make it do anything else without it looking like a spastic mess

wew lad this is actually harder than I thought

>>169700451
>but based on your post you aren't going to be one of them
Is that based on my english? If yes, this is not my first language, sorry about that.

>>169700704
Work from references. A lot.

>>169699768
>>169699892
i gotta eat, and i need a roof over my computer

>>169699834
a man's gotta dev

>>169700181
i'm not a cute fuccboi, so that's out

>>169700738

that feels like cheating man I don't want to copy or plagiarize other people's hard work

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Friendly reminder that you'll never be a successful dev if you're not a social butterfly. Going to parties, networking and having engaging conversations with industry connections is how you become successful, not by silently working hard on some stupid video game.

You guys aren't introverted, right? I would suggest giving up on game dev if you are.

>>169700771
Work during the day
Dev during the night
Sleep for 5 hours.

If you work for 8 hours plus 2 hours travel time you still have 9 hours a day for dev. Stop being a lazy faggot.

>>169701034

I don't need nobody but myself. That's how i've gone through life so far and it's how i will life my life.

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>>169701034

>>169701095
What's the logic behind corners being sharp or rounded?

>>169691108
im handsome

>>169700771

You can work during the day and dev when you come home. That gives you like 8 hours a day to dev and even more during weekends. Stop making excuses faggot.

>>169701197
so what age did you move out? 16?

>>169701273

Got my own apartment when i was 12 and i've been alone ever since.

>>169701234
just a placeholder tiles to test the code

>>169701197
You will never get a good job or a publisher deal with that attitude.

>>169701220
How am I salty for telling the truth? Connections are everything.

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>>169695427

>>169701392
>You will never get a good job or a publisher deal with that attitude.

Don't need no publisher. My game will be so good it wont need any marketing or funding.

>>169701019
Working from references is not the same as tracing other people's work you dumbo. Look up image sequences of the human running cycle, study what goes into a subject matter before you dive into it. Craft a shitty base and compare and contrast to your reference works in what you got right or wrong.

If it makes you feel any better, literally any concept artist or graphics designer in the AAA industry uses references on a DAILY basis. Visual designers are constantly looking up reference material for ideas. It's as simple as googling shit that sort of hearkens to what you're trying to do.

Don't know why I'm wasting my time telling you this to be honest, because you're probably gonna drop all this tomorrow because it's "too hard" or you hit your first case of artist's block or something.

>>169701328
Impressive.

>>169701234
pure rng

>>169701034
Some more sunlight would probably help for your depression.

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>>169701479
>Don't know why I'm wasting my time telling you this to be honest, because you're probably gonna drop all this tomorrow because it's "too hard" or you hit your first case of artist's block or something.

dev music!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBk8owuhNkQ

>>169701034
Toady (DF creator) seems to be doing pretty fine.

Notch wasn't really a party animal before either, he just posted on twitter (mostly vacation notes) and occasionally on 4chan/reddit.

Also Monster Girl Island dev seems to be holding up pretty well too.

>>169691272
Well, to be fair, being an sjw does disqualify you from being a handsome aryan half god, half man who 1ma's games and is a certified martial fighter.

>>169701709
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2QBsN41Peg&list=PLa7jowCjNKtCJF24GBK4XsDwfmDY-dVKR

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>>169701034

>>169701709
https://soundcloud.com/noby/hesitantly-descending

So what the hell is loli jam, anyway? Can't find it anywhere.

>>169701709

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPv0ZQrq5O4

>>169701724
>Also Monster Girl Island dev seems to be holding up pretty well too.
He's not really a successful dev if he has yet to complete his game. He's lucky it's porn and monstergirls because he's making a fuckton on Patreon because of it.

>>169701034
yeah if your game is shit

>>169701851
I think I'm gonna go ahead and consider him a success.

>>169701885
No one will discover good games without marketing and good buzz.

>>169701989

Good Buzz comes if your game is good. Very simple.

>>169701983
He's successful, but not a successful dev. YET.

>>169702073
You're so naive it's hilarious. Why would publishers spend millions on advertising if it advertises itself? Why would indies spend all of their free time promoting and networking?

>>169702203
Because most games are awful?

>>169702203
>Why would publishers spend millions on advertising if it advertises itself?

Because AAA games suck and they need to force the games down the customers throats no matter how """"good"""" the game is.


>Why would indies spend all of their free time promoting and networking?

Because that's what they've been taught but in the end it doesn't matter how much you market your game. See "Brigador"

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>>169695427

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>>169701724
Sad!

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>>169701034
>depressed nodev weighing in

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>>169695427
Tfw your nodev game will never get anywhere.

>>169702203
AAAs and even indies are constantly trying to sell you either shit, more of the same, or more of the same shit. Of course they need to market.

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>>169701034
No. Discord, twitter, and tumblr do all the networking I need. The occasional con/expo helps too.

Nice bait.

>>169702678
jellatan > king jelly >>>> jella-tan
ordered in terms of how hot each one is, of course

>>169702678
Tell me about your game which won't go anywhere anon, it looks pretty fun.

And tell me why it won't go anywhere.

>>169702773
Wow, you're GAY.

>>169701821
You will see it after Demo Day.

So. Im a shit programmer, and ive watched a bunch of videos on how to get better, but that was a while ago.

I'm using Unity right now, and I'm generating a level with a genlevel.cs thats attached to the "levelgen" GameObject., then populating it with the player and enemies.

The Camera GameObject has a script that tells it to follow the preasigned gameobject - the player, it has some smoothing etc.

The problem is, I can pre-select the player GameObject since its not in the scene before runtime, and after its generated,... well, I don't know of an elegent way for the first script to tell the second - "Yo. you can focus the player now."

Thoughts?

>>169690360
Big big. but I can't decide between floating glowing magic balls which I've seen someone complain about, or taking it directly from enemies' bodies which seems edgy to me but it allows for pacifist and no powerups to be one in the same. shit basically 3d platforming undertale i guess

>>169702840
Because all I've got is some art, menus and designs and no gameplay yet. Also, I'm an amateur faggot with zero skills.

>>169690360

BIG

I'm making an MMORPG with RTS Elements as well as FPS and Survival gameplay.

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i made it so the flute can pacify non humanoid robots. but stopping to use it doesnt feel very good so maybe i will have to make it into its own weapon and make it play automatically when holding down the fire button. its not super useful right now but maybe the robots could then help in some way

>>169703045

Your drawing certainly do not look amatuer.

>>169690105
a thing featuring a loli? any game with a woman character can have like a pre game

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>>169701034

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>>169703156
Don't be fooled, this and that are not my own art. My art is worse.

>>169703140
Why a flute? Seems out of place with your high-tech milieu. I would be expecting some Sound Marine shit

>>169702868
you can try stuff like this:
>load the player and the camera at the same time but dont activate/spawn the player until the level is ready
>spawn the player later like now but use some static reference to link the two (WARNING: BE CAREFUL OF MEMORY LEAKS)
>spawn the player later but make sure you have a chain to pass references down from the level loading to the spawning of the player

>>169703373
>not appreciating the juxtaposition of scientific and fantastic elements
See: Cave Story

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>>169688898
Using a gravity vector
(General formula is: pos += (speed_scalar * direction_vector + gravity_vector) * delta_time)
Get the collision normal, point the gravity vector towards normal (gravity_vector = -collision_normal) and rotate the collision_normal 90 to left or right depending of which side is walking and apply to direction_vector. Use this with a solid collider and you have a npc walking around irregular walls.
There are some edge cases like walking in a spike ato top velocity, but that is fixed with some raycasting if is floating.

>>169703373
i want to use something like a pan flute or recorder for their perception as cheap childrens instruments

>>169703554

Fuck... I guess i don't have that creative drive.

>>169703373
>high-tech milieu
Oh yeah 'cause the WH40k aesthetic is definitely what he's going for here.

>>169703554
Yeah 'cause Mona Lisa or the Sistine Chapel were made by people in their small rooms with 3 children on welfare while blind and crippled.

Also
>time and space have nothing to do with creation

>>169703554
>I've either had...
Stopped reading

>>169703181
someone should make the jam page already. not me though

>>169690360
you mean HOLLOW KNIGHT?

that game is everything I aspire to be, those 3 guys actually made it....

>>169701034
I see people throw the word 'successful' around, that's when someone confirms they've played your game? I'm social here I'll post it here

>>169703554
Now that bottom statement is an outright lie.

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hello aggydaggy

>>169703592
I keep seeing your game and I wish you would get rid of that obnoxious controller in the top left.

Any tips or vids on sound design?

A lot of indie games I hear have really sparse or bad sounds.

>>169704502
Audio design is probably the most overlooked aspect of 90% of indie games. I just wanted to say that.

>>169704386

Hello nodev

>>169704341
Game's mediocre so it should be a reasonable goal for a 1MA.

>>169704579
did you just call me a nodev, buddy?

>>169703554
I just love those idiots thinking they know everything.

>no baby
I did not give you permission to call me baby.

>>169704619
>Game's mediocre
It's not.
Also where is your game.

>>169702203
the publishing world is completely different, I see this thread as having nothing to do with money. physical publishing is a shambling zombie

>>169704619
if you think that's mediocre then you have some high standards, like higher than any other indie metroidvania ever reached

>>169704675
ruh roh touched a nerve

>>169704626

That's right buddy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-T4VVZrmkA

>>169704740
>no game
opinion safely discarded

>>169704740
>talk shit
>hey, that's shit
>huh, U MAD?!

>>169704341
>>169704712
>bringing up Hollow Knight out of nowhere and then calling it the best indie metroidvania ever made
Shills out in full force today.

>tfw your game isn't popular enough

>>169703554
Does it count if I've spent the last two days staring at my IDE entering in pseudo code and then deleting it repeatedly? I've been trying to get a system together to test turn based RPG combat but I can't decide on stats and the math. Like it shouldn't be this hard, pick some stats, use them, test and add/remove shit as you test. I'm too fucking anal about stats though, its painful, I can't start a system without thinking about the systems I want to build on top of that system. The leveling and how it will work, feats/traits, how damage mitigation math should work, how crits should work. How different weapon types should utilize stats, class abilities, how all of this is going to translate to monsters. I fucking hate, I fucking despise minimalist stat systems. But making a non minimalist stat system from scratch is hard. I know the process should be iterative but still.

But still.

butthurt nodevs

>>169704923

Should have made a good game pal

>>169704910
not saying it's the best ever made, but if you think it's mediocre then no other game could ever reach good status for you.

*kills your creative drive*

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Decided to dick around with particle system in Unity. Rate please.

>>169703554
Fucking saved.

>>169705269
It's a good start my man

Any girls (female) or girls (male) here?

>>169705473
why not just say "girls" if you don't care whether they are male or female?

>>169704985
How do I make my game good?

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>>169702868

Start/Awake()
{
Invoke("FollowANigga," 0.5f);
}

void FollowANigga()
{
FollowObject(GameObject.Find("Nigga"));
}

>>169704712
>higher than any other indie metroidvania ever reached
This is a joke, right? Valdis Story and Axiom Verge shit all over Hollow Knight, to say nothing of fucking La-Mulana. You don't know shit, kid.

>>169705608

You either do or you don't.

>>169705602
I don't know.

>>169701709
That's the only game so far I asked a refund for. I simply couldn't play it.

>>169705732
O-oh thanks

>>169705828
It took me a few hours to figure it out simply because I have no rhythm.

>>169705828
what the fuck its really good though probably the best of that year

>>169705473
>tfw you will voice two girls and a guy in your game and you know everyone will laugh or cringe

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Some progress on network stuff, lobby and some character customization. All placeholder art.

Onto gameplay code finally.

Does anyone have suggested reading for networking in games. I've read some articles on source + quake engines, I'm wondering if there are some good general guides out there for UDP type implementations. We've got things working now but would like to review some other sources before continuing.

>>169705726
>Valdis Story
It's fun, but the combat is way more interesting than the exploration itself.
>Axiom Verge
Story is boring, weapons can almost get creative but aren't used well, Alien planet #4593
>La-Mulana
Yep, La-Mulana is great, but it doesn't shit all over Hollow Knight, if it's mediocre then La-Mulana is "okay" at best.

The point still being that if you think something like Hollow Knight is mediocre, all those great games couldn't even get to be "ok" at most. They aren't all that superior

>>169705608
Option A:
By making hundreds of bad games that you discard to learn how to make good games.

Option B:
By spending years on a game project that you constantly modify to try new things out and figure out what makes for a good game.

Option A is the less frustrating one as new projects always bring a motivation bonus.

>>169706064
If you're a guy, I can voice the other two for you. Just mail me at: [email protected]

>>169704923
If one person plays my game I made a friend :D

>>169703554
>Charles Bukowski
One day you're going to die and the games you made for /agdg/ will be posthumously published but not before your editor/publisher changes it around.

>>169706239
Sent :)

>>169706258
>:D
That's a good point though.

>Write simple maze generation in unity
>CPU usage increments as the editor stalls
Shit, back to the drawing board.

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>>169706535
I just don't have that anime girl

>>169701034
I already have an extensive network of those as a professional programmer. I don't need any more connections I think i'll live. Now if only my day job didn't sap my will to dev

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Space Empire dev here

Progress - upcoming features are going to need icons of aliens. So I made some placeholder alien art.

Gosh, I need more ideas for more placeholder aliens.

>>169706631
What's your algorithm?

I'm currently have pixel snapping in Unity but when I run a build and set the resolution to 1920x1080 (the game's resolution is 480x270), the pixel snapping gets messed up. How would I retain the pixel snapping everytime the resolution is changed?

>>169706759
Here's your (You):
>using Unity for pixel2D

>>169706153
Hollow Knight is completely derivative in the worst way and is utterly outperformed in every area that any of those games excels at. Being "passable" in every regard does not make a game worthwhile, it makes it mediocre. Hollow Knight is a by the numbers metroidvania with no noteworthy features or characteristics. It's Guacamelee 2.0 sans even slightly interesting combat.

If Axiom Verge's story is boring then Hollow Knight's is fucking comatose, to say nothing of the weapon "creativity" in Hollow Knight in comparison to Axiom Verge. Pitiful fucking argument.

>Yep, La-Mulana is great, but it doesn't shit all over Hollow Knight
I can see having this opinion if you've been lobotomized, sure.

>>169706880
Thanks for the shitpost. Glad to see you're being productive and doing something with your life.

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Well, my attempt to clone the ZX game The Dark is coming along well so far.

>>169706746
Standard perfect maze stuff, can't recall the exact name, but
>BitArray representation of walls (north, east...) and another bit for "visited"
>Push random tile onto stack
>Set visited
>While (stack isn't empty)
>Pop if no neighbours that haven't been visited
>Else Choose a random neighbour that hasn't been visited
>Set walls appropriately
>Set visited
>Push onto the stack

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>>169706759
its easy anon you only need 5 cameras and 2 rendure textures

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Added a curse room where you can trade items for curses like stat decreases, randomly spawning lasers, more enemy variants etc. The curses get harsher the more items you take.

>tfw friendlessdev
>highschool friends drifted away, don't know how to find new friends

>>169706239
I am a guy but the main chick is mostly silent, it's just her brother and the princess

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>>169705269
Sorry for my bad english. I don't sure how I'm going to explain this but I'll try.
Is there any way in Unity to setup a material for, let's say, another particle system so it could make the first particles transparent? Pic releated. I just put some grey circles on the edges of the flame.

>>169707394

Nice work anon, ties together pretty well

>>169706890
Hollow Knight excels in what Super Metroid excels. Creating a belieavable and cohesive world that beckons you to explore it. To say that the story is fucking comatose just because it's not dumping plot all over your face means you have no grasp on sublety. The art and designs are great, the music is a bit too ambiance for my tastes, but still miles better than something like Valdis Story. The areas are all thematic and make sense in the context of the world, the enemies are all related to the places they are in, the NPCs are well written and charming, the combat, albeit simple, evokes feelings of something like Megaman Zero and makes so threatening enemies keep being threatening even after you're exploring the area for the 5th time. Comparing it to Guacamelee only means you cannot appreciate none of those things. You see, a game is more than just it's best mechanic, you gotta make sure everything fits together in a way that elevates it.
Calling me Lobotomized for liking Both La-Mulana and Hollow Knight is not an argument, sweetbuns.

>>169707557
>>>/r9k/

>>169707739
No /r9k/ is for losers

>>169707821
>>>/r9k/

>>169707821
Are you implying that you are not?

>>169707557
what is your favorite game type this is important

>>169707898
Well I don't wanna be like them

>>169706239
>If you're a guy, I can voice the other two for you
that sounds pretty gay tbqh

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>>169703938
Did you just compare yourself to fucking Da Vinci and Michelangelo?

>>169707956
Then stop blogposting in a thread about gamedev.

>>169707085
The problem is that I was using a struct to group neighbours with an appropriate direction, but they're value types.

>>169707130
What. Can't you just round your camera's position to the closest upscaled pixel based on their relative size in units? If pixels are 4x normal size and your display resolution is 1080p, you set your camera size to 4.5 so your viewport is 16 units by 9 units, and then one 'pixel' is 1/30th Unity units. Round the position of the camera/player/whatever in LateUpdate to the nearest 30th of a unit and it's pixel perfect.

What is this five cameras deal all about?

>>169707557
That means less excuses to not dev
get to work

>>169707557
it happens if after HS, college when you move and when you get a new job, it will keep happening.

Senpai is important

Probably can use local game dev groups to find friends.

>>169707956
then stop making /r9k/ posts on every fucking board

>>169708075
Shitposting.

>>169707956
you already are

How's game maker studio 2? Is it worth getting? The beta thing is a bit too limited to know 100%

>>169708310
There is potential based on the beta but I'm finding that the interface is not optimized 13 inch laptop displays. I really need a mouse and bigger display.

I'm making a demo with a bunch of stolen enemies in it so people stop thinking i'm a nodev. What should I put in my demo?

>>169708075
the problems with that method are
>allows non-integer scaling which will produce artifacts
>no control over aspect ratio
>ui will always be rendered at the screens native resolution rather than your games native resolution

my cameras are
>perspective camera for parallax effects
>normal 2d gameplay camera
>camera for zoom effects on the previous two
>ui camera
>final camera for upscaling the entire game by integer values
to be fair you can get away with 2 cameras and 1 render texture and still fix all the above issues i mentioned but i needed a few extra features and effects

>>169708006
Is that really what you get from my post?

Read some books nigger.

>>169708006
Idiot, he's saying that they were produced under freedoms affluence affords.

>>169708559
I was able to test that too, I'm working on a 1600x900 monitor and it's definitely not enough, but I'm planning to upgrade to 1080p in the near future so it's not so much of an issue in the long term

I think the only thing I have disliked so far is the fact that you don't use ///Title for your code but have to do something like // @description Title or some shit instead which is a bit time consuming, here's hoping that doesn't stick

the room editor makes my dick diamonds though

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>>169708562
>What should I put in my demo?

Fallout Van Buren sprites
Earthbound 64 models
and the Vampire Masquerade MMO server code

>>169708779
Yes. Yes i'm liking this what else do you have?

>>169708562
bowser, sepiroth, etc

>>169708893

A semi-finished Half Life 3

Is it okay and legal to rip sound effects and music from abandonware?

>>169708779
>Vampire Masquerade MMO server code
why would you do this to me

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>>169708779
>vtm mmo

>>169708998
Anon, that would mean you can rip everyone in here's games

>>169705614
Cant simply Invoke it since the level generation takes a certian time, and that time varies greatly depending on how big a level it is, and the power of the rig. (Im looking at getting this working both PC and mobile)

>>169703443
1. That would mean Id need to activate and move the player gameobject after level gen, while the camera is attached from the start. Could work.

2. I'm a shit coder so I should probably avoid this.

3. I'm not even sure what you mean here. I guess I'll google around a bunch. Thx!

>>169708723
>>169708737
Da Vinci was a swiss army knife of creativity, educated from young age by another artistic Juggernaut, he dabbled in so many fields, I'm not even going to bother listing them.
You would be hard pressed to manage to do a fraction of what he's done even if you were given a 500 square meter studio on Manhattan and blank check for living expenses.

That comic talks about people like J.K Rowling, who wrote a book series that already competes with Holy Bible in proliferation, while unemployed in financial trouble and taking care of her kids.

>>169708998
>Okay
Yes
>Legal
Not unless their license gives you permission

>>169709586
I heard she went to bars to write her books

>>169709547
>it since the level generation takes a certian time

Do you have any way to measure when the generation is finished? If you had a trigger on the very last piece of level gen (like, I dunno, if you have a 50x50 grid and it reaches square [50,50]) you can still use the Invoke(). It'd just have to be on the very last piece.

>>169708998
Only the spergiest autists would notice.

>>169709586
Again I wasn't talking about myself.

I told you to read some books to improve your reading comprehension. But then again I think social interaction would actually be the better medicine since you're being autistic.

>>169709547
The first option has some difficulties too because you have to deal with the player being in an invalid state briefly but its probably my recommendation at least for now (I'm using it too).

The second is actually the go to for most new programmers using Unity but they tend to leave memory leaks which often times are not so bad since in C# it won't case any bad accesses just wasted memory depending on what is referenced by your static data.

The third is basically where you have something that has references to the camera scene and to the thing that generates the level, then when level generation finishes it talks to the camera and whoever spawned the player and sets them all up. Theoretically this option can work like dependency injection which is good but might be difficult to get set up in practice.

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>>169706735

Made some anime aliens aswell.

R8 my anime

>>169707635
Hmm. Masking Particles ? Never considered it before. Should probably google that. See if you can figure something out.

>>169709751
Sure. Obviously. I mean when the script attached to the level generator is done, it then spawns the enemies, and the player, and there's a separate function for each of those, and I can add more functions TO it... Problem is, I need to be able to at that point, from this script, tell a different cs script attached to the Camera game object to find the player, and target him.

On my last project when I started cross-referencing scripts all willy-nilly it became messy really quickly, so I'm trying to keep it to a minimum.

>>169710007
I think I just described option 3.

>>169709972
and you are scolding people on reading comprehension?
fucking lel

>>169709931

https://youtu.be/BtJZTKoqK9E

>>169710156
crystals/10
it's impossible to do an anatomically accurate dinosaur though

>>169710156
reminds me of a game 夢日記

>>169710294

If you can reliably tag the player (in the player's Start/Awake function) you can use GameObject.FindObjectWithTag to easily summon him

So it'd be a matter of calling that Invoke when you determine generation is finished

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Don't mind me, just shilling my blender scripting question.
https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?417107-Copy-keyframe-from-action-to-another-while-changing-bones&p=3158915#post3158915https://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?417107-Copy-keyframe-from-action-to-another-while-changing-bones&p=3158915#post3158915

I'm not too bad at Python, but when I just jump in a new API I go a bit pic related.

>>169710326
LISA had a fucking food soundtrack.

>>169710326
Yeah LISA came to mind when that anon asked that. It has shit from shenmue, from earthbound, and more

Alright guys, what language/tool/engine/whatever should I use for my next game? I'll take the first recommendation.

>>169710859
Assembly.

>>169710326
Samples != theft

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Update on the cute witch. Thoughts, feedback?

>>169711109
It's cute

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Tetris dungeon progress from last night: You have to match doors when placing tiles. Not sure if this is even needed, since I could generate doors automatically on placement. Today: gotta add monsters in the dungeon and a party that automatically traverses the dungeon.

Still looking for an artist to collab with on this, more details here >>169650973.

>>169711109
It looks like crap

>>169711309
Where is your game?

>>169711309
Now I wanna see your crap.

>>169711508
>>169711437
Now booting /agdg/ H Text Adventure
Error found at Line 235. Fatal Error occurred. Shutting down

>>169711109
she dropped her nut

Anyone have any experience making a Kart racer?

>>169711109

Cute

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Made a new Tileset for holes in the ground, this time 8way neighbor sensitive (the walls are just 4way)

and since that was such a finicky shitshow i made a system that takes care of mostly everything, for all the next tilesets i will make.

and the best thing was, it worked the first time i started the game up... i think that might be the second time ever for me something worked immediately without debugging.

Tiles are also transparent (the black parts) so i can maybe have some animated lava below it or something.

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>>169712306

>>169712424
nice

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Finally made this beer thing work, fuck. There are a lot of sub systems and animations that can break by moving the beer and dad to another location, but hopefully made it without bugs.

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>>169711294
Man Id love to jump in on this as an artbro, you have no idea, but between my work, and the projects I already have going... It's just not gonna happen, so... no point.

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>>169712570
That escalated quickly

Anyone here ever worked with Leap Motion?

>>169712570
Reminds me of ghostmaster but 2d. Ever play it? The concept is slightly different (instead of killing people you scare them)

>>169712939
Yeah. That, Ghost Trick and Hitman are an inspiration.

>>169712570
>this dumpy hick lives in a nice house with TWO women and basically, you are fucking retarded

>>169713140
maybe its his daughter in the shower

>>169711294
this is cool, anon.

You probably want someone better, but if you can't find anyone, you can hit me up. I'm mostly free all week.

discord: jalm#7492, http://jalmsays.tumblr.com/

>>169712887
Yeah, he's a dick.

>>169713432
Even better

https://youtu.be/k4ETK1C1KNs?t=1742

>>169713506
You've got great porn on there. Not talking about your drawings.

>>169712570
I remember that halloween flash game too

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art dev
(posted wrong one before)

>>169714093
Do you do anything besides gund

>>169705473
Why are you asking?

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>>169714234
Sometimes I do melee weapons :^)
But in seriousness, I wanted to get into full character animation but I got swamped with client work and still am, so I haven't had the time to practice that. For now it's first person stuff or mechanical stuff.

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you play a hobo whose goal is to defeat all 9 hobo-masters of the city and absorb their power and steal their clothes

>>169714621
somebody here already had that idea and is making that game

>>169714621
YOU GOT
SUPER STENCH

>>169714621
I'll play it if suda 51 makes it

>>169703554
What a faggot ass comic by another faggot ass special snowflake artist.
>LOOOK AT ME I'M CREATIVE LITERALLY NO HUMAN IN HISTORY HAS EVER BEEN CREATIVE

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>>169706735
>>169710156
God damn,
drawing takes forever

Drawing 30 of those is going to take a bit long

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Who's on the Mount Rushmore of vidya developers?

If you're not engindevving your game is not worth playing

>>169715706
Kojima, Will Wright, Sid Meiers, Googem

>>169711109
I would like to give you feedback, but you've never given me a (You) in return, so I won't tell you this time how adorable she is.

>>169712671
that looks like shit

>>169715706
Miyamoto
Carmack
Kojima
Phil Fish

>>169715815
If you're engine deving not only is your game not worth playing it will never be finished. So there's no problem. :^)

>>169715868
>not including chris sawyer

you will never be as hardcore of a dev as chris sawyer was when he made the first roller coaster tycoon
The game was developed in a small village near Dunblane over the course of two years.[1] Sawyer wrote 99% of the code for RollerCoaster Tycoon in x86 assembly language, with one percent of the functions written in C for interaction with the Windows operating system and DirectX.

>>169715706
Smart
Howard
Hepler
Wu

>>169716074
>I don't have the skill to enginedev so nobody else does either

>>169716080
True. And we might wanna add Tim Sweeney, since the guy 1MA'd Unreal 4 for like 5 years. The true enginedev we all wish we could be.

>>169715950
Thx. I actually got paid for that.

>>169715706
John Carmack and Richard Garriot. Both were programmers and making games by themself when they were kids, both grew up to shape the industry.

Idea guy "developers" can all go fuck themselves. If they haven't written a line of code they don't belong on the mount rushmore.

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>>169716251
>Unity and Unreal have hundreds of devs working fulltime to make them as functional as they are
>BUT AS A 1MA I CAN MAKE AN ENGINE THAT MATCHES THEIRS IN NO TIME

>>169715873
But I always give (You) (You)s! (You) meanie.

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Can someone give me a how to into matrix transformations guide? Preferably for dummies.

>>169716251
>the truth of your statement has so rattled me that I have no choice but to completely dismiss it
>m-muh skills
>j-just b-because you're jealous of m-muh skills

>>169708779
>Vampire MMO
fucking when?

>>169716483
Check your PM

>>169716251
>i bet everyone else is avoiding engine deving because they are afraid not because it's a waste of time
I bet you're wrong.

Are engine devs the most delusional creatures in agdg? Do they even have to do anything to qualify as engine devs or do they just declare they are making an engine because they decided they will some day and now they are officially devs (without doing anything)?

I've never actually seen an engine dev here finish anything. Ever.

>>169716717
Not him but engindevving doesn't really take that long if you're doing 2D.

t. 2D engindev

>>169716676
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Check+Your+PM%27s&defid=4135794

I don't know why does it apply to me, but ok.

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Progress on the realtime volumetric clouds

>>169716394
Does Unity actually have hundreds of devs?

You'd expect it to be better

>>169716910
Amazing that after all this time no enginedev has finished anything in 2D then.

>>169716979
Looking good - but I'd try and get those dark edges to be also translucent. After all, clouds don't tend to have actual rims.

>>169717016
It has over 1000 according to wikipedia.

>>169690037
Hey /agdg/, I see people complain about how bad mobile games are all the time. But is there any mobile game you'd absolutely want to see?

Even if it's niche and wont be popular, I want to make a mobile game that is genuinely fun.

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>>169716979

>>169717213
They're almost as unproductive as Valve employees

>>169717084
Maybe you're right about the devs here, but I hope I'll be the exception.

>>169717016
Untiy actually has a surprising amount of features even if a lot of them are undocumented (I.E. command buffers and the super slick shader multicompiling)