/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

So who won DD13? Not counting Umbrella or Monolith, since they've been winning for 3 demo days in a row

>I missed demo day
FUCK ME
FUCK

>>170761151
It was even extended an extra day, anon

>>170761050
Me, 'cause I got to play demos and watch streams of demos.

>>170761151
>mfw haven't posted a single game since demo day 1
Such is the life of a programmer with no art.

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>>170691132
more demo day stuff

When It Hits The Fan: This is quite good for the simple thing that it is. It took a minute but I started to really get into this. Some clearer way of telling when you've respawned would be nice, as well as your health and when you need to "use a token" and when you don't and why.

Whimp the Bold: I really want to blame you for the bomb section, but I don't know if I should. Using the dash and then the hover works fine; I kept trying to hover and then dash because that made more sense to me and the text box didn't specify which order to do them in, and it didn't work at all, and I found that really frustrating. The "sprint" is not that fast at all-- maybe it's not supposed to be, but it feels pretty pointless. Other than that the controls were fine. I would increase how long it takes to die though-- it's a very drawn out sequence, especially considering how few frames it has, like a full 3 or 4 seconds.

JamOS: I'm not sure what's going on here. If this is a joke I don't get it but it's kind of simultaneously too much and not enough effort.

Frost: I really like what you're doing here. It seems like you already have a lot done and it works well. The volume of certain sound effects is really low, even with master volume and sound effect volume turned up all the way. When I plugged in an xbone controller the game didn't recognize it, and when I unplugged it the game crashed. Starting the game with the controller already plugged in didn't help. The way knockback is done is kind of annoying and it's too easy to fall off ledges. When I died I pressed Enter on one of the options and the game left me stuck as a corpse-- which brings me to my biggest complaint: It is extremely natural to press Enter to choose options, so I was constantly constantly exiting the pause menu when I didn't want to. This would've been fixed by using a controller if that had worked. This really is a diamond in the rough, please polish it!

more tomorrow

Aw, the OP art is so sweet and adorable.

I want to make a Morrowind clone. Where do I start?

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i do mostly orchestral music if anyone is looking to colab. i'm currently working on an animated film and i'd like to start some more game related projects.


[email protected]
https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/ethanb-journey-live-recording233

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/the-grand-walk

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/spets-suoiretsym

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/frozen-rain-drops

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/c-sharp-minor-stuff-2

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/improv-on-june-5th-2013

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/sailing-in-the-autumn-sea
https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/tracks

>>170761317
Make first person hitter/talker/looter/interacter

>>170761395
can you trap influenced chiptunes?

Anyone happen to need a writer? I'm good at dialogue, flavor text, pretty much anything involving words.

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>tfw making sprites while watching streams of Rotterdam riots, waiting for shit to pop off
Who /comfy/ here?

>>170761471
post samples of work

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Looking for feedback on the reflecty white line thing.
Was going for a sort of refracted mirror effect, but when scaled in game res, it looks a bit shit.
In terms of bounding box, the object is just a line. So something like a rope or a chain would work, so if you have any suggestions I'm all ears.

Also this is the first webbum Ive made in a very long time, so sorry if the bitrate is kind of awful

>>170761471
A.Post examples
B.Would you also be willing to do art? You wouldn't need to be good but for most games you'd be spinning your wheels instead of contributing if all you did was write

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>>170761395

i'm interested, ill keep it handy.

two night ago I had a dream an asteroid was coming towards the Earth
near the end of my dream the asteroid sometimes looked like the AGDG logo
on my way to work that day there were two funerals going on
at work I thought I heard the Windows 10 error/alert sound even though there were no computers around

what does it mean?

>>170761596
Can you explain what we're supposed to see/what the reflection is supposed to convey gamepay wise? It looks fine, but I'm kinda lost

>>170761471
Samples would be nice. Also what genres do you like and what kind of game would you like to work on?

>>170761262
>frost
The gamepad controls used to work, but my own gamepad died like 3 months ago and I haven't been able to test them out after a bunch of changes were made.
Thanks for playing!

>>170761457

i'm not sure what you mean.

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Made a bloody version for no real reason.

Perhaps it could suck blood instead of shooting projectiles?

>>170761739
Yeah that's my bad. They transpose the player. a horizontal one like in that webm will flip you vertically, letting you walk on the ceiling. One at a 45 degree angle will let you walk up and down walls.

The reason I went with the reflection is because it sort of visually shows this; They reflect the player in real time, so as you approach one you'd see yourself projected around it in accordance with how it would actually rotate you.

>>170762032
trap music, it's the newest urban style
t. different guy

>>170762038
>Made a bloody version for no real reason.
I like it
>Perhaps it could suck blood instead of shooting projectiles?
I really like it

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>>170760920
>>170685580
>someone actually drew my little placeholder rectangle
Neat, thanks drawfriend!

>>170762172
Thanks!
Maybe I'll go with that, then

>>170762085
But in that webm you're showing, they reflect everything but the player. That seems to be super confusing.
Ideally the player's reflection would be strong and the enviroment should be dimmer/more distorted/transparent

>>170762038
Make it jump out of corpses.

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More enemy progress
Finished moai behavior.
They have a body and a head, when the body is destroyed, the head is detached.
The head could be infected with a laser shooting eye.

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Idea bros check in!

Do people here have any success collaborating with people they meet online?

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One of the single most prominent pieces of feedback I have received is not being able to tell where your hitbox is. I am already going back and changing a major mechanic (Burst) to be more friendly since before it was only rewarding (and usable) to extremely high play skill (thank you for that feedback by the way, there should never be a mechanic that 90% of your players will never get to use).

But the hitbox issue already has a solution in game. You hold the Focus button to both see your hitbox but also to slow down your movement to make dancing through densely packed attack patterns easier. I could (and probably will) put an option you can switch on to always see your hitbox but unless you use Focus you are still moving at high speed which makes dodging lots of things extremely painful.

The question becomes: How do I get players to use the Focus button without flashing it up on screen at the beginning of the intro stage? It will be explained in the training option but only a couple of people I watched even tried to select training so even if it was working most people would have never seen it. Does anyone have a suggestion as to the best solution for this?

>>170762253
idk anon it seems a bit against the themes of mechanical things to be sucking blood. give it some reason to be bloody, like >>170762324 says, but don't go overboard.

>>170762413
9/10 it's a failure but I have had success, yes.

>>170761395

honestly this is pretty good. can you do electronic?

>>170762265
Yeah, the reflection is limited to whatever is within a certain distance, and the player is quite small so it didn't show up in that. That being said, even if it's reflecting the environment, it'd still give you and idea of how it's going to mirror you.

That was the thought process, anyways.

>>170762359
yes
the game is now perfect

>>170762359
I love those shits in games
keep it up pugdev

>>170762425
have the intro stage show the controls. Guncat does this, and it's a really effective way of explaining the controls. If you have popups that are just images that go away after a few seconds then experienced players can just ignore it without breaking up the gameplay

>>170761395
rates?

>>170762324
That sounds like a cool idea!

My original intent was to have it walk around and then collect its legs beneath it so that it could "roll" over and fire projectiles from an angle.
I guess the tube doesn't make much sense if it's a machine that digs into people, though. Perhaps I'll swap it for some claw/mandible things.

>>170762483
I'm sure they could have a reason for sucking blood, though. Maybe they are drones sent out by aliens to collect blood samples/nourishment?

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How can I make my artic researcher less shit?

>there should never be a mechanic that 90% of your players will never get to use
I disagree completely.

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>>170762363

>>170762413
I got an artist and music dude to work on my game, and the only way I got them to stick around was to pay them
After many, many failed collaborations both online and irl, I'm firmly convinced that the only way they work is if your "collaborators" are actually just your employees

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>>170762038
lmao unoriginal as fuck

>>170762781
not using voxels

>>170762809
who are you quoting?
also a lot of popular games have underused mechanics

>>170762781
boobs or sixpack

I added support for non-monospace fonts to my game.

>>170762921
He wont be voxels when I rip his limbs and head off and shove him into blender

>>170762905
I'm sure mecha crawlers were a thing long before Red Alert, Anon.

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Boomerang of Grabbenings

>>170762781
stop using voxels for one

>>170762781
Bigger boots.

>>170762781
Is he supposed to look like Captain Cold?

>>170762781

looks p. good to me.

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>>170763042
He's supposed to look like these guys

>>170762994
Prove it, faggot.

>>170763002
you're supposed to enter the woman, not the other way

My main character is going to be carrying his Saudi around, how would I model that? Would I just model each in the same project beside each other rig them seperatly and animate him carrying her?

>>170763139
>no transparent orange chainsaws
shit arctic research

>>170763002
Blondie really shouldn't be teleporting when getting hit by the grabarang

>>170747836
It is the usual lazy name to reference the tick class for engine devs. So like t.movement, and the meme grew out of recognizing recurring trends that belong in a class.

Like
>t.nodev

>>170763139
You need more fluffy detail around the hood. That fluffy hood really gives the arctic look.

>>170763181
Lel waifu turns into Saudi on auto correct

>>170761583
>>170761631
>>170761757
I enjoy a wide array of genres. I really like the writing in games like Fallout 1 and 2 and Planescape: Torment. Also I'd post some examples but everything I had written was saved to my old computer which blew up 2 years ago. I mean, I could write something new if you guys want me to.

My game uses about 8-10% of my test machine's CPU (an i3) when it's running. Should I be worried about this?

>>170763326
>I could write something new if you guys want me to.
Write a story for this game
>>170761596
and a description for
>>170762038

no extra cues, go

>>170762649
This.... might?... work. At the very least there is a display on the right side that shows your current storyline progress and in the first minute or so of the intro I suppose I could instead use that area to show the most essential of controls. Might be a long shot getting anyone to look at it though since the intro starts off right into the action. There is no safe starting area where you can gather yourself before going into the thick of it. That is essentially what all the previous parts of the game would have been for. Thank you though! I will see how it feels/looks and maybe come ask for some feedback on it later!

>>170762693

i'm willing to be pretty flexible. it depends on the length of the track you want. send me an email we can work it out.

>>170763326
Could you write a game about nodevs?

>>170763326
>i'm a good writer
>i don't have samples, i lost them 2 years ago
>lists the most well known crpgs and nothing else
This could be quality bait but you've got to push it a little further. Have some fake samples pulled from reddit's writing board, mention some more obscure but still shit games.

>>170763241

Don'd fuggen disresbegd suberior finnish meme wid fals informadions :DDD

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>>170761395

fuck i wish i could do this. where do you even get started?

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>>170763139
Goood thank you for reminding me, I had this as a child!

>>170761395
>frozen rain drops
>sailing in the autumn sea
damn, I might just stealerino that shit for my game

>>170763458
I literally did not look at the sidebars while playing, the gameplay is too frantic to do so. Personally I think the danmaku sidebars are incredibly shit design and a good hud could display the same information in a much more readable way

>>170761395
Do you do modules?

>>170762425
Focus is, like, a SHMUP staple, so it's an odd issue to have, when you also consider there's like 3 non-movement buttons in the first place. It's also an ALT fire method, so maybe emphasize that more? People might pay more attention if you frame it as another way to attack.

It's almost to the level of asking "how do I make Mario jump?".

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>>170763812
Not that guy, but I do modules.
I fucking love trackers

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>>170763757

as long as you credit me.

>>170764162
Dealerino, senpai

>added quit confirmation check
>works fine
>started catching out-of-the-game quitting and directing it to the quit check
>works fine
>try to actually quit
>can't quit
>no exit

>>170763779
Thank you for the feedback! I can low prioritize looking into building a more minimal design option for those want it but the bars themselves need to stay as they cage off the usable areas of the stage. If I leave it too wide and adjust the spawning and patterns to take the area into account the game loses a big part of it's feel. Unrestricted windows are usually reserved for horizontal shooters for this reason but like I said, I will look into offering a more compact/minimal HUD. Thank you again!

>>170763859
Yes I thought so too but the only time I didn't see someone go unfocused was when I was personally there to see it happen and after they ran out of lives, used their one continue and ran out again I went ahead and made mention of it. I have gotten tons of feedback and they all basically have that one point (don't know where my hitbox is) among the rest of it. I will see what I can do with the language used when conveying the importance of Focus. Thank you!

>>170763326
You haven't written anything in the past two years?

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>>170761395
>>170761471
Would either of you like to help with a game I'm working on? I already use some orchestral music (and I'd like to use more), and I've got an idea for a story but I suck a writing stories.

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>>170762038
With no context lemme try writing something.
>A tiny mechanical Spider-Bot skitters before you; its mechanical pincers scrape across the floor in tandem with the harsh, synthetic whine emanating from within its core. Fresh blood is spattered across the frame and leg-plates, painting a garish contrast to the muted grey and green that lies underneath it. The drone fidgets in response to your movements, seemingly agitated by your presence.

>>170763457
That long enough? Or is it too long? Sorry, I haven't written in quite a while.

>>170764626
Hey, that's a cool description!

>>170764591

the composer here, what kind of game is it and how far into development are you.

>>170764626
I dislike that you went for spider right off the bat but I guess I can't blame you considering it's in the filename.
Your writing is fine I guess, but it feels kinda amateurish for what I'm working on. Thanks for the attempt anyways.

Game Maker 2 is out, how much better is it than 1? Should I switch over?

>>170763234
Looks pretty funky now that I look at it again. Maybe the warping won't look that bad when grabbing actual small items instead of character-sized test objects, we'll see.

>>170764769
Yeah, could be a bit more subtle to begin with. I wasn't quite sure what the anon was looking for so I just kinda went with the flavor text you'd see in an RPG/Point and Click.

>>170764836
>switching to a new anything close to launch
Don't you know the modern tech industry? You have to wait for the inevitable gamebreaking bugs to be patched out first. Give it at least a month

>>170764730
Hey thanks man, always nice to see someone likes my work.

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>>170764756
I'm the guy making webm related; it's basically done, but I've been using CC music up to now.

>>170765089
Plus it will be in a humble bundle eventually

>>170764769
>Is on an amateur offbrand nanomachine repair board
>bitches about people being amateurs
unbelievable

>>170765219
I'm not bitching, but I'm an amateur too. I can do my own writing at that level.

How do you emergent gameplay like SS13?

>>170765328
use BYOND obviously

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This is my main character in the game you play as a cat on the street and have to work your way into a loving family

>>170765281
What exactly were you looking for? I mean, I only really had a picture to go off of so I worked with what I had. If you're looking for Planescape levels of absurd detail I could try my hand at that.

>>170765328
Interesting systems that interact with each other

>>170765441
It'd be interesting to see you working on different styles, actually.
My game doesn't have anything other than gameplay right now, so the mood will depend on the writing, and I'm not sure what direction to take that part in.

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I was tired after working a shitload of overtime today, so instead of making actual progress in learning how to make good-looking scrolling text boxes, I decided to fake it until I make in addition to putting in a fade transition between this screen and the actual fighting room. Should work on an intro state for the player and npc so you aren't thrown right into gameplay in the next room, but that's another thing for later.

I need more kind of stats to put on these things. What sort of random bullshit stats should I list on these? Win/loss ratios are something obvious, but I'm also thinking other stuff like blood type or city of birth.

...another part of me also just wants to leave that background in for EVERY fighter. I'm not sure whether I should have the tiling background occupy most of the screen, or make another, opague background that covers most of the screen and make the tiling one visible through the 'window' that is the background behind the fighter's picture.

>>170765601
Gotcha. Well when you figure out the details lemme know and I'll try to match the style and mood more accurately.

I don't understand
Why is gamedev so hard
/v/ told me undertale could have been made in 3 months

>>170765428
is it going to be a game version of that one manga with the eldritch horror cat and the loli

>>170765196
which command and conquer soundtrack have you been using? what is the general style of music you're looking for?

GUYS I'M MAKING ASTEROIDS. I'M DOING IT, I CAN BE JUST LIKE ANON AND WORK FOR VIDEO GAMES

>>170766251
>command and conquer
creative commons, mate

>>170766251
lmao

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>>170766414
it was one or the other i had to make a choice.

no bully

>>170760920
why did you remove the shadowplay/obs/webm links?

>>170765812
>/v/
They are on 4d mt stupid

>>170764836

>using Studio in the first place

Who /8.1/ here?

>>170766258
Godspeed

>>170766537
I accidentally didn't copy all of it

>>170765781
Do you have any game ideas or script ideas of your own?

>>170766704
Sort of. I had an idea for a game where you'd be a robot trying to escape factory filled with traps and puzzles and stuff. The catch would be that when you were created something went haywire so your audio and visual sensors can only be activated one at a time. You'd have to switch between being able to see and hear to navigate traps and solve puzzles.

>>170761395
quality. saved.

mr space collab man just wanted to point out my post in case you missed it

>>170733891
>>170765143

How long would it take for a 1MA to make a game in similar scope to Fallout 1?

>>170767140
That guy appears to ignore all responses and then complain about nobody wanting to help him. I wonder if he's trolling us with his fancy game.

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>>170767202
>not the first post from this IP

>>170767202
Years.

>>170766692
You didn't update the previous thread link either.

>>170767202
Atleast two weeks, possibly more.

>>170767140

composer again, that looks fantastic actually. what kind of sound were you looking for?

Who /progress (You) drought/ here?

>>170767597
yo, I was replying to space collab man, who apparently may be a troll.

I may want musical help at some point. Do you know what kind of pay structure you're looking for?

>>170767562
I heard agario was made in a couple of days and that was a huge success

>>170767806
Yes, but that guy had made a shitload of those kind of games and knew how to market it

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>>170766251
>command and conquer
How did you know I like that series?
Email me at: [email protected] for more info, but I've been using music like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J8CQK2Nk84

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>>170767736
i haven't really settled on a payment structure yet. like i said i'm flexible and i can try to be reasonable based on your circumstances. send me an email at:

[email protected]

just tell me a bit about the game and the kind of atmosphere you're going for. im willing to do a few tracks or a soundtrack its up to you.

How do I get rich fast?

>>170768327
Suck a million dicks for $1 each.

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>>170768264

a Lotgh fan i see? ok, i'll shoot you an email.

>>170768312
Ethan,

Thanks profusely. At this time I'm pretty early in my process and have other major things on my mind, but I've saved your info.

Do you have much experience with high-paced music for a sci-fi racing game?

That's about as advanced as the concept direction is at this time.

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>>170767686

Me.

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When you realize you don't know jack about Unity's lighting.

>>170768535
>speaking professionally in an amateur thread
Lmao

>>170769330
>those vials
anon...

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>>170760920
Hey guys, I've squeezed in the last few games. Keep deving

Dude, where's my game?

>>170768535

i've done quite a lot of high paced music. which was your game? if you have any webms i can get a better idea of the direction. you can email me a link if you dont want to post it here

>>170769474
I love you.

>>170769474
Good job mate, I didn't even make a demo and I love this

>>170769474
im guessing you're only drawing games that actually posted demos for DD13?

>>170762363
funnily enough this is pretty accurate

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>my main character is included too

>>170762359
I think that's the best thing you've done so far.

>>170769474
This >>170769759 was meant for (You)

How often is too often to post progress?

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So, can anyone solve my Unreal issue from last thread?

>>170769902
Less than 90 seconds per post.

>>170769902
Faster than you make it.

>>170769902
If you're progress stops getting (You)s, you're posting too much

>>170770009
Joke's on you, I post only every 2 days and I get zero (You)s, I will try the machine gun method.

>>170769639
U 2 bb

>>170769657
Thanks man, if you post a gameplay screen I'll add you

>>170769759
Which one was yours?

>>170769682
Mostly. But there are a few games added in that are from these threads. Not everyone was feeling stable enough to post, so I figured I'd add them in anyways.. now that I mention that, I need to add in 'Elemental Knight'

>>170770170
8x8px smiley face

>>170769985
>>170769995
>>170770009
Probably should specify to the public. Dev logs and such. Is weekly too much? I feel that it is.

>>170769474
Who's that shirtless guy in the middle?

>>170770170

looks like you're out of room though. my main chars pretty simple looking its not really worth drawing.

>tfw you enjoy working on assets more than working on your actual game
I will spend hours in Blender happily working on something as mundane as a piece of generic furniture yet get tired of working on the game I'm actually using the furniture in in like 15 minutes.

I really love writing, making music, making 2D and 3D art and animation but putting it all together into a workable game is a fucking drag, I took programming courses for years and it's still not something I enjoy doing, it's just some obnoxious yet necessary step in order to contextualize my art assets in the form of a game that people will hopefully enjoy playing.

>>170770170
>Thanks man, if you post a gameplay screen I'll add you
Nah, leave it a demo day thing, it feels more special that way.

>>170770253
Once or twice a week for long, written devlogs, once every day for coold shit that could get retweets and reblogs

>>170770332
Hey you can make all my game's art for free if you want.

>>170770332
Why not find a game to help with

>>170770253
Depends on your medium. Different social media platforms have different optimal rates-of-posting. Also depends on the time of day, target audience, etc. It's a fucking science, brah.

No more than one a day, though.

Mainly, you should just choose some interval and REALLY stick to it.

>>170770468
:)

>>170770468
nice

>>170770395
Maybe I'll make my next update when I fix things. Then after that, I'll just start showing off features. Either that or I make fillers that go in depth into the mechanics.

Youtube and weekly. Though I was getting way more traffic with starmade videos.

Sidenote, never let your audience convince you that a fully customizable hud is a good idea. It's been probably 120 working hours since the change broke everything.

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nothings fucking working

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>>170770332
[x] Make 'lite pack' art for free
[x] Sell 'premium' and 'gold' pack
[x] Get rich

Seriously, we need more good art there are just not enough around. Even more if you can do good-looking low poly stuff.

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Now that I have a nice little toolkit for making basic puzzles, I realize that I have no clue how to actually design a good puzzle.

>>170770332
Hey anon. What do you think of space pirates and lore and the Illuminati? We should talk. Hit me up on Discord.

>>170770332
k thx for update

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Reminder

>>170770782
>find a neat but ded library
>manage to nig-rig a compile due to no warnings about the caveats
>finally attempt the example build
>sea of red errors
>realize the monumental task of updating everything is more work than just making your own
>delete the folder and play vidya out of frustration about the time you wasted
>realize youre wasting more time but dont want to shut out video games

Developing games is a mistake, but i wont stop because no one else will make my games


oh well

>>170762359
how are lasers like those done?

>>170771571
What if I last played my own game?

>>170771770
restart you nodev fuck

>>170770264
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-13/rate/125657

>>170770231
Coo

>>170770285
Fair enough, I'll do another one for next time. Was fun

>>170770395
I gotchu. Could help motivate people to get their game in

>>170761243
>tfw started gamedevving around DD3
>tfw thought "I'll make something for DD4!"
>tfw wont even have something for DD14
Such is the life of an artist with no programming skill. And barely any art skill.

>>170771770
I bet you can't even make your own game

>>170765812
The average /v/ shitposter has the same level of knowledge about game production as an orangutan.

>>170761471
How do you get good at writing? All of my games ideas are designed to have no text because I'm terrible at writing.

I can't even write good tutorials.

>>170770332
Are you me?

I have so much fun playing around in Blender I get this really happy high playing around in it then when it comes to programming and putting everything together I lose all motivation even though I am really good at 3d modeling

>>170771827

im not elemental knight dev btw, if you wanted to include his there i wasn't reffering to him.

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>>170772079
post models

>>170772236
>getting projection correct on the first try
You're a hero, anon
You're gonna make it big

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>>170772236

Look at this engine devs, you too can create something that was outdated 20 years ago if you work on it for a couple of years. Keep it up!

Don't worry about people who have created their own games in a fraction of the time using premade tools; t-they aren't real game devs!

>>170772236
how did you do it?

16 colors? or 256 colors? or 65536 colors?

can you charge less for a monochrome version of your game?

>>170772640
It's about the journey.

In 5 years he'll be creating masterpieces. You'll still be making the same bland GM/Unity games.

>>170772725
Any little thing you can do to trick a gaming website to run an article about your interesting stunt is probably worth doing.

Assuming a game hasn't done that before.

>>170772372
They never post anything.

Makes me wonder if it's not just another shitpost bait.

>>170772725
>can you charge less for a monochrome version of your game?
please dont give the AAA any shitty ideas

>>170772725
Downwell is $3 and has 3 colors.
So I'd say 1 dollar per color in the game.

>>170772725
>can you charge less for a monochrome version of your game?
>>Not selling colors as day one DLC
It's like you hate money

>>170772939
Free black and white, every single one of the 16 million colors remaining as separate DLC

>there is so much shovelware and crap flooding app stores these days that your game will probably never even get noticed

>>170773115
>>170773114
I'm stealing this.

>>170773230
The problem with app stores isn't the mountains of crap, it's that people WANT the crap.

>>170773329
Do they? Do people really want Flappy Bird clone #374?

>>170773329
If it has an audience then it's not crap.

>>170773230

Contrary to popular belief, it's not all shovelware.

ACTUAL shovelware gets mostly ignored. The popular games like Clash of Clans, Game of War, Candy Crush, etc are all well made games. They're popular in the casual market.

>>170773426
No, something can be crap and have an audience. Just look at Twilight.

>>170773426
Woah now, lets not say anything crazy.

>>170772649
I divided the screen into 640 vertical strips, then used trigonometry to "cast" 640 rays at different angles, evenly dispersed over a 60 degree field of view in order to find the distance to the wall. (I think there's a way to do it with vectors but I thought using trig would be more fun.) Then its just a matter of using more trig to figure out how large you need to draw that slice of wall.

>>170772640
> couple of years
nigga are you crazy, I started this today

>>170773508
Twilight isn't crap, it hit all the right buttons for its target audience and was a huge success.

>>170773819

I have the urge to make shitposts, too.

You should resist.

>>170770332
I'm the same as you, pretty much.
>I took programming courses for years and it's still not something I enjoy doing
I'm employed as a programmer and it's still not something I enjoy doing. You can learn to do this stuff, but you can't learn to LIKE doing it.

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>>170761151
>>170761243
>>170771869
>two weeks to DD13? I'll have a first release build ready by then
>haven't touched my game in two weeks

Demo day videos
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLALBbjU24rWYS75pJVp_ssIwuySeopCkP

I've actually been working in reverse publishing order this time so I can hopefully hit the demos that didn't get that early posting boost. Here are the individual videos for ctrl-F purposes. It's your fault if you include weird formatting in your title tho

NB. I deliberately muted desktop audio on these recordings, so I didn't have to worry about the game being too loud to hear me over. I played with sound on, and sometimes make comments on it so that's whats going on there.

R.A.D. Ross:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKozdn4E-Og
A Smol RPG:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3iXt_jaM4k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNeQ8vR0ZB8
Legacy Code:
https://youtu.be/LGrULs2-FBk
Frost:
https://youtu.be/gduDh0kHbYk
Cyber-Vania:
https://youtu.be/Jvpj1vqM9Zw
Hack the FBI:
https://youtu.be/Ut9i0G2Ej7Q
Blade of Blood:
https://youtu.be/bEMzVDWFG1Y
NipNip:
https://youtu.be/YlPcQNTqN6c
JamOS:
https://youtu.be/1RdZexugJO4
/AGDG/ Bowling:
https://youtu.be/BXbOnVmk19s
Jinzo:
https://youtu.be/ww817JeYWgk
MoGiSho:
https://youtu.be/IXLVYn3of8Q
GUNCAT:
https://youtu.be/6GT5ew-CFVo

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Finally doing some ZBrush tutorials. Rate my main character.

>>170773918
It is a literary travesty. It is My Immortal with slightly better editing. It contributes nothing positive to the English canon, but rather is a large stain on it. If you put a copy of it next to a copy of Hamlet, they would annihilate each other, like matter and antimatter.

>>170773819
okay but where is your game?

>>170774319
Anon, it was a commercial success, your opinion is irrelevant.

>>170774249
looks like a love doll

>>170774198
would sub to your review channel / 10

>>170774387
My opinion is correct.

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>Started prototyping today
Journey of 100 miles etc.

>>170774319
>reading Hamlet when you can watch it instead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWjn2oSVBm8

>>170774456
>fun with economics
[triggered]

>>170774456
nice recetear clone

>>170774198
What are your requirements for reviewing games? I might have something for DD14

>>170774249
its not worth rating something youve made in literally 10 minutes.
Come back in a week or two with a serious render

>>170774593
Economics is fun.

>>170774609
Thanks

>>170774891
>Economics is fun.
>fun isnt real
>economics isnt real
checks out
im actually literally triggered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOhTMFbeeyg

>AGDG exists for 7+ years
>No game that I can have sex with
WHAT THE FUCK AGDG
ONE JOB

>>170774198
>MoGiSho:
Thank you for giving it a try! Yes the hitboxes for both enemy attacks and your personal hitbox are smaller than they appear (dead center) to give the player the maximum amount of leeway for survival (despite this people are still eating it pretty hard).

Also the shrine has an offering section. Inside is a Lost Coin Purse. Using this option will then give you enough spirit coins to buy all of the upgrades above it (lives,credits,dust) and let you start at max burst. It was put there for the demo because I knew people who don't play these often would be dying left and right and these upgrades will let someone power through the intro, even if they are using their face.

...unfortunately almost no one looks in the shrine so no one upgrades. I will have to make max upgrades the default for the next demo because at the moment it is not serving its purpose at all. Thank you again!

>>170775043
hey googum
are you pro trump or anti trump?

>>170775043
Advertising is against the rules.
Piss off.

>>170775306
not-gogem here
kill yourself

>>170774198
>>170775252
To add, the hook (sans the story area) is the Burst system but I am having to completely rework it because currently the only way to actually use it is to not get hit for a duration to build it up. I am making it more accessible to more casual/beginner players of the genre and hope to have something to show for it soon.

I also noticed most people don't use the Dust which wipes out all enemy attacks on screen. It is the usual 'bomb' type of mechanic minus the damage but it has its own scoring system as well. Have a good one!

>>170774639
Good controls and good fps.

Probably more of an /ic/ question, but how long do I have to draw to be sorta-OK at stylized/cartoony art? I have a porn game idea and I'd feel weird hiring an artist >implying I'm ever gonna get that far

>gogem says rng is bad and jrpgs suck because they have RNG
>makes a game about rock paper scissors, something that may as well be RNG
What did he mean by this?

>>170775732

Several years if you're starting from scratch.

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>>170774198
>GUNCAT
thank you for the feedback, especially about gamepad not working correctly, definitely have to figure that out

about picking up weapons: the binding is awkward and I take the blame for not teaching it correctly, even if it was spelled out on the tutorial popup

thanks for playing!

I've been positioning myself as an artist for hire, but I love the passion some of you have. If you're a programmer and need an artist, why don't we just talk a little bit, see where it goes...

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>>170775778
>rock paper scissors
>rng

>>170774249
matt thorup?

>>170775676
If my game has customizable controls then you can set them to whatever you want so that counts, right?

>>170775864
>THREE buttons to pick up something
What the fug

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Made my first "attack animation".

>>170775075
http://monstergirlisland.com/

>>170775882
post art

>>170775882
10/10

>>170775885
The point of the game is to guess what the other person is going to do. Meanwhile, googum makes an entire video that says players shouldn't have to make guesses in their games.

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I'ts been about 15 years since I started using Game Maker and I still haven't made a game.

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>>170776106
Yes sir right away sir

Now do you have a game or just being rude for the sake of it

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>>170775970
see that's where I went wrong. it's F plus LEFT or RIGHT to put a weapon on the left or right arm

thought it would be obvious after shooting, but I'm still learning how to user experience. definitely doing it all over for dd14

>>170775732
Years. Just practice regularly and don't think about it.

Also there's nothing wrong with hiring an artist for a porn game, plenty of artists do it. And to be honest porn games tend to need better art than most other games because the main point is having fap material. So it might be best to hire an artist.

>>170776229
>asking for art examples is rude
Is this some kind of obscure new meme?

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>>170775886
Got it in one. Have you followed his tutorials before? If so, thoughts?

>>170776170
baitfish here, I have no idea who gogem is.

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Starting a prototype for a new game, reusing some assets as placeholders from that game I did art for, from DD13.

>>170776106
>>170776161
>>170776334
Ok, I see now. Not having art is another in a long line of excuses, and not actually a problem you want solved, got it.

>>170776470
this is very good, keep going.

>>170775848
>parents insist I had some talent very early (but all parents say that)
>drew quite a lot in later elementary school, also took a summer cartooning class around the same time
>didn't actually learn fundamentals or anything, really just drew slightly better shitty anime than my peers
>basically stopped at middle school anyway

Maybe I'll marry a freak who'll support my fetishes, who knows?

>>170776470
Where is your art?

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>>170776458
Can they get the cats pregnant?

>>170776458
That is not a prototype, that is you fucking around.

>>170762647
>>170762647
Thanks
>>170771725
Here is a bit of how was done in the game:
http://www.kemonogames.com/post/145440294136/how-to-create-plasma-beams
I need to change the collision method, because now uses raycast and with those I couldn't easily do things like lasers stopping bullets or bouncing bullets.
>>170769808
It's all slowly coming together.

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>>170769552
I haven't posted anything yet and will probably be waiting until some time this summer. I'll be around.

>>170776589
No, boys can't get pregnant.

>>170776606
Is there a difference?

>>170776458

Are they catgirls (male)?

I suppose I'll check back later when there's a different crowd, but if you're looking for an artist, I have some time coming up, let's talk.

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Sorry for the delay. I'm going to start playing/recording videos for some demos. It will be some time before they're all uploaded but look out for them.

>>170776737
Is there? I don't know.

>>170775593
If you're not already part of a shmup community, you could try asking for feedback in the 'touhou gameplay thread' on /jp/. Just be aware it's a very slow board and might not care if it's not Touhou.

>>170776737
>No, boys can't get pregnant.
Will there be thirsty lovesick maids in your game, as well?

>>170775306
he will multiply us

>>170776170
having to guess is separate from randomness....
in a random system your guess is always uninformed because the result is random
in a deterministic system the result of a guess informs you for later decisions
Restricted-RPS is a fully deterministic system

>>170776014
None of this makes any sense but it's enjoyable to watch

>>170776532
If Shadman can maintain a devoted fanbase with his shit you could probably do it too, you have more experience than most people (i.e. none). Porn games and porn in general doesn't have especially high standards, if you can draw at all there's a good chance that with some practice you'll scratch someone's weird itch and be semi-successful if you can market yourself.

>>170776810
If for whatever magically reason you decide to play MoGiSho please remember to 1)use the Focus button if you need to dodge or see your hitbox and 2) go to the shrine offering section, use the coin purse and fully upgrade yourself if you aren't used to playing shmups. Thank you!

>>170776869
Thank you for the suggestion. I consider myself a part of /shmupg/ but I have never and will never bring my personal projects up there. I use it as a place to talk about games we love, give and take recommendations and advice or watch some shmup streams. And I wouldn't bring it up in the touhou general for the same reasons. They gather there for a purpose and I wish to leave them in peace.

>>170776458
Combine this with the tetris idea
Give the player a short time to build a dungeon using the blocks then launch adventurers and slowly giving the player more blocks.
Don't drop the tetris idea, it's rad

>>170777156
ok

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>>170777042

When I make all other video games illegal you will be acquitted.

>>170776336
one of the better zbrush tutorials

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>tfw switching everything to use AssetBundles instead of Resources.Load

>>170778068
>switching from pleb technique 1 to pleb technique 2

>>170778218
What's the non-pleb technique? I need to be able to load/unload shit during runtime because it's a waste to keep everything in memory always

>>170778353
not using memes

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A kickstarter I'm following has a extra 1k stretch goal for a fucking crt filter
what das fuck

>>170778406
You'll have to be more specific than that

>>170778591
>bleaches but doesn't wax
why would you only half-gay?

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i decided to stop being a lazy piece of shit and began actually working on my game. let's see how long that lasts.

>>170777982
Nice, I'll stick with them then, thanks. I already feel like I picked up more in thirty minutes than I did with maybe four hours of a different tutorial, mostly because he just skims over the basics and jumps right into practical work.

>>170778774
>bleaches
what does this refer to? Blonde hair?

I sincerely hope you're using a deltatime variable that can be modified to create slow motion effects

>>170779648
What if i'm using gms? What then, huh?

>try something with placeholders
>cube, planes and quads
>game doesn't leave any impression

>add a cute girl and a background rip from an AAA game
>game feels instantly 200% better

Fuck you agdg. Your placeholder meme is fucking bullshit.

>>170774198
>MoGiSho:
Not the dev but
>im not reading all those words
>what are my attacks?
not very promising from a reviewer 2bh

>>170779962
https://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/002_reference/date%20and%20time/delta_time.html
Take this, multiply it by a speed constant, then use that as your delta time rather than using the raw delta

>>170769350
From thumbnail i though you are making a Another World kinda like game.

>>170780061
Theatrics are a huge part of making a game "feel" good. Grey boxes are okay for testing features if you're a programmer but don't even think about external testing until you've got enough art so that people aren't offput by the grey nondetail

any devfags that want to make a game with me?

I can give you my copy of gamemaker studio, I bought it on impulse and I'm too retarded to learn it but I really want to make a game

I would be the idea guy and do the music but other that I need help. i understand it's a lot of work so if it gets sold you would be compensated accordingly

we can brainstorm to figure out what to make

>>170780061
We never said to never add art. All we say is that placeholder is good while fleshing out basic mechanics. The thing to avoid is spending a week on a single model, perfecting it, when it might turn out that the game isn't even fun and the model was a waste of time to make.

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Best part about the nes pallet is that you can fuckin scribble and shit will look good

>>170780217
>Grey boxes are okay for testing features
To some extent. You can't test everything with just grey boxes and I don't why you people think otherwise.

>>170780359
> the model was a waste of time to make
You can use the model anytime in another of your project.

>>170780402
>modern """""""""juice""""""""""" with faux-nes
Thats how i know to avoid a game

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>>170780574
Don't be a stick in the mud anon. Have some fun!

>>170780336
If you can offer music, post music. You'll get more interest if you sell yourself as a music guy instead of an idea guy. Saying stuff like "I'll be the idea guy while you do the programming" is a pretty big red flag for any potential dev.

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>>170780574
>>170780574
>He wants to avoid this

>>170780676
i get its a meme-game, im just saying

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>>170780752
Would be hotter if her hips were wider and the tits were bigger.

>>170780574
ende yourselfe

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>room transition code in GMS
>on room start, it checks if a given door object exists (instance_exists on checks active objects, and all objects outside of the viewport are deactivated)
>after literal years of this code working fine, it suddenly stops

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>>170780574
>"""""""""meme""""""""""" poster
That's how we all know that you're a shitposter and that your opinion can be discarded.

>>170780745
that's fair. i tried to be pretty upfront about the work imbalance

>>170780935
i feel like this game is an attempt to use all of agdg's memes and actually make a fun game out of them

>>170780935
I like your game anon

>>170780935
Are you MMBN-dev?

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>>170780919
>scene transition code in Godot
>on scene start everything works
>it just works always

>>170780935
line two is missing punctuation

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>>170780935
oh god, I don't remember posting that one
That's straight cringe i'm sorry

>>170781107
no

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back dash

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>>170781358
>That's straight cringe i'm sorry
I actually like how edgy your qt3.14 is.

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doom 2.0

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Hows this for a first attempt at uh, whatever this is?

>>170781947
could an army of john carmacks take over the world?

>>170781975
is this just a 3D model animation exported as a cropped pixellated gif?

>>170782029
You don't need an army of them. The only reason he isn't ruling the world right now is because he doesn't want to.

>>170782059
You betcha!

>>170782163
we can only hope that one day he does take over the world and institute a utopian government.

>>170781975
it's a bit obviously mirrored but it's not bad
blushes usually keep the same slash direction

>>170781975
fix the blush and it's 10/10

>tfw no matter how much your art improves you always think it looks like shit

>>170776656
Hey neat I've been up those stairs.

>>170776647
thanks, i might need some plasma beams too soon

>>170774249
Lookin good