/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

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first for freedom

Ideas are worthless until you make them reality.

>Slow the no dev nigger manchild in charge of anything other than shitting himself

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>gonna fail because my game is multiplayer only

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>he types in the url bar

>>170855682
Call me when the scripting language isn't horribly slow.

>>170855749
A very small error. Whereas doing many floating point operations accumulates error and you end up way off. Also you'll only be dividing in order to use it for rendering or something so it's unlikely the error will be noticeable.

>not making your own language

>>170855786
Gang Beasts did fine and it doesn't even have online

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>>170853842
I still hold that we are making the same game

Which is better

Blender or Maya?

>>170856247
Neither, but Blender is free. So...

Blender

>>170856227
Anon, are you sure you are telling the fire to draw the correct image index every frame?

>>170856247
maya wasn't designed for aliens

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>>170856387
I'm going to go kill myself now

>>170856079
I did.
For scripting.

>>170856394
Haha... Don't be silly Anon Aliens don't exist or use Blender

>>170856247
Blender is not that difficult to use for the basic modelling stuff. Animation is a bit more questionable.

who's /ourdev/?

>>170856247
blender is like a jet that uses voice commands to steer

maya is like a jet that doesn't come with a manual

>>170856247
Get yourself the student version of maya. Exported fbx files don't have metadata saying what it was from, let alone when ue/unity have their way to make special internal files

Just never tell anyone what modelling software you use, and if you're really scared just buy a months worth of the full version subscription to cover yourself

>>170856602
knightdev

Resident evil dev

cubeman dev

gogem

>>170856495
>>170856387
wait. idk how to fix this issue. The sprites need to scale constantly as you move and so I redraw them every frame. How can I keep an animation going? I need to think.

draw_sprite_ext(pair.sprite,0,x,y,pair.scaleFP/scaleDown,pair.scaleFP/scaleDown,0,myShade,fadeRatio)

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So is Recap kill once again? Or was it posted and I just missed it?

>>170856683
What's the jet that just werks in autopilot?

>>170856708
Why not tell people I only have used Blender and had fun making models in it?

>>170856781
Anon, you set the subimg to zero, of course it's not going to animate.
You are supposed to set it to image_index.

>>170856796
sadly None

>>170856889
because then you're putting yourself in a web of lies that only increases your chances of getting caught

>>170856889
What if they start offering patreon money for process videos?

>>170856991
What do you mean? I actually had fun making random models in Blender

>>170856889
>had fun using blender
already caught in a lie, anon

>>170857062
I'm serious I enjoyed it

>>170856708
how do you know it doesn't have some embedded data?

maybe maya has a special way of formatting something as mundane as spaces to catch pirates

There is literally nothing wrong with using Blender

>>170857224
Are you using unity or unreal?
When you build and export a game, it converts everything to unity's own proprietary formats. Any metadata that it would have had is lost

Alternatively if you're a super paranoid fuck, make/export the models in maya, then import/export them through blender

>>170857543
It's inefficient compared to maya's much more logical and streamlined workflow

>>170856079

>not building your own processor architecture

>>170857543
for animation, rigging, and UV Unwrapping maybe. Fuck modeling in blender though.

>>170857692
Both interfaces are pretty much the same

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Making a character for a 3d platformer to take my mind off my spider game, which I hit a writer's block on.

>>170857826
I don't like this meme. Making your own language is a perfectly feasible thing for someone to do. Making your own processor is obviously not.

>>170857850
bait

Do you have a pissed off rant in your game's comments?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckQw50MTeTY

>>170857836
why not model in Blender?

>>170856793
It's not monday yet. Last week he skipped due to DD.

>>170857906
>being able to change projects without at least a day required to shift mindsets
how I know you aren't truly invested

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>>170857943

For you.

>>170857972
no, but I have apologies to anyone who decompiles my game and has to sift through the hilariously bad code

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Does this look anything like a waterfall?

>>170858083
Casual devving > Invested devving

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repost

>>170858083
>twiddling your thumbs doing nothing for days because you lack motivation and testosterone somehow makes you more invested in something

>>170858118
I guess you could buy an FPGA, but making a COMPETITIVE processor is an impossibility for any of us. On the other hand, almost all programming languages are garbage and it's not very hard to do better if you're versed in PLT.

>>170857906
you should switch over to Maya instead

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Progress part 2 is an extremely important asset: a path decal.

This is sort of broken; due to how UE4 does mesh decals, it's possible for it to Z-fight with the terrain (there's no actual surface wrapping right now) but for the most part it looks really good. It can break down at extreme camera angles though, and become apparent that it's more or less just a mesh floating just above the surface and being blended into the mesh below. Still, given that the alternative is vertex-paint-blending the paths in, this is much easier for fast level design iteration and looks about as good as the alternative.

The advantage to how the pathing asset is set up is that I can easily slot in just about any texture or material to act as the "path" on a per-level or per-floor basis and it will work.

I've also started hammering out the core motif for the game's main theme song based heavily on "We Bury the Hatchet" by Garth Brooks

>>170858150
it looks like a shiny towel
try animating it first

>>170858202
It's not about motivation anon
it physically takes time to empty your mind of all the shit about one project that you usually keep in your memory so you fill it with shit about another project instead

>>170858150
maybe a frozen one

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>>170858195
>mfw watching this while listening to Snake Eater

>>170858276
How do you make explosions so pretty and smooth? Is it one of those alpha mask things where you shift the range that is visible at a given time which creates the animation?

>>170858083
Changing projects is as easy as clicking New Project in Unity. Also, it's better than doing nothing. I'm just implementing ideas I had for a while.
>>170858208
It is Maya.

>>170858276
I really like that rock stuff, in fact I think most of your attacks should be like that.

if it's a special attack make the special attack be bigger rocks.

Any pixel artists want to work for pay?

>>170856917
>>170856781
Did you fix it already? I want to feel the warm embrace of animated fire.

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>>170859014
rate my cat tho

>>170858592
I'm gonna be totally honest, anon.

When I first got UE4, it was charging for a subscription. When they went free, they gave me $20 Unreal Bucks for their asset store. I spent that $20 on a toon-styled particle effects pack. The explosion was a part of that. It's hand-animated across 16 frames sub-UV to get that effect (then tripled for the yellow, red, and black segments).

I didn't make it. I asset store'd it. It looks so fucking good I didn't tweak it (like I did every other effect that came with it, including the flame and muzzle flash effects). I'd love to tell you my secrets but there are none; I cheated for the explosion.

>>170856683
this is pretty accurate

>>170858874
The shard effects occur whenever Dixie summons a hand. Summoned hands in-combo occur mostly for finishers; think Wicked Weaves. Everything else occurs for special attacks/moves and abilities.

I can look into adding a little burst-and-trail for all attack animations as well, just to emphasize the movement of Dixie's hands/feet, but the thing is, 99% of combat won't be unarmed, it will be with weapons, so I don't want to dump the summoned hands thing into basic melee too much or it will make the weapons seem pointless.

>>170858529
NOT FOR HONOR, BUT FOR YOUUUUUU

>>170859085
Lost a lot of respect for you.

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>>170859024
>>170856917
back, had to kill myself.
actually just took a shower and now ultra comfy

>>170859361
I just think you need bigger attacks then, or like windups or something.

I get what you'r saying with the wicked weave that was my first impression, it's just such a huge difference in visuals that it makes your normals look weak.

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>>170859513
btw, it's very smooth in game. just a slow capture.

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>>170852531
What >>170852785 said. Manual gradients and bloom are a pain but they work just fine. Also, with the right contrast and lighting (animation helps too) you can create the illusion of bloom without needing to actually 'make' it. The eye naturally tends to see things like that when it expects them to be there. Something something brain filling in the gaps.

>>170858012
because I could model in another application far more efficiently. I use both metasequoia and Wings3D for modeling. The hotkeys in wings3d are godlike and customizable

>>170859085
I'm surprised it can look that smooth from being basic drawn frames. Thought it would've looked cool in slow motion

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Oh look! A shader!

>>170859487
I'm sorry. It's literally the only effect that I paid money for untweaked; the list of effects that are made by modifying something from that asset store pack is as follows:

>The cel shader (heavily modified)
>the muzzle flash effect (copied the texture on the muzzle fire, the rest is my mesh and animation stuff)
>Dixie's landing dust effect (which isn't in place yet, but was for Mayhem League and which I'll bring back)
There's also a lightning effect I'll modify, if I decide I need an electric/lightning effect

Hand-animating SubUVs is tough as hell, I did it myself for my slash/swipe effect, and it's something I'd rather not do myself if I can avoid it easily. I had free UnrealBux, gotta use em for something.

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>>170859513
noice

>>170859513
Change the material to be additive and it will look like light and not have the black rim

>>170859928
I'd be your animating personal whore if you taught me

>>170859860
It still does, though that's down to how UE4 handles subUV interpolation.

Anyone here use phaser? I need to know how I can lock a physics body so it'll only move on the Y-axis.

>>170859915

That background is too obtrusive.

The ball is somewhat difficult to track at times.

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I unironically agree with Googum that "fun isn't real".

>>170859079
Idk its okay

>>170860507

Dont worry senpai, I know this sounds fucking stupid but I try to post updates daily because I think it makes me more productive. I didn't intent to have that as a thing in the game.

>>170860557
Fun isn't real, the same way that happiness isn't real

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Made a sprite for you guys to use

>>170860813
you made this yesterday

>>170860717
same it does I have been posting my drawings and pixel art daily and I am slowly getting better at art

>>170860813
xD what a funny and hilarious meme!

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Arfag here, taking requests for single sprites.

I'm not memeing you.

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>>170859993
>>170859938
wew. i wish you could see it at full speed.

>>170861029
A bunny eating a carrot

>>170861029
a 2d cute monster girl

>>170861029
a dog eating the bunny that's eating the carrot

>>170861042
Why is your FOV so offensively small?

>>170861042
What are you using to record? OBS supports 60 fps.

>>170861029
A bitchin' humanoid robot.

>>170860801
Nah.

Happiness is just unsustainable. We know what happens physiologically when you're happy.

Maybe if you're using "fun" as a generic word for "good" then sure. But that's useless for a gamedev.

The nebulous "fun" covers often conflicting things. If you're not breaking it down into physically challenging/mentally challenging/novel/comfortable/exciting/stimulating for senses/emotionally engaging/etc... then you're going to run into problem.

>>170861270
Using ActivePresenter
I think it's the fact that I'm running windows in Parallels right now. It's one of the best programs I've ever used. Windows installed on one half of my drive, but I can swipe back and forth or run windows apps as normal looking windows on the mac side. The whole OS runs super smooth but when i capture there is slow down.
>>170861239
That can all be changed, since not much is hard coded. But i'm just getting the basics up and running.

if everyone has an opinion when it comes to software for modeling, UV unwrapping, etc, then where are all the models?

>tfw when having to make a sell-out lewd furry project because the game that you enjoy working on is taking too long and you need money

>>170860091
How can I teach you if I don't know how to animate?

>>170861553
I don't believe you

Who would pay for lewd furry stuff and where do you find these clients?

>decide to browse itch.io which I never do to find new and cool games this year, maybe some hidden gems

>its all absolutely garbage, shitty, pretentious, "le indie artsy" walking simulators, rip-off or straight up copyright infringement, and just tons and tons of it

damn I see why you guys are so upset about steams entry cost rising now. I would never be attracted by anything from this shitty website

>>170861553
You could get a job.

>>170861029
a 32x32 apple for a 2d side scroller

>>170861706
I haven't had a dayjob in a decade, I don't think now's the time to start down that path again.

>>170861678
you want to know how pretentious this fucking website is

one of the top tags is "cult classic"

what kind of fuck releases their game and tags it with "cult classic"

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>>170861678

>>170861029

How could you do that when you don't know the art style of the game?

Every week I take 1 day off, where I don't take my ADHD meds. I still work for at least 5 hours on my projects, but all the while I question "why am I even bothering". Then the next day I take my meds and 15 minutes later it's "I'm going to make the best fucking game ever with the cleanest reusable code base and I'm gona finish it this week".
At least 6/7 days of my life are filled with happiness and feelings of fulfillment. Today is not one of those days.

>>170861649
>Who would pay for lewd furry stuff
Are you new to the internet?

>>170861678
>steams entry cost rising
They haven't actually announced the price yet have they?

>>170861876
have you actually browsed the website? or are you one of those "yeah my Unity game with 3 assets and shitty models that I tagged with "atmospheric procedurally generated cybertwee LGBT voidscape exploration artgame" is just too deep for you" fags?

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>>170861678
>wandered in from /v/

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>>170861239
better anon?
I more than doubled the width of the triangle

>>170862130
They only said price can range "from 200 to 5000"

>>170862202
Very funny.

>>170861835
I laughed.

>>170862129
I don't believe it unless I see him showing some kind of proof of the claim

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>>170861835
>cult classic
Hahahahah wow. I like itch.io, but this is some bullshit.

Also, I planned to post an image of the games I found no matter what, but get a load of this.

>>170862195
please see
>>170862143

if you actually think they have any quality control, you're fucking blind.

I've seen like 10 games based off trademarked franchises (mario, sonic, stranger things, duck hunt, fable, a few others) in the past 10 minutes i've been browsing

>>170862130
It will be 200 at most, screenshot this.

If I'm wrong then I will print my game's code (and delete it) and eat it on stream.

>>170862262
They didn't even say THAT. They've only mentioned that when they asked various people for input, they received a range of answers "from $100 to $5000".

>>170862330
bokube dev no!

>>170862330
Oh dear

>>170862375
Couldn't all of /agdg/ create an /agdg/ Steam dev account and each person chip in a little toward the fee? Or is that against the ToS?

>>170862330
BOKUBE
O
O

>>170862328
Look everywhere is common knowledge most furries are willing to spend a lot of money on their shit. Devianart is full of furfags doing/requesting commisions, probably tumblr is too. And don't even get me started on thos fucking suits they seem to be expensive as fuck.

>>170862375
It should be $100. That will be enough to keep the 3rd worlders out without making an indie dev not eat for 3 weeks or some shit. Who ever said $5k is just a fuckhead; probably some Triple-A game studio cumslut.

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messing around with the perspective of the walls on the bottom
compare to >>170853892
The biggest issue will be changing the sprites so that it doesn't require me to completely remake levels, so they still have to take up an entire 16x16 tile

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>>170861678

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>Wake up
>See this

What do?

>>170862330
To be fair, Tux Racer would probably meet the definition of a cult classic.

>>170862518
The price will be per-submission exactly to avoid shit like that and those crapware spammers.

>>170862661
Indeed.

>>170862518
The fee is not once per account anymore, you have to pay for each game you upload, so the idea wouldn't really work that well.

>>170862529
I'd say $500 would be better.

>>170862569
Looks comfy.
I will suggest though that you have two kinds of "..." - one that indicates a potentially new convo and one that indicates a repeat. Unless everything is interactable, that is.
Then again it isn't really THAT important; it's just extra polishing

>>170862202
to be totally honest, I'm not sure the best way to have a good field of view. The actual projection is 2:1 (1000px by 500px) but for nowI crop out the edges on the view because objects are centered and only appear when the center enters the FOV (so I'm avoiding pop ins). I guess i need to widen the actual horizontal distance over which objects can be projected, rather than adjust the actual peripheral view. Thanks for making me think about it.

>>170862526
how is this common knowledge if no Anon shows proof this happens a lot?

>>170862529
>>170862839
Really hoping they go with $5k

its real you guys

>browse tag
>"artgame"

>several games where its just a few lowpoly 3d models that spin around and you watch them
>"experimental contemplative virtual experience"

>several "games" which are just tumblr-pieces about refugee-simulation and "oppression stories"

>numerous poor quality literal-meme games ("vaporwave experience")

>a musical rhythm game with no music (??)

>"cybertwee is a movement similar to cyberpunk but focusing on resisting the patriarchy"

some of this stuff is solid gold you guys

>>170862839
Ignore this, I didn't realize it will be per-submission rather than per-account.

Also I think they should consider a lower (nominal or zero) fee for free games.

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How is this looking?

>>170862964
more political games

>one brilliantly titled "neocolonialism ruin everything" which is basically just Pandemic but instead of a virus you play as white people

yep no quality control issues on this website, no sir-ee

>>170863075
Like a samurai with the mumps

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>>170863103

>>170862974
You didn't realize it would be per-submission?
Why would you think it would be per account? They're trying to reduce the amount of garbage; if it was just a membership fee you could literally push any garbage shit, because there is no more greenlight

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>>170861763

>>170861919
By being very generic.

>>170863158
Because I haven't been following closely.

>>170862518
agdg publisher when

>>170862964
>>170863103
That's a cool thing though, I loved Newgrounds back in the day exactly because you could find the randomest shit by stupid kids.

teach me how to make a game and answer my dumb questions and explain things like if i was 5 for paypal money

>>170862974
>he wants to open the flood gates for crappy free to play shovelware with ads/DLC
okay

>>170863075
why so many polys?

>>170863345
Yeah, and now it's for sale and instead of kids it's immature adults.

>>170863075
Like you didn't fucking try.
Stop posting low-effort garbage.

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Shout out to that anon who mentioned using RBG data as a positional offset for refraction in last nights thread.
Managed to get this effect working for any arbitrary line angle.

>>170863356
this can be arranged how many shekels?

>>170863356
post questions

>>170863345
some of them are really interesting in the weirdest ways, yeah

and then you have a game where you do nothing but click the mouse to generate a random pixelized image that someone thought was worth $3.00

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>>170863103
There's zero quality control. You can set up an account and upload whatever you want within a few minutes.

It would be kind of retarded (You) to expect anything more from the site.

Also, hows your dev going you goddam salty baby?

>>170863407
I meant completely free (no DLC, no pay-to-win, no hats)

>>170863417
Why so few polys do you mean.
He's sculpting.

>>170863469
You're an arbitrary line angle.

>>170863469
What is it and how did you do it?

>>170863469
Neat.

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>>170863461
No bully please.

>>170863484
depends on how anal and thorough my senpai's gonna be.

>>170863859
Smooth out that dumb cross and subdivide so that you can get to the real work of making shapes and details.

>>170863947
We're always thorough when we do anal.

>>170863859
>loomis 3D

>>170863661
Hey don't bully okay

>>170863781
GM:S Shader stuff!
I have a mask of the triangle pattern, only ever triangle is some arbitrary color. The shader essentially takes a bit of the surface, then offsets it proportionally to the RGB of the mask. The effect is multiplied by the mask's alpha channel, which lets me sort of fade it around the edges.

>>170863797
thnx

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<castlevania music>

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progress:
turning next to a wall while holding an item no longer causes the item to get stuck in the wall


>>170863221
thanks!

>>170864231
Thanks for the explanation! It looks wonderful.
Never knew shader magic was possible in GM

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>>170861678

>>170864726
wow this is the first time I have seen an /agdg/ gamedev use another /agdg/'s art this is pretty funny

>>170864536
i want to sperge out that the paralax is done wrong but maybe for this game it isnt done wrong enough yet

>>170864536
Your qt doesn't even give a fuck about getting killed anymore.

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gonna try and implement floor textures in my raycaster. gonna render each pixel separately, using trig to find where the line from the pov to the pixel on the projection intersects the floor, and save on computing by doing some precalculation.

i'd like to store two angles for each pixel. with my current resolution of 640x360 that would be 2x230,040 elements I'd need to store, and the number gets exponentially larger as you up the resolution.

does this sound reasonable?

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hello darkness my old friend..

>>170865008
do you mean unironically?

>>170865507
Loomis: After Hours

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I used the wrong palette index when drawing the snow animation so I guess it's snowing blood

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>>170865197
>i'd like to store two angles for each pixel.
>does this sound reasonable?
It sounds like you're an absolute fucking madman.

Math for floor textures is pretty hard to get right. Good luck.

>>170865197
Why do you guys waste your time with this stuff? Building a piss simple software raycaster is unproductive and still less interesting than doing complex rendering using the GPU.

>>170865661

Every time I see your meme idle animation I'm instantly reminded of a shitty flash video from newgrounds from like 2002 about eddie murphey and you walked across the street and had 3 options, talking, shooting, or dancing. And every time he did the dance the little black character did a dance similar to your idle animation but with MY GIRL WANTS TO PARTY ALL THE TIME, PARTY ALL THE TIME, PARTY ALL THE TIME

So yeah, that's what I think of when I see your game.

>>170865678
put memes and jump scares in this and you've got an instant steam buster.

>>170864858
wow you are one triggered samefag

>>170865841
Tragically, I fixed those glitches a long time ago and now I only work on non-meme games

>>170865834

Was it Newgrounds that had the guy with the shotgun in the top left corner around that time?

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>>170865954

>>170865730
time you've enjoyed is never time wasted

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>>170866004

>>170866189
If you guys like graphics I'm sure you'd enjoy working with the GPU a lot more. You actually get to make things that look good.

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>>170865197
>>170865730
>>170866189
Indeed, why do anything but for fun. Nothing like building a nice little church on a icy march night in your nice warm bed.

How do you ensure that your game is always 'well designed'? Is good 'game design' important enough that it will make your game sink or swim, irregardless of other factors?

>>170860801
biologists and neuroscientists can explain to you many of the chemical and structural mechanisms of happiness.

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>>170866417
Too obvious

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hmmmmm

>>170866460
And they can do the same to determine when you're experiencing fun, what's your point?

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Who here finish their game engine and are now writing and implementing content?

>>170866417
Juice is what makes or breaks a game.

>>170866417
what the fuck are you trying to ask? developing a game IS designing a game. its everything from gameplay to graphics to level maps to storyline to progression to intended strategies... making something without design would be just a random jumbled mess without anything. you design when you make decisions regarding how your game will function or appear. "good design" is way too broad for you to ask a question about

tl;dr of course it matters designing the game is MAKING THE GAME

>>170866734
Try using some names that don't feel like they were taken right out of kingdom hearts or some equally meolodramatic anime schlock

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>>170866595
where did you steal that tile set from.

>>170866734
pleaes don't post terrible cringe-worthy things you find on the internet while pretending it's part of something you're doing

We have the game juice, but what is the game soda?

>>170866734
but skylarks dev, what does this have to do with space

>>170866675
but thats wrong, we dont define any mental/emotional state as "fun" we might define it as "having fun" but that's under the umbrellas of "happiness" and "excitement".
when we talk about making a game "fun" we're talking about how to make a game elicit "happiness and/or excitement" which is bullshit touchy feely stuff that a neuroscientist wouldn't even try to define because it's too broad an has endless and conflicting meanings and mechanisms in just one individual much less trying to do that among a veried group of subjects all with their own tastes for "fun".

>what's your point?
that it's useless

>>170866936
I made it but I stole the pallet from googling "nes pallet" and castlevania

>>170866417

This general has the best shitposting.

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Rough new char design (right). Trying to make the characters a bit less boring.

>>170867216
Fun is an abstract, subjective, illogical concept. Well done on reaching this basic conclusion. People value fun whether it makes sense or not, and trying to go against that because you can't comprehend something without an objective definition only makes you autistic

>>170867216
The release of endorphins in the brain is actually a pretty well researched science that big game studios follow pretty rigorously.

They came to the conclusion that menu simulators about politics just aren't very fun.

>>170867484
http://makegames.tumblr.com/post/42648699708/pixel-art-tutorial

>>170867484
congrats, it's the same.

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after pic related i'll make sure the next YESDEV is how to make a game "fun".

>>170867484
Anon the left one looks better

>>170867484
shit i meant left is new

>>170867484
the one on the left is better...

>>170867484
I'm sorry for being rude but you went from generic anime protag to Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta

>>170867484
>scarfs
anon no..

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>>170867629
oh are we posting cryptic youtube creator studio crops now?

>>170867835
But he drew it once so it still counts.

>>170867727
>>170867754
>>170867835
kek nvm, that makes more sense

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>>170867835
lol
>>170867727

>>170867754
>having a problem with scarfs

>>170867929
To be fair I didn't even read the text and automatically assumed left was the new one since I knew what it looked like before.

>>170867749
So is generic anime protag better?

>>170868374
Yes, certainly.

>>170868502
nice

>>170866595
Speedrunners strat

>>170867216
fucking cringe

you're like that edgy teenager who just got into psychology and thinks he has the whole universe figured out

>haha love is pointless its just chemicals in the brain its not REAL i'm so enlightened *tips*

>>170868502
No, right is plain boring and left is generic "I have no inspiration so I will just tack on a random scarf" design, left is marginally better tho.

>that fucking vomit-inducing motion blur on every unreal engine game

goddamn its so annoying. please tell me you're removing that if you're using UE to make your game, anons

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Okay, after circa a month of absolute inactivity with Rune Revolver due to pre-class stuff, a small dev job I had to pay attention to and upgrading my PC, and MISSING DEMO DAY, I'm finally back. Woo!

I didn't change the code at all but I came back to a broken gamepad check script that worked okay before and now doesn't work properly, but other than that I should be resuming work tomorrow and maybe actually working on playable things for DD13.

I know nobody's actually following me or my pretty tech demo, but I still wanted to give a small update.

>>170869298
DD13 is over, anon.

>>170869380
whoops, I meant dd14

>>170867629
$

>>170867865
h-how

>>170869298
I remember you because your color palette is pretty
ganba, anon

>>170869557
Well you see there is always a spike on a weekend, which is why there are 4 spikes in the 28 day period
It's quite logical when you think about it

>>170869780
how do i collect weekend spikes

>>170869298
>I know nobody's actually following me or my pretty tech demo, but I still wanted to give a small update.
lmao jokes on you idiot, I'm actually interested in your game
Don't worry too much about having to take time off. I know what its like to have to shuffle devtime around real life stuff, but even sporadic progress is still progress. GL for the next demoday, anon.

>>170869298
i think the background needs to be a slightly more nauseating optical illusion

>>170869298
>I know nobody's actually following me or my pretty tech demo
I'm following you, anon. Glad to see you're back at it

>could do something the lazy way and fast, but it will have bad performance
>there's definitely a better way to do it but I don't know how
I'm conflicted.

>>170868869
>psychology
please take your pseudoscience back to /pol/

>>170870147
Time to learn.

>>170870202
gogem confirmed for scientologist

>>170870147
Is it really the lazy and fast way if you don't know another way?

>>170870289
I know this is the lazy way, and I know there is a better more efficient way, it's just I don't know specifically how to do the better way. But I do know how to do the lazy way.

>>170870285
please take your religion back to 2009 /b/

>>170870147
>tfw I don't KNOW how do to the better way

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>>170868828
did someone say speedrun

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First videos w/commentary are up.

Blade of Blood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smn2itdnTJE

Gun Cat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpCPcCDlcfk

Devs please let me know if you've seen your vids. I hope you find these useful.

>>170870832
If you're not the dev and are watching these out of interest, the Blade of Blood video is particularly long and boring. Just a heads up.

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Blender is ______

>>170871595
Free

>>170870832
>>170871005
Is Clarent dead?

>issue with gamemaker
>find a detailed solution with a little bit of googling

>issue with godot
>find out that the issue is unfixable after a lot of googling

>>170871748
Charlotte is dead.
David is dead.
Crystal gun girl is dead.
Clarent is dead.
Maid dev is dead.
Sunny dev is dead.

>>170871892
>look guys, I'm lying on /agdg/ again

>>170871895
M-maybe new heroes and heroines will rise up to carry on the cause, anon

>>170871892
What's the issue?

>>170872139
>>170872003
where's your godot game?

>>170872224
I'm working on it, I'm the mobile rhythm game poster

>>170872313
How's Godot? I feel like switching to it after 3.0

Am I gonna get sued if I rip off pong?

Is it common for people to start making a game and not even enjoy it?

>>170866595
is your game supposed to look like absolute shit on purpose

>>170871895
You ever go through the old demodays and think about just how many of the games are dead now?

>>170872726
I got two weeks for a single post complaining about the 15 simultaneous BotW threads on /v/

>>170872689
yeah atari's lawyers are vicious these days

>>170870147
>could do something the lazy way and fast, but it will have bad performance

it isn't stupid if you don't know of a better alternative, dumbass

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>>170867484
Having a gem stick off his arm like this looks kind of stupid. It's generic as fuck but if you seriously need a gem, I'd just put it on a necklace and have it be the pop of color near his neck. You can do cool things with his animations by having the gem sway or react when he fights.

Consider a lighter hat color, because right now it's too close to his hair's color.

What looks "better" about the design on the left is more and brighter colors and slightly better composition that shows more of his design/colors to begin with. The old design is a little Nathan Drake, but it might not matter that much because the style isn't AAA 3D.

>>170871895
spookyquest is still alive, albeit with 15 name changes and he rarely posts here anymore
labyrinth is the same
sugardev is kind-of around too
frost is still alive, he's been posting lately
pugdev is alive

>>170872826
Yes

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>>170872826
Yup. Gamedev is actually awful.
And yet, here I am.

>>170872826
Not enjoy the game they're making or the process of making it?

>>170872409
It seems fine for what I'm doing, it's easy to export to Android and I haven't hit any serious roadblocks.

Some stuff I don't like but is workaroundable for me:
- You can't pass constructor arguments when instancing a scene (worked around by giving the constructor default arguments then calling it again after instancing)
- No ordered map or priority queue type (worked around by just using an array and presorting the elements, since I can know all the elements I'll have in advance)
- Occasional crashing of the editor when messing about with 3D scenes. I think it has something to with having a scene open with another scene instanced in it, then modifying the instanced scene.
- Dynamic typing. I prefer static typing and Haskell is my favorite language for general programming. Godot 3.0 will make it possible to load modules dynamically though, which can include ones written in the language of your choice, as long as it can export functions to C in some way.
- Playing sounds apparently has about a 100ms delay. This is basically automatically worked around though because I will have a lag calibration setting anyway. Might be annoying if I implement hitsounds or keysounds.

I can't really compare it to other engines because I haven't used them. For all I know there could be nice features that I'm missing out on and could help my game. I chose Godot though because I want to avoid proprietary software, and because my software itself couldn't be totally nonproprietary if I used Unity or Unreal, or other big engine.

You could try the engine if you want to see how it feels. There's an official tutorial in the online documentation covering some of the basics, and it's not too hard to pick up.

>>170873075
Very cool of you to do that for him, anon!
I don't think that was a hat, I think it was hair highlights desu

>>170873075
I'm not that anon but I still feel like I should thank you, I think #1 + the crystal necklace would be best.

>>170873075
First one looks like the protagonist of a Pokemon game.

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>go through the trouble of getting movement and attacking in order with placeholder sprites
>suddenly realize that I'm so artistically inept that every project I've ever attempted came to a screeching halt at this exact moment

Every goddamn time, man. Anyone lurking here willing to donate their time and energy and effort to throwing me a bone?

>tfw on very low frame rate you can get stuck in the world
Is this worth fixing?

>>170870832
Hey I remember you from a couple demodays ago

Thanks for contribootan

Sorry if my game disappointed you in its antiprogress

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>>170873474
I gotchu senpai.

>>170873703
Thanks man but I feel like there are a few steps missing.

>>170873608
Are you using an engine or making your own? If you're making your own learn how to make a fixed time step, so that physics wont be affected by frame rate.

If you're using an engine switch to a different engine because the one you're using is shit.

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>>170873765

>>170873608
Lock the delta time to the last calculated value since the FPS dropped to 10 or less, this will cause a slowdown but your game will be stable.

>>170873474
>draw a stupid shitty version of your ideal sprite
>use that instead of the placeholder
>go back to deving
>eventually you get tired of looking at the stupid shitty sprite and draw a slightly better version, use that instead
>go back to deving
>eventually realize what's bothering you about this version, fix it with a new draft
>go back to deving
>iteration
>iteration
>iteration

You're welcome

>>170873910
Why don't you just clamp the delta time to a maximum instead of that autistic shit?

>>170870832
>30-40minute videos
now I can't tell if I'm shortchanging people by doing 10minute videos

>>170871895
Why did clarent quit again? He put so much work into that game.

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>>170873919
Just don't iterate TOO much.

>>170873805
It's my own engine. I don't actually have a physics engine, just bounds checking.

>>170874005
brainlet

>>170874016
Even a 5 minute video is good. Even a 5 minute video where the person doesn't talk at all or give any feedback. Just watching someone play your game can be a big help, it shows the dev what the player is doing, what they might get stuck on, what they might not understand.

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You know,

I still find very interesting that many artists would rather have their model rot in their HDD and be forgotten for all eternity than trying to release them with the proper license.

>y-you just want to use their hard work for free
That's not really the point, and if they really want that they could sell their models but they don't. If you don't want people to make money with your work their are licenses for that. Heck, you can even bait people to do it and sue them for free money if you're that kind of human.
The truth is that you're creating something that should be used but don't want people to use it. I'm no one to talk since it's your work but I still don't understand the logic behind it.

So many games that could have existed.

>>170874206
>avoiding more state that needs to be kept around
>brainlet

>>170874106
Fix your code, this is really basic shit you do early on.

>>170874016
I agree with >>170874209
When I watch them I sometimes wish people would give my game just a little more of a chance or go exploring in the menus to see if they can make things easier/understand things better but even the quick plays give a ton of insight and I have a huge list to handle before DD14 because of it. I appreciate everyone who gives it a fair shot, even if they don't like the genre or the theme honestly!

>>170874102
>went from absolute cute to modern strongen wymen with neck choker
Told you the game was just sjw pandering.

>>170874272
oh sorry man, which model of mine did you want?

How would you do the controls/UI for a mobile remake of the RTS game Colonies?

I'm wondering if mobile RTS games are a half lost cause because of the tiny touchscreen.

>>170874272
>I WANT FREE SHIT

>>170874272
>tfw no games with this art style

Muh dick

>>170867249
I'm trying to make a game with similar asthetic.
What grid size do you use?

>>170862645
noooo fucker, you make the textures tiny as fuck 64x64 or 128x128 textures, not actually model the fucking pixels out
but if this is some kind of style, ok.

>>170874517
I'm pretty sure there are millions of games with generic animu girls

>>170874715
Post them nigga.

There's only a couple anime games with that kind of 2d sprite art I can think of and they're all from indie devs from japan.

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>>170872934
is your mom/face supposed to look like absolute shit on purpose >?

>>170874569
16x16

>>170863859
MOTHER FUCKER, YOU MAKE THE TEXTURES PIXEL ART
>>170863103
why the fuck would itch.io need quality control? It's basically the tumblr blog (minus the SJW cancer) version of indie dev. You can release a game whenever you want. If it breaks any rules/is illegal, it'll be taken down.

That's all.

>>170874517
??????
are you 2 years old?

>tfw you and Gogem will never collab

>>170874957
Don't tell anyone but I unironically like his art, I would totally hire him if he wasn't an edgy loudmouthed dummy.

>>170874102
#3 on the top row looks best. #6-#8 are pretty good too.

>>170874272
I think about this regarding video games from time to time. You see a game with decent mechanics and very good visuals, but it could be better. Years later it still has not been improved, but you're bound by law to not improve it.

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>>170874513
I'm glad you brought up that point.

You see, you little shitposter piece of shit, there are already plenty of good high quality models available for free out there.
The fact that you think your low poly attempt is so good that we don't deserve it for free tells a lot about your mindset, which is what I believe to be the root of the problem with amateurs and indies artists like you.

Whenever I browse all the models on deviantart, I just chuckle at the fact that all of them are never used in any games yet artists are the first ones to complain about how they want to make a game so much but they can't for reasons.

>>170873765
I got you covered senpai

http://drawabox.com/lesson/1

>>170875143
Using pre-made assets as anything other than placeholders is for chumps, you should have a proper art direction with a proper artist to draw it.

>>170873075
Dev here, didn't see this til now. Design drawings are awesome! Makes me wish I had a separate artist.

The gem being on his wrist is explained in the intro sequence, but that's currently being rewritten so the necklace might work. Looking at design #2 the scarf doesn't look that great, I think I'll go for something like #3 but with #1's bag.

What >>170873320 said is right, it's just a hair highlight, but I'll try and see if a hat will work as well.

>>170874883
Talking animation should pause for the eye lasers.

And the other pauses as well.

(I think it'd punctuate the jokes better)

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Tried to stress test my code, and it really struggles on anything more than 2000 tiles and looks like 100 x 40 tiles is the limit before heavy fps drops.

It looks pretty cool with 1 pixel sized tiles, so it would be fun to have a 1000 x 400 tile set up, but not with my shitty coding.

>>170871895
i was here before all of them

and i still have no game

>>170871748
Nah not yet.

>>170874063
Stay tuned. People need breaks sometimes.

>>170873647
You're welcome. What game?

>>170874016
I tend to overdo most things I do. It also takes me a while to try to organize my thoughts into words as you can tell. But I'm really good at noticing the small details regarding design and user experience so I hope that helps the devs out, even if it's not very entertaining to watch. I imagine if everyone did what I did it would just become laborious for the devs to watch it all. I make Arikado watch really long videos I make about things in Clarent too. Sometimes I feel bad because I go into it thinking I will be concise but then I end up with 45 minutes of my babbling he has to sit through.

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>even Clarent is dead
There's no hope for the rest of us if even that yesdev machine is dead.

>>170875863
Good progress anyways

How to make a pixel art smoke effect?
like in a shmup or something when you damage the boss and little plumes of smoke start rising from it

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>>170876293
Can we at least get some sexy Clarent fanart in here?

>>170876530
they are grey circles with black rings

>>170876530
Just copy Metal Slug.

>>170875031
>not valuing loudmouths as an asset
you have a long way to go before your money would be worth anything to me.

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Gave this girl some guts