/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

First for Gogem is a pretty cool guy

lolidev did nothing wrong

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>>170951154
your model seems well made, but holy shit that design
You've lost the tumblr audience by lovingly modelling her ass instead of sticking her in baggy pants, and you've lost the 4chan audience by making her a tumblr user. What exactly were you thinking?

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>>170952001
>>170952001
>>170952001
>mfw interviewing for a summer internship where they pay me to just like make game for 8 hours a day

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exploding onto the scene in this new thread

(floor 5 room design continues)

I'm very disappointed in myself.

I find it very hard to get into gamedev. This isn't an easy hobby to just jump into, obviously, and there are enough nodev faggots shitting up these threads. But I just want to state that I feel very bad, and feel like I'm letting down everyone by not even trying a serious effort to gamedev.

I have other hobbies I could, and probably should, put more effort towards first. Still feel bad about it. Please enjoy my suffering, peace.

Every single skill I've developed while working on my game has turned out to be useful at my very stressful and chaotic day job
Every skill, that is, except one

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Reviving an old project

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>>170951154
If you're gonna make a whale at least try to give her a decent face. She looks like a tumblr hambeast.

>>170947648
The Monolith guys.
I'm waiting for them to release their game so I can have the top combo in the recap.
Forever.

>>170952198
>O's aren't engine logos

>>170952535
Yay

>>170952535
What's the game's general idea? Obstacle course?
Looks pretty cool. Would buy if it costs less than 2 dollars.

Uploaded some shitty game music I made ages ago:

https://soundcloud.com/perhapsdev/sets/tracks

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>>170952706
Its a thieving game. Goal is to sneak around and steal shit. I'm going to overhaul the setting the now to be a sort of retro-future Nazi world. Lots of neon, lasers, and robots.

>>170952653
Please feel free to edit. I don't have that much effort to give.

>>170952568
>generic anime face always best bet

never change, /agdg/

>>170952568

>complains about "tumblr" art style
>references image from tumblr.

But that would be pandering.

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Was mildly confident I could get a system like this to work, through various tutorials and forum questions I've learned a bit about Events and Delegates and got this working in a state that I feel confident I can expand on it.

Plus I'm on the east coast and with two feet of snow coming I can dev almost all day tomorrow!

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>look up someone's GM tutorial
>it's only good for their specific game

>>170953324
>Plus I'm on the east coast and with two feet of snow coming I can dev almost all day tomorrow!
There are very few days I regret having wangled working from home.

Tomorrow will be one of those days.

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>>170953331

>look up GM tutorial
>they use built in functions

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pls rate.

;u;

>>170954425
6/10

>>170954425

Girl characters are bad but it looks good.

>>170954474
>Girl characters are bad
Explain.

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I want off networking's wild ride

>>170954545
because i don't like them.

>>170954601
Can't you use Idris for the networking code?

>>170954614
What are you, sexist?

>>170954601
you need to read about how networking actually works in programming it's pretty easy and straight forward

>>170954614

You know you're on par with the wastes that say "it's bad because man" right?

what is the worse kind of shitposting on /agdg/ ?

>>170953331
That's literally 100% of game engine tutorials on YouTube. They develop stuff in earlier episodes, bait people into clicking their vids that only contain them-specific instructions. The Unreal YouTube channel does that, they do stuff NO ONE ELSE DOES and when they post instructions, they can only work with their methods. Say, they are socketing a weapon, they include the gun in the player actor, so the blueprints contain self references that no one else can use unless their gun is in the fucking player actor too.

>>170954945
Criticizing other people's development methods or game engine.

>>170954763
I already have it working, the problem is I'm trying to minimize the amount of data sent to an extreme but UDP is complicating my life, but it's just so much faster than TCP.

>>170954945
this

I single-handedly made the whole Five Nights at Freddy's series. You know who this is. Yup! It's Scott Cawthon! You may not have known it, but when I was developing the first game I was consulting 4chan on certain things that would be cool/not cool. Ask me anything, /b/!

>>170955564
why do you do this

are visual novels games suitable to post on agdg

>>170955564

Why do you think it's acceptable to post disgusting worthless pictures like that in boards where people don't really want to see them?

Do you think it's funny to post disgusting shit? Do you honestly think anyone wants to see that? Do you think it's relevant to video game development in any way?

It's not funny, and you're not funny either. Delete your fucking post. I'm not kidding.

>>170955680
don't, he isn't gonna answer anything non-christian...

ignore this faggot

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>>170954945
OFFICIAL /AGDG/ SHITPOSTING ANNOYANCE RANKING:
mass samefaggotry with dozen posts or more > pretending to be devs > metaposting (including this post) > trans dev e-celeb posting > /r9k/ posting, healthy lifestyle > jam wars > "artist here, looking for a programmer" posting > ideaguy/codemonkey/artist memeing > regular random pic acting as a thread opener/closer > completely random shit akin to that one faggot from the last thread who thought he was being hilarious phoneposting > twitter/gdc posting > "post your devmusic" > shit/ironic feedback > programming language wars > anime wars > engine wars > rest

>>170955564
DELETE THIS

>>170955680
Are you a girl?

>>170955564
Are you a girl?

Aussies are early today

Left feedback for about half the games, generally the browser games and titles starting with A-L. I'll try to do more but I had to take a trip after demo day and it might have been too long after DD13 to give meaningful feedback. If you have a game I didn't cover reply and I'll try to prioritize it, but no promises (I'll start with the back of the alphabet for DD14, but I'll also try to start feedback earlier)

http://pastebin.com/EEqbs3Wa

>Gotta learn how to do art
>Gotta learn how to do music
>Gotta learn how to program
fug. I'm starting to find it a bit overwhelming to the point where I neglect one or two. Am I trying to do too many things? How do you guys handle it?

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>>170955053
they are there so you can learn the fundamental mechanics. not to just give you the answer

>>170955943
For the art bit, you need two things in order to get started:

>HB pencil
>copier paper

>>170955909
Thanks for playing and reviewing the demos senpai, I'm glad you enjoyed mine.

>>170956082
For sure. I was more talking time allocation-wise though. I'm scared to death of letting my progress decay as I inevitably get rusty from focusing on something else. Is it even realistic to work on all of those things or should I stick to the art and programming until I've gotten them down and then move on to the music?

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Making some friendly elemental NPCs, fire salamander and a water goat that wants to be a cowboy.

>>170956383
Do 30 minutes of whatever category you have done before to counter rust, then allocate more time as you want

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https://twitter.com/TheeWhiteReaper/status/841440073329573888

What does my audio need agdg?

>>170956264
No worries, which game was yours?

>>170956650
I think you need to fine-tune the levels a bit more so that the sound effects don't jump out quite AS much, but other than that it looks and sounds like a professional game by a full studio. Extreme kudos, dude.

>>170956650
more bassoon and incidental trombone

Should I use æ and Æ in my game text?

>>170956993
Why would you? I say no.

>>170955837
>triggered by health posting
spotted the fat burger

>>170957212
For words like mediæval and encyclopædia.

>>170956772
it's a secret

>>170957212
>>170957256
also pædo
loli jam starts on April 1.

how many of you expect to make significant money off your game?

significant money as in (your yearly salary (or neetbux))*(2 or 3)

>>170957402
me tbqh, I won't release my game until it's ready to make me a millionaire

>>170952001
Guise, I'll be brief: I'm making a minecraft map and I need free spooky sounds. What do?
I checked the websites in the OP but they're quite limited.

>>170957507
>I won't release my game
R.I.P.

>>170957402
>0*2 or 3

>>170956650
Put some sliders somewhere to adjust SFX and music volume. Let the player decide where they want it. Is that your music? I'm impressed.

>>170957579
take any sound, pitch it down
pitch it down more
get paulstretch and stretch it to a thousand years
pitch that down

>>170957402
Nothing, I'm releasing it for free.

I just can't get into social media, I look at tumblr, give a heart and two and then just forget about it for weeks.

How am I going to get recognized if I'm an invisible autist?

>>170957402
hope there's at least 10k in the end.

>>170957668
Where can I find a tutorial on SFX and music volume sliders for unity/main menu options?

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>>170956650

ok come on at least fix the eyes jesus.

just squish them flat.

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: City Night
Dev: xian
Tools: C, Allegro, SDL, Blender, Aseprite, OpenMPT
Web: not yet
+added snow animation
+added an idle animation
+great feedback from demoday, feel much more determined
-writing a game design doc and can't commit to a major plan
-lots of bugs

>>170957712
PoE has a map that has just paulstretch bg noise.

>>170957769
you're not
it's that simple
unless you are a miraculous prodigy that hit a jackpot, you will remain forever unknown if you're an autist who can't into social networking and marketing

>>170957880
What's your game going to be about?

>>170957915
there are "musicians" whose entire careers are shoving things in paulstretch

>>170955837

Pretty good, but I'd put engine wars a lot higher.

>>170957769
You wont. If you have to, just set reminders to post stuff.

>>170957827
That's a good question. I've only learned by trial and error.

What I would suggest is looking at the scripting documentation for the slider, and playerprefs. (I'm starting with the very basics here, you might already know what playerprefs is.) You probably have your main menu in a different scene than your playable game, so you will need to be able to save the value of that slider into a file, then load that in the next scene. Use PlayerPrefs.SetFloat("Anythingyouwanthere" , Volslider.value); at some point in your menu, then in your other scene, Musicaudiosource.volume=PlayerPrefs.GetFloat("Anythingyourwanthere);

>>170957712
Thanks
sounds like a lot of work tho
since it's not for a commercial use or anything, I guess I could recycle sounds from other games.

>>170954003
i one rewrote the point in triangle code for GM8 since it didn't exist yet. it wasn't fun.

what video games do you guys currently play?

>>170958496
Waiting for pc nier

>>170958496
google "the witness"

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>place bat by accident
>flies in front of the moon
>exactly when the paralax shows it in full view

>>170958496
Furi

It's fun, I don't know how seemingly competent devs can lock their game to 16:9 and think it's fine though.

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Sorry anon I'm tired, I will finish her after I sober up.

>>170958095
I'm gonna be completely honest, my game idea came from me walking around downtown and in empty buildings at night. There's a certain indescribable feeling. But how you make a game from that, I don't completely know.

>>170958337
>literally the easiest thing
>"sounds like a lot of work tho"
not sure what i expected from a minecunt, why are you even here? that shit isnt gamedev.

>>170957507
are you posting anything here?

>>170958337
>paulstretch
>a lot of work
I...

>>170958892
Yes.

>>170958771
Urban exploration?

>>170958771
what about something sound based. Sounds behind you, and sounds after you make noise. I think it'd be interesting to have a horror game that reacts to your breath. If go too long without making a sound(like you turned your mic off) it catches you.

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buttons have an actual model now and they bounce when you come off them

What color is the bottom light on a stop light?

>>170959056
Nice Bokube clone.

>>170959109
You mean a traffic light?
the bottom light is green
nice try

>>170958971
what's your game?

>>170959109
octarine

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Locked Masts
Dev: IceDev
Tools: Unreal, various cutlery
Web: N/A (really need to get on that)
+Moved a few things up from prototype stages.
+Currently working crew AI. Pretty fun to see the guys running around picking up boxes.

>>170959197
thank you I ganbatte'd my hardest

pixel artist here practicing

I'll draw you something for your game

>>170959197
thanks now I was able to create my OpenGameArt account

>>170959338
not me

>>170958496
Overwatch
I know it's garbage but it's fun

>>170959442
They were trying to trick you - by calling it a "stop light" they were expecting you to say "red" because that's what "stop light" makes you think of. But the Go light is the one on the bottom of a traffic light, and that one's green

>>170959668
yeah actually the answer failed and I had to type "spammers are the scum of the earth" instead

>>170959753
So they were actually tricking you into saying green when the actual answer was red?
But there's no "bottom light" of a stop light, there's only one stop light
that question's jank

>tfw have to pause gamedev for 4 months because university's going back

>>170959989
>he fell for the university meme

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>>170960123
>graduate from uni
at least i'm done with that
>start dental school
well I'm almost done with this
>apply to residencies
heh, just 2 more years or so before the money is rolling in...

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Guys my rats got the shakeys.

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felt pretty tired and unmotivated the last few days for some reason.

so to have some fun i added conveyor belts and some decorative tiles.

also gave the room editor some improvements.

>find some cool free art
>still feel guilty about using it

>>170960449
don't feed them the white powder

>>170960558
looking sweet man, you could make a pattern in middle so you have to actually stop in middle of it and then back a little

>>170960558
this room was just to test out the room editor and the belts, it looks pretty crowded.

but yeah i think i can do some cool things with those belts.

>>170960795
this answer was for
>>170960712

>>170954601
I tried it once. Never again.

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hey gamer's

Are you expecting snow tomorrow, /agdg/?

>>170961090
no

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tfw the anime comes into ur house and breaks your candels

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=301acFz0a_A

>>170961389
Is she one slap girl? pretty powerful for a blue hair.

>>170957402
I've gotten 4k from a Renpy Game that has some decent AI and good art

I want to hit 20k by the end of next year

Albeit I wish I could improve my programming skills

>>170961090
I'm stuck in the office at lower Manhattan. There is no snow out there

>>170961090
>Snow in Texas
Hilarious.

>>170961775
how you sell it?

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>>170961812
I'm gonna snow all over your state anon.

>>170952568
Is there a tutorial for Substance Painter or Blender's inhouse drawing mode that demonstrates this low poly low resolution model texturing?

>>170961545
Doing gradients like that is cool

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>>170961801
Pic related

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>>170961951
Guess nigga

>>170961090
Yes. Living in Cucknada sucks.

>>170961987
Why are you in the office at 11:15pm?

>>170959026
Yeah, although I moved someplace new and I'm scared to go out much alone lately

>>170959027
Sound design will be VERY important in my game, (and yet is something i have hardly worked on) but I don't think mic input could work out for my game... but definitely, it's crazy how much you can hear at night. I should definitely consider the sounds of the night and the sounds the player makes.

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>>170961090
Nope, got it yesterday, all nine inches.

>>170961962
Note: Texans don't count sleet as snow.

>>170962074


Final build is due tomorrow and the client sent over a bunch of changes at literally 5pm, so I'm probably sleeping here

>>170962039
Is that monthly or total?

>>170962374
>Final build is due tomorrow and the client sent over a bunch of changes at literally 5pm
My condolences anon, I guess you can't push back on that sort of thing

>>170961987
I'm further south and apparently I'm seeing more snow
fuck weather 2bh

Should I sign the releases of my game?

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>>170962440
Total, My monthly has been in freefall ever since I decided to spend my time improving skills rather then just continue to abuse the system like every other shmuck

>>170962132
Can I come live in Texas?

>>170962697
>spending time trying to improve rather than building a skinner's box of donation for your small fanbase
you're a game dev, and patreon is your game now get to it

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Hey /agdg/, I made some sprites for you guys. They're free for anyone to use.

>>170955716
I'm working on a VN and you'll probably get made fun of here desu. I just lurk and enjoy the shitposting.

Whaat's easier for you guys? 2D or 3D? Which do you prefer doing?

Are you making a 2D or 3D game?

>>170962936
B-b-but I want to be the best anon
I can't be the best if I continue to fling shit anon
I can only go so far with python anon

I'd rather be a smart poor man then a rich dumbass desu

It's in my nature

>>170960449
nice

>>170963084
kek

>>170963125
2D is easier, for me. I've been trying to learn 3D though.
I'm making a 2D game right now. But I would love to make a 3D game once I get better at it.

>>170963084
they don't look so good without the tilt...

>>170962697
People are less likely to give money if they can't see constant progress. They want to think their money's going straight towards development, and if they can't see the fruit of that then they'll stop giving money
While trying to improve skills makes perfect sense from your point of view, from their perspective it means progress isn't being made since they can't see any output

>>170963378
Right and that's completely reasonable
but in my perspective it's

"Fuck the Fans"
"I want to enjoy making games"

Either way they'll all come crawling back like degenerates when I finish my super duper awesome game

>>170963084
the madman actually did it

>>170961080
pro

>>170963578
Only if you close off ties gracefully. If you go full "fuck all of you I'll do my own thing" mode, people will remember that and not come back

If you exit with some graceful "I think I need to go on my own path and it's not fair on you all to be giving me money during it" shit then they're more likely to be sympathetic and come back

>>170963812
People will always come back for quality anon, even if they don't want to

You know why?
Because they're animals Anon
All of them

How do I build a fan community?

I suck at social interaction, that's why I'm here and not on tumblr or twitter

>>170955716
They seem to be - though nobody really cares about them.

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blender or make human whuch do yalls us the mostg?

>>170964095
being active on social media is pretty stressing to me but you have to see it as part of gamedev

post cute things, post funny things, hit Like on other people's things. likes and rt's are free, give them away like candy

>>170964404
w-what if I'm not a furry

what if I'm a scalie

>>170963716
Took a few hours, although I did take a break for dinner in the middle. The rotation wasn't hard to correct, most of the sprites came out fine, the more complex sprites I had to fix by hand.

The hardest part was actually the gradient over the whole image, which made it hard to fix all the colors. I eventually gave up on trying to fix the colors.

>>170958683
By the way, I adore that death screen and you best never get rid of it.

How far into my game's development should I start posting progress?

>>170964641
Post as soon as you've set up your Makefile.

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You can't tell from this shot, but the lighting has been improved. Before i was trying to set my atmospheric perspective shade and my fire shade by throwing variables into one RGB color. Now the atmospheric shade is back to it's own color (R,G,B where all three are the same fraction of 255, based on how far from the camera a wall is) and this color is then merged with another RGB (where R is a fraction of 255 based on how far a wall is from a fire, and where G and B are both 0). Then this merged color is used as the color blend over the wall sprite. Walls also now can choose from 2 sprites to slightly break patterns. i need to add a few more for this to work better.

>>170964560
I'm really fond of the shitty explosion sprites too

>>170964472
it's all good. post your twitter here sometime, people seem more likely to follow if you already have a bunch of followers and most agdg devs follow each other

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>>170964339
>make human
I use Blender because I like making my own things. But use Make Human if you're not interested in being an artist or having unique art.

>>170964641
When you have something interesting to show.

>>170964832
Yep. It plays to the game's slapped-together look/comedy strongly and bookends the experience pretty well.

Definitely keep both.

>>170964812
The previous issue was that, as you brought the camera to a wall, it would lighten everything because all the RGB values approached 255, where I forced them to max out. Then as you walked away from fires, they would start to project proper red colors as the atmospheric components started to drop towards zero, and the red component could be represented. All fixed now.

>>170964968
thanks for the encouragement man

I'll make a tumblr and twitter sometime

>>170964339
Blender, I only ever tried makehuman once and it was back when I was very new to 3D design and even then I was disappointed with it, it can't really be compared to Blender, it's just a character creator.

>>170964641
Only after you've started putting in art
As superficial as it is, you'll never catch anyone's attention until you've got something pretty to show off

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Any resources that explain the general theories behind programming and actually addresses the concept of how programming works rather than just shoving various functions and code down my throat?

>>170964339
I completely botched the makehuman install, and ended up with the basic characters in .obj in blender somehow. I sculpted them into what I wanted in blender. I'm sure you could just find a free mannequin model somewhere and do the same.

>>170961090
>snow in a tropical country
I'd like to know what snow feels like, some day

>>170965407
>and actually addresses the concept of how programming works
That wouldn't be helpful.

If you're having trouble learning it's probably because you're not doing enough hands-on shit, or you're doing something retarded like learning from youtube tutorials instead of a book.

>>170965193
no prob. also put some minimum amount of time into making your banner/icon look nice

make sure your recent pictures has some of your work, I click on peoples profiles often and they're like "ARTISTE / I MAKE GAMES" but then they only have meme pictures or reposts

this is all assuming you're an artist or your game has art

I save everything people say about my game.

I save the occasional DD fanart, I screenshot comments, agdg replies and Tumblr posts.
I record people talking about my game when I show it in real life and then transcribe the audio for easy searching later.

I collect this data and average it out to find out which aspects of my game are falling behind and try to improve them.

I also build profiles of people who talked about my game, this is specially hard on agdg since everyone is anonymous but by analyzing post times, styles and opinions I have a fairly accurate map of each poster here and their opinions on my game.

My plan is to eventually build a network of data of all people who are my target audience and I will find out what exactly makes them tick and with this I will develop the perfect game.

>>170965830
What is your game?

>>170965407
Depends on what you are interested in, but odds are you'll have to pay for an actual book, or at least a PDF.

Free web resources can only go so deep, when you want to actually learn instead of just copy and blindly infer from surface-scratching internet examples you need to actually invest in the learning material.

>>170964693
Sadly I'm too dum to program in C
>>170964984
>>170965245
B-but I'm not an artfag, all I have is very programmer placeholders

>>170965830
what's my game? if you get it right I'll literally be mildly impressed

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Guys, I'm making a level editor but it's shit.

How do you design it first before coding? It's turning into a mess and I've never made an editor before.

>>170965656
I'm just having trouble grasping the "WHY". I know, based on the things I've done, that I should write something this way, I'm just struggling to make the mental connection as to how I'd take the information and utilize it to suit my needs down the line. I want to think like a programmer not just meme out the things that programmers have taught me

>>170965995
There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer.

>>170965991
By "interesting" I mean interesting from an actual gameplay standpoint, it doesn't have to be especially pretty, it just has to be more than boring a rectangle platformer.

>>170966129
DR.SBAITSO is that you

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Project Sunshine (Working Title)
Dev: Scarlet String Studios
Tools: Unity
Web: N/A
+ Fixed remaining DD13 bugs
+ Fixed input mapper
- UI needs work

>>170966132
I see, thanks anon
I'll try and make something cool

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only enginedev on /agdg/.

>>170966405
Cause it's fucking retarded to work your ass off to achieve something that looks like it was made 20 years ago.

>>170966405
I tried to foray into enginedev before, but I'm too dumb for that shit

>>170966190
I can only tell you one thing: you WILL buy and enjoy my game in the future once I learn more about you.
This reply is part of the data collection too, I should be able to fit your posts in an existing profile in the next minute or so.
Even a lack of a reply will be a meaningful data point and an important clue.

>>170966405
I'm a former engine dev. Wrote a 2d platformer/physics-playground engine then realized if I switched to Godot my game could be 3d without looking like trash.

>>170966045
Make tools in your editor for what you need right now. Don't worry about designing the perfect editor, it's just a tool to use to develop your game.

When it becomes unwieldy and hard to use, then you can think about the design a little bit and see if you can clean it up.

>>170966119
Understanding why certain conventions exist is something that really only comes from experience. Program how you find appropriate and when the reasons for doing a particular pattern or data structure become apparent you will understand better how to use them - far better than any book or internet tutorial can teach.

>>170952115
>>170952138
>>170952304
>>170952330
>>170952457
Here's a pity (You) for these fucking horrible first posts you wastes of oxygen.

>>170966045
I design it the same way I design everything else, which is with the homosexual design skills that I was born with.

Ignore this anon. He's retarded : >>170966712

>>170966872
You must have misclicked >>170952304
His post is a good criticism of an ugly character.

>>170966501
It's not much work if you're just making some 2D game with SDL. It's nice to be able to actually understand what your computer is doing when your game is running.

I'd never attempt to go full-3D, if I even had to do 2.5D I'd probably just use ZDOOM or something, but 2D is not difficult at all from an enginedev standpoint.

>>170966998
I'm going to try 3D for my next game, going for a PS1 sort of aesthetic. Wish me luck anon!

What is the best Blender tutorial series on Youtube?

>>170966712
Anon from editor here. I just wished it could become a tool for my players, so that's why I'm little worried.
Actually it has a lot of prototyping stuff and right now it's a mess.

Gonna design the game first, write some stuff on docs before coding.

>>170966998
>It's nice to be able to actually understand what your computer is doing
That's not what making a game is all about.

Smart humans don't reinvent the wheel, they use the existing tools because that's what tools are for.

>>170965407
The classic Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by honorable Sasuman and Eiberuson

>mfw bsod at pc startup
>mfw I backup everything so I'm safe
Windows 10 was a mistake
Remember to backup your shit agdg

>>170967143
>going for a PS1 sort of aesthetic
Like every other talentless hack?

You have no hope.

>>170966986
That post reeks of nodev ideaguy shitposter.

>>170967226
Making a game is about whatever I want it to be about faggot

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>>170967352

>>170967283
>mfw using Windows 10 since launch
>mfw zero issues

>>170966986
>good criticism
It really wasn't.

>>170967443
you really like ads that much?

>>170952304
>>170966986
>>170967423
>muh tumblr credit
>muh 4chan credit
>vomit.jpeg
>"what were you thinking?"
>muh valuable feedback
your feedback is shit m8 don't argue just don't make shitposts for feedback and you'll be okay alright nodev?
inb4 you doctor a screenshot removing (you)s don't bother kiddo

>>170967582
mommy bought him a laptop and he's not allowed to remove the default operating system in case he breaks it

>>170967443
Lucky you. I have been using it for 2 months and I'm already dealing with this shit.

>>170967624
If you explain your reasoning, at least the person getting the feedback knows to throw it away or not.

Gets an "it's fine" in my book.

>>170967742
>Gets an "it's fine" in my book.
that's great
who cares?

>>170967950
>that's great, who cares?
Same but in your direction lol

Hey all, quick question. I want to get a local game studio funded enough to get part time jobs and benefits for at least two of the people working there. I'm not related to the studio at all, I just want work to continue as normal.

I don't know enough about to this industry to know how game development companies work, but I'm interested in keeping this studio afloat. Money is no object but what should I know about social dynamics?

Anyone tried GM:2 yet?

>>170967393
Don't get cocky faggot. You spending time making your engine means less time spent on making the actual game. Got it?

>>170967975
no i explained my stance you're just saying "no i say it's okay" without any explanation. you even decry that same behavior >>170967742 >explain your reasoning
stop breathing through your mouth

>>170956383
I am in a similar boat, I'm still not gud enough to give any detailed advice but I will say: you should really just dedicate the whole day to one subject, don't scatterbrain yourself by trying to do different shit in the same day. It's kinda like the cost of interruption problem.

I dedicate 2 days of the week to music, 2 days to art, and 2 days to programming, and sunday to do whatever. Spend the rest of the hours of the day after you return from wagecucking/school on one subject that day, or the whole day if you're a balls out NEET.

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>>170968003
>I don't know enough about this industry
Neither do we.

>>170968003
>I want to get a local game studio funded
>Money is no object

Ya wot m8?

>>170968003
>money is no object
Just hire them to make your dream game senpai

>>170967742
What about that post as feedback was okay let alone "fine"?

>>170968139
Fair enough.

>>170968249
>say dumb shit
>say why they thought it rather than "it's shit"
>now you can toss it
FINE

>>170968003
So what exactly is the issue here? You're worried you'll hurt their feelings if you just dump money on them?

>>170968181
>>170968168
They can't know the money is coming from me, that's the main issue here.

>>170968425
Stolen money or are you the dev's dad?

>>170966986
>>170967624
>>170967742

Origional poster of the art here, desu I get the same comments from the same motivated people every time. It doesn't really bother me, I'm actually glad to get a reaction.

I like the style, and I know others do to. I can't stand sameface safe fucking anime meme shit and I find it funny that the same people that would prompt me to adopt that style would also crit somebody for 'pandering' for other styles.

If the game releases one day, the same kinds of comments are going to be made then, after the projects become a lot more personal, so It's better to become hardened to it now rather than later.

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Post your game and I'll play it and then tell you it's shit.

>>170968425
Make a shell company, come up with a game idea, then hire a dude to be the company's face and give them a contract
Since we're helping you will you fund some of our dev projects?

>>170966531
>implying enginedev takes intelligence
Enginedevs in agdg are all frauds. It takes literally no effort to copy paste someone's github libraries and call them your custom engine.

>>170968595
google "the witness"

>>170968526
>Origional poster of the art here
I don't really care about your opinion.

>>170968003
basically tell them that you are interested in investing in the studio
they will understand that you are a trust fund kid who plays games all day every day but it needs to be framed in a way where its an investment

>>170968595
Thanks but I'm all set. I already got feedback
>the stories are too long
>you write like a hack
>too many things happen in one sentence
>this is all just internet memes
>the tasteless swearing is out of place in a game
Can't wait to see what they say next time around.

>>170968526
bad feedback is bad feedback no need to make excuses for it like it's okay just because it was you getting attention. that makes you sound like an attenionwhore.
artists are so stupid i swear

>>170968615
Send me kickstarters and gofundme's

>>170968990
Are you serious? I'll set up a gofundme right now if you are

>>170968948
your feedback accepting feedback is shit

>>170968948
Well yeah it's shit advice but it's their loss, you can clearly tell the motivations by how the crit was delivered.

>>170952304
>You've lost the tumblr audience by lovingly modelling her ass instead of sticking her in baggy pants
Tumblr is a porn site you mong.
>you've lost the 4chan audience by making her a tumblr user
What year is it?
>What exactly were you thinking?
Probably about more important things than your autism soup I would wager.

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Rewound
Dev: johzu
Tools: GM:Studio, LMMS
Web: https://hypersnow.tumblr.com, https://hypersnow.itch.io/rewound
Progress:
+ Got plenty of constructive feedback from DD
+ Redid some graphics
+ Redid char design
- Didn't do much other than that, was pretty lazy

>>170968620
It takes more intelligence than I have, that's for sure

>>170969124
Here's my feedback on your feedback on my feedback.


It is bad.

>>170966119
mess around with game maker. I feel like eventually you will get it. very small projects but finish them. you need to not be overwhelmed knowing that there is a better way to do stuff. you could remake pacman 3 times and get better every time. there is no reason to fuck around with more advanced stuff before you have competed some remakes and then tried again to optimize them.

>>170969169
>What year is it?
The year we still find landwhales with colored hair disgusting, and awful personality disgusting

>>170969728
You should start breathing oxygen instead of memes.

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made a cool looking pixel eye

>>170952457
You can't force yourself into a certain lifestyle. Motivation doesn't just happen. You need to nourish yourself in the right ways.

If you really, truly want to get into game development, you have to go through the rites of passage like everyone else. This is how everything in life works, by the way.

Don't know what those rites are, or where to even begin? Look at the lifestyles of other developers; really look at them, and understand their stories as much as you can. They all have stories. There are a lot of online resources these days - developer diaries, GDC talks, interviews, and more. Listen to the stories of developers that have made games you're really passionate about, because those are the stories you want to learn from the most.

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So who here has finished their game engine or framework and are now working on writing the story?

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>>170970238
>GDC talks
L-like this one anon? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHqbKFGyCdQ

>>170969886
Well, have fun with your problematic fatties.

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>>170970567
>can hear him breathing the entire time
>"when I say fat, I don't mean muscular"

>>170969886
Dude you can't just tell someone to stop huffing memes

>>170969886
Not that guy, but that design definitely looks "tumblr" and would certainly harm your game's appeal if she was the MC. Also, why isn't she wearing underwear?

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>>170952001
https://youtu.be/NoOhnrjdYOc

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>>170953216
>>170952568
No you fucking retards, it's a 3d fan art of Sprite37's character, "Emerald."

Then again, Sprite37 IS a whale/fat lover.

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>>170971282
>mfw my shitty furry vn doesn't get funded

>>170949625
Awesome, any art blog to follow you at?

Game developer here, ask me anything.

>>170971410
Is like I'm really at devianart

>>170971410
Ooops, looks like I'm the retard.

>>170971609
How many complete projects have you launched?

>>170964339
BLENDER. MAKEHUMAN IS THE 3D EQUIVALENT OF AIDS.

>>170971768
1

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>>170970117
no you made a snorlax from the side

/v/ thread up:

>>>/v/370426065

>>170971820
What was that project?

>>170958496
Just bought the new Doom, it's great. Also playing Rocket League (love it). That's it except for some occasional Animal Crossing.

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It goes like this.

>cue to bitching artfags

>>170958496
binding of isaac for "research"
and some hearthstone quest every 3 days to save up gold for the expansion.
atm. that is it my beast computer has gone to shit after eating 7 or 8 (lost count) graphics cards 2 years ago, no money to buy a new one so now i am stuck on a toaster laptop.

>>170972404
so programming appeals to the minority of people and art immediately interests the average plebe that is willing to buy your game? sounds right desu

>>170972404
writing good code is easy just following the proper structure designs and work flow over and over again

drawing good art is difficult learning to see how to draw properly

>>170958496
Nier Automata, MGR and DMC4 for researching good action combat.

>>170972404
I really love coding but everyone I see who posts about programming in agdg is a bonafide nodev and I hate them.

>>170972605
Is /dpt/ any good?

>>170972813
Different anon, but /dpt/ is the cloaca of /g/. It's overrun by shitposters yammering about which programming language is best girl (and they mostly insist it's C).

>>170958496
Alien Soldier, Kirby Super Star, Battletoads, Thunder Force III

>>170849951
last batch of moderately-low-effort mostly-inclusive reviews

Black Valentine: Everything was slow and I couldn't get anywhere. The physics seemed to work pretty well though.

Blade of Blood: It's not exactly my kind of thing and it's early days it seems but it's shaping up well. The graphics are pretty readable even like they are, without textures. The controls feel pretty good except I feel like the cooldown for the normal attack and the one-two is a bit long. There were some ledges I couldn't jump onto but I think that was intentional. I couldn't quit the game from the game itself, or get back to the title screen, the "are you sure?" message would just stay up and nothing would happen, I could even back out and keep playing with the message up and the screen dimmed.

NipNip: Walking feels a little slow, but otherwise everything feels good. Everything looks and sounds good too, even though I can tell it's a bit minimal and deliberately simple. People think simple is easy mode, but it's hard to make it look good, and going simple and cartoony like you did can make that easier or harder. It's working out so far.

Umbrella Warriors: The graphics are still great and the game still feels good. I played as the new(?) cat and she(?) feels kind of slow. It seems like the challenge has been ramped up, I played on "spicy" and I got killed a good few times, I'm pretty sure I tried that last time and it was still a pushover. I like the level of challenge that has. Lastly, HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS UI WORK? Hearts don't seem to equal health, I can't figure out what they do stand for, and I had to read a really scrunched up bunch of text to even pick out what goes with the heart symbol. I have no idea what stars mean. I have no idea what most of the little boxes are for. I know one box indicates health but it has no scale and it's not quickly readable and it doesn't stand out. Other than shitty HUD/UI you're fine.

It's been a pleasure playing all the entries I played.

>>170972092
A newgrounds game.

>>170973051
I love you

>>170971530
back to >>>/ic/ with you

Is there a single agdg game that isn't generic highly derivative indie game #2846482?

>>170972919
Everyone knows that Haskell is best girl
>Elegant and refined, intelligent
>Belittles you for not knowing enough category theory like she does
>Will put you in bondage and make you like it

>>170962039
can you post your patreon page/game?

I'm hoping to do this next year and I'm always looking for references to calibrate see how hard it will be to support my lifestyle with no full time job

>>170972813
No. It's the nest of more than one of our worst shitposters.

>>170960449
lookin' good, m8

>>170973847
Obviously bait. All works are derivative. All agdg games are indie by definition. Nothing will satisfy your definition of unique.

>>170974312
>Obviously bait.
Then don't reply to it you grunk.

>>170973847
Is there a single game that isn't generic highly derivative?
Is there a single indie game that isn't an indie game?

>>170974434
>Is there a single game that isn't generic highly derivative?
portal
Or if you're an autist, narbacular drop

What are the best Blender tutorial series?

>>170961080
hey aaron

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trying to get greenlit before steam direct. Ill be putting out the demo in a few days. just want to make sure it's nice and polished

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=877722790

>>170975038
>Unity lighting

>>170961090
No, only more water from Oroville.

>>170974543
How come you can just tell if something is Unity or Unreal or GameMaker?

>>170961090
Hoping the snow will fuck off by tomorrow.

>>170961090
I have seen snow only once in my life and it lasted all of 2 hours and was melted away completely 3 hours after. I hope to see it at least once more in my life time before I go

>>170975038
what tools did you use to make this?

It looks like a pretty fun game

>>170975381
Open your freezer door

>>170975118
nice try, its actually using the Power of Unreal Engine 4 ™
>>170975418
UE4 and gimp. thanks

is there a text effect thing for unity? for animating color/offsets/scale per letter

>>170975518
>Unity lighting in UE4

>>170973909
Sorry, I'm too well known on chan

My advice is don't be like me
Post content all day and eventually you'll make 10k a month if you put even the slightest bit of effort in

>>170975518
you can make 3d models in UE4?

Why is Steam abandoning greenlight? Is it quality control?

>>170975928
money

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>chasing a bug for 3+ hours
>finally realise it's because I mispelled a variable by one letter
Code completion in other ids has coddled me

>>170956437
holy fuck, this is quality stuff. keep it up!

>>170975928
gog's actually right this time. They will almost certainly make more money by stopping the flood of literal shit and giving their store back its reputation of quality

>>170976181
>stopping the flood of literal shit and giving their store back its reputation of quality
not gonna happen and its much simpler than a multi-step plan to make money.
Step 1. Fee on each game submission
there's no step 2.

Gogem should make a lewd dating simulator

>>170976503
social interaction trainer is already made and out.

>>170975928

$$$$$
supposedly the new submission fee will be anywhere from $250 to 5k

>>170968907
I hope you also remember the part when I said you have potential to create something really funny.

And if people say "the stories are too long", then take that with a grain of salt. You are on a /v/ related board, after all, and /v/ people just hates reading.

>>170968907
Skylarks dev?

>>170976429
>>170976631
You really are a worthless idiot.

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Is this a big enough warning that a ghost is coming?

>>170968907
i will say nothing because my feedback is one time thing

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>pick up drawing and programming to 1MA my game
>it's actually enjoyable
>every day I want to work more on either skillset
>for some reason, working on my game also rekindled my passion for books and video games, and want to spend more time reading and playing
>no longer enjoy myself when hanging out with family and friends, spend all time thinking about what I'm going to do once I get home
>hanging with them became more of a duty to keep the relationship from falling apart

Anyone else had this happen to them? Is this normal or am I just becoming an autist?

>>170954815
Do you want me to be less ambiguous about it or something? i don't get it

>>170977517
Nah, it's really weird that you unironically enjoyed their company to begin with.

>>170977517
Nah, it's perfectly "normal", I can relate 100%, but you better balance it out before the passion becomes an obsession. Tell yourself that meeting with others are important to have a healthy life, and it's okay if you are not game devving 24/7. Game dev is a good hobby, but it can make you a workaholic pretty fast if you don't take care.

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is this too much ui waggle
trying to make it as simple as possible without being super boring

>>170977273
Oh hey, I love frogger. Is this going to be like some of the later frogger games that have full story modes and stuff?

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>>170978005
Reminds me of this.

>>170959310
sexy looking waves.