/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

first for linux

second for arch

Willing to do art for the right game. Let's talk.

>>171470452
>getting into gamedev for shekels
wew lad, next youre going to tell me you do canvas commissions on the side for bill money.

>>171470693
Not interested

>>171470693
What tool do you use to draw?

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Why aren't you using Panda3D, anon? You can script in both Python and C++, it's open source, free, and not loaded with DRM like Unity.

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What's some required reading about setting up an LLC? I don't want my personal assets (such as car, laptop, future wages) seized in costly patent litigation

reminder that this is the kind of person who will be playing your game
>>>/v/371014056

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>>171470452
>set yourself for life
Get your head out of your ass.
Bioware games sell in ~5 million copies range.
They are an EA subsidiary with 1200 employees, half of their revenue rolls in after discount sales, they probably make 10 cents on a dollar from every copy and that's being generous, actual profit after EA, Sony, Microsoft, Steam and physical retailers take their cuts, budget/salaries gets covered, something's set aside for future development, they are left with a fucking pittance.

>>171470917
literally >>>/biz/

why do I never get progress (You)s

>>171471004
Show me the post, I'll give some feedback

>>171471004
People are jealous most of the time or your work is so bad its not even worth commenting.

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https://soundcloud.com/ryunocore/sets/cleft-knight-ost

Two tracks from Cleft Knight are up!

>>171471004
Typically when progress is really good I'll have nothing to say. I don't want to post "Nice!" to every progress post. So I only reply when I have something useful to say.

>>171470693
Any serious inquiries?

>>171471276
what program are you using?

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>oh boy, I can finally make some interesting and visual progress !
>end up making an actor to handle spawning and despawning enemies as the level goes on
hurray for geme devving

>>171471276
>>171470693
Post art.

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PROGRESS: Got the graphics settings working, with toggling effects in real-time.

>>171471004
I usually only reply to progress if the dev asks a question. I usually don't feel like helping google identify lawn chairs enough to post unless someone needs help.

>>171471534
That's already better than most AAA games.

>>171471586
Is anyone else thinking Captcha is going way over the fucking line lately?
Not only are they forcing people to do some questionably legal shit, I've had to solve more than 5 in a row more than once. And no it wasn't "please try again kind", just more shit to solve.

>tfw you realize your game is boring

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>>171471586
>>171471742

>>171471787
Speed everything up by 1.5x to 2x. Sometimes a game might just be too slow, and is more fun when it's faster.

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Good afternoon fellow autists.
Its already looking better.

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Stress testing the new animation system. Should feel pretty good, be efficient and not crash at all at some point.

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Daily reminder: Stop making shitte Early Access games like
>>171411957

>>171471931
upside down it kinda looks like an F4

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>>171472094
>says anon, as he posts a picture of """"""""""pixel art"""""""""" made with shit geometry, flat colors and disgusting modern PP effects

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>>171472284
>he makez 3d games

>>171472284
I fucking love bloom in pixel art.

Debate me.

>>171472357
>implying pixelshit is the only valid 2D style

>>171472414
Found the nodev.

>>171472390
You are entitled to your opinion

>>171472108
Mean looking plane thats for sure

>>171472357
Yes anon, I'm criticizing someone's 2D drawing technique, because I'm making 3D games.
Incredible deduction methods you've got there, retard.

>>171472493
stay mad 3d shitter. The world has no place for no-talented people like you.

>tfw I need to finish my game before the indie meme ends

>>171472596
cant come soon enough 2bh.
Want all these faggots who dont even like games to go.

>>171472591
I'm not making 3D games you fucking insane person.

>>171472715
Ofcourse you're not, nodev.

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Fixing bugs is progress, right?

>>171472596
It's already dying. Poor white boy oma won't be able to compete with the upcoming VR headset boom, you will need to have studio which can push out AAA assets or you will be fucked

>>171472596
By the time I finish my game my parents will kick me out of the house no one will be buying indie games anymore, I will have to pay 10000 dollars just to get on steam. All I can do is hope for HL3

>>171472823
What's the game plan?

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>>171472847
VR boom

>>171472891
Small city builder.

Stop obsessing over 'progress'. It's more important that you enjoy yourself.

>>171472847
if it dies then definitely for different reasons than vr meme

>>171472823
Or perhaps he's wondering why someone would generate a terrain, before having any gameplay.

>>171472847
>VR
Shit, I forgot that existed. There truly is no salvation

>>171472847
VR doesn't need AAA assets, probably the >BEST VR game so far is Budget Cuts and that has some pretty basic (but clean and well done) graphics.

>>171472963
Being in this for "enjoyment" is a great way to never actually finish anything.

>>171472924
Oh great, it's the 2017 version of the idiot who used to to go like "lol computers? normal people will never use them, they are for scientists"
"lol portable phone? that will never catch on!"
etc etc
in a decade or two using a monitor instead of vr headset for gaming will be on par with using VHS tapes today to watch movies from

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I'm getting kind of sick of GameMaker Studio.
Considering I'm an IT student now I'd be better off using C++ or Java instead and kill 2 birds with one stone (make gaem and improve coding language) right?

How would I even go about this? Are there engines to use for Java and C++? Or would I have to code things like level editors myself?

>>171473246
Java is incredibly similar to using C# in Unity, and UE4 is C++

My game will surely be the next Braid/Limbo!

>>171473246
>C++
ue4

>>171473229
Oh great, it's the 1996 version of the idiot who used to go like "lol computers? normal people will never use them, they are for scientists"
"lol microwave? that will never catch on!"
etc etc
in a decade or two using a monitor instead of vr headset for gaming will be on par with using cassettes today to listen to music from

Imagine if Godot used a proper language that wasn't retardedly slow.

It would be the #1 2D engine for sure.

I know you are reading this Godot devs, stop making stupid shit like visual scripting.

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>>171472847
>he makes VR games

>>171473285
>>171473302
thank you

Am I right in assuming Unity would be better if all I wanted to do was 2D games?

>>171473229
VR headset is a shitty gimmick that's been around since 1995 (literally longer than you) and so far it's sti still shit

>>171473351
>in a decade or two using a monitor instead of vr headset for gaming will be on par with using cassettes today to listen to music from
or it's going to be like betamax, minidiscs and literal virtual reality headsets from the 90s

your expensive format that nobody uses is a disaster waiting to happen

>>171473131
>Budget Cuts
The only reason why games like that can survive is because the big idustry animals haven't fully jumped on the vr wagon yet. Once you will start getting the battlefield and dragon age diarrhea in the VR market, indies will be fucked. Also don't forget that people who grew up with shitty graphics and don't mind them are entering their late 20s and 30s and will either stop gaming due to work/family or severely limit gaming, and the gaming community will consist mainly of, now grown up, cancer kids, who consider mass effect 1 graphics as absolute bare minimum to be playable and will prefer current cutting edge graphics

>>171470303
Add pygame to your list of Engines! Pygame is a perfectly legitimate Engine and just as good as Unity.

>>171473423
Better in the same sense that using an Xbox 360 controller to hammer a nail is probably better than using a curtain rail.

>>171473426
90s VR and todays VR share only their names and that is it. The only reason why the 90s vr failed is because the technology wasn't there yet. Same reason why leo davinci's plane failed. But currently the VR technology is pretty much there, they just need to work out the kinks which will take mere years to do.

>>171473569
I see what you mean
I've just heard people say that UE4 is too bloaty for 2D game development

I'll look into it more closely

>>171473423
if you break 100k you have to give unity money

like that'll ever happen tho hahahahaha

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Gasp!!

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>ue4 crashes without warning because it didn't have enough memory to allocate for textures
>I'm still using placeholder art
wonderful

>>171473639
Will's willy

>>171473617
Just like 3D TVs, right?

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>>171473617
the "kinks", such as not making you squint into a tiny screen in front of your fucking face (literally same shit as 90's VR)

Until they can create a separate perception of reality inside the brain using electromagnetism or some such, VR is read in the fucking water.

>>171473785
Just like color TVs

>>171473507
Mass appeal isn't exclusive appeal, a huge hit doesn't kill smaller games as evidenced by the fact that indies and AAA coexist just fine right now.

>b-b-but only a handful of indies are ever popular while the rest of forgotten for all eternity
It has been like this since the beginning of recorded history and is not some new phenomenon.

>b-b-but look at the utterly abhorrent state of the android market! shitty cashgrab games everywhere and the few good games are never noticed!
That's Google's doing, they actively promote shitty practices like ads and IAP and it's not some natural order of things, they could easily clean up the Play Store with more sane practices but they are an ad company and ads are their business.

>>171473008
There's also a lot of things already implemented you can't see on a screen: player controls are pretty much complete, pathfinding shouldn't be too far now either.
It's not a game yet, but it's taking shape.

>>171473831
Do you even understand how VR works retard? The lenses on the thing make is so that the screen looks like it's far away and your eyes focus much farther away.

You are an ignorant retard.

>>171473981
→the point
↓
you


Unless you come with tech that sends information directly into visual cortex, fooling the person to think they are actually seeing things first hand, not on a screen, you have nothing to improve. VR is fucking dead.

>>171474268
t. retard that never even tried a VR set trying to comment on shit he doesn't know about

Even the relatively low fidelity screens of VR sets today look utterly immersive and enough to fool you pretty convincingly, all it needs is a denser resolution and higher FOV and it would basically look like real life.

>IT'S NOT LITERALLY MATRIX WAAH IT'S SHIT WHY WOULD YOU WATCH A MOVIE IN A 2D SCREEN IF IT'S NOT EXACTLY LIKE REAL LIFE WAAH
Holy shit kill yourself retard.

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This is what the VR haters actually think video games look like. Because they can't make games. Only """""""""levels""""""""" that look like literal tranny vomit. I guess because a tranny vomited them out. Lol. :)

>tfw rewritting the same code for the 4th time

>>171474478
>WHY WOULD YOU WATCH A MOVIE IN A 2D SCREEN IF IT'S NOT EXACTLY LIKE REAL LIFE WAAH

I totally prefer 2D movies to 3D ones and for a good reason
it's a gimmick
and your buyer's remorse won't convert anyone

>Holy shit kill yourself retard

what did he mean by this?

>>171471004
Where is your game?

>>171474268
god you are dumb

>>171474686
I don't even own a VR set but I used one, it's too expensive right now and the design and technology are still way too volatile.

I used 2D screens as an example to point out how fucking dumb your "it's not literally matrix so it's bad" argument is, if you ever used a VR set you would know it's far more than just a 3D screen strapped to your face.

>>171474873
give it up, the vr meme is already dead

>>171471138
(You)

>>171474873
>it's far more than just a 3D screen strapped to your face
a screen strapped to your face with headtracking?

>>171474687
It shorthand for "this argument is silly and not going anywhere, let's wrap this up and continue working on our games"

>>171474873
Don't argue with autists, it's a pointless battle

>>171471972
(You)

Why are so many fucking idiots going 3D?

It's fucking retarded no matter how you look at it.

Daily reminder that gogem has made multiple games and the rest of you are perma-nodevs

>>171475334
There are just a handful of VR/3D games so what the hell are you talking about boyo.

>sourcefam gets destroyed in a stupid VR discussion and now tries to falseflag and pretend his shitposting alter ego is a VR supporter
classic

>>171475416
His art is bad

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>It's the "I hate VR because it's not the matrix" and "VR is literally gods gift to the world fucks arguing again" episode
>AGAIN

Unrelated to this shitty argument, gas artist, I blame them for everything.
We should carry out digital pogroms against artist, put them into concentration camps and use them as slave labor to make assets while we develop AI to replace them.

>>171475416
it's cruel to needlessly antagonize the eternally depressed.

Do you neglect audio because it doesn't feature in progress posts?

13 days to loli jam

>>171475546
>while we develop AI to replace them.
soon
http://mattya.github.io/chainer-DCGAN/

>>171475601
>Do you neglect audio
but i dont
SFX are hard and most people dont have the ear or patience for it.

>>171475601
i neglect audio because my computer's sound is broken
>>171475546
>develop AI to replace them.
stop randomly generating things you shits

it doesn't work for levels and it won't work for assets

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>>171475601
i neglect audio because it's annoying to have audio everytime you test

>>171475646

>>171475601
I'm just bad at audio, especially music. So I use free music and some simple sound effects made with BFXR.

>>171475601
I have some musical sketches but I feel no need to finish and implement them so early on in development when I haven't even figured out the general aesthetic I'm going for, same with sound effects.

>>171475601
I neglect audio because I don't think it's a priority.

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I would develop for VR in a heartbeat if I had the cash,as it stands I can barely afford cheapo ramen.

Let's go boys!

Why is no one here making Pressure?

>>171475546
what the fuck is YOUR problem?

>>171475663
wow an algorithm fed pictures made by people, set to make composites of their features and failing miserably?
truly awe inspiring
>set hair to pink
>get blue
LMAO

I’m Hideo Kojima. I’m a game designer, and I make games like Metal Gear Solid at Konami.

I originally wanted to make movies, and I wrote novels and such, but I couldn’t get a budget, so when making a movie started seeming difficult, the NES came out, and I learnt about the world of games. I realized that you could tell a lot of different stories through games too, so I ended up entering the game industry.

Back then, you couldn’t play many sounds or voices, but there was a challenge within that simplicity. It was really fun. From about Metal Gear Solid 2, the sound became beautiful and real, so-called CD quality. And then I went to Harry Gregson-Williams from Hollywood, and got him to do real sounds, and broke it down digitally to play it like that, so from around that time I felt like we were making sound that was close to that of movies.

Games aren’t movies. But like movies, I think sound is 80% of it.

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>>171475892
Fuck konami right guys.

>>171475853
t. butthurt "artist"

>>171475848
because Pressure was and remains a stupid concept for a game.

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/whohere/ working on a waifu simulator?

>>171475967
you're the one butthurt if you want to replace us with you RNG faggotry
did some artfag cuck you?

>>171476019
HNNNNNGH

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>>171476019
>tfw literally read this today
what are the fucking odds?

also
>she's head taller than the MC

>>171475732
how is your hitler rhythm game coming along anyway

>>171475115
>discounting actual progress
This is why the thread should just die. Discord devs are the only majority of yesdevs with minimal shitposting

>>171476562
not believable for a second.

>>171473394
>he doesn't make games
>he just shitposts in a thread about making games

>>171476562
>being jelly because he got a you and you didn't
(You)

>>171476454
believable for a second.

>>171476562
>a couple people shitpost on /agdg/
>UGH THIS PLACE IS COMPLETE SHIT AND FULL OF SHITPOSTERS
>Come to Discord where the same amount of people shitpost!

>>171476562
>going on discord at all
Too much shitposting too little work.

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gonna give this one more try

UE4 Spring Arm Issue

Tonight I implemented what could be thought of as inverted lag for my two cameras, telling the spring arm to rotate ahead of a turn essentially so that the player sees what's ahead of them instead of lagging behind and seeing less useful information

I have two cameras, and two spring arms (the set local rotation function is being used on the spring arms). Now, I got it working very well for the first person view, but for some reason it doesn't seem to work at all for the 3rd person view.

Details:
- I'm pretty confident that the reference to the active camera changed successfully when I toggled (I printed a string to confirm)
- Lag was working successfully with both spring arms previously, so the cameras are following them
- The third person spring arm actually has length, while the first person one doesn't.

Does anyone know what may be happening here? I did a decent check through all of the settings on both spring arms and both cameras didn't seem to have any different settings (discounting position and length).

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>Discord

>>171476642
>>171476657
>>171476741
>>171476751
all of you faggots proving my point by replying to a shitpost rather than actual progress. You will never finish a game

>>171477105
Joke's on you I'm the person that repliies to most progress posts in this thread

if i ever get from making games for my own joy to release a actual game i'm gonna put it on piratebay

>>171477105
im certain i will

>>171477105
Where is your game?

>>171477105
Just finishing the landing gear what the fuck are you talking about.
If a threads stays up for 8 hours you bet your ass Ive been working the whole time instead talking shit on discord.
Replying to a post or two here has nothing to do with the autistic shits just discovering IRC in 2017.

>>171477191
If I would see my game on a pirate site, I would:
- feel successful
- leave some keys in the comments

>>171477375
Same.
Just go to pcgames-download.net and shift through the indie selection,they barely have downloads or comments.

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i have consulted the greatest scientific minds to convert the time to microwave time

Haven't been here in a year.
/agdg/ 16-17 season rundown please

>>171477582
This looks comfy af

what programs do you guys use to make music anyway

>>171477582
L-Lewd

>>171477964
Famitracker for 8-bit chiptune stuff, FL Studio for non-chiptune stuff.

>>171477964
I just find russian guys that are eager to promote their music.

>>171477923
Thanks anon

>>171477964
FL Studio for composition, Audacity and OpenMPT for samples

>>171478062
link me some
>>171478026
>>171478097
>he pays for software

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>>171477964

>>171478062
>previous game needed electronic/ambient stuff
>endless supply of music bros to pick from
>now I need orchestral and the choice of free artists is a wasteland

>>171478026
>>171478097
Anyone have links or leads to some free "decent quality" soundfonts for FL Studio? Strings and voices etc? At least better than the default since all the nice stuff is super expensive right now. I would love to buy them eventually but the only budget I run on is personal time for now.

>>171477923
check demodays

I'm just starting and doing a small game by following a tutorial. So far done only in Unity and C#. How viable is C# in the long term?

>>171477964
Composing into guitar pro because muh sheet, export into MIDI and use Ableton for actual sounds.
I might send the MIDIs of my finished tracks to my better musician friend though, not just because he's better but also since he has a massive collection of sound banks compared to me.

>>171478021
Any more shitposters' death reported?
What were the cancelled titles since April?

>>171478317
Are you looking for a particular style? Or just the highest quality/closest you can get to actual samples

>>171478097
Why not use Edison inside FL?
Its so much faster and more powerful.
You can save as and export to the playlist in two clicks

If I were to purchase FL Studio which version is the best bang for the buck?

>>171478386
Only concerned with quality honestly

>>171478397
I use Edison occasionally for it's superb pitching and stretching, but I prefer the UI of Audacity over Edison.

>>171478459
Ah I see. I have a good collection of SPC/SNES stuff but for high-quality free SF's, I'd just take to Google.

trisamples.com/free-soundfonts/

>>171478021
you're my favorite shitposter

>>171478636
Thank you anon! These will help a lot!

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Some light bloom.
You'll have an option to disable it.

>>171470303
I want to make a game called "Happy Little Clouds".

anyone got a repository of good tutorials for unity and c#? I've just finished n3k's snake game tutorial and while I understand it I have no clue where to go from here. I mean like learning individual mechanics or learning enough fundamentals that I can start figuring out how to approach creating mechanics. Like I know how to make a player controller but where do I go from here?

>>171478673
>literally insane shitposter gained a fan
a deathcult cant be far behind

>>171478769
what will player do in it?

>>171478370
Googs is going to jail soon for violating Western Australian law with his gambling achievements on Steam. They're also going to expedite him to the US for his work on the sandy hook simulator.

>>171478828
I find it strangely entertaining because of how bizarre it is

>>171478758
will there be a playable husbando? ;_:

>>171478828
>>171478923
The orbs of light have preordained your death.

>>171478269
>electronic/ambient stuff
link me some

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>>171478953
My next game (in 10 years) will have a male mc, I didn't make this flexible engine just for this game. I want to make a metroidvania with combos and weapon switching next.

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>>171478923
i wonder how mad it will make him once he realizes he's an artist

>>171478792
do one thing at a time. google or ask questions when you need help.

>>171478923
bizarre is an understatement
that dude goes into discord from time to time, acts completely normally until he randomly tries to direct the conversation into the subject of source and eventually pose as a victim of thread memes, all without a slightest hint of irony
this can repeat a few times until he gets kicked

>>171478830
The player will be one of the happy little clouds. He'll go around chilling with other clouds and occasionally getting himself some cloud action.

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>>171479336
do go on

>>171479146
>>>/mu/soundcloud

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It turns out I can just import my 200MB meshes into Blender without having to bake the textures myself
It renders a little slow but it doesn't chug like a dead turtle like I expected

Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to import the per-vertex altitude data and use it as a displacement map or something
Maybe I'll just displace the vertices before export

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hows the modeling going, anon?

>>171479470
The first model is great, but how the hell am I supposed to fit my cock into models 2 through 6?

>>171479430
i dont understand, how is this any more than a noise texture slapped on a sphere?

>>171479336
I'm on the verge of stealing your idea, but keep going.

>>171479430
your post makes your render sound much more complicated than your webm indicates

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The doxxer is a terrorist
Now he's real upset
He's going to snap at every anon
Because of his regret

He wants to get away with it
He wants the mods to save him
But everyone knows he's a piece of shit
Going to live with Satan

>>171479371
>>171479618
There isn't much else to say. I was thinking along the lines of "Animal Crossing, except with clouds instead of animals".

How important is story in a non story driven game from a design standpoint? I talk about games like Portal or Binding of Isaac, where the game could work without any sort of set up, but it's a nice addition. When is the right time to start to think about the setting? How are you supposed to find one?

>>171479915
Can angry people be storm clouds?

What's the most common issue for invalid elements in an array ?
More specifically in UE4 but I guess it can happen in any engine.

>>171479973
Absolutely. It just so happens that they're black. It's not a race thing I swear.

>>171479950
Gameplay > plot > graphics

unless you're catering to attention-deficit adult children

>>171479950
Ask people their favourite thing about Portal. I guarantee you that not a single one of them will mention anything gameplay. Story is important for leaving lasting impressions.

>>171479995
What do you mean?

Like what can go wrong if you have invalid elements?

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Before if you wanted to throw an item, you would have to awkwardly use the momentum of the Reaper movement to throw it.

Now I added where you can pick it up with LMB, then just point the line and drag it out how far you want to throw it. So it will get thrown with mouse distance and direction in mind.

Need to lose the programmer art though. How shitty will it look if I make an arrow, then stretch and rotate it in-game?

>>171480039
>unless you want to make money
Fixed it for you, anon.

>>171480070
Ask people their favorite thing about Tetris or Super Mario Bros.

>>171479950
Depends on your game and audience

I never once got asked about story for a previous game, but the new one I do fairly often.

>>171480145
Why would we do that when he explicitly said "I talk about games like Portal"?

Mongoloid.

>>171479571
That's what it is
I guess in theory I could build the noise function into some kind of Blender plugin and just invoke it that way, but my intent was to put together a toolchain where I could batch render a whole bunch of planets from a handful of configuration scripts

>>171479657
OK, I'll fix it:
>Blender knows how to do colors. I didn't know that because I'm stupid. Now I know. There's other stuff to do that isn't colors. I still don't know how to do that. I am still stupid.

>>171480083
Well, I want to make an array of elements to remove from the game but it seems a lot of them are not valid, I can't delete them.

Lore is more important than story.

>>171480221
Tetris and SMB are both games like Portal. They're both played on computers, and they both challenge your reflexes and hand-eye co-ordination.

>>171480243
Maybe they were already deleted.
If you're doing something like particles or sound cues they will often destroy themselves when finished.

Also check that they were actually valid when you tried to add them. It might add nothing but still create a slot for it.

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>>171480347
>Tetris and SMB are both games like Portal.

>they both challenge your reflexes and hand-eye co-ordination

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>>171480145
>he thinks Tetris didn't have a story
you were an engineer working on AI autopilot of Soviet space shuttle

>>171480279
"Story" is as vague a word as "consciousness" and gamedevs are hamstrung by continuing to talk about it

>>171480438
Doesn't seem like it, they still show up on the list of elements.
I'll try changing the way they're added though, you're probably right about this one.

Why do the best writers tend to have backgrounds in comic books?

it's very clear none of you have any talent for making games

>>171480689
Coming from a person who was born a shitposter that doesn't hurt my confidence much.

>>171480689
You think you're tough shit but I can tell that in real life you're sheltered, risk-averse, and emotionally frail. Your tendency to hesitate will always be your Achilles' heel.
You will never be able to shitpost with the champs. You don't have what it takes.

What about a game in which you make games in which you make games?

>>171480635
is that really a thing?

>>171476019
>>171476187
sauce?

Younger brother asks what is the point and why I even bother to model things.
I have no response.

>>171481220
Glamorous Nylon
it has only 9 chapters and ends abruptly.
Don't expect any miracles, aside from the girl's lingerie shots, the art is shit and plot is all over the place.

>>171481367
meh thanks anyway

>using GML or C# to make a game
Why limit yourself so?

>>171481685
the only limit is your imagination and work ethic

>>171481685
Because there no good 2D engine with a proper programming language.

>>171481845
Sure there is, it's called make-your-own-engine.

Does anyone here want to do few chiptunes for a stealth game?

I can't make it myself, i tried, im horrible.

>>171483132
Stealth games should have moody ambient tracks, not bleeps and bloops.

This is not an opinion.

>>171480089
First of all, looks pretty cool.

>How shitty will it look if I make an arrow, then stretch and rotate it in-game?
Not sure, I think it depends on how the arrow looks and whether it's animated. I think it could look pretty good. It might be even better to use something else that better fits the game's theme... maybe a ghostly arm?

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>>171483132
Check out the MG2 OST for something close to chiptunes.

>>171483280
Like this guy said, you gotta be careful as it can break the atmosphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htggdgOimqQ&index=3&list=PLCC6F3F3B7F841559

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sMxmjW5CsU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07MeA0yaEgM

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>>171476019

>>171483682
ditto this

>>171483596
>Check out the MG2 OST for something close to chiptunes.
fucking lol

>>171483132
Go on looperman, find ambient loops. Done.

I've found one that might work for you - Sneak Like Me by clinthammerMUSIC.

Is there anything worse then Brazilians on the internet?

>>171484297
Your game

>>171484297
Venezuelians on the internet

>>171484297
Your lack of game

I like the time travel mechanic in Chrono Trigger a lot. I wish I could steal it without my game being called a rip off

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Question to anyone:
What price tag your game will have(and why)?

>>171484991
Free.

Money will be made with Patreon.

It's porn.

>>171484991
20 dollars full release
No frequent deep discounts, maybe a 75% off every year starting one year after release

so what sound formats do you use in your games?
You DO know that mp3 and 4 are licensed, right?

>>171484991
5 to 10 leaning to 10
It's a small game and no one wants to pay more than 15 for indie games.

>>171485368
FLAC best format any occasion

>>171483472
Yeah, planned to use the ghostly tentacle thingie that can be seen animated on the ghost itself (at the bottom).

Thanks for input!

>>171485368
ogg

>>171485368
vorbis

>>171485368
Opus or flac they are the best anyway.

Trying to get into UE4. What is the best way to "select" an object so other blueprints can call on it?
For example when you click on an object a text will change.

Can you do like a "find object with X boolean set to true"?

>>171485368
wav and mid

>>171485368
ogg and wav

post progress guys

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>>171485412
>>171485501
>when you download 600MB platformer demo, because shitter just had to put in uncompressed everything

>>171484991
60$, +40 for the season pass.
So I won't have to sell much to make profit.

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>>171485739
>implying i will sacrifice high audio fidelity when there is no reason to do so

>>171485626
You need a reference to actor, or a reference to that specific actor
either store it into an editable variable you change in the level editor, or use a get all objects in X class and take it from the array.

>>171481845
Use a framework. Using an engine for a 2D game is very wasteful in terms of your player's PC's resources. Any toaster nowadays can run basically anything 2D if it's programmed correctly. Why ruin that?

>>171485892
The difference between a wav and a high quality MP3 is imperceptible with a 10x difference in file size.

>>171485982
the difference in file size is imperceptible

>>171485982
>imperceptible
Speak for yourself.
The noise added after 44100 is unacceptable in mp3 files.

>>171485982
mp3 is a licensed format, use ogg
FLAC is to fat

>>171486052
From 30mb to 3mb is a big difference.

>>171485626
There are a variety of 'Get all actors _____' nodes, and then you can use a ForEach loop to cycle through them and check the boolean (not great for performance with lots of actors/doing it very often)

You can use a Trace fired from the camera to the mouse location with 'Convert mouse location to world space'
Or an overlap sphere if you want to find nearby things

If both objects exist in the editor from the start and it's a 1-to-1 relationship you can give them an Editable reference variable and then you can set that from the editor.

>>171485982
depends on your headphones and what range is being used (mp3 kills high frequencies)
mp3 is no flac

>>171486094
ogg isn't a format, it's a container.

>>171486129
teach me your gamedev ways please

>>171486560
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaW5cpjBPpWrO1dRq4PAERAnoX2h2QldR

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>>171486618
last fucking warning

>>171486712
t. salty nodev

>>171486535
Ogg Vorbis then

>>171473426
t. hasn't tried modern VR or just played phone VR with retarded app "watch a movie in a theater!" tier shit

>>171485368
What the heck kind of person would still use MP3 in this day and age for anything

>>171486905
2000s music player that doesn't support glorious Opus?

>>171486905
I could bet you even Greenlight is full of games stuffed with mp3 audio

>>171486905
It's by far the best compression algorithm in terms of quality per byte.

Is there a significant difference in workflow between sculpting in Zbrush and box modeling in Blender? Even when you're modeling something simple?

>>171481367
>art is shit
The only thing shit is your taste.

>>171487071
Formats with better quality / compression
- OGG
- Opus
- AAC
- Probably everything else

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I want to make some sort of MMO/online game but I have absolutely no good ideas and don't want to make something terribly generic and actually fun. Please help me.

You don't need graphics, as Undertale and countless other indie games have shown.

You don't need story, as Super Mario Bros, Tetris, and countless other games have shown.

You don't need gameplay, as Flappy Bird, To the Moon, and countless other indie games have shown.

So what do you need? Do you need anything?

>>171487129
Yes. Sculpting in Zbrush is like making art. Using Blender is like being sucked through a human-shaped hole carved into a cliffside.

>>171487332
Heavy marketing.

>>171487303
Are you sure you're not an ideaguy?

>>171487298
Also ogg has fewer licensing issues

>>171487129
why dont you try and judge for yourself instead of waiting to be spoonfed a workflow that is perfectly fits your needs

>>171487332
A game

>>171471534

Have you work professionally on a game before? If yes which game?

From the characters to the graphical interface of the menu it reminds me of dark souls/demon souls.

Can you tell me about your character modelling/scultping process?

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I need opinions.

Left or right, and why? Does the right one dodge downwards too deeply?

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>>171487303
If you are in any part of game dev and can't come up with any ideas at all, you should literally just kys

>>171487604
Why not both?

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>>171487241
Sorry, but I actually know how to get on Sadpanda and if you think the style in that manga is good, I could drown you in artists, whose work would make your dick rip itself off and fly to space.

>>171487604
why are you fighting in a Five Guys?

>>171487757
While I technically could leave it as-is, I'd rather both have the same animation but mirrored to be consistent between dodges.

>>171487332
you need to put the crack pipe down and make a game

>>171487834
Because the ring sprite isn't done yet and I needed to slap a quick grid on the placeholder so that I could actually tell if the ring moving when you punch the enemy fighter works. If it's all a single color it's really hard to tell if it moves 1 pixel at a time like it's supposed to.

>>171487604
furry punchout doesn't seem like a good game concept

>>171473507
not every game is a first person game that needs a realistic environments
shut the fuck up
>inb4 muh future kids
you don't know jackshit

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It's surprisingly fun just throwing rough concepts together in gmod

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

I think I might actually polish this and add objectives.

>>171473507
The "grown up, cancer kids" won't have money to spend on games. The people with jobs, who don't have endless time to sink into grinding and cheevos, will.

>>171487646
>tfw no cute asian gf to choke you with her legs

>>171488442
>generic shooter #144354

>>171488148
>all sorts of possibilities for different fighting styles due to different animal morphologies
>character design is easily memorable
>maximum furbait for maximum dosh
tell me again, how is it not a good concept ?

>>171487646
I wonder what decisions in life you have to make to end up being actually paid for letting cute hs girls choke you and rape you
I apparently did it wrong ;_;
>>171487303
You will fail, the scope is too big, don't waste your time

>>171488648
would you play a game like that?

>>171471138
>this still exists
Amazing, I thought you stopped working on this years ago. How's life?

>>171488952
add first person and VR $$$

>>171473229
I don't think many people will use VR as opposed to AR (Hololens and such).

>>171473638
But Unreal has a 5% royalty all the time. Thus the 30k break-even line between Unity Pro and Unreal. Over 30k and you're giving more money to Epic than you would to the Unity devs.

>>171489230
>30k
It's 3k.

>>171488760
The way you have it set up is the old style punchout type of game is not going to work with different fighting styles and animal morphing etc

You would have to make a different type of fighting view

>>171489230
more people will buy your game though

>>171487407
Even for simple models for something like Unity? Is Zbrush even better for characters like Toon Link?

>>171487496
Because Zbrush is expensive and I'm not sure I can learn it enough in the trial version. Pirating also seems harder these days.

>>171489286
super punch out had people beating you with long hair and a cane. its setup isnt that different from what he has.

>>171489345
The zbrush trial is 45 days. Forty five fucking days. Stop making excuses.

>>171489345
For simple stuff you should stick to box modeling.

>>171472284
All graphics are pixels.

Does the THPS audience still exist?

Seems like a dead genre.

>>171489692
I think it's pretty dead.
I'd play a game like Skate where you can slide down hills and break every bone in your body though. Seeing someone fall is really fun.

>>171489275
What do you mean?
Unity Pro: $1500
Unreal: Free, with 5% royalty
Disregarding Steam cut, $30k is where Unreal would stop being less expensive than Unity. Or, going by the monthly approach, a year of Unity Pro.

>>171489318
>"people care about the engine that the game is made with" meme

>>171489657
I'm a slow learner and get distracted while learning all the time.

Also no need to be such a sperg. Did you forget to take your ritalin or something?

>>171489670
Thanks.

how hard would it be to make a better game engine than Unity or Unreal Engine 4?

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>>171489681

>>171490245
I'm more forgiving of minor bugs and idiosyncrasies in a game that doesn't use a premade engine.

>>171490312
nearly impossible if not outright

Name one /agdg/ game that isn't from some generic overdone genre.

>>171490405
Undertale

>>171490245
Depends over how long you make your money with UE4

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This is a humble remainder that learning how to develop your game from scratch (that is, not relaying in game engines such as unity and GMS) will take you closer to deploying a game and beat your competitors.

Because games and game development are so popular, and you are competing against other games for attention, it is in your interest to use more performant tools that allow you to program your game without cutting any feature or depending on closed software.

If you are interested in defeating your main oponents (those using game engines, like the ones listed in the op poster), here are some tips:

- Use efficient and performant programming languages, such as c++, rust or nim.
* cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
* doc.rust-lang.org/book/
* nim-by-example.github.io

- Learn algorithms:
* coursera.org/specializations/algorithms

- Learn maths and physics:
* khanacademy.org/math
* khanacademy.org/science/physics

- Learn how to get the most out of your cpu:
* dataorienteddesign.com/dodmain/
* learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/79-the-stack-and-the-heap
* fgiesen.wordpress.com/2016/08/07/why-do-cpus-have-multiple-cache-levels/

- Learn how to do graphics:
* opengl-tutorial.org/beginners-tutorials/

Good luck.

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How's this for an idle animation?
I have a feeling the arms should move more independently, but I want to hear your opinions.

Do you think it would get annoying too fast to see the mc bop about every time you stand still, or do you think it won't be a problem?

>>171490576
Making your own engine won't make people more interested in your game, people don't care about how well it runs as long as it keeps 60 FPS which any engine does.

No one cares about your nodev opinions and no one ever will.

>>171490576
>he actually went and copypasted it
madman

>>171490370
>"people care about why bugs occur" meme
Your audience isn't sympathetic game devs, anon. A buggy game will be dead in the water, regardless of what it was made with.

>>171490469
That's the full lifetime of you making money on the game, isn't it? I skimmed the EULA and couldn't find an end date to the royalties.

>>171490601
movement is too vertical imo

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>>171475546

>uses one of my 'am i reading this thread' trigger words "gods gift"

well, heres a fresh gif i guess.

>>171490730
You only pay 5% on the amount over $3000 you made in that quarter.

So if you make <$1000/month you never pay anything.

>>171490576
>>171490669
people who don't engine dev are mongs. It's really not that hard to write your own functions to handle physics and graphics rendering. Letting someone else abstract all that for you means you probably don't know programming to begin with.

>>171490601
>arms should move independently
the character looks like he's ready to start fighting, so the fists moving together makes it seem like he's holding them out intentionally and "anchoring" them to his torso, so it'd make sense for their movement to be in sync.

>Do you think it would get annoying too fast to see the mc bop about every time you stand still, or do you think it won't be a problem?
If this is for an action game then probably not, since it's not likely the character would be in an idle stance for long. If that's not the case then you should go for a more static, relaxed idle animation. "Bobbing" idle animations are best suited to situations in which the character should be ready to start fighting at any moment.

>>171490878
Where is your game?

>>171487129
You can sculpt in blender as well.

In the first few results of 'Sculpting in blender' on youtube, you can watch the one posted by AgenZasBrothers for a more purely sculpted example using a free add-on to enable more tools while sculpting.

Or you can scrub through the Blender Game Character Sculpting series by Darren Lile if you want to see a more 'Box Model -> Sculpt to add Details' workflow.

I'd at least look at those before thinking the only option for sculpting is Zbrush, theres also Sculptris although I'll admit i Haven't really looked into that one.

So I'm in a gamedev program at a university, but the thing is, it is WAAAAY too much programming and math and shit. How do you get into a more like high-level position in gamedev?

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>>171490856
I stand corrected. So I guess the solution is just aiming really low, huh?

>>171490576
>making an engine will take you closer to deploying a game
Is it opposite day?

>>171491106
have much money a month has your game made?

>>171491019
/3/ told me Blender's sculpting is absolute dead set garbage and implemented horribly.

>>171491030
Either luck out into a junior game design position (which generally comes from having some completed and playable games under your belt), or grind your way up from a development position (by being a programmer or an artist). The latter actually gets you more money in the long run, because in my experience, even entry-level programmer or artist positions pay more than entry-level game design positions.

What's the link for the porno that something to do with lovedev made?

>>171491030
you aren't going to do gamedev without programming, anon. and you're at least going to have to put up with trigonometry since it's used everywhere in game programming.

If you really don't want to deal with that stuff, then your only real path to pro gamedev is to focus on creating assets, and that job market is probably even more saturated than game programming

>>171491274
this guy knows what he's talking about

>>171491164
Don't know: made it with a company that I've now left behind. How much has yours made? Also:
>you have to be a chef to do math, etc.
I'm not saying not to use Unreal. I plan on trying it out myself. Just saying that in the best case scenario of you making a bunch of money, Unity has a pretty good deal if we're only talking about costs. If Unreal suits your needs better as an engine, go for it.

this is probably a retarded question but is floating geometry bad for video-game-bound meshes?

I can save a lot of polys and keep the detail if I make non-welded meshes sink into a solid surface rather than building the surface around it

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>>171490312
Licensed version of UE has been in development for over a decade.
It's actually pretty fucking ridiculous how Unity owns ~70% of the market and UE4 only 10%, considering UE3 was in good chunk of big name games since 2004 until fairly recently, of course, before EA made all its studios switch to Frostbite, IDTech was literally dead until 2014, and Cryengine was in like 5 games total.

>>171491270
/3/ are braindead retards that can't even figure out how to change the selection button. Go look up a video on sculpting in Blender and make up your own opinions.

>>171488976
I started working on it for real back in late October. I completely scrapped everything and started with a minimum of reused assets. I'm probably going to be done with it in May.

>get slightly horny
>ideas for an H-game rush in
How do I stop this

>>171491706
why contain it?