/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

you should pick a different career

Pro-tip to all you newbies here with stupid programming problems:

Fill your code with debug messages with all relevant data everywhere and you will never have to ask a question ever again.

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>>174390301
>Pro
stopped reading right there, this is AMATEUR game development general
you fuck right off sir

>>174390301
or stop using imperative programming and youll never have an error in the first place.

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Work has begun the VR serial killer roguelike game

I am debating making it like GTA except more about getting stealth skills and shanks, or making it kind of almost like Oblivion / the black hand or w/e they were called, the assassins guild where you can enter interiors and there are persistent people to stalk

>>174390354
Is week 3 done yet?

>>174390198
>Webm recording section
cool dude

>>174390449
Just stop trying to make a game and you won't have any problems.

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>>174390558
Godspeed anon. Revel in the slaughter.

>>174390685
just stop living and you wont even have to think about it

>>174390558
Oblivion for sure.
Wait no, make it motherfucking VR Hitman, just imagine walking around in a fancy party disguised as a waiter and offering poisoned wine to your target.
Someone fund it.

>>174390354
>Monolith just keeps chugging along at full speed
Commendable.

>>174390558
If you pull it off i will be fucking proud to be the one who sparked the whole serial killer discussion

>>174390558
>VR
Dead on arrival.

>roguelike with presistent people
How would this even work?

>>174390558
AssCreed multiplayer:VR
This would stop all those lard-asses that kept sprinting across the roofs, completely negating the stealth aspect.

>>174390804
helps when youre fortunate enough to have a team.

>>174390760
Hitman serves its purpose, but the type of kill you're describing is so passe compared to stalking your target, learning their habits, and then taking their life in their own home.

>>174390852
>Dead on arrival.
It will work for both non vr and VR, it's suuuuper easy to make it work for both, but imagine news coverage of someone shanking nothing and then showing gore in game from stabbing people. It's way more hilarious

>roguelike with presistent people - how would this work?

Not sure, still thinking over the design while I do the set up. Open to ideas. Perhaps the town resets when you die? a random town each time? I could do that.

Still im gunna work on the basics first. But I'm open to suggestions.

>>174390928
Hey I'm giving you something with a realistic scope that could actually be done and would feel amazing in VR.

>>174390984
This is gonna get even more than Hatred-level media attention. Get ready to get rich.

>>174390836
Saving this post for the next time a schoolshooting is attributed to 4chins.

>>174391016
FYI that's not me, the VR murder dev

I might need to become a tripfag if this goes anywhere :^)

implying i wont abandon it

>>174391084
kek

>>174391016
But you're just describing Hitman in first person with the idea that I criticized. We already have Hitman.

>>174390984
Depends on whether you want to be able to take your target anywhere or at their house. You could make the game free roam and let players choose their targets, but a more reasonable scope would be to assign a target with a randomly generated home (ranging from paranoid gun nut in a shitty part of town to a rich guy who could deploy the hounds on you) and to force the player to work with what they're given to earn their kill.

>>174391213
>We already have Hitman.
It even has a first person mode!

>>174391213
>We already have Hitman
We don't have VR Hitman.

>>174390558
>attached le ebic gif to the post instead of literally anything progress-related
unsubstantiated meme post that will harvest at least another half a dozen (you)s
feel free to prove me wrong if you can

I'm going to start with basic townsperson AI

Then do basic knife combat

I really like the idea of brutally stabbing someone in VR, I think the first meme game to do that will get a lot of attention.

Then from there I'll figure out if it's open world or with interiors or what

>>174391273
Yeah but what Hitman does it does well. It doesn't need a replacement. This is a chance to treat some relatively new ground, though obviously there will be conceptual crossover.

>VR
>randomly generated
>AI-driven
It's like you're ticking all vaporware boxes on purpose.

>>174390637
We are currently in week 3, so that image will be compiled next week

>>174391337
>being this triggered by a gif of a famous president

>>174391442
Procedural generated AI in a procedural generated world using procedural generated crafting system based upon procedural generated physics.
All in VR.

>>174391562
>forgetting neural networked graffix
NOT GONNA MAKE IT

>>174391392
Your competition is Paint the Town Red, my man.

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Does your game have a story?

>>174391696
I wish. I'm shit at writing a story or characters. Even a very basic story. My game is going to focus on gameplay, of course. But I still want a basic story to wrap it in.

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>>174391696
>having a "plot" instead of an interesting setting with vague hints of a bigger story holding everything together
If your writing doesn't fire up the player's neurons then it's not good writing.

>>174391337
you were the first to comment on it

>>174391696
Yes. A cautionary tale about depression.

It's a about a little guy that lives in a blue world. And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue. Like him inside and outside. Blue his house with a blue little window, and a blue corvette, and everything is blue for him, and himself and everybody around, because he ain't got nobody to listen.

>>174391918
What would happen if he was green?

>>174391696
Yes, of course. It's an RPG.

>>174391696
Yeah, but it's a messy unfinished collaboration with constant rewrites and headbutting.

>>174391948
The pun wouldn't work and everything fall apart. Use your fucking head, please.

>>174391948
He would see a cyan world.

>>174392059
No, he'd die.

Skyrim but in VR

https://clyp.it/2johmfog

jesus that clipping

>>174392442
I can have a snorefest without shelling out money for useless hardware.

>>174392491
Throw someone out of a window in slo-mo.

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>>174391337
Well I just started the project like 20 minutes ago so I don't have much progress to show, but since you asked so nicely, here are the assets I'm gunna used imported, and a basic VR player set up.

Next will add wandering town people and then murder and gore

If I'm a 2D anime-ish artist and I have portraits drawn, and want to make the sprites for my game, am I better off learning how to animate pixel art (I have only done stills before) or should I learn to use Spine?

If you call yourself an "anime artist" then honestly you're never gonna make it.

>>174392691
It begins.

>>174392691
You'll have a marketable product in less than 6 hours. Not joking here. Get the gore and people in, set up a few bullshots, publish to all media outlets and watch the hype go 0-100. Set up your website, spend three weeks learning how to do the AI proper, another implementing it, Early Access that shit and roll in dosh.

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>>174392942
mfw muh murder idea will make someone rich because i couldnt shut up asking agdg about shit

>>174393020
The race is on, loser. Hop to it or eat dust.

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>>174393020
>giving away ideas
>giving away ideas that ride the new hardware hype
>giving away ideas that ride the new hardware hype and are incredibly easy to do
>giving away ideas that ride the new hardware hype and are incredibly easy to do and have lotsa meme potential
>for free
Gotta go fast, boy. Only 45 minutes to beat that guy.

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what is your first impression

>>174393376
Nice Portal clone.

>agdg discovered vr

>>174393376
Excitement for a spoopy retro game, then an overwhelming sense of dread and fear when seeing "GameMaker: Studio".

>>174393376
is that a 3d space? or is it an illusion?

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>>174393525
>agdg discovered murder

>>174393376
Makes me feel good knowing I'm not alone in GM:S 3D shenanigans.

Also psychoactive materials. Lots of those.

>>174393750
what happened to waifu teatime

designing combat - can i get a hard rule on the minimum amount of time i should expect a player to react in? I need this number as a starting point to scale-down the rest of the game from there.

>>174391840
Story is just something you tack on at the end of development to appease the people who think they'd rather read a book. Don't think about it too hard, nobody else does.

>>174394452
Or you could go full Deus Ex and involve real world statistics to back your third layer of depth.

>>174393373
As long as you make the game better than him, you could take 3 months longer.

>>174394447
http://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1689&context=source

>>174394452
Except that isn't true.

>>174394665
>3 months
VR could be dead by then. Gotta get on the hype train. And jump off before it crashes.

>>174391840
I'm great at creative writing. I'm good at programming/developing game mecahnics.
I suck at art. I suck at music. I know how to sample sound effects and tweak them to make the right sounds.
The sad part is I'm probably worse off than someone who is a capable graphic designer and musician. Feels like it should be the other way around but that's life.

>>174393373
>incredibly easy to do
t. every person who has never attempted making a game before

>>174391696
I'd say more that it has a setting. Or at least a nub of story to bring the player into the game.

>>174394538
>>174394751
It's a couple paragraphs. You don't need to use research when half the players won't even read it. Writing the product description for Steam is more effort.

>>174393621
All 3D is an illusion, anon. We use 2D screens.

>>174391696
It will have lore to give some context to things, but not a fleshed-out campaign or anything.

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New enemy

>>174394886
The assets are done.
Doing some proc gen to not have a static city: Trivial.
Make people move somewhere semi-random: Trivial.
Ragdolling: Trivial.
Not forgetting to pay taxes on all that dosh: Easy-Intermediate.

>>174395006
>We use 2D screens.
You actually want to use 3D screens like we used to with CRT, because those are easier to configure for polygons.

>>174394857
You can only ever do your best, nothing more.
Wasting your time and energy on worrying will prevent you from doing your best, so just create what you can anon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjKWKN6jaI

>>174394857
Honestly that's good skills to have. Making a game is the hard part, and if it's got a good story that's just a bonus. As long as your game is genuinely good you will be able to hire an artist one day.

I'm downloading rpg maker to make my first game :)

>>174396228
Congrats anon! I hope you have fun.

>>174395086
the first dash animation showed in the webm looks cheap/bad. the attack and drop down animation looks really good though.

>>174395086
Looking good

What did you say you used to draw your sprites?

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I have produced quality

>>174396762
The first one's going to be replaced, thanks.

>>174396776
Clipstudio paint, wait for their sale, I bought it for 20 dollars or so.

>>174397041
Nice framerate.
Also I like the death animation.

>>174397164
Im not sure why that happened it was fine in VR.

I guess starting the recording software pissed it off

>>174393376
seems like a weird dos game

if that's what you're trying to make then I'm probably in your target audience

>>174397041
Where these assets from a previous project of yours anon?

To go from zero to this, I'd say you are close to 12% goat simulator, add in some explosions, and zany music or sound cues and then more physics objects and you are good as gold.

>>174397041
You have a really good setting for an actually interesting game.

Please dont ruin it for a 15 minute meme game.

>>174397041
looks ready for early access to me

>>174393376
pupil no shaded correctly

>>174397041
ship it

>>174397247
they're from the UE4 marketplace

>>174397269
I am making a more serious game, this is just to dick around (procrastinate)

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Added interaction scripting, so dialogue can now change the current area or affect the player's party. One entity can also have multiple dialogue trees now, using flags as conditions for which tree is shown

>>174397873
Nice work.
Are you hardcoding the scripts or are they extenral files?

>>174395086
Your characters are really nice, but I don't like the ground. Art style looks way too different. Your attack animation is pretty dope btw, can't wait to see it finished

I think I might be dropping Unity for serious 3D and moving to Unreal, and only using Unity for very simple 3D or 2D.

>>174398447
I noticed that recently and agree, I'll be changing it to match the characters.
And thanks anon, hoping I can get a demo ready before summer to get feedback on the gameplay and whatnot.

>>174397269
>You have an interesting blablabalba
>Don't ruin it with memes

He just put in the simple polygon assets from the Unity Asset Store in VR, along with SEGI for lighting.

>>174397297
This
I knew something was bugging me about his image but I just couldn't put my finger on it. It's the weird huge highlight there

>>174398347
Scripts are hardcoded. A generic scripts.h file can be accessed by any dialogue tree, and that will have general stuff like changing levels or adding party members

More specific scripts, like ones that effect a unique behavior in a specific entity in a level, will be stored in that level's blueprint .h file. The dialogue trees just contain function pointers so it doesn't matter a ton where the script functions are, but I think this will be the best solution

>>174398736
just because no ones done anything with it doesnt take away from the possibilities.

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>>174398736
It's UE4 but yeah. I'm not trying to act like what I'm doing is impressive btw. It's definitely, definitely not.

Here's the latest progress in gutting Stacy. Need to attach the blood better so the air doesn't bleed.

>>174398829
I'd probably move them to external files, and I don't mean external source files I mean not compiled with your game.
It's definitely not convenient or flexible to hardcode your "scripts" that way, since you have to recompile every time.
It's fine in the short run but if you're making a decent size game this is pretty bad.

>>174399000
I'm not shitting on you, I'm just saying this isn't the most precious thing ever created and it's more pragmatic than anything, so just have fun with it. Sorry if I came off otherwise.

>>174399138
Oh I get you, it's a piece of shit and I know it

But it's funny to make

>>174399049
Changing the generic scripts could cause some long compile times, but I think once I have them working I won't need to change them much

Changing level-specific scripts, which I'll definitely be doing much more often, would be done in the blueprint files, and changing a level blueprint file only requires a level factory .cc file to be recompiled, so I think I should be fine there

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To whomever post this:
Oh shit, mate!
Can you, pretty please share bits of code that made this picture into existence? Or at least aligned twisted hexagonal background?

>>174399504
It's just a set of four pentagons that tesselate. I like how it looks to but it's not that hard

>>174398764
>>174393376
The eye doesn't look right because its got either 2 pupils or 2 iris'.

Here's a tip for all you ADGD out there:

Don't drink while coding. I've spent 35 minutes untangling a script I slapped together last night in 5 minutes. Would have been faster if I just did it the obvious and robust way in the first place

Finally got my movement and animation all squared away. Next up is actual interaction.

https://a.pomf.cat/iymqyz.webm

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>tfw it's been 4 weeks since you worked on your game
i'm sorry i let you down

>>174400547
abandon the emulator nonesense then.

>>174400676
no need, it's already there. it would take more effort to remove it

>>174399763
>four pentagons
Ohh, now i see ze pattern.
Good, good, thank you!

>>174400201
Nobody cares faggot

>>174400203
were you the one who said their inspiration was etrian odyssey?

Does anybody here use a mind mapping tool for writing down design ideas? Can you recommend one?

>>174402141
just pirate mindmanager and run it in a vm

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hey agdg, i just want to thank you guys real quick before i head to bed

i'm not a dev, but i'm a cs student struggling to learn programming

this general seems so positive, constructive, and friendly compared to many other generals i've been in

you guys help me remind myself to think positively and try my best, and that's something i've never really done in my life

ill try to make you guys proud, one day

>>174402181
Too much hassle. And I'd rather stay on the legal side.

>>174402261
then use some website webapp thing

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>>174402210
>this general seems so positive, constructive, and friendly compared to many other generals i've been in
Holy fuck, where have you been?

>>174402261
here

https://sketchboard.me/dArnF6LVjPOF#/tutorial?share

so how do I encode .wav files for linux?

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Finished re-adding the rest of the physical attack states and put in hitboxes for moves that were missing them. Also put in the basic ice attack and made the MP bar functional. The attack functions similarly to before, where the damage increases as the string goes on, but now after the 2nd hit it will always do its max potential damage and can be continued until you stop attacking for any reason, or you run out of MP.

Going to need to figure out a low/none MP indicator and a new ice hit effect. I forgot how old some of these animations were.

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>>174402363
/osg/ and /eve/ to name two of them
Trust me, this general is roses and ice cream

>8 hours art study
>8 hours music study
>8 hours programming study
>8 hours gamedev
>8 hours masturbation time
>8 hours japanese language study

perfect schedule

>>174403349
is this a per day or per hour scheduel ;)

>>174403349
I don't live on Mercury or Venus

>>174402673
>encode wav files
I don't get the question
what are you trying to do exactly

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Made this

Is she cute?

I'll probably make her a proper face later

>>174402401
thanks

>>174403708
24 hour days are a social construct.

Just like, close your blinds.

>>174403729
compress my audio so it doesn't double the install size on other platforms than windows

>>174404185
>other platforms than windows
what are you planning to do on windows, and why can't you do that everywhere else?

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>>174404049
>planet's rotation and 100 million years old biorhythm every living thing besides bacteria adheres to in some manner is a social construct

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>>174403774
Looks like some kind of bug trying to mimic human form.

aaaaaaaaaa

>>174402363
If you only browse /agdg/ you probably think it's awful, but really as far as /vg/ generals go it gets much, much, much worse

>>174404509
Circadian rhythms are malleable.

>>174404515
mothgirls are cute imo

>>174404509
Globalist propaganda designed to lower the productivity of the general population.

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I am going to update from msvc 2015 to msvc 2017

I am following the microsoft tutorial to create the offline installer image

And I am going to use a free enterprise serial key, I hope it will work

I don't want to have to use a microsoft account and have to re-validate all the time

Is there any way to hide the title bar in GMS2? It annoys me.

>>174405979
I mean in the IDE itself, not the game.

>tfw you fell for the monogame is better than unity for 2d meme

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can you give me a pep talk aggy?

>>174406467
Brianna Wu released a game. Are you a worse game dev than her?

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>>174390198
g-guys how do I implement torch light and a day/night cycle for my sidescroller?

Are there any neat tricks that would let me just paste a black rectangle over my entire screen and subtract the blackness when it touches a "light" color?


Im using Java and Processing.
Pic unrelated, if i only needed one light source in the entire game it would be piss easy

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Using my new sword swing animation system, I decided to try a simple sort of unsheathing attack. I think it turned out looking cool, if a little weird when facing certain directions. That said, it's highlighting problems with my collision detection, which I need to deal with.

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>>174406559
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

thanks brah that was super effectvie

>tfw you fell for the use a framework over an engine meme

>>174406623
this what shaders are for

>>174406751
Alright, thanks. I have never looked into shaders before. Gonna do it now

>>174395086
Is your character inspired by Bloodhound of Florencia?

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Graphics still look like shit, but I've added a bit more stuff. Next I'm going to look at adding some more hazards (moving/timed) and then probably lock down the feature scope to pump out some levels and release terrible platformer 2.

>>174391696
no because it has boobs and ass

>>174407314
post it

>>174407265
generic platformer #459898981246

Oh boy, this general always inspires me to make something simple and fun.
Is unity in or out these days? I head that it shit mostly. Are they just meme'ing?

>>174395086
damn this looks good

if only it was lewd

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>>174392691
>MC is a manlet
lol

>>174407381
depends on what kind of game you wanna make

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Would a motorcicle game with some interesting physics be an okey babys first game?
Is anyone here familiar with elasto mania or sometimes also call'd just elma ??

>>174407380
Pretty much the idea.

>>174407548
Well my hearth is telling me to make a 2d platformer with some gimmicky mechanic, but my drawing skills tells me to fuck off.

>>174402210
/rpgmaker/ was pretty comfy every time I dropped by

>>174402869
>osg
RS07g?
wew lad i feel sorry for you, their autism dwarfs anything /agdg/ will ever do.

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>>174406743
Engines seem like the bigger meme 2bh

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>>174407558

>>174407558
fuck we played this thing in high school
thanks for the nostalgia bomb

>>174407648
>to make a 2d platformer
unless you want it to look like a flash game from Newgrounds, stay the fuck away from Unity

get GMS, seriously

>>174407558
That seems pretty complex for your very first game. Try pong or something.

>>174407779
>GMS
top kek

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>>174407558
>>174407779
I know right? It's still great desu.
>>174407818
o-okey

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>>174407828
look at the recap pic and get fucked

>>174407960
I dont even bother looking at something made with GMS. Learn to program you stupid fuck

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First day is over, on to the next day.

>>174407960
>>174408364
all these different opinions confuses me desu...

There's literally nothing wrong with game maker studio for the first year or so of your devving 'career'

>>174404686
could conspiracy theorist agree on one coherent narrative already?

Lightmaps, yes or no?

>>174408965

no

>>174408965
even mobile can do dynamic lights

>>174409047
lol not unity games

How do I implement a proper buff/debuff system? Simple stat buffs are easy enough, but what if I had a debuff that (just as an example) stopped the player from opening their inventory, or using items? These kinds of debuffs I'd feel would encourage me to add extremely hacky code to let me access whatever systems I want. For example to stop the player from opening their inventory I'd need to make an int canOpenInventory in the inventory class which the debuff would decrement at the start and increment at the end (simple bool wouldn't work because what if you had multiple debuffs that did this? they'd overwrite each other). Similar story for the using item debuff.

At this point though I can see a problem where I'd have so many of these "canX" variables all over my classes that any change I might want to make will break everything. Not to mention the fact that my buffs and debuffs will need to have access to pretty much every system in my game which doesn't seem good.

What's a better way of doing this? Are there any open source examples?

>>174409185

no

>>174393376
"et l'oeil etait dans la tombe, et regardait cain"

animator looking for work

will work for free for the next 6 hours

>>174409196

> but what if I had a debuff that (just as an example) stopped the player from opening their inventory, or using items?

That would be extremely annoying.

>>174409196
Simplest systemy would be make a buff/debuff class and handle your logic there, then have a buff/debuff collection on your character, and when your character gets buffed/debuffed, you push the stuff to the collection to work there.

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>>174409345
s-slut

>>174409345
2D or 3D

>>174409345

> I work for free

That's because no one wants you

>>174409345
post work

>AGDG told me that only shitters use GameMaker
>use it anyways
>just broke $1mil in sales on a game that I pieced together in 2 weeks with no programming experience

Do you guys ever get tired of being wrong all the time?

>>174409441
3D

>>174409495
Post work.

>>174401617

Maybe. I'd say my key influence would be Might and Magic and Etrian Odyssey.

>>174409480
S-sometimes...

>>174409480

Do you ever get tired of lying?

If I were a millionaire I wouldn't keep hanging around at this place.

>>174408364
IT's about actual 2D workspace not programing and you can program in GMS all the same you fucking inbred faggot

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>>174409473
>>174409523

Hey, psst, Anon. That thing you've been working hard on? The thing you are actually proud of despite routinely being hard on yourself?

ITS SHIT

SHITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT

Someone did this to me yesterday and I'm still butthurt. I'm focusing my butthurt into improving it more, and I'm happy with the improvements.

>>174409480
we're going to need some proof on this one, John.

Only shitters use Game Maker, for example, Risk of Rain dev, who has the best selling AGDG game / broke a milly.

>>174409615

If you're butthurt by shit critisism without ground you were never confident to begin with.

A good product comes with good confidence.

>>174409615
?

>>174409653
he made like 10 mega by now, not just break one

>>174409604
What happened to your game? The one with the boy with the skeleton stands.

>>174409717
who knows

>>174409604
Looks good anon, would buy from you if i had money.

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>>174389516

Shield mechanic's been in there for quite a while. pic relatedis from january. It's just that i don't have a nice looking shield right now, so I'm currently focusing on parrying.

>>174409604
Animate me someone doing an anime sword beam, anon.

>Get involved in the Discord and talk to the people of the community for the sake of being nice

>They're all cunts

>>174409790
i want to work on something that would actually get used SENPAI

>>174409791
That's a surprise

>>174402141
grid paper and pencil

>>174409830

Well good luck making forward running animations then

>>174409830
Then you're useless to me.

>>174409791
I did this too
>join the discord
>try and be helpful
>some guy whos apparently been there a long time says my solution to this guys problem is shit and his garbage solution that doesnt work is fine
>this continues
>leave

Bunch of retards in there.

>>174409790
some random model doing an anime sword bean in what way is going to help you

>>174409838

Even Mothdev is an arrogant cunt

>>174409894

Had a similar situation but I got banned.

>Dev asks for advice
>Give advice
>Nah
>Tell her not to ask for advice then
>Ew stop stalking me creep

>>174409942
Don't worry about it now, anon.

>>174409950
>Even Mothdev is an arrogant cunt
really? seemed pretty chill here

>>174409365
just an example

>>174409372
tthat wasn't really the question I was asking

>>174409991

100% vapid cunt. Also one of those cunts that asks for advice but shits on your advice for the sake of disagreeing.

Can't stand it.

>join the Discord chat so I can get some live feedback and show off all my hard work
>Edmund McMillen, Hopoo and Derek Yu are having a conversation about procedural generation
>I'm completely star-struck and didn't expect them to be here
>excitedly share my demo and politely ask for critique
>a few agree to try it out
>eagerly wait for about 10 minutes while they try it out
>Derek Yu simply responds with "... Seriously? Are you fucking serious?"
>Edmund McMillen begins laughing and calling me a shit-eating mongloid over and over
>Hopoo starts spamming a money emoticon
>banned before I can even respond

>>174409991
>>174410020
>>174409950
I seriously have like 50% of the "regular" posters blocked because they're retarded.

>>174410087

So? You're mothdev? You blocking 50% of the regular posters proves my point.

You're a cunt.

>>174410020
>Also one of those cunts that asks for advice but shits on your advice for the sake of disagreeing.
>mad that people don't take shitty advice seriously

But I guess you're an expert anon, aren't you?

>>174410087
>i block devs while nodevs remain unblocked

well done

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>>174410075
Is this one of those "I've seen TotalBiscuit walk from a store with an armful of mars bars without paying" pastas or did this actually fucking happen?

>>174410137
I'm not Mothdev, i'm just some faggot nodev who knows a lot about game making but can't ever commit to a project.

Thought I'd be helpful, but most of the people either know what they're doing and don't need help, or are completely fucking clueless and dickish when you actually give them help.

>>174410075
>Edmund McMillen, Hopoo and Derek
who??

>>174410217
It's copypasta.

Hopoo literally chills/chilled in Steam (and now Discord), and there actually was a money emoticon he had.

The others, nah.

GM new fag here, I've set up a state machine for an enemy ai but i'm struggling to make the enemy wander around when idle

my states are idle, chase, and goback (if the player gets away)

//STATES:

current_state = states1.idle1

motion_add(random(360),.1)

if irandom(9) = 1 motion_set(random(360), .1)

//idle
if (current_state = states1.idle1)

motion_add(random(360),wander_speed)

if irandom(9) = 1 motion_set(random(360), .1 + random(3))
{
if(point_distance(x, y, obj_player.x, obj_player.y) < view_range)
{
current_state = states1.chase1
}
}
//chase
if (current_state = states1.chase1)
{
move_towards_point(obj_player.x, obj_player.y, chase_speed);
mp_potential_step(obj_wall.x, obj_wall.y, chase_speed, false)
}

if(point_distance(x, y, obj_player.x, obj_player.y) > view_range)
{
current_state = states1.goback1
}


//goback
if (current_state = states1.goback1)
{
move_towards_point(xstart, ystart, chase_speed);

if (distance_to_point(xstart, ystart) < chase_speed)

{
current_state = states1.idle1;
}
}

the object moves fine when chasing and going back, but is frozen when idle

>>174410239
>i'm just some faggot nodev who knows a lot about game making but can't ever commit to a project.

Then you probably didn't know that much about game making in the first place.

>>174410260
Hopoo - Risk of Rain
Edmund McMillen - Binding of Isaac
Derek Yu - Spelunky / Aquaria

>>174410317
Never heard of any of those games.

>>174410420
Here's your (You) you so badly need!

Have anyone from this general made it?

>>174410420

>>174410692
overwatch started as an agdg project

>>174410764
don't meme me anon.

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>>174410692
http://www.homph.com/steam/

no

>>174410813
that's fucking great if this is true.. I love some of these titles.

>>174410808
some idea guy started it.
He just wrote:
TF2 (2)

Next Vidja Game Jam is what and when?

>>174410804
seizure/10

Do you guys ever feel that indie needs to be 2d i almost all cases because 3d without big stacks of money looks cheap most of the time ?

>>174410804
I'm spooked

>>174410804
w-what drugs do you use when you make these games anon?
Asking for a friend.

>movement check
>positioning check
>lighting check
>resource gathering check

Now I just need to add all these projects together and my game will be playable.

>>174411064
FEZ was actually 3D, done in XNA.

It's a lot more accessible for people to do 2D because most don't have 5 years to spend on a single game living on neetbucks.

Also note that FEZ took 5 years and is a seemingly "simple" example.

>>174411273
Yeah my post was unaccurat and badly written.
I was talking about sidescrollers and first person games ofc. My bad.

>>174410206

>I guess you're an expert anon, aren't you?

You're damn right

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>>174411064
No, I only feel that people who refuse to put in some fucking effort into what they're making should just quit and kill themselves and stop giving the ones who do a bad name.

Amateur games raped and shot Pixelart in the back alley so hard with their low effort shit spindly limbed ants for sprites it's making professional 2D artists ditch the technique altogether because the public view of it has been literally tainted beyond fucking recognition.

>>174411131
>>174411087
>>174411052

Same fag.

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>>174411485
Indie "pixel art" isn't pixel art. It's just laziness.

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>>174411503
????

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>>174411503

Do we know the theme for the next LD? I might enter for the first time.

>>174411893

Your*

>>174411815
Pixel art doesn't need as much talent for it to look okey. I learned to do decent pixel art in a few days of reading and practice.

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>>174411131
amphetamine salts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJK5w4ZpQKc

>>174410890
thanks

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How do I stop people from decompiling my Java game and releasing the source?

Should I just buy Denuvo Indie package and be done with it

redpill me on unreal engine and unity

>>174411815
>I was born in the wrong generation

>>174412042

no

>>174411996
Unless your game has some kind of online aspect to it, then it doesn't really matter if they do. You've already released the game. What are they gonna do?
Make a clone?
Pirate it? (It'll be pirated regardless)

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>>174411934
next time try to back your words up with something to look at if you want to be taken seriously

>>174411996
>mfw denuvo is only 0.15€ per sale

>>174409601
don't lie

>>174412067
if you can't objectively tell what's wrong with left side of that picture you need to terminate your existence asap

>>174412242

don't lie

>>174410420

>>174412258

> If you can't tell what's objectively wrong
> Objectively

>>174412258
There is nothing wrong with it you autist. The game having a coherent art style is more important than pixel art fidelity you wank on.

>>174411996
what the fuck is that picture?

>>174412169
I don't know if i feel the need to get taken seriously. I don't mean to trigger anyone. I'm just saying that if you can't draw and want to make a platformer, decent pixel art is not too hard and time consuming to do.

>>174412376
>>174412392
you fucking retards we have phones with screens that can fit 50 super mario instances side by side

1 pixel wide limbs are completely fucking unacceptable

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Unitychan now has different custom animations that she will follow depending on the condition. Namely standing still and moving. I'm satisfied now with everything I could have learned from the model, now to make something in blender to be the new placeholder asset.

idea guy here

/pol/ the video game

>>174411996
if you treat normal people like they're thieves then they'll start acting like it.

treat them with respect and ask for honesty instead

you'll only hurt the honest ones by falling for the DRM meme, your thieves were never going to buy it anyway but they might end up being word of mouth marketing.

>>174412572
angry goy

already been done

>>174412513
We also have churches that can fit thousands of Michelangelo sculptures. Have some sleep you saliva dripping mongoloid.

>>174412590
Fuck off special snowflake. 99% of people buy games because they can't or dont bother to pirate them

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>>174412529

>>174412745
>people unironically like Dumpster-Hobo-chan

>>174412672
I bet you're from one of those 3rd world countries that has to sell games at an extremely discounted price and still they can't even afford them

>>174411934
so decent you didn't even bother to post it

>>174412876
Im actually scandi, I live in one of the countries with the highest HDI in the world.

>>174412874
You take that back right now or so help me

>>174412874
>UT4 fags jelly because their tan looks like bangladeshi crack whore

>>174412972
and yet you're still so poor you can't afford cheap dollar store indie games

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>>174411815
I can't even tell what the fuck that thing is
is the black stick a head?
or is the thing in the middle a face?
does it have a basket on tis back and is that even a back or maybe front?

>>174412986
I'm not him, but yeah, she looks like a cunt to me, too.

>>174413101
? are you talking with the right person?

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>>174394259
Thanks for remembering me. I'm still lurking around, was in a slump for a few months with no real progress and in search of an art and genre direction. I have finally decided to give monster girl island dev a run for his money so you might see something brewing in a few months to come. Looking into my old videos is making me depressed that spreading degeneracy is the path I've chosen instead of making something cool I could be proud of

>>174413359
Is it hard to make VR games anon?
Sure seems fun.

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>People on AGDG seriously discussing anti piracy techniques

What the fuck is this shamefur dispray?

>>174412067
>>174412376
>>174412392
>>174412664
>defending one pixel limb thickness pixelshit
Contrarianism has gone too far.

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>>174412664
the fuck kind of analogy is that you fucking faggot?
this shit would be called shit on a 1994 monitor all the same because no matter what resolution it will still look like fucking shit and it looks like double shit upscalled so that you can even fucking see it on 1080p screen

>>174412410
if one /v/ thread i've seen is right, it's a meme attempt some retard failed to force even in /r9k/

>>174413595
>>174413630

> Everyone that doesn't agree with my retarded sentiment is a contrarian.

>>174413630
i-i think it is cool if you got for the old Atari style a-anon.

>>174413669
>implying you unironically love this kind of pixelshit and aren't doing this just to bait our replies

>>174413729

>Unironically calling things pixel shit and other people contrarians

You got me

>>174413764
I literally called this kind of "style" pixelshit in the previous post, why did you catch on it now? Your responses aren't genuine.

>>174413817

I literally called this kind of "style" pixelshit in the previous post, why did you catch on it now? Your responses aren't genuine.

>>174413861
I literally called this kind of "style" pixelshit in the previous post, why did you catch on it now? Your responses aren't genuine.

>>174413894

I literally called this kind of "style" pixelshit in the previous post, why did you catch on it now? Your responses aren't genuine.

>>174413496
Not him but I'm a VR dev and yeah it's fun, and it's really easy in UE4.

Devving for VR is 1000% more fun than playing VR games. It feels like the matrix, you make shit then are in it. Super neat.

>>174413956
Thanks for the respons. I can imagine... I just had the same thoughts as you actually. I'm only familiar with unity and TGM at the moment tho.

>>174413496
>>174414092
VR is fun.

Starting to dev is easy thanks to Unreal and Unity. It's a completely new medium though so lots of old rules do not apply and new ones appear which is why making something good is hard. I would say that deving for VR is a lot harder because users get to feel a lot more presence and more ways to interact with your world which in turn makes it so much easier for you to break this magical experience.

After owning the device for almost a year I would say that roomscale is very limiting and makes you feel like you are in a cage. It is much more suited to arcades where you can have real-world rooms filled with props that you can interact with in your game which is probably HTC is pushing the device in that direction. Nonetheless, it is an amazing experience and I urge you to try it if you haven't done yet. can't wait for nervegear

>>174413817
>>174413861
>>174413894
>>174413928

What the fuck are you even doing

>>174414149
> It is much more suited to arcades
Not that guy, but i used to go to this place that gave you laser pistols and vests with sensors and you duked it out 15v15 in a warehouse with strobe lights etc, it was wicked. I'd definitely see a VR in such a place as a kind of augmented/replaced reality thing.

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>>174413630
just to put things in perspective this is a game from 1991

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>>174414385
1993

>>174414385

You know they could've created an entire different looking game then too. Salty anon is moaning about stylised graphics for some reason he won't really tell us.

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>>174414473
1994

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whoa. such low resolution to work with... it's no wonder developers opted for one pixel thick limbs.

>>174414478
>stylised graphics
shit isn't a style

>>174414260
A very good example why MSI's VR backpack is not going anywhere. The moment next-gen headset is released so it can handle multiple base stations, VR arcades will give mind-blowing experiences on large real-world maps.

>>174414615

Shit isn't an opinion

>>174414478
fuck you that's no stylization that's a fucking copout

Daily reminder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTzNT8cWivo

>>174414658
>>174414615

It is, actually. Posting the character and the character alone isn't going to prove your point.

Provide us with an image of the entire game and we'll talk. The game is well known for having good looking scenes and locations.

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>>174413817
>>174413861
>>174413894
>>174413928

>>174414626
>VR backpack
you mean this shit? http://varcade.com.au/

A bunch of dorks stand around giggling at each other in a green screen room smaller than my bedroom wearing vives and fooling around like they are on a nintendo ad?

why?

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Wow haha look at this shit game it looks horrible haha shit gaem xddd

Wow fuck your opinion lol I just compared it to some other game therefore it's shitty and a rip off xDD lazy devs!!! xDDD

>>174414149
I haven't been following VR too closely, can you explain what you mean:
> which is probably HTC is pushing the device in that direction

>>174414385
Fucking don't drag Titus the fox into this anon!

>make those historic relics come alive
>take a peek before your house done construction

vr is gay

>>174414792

You'd think that if it were so easy to create a game like this more people would do it and profit from it like the devs of Sword & Sworcery did.

Yet no one really does. Weird.