/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

@174546770
>>/b/

>>174546770
Nothing to do with gamedev. Fuck off and kill yourself, faggot.

>>174546770
you're fine, bud. It's very normal to use a phone as something to look at to avoid social interaction. If there wasn't anything you two needed to talk about, then there's no harm in not talking. Try not to look too low functioning by looking in random directions to avoid eye contact.

>>174546926
>>174546993
its a copypats from /r9k/
t.google

>first 7 posts are complete shit that has nothing to do with gamedev

>>174546686
You should have included the links for how to make a webm so more people can post progress

>first 8 posts are complete shit that has nothing to do with gamedev

>>174547228
It's been there for months
>http://tools.aggydaggy.com/

http://poal.me/29l04x
http://poal.me/29l04x
http://poal.me/29l04x

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>>174547319
There's nothing there about webms

>>174546993
Remember to always report unrelated blogposts.

>>174547330
Just make a construction jam. It's the only serious answer that is every in the top 3 on these polls. Even the polls from months ago

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any programmer here knows what am i doing wrong with my raycaster? all the walls are facing me like sprites rather than tesselating. is there something i should look up specifically regarding this?

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>>174547527
If only there were a section specifically about posting webm progress.

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repost from yesterday, today i'm going to work on a sumo tori style reactive balance and get up system. i've been dreading it but its one of the last things on my checklist before i move on to re- implementing my sword combat.

it can't be that hard but we'll see, he can't be incapable of getting up forever.

Should I have my artist sign a contract or is that too try-hard and will push them away? I'm mostly concerned of them taking my original characters and doing something else with them.

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I hate you all

>>174548394
If it pushes him away then he obviously had bad intentions in mind.
I don't think signing is really necessary but you should send an email with the terms of the collab, it sounds dorky but it will potentially save you a lot trouble in the future.

>>174548556
You don't understand the life but I still love you my man lets hug.

>>174547560
I agree with this, construction is a good theme.

>>174547560
>>174548759
Same, I think it's both restrictive and broad enough in its interpretation to work.

>>174548394
All you have to do is get them to agree to a 'Work for hire' clause so anything that you pay them for, you own.

>>174548556
if you dont want AGDGs opinion, dont ask.

>>174547823
>making own engine
>asking for help
Begone.

>>174548909
>>174548759
>>174547560
obvious samefag
please leave, no one cares about your construction idea

>>174549001
I didn't ask for your opinion, gogem. Nobody ever has.

>>174549040
Admin

>>174548572

Does that hold up legally though?

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>>174549040
You're right, slavery (black) is much better.

>>174549051
then why didnt you ban me from the poll Admin?
Loli Jam 2 here we come!

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Agdg, Why are you even making games?

>>174549264
I want to make money while being a NEET.

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>>174549327
>making money at gamedev
oh god that is fucking funny

>>174549264
To make mad Mongolian Tughriks.

>>174549371
but notch became a billionaire..!

>>174549371
Where's your game?

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all me

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>>174548556
glorious

>>174549520
good one

Dude, where's my game?

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>>174549327
you'd be better off learning to make drugs rather than games.

>>174549725
I know australia has a just meth epidemic but you shouldn't be encouraging other people to sell meth too, it's illegal you know.

>>174549180
The law is administered by humans and showing up in court with a contract to point at is better than showing up with an email.

>>174550003
Yeah, for a second i thought you had some weird ricochet going on.

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>>174549264
I think its fun and I have a vision I want to see finished, no matter how long it takes or how it may actually turn out.

I'm stuck working with a guy that claims some similar aspects, but I really think he's just a jew.

I'm an amateur music composer as a hobby. Right now I'm developing some music for a friends game and I am looking for some outside ears to help critique my work. Is the an ok place to post, say, my soundcloud? Or should I got to /mu/ or /ic/?

>>174549264
There's nothing else I'd rather do.

>>174550662
Fellow game composer

I'll give it a listen

>>174550662
Is this* an ok place...
Christ

>>174550662
go for it m8, i like hearing other /agdg/ music friends stuff

>>174549946
from my recent AGDG experience i have learned that making games is illegal too so you might as well do the profitable one.

>>174550662
it's related to development right? anything like that is better than an artist looking for a programmer

>>174550898
Gogem be honest, are you genuinely a pedophile?

>>174551086
all men are natural pedophiles

>>174551171
Christ

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>>174546686
How do I make wallriding like Lucio

>>174551383
First you need a game.

>>174551383
Have a trace/collider on both sides of your player and then do stuff when something is there

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First 100 or so for progress.
Working on more UI stuff. I'm not very good at doing the fake computer UI thing so I tried something else.

>>174551086
anon be honest, where's your game?

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>>174551583
looks rad

>>174551789
whoa.. can i suck you dick?

>>174551583
why are you using metroid primes death sequence?

>>174551383
If you're asking a question like that then the game you want to make is way over your head.

Stick to something that involves no physics, like some generic roguelike game

>>174551972
wow dude that is definitely a gamedev related post, nicely done

end urself my man

>>174551789
Nice. Can we see the progress?

>>174552082
No.

@174551972
lad, please take all future blogposts to >>>/int/brit

>>174552162
Nice. So you don't have a game?

>>174552082
What, so you can steal all my ideas?
Fuck off??

So, last time I asked if anyone needs an artist there were shitters meming all over the thread.

Asking again, anyone looking for an artist?

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The zipline is now fully functional.

>>174552081
hey now he said he casually wants to dev, that justifies everything else he could possibly write in his post

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>game over

>>174552257
i'm looking for one, but are you okay with working with a black programmer?

>>174552287
Is that zipline just having the player parent an object that's stuck on a spline, or is it dynamic + uses physics to dampen the speed based on incline/slopes?

>>174552287
Nice.

I hope you put a lot of effort into making the transition smooth, I hate when games make it painfully obvious that your character is now in a different 'state'

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>>174551830
Thanks anon!

>>174552056
I didn't even think about that when making it; I haven't played Metroid Prime since Trilogy came out.

>tfw negative progress

>>174552442
why would you even mention your race.

>>174552689
what's wrong with being black?

>tfw you start to write a new feature but discover that you already wrote it

>>174547823

just increase the resolution i.e. denser raycasting

>>174552528
Parent + animation. I'm not that experienced for physics.
>>174552557
In due time. I was focusing on making sure the zipline works as expected without any weird glitches.

>>174552563
Cryptomnesia is a hell of a drug

>>174551789
I am a fan of this newly emerging meme

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>>174552919
t. first commit of the decade

>>174552891
>He doesn't use git to ensure redundancy and version control

Are you even a real game dev?

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show me dates of your latest commits

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>>174552971
But I do, I was just saying I like that people are posting their commits!

>>174550747
>>174550802
>>174550932
Sorry for the wait, I'm just uploading a few of my recent works to soundcloud (I just made an account).
Here's my profile!
https://soundcloud.com/12toe

I'm a percussionist at heart, and I'm slowly learning musical theory. I thought composition would help my understanding of it.

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>>174553068

>>174553262
The game I'm developing for is an fantastical RPG of sorts. It has elements from almost every genre of sci fi/fantasy.

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Is this confusing enough?

>>174552971
Posting randomly generated numbers is not progress.

>start playing social interaction trainer
>interrupted by chatting with old friend I didn't get to talk with for quite some time
THIS IS THE TRUE SOCIAL INTERACTION EXPERIENCE

>>174553451
>randomly generated numbers
anon..

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>>174553068

>>174553606
For all we know they are randomly generated. They're just numbers. How do we know that he really did anything?

Even just saying "I made X feature today" is better than posting numbers. Of course we still don't know for certain in that case. The only way to truly post progress is to post an image, webm, or code.

>>174553712
>only 3 commits in March and 3 in April
You've been slacking anon. Be more like you were in February.

>>174546686
>ludum dare tomorrow
>agdg no longer even acknowledges things outside of it's incest box
You guys are becoming more and more irrelevant. Good riddance.

>>174554015
We already talked about how shit their themes are.

>>174554015
We were walking about Ludum Dare last thread.

>>174549040
>>174549085
>>174549225
Literally Admin here, I don't post in the poals anymore since jams are fully dead now.

Construction was literally my theme submission.

This place is hopeless.

>>174554015
>dude, make a game in 25 seconds
>dude, space, but underwater, and inverted gravity!
>dude, colors!

LD is a meme

>>174554215
Admin

>>174552919
Literally me every time I remember git is a thing

>>174554081
>>174554113
Yeah you're doing everything except actually enter and make games for the only jam that matters.

Before you get all defensive and start pissing yourself don't bother.

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>>174553068

>>174554353
I will be entering and posting progress here, I just dislike the themes.

>>174554353
I hate to break it to you, but the jam hasn't started yet, so no one has entered, not even you.

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>>174512349
okay i woke up and finished it, the install works and the fake serial seems to work as well

it has a new menu next to build called incredibuild which just builds using some 3rd party system they bundled, its like distcc for visual studio I think. You have to click a button that takes you to a website asking for email address and make new username / password and then the email you a free key to activate the incredibuild subsystem. I think that might be a trial license though so screw that.

overall it took incredibuild 40 seconds to build my entire solution, after cleaning and rebuilding

thing is though, using a timer it took visual studios normal build only 23 seconds to build the entire solution after cleaning and rebuilding

so incredibuild is about twice as slow as normal visual studio for a single computer, because normal visual studio already multithreads across all your cores

>>174553987
Yeah I'm a piece of trash, but school did get pretty busy in March. Slowly picking up the pace again

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>>174554498
wow, I did not expect this

in the options of incredibuild, it turns out it detects all other versions of visual studio installed and integratesd into them as well, even if you have visual studio 6!

visual studio 6 isn't even properly supported on windows xp, and you have to hack the installer to get it to even install on anything newer, yet this still supports that. crazy.

>>174554498
Are those red blocks errors?
Why do you waste time and not stop at the first error?

>>174554498
>>174554874
>needing to compile your game
I just click play and it runs in one second lel

>>174554993
good point

I'm not sure how to configure it to fix that though

>>174552442
Don't care at all. What kind of game?

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Repostan because I'm about to go to sleep.
Tomorrow is the day I actively start working on my Red Riding Hood stealth game. Wish me luck!

>>174555501
That doesn't seem like an in-game screenshot.

>>174555615
You'd be surprised

>>174553262
I'm also a percussionist, so when I got started with composition I also had to start learning alot of stuff I wasn't too used to. Your stuff sounds really similar to how mine did early on

Some pointers:

>Dungeon Crawl WIP
The percussion is far too loud. Being a percussionist I sometimes get carried away by making percussion too loud/prominent. There's a reason they're usually tucked in the back in concert halls! Scale that stuff back. Repetitive drum rhythms, especially featuring high-pitched triangles or cymbals, gets really grating, REALLY fast

>Moonsleight

Everything here is loud and overpowering. Ambient/drone music is fine and has its place in games, but it has to be that: ambient. Maybe try drawing out the attacks/releases on the notes, rather than using tons of reverb to bleed everything together. Not that reverb it bad, but it muddies things rather than smooths them.

For your other tracks, the thing I'd recommend is learning chords, big time. Alot of your tracks sound a bit disjointed just because it seems like a bunch of notes strung together and kind of chaotic. I don't have any specific tutorials to send your way, but you could just google for intros to chords and find some stuff.

Hans Zimmer (like him or hate him) did a masterclass that is really interesting where he talks about his process and gives some good tips on storyboarding and structuring your pieces, if you can find that.

Also, if you're going to be doing much more composing for games, you need better sample. Whether that's soundfonts, sample libraries, or whatever, you've got to upgrade. Even the best written soundtrack can be hampered when it sounds midi-esque. If better samples are out of reach, then at least take some tutorials on mastering and EQ's, so that everything doesn't sound so flat.

Oh, and get yourself a good set of studio monitors if you don't already. Those are essential. They don't have to be Sennheiser's, but they should be balanced.

Finally have the drive to dev. But have a ton of college shit to finish up. Goddammit.

I still deved anyway

>>174555908
post your deving

>>174553262
>>174555815
Hit character limit

Just wanted to finish up by saying that for being new to composing, you're off to a good start.
One thing I did when I got started was did covers of songs I liked, be it film scores, game tracks, etc.

This way you aren't focusing so much on writing your own track, but on your technical skills and making it sound as good as you can.

Another good starting point is taking some simple chord progressions and using those to build a song.

But otherwise just keep pushing yourself and keep improving. I'm far from the best composer, but I just practice as much as I can and I can usually look back and hear how much I've improved with each song I write.

>>174555908
post your college shit

>>174555998

I did. It was the dungeon crawler thing.

>>174553442
No clue. I assume white = player, and grey = wall. That's all I got.

describe your game mechanics in 10 words or less

>>174556514
fun things are fun

>>174556514
It's just Harvest Moon, except made by an amateur.

>>174556514
its just an engine, that isn't even currently building

>>174555501
The wolf is cute. I'd stick my dick in her.

>>174557217
Why are you making an engine? Those already exist.

>>174557408
The same reasons everyone here is making games that already exist.

>>174557561
>making games that already exist.
name one

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>>174546686
>yfw nobody makes good models on the unity store with realistic anal animations

>>174557718
>realistic anal animations
elaborate

>>174547829
where? it's not visible from the front page

>>174557814
he probably wants clenching and all that other shit

>>174556514
Infinite quest for loot, with boardgame mechanics

>>174557968
found it, it's http://tools.aggydaggy.com/tools.html
which is pretty confusing
I mean if the URL is going to be tools.aggydaggy.com why not list the actual tools up front?

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Is it possible to use Japanese in my game without it being considered a weeaboo game?

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Progress: random fembot models, also they now run away when stabbed.

Question: Should knives remain in their bodies (ie you stab them and it gets stuck in them and you see it hanging out from where you stabbed, and you lose the weapon which leads to gameplay), or just allow you to use your weapons continuously?

>>174559007
I hope you aren't keeping the Minecraft graphics.

Also look into Budget Cuts for weapon mechanics, the knife can stick to bodies but you can retrieve it.

>>174559230
It's prototyping assets, If I actually make this game I can easily replace the meshes with a realistic fembot, the houses with some realistic modular city. Would cost like 100 bucks.

>>174555815
>>174556052
First thing, Thank you for the honest critique. It's hard knowing what's good or not when you don't have many outside ears, so I really appreciate you taking the time to critique.

>making percussion too loud/prominent
I agree. It sucks because I want to make an interesting back-beat, but I think I just get too 'proud' of the beat and want to show case it.

> I'd recommend is learning chords
Yep, that's what I'm doing right now. I have a good 'idea' of chords, scales, progressions, etc due to learning piano and guitar. But again I agree when you say that it seems like a bunch of notes strung together. I'm more of a 'rhythm guy' (percussion, rhythm guitarist, etc) and so when it comes to melodic compositions, it's one of my weaker spots.

>Hans Zimmer's masterclass
I had seen that before. I wonder if there's a torrent for it or if I'm going to have to cough up the dough. Definitely would be worth checking out no doubt.

>You need better sampling
As of right now, I'm using MakeMusic Finale 2014 as my composition software. Are there any other samples or software that you would recommend? I just chose Finale cause I find looking at actual sheet music rather than "loop chunks" to be a little more "engaging" and comfortable since that's what I'm most used to.

As for Studio Monitors, I do need to get an upgrade.

Thanks again for all of the help! I'll be around again for the next wave of music eventually, so hopefully I'll have learned some more by then.

>>174556514
High-speed, story-driven, cute moth shooting and scoring action!

>>174556052
Also one more thing. What's a good software for recording, editing, and compositing live recordings? As much as I like controlling things in-software via Finale, live recording is where it's at, but it seems like a much larger beast than I had ever thought. Audacity can only help an amateur so far until it become more of a hindrance.

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>>174559472
>cute moth
How cute are we talking?

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Added a shield hit and break effect to tell the player if he's hitting the shield and when it reaches 0.
Still need to make the AI do something useful.

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>>174559653
I am sure it is subjective

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>>174559998
?

>>174556514
Manic fast shooting game, available for Sega Saturn.

>>174559998
Bring back tofu-chan.

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>>174559998
She's not cute at all.
She's lewd, patiently awaiting doujins

>mayhem league got cancelled
I haven't been here in almost a year and read about this in the last thread. What happened?

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>>174553068
The command I use for this is:
git log --graph --decorate --format='%C(auto)%h %C(cyan)%ad%C(reset)%C(auto) %s%d' --date='format:%Y-%m-%d'
Shows hash, date, and description for each commit

>>174560515
He's working on some 3D action platformer.
It's probably a good thing, he had way too much on his plate with MH with all the ridiculous mechanics, now he might actually finish something.

>>174557650
when you think about all games are really just remakes of pong

it might not make sense to you at first, but when you really think about it it will

>>174560515
Cancelled is a strong way to put it, it took huge chunks of the game and moved to a new (similar) project.

>>174560515
The fact that he refused to get off of blueprints.
But no, he got tired of grinding out art so he recycled it into a scaled back game of the same genre.

What's wrong with "draw_text_ext_transformed(70, 90, "=" + player_obj.keys, 200, 200, 1, 1, 0)"? Using GameMaker. Trying to get it to draw the text of "=1" where 1 is the number of keys the player currently has. It's giving me the error of "DoAdd :: Execution Error
at gml_Object_player_lower_obj_DrawGUI_1 (line 3) - draw_text_ext_transformed(70, 90, '=' + player_lower_obj.keys, 200, 200, 1, 1, 0)". I think it's not recognizing the + as part of the code, but that's how it's stated in the manual to do it?

>>174560670
But blueprints weren't the problem

Don't let that stop the memes though

>>174560636
That makes no sense
Pong is not even the first game

>>174560319
stupid japs, that's not where the clitoris is

>>174560753
they still are 2bqh.
And he posted the abhorrent jungle mess before.
Dont know why people think theyre simpler than programming.

>>174560757
the games that came before were also just remaking pong

you just have to think about it

>>174560881
But you don't know his game better than him

Don't let that stop the memes though

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>>174560717
I think you need to use "="+string(player_lower_obj.keys) if you are combining a quoted text with a variable/value.

>>174560293
The artist does magnificent work for sure!

>>174560295
I am not sure anyone else liked tofu-chan but she has a special place in my heart

>>174560319
I don't think I will ever be that popular, anon but I will take that as warm wishes!

>>174559427
>>174559621
I definitely didn't pay for the masterclass haha

I only used Finale a couple times way back in 2006 or so, and it was straight MIDI back then. I'm not sure what its new features are.

For better samples, VSTs, recording etc. you'll definitely want to look into a proper Digital Audio Workstation. Professionally alot of people use Ableton and FL Studio. I prefer FL Studio myself, but I paid for it, so I'm not sure what the best free alternative would be. Other musicbros might be able to chip in. But you'd definitely want a DAW to look into eventually. And the piano-roll view (with "blocks" rather than sheet music) is pretty easy to get used to, and in my opinion it's a bit more freeing than using traditional sheet music, since you aren't locked into a particular time signature. That's all personal preference, though, I'm sure.

For studio headphones, I've got a pair of Sony MDR-55's that aren't too bad. They're pretty balanced and do a good job of cancelling noise, but honestly I work most often using Wicked Audio reverbs haha - they're a bit boosted on the bass end of things but I find the sound almost crisper than the Sony's.

>>174561126
>learn programming
>concepts and mechanics slowly come together faster
>dont have to reason about your spiderweb universe to change or fix something
>suddenly spending eons in art wont be as demoralizing

He's still a great dev, i just think putting off learning programming will hurt him in the long run

>>174561216
free program is called "rosegarden"

>>174561126
My guess is that not even he knew the game considering he literally abandoned it.

>>174561303
Blueprints and programming aren't mutually exclusive things though.

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When should i start implementing menus and ui?

>>174561654
When you need to show things.

>>174561494
By their purpose they should be. Or else youll just realize how redundant they are if you start converting everything and doing it not-visually

>>174561216
Thanks man. I'll be sure to check everything out!
You're a lifesaver! How long have you been composing? Are you doing it professionally?

>piano roll
So that's what that name refers to. jc my whole life is a lie.

>>174561742
I don't think you've tried to make a game with UE4 only using C++ if you think blueprints are redundant.

>>174561789
I've been composing since 2009 or so.

>>174561789
piano roll just means notes are entered vertically down, instead of horizontally across like normal musical notation

>>174561882
or maybe it doesn't... then wtf is it and wtf is the vertical thing called?

>>174561882
I personally never use PR in FL.
Just record everything in edison, then export to the playlist.

>>174561828
>>174561882
Oh one more thing I thought I'd ask:
How long does it take you to make a track?
Any musicbro can feel free chip in too

>>174562109
>edison
edison is like audacity? so it means live recordings as .wav files (if you're on windows)

>>174562217
I can't really into music so it takes me forever to slowly tune into something that sounds like a song

like a few hours minimum but more likely several days

>>174562217
It can take between an hour and a week honestly. It all depends on how much of the song I have figure dout ahead of time, and if its a genre that I'm good at, or one that I don't have much practice in.

Also forgot to say that I do not do music professionally all that often. Most often its for my games or music for anons

https://soundcloud.com/jasozz

>>174562234
Edison is so much better than audacity.

>>174561708
The thing you want to show for demos is gameplay, UI might be important for this, but menus are usually just needed to save/load games choose levels or change settings.

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>saving up for weeks
>new computer finally here and built
>no longer restricted to fucking around with pix-shit in gamemaker
>install unreal engine 4
>runs flawlessly

It's time.

>>174562616
You went from having a chance to finish a pixshit game to never finishing a game.

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>>174562616
Nice man, have fun with UE4.

>>174562741
Finish? You mean you can finish these things?

>>174562616
>tfw have had a gaymen pc forever but still prefer working my 2d engine up

>>174562868
Only if you stop posting on agdg.

>>174561654
if you feel like you should ask that question, the answer is now, or at least soon

>>174556664
post game?

>>174558996
No.
I saw that movie (1995) for the first time yesterday. Impressive on a craft level, but that's it. I don't get what all the fuss is about.

I'm a noob. What are things like Bitbucket, Git, SourceTree and why do I need them? Or do I need them or are they for bigger projects? Are they for backup but only for code?

>>174564902
Let's say you're developing a game and you're in the middle of adding a new feature when your friend comes and asks you if they can play your game but your game is doesn't even compile because of the half implemented new feature so they can't and if now you have to mess with the code until it works so they can play but if you had git you would just stash your current changes and roll back to a version of your game that worked, compile and they could play. Or you could roll back permanently if after your friend played you decided the new feature is retarded.

>>174564902
They are version control tools. They save a backup of your code in a repository (this can be remotely somewhere in the cloud or a private ftp server or on your harddrive), but also record changes between commits (savepoints). You can have different branches, like a master branch and several feature branches (e.g. moonjumping, proc. world gen, battle instantiation or whatever), which can be worked on separately. When work on them is finished, they can be merged back into the main branch.

Overall it ensures that when multiple people work on a codebase, what they do doesn't fuck up the process of others. Also you can easily roll back to an earlier version should you do some colossal fuck up.

>>174561654
Does not having a UI seriously detract from your game? If not, then you don't need it now.

If you're doing any game that relies checking an inventory often, then yeah you might want to get that done right after your player controller is setup

who /talentednodev/ here

who /untalentedyesdev/ here

>>174565420
hello

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So, maybe some of you remember this face I posted yesterday.

Here's the final version, because I gave up on making her prettier.

Instead I did...something else (next post)

>>174562830
welcome to spaghetti hell

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>>174565570
Most of you said she looked old, so I kind of went with it.

>>174565570
>>174565742
Went from perfectly fine gnome to severe allergic reaction.

>>174565568
What engine would you use if you were a yesdev?

>>174565742
She looks like a burn victim.

>>174566080
I wouldn't.

Thats why i keep going deeper down the rabbit hole of enginedev.

>>174565420
>talented but lazy
literally every dumbass is told this so they get off their asses and stop being lazy
>inb4 projecting xDD
you know it to be true, dumbass

let's brainstorm about fun ideas
>boss is affected by your choice of music
>you and boss switch the control of one movement key
>character needs time to do an action, pausing gives you time
>you are the final boss, if you grind a lot the game will be easy but the final battle will be hard and vice versa
>bosses can be beaten in a special way
>boss is the map/level
>game/some special events are affected by real world time
>choosing certain names makes you play as certain characters (from their point of view in story, not just different abilities)
>you can battle the final boss at the start of the game or any point
>levels decay and change the longer you play
>special events based on hardware/system info
>you can start a fire that burns the whole game world
>different world environment can expand (forest/desert)
>characters/enemies are affected by video options (brightness)
>dropping items in certain parts for other npcs change the story
>everything is one hit killed including the bosses
>failing can advance the story
>bosses can be powered based on different flags (number of deaths, items...)
>the better you play the harder it gets but rewards you with unique items (instead of making the game easier for you)

>>174565198
>>174565260
Thank you. I've been compresing my whole project folder and uploading it to dropbox for backup purposes. I guess I'm doing the very primitive version of this. These are for source codes, are there tools for backing up whole project, inlcluding art, music etc? Would installing dropbox be enough? I heard it syncs automatically the folder you select.

>>174566197
my negroe

>>174565872
>>174566141
Nice, right?

>>174566337
Get SourceTree and register at Bitbucket for a free private repository.
Any file you want can be uploaded, doesn't matter if it's a .txt, .exe, .pdf, .jpg etc.

>>174566241
None of this matters if you don't know how to make it

A real shiv is more valuable than an imaginary sword

>>174565198
>your friend comes and asks you if they can play your game but your game is doesn't even compile

or you can tell them to fuck off until your feature is implemented.

>>174566241
>bosses can be beaten in a special way
For this alone you deserve to be exiled. Fucking idea-guys, I swear.

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Anyone know how to fix this?

I didn't have this problem on my other pc

>>174566241
Include all of these and then a 100% trophy.

>you can beat enemies with the power of words and reasoning

>>174566761
You solve this by not using proprietary software.

>>174566761
Is it actually stopping you from using Gamemaker? It doesn't look like it should, it's just a webpage error

>>174566852
4chan is proprietary

>>174566861
It's not, it's just obnoxious.

Does it run this with my default browser?

>>174566827
____undertale______

A box pushing puzzler but in doomlike first person.

>>174566951
It's using Internet Explorer, and it's probably hardcoded to use it

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>>174566761
Is GMS using IE for browser views?
If it is:
1) top kek
2) update your IE

>>174566761
Use Godot. It doesn't force you to view a webpage with IE before starting the engine.

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Will your game be culled by Valve's change?

>>174567273
wtf i changed my engine after months of work now

>>174567138
It's edge. I installed gamemaker before I installed chrome.

I'm that dedicated

>>174567273
>python-like language
>using it with c++ forces you to recompile the engine or just extend the engine for use in gdscript
Nah

>>174567302

Probably. I was really looking forward to using steam as my main distributor but I guess now I have to use itch.io or whatever.

>>174567525
Wait for 3.0 then.

>>174567302
What change?

Please tell me they are clearing all the greenlight shit off the store

>>174567609
I will try it
>dev goes on vacation before its release
next year I guess

>>174566337
you would have to save every change as a new file
version control systems do it by only saving the changes and it consequently takes up a lot less space (for any decently big project) and it means that transferring the new version or any version is a lot faster as long as the repository exists in the source and the destination

>>174567694
Non-games and meme games are getting cracked down on.
grey sites are gonna get killed too.

>>174566676
i mean if you consume/use an ordinary item it triggers a special loosing condition

>>174567694
they're replacing greenlight with a simple fee to be put on Steam

>>174567928
Praise gaben

Hopefully we can get early access heavily regulated also. It's bad business to sell products that don't deliver on their advertised features and poisons consumer trust

>>174567928
>grey sites are gonna get killed too.
How?

>>174567302
only if the fee is above 500 dollars

>>174567928
do non games include walking simulators?

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>>174561303
>concepts and mechanics slowly come together faster
>slowly come together faster

EnginePlebs, everyone!

>>174568110
TB has an hour video where he talks about his trip.
>>174568181
Valve are changing it where games can be directly delivered to people in Steam. More specifically, their curator system theyre pushing forward.
>>174568290
no, like the watching paint dry shit.

Do you want to be the next Notch or the next Jonathan Blow?

Fake games = games with low sales.
Valve is motivated by money.

>>174568364
just b myself bro

So they're killing g2a?

>>174568405
There goes all of agdg.

>>174568480
I am aggy, hear me RoR.

>>174568364
How about "Notch Blow"?

>>174568451
Not sure if they actually will, but how TB put it, Valve REALLY hate grey sites.

>>174568364
Blow me.

>>174568364
Notch has the money and resources to create his dream game so him

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A game where you feel bad about your enemies.

>>174568683
What is a grey site?

What's your end-goal? I think this is a wonderful hobby, and anyone who aspires to be toby notch blow is a complete goddamn moron.
So with that in mind, I think it's healthy to perform this little exercise, with what YOU consider "making it" in mind.

Estimate just on the order of magnitude even, how many people in the past oh, 10 years, have attempted to make a game. Now estimate the number of people in the past 10 years who, according to what YOU think is "making it", have indeed made it.

Okay, now take that second number and divide it by the first. What's that percent? For me, it's very high actually, because again I consider this a great hobby, and anyone who has a good time or learns something, is "making it."

>>174568810
They sell keys bought with stolen credit cards in some cases. Russians gonna russian

>>174567138
kemono friends game when

>>174568364

I'd prefer to be Jonathon Blow but without being an asshole to my playerbase and treating them like shit, basically.

I really like his 'genre defying' games but I really dislike his penchant for wasting his player's times and acting like a smug cunt about it.

>>174568923
i'm under impression these posts, valve's engine samefaggotry and artist looks for programmer posts are all written by the same person

>>174568810
>heres this key have fun with the game!
>selling GAME key $x.xx

How soon is too soon for establishing an LLC? I don't want my personal assets seized in costly patent litigation, and I don't have the money to settle out of court

>>174569045
They are. There is a legit psychopath who browses here and larps as 10 people while we all try to ignore it like passengers witnessing a homeless man shitting on a subway.

>>174569157
Just before you go public and could earn a buck..

@174569203
oh look it's him again thinking he's a big deal around here

>>174569045
nah
i too occasionally post artist looking for game
especially when tension is already high
no source or "making it" though
thats just cancer

Are game overs a failure of the game designer?

>>174569460
no, nu-dev

>>174568961
2 /a/nons are making one, one is 3D and in unity, the other is 2D

>>174569460
Someone post the jap dev pic, you know the one.

>>174569460
They've fallen out of favor but they are still viable as a mechanic. I think a ghosts and goblins clone would go over well with the souls crowd

>>174569389
what's "making it"?

>>174569460
>his artpiece exploring the human condition in a bland environment without challenge has a game over condition
Losses aren't even acceptable if they're a part of the narrative. Your players are your customers, your kings so to speak. They don't pay you to lose.

>>174569647
>>174568923

>>174568961
>>174569513
isn't that thing already based on a manga based on a mobileshit game

>>174569513
Sweet, though they should post it here.
On second thought, maybe that's a bad idea.

>>174569658
I hope this is trolling because as someone who's primarily a player, I fucking hate this mentality in games. Like the difference between CK2 and Civ5, a discussion I had on here once. If I'm "king" then to continue the analogy, no way in hell do I want to be surrounded by yesmen

So I'm assuming the flickering in the right corner (from what you can see I know the qualities poor) is shadow + global illumination related problem?

>>174569816
>based on a manga based on a mobileshit game
Not exactly.
It was a multimedia project which launched an unrelated game/manga. Game did poorly(as expected of a micro transaction mobile game) and manga was meh.

>>174569838
>I hope this is trolling
It is ___

>>174568728
MGQ

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lel >>174569912

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>give feedback
>dev doesn't change a thing

>>174569838
>I hope this is trolling
It is not

How do I make good AI?

I'm making a strategy game and I want the AI to have at least a rudimentary ability to challenge the player without resorting to cheats.

Speaking of artists, is the programmar around who I was talking to? I got lost and just now returned

>>174570269
depends on the game, and why not just make the ai play like a smart human.

>>174570269
Highly dependent on the actual game mechanics.

>>174570198
>give feedback
>dev insults you

>>174570198
>don't give feedback
>dev ignores me
rude

>>174570269
Convolutional neural nets

>>174569460
No. But sometimes they should be opt-in. Like hardcore mode in an arpg

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>>174570198
>tell dev their game is cool
>dev ignores reply and responds to bait/shitposting post instead

>>174570198
>give feedback
>dev doesnt give me 12 free keys for being one of the most important contributors to her career
absolutely repulsive behavior

>>174570604
>her
L O N D O N

>>174570198
>ask dev a question about their game
>they ignore you and reply to trolls and everyone else

>>174570198
>give feedback
>dev makes a change
>change remains all the way to commercial release
>dev makes lots of money
>with my suggestion
I feel like I'm owed royalties

>give feedback
>dev assumes I'm trolling and gets uppity

why is everybody so grumpy here, if all you want is money go make furry porn rpg maker game or something

why is everybody so grumpy here, if all you want is money go to your local gloryhole and suck some dicks or something

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>start making game
>pretty sane scope, should be easy to finish
>get a bunch of great ideas as I'm making it but these ideas would take forever to do
>game simply wouldn't feel finished without ideas
should I save them for a sequel?
help

>>174571138
Ship your game now, it's the only way to stop the death spiral.

>>174552819
Are you gonna make more Blender videos or do I have to come over there and have a word

>>174571138
Finish the game to your original scope. Once it starts making sales you can start updating it with new features and content. This will also likely get more people to buy the game.

>>174571214
But it's far from finished...

>>174571382
No I hate video games

First and second replies decide the primary and secondary themes of my game.

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>>174571456
Teach yourself to stop having ideas then.

>>174571595
Marxist historical analysis

>>174571595
vaporwave

>have a platformer with tight controls, the usual run, jump, wall slide/jump
>no idea what to do with it

>>174571453
The ideas are too big and game-defining to be simple updates/DLC.

>>174571482
You're the master. You gotta

>>174571672
>>174571685
Move aside, Mother Russia Bleeds. There's a new kid in town.

>>174571789
You're talking to the wrong person, I just draw things in MSpaint

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>>174571904

>>174570198
Yeah, right, feedback.

>it's shit
>u made no progress in months
>LOL
Go fuck yourself.

ebin

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>>174571940
Then why did you reply at all

>>174571739
Appeal to speedrunner autism

>>174572202
post game

>>174572258
Cause you replied to me and I felt like stringing you along

>>174572202
>that character reads really badly against that noise background
Months.

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>>174572067

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>>174572335
>>174572067
>>174571904
Why is this even a thing?

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>>174572335

>>174570198
>report a bug
>dev blames your computer for being shit

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>>174572501
because its fucking dank

L A B O R W A V E
A
B
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R
W
A
V
E

>>174572685
>L A B O R W A V E
I should have seen that coming. But I didn't.
I'm not even mad.

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>>174572685
/dump

>>174572685
>>174572776
Shortly followed by starvationwave and cannibalismwave

>>174573215
I'm saying someone should go back in time and shoot karl marx in the face

>unironic commies posting right now
go to sleep you art school faggots

Why don't poor people just stop being poor? All it takes is a small loan of 1,000,000 USD.

What would your game look like with a budget of 1,000,000 USD?

A game where you must escape randomly generated kidnapper hideouts.
They can be rape dungeons, ISIS bases in the middle of the desert or druglord hideouts in the forest.

>>174573747
>rape dungeons
Someone get lolirapesimdev on the line, we got a new gamemode!

>>174573664
>#FeeltheBern