/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

I think my game is pretty good so far and people will like it when I finish it

Should I quit my job to dev full-time until its done?

Anyone tried using sdl_mixer with emcc?

>>174605992
Good morning /agdg/!
What progress are you making today?

>>174606098
Show the game, but no. Almost definitely no.

>>174606098
pretty good =/= profitable

You are naive if you think your game will become successful purely based on its merit as a game, you also need some serious marketing work, not necessarily scummy shit like botting but just having the skill to get your game out there and being a social butterfly.

>>174606148
it's not inkscape, it's every vector program, you either export a bigger image then scale it down, or apply a blur filter in inkscape, you need to play with filters, but why the fuck are you using vector art if you're not exporting to svg

I think my idea is pretty good so far and people will like it when I finish it

Should I quit my job to dev full-time until its done?

>>174606098
try to actually present it to others before getting crazy ideas

>>174606148
works on my machine

>>174606148
Write a imagemagick or gimp script.

>he doesn't even toolchain dev

>>174606098
Hahahahahaha
Yes definitely

How do I get my game out there? Why do the successful devs here never share their secrets?

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>AGDG says that if you exercise you'll be more productive
>start exercising
>exercising just becomes another excuse to procrastinate
>less productive than ever

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I'm so tired. Every day I dev, getting the game to the state where I'd consider it finished seems farther and farther away.

>>174606627
but joocy, right?

>>174606563
> successful
> here

>>174606098
Here's a litmus test. Slap it on Kickstarter.

If people are going crazy for it and you raise a decent amount of money, sure.

If not, your odds are much worse.

>>174606673
goog still posts here

>>174606250
Are you the same guy from the last thread? That's wrong. If you have a good game, which usually implies it's also at least presentable, all you need to do is to show it at a place, which has people who'd like that type of a game. The quality will carry it from there.

>>174606627
You're supposed to drop something you do for exercise not just slap it on to your dailies.

Like maybe exercise instead of shitposting :^)

>>174606678
Aren't Kickstarters nowadays just another marketing tool for people who already have enough demand for their game, at least for 1MA?

Can you really put up a unknown game and make like 10k, assuming you did all the work with a demo, trailer, and all that?

>>174606712
>all you need to do is to show it at a place
Ooooooh, that "place".................

>>174606812
if you dress everything up nicely and put in the work necessary to get the word out, you can do anything.

>>174606812
I'd never heard of yacht club until the shovel knight kickstarter. I think word of mouth goes a long way, and if a game is good people will talk about it.

>>174606817
There's no universal place you nignog. Find a forum discussing your genre and post there. Your ability to find it is unrelated to you being good at social interaction. Why do I even bother.

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sdl says taht certain functions should only be called from the main thread or whichever thread called setvideo

so my engine can call them from any thread, this can be a source of lockup, so I implemented wrapper functions that insert a userevent into the messagepump and block on a semaphore before returning, while the underlying SDL function is called from the main thread on receipt of the event, and then signals the semaphore.

seems to work nicely

Artist/Musician here looking to learn code.
Anyone here use CodinGame? If so did it work?

>>174607034
My game's genre doesn't have an active subreddit.
What now?

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>>174606769
I've never shitposted in my life.

>>174607101
What do get out of working at that level that you couldn't get using a more high-level library?

I've never seen why I'd want to use SDL over SFML, for instance

>>174607219
Well that sucks, might as well end yourself then.

>>174607219
Then submit it to one for "other/niche/artsy/whateverthefuckthenextbestfitis" jesus fuck engage your singular brain cell

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>>174605992
Reminder

>>174607354
Fun is a buzzword

>>174607354
Define "fun".

severe lack of lewd games in here

>>174607481
I disagree

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>1st time you realize the code for your project you've been diligently copying and piecing up from various tutorials for a week is fucking unsalvageable and you will have to start over and this time actually think about what you're doing.

>make threads about your game's genre on /v/
>build up some decent discussion without mentioning your game yet
>change your IP just to be sure
>steer the conversation towards upcoming games and carefully mention yours together with other ones without sounding like a shill
>do this several times
>you now have a fanbase

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>>174607585
>/v/
>actually liking games
>actually buying games
>actually playing games

>>174607294
it's free

>>174607585
That's a nice fantasy. Maybe one day it will happen.

>>174607585
>tfw your game gets posted on /v/
>tfw response is both good and bad

>>174607585
>find someone on /agdg/ you don't like
>make obvious shill threads on /v/
>they now have a hatebase

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>he actually went to /v/ and posted his unity project #49

>>174607774
>Walk underneath window
>Someone drops piano on your head
>You are now dead

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>>174607774
fuck

>>174607735
https://www.sfml-dev.org/license.php

>>174607101
That semaphore is never going to be seen or used outside the calling thread anyway. You don't actually know what you're doing, do you?

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>>174607846
>>174607663
>trying to keep the /v/ audience all to yourself this blatantly

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>post as amateur game dev on /v/ looking for ideas on how to get players who are bad at your game to not be able to play it
>feed on the delicious entitlement rage

>>174607992
>/v/ audience
no thank you, they are all yours you madman

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How's your game going? You are making a game right?

>>174608109
I was making one, yeah

>>174608109
>he doesn't make his own engine using a good framework

>>174608109
I need to finish my tools first

>>174608109
I added a new aerial spinning attack that works like the one in Megaman Zero.

>>174608109
wrong thread

>>174608109
I spent 8 hours making one character's sprites for 4 directional walking

is this normal

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>>174608241
Shit I thought I was on /v/. Instead I accidentally created video game discussion.

what are seriously some good places to shill

>>174608394
I'm sure your mom would buy your game

>>174608109
I have done nothing but try to learn modelling.
I'm not even sure I am successful at learning it.

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>>174608109
>Lumberyard out of fucking nowhere

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Daily reminder that the number of devs who "make it" divided by the number of devs who attempt to make it is 0.0001.
Adjust your expectations accordingly and enjoy this fun and rewarding hobby!

Writing an Android plugin in Unity to select an image from camera roll.

How do I read the image from the URI? (and then get it into a texture) I've already got it so that the URI is parsed to the actual file path, but I think I'm too tired to figure out this last step.

>>174608557
and just over half of those who attempt cannot wipe their own ass without a tutorial

>>174608253
that really depends on how large and detailed they are and how many frames the animations has

I've been doing basic move/action set for my player character for almost a month now and I'm not finished yet

>>174608517
Does this shit even exist? I never succeeded to launch it, their launcher just take account info and do nothing, never launching whatever it supposed to launch, not showing any errors, not showing any signs of something happening/gone wrong at all.

>>174608728
It's just Cryengine with Amazon's networking services and shit, there's absolutely no reason why an indie dev should ever use it.

>>174608557
I'm not a neet and have a day job that makes money.

I'd just much rather make a living by making games, even if it means a dramatic cut to my personal wealth.

>>174608557
But you can't make it if you don't have a game either.
Welcome to any hobby ever, music and art are the same

>>174608557

At this point it's purely hobby for me. Pretty nice having a comfy job and being able to come home and make vidya.

Who knows maybe I'll make something worth selling, but that isn't my goal right now.

>>174608728
For a long time Cryengine could have catastrophic crashes if you had a wacom plugged in, there's a reason no one uses it.

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>>174608557
>>174608658
and 90% of those who come as far as to follow a tutorial drop after first FATAL ERROR if they can't get a reply in the comments in under 24 hours.

HeartBeast has an excellent 30+ video GameMaker RPG tutorial.
1st video has 600,000 views
halfway through it's down to 50,000
I would say it's a nice illustration of what I'm trying to say

>>174608829
Some people say it have more sane architecture than UE4, so why not? Except it doesn't even start.

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>>174608557
Uh oh, consider me intimidated. I'm just shivering from looking at the quality level of 99.99% of projects posted here in these threads. I sure have a high bar to jump over!
How am I ever gonna compete with Steve's "I made some boxes move" progress post or Lil Johny's "Rock paper scissors" game?

>>174608557
>tfw you don't need money to meet your vision of "made it"
>tfw already made it
Feels good, man.

>>174609006
Probably it's just that people realize the limitations of GM and switch to making their own engine ;)

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Just doing some meshing passes now that the blocking-out of the level is complete.

Showing side-by-sides of the previous BSP geometry and the subsequent static mesh geometry to give an idea of what sort of changes are being made.

So far it seems fairly performant but going with a complex-collision-only model for actual geometry (since I hate invisible walls on 'detail' surfaces in platformer-type games, it's annoying to try for a jump you should be able to make and then be forced off) could potentially have a performance impact down the road as the tri count increases, we'll see.

Really LOVING the foliage tool, too, it's super performant and easy to use. I'll probably wind up doing it for all of my detail-meshing, including stuff that isn't "carpeting" areas (like rubble or stones that will be randomly placed).

>>174609045
I can't speak for the 'architecture' but I don't think it is remotely worth using over UE4.

In my experience UE4 is better in every regard besides foliage and the ease of landscape painting, and when you look at the few games who actually do use it, they tend to have a lot of foliage and landscapes.

>>174609045
First time I have heard that one.

>>174609146
>wasting time making your own engine instead of just using a superior 2D engine
dummy

>>174609284
Can your "superior" engine handle 50000 sprites on screen, each one with separately computated positions chanding by different laws constantly?

>>174609557
yeah sure that's pretty basic

>>174609557
>50000 sprites
>separately computated positions
you saying "computated" notwithstanding, isn't that just a bog standard GPU particle emitter?

Unless you're talking about running the thing on a pocket calculator at 500FPS, I feel like any engine can do that.

>>174609557
Yes, Godot can handle that easily.

>>174609557
I see no situation why you'd need 50k sprites.
There is a reason why people distinct sprites and particles.

>>174609669
Nope, I'm talking about active game objects with collision detection, of course.

>>174609557
is that supposed to be remotely impressive?

>>174609557
>mfw the engine I'm using supports millions of particles without a problem
>enginedevs thinking they are hot shit for having a barebones toy that naturally runs faster since it has literally no features
lel

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can we get some dev music going on here

>>174609736
Lies. I'm the one who made godot's bunnymark, it chokes on 5000 objects.
>>174609752
Any descent danmaku games. 50k is little exhageration, yeah, but 20-30k sprites on screen - easy.

who /ludumdare/ here

I'm kinda nervous

>>174609101
If you've already made it, then it's time to change your definition of made it my nigga

shit

>>174609778
Does your particles support collision detection?

>>174609557
you will never have a game with 50,000 anything on screen faggot
and I'm talking about YOU specifically, not DOOM 2 100,000 revenant maps

>>174609767
Quite the contrary, it supposed to be basic functionality that most popular 2d engines lack.

>>174609901
Me, im hyped

>>174610000
Yeah, as a matter of fact they do.

>>174610076
I actually have a game with 20000 sprite objects on screen. It's just a touhou doujin game though but netherless it is. You mad now?

>>174609557
>with separately computated positions chanding by different laws constantly?
>>174609891
>danmaku games.

no delicate physics simulation, collision detection is trivial and collision response doesn't exist in this case.

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>enginedevs

>>174610367
20000, of what faggot? pixels?
I have 2073600 of those when reading you faggy post

>>174608109
>Lumberyard
Are you literally jeff bezos? No one fucking uses lumberyard. I'll tell you what: I'll completely abandon every other game engine if you give me 1 million dollars to develop a good game with lumberyard.

>finish a game and it starts selling
>have to deal with all this tax shit now

>>174610570
You should learn to read first then. I heard they teach it at schools, why don't you try to attend one. If your age permit it, of course.

>>174610653
Real life sucks.

>>174610653
It only takes like 30 minutes max.

>>174610740
post your fucking game I want to see a level that shits 20,000 SPRITES on screen at once

>thread barely 100 posts in
>i can already count at least 3 distinct shitpost chains

>>174610941
where's your game?

>>174610740
There's only one danmaku game that gets posted on agdg and that's the shitty anime moth game, so either you're the shitty anime moth dev and you're confirmed for being a shitposting faggot OR you shitpost on agdg without ever posting progress.

Which is it, faggot? Either way you're a cunt of the highest caliber.

>>174610995
i don't see any reason why would i answer your question and pique the attention of at least 3 shitposters, who would from this point on regularly shit on me just because i made a metapost about shitposting

>>174611178
You already exposed yourself mothdev, as >>174611065 pointed out. Stop engine shitposting

>>174611178
>because i made a metashitpost about shitposting
ftfy

>>174611065
>>174611238
>latching on a dev just because his genre matches the one shitposter uses to justify his shitposting
i'm pretty damn sure that dude actually uses an engine so fuck off please
>>174611246
while you're not wrong, it does not make my point any less correct

>>174611065
>There's only one danmaku game that gets posted on agdg
Lurk moar

What fuck is a danmaku game

Can someone explain this meme where someone complains about shitposting instead of just posting progress?
Are they actually a nodev who is also shitposting?

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Please /agdg/, help me find a nice studio name under which to publish my god-awful games

http://www.strawpoll.me/12792872/r

>>174611238
Mothdev uses GM:S, our enginedev shitposter doesn't even have a game.

>>174609901
Me too, I just hope none of the shit themes will get selected.

>>174611542
once noble genre of shmups devolved into clusterfucks of shit, often with anime attached

>>174611595
Are you the guy that streams on twitch? You sure like frog puppet gifs.

>>174611372
Name another faggot. Oh wait, you can't.
please fucking try to call shmoopdev's game a danmaku and prove how retarded you are, or better yet, try to call the corgi shmup a danmaku

>>174611847
The mushihime guy

>>174611542
epilepsy simulators

>>174611847
these is definitely at least one more

>>174611726
I'm not.
I'd be way too nervous to develop live in front of an audience.

I thought about giving developer walkthroughs though. But who would watch it anyway

>>174611847
apotheosis

>>174611962
Nobody watch my LD timelapses. I'm not complaining, just as example.

Is there some simple and comprehable format for storing morph and bone animations that could be easily parsed?

>danmaku
why do weebs replace perfectly fine terms in english with stupid weeb crap

>>174612557
They spend so much time in their weeb cultural bubble that they forget how to relate to normal people.

>>174612557
why do americans feel the need to shove their religion in video game terms?

>>174612846
>shove their religion in video game terms
what did he meme by this

Is there a way to store or use a local (instead of global) vector 3? Unity.

Lets say I have a platform that moves sporadically and an object that rests on the platform. The player can pick up the object, but when they let go it should return to where it was on the platform (currently using a tween program for actual movement).

>>174612942
hell

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I actually like this campfire sprite

>>174613013
>curtain fire
>volley fire
>bullet barrage
>cannonade
>bullet fucking hail
>hurr durr must be bullet hell

>>174609798
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbjhO3iX1GY

>>174609087
>Lil Johny's "Rock paper scissors" game?
You mean Ryan

>>174612987
Never mind I'm retarded. Transform.localPosition works after I set the box to be a child of the platform.

Round 2, is there a way to make a canvas transparent from one side? Or do I have to stick with the bullshit "if camera ray cast can see a set point. 002f's behind canvas, disable the canvas" bullshit.

>>174612557
>sushi
fucking retarded weebs replacing perfectly fine english terms

>>174614104
What's the english term for sushi?

>>174614164
shit dish

>>174614164
ricey seaweed-and-raw-fish donuts

>>174614164
Salmonella

>>174614164
rolls

>>174614164
Gamble bites

>>174614164
Nipfeed

>>174613856
create a custom material based on a regular UI shader and try turning backface cullling on

LD in 9 hours, are you excited?!!?!

>>174615141
Excited to keep working on my game? You bet!

>>174614164
unhealthy food that will lead to an early death

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Which one of you fucks is this?

>>174615812
>importing drama from reddit
Kill yourself faggot.

>>174615812
>unironically reading the anarchism subreddit
fucking really nigga

>>174615812
>im actually a game developer

Stopped reading right there.

>>174615812
everyone is a fucking "game developer" these days

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>>174615812
>spreading cancer

I'm a lazy idiot that doesn't know much, I listen to edgy music, and I use any information i can to my advantage(Not in a bad way), I love oldschool games such as Banjo Kazooie, And Pokemon stadium, I am a very confused person, My favorite game genres are mainly 2d/3d platformers, 8bit, fps, and any kind of RPG. Me and my friends play games all the time. I also enjoy Web development, I'd like to say i am fluent with HTML, CSS, and some python. I suck ass at math. I want to be able to make games with unity, I want to make a 2D 8bit type game with intense physics and music, it would be like street fighter but with Chibi characters that are bad ass, I also want to make a 3D platformer with a peacful environment, Pink leafs on the ground and a very comfortable feeling with fluid controls. I grew up with a N64 and it has impacted me in a big way. I also enjoy drawing very odd things, mainly distorted versions of 90's cartoon characters. That's about it, I hope I'm not disliked for being unorganized with myself.

>>174610854
depends on which country you're from. I'm guessing US taxes are very simple.

>>174607354
Fun is a meme.
jk I try and make all of my games fun and interesting.

>>174607354
fun is whatever the player says it is

horror games or VNs are not fun in any traditional sense.

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>>174616095

>>174607354

Trade fun for engaging and this is correct.

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>>174609798
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZAAJIvu_2k

>>174616338
That's wrong but okay

i believe in you

I want to make a true stealth game Thief-style.
How stupid am I?

>>174617165
>tfw you are a cuck because you are too scared to take money for your game due to responsibility
>tfw people even ask you to make a patreon

people like me aren't meant to succeed

>>174616095
> I am a very confused person
well then you'll be confused even more because game dev requires planning and organizing everything

>>174617196
Rats & cats, make them Army Men maps.

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How did they do this? How did they know you dodged right at the last second?

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POST PROGRESS

but don't wake her up

>>174617196
I want to make this too but I also basically just want to make Thief.

So because I don't own the IP I'm just afraid of getting sued for it.

>>174617935
It's not checking how long the attack has been active when the player dodges, it's checking how long the player has been in the dodge animation when the attack lands.

a game where if the player character dies, the player dies too

>>174617991
awoo

a game where you control the game, not the player
whatever that means

>>174617165
advertising is against the rules

>>174618314
Plenty of multiplayer games have the asymmetry 'overlord' type thing where one player is either trying to help or hinder the character controlled by the other.

You just make the character AI instead of human.

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>>174617165
googs why don't drink what you preach?
there is no money in gamedev, remember?

>>174618478
But you ARE the player, no matter what you play as.
"A game where you (the player) don't control the player" makes no logical sense.

>>174618618
I think plenty of PS4 games would disagree

>>174618618
>>174618314
Doesn't Guild of Dungeoneering do just that?

>>174618686
>PS4
>games
pick one

>>174618618
Sometimes I wonder how people this dumb are capable of making games.

>>174618760
I agree with him completely

>>174618760
Great argument you've got there.

>>174618314
Dynamic racing game where "players" compete against each other by hindering each other's car, which is controlled by an AI
RPG where you are the random encounters
Tower defense, but you control the waves

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> tfw keep doing random projects
> feel no satisfaction in any of them
> want to make a survival game
> but it's a meme game
> still want to try and implement it
> start doing it
> it's fun to work on

Who would of knew.

Added an item database and easy creation of items via a small custom editor.
An inventory (the thing on the back) and a basic pick up. Interactions with some resources. The camera is zoomed in for recording purposes.

Also a campfire for easy kickstarter money.


>>174617991
best artist

>>174618618
replace player with protagonist/hero and game with environment
a game where you control the environment, not the protagonist.

>>174618986
>the forest but meme poly
why

>>174618986
Make what you want because you probably won't make money from it anyway.

>>174618618
It obviously meant "main character", pretending to be retarded doesn't make you sound smart.

>>174618314
loco roco
patapon
super monkey ball

>>174619101
>> the forest but memepoly

good idea actually

>>174619076
>>174619178
That's the point. The meaning is understandable, but they worded it completely wrong.
Yes, you know that 'player' in this context means 'player character/protagonist' but the way they put it is still wrong.

>>174619178
>pretending to be retarded doesn't make you sound smart.
>gogem unironically saying this
>gogem of all people
TOPPEST OF KEKS

>>174619239
At least do trees that don't turn into logs when they hit the ground.
Dynamic environement would be very interesting though, like digging moats and stuff.

>>174619247
Yes, they phrased it incorrectly to make it seem like a clever inversion that would appeal to the easily impressed idea-guy tier developers who'd be participating. Can we move on?

>>174619239
Yep. Now add ALPHA and zombies and not only will you capture the remnants of the $15 steam meme community but also art snobs who like low poly for some reason now.

I'm one of those people. I think it looks comfy

>>174618986
> survival memepoly

Such a great idea xd could you also post on reddit? :)

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>>174619440

>>174619247
Then you're just a bitch.
Trying to complain here because, although you understand it, are triggered by your autism that someone somewhere wasn't perfect.

>>174619336
Why the fuck did you even think that post is from gogem?

>>174619506
> oh no he posted mean things about my shit meme game
> better post a fanny image

Top quality agdg

>>174619602
Gogem is the new SJW boogeyman

>>174619637
>no game
I see

>>174619637
At least he's enjoying his dev time now anon

>>174619602
Fuck I don't know. For some reason I was sure I read gogem's name on that post. My bad.

>>174619178
>>174618760
>>174619515

someone who can't grasp the basic concept of player entity shouldn't be running a high profile game dev event
manipulating environment to get an object in it to do something doesn't equal controlling the game, that's fucking ludicrous

>>174619336
gogem actually called that shit out yesterday when they posted the themes in the thread for the first time

once in a blue moon I can agree with something he says

>>174609006
Handmade Hero's video stats makes me laugh every time I see it. The announcement video has almost two hundred thousand views, the first video in the series has just over a hundred thousand views, and every video since has had its total view count halved until it stabilized at around 2000 consistent views.

>>174619725
Im sure all unity babbies enjoy lowering the standards of gamedev. Doesnt mean it should be encouraged here

>>174619946
Where is your game? He posted his game, why don't you do the same? Is it worse than his?

>>174619879
>>174609006
That doesn't mean 95% of people gave up on gamedev, maybe they just wanted a quick intro and didn't feel like following a huge fucking tutorial.
Handmade Hero is not even a tutorial and it has literally hundreds of videos, expecting a good percentage of people to actually watch all of them is ridiculous.

Do i need to kniw programming to make a 4c game?

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I am about to quit my job. I can't stand another fucking day of wage slaving. It's eating me up inside. I'd rather live off of my savings than work.

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>>174619879
I'm at 43 and catching up is hard ...

>>174619946
>lowering the standard
What standard? This isn't some ivory tower. This isn't a prestigious college. This is an AMATEUR game dev thread on 4chan. He's already made a webm of game play which is better than 99% of the people here.

>>174619946
all I want to do is like make game and have a nice time. we all know it wont last past a few weeks. There's no reason to throw a tantrum over it, m8. Just make progress that shits on mine it wont be hard and i'm not being cheeky.

>>174619350
Will do. was just quickly testing out a base system for resource harvesting and threw in a quick animation as a proof of concept.

>>174619879
it's pretty depressing when you think about it
people probably come in thinking they can just do what they're told and that will set them to make whatever they want to make, then they realize their program stops working because of banal shit like mistyped letter and quickly lose interest

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coding a raycaster while high is an experience

>>174620287
> lolijam is alright
> memepoly is alright
> unimaginative ripoffs are fine

I wonder why AGDG quality went to shit

>>174620592
Because people (read: nodevs like you) started telling people to not make games.

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>>174620432
It's pretty delusional when people think they can just watch 5 hrs of youtube videos and then then know C/C++
The best advice would really be to just stop there spend 2 years learning C/C++ and pick handmade hero up again from the beginning.

>>174620168
is your girlfriend cool with that?

>>174620592
Way to put words into my mouth. Meme poly is fine for devs cause it's easy to make and leaves more time for actual development. But you wouldn't know that nodev

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Monolith Dev better watch out amiright?

>>174621294
danmaku

>>174620865
The best advice would be to just like make game.

>>174620168
And in a years time you won't have a game, money or job.

>>174621294
>unity for 2d
please stop this meme

>>174621638
its really not as bad as people say.

How is game maker 2?

>>174621472
context m8

>>174621759
The UI's harder to get used to but probably better once you are, still dicking around with it myself.

>>174621638
the game is going to switch between 2d and 3d you little cunt

>>174621759
Same shit as before, now not free!

>>174621759
>>174622040
Also here's the changes in the guts https://help.yoyogames.com/hc/en-us/articles/231539867-GameMaker-Studio-2-New-Functions-List

>>174622040
Just need to start building a prototype sequel to DBZ legendary super warriors, already worked most of math for better balance

Need a good RNG engine, A system for deck building, and having multiple units on screen

>>174622104
my cunt ain't little

GMS - execute script vs execute code?

>>174621638
>>174621742
>>174621638
To add more, Unity seems like it has advantages over game maker though I am admittedly a novice in regards to most things.

With unity it is much easier to have a pixel perfect camera and the mechanim state machine with blendstates seem really useful for me so far.

What's your target audience?

>>174622689

People that like Etrian Odyssey or Legend of Grimrock.

>>174622689
2,000,000+

>>174622269
readability vs. performance unless there's some compiler fuckery that makes them the same exact shit either way

>>174622689
Whales who spend too much of CCGs

>>174622689
Myself

>>174622689
dom daddies

>>174622689
Non-autistic strategy players

>>174622689
No one

>>174622269
Code makes it easier to micromanage your fuckups.

>>174622689
Weeaboos

>>174607517
never copy/paste code you dont understand.

if something breaks or god forbid you want to extend something, you'll be fucked

>>174622689
TIS-100 fans with really low expectiations

>>174622689
I don't even know if it exists

>>174619879
Personally I started watching that and dropped it because it's a huge timesink. I get your point but I don't think the view count on that particular series of videos is a good litmus test.

Anyone knows any common reason why my IK doesn't work properly if I add a pole target ?
The bone chain doesn't bend anymore once I add it in, it's completely straight.

>>174620432
>realize their program stops working because of banal shit like mistyped letter
What the fuck, this should never happen if you use any IDE.

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Made a neat sword trail thing to show exactly where the tip of the blade was in a single swing. I also greatly improved my hit detection, and this sword trail was very helpful in helping me debug an issue where the sword trail was curving off a full frame sooner, which is not good with an attack like this.

>>174624824
Tutorials don't suggest IDEs, they suggest Notepad++.

>>174624824
>>174625221
Just use the engine's editor like any sane person.

>>174624848
Seeing the trail of an attack after the fact seems kinda useless, unless it's meant to be nothing more than a cool visual effect. Is that attack going to be part of an attack string or is it an opening attack? It looks like it might be slightly difficult to aim.

How was your latest meeting with your marketing advisor?

>>174625278
A lot of general beginner gamedev tutorials don't use an engine at all (at least for the first episodes), cause they're trying to get people warmed up to programming first or something.

>>174625338
Currently it's just a test attack. I wanted to test out the simple sword animation system I made, and I decided to make some sort of an unsheathing samurai attack because I thought it would look cool. Also, I described the reasoning for it poorly. The sword saves to memory where the tip of the sword is when it also does its hit detection. This let me see that it seemed to be way off when it was doing its hit detection, because the player was supposed to stop moving the same game tick as the sword swing was supposed to end. But the player was stopping moving a full game tick later, meaning the hit detection was further back. That's also why the sword changes color, to show what states of animation it's in. Orange is the one where actual damage occurs. The sword changing color won't be in game, but although the swing trail is crude and hangs much longer than it should, I can at least turn that into a neat visual effect later down the line.

>>174625221
>they suggest Notepad++
>Text editor for game dev

Well prepare to suffer for being contrarian and going aspect modern convention.

>but its how they did it in the 80s argument!
Yeah, and nobody back then was game deving solo either. Last I checked it was 2017

>>174625897
I actually like that it's an attack with a wide a nuanced area of effect, so I didn't want to discourage you from using attacks like that in your game, but it definitely seems more like a situation usage move than a bread and butter attack. That's all I was trying to get across. If you have other, easier to land attacks OR if the the game is based around precise and skillful use of attacks like the one in your .gif then I'll think you'll be doing good. I guess maybe it's too early for these types of criticisms to be particularly relevant to you, I dunno how far along you are or how concrete your combat design is at this point.

>drew weapons, GUI and more ingame items today
Now I just need to start coding

>>174622689
Teenagers

>>174626302
Currently not terribly far along. I've been more focused on getting my collision and animation systems working smoothly. I like the idea of it being a special attack saved for certain situations. Otherwise I'd like to have a combat system which takes inspiration from Devil May Cry and Dragon's Dogma.

>>174627050
>Daggy may Craggy and Draggy Doggy
Sweet. There's definitely room for weird attacks, then.

>>174625221
That's bullshit from the ones who did the tutorial. First one that comes up in my language suggests a couple IDEs.

Is it me or has agdg gotten really slow?

>>174622689
humans, i think

>>174628637
it's the end of the school year and a weekday. Most people are studying or doing exams right now.

I just finished my last exam yesterday and am ready for a summer of dev.

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>tfw yesterday I said tomorrow
>I actually haven't done anything all day
I... I failed you, Shia. I'm sorry.
I promise I will change tomorrow

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>still haven't finished this
wew lads.

How many of you are just aimless and have no discipline and want to work on something?

>>174628956
Open your software right now and do one thing.

>>174629710
Give up cristian.

>>174629776
Take the number of unique IPs in the thread and subtract the nodev IPs.

>>174629879
I intend to harness their powers.

>>174629826
I was going to quit after a thread where everyone tells me it looks like crap.

then I decided fuck it, I'm going to make my game and stick to it.

still bothers me people complaning about her being black.

>>174630105
I complain more about the fact that you've been working on this idle animation for like a month.

>>174619879
that guy isn't a game developer, he's an engineer that just happens to work on games because he enjoys they problems they present.

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made some progress in the AI, now the enemies can move and attack. It nearly looks like a game now.
https://youtu.be/6FV0OqLNn7Y

>>174630105
So do I have to tell you it looks good to get you to stop? It looks great, anon! Best I've ever seen!

It really doesn't though. It looks very bad.

>>174630257
Actually I started in easter and been working for three days, today is the fourth day.

so, I haven't sticked to it all these days, only four days of work.

>>174609901
me
There is always retards who say they will start it, but then they don't like the theme and give up immediately.
They are retards.

>>174630582
Why would you do a jam if you don't have any cool ideas

>>174630430
>only four days of work.
>4 days for an idle animation
>not even finished yet
How many animations is the game gonna have? What else have you done apart from this?

>>174630105
Don't be discouraged by shitters. Keep practicing, though.

>>174630582
Why? Why should I make a game if I don't like the theme?

>>174630105
>still bothers me people complaning about her being black.
I haven't seen anyone say that. Sounds like you are deflecting criticism.

>>174630672
If he's learning to animate of course he's going to start slow.

>>174630793
>>174630636
that means you have the creativity of an amoeba.

>>174630867
You don't start learning by animating a 200+ pixel big sprite.

>>174630925
So I take it you have made one game for every single AGDG Jam until now?

>>174616480
Tanned Cirno hype

>>174630976
Then that's the criticism you should've given him, not "lol fag u work slow at this thing u don't know how 2 do"

>>174631131
No need to be upset.

>>174631221
>u mad
The cry of the defeated.

>>174631346
You're right, only a perfectly calm person would write "lol fag u work slow at this thing u don't know how 2 do"

>>174611065
I am sorry you do not like my game, anon, but I suppose that was always going to be a given considering the genre and anime/moth theme. And I use GM:S for everything, even the art assets
no I am not the person you have been arguing with

Have a good day though! I will try to do better!

>>174631578
I don't like shmups, it's not your fault.

>>174631578
not him but i want to see your game, post video?

>>174631829
He released a demo for DD13

>>174631578
>trying this hard to be le happy innocent dev
no, stop

>>174631109
not participating in a game jam is not retarded. The retarded thing is saying you're going to join, but then when the theme is announced you give up within 5 minutes.
Those are the retards that I was calling retards.
It takes me up to a few hours to come up with a good idea for the jam sometimes, and the whole point of it is to finish something, even if you skip the theme completely.

>>174632057
Beats the hell out several of the alternatives and despite the fact that I don't like his game he's an unobtrusive progress poster and thus a net positive to the general.

Anyone know a good bit about RPGMaker's vanilla battle system?

I want to edit the "attack" so that there's multiple options. Like for example, I want the actor to be able to choose between a "swing" that has a higher hit rate and less damage, and a "slash" that has deals more damage at the cost of less accuracy and things like that.

>>174632206
RPGmaker has a general.

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>>174631829
Old video. I have been spending all of my time redrawing backgrounds for the past couple of weeks so not much new to show but I did recently add a total of 3 playable moths. I don't think I will be able to have stage 2 presentable in time for DD14 but there will be more playable characters than last time plus a rebalanced/paced intro stage and extra options.

sorry for the video quality. I have gotten better at it but again, this is an older post

Anyone wanna have a go at this question? I'm digging up the ue4 source code to see how they do it, but I'm kinda stumbling in the dark here.

https://answers.unrealengine.com/questions/591495/have-kinematic-collider-react-to-collisions.html

>>174632206
Not familiar with it at all but could you make them skills with no cost and remove default attack?

>so much stuff to do
>can't think of what to actually work on

>>174632379
Don't you just want a hit event?

Compo or Jam?

>>174632369
Will you provide a playable demo on DD14?

>>174632319
Oh sorry thanks anon

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How come there's no actual online smartphone games? What's going on there?

>>174632916
There are plenty of them and they are pretty popular. Look harder.

>>174632916
but there are

unless you define online differently than everyone somehow

>>174609204
cool

>>174632605
Well I guess they would be involved somehow. But let's say the object is on a platform that starts going up, how do I update the position of the object such that its collider keeps just touching the other collider without overlapping?

>>174632916
Not to mention TCG and FE:Heroes types

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>>174632859
Absolutely! 3 selectable moths, a (hopefully) better intro stage, more options to customize your experience and a reworked control scheme. I also learned from my DD13 outing and will be maxing out the player right from the start so that everyone who plays will be able to experience the full intro stage. I know it is frustrating when you cannot seem to progress no matter how hard you try so I will be doing everything in my power to facilitate that this time around.

Stage 2(+) in DD15 and beyond!

>>174633080
>>174632964
>>174632961
Myself meaning what time you are a with able to followed and look other players don't only played against representations for their users.

>>174622689
Fat otome tumblr whales

>>174633174
FE:Heroes is just an illusion of an online game. You're not even playing with actual people.

>>174622689
Gay furries and people with bad taste in games
Hopefully my storywriting is good enough to entice other audiences though

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>>174633218
Anon that is not English, but god bless you for trying.

>>174633202
Nice, I'm looking forward to it.

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>>174633218

>>174632753
pls respond

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Anyone else who is studying CS or a related field and actually knows what they are doing when game-dev'ing?

Feels good applying everything I have learned about software development and not only coding

>>174633643
>hey guys can we participate in a brief round of "me too"
Sure buddy.
[validates your ego]

Traditional platformer with traditional railroady overworld?
LoZ2 styled adventure game?
Metroidvania type game?

Of these three, what do you prefer?

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>>174633218
I get what you're saying and that's what I meant in my question that there are no online games. As there's pretty much zero direct interaction with players in real time. 99% of those "online" games could very well just be offline with fake players and you wouldn't even notice it.

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>>174633218

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added some helper tooltips, gate tilt when moving around(have to smooth that), changed some menu elements and added some rudimentary options menu, also some backend stuff. Also wrote preliminary data for around 60 levels and did some broad lore/story spreadsheet. Will try to write down dialogues and record audio/video next week.

Deving is hard, guys ;_;

>>174633812
the smartphone ruins it

>>174633218
If you meant a game with a live representation of other players and not just an abstracted battle between resources of online players:
Those are probably rare because the usual RTS, FPS and racing games are pretty battery hungry and need the user to commit some time to a game where he has to focus, whereas other more browser-game-like games game can be paused at any time, allowing the user to log is and do some actions almost in every situation.

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>>174633218

>>174633812
did you steal my smartphone idea

>the same idiot complaining about the lolijam complains now about memepoly
As expected.

>>174633986
No he very clearly stole mine. And so now you apparently stole my idea too.

>>174633958
>>174633764

>>174633731
Any of them could be good and what's appropriate depends on the rest of the game. That said, there really aren't any GOOD LoZ2-clones, so I'd err towards that.