/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

>>174687201
First for giving up.

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>not the superior /fa/ version

give idea for ludum plz.

>>174687446
Child trapped on the It's a Small World ride at Disneyland, make your escape.

>>174687446
You're a termite and you eat wooden furniture while dodging ever-encroaching poison.

>>174687446
You are an ant and must leave the most efficient pheromone trails to food for your colony.

>>174687446
Hobo on a god killing spree

>>174687446
You play as a giant girl and crush buildings and shit

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Reminder to work on your programming languages.

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Made some kinda cog/gear trap that moves a spike block up and down so the player moves through with timing.

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TR1CK SHOT BOIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

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>>174688058
Reminder that no matter how well your game is programmed you wont's sell more than 10 copies unless it looks pretty.

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>>174688275

>>174688368
Game looks neat, anon. Keep up the good work.

>>174688462
What if your game is really pretty but programmed terribly?

>>174688275

>>174688642
>bokube
>pretty
?

>>174688275
Should make the sides of it less vision blocking so you don't have to turn the camera to be sure of where the spikeblock is

>>174688462
that's why Dwarf Fortress makes $3000-$5000 a month?

>>174688368
Downwell 2?
Upwell?

>>174688587
Ty!

>>174688873
Try Downwell [Spoiler] Multiplayer [/Spoiler]

>>174688959
FUCK

>>174688368
hey that's pretty gud

>>174688368
Hell yes, keep at it. Maybe reduce the aura size of the dudes by a little bit, the vertical stripes look a little odd when they stick out.

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>first time coding an RPG menu

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>>174688805
How can I make my game more pretty for you?

>>174688806
Got it boss! Thanks for the tip.

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just a little bowling minigame

>>174688275
Since the game looks like its meant for all ages, maybe use the word "defeat" instead of kill?

>>174689450
more coherent palette

better textures (like the sides of those wooden cubes)

bg that isnt just blue grid

>>174689370
After coding my own UI I've developed a newfound appreciation for stuff like blender, unity and maya. In terms of the interface work, that is. Blows my mind to even consider how much work went into them.

>>174689370
Wait until you get to items and stats.

>>174689515
I'm retarded define coherent palette for a retard please.

Do you mean you like my wood textures or that the wood textures on those cubes need to be better?

the grid bg is just for the tutorials as each tutorial level is the same checker bg but different colored.

So I've messed around with Unity for quite some time now but most of the effort was wasted on software architecture shenanigans.

Entity Component Systems bullshit, creating "modular" systems, making the most generic code possible, design patterns... I've lost count of how many hours were spent agonizing over meaningless choices in games of such small scope.

In an effort to move away from this over-engineering I decided to give game maker studio 2 a try and I was pleasantly surprised with the ease of prototyping and iterating over ideas. The apparent dumbness of the GML language might be exactly what I need to leave my ivory towers and start working on actual game play.

One thing that irks me about GML is function definitions, having to create one file per function is a huge hassle and argument definition seems extremely primitive. (argument0, argument1, etc. seriously?)
Is there an actual way of defining functions that is more similar to standard programming languages?

Would you guys have any other suggestions or resources for CS-minded people using GameMaker?

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post ld progress!
>tfw spent all day shitposting instead of devving

>>174689707
that's exactly what i'm on

>>174690018
Fuck, I just woke up and people are this far into LD?
Looks good Anon.
I'm still thinking up an idea.
Are you doing Compo or Jam?
Also, general question, do people who vote on Compo games generally have a hatred for platformers?

>>174690335
Doing the compo, been up since it started since I live in Aus and it started at lunch time here

>>174690001
As a CS-minded person (i.e: someone with a degree in Computer Science), my suggestion is to not use GameMaker. Why use something that is "similar to standard programming languages" when you can just use a tried and tested programming language.

>>174691073
Because my main objective is to optimize for speed of development.

Using Unity for developing 2D games in a single person team felt like an overkill.

I could use a more low-level framework but I fear I would spend more time reinventing the wheel than actually developing the game.

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>>174687446
Building the tower of Babel while sheperding retarded builders who can barely talk with each other

>>174691426
Use LibGDX then.

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what should go into "extra" menu?

>>174690001
One of the important things to keep in mind when starting these discussions about tools (be it engine or language choice) is that the "right" choice depends a lot on what you want to accomplish.

Has anyone ever looked into processing?

The language reminds me of 80s BASIC, unfortunately..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_(programming_language)
https://processing.org/
https://processing.org/tutorials/
https://processing.org/examples/

>>174691426
use pygame with python in that case
;)

>>174691816
Dev's phone number, be brave.

>>174691816
lewd pics

>>174691816
add an option to disable dithering :^)

>>174691939
I've used processing quite a bit. It gets horrible the larger the project gets but if you're making something really small or you're making visual processing apps it's not the worst.

I know Daniel Shiffman on Youtube shows a lot of examples and tutorials for Processing and they're really good but there are a lot of other much better frameworks out there.
However, it is good to watch these videos or practice stuff in Processing if you have an inclination towards it because your skills can be easily transferred over to any language once you have the core concepts down of whatever you're doing in Processing.

>>174692329
Also by visual processing I mean all those "creative coding" things people make out there.
Some are cute and look nice but most are pretty useless and can't be applied in almost any scenario. Or if they can, someone already has implemented them in a better way than some "creative coding" project.

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>>174692110
just for you

>>174691816
credits
clear data if you want the player to be able

>>174687446
you gotta collect double jumps until you can jump high enough to leave the earth's gravitational field

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>>174692329
>>174692408
Thanks

What can't be achieved in UE4 with just blueprints?

What are the cons of blueprints?

I know that they're slower than written C++, but most games are not really CPU-bound in terms of performance anyway.

>>174693265
Limited by your imagination. Memes aside, blueprints can get hard to manage because of literal spaghetti coding

>>174693265
Everything can be achieved with them - some things are just harder.

They are most suited for run-of-the-mill action games where you have a bunch of tangible/real objects interacting with each other. Doing abstract stuff in UE is difficult like wading upstream in a river but not impossible.

If you make a game where you have a character and a bunch of enemies and the character does simple interactions with those enemies(like combat animations) and a worldspace and shit then UE blueprints and UE in general are for you.

If you are making a strategy game where you are have to program lots of abstract stuff like inter-agent interaction and AI, underlying simulacra subsystems and procedurally generated world, blueprints are just gonna make your life harder.

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"muh performance" is a moot point to begin with. If your shitty platformer is too demanding for a modern, dust-free, Intel Integrated HD laptop, then you are doing smth very wrong.

>>174693780
Interesting stuff.

I hear they're not as easy to maintain as code is, in terms of refactoring or understanding them.

>>174694097
I worked with blueprints for a total of 5 hours while i was trying out UE4 and they're pretty easy to understand, in my opinion. What i could never grasp was the multitude of various managers UE4 has.

>>174693265
Times I've been forced to use C++
>graphics menu (mainly key rebinding)
>mesh instancing along a curve had an extra option I needed
>checking if the game is running DX9 or DX10
>they let you make enums with functions specific to them, which is useful and I don't think BPs do
Basically you might not need anything more, but being able to do simple C++ when necessary might be useful,

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>his game doesnt have a gangsta shooting mode
why even make a game in the first place?

>>174694403
reminds me of ratchet and clank

Are there any up-to-date tutorials on Ren'Py? The documentation on customizing the menus and GUI is a little lacking and all the tutorials seem out of date.

>>174694403
nice cell shading.

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>tfw still no actual gameplay

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>>174688275
>>174689495
Some enemies have limited sight. Sneak past them or murder them with a puzzle cube.

>>174694789
The scrolling is still a nice effect.

>>174694789
is the world cylindrical or something
>>174694898
it looks odd

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>>174694938
Yeh its supposed to look like Animal Crossing

>>174694938
I like it

(different guy)

>>174694403
Ahhh Nuuuu!

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I finally managed to convince grandpa to model for me. He didn't wanna take off his underwear tho.

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>>174687201
Good morning /agdg/. I'm making a Ludum Dare.
Still don't know about gameplay, but I got the 3D pixelarty stuff to work.

>>174694789
Oh damn I was gonna do something like this.
But just use a shader to make it appear spherical.

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>tfw wanna do LD but afraid I won't make it in time

What's so special about LD?

Ludum Dare idea: a game where you meet the same people all the time. When you meet them, you say "Hey, it's a small world!"

>>174696037
Don't worry anon, I'm just starting now.

>>174696150
It's fun and lots of people participate and vote.

>>174695792
Very Yoshi's Island.

[[ Russian National Anthem Intensifies ]]

>>174696162
2slow
>>174658571

>>174694576
thats not cell shading

>>174696150
actual publicity potential

>>174696249
Damn

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>>174696194

LD idea: Simple platformer where each level is a small world of its own and you must travel between them to get powerups and shit.

Metroid meets Cat Planet.

I'm trying to make a HUD in the form of a bar that goes along the bottom of the screen like some of the old DOS games.

The hud keeps moving to the right when I change resolutions though. Is that normal?

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Can either improve the UI or do something for LD. It's been a while since I've done one, making it a bit more tempting.

>>174694097
I wouldn't say that they are any more difficult to maintain.

Its just that since those blueprints are so new and so narrowly used(only used for video games instead of being used for every possible thing one can put a program into), no advanced maintenance paradigms have had the time to arise.

Anyone, who is(or was) a newb at programming should know how hard it is to maintain a bunch of written commands without knowing any industry standard tips and tricks.

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>https://youtu.be/ilmS_CeKCuo
>oh hey this looks cool!
>no link to the addon
>video is 8 months old
WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS

>>174696410
It doesn't sound normal

>>174696268
What is it?

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mmo tycoon

>>174696410
its probably a result of something happening inside the low level graphics API

your best bet at fixing this is to reinitiate whatever handles your graphics output whenever a user changes the resolution. Reinitiate as in quitting or exiting from any and all of graphics API's and also from your own graphics manager you are using and then initiating your graphics manager along with the API's you are using with the new resolution selected to ensure that all variables inside your code and your API's code are exactly what you want them to be.

If this doesn't work, then the problem is somewhere else in your code - like an unrelated function modifying a variable it is not supposed to.

This all assumes that you are programming and not using Unity or UE or such. If you are using Unity or UE then I can't help you.

>>174688368

Why are you ripping off Downwell so much

>>174696782
You can do all those things without any problems not using the addon.

>>174697440
Prove it

>>174697172
Roller Coaster Tycoon MMO. Instead of NPCs walking around your park it will be real players in real time.

>>174697523
Players will have to enter the deeds of their home as collateral for park entry.

Unprecedented levels of emotional investment for each player as their real-world assets are put on the line!

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I started a tutorial series on making a complete game using Lua and LÖVE. If anyone's interested the first two parts of it are here: https://github.com/adonaac/blog/issues/11, https://github.com/adonaac/blog/issues/12

I need to start writing dialogue.

What's a good minimalist text editor with spellcheck?

Hey guys, thinking of continuing a game I made for school half a year ago, I want to know whether my idea has any merit. Would you be interested in trying what I made and calling me shit?

It's about hacking into a computer system. It uses a terminal modeled after Unix.

>>174698324
Google Docs.

As a bonus you can use the app on your phone to write dialogue wherever you want and it's all synced automatically.

>>174698185
Sick shader.

>>174698553
>game about hacking
>implying the game isn't a virus
Not gonna download it m8, but sounds like it could be a neat game.

>>174698185
Now that's some motherfuckin juice right there right there.

Reached the point where I've rigged my character model in Blender, and need to animate it for import to Unity. Anyone recommend any specific guides or tutorials?

>>174698681
Fair enough, I was just going to share a Love2D project though.

How do you create big 2d worlds? Do you really write a level editor?

Why the hell doesn't twitter allow webm already? It never wants to upload my mp4 videos.

>>174698185
löve you

>>174699053
Seriously where the fuck is your game faggot?

>>174699127
Is your mp4 <40fps?

>>174699213
Oh, no. It's 60fps. How do I convert it to lower fps?

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Chatterbots are fun

friendly reminder to dev in moderation

remember to take frequent 8 hour masturbation breaks

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>>174698553
Alright, I'll fuck off if nobody want to play my game after this, but I should probably have included a picture in the first post.

>>174699276
If you have ffmpeg it's pretty easy.

Still ridiculous that twitter doesn't support 60fps or webms, but that's what you get with no competition.

>>174699276
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -r 30 output.mp4

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>>174696037
>tfw doing LD but don't wanna post about it or show progress

>>174699203
On my HDD... So far these features are done:
>sidescroller movement
>lighting
>animations
>tons of sprites
>resource gathering
>GUI
>a fucking goal/story

I just need to extend the game world, add some mobs and happy merchant AI's

What fonts can I use free of charge for my commercial game?

>>174699330
Nice loading bar.

>>174699429
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWvfMLl4ho

>>174699482
https://www.fontsquirrel.com/

>>174699482
The ones with agreeable licenses.

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Never give up!

>>174699514
That's a text field :(

>>174699585
but i cant draw and i cant sell game if its ugly

>>174698553
That's a setting not a game idea.

Where's your game idea.

>>174699538
I have no idea what you're trying to imply here

>>174699318
Not bad, did you roll your own or use a library?

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>>174699647
Forget selling and work on it!

>>174699809
and what do I do when I've completely programmed my game, and all i need is art

program another game and always be a nodev?

>Getting all engaged and concentrated and deep into coding your LD game
>Neighboors decided this is a perfect day for drilling walls
FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU

>>174699791
Using Program-O

>>174700004
you've programmed literally all of the content?

>>174700004
Either be a true indie and use squares for everything, or find an artist you like and pay them to do art for you. If you finish the game, I'll bet you'll be motivated to do one or the other.

>>174699332
>>174699367
Thanks guys, ffmpeg worked.

>>174700110
not quite yet but i will be at a point in the near future where it's just putting enemies in rooms for levels and calling it good

>>174700145
artists are expensive man. not that they shouldn't be because they work hard, but they're expensive as fuck.

>>174700293
>not quite yet but i will be at a point in the near future where it's just putting enemies in rooms for levels and calling it good
you're not even fucking close to being done then

>>174700293
>just putting enemies in rooms for levels
>just
wew

>>174696037
Don't worry, it happens. My first Ludum Dare game had about 5 seconds of unique gameplay before it got boring, took me 3 days to make that.
And a few times I've just not finished in time at all.

Still fun to try though.

>>174700293
Oh no, is this the part where people recommend "networking"? Fuck.

Well yeah, if you don't have any artist buddies, and you don't want to stake any money on a freelancer, if the game's impressive enough you might be able to find someone who'll want to do it.

If you're going to sell it, give them a cut, if not, they might want their name on it if it's good. It's a long shot though.

Why the fuck am I giving advice like I know what I'm talking about, though? These are just my plans.

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Should different passenger types be the same nondescript toy with a different outfit, or completely different toys (e.g. a Russian doll, a nutcracker solider)

>>174700660
looks like shit

>>174700660
depends on whether or not there already are objects in the game that stylistically stick out

>>174700660
Looks good.
And it depends on whether differentiation is important or not.

>>174700660
I think both would be nice. Have most of the people be those toys with different outfits, and have a few be different types of toys.

>>174694403

>Gangsta shooting mode

Your accuracy drops to 0 % but who cares when you look so cool doing it. (at least you think you do)

>>174694867
cheeky cunt. I like you

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Well, since I doubt anyone will care about Loli Jam, I'll just post it here:
Egg Catch! is done and uploaded, give it a try if you want.
https://squaredev.itch.io/egg-catch

>>174700974
Neat.

>>174700974
good job!

>>174700974
>lolijam
blacklisted, voting everything 1 star from now on

>>174700974
kys, fucking pedo get the fuck out of here

>>174700974
Noice

>>174698185
lua always looked fun to code in but I feel like I'd regret using it if I tried to make anything more than a prototype or tiny minigame

>>174700820
Precisely!

What are your sources of inspiration for your game?

>>174701138
>non-pedo entry
>still get call him a pedo
Good going.

>>174700660
You should take some measures to prevent passengers from clipping through everything when moving. Also the platform looks pretty shit, just a small wooden block with a staircase attached would do better, probably.

>>174701243
All the fun I've ever had playing good games and all the hatred I've accumulated over the years at shit games.

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>>174701138
Why is Louise Mensch posting here?

>>174701243

I think the best inspiration should be from other mediums like books, music, or real world places.

>>174701359
You forgot to put your name on, Gogem.

>550 lines of code now
Almost starting to feel like a real project

>>174701436
he's not wrong though
the more sources of the so-called inspiration the better

>>174701438
Legitimately you can make a game with just under 10 lines of code. You need to optimize son.

I haven't started LD yet and I don't even have an idea. Should I try and start from scratch or deal with the "Made With Unity Personal Edition" splash screen?

>>174701573
Legitimately you could write everything on one line as well grandpa

>>174701607
Were you planning to make an engine AND a game in 2 days?

>>174701645
eat my ass faggit wheres ur game?

>>174701243
RuneScape
Dwarf Fortress
Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon -series
Oldest Final Fantasy games, on some level
Oblivion
Fallout: New Vegas
Fairy Tail, no homo..
And some books

>>174701685
I am engine developer and not a filthy plebeian game """"developer"""""

>>174701718
then get the fuck out from a game dev thread and go find a programing thread

>>174701718
you should go to a different thread then

>>174701775
>>174701809
I am having too much fun here laughing at all you shitty code monkeys

>>174701839
You're the only one that's doing nothing but code though?

>>174701184
Why do you think you would regret it? I've had very few problems that are related to the language itself.

>>174701671
I was planning on using SDL to throw together some barebones 2D shit. I probably should just be realistic and go with Unity though.

> gms
> 11k lines of code
> no gameplay yet

>>174701994
lol, tell us more please. What have programmed so far? I haven't used Game Maker since version 8, started making games with GM when I was 12, oh those times

>>174701994
By that effort, you could just be an engine dev, you know.

Do you send user statistics from your game? e.g. what keys people are pressing, how long they are playing and so on?

Every real developer always told me to collect all data and analyze it

Willing to make art for the right programmer, anyone looking?

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>>174700795
Cool idea
>>174700782
Thanks
>>174700776
As long as they look like toys I don't think they should stick out
>>174701323
Yeah I haven't put any work into the platform yet, I'm leaning towards making it look like a miniature model rather than a wooden block but my art ability is mediocre.

>>174702142
yes, I need medieval flat design 2d sprites, mainly a simple character template

>>174702183
Cool I can work with that. What sort of game? How far along are you?

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>Finally thought of a clever name for my game
>Can't use it without sounding liker a Chinese bootleg ripoff of some shitty generic action sci-fi game that only used "quantum" to sounds cool and "sciencey"

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>>174701705
>Pokemon: Mystery Dungeon series
I remember when I tried to make something similar

>>174702314
Where are those sprites from?

>>174701243
old games and jpop

>>174702358
I made them

>>174702238

I am >>174699429 (You)

Basically a kingdom new lands type of game with more numbers and survival

>>174702142
>>174700004
Now fuck.

>>174702314
PMD games are literally in my top favorite games of all time. Your webum looks dope, too.

>>174702416
Sounds pretty cool, what engine?

>>174701974
Go SFML. SDL is a bit dumb.

>>174701243
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTzNT8cWivo

>>174700660
Different passenger types should have different silhouettes (should be instantly identifiable even if you can only see an outline of them)

>>174702314
those idle animations are out of control dude

>>174702142
add me on discord @Vader#9190 I'm in need of an artist let's chat

>>174702734
>discord
Not interested, sorry

>>174687446
Minecraft's Skyblock

>>174702802
I'm not giving out my email and I don't have skype what do you want from me

>>174701974
Nah, its not unrealistic at all. I did that once at a 2 day gamejam, the whole game was simple of course and consisted of one 1k line file.

>>174702734
>>174702863
is this some kind of counter-meme

>>174702262
Quantum no Game

>>174702863
>talking in spoilers
Just tell me about your game dude

>>174702167
This needs a collision-avoidance / routing algorithm for spooky swarming fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_intelligence#Crowd_simulation

I don't think I'll finish but I'm taking the weekend to learn Phaser

>>174702314
>>174702406
Looks fun, good job!
The woman in red looks a bit masculine, though, so you should just make all of your characters cute bara dudes.

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>>174700974
Fist of all: very cute. runs fine in Ubuntu using wine (if you ever wanted to know that)
I kinda feared the puzzles would lack a challenge, so I was surprised in a good way when stumbling here and there I'll go back to trying to get an A in 7 and 11 after this post. On the other side, Level 10 required little to no thinking and was kind of a disappointment in difficulty.
I really like how level 8 uses the appearing blocks (countdown blocks? whatever they're called) as required walls.
All in all great, didn't expect it to keep me hooked this much.

Also, fix your unhandled usage flag 0x8 pls.

>>174700660
Same toy with different outfits, better for branding physical toys after your game explodes. Really, I think there's a lot of potential with this, loved the webms I saw before and it keeps looking better. Keep it up, I'm sincerely excited to see more

>>174701243
Macross Frontier
Gundam 00
Votoms
Blue Gender
Various other /m/ stuff
Metroid
Blaster Master

>>174700660
I like it, keep at it.

>>174703045
story: a mad scientist with a flair for baking releases candy / baked good monsters on the world seeking domination. Monsters would range from ice cream goo monsters to waffle limbed monsters.

gameplay: Plays similar to Binding of Issac. "story mode" is just ~20 levels explaining the story mostly a tutorial / showcase for all the gameplay aspects of the game. Beating "story mode" unlocks "endless mode". "Endless mode" would be similar to what you'd play normally with binding of issac, but I'd like about twice the number of levels and half the items.

>>174703283
Thanks, I'm happy that you enjoyed it. If I made the puzzles, they would have been a bunch of braindead crap for toddlers. I really suck at making levels, so you have to thank Snekdev for that, I'm really grateful for his huge help with this game.

I-I don't know what that is, sorry.

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Give me game ideas that don't need much content/art/assets.
It's the 2nd time I've made the mistake of taking on something that will need a fuckton of work.

>>174703546
>still talking in spoilers
Going to be honest friend, didn't and won't read a word. Good luck though

>>174703381
I'm highly interested in your game.

>>174703694
ASCII game with procedurally generated content.

>>174703694
remember vector games like asteroids?

do a modern take on that

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>tfw vicious gamedev beast, but have fallen into a slump nonetheless due to external factors

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>>174704247
You can do it, anon

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>>174703694

Make a game with the mindset of a late 80s/ early 90s bedroom coder that only has a few months to make their game. It's a good limitation that should keep your projects relatively small when starting out.

Give yourself a core gameplay loop, a basic environment, and a goal. If you do all of those things and think the game can be expanded further go from there, but do not keep adding hoping that eventually more features will make it fun.

>>174701138

Can we get this guys' IP ?

This has been bothering me for a while now.
Why do indie gamedevs I see doing public presentations look like they are all fucking siblings?

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>>174703640
Well, sounds harsh but that really is the focus of a puzzle game, to have good puzzles. Visuals are more or less a bonus. But it made me remember a time when I played bulldozer for Win 95 with my mother when I was very young.

>>174704247
It's terrible when excuses just won't leave you alone. Just take a break! Take it easy! Maybe tomorrow... Maybe next week...

>>174702167

At least some of the toys should be Muslim fanatics with bombs strapped to their chests under their jackets.

>>174704550
You're fucking dense.

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>>174703842
Yeah those don't take years to develop at all

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Tried to add some screen shake based in a direction vector and intensity
I don't know if already looks good and I'm not the best fan of screen shaking.
Also some patterns from an eye boss.
There is an option to disable the screen shake

>>174704902
There was no mention of a time constraint.[spoiler. you fucking retard[/spoiler]

Ok, so what's a better place for an artist to find a gamedev collab?

>>174704881
answer the fucking question

>>174700974
The "resume" button in the pause menu doesn't seem to work.

Also "pausing" is weird in a game where there's no time limit or time based elements even...

Perhaps just call it a "menu"?

>>174704990
That shake does get pretty intense, but it's not bad.
I like having an intensity slider for screen shake. Because I still like having it, I just prefer to set it much lower than it normally is.

>>174700974
Also, perhaps a quick-restart button would be nice. At least the couple similar-ish puzzle games I played let you restart by hitting "r". Nicer than having to click into a menu with your mouse.

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>>174705028

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>delete a bunch of code
>game works better and a gamebreaking bug is fixed

>>174705212
>>174705151
Right on both, I'll get them fixed asap.
Thanks for the feedback.

>>174705302
The fasted code is that which does not run.

>>174705117
Inside you'reself

>>174705158
Thanks for the feedback.
The slider is a good idea and it's easy to implement.

>>174697426
cause some devs are very unimaginative

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>>174705302
That's a bad sign.
Your coding skills are still weak, grasshopper.

>>174704990
I'm against the PC sprite clipping off-screen. Looking good though.

>>174700974
What is the score based on? Par of number of jumps? Maybe I'm just dumb but I'm doing what seems to be the minimal (only possible?) number of jumps but still getting a B.

Also: The girl grabbing the egg seems out of sync with the egg popping up... which is kind of jarring for my autism.

complete beginner here, I'm using gamemaker.

Say I have a room of 1024x1024, and you can imagine that room is made of of 64x64 subdivisions. At runtime, how would I know what grid-square my mouse was currently in? How do I create that grid?

All I can think of is to get the mouse x and y position, and subtract x and y mouse position by currentPosition % 64 respectively to find the origin of that grid square

>>174705713
The score is based on whether you have any steps left and if you have all the eggs.

And yeah, I meant to tweak the animations to make them sync better but I forgot. Sorry.

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>>174700974
Uhhhh is this intentional Anon? You can use a single direction's points to go diagonal, if you hit two directions at once, apparently.

And if not: how the fuck are you supposed to get an A in this level?

>>174705727
x_sub = x_absolute / subdivision_width;
y_sub = y_absolute / subdivision_height;

>>174700974
Yet another thought: If you get a C after getting an A... it overwrites your A.

You should keep the highest score...

>>174705727
Slow down there
First, have you established an LLC?

>>174705970
Nice speed run strats

>>174705998
x_sub = floor(x_absolute / subdivision_width);
y_sub = floor(y_absolute / subdivision_height);

>>174705970
>>174706018
Damn it, I thought I fixed those.
I'll fix them now, fuck speedrunning.

>>174706081
I assumed it to be integer division, which is implicitly floored.

>>174706081
x_sub = x_absolute mod subdivision_width;
y_sub = y_absolute mod subdivision_height;

>>174706174
Now that's just wrong.

>>174706174
This isn't correct in any respect.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlin_(programming_language)

There's amazing stuff out there, maybe I can even use it.

>>174706274
What does this have to do with game development?

If you just want to talk about random langauges go to >>>/g/

>>174695320
Anon why

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I made a froggo
dino
thing?

>>174705727
>How do I create that grid?
Are you asking how to implement ds_grid functionality, or have other people sufficiently answered your question?

For the record, the actual GML in your specific case would be:

x_sub = mouse_x div subdivision_width;
y_sub = mouse_y div subdivision_height;

A game that's almost more like a book than a game, but still has game elements and player choices

>>174705807
>The score is based on whether you have any steps left and if you have all the eggs.
Specifically... It's a bad thing to have extra steps?

Might I pry as into why you'd be punished for having extra moves left?

>>174706889
A visual novel.

>>174706749
Are you Spore

>>174706749
Have you ever played Messiah? Just curious.

>>174705727
I took liberty of going a step further and highlighting the square and when you click the mouse it returns the id of whatever object is there.

obj_mouse:

var grid_size = 64;

//Move instance to mouse position
x = mouse_x;
y = mouse_y;

//Snap the instance to the grid
move_snap(grid_size, grid_size);

//Draw Outline of Highlighted Square
draw_set_color(c_yellow);
draw_rectangle(x, y, x + grid_size, y +grid_size, true);

//When mouse is clicked check for collision with object's sprite and return id
if mouse_check_button_pressed(mb_left)
{target_id = instance_place(x, y, all);}

>>174707025
I'm Theonian, but I see the similarity

>>174707092
No. Never heard of it. What kind of game is that?

>>174706947
This is actually funny, I was for giving A if you had all the eggs AND some steps left, but Snekdev thought it would be better to have an exact 'minimum' number of steps required to get all the eggs. Basically he thought that
>if you want toget all the eggs you WILL need every step
>if you have any steps left, then you probably missed some eggs
I guess he didn't think that someone would be able to save even more steps, but yeah, I might change back the scoring system.

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Yes I am a bad

>>174707331
Basically,

>>174707235
>if you have any steps left, then you probably missed some eggs
Well... Then you missed eggs. In which case there's no need to check for step count still.

I think a "par" system would make sense if you were giving players too many steps, but that would probably ruin the puzzley nature of the game (or at least majorly change it).

>mfw weapon class is 200 lines
>mfw it only contains 3 different weapons and their animations

>>174705998
>>174706081
>>174706824
>>174707105
>agdg programs an entire game in a show of helpful one-upmanship

>>174707226
I find your style to be highly reminiscent of that of Messiah. It's a circa 2000 religio-sci-fi third person puzzle shooter. Might interest you, if you've got the time to check it out.

>>174707479
Will check it out - thanks!

>>174705998
>>174706025
>>174706824
>>174707105

Thanks all

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More enemies in a slightly awkward photoshopped group image

>>174688528
lol

>>174708478
Digging the style.

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Making a JRPG for LD.

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>>174700974
* Give feedback when you try to move in a direction you don't have any points left for.
* Consider trying to find a way to make the movement amounts more visible / easier to read. Kinda a drag to keep moving my eyes down to the corner. It gets to the point where I don't even want to think about how many jumps I have left. It would look like ass, but it would be max playable to have big ass numbers on the 4 directions around the map, color coded on top. You are blowing a lot of visual space on the empty grass area anyhow though...
* I know it's meant to be a little girl but the animation speeds are killing me. Something about the readability of the motions / exact timings, probably.
* A bonk sound when you hit the walls might be cute...
* The sound for the bounce block sounds perhaps too much like a "getting something" sound. Maybe a spring sound? Maybe it's fine, but it bugged me personally.

(PS I'm dumping on you because I actually ended up kinda liking this)

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If I use free music, like kevin macleod, will people notice it/look down on it? I know other gamedevs will be able to recognize it, but I was wondering if actual players would.

How do mobile ads work? Do you need to have people playing your game to get some advertisers in the first place? Or do you just put some *insert random ad here* code in your game and that's it?

>>174709274
theres plenty of 100% unknown and quality free music out there. all you have to do is spend some time looking

>write some code
>not working
>spend an hour trying to fix it
>finally put some prints in to check a number
>it doesn't print

I fucking forgot to load the script.

>>174688827
nah that's because autists are fools with their money

>>174709351
Just insert code I believe, you may have to buy a connection with google or some shit though.

>>174709274
Most people don't care, The Stanley Parable had a track by MacLeod and I don't recall anyone mentioning it.
Also http://freemusicarchive.org/search/?music-filter-commercial-allowed=1 — most people won't recognize any of these

>>174709274
The music hasn't been created with your game in mind which means it will never fit your game perfectly. That's it. Also you might get fucked by the creators because you didn't notice that the music was only for non-commercial use.

>>174709420
>have some working code
>type int value = 4;
>compile and run
>phew it still works
Need to find the middle ground.

>>174694403
What kind of shader is this? Your outlines get really jaggy far out.

>>174706383
can we talk about scripting languages for the game though?

i wonder why no one ever uses some form of lisp

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I need to design the item menu that displays stats/effects for an item. I can't do that until I've settled upon formulas for battle calculations. At least that means I don't have to work on the GUI anymore.

>>174708478
What's the game?

>tfw cute artist girl with no programmer bf
)=

>>174707467
>hard coding weapons

wtf?

>>174710359
how would you do it then?

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>>174708705
Thanks anon

>>174710256
Apotheosis, currently replacing placeholders with retail-worthy material

>>174710507
not the guy who replied to you, but use data from files to put in weapons m8...

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>>174709858
What are you doing senpai!

>>174710337
post your art loser

If you play as a grill, which would be more successful, a male love interest or a female one? There can only be one.

>>174710595
wtf are you talking about? "Put data from files", are you just over-complicating the world variable?

>>174710756
Robot love interest

>>174710736
wow rude, how about post your game

I kinda get how arrays work. How would I use one to randomly place rooms throughout a 2d mansion? Include the coordinates in the cell?

What's the difference between ripping off something or it being a tribute?

>>174709917
Actually most games would be sets of EVENT->ACTION descriptions, so forward-chaining rule-based systems like Jess or Drools might be appropriate.

https://www.drools.org/

I haven't had time to look into that at all.

Disregard the "Business" word, it's there to make pointy-haired bosses get a hard-on as they imagine facile implementation of complex business crap. For which these systems are actually NOT appropriate IMAO..

>>174711128
If you couldn't remember the greatest code in the world and a demon wanted your soul

>>174711065
If you're using a two dimension array then the cell is the coordinates (after all, it translates to a grid position, no need to complicate that) and it should contain the information that tells it what the room is.

>>174706749
you need to learn to break things up into subtools

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Was diagonal jumping intended? You never really taught the player how to do it and it seems a bit buggy so I'm assuming its a glitch

>>174711128
When your gameplay is exactly the same. If you add something original yourself you're fine. Not that it matters at all since you can't copyright gameplay.

I've been stuck in UE4 trying to think up of a good way to do inventory and weapon interactions. Players would have an inventory object to store all the inventory items for reference, but I don't know how to make the interactions with weapons. There will be an equipped slot, so that's the weapon to be referenced when the Primary Fire action is called to the character pawn. Though I don't really know what's the best way to get the weapon info after this. I want to set it up nicely so that all the needed values are in each weapon object (damage, fire rate, etc). I also am stuck on how I should get those values to damage an enemy.

In othere words I know how my process will go for firing but don't know how to connect it all nicely:
Player shoots -> get weapon info -> apply result to whatever it hits (still fire if it hits nothing)

>>174706091

Not sure how you're doing movement, but I'd suggest doing switch/case or if/else statements for player input. That would restrict your movement to pure cardinal directions and save you a ton of headache later.

>>174711324
It's a bug.

>>174711046
Sorry, but i'd like to keep my shitposts and my game very separate from one another
I thought so. You're not an artist.

>>174709884
It just inverts cull faces, draws the models as black, then inverts cull faces back to normal and renders the models with the proper material but so that it slightly moves all vertices towards their normal.

>>174712017
And he's not a girl either, stop responding to such obvious shit posts.

>>174710798
huh? M8 wdf are you on about.
Maybe if you actually knew how to code you wouldn't be making such a hard-coded mess.

The idea is to drive your weapons class using data from an external file. Say you want a sword. You'd have a weapon class with field variables like : Weapon Type, Weapon Attributes, etc. And you read and set that data from an external file. saves you on redundant code and lengthy compiles. But ya know what m8. Fuck you I hope your game is snatched by the talons of obscurity.

>>174712357
Oh god you are retarded, what you are saying is of course implied.

>>174697198
I'm not using unity, I'm using GM:Pro
I would understand the GUI layer zooming in since the resolution code resizes the AR to the new specifications (mostly 16.9 options) but it seems to be moving to the bottom right of the screen

>>174710337
How feminine is your penis?

>>174710756
Female. That way, you get extra progressive points AND the "I-jack-off-to-Yuri" crowd.

>>174709274
People definitely noticed in mine, then I replaced it with a $10 asset album and suddenly people are asking for download links.

>>174712597
Well, a simple way to just avoid this problem is to tell the user to restart for the changes to take effect.

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>>174711424
I see two ways.

One is to create a main weapon blueprint with all needed variables and then inherit all your weapons from that parent and customize what you need.

Second is blueprint interfaces so for example you can have Fire and GetWeaponInfo functions. Then create a structure and data tables assets that you fill with weapon data and feed into GetWeaponInfo.

>>174712760
>"I-jack-off-to-Yuri" crowd
you mean "every normal red blooded man who ever lived"?

>>174696410
show code/screenshots

>>174711679
I am, that's why it's weird.

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I'm a man!
I'm red-blooded!
My heart is beating!
I jerk off to yuri!

>>174713426
Which? A switch?

Are your cases falling through (ie no return/break)? That shit gets me so goddamn often, in any case.

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I've made public alpha version:

https://ggelu.itch.io/linescape

I'll give you free download if you want. But only if you are YESDEV like me.

>>174713576
A bunch of if/else if statements. I'm going to take another look at the code, I must have overlooked something.

>>174713510
I'm stting fires everywhere!
I want to eat children!

>>174713661
Didn't post progress, fuck off whodev!

>>174713661
>direct shilling for a $5 alpha demo
Nice

>>174711321
There are no subtools in Sculptris, m8

Also, this'll be fine. He just needs to jump.

>>174711321
What?
The only thing here I'd use a separate subtool for is the eyes.
If you divided the limbs into subtools you'd just get ugly seams

>>174713027
Thanks, I totally forgot about making a parent weapon blueprint. Also could you give me a quick rundown over creating a structure and data tables?

Working with Redditors
>group of 30 making no progress somehow
>people trying to act pseudo-smart all the time
>talk about business all the time
>"official discord"
>have an actual ceo
>have to make "status reports" to the "project lead" who is some random bloke that was made to do it
>became project lead myself because I was the only one making progress
>people forming "companies"
>literal high school level drama between staff
>people holding back the game with their incompetence when Im delivering on my end

Working with 4chan
>just like make game
>makes game

Why does everything have to be so damn difficult?

>>174714652
I think you switched the two sites there.