/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

Are you happy with your game?

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Is vertex shading the superior style for meme-poly?

>>174822646
no

>>174822646
yes

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Which one for a horizontal 2D shoot and slash?

Is your game happy with you?

>>174822646
No. I'm a competent programmer, I have a solid game design, and I have a good writer working for me, but my art is deviantart tier to the point where I can't imagine anyone getting off to my h-game.

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>>174822646
What game

>>174822946
Left visually but right gameplayally.
I never liked "bullet stops where you clicked at" mechanics.

>>174822946
Left. Always left.

How would you go about saving all enemy object positions in the current room and if they are alive/created/activated or not in GameMaker? Is there a way to save the x and y coordinates of children objects as long with variables of them?

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Been revamping the limbo quite a bit, but I've been way too busy with the fireflies. They fly away as well, GOAT

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>>174822646

I like how my movement feels and where the game is going. Can't wait to really dig in when school is over.

>>174822946
#1 but have it stop at walls/enemies/whatever]

>>174822646
Yea. It's starting to come together and it's fun as fuck to make. Will be posting a webm later. I'm just scared of coding online play because I know that separating code from visuals and preparing for edge cases and malicious players will be a bitch and a half.

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what's agdg's average music budget?

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>tfw spending time programming is more fun and productive than learning pixel art
>tfw it's too painful to draw multiple frames

>>174823445
>budget
A what now?

>>174823175
Sorry, I forgot to mention the bullet can also go past the reticle.

>>174823365
As in, have the reticle snap to the first thing a bullet would collide with?

>>174822646
actually yes and the initial reception has been quite positive
i'm too slow making it though

>>174823331
Crunch then Fluff

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>tfw agdg talking about budgets, marketing, hooks, target audiences and pricing
Where is the LOVE?

>>174823667
meme then meme

>>174823504
At time of fire, yea. Or maybe make the reticle follow the mouse up until something gets between the player and the mouse.

>>174822750
That just looks plain bad, the 3D equivalent of an uncolored sketch.

>>174823793
we LOVE money

>>174823793
>budgets
Because I don't have unlimited time or money to make the game. Might as well contract out what I can't do (art).
>marketing
I'm not making a game just to enjoy it myself (though that does help). I want others to play too
>hooks
That just makes a good game
>target audience
Once again, I want as many people who would enjoy my game to play as possible. Even if it's free.

Also
>implying 99% of devs get far enough to do any of those

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i do mostly orchestral music if anyone is looking to colab. i'm currently working on a few projects and i'd like to do some game related music on the side.


[email protected]
https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/the-retreat

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/the-grand-walk

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/spets-suoiretsym

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/frozen-rain-drops

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/c-sharp-minor-stuff-2

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/improv-on-june-5th-2013

https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/sailing-in-the-autumn-sea


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https://soundcloud.com/ethanb/tracks

This is a really stupid simple question, I would like to preface with. But anyways, I have GMS:2 and I was wondering how to make an npc move around 1 or 2 spaces randomly, sort of like in pokemon I guess. How would I go about doing this?

I'm sure we can all remember several great moments in the Metal Gear Solid series, but what made those moments great?
Simple, the fact that you were interacting with characters that felt alive and part of the world.

Imagine if Psycho Mantis in MGS was just an audio log character, you listen to his crazy antics but you never actually experience them, he would be a forgettable character.

Same with all the Codec characters, they could easily just be audio logs but what you perceive as real-time conversations is what makes it all memorable, you aren't just being told a story but you are actually living in it.

>>174824902
Haha, very random anon!

>>174824719
Set an alarm in which you put the movement code, use a loop to check which 'space' is within it's maximum walking reach, then move to etc etc you get what im saying.

>>174824690

this is some pretty fantastic work. have you done any game soundtracks so far?

>>174824719
here's a protip to stop you having to ask simple questions
break down exactly what you want to do, and see if you know how to do it or you can find commands in gms that sound like what you want. In this instance, you need to move an object for a second and choose a random direction.
If you don't know how to implement either of those, then you need to do more tutorials because this is very entry level stuff.

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>>174824902
I've never understood MGS fanboys.
Whole franchise has a plot bit more intricate than a cheesy 80's action movie but it's being treated like a second coming of sliced bread.

>want to post soundcloud
>it's under my real name
not sure if it's worth the risk but damn I need some work

>>174825625
Upload some to clypp.it or something

>>174825569
Because it has memorable moments with effective emotional hooks, it's not about the plot.
Same with Undertale.

>>174825569
the plot hits the right notes for cheesy action, and for a long time it was the biggest series that actually put plot first.

>>174825569
Learn to appreciate the experience as a whole

>>174825703
you got it
https://clyp.it/2eokv0yo?token=cde2a8d856a188ba684ce2632e0c97c3
https://clyp.it/1yezia4o?token=144b858f58a4c107102ae765289df316

don't be gentle, i need some critique

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how's the 3d modeling going, anon?

>>174826643
GAPP

>>174826643
I need some generic hat models and I'm debating if I can be bothered to make them myself or if I should just spend $15 on a hat pack asset

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>>174824690
and i thought my chiptune shit was good.

>>174826609
Not what I need but I think it's bretty good

>tfw I will never be good enough at art to draw/model my own very own personal waifu

>>174826643
That mouth is creepy

>>174827241
Thats why you practice anon.
Keep it going.

>>174826643
dont eat me

How many different kinds of tile sprite do I need to cover all my bases?

Or do I just have one base sprite for the desired texture, and then overlay edges when the sprite is in a corner or surrounded by other sprites that look the same?

I know I can rotate and flip them but do I need more than just single, edge, corner and surrounded? Feels like I'm missing one.

>>174827419
You need 47.
http://www.cr31.co.uk/stagecast/wang/blob.html

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Fucked up the face but I'll probably work on it some more tomorrow.

>>174827984
cute, let's see the wireframe

OFFICIAL progress post. Reply to this post with your progress

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>>174828157
Thanks, but the character was created by Pantsu Harvest dev, he's the one who made her cute.
As for the wireframe, it sucks, at least for now. I'll fix it up when I get to rigging it.

>>174828325
doesn't look too bad. My first thought was that you may have a little trouble with the shoulders, but the poofy bits will be very forgiving
good job anon

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>11 days until DD14

>0 progress since the announcement

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Post dev music.

Reminder: dev music should be helpful for focusing, should not be single songs (otherwise 5 min later you have to find something new), and should be the perfect mix of ignorable but not boring.

>>174828686
http://www.ancientfm.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=613nUS1m3j8

>>174828686
Skyrim's music is pretty chill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPZtRmx1Dyk

delta

epsilon

>>174824690
I was sure from the thumbnail this was a picture of the ghost of Harambe.

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Post dev food

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How's this carpet? Would you diem on it?

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>>174830161
This pic is from several months ago but it still counts.

>>174830521
white rice with black beans is so unaesthetic

>>174830376
Looks like a carpet, but I think you could have alpha on the edges to make them fuzzier.

>>174828686
Either
https://youtu.be/OpIQNxiKJoE
or
https://youtu.be/08bwsYIm818

>>174828686
http://i.4cdn.org/f/WORLDISAFUCK.swf

>>174830521
>mixing grains
>serving size fit for a girl's kids menu

>>174824690

i'll keep your email in my contacts.

>>174830581
You know what's more unaesthetic?
A sickly, dying dev that only eats junk.
Eat healthy!

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>>174826609 here again, few more tracks. orchestral stuff which i'm a bit shit at.

https://clyp.it/p0l4licy?token=00f5478c8ca57dad9e77a86d9990d1b0
https://clyp.it/1xrlxvyf?token=dcbb6e234596ca3395fb2836b24f0e0f
and an old sega-ish track I made forever ago but still very fond of
https://clyp.it/llhfl4o5?token=6579432be9c3888daacdf2e9691b4b11

feedback much appreciated

>>174830802
>being a fatass

Reposting in hopes of feedback on this song. To be used as "Theme Song of the Little Brother"

https://clyp.it/ty54hbuv
https://clyp.it/ty54hbuv
https://clyp.it/ty54hbuv

>>174830802
It's a big plate.

>>174831461
this is fantastic, sounds really authentic. cute composition too. well done

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This turned out to be a much less interesting idea than I thought it was.

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>>174830161
Now post your game

>>174830521
too many carbs, not enough fiber

Where do I hire professional artists? I'm not interested in hobbyists or people looking to earn a few dollars. They're always flakes, have poor work ethic, or plain don't give a shit.

>>174831781
>chicken wings
>not mozzy sticks

>>174830521
I have muchos respect for you anon, for going all through the trouble of preparing this. Don't get me wrong, I love cooking and healthy food though I much rather stuff 8 peanut butter sandwiches through my throat instead of preparing this meal which is literally two bites

>>174831878
Artstation

>>174831878
Post some artwork that's similar to the level of quality you're looking for. I've been out of work for a while and need a job.

>>174825159

i'm working on a few soundtracks at the moment.

>>174831765
I like, does it have a second phase when it bounces into the corner?

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So was Hyper Light Drifter's art """"good""""? I've put a few hours into it and I've never been more inspired by another game's aesthetic before.

>>174823452
iktf. I can make tiles and backgrounds all day long but I'll be damned if I can animate anything.

>>174830161
cum

>>174832125
Do you like the art?
If yes, then it's good. If no, then it's not good.

>>174832125
>gradients in pixel art
It's trash.

>>174832280
You're trash.

>>174832319
I am but that's not the point.

>>174828325
looks good! what resolution is your UV map?

>>174832076
No second phase, but I'm going to have some kind of easter egg when it hits the corner perfectly. In the meantime I'm trying to think of how to make the game more interesting without breaking the theme too much. Right now the way it works is that the DVD logo gets faster and faster the closer it is to death, and if you get hit three times you lose.

>>174806895
Yeah I was, that's probably why it was slow huh?

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>>174832125
If you look at the sprites most stuff isn't particularly detailed compared to something like pic-related. But, it's done in a pleasing aesthetic, good use of color theory, and has "style".

>>174832125
>So was Hyper Light Drifter's art """"good""""?
a better question is why do you need validation of your opinions

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>>174831973
>$150 just to post

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What's up with Monogame doing stuff like this when I move my camera around? I have continuous movement, but everything is drawn at 1x1 with a render target and scaled up afterwards - I have PointClamp on too. Anyone know anything about errors like this?

>>174832125
I want a game with this aesthetic with a massively interactive environment, DF-tier autism with regards to actually doing things in the world and affecting change on the environment, more adventure/narrative than fighting and action, NPCs with very complex AI, etc.

That's why I haven't played this game, because I'm sure that I'll love the environments so much but it will too quickly feel like I'm just looking at pretty pictures that I can't do anything with.

oh right there's that one idiot in here with the hyper light drifter knock off character who keeps trying to talk about art when he doesn't know shit about it
thanks for reminding me why I don't post much in here recently, dipshit

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>>174830161
what i just had 2 hours ago was this for breakfast

>>174832125
>So was Hyper Light Drifter's art """"good""""?

It doesn't matter what we think. What matters is what your customers think

Go read reviews. Do they mention loving the graphics?

Spoilers: Yes they do

So, you like the aesthetic, and customers like the aesthetic.

Win, win

I'm having some trouble. I have a game with two main characters, and I need to figure out a way to utilize them both effectively in a Zelda-like action-adventure game. The idea is that they're both on screen at the same time (they both interact with characters and set pieces simultaneously), so my known options are thus:

-Make it possible for the player to switch between the two characters and have the unused character controlled by AI. This would be the most effective option, but good AI in a game like this seems like a gigantic hassle, and an AI that can attack bosses and the like seems like it would make the players role in the game redundant (not to mention the fact that with two characters there should be puzzles involving the characters going their separate ways, which seems incredibly unwieldy with an AI).
-Same as above, but instead of an AI the unused character just follows behind the controlled character (if you've ever played Links Awakening, think Marin during the sequence where she follows Link). Problem is, this method essentially makes the second character next to useless for anything other than maybe some puzzle rooms, so it begs the question of why have it in the first place.
-Have it controlled via a second control scheme like Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. I hate this option the most because controlling two characters independently rarely feels good, and in a Zelda-like game I can't see it really working when you need to center your focus on enemies during battles, and thus having to manage two characters simultaneously seems strenuous.

I honestly don't know where to go at this point, and this is the last roadblock I need to overcome before I can start prototyping.

>>174832816
Either round your camera coordinates or accept it.
You can't have smooth movement and 1:1 pixel art rendering.

>>174831941
I didn't prepare anything, I don't know how it works in inferior countries but that's just regular packed food here.

>>174833020
>Birthday cake flavour
What

Since when was 'cake' a flavour

>>174833182
You're telling me if someone fed you cake while you were blindfolded, you wouldn't be able to recognize the taste?

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>>174833080
the smooth movement is done at a 1x1 scale, so everything gets rounded anyway
I tried it at its base resolution and it's just throwing away lines of pixels?

>>174833287
I'd recognise the taste of a chocolate cake or a carrot cake, I wouldn't call it cake flavour.

>>174833339
>so everything gets rounded anyway
Are you sure you rounded? Your results are saying otherwise if you did render to a target and scale after.
Also did you disable mipmaps?

>>174823445
$0

>>174833287
I would probably know it's cake but cakes have a multitude of tastes, that's like saying "animal sound" and expecting someone to understand what sound you are talking about exactly.
WHAT THE FUCK IS CAKE FLAVOR

>>174833064
Not sure if you're aware of it, but Zelda actually has a game where a single player can control 4 links simultaneously through the entire game: Four Swords Adventures.

The way that Zelda handled it in Four Swords adventures was that by default, the other links will follow around the last player link to interact with them a la Marin, attacking at the same time as the player. However, the player also has the option to enact formations at will with a combination of a button and direction, which then make the AI-controlled links move in a specific formation, like a square, line, or cross shape relative to the main player link.

The game *also* gave you the option of controlling each individual link manually, and they'd remain in place and are uninteractable to enemies (but can interact with the environment to do things like hold down buttons) when not being controlled. At any time the player could recall them and they'd zoom back to your side, even through walls.

Not sure if it's helpful, but food for thought.

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>>174833182
cake flavoured cake is the best, if the flavour isn't "artificial"

>>174833715
>>174833476
its sort of like a sugary buttery bread-like flavour

I only bought it because it was 25% off

oh and I also put in about 100g of frozen berries like blueberry blackcurrant strawberry raspberry mix

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>>174833715
Were you ever a child in america? It's probably pic related.

>>174833476
>>174833715
Why are you assuming all this bullshit? Does it say "cake with chocolate" or "carrot cake"?
No, it just says cake. As in a plain cake, the kind you make without adding in fucking chocolate or vanilla or cinnamon.
>hurr what does bread taste like I only know what ham sandwiches and pb&j taste like what the fuck is bread

>>174833520
There's only one draw call that gets used for everything (renderSystem in ECS) and I'm rounding there. Not sure about disabling mipmapping.

>>174833986
Cake can also be made of all kinds of different bases, it's a file format rather than an actual file.

>>174833976
It think that brand is misspelled

>>174833976
yeah it tastes like these things

it actually has multicoloured specs in it as well, wouldn't be surprised if they just blended raw whey protein with one of these mix packets to make it flavoured

Is there a wrong way to use ds_grid in game maker? I'm using one to store dungeon layouts but I feel like I'm noticing slowdown when I add to it. I might just be going crazy though.

>>174834121
Yeah, I'm sure you can bake a cake with fucking human breast milk and shark eggs, except that's not fucking normal you retard
Why the fuck is your first assumption that the cake is made with bullshit goat ingredients instead of assuming the thing labeled "cake" tastes like a normal fucking cake?

>>174833986
Brown bread doesn't taste like white bread, and those are only one type of bread.

>>174833976
So it's vanilla.

>>174834219
Cakes don't necessarily have eggs and milk.

This discussion has now arrived at this point:

https://youtu.be/h5dXUSkwhhM?t=263

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>>174834121
>reverse food analogies

>>174834063
Disable mips.
Also are the vertex positions of the actual tiles rounded too?

>>174834354
>Cakes don't necessarily have eggs and milk.
The fact that you have to specify that shows that it's the fucking default configuration for a cake
Again, you're making these wild assumptions for the sake of being a retarded contrarian

>>174833803
>Four Swords Adventures
...oh my god, I'm a fucking idiot. I can't believe I forgot about Four Swords Adventures (I had played it before but it was with friends so I never saw how it handled single player play).

Thank you for reminding me of it, anon. I think I'm going to download it and do a quick play of it just to get a feel for how they handle multiple main characters.

>>174834193
It kind of depends on how much information you're storing, what method you're accessing it, and in what kind of script/event.

Try to avoid having it store or check the grid every step. Find ways to limit and shave it down if possible.

>amerifats confusing vanilla taste with some nonsense "cake" taste
Typical.

>my game's genre is 3D

how many stolen shaders does your game have?

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>>174834371
No it hasn't

>>174834641
Three.
They are MIT so they are mine.

Anyone participating in current LD?

>>174834641
All written by me

>>174834523
>Disable mips.
Googling Monogame Disable Mipmap doesn't produce any relevant results?
>Also are the vertex positions of the actual tiles rounded too?
Yea, the vertex positions are actually stored as Points and converted to Vector2 on draw

>>174834845
I tried but everything I started making was shit and I don't feel like finishing a game with no redeeming qualities.

I blame the theme.

>>174834547
Glad I could help, anon!

>>174835000
Ah, ok mipmaps were disabled the whole time on the render target.

>>174835000
Actually my mistake if you said you used point filtering then mipmaps aren't used.

If you did all that and rounded, the only other thing that should cause it is you not using integer scaling when stretching the RT to the screen. If you have odd scales (eg not exactly 2x,3x), use linear filtering on the final draw but point filtering when rendering to the RT.

>Diablo guy said in his game postmortem talk that he worked from 4am to midnight everyday for last 8 months of development
jeesus, and here I am feeling tired after 3 hours of work

>>174835494
Here's my draw call:
https://pastebin.com/aKV6DaRf
Just scaling by 2x

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>>174835589
Wagecucks consider driving and chatting around the water cooler "work" so take their claims with a grain of cake batter.

>>174835959
Can you scale it to 1x and see if it still happens?
Unrelated: Why are you re-creating the render target every frame?

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Detail pass mostly done on this area.
Introduced some electric light to get the thief atmosphere out a little more.
Next week is trailer cutting week

Also can you help me one last time to name this shitty indie studio?

>http://www.strawpoll.me/12813204

>>174836325
>>174835959
Also why is the render target size ScreenDimensions? Shouldn't that be a fixed size like 320x240 and so on?

If screendimensions is the actual size of the window/screen, you got it all wrong.

>>174836489
Do you have any pro experience? Your art looks so polished.
I wish I could say the same about the gameplay that you never show.

>>174833143
>packed food
look at you so healthy

>>174836325
When I scale to 1x I get dropped lines of pixels like in: >>174833339
>Unrelated: Why are you re-creating the render target every frame?
I am not any longer
>>174836672
>Also why is the render target size ScreenDimensions?
It's not, the "screen dimensions" are the fixed 1x size, everything is based on the 1x size except the final draw call to double it.
It appears that the issue is it's dropping a line of pixels every so often in both 1x and 2x - any idea what could cause that?

Are animation smears good or bad?

>>174836921
Good if done right, like anything in life.

>>174836698
>Do you have any pro experience?

Well, yeah...

As a programmer

>>174836872
>When I scale to 1x I get dropped lines of pixels
Odd, that shouldn't happen.
>It's not, the "screen dimensions" are the fixed 1x size,
Okay that's fine then.

Your draw code seems fine, but if you get that error at 1x too then the issue isn't here I think.
Post your code for drawing the tiles with the batch.

>>174836921
You know what makes a good smear?
Shit
Want your game to look like literal shit?
Use smears

>>174822646
yes very
i wont post it though because someone called me cocky once and now im self conscious

downloaded some sprites and i'm going to trace over them

>>174836489
Dinosaur clown car suplex studio

>>174837306
That guy from Double Fine once said something like this:
>To become famous you first need to act like you're famous

>>174837259
I'm using the Artemis ECS framework:
https://pastebin.com/gBVNRwZ7
DrawEntities are all the tiles that can be seen. The ToPoint().ToVector() is just how I've been rounding

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>>174828285
Snibbity snap, here's a bear trap.
Playing cat and mouse with the bitrate to get this thing under the size limit is a real pain.

>>174828285
if you call this progress post, where is your progress though

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>>174837608
Oh hey I was right.
>Each game we made in the 90s we got a little more recognition for it. And we were always pretty savvy about getting our names on the box. You have to kind of act like you're famous before you're famous.

Nothing wrong with being proud of your work.

>>174837824
is the fire the mouse, and that when you press jump he jumps towards the current fire position?

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>>174835997
>a grain of cake batter

>>174837807
Hm try:
>(sprite.Location - cameraPosition.Coordinates).toPoint().ToVector2()
I assume the origin is just (0,0)? If not round that too

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>>174838009
Yup.
Mouse controlled platformer, with an emphasis on quick movements.

There are 3 types of games in this world, the Action games, the RPGs, and the cancer that is Action RPGs.

who else here cancer master race?

>>174837608
"In order to be a rock star you have to act like a rock star" That's how I know it originally.

Is it wrong to have my dev logo displayed prominently in my game's cover art?

>>174828685
why don't you just start now

>>174838095
Didn't work either - and yea, origin is just 0,0. The tile location is a static number, so it has to be something else - also it appears I'm dropping lines of pixels in the middle of the texture, so it's probably not overlapping textures.

>>174830376
looks comfy

>>174838437
Theres a reason movies dont have every group's logo on their posters.
It's ugly, just keep it to a splash screen or credits.
Most indie dev logo's are also really bad.

>>174838657
But I want to be famous.

>>174838748
then spend a lot of money on your logo

>>174838748
then make good games.
No one fucking cares about dev logo's, only the games attached to them.

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>>174838748
post your logo

>>174838437
Is this going to be on mobile too?

>>174839228
I don't have one yet, I think I will go for something like my initials in cursive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9RyEiEzMiU
>Sean Murray is an ULTIMATE enginedev

>>174839496
NMS was made in Unity.

>>174838437
>>174838748
>>174839413
epic! epic for the win!

>>174839496
>dude im old LMAO
Jesus hes like 20 years early on that shtick.
Wasnt a very informative talk though.
For an engine dev he seems to only talk like a salesman.

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>>174828685
>itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-14
Hmm 14 days until the deadline, i might be able to get a tiny demo done by then. As far as i can tell itch is fine with adult only games, right?

loli jam only had 1 entry

>>174838287
the start area looks really nice

>not making your logo interactive and more fun than the game itself for maximum customer loyalty
https://youtu.be/tY6kdj92gX8

>>174838507
I'm not sure either at this point, maybe it's with your texture itself?

>>174839871
I've failed you all ;_;

My sketchbooks I bought to practice arts for my new year resolution are still blank.

>>174839953
It's just a standard sprite atlas for a tileset
I guess I'll do some more testing. Thanks for the suggestions.

>>174838287
Don't you feel like the use of a mouse in this manner would make it too easy?

>>174838287
Did you ever add the option to change the color of the cursor? All I remember from this game playing it years ago was that once you started getting blood everywhere it became impossible to keep track of your also red cursor.

>>174839496
>>174839707
>not saying you're old when you're actually 60-70 years old


Getting really tired of younger than me people saying this kinda dev meme.

>>174836489
That stone looks like everything's been underwater (rounded & shiny).

Not hating though; it looks awesome overall. I hope you'll do more than just the orange/blue dynamic everywhere. Other colors are cool too.

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Finished my ludum dare game folks...
https://epiplon.itch.io/ld38

>>174841293
Me, the simulator

meanwhile on /dpt/
>>>/g/60042566

>>174833064
I personally don't like _important_ companions in action games (when you need to make sure they survive). Either make Baldur's Gate-like controls, where you can pause and give orders to all characters. Or make so that only one character is present, but you can swap at any time. The second thing may work nice if the characters have distinct abilities. Like, a paladin guy who fights in melee, and a witch girl who has mobility and crowd control.

>>174839496
NMS' worlds are awful though, why would i listen to him

>>174841293
>muh crippling anxiety
>muh crippling depression XD
kys

>>174841841
Where's your non-crippling game?

character creation screens are stupid

characters should be built during the game not before it

and your appearance should be a forced randomized ugly mess just like real life

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Turns out particles are a horrible way to implement shots. Switched to mesh instead, and now the bullet collisions are properly detected.

>>174841967
>rust dev

>>174841837
Name one game with better worlds that uses < 2gb of disk space. NMS is a glorified demo and it's pretty cool to refresh different procgen shit from his talk

>>174841967
Your real life appearance isn't randomized. It's thousands of years of tweaking sliders

Where are all the animal crossing rip off games.

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>>174839871
Cheers!

>>174840163
Most of the feedback I've gotten says the opposite. The game is hard, and it's hard by design. That level in particular is planned to be within the first five playable, so it's mostly just there to help teach players how to wall jump.
Once the players are over the initial learning curve, I can start demanding really precise, quick movements out of them.

>>174840250
The cursor is bigger, and actually a lot more orange now, but I still haven't added custom color options, unfortunately. Visibility was one of the big things people mentioned to me though, and I have spent a fair bit revamping a lot of the art to try and better distinguish the important stuff.

That being said, both custom cursor and scarf colors are still planned.

>>174842214
you have no control over it so it's exactly the same as randomization.

>>174842205
Dwarf Fortress

Artist here, anyone want to collab?

>>174842439
post your music

>>174842439
No thanks.

>>174842439
Not posting samples.

>>174842495
I said art, not music you fucking retard.

>>174841967
Can't see how you will build your character gender, overall appearence and race during the game.

>>174842439
I am not into collabing, but thanks for asking. Good luck to you!

so whats the end/game to this ironic X looking or Y shitposting?
Is the Albuquerque cabal trying to keep us down?

>>174833339
What does a single sprite look like? Maybe this is because your sprites overlap?

>>174842625
>music isn't an artform
Kill you're self

>>174842756
>some fat basement dwelling brazilian slapping his big retard ham hands all over a keyboard is considered music nowadays
end you are self

>>174842687
Nice Weird Al reference.

>>174842643
Lol. Start as an android template (some default robotic appearance, some default neutral personality), then loot or unlock human features.

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traced the sprites from kings quest
it's going to be an EPIC adventure!!!

>>174842895
https://agdg.co/

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>>174841293
ez. Is the message of this game that "le anxiety!!" people are just fucking dumb and willingly putting themselves in unhelpful situations and environments?

>>174842998
delet this

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Which shader is less shit /agdg/, A or B?

artist here
also programmer here
and game designer here
sometimes a writer here

I- I'll just one man army.

>>174843116
B by a lot

>>174843116
Ground looks more cohesive with B, but I don't like the harsh white lighting on the characters

>>174843116
I like A

>>174843116
A looks better. B looks like some basic bitch shader that came default with the engine.

>>174843116
A feels a lot nicer to my eyeballs than B

>>174843116
I'll still improve whatever's picked by the way, I just want to decide which one to work on

>>174843116
A 2bh

>>174843116
A
B looks like default unity
In both cases the colors look muddy and boring

>>174843031
Depressed people struggle with simple tasks.
Also, the confort zone is easier, no?

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>tfw I ignore all feedback because I know what's best for my game unlike some random chucklefucks with too many opinions

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Experimenting with layouts for an item screen before I code it in. I need opinions on:
- Quick Status A or B
- Description box A or B

>>174844046
Wow, what a great project! I've seen it in the last thread. Tumblr/twitter?

>>174843204
>>174843247
>>174843268
>>174843272
>>174843345
>>174843540
>>174843649
I guess A it is then. Thanks!

>>174843116
A is different and cartoonish.
Looks good with round, cutesy models.

>>174843898
Maybe I'm just to smart too be depressed because I recognize that sitting in my semen encrusted underwear in total darkness all day is bad for my mental state

>>174844097
Put status box A on the right
Description box A

>>1748424378
why of course I do

who doesn't?

>>174844097
All A but quick status on the right

>>174843116
A, but the slime from B is better than A.slime

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>>174844097
The stuff of JRPG nightmares.
Or have the item options with opacity open up on top next to said item.

If your menus look like spreadsheets then you need to work on your presentation.

>>174828686
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dq-FeJ0scXQ

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>>174844668

>>174845202
Yeah thats good, I assume those are just placeholder colors and stuff.
Make sure to lose the border on the item options.

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>>174844486
>>174844269
All A but Quick Status on right

>>174843116
B is way better.

>>174830521
FUCKING BRAZILIAN GET OUT OF MY AGDG REEEEE


just kidding ,keep it up , healthy boy.

>>174842709
I thought so too, but there are no horizontal brown lines at the top or bottom of any of the tiles, and even on larger static sprites it's dropping lines of pixels at average intervals all the way down (but not on the main character sprite)

>>174845668
>reverse image searching
ew creep

My mouse broke. What mice are you gents using?

>>174845898
Logitech G502 best cursor rodent

>>174845898
g600

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Decided to change the old poof wooden blocks to floating Easter eggs. Poof effect is still the same however.

>>174842117
Maybe I'm not seeing it correctly but the first box you shoot doesn't look like the bullet/projectile collided with it at all. It also seems slow and unresponsive.

>>174846153
I thought easter was just a theme world? Why is everything easter eggs now? I'd just make them small bubbles or something universal.

>>174846506
why not

I think Bokube is all just a social experiment to test /agdg/'s patience.

>>174846506
That level is IN the Easter world hehe.

>>174830521
Looks tasty but I don't eat meat

>>174846153
Why does everything poof away.
Why not just continue the Ninty ripoff and make them fall to the depths.

>>174844269
>sitting in my semen encrusted underwear in total darkness all day is bad for my mental state
It's true. Thanks for playing, anon.

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>>174846740
Why would make an Easter level if you don't even celebrate Easter?

>>174845830
> dropping lines of pixels at average intervals
This sounds very much like some sort of float<->int conversion glitch. Without knowing your code, the only suggestion I have is to inspect the glitchy sprites (screen and texture coordinates and sizes) just before they are sent to the drawing function.

>>174846717
i think 4chan is a social experiment to test patience of those not involved in the experiment

>>174846997
WRONG bokudev is a straight pure christian man.

How do you guys plan your games?
Do you write it down and go from there, just go with what you get on your head or do you make a flowchart?

>>174847313
1. Get brilliant flash of idea holy shit it's the best idea ever
2. Write down the basics so I don't forget it
3. Start devving
4. Lose interest after 1 month or so
1.

>>174847472
This is basically the same for me.

>>174844097
Cut the item inventory down to one column.

>>174848084
t. consolecuck

>>174845898
razer deathadder 2013

works better than my old cm storm

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>>174844097

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I can never get video of my moving backgrounds to not look glitched and blurred so please have this small screenshot instead. I still have to finish the details on the broken shrines and large modern buildings (unshown) that will be popping closer to the character but I thought it was looking pretty alright in the test. Probably need to drop the saturation of it all so the character doesn't get lost in it (i think having the cloud line below the larger, higher buildings helps separate them from the lower layers, I also still need to add a lot of variety to the cloud types so it doesn't just repeat the only 2-3 shapes I made.)

>>174848363
>Inventory screen's primary purpose is to use items
>Therefore, let's give text descriptions the most screenspace instead of items

>>174848363
>vertical inventory
>having the info box larger than the inventory
Please stay out of games.

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My game is still fun, right?
I just got tired of it after playing and testing it so much, right?

>>174848963
Your game is very fun and everyone is going to like it when you finish it!

>>174849139
>everyone
I failed then, it's designed for niche autism.

>>174848450
I like your palette, anon.

Is it unethical to ask for an optional price of 50 cents for you Ludum Dare game?

I barely remember how to compile simple code, but anyway I'm using cyg win 64 as my compiler and using a basic text program to code.

If I want to start using a custom library or engine like sdl2 how the hell do i link this and compile it, for like lets say a simple program that shows a window or something.

>>174849527
I don't know what those words mean but they don't sound like gamedev.

>>174848363
Oh I hate long narrow inventory lists. Maybe make a 2d grid like in Morrowind and Gothic.

>>174847472
1 month? I'm impressed. Takes less than a week for me, yet the ideas haunts forever

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How do I design a game mansion?

>>174849527
On cmd or whatever shell youre using you have to specify the paths.
I highly recommend using code blocks for any c?++ usage.
It can handle imports for you.
And then you can study the output for how to exactly compile everything yourself.

>>174822476
Is it worth using unity for a non-asset flip first person game?
I tried getting into unreal, I enjoy blueprints but can't stand the constant crashes that happen with C++.

>>174849910
Get a floor plan and... wait, you already did that.

>>174849910
Copy paste the Spencer Estate.

>>174842971
>tracing sprites.

good luck

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>>174846304
What about now?
I made the overall animations a little faster and increased the bullet speed.
I need an aiming system overhaul.

>>174850001
The problem is that architects don't design houses to account for game flow or to fight monsters in.

>>174849527
You'll need to supply the include directories and libraries to link against. If you installed sdl via package manager, you'll need something along the lines of

gcc $(pkg-config --cflags --libs sdl2) program.c

otherwise, you'll need to point to include directories with -I, to libraries with -l, and add library directory to LIBRARY_PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

>>174850328
Are you not deleting the bullets upon collision?

Who is actually a dev here? Game or not.

What percent of your office brings in lunch? Of those that do, what percent make spaghetti commonly?

>>174850606
I am a dev
I work alone
And the office is my bedroom

>>174849527
>>174850461
Anyway, in Windows you're better off with Visual Studio. Just google some SDL2 setup guide for VS. Using cygwin is asking for trouble.

>>174849275
Thank you! On a side note I am hoping to have some more HUD 'panel' choices in the options menu for DD14 because I know the flower motif turns a lot of people off to the idea of even trying the game. I was thinking some cooler colors. Maybe some baseline greys and dark blues. Something to not conflict too much with the active field colors.

>>174850574
I'm trying to attach particle system to the bullet so that it plays on impact. The bullet's mesh renderer is disabled but the bullet is destroyed 0.5 seconds later.
On the second thought, I never disable the glow attached to the bullet. I'll do that now.

>>174850606
I was a financesdev, but quit due heavy stress and to pursue gamedev.
My ex-boss is a mad cunt who thinks that projects don't need planning and can whip our asses until code comes out.
His main project is in development for the last 7 years and has changed UI at least 3 times. Probably he will retire before that.

>>174849527
1: Get MinGW.
2: http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/01_hello_SDL/windows/mingw/index.php

>>174845898
Webcam + trained NN for eyetracking

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>>174850574
>>174850930
>>174850328

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in-game test of mockup menu and battle screen. note this is purely graphical and non-interactive at all.

>>174850808
>the flower motif turns a lot of people off to the idea of even trying the game
That's kind of sad. Purple's one of the few shades I haven't been able to naturally incorporate into my game, but your combinations of blues and purples looks quite nice.

As for testing visibility, I'd recommend popping a screenshot into Photoshop and completely desaturating it: if you can still reasonably distinguish between foreground and background then your use of luminosity is good. Another trick would be to slap on a vibrance filter with vibrance set to -100 and saturation set to +100. The remaining colors are essentially a saturation mask: it'll show you which sections of colors the player's eye is going to be drawn towards the most. This is just kind of my own approach tho, so don't think of too much as a hardset pass / fail sort of thing.

>add tips to load screen
>game takes <100ms to load

How do I into GameMaker? I've checked their website several times, but I can't find a guide that isn't geared toward GMS2.

>>174852004
Thank you very much, anon!
Thank you for the advice, anon. I will be trying that out a bit later to see what I need to adjust! Every little bit helps.

>>174852540
There's built-in tutorials and demos. Youtube also has a shitload.

>>174852540
They did a bait and switch by selling 1.4 for really cheap then wiping off everything about it including export modules and forcing users to upgrade to 2.0.
Such a scummy company won't see a single dime from me.

>>174852703
Yeah they really ripped people off, selling their entire engine with Windows exports for a fucking dollar.

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Changed the background to blue instead of black, seems to work OK. Also redid the chasm walls to make the floating island effect a little more convincing.

>>174852540
YouTube tutorials or the built in manual in the program.

>>174852823
but how does water stay in river

>>174852703
The manual seems to still be in the game. What exactly did they remove?

>>174853028
They didn't "remove" anything that people already owned. They removed the ability to purchase new export modules for 1.4, which is still QUITE shitty of them, but not nearly as shitty as that guy is making it out to be.

How do games like minecraft deal with chunks? Loading and unloading chunks.
Are there any tutorials or simple example code? I'm not even sure what to google

>>174852950
That's the edge of the map. It connects to another map where the river continues.

>>174853285
Think about, minecraft chunk things so it wouldn't render or loads blocks in parts of the world that are unoccupied by the player. When the player moves near enough to an unloaded chunk it starts to load again

>>174853154
Is there really an alternative to GMS? I've heard bad things about Unity and 2d games and I'm a neet fag with no money. Are LOVE and Godot good?

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Progress

>>174853597
I don't know about LOVE but Godot is a straight upgrade over GM.

>>174853634
>that sword

>>174853597
Godot's still in development but it's getting better every day. I dunno about LÖVE, but I've heard good things about it. Only problem is that you have to code in Lua.

of course you could always just use SDL and write your own

>>174853704
Oh fuck you're right, I should put the memesword in

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What is more common between FMOD and WWISE, if I'm gonna learn one which one should I start with?

>>174853697
>Godot is a straight upgrade over GM
Save for decent documentation and the fact that for every problem a newbie/moderately experienced GM user has there's a solution on the forums.

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Multiple control schemes have now been implemented. There's 4:
-One where you can use WASD + 1-2-3 on the numpad AND the arrow keys + Z-X-C keys to controls
-Two that are WASD-1-2-3 only and Arrows-Z-X-C only
-One that's for freaks with Dvorak keyboards that will likely never actually be used by anyone but I felt like including it anyway.

>>174851965
Just watching that, my intuition is that individual characters have separate inventories, when I select 'items' and am brought to the list of items, I expect it to be all items held by all characters.

If you are having separate character specific inventories that's fine but if not, it might be a bit less user friendly to have to enter and exit up to four menus to say heal each party member with the same potion in between battles.

>>174851965
>ruining the spooky moody atmosphere with LISTS LISTS TEXT TEXT BUTTONS BUTTONS NUMBERS NUMBERS
sad

>>174854212
Why not just allow the player to set each action to whatever key the want?

>>174854601
There's actually a fifth entry in the control array for custom controls. I've got it dummied out at the moment because at this point in time I don't feel confident in my ability to acceptably implement custom controls. I plan on going back and enabling it, but tonight I don't have time to get it up and running in a satisfactory form.

https://www.twitch tv/shaunjs

Why aren't you making twitch multiplayer games like this one?

>>174855114
I don't care about multiplayer, much less Twitch multiplayer.

>>174855241
i thought it was every kid's dream to make a WoW clone