AGDG - Amateur Game Dev General

small brain: what you do
big brain: what i do

i would tell you how those are non issues in my game but then i might as well just say al my idea

like another anon said i should patent it first

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Finished coordinate system, pretty much. Gotta smoothen transitions between planes and then I'll be ready to do some actual gameplay. Materials are hard, UE4's post-processing mess is harder, I'll have to sort out those effects eventually.

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>abso FUCKIN lute FUCKIN ly nobody cares about the game you've been working on because you've been taking too long to make it
I pissed away all the interest in my game. May as well give up.

>>175139253
I care Anon, what's your game?

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has new recap been posted?

>last classic captcha was bypass hollycock
>this classic captcha is dickswall nomaxio

>>175139421
>>175139380

>>175139253
>same damn froggo meme face
this is why we dgaf

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What do you think of this idea?

Small open world with different zones, think like a very small subnautica with a central cavern zone. You have to find 3 keys/artifacts. Your ship has a radar to tell you in what direction it is but you need a certain ressource that can be mined on the sea floor to activate it. Say you have 5000 grams of "meme ore", the radar/sonar can be activate one time at the cost of 3000 grams. It'll give you a direction and a distance.

Since your ship will not always start with the same gear and amount of ore, you might have to look around and mine more ore. I was even thinking of having the ore capable of producing oxygen for you and the ship. You could then have to choose between breathing longer in hopes of just finding the artifact or pay in oxygen to make the search easier.

>>175139380
excellent

>>175139510
i thought the trident was like a religious staff thing or mage staff, and the diving suit was a voodoo doll, and that the submarine was a mars base, and that the underwater was actually like dark lava tunnels like this was going to be like heretic or something

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Started working on a fancy smooth spritesheet animator today, been very pleased with the progress I made so far

https://i.gyazo.com/e584e672b8cea1fb15d8bb1daa9a584f.mp4

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https://youtu.be/PkJl79yF-hA

Had to recode my entire game pretty much. Gonna have to work hard all week to submit something to Demo Day that I'm happy with

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my rpg is going to be the greatest game of all time.

>>175139871
You should be happy about all those things

>>175139945
reverse image search for this has some gems

>>175139871
Looks real good anon. I like the colors.

If you were asking for improvements (you weren't), then I'd say some chill stellar music would go a long way, as would including some muted neon reds and purples (same pallet as the rest of everything) to make it really pop.

I should've just focused on art, right now I could be raking it in on patreon with lewd art drawing pussies.

But nooooo, you just had to learn programming as well and become a gamedev.

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Another enemy. This guy can walk on walls and ceilings. Likes to ambush you in groups. Imagine walking into a room with 4-5 of these guys, who all start skittering towards you.

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>>175140292
I really need to find a musicfriend to make some neat space tunes

>>175140326
it's easy bro just be yourself and you can be a master like me >>175139945

>>175138947
Needs a section for making recordings/webms

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why dont you guys just get a coke sponsorship?

>>175140527
I can give you the email for the guy who is doing music on my game. He is great, will probably do it for free.

people actually believe you should ignore non-dev's criticism on your game
Might be the dumbest trend here.

>>175140628
Sure, shoot me a message on Twitter or Tumblr

https://twitter.com/aneonwinter

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not going to make it to demo day again, sorry. i'll see what i can do in 8 days but i still have no AI and some other key features.

i'll be doing a kickstarter presumably sometime next month though.

>>175140602
nice bro

>>175140670
it's basically true, the only opinions that matter are:

1) individuals who actually dev and know their shit
2) large masses of nodev customers, their data is valuable

some random retard commenting on your shit is about as helpful as asking a fortune cookie. when it's 1,000 retards you should pay attention though.

>>175140745
>but i still have no AI and some other key features.
>i'll be doing a kickstarter presumably sometime next month though.
sasuga, it never fails

>>175140072
I hope Boots will be okay.

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I started a new project after a few months of doing nothing. I meant to work on the actual gameplay, but got sidetracked. Aside from getting basic movement in, the only thing I've really done is added a system for accepting console commands, which will be helpful for debugging in the future but is next to useless now. Going to work on it some more tomorrow. Hopefully I'll have some actual gameplay to show within the next few days.

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The robot can now aim.
But there is a problem. Crosshair position is determined by a raycast from robot's position + offset (basically the endpoint of the blaster) and WorldToScreenPoint, and as a result, crosshair jumps whenever the ray hits something. Any ideas how to make it more smooth?

>>175140782
>the average ignorant /v/irgin (your main audience), dont matter whatsoever
>meanwhile a bunch of hacks fumbling around in GM are worth listening to

/agdg/ is so fucked.

>>175140782
I just don't agree.
If a user has a complaint that I can see as valid, it's just shedding new light on potential.
Of course devs are better for certain criticism, and probably most criticism.

>>175141007
>the average ignorant /v/irgin (your main audience)
speak for yourself pham

>>175141007
did you even read what I said tho. those /v/irgins do matter if it's a lot of them.

>>175140839

i already have the groundwork for all those things but i need to focus on my sword combat and some more stability stuff first. its not that i cant pull it all together i just have to ration my time better.

>>175140967
can you just interpolate the vector3.

>>175139141
it looks cool so far

>>175140723
I like your dog
wanna be friends

>>175141471
I tried, but zero effect.

>>175141842
Do you even want it to snap to the position of boxes? You could just change the collision layers if you don't.

>>175141638
Maybe

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post your game, bitch.
I dont care if its not a 'playable' game yet.
I dont care if its just for the experience.
I dont care if you're 'still learning'
fuck you
post it

>>175142139
Fuck you gook cunt ask nicely. hope you get bombed soon

>>175142034
Not really. I want the aim system to behave like GTA when auto aim is turned off. Smooth crosshair with the bullets flying whenever it is.

Also remember that just because you don't feel like your game looks good yet doesn't mean you shouldn't submit to Demo Day. The point of DD isn't to display market ready projects but to let everyone get their hands on your game in it's current state so that feedback can be given (and the experience of a public release is a milestone in and of itself).

Holding back because of art (or a lack thereof) is against the spirit of the event. Same goes for music/sound/missing mechanics. Just Like Make Game and show what you have worked on!

opinions on monogame?i am too lazy to learn how to make pixel perfect shit in unity

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I made a title screen. Maybe it's just me, but it's feeling super kiddy, like some sort of Skylanders shit. Thoughts?

>>175142323
Whatever it's doing when there is no object is correct behavior, then? So the raycast is either hitting the sky or the end of its range. Change your layermask to not hit boxes.

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>>175142139
Ok but I haven't made any progress in at least a week because I've been playing Nier Automata and the artist hasn't made any assets in like a month
Maybe he'll draw more if I kick his shit in

>>175142569
Ok, I'll try.

>>175142454
the animation is pretty jarring in general.
just spins really fuckin fast

>>175142668
Why are your cacti upside down though?

>>175142454
Antialiase.

I don't know about the white-on-white, makes the foreground and background a bit indistinct. Put a gradient in the letters similar to the outline maybe? Like an electric blue.

>>175142691
Yeah. And is it linear? Maybe try a different easing function: http://easings.net/

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Well, it still looks like garbage, but it has actual gameplay now, with assigning jobs, hiring workers, and an ever increasing upkeep, turing the game into a futile struggle against entropy with no end.

Except I just realised I don't have a game over screen, so you just continue into debt infinitely. Fuck.

>>175142454
Try flipping around the vertical axis, as if the sprite was in 3d space, if that makes sense?

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>>175142716
Because the artist hasn't made any assets in a month and I needed a second map

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>>175142139
the adventure continues

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>>175142808
>>175142767
Spins around the Y axis now and I added some color to the letters (which recording as a gif caused to get all banded)

>>175143337
Banding is definitely my least favourite compression artefact.

>>175143337
way better spinning around y.
will you make it spin passively? mousing over to spin makes it look like some kinda weird version select.

>>175143482
I could. I was kind of thinking I'd leave it be a mouseover effect since I know some people love messing with things like this and seeing how long they can make the effect linger (or maybe it's just me)

How many entities in the game is acceptable before performance lags?

What about just graphical performance?

My game can handle around 6000 graphical (not physics) images in the world with around 80-100 of them on screen at 60 fps.

It can also do 200 physics objects colliding with each other at 60 fps after a long loading time of 10ish fps

Tested on firefox canvas

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So here's the title screen + level select screen. I've got a few more things to polish up, then I think I'll do a public demo and maybe slap it up on greenlight.

>>175143631
Depends on what the use cases are. Obvs you want a silky smooth experience for any situations a player will be facing.

Also, what hardware? You generally want to ensure your target as large a playerbase as possible.

>>175143589
yeah that makes sense. It's just personal preference, and I didn't get what it was for at first.

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>>175139945
>>175143263

>>175143893
Good processor/ram but not so good GPU

2.2 GHz i7
8 gb of ram
AMD Radeon 6750 M

How are maps saved in your game? I started to think that instead of saving maps in a fucking .txt i could draw them save them as .png and just read the pixels. No need for a level editor then

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>>175140619
Because Coke is poison but also more importantly they don't associate with shit games.

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>>175142769
Alright, now it has a lose condition.

>>175144114
It was a rhetorical question, I don't actually care what your specs are.

Just think about who might be playing your game. It's probably worthwhile seeing what it runs like on a toaster with integrated graphics.

>>175144234
Your maps are simple enough that you can express everything about a tile in a pixel?

Of course there's plenty of possible states for a pixel, but that may get unreadable fast. For humans, not for computers, that is.

Every language has serialisation libraries. If you ever plan on having more nuanced maps than just "what kind of terrain is this tile?" then you're better off making a map editor and serialising the results rather than having a png with rgba values corresponding to possible tile states.

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>>175142569
So I ended up raycasting straight from the camera and using the hit point as the bullet target. Works perfectly, and this way I don't have to worry what layer the objects are on.

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Be a empathetic game developer!

>>175144852
>No Attack Helicopter gender
Triggered

>>175144852
As a quasisexual Apache Attack Helicopter, I am deeply offended by your bigotry and racism! DELET THE|IS!!!

>>175144941
>>175144951
I guess gender really should be a resizable array.

>>175145069
Just make it a string and allow the user to enter their own values.

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>>175145294

>>175143871
If you want a mouseover effect, maybe only a wobble about 30 degrees, not a whole flip?

>>175145423
if i ever make my fashion battle concept into a game im doing this, just makes sense for the fashion world.

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hi agdg, you might remember me vaguely because I was posting here early on in my project, but I'll be honest I just got tired of trying to compress videos down to 3mb acceptably so it's been a bit! but i think I'll post links instead from now on and circumvent the whole problem. anyways

I'm working on the desert floor and the gimmick for the stage is basically that standing in front of the heads activates a trap door and sends you to the floor below. there's also trapdoors around the boundary to the level to let it feel like an open desert while still keeping the level design tight

https://a.pomf.cat/vhanxs.mp4

>>175146417
Leaving your smooth jazz on while recording was an odd choice, but not an entirely unappreciated one.

fml
got asked to do a skype interview for stugan, but didn't checked my email since three days and missed both interview times

>>175146417
looks incredible, I love what you're doing palette-wise

>>175146417
Looks pretty.

You need some sound effect and maybe visual cue that it's the head that's making you fall. Unless you're going for an old-school dungeon puzzle sort of feel.

The fists are a bit distracting, they're so jiggly and everything else is so static.

>>175146417
>https://a.pomf.cat/vhanxs.mp4
I like the animation of falling through.
I like most of it actually. Good job guy.

>>175146417
Looks like eye cancer.

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Let's say you're making a difficult action game. Players who are good at the game (such as the dev) can easily beat a level in about 1-2 minutes. Other people may take 5 minutes or several retries.

How many levels would be sufficient for people to not feel like they get ripped off by a $5 price tag? 15 levels? 20? 30?

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I think I finally finished my attack animation system. I can set many different parameters to an attack, allowing the player to aim before striking (or while striking if necessary,) or to even move around if necessary, as seen here. Also I made it so I can control where the player's facing during such an animation. It's just a test here at the end when the player does a 360, but this will be useful for some simple stuff like spin attacks.

>>175147024
You can find games like that for free with 100 levels.

Sniff some less coins schlomo.

>>175147024
The amount of levels is irrelevant. What really counts is replayability.
You can make a game with infinite levels, but it can be complete crap when it is just boring to play.

>>175146627
cant go wrong with smooth jazz

>>175146676
>>175146841
>>175147023
thanks guys :)

>>175146763
oh yeah sound cues are definitely needed, I'll be trying to fill those out soon. in regards to the fists, I can see what you mean but i think they get tuned out fairly quickly when you're actually playing. also they're kind of the identity of the game, something of an omnipresent punchline, so i wouldn't want to minimize that

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>>175142139

>>175147482
Add an option to turn off that bouncing and wobbling camera shit.

>>175139141

have it not snap to the new floor level so fast, would make it look better.

t. the guy you replied to the other day who is working on something similar / was supposed to redo his physics today but didn't instead.

There's this girl in my game dev class who I really like. What game should I make to make her like me back? Something that'll impress her or whatever.

>>175147904
fuck i cant tell what level of baiting you are on anymore

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Looking for feedback on this TV shader. Try to ignore the bloom also toggling for now, it's a separate thing

Trying to keep it subtle. I'm not going crazy with scanlines or tracking errors or other epic retro memes.

>>175147904
Flappy bird where the bird is her face, and the pipes are photos of your dick, and on game over you get the text "if you know what I mean t. Anon"

>>175148078
if i was a girl i'd want a guy to do this for me

>>175148047

Looks much better without the bloom

>>175148047
seems fine. you'd get better feedback if you didnt have the bloom changing, though

>>175148047
disregarding furshit for a moment, is that mocaped or some shit?
they look way too alive

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>>175148451
>>175148154

Not animated so it's hard to judge the noise effect, but here it is without bloom.

>>175148553

These are hand animated but I've been using more mocap lately.

>tfw could easily solve a problem by abstracting it up a level but im not sure if its such a good idea

>>175143631
>only 6000
learn to batch your draw calls senpai

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Does anyone know how to link SFML to VS 2013? Their tutorial says to use the projects property page however the tabs that it should have don't exist in my project at all.

>>175149012
>These are hand animated
absolute madman

Help /agdg/, I'm stuck for ideas and don't know what to make.

I wanted to make an original-ish game, something like Dice Wars but I can't think of a good mechanic to support it...

idea guy time:

A 3D adventure game where you are a kid running around town for the postal service to deliver letters.

Think Majora's Mask sidequests meets Kiki's Delivery Service.

You get roller-shoes and a hookshot to move around quickly, from customer to customer with their interwinding quest chains that unfold over time.

Outside the main hub town are more towns, and your adventure takes you out there (maybe including some simple sword action here similar to Mirror's Edge having some gun action between all the free running).

thoughts?

I know its preference, but generally how often should you push git commits.

>>175150954
That game has to have a good movement system.
Any game with a good movement system is a good game, regardless of setting. SM64 has no story except eat out the princess's cake, but it just works.
Besides, that setting is pretty borish: Fetchquest the game. It'd need good writers for every quest or the gameplay has to be satisfying enough.
And why would you ever want to compare something positively to Mirror's Edge gunplay?

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Added a dancing animation for Boku on the main menu.

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>>175149801
I literally just read the SFML tutorial myself and did it in 5 seconds, and this is considering I'm a Unityfag. It explains it in the first paragraph.
You need to create an empty C++ project first else the settings won't populate.

>>175151837
What's he humping

>>175151837
looks like a dog in heat

>>175151837
Looks like he's getting banged from behind by an invisible man.

>>175151905
>>175151919
>>175151941
three comments about gay humping that quickly wtf areyoufuckingkiddingme.png god damment I just wanted to make a cute dancing animation.

>>175150954
>A 3D adventure game where you are a kid running around town for the postal service to deliver letters
I mean, telling us how your game is going to be is kinda pointless.

Make a prototype and then come back and post that progress. Execution > ideas.

>>175136818
I can do this with water and food. Sometimes i won't even get hungry and if i do, it goes away and it doesn't come back before hours later.

GIVE ME GOOD *GAMEPLAY* IDEAS
NOT STORY SETTING IDEAS, BUT GAMEPLAY IDEAS
NOW

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So I'm thinking of making an pseudo-isometric game, at least with the camera view similar to a game like that, but with sprite work.

If I wanted to implement purdy lighting that isn't just a generic bloom from something like a muzzle flash or torch, am I going to want to kill myself? Just wondered if anyone had experience with lighting what is essentially a game in a similar layout to something like Shadowrun.

>>175152594
when you press the button your character jumps

>>175152660
>similar to a game like that, but with sprite work.
but this looks exactly like sprite work

>>175150824
Dice wars is just a purified version of risk. Apply the same process to a game you enjoy. Take one aspect and focus on it to its logical conclusion.

>>175152594
When you press buttons your character ponders.

>>175152594
When you press buttons your character does wonders.

>>175152594
when you presss buttons your character pays respects

>>175152594
pressing a button has a percent chance of doing the action you want

>>175152594
When you press buttons, the game ends, and you are left alone to think.

>>175152594
when you press F your character flips the bird and generally acts disrespectful

>>175152594
When your player presses a button the door opens.

When the game ends, you press buttons to think. has a percent chance of doing the action you want

>>175152594
instead of moving around and doing stuff, pressing a button just generates a pseudo-random shitpost

>>175152594
You can press a button to move the trolly to the other track.

So this is what this general has turned into.
A shitpost-fest that never posts progress.

>>175152594
When you press buttons nothing happens. Wow.

>>175152594
When you press a button, you send two dollars to my bank account.

>>175152594
You know how in real life, people judge you based on your facial expressions?
That, but with an incredibly arbitrary points system.

>>175152594
Without the pressure of buttons, the dance of life has no meaning.

>>175153284
Thanks for contributing!

i wish we had an r9k filter, but for unfunny jokes

>>175153284
>turned into
anon its been this way for a long time.

its not active because most anons are probably hard at work deving their game, or just dont care to post every little micro progress.

I know I've spent the past 12 hours deving. have you?

>>175153284
You can press the button that looks like an x at any time, anon.

>>175153284
when you press the button you are asked where your game is.

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>>175153284

Anyone here know of a place to learn more about just game design? I'm much more interested in learning design over anything.

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How's this for a death variation. Head and neck coming off in an arc from a shot.

Is the heads arc right? Should the head even be recognisable? Are there enough frames for the initial hit?

>>175151717
>>175150954
>>175152276
Not same anon, but what if it was portrayed as a mail delivery game, and the first few quests was just simple jobs. But then the people you delivered the mail for started to request simple things like getting a cat down from a tree. Later in the game people started to request weirder shit that expanded into some deep underground job.

>>175151837
nice dance moves.

>>175153768
Reddit.com/r/gamedesign
Lost garden
Keithburgun.net
Game design a book of lenses
Theory of fun
Mark brown on YouTube
Extra credits if you're completely new

It's still a young field so there really is no canon.

>>175154059
thank you anon
Yeah, I've picked stuff up over years of playing video games and I understand that there isn't an exact formula for things, hell if there was one things would feel really stale. I just wanted to learn more or maybe learn some basics if need be, game design is such a subtle thing that there may be a ton of obvious stuff you don't pick up on.

>>175151860
Ah but I was trying to do it in C# which is why I was having the issue, apparently I was supposed to be doing SFML.net which the tutorial just points back to the C++ one but I found some other tutorial online for it I suppose.

I mean it still doesn't work for shit but I guess at least I understand the problem now.

>>175153836
I can't tell that it's ahead from what you have there

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>>175154312
I coloured the head in here so you can see it better.

>>175154682
the character's design is so dependent on color that the black and white preliminary drawings just look like amorphous blobs

Give me a good idea for a scoring system NOW!

>>175154967
you score a point everytime

Can anyone suggest a decent modelling program?

Blender good enough for simplistic models capable of accepting animation?

>>175145294
But then you won't be able to sell new genders as DLCs!

>>175154967
No scores.

>>175149012
>>175148553
> mocap
Can someone give me some info on mocap when you're an amateur?
Don't you need some expensive shit to do that ?

>>175143631
> 80-100 of them on screen at 60 fps
Bro, that's very little, you'll hit your sprite limit too soon. Even shit libraries like sdl can do a few thousand sprites at 60fps with hardware rendering.

>tfw will never have anyone to collab on UE4 with

inb4 memes

>>175154967

Scoring systems are a lazy way of encouraging replayability and make the game feel like homework. Don't implement them.

>>175155348

http://ipisoft.com/

It's still kind of pricey.

>>175155348
I have no fucking clue about reality, but I'm guessing technology / software has improved to the point where you can get something halfway decent from a camera phone and a greenscreen.

Clean up the data by hand and bam, you have some good mocap. But mocap is shit unless you're a good animator on top to make better-than-reality animations, because real life animations are shit

>>175155396
t. kusoplayer

back to your walking sims

>>175154967
your character wields a bag which gets bigger and heavier the higher your score

>>175155424
$95 is cheap as fuck compared to what movie / video game studios are paying.

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>>175155396
>>175155485
>tfw people who aren't even a fan of your genre whine and cry and stir shit to make you change your game into something that fans of your genre would hate

>>175155424
>>175155452
Well I'm not an animator to begin with so I don't know much about it but always assumed that for someone who's not an animator, it would be easier to use mocap instead of animating everything by hand. Especially if your game is based on a lot of animation (like a 3D brawler for example(wich is what I always wanted to make)).

Gotta learn 3D modeling first tough.

>>175155485

t. 15 year old that desperately seeks recognition from the game that his parents never gave him

>>175155506

Express license is worthless. You can only use a single Kinect and occlusion is an issue.

You need to pay at least $165 for the Basic edition and even that is only a 3 month license.

On top of that you need two Kinects with the AC cords or 6 PS Eye cameras (or similar webcam) and an extremely well lit room with plenty of space.

PS Move controllers are also recommended for hand and head tracking.

>>175155603
Easy to make something that looks reasonable. The problem is everything will look too slow and weak unless you know how to tweak it.

Also if you're a bad actor you might not be able to convey what you want either...

>>175155669
Oh. Dang.

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>>175155549

>WHY DOESN'T THE GAME PAT ME ON THE HEAD FOR NOT SPAMMING STINGER ALL DAY

That's how you sound.

>>175149012
Are those backgrounds finalised? If you're going with photos, you may as well use post processing.

>>175155639
t. beta manlet faggot who whines like a bitch about any form of competition

>>175155685
I would use it only for attack animations. I don't think I would have trouble for that. But after what this anon >>175155669 said
I think it'd be better if I just learn animation by hand.

>>175155741
Perhaps chalk it up to me being retarded but I have absolutely no clue where you're coming from with this post.

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>>175155771

They're not photos, they're 3D renders.

>>175155776

t. brainlet that needs the game to tell him when he's doing good

>>175155452
>I'm guessing technology / software has improved to the point where you can get something halfway decent from a camera phone and a greenscreen.
that's no mocap, that's just fancy rotoscoping

>>175155859
t. nodev who only plays cinematic garbage and never heard of a thing called leaderboards in his life

>>175155857
You absolute madman

>>175154967
Your character is a leprechaun. His XP is the amount of gold he carries, which means he levels up extremely fast but has to lose XP to buy items. I think that's already been done.

>>175155857
>no JAV pool background

>>175155857
I can almost not tell the difference. How are you so good?

>>175152762
I should have added I meant original-ish strategy game. Forgot to include that word.

Maybe a way to manage your economy for the territory you capture, which improves your chances of capturing more territory?

>>175156113

It's not me, any render using HDRIs looks good.

>>175156113
Filters and fish-eye, which forces the brain to make leaps past the infidelities.

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>finally get vacation time
>thought I could work on my game
>spent past week sleeping and recuperating from work
>next week I'll actually be traveling for all week with my gf
This game will never be finished.

post dev music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTH30m87yL4

To the guy who was testing Live2D Euclid. If you're still there, tell me everything about it. I've been waiting for a tool like this all my life since I'm a programer and a drawfag who can't into 3D modeling.

Share your opinion on it please.

>>175156550
You should kill yourself.

>>175156536
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4g7mPUskW8

Multiplayer DAW
But: not made exclusively by an artfag where you """compose""" by placing colored shapes and shit, and also not made exclusively by an audiofag where the UX makes you suicidal

>>175156536
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIf5Ebu6WeY

unity programmer looking for artguy
i'm not an autist, trust me, im different

>>175156696
just use a synced dropbox

Anyone know any good resources for writing ai for a card battle game?

>>175156742
Yeah I can do ar..

>unity
Haha sorry, nevermind

>>175156778
If you really can't see the difference between that and a multiplayer DAW then you need to quit gamedev or be managed as a codemonkey

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What could the player do with some sort of exoskeleton that can merge with his bloodstream and brain/nervous system that he couldnt do with a more conventional exoskeleton?

>>175156910
Could sacrifice blood/HP for temporary boost or so etching like that. Ever watch kill LA kill?

>>175156894
i do, but mob-creating is a meme.
be it programming, art, or music.

>mob music

idea stolen thanks

>>175156981
no i never watch kill la kill

>>175157018
its not a new concept lad.

>>175157121
wew name one

>>175156842
>game maker

>>175156982
Not mob, me and my friend in another city

>>175157148
one what?

>>175156579
Why these violent words anon?

>>175157214
S Y N C E D
Y
N
C
E
D

dropbox, a multiplayer DAW is inherently flawed because youre both forced to use the same everything.

Why are you forgetting this simple fact.

>>175156375
>redesign #7454

>>175156910
monitor your mental state and turn on autopilot when you're too drained / mentally stressed

wound detection / analysis

automatic blood transfusions when you lost too much blood

moving via thought rather than moving your muscles -> commit suicide by thinking...

feed vampire without having to bite

>>175157336
You're fired as an ideaguy and a coder and an artist. Pack up and be out by noon.

>>175157424
>cant refute

>don't want to talk about ideas i'm workshopping because telling people about your idea can kill your desire to work on it
>always paranoid my ideas are retarded and only make sense to me

I'm on-paper iterating mechanics for a dragonball z inspired ASCII fighting game. Biggest open questions right now power level and projectile mechanics. Currently looking at a combo of two different power level schemes I had: Starting power level is derived from stats, raising power level gives bonuses to speed, offensive checks, but not actual stats. Power level's also your "mana" for special moves, like the Raditz fight where their power level changes as they charge up the big attacks.

I really like the idea of projectiles having a travel time, bigass multi-tile spirit bombs rendered on screen between turns and shit, but it makes it impossible to hit them without setting them up, since he'll just move away. Maybe that's a good thing, it'd let me increase the overall lethality of energy attacks and encourage close combat to get the enemy stunned for a big move.

I'm just babbling at this point, maybe asking for suggestions but I usually solve my own problems in the course of figuring out how to explain them.

> tfw making a networked game with asn authoritative server

I never realized how boring networking is.

>>175151837
why is he having sex with those tiny cubes

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https://conceptiongames.itch.io/bokube-alpha-demo

Play my demo before I release it to kickstarter agdg and give me some feedback. For those of you that refused to play it last time, no worries I fixed the controls/camera, added tutorial levels, and even did a lot of optimization to get the game to run better.

>>175158138
> follow a link from 4chan
> literally run an .exe file from 4chan
no thank you

>>175158223
pretty much, but it looks really nice.

>>175158138
do save points exist yet?

>>175156375
Pretty tame

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>>175158223
Wow get a load of this edge

>>175158223
>>175158604
It's common sense really
https://virustotal.com/en/file/e8eee1e030a6efa887efff1d3146a009addca10791c9248aa35e1061b53b8140/analysis/1493293327/

Also common sense to just run it through virustotal.

>>175158662
Duh.

It's also common sense to just not reply if you're not going to play a demo.

>>175158138
1) fix your audio the music was too low compared to the effects.
2) you didn't mention how to zoom in the camera in-game only on the games download page which is a shame because its a great new feature.
3) on the 3rd night level the pulling system while new and much needed is great, what sucks is I remember playing the old version and the puzzle here was harder without it. I would re-balance this level so the player doesn't cheap it out with pulling the cube to make things easier.
4) the Rino enemies on the last level show no tutorial or even hint as to how they kill they player.
5) You have no options besides audio options, video and rebinding controls aren't there, I suppose they are if you count unity launch window but please make them in-game and get rid of that.
6) Pig enemies fly away when hit by the puzzle cube, but other enemies don't.


Minor nitpicks and stuff but thanks for sharing again before your kickstarter. I'm sure you'll surpass your goal if you make a good trailer to go with this demo.

>>175158694
It's also common sense to not reply to shitposts.

>>175155010
Maya

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>>175158662
>talks about not following links on 4chan
>proceeds to post a link on 4chan

>>175158916
>newfriend thinks all anons are the same

>reee 4chans are all hackers and they are all onto getting me important info hacked

feels like im back in 2005

>>175159019
Nah, these days it's just toolbars and miners. I'm quite sure, indiefags do those to earn some more moneys.

>>175158138
In windowed mode the text doesn't scale with the window, just overflows off screen. Played the first couple of levels so I can't comment much, but I didn't find any bugs. It's kinda fun for what it is.

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>>175154797
Actually put the colours in this time. Not sure if there should be some spray or kept clean now

I have an idea but I don't know if people would like it. It's pretty much darkest dungeon except completely devoid of RNG and the RNG is replaced by pure strategy. The thing is I don't know if people would like this, RNG shit like crits and frequent enemy encounters may be annoying but it also has a draw to it that people like. I want to know /agdg/'s opnion, would a purely strategy version of darkest dungeon without RNG sound like a fun thing you would play or at least try, or does it sound too boring without RNG elements?

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Anyone need some character designs or such ? I got some time to spare.

>>175156375
>not anubis bait

I dreamed about some other agdg game but not mine.
What does it mean?

>>175159227
Without the RNG of games like that the absence of the random element and chance would boil down the game to simple:

>'this is the 100% most efficient strategy - do this and never lose'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWv_vUgbmug&t=64s

What do you think of Jonathan Blow?

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>>175140745

>>175140745
>i'll be doing a kickstarter presumably sometime next month though
what did he mean by this

>>175140967
You should be determining to aim direction based on the crosshair position, not determining the crosshair position based on the aim direction.

>>175159402
I understand that, but lets say for argument's sake that the game was balanced well enough around that and the enemies encountered were varied enough that one or just a set of strategies would not work and the play would constantly have to formulate new strategies to get it to be successful.

where do i find freelance artists for my weebgame?

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>>175159706
What game are you making, shitter. All the projects I joined ended up with the dev bailing.

>>175159313
an Oni in full armor who doesn't look like a 80's cartoon reject

>>175156536
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YQncOpnNMU

>>175159589
Sorry, I see now you fixed it already.

>>175159227
I hope you come to understand that RNG always has a place.

XCOM wouldn't be entertaining at all if every shot hit (or was a 100% miss if flashbanged/disoriented). The fun of that game lies when you fail a shot and have to come up with a plan on the fly, and to even plan ahead for what happens if your strategy fails you somehow.

The people that complain that XCOM is pure RNG are tardlets who take 60% shots and have nothing in place to dig them out of the shit when that eventually misses. i.e bad players.

>>175159789
With a classic oni mask I assume ?

>>175159357
I have never dreamt of any of my games or OC characters

>>175159596
You'd still be missing the random element and by extension the thrill of the game. Most of the time when people talk about darkest dungeon they mention terrible failures or amazing, against the odds successes and it is by that that their game experience becomes more personal, memorable and ultimately more fun. Also even with wide variance it would still result in just a flowchart for dealing with encounters that the player checked through to win.

Removal of that and you just have a kind of sad number crunching sim

>>175159750
it's a shitty 2D platformer. current artguy can't do people.

>>175159935
>XCOM wouldn't be entertaining at all if every shot hit (or was a 100% miss if flashbanged/disoriented)
In original UFO you had a slight miss chance even if it said it was 100% to-hit, because of some wacky shooting cones or whatnot.

>>175160085
Well that is certainly a valid complaint. Worst thing a game can do is lie to you about mechanics, because that doesn't make you feel like you're personally responsible when something messes up

>>175160042
Any way to get in touch with y'all ? I might be able to help with that.

>>175159935
I know it has a place, thats why I asked if it sounded fun, I just wanted to see if pure strategy was fun, I guess my idea would be something like you have a set 4 members in a party the entire game and every battle you encounter would almost be like a puzzle, trying to figure out how to beat the enemy team.

>>175159986
Alright, just wanted to see if it sounded good or not.

>>175160167
>Well that is certainly a valid complaint.
That wasn't an actual complain, anon, i actually like the shooting mechanics very much, a lot more than the new XCOM ones, with its glaring mistakes.

>>175160221
None of that is mutually exclusive with RNG

>>175160218
Cool, can you post an example of your art first?

>>175159951
actually you should only go with a samurai helmet without mask
the mask is supposed to make you look like Oni
don't need one when you literally are one

>>175158138
Idk how you pulled it off with your 1.3M polys per level but this runs much much better than before good job.

>>175160289
thats true, but it would be in the style of a game genre that I have never seen RNG play a small roll or none at all.

Good use of RNG forces you into uncomfortable/unknown situations.

Bad use of RNG murders you unavoidably/instantly for being unlucky.

>>175160317
Don't really have any animu stuff laying around but it can't be that hard.
>>175160347
I see, alright.

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>>175158138
What did he mean by this /agdg/?

>>175160218
shoot me a message gamer#6598 on discord

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>>175160606
Welp, forgot picture.

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>>175158138
Doesnt seem to work for me after the menu screen at all. The camera goes from looking at the camera to go below the platform and it looks like pic related.

gimme good browser game ideas

>>175160880
cookie clicker but you poke lolis

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>>175160627
Hes dancing you perverts!

>>175160734
What are your specs and what did you do? Iv never seen anyone or have this problem before nether have I myself. What are you doing to the game Anon? Does anyone else have this issue?

>tfw johnthan blow is making a push cube puzzle game now. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>175158138
* Intro screen absolutely chugs on my computer even at lowest settings. For what I'm seeing... That shouldn't be happening.
* Main game runs fine.
* Same problem as other dude with overflowing text in windowed mode.
* Start in main menu is colored blue... but doesn't change when you move your mouse off it. The other buttons being different colors is kinda jarring too.
* "Loading" seems to stay on the screen too long
* Camera rotation triggered by player seems too slow, or at least, doesn't behave as I would expect when hitting it several times in a row quickly
* Jumping while holding a direction will trigger the jump sound... but you won't actually jump
* "Level Clear" doesn't seem centered enough before it starts to move out
* Actually this first level you see a cat in a box is running like shit too, so I'm done testing.
* Exiting the game normally keeps giving me a crash message.

>>175161020
What are your specs? If it runs bad for you please post your specs.

>>175158138
>>175161113
Shit by now, but I can run fancier 3D games with no slowdowns so....

GeForce 9500 GT
6 GB RAM
Win 7
Intel Core 2 Quad CPU 2.33 GHz (4 CPUs)

>>175159450
>watching talk
>suddenly get the solution to a stupid unrelated problem I was having all day yesterday
I just got Blowed.

>>175156910

Changes/enhances perception in some way

Improved underwater breathing or air supply in toxic environments

Can trade HP for effects ( blood bullets/armor )

Improved HP

HP regen ( through vampirism of enemy blood or just passive )

Ability to interact with environment in new ways, remote control or whatever

Damage as penalties for certain actions, rewards for others

>>175159450
I thought he was good, but I'm starting to change my mind.

This guy is beyond autistic.

I mean, I get the whole 'everything is slow' speech, but this guy takes it to another level.

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Windows 10 64-bit
Intel core i7 4790K
24 gb dual -channel DDR3 @ 666MHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti

I didn't do much to the game. First i tried to run it in windowed, and then i tried to run it in full screen. Same issue both times.

I deleted the folder now and extracted it again. And i recorded a webm for you anon. Hope it helps. <3

>>175161357
>unity for 3d
HA

>>175161261
You're using a 9 year old card with the unity engine hehe.

>>175161357
I have the exact same specs as you and I get 400 FPS and none of these issues I have no idea what is going on with you. Your footage's FPS looks bad too wtf.

>>175161609
Given how little is going on I figured it'd still be fine...

>>175159450
>people talking about Jai omg so crazy
>it's just another pet language with no wide appeal

>>175156536
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuEz_HvBqZ0

>>175161609
>>175161261
>agdg anons have 9 year old cards

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA HOLY shit you fags. Most PC gamers don't even have cards that old.

>>175161830
Gamedevving on an old computer is a pro strat. Lets you catch retarded performance issues earlier / helps you get your game to run on toasters (and thus having a larger possible player base).

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>>175161639
>>175161357
Keep in mind these are the typical stats of the typical bokube level now.

>>175161830
I have a GTX 460 and Bokube runs fine, it's not a GPU problem.

>>175161261
>GeForce 9500 GT
m8:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu.php?gpu=GeForce+9500+GT
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=1304&cmp%5B%5D=3596

your videocard is babby, throw away your computer

>>175161609
the fps is just because of the shitty program i use for quick webm's senpai.

>>175161971
No shit.

>>175161964
>I have a card that runs 9x better and the game runs fine, it's not a GPU problem!
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/compare.php?cmp%5B%5D=1304&cmp%5B%5D=31

You would think people who make games have some semblence of critical thinking skills but I guess this is aggydaggy

>>175158138
you post your gay game way too fucking much and now you're going to start shilling in these threads

fuck off go shill your faggy game on reddit

>>175162191
Well shit, I didn't read the post with his specs.
He really is a madman for expecting that to run anything well.

>>175161794
I dev to instrumental metal
I get distracted by vocals
also I hate cookie monster voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErEO-k8zxRM

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>>175159450
He's making his own Unity?

>>175159450
why even optimize .5 seconds.

>>175161830
>>175161903
>>175161261
Its people and devs like this that hold indie games and games in general to be shitty pixel shit instead of pushing indies to make prettier 3D and advance fucking graphics.

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Can someone helpfully explain why older games resolutions were funky and if there's any advantages/disadvantages to making something like that

Will it fuck up everything I make when scaled?

>>175162459
i like shitty pixels. usually a funner game.

>>175158138
>Hold left control or X button tap your movements to roll slowly
That doesn't make much sense.

If you spam jump, the sound never plays.
The amount of bloom on the 'limited sight' tutorial is silly.
You can't move if the camera is facing directly down
Pressing Esc on the death screen opens the options, but you can't press anything

>>175162436
Multiply those seconds by the times you compile your game and you've wasted hours.

>>175162459
No it just has to do with how easy it is to make

>>175162507
CRTs didn't have a resolution

>>175162263
Jai already has built in 3d stuff.

>>175162507
Because they were made for maximum possible mainstream screen resolution at that time. You will fuck automatically up if make any graphics for lower than 1080p resolution.

>>175162562
Sweet, I can't wait for my 8k+ resolution CRT to arrive.

>>175161903
>Downclock your computer for some playtesting (5 minute job)
vs
>Run shit hardware that slows down the entire development time (weeks/months)

>>175162562
Anon, but they did.

Why the fuck can't I put the same tag on multiple commits on git?

>>175162542
you've lost more time with random brain farts/getting coffee.

>>175162758
>Run shit hardware that slows down the entire development time (weeks/months)
Any sane person would just send their builds to some old laptop maybe once a week for playtesting.

Perma deving on old hardware is plain retarded.

>>175162804
no
they
didn't

Where can I find good concept art or interesting shit to look at to get inspiration? Anything I used to use is overrun by ass and titties, concept art stuff is all gay Warcraft fantasy or stupid sci fi.

>>175162890
Anon, what do you base your asumption on?

>>175162229
Someone is way too fucking mad a common yesdev here is getting good feedback.

Literally started his game here worked on it and its features based on all of our feedback and is getting close to release and still needs help.

Bokube is one of the most agdg games here where is your game anon?

>>175162952
Pinterest

>>175162952
Concept art without asses and titties not worth watching anyway.

>>175162952
just play games/look at screenshots. old games new games.

>>175162890
They did, and they still do.
What the fuck are you talking about

>>175162890
are you fucking stupid?
the only displays without classic raster resolutions are vector oscilloscopes

>>175162459
That's a wicked misrepresentation of what I said there mate!

>>175162890
9 YEAR OLD GRAPHICS CARDS AND IDIOTIC KNOWLEDGE ON TECH.

NICE AGDG

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>>175162890
this level of retardation should count as fucking felony

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>>175151837
>>175158138

Looks great on ultrawide screen.

My feedback straight away with the menu (apart from lack of options in the options menu) is that your selected menu point should be the bright colour - not unselected ones white.

Dull out the non-selected points in the menu list, and make the selected one bright with maybe a slight wiggle or something.

>>175163008
I try to avoid that but I guess I need to go back in desperate times. I find a lot of the same type of stuff gets posted there and I'm looking for "not" that.

>>175163029
Not that kind of inspiration. And that's wildly inefficient.

>>175163006
I don't care how much your posted your game here, you're on the verge of release and now you're just an attention whore/shill.

your game is really fucking gay. that's my feedback

>>175151837
>>175158138
>>175163390
Bokube makes the jump sound if you press the jump button but they aren't actually jumping (say you press jump button while moving at same time)

>>175159450
>15 minutes in and Blow has just been saying the same thing rehashed a thousand different ways

wew

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>>175163504
>this keeps the AGDG alive

>>175163504
>how dare this game dev in a game dev general ask for an opinion about a game they dev'd right before they move it to pateron and may not even ever talk about it here ever again

>>175163492
>I find a lot of the same type of stuff gets posted there and I'm looking for "not" that.
Well yeah, people like drawing tits.

But personally I've found it's related images feature to be one of the best, once you go a few layers deep it works wonderfully.

>>175163559
>>175159450
It's real jarring that you can't jump while moving, feels dumb only jumping straight up.

Jarring is unironically my favorite new lowkey meme.

>>175163751
It's all me. Sorry for not changing it up!